Chapter 9: Thi San meets Thanh Phong again

Two shiny cars left the cafe one after another and ran straight to the luxury villa area.

When the car arrived, Thang Vu immediately got out of the car and reached out to ring the bell twice. Then he leaned back against the pillar and turned his face to the street to wait.

Thanh Phong was busy texting Thanh Tra. He told her to call him fifteen or twenty minutes before she wanted to go home because he was worried that if she called him too late, she would have to wait a long time.

A few minutes later, the unlocking sound rang and Thi San appeared.

The gate was designed in the way of pulling inward, so it completely covered the girl behind the iron bars.

Thi San waited for the two cars to pass through the gate, then she quickly closed the gate and hurried back into the house because she was still cooking.

When the two men were still chatting in the garage, the girl was already in the kitchen.

- Thi San, today a friend of mine came to my house to have lunch. Please prepare food for the three of us to eat together.

Thang Vu said while taking the cake nearby, then he broke it in half and ate it deliciously.

Because he was busy, he didn't have time to eat anything this morning, so he felt hungry so he ate this cake while he waited for her to finish cooking.

Thi San watched the cake get smaller and smaller, but she felt heartbroken, not because she was selfish, but just because she planned to use that cake for lunch so that she wouldn't have to have lunch with him.

Now that the cake was in his stomach, what would she take to fill her stomach?

If she had known this in advance, she would have brought it up to her room and hid it. She didn't expect him to act like that.

- Don't you buy green onions for me?

Her question made Thang Vu suddenly remember that he had forgotten to buy green onions.

After he finished swallowing the last piece of cake in his mouth, he leisurely went to the faucet to wash his hands and then asked her to wait a moment.

When Thang Vu passed by the living room, he saw Thanh Phong watching TV but he didn't talk but continued walking.

Inside the kitchen filled with the aroma of food, Thi San was extremely shy. Because in the morning he said it was convenient for him to buy it, so she waited, but if she knew he forgot, she would have bought it herself.

He was the young master. This was like she asked him for an errand, so she always felt that it wasn't right.

Thi San reached out her hand to turn down the flame to let the soup boil gently, then she quickly cleaned up and placed the cooked dishes on the table.

Thang Vu said that a friend came to his house to have a meal with him, so she was a little worried because she did not know if that person was a boy or a girl. If that person was a girl, then great, but if that person was a boy, then she would tremble to death. Thang Vu alone made her very shy.

Because he helped her to remove the vegetables from her hair, which made her think a lot.

Although at first, she was also trembling, but not to this extent. She thought to herself that she would sneak a peek at his friend for a moment to know first.

- Food smells so good. Lunch is like a party.

A warm voice suddenly came from behind, causing Thi San to turn her head in surprise.

The man's handsome face and bright smile like the morning sun made her dumbfounded for a few seconds.

Thanh Phong was not better than her at all. He did not expect that the girl who collided with him at the bus station that day was Mrs. Mai Hoang's new maid.

- You…

- You…

Both of them exclaimed at the same time.

This world is so small. They only passed each other for a few seconds in the middle of a crowd, yet they could meet again in this situation.

- It turns out you work here. - Thanh Phong spoke first.

- Yes, I just arrived. Are you a friend of Mr. Thang Vu? – She asked and her hands clasped together to keep herself calm.

- Yes, my name is Thanh Phong, and you?

- My name is Thi San.

The corner of the man's lips gently smiled. He felt this name was strange and beautiful, poetic, gentle. He thought that fate made him and her meet each other.

Her gentle and timid features were very similar to the girl who worked for his family in the early days.

- Where's Thang Vu going?

Thanh Phong asked while helping Thi San put the food on the table.

Both of them were working while asking about each other's ages and jobs and families.

In the end, he answered more questions than her because her family only had her grandmother and her mother, but those two people were dead, and nothing more to say.

Through the friendly words mixed with a bit of humor of the lecturer of the Academy of Music, Thi San gradually felt less afraid and she trusted him more because he told her about all the people in his family.

His father is a government employee, his mother is a corporate accountant and his younger sister is still in her second year of university.

Because his parents are both only children, so they brought both paternal grandparents and maternal grandparents to live together to take care of them. Everyone lives in harmony and loves each other very much.

Both of them talked and laughed without knowing that Thang Vu had returned and he was holding an enormous bunch of green onions in his hand and stood staring at them.

He knew his friend was the deputy head of the Academy's foreign affairs department, but he didn't expect Thanh Phong could make that girl seem like a different person.

Thanks to his friend, he could see Thi San's even white teeth.

- Green onion here.

Thang Vu said and put the bunch of green onions on the kitchen counter.

Thi San quickly closed her mouth and ran to get a few stalks of onions and washed them, then cut them into small pieces and put them in the soup pot.

When she scooped the soup into the bowl, Thanh Phong quickly took the hot glass bowl from her hand and brought it to the table.

Thang Vu frowned at them.

What was the meaning of the scene that was unfolding in front of him?

Thanh Phong was like becoming a maid with Thi San.

He only ran to the market for a few minutes and they quickly became close.

- What a coincidence, you know what, Thang Vu? Thi San and I have met before. She bumped into me at the bus station on the day she followed Mrs. Tam Lan to the city. - Thanh Phong excitedly revealed as soon as he sat at the table.

Thang Vu's eyes moved from his close friend to the girl. It turned out that they talked so close to each other because they had met each other before.

Thi San sat opposite him. She lowered her head, attentively scooped the rice into a bowl and gave it to the two men, and waited for them to hold their chopsticks.

- What did you go to the bus station for? – Thang Vu asked gently.

- I went there to receive gifts from the countryside. My cousin planted a fruit garden. Every harvest season, he would send my father ten kilograms. If I don't take it, I'm afraid he'll be sad. - Thanh Phong replied.

- So that's what it is. Come on, eat. Thi San, please eat a lot, consider this as your home, and don't be shy.

Thang Vu said as he picked up the piece of meat and put it in her bowl first, then he picked it up for himself.

He did this because he wanted her to follow that momentum and be bolder.

He went to many places and met many people, so he understood timid girls like her.

If he doesn't pick up food for her, she will eat white rice and when she eats half of the bowl of rice, she will pick up a few stalks of vegetables to eat with the remaining half of the bowl of rice then she will stand up and say she's full while her stomach was still hungry.

Thang Vu's words and caring gestures only made Thi San tremble more. She just heard his voice and her whole body trembled, even though he didn't speak loudly and his voice was very gentle and warm.

- Yes. - She replied softly.

Thi San was more and more scared. She focused on eating and didn't look or talk like Thanh Phong and Thang Vu, so her rice bowl ran out the fastest even though she tried to eat little by little.

Thang Vu sat opposite her, and he easily recognized her strange expression.

Previously, he used to eat and drink slowly, but now he had to swallow quickly. If he guessed correctly, she would only eat that much, and then she would stand up and leave the table.

As for Thanh Phong, because he ate rice in strange places, strange dishes, and strange flavors, he suddenly felt very good and ate a lot.

Thanh Phong and Thang Vu have known each other since they were both in elementary school, but today was the first time he went to Thang Vu's house to have a meal.

- Ladle me another bowl of rice, just a little more.

Thang Vu hastily handed the empty bowl to Thi San and suggested as soon as she let go of her chopsticks and stood up.

Thanh Phong also imitated Thang Vu and asked her to get more rice for him.

She gently nodded and took each bowl and scooped the rice into it.

When she finished scooping, there was still about a bowl of rice in the pot.

- Thi San, please eat all the rice in the pot. If left for the afternoon, the rice will lose its taste. - Thang Vu smiled gently, his hair fluttering slightly with his movements.

- Yes. - She shyly replied.

- Thi San, you cook so well. In the future, if you don't work for Thang Vu, please come to my house. - Thanh Phong laughed wittily.

- Are you trying to rob my people? That's blatant.

The conversation between the two of them made Thi San smile.

The fleeting smile was just enough for the man who was paying attention to her to see.

Thang Vu suddenly felt warm in his heart. He wanted to own this quiet smile for himself. The strange feeling made him wonder if he already loved her.

After lunch, Thang Vu dragged Thanh Phong upstairs to get gifts while Thi San stayed in the kitchen and cleaned up.

She frowned, silently calculating from here until the day Thang Vu returned to school.

It was still more than a week away.

She secretly reassured herself that Thang Vu would not continue to invite Thanh Phong to his house for lunch every noon, like today. The scene when she sat at the table with only the two of them made her shiver and didn't dare to think further.

- I have to buy a cake and hide it in my room. - She sighed and whispered.

Upstairs at the moment, Thanh Phong and Thang Vu were passionately discussing topics around music. While Thang Vu only pursues the piano, Thanh Phong can also play the violin, so the present he brought back for his friend was nothing but a violin.

- I went to the museum displaying the legendary violin Messiah Stradivarius. Although I don't know how to play the violin, I feel great when I look at it. - Thang Vu re-imagined and said.

- For violinists, once holding that violin in their hands is an honor of their lifetime. Unfortunately, it's retired, we can only watch it.

Thanh Phong's voice was filled with regret.

He is just like the other violinists and he also wants to once touch that violin and play melodious tunes.

He already owns a violin that costs more than a million dollars, made from the same material as Messiah Stradivarius, which is spruce. However, its sound could not match that treasure that was called unique, even though the manufacturing technique was studied from there.