There's only half an hour left until dinner.
Chen Pingsheng invited Chang Fu to play a game of pool in the billiards hall next door.
He quite enjoyed playing billiards, so he had installed a billiards room at home.
It felt genuinely good to play a few rounds with old friends when there was nothing else to do.
Chang Fu was also decent at billiards; the two were pretty evenly matched.
Over the years, neither of them had made much progress, still hovering around the slightly more professional end of amateur.
They couldn't compete with professional players, but average amateurs were no match for them.
It was only when Song Shuiqing came over to call them for dinner that everyone went together.
There were two dining rooms, one large and one small.
The large one was specifically for entertaining guests, while the small one was for family meals, seating only six people.
During the meal,