Chapter 85 Returning to China
After a long pause, Lin Xi said, "Xiaoqiu, thank you so much. It's my blessing to have a friend and partner like you."
Li Xiaoqiu laughed heartily. "You know how good I am, right? You got such a big bonus this time, so you must treat me to a big meal when you come back."
Lin Xi responded with a smile. She often felt confused about her age now. Only when she was with Li Xiaoqiu and Zhu Tingting could she clearly realize that she was still an eighteen-year-old girl.
Not long after, Qi Mo sent a message with the flight information. The ticket was for twelve o'clock in the evening.
Lin Xi forwarded it to Li Xiaoqiu.
Then Qi Mo's message arrived: "Let's go to the restaurant on the second floor for dinner?"
Lin Xi replied "OK".
When I arrived at the restaurant on the second floor, I saw Qi Mo already sitting inside.
There were few people in the restaurant.
They were all staff members, and they greeted Lin Xi warmly when they saw her.
Qi Mo handed the menu to Lin Xi, "I ordered a barbecue and some kind of chicken, I don't know how it tastes."
Lin Xi looked at the menu. In her impression, African countries don’t have much delicious food.
There was a lot of seafood on the menu, and Lin Xi didn't even want to look at it. She ordered a farmer's sausage, some iron pot stew, a dessert and rice.
Based on her understanding of Qi Mo's appetite, he should be able to finish it.
When the dishes came, Lin Xi was a little dumbfounded. Africans were too honest. One of their iron pots was as big as a washbasin.
A sausage was wound several times, and she suspected it was a meter long.
Qi Mo smiled when he saw her expression. "It's okay. Let's eat slowly. Eat as much as you can."
The two of them ate for an hour and finished half of the dishes on the table.
There are still about ten hours before boarding the plane, and Lin Xi really wants to go out for a walk.
Just as he was thinking about it, Qi Mo suggested: "The climate here is actually quite good, over 20 degrees, not too hot. How about we go out for a walk?"
Lin Xi shook her head. "There are so many reporters outside. We can't get out."
Qi Mo took her hand and said, "I have a way, come with me."
Lin Xi didn't react at first. After Qi Mo pulled her a few steps, her heart skipped a beat. She quickly pulled her hand back and pretended to reach for her phone.
Qi Mo was a little disappointed, but he also knew that Lin Xi still only regarded him as a partner. There was still a long way to go, and she was still young, so he had to take it slow.
He has the patience.
Qi Mo took Lin Xi to the fire escape at the back. No one knew when he found out, but the two of them soon came out from a small door at the back.
The hotel is in a bustling neighborhood.
This is not the common backward African area, but a modern city.
The size of the city seems to be similar to that of third- and fourth-tier cities in China.
Lin Xi and Qi Mo didn't have any destination. They walked around and stopped at random, enjoying the exotic scenery along the way.
The streets are not full of black people, there are also quite a few white people.
After walking around for two or three hours and feeling a little tired, they sat down in a cafe to drink coffee.
The waiter brought the coffee over, stared at Lin Xi for a long time, and suddenly called out in surprise in English, "Lin Xi, you are Lin Xi!"
In the eyes of foreigners, Oriental people all look similar, so it was not easy for her to recognize Lin Xi.
Lin Xi, who gained an African fan, smiled embarrassedly.
The waiter stared at Lin Xi's face and exclaimed, "Your face is so small, wow, you don't even have pores."
Being praised so highly, Lin Xi felt that the rough-skinned person she had seen in the mirror before was no longer herself.
The waiter admired for a while and then left, but soon more waiters came over to watch, taking pictures of Lin Xi and Qi Mo with their mobile phones.
Lin Xi and Qi Mo suddenly felt that the coffee had no fragrance anymore.
Someone else curiously asked in English: "Are you a couple?"
Qi Mo smiled without saying anything. Lin Xi blushed and waved her hands, "No, no, no!"
Finally, more and more people came, and passers-by outside also gathered to watch. The two of them squeezed out of the crowd with difficulty.
We returned to the hotel to rest for a while and then headed to the airport.
Qi Mo booked a first-class ticket this time.
The plane landed at Beijing International Airport at around six in the morning.
Li Xiaoqiu met Lin Xi in the VIP channel.
She first hugged Lin Xi, then smiled at Qi Mo, "Thanks to you for taking care of our Xixi recently."
After saying that, he handed over a business card.
Qi Mo raised his eyebrows, took the business card and took a look at it. Li Xiaoqiu, Lin Xi's agent.
The business card is simple and clean, without any extra decoration.
Qi Mo nodded and smiled at her. Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly glanced at a place not far away, and his smile slowly faded.
He saw a middle-aged man walking towards him.
He was deeply impressed by this man. He clearly remembered that a month ago, when he and Lin Xi arrived in Africa, this man was following Lin Xi at the airport.
Their eyes met again, both vaguely filled with hostility that only men could understand.
The moment Lin Xi saw Song Huaijin, she sighed slightly in her heart.
It seems that there are some things she has to face.
When she met Song Huaijin for the first time, she didn't know his current situation. She thought that at his age, he should have been married and had children.
So, she politely called him uncle, intending to hide the fact that she had memories of her past life and keep a polite distance from him with her identity in this life.
However, when she learned about Song Huaijin's current situation from Li Xiaoqiu, she knew that this idea would not work.
The last time she saw her at the airport, Lin Xi knew that even if she pretended not to know him, to him, the current Lin Xi was Sister Xi from her previous life.
It doesn't matter whether she admits it or not.
But, after all, airplanes are public places.
They weren't the only two passengers in the first-class cabin, so some things were inconvenient to say.
Lin Xi has never been a person who likes to escape. If there are problems, she likes to face them positively and solve them as soon as possible.
So, she walked towards Song Huaijin.
Song Huaijin saw her walking towards him step by step and standing in front of him, his eyes full of disbelief.
Lin Xi's gaze passed over the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and she whispered, "Give me your number. I may have some things to deal with in the next two days. When I'm free, I'll call you and we can talk."
Song Huaijin was overjoyed. He took out his cell phone tremblingly and exchanged phone numbers with Lin Xi.
Qi Mo should have left at this time, but he stopped and stood not far away, watching everything quietly with his deep eyes.
After Lin Xi said goodbye to Song Huaijin and was about to leave, she turned around and saw Qi Mo.
He stood there looking at her, his face expressionless, his eyes shrouded in mist, making it impossible to discern his emotions.
Lin Xi nodded at him again, "I'll be leaving first."
(End of this chapter)
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