Shannan Hotel.
Ninth floor.
In a small private room.
Li Lin sat quietly waiting for Lu Tao to arrive.
After waiting for about half an hour, Lu Tao arrived.
Li Lin was still very surprised. It would take at least three hours to get from the provincial capital to Shannan. However, Lu Tao arrived in about two hours after the two of them talked on the phone. This showed that when Lu Tao called Li Lin, he should have been on the way. In other words, no matter how Li Lin rejected Lu Tao, he could not stop him from coming to see him.
Sure enough, what Xu Yilong said was right, Lu Tao had already boarded Sun Ligui's pirate ship.
Li Lin wanted to see what Lu Tao was going to say to him today.
"Taozi, did you come here by rocket? You got there so quickly?"
As soon as they met, Li Lin asked with a smile.
Lu Tao scratched his head awkwardly and said, "I'm just anxious to see you... I haven't seen you for so long, I wish I could fly to you in a second."
Li Lin pointed to a seat and said, "Come and sit down. We are in a remote and poor place in Shannan. We don't have the lobsters and abalones you usually eat. We only have home-cooked dishes. Please don't think I'm shabby."
Lu Tao waved his hands again and again, saying modestly, "No, no, as long as I eat with you, I will find even steamed bread delicious. Do you remember when I was in school, my monthly living expenses were spent in less than half a month, and I didn't dare to ask my dad for money. It was you who saved the food rations and gave them to me, so I didn't go hungry for half a month... What did we eat at that time? We cooked cabbage and fried potatoes every day, didn't we eat happily?"
Li Lin laughed and said, "You're still talking about that. You were really stupid back then. In order to pursue the love of your life, you bought whatever she wanted... No matter how much living expenses your father gave you, it couldn't withstand your efforts."
Lu Tao smiled embarrassedly, "Don't say anything. It would be fine if I had succeeded in wooing her. But in the end, she saw that I had no money and simply ignored me... I just felt sad at the time, thinking that I was not good enough and that she looked down on me. Now that I think about it, that woman was too snobbish and vain... It was really disgusting. Later, I met her in the provincial capital. She saw that I drove a luxury car, took the initiative to add me on WeChat, and took the initiative to ask me out for dinner... I rejected her directly. Didn't you see how dumbfounded she was at the time? I was able to vent my anger on such a vain woman."
Li Lin comforted him, "Actually, there's no need to do so. We're all classmates... Don't you see a lot of people like this in society now? You should be used to it. Just save your face. There's no need to condemn them all. Don't try to persuade others to be kind without first experiencing their suffering. Maybe if you understand her experience, you'll sympathize with her."
Yes, don’t advise others to be kind unless you have experienced their suffering... Lu Tao is feeling very sad now, and he doesn’t know if Li Lin can understand him.
Taking advantage of this conversation, Lu Tao brought two baskets of tea from behind and placed them in front of Li Lin, saying carefully, "Brother Lin, you have been taking care of me since school. To be honest, I have always regarded you as my own brother. Although the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, I always want to find an opportunity to express my gratitude to you... This is the tea that my father picked by hand in the tea mountain two days ago. I brought you two baskets. Try it. If you like it, I will take care of your tea in the future!"
Two beautifully packaged boxes labeled "New Tea"...
If Xu Yilong hadn't reminded him, and if Li Lin hadn't thought Lu Tao was suspicious, he might have accepted it without thinking.
After all, he had refused all the gifts Lu Tao gave him before, because he was of low status at that time and didn't want to accept charity or be looked down upon, so he never accepted gifts from classmates, no matter how good their relationship was.
But now he is a provincial-level official, and the power in his hands is not too big, but not too small. If he does not accept the two boxes of tea sent by his classmates, people will think he is pretentious and unkind, which will alienate both of them.
But before collecting it, Li Lin wanted to check whether the tea inside was as precious as Lu Tao said!
He picked up one of the bags of tea, weighed it in his hand, and said with a smile, "This bag of tea is not light, at least two kilograms, right?"
Seeing that Li Lin was carrying real tea leaves, Lu Tao felt relieved and said with a smile, "That's right, I packed it in boxes of two kilograms..."
Li Lin smiled without saying anything, slowly put down the tea leaves in his hand, and then reached out to pick up another bag of tea leaves...
Lu Tao watched the scene nervously, as if his heart was in his throat.
Because the other tea box contained not tea, but foreign currency!
The weight of the money and the tea leaves are definitely different; Li Lin can tell as soon as he picks them up.
Just when Li Lin's hand was about to touch the tea box, Lu Tao stood up suddenly, stretched out his hand to stop it, and said nervously, "The two boxes of tea are the same, the quantity is also the same... I'll put them up for you, you just ask the driver to load them on the car! Hehehe..."
He didn't let Li Lin touch the box of tea. It was obvious that he felt guilty and wanted to hide something.
He didn't care about Li Lin's expression, he just picked up two bags of tea and walked to the door, and put the tea on the tea cabinet beside the door, and smiled to hide his panic, "I'll put it here for you first, wait for your driver to come up, and ask him to take it down...Okay, let's start eating? I can't wait to have a couple of drinks and a couple of drinking games with you!"
Seeing Lu Tao's abnormal behavior, Li Lin did not get angry, but still maintained a faint smile on his face.
He sat upright, looked up at Lu Tao, who was still standing at the door with a flustered face and a forced smile, and said in a cold voice, "Taozi, let's drink later. Before we drink, I have something to ask you."
The atmosphere in the room suddenly became tense.
Facing the serious Li Lin, the smile on Lu Tao's face was gradually disappearing.
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