Chapter 25: Wall-dong In an instant, it was as if thousands of flowers blossomed, and Bai Ying closed her eyes...
The two walked into the living room, and a "meow meow" sound came from deep inside the sofa of the big white bear. Different from the tone of its usual coquettish voice, there was obvious uneasiness in the cat's voice.
Qin Yonglian stepped forward and pulled Coffee out from behind the furry cushion. He gently stroked the cat's head and scratched its chin, saying softly:
"Be good, don't be afraid. This is your home too. The two guys in flowery clothes at the door are your brothers."
The kitten clung to its father's arm and rubbed its head against him.
Bai Ying didn't know that she was looking at the pleasing cat father and son with a kind and gentle face as if she were an aunt.
"How could this happen? Coffee wasn't this timid when he was out there in the underworld before."
Cuddling the cat in his arms, Tan Yonglian explained, "It's not about courage, it's just that Andy and Wei Zai have such a strong aura. Coffee is only six months old, so he's still a baby in front of them."
"Eh? How old are they?" Bai Ying asked curiously.
"What do you think?"
Bai Ying had heard that parrots are very long-lived. The parrot of former British Prime Minister Churchill is still alive today, and the lifespan of macaws is generally over 60 or 70 years.
"Ten years old?" The girl reported a number and observed Qin Yonglian's expression.
The man raised his handsome eyebrows and said, "Guess again."
"Is it bigger than me?" Bai Ying muttered to himself as he leaned against the window and studied the two "movie stars" in the front yard.
"Not only are they older than you, they're older than me too. An uncle gave them to me when I first returned to Hong Kong. They were already 12 years old then, so they're already thirty years old now."
"Then they are not brothers in flowery clothes, but uncles." Bai Ying said with a smile.
"Meow~" Coffee poked his little head out from his father's arms, and the tuft of hair on his head was rubbed and stood up again.
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After comforting the cat, Qin Yonglian motioned Bai Ying to go upstairs with him, and eagerly invited him, "Come, I'll take you to see it."
There was a light in the man's eyes when he said this. Bai Ying remembered the time when he was a child playing in the compound and was eager to share his secret base with his friends.
She once stayed in the study on the second floor for a night. What impressed her most was not only the bed among the piles of books, but also the photographs of various sizes on the bookshelf.
Qin Yonglian led her around several walls of bookshelves that were as high as the ceiling. It turned out that there was another room that led to a balcony facing the sea on the other side.
The balcony is shaped like a dome, with a chaise longue in the middle and several floor-standing telescopes of different sizes standing next to the chair.
A glass cabinet in the corner houses a collection of different lenses and cameras.
"Wow!" Looking around, Bai Ying could only exclaim in amazement.
Qin Yonglian's home is like a small museum and mobile science museum.
"When the weather is clear, let's come and see. Maybe one day we will discover a new asteroid." Qin Yonglian's tone was full of excitement.
When the girl heard the other party's invitation, she clapped her hands excitedly and nodded heavily in agreement.
"South Cowes Island has no smog, nor is there light pollution like in the city. You can see many stars at night, and you can observe the Andromeda Galaxy and take beautiful star trails."
Qin Yonglian turned on the projector and showed Bai Ying the stars he had photographed.
“When you see the endless beauty and mystery of the universe through your lens, and find a star tens of thousands of light years away, and discover it alone in a vast sea of stars, you will feel that it has been waiting for you.”
"This is a Newtonian reflecting telescope with an aperture of 200mm. I adjusted the tube parameters myself, and it has a portable adaptive optics system for astronomical observation."
"Oh, your birthday is August 6th. On that day, NASA's Hubble Telescope photographed the Andromeda Galaxy. The Andromeda Galaxy is 2.54 million light-years away from Earth and is the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way."
Qin Yonglian clicked the mouse, and the screen on the wall switched to a picture of a nebula. "Look, this is it. Doesn't it look like a little lion in it?"
How could he know her birthday? This thought flashed through the girl's mind. Her attention was drawn to the little lion in the picture. She asked, "When is your birthday?"
"August 8, Center of the Crab Nebula."
Bai Ying took a closer look and exclaimed, "It's so beautiful, like a treasure bowl, bling bling."
"Because there's a neutron star at the center of the Crab Nebula, it spins 30 times per second and emits energy beams." Qin Yonglian leaned forward to follow the girl's gaze. "Hing, do you like it? Can we watch the stars together in the future?"
"Of course!" Bai Ying made the classic gesture of the Guardians of the Galaxy, "Leon, our journey is to the stars and the sea!"
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Back in the study, Bai Ying was still immersed in her yearning for the starry sky. She looked up and saw the wall full of books. She remembered that last time when she was studying in the college library, she asked Qin Yonglian if he had ever finished reading so many books at home.
At that time he kept it a secret and let her guess.
Thinking of their conversation on the way here, Bai Ying suddenly had an idea and asked again, "Have you read all these books at home?"
Qin Yonglian understood, "Of course, please feel free to test it."
The girl walked to the bookshelf and randomly pulled out a book. "How about 'When Nietzsche Wept'?"
The man smiled and nodded, extending his right hand, meaning "please."
Bai Ying glanced through the table of contents. "What is this book about?"
"It's about philosophical psychotherapy, a conversation between a famous doctor and a philosopher. The author is Irvin Yalom. The one you have is the Chinese translation. The original is on the right-hand side, directly opposite. There are 22 chapters in the book. Click on any chapter."
Today is Christmas Day in December. Bai Ying clicked a number: "Then it's Chapter 12."
"That's page 166, yingying, have you turned to that page?" After a few seconds, the man began to dictate, "On Monday morning, Nietzsche came to Brell's office. He studied it carefully..."
In the tone of a reader, Qin Yonglian recited the first three paragraphs of the chapter in one breath, word for word.
Isn’t this amazing?! !
Bai Ying immediately decided to increase the difficulty and pointed to the entire wall of books behind her. "Leon, if I change the position of two of the books later, can you notice?"
"Oh? So difficult? I've never tried it before." The man hesitated a little.
The girl was unsure, she just remembered seeing a similar memory competition on TV, where the challengers had to find the only difference between two pictures with tens of thousands of stars.
But the words have been said. If she takes them back, will Qin Yonglian feel embarrassed?
"However, if there is a reward, maybe you can succeed." Someone leaned against the wall with his arms folded, and tried to persuade him.
Bai Ying didn't notice the flash of signal in the man's eyes, and responded very generously, "Okay, what reward do you want?"
"I need to think about it. I'll tell you later, okay?"
"Okay, then I'll give you ten minutes to prepare? Twenty minutes? Or..."
Bai Ying was very excited. She walked to the corner and showed the entire wall of books behind her.
This is the time to prepare to witness a miracle!
Qin Yonglian put away his relaxed expression, looked intently at Bai Ying, then glanced at the bookshelf. After scanning it once, he turned around and said, "You can begin now."
"Eh! It's not even two minutes," Bai Ying exclaimed in astonishment. Without time to think about it, she was worried that Qin Yonglian's memory wouldn't last long, so she quickly pulled out two books and swapped them.
She urged him to turn back, "Turn back quickly! Quickly! I'm done changing."
Qin Yonglian tried hard to lower the corners of his lips. Bai Ying didn't look like the person who set the questions, but rather like a referee who was anxious to give the contestants some slack.
The man glanced at the bookshelf casually and walked straight towards Bai Ying.
The girl raised her head and looked at him with burning eyes, her eyes full of expectation.
Qin Yonglian walked closer and closer until his toes touched Bai Ying's toes. The girl stepped back reflexively, but the man had already stretched out his arm, holding her with one hand and supporting the bookshelf firmly with the other.
A smile spread across his handsome face, gradually widening like ripples. He then extended his other hand, which had been resting on Bai Ying's shoulder, and placed it on the bookshelf.
The man's tall body and two arms formed a small space, and the girl in front of him was vaguely trapped inside.
Wall-wall dong? ! !
Bai Ying swallowed hard, tilted her head back, and the man's sexy Adam's apple came into view, making her heart almost stop.
"You, you haven't answered the question yet!" The girl's long eyelashes fluttered in panic, like the wings of a butterfly.
"Hmm."
Qin Yonglian lowered his voice. "Those two books are Feng Menglong's Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and Fromm's Escape from Freedom, right?"
Bai Ying's eyes widened, and she almost jumped up. Her hands unconsciously grabbed the other person's shoulders, "Leon! You are such a genius!"
She used to read novels about people who could memorize an article at a glance. They only needed to read it once and could recite it word for word, even the punctuation marks.
At that time, she envied this ability.
Unexpectedly, there are always people better than you. Qin Yonglian turned out to be a genius, and the genius was right next to him!
After jumping for joy, Bai Ying discovered that their posture at the moment was extremely ambiguous. She could even feel the man's breath faintly on her forehead.
The atmosphere suddenly became somewhat tense. Should we do something now? Bai Ying bit her lower lip lightly.
Apart from my family, I had only had such close contact with Qin Yonglian. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel tense all over.
The girl's head was filled with high-energy warnings. The deer in her heart had lost the ability to dance and was so nervous that she fainted.
"Oh, you haven't told me whether what I said is right or not." Someone asked seemingly unintentionally.
"Yes! That's correct." Examiner Bai gave his conclusion.
"Then can I get a reward?" Qin Yonglian's tone sounded like a child asking for candy.
Upon hearing this, Bai Ying suddenly raised her gaze and looked into eyes that were like emerald green lake water.
"Yes." Someone whispered softly like a kitten.
In order to match the Christmas atmosphere today, the girl wore a red sweater, with her long black hair loose, setting off her fair face. The high-saturation color difference looked extremely beautiful.
Qin Yonglian couldn't help but reach out and tuck the few strands of hair beside her cheek behind her ears.
The cool fingertips brushed against the skin of her earlobe, and Bai Ying felt a tingling sensation instantly flowing from the top of her head to every part of her limbs.
"Hmm."
Hearing him calling her in such a nice voice again, Bai Ying's legs almost went weak on the spot.
It was clearly a name she had heard since she was a child, but when it came out of Qin Yonglian's mouth, it carried a thousand twists and turns of tenderness and temptation, making her fall into it step by step.
The distance between the two was getting closer and closer, and I didn't know whose heart was beating like a drum in my ear.
Feeling Qin Yonglian lowering his head and getting closer, his tall nose tip touched hers, and in an instant it was as if millions of flowers bloomed. Bai Ying closed her eyes.
A shrill phone ring broke the beautiful atmosphere. Both parties were stunned and paused for a moment.
The melody echoed throughout the study until the end.
After waiting for the situation to calm down again, Qin Yonglian gathered his emotions and was about to continue moving towards his goal.
The phone rang again, as if persistently telling its owner that it would continue to ring until answered.
Coffee had been leaning against the doorway at some point, meowing, as if to remind his father to answer the phone quickly.
Qin Yonglian sighed lightly, stood up with difficulty and left the girl with her eyes closed, feeling both angry and amused.
In fact, Bai Ying was fully aware of everything that was happening around her. She didn't open her eyes only because she felt too embarrassed. What was the timing of the call?
They almost kissed!!!
They haven't kissed yet!!!
Feeling like he was falling into a warm embrace, Qin Yonglian pulled the girl into his arms, brought her closer, and gently patted her back.
Bai Ying also raised her hand and hugged the other person's waist. From above her head came someone's low voice with a hint of laughter:
"Hmm, remember the reward for me and continue next time."
The girl put her ear close to Qin Yonglian's heart, slowly opened her eyes, and two red clouds appeared on her cheeks.
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The calls were from Qin Yuan and Qin Ansen. Qin Yonglian did not attend several important events during the Christmas period.
Qin Yonglian first called his father back.
Bai Ying looked at the man on the phone not far away. The man in the red sweater was gentle and calm, the brightest spot in the study. Looking closely at his features, every one of them was in line with her aesthetic taste.
Occasionally, Qin Yonglian would frown slightly when he heard a few words, but soon his brows would relax. As if he had thought of something, a faint smile played on the corner of his mouth, and he turned back to look at Bai Ying.
Bai Ying seemed to be pointed out by that gaze, and she sat up straight, but a meme of a host frantically breathing oxygen popped up in her head.jpg
No, just looking at Qin Yonglian makes my heart beat like a deer again.
A certain girl hurriedly got up and went downstairs to find some coffee to calm herself down.
After finishing the call, Qin Yonglian glanced at a corner of the bookshelf and his heart immediately felt hot.
I picked up my phone and found the [Boys Over Flowers F3] group chat on WeChat.
Qin Yonglian: [You guys...]
Qin Yonglian: [Have you ever had that?]
Zhen Yan: [???]
Qin Yonglian: [Forget it, just pretend you didn't see this message.]
Zhenyan: [@覃永廉, did you know there's an option called "Recall a message"? Long-press the message area on the screen to see the option.]
Qin Yonglian: “…”
According to the method taught by Zhen Yan, no withdrawal sign was found.
Qin Yonglian: [It seems that this cannot be withdrawn.]
SoHot Su: [After two minutes, you can’t undo it, so we all saw it! ]
Zhenyan: [Caveman's cute expression.jpg]
SoHot Su: [@Zhen Yan, Director Zhen, this is not the point! ]
SoHot Su: [@覃永廉, quickly tell me which “that” is it? ]
Qin Yonglian took a few photos of the gingerbread man from different angles that he posted on WeChat Moments last night and sent them to the group.
Zhenyan: [??? “That” refers to the gingerbread man?]
SoHot Su: [Upstairs, please maintain formation. Leon is definitely not that innocent!]
Qin Yonglian raised the corners of his mouth and tapped the screen quickly: [Return to chat, I have to go accompany Yingying.]
Zhen Yan: [!!!]
SoHot Su: 【!!!】
Zhen Yan: [You're not hiding anymore? @覃永廉]
SoHot Su: [Don't worry upstairs, special correspondent Su Jiahao will bring you the front-line reports.]
Just as Qin Yonglian was about to ask a question, he heard the doorbell ring downstairs.
The phone vibrated, and SoHot Su said, "Here I come, here I come! Handsome and elegant reporter Su is reporting in!"
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The author has something to say: [Notes]
① On NASA’s official website, there is a special topic called “What did the Hubble Telescope photograph on your birthday?” If you are interested, you can check the nebula on your birthday.
Every one of them is beautiful! This is our destiny with the stars in the universe.
【Boys Over Flowers F3 Group Chat Mini-Theatre】
Qin Yonglian: Why is this group called Boys Over Flowers?
Zhenyan: Flower 3? Three flowers?
SoHot Su: Haven't you all seen Meteor Garden? Aren't we the same age?
Zhenyan: I will accompany you to watch the meteor shower, falling on this earth, and let your tears fall on my shoulders...
Qin Yonglian: Meteor? Stargazing?
Zhenyan: ...How about changing the group name?
Qin Yonglian: How about changing the group name?
SoHot Su: "Flowers" refers to Bai Ying, Yao Xianyu, and my aunt's third cousin's neighbor's sister. They are the flowers, and the men are us. Do we still need to change the group name?
Qin Yonglian: No need, it’s fine (*￣︶￣)
Zhenyan: I second that, that's good (*￣︶￣)
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