Chapter 308 How Can You Bear to Run Away
That was Helen’s only and last trip to London.
She came to the closed bookstore and looked around the empty room and the dusty bookshelves... She was overwhelmed with emotions as she recalled every detail of her correspondence with Frank.
She wrote in her diary: "I started back downstairs, thinking of a man, now dead, with whom I had corresponded for so many years."
"Halfway down the stairs, I put my hand on the oak handrail and said to him silently: How about it, Frank, I'm finally here."
It is a story of mutual warmth, but also a sad story about waiting.
Lu Sinian suddenly asked this question without any context, without specifying anything, but he felt that Su Xiaoli would understand.
Su Xiaoli probably... knew what Lu Sinian wanted to ask.
This time, she did not lower her head as if to avoid the other pair of eyes that made her ashamed, but continued to raise her little face and look at Lu Sinian.
He suddenly felt lost and quickly looked away, as if he was not in a hurry to get an answer.
However, he couldn't help but suppress the anxiety and expectation in his heart and looked at Su Xiaoli again.
There was a real and open light in Su Xiaoli's eyes, and it flowed out generously.
This look made Lu Sinian feel a little uneasy, but he couldn't ignore it.
Su Xiaoli knew Helen's life after that. She remained unmarried and died in the United States in 1997 at the age of 81.
She also knew that the person in front of her was becoming more and more important and precious to her, both as a family member and as a business partner.
But...the man who was blending and flying with me in love was not him.
Even if love is not everything in your life, it is the only direction it points to.
As long as Gu Feihan allows her to love, win or lose, the rest is her own practice.
She smiled gently at Lu Sinian.
She looked him straight in the eyes, then answered softly, "They are close friends, comrades-in-arms, and family members for life."
With every word she said, the pain in Lu Sinian's heart would grow more severe, and the weight of his whole body would fall far into the abyss.
But the dim look was covered up in an instant.
When Su Xiaoli finished speaking, there was no trace of emotion in Lu Sinian's eyes.
He calmed down and pretended to be enlightened. His tone was calm and he smiled slightly. "It seems to be just as you said."
One says one thing and means another.
Only now did I truly understand what it meant to put on a forced smile.
On the vast ocean, Xiao Li has the final say on whether the ship can sail and where it can go.
He had long lost the initiative.
The only thing he could do was abandon the ship and escape, but how could Lu Sinian bear to do that?
There is no other person but Su Xiaoli.
The future will still be a vast sea of white waves with no destination. Abandoning the ship will only make it more sad than it is now.
Lu Sinian took the initiative to cut off all retreat routes, waited again, and continued to deceive himself with the dim light of the North Star.
Then bear the love and fall he chose.
Living is a struggle, so what if you are stupid? No matter how turbulent his heart was, he had a gentle smile on his face and said in a low and clear voice, "Let's go."
After such a long time, Lu Sinian has already mastered the skills of being a "brother".
Su Xiaoli felt relieved when she saw that he seemed to agree.
She smiled at Lu Sinian and nodded.
The two of them spent the entire afternoon in Charing Cross Road.
It is unrealistic to visit every bookstore.
Finally, they were tired of standing, so they ate something and sat down in a cafe. Each of them held a book and read quietly.
Su Xiaoli was reading a collection of European current affairs, while Lu Sinian seemed to have suddenly developed a strong interest in Chinese traditional culture.
Holding a Chinese-English bilingual copy of the Tao Te Ching, I read over and over again the sentence in Chapter 40: "The opposite is the movement of the Tao, the weak is the use of the Tao, all things in the world are born from existence, and existence is born from non-existence."
A few hours passed unknowingly. Lu Sinian raised his head from his deep thoughts and saw that the sun was setting in the west.
He gently took the book from Su Xiaoli's hand.
"Let's go back. We can go back through Hyde Park and see different scenery."
It would be too cold any later and she was afraid of the cold.
On the way back, the two did not walk but took the subway. Lu Sinian was quite familiar with the route.
After getting off at Marble Arch Station, you will enter the park in just a few minutes.
There weren't many people in the park on a winter evening.
Only on the half-frozen surface of Jiuqu Lake were there flocks of ducks, swans and seagulls, coming and going freely, without avoiding people at all.
While admiring the beautiful scenery...
Su Xiaoli smiled at the ducks that were walking around with no sense of danger, and said slyly, "What are we having for dinner?"
Lu Sinian laughed, "Warning! They are the Queen's private property... they will be repatriated."
Su Xiaoli had no choice but to accept her fate and nodded, sighing helplessly.
Goodbye to the ducks that are protected by law. We can’t look at them with the eyes of a foodie.
The next second, without any warning, Lu Sinian had already hung the scarf around Su Xiaoli's neck and was about to take off his coat.
Su Xiaoli was stunned: Eh? Lu Sinian's eyes were full of smiles, and his tone was calm: "Comrade, keep my private property safe."
As he spoke, the coat was already draped over Su Xiaoli.
Su Xiaoli was instantly wrapped in softness and warmth.
Lu Sinian was left with only a sweater and jeans.
The little girl couldn't close her mouth. "Didn't you say..."
"The museum here also houses a lot of our country's private property." Lu Sinian said lightly.
Hit the nail on the head?
Have a deep understanding of justice?
Reciprocity? In short, Su Xiaoli didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
After a long silence, she said, "Then be careful, don't fall in... The shore is also very slippery."
Lu Sinian smiled at her, stretched his muscles, leaned over quietly, stretched out his arms, and walked towards a fat duck.
In the distance, three figures were slowly walking towards us.
"Liz!" a clear voice.
Su Xiaoli, who was on guard duty, froze.
Her eyelids twitched and she turned her head to look at the cats, one big and one small, and forced a smile.
James smiled brightly and ran to her side with his short legs.
This time I gave her a big hug, without any politeness.
Lord Arthur also walked over gracefully and rubbed Su Xiaoli's trouser leg.
"Li, why are you here too?"
James had a big puzzled look on his small face. "Are you here to play with me? I come here every afternoon."
Su Xiaoli: “…”
If you say so, then so be it.
She greeted James and Lord Arthur carefully before looking up at the adults in James' family.
Hmm... a beautiful face that makes people sigh.
He has thick, naturally curly flaxen brown hair, a Greek facial feature, deep blue eyes that are almost pure turquoise and as deep as the sea, a high nose bridge, a small face, and a full beard.
He straightened his neck.
This is the key point.
Is the British people calm on the outside and crazy on the inside? Friendly reminder:
In reality, catching ducks here is illegal, you will either be deported or go to jail!
As for catching geese, if you are not afraid of being attacked by them, that is not allowed! It is illegal!
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