Chapter 60 Chapter 60 Boyfriend?
Chen Lu didn't really look at the whole place. Ji Maili was too noisy. He kept going back and forth, asking for water and food.
After two or three hours, Shen Lu closed the book and said, "I'm going to sleep for a while. You should be quiet."
Ji Maili patted his shoulder and said, "Lie here."
Chen Lu leaned against Ji Maili, and soon he felt a bump on his head. He looked up and saw that Ji Maili had fallen asleep first.
His mouth was open, and his head was shaking in his sleep. Chen Lu raised his hand to hold his chin to steady his shaking head. After a while, he suddenly felt his palm was a little wet. He turned around and saw that Ji Maili's saliva was flowing out of his sleep.
Ji Maili slept the entire way, and Chen Lu watched him the entire way. When they got off the plane, Ji Maili was still drowsy. Chen Lu led him out, muttering, "Do you know the name of the hotel we're staying in? We need to take a taxi. Do you know which way to go?"
Chen Lu: "I know. There's a sign. Do you want to go wash your face and refresh yourself?"
Ji Maili shook his head: "I feel a little dizzy."
Shen Lu touched his forehead and said, “It’s okay, I just slept too much.”
The advantage of Ji Maili sleeping more is that he feels completely refreshed when he gets to the hotel. Last time he stayed in a single room, but this time Liang Lin booked a king-size room for them. When he came in, Ji Maili realized that not only was the bed big, but the room was also big, and the facilities in the room were more than the one he had stayed in before.
He fumbled around and looked around. When Shen Lu came out of the bathroom, he saw him standing by the bed, studying something on the bedside table. "What are you doing?"
Ji Maili turned around, holding something that looked like hand cream, "Do you recognize the words on this?"
Shen Lu frowned and turned to open the suitcase, "Put it back."
Ji Maili followed him and asked, "What is this? Do you recognize it?"
Shen Lu: "I don't know him."
Ji Maili muttered as he took out his phone, "Looks like Baidu is still the most reliable."
Chen Lu turned around: "Ji Maili, did you do this on purpose?"
Ji Maili: "Huh? What's wrong with me?"
Shen Lu pointed to the thing in his hand, "Lubricant."
Ji Maili thought it was the kind used for car repairs, so he took a look and said, "Why is it here? I took it from the drawer. Was it left behind by the last person who lived in this room?"
Facing such a fool, Shen Lu was really troubled. He said more bluntly, "Sex-products."
Ji Maili: “…”
Ji Maili honestly put the "thing" back, but then felt embarrassed and forced an explanation, "I don't know what this is. Domestic hotels only have small boxes, not this thing."
"Yeah." Shen Lu didn't want to discuss this with him anymore.
Ji Maili looked at Shen Lu for a while and asked him, "How do you know what this is?"
Shen Lu went out to get the toiletries, "I saw the words."
Ji Maili didn't believe it, "Aren't you nearsighted?"
Shen Lu stood up and said, "I am nearsighted, but I am not blind. Can't you see such a big sexy thing?"
Ji Maili knew the meaning of "sexy" by listening, but he didn't know how to spell it. He challenged Chen Lu, "You learned English just to understand this, right?"
Shen Lu said, "It's better than you, who didn't learn English and can't even understand it, right?"
Ji Maili choked for a long time, then sat on the bed and glared at him angrily: "Are you sure you like me? Why are you still so mean?"
Shen Lu glanced at him and smiled, "It's not the first day I've liked you. Besides, knowing it hasn't changed anything, so why should I give in to you?"
Ji Maili: "...That makes sense."
The next afternoon, Ji Maili took Chen Lu to the exhibition hall.
Although his painting won a prize, it was not a masterpiece by a famous painter after all. The exhibition was just a small gimmick of the competition. Shen Lu did not think it was necessary for him to come to such an exhibition. At least until now, he had not seen the person in charge of the competition or the exhibition hall come out to receive them.
Ji Maili made a phone call. After a while, a man with an Asian face and fluent Mandarin came over and greeted Ji Maili: "Mr. Ji, is this me? I'm Zhang Ming."
As the two were talking, Ji Maili suddenly waved towards the outside of the exhibition hall.
A blonde, blue-eyed foreign woman walked in from outside the exhibition hall. Ji Maili introduced her to Chen Lu, "Her name is Mei, she's a designer. She likes my paintings very much. She came to me last time and wanted me to design for her."
Logically speaking, Ji Maili should have shown off such a big thing to him when he returned to China, but he actually endured it and didn't say anything. Shen Lu thought Ji Maili was a little strange.
Shen Lu shook hands with Mei, then looked at the man standing next to Ji Maili.
Ji Maili said: "He is the translator I hired."
Shen Lu: "You also hired a translator?"
Ji Maili said, "I don't understand what they're saying. What should I do if I ignore the translation? Should I gesture and let her guess?"
Shen Lu said: "I understand, I will help you translate, you can return this translation."
How is that possible?
Seeing that he was awkward and silent, Chen Lu said, "It costs a lot of money to hire a translator. I won't charge you any money, so you can just send him away."
Ji Maili was yelling in his heart that he couldn't retreat, but he couldn't find a reason to convince Chen Lu, so he had to tell the translator in front of Chen Lu that he didn't need to come tomorrow.
You don't have to come tomorrow, but you have to be here today. Ji Maili said to Chen Lu, "He calculates the fee by the day. Since you're here today, you have to pay whether you need it or not."
Ji Maili and Mei were talking about something, and they both looked a little sneaky.
Mei glanced at Chen Lu and asked Ji Maili in English. Ji Maili didn't know many words and couldn't spell the word "friend", but he could understand it.
Without waiting for the translator he hired to speak, Ji Maili nodded quickly, "Yes, yes, dinner is here!"
The translator was stunned.
Shen Lu was also stunned for a moment.
Mei let out a surprised "woo".
Shen Lu looked at Ji Maili, "Do you know what she is talking about?"
Ji Maili said: "I know, I understand this sentence, it's for dinner, friends."
Shen Lu wondered if he really understood or was really deaf. Didn't he hear that there was another word before "friend"?
Mei said something again. This time Ji Maili didn't understand, but Shen Lu did. He asked Ji Maili, "What gift?"
When Ji Maili heard that the truth had been revealed, he quickly interrupted Mei, "NoNoNo! What Doumeiyou!"
The translator next to him was amused by his combination of Chinese and English.
Shen Lu couldn't help but laugh.
Before leaving, Mei and Ji Maili left each other their phone numbers. Chen Lu looked at them and wondered what the point of these two people leaving each other their phone numbers was, as if they could communicate.
The next morning, Ji Maili said he had an appointment with Mei to go out.
Shen Lu: "I'll go with you."
Ji Maili quickly stopped him: "No, no, I can go by myself. She asked me to help her design something. I might not be back too early. You will be bored if you go."
Shen Lu, who was completely bored, didn't know this, so he asked, "Can you two communicate if I don't go?"
Ji Maili said: "Their company has an interpreter, don't worry, you can eat by yourself at noon, and then we will go out to eat together in the evening."
Mei's driver was already waiting for him downstairs in the hotel. Shen Lu stood by the window and watched him get in the car. He thought this guy was weird. He asked him to accompany him just to leave him alone in the hotel?
Mei is a relatively well-known designer who specializes in niche art design and also makes some branded handmade accessories.
Ji Maili's painting teacher in China is a good friend of Mei, and it was he who introduced Ji Maili to her. Knowing that she has her own production team, Ji Maili shamelessly said that he wanted to make something as a birthday gift for his friend, but Liang Lin had already booked the return flight in advance, so he had to find an opportunity to come after the holiday.
Mei really liked his talent for painting and thought he was a smart kid, so she wanted him to help with the design, and Ji Maili agreed.
It was previously agreed that Ji Maili would make a bracelet or necklace, and choose a simple one from Mei's original designs to make it himself, but now he has changed his mind.
Ji Maili made a circle with his index finger and thumb. "Circle, little, ah, that, the small sign."
Ji Maili was almost exhausted from gesturing. Mei did have an interpreter, but her interpreter had asked for leave due to family matters. This was really difficult for him, a poor student who only managed to get through the English exam for twenty minutes. No matter what he said, Mei just couldn't understand.
Ji Maili had an idea and downloaded a mobile translator.
Translated, it means a small, round tag with his picture carved on it and strung with a black leather rope.
Mei asked him, "What kind of painting?"
Ji Maili found a piece of paper and a pen and started drawing.
The painting he drew was very simple, but you could tell at a glance that it was of him.
Mei was surprised and asked, "It's you?"
Ji Maili chuckled.
Yes, it was him. He wanted to make this into a gift for Shen Lu. Shen Lu’s birthday was on the sixth day of the first lunar month, and there wasn’t much time left.
He told Mei about his idea. Mei thought it was not a big problem, but she could not guarantee the result. After all, he had too little time, only four days, and he had to do it himself. If the result was not good, he would not even have time to rework it.
Ji Maili was good at drawing, but he had no experience in making things. The only thing he had ever made, a crooked-mouthed bottle, was said by his sister to look like a urinal.
This time the gift was purely handmade, with every stroke carved personally. Ji Maili went out early and came back late every day. They were only here for a week, and Ji Maili went to Mei's studio five days a week.
The finished product was finally produced on the last day. Ji Maili's self-portrait was engraved on the platinum plate. The last step was to put it into the machine for grinding and polishing. Whether it would be successful or not depended on the last step.
On the last day, Mei's translator came back. Ji Maili felt that he could almost communicate with Mei in English in the past few days, and his English score would definitely improve in the next exam.
Before the sign was sent in for polishing, Mei took a look at it and thought there was nothing wrong with it. She even helped him add a small diamond to the sign.
After the finished product came out, it was better than Ji Maili expected. The designer of Mei Studio found a black leather rope for it to be strung together, which made it look very consistent with the niche accessories of Mei Studio.
Mei: "Nice."
Ji Maili couldn't put it down and looked at it: "Nice, nice, it's great."
Mei spoke a lot of English, and the translator said, "Mei said this necklace really suits her aesthetic taste and asked if you could give her the design copyright so she can mass-produce it."
Ji Maili felt bad, "My portrait is on it?"
Mei just thought it was a good idea, but she hadn't decided what to engrave on it yet.
Ji Maili said: "I'm going to give this away as a gift, so I'd better not buy it in bulk. Besides, I'm not a celebrity, and I don't think it would be good to sell it with my face."
Mei was just suggesting it, so she didn't push it too much. Mei asked, "Is this for your boyfriend?"
Just as Ji Maili was about to nod, the translator gave him the correct translation. Ji Maili was stunned, "What?"
The translator said, "Mei asked if it was a gift for your boyfriend who went to the art exhibition with you last time."
Ji Maili was stunned. "Boyfriend?"
Mei nodded, "Yes, it's rare to come across one!"
Ji Maili: "......" When did I say that? ?
Chen Lu was almost growing hair after being left in the hotel by Ji Maili these days. He had never seen Ji Maili so busy in his life.
Downstairs in the hotel, Shen Lu went out for a walk. As soon as he reached the gate, he saw Ji Maili being sent back by Mei's driver.
Shen Lu walked over and asked, "You came back so early today?"
Ji Maili saw Shen Lu and asked him, "Where are you going?"
"Go out for a walk," Shen Lu said, "I'm bored."
Ji Maili looked apologetic and said, "I'm sorry, I've been a bit busy these past few days, but it's over now. Let's go out and play tomorrow."
At dinner that night, Ji Maili asked Chen Lu, "Last time at the art exhibition, Mei asked me if you were my fan. Do you remember?"
Shen Lu corrected him, "She said boyfriend."
Ji Maili asked him, "Do you know what it means?"
"Boyfriend." Shen Lu cut a piece of steak and put it in his mouth to chew, then looked at him, "What's wrong?"
Ji Maili opened his eyes wide in surprise, "What, what happened? Why didn't you tell me if you knew?"
Shen Lu said: "Didn't you say you understood? I thought you were taking advantage of me on purpose."
"..." He wouldn't do anything to take advantage of others, Ji Maili yelled, "I don't know shit."
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