Small sling
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When Lin Ju received a call from the hotel front desk, she was strolling along the coconut grove outside the hotel. The overall style of this hotel is more Southeast Asian, and it uses a lot of wood, bamboo, and stone, all of which are natural materials with a strong original texture.
Lin Ju closed her eyes and stroked the wall with her palm. The uneven stone rubbed against her palm, feeling cool.
The hotel was very large, and it took Lin Ju almost ten minutes to walk back to the lobby and then to the eighth floor.
Feng Longlu was already getting impatient, but when he saw Lin Ju, his eyes suddenly lit up and the smile on his lips never disappeared.
"Hello, I've been trying to contact you. My name is Feng Longlu." He exclaimed in admiration, "I didn't expect Professor Li's favorite student to be such a beauty."
Lin Ju tapped Feng Longlu's palm with her fingertips and then retracted them. She took out the draft design she had just made after the site visit from her bag, "Manager Feng, these are my thoughts on the wall in the hotel lobby."
Feng Longlu took it, glanced at it casually, and then gave it back to Lin Ju.
He has no interest in art, as can be seen from his incongruous attire: a white suit and ginger-colored shorts.
"I have no objection. Since you are Professor Li's student, your strength is definitely guaranteed."
Lin Ju finally managed to tear her eyes away from Feng Longlu's ginger shorts. Glancing upward, she saw the diamond inlay on his front teeth. She pursed her lips, blinked twice rapidly, stifling a laugh, trying to divert her attention.
After finishing her business, Lin Ju walked into the elevator. She was the only one in the elevator. She put one hand on her chest, the other on her stomach, and laughed uncontrollably.
Just then, the elevator door opened and Lin Ju's laughter stopped abruptly.
Five or six people walked in, all dressed like the top elites in a top office building, and they all reported to the same person.
Lin Ju stepped back, her back almost touching the elevator wall. She licked her lips, feeling a little embarrassed.
The pedestrian must have noticed that there were other people in the elevator and immediately stopped his work report.
The elevator was so quiet that it seemed a bit awkward.
In a moment of distraction, I arrived at the first floor.
Lin Ju followed these people and walked out slowly.
She was a little absent-minded, and when she walked out of the elevator, the door was slowly closing.
With a "clang", Lin Ju turned his head and blocked the closing elevator door with his hand, which looked like a jade sculpture.
"Lin Ju." Zhao Xingcan came out from the crowd and walked up to Lin Ju, a faint smile in his eyes, "What are you thinking about?"
When Lin Ju saw Zhao Xingcan, her beautiful eyes sparkled, "Why are you here?"
Zhao Xingcan let go of her hand, put his arm behind her shoulders, and led her out of the elevator.
Zhao Xingcan was wearing a smoky gray shirt, and the fabric rubbed against Lin Ju's shoulders. Lin Ju followed his movements and walked out. She heard someone say not far away, "Mr. Zhao, you are busy. We will leave first."
Zhao Xingcan waved his hand. Lin Ju heard him say, "I'm attending an event nearby. This hotel belongs to my friend. He gave me a discount for staying here."
Zhao Xingcan was just joking, and Lin Ju certainly didn't believe it.
She told Zhao Xingcan that she came here to work, had just reported to the boss, and was now going to the staff dormitory.
She described herself as a beast of burden, which amused Zhao Xingcan. He asked her, "Can I treat a beast of burden to a meal?"
Lin Ju was indeed hungry now. Even if Zhao Xingcan didn't tell her, she would go out and find a place to eat. "Okay, but I have to go to the dormitory to put my luggage. My suitcase is still at the front desk."
"I'll wait for you downstairs."
Lin Ju went to the front desk to pick up her luggage. Feng Longlu naturally would not give her the staff dormitory, but directly opened an executive room for her.
The room was on the fifth floor. Lin Ju took the room card, put her luggage away and returned to the lobby.
She didn't see Zhao Xingcan in the lobby, so she walked out and saw Zhao Xingcan standing at the door smoking.
She took a few steps closer, and Zhao Xingcan seemed to sense something and turned back, narrowed his eyes, turned sideways and slowly exhaled a puff of smoke.
He pulled the cigarette case out of his pocket and shook it. "Want some?"
Lin Ju shook her head. She wasn't a heavy smoker and didn't smoke much when she wasn't worried.
Zhao Xingcan leaned against the wall made of stone pieces, shook off the ashes from his cigarette, and smiled.
Lin Ju was not particular about food. When she was busy with her work, she would often drink a piece of bread with water. The bread would swell in her stomach due to the water, making her very full.
She originally thought of just going to a nearby snack bar and ordering a bowl of noodles, as she heard the rice noodles there were good.
However, Zhao Xingcan drove for an hour and took her to a Southeast Asian restaurant.
The restaurant was on the beach, and they ate outdoors, so the sun wasn't strong.
Lin Ju was wearing a suspender top with thin blue straps stuck on her fair and round shoulders, and her long curly hair was spread lazily behind her back.
The cool sea breeze blew, and a strand of hair hung beside her cheek. She tilted her head back and exhaled, feeling very comfortable like a cat.
It was past dinner time and there were not many people in the restaurant. When they arrived, a few waiters were still chatting leisurely.
The waiter handed over a paper menu, and Zhao Xingcan handed it to Lin Ju. Lin Ju took it, glanced at it, and returned it to Zhao Xingcan, "You order, I'm not very good at ordering."
“Are there any dietary restrictions?”
"I don't like chicken."
"Okay, then we won't order."
Zhao Xingcan ordered several special dishes, except the rouge chicken.
It was Zhao Xingcan who ordered the dishes, and Lin Ju ate them as if she had opened a blind box.
Lin Ju originally thought that Southeast Asian cuisine would be more sour and spicy, but several of the specialty dishes in this restaurant were obviously fusion and improved, and they tasted delicious and not too spicy.
Lin Ju particularly liked the Bak Kut Teh. She didn’t know what was put in it, but it had a strong smell of medicinal herbs. The rich taste wrapped around her tongue when she drank it. It was also a little spicy because of the pepper.
Lin Ju held a small spoon and lowered her head to drink her soup. Her long, untied hair fell playfully. She reached behind her head and tucked the strands behind her, only for the wind to blow them away again.
Lin Ju was a little worried. She accidentally lost her hairband in the changing room at the airport when she was changing clothes. She didn't pay much attention to it at the time, but now she felt it was a bother.
The moment she looked up, Zhao Xingcan stood up, gently hooked the hair by her ear with his fingers, and pushed it behind her shoulder.
Lin Ju leaned back involuntarily, her eyes quietly meeting Zhao Xingcan's.
Zhao Xingcan handed her a black hairband.
Lin Ju's eyes drifted for a moment, and she took the hairband and tied up her waist-length curly hair. She pulled all her hair back into a bun, and her pretty face was not blocked by the hair, and she looked so beautiful that it was almost sharp.
She asked Zhao Xingcan, "Did you prepare this hairband for your girlfriend?"
Zhao Xingcan leaned lazily on the back of his chair and said slowly, "I asked the waiter for it when I first came in. Your hair is long, so it might be inconvenient for you to eat."
Lin Ju smiled when she heard it, her eyes were like autumn water, shining brightly.
Zhao Xingcan glanced sideways, but his eyes moved away from that bright and beautiful face and quietly fell on the hearing aid in Lin Ju's ear.
Apart from the fact that Lin Ju speaks slowly and has a somewhat strange pronunciation, it would be easy to overlook the fact that she has a disability if you hadn't seen her hearing aid.
A slight flaw in a perfect jade is the hardest to accept.
Lin Ju looked at the table full of dishes and ate for half a day, but always felt that she could not finish it and leaned back in her chair.
"Zhao Xingcan, why aren't you eating? I'm eating alone."
Zhao Xingcan put down his chopsticks early, "I don't have a good appetite." He ordered a lot of dishes, but only took one or two bites of each.
"I can't eat anymore. There are still some leftovers. Why don't you pack them up? It's such a waste."
"Sure." Zhao Xingcan stood up and called the waiter to bring the lunch box.
When Lin Ju was cleaning up the leftovers, she saw Zhao Xingcan going up to the front to pay the bill, so she immediately chased after him and said she wanted to split the bill with him.
The waiter had taken out the barcode scanner to collect the money, but when he saw the two mobile phones in front of him, he stopped helplessly and said with a smile: "Beautiful girl, don't be polite with your boyfriend."
"He's not..."
Zhao Xingcan didn't wait for Lin Ju to finish her words, and gently clasped her wrist with three fingers without using much strength.
Lin Ju heard the words "Payment received successfully" and a look of disappointment crossed her pretty face. She sighed in frustration and looked at the waiter, "Do you have a parking ticket?"
After she finished speaking, she heard a man's laughter.
Zhao Xingcan thought that Lin Ju was a very interesting girl.
How to say it,
The contrast is quite big.
When we first met, it was in the smoking room of a subway station. The girl with long curly hair was leaning against the wall, biting a cigarette, frowning as she looked at her phone, with a cold expression that said "keep away from strangers."
A strange man started chatting with her, and Zhao Xingcan found it interesting so he took a second look at him. However, he never expected that the beautiful girl pointed at her ear and waved her hand to indicate that she couldn't speak.
People have many sides, and he and Lin Ju have only met three times so far. They ate at the same table and talked about Hainan's weather, attractions and food.
Not quite understanding, but enough.
The most pleasant distance between people is that they don’t know each other very well.
"Take these back and eat them. You have no appetite now and you will be hungry when you get back." Lin Ju came over with a packed lunch box and handed the bag to Zhao Xingcan.
Zhao Xingcan took it subconsciously. The boxes of leftovers together were quite heavy.
There was a traffic jam on the way back, and the one-hour delay turned into two hours.
Even though the traffic was already very congested, cars kept cutting in front of them. This happened several times, and Lin Ju couldn't help but curse.
Zhao Xingcan was very calm and moved forward slowly.
"I'm definitely not suitable for driving. I think I have road rage. I get angry when I see them like this." Lin Ju sighed. Although she was complaining, her speech was slow and soft, and she sounded like she was acting coquettishly.
Zhao Xingcan stepped on the brakes, the tires sliding along the ground at an extremely slow speed. In his peripheral vision, Lin Ju frowned slightly, looking even more anxious than he, the driver.
"I'm annoyed too, but there's a beautiful woman sitting in the passenger seat, and I wish the road could be a little more congested."
Lin Ju thought for a moment and said, "Then I won't feel annoyed anymore, because I have a handsome guy as my driver."
When we returned to the hotel, it was already sunset.
The coconut grove is like a golden ocean, rippling with the wind.
Zhao Xingcan had another party in the evening, so after sending Lin Ju away, he drove away.
…
Lin Ju pushed open the door. She was in such a hurry when she came out just now that she threw the suitcase directly at the door.
She opened the box, took out the clothes one by one and hung them up.
She returned to her room and took off her hearing aids. She tidied her clothes and picked up her phone. There were more than a dozen calls, all from the same person: her ex-boyfriend, Ke Jia.
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