Chapter 63: Encounter in Paris

Early Monday morning, before Lin Zien got up, she received a call from her parents, who were on vacation in Mauritius, telling her to be careful and contact her.

Looking at the time, she felt that she could sleep for another hour, and just about to lie down, the phone rang non-stop, so she had to pick up the phone that fell on the carpet, "Hey?"

"It's me, are you up?" Huo Jingyan's light voice came from the other side of the phone.

"No, I don't. Lin Zien yawned, "Anyway, the things have been packed, and it will be OK to go directly to the airport in a while." ”

"Zien, I'm really sorry, I was going to take you to the airport, but my mother's asthma attack ......"

"It's okay," Lin Zien interrupted him with a chuckle, "Winter is the season of high incidence of asthma, you must take good care of your aunt, there is no need to be polite between us, and what about Su Ya, he will take me to the airport in a moment." ”

"Then, when you go out alone, be careful. Huo Jingyan paused, and stopped talking a little, "Zi En......"

"Huh?"

"Your phone must remember to charge it, and it must be kept unblocked, so as not to ...... lest your parents worry if they can't reach you. Huo Jingyan's voice didn't hear any special emotions, "I may go to Bordeaux on Thursday to run errands, and if I have time, I will go to Paris." ”

"Why are you going to Bordeaux?" Lin Zien asked casually, Bordeaux is very close to Paris, less than 600 kilometers, whether by car or by plane.

"My mother was going to buy a château in Bordeaux and asked me to visit it for her. Huo Jingyan paused, and said softly, "Don't you like to collect red wine, if you have enough time, I'll take you to Bordeaux to have a look, it is a world-famous wine town, you should like it." ”

"Okay. Lin Zien agreed.

When he arrived at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, it was more than seven o'clock in the evening local time, and after taking the plane for more than ten hours, Lin Zien did not feel very comfortable, declined Beitangmo's invitation, talked to his parents on the phone, and fell asleep without eating dinner.

The conference was organized by the Institute of International Finance, which represents more than 300 financial institutions around the world.

The theme of the conference is to strengthen international financial regulatory cooperation, improve the international regulatory system, establish a code of conduct for rating agencies, strengthen the monitoring of global capital flows, strengthen the supervision of various financial institutions and intermediary organizations, and enhance the transparency of financial markets and their products.

The meeting lasted for three days, although Paris is a tourist mecca and a shopping paradise, Lin Zien has been here many times before, secondly, he has a little cold, and the most important thing is that he is lazy, and finally he is not interested in browsing the scenery of Paris.

On the weekend, the delegates from China basically went on a shopping spree together, and even Beitangmo was pulled by the old colleagues of the Quantum Fund to travel to nearby cities, only Lin Zien, who had a cold under the pretext of a cold, stayed in the hotel, sleeping from Saturday night to Sunday dusk, and had to get up when her stomach could no longer bear the hunger, she decided to go to the café she had been to alone, and then taste the special desserts of that café.

On the way to the café, she passed a good bookstore, she walked in, her casual eyes suddenly fixed on a book called "Beautiful France", flipped through it casually, and was amused by the English writer at the end of the book, "France is beautiful, if there were no French in France, it would be even more beautiful!"

The night view of Paris is beautiful, the lights are shining at night, it seems to be near and far, the cool wind blows, her thoughts are slightly stirred up like hair, and at a distance of thirty meters, she can walk to the familiar café......

At a distance of ten meters, a lyric of Eason Chan suddenly flashed through her mind - in the coffee shop on the street corner, will you suddenly appear......

One meter distance...... She heard a voice calling in Chinese, although the tone was light, but because of the close distance between each other, the voice was the kind of light she was familiar with, and after a moment, she heard it clearly——

I've just arrived in Paris...... Right...... Don't bother you about anything these days......

"Huo Jingchen?"

Huo Jingchen, who was looking down to make a call, immediately raised his head, under the bright street lamp, his eyes paused slightly at the moment he saw her, and then the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, revealing a smile in a very good mood, and he was mature and introverted, and he suddenly said something very literary, "So you are also here?"

Lin Zien really didn't expect that she would see him here, she held the book and looked him up and down for a while before she was sure that she didn't recognize the wrong person, but why did he suddenly appear here?

Huo Jingchen also looked at her with a smile, he didn't expect to see her here, let alone see her like this - the long black hair was spread softly over her shoulders, blown by the cool wind from time to time, under the bright street lamp, there was a gentle smile on her beautiful face, and the white casual clothes with black jeans looked even more elegant and leisurely.

"I came here to inspect a project, and although I knew you were in Paris, I never imagined that I would meet you on the street. Huo Jingchen approached, and hugged her very naturally, "Since God arranged for us to meet so coincidentally, don't you want to have a good meal to celebrate?"

Lin Zien always felt a little strange intuitively, but he couldn't tell why, so he had to smile and nod, "Okay." Aside from such a coincidental encounter, she hadn't eaten for a day, and since he had invited her, she had no reason to refuse.

In the café, Huo Jingchen asked Lin Zien's opinion and ordered, and when he saw that she was a little lazy, he chuckled and asked, "What about Beitang, why do you come out for dinner alone?"

"Beitang was dragged by his old colleagues to travel to the surrounding cities, and other domestic counterparts went shopping, so I had to go out alone. She replied with a lazy smile.

"Oh?" Huo Jingchen was slightly stunned, "Haven't you been out in the past few days?"

Lin Zien leisurely flipped through the book in front of him, "Yes, I had a meeting a few days ago, and I was a little unaccustomed to jet lag, so I didn't bother to go out, and I felt a little used to it after sleeping for a day today." ”

"So, your meeting is over?" Huo Jingchen asked tightly.

"Well, it ended yesterday. ”

"Then do you have any other arrangements for the past two days?" Huo Jingchen gently sipped the coffee brought by the waiter, as if asking casually.

Lin Zien thought about it and replied honestly, "There shouldn't be any arrangement." ”

"Since that's the case......" Huo Jingchen smiled meaningfully, "I just want to ask you for help with something, and I don't know if it's okay?"

Lin Zien's hand that was putting jam on the bread stopped slightly, she raised her eyes and chuckled, "What's the matter?" Maybe I may not be able to help......

"Next week is my mother's birthday, I want to pick a gift, but I don't know what to give, can you accompany me to go shopping tomorrow and give some advice?"

Lin Zien glanced at Huo Jingchen, and originally wanted to refuse, but Huo Jingchen's smile was gentle and polite, faintly with a bit of sincere hope, I don't know why, under his gaze, she really couldn't bear to say the words of refusal, she felt that it was rare for him to be filial, and it wasn't very difficult for her to help him, right? After hesitating for a moment, she nodded and agreed.

After dinner, Huo Jingchen explained that he was also on a business trip alone, since it was still early, it was better to go for a casual walk, Lin Zien thought about it, he was going to leave tomorrow night, he slept for another day and a night, and it was boring to go back to the hotel, so he agreed.

On a winter night in Paris, the weather was slightly cool, a bit like late autumn in the south of the Yangtze River, and Huo Jingchen walked casually, and unconsciously arrived at the Eiffel Tower.

Approaching the tower, there is a meadow, or a wasteland, only dim street lamps, sparse tree trunks, and potholes under the feet are dirt with scattered dead grass, people who have not been here will feel as if they have arrived in the suburbs, but in front of them is indeed the world-famous Eiffel Tower.

Approaching the tower, the bright lights reflect the tower like a golden temple. Although it was already past eight o'clock, there were still many tourists who came to "make the pilgrimage". The Eiffel Tower has three levels of lookouts, but for some reason, it is only open on two floors tonight, and it is not possible to go up to the top of the tower. The elevator is a transparent cable car that sways through criss-crossing steel structures and thick rivets and slowly rises to more than 100 meters in the air.

Climb the lookout and see the night view of Paris, the glittering Seine, the neighborhoods, the brightly lit Arc de Triomphe, the Invalides, and the Ferris wheel of the Place de la Concorde...... Lin Zien was sighing at the beautiful scenery, and a warm voice suddenly sounded in his ears, "Paris is a place where you must travel hand in hand with the people you love...... Isn't that right?"

She was stunned for a moment, and before she could react, Huo Jingchen chuckled and said, "I remember the first time I went to Paris, I was on a leisurely street, and the most direct feeling in my heart was like this...... The Champs-Élysées, the Maple Deau, Notre-Dame, the banks of the Seine, the Eiffel Tower, these places that exude the atmosphere of freedom and romance are something that needs to be appreciated by two people......"

The breeze swept Lin Zien's long flowing hair, her eyes overlooking the romantic scenery wantonly, she said slowly and unintentionally, "I think that Paris has been deposited by dozens of centuries of history and culture, and has wonderfully blended nobility and filth, elegance and roughness, such as walking along the scenic Seine, on the one hand, indulging in the slightly bleak, but more intriguing winter Paris, on the other hand, you have to be more careful and avoid the dog shit under your feet, remember that there is a classic saying, called "Those who have not stepped on dog shit are not Parisians." Speaking of which, I think maybe the Parisian puppy is the happiest in the world - every day by the romantic Seine, maybe this is the highest level of free romance. ”

It is rare to hear the true thoughts of the person in front of him, Huo Jingchen's quiet hook of lips, free romance...... Next, he understood......

(Tianjin)