9.IX
>> Adversity is like a strong wind, tearing off our coats but not our hearts, so that we can see our true selves.
Red ran into the lobby on the first floor with an anxious face, George was sorting out the registration form behind the counter, and as soon as he looked up, he saw Red holding the counter with both hands, his face covered with sweat, panting, and looking weak from overexercise. George quickly stood up and asked worriedly, "Hi, Red, what's wrong with you, are you in trouble?" Red shook his head violently, he gasped, and said intermittently, "Hey, hey, George, huh, did you see Huliu leave?" George shook his head strangely, "No, she should be at home." Red turned and ran towards the stairwell, shouting "Thanks, George!" as he went. Rhett, who fought in the stairwell and steps, held his stomach with one hand and the escalator with the other. And Liu Fanxu was still standing in front of the crucible with a calm face at this time.
An IQ of 187 can't save the hypoxic alveoli and the legs that are out of control. Rhett supported the door with one hand, took out the key from his backpack with the other, pushed open the door and hurriedly rushed in, and saw Liu Fanxu crooked on the sofa at a glance, still the same as when he left, and heard him come back, those charming black eyes looked at him suspiciously. Red breathed a sigh of relief, locked the door with his backhand, removed his messenger bag and hung it on the hanger, and strode over to her.
"Spencer, what's wrong?" Liu Fanxu blinked, her face was full of doubts, she left the pillow, sat up, put down the brick book in her hand, and frowned lightly, "Didn't you say that you would have dinner with Ethan?" Why did you come back so early? As he spoke, Red was already sitting next to her, he looked at her sideways, the panic in his eyes replaced by doubt, and his brows tightened, "Your phone is broken?" I've called you several times, but it's all out of the service area. ”
Hearing Red say this, Liu Fanxu's eyes slowly widened, and he hurriedly lowered his eyes, groped for his pockets with both hands, took out his mobile phone from it, pressed it, and found that the screen was always black, and she hung her shoulders in frustration, "No, is this broken?" Obviously, when you left just now, you were still in a good place! Rhett's expression was stretched, with a smile that he tried to hide, he reached out and took the phone from her hand, and pressed his fingertips a few times, and said with certainty, "It seems that it is indeed broken, but it doesn't matter, I will bring you a new one when I come back tomorrow." ”
Liu Fanxu pouted, tilted his head aggrievedly and leaned on his shoulder, raised his hand and poked the mobile phone that had been striking in Red's hand, and said resentfully, "I want to be the same as you." Red's cheek rubbed the top of Liu Fanxu's head, and he threw the mobile phone in his hand aside lightly, "So, I don't trust these electronic products, after they are broken, they will not leave a trace." She pursed her lips and chuckled, held up the brick book, and continued to read, "Actually, I prefer to write letters to my mobile phone, but I also want to talk to you on the phone, so I can't do without it, it's really embarrassing!" ”
Rhett picked up a brick book from the tea table, leaned on the back of the sofa and adjusted his posture, making Liu Fanxu more comfortable. He holds the book in his left hand, and the middle finger of his right hand touches the first line of text on the page, swiping from top to bottom to the last line, then turning to the next page, repeating the same motion. When he heard her words, his fingertips choked, "You also like to write letters?" Liu Fanxu nodded and replied casually, "Yes~" Her eyes drooped slightly, and she exhaled quietly, and a nervous dark color suddenly welled up in her eyes, and then slowly dispersed. The corners of her mouth slowly curled into a small arc, and under her long eyelashes, her eyes trembled lightly, sweeping over the wall behind the bed.
"I also like to write letters." Red lowered his eyes, a smile on his face, his fingertips flipped smartly, and the speed of turning the pages was more bright: "This book is good." The corners of his mouth smiled, his eyebrows frowned slightly, but he had a relaxed expression, "Is your book the next volume?" Liu Fanxu nodded, "Uh-huh~" She glanced sideways at the speed at which Red turned the page, calculated the difference between herself and his reading time, and said with a smile, "When you finish reading that book, I can just give you this one, so, don't worry." Rhett glanced sideways at the top of Liu Fanxu's hair, and replied with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "Very good~"
Liu Fanxu turned the last page, and it happened that Rhett also closed the book. She immediately jumped up from the couch, raised her arms, and stretched lazily, "Spencer, where are we going to eat?" Rhett rubbed his neck and quickly replied, "There's a nice Indian restaurant nearby, I like the chow mein there, would you like to try it?" Liu Fanxu put down his arm, squinted his eyes and smiled and said, "Okay~ I'm in for a treat, today is a big day to get my wallet back." ”
The two held hands and chatted while walking, Red touted the dishes of the Indian restaurant, and he talked endlessly about the feeling he felt when he tasted the first bite last time, and added various adjectives in a colorful voice, and even Liu Fanxu was very excited. She said she would carefully note down the feeling of the first sip and share it with him immediately. Rhett also talked about Ethan, they had planned to eat Indian food today, but because he couldn't get through to her phone, he was very worried, so he broke the appointment and released his pigeons. She apologizes and asks if he needs to be asked for another time as compensation. Red looked at Liu Fanxu's eyes and asked very seriously, if he could invite Ethan to his house for dinner, he wanted to introduce her to his childhood partner.
She didn't hesitate, readily agreed, and asked Red to confirm the time, so she could prepare in advance. Red grinned, this had a special meaning to him, and he was very happy that Liu Fanxu could agree. When it comes to Ethan, it is natural to talk about today's preliminary examination, and Red described it very carefully, he described the interviewer's stinky face at the beginning, not only that, but he even mentioned the interviewer's quarrel with his wife at home before going to work this morning and the interviewer's cheating behavior last night. Liu Fanxu squinted his eyes and laughed at the interviewer's self-inflicted self-inflictedness, and then adoringly praised Red's profiling ability.
"Trust me, if the FBI doesn't hire you, that's a big loss for them! Obviously, they are sensible. Liu Fanxu gave Ryder 100% affirmation, he happily cushioned his feet, and childishly ordered another mousse cake. Although she was tempted to remind him that it was best not to eat too many sweets at night, she indulged in his willfulness given his thin size. Holding the cake in one hand, Rhett stretched out his slender fingers in the air to draw traceless curves, and obliviously did a statistical analysis of various FBI test indicators, he was a mathematical genius who entered the era of large numbers in advance. Liu Fanxu felt that she was so wise to learn Muggle knowledge, she took a sip of milk, and her eyes always looked at Red. She was admiring the colorful expression on his face, and she was listening to his astute and intelligent thoughts.
Occasionally, she would add to his pause. He would nod happily and solemnly say that this was what he wanted to say. Not only would she not feel unhappy, but she would also be glad that her thoughts were in the same frequency band as his. He dictated to her all the papers he had published in the past, which she believed was an absolutely word-for-word dictation, and when he had finished dictating a paper, she would comment and point out her point, but most of the time she praised his meticulous logic in a more adoring tone. The two chatted so much that they ignored the waiter's prompts several times, until the restaurant owner reluctantly stood at their table, offered a discount, asked for their forgiveness, and then clearly told them that they were really closing.
The two who were 'kicked out' continued the topic that had just been interrupted indifferently, Liu Fanxu held a large glass of hot milk in both hands, smiling and biting the straw while pacing, Rhett's eyes were fixed on her, while dialectically dialecticing a mathematical proposition at a very fast speed, sometimes walking backwards and sometimes sideways around her. When they walked into the hall of the apartment, it was already midnight, and they didn't even notice John, who was standing up to greet them, and the two were arguing over a chemical reality, walking directly in front of John, completely ignoring him. John raised his hand and touched the top of his almost bald hair, blinked his eyes, and exclaimed, "What a good feeling! ”
When I returned home, the two doctors, who were still struggling with chemical reality, used simple materials to simulate the high-risk chemical reality, although the results were not ideal, but they were able to prove that the ideas of both people were feasible. "Reconciled as before", they happily pulled out the chessboard, this time it was to go to determine the winner, two wins in three games, whoever wins will use the bathroom first, and whoever wins will sleep in bed. As a result, Red narrowly won by a narrow margin, with two draws and one loss, only one child behind.
Willing to lose the bet, Liu Fanxu, who is very energetic, stayed to clean up the mess, and Rhett staggered into the bathroom with a smile and hugged his home clothes. Hearing the bathroom door shut, Liu Fanxu slid his wand out of his fingertips, tapped the chessboard, and the white and black chess pieces clicked and drilled into their respective chess boxes, and the chessboard and chess boxes waltzed and automatically returned to their storage positions. She had crept over to the wall behind the bed as they were jubilantly returning to their places, and she looked back at the bathroom door, from which came the sound of rattling showers and the strange tunes that Red was humming.
She pursed her lips and smiled silently, then looked at the wall, stretched out her right hand, and her fingertips touched the wall, sliding ripples in circles from her fingertips. She lowered her hand, stepped forward, stepped into the wall, and disappeared from the apartment to the potions room. She walked quickly to the cauldron, lowered her eyes to examine the potion inside, the color was pure, the liquid was viscous and the magic flow was not bad, she slowly exhaled, fortunately it did not affect the quality of the potion of potions. Rhett came back too suddenly in the afternoon, and when the house gave a warning, her heart almost jumped out of her throat. Liu Fanxu walked to the workbench, weighed the materials processed earlier, added them evenly to the crucible, stirred the stirring rod clockwise and stirred counterclockwise for one and a half circles, and then she stood in place and lowered her eyes, carefully observing the color change of the potion.
After stirring, the newly added mana, as the material dissolves, causing the potion's viscosity to change and its color changes. The emerald green lumpy potion slowly melted into an emerald green slurry, and the emerald green mud slowly melted into an emerald green paste, and then remained unchanged for a long time. Liu Fanxu frowned slightly, and looked sideways at the bathroom, there was no commotion coming from inside, there was not much time, but the potion had not yet turned into an ideal color. She stood straight in front of the cauldron, stepping on the point of time, her heart rising and falling between Potions and Red.