Lin Li closed his eyes tightly, his face was pale and bloodless, and his lips were pursed straight, as if he was trying to restrain some kind of emotion.

Xiao Huai called her: "Lin Li, don't be afraid. ”

She nodded blankly as if she had heard and then as if she hadn't heard anything, and a layer of cold sweat gradually appeared on her smooth forehead.

Xiao Huai reached out to touch her, and as soon as he touched her arm, he suddenly found that there were many small pimples on the skin under his palm.

She's trembling?

Xiao Huai hesitated for a moment, then stroked her shoulder with his palm, wrapped it around her back, and patted it gently.

The experience of the car accident two years ago is flashing back in Lin Li's mind.

She was driving straight down the highway in a small red car, when another fast-moving van suddenly said goodbye from the ramp. She didn't hit the steering wheel at the most dangerous moment and kept going straight, and eventually the car was pushed out and slammed into the barrier of the highway divider. The rear of the car was smashed by Yan zhòng, and the front of the car was almost frustrated.

The traumatic memory inspired panic and guilt, and she suddenly paralyzed her limbs, her ears ringing and dizzy, and she could barely hear what Xiao Huai was saying.

Seeing her look palpitating and uneasy, Xiao Huai hurriedly said, "Don't think about it, slowly relax your feelings." ”

Lin Li nodded with difficulty, trying to force herself not to recall the blood-soaked scene in the carriage, but the unbearable past involved an extreme pain in her heart, and she was so uncomfortable that she could barely breathe.

Seeing this, Xiao Huai reached for the first button on her collar.

The slender fingers twisted the buttons of the coat and pushed them into the buttonholes, and the collar was loosened, revealing the outline of the slender neck and throat bones. At the same moment, her long eyelashes fluttered a few times, and she opened her watery eyes.

His Adam's apple slid slightly, and was about to explain that it was only to relieve her breathlessness, but she spat out a muffled voice from her closed lips and frowned tightly.

He understood in an instant, and pulled the collar a little more to ease the restraint around her neck. She immediately tilted her head and took deep breaths.

After two minutes, Lin Li gradually returned to normal.

"I'm too cowardly, I'm sorry to disturb you." She said in a hoarse voice, pursing her dry lips.

How can you be a doctor if you are timid? Xiao Huai did not expose her, and said cooperatively: "The last scene is too bloody, I should have revealed the ending of the heroine earlier." ”

Lin Li replied sullenly.

For a few minutes later, neither she nor he spoke.

In the end, Lin Li broke the silence and deliberately diverted the topic: "The old housekeeper said that you work fourteen hours a day, you are so busy, where do you have time to watch movies?" ”

Xiao Huai replied: "I work fourteen hours a day, and in addition to seven hours of sleep, I still have three hours of personal time. ”

If it was on a normal weekend, Lin Li had breakfast, put on makeup, and went out for a ride, but before he could see Guan Yi at the door of the cinema, the three hours would be fleeting.

She was slightly surprised: "Three hours? What can you do? ”

"You can do a lot in three hours."

For Xiao Huai, time is money, so the art of time management is very important. For example, today's three hours is the total amount of time he spent accompanying her to the hospital for consultations, meals, and movies.

Of course, there are still fifteen minutes to three hours.

Xiao Huaiti said, "Lin Li, let's go to the study to see the photos?" ”

*

The fifth floor is Xiao Huai's absolute ** space. Here, in addition to the two compact bedrooms, there is only a super large study, which is the area where he can handle work at home.

A dazzling array of books, at a casual glance, are all related to money, banking, and finance.

In addition, there are many original German professional books on astrophysics, and Lin Li listened to Xiao Huai while identifying the titles of the books: "These reference books are the collection of my eldest brother, and I will keep them on my behalf when he moves." ”

Lin Li once searched for Xiao Huai's family background on the Internet and knew that he had two brothers. The eldest brother Xiao Jiang is a professor of physics at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and the second brother Xiao Yi is a pianist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

Jiang, Yi and Huai, these three words come from the five rivers of "Jianghuai Yi Shusi", which are intended to commemorate the birth of his grandfather Xiao Zhengfu in the Jianghuai area.

Lin Li's hands were behind her back, unhurriedly walking through the rows of bookshelves, a bit like when she was a child, basking in the sun through the neat alleys in the old Shanghai Shikumen, going around and around, going back and forth, and finally entering the central area of the study.

Then, she was stunned.

Other people's desks are rectangular, but Xiao Huai's desk is actually oval, with eighteen LCD screens placed on it, unfolding at an angle of 270 degrees.

Xiao Huai explained: "Different screens correspond to stock indices in different regions, from the leftmost screen to the right are the German DAX, the British FTSE, the French CAC, the Nikkei, the Hang Seng Index, ......."

Lin Li listened to several heads.

As her eyes wandered, she noticed a Steinway piano next to her: "You can play the piano?" ”

Xiao Huai bowed: "When I am tired from work, I usually play a few simple tunes to relax my feelings. Seeing her standing blankly and thoughtfully, he asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"How can a banker relax when he is tired by playing the piano, but how can a pianist relax when he is tired?"

A gag chatter, Xiao Huai replied very carefully: "Others don't know, the second brother likes to calculate a few physics problems in order to train his left and right brains." ”

"So, what do you do when a pianist is tired and a physics professor when he's tired?"

He heard the teasing meaning in his words, and raised his eyebrows: "Buy stocks." ”

Lin Li curled his lips and laughed silently.

Seeing that her state had recovered, Xiao Huai asked rhetorically: "You are a doctor, how do you relax yourself when you feel tired?" ”

Lin Li thought about it: "Does cooking count?" I don't know anything else, I tend to cook a table of good dishes when I'm in a bad mood, and reward my heart, liver, spleen and stomach. Feeling that there seemed to be ambiguity, she immediately added: "When I'm in a good mood, I also tend to cook." ”

"Count." Xiao Huai said gently, "The food you cook is very delicious, and it is not lost to the housekeeper." ”

"Really? If you don't dislike it, I'll take care of the next three meals a day. ”

Xiao Huai did not shirk: "There is labor." ”

Lin Li said honestly: "You're welcome, I live in your house, and I should do cooking." ”

During the conversation, he opened the safe in the entire bookcase and took out a gilded pure copper square box with a sense of age.

Lin Li leaned in and saw a few framed old photos of the Republic of China. Except for the single photo of my grandmother, the remaining photos are all photos of my grandmother and Xiao Chenghan.

When she was a girl, her grandmother wore a silk jacquard cheongsam, and her apricot eyes were smiling, revealing the gentleness and shyness of a water lotus. Xiao Chenghan was wearing a double-breasted Shanghai-style suit, with a slender figure and a lofty spirit.

Lin Li looked at it again and again, and couldn't help but feel a little sad in his heart.

Grandma and Xiao Chenghan were a natural couple, but they were separated by war.

Thinking of her grandmother's lifelong unmarried and Xiao Chenghan's untimely death, Lin Li was overwhelmed and said softly: "Can you allow me to take a photo?" ”

Xiao Huai agreed.

After she finished filming with her mobile phone, her eyes stayed on the screen for a long time, and she couldn't see enough of it.

She suddenly found something, then raised her head, and her eyes lingered on Xiao Huai's face: "You and your grandfather really look alike, the more you look at it, the more similar they are, a typical intergenerational inheritance." ”

No wonder he was so obsessed with the old bungalow, as soon as he heard that she did not agree to sell the house, he immediately put down his work and rushed to the intermediary, it turned out that he was a filial person and a person who valued feelings.

Lin Li didn't say a word on his lips, but he didn't realize that his thoughts were written on his face. She squinted her eyes, her thick eyelashes fluttered a few times like wings, and the smile in her eyes flashed, in contrast to the calm and preoccupied appearance just now.

At this moment, she no longer has a look on her face that no one is close to her, and no one is disturbed, as if she has relaxed her guard.

She didn't know that her smiling appearance was somewhat similar to Ms. Su when she was a girl, with the corners of her eyes raised and her eyebrows full of affection.

It's a pity that she barely laughs.

Xiao Huai looked at her quietly, there was an undercurrent of emotion surging in his chest, and when he spoke again, his tone became solemn: "Lin Li, are you interested in reading your grandfather's memoirs?" ”