The two were temporarily separated and entered through different channels.

Lin Li didn't wait for the luggage in the luggage line, ran to the counter to inquire, and got a thunderbolt news: the trolley was sent to the wrong flight and transported to another plane to Sydney.

Lin Li separated the small amount of cash from the wallet, and now the money is in the suitcase, but the suitcase is in Sydney, and she only has a few dozen euros left in her small bag.

She hurriedly completed the baggage appeal procedures, hurried to the parking lot, and saw Xiao Huai and his silver Mercedes-Benz concept car as if she saw hope, and finished telling the cause and effect in one breath: "Mr. Xiao, I don't go to the hotel, can you please send me to the consulate?" ”

Xiao Huai reminded: "Your situation is special. It is possible for the consulate to escort you back to your home country instead of giving you financial help. ”

Lin Pi was reluctant to be sent back to China, and told Sù to calm down and think of other ways.

Xiao Huai thought for a moment, and was about to speak, Lin Li also thought of a solution: "My credit card is a full-currency card, and you can withdraw cash without a card through guò mobile banking, and a few thousand euros is enough for my expenses here." ”

Xiao Huai pursed the corners of his mouth lightly and didn't say a word.

Lin Li hurriedly flipped out his mobile phone, clicked on the credit card client, and just logged in, he saw several lines of red letters floating on the main page.

She stared at the phone screen and didn't move for a long time.

Xiao Huai was puzzled: "What's wrong?" ”

"The banking system has been completely upgraded...... Suspension of business. Lin Li choked, almost unable to lift his breath.

Xiao Huai expressed his opinion: "Lin Li, you might as well come with me and live in my house for the time being." ”

"No, it's too troublesome for you, I'll figure it out myself."

"No hassle. I see you as a friend, and when a friend is in trouble, I should take care of him. ”

Lin Li was unable to refute for a moment.

After hesitating for a long time, she opened the passenger door and sat next to Xiao Huai, her face a little gloomy: "Mr. Xiao, then I will disturb you for a few days." ”

Xiao Huai started the car smoothly: "We were delayed for more than an hour, and the hotel reservation may be canceled, do you need to call to confirm?" ”

"No, you don't."

"So, do you need to notify the bank to freeze the account?"

Lin Li quickly took out his mobile phone. She has several credit cards, savings/savings/cards, and has to call one by one, but she has just secured her first bank, and her mobile phone sounds a low battery warning tone, and the screen goes black, and it automatically shuts down.

Lin Li's expression was speechless.

Xiao Huai couldn't help but smile heavily. His facial features are already good-looking, and when he smiles brightly, his eyebrows and eyes are gentle, and there is a sense of beauty that makes people feel excited.

Lin Li's gaze withdrew from his face and cleared his throat: "Mr. Xiao, I'm already very unlucky, you actually look at me laughing." ”

He suppressed his smile: "I'm sorry, please give me a minute, I'll help you out." ”

One minute? Lin Li didn't believe it, but when he dialed the "general to general" special line of the financial institution and handed her the mobile phone to ask her to enter the ID number, she realized that there was already such a thing as "one-click query, freezing, and deduction" through the guò network without leaving home.

After the call, Lin Li returned the phone.

"Okay?" Xiao Huai asked.

"Alright."

"I see you're tired too, so I'll take you home to rest?"

"Well, thank you."

Xiao Huai stepped on the accelerator and drove the car out.

The car quickly drove up the highway, and the scenery outside the window changed from the neon lights of the airport to the neat square houses, the historic church, and the consulate with the five-star red flag at the door...... Finally, there is the quiet affluent area.

The car slowed down and drove towards a baroque castle mansion.

Munich has already experienced several winter snowfalls. Snow accumulates in the dome and spire of various heights, glowing with a glittering glow. Time slows down here, but the quiet and romantic atmosphere flows in the rustling wind.

The castle mansion has five floors, each floor has five or six rooms, and there is not a single detail of the castle building with white towers and red bricks that does not show elegance and chic, but there is one place that is a little strange - the serial number of the surface parking spaces is numbered to fifty, and there are only about two dozen windows, which means that the number of rooms is far less than the number of parking spaces.

Lin Li was slightly surprised.

Xiao Huai poured the silver Mercedes-Benz into the No. 1 parking space and turned off the engine, "Do you have any questions?" ”

He was silent as he drove, and he didn't say a word all the way, when he suddenly spoke, his voice lower and dumber than usual, but more magnetic.

Lin Li turned his face and saw Xiao Huai reaching out to touch the skin on the side of his neck. The slender and powerful fingers slowly descended, touched the collar, and skilfully loosened the tie.

His Adam's apple slid slightly.

In Lin Li's impression, Xiao Huai was calm and serious, and the way he drove was the same, and now he sat next to her, his collar was unbuttoned, and he naturally exuded the unique sexy charm of a mature man. The other side of this completely different side made her can't help but look a few more times before she looked away from his neckline.

"I found a phenomenon," she said. Other people have more windows than parking spaces in their homes, but the reverse is true in yours. ”

Xiao Huai was a little surprised, and explained: "My work needs to socialize from time to time, but I don't like to socialize, so I take a compromise approach, and I will only keep guests at home." ”

"Isn't it ...... for me to live with you?"

"You're a friend, not a guest."

Lin Li is self-aware, and the fundamental reason why Xiao Huai regards her as a "friend" lies in the relationship between her grandmother and Xiao Chenghan. If my grandmother hadn't adopted her mother, or if the old bungalow had already changed hands, she wouldn't have been able to sit in Xiao Huai's car and be so close to him.

Her definition of "friend" is narrow: people like Guan Yi who can share joys, sorrows and sorrows are her friends.

In her heart, Xiao Huai is currently just an "acquaintance" who has dealt with her.

Xiao Huai asked: "There is a guest bedroom on each floor, which floor do you want to live on?" ”

"One floor." She lowered her eyes and replied casually.

*

The housekeeper of the mansion was a German, von? Mr. Manstein Sr.

The old butler was well-educated and could speak five languages, but his attitude was dignified, unsmiling, and he spoke with a heavy emphasis on every word and used dull and rigid grammar, such as: "Dear Ms. Lin, do you mind that there is no Chinese food at the dinner you will have later?" Mind putting more dry spices in the braised beef soup? ”

Lin Li politely replied, "I don't mind."

The heating in the guest bedroom was turned on sufficiently, Lin Li took off Xiao Huai's suit jacket and looked at the room.

It's not so much a bedroom as a presidential suite: a living room, a bedroom, a cloakroom, a study, a bathroom, one after the other.

Lin Li sat on the soft leather sofa, his hands propped up at his side, leaning back and staring up at the ceiling.

A crystal chandelier set with agate-coloured gemstones hangs overhead, illuminating every corner of the room with a dazzling glow.

She sat quietly for a few minutes, pulling out everything in her small bag and checking it before putting it back.

Mobile phone, amethyst, sample travel size toiletries, ID card...... Finally, there is a boxy brown leather notepad.

Before going out, she had a dream that she had lost her notepad and woke up and put it in her small bag and put her long wallet in her suitcase.

After leaving Shanghai and crossing thousands of mountains and rivers to Munich, fortunately, the notepad was not lost.

Lin Li felt tired from the long flight and various accidents along the way, so she held a notepad and pillowed the other hand behind her head and lay on the sofa.

When she closed her eyes, scenes from the past flashed back in her mind like a black-and-white movie, and she couldn't fall asleep.

She opened her eyes and picked up a piece of music from her charged phone, "EsIstEinSchneeGefallen," which looped on it.

This German ballad was recommended to her by her boyfriend when she was studying abroad in Munich, and after many years, she still remembers the real tragic love story behind this song.

An unmarried pregnant woman was evicted from her home and left in a hut in the middle of the woods. The snow fell sharply in the depths of winter, the old house was dilapidated and could not withstand the severe cold, and the woman was hungry and cold, hoping that her beloved would come to her side as soon as possible, but the beloved never appeared.

Lin Li closed his eyes.

Ethereal tunes flow through the room. The light voice and soft and sad lyrics reproduce the thoughts of the woman who was expelled from the house for the man she loves.

When the snow falls, time no longer stands still.

When the snowballs came at me, I was deep in the snow.

The house has no beams, the whole body is cold, the door latch is broken and broken, and the hut is difficult to withstand the cold.

Have mercy on me, dear one.

I'm so unlucky, embrace me.

*

When Xiao Huai knocked on the door of Lin Li's room with a clean change of clothes, he heard the song "When the Snow Falls".

He thought she was awake, knocked on the door, waited for a long time and saw no response, guessing that she might be asleep.

He pondered for a moment, then pushed open the door and walked in, and saw her long, inky curly hair cascading down the low-backed sofa like a waterfall, her right hand resting behind her head, her left arm hanging down on the edge of the sofa, and the scar on her wrist was so unconcealed that it was exposed.

She always seemed to sleep restlessly, frowning slightly, exactly as she did when she was flying.

Xiao Huai put aside a change of clothes, paused the music on her phone, and stepped on something when she went to turn off the crystal lamp.

It's a boxy and heavy notepad.

Xiao Huai leaned over and picked up the open notepad, and inadvertently saw a sentence on the inside page of the notebook.

"The eyes are familiar with the darkness, and when they open their eyes, they see darkness."

Xiao Huai closed the notepad and still rested it on the floor.

He turned off the crystal lamp and carefully left a floor lamp with a soft light so that she would not wake up in the dark.

He straightened up and walked to the door, gently pulling open the crack of the door, only to hear the sound of turning over as he stepped out.

He paused, looking back at her.

She seemed to wake up suddenly, but she didn't seem to wake up, closed her eyes and fumbled around her for a while, then held the phone and clicked on the screen.

The bleak white light of the phone shone on her face, a face that was sleepy and confused.

When the light suddenly dimmed, the ethereal tune of "When the Snow Fell" sounded again, and she didn't know his existence from beginning to end, and fell asleep again in the lonely and sad song.

Xiao Huai stood by the door, silent for a long time.

After hearing Lin Li's breathing become even, he opened the door and quietly left.