Walking on Edinburgh Main Street with an umbrella, Lin Zhiling can be regarded as having a further understanding of the rainy country of the United Kingdom.

It has been three days since Lin Zhiling and Lin Youlun arrived in Edinburgh, two of which were rainy and rainy, and during this period, Lin Youlun's plan to find someone did not go very smoothly.

It didn't take much effort to find the bookseller named Christopher Ritter, but the other party said that he had never heard of a female writer named J.K. Rowling, nor had he received any manuscripts from her.

The bookseller interrupted this clue, and Lin Youlun had to adjust his strategy and directly look for the future "Harry Potter Mother" by querying people's names.

After screening out more than a dozen people with the same name and surname, Lin Youlun finally targeted a woman who was fighting a divorce lawsuit.

According to the information, the other party graduated from the University of Exeter, majoring in French and classics, and lived in Manchester for a while after leaving school, and then went to Portugal, where he met her current husband.

But Rowling's marriage was not a happy one, and after giving birth to her daughter last year, her conflict with her husband continued to escalate, and finally in a fierce quarrel, her husband threw Rowling alone on the streets of Obodo. At Christmas, Rowling left Portugal with her daughter Jessica to return to Edinburgh, Scotland, and then officially filed for divorce from her husband not long ago.

Because of the failure of this marriage, Rowling suffered from mild depression and had to spend more than an hour a day receiving behavioral awareness therapy from a psychiatrist.

Lin Zhiling's goal in the rain this time was the psychological clinic where Rowling was treated.

According to the information provided by the private investigator, Rowling returns home from psychotherapy at this time of the day. The period after she left the clinic was the perfect time to strike up a conversation.

Lin Youlun originally planned to go out in person. But considering that Rowling has just gotten divorced. There will be some instinctive rejection of men of the opposite sex, so it was decided that Lin Zhiling would contact Rowling first.

Lin Zhiling was wearing a beige trench coat, a black umbrella covering half of her face, and a pair of black high heels under her feet, and she slowly slowed down after approaching the mental health clinic.

Raising his hand and looking at his watch, there were still about three minutes before Rowling finished treatment, and Lin Zhiling estimated that the other party was about to come out. Just as he was about to walk towards that side, the glass door of the clinic suddenly opened, and a woman scrambled to the side of the street with her bag on her head, reaching for a taxi.

Lin Zhiling saw that the other party was the JK-Rowling she was looking for, and hurriedly walked up with an umbrella.

Feeling that no more rain was falling overhead, Rowling put down her bag and looked up strangely, and saw a large black umbrella, and when she turned around, she found a tall Asian woman standing behind her with an umbrella.

At first, Rowling only regarded Lin Zhiling as a kind passerby. I immediately thanked her.

Lin Zhiling smiled and shook her head, and then asked, "You are Ms. JK-Rowling, right?" ”

Rowling was stunned. Subconsciously ask, "We used to know each other?" ”

"We didn't know each other before, but now we should know each other."

Lin Zhiling briefly introduced her identity to Rowling, and when she heard that Lin Zhiling was from Hong Kong, Rowling was very curious.

Because Britain will soon lose its jurisdiction over Hong Kong, there are many Chinese who have moved from Hong Kong to the UK during this time, and there is a Chinese couple on the apartment building where Rowling lives, but she basically has little contact with each other.

In Rowling's impression, Chinese people in the UK are not good at socializing with people, and even if they are in a foreign country, they will have their own fixed small circles, such as Chinatowns or Chinese ghettos in various cities. Normally, they rarely take the initiative to socialize with locals, let alone attend community-organized gatherings.

Based on this understanding, Rowling felt that she should not know any Chinese friends, which made her even more curious about Lin Zhiling's intentions.

"It doesn't seem like a good place to talk...... I mean, like inviting Ms. Rowling to a nearby café and wondering if you have time? ”

Lin Zhiling took the initiative to send out an invitation, and Rowling felt that she had no malicious intentions, so she agreed.

"I happened to know about a café near my apartment, and their coffee tasted so good that I often went there to write...... I forgot to introduce myself, I'm unemployed right now, and I'm planning to write a novel. ”

As Rowling spoke, a small black car pulled up in front of the two.

Lin Zhiling opened the car door and made a gesture of please.

Rowling recognized that it was a local luxury hotel in Edinburgh that provided VIP guests with a special car for transportation, and was even more curious about Lin Zhiling's identity.

After getting into the car, Rowling suddenly remembered another very important thing.

"Miss Lin, I'm sorry, I forgot to tell you just now, I have a daughter who is less than a year old, and I may have to go back to the apartment first, and I'm a little worried about keeping her at home all the time."

"It's okay, Ms. Rowling can bring her with her, I'm sure she's not going to come and eavesdrop on our conversation."

Lin Zhiling's humor infected Rowling, she smiled and nodded and said, "Indeed, the little guy can only understand some basic spoken language now, and he is very sleepy. ”

"Your daughter must be very cute."

Speaking of her daughter, the expression in Rowling's eyes suddenly softened a lot.

"I like her very much, and I spent so long fighting a lawsuit with my ex-husband to get her permanent custody."

Seeing that Rowling was struggling with the lawsuit, Lin Zhiling timely offered that she might be able to help.

Rowling shook her head, "The main problem now is that I need to hire a good lawyer, so that the litigation time can be greatly shortened, but the fees of good lawyers are very high, and I can't pay that much for the time being." ”

"Have you ever tried to submit your novel to a publisher?"

"So far, I've been rejected by 12 publishers, all of whom don't think my novel has the merit to be distributed commercially."

After listening to Rowling's self-report, Lin Zhiling finally understood why Lin Youlun had to spend so much effort to find Rowling, he should have seen Rowling's manuscript through some channel, but he didn't have the specific contact information of the other party, so he used such a stupid way to find someone.

The psychiatric clinic was not far from Rowling's residence, and at the very moment they were talking, their destination had arrived.

At Rowling's warm invitation, Lin Zhiling agreed to go upstairs to her apartment and sit for a while, and by the way, she could also observe Rowling's living environment to judge her current financial situation.

In Lin Zhiling's view, Rowling, a single mother, lives alone with her daughter under the age of one, and life must be very difficult, but this is not the case.

Rowling's apartment is not luxurious, but it is not a home that a single-parent family dependent on government benefits can afford.

In other words, Rowling's life is far from the point of poverty, which is quite different from some of the situations that Lin Youlun told Lin Zhiling.

Rowling took out her daughter from the bedroom, the little guy had just woken up, a pair of bright eyes looked at Lin Zhiling curiously, and a little finger was put in her mouth, which looked very cute.

After getting Rowling's permission, Lin Zhiling took the little guy over and hugged and teased her for a while before returning it to Rowling.

Lin Zhiling's attitude towards her daughter made Rowling feel a little more fond of this oriental woman she had just met.

With her daughter, Rowling went out with Lin Zhiling and walked to the café she recommended.

Rowling was indeed a regular visitor, as the waiter greeted her as soon as she entered, and asked her if it was the same old fashion.

"No, no, I'm here with a friend this time." Rowling explained immediately.

The waiter glanced at Lin Zhiling, who was standing next to Luo Lin, and then asked again: "Is that still the window seat before?" ”

Rowling didn't refuse this time, and there was no waiter to lead the way, so she led Lin Zhiling to the seat and sat down.

After each ordered a cup of coffee, Rowling chatted with Lin Zhiling.

"Miss Lin, can you tell me the answer to the question I asked you when we met?"

Lin Zhiling looked at Rowling and smiled faintly: "Ms. Rowling has actually guessed, hasn't she?" ”

Rowling's face suddenly turned happy, "So Miss Lin really came here for my manuscript?" ”

"Didn't Ms. Rowling just say that she wrote the beginning of seven novels? I'm not sure that the novel you're about to write is the one I'm interested in, so ......"

Lin Zhiling didn't go on, but she knew that Rowling must have understood what she meant.

"Of course, I was about to write a novel about a school of witchcraft and wizardry, and the inspiration for this novel was that on a train trip from Manchester to London, there was a thin, bespectacled little boy with black hair sitting across from me, who didn't speak all the way but kept smiling at me. I can't say why, I can't say what it was because of it, but suddenly there is a basic story framework: a little boy who doesn't know who he is, or who he was born a wizard, until one day, he receives an offer from a magic school. ”

"I had never been so excited about an idea before, because I didn't have pen and paper on hand at the time, so I had to think about the school and the various people in the school that the protagonist was going to deal with along the way, and when I arrived in London, I couldn't wait to write the story idea, but for some reason, I wasn't ready to write the story in its entirety until recently."

Speaking of this, Lin Zhiling can basically determine that she is the female writer that Lin Youlun is looking for. (To be continued......)