Chapter 38 First meeting with Li Zhilin
Anxiously on Friday, I deliberately asked for leave in the morning, and waited anxiously until it was close to eleven o'clock before Li Zhilin sent a message: "At 12 o'clock, I will wait for you in the café downstairs." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoIf you have something to deal with at hand, you can come back after you have dealt with it, there is plenty of time, and there is no need to rush. ”
Before I could send a reply, another message came: "How about having lunch together?" I'm in for a treat ^-^"
Looking at the expression he sent, I deleted the entered text one by one and sent a message again: "Thank you, but don't bother." ”
"Then it's a happy decision, I just found a Yunnan restaurant near your company, the evaluation is very high, let's try it later." It's completely a strong new plan. This is completely opposite to the style of painting I imagined before, and I silently complained in my heart.
After dealing with the things in hand, it was already more than 12 o'clock, and when I hurried to the café, I recognized it for a long time before I found Li Zhilin's figure. In addition to the face in the photo, there is a big difference in temperament. I even look a little younger than in the photo. He also noticed my gaze, and for a split second he smiled at me and got up and walked over to me, "Would you like something to drink?" Or go straight to dinner? I've booked a spot. "The whole person is still in the embarrassment and chaos of the first Jianmin. So when Li Zhilin handed me the menu, I subconsciously spoke in a very soft voice and a soft tone.
Because it was a café at noon, some of these people queuing up to buy drinks were my colleagues, so I hurriedly took Li Zhilin out of the café to avoid misunderstanding, but I still heard whispers behind me. It's not a bad remark, but it makes me a little embarrassed.
Yunnan restaurants are not very far from our company, but because the consumption level is relatively high, even in the hotel, the restaurant is not overcrowded. I pushed back the menu handed over by the waiter: "Well, I won't order." ”
Li Zhilin Ang understood the same, and Wu Zi2 opened the menu: "Most girls love to say that." What don't you like to eat, though? If I order, I can help you avoid it. ”
I shook my head, but changed my mind again: "I'm not used to eating celery and coriander." Don't have bananas or plantains in the side dishes, I'm allergic to this type of food. ”
Li Zhilin nodded, looked at the menu in his hand and asked for a few special dishes, and handed the menu back to the waiter after instructing him not to add coriander, and said to me with a smile: "Don't worry, I didn't order dishes that you would be allergic to or don't like to eat, and coriander can also be avoided." ”
"Won't you get used to it?" I asked him a little worriedly, what he was most afraid of causing trouble in his life.
"No, it won't. Coriander is also a dispensable presence for me. Li Zhilin shrugged his shoulders, "I don't like to eat very much." ”
Because of the uneasiness in my heart, when the food first came up, I was a little nervous and couldn't listen to anything Li Zhilin said, and I hoped that he would quickly tell me what to do at tonight's auction.
"You're so spicy." Li Zhilin looked at me with a look of reverence.
I looked at him for some reason, I didn't know what he was talking about, but it was because of this moment of stunned feeling that I felt a hot stinging sensation coming from the tip of my tongue and mouth, and I glanced at the food in the spoon, probably because I had not concentrated at all just now, and there was a spoonful full of chili peppers on top of the spoon I was holding. I panicked and took the water glass that was set aside, but I touched the tableware on the table, and the chopstick rest fell to the ground and shattered, the sound was particularly abrupt in the quiet restaurant, and almost everyone turned their eyes to me. The waiter quickly ran over and helped me deal with the broken chopstick rest.
I apologized a little embarrassed, but when I picked up the ceramic shards, I still accidentally scratched my fingers, and the red blood seeped out of the skin, and the waiter screamed quietly. Li Zhilin followed the waiter's eyes. He immediately took the tissue on the table and wrapped my finger around the post: "Go and rinse it with water." He proposed.
Because I wasn't used to having too much physical contact with strangers, I took my hand back and shook my head again and again: "It's okay, it's just a bruise."
Li Zhilin was a little embarrassed, and when the two of us returned to the table, we were undoubtedly the focus of the whole restaurant, and from time to time someone looked back at us and whispered. This feeling is very bad, and I can feel that Li Zhilin on the other side is also very dissatisfied with the current situation. "I'm sorry." I habitually apologize.
Li Zhilin: "Huh? After not seeing what you meant by me, he frowned smoothly: "You don't have to apologize. ”
"Nope." I shook my head and told the truth, "I'm too nervous, I've been scared of tonight's auction since just now, I'm afraid I'm going to make a mess of the night like I am now." ”
I looked down at the table and kept pouring boiled water into my mouth to dilute the chili flavor in my mouth. Li Zhilin didn't speak for a long time, I thought he was angry now for my recklessness just now, and I thought that if I looked up at him now, I would be very embarrassed. But unlike what I expected, I felt a big hand attached to the top of my head, rubbed it, and then a very gentle voice came from my ear: "It's okay, it's just a small thing." ”
"You're just a little nervous, you don't see anything happening, do you? Just leave the auction to me, and everything will go well. He put his hand down and smiled very gently at me, "Kid, eat well." There's nothing to worry about tonight's auction. It's your current state that makes me feel like I can't get through it. He pointed to the still reddened wound on my hand, "You see, the first time we met, I hurt you." ”
I put down the cup and put my fingers behind the quilt: "It's okay, this kind of thing happens normally." "To hide my embarrassment, I picked up my chopsticks again and started eating. In fact, the taste of this restaurant is really good, but I am not in the mood to catch up with the tasteless, I don't even know that I have been eating the peppers in the ingredient plate. Suddenly, there seemed to be a somewhat suppressed laughter in my ears, and I looked up and found that it was Li Zhilin, who was sitting opposite, who had been trying to suppress his laughter. I looked at him in some surprise: "Is there anything funny?" ”
Li Zhilin couldn't help it after all, and laughed out loud all of a sudden: "I just thought of the way you ate chili just now, it's really funny, what kind of nervous are you." His smile couldn't be contained.
"Do you usually laugh like that?" I looked curiously at the person in front of me.
Li Zhilin didn't understand what I was saying, tilted his head and asked me, "What's wrong with laughing like this?" ”
"It's not." I shook my head, "It's just that I'm curious why you're so short and you don't have wrinkles on your face." ”
My serious questioning appearance made Li Zhilin laugh again, and he thought for a while before saying: "Maybe the genes are very good, my parents don't have too many wrinkles on their faces now." But I never thought about it. ”
The unconscious ridicule made the atmosphere between the two of us relax a lot, and my tension was reduced a lot, and I didn't feel like I was sitting on pins and needles when I ate later.
The waiter brought a band-aid, and I shook my head and said I was allergic to adhesive tape. Li Zhilin's eyes widened again: "You are allergic to a lot of things." I'm curious how you survived? ”
He didn't seem to have anything wrong with his words, blinking in anticipation of my answer. I gave him a blank look, and then I bowed my head to eat.
"That's right." Li Zhilin muttered in a low voice.
"What?" I looked up at him, "What's right?" ”
Li Zhilin raised his eyebrows: "It's really true that you have a bad temper." ”
"What did she tell you?" I also want to know that it is definitely Mi Zhen's evaluation of me, and the other party raised his eyebrows, noncommittal to my guess.
Li Zhilin beckoned the waiter to settle the bill, I glanced at the bill, and sighed that rich people have a lot of spare money, and today's meal is definitely much cheaper if you buy ingredients and make them yourself.
It was already past one o'clock in the afternoon when the two of us walked out of the restaurant, and after asking for my opinion, Li Zhilin drove me to the styling house he usually visited to prepare. Li Zhilin is still a very considerate person, at least because of this meal, the two of us are now semi-familiar, and I will not be particularly rigid in talking to Li Zhilin.
"I'm still a little worried about tonight's events, you know I'm not prepared at all." However, thinking of the two days of staying up late and reading hard, I added, "Although I don't know about the auction, in order not to cause too much trouble today, I still made up some information about today's auction." However, do we just need to take a picture of the feng shui ornament that attracts fortune today? ”
Li Zhilin turned his head and glanced at me: "No, it's not you, it's what you mean to take a few pictures." ”
"What do you mean?" I turned my head to look at him.
Li Zhilin stepped on the brakes and waited for the red light, with a nonchalant smile on his face: "Theoretically, you only need to take a picture of that feng shui ornament, but in fact, if you like something, I can also help you take a picture." ”
"I don't have any money." Knowing that there were no other tasks, I breathed a sigh of relief.
"You don't have to pay for it." Li Zhilin muttered, his face lit up at the green light, he restarted the car, turned at the intersection, and turned in the opposite direction.
I looked at him half-jokingly: "Do you want to be merciful and give me a gift?" ”
Li Zhilin looked indifferent: "Yes, if you are selected, you can tell me." But just now I was trying to say, you can take a picture and send it to the store, and I'll take you to pick it up when the time comes. Anyway, Mi Zhen received a lot of money this time. ”
"Still don't need to." I shook my head and refused, "If I bring back an antique, I'm going to freak out my mom." The Burrow can't hide such a treasure. Besides, I'm not very interested in this aspect, and if I really give it to me, I won't accept it. ”
"And what do you like?"
"Me?" I pointed to myself.
The other party looked at me with some surprise: "Yes, there is no third person in this car." But you haven't told me yet, what do you really like? ”