Chapter IV

Jasmine, fragrant orchid, lemon blossom – sweet aromas float in the dense darkness.

The cold night breeze blows on your face with a refreshing breath, and from the labyrinthine corridors you look down at the chaos of the old streets, you can see the minaret of the cathedral standing not far away, and in front of you is the dense market of the same traders, which is open until late at night. There is a faint scent of citrus in the wind, and because there is a perfume market nearby, the gold and silver handicrafts displayed on the precious metal street shine brightly, and even standing here is dazzling. For young girls, it's like a fairy tale scene.

The city at night is beautiful and dreamlike.

Apparently, the fashionably dressed woman with a smile on her eyebrows did not stop at the dazzling beauty of the night market, but habitually put her hands in her coat pockets and strolled through the staggered streets, stopping at the door of a quaint handmade perfume shop next to the cathedral of worship.

The hostess of the shop has blonde hair, and it seems that the other party is about to hang a wooden sign saying "closed".

"If it closes so early, can you mind taking in the homeless people~?"

The low voice is as light and seductive as the improvisation of a harp in the night.

The blonde woman turned her head abruptly, and after seeing the person clearly, she exclaimed in surprise, "Sindy!" How did you come back!? He trotted all the way to hug the smiling brunette woman.

"What? Think of me so much~? ”

"! Fast into the house. ”

The chiseled European woman speaks Mandarin close to fluent, and when she trots, she pulls the guidance of the wind with a faint smell of perfume, and if it were not for someone who knows her, it is really hard to imagine that this plump blonde woman was once Russia's premier doctor of clinical virology.

Guan Shili was pushed into the store, and the soft fragrance on her face calmed her restless mood, and she looked at her friends who used to work together, "I can't imagine that the expert who used to hold a scalpel has now changed careers to become a perfumer, and it seems that there is still such a thing, Dolly~"

"Shili, count how many times you will laugh at me, I have said it many times, you are the one who holds the scalpel, I am only studying clinical viruses!" The woman named Dolly blames the other party for the fact that she never cared about it.

"Ahh Recently、It is estimated that the next period of time will be busy。 Guan Shili muttered as he casually played with the small sun-dried petals beside him.

"Are you going to do some dangerous work again?" Dolly sighed at the other party's flickering ice blue eyes, "Say, what are you looking for me for this time?" ”

"Don't call me like a debt collector." Guan Shili scratched his hair with some annoyance, and took out a glassware from behind him, "This, I need to know its ingredients." ”

Aren't you? Dolly looked at the tiny container on the table, where there was a gradient yellow-transparent spider that was difficult to identify with the naked eye.

"Where did you get this strange thing?" Muttering, Dolly carefully placed the utensils in the safe on the lower level. "And this time, when are you leaving?" Although I was very reluctant, I still asked for the exit.

Sure enough, seeing the other party's pupils widen and then regain his calm, "I just came and wanted to take me away......"

"You should ...... too"

"Aunt Sindy!" The sleepy-eyed little girl who ran down from the attic happily called out to Guan Shili, interrupting her mother's nagging.

The woman happily caught each other and circled, "Yo, little baby, do you want to be Auntie, by the way, Auntie didn't bring you a gift this time, ......will you make up for it next time?"

"Don't bring any more gifts, her bedroom is full of all kinds of toys you gave her." Looking at the scene of Seri and her daughter laughing, Dolly didn't bother them anymore, but was a little worried, her best friend was like the wind, free and ethereal, and would not stay in one place for long.

From the past, she was comfortable doing everything, as if nothing in front of her could stump her. A retreat student of Professor Johansen Sr. at the Hopskin School of Medicine, he is more relaxed than himself. She's perfect, kind and blushing, and she's not real. Maybe it's because I've been together for a long time, the first and only time I've seen this guy's unconcealable sad look - a lonely and compassionate look, although it's only for a moment.

Just such a person who will always perfectly hide his feelings and "optimistic", when will he be able to open his heart to accept his true emotions?

"Honey, don't look at me with a melancholy face." Guan Shili looked at her with sapphire eyes.

Dolly glanced at her helplessly, knowing that Shiri's eyes were always a little ambiguous, even though she didn't know it. "I'm just thinking about what it would be like if you were in a relationship."

The woman who was teasing the child couldn't help but laugh when she heard her friend's teasing. "Has your postpartum blues been extended by a century? Little Ruth, do you know that your mother became a love expert after giving birth to you? ”

The three-year-old girl didn't understand what Aunt Shiri was talking about, but she was infected by the other party's warm smile and amused herself.

"Hey, hey, why are you laughing, I'm thinking about it seriously." Dolly looked at the other party's disapproving expression, felt that she was nosy, and simply turned around to sort out the flower bones picked yesterday.

"Hahaha, I'm sorry, Dolly, it's just that you suddenly said something like this seriously, I feel a little incredible, you know, it's a headache to be forced to go on a blind date, and the family has hoarded a lot of blind date information......"

"It's just that you don't want to." Dolly added angrily.

Her blonde hair was tickled by her friend's fingers, and Dolly was facing her blue-gray eyes, and she saw a charming smile floating on her rose-like red lips, and she opened her mouth to spit out a sexy and elastic voice like a Persian cat, "If I could, I would like to go on a date with the beautiful Miss Dolly, as long as Mr. Han doesn't mind being jealous." ”

Look, it's starting to emit high concentrations of hormones anytime and anywhere......

If she could, she really didn't want to deal with this oily guy!

Guan Shili looked at his friend who came over with a smile, and the other party pretended to be annoyed, handed him a glass of wine from nowhere, and then reminded him kindly, "I only drink ......"

"Magot's, it's the only one that can gag your mouth." Dolly interrupted angrily.

"Thank you~"

After taking a sip, Guan Shili looked at Dolly's little Ruth happily fiddling with the petals that were about to be dried, and couldn't help but fall into thought, Dolly Reese, a smart girl from northern Russia, silently declined the invitation of the Hopkins Research Institute at the peak of her career, and came to China to open her own perfume shop, which may be the magic of love, or maybe she never asked Dory with the question of "is she so willing", because-

Turning her head sideways to look at the color on Dolly's face, she was happy now, and that was enough.

As the little daughter playfully opened the window, another very light and familiar fragrance brushed the tip of her nose.

"I just wanted to ask, as soon as I entered the door, I just smelled a very light and soft aroma, did you make it?"

"Oh my God, you can smell it!" Dolly looked at her a little incredulously.

"Why, isn't it strange?" Guan Shili was a little dazed by what she said.

"No, no, you wait for me for a while," Dolly turned and ran to the attic, and after a while, held a very chic perfume box and put it in front of Seri, "I have been concocting this perfume for a long time, although it is still in the research stage, its unique feature is that it is 'a smell that can only be smelled by those who are destined', because it is really elegant and very attractive, and the customers who come to my store almost do not notice the special aroma, which makes me very distressed, I think I am my perfume failure." Its pre-tone, middle tone, and post-tone are all made of cornflowers with different dù and a little vetiver, which is very special. ”

Guan Shili carefully picked up the delicate small bottle of perfume on the table, although he didn't open it, but the lingering breath lingered in his heart, "It smells good, can you give it to me?" ”

"Of course, I want you to take it," Dolly glanced at the other party slyly, "It also has a special name, 'Meetlove', which is the flower language of cornflowers, you can take it." ”

Unable to resist Dolly's kindness, Guan Shili accepted the perfume. After saying goodbye to Dolly, it was past midnight at the moment, and the brightly lit streets of the night market in the distance had become much quieter at the moment, and occasionally a few passers-by with their heads bowed and frowning were also hurrying to the way home with their bags in their arms.

"Are you about to meet love......

A man walks on a street covered with snow and ice, his boots creaking on the snow. After three cups of Magot Zhuang, there was no obvious drunkenness, but after being gently blown by the cold wind, he was more sober, and he thought of the meaning of the bottle of perfume given by his friend, and the corners of his lips were a little funny.

A soft and mellow cake smell that resembles a soft and mellow cake stimulates Guan Shili's slightly hungry taste buds at two o'clock in the morning, but this taste is not disgusting sweetness at all, but rather bitter.

The shiny sign of Baumkuchen (Baumkuchen) was erected in front of her, and it turned out to be the cake shop that Dolly had introduced to her, and his 'white lovers' were delicious. However, it seems that the other party is about to close?

After seeing clearly that there were still two finished products in the cupboard, Guan Shili still pushed the door open and tried his luck, in such an era when there were delicious foods in the deep streets and alleys, the food had to be found by himself.

"Can you give me a copy of this?" Guan Shili pointed to the dark coffee-colored annual rings in the window crisper.

The middle-aged man with a beard poking his head out of the back cabinet replied with a slight apology after seeing the visitor clearly, "This guest, I'm sorry, this is reserved for a scheduled lady, so I'm really sorry." ”

"Ah, that's right." Guan Shili looked away a little reluctantly.

"Yes, it was specially ordered by a lady, tartary buckwheat flavor, if you are eating it for the first time, you might as well choose the white lover next to it." The bearded Japanese man couldn't bear to say, you must know that the sad eyes of the girl in front of him are heartbreaking, not to mention the woman who came to buy in the middle of the night in the cold winter, so he highly recommends the most popular flavor in this store.

"Tartary buckwheat?" Asked a little puzzled, although she didn't like sweets very much, but she had also tasted the growth rings, which were soft and mellow. It's usually caramel, honey, matcha or strawberry flavors, of course, she doesn't like these very much, and this is probably the flavor that just attracted her.

"Well, it's bitter, it's not sweet at all, hmm...... The kind of sweetness and bitterness that makes people's tongues knot. "The Japanese owner is trying to find the right words to describe the taste of this cake.

Listening to the other party's funny description, she was interested in the tartary buckwheat-flavored annual rings.

"Hey, okay, I'll come back next time."

Pulling up her fur collar a little in disappointment, wearing a coat and hat, the hair in front of her covered her two originally radiant eyes, in fact, she was not cold at all, but the desolation of pushing the door out empty-handed drove her to do so, and her little heart was fragile at the moment.

"Goo-"

With a roaring stomach, Guan Shili nodded awkwardly to the person who happened to push the door in, and then walked out of the cake shop that was about to close.

And what she didn't know was that the woman she had just passed by was the customer who ordered the last cake.

Ye Xin didn't expect that she would work overtime until now, maybe she didn't want to return to her home so early. Putting aside the worries at work, she tried her best to pick it up before twelve o'clock, although she was a regular customer, and she couldn't help it if she made the boss wait for a long time. When she was accustomed to making sure that she did not have the unpleasant smell of smoke on her, she pushed open the door and was greeted by the woman who passed her, and she was surprised that there were still customers in the small shop so late, and she had thought that she was the last.

There was a very special aroma on that person's body, very faint, as if there was nothing.