Chapter 7: Chance Encounters
Li Su glanced at the time in the corner of the screen, six o'clock in the afternoon. He curled up on the couch and stretched, his body stiff as a piece of wood after a day's nesting.
"What to eat?"
"Let's take out." Chu Zihang took off the microphone of the landline phone next to him, and reached out to spin the ancient wheel on it. Li Su himself collapsed on the sofa and began to empty his brain, facing the screen from morning to night, it was really torture to the brain.
The takeaway was delivered quickly, but the taste of this "Chinese restaurant" was really not good, and the sweet and sour fried chicken balls had nothing to do with the hometown dishes in his memory. In addition, what Li Su has never understood is why there is always a "fortune cookie" in Chinese restaurants abroad, and foreigners always think that this is a pure Chinese flavor.
He pinched the ends of the fortune cookie and broke it open from the middle, took out the note symbolizing luck, opened it, took a look at it, and handed it to Chu Zihang. "I don't understand, what language is this?"
"Norwegian." Chu Zihang glanced at it. "It's kind of saying, 'Take a step back and open the sky.'"
"Brother Chu, do you still know Norwegian?"
"I've learned a few, and I can use it when I deal with it occasionally."
"Don't talk about that. Brother Chu. I seem to have found something in common, but I'm not sure. ”
"What?"
"Look at this." Li Su sent a copy of the information to Chu Zihang. "One of the dead was a Belgian nobleman, while the remaining two deceased had been to Belgium."
"It's normal." Chu Zihang commented after reading it. "Since the establishment of the European Union, Europe has almost no borders, and there is a lot of movement of people, and many people will travel or settle in surrounding countries."
"Oh....... Is that so? It's very different from what I imagined...... So you still haven't found anything......" Li Su scratched his head, got up and put on his jacket. "My brain is numb, I'll go out to breathe."
Before leaving, he pressed the print button on the screen, and the printer in the entrance began to spit out paper after a loud noise. By the time he had finished tying his shoes, he pulled an empty folder from the bookcase, put the paper in it, and pushed the door open into the cold air.
It was barely seven o'clock, but it was already dark, the shops lining the streets were closing, and the modern tentacles were gradually being withdrawn from the city, leaving only the stone streets, the red brick buildings, and the streetlights that imitated the style of gas lamps. Walking here, it is as if you can feel that time is slowly going backwards, slowly, slowly going back hundreds of years. The snow began to fall, and feather-like snow flakes fell from the sky beyond the reach of the eyes, spreading little by little on the old streets, giving the scenery in front of them a somewhat illusory, fairy-tale hazy feeling, always making people feel that they could see a little girl squatting in the corner and striking a match alone when they walked around a street corner, or believe that a mermaid was climbing onto the shore in the port of Oslo not far away, drinking a bottle of potion, and the tail covered with green scales gradually turned into legs.
Fortunately, although most of the shops are closed, there are always some that are still open. Those chain stores are still open, such as the Starbucks in front.
After asking for a cup of black coffee, Li Su found a place to sit down in the corner, took out a piece from the folder and began to browse the text on it. Before he could finish a few lines, a familiar figure appeared on the side. "Hey! What a coincidence! ”
"Huh?" Li Su put down the coffee cup in his hand, and the girl who had eaten with them once was standing there. There was a hint of wariness in his eyes. "Why are you here?"
"I want to ask you, the University of Oslo is right next to it, and I'm a student here, of course. But you, you probably didn't wait here for me here to disguise it as a chance encounter, right? Don't..... Do you want to soak me? ”
"Sorry, not interested." Li Su pinned his head to the side.
"Oh ho ho, I'm sorry, I'm still a Cherry boy. If you chase me seriously, maybe I'll accept it, right? The girl smiled brightly.
"It's not a good joke."
"Okay, okay, I'm not going to play tricks on you. ......The girl sat down across from him as she spoke, but the satchel in the crook of her arm accidentally swept to the folder on the table, and the documents that had been poured out of the folder were scattered all over the floor, just like snowflakes outside the window.
"Ah, I'm sorry." The girl hurriedly leaned over to pick up the printer paper on the ground, and kept apologizing: "I didn't mean to, I'm really sorry." ”
"It's fine, it's not an important document anyway." Li Su took the sorted document from her hand and put the one in his hand as well. He counted the numbers, made sure they were correct, and solemnly put them back in the folder. Although he said that it was "not an important document", he was clearly relieved when he confirmed that the document was in good condition.
"Isn't it very important? In that case, can you tell me what it is? I'm curious! The girl lowered her body and leaned in front of Li Su, and the distance between the two suddenly shortened. Li Su looked a little embarrassed, he moved his chair back: "There is a Belgian nobleman who has something wrong, His Highness asked me to tell these people to pay attention to safety, it's just a routine." ”
"Is that so? He is truly His Highness's right-hand man! The girl seemed to think it was a very remarkable thing, and actually applauded him softly.
"It's not that exaggerated...... Li Su was a little embarrassed, he coughed lightly twice to break the dilemma in front of him. It's just a little thing. ”
Li Su looked at his watch, drank the last bit of coffee in the cup, he put the coffee cup down, grabbed the folder and got up. "Then I'll go first, I'll be busy tomorrow."
"Well, goodbye." The girl still had that big smile. She watched him walk out of the coffee shop, the smile on her face slowly disappearing into the darkness outside the window. 3