"You ask this...... I may not be able to speak Chinese clearly, is it okay to speak English? Mark's eyes lit up, and he seemed willing to talk about the topic, but he was just struggling with the problem of language communication.

Lu Li also had a headache about this, and secretly made up his mind that he must strengthen his English when he returns to China this time, and he can't always be hindered by language problems.

"Then ...... If you can use Chinese, you can use Chinese, but you can't use English, I try to understand! Lu Li smiled at Mark, and Mark laughed too.

The next conversation between the two was between Chinese and English, stumbling through.

Lu Li learned from Mark's account that it turned out that he and Lin Lin first met two years ago in Andya's seafood restaurant, and Mark used to be a waiter at Andyar's restaurant.

Mark's Chinese is not bad, and it is not exactly like he first explained to everyone that he learned from Lin Lone, he had lived in China before the age of ten, and he originally had a foundation.

Lu Li looked at Mark in surprise, "Have you lived in China for so many years?" No wonder Chinese is good. ”

Mark smiled and nodded, followed by a sad look in his eyes, and then paused for a second before continuing to say that he had followed his parents to China when he was three years old, and lived until he was almost ten years old.

"Is it because of your parents' work?" Lu Li asked.

Mark's eyes darkened, and he lowered his head and thought about it before answering in Chinese, "Sort of, my dad didn't have a job, he never had a life, and at that time my mom worked at a university in China, and we all followed." ”

Lu Li saw that his mood was obviously low, so he didn't ask, and waited for him to take the initiative to speak. I regretted it a little bit in my heart, and I knew that talking about this would make Mark recall an unhappy past, so I didn't talk about it.

However, Mark soon became in a better mood, and he went on to say that he had a lot of fun living in China during his years, and that he and his parents lived in a city called Yuehai, a coastal city, and that he loved to watch the sunset with his father on the beach there.

When Lu Li heard Yue Hai, her eyes lit up, she had also been there with her father...... By the way, my mother He Linxi is also with me.

It was one of the few family companions she remembered, so she kept it in mind.

"When I was a child, I also went to Yuehai with my parents, but I don't like to go to the beach very much, I prefer to climb mountains." Lu Li said and remembered something, "Have you climbed the Wuliang Mountain over there in Yue Hai?" ”

"Wuliang Mountain...... Mark thought for a moment and shook his head, "I haven't been there, my mother is very busy with work, and my father is a lazy person, so he won't take me to climb the mountain to ask for trouble." ”

As soon as he said this, Mark's eyes darkened a little.

Lu Li hurriedly changed the topic, "Then after you and Lin Lin met here, you must have a sense of intimacy, right?" ”

Mark nodded vigorously in agreement with Lu Li's statement, "The boss was surprised to hear me greet him with a Chinese and say a long word, but at that time, he was ...... Not like that. ”

Lu Li's eyes were stunned, and he imagined what Lin Lin would be like when he first came to Longyearbyen two years ago.

Before he could think about it, he heard Mark go on to say that the Lin Lin he had seen at the seafood restaurant at noon that day was almost completely blind.

"At that time, the boss was accompanied by two burly Chinese men to a seafood restaurant, and those two people looked like they were protecting him, and I was very curious about the identity of the boss at the time, and I thought he was a person with a special profession in China." Mark recalls the events of two years ago, and his speech becomes faster.

Lu Li took advantage of his coffee to interject and ask, "Did your boss know Andya at that time?" She had always been curious about this and didn't have a chance to ask the person.

Mark shook his head, "Doesn't seem to be." I didn't ask carefully, it should be that the boss came here through some friend to introduce Mr. Andya. ”

"Oh."

Mark took another big sip of coffee, "At that time, the hotel was not open, the owner came to find Mr. Andya and left, and it was more than a month after I saw him again, and he came to the restaurant again, and it was Dr. Xu who had just left with him. ”

When Mark said this, Lu Li remembered that there was still Dr. Xu, and she had forgotten him a little.

Mark said that after that, he heard that Lin Lin was going to stay in Longyearbyen, and he wanted to find something to do, so after discussing with Andya, he decided to open the current hotel.

Later, Mark changed jobs and came here to open a hotel with Lin Lin for two years.

Mark tried to use Chinese throughout the story, so Lu Li didn't have much effort to understand everything, and the conversation between the two has been smooth.

When Mark said that he almost stopped and continued to drink coffee, Lu Li thought about it a little more, thought about it and asked Mark tentatively, "Mark, then can you still remember, has any dangerous people come to the hotel and approach him in the past two years?" ”

Lu Li asked this because she couldn't ignore the fact that the person who escaped from the cultural relics case might try to take revenge on Lin Lian, and she wanted to know if there had been any clues pointing to this in the past two years.

Mark thought seriously for a long time, and slowly shook his head, "I'm not impressed, why do you ask that?" Has the boss Youbei threatened anything? ”

Lu Li looked at Mark's confused gaze and shook his head, "No, I just wanted to ask on a whim." That one...... Do you understand the meaning of whims? ”

Mark smiled and shook his head, "I really don't understand this yet, explain?" Thank you. ”

Lu Li laughed, and for a moment she didn't know how to explain the Chinese four-character idiom to a foreigner, so she pouted and began to think about how to explain it.

Mark happily looked at Lu Li's appearance, and suddenly said a word in English.

Lu Li didn't hear what he said clearly for a while, and raised his eyes to look at him and ask what he said just now, but he didn't hear clearly.

Mark was stunned, switched back to Chinese, and slowly said the sentence just now, "I just said, you think seriously...... Especially like my mom. ”

Lu Li was also stunned at this time, and when she saw the tears flashing in Mark's eyes, she suddenly became nervous, "I'm sorry, Mark, I shouldn't have talked to you about these topics just now, it made you sad." ”

Mark lowered his head and was silent for a moment before he said, "I'm actually glad to tell you about this, I haven't talked about my mother in years. ”

"Your mother ......" Lu Li had a very bad premonition.

"It's been many years since my mom died, and she left in a car accident before I was seventeen, and I'm twenty-three now, so many years have passed."

Sure enough, Lu Li's mood became depressed, and she couldn't help but think of her mother He Linxi again.

The likes of that circle of friends are the first time she has had contact with He Linxi in the past three months. She followed the documentary crew to Longyearbyen and didn't tell her directly, and He Linxi didn't seem to know that he didn't ask half a word, but after coming here, he typed her through Xu Wei.

A very heart-wrenching reminder.

Lu Li looked at Mark's sad look because she recalled her mother, and she almost didn't find any empathy, and she suddenly had some unfilial assumptions...... If one day he also faces a situation where he is separated from He Linxi's life and death, will he have this kind of painful reaction.

Really not sure.

The two people, who were each in deep thought, did not speak again for a long time.

If it weren't for Xu Wei coming out of Lin Lone's bedroom and making a movement, I don't know how long the two of them would have been so silent.

Lu Li and Mark came back from their thoughts almost at the same time and looked at Xu Wei together. Lu Li craned his neck to look behind him, but he didn't see Lin Lin come out together.

Xu Wei quickly walked over and sat down on the chair next to Mark, he rubbed his hair with his hands, and asked Mark if he had any coffee for him.

Mark got up and went to the kitchen to get coffee, Lu Li looked at Xu Wei's somewhat haggard face, and asked him if he didn't sleep well last night, and his face was so bad.

Xu Wei nodded his head, and said in a muffled voice, "I have been contacting the hospital since I received the domestic phone last night, and then I lost sleep and didn't sleep much, and I got up very early this morning to wait for you to come back." ”

Lu Li pursed his lips and turned his head to look at Lin Lone's bedroom door.

Xu Wei raised his head and looked at her at this time, "What's the matter, I thought you would ask me immediately what happened, why didn't you speak?" ”

Lu Li snorted softly, "Didn't I hear you just now, what else did I ask?" What kind of master is his who is sick and hospitalized in China, and the situation may be quite serious, Uncle Xu, you helped find a hospital, right? ”

Mark walked out of the kitchen with his coffee.

Xu Wei took the hot coffee and said thank you, lowered his head and took a small sip of it urgently, then raised his eyes to look at Lu Li and said, "We have to stay up late today to catch up with the progress." ”

Lu Li was stunned, "Why?" ”

Xu Wei put down the coffee in his hand and turned his head to look at Lin Lone's closed bedroom door, "Lin Lone is leaving here tomorrow to go to the hospital, and he has decided to do that surgery." ”