Volume 3 College Life Chapter 68 Gunsmoke
The ceiling lamps of the bead pendants shine a gentle glow, and in the dining room, the soft chirping of cups on the table, the smell of steaming food, and the sound of people chatting and chatting create a warm atmosphere.
If you dig the pause button of time at this time, and shuttle between the cups of brown and red liquor held up by people at various tables, you can probably see a modern ukiyo-e appearance.
People handed each other wine glasses, or exchanged heads, or impassioned, or alone quiet and preoccupied, or looked excited, or lowered their eyebrows and showed confusion, or some gaffes, or nervously pinched the wine glasses, and their eyes chased the back of the dining table. Or sit on pins and needles, cramped and restless. Or unbelievable, unbelievable.
And all the images of such beings are like carving knives and pens, which are probably triggered by the sudden arrival of the woman.
It's like a person in his own world, with his own circle of friends, friends and family, fixed in a parallel line, like still water in a lake, calm to the point that there is no trace of waves. However, at this time, a thing that does not belong to his world broke into such a static lake, breaking the original balance, and setting off ripples and waves that were enough to make the flowers and green grass on the shore suffer. This sense of unreality, which shattered reality, was thickly enveloped in the entire dinner party.
Let these people who usually talk about the market, the aristocracy, the star district council, and their daily lives lose their soul and strength between their words, as if they are empty and floating on the water like rootless weeds. Of course, there are still many people at the dinner table discussing the big and small things that have happened around them recently, and it seems that only in this way can they feel that they are still in reality, and what they just saw and this dinner party are not their own illusions.
And at this moment, what makes most people feel unreal, the woman with a light smile on the dining table of the host of the family banquet here is the source of this sense of collapse of the worldview.
She just sat there, but just sitting there, it felt like a cosmic white hole, and the aura emanating from where she was, directly destroying and collapsing a real thing in all directions, forming an unreal illusory world.
ββ¦β¦ I've watched the documentaries you worked on more than once...... The most memorable is the film "Zhiyuan Star" that tells the history of the Great Migration, when you were dressed in white veil, like a goddess of incarnation, riding a starship, traveling through every magnificent galaxy, telling about the great voyage of human beings to open up the stars, and finally saying "Courage will not be wiped out, dreams have never been buried, our past, present, and future journeys will always be the stars and the sea...... when you conclude this sentence, you don't know, I was about to cry many times......" Lin Hao, who could see that he was suppressing the ups and downs of his heart, told the woman who was eating at the same table that was extremely unreal, and the two thin lips on the upper and lower sides trembled in the rapid intercourse with the fierce pouring of desire.
Lin Hao, who was cold and grinning, raised his head and looked at Lin Wei, who had just kicked him under the table. The latter was wearing a small dress and skirt, sitting opposite Xia Ying, holding a wine glass in his hand, and showing a good-looking smile towards Xia Ying, "I'm sorry, my brother is sometimes very indecent, forgetting his own reserve, making you laugh." β
"It doesn't matter, I like to talk to people about my work, and sometimes I can get a lot of useful suggestions." Xia Ying smiled casually. Lin Hao looked at Xia Ying fiercely, his face was excited, and he was flattered and said, "No ...... It's a great honor! Miss Xia Ying, I didn't expect you to like to get along with me and discuss. If you have an in-depth conversation with me, you will definitely find that I am not a good person on the outside, but in fact I have a lot of substance, and I can help you put forward more opinions...... And I like to build people the most, they all say that my opinions are very unique......" Lin Wei finally couldn't help kicking him again, this time giving him a blank look, "Can you stop a little, people are just polite!" What insights can you propose?"
Earl Lin Wei coughed dryly, and even Ning Qing couldn't help but glare at Lin Hao a few more times. This feeling of being rude and at a loss is getting stronger and stronger. Xia Ying picked up the water in front of her and took a sip, glanced at Lin Hai, and smiled to herself. It seems to avoid the embarrassment in front of you.
Lin Wei, who was sitting opposite her, couldn't help but admire this woman's beauty, even with her eyes. There is a faint coldness between her eyebrows and eyes, the slim little dress, the bare pink shoulders are very lovely, and what can show her unique temperament is the red hair that hangs down the shoulders, which is so distinct, as if a metaphor for her beautiful appearance, the fiery xìng grid. But Xia Ying had a woman's sixth sense intuition, she didn't understand, where did the red-haired woman in front of her, the adopted daughter of the Earl of Riverside Star's family, come from her faint hostility towards her Nas and the coldness on her face?
Of course, even if Xia Ying likes the other party's appearance and temperament very much, but the other party shows such a faint hostility towards her, she will never show weakness. So when Lin Wei quietly looked at her, she still showed a decent aura, so that even Lin Wei's self-assured coldness and arrogance were a little dwarfed in front of her, and she was powerless to parry.
Her arrival was not sharp, not unattainable, on the contrary, she was only wearing a casual sweater jacket when she arrived before, and at this time she took off her coat, which was also a red and black checked cotton shirt worn inside. Clean and gentle, like the girl next door, participating in a family gathering of friends.
But just that's enough to destroy the withering and decaying.
She suddenly pursed her lips, holding the knife behind her back and playfully poked the bread on the plate, and whispered to Lin Hai, "Can you help me cut this bread?" At this moment, Lin Hai could see the eyes of the people who were talking to each other at the next table, as if they had agreed on a discussion, as if the radar arrays of the Ministry of Defense that were searching for anomalous electromagnetic pulses towards the cosmic sky, locked the piece of bread with a brush, and then moved from the bread to his body.
Nima! Lin Jiang and Lin Yuanshan's two sons, Lin Jiang Lin Delun, only had such a word in their minds at this moment. She actually asked him to help her cut bread? And he actually cut bread for her. She knew that if she spoke casually, at this moment, there would be many people around her with cold and shiny knives, willing to pounce on her to help her cut bread. What is he Lin Hai!?
Xia Ying's words were very quiet, just in the area of Lin Hai and hers, like a private conversation.
However, at this moment, Countess Ning Qing immediately felt a chill on her face, "Donnahai!
Tang Nahai, the chief butler who was waiting outside the dining table, immediately stepped forward, came to Ning Qing's side and bent over, "Madam." β
"Let the kitchen man change to a softer bread immediately! If you can't do it, ask them if their chef license really needs to be re-examined? "Yes, ma'am!" Donnay turned and went.
"No need." Lin Hai's voice came, and then his knife and fork reached into the dinner plate that also wanted to stop Xia Ying, took the hard bread and put it on the plate in front of him, dug up the bread with his left fork, and cut the bread with the knife in his right hand. The movements are so delicate and fast, just like his cΔo control mecha, there is no fluctuation of half a minute of instability, each knife is neatly cut down a piece of bread, and even the bread crumbs are splashed very little.
During this process, Lin Hai raised his head from time to time, and he could see Xia Ying's gaze on him, so he continued to bury his head and cut a whole piece of bread into slices, and even the air exuded the fragrance of wheat.
Some people who looked at this side at the dinner party felt that Lin Hai cut it was not bread, but more like their heart, liver, spleen, and lungs. Looking at Xia Yingwen and looking at Lin Hai, looking at Lin Hai's neat and precise handling of the knife and fork in his hand, meticulous and attentive. That was Lin Hai that Lin Wei had never seen, or that he had carefully observed before. But at this moment, this meticulousness in his work is contained in her eyes.
For some reason, looking at Lin Hai's actions and watching Xia Ying leaning aside, such a tacit scene made Lin Wei's heart suddenly give birth to some kind of slight twitch that she had never had before. It was as if an invisible hand was deep in her chest, pinching it. Lin Wei's pupils suddenly constricted, and she spoke, "Miss Xia Ying, I'm curious, people like you...... How did you meet Lin Hai? "
The voices of the audience suddenly subsided. I don't know how many people pricked up their ears at this moment like those hares of the Empire. The encounter with an imperial icon and the illegitimate son of an earl nobleman cannot be described as bizarre and absurd. "Do you remember the accident with the passenger ship New South Star Seagull?" Xia Ying raised her head and said.
"It's the passenger ship in the Xinnan Star Thief Incident?"
"A mechanical failure, supposed?"
"Others say it was an air thief attack, but thank goodness. The ship was finally safe and sound! "
"Miss Xia Ying was on the boat at the time, and she must have been frightened. We later saw that report in the media newspapers. β
Some men and women have spoken out.
"Yes." Xia Ying nodded at everyone, and then looked at Lin Hai meaningfully, "He saved me in that kind of situation at that time...... That's how we met. β
The audience fell into a gasp of silence.
Earl Lin Wei, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke, "...... This matter is clear, Lin Hai, why didn't you mention it at that time? "
At this moment, everyone looked at Lin Hai in front of them, and there was only an inexplicable coolness, this illegitimate child...... How many secrets does he still have? Ever since they got to know this Lin Hai, their hearts have gradually begun to feel bad.
"You never told us about it." Lin Hao looked at Lin Hai, his eyes trembled and there was a hint of unforgiveness, and there was a slight excitement, "So every time you see me watching her shows and watching some of her documentaries in the manor, you never intend to sue me, although you have no reason to sue me, but I have been kept in the dark like a fool from beginning to end?" I didn't know that you met her in Xinnanxing? "
While Lin Hai was silent, Xia Ying smiled, "This is what I requested." You know, when I was escaping, there was a shortage of soldiers, and I had some ugliness, which was just in the eyes of Lin Hai...... If he doesn't keep it a secret, maybe it will have some influence on me. So here's what I'm asking for. β
Earl Lin Wei, who had some reproaches before, nodded at Lin Hai again, "For the sake of keeping your friend's reputation secret, you have done a good job in this matter." β
Solved. The people around finally understood the ins and outs of the whole process, although the drama in it, even the novels and plays, could not exhaustively summarize it. An illegitimate child who does not respect the rules of the family travels unexpectedly, and meets an imperial idol on a wrecked passenger ship.
So they got acquainted, and it evolved into the following Qingxing today
However, even a fool can see that the relationship between this imperial idol and the illegitimate son of the earl is extraordinary.
"I see."
Lin Wei nodded, and under the coldness on his face, an unusual red chΓ‘o appeared, "Lin Hai is lucky to have a friend as famous as you...... I don't think he sued you, after he graduated from Qingyuan Academy...... Our marriage contract, right? "
The beautiful eyes under her red hair, in the light and shadow, were as bright and evil as an ancient witch, "At that time, I hope you can attend...... That would be a great honor for us. β
Now the whole dinner party is really so silent.
Even the space battlefield where starship cannons are bombarded is not as good as the smoke of gunfire at this moment.