Chapter Eighty-Three: The Florist Girl
Carmela said that the flower shop was three blocks away from her home, on the side of a small street in an old residential area, was small but conspicuous because of the variety of flowers piled up in the door.
Looking inside, I found that this flower shop has a hole in the sky, the narrow shop is very deep, and the inside is full of various flowers and plants against the wall, and there are many cacti and other things on the workbench in the middle of the room. But the most striking thing about this shop is that many dried flowers hang down from the roof and become a curtain among the light bulbs.
Xiao Chen and Luo Ling approached the flower shop and found a red-haired woman reading a book at the workbench in the shop, perhaps because Xiao Chen's figure slightly blocked her light, she raised her head and showed a smile.
The woman is about the age of her early thirties, she is a little thin, but her face is beautiful, especially when she laughs, it is very infectious. Xiao Chen immediately recognized that she was Belmudo's wife Felicia, but she looked more mature than in the photo.
Felicia put down her book and stood up, and asked, "Are you two tourists here?" Would this gentleman want to buy a bouquet of flowers for the lady? While the flowers are the most vivid in the morning, the flowers in the afternoon have a more mature beauty. Very worthy of this lady. ”
Xiao Chen smiled: "Of course that's good, but I don't know much about flowers." I don't know much about flower language and other things, so what flowers should I buy for her?"
Felicia said: "You just have to choose according to your feelings, everyone has the ability to discern beauty, you just have to combine the colors and shapes you like, you can represent your heart." Of course, I'll put the finishing touches on it for you. ”
Xiao Chen picked a few flowers by feeling, and Luo Ling watched with a smile on the side as he scratched his head and made a choice.
Felicia picked some grass and leaves, mixed them with the flowers Xiao Chen had picked, and made a small bouquet of flowers.
The bright red pomegranate flowers and the carnations composed of pink, purple and white give a warm and unrestrained feeling.
When the bouquet was handed to Luo Ling by Xiao Chen, she took a deep breath, a faint fragrance of flowers filled her nostrils, she looked at the bouquet, and then praised: "It's really a good craft, Carmela must be very proud of you." ”
"Do you know Carmela?" asked Felicia, surprised.
Xiao Chen said: "My name is Xiao Chen, and her name is Luo Ling." We are from Huaxia University in China and have come to visit Argodo's family. We had just visited Carmella before coming here and she was such a welcoming host. ”
Felicia covered her mouth and said, "Oh my God, is there any news from Argordo?"
"No, it's just that our school asked us as representatives to see if his family was doing. There's also a condolence payment that we've given to Carmela. Xiao Chen said.
Felicia sighed: "After Argodo's disappearance, the saddest thing was Carmela, she cried from morning till night in the days when I first got the news, and I stayed with her for a long time in those days. ”
"You must be Belmudo's wife, Felicia, right?" asked Luo Ling.
"Yes. ”
"You, Bermudo, and Catherine must have been sad at that time, right?" Luo Ling asked.
"Well, it seems that Carmela has said a lot of things to you. "Argordo, Belmudo, Catherine and I have always been best friends. Maybe you don't understand that feeling, and you feel that there is a piece of something in your heart that has been poached from that time. ”
"No, we understand. "We also have relatives and friends who went missing in that incident, and they are all very close people in our lives. I have companions who have lost their parents and are separated from their loved ones. My own uncle and sister were lost in that disaster. They were all teachers at that university. ”
Xiao Chen was stunned for a moment before she reacted, Luo Ling was talking about herself. He hurriedly said: "Yes, I also have a brother who is missing, he is a graduate student of that school. ”
He glanced at Luo Ling and found that the expression on her face was very sad, not at all like pretending.
"That's why we'd love to hear your stories, to hear people tell stories like this, and I don't know why we find comfort in our hearts," she said. ”
Xiao Chen said: "Maybe because we hear the same thing happen to others, we feel that we are not alone." ”
"You're right, Argordo is the only Barcelona person in the disappearance, and we have no one else to talk about the loss of a loved one," Felicia said. ”
Luo Ling took Felicia's hand and said, "Why don't we go to the café next door and sit down and talk?"
Felicia was a little resistant to chatting with strangers like this, but for some reason the woman in front of her had a special charm when she spoke, and she couldn't help but melt into the other party's gaze and nodded.
The café was close to Carmela's flower shop, and the three of them sat down, and Luo Ling ordered some afternoon tea and snacks, and sat down at the table facing the street.
"I've seen photos of you when you were young, you four should have known each other for a long time, right?" Luo Ling asked.
Felicia nodded: "The four of us have actually known each other since we entered middle school, I am in the same class as Argodo, and Belmudo and Catherine are in the same class, because the two of them are brothers, so we often play together later, and we become more and more familiar."
Then we had feelings for the one in the next class. Although Algordo is very cheerful and optimistic, his personality is too impatient, and after seeing his frizzy appearance, he thinks that Bermudo is much more stable. Both of us love to read, so there's a lot to talk about. Catherine, on the other hand, is a boisterous girl who follows Argodoto to all sorts of parties and events.
We can guess we have found our own half of the way. I'm so much luckier than Catherine, though. ”
In the atmosphere created by Luo Ling, the atmosphere between them became more and more harmonious, and the three of them chatted very speculatively. Xiao Chen even wondered if Luo Ling had applied a charm spell to the other party.
However, Felicia, as a friend and peer of Argordo, knows a lot about the other side of Argordo that Carmela does not know.
Luo Ling said: "We saw a school on the road, it should be the middle school you attended, right? It looks like a very beautiful school with a sense of history." ”
"Yes, our school is more than two hundred years old, and any house has its own story. ”
"How about taking us to have a look?" Luo Ling asked.