68. A new beginning
“Hait sing…”
The unique smell of the morning mixed with the smell of the sea drifting from the harbor, flowing in from outside the window, blowing open the window scarf, and floating into the living room of the Detective Agency.
Oliver shrank in a corner of the sofa, shaking all over.
"He is Oliver, my companion, Qiao Qiao's brother." Lu Li introduced.
"Hello, I'm Anna." Anna hugged her skirt and slightly bowed to perform noble etiquette.
In front of the stranger who had first met, Anna still maintained a certain degree of reserve. Of course, except for Lu Li.
“Hait sing…”
Oliver shook even more violently, and his cheeks trembled endlessly.
He turned his head stiffly, not daring to look at Anna, his eyes were filled with life-saving words and looked at Lu Li.
Lu Li ignored Oliver's call for help and continued to introduce: "Anna, my family."
In a panic, Anna, her fair and illusory cheeks turned into cooked shrimps, turned into afterimages and fled into oil paintings, solidified and faded, leaving a back view for the detective agency.
Anna's departure made Oliver's pressure drop sharply, and she carefully glanced at the portrait with her eyes: "Boss, I am moved by your heart-shaking love, but I am just an ordinary person and I wish you all the best but not suitable for participating in it..."
Because I have been with Lu Li for a short time, Oliver's idea of giving up is more determined.
At this time, they had not experienced the subsequent friendship.
Lu Li remained calm and allowed Oliver to leave.
"Uh...Boss, no, sir, how did you know my sister?" Oliver asked with concern again.
"You told me."
"I told..." Oliver couldn't remember when, so he had to bite the bullet and said, "My sister just wants to live a peaceful life..."
"I won't bother her."
Oliver hopes that Lu Li can do what he says. But due to the inertia of growing up in the slums and the bottom of society, he feels that he should let his sister be careful recently...
Oliver tiptoed to the door like a monkey.
Click
"Do you know that Vina is not frozen in port?"
When he opened the door, he heard the mysterious former boss's calm words.
"Uh...what? I know, is it right in the north of the Mainland of Mainland?"
"The future will be the center of human civilization, with more opportunities and safer."
“I will consider it.”
With his speculation and understanding of this sentence, Oliver completely left the detective agency.
"He left."
The detective agency that restored the tranquility, Lu Li looked at the oil painting again.
The clear back is divided by the mottled oil painting.
"It has nothing to do with him..."
Anna's voice sounded in the oil painting.
"Does I need to leave?"
Lu Li's "slowness" made Anna unbearable and floated out and shouted: "I think we are developing too fast!"
"We haven't gone out for a date, haven't seen parents on both sides, and have not exchanged love tokens."
Anna's cheeks became redder the more she spoke, like a girl who had just fallen in love.
Then Anna saw Lu Li tied his loose tie, picked up the coat on the hanger, put it on, and looked at her.
"Now."
...
Crazy
The waves in the distance are slapped against the reefs day and night.
The gentle tide gently stroked the light brown beach.
Away from the hustle and bustle of the streets and harbors, children picking conch shells in the shallows in the distance, walking in the tranquility of the stretched withered woods and beaches and bays. They are getting farther and farther away from the carriages that stay on the street behind them.
The seabirds hovered at low altitude, and a poster was swept by the wind.
【Belfast, the place closest to the ocean and prosperity】
The clear eyes seemed to be emitting light, with surprise: "How do you know I like the beach?"
"You told me."
“Um…”
Anna, who had a weird cheek, wanted to say something, and soon immersed in the vastness and beauty of the bay again.
"It's so beautiful... If the plants are growing, without clouds and sunshine is falling... maybe it's more beautiful than the beach in the painting."
"There will be such a day."
Unfortunately, Anna could no longer see it with her own eyes at that time.
Two figures stand on the unmanned beach. Even if people in the distance look at it, they will find it difficult to detect one of the outlines that is illusory and not real.
“When we were kids?”
"What?"
"We met when we were very young, and you remembered me at that time..." Anna didn't say what she imagined later, "the grown-up boy returned to Shimfast and found that his beloved was dead. He cried in front of her grave. Then one day he heard that the gallery was haunted, the boy with hope came to the gallery, and then the prince greeted his princess."
"No."
Beautiful imagination is like a bubble shattering.
"But I think you know me and know a lot of things about me..." Anna did not give up.
“We know in the future.”
Anna's cheeks were slightly red, and she understood them as some kind of love words. The romance novels and poems she dabbled in did not involve "time" and "rebirth" themes, and she could not understand what a lover who returned from the future was.
Soon, Anna's attention returned to her side from the sea view. She felt that the two were like couples who were enjoying the scenery in oil paintings, but Lu Li seemed not interested in the vast bay and looked around and observed the street behind her.
"Don't you like the scenery?"
"The most beautiful scenery is already around."
Lu Li did not realize the power of his calm explanation, and his black eyes stared at the sewer under the embankment.
"I...I, let's go back..."
"Um."
Shoulders to shoulder, Lu Li, thinking and shy Anna returned to the streets along the coast.
Occasionally, the swinging illusory white palm approaches Lu Li's hanging hand, overlaps, and then passes through each other.
Back in the carriage, Lu Li did not return to the Sailors neighborhood, drove along the coast street to approach the port, and bought a pen and a few letter paper from the street grocery store.
Writing slowly in the bumps of the carriage on the bluestone slab road.
Anna sneaked out of the carriage and barely recognized the highest repetition of the words "Marcus Richard Sewer Child" and "a door curse". He drove through the bustling harbor streets, Lu Li grabbed the reins.
"Stay in the carriage and wait for me."
Lu Li said that he walked to a shop called [Love in Love with Anres Brothers Underground Pipeline Repair Station] in the distance.
"Leave the letter to Tesla."
He sent two letters to his elder brother or younger brother behind the counter, Lu Li left the repair station and returned to the carriage to continue his journey.
Still not the direction of the Sailor Street.
On the edge of the wealthy area, a carriage parked in front of a single-family house with white walls.
"wait for me."
Lu Li said, pushing the door and stepping into Hudders' detective agency.
Ding bell
The wind chimes swayed crisply, and Lu Li passed the living room of the closed tavern to the counter. He placed 500 shillings on the table.
"One psychic gun, 10 bullets."
Hudders grinned, and the gold teeth flashed with dark light under the oil lamp: "This is not enough, friend."
"It's cheaper for merchants." Lu Li said calmly.
Hudders stared at Lu Li for a few seconds, confirming that this was a fellow traveler rather than a fat sheep, and reached out to take the table shilling.
Chapter completed!