We return to Dragon King Garden. I was in a hurry in the morning, so I didn’t take a serious look at this building. From the car, it looks like a peacock with its tail open, and a lotus in full bloom. Such a flying imagination, really came from him
The interior of the building is resplendent, with crystal chandeliers, murals, and fountains, surrounded by palm trees on all sides; people coming and going are well-dressed, and several fashionable young women are holding puppies in floral dresses and bows in their hands, and they are sitting on the sofa in the corner of the hall. small talk. Dazzling jewelry, dazzling red lips, dazzling luxury.
I saw the security guard from the morning again, and he was still looking at me with a half-smile. Li Chuan said that the structure of the building was complicated, and he had to hold my hand to prevent getting lost. Seeing Li Chuan, the security guard walked over quickly, with a respectful and almost obsequious expression: "Mr. Wang."
Li Chuan stopped and waited for him to speak.
"Your assistant, Mr. Su, came to see you."
"Oh, I turned off the phone." He picked up the phone and said to me, "Sorry, I need to make a call, can I?" opened, but was pulled by him.
— "It's me, Li Chuan."
— "I'm still short of the last two pictures. Isn't Deadline (translation: deadline) the fifteenth of next month?"
— "Advance? What is in advance? Deadline means that the deadline cannot be advanced. Unless they pay more."
— "How much is the overpayment? I don't know, you can ask someone from the budget department to calculate it. Forget it and tell me tomorrow."
— "There is a meeting tonight? When did you say that? Oh... yes, regular meeting, I forgot."
He looks at his watch.
— "Everyone is here?"
— "Tell them to go back. I'm not well enough to come."
He put the phone away, and was about to put the phone back in his pocket when the phone rang again.
He looked at the caller ID and turned on the phone:
-"elder brother."
-"fine."
-"fine."
— "If you can't arrange it, wait another two months. Where were you in February?"
— "I may go to Zurich, let the secretary inform you of the itinerary."
—"I have received it, thank you."
— "I'm sleeping, I haven't woken up yet, I stayed up late last night."
-"goodbye."
Thirty seconds of call time. He reeled in, looking at me apologetically.
"Is it this busy every day?" I asked.
"Not every day," he said, "now we can go swimming."
We went upstairs together and changed into our bathing suits. He was wearing a pair of black swimming trunks, revealing his tight belly and well-trained pecs. Each of us put on a bathrobe and took the elevator to the third floor.
The swimming pool has two floors. There is only a pool of clear water on this floor of the third floor, and there is no one there. I leaned on the railing and saw that the swimming pool on the second floor was bigger, with a small children's water park attached, but there were less than ten people playing in the water.
"What a waste of resources," I said, "so few people swim here."
"Are you sure you can swim and won't drown?" Seeing me standing beside the waterway with bare feet, he suddenly asked.
"Won't."
"You know, I know a guy who also said he could swim, and then he jumped down in front of me and yelled for help a second later." He looked at me, "I had to jump down and get him Come up."
"If you jump down and call for help, I will save you too." I raised my head and looked at him provocatively.
"Then, what you mean is that I can rest assured that you can move about in the water without having to be with you all the time."
"Please put one hundred and twenty hearts at ease."
"Xie Xiaoqiu, champion of the 400-meter freestyle in the region," he threw down his bathrobe, "Why don't we compare each other, how about it?"
"Okay." I took his crutches and placed them by the pool.
"Nanchi High School," he pointed at the white lettering on my swimsuit, "is that your middle school?"
"Yes. How about it? The name sounds nice. There is a street in front of our high school called Ximen Street. Nanchi and Ximen, what an antique name!"
"Whenever you go back to your hometown, I'll follow you to see your high school." He blurted out. I couldn't help laughing, this man sometimes talks like a first-grade student. Standing in front of him, I reached out and stroked the back of his head: "Alright, student Li Chuan, nostalgia to find your own hometown, don't use our Yunnan territory to lust."
"That boy said, do you people from Yunnan eat bridge rice noodles?"
"Um."
"What is Guoqiao Rice Noodles?"
"We have Mengzi County in southern Yunnan, which is where the Southwest Associated University used to be. It is said that there was a scholar who took an exam and shut himself up on an island to study. His wife was afraid that he would eat cold food, so she invented this hot soup. Every time the rice noodles were given to him, they had to pass through a small bridge. Later, the scholar won the election and said that it was the rice noodles, so he called this kind of soup noodles crossing the bridge rice noodles."
"After swimming, let's eat bridge rice noodles, shall we? There must be some in Beijing, right?"
"Every Yunnan restaurant has them, but I don't know where." I also miss rice noodles.
"It's easy to handle. I can find it online, and I can find it in a second." He said, "I'm tired from standing, and I have to dive."
We dive at the same time. I struggled forward and swam fast, but I could feel him always by my side, and I couldn't surpass him no matter what. At the last thirty meters, he was gone. When I reached the finish line, I looked up and found him sitting by the pool, looking at me and smiling.
"I ate too much today, my body is heavy, and I can't swim fast. Tonight's meal, you didn't eat anything, I ate it for you." I was a little frustrated, so I had to quibble.
"Unconvinced?" He frowned.
"Unconvinced."
"Another four hundred meters?"
"Come again."
We dive again at the same time. This time, he quickly left me behind and led the way until I bumped headfirst into his chest as I sprinted.
"Oh!" I called out.
"It's not a formal competition, don't swim so hard," he wanted to lift me out of the water, "If I don't block you, you'll hit the wall."
I pulled him into the water: "No, do it again."
"Don't come, if you do it again, you will lose." He said, "Miss, just face the reality."
"No ay."
"Why don't you swim ten meters first and I'll chase you?"
"Want to humiliate me?"
"Don't dare."
We started at the same time and he was still leading the way, still a few seconds ahead of me. Finally, he pulled me up and looked at me calmly sitting by the pool panting: "Would you like some water?"
I shake my head.
"There are deck chairs over there. If you are really tired, you can lie down and rest." He pointed to a row of sun loungers across the pool.
"Strange, why is no one else swimming today?" I looked around.
"It's all down there." Needless to say, he had designed the building and had privileged access to some of its amenities.
"Great," I said.
"What's too good?"
"I have to take this opportunity to clean you up. Who told you to make me make a fool of myself in front of the principal?" I jumped up, pushed him into the water, and twisted his back in the water.
"Oh, oh," he said in pain, "I'm trying to fight you for a scholarship?"
"You still say, you still say!" I pinched his neck involuntarily.
He grabbed me and clasped my hands behind his back. I kicked his legs in the water: "Let me go!"
Instead, he clasped it even tighter, not letting me move, but suddenly started kissing me. Kiss from the forehead, inch by inch, until my face is flushed, and then come back and stare at my face.
"Did I scare you? (Translation: Did I scare you?)"
"No."
"Can I kiss you? (Translation: Can I kiss you?)"
"Yes."
The biggest moment of my life happened so quickly. He hugged me tightly and didn't mind me catching the scars on it carefully and stroking the injured skin.
I guessed that Li Chuan had never been touched like this except for the nurses in the hospital. The water was warm, but he shivered like a chill. But I imagined in my mind that after the car accident, he was turned into pieces, picked up by the medical staff, and in the operating room, he was covered with tubes.
It must have been a terrible car accident that left him with terrible scars.
In an empty swimming pool, speech always echoes. Li Chuan and I are obviously very close, but it seems that time and space are far apart.
We climbed out of the pool and put on our bathrobes. My waist suddenly hurt a little, so I sat down by the water with my back bent.
"I have to take a shower," he said, "I don't like the smell of bleach."
"I'm waiting for you."
"Aren't you going to wash?"
"Well... I don't like taking a bath very much." In winter, I only take a bath once every three days. The school's bathroom is too crowded and the steam is too thick. He pulled me to the bathroom: "No, you have to wash too."
I glanced at him, and found that his face had a look of guilt and eagerness to clean up, so I nodded and wandered leisurely into the bathroom. When I came out of the shower, I found that he had changed into a suit and leather shoes, looking brand new.
I was still in school clothes, a woolen sweater, a miniskirt, and a backpack with a bunch of keys clinking on it.
He looked at me: "Why do I get smaller the more I look at you?"
"I'm not young. And precocious."
He gestured with his eyes: "the last time you... um... when?"
"Just finished."
He breathed a sigh of relief: "If something happens to you, your father will kill me."
"Don't be afraid."
"hat?"
"Don't be afraid." I repeated calmly.
"Is this your first time?"
"yes."
"Then you... aren't afraid?"
"not afraid."
"..."
"You are brave." There was a little embarrassment in his tone.
"Don't think too much, okay? It's just a man and a woman together, that's all. I'm hungry, let's go and eat bridge rice noodles!"
"Wait for me, I have a few drawings to print out and send away. Ten minutes?" He disappeared into his study.