Outside the car window, the dawn was breaking and a red sun was rising from the eastern horizon.
There were milk, fried eggs and fried meat on the small round table, and two small sofas with blue and white checkered fabrics. Lu Ming sat on one and Nicole sat on the other.
Looking at Nicole's well-behaved appearance, Lu Ming felt amused.
Last night, with great willpower, I wrapped myself with a corner of the quilt and told Nicole very seriously that I would give myself half a year to think about it. During this period, I was not allowed to do anything to tease me. Otherwise, not only would I not be able to become her lover, but we might even become enemies.
This is half true and half false. To be honest, I feel that my body is not normal now. It is not the body of a normal person. So I believe Bizhu's words a little. After half a year, the result will be clear.
Perhaps feeling her seriousness, Nicole thought for a while and agreed. She even went downstairs to put on her pajamas and slept on the sofa.
Now, she is still wearing pink home clothes and even socks, wrapping herself tightly.
But I didn't sleep well all night. Although Nicole only lay in the quilt for a short while, the whole air was filled with her fragrant scent.
Even in this carriage, there was a faint fragrance at this moment, and it was the kind of fragrance that aroused male hormones.
"Brother, look at this!" Nicole took out a piece of paper and a beautiful pen from behind her and placed them on the round table.
Lu Ming picked it up casually and took a look at it, and was stunned.
It was a contract, and the general content was that from today onwards within 180 days, Nicole no longer expected to have any physical contact with Lu Qianxing, and would do her utmost to prevent Lu Qianxing from touching her or having any immoral thoughts about her. If Nicole complied with the contract perfectly, by the 181st day, Lu Qianxing and Nicole would become formal secret lovers, and both parties would have to fulfill the obligations that lovers should do. Alternatively, Lu Qianxing's second choice was to be siblings with Nicole, and from then on, both parties would treat each other like real siblings.
Lu Ming looked at the contract and was speechless. This was a plot that had been used too much in many novels and movies in later generations, and now he was encountering it himself.
I didn't sleep well, and I seemed to notice something Nicole was writing on the desk in the middle of the night. It turned out that she was tinkering with this thing.
However, after reading the contents of the contract, Lu Ming sighed softly in his heart. In fact, Nicole didn't necessarily want to be his lover.
It was indeed as she said, she was too tired and needed a strong shoulder to lean on. This shoulder could be from a lover or a brother. In short, she hoped to have such a special and close person who could be the reason for her to no longer be alone in this world.
She has an older brother, but he is a crazy sister-lover. When he sees her, he doesn't ask for anything except money.
This is probably why she really wants to have a brother who loves and cares for her.
After thinking about it, Lu Ming picked up the pen and signed his name on it. However, when he wrote the last stroke of his name, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
Nicole quickly took the contract over, a hint of pride flashed across her blue eyes, she leaned back on the sofa, and gently placed her small feet in cartoon-patterned white socks on Lu Ming's legs, chuckling, "Brother, don't touch me." She stuck out her tongue again, "Lawyer brother, according to our contract, am I stopping you? If you take further action, I will still stop you, but if I can't, it doesn't mean I'm breaking the contract, right?"
Lu Ming was helpless: "Okay, let's eat! If this really goes to court, I can invalidate this contract in three seconds."
"Boring!" Nicole snorted, retracted her feet, picked up the glass of milk, and chuckled: "Brother, when the time comes, will you choose the first option or the second option?"
Lu Ming smiled and said, "Maybe by then, there will be a third option?"
He picked up the beef slices, stuffed two slices into his mouth, and went to the desk to look at the thick files.
Looking at his back, Nicole gradually became absorbed.
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At around three o'clock in the afternoon, the train stopped in Aba City, the capital of Ximi Province. Basically, three-quarters of the journey had been traveled. There were still more than 500 kilometers to reach the city-states in the Western Regions, and then about another 500 kilometers to reach Nicolo, the terminus of this train.
This train is an express train that stops at only a few transportation hubs, and most of the passengers are long-distance travelers.
The architectural style of the state capital here is different from that in the east. The outer layer of the brick building has basically no protective layer and is spotted. There are few tall buildings. The province is located in a remote area in the southwest and is very poor compared to the east.
Starting with Michigan, the western states are the main suppliers of empire beef. This area is vast and sparsely populated, and was once the empire's pasture.
This is also a traditional gathering area for Westerners.
Two centuries ago, this place was a paradise for adventurers, and it also gave birth to a culture similar to the cowboys and a group called the cowboys.
But the historical trajectory was almost the same as Lu Ming's previous life. By the late 20th century, there were too many ranches and there was a huge oversupply of beef on the market, so the price plummeted. Coupled with the bad weather years, many ranchers went bankrupt.
By now, small ranchers have basically ceased to exist in the western states. Super ranching companies and a large number of large ranchers have divided up all the ranches here. There are many rich people, but they basically live in the countryside, and the poor work for them. Because only the animal husbandry is developed, the cities, both large and small, also appear very dilapidated.
Even a state capital city like Aba has a population of only about 200,000 people, and apart from companies that process frozen fresh beef, there are very few other industries. Instead, there are many thieves and robbers, and gunfights between mounted police and cowboys often break out in the streets.
The poor people in the western states sadly call this place the land forgotten by God.
In fact, the imperial capital had once considered moving a large number of people here to the eastern Central Plains province.
But now is not a few hundred years ago, but until the end of the last century, this place was still a beef paradise and extremely wealthy.
If we now want to relocate a large number of people, even the traditional Western states neighboring these poor states will strongly oppose it.
Besides, how could the super-ranching companies and large ranchers here allow the lowly laborers to be relocated
Under the strong opposition of these voices, and considering the current situation of the empire, it is still blatantly distinguishing between races, and even migrating a large number of poor people in the West to the Central Continent gathering areas. This has no positive significance except that it is very likely to cause a civil war in the empire. If the poor people migrate to wealthy places in large numbers, it will not only bring turmoil to the local area, but it will also be difficult for them to find channels for upward mobility.
Therefore, the proposal drafted by some radical Western congressmen thirty years ago was never submitted to the Federal Parliament. They knew that it would not be passed and would immediately lead to a racial conflict crisis in the empire. Therefore, it was eventually shelved and the proposal never saw the light of day. Only some small circles in the political arena circulated this story.
This also makes the regional, state and provincial parliaments attach increasing importance to autonomy, because the proposals made by politicians in the capital may very likely bring disastrous consequences to the local area.
At this time, in the "Tower Restaurant" next to the Aba City Railway Station Square, Lu Ming and his group were sitting at a large table by the window having afternoon tea.
The train also stopped in Aba City for an hour. Lu Ming had never been to Western Region Province, so he decided to go out for a walk.
The name of this restaurant is, of course, a copycat of the Donghai "Tower Restaurant". Of course, the restaurant is indeed located in a tower building at the train station. The environment is clean and the prices are very high, comparable to those of Donghai's mid-range restaurants. The guests it receives are all wealthier tourists.
Like many Western restaurants, the Tower Restaurant does not have private rooms. On the large table by the window are bread, desserts, jerky, tea and drinks, vegetable rolls, fruit salad, etc., and unlimited water is available.
The four of them came for afternoon tea together: Lu Ming, Sherlock, Wen Liangyu and Wang Jinfei.
Nicole sat next to Lu Ming very intimately. She was showing off her sexy charm today. She was wearing a V-neck white body-shaping miniskirt. Above her slender waist, the towering peaks that exploded like mountains squeezed out unfathomable ravines. Her slightly curly golden long hair fell like a waterfall. Her deep blue eyes were watery and full of spring. Her slender long legs in snow-white stockings and the wonderful curve formed by the crystal high heels could drive a man crazy. Above her jade knees, the beautiful bow at the end of the snow-white stockings could make people's souls fly away.
The beauty was so overwhelming that even senior figures of status and age like Sherlock and Wen Liangyu did not even bother to look at her. Wang Jinfei just focused on eating his breakfast and did not even dare to glance at her.
Lu Ming glanced at Nicole, feeling helpless. What was she doing
Deliberately demonstrate to yourself and ask yourself, do you regret it
Suddenly, there was a loud shout, and Erhei walked over quickly and asked the person sitting on a table in the distance to put down the camera.
Maybe he was a reporter. He just took out his precious camera from his bag and wanted to take a picture of Nicole, but was discovered by Erhei.
I don't know what the man said, but Erhei suddenly took out a gun and pointed it at his head. The man in the jacket was scared and his camera fell on the table with a click.
Nicole saw this and waved her hand helplessly. An assistant from another table immediately brought a snow-white windbreaker, sunglasses, hat and other things, and she put them on.
Sherlock smiled and said, "Miss Nicole, when you get to Bat City, you should be able to be free. The area around Bat City is very underdeveloped and there are no cinemas. Although your poster may have been sent there, there will definitely be no reporters or anything that can harass you."
Nicole's eyes lit up immediately and she looked at Lu Ming: "Brother, take me to Bat City to play?"
"No, it might be dangerous there, so you'd better not go." Lu Ming waved his hand.
Nicole said, "Wasn't it dangerous last time? We almost died together. Without you, I would have died. So, I'm not afraid!"
Sherlock watched this scene with flickering eyes, probably guessing what the relationship between the two was.
Although he knew that Nicole was invited to the additional carriage, he naturally did not expect that Nicole and Lu Ming slept in the same room last night, and even for a short period of time, they slept in the same bed.
However, after listening to Nicole's words, I felt relieved, because I knew that the most popular superstar in the empire could not be deceived by adding a carriage.
It turns out that she and Lu Qianxing were good friends and had been through life and death together? And it was Lu Qianxing who saved her life
This little bastard always has such good luck, it's so damn annoying.