Chapter 010 (1/2)
Simon didn't feel a girl in the crowd watching her silently. Hearing Janet's words, he just laughed and said, ”why, are you going to live in for a while?”
Janet nodded sincerely: ”yes, if you can be like this, you can live for a few years.”
At this time, Katherine came back to herself. She was surprised and had a strong curiosity about Simon's past. But, hearing Janet's words, Katherine glared at her friend with warning: ”Jennie, don't make fun of this kind of thing any more.”
Janet felt the seriousness of Catherine's words. She immediately shrunk her neck, took her arm and shook it. She did not speak any more.
Simon calmed down his heart beat, noticed Janet's little action, and gave her guitar to Katherine in front of him with a smile
Katherine reached for it, still puzzled. Simon had crouched down and began to sort out the coins in the piano box in front of him.
Want to help, feel the hands of the guitar, Catherine had to stand, carefully holding the guitar in her arms.
Janet looks at the guitar in front of her, reaches for it, opens it by Katherine, turns her mouth discontentedly, squats down again to help Simon arrange the coins, and twists a nickel to criticize someone for being too stingy.
Soon all the coins in the piano box were sorted out. Even if we didn't count Janet's 100 dollar bill, there were more than 260 dollars, which far exceeded Simon's expectation.
Let Janet hold a small pile of coins, Simon put the notes into his jeans pocket, took the guitar from Katherine's hand, carefully packed it in the piano box, carried it on his shoulder, looked at the woman and said, ”then, go to dinner?”
”Well,” Catherine said, smiling and nodding, without hesitation, ”there's a good Mexican restaurant nearby.”
”Should it be all right to walk over?”
”North, of course.”
”Oh, how can you get back later?”
”My car is in the parking lot over there.”
”It's a coincidence that mine is over there too. It's just a nice person to borrow the landlord's car.”
”The guitar is borrowed, too?”
”Yes.”
Janet stood where she was, staring at the men and women who were about to walk away side by side, and then looked down at the coin she was still holding in her hand?
I'm just forgotten?
Thinking of this, Janet got angry and cried out in the street with a dumb voice: ”Simon westero, if you dare to go one step further, I'll throw away this pile of things!”
Many people's eyes on the pedestrian street are attracted again.
Simon and Catherine also turned and looked at the angry Janet. Simon quickly returned and said, ”I'm sorry, Jennie. I'll take it.”
Janet slapped all the coins into Simon's hand and gave Katherine an aggrieved look.
Both of them were embarrassed. Catherine took Janet in her arms. Simon put the coin in place. Then they went north again.
Looking at Janet deliberately separated between the two, Simon had no choice but to say, ”so, Catherine, you just said that Jennie's studio is here, what studio?”
”Art studio,” Catherine replied, ”Jennie is a painter. If you have money in the future, you can buy her paintings.”
”Oh, sure.”
”I'm not going to sell it to you little bastard.”
”I'll pay a high price.”
”Not for sale!”
”Double.”
”Ah, Pooh!”
”Ha ha,” Katherine chuckled. Seeing her good friend staring at her, she said to Simon quickly, ”Jane is also very good. She graduated from Columbia Business School, and Warren Buffett also studied at Columbia Business School. Simon, do you know that?”
Simon nodded and said, ”of course.”
Catherine continued: ”that year, when Buffett returned to Columbia to give a speech, Jennie argued with him in the auditorium. If it wasn't for the dean of business school, Jennie would have let him down.”
”It's really great,” Simon continued with a smile. ”How come you're a painter again?”
Catherine only glanced at her best friend this time, and no longer explained with a smile.