Chapter 11 (2/2)
“No”
He handed ht you a cell phone Call me when you have tinals?”
“I aet in the car” I said
“Let me drop you off at your dorround If he wasn’t careful, he would fall and break his re How can he do that?
“Next time, okay? Once you are co you”
“No” He said, “The ground is so slippery You don’t look at the road I’m afraid you’ll slip and fall”
I was very happy when I got to the dor that my expression was unusually lifted today
“Hey, you finally walked out of the shadow of your break up” An An observed ratulations”
I washed ive Li Chuan a call at the head of a flight of stairs Within three seconds, he picked up, “Hi”
“Are you almost at the hospital?”
“Almost there”
“Why is it pink?”
“What’s pink?”
“The cell phone’s color”
“It’s the color for young girls”
“I’irl”
“You are only seventeen years old”
“Li Chuan, how old are you?”
“Twenty-five Is that too old?”
“Not old, not old Not old at all Thank you Ge Ge, I like you soup
The next day was a nice sunny say Classes had already ended and everyone was studying for the exaot out of bed at seven, I would take a therainst the s arh, I spread out my books and studied my notes, studied sentence patterns, and studied vocab It was a joy to be busy
At noon, I walked out of the library to eat lunch My cell phone rang and his voice cah:
“It’s me, Li Chuan”
“Hi, Li Chuan Have you been discharged?”
“I’ve finally left The doctor is a friend of avethis afternoon?”
“Help you hat Tell allery today Can you acco, but I don’t understand paintings Won’t I look like an idiot standing there?”
“No, no no It’s like this I don’t want to go either, but we’re pretty close with each other and I can’t refuse The gallery opening will be at four o’clock The press will also be there He wants me to be there on time to support him At seven o’clock, there’s a wine reception He wishes for me to take part in the wine reception”
“In other words, we need to stay there for at least four hours”
“If you come help, then I don’t need to stay for four hours”
“Really? That’s how I’o at four o’clock After an hour, you’ll say that you have a headache, and then we’ll leave”
“Headache? Isn’t that too fake?”
“Whether it’s fake or not depends on whether your performance seems like it or not”
“No probleallery have a dress code? With coat tails and so on”
“Yes, it needs to be for attire”
“Then okay, I’ll put on the perfore props”
“Have you eaten yet?”
“No”
“Wait for o shopping”
“Wait for o to the school gates to send a letter”
After twenty minutes, Li Chuan drove over and pickedwell enough to wear his prosthetic leg Without the prosthetic leg, walking iswill betins, so he couldn’t depart fro a black suit as always, a black collared-shi+rt, and a purple necktie He appeared tall and slender, filled with grace Matched with that enchanting face of his, it was hard to resist hi, having just gotten out of the hospital, he still could not move that painter to allow hiht on my shoulder was actually really heavy
Li Chuan asked o eat Yunnan food I said, I’d rather eat sushi+ with him He took me to a japanese restaurant He liked to eat sashi+mi, and I liked to eat teriyaki chicken I asked hi he needed to in the hospital He even sent it in early We didn’t stay for long at the restaurant because I didn’t want to let hi He didn’t kno to hold chopsticks with his left hand and his right hand couldn’t help He could only use a fork to eat
Afterwards, ent to a clothing store I couldn’t tell if the name was in French or Italian Li Chuan stood to the side reading a ht I tried on were all too large
I asked Li Chuan, “What to do?”
Li Chuan made alady’s build is really too suys don’t mind, I can take you to the second floor to take a look in the youth section”
Li Chuan said, “Why didn’t you say so
The lady boss helpedof purple lace and went across the chest I put it on to try Not only did it fit perfectly, it still had soirls were even made like this The lady boss helped o with it
Li Chuan took out his credit card and said to me, “Do you knohat I like most about you?”
I said, “What?”
“You make decisions really quick If it was some other woman, she wouldn’t have even picked out one ite”
“Did you pick out clothes for other women before?” I took the chance to quietly ask as the lady boss went to swipe the card
“Do I really look like a virgin to you?”
I put on makeup in the car and admired myself in thea shortcut It suddenly brightened, a luxurious high-rise appeared in front of us We got out of the car at the door and he handed the keys to the valet The valet drove the car into the garage for hi does your friend do?” It wasn’t an Oscar award show, but why did I feel so that I didn’t understand, he said, “Post about modern, let alone post” He consoledIf you get bored, have so into the car, he bought a bag of beef jerky for me It was my favorite snack It was shoved into my newly purchased clutch The whole way here, Li Chuan kept saying I was still a little girl because I liked everything shi+ny and sparkly There were certainly ing from my hands
“This is probably unsuitable” I said
“What are you afraid of? This is a postallery” He leaned on the crutches and concentrated on walking I heldbeside hi at the doorway One young gentleman, with hair to his shoulders, quickly walked over, “Li Chuan!”
“Wasn’t late, right?” Li chuan went up to shake hands with hie student This is Mr Jiang Heng Xi A fareeted each other
Standing next to Jiang Heng Xi was his wife, a young lady with a breathtaking face Her hair was put up high without a single strand arandeur appearance
“Ji Lian,” Li Chuan held out his hand, “Long time no see”
The two shook hands and Li Chuan introduced lish Depart in traditional Chinese
“Nice to meet you” I said
“Nice to meet you” Ye Ji Lian smiled as she shook o to?”
“S University”
“Li Chuan, we prepared a couch just for you Do you need to rest a bit right now?” She glanced at his ehtly alarmed It was clear that Li Chuan rarely didn’t wear his prosthetic leg for formal occasions
“Thank you, no need”
At this tirey suit, with a ant air about him came over Ye Ji Lian said at once, “Let me introduce you This is Mr Han Zi Xu The boss of Zi Cao Gallery (lit Red Root Gro in ancient jade paintings”
What era is this? Why is everyone here a “specialist”
And then Ye Ji Lian introduced Li Chuan, This is Mr Li Chuan, Chair construction architect A brilliant student from Harvard University’s Architecture Department The winner of last year’s French AS-4 architecture award He currently has around fifty design projects of China Li Chuan, do you want me to also introduce your father and your older brother?”
Li Chuan shook his head, “There’s no need”