The sunshade of the silver car slowly opened, revealing the face of a young girl behind the window. Under the black veil, the twenty-year-old face was painted with the makeup of a thirty-year-old. It gave people the impression that she was not pretending to be mature, but more like she was being refined.
The sculpture of a famous Greek artist is painted in the colors of a famous Italian painting, and is paired with a fur waistcoat and a black skirt. Everything makes the title of this painting "Lady" possible. The black eyeliner is all cold and queenly.
breath.
"Hey...I didn't expect to meet you here. If I remember correctly, Director Frost did discuss at the meeting that the public reimbursement for the position of president of Cassel College was too high...but I didn't
To think that he could actually bypass six other school directors and impose financial punishment on you! So that you have to rush to the meeting location on foot!" The car window slowly lowered, and the girl wearing a black veil looked sideways at Angers, facing this
The old man's cold face slowly revealed a smile that was like melting snowflakes on the car window.
"The last time we met was in the summer, right? At that time, the sunshine in Portofino was still very harsh, and it was not suitable for walking on the streets. But today, with the snowy scene like now, it is perfect for walking and chatting with my students.
That's the topic." Angers glanced at the snow-covered street roofs, and then looked at the girl who was too young for him in the car window, with a slightly surprised look on her face but more of a kind smile.
“Lisa, my child, it seems that we are destined to meet halfway!”
“No, Ange, it’s not the meeting that makes us destined, but the chance to know each other when we meet.” The girl named Lisa also answered with a smile. The two looked like old acquaintances.
When Lin Nian was still speculating on something, Ange beside him actually gently hugged him to his side and said cheerfully to the mysterious girl in the window, "Lisa, you're here at the right time, come and see me soon"
When I met my most proud student, Lin Nian." Then he looked at Lin Nian and introduced the girl in the window, "This is the only daughter of my old friend, Elizabeth Laurent. I have long thought that you two should
We met, you are the same age and you should have a lot in common!"
Laurent.
Hearing this newly familiar surname, Lin Nian raised his face slightly from his scarf and took a formal look at the gorgeous girl wearing a veil in the car window. The girl was also looking at him. This was the first time the two of them looked at each other.
Before Angers introduced them to each other, their eyes did not even pause on each other's faces.
“Is he the ‘main course’ that Frost prepared for this meeting?” Lisa looked at Angers.
"The main course?" Lin Nian spoke before Angers could speak, drawing Lisa's eyes back to him, "So this is how I am positioned in the eyes of the school board."
"No offense, vegetarians regard anything that can squeeze out oil and water as fat on the plate, and you happen to be in the top batch." Lisa nodded lightly to Lin Young.
He neither swallowed back his slightly offensive words nor quietly dismissed the rest of the school directors. With just a simple sentence, Lin Niangao glanced at this girl who was only one or two years older than him and started talking.
From a technical point of view, this Miss Lisa has reached a level consistent with her makeup under the training of the Laurent family.
"Still so eloquent, my child." Angers seemed to be very satisfied with Lisa's words. His eyes when he looked at the girl were filled with the pride of a father looking at his generous daughter.
"I just passed by and saw someone bullying the children who were having a snowball fight, so I planned to come over and have a look. I didn't expect the prankster to be Angers." Lisa glanced at the distance, pointed here, and shouted, "Little
said the barking children.
"It's actually a long story..." The old man paused, looked at Lin Nian beside him and shrugged off the bits of snow on his shoulders.
“But this is not the place to talk. If you don’t mind, you can get in the car and talk. This is still some distance from the Splendid Hotel. I can take you two along the way.”
Just as Lisa said, Lin Nian also noticed the tendency of more and more people around him to gather here. Although Portofino is a tourist attraction and there are countless luxury cars lent by rental companies, this silver car is
The car was still too high-profile, and even the leasing company could hardly see it. Everyone was curious about the identity of the car owner, craning their necks and trying to peek through the gaps in the sunshade.
“It seems that the warm-up activities before the meeting will probably have to be cancelled.” Angeli lowered his sleeves and said to Lin Nian with a little regret.
"There are always opportunities. Don't rush now. You have to save some face for your elders in front of girls." Lin Nian said politely.
Although she didn’t know what the so-called warm-up activities between Lin Nian and Ange were, from the very subtle expression on Ange’s face that Lisa saw, she probably guessed that what Lin Nian just said should be particularly interesting.
The driver got out of the car and opened the door for Lin Nian and Ange. To Lin Nian's surprise, Ange chose the passenger seat. The back seat was not the three-seater or four-seater he had imagined, but only one person.
There are only two cherry red loose seats. The middle seat is replaced by an entertainment center console and automatic cup holder decorated with logs. A black and white chess board is placed on it, and the black and white chess pieces are arranged in an orderly manner.
The car door closed automatically, and the driver's controller closed the sunshade after getting on the car, blocking the view of everyone outside. The sounds in the car suddenly became quiet, and the soft sound of shoe soles on the red wool blanket could be heard.
Angers sat in the passenger seat, raised his hand and passed the driver. In the surprised eyes of Lin Nian, who had just gotten into the car in the back seat, he pressed the button to close the window with familiarity.
...Yes, this car is customized according to the customer's requirements. According to the owner's request, this luxury car also has a partition that separates the cab and the back seat. Once the partition is lowered, even if there is a shooting on both sides, it may not be possible.
Pass the noise through.
The black baffle slowly lowered halfway, and the old man's relaxed voice came from the front, "I'm a little tired from walking here from the airport. I really can't bear to accept it. It takes about ten minutes to get to the hotel from here.
I’ll take a break for now, and you two can chat casually.”
Lin Nian didn't even have time to raise his head to see Ange's profile. He suddenly saw the last curl of the old guy's mouth. The partition completely separated the back seat, and the warm yellow light under the starry sky illuminated the silent room.
Inside the car, only a slight and negligible pushing sensation can tell the passengers inside that the vehicle has started to drive normally.
In the next seat, on the other side of the chessboard, the girl with a black veil was also smiling and shaking her head. It seemed that she was helpless and Anger suddenly became surly, but she could not feel too much anger and complaint towards this elder. If
If someone else had done this, the car would have stopped a long time ago, and the people in the car would have to be thrown out. Depending on the situation, they would be thrown as far away as possible and sink under the ice to wait for the next spring to collect their bodies.
Wearing black crystal high heels, a pure black waist skirt, and accessories on her golden hair, even Lin Nian had to admit that this girl was too beautiful. This kind of charm was completely unmatched by ordinary people. Anyone who saw it
This young girl has to lament that God's creations are sometimes so partial, and only this partiality can bring out the beauty she has now... The beauty stems from her genes, and she can almost imagine her family tree when looking at her.
That series of breathtaking beauties.
Lin Nian had to admit that there would be psychological pressure in sitting in a separate and closed space with such a girl. For a sedan, the back seat space of this car was large enough to make people feel comfortable, but at this time it was too small.
It allowed him to smell the girl's unique perfume, which was reminiscent of smoke, resin and white flowers, and finally some light woods and musk.
"Perfume can make people remember. After getting off this car, if you smell this smell again one day, you will only think of this scene." It was Elizabeth who broke the silence first. She actually guessed Lin Nian's current identity.
What he was thinking led to the first topic between them.
“Are you one of the school directors?” Lin Nian asked.
"So when you smell this fragrance in the future, the first memory that comes to your mind is "school board meeting"?" Elizabeth turned to look at Lin Nian across the black and white chessboard and asked, "Isn't this too incomprehensible?
?”
…This girl seems to be more proactive and assertive than Lin Nian expected. Her tone of voice is not approachable, but she is not that condescending either. For her as one of the seven school directors, she is already very peaceful.
Lin Nian turned his head and glanced at her, looking at her from top to bottom, as a man looks at a woman, and finally said: "I only need to remember one or two beautiful girls."
Elizabeth was stunned for a moment and chewed on this sentence for a while, then raised her head and glanced at Lin Nian one more time.
“When were you found by Angers?” she asked.
“A year ago, at the beginning of last year to be precise, why would you care about this?”
“I have to know who I am talking to in the meeting later,” she replied.
“Is your relationship with the principal as good as this?” Lin Nian raised his eyebrows slightly.
“The school board is not a monolith,” Elizabeth said.
She only said so much about this, but Lin Nian understood what she meant and nodded and stopped asking any more questions.
The back seat fell silent again.
In the silence, Lin Nian looked directly at the LCD screen exposed on the front seat. What was playing on it was something similar to the red and green lines of the Securities Exchange. He couldn't understand it, but the girl next to him must have understood it well.
Before picking them up, the girl's attention should have been on these things.
It makes people feel a bit regretful, but also reasonable. A girl of this age will probably not be happy for any reason sitting in this kind of car, and naturally she has no interest in looking at the snowy scene of Torfino outside the window.
School directors who are in their twenties, maybe not even twenty, nineteen or eighteen? Before Lin Nian, I always thought that the people on the school board were all old monsters who needed oxygen tubes.
He turned to look at Elizabeth beside him, and found that the other person's attention was indeed on the LCD screen, watching the changes in the direction and data without saying a word, and the air was still filled with the unique smell of perfume.
He thought for a while, raised his hand and pushed a chess piece forward on the chess piece beside him.
Elizabeth heard the sound of chess and turned to look at Lin Nian. She found that Lin Nian was only staring at the chessboard. She paused and raised her hand to move the chess pieces casually.