The unique smell of the morning mixed with the fishy smell of the sea from the harbor, filtered in through the window, blew open the window covering, and floated into the living room of the detective agency.
Oliver huddled in a corner of the sofa, shaking all over.
"He is Oliver, my companion, and Qiaoqiao's brother." Lu Li introduced.
"Hello, I'm Anna." Anna held up her skirt and bowed slightly to show aristocratic etiquette.
Anna still maintained a certain degree of reserve in front of strangers she met for the first time. Of course, except for Lu Li.
"嘘嘚嘚嘚嘚..."
Oliver shook even more violently, his cheeks trembling.
He turned his head stiffly, not daring to look at Anna, and looked at Lu Li with help in his eyes.
Lu Li ignored Oliver's plea for help and continued to introduce: "Anna, my family."
It was Anna who panicked, and her fair and illusory cheeks turned red like cooked shrimps, turning into afterimages and escaping into the oil painting, solidifying and fading, leaving behind a silhouette of the detective agency.
Anna's departure made Oliver feel less stressed. He carefully glanced at the portrait with his peripheral vision: "Boss, I am touched by your heart-shaking love, but as an ordinary person, I wish you well but am not suitable to participate in it..."
Because the time he spent with Lu Li was still short, Oliver was even more determined to back out.
At this time, they had not yet experienced their later friendship.
Lu Li remained calm and allowed Oliver to leave.
"Uh... No, boss, sir, how do you know my sister?" Oliver asked again with worry.
"You told me."
"I told you...?" Oliver couldn't remember when, so he had to bite the bullet and said: "My sister just wants to live a peaceful life..."
"I won't disturb her."
Oliver hoped that Lu Li would keep his word. But the inertia of growing up in the slums and at the bottom of society made him think that his sister should be more careful recently...
Oliver tiptoed like a monkey back to the door.
click
"Did you know that Wiener's ice-free port?"
When he opened the door, he heard the calm words of the mysterious former boss.
"Uh...what? I know, it's in the northern part of the Main Familiar Continent, right?"
"It will be the center of human civilization in the future, with more opportunities and safer places."
"I'll consider it."
With this speculative understanding of this sentence in mind, Oliver left the detective agency completely.
"He left."
After the detective agency regained its tranquility, Lu Li looked at the oil painting again.
The distinct back is clearly separated from the mottled oil painting.
"It has nothing to do with him..."
Anna's voice sounded in the oil painting.
"Then do you need me to leave?"
Lu Li's "slowness" made Anna unbearable, so she floated out and shouted: "I think we are developing too fast!"
"We haven't gone out on a date yet, we haven't met both parents yet, and we haven't exchanged love tokens yet."
Anna's cheeks became redder and redder as she spoke, like a young girl in love.
Then Anna saw Lu Li tightening his loose tie, picking up the coat on the hanger, putting it on and looking at her.
"Now."
…
Wow wow wow
The waves in the distance are beating against the rocks day and night.
The gentle tide caressed the light brown sand.
Away from the hustle and bustle of the streets and ports, children picking up conch shells in the distant shoals are walking in the tranquility composed of the foot of the long withered woods and the beach bay. They are getting further and further away from the horse-drawn carriage parked on the street behind them.
Seabirds were circling low in the sky, and a poster was swept by the wind and fell to my feet.
[Belfast, the place closest to the ocean and prosperity]
The clear eyes seemed to be radiating light, with surprise: "How do you know I like the beach?"
"You told me."
"Well..."
Anna, who had a weird look on her face, wanted to say something, and soon she was immersed in the vastness and beauty of the bay.
"It's so beautiful...if the plants were growing, there were no clouds, and the sun was shining...perhaps it would be more beautiful than the beach in the painting."
"There will be a day like this."
It's a pity that Anna could no longer see it in person at that time.
Two figures stand on the uninhabited beach. Even if people look at them from a distance, it is difficult to detect that one of the silhouettes is illusory and unreal.
"When we were kids?"
"What?"
"We met when we were very young, and you remembered me then..." Anna did not imagine what happened later. "The grown-up boy returned to Himfast and found that his beloved was dead. He cried at her grave, and then suddenly
One day he heard that the gallery was haunted, and the boy with hope came to the gallery, and then the prince greeted his princess and said "".
"No."
Beautiful imaginations burst like bubbles.
"But I think you know me and know a lot about me..." Anna did not give up.
"We met in the future."
Anna's cheeks were slightly red, which she interpreted as some kind of love words. The romance novels and poems she dabbled in did not involve the themes of "time" and "rebirth", so she could not understand what it meant to be a lover who returned from the future.
Soon, Anna's attention returned from the sea view. She felt that the two of them were like a couple admiring the scenery in an oil painting, but Lu Li didn't seem to be interested in the vast bay, and was looking around at the street behind him.
"Don't you like the view?"
"The most beautiful scenery is already around you."
Lu Li didn't realize the power of his calm explanation, and his black eyes stared at the sewer under the embankment.
"I...I, let's go back..."
"Um."
Side by side, the thoughtful Lu Li and the shy Anna returned to the coastal street.
Occasionally, the swaying illusory white palm and Lu Li's hanging hand came close to each other, overlapped, and then passed through each other.
After returning to the carriage, Lu Li did not return to the Sailor Street, but drove along the coastal streets toward the port, where he bought a pen and some pieces of writing paper from a street grocery store.
Writing slowly amidst the bumps of the carriage on the bluestone road.
Anna secretly peeked out of the carriage and could barely identify the most repeated words on the two pieces of paper: "Marcus Richard Sewer Child" and "A Door Curse". Driving through the bustling port streets, Lu Li held on to the reins.
"Stay in the carriage and wait for me."
Lu Li said, walking towards a shop in the distance called [Love and Love Andres Brothers Underground Pipe Repair Station].
"Give the letter to Tesla."
After giving the two letters to Brother Anres or Brother Behind the Counter, Lu Li left the maintenance station, returned to the carriage and continued on his journey.
Still not the direction of Sailor Street.
On the edge of the affluent area, the carriage stopped in front of a single-family house with white walls.
"wait for me."
Lu Li said, pushing the door open and walking into Hades' detective agency.
jingle bell jingle bell
The wind chimes were swaying crisply as Lu Li walked through the living room like a closed tavern and came to the counter. He put 500 shillings on the table.
"A psychic gun, 10 bullets."
Hades grinned, his gold teeth shining darkly under the oil lamp: "This is not enough, my friend."
"It's cheaper with merchants," Lu Li said calmly.
Hades stared at Lu Li for a few seconds, confirming that he was a colleague and not a fat sheep, and then reached out and scratched the shilling off the table.