Del went out. He didn't turn off the indoor lights.
Lin Sirer got up from the bed with difficulty. When the cat jumped out of the window just now, a surprising thought came into her mind.
This American California Curl cat suddenly became Lin Sir's last glimmer of hope.
Climbing out of bed, Lin Sirer could barely stand on the ground. But she forced herself to hold on.
Holding on to the wall, she pulled out half a piece of paper from a pile of debris in the corner. Then, she bit her finger and wrote a line of English with blood, "Save me! Don't call the police, please call China -"
, and noted two phone numbers.
After she finished these things, she returned to bed, took off the lavender gemstone necklace around her neck, rolled the piece of paper around the necklace, stuffed it under the sheets and hid it, and then passed out...
I don't know when, when Lin Sirer was confused and had not fully regained consciousness, she heard someone talking in front of the bed.
"Colini, I think Madam is afraid that she may not be able to survive. Do you need to be sent to the hospital?"
"You are so confused, Del! Didn't Mr. Lu already give the order to let her die in this basement!"
"I thought Madam had eaten a lot in the past two days and might be able to hold on for a while. Look here, for today's dinner, she asked me to prepare a large portion of foie gras!"
"That's not surprising. It might be a reflection of her past. Humph, she probably doesn't want to be a starving ghost!"
"What should we do now?"
"Ignore her. Mr. Lu is still in New York and will return to Sanlan the day after tomorrow. You really shouldn't have called me here!"
"Colliny, I'm still very scared. What should I do if Madam ends up in these two days?"
"Del, you don't look like a man! Turn off the lights and let's leave. Also, even if she dies tonight, please don't call me to wake me up again!"
The room became quiet.
In the darkness, Lin Sirer struggled to open her eyes. She felt from the conversation between Del and Corini just now that her time was really running out, and this sad life was about to come to an end, and soon...
It's time to take a final bow and step down.
However, Lin Sirer was really unwilling to die like this. Such a death was meaningless to her.
She looked toward the ground window, eager for the cat to appear.
This California Curl cat is the last pillar of Lin Sirer’s life.
She was very worried that the cat would be trapped in the house by his owner.
Finally, Lin Sirer's anxiety suddenly squealed, and hope ignited in her heart. She tightened her grip on the necklace wrapped with paper under the bed sheet.
The Californian Curl seemed to understand Lin Sir's thoughts very well. He did not immediately rush to the large plate of foie gras, but quickly jumped onto Lin Sir's bed and gently licked her hair and face with his tongue.
Licking it here and there, showing off your coquettishness.
Lin Sirer's breathing became tense and rapid. She wrapped the gem necklace around the curly-eared cat's neck, and used its long fur to cover the paper tightly.
The curly-eared cat cooed in its throat, and it was unclear whether it was expressing comfort and sympathy for Lin Sirer, or whether it was coquettishly teasing her at an inappropriate time.
When Lin Sirer confirmed that the necklace and the piece of paper would not be easily lost, she hugged the California curly cat and kissed it on the face several times before reluctantly letting it go. The cat sensiblely stopped disturbing it.
She, with a sufficient sense of accomplishment, began to devour the foie gras with satisfaction.
When she saw the California Curl cat disappearing from the ground window, Lin Sirer grabbed the whiskey and drank most of the bottle.
Perhaps due to drunken paralysis or lack of physical strength, the bottle slipped from her hand and fell to the floor and broke into pieces.
…
Mrs. Lin was at home alone at night. She had just made dinner at around seven o'clock. Within ten minutes, she answered several calls from the same person in succession.
She was puzzled and uneasy.
Even when a mouse took the opportunity to sneak into the kitchen, she didn't take it seriously.
The other party was a foreign man with a hoarse voice. Because of the language barrier, Mrs. Lin could only hear the other party yelling and saying something. She didn't understand a word and could only keep talking on the phone in a hurry.
Her husband, Professor Lindson, was dispatched by the Ministry of Education and went to Europe for academic exchange a few days ago. It will take a while before he can return to China.
Mrs. Lin sat blankly at the dining table and thought for a long time, still unable to decide what the foreign man wanted to say on the phone. She used to work as a librarian at the school library of Beijing University and has been retired for more than two years. Her knowledge of English conversation is limited to
"HELL0", "YES", "NO", "THANK YOU".
The call came from abroad, which made her very worried about two things.
First, her husband, Lindson, had undergone heart bypass surgery two years ago. This time, he was going to several European countries for academic exchanges. During the multi-day trip, she was very afraid of Professor Lin's physical accident; second, she was very afraid of Professor Lin's physical accident.
It was her daughter Lin Sirer. Since she left the capital and returned to the United States after the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, she has had no news and not even a single phone call for more than half a year.
During the Spring Festival, Lin Dexun kept calling his daughter's home in Sanlan, and finally managed to get through to Lu Zhichao. The son-in-law told the couple that Lin Sirer had taken his granddaughter Yashi to South America and expected to stay there.
For several months.
Although the couple was skeptical about Lu Zhichao's statement, they had no choice but to do anything about it. Ever since they learned that Lu Zhichao had an affair with the North Hollywood actress named Fan Lizhi, it was actually hard for the Lindsons to trust this person who was far away across the ocean.
son in law.
Originally, Lin Sirer was angry with Lu Zhichao and left the United States and chose to stay in China to work. The Lindsons could bear it mentally.
However, ever since they heard that Hua Nianping had suddenly divorced, and Lin Sirer had gone to Huaishang to meet him several times, they had become a little bit uncontrollable, and were very worried that they had finally broken up the family that they had tried so hard and tried so hard to break up.
For your first love, you will get back together again.
Fortunately, Lu Zhichao's parents, General Lu and his wife, came several times to apologize for their son's affair.
Lin Sirer's uncle, who worked in the General Staff, was also entrusted by General Lu to exert influence on her sister and brother-in-law.
He repeatedly persuaded the Lin Dexun couple that the reason why Lu Zhichao fell in love with someone else was because Lin Sirer had never taken her marriage to Lu Zhichao seriously and had never given up her love for Hua Nianping.
First love, so in the final analysis it is still the responsibility of my niece.
When it was confirmed that their son-in-law had renounced his relationship with Fan Lizhi and was determined to change his past, the Lindsons understood their righteousness and tried their best to persuade Lin Sirer to return to the United States as soon as possible for the sake of her young daughter and reconcile with Lu Zhichao.
As far as the family reputation in the minds of the Lindsons is concerned, if Lin Sirer can forgive Lu Zhichao's mistakes and endure the humiliation and continue to live a stable life with the Lu family's son-in-law who lives overseas, it is far better than if she rekindles her old relationship and ends up with Lu Zhichao.
Lu Zhichao completely parted ways and then remarried Hua Nianping.
They could tolerate Lu Zhichao's betrayal of Lin Sirer's marriage, but they could not tolerate Lin Sirer and Hua Nianping coming together again and becoming a laughing stock on the Peking University campus.