Chapter 68 Gunpowder
The beaded ceiling headlights shine with gentle glow. In the dining room, cups and cups on the table are clamoring in the sound of smoke and hot food emits the cooking fragrance. The voices of water and water water are chatting and chatting create a warm atmosphere.
If you press the pause button of time at this time and shuttle between the people in each dining table with brown and red wine cups, you can probably see a modern Ukiyo-e-like appearance.
People handed each other wine glasses, whispering each other, passionate, quiet and worrying alone, excited and involuntarily, or looked puzzled and confused, or looked a little disobedient, or were nervous and pinched the wine glass, chasing the back of the dining table. Some were like being on pins and needles, cramped and uneasy, or unbelievable and incredible.
And all the images of such sentient beings are like carved with swords and pens, which are mostly triggered by the sudden arrival of the woman.
It's like a person in his own world, with his own circle of friends, friends and family, fixed in a parallel line, like the quiet water in the lake, calm enough to be without a trace of turbulence. However, at this time, a thing that does not belong to his world breaks into such a quiet lake, breaking the original balance, and causing ripples and waves, which are enough to cause the shattered flowers and green grass on the shore to suffer. This unreality that shatters reality and thickly covers the entire dinner.
Let the people who usually talk about the market, the nobles, the star district council, and the daily life of each person lose their souls and strength in their words, as if empty and floating on the water like a rootless duckweed. Of course, there are still many people discussing the big and small things happening around them recently at the dining table. It seems that only in this way can they feel that they are still in reality. The dinner I just saw is not an illusion of their own.
At this moment, what made most people feel unreal is that on the dining table of the host family banquet, the woman who smiled and frowned softly was the source of this sense of collapse in the world view.
She just sat there, but just sitting there made people feel like a white hole in the universe. The aura emitted from where she was directly destroyed and collapsed all real things from all directions, forming an unreal and illusory world.
"...I have watched the documentary you participated in filming more than once... The most unforgettable thing is the film "Zhiyuan Star" about the history of great immigration. At that time, you were wearing white veil, like a goddess who came to the world, traveling through every magnificent galaxy, telling the great voyage of mankind to open up the interstellar world, and finally saying, "Courage will not be erased, dreams have never been buried. Our past, present, and future journeys will always be stars and sea..." At the end of this sentence, you don't know that I almost shed tears many times at that time..."
It was obvious that Lin Hao, who was suppressing the ups and downs of his heart, told the woman who was having a meal at the same table that was unreal. His thin lips, accompanied by a violent desire to tell the story, trembling in the rapid intercourse.
Lin Hao suddenly felt pain and grinned, raised his head and looked at Lin Wei who had just kicked him hard under the table. The latter was sitting directly opposite Xia Ying in a small dress, holding a wine glass in his hand, showing a beautiful and charming smile at Xia Ying, "Sorry, my brother is sometimes very inappropriate, forgot his reserve, which makes you laugh."
"It doesn't matter. I like to discuss my works with people. Sometimes I often get a lot of useful suggestions." Xia Ying smiled.
Lin Hao looked at Xia Ying fiercely, and looked excited and said flattered, "Miss Xia Ying, I didn't expect you to like to get along with me and discuss. If you communicate with me in depth, you will definitely find that I don't look good on the outside, but in fact it has a lot of connotations and can help you give more opinions... And I like to give people the most advice, and they all say that my insights are very unique..."
Lin Wei finally couldn't help kicking him again, and this time she gave him a blank look, "Can you calm down? They are just politeness, what unique insights can you put forward?"
Earl Lin Weiyu coughed a few times, and even Ning Qing couldn't help but glared at Lin Hao a few more times. This feeling of feeling as if he had lost his etiquette and was at a loss became stronger and stronger.
Xia Ying picked up the clear water in front of her and took a sip, looked at Lin Hai, and smiled and said nothing. She seemed to avoid the embarrassment in front of her.
Lin Wei, who was sitting opposite her, couldn't help but admire the beauty of this woman even with her eyes. A slim little dress that she liked very much. The slim dress, exposed on the outside, was very cute. The one that could show her unique temperament was the red hair hanging down her shoulders, which was so vivid, as if it was a metaphor for her steep and beautiful appearance, her fiery-like personality.
But with the woman's sixth sense intuition, Xia Ying didn't understand where the red-haired woman in front of her, the adopted daughter of the Earl's family on the Riverside Star, her faint hostility towards her and her coldness in her face came from?
Of course, even though Xia Ying likes the other person's appearance and temperament very much, she will never show any weakness when the other person shows such a slight hostility towards her.
So when Lin Wei looked at her quietly, she still showed a decent aura, which made even Lin Wei's self-reliable coldness and arrogance pale in front of her and was powerless.
Her arrival was not sharp at all, nor was it unattainable. On the contrary, she only wore a casual sweater jacket when she arrived. She took off her coat when she was dining, and she was wearing a red and black plaid cotton shirt inside. She was clean and gentle, just like a girl next door, who was participating in a family gathering of friends.
But just this is enough to destroy.
She suddenly pouted, held the knife in her hand and poked the bread on the plate playfully, and whispered to Lin Hai, "Can you help me cut this piece of bread? It's very hard."
At this moment, Lin Hai could see the eyes of the people who were originally talking to each other on the dining table next door, as if they had agreed to discuss and agree, as if the Ministry of Defense's radar arrays that searched the universe's sky to search for abnormal electromagnetic pulses, locked the bread together, and then moved from the bread to him.
Nima Lin Jiang and Lin Delun, two sons of Lin Yuanshan, only one word appeared in his mind at this moment. She actually asked him to cut bread for her? And he actually cut bread for her. Did she know that if she spoke casually, at this moment, there would be many people around her with cold-glowed table knifes and willing to pounce on her to cut bread for her. Why is it Lin Hai?
Xia Ying said these words very quietly, just in the area between Lin Hai and her, with a private conversation.
However, at this moment, the countess Ning Qing immediately looked cold, "Donnahai"
Donaldhai, the butler waiting outside the dining table, immediately walked forward and came to Ning Qing to bend down, "Madam,
"If the kitchen people change to softer bread, they can't make it soft and soft at once. I'll ask if their chef's license really needs to be re-examined?"
"Yes, madam" Donnahai turned around and wanted to leave.
"No need." Lin Hai's voice came, and then his knife and fork came to the plate that was also trying to stop Xia Ying. He took the hard bread on the plate in front of him, held the bread with his left hand and cut the bread with his right hand. The action was so detailed and quick, just like he was controlling the mecha, without any unstable fluctuations. Each knife cut a piece of bread neatly, and even the bread crumbs splashed very little.
During this process, Lin Hai raised his head from time to time and could see Xia Ying staring at him. So he continued to bury his head, cut a whole piece of bread into pieces, and even the air emitted a smell of wheat that was secretive.
When I looked at some people here at the dinner, I felt that Lin Hai was not cutting bread, but more like their heart, liver, spleen, and lungs. Lin Hai used a sharp and cold knife to cut and saw, cut and peel, and the slag was splattered and blood was dripping.
Looking at Xia Ying's gentle gaze at Lin Hai, looking at Lin Hai's neat and precise way with the knife and fork in his hand, and meticulous and careful. That was Lin Hai that Lin Wei had never seen or had observed carefully before. But at this moment, his meticulousness in doing things was taken into her eyes every bit.
For some reason, looking at Lin Hai's actions and looking at Xia Ying leaning on the side, this tacit understanding scene made Lin Wei's heart suddenly twitch like she had never seen before. It was like an invisible hand pinching her deep in her chest.
Lin Wei's pupils suddenly converged and she spoke here, "Miss Xia Ying, I'm very curious, how did people like you... know Lin Hai?"
The voices of the audience suddenly disappeared. I don’t know how many people pricked up their ears like those rabbits in the Empire at this moment. The encounter between the Imperial idol and an illegitimate son of an earl noble is not an exaggeration to describe it as bizarre and absurd.
"Do you still remember the accident on the New South Star Seagull passenger ship?" Xia Ying raised her head and said.
"Is it the passenger ship in the New South Star Pirate Incident?"
“It is said to be a mechanical failure?”
"Some people say it was an attack by air pirates, but thankfully, the ship was finally safe."
"Ms. Xia Ying was on the boat at that time and must have been frightened. We saw the report in the media newspaper afterwards."
Some men and women have already spoken out.
"Yes." Xia Ying nodded to everyone, then looked at Lin Hai meaningfully, "He saved me under that situation... so we met like that."
The audience fell into a silence of gasping for a breath.
The Count Lin Wei, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke, "...Lin Hai, why didn't you mention this matter at that time?"
At this moment, everyone looked at Lin Hai in front of them, and there was only an inexplicable chill. How many secrets did this illegitimate son... have left him? Since they met Lin Hai, their hearts have gradually begun to feel bad.
"You have never mentioned it to us." Lin Hao looked at Lin Hai, his eyes trembling and a hint of unforgivable, and he was a little emotionally excited. "So every time you see me watching her shows in the manor and watching some of her documentaries, you never intend to tell me. Although you have no reason to tell me, I am like a fool from beginning to end? I don't know that you have known her in New Nanxing?"
While Lin Hai was silent, Xia Ying smiled and said, "This is what I asked. You know, when I escaped, I was in chaos and I was ugly, and Lin Hai saw it... If he didn't keep it secret, it might have some impact on me. So this is what I asked."
Lin Wei, who had some reproach before, nodded to Lin Hai again, "You have done a good job in keeping the reputation of your friends confidential."
The people around finally understood the whole process. Despite the drama, even novels and dramas could not be summarized. An accidental trip to an illegitimate child who disrespects family rules actually met an imperial idol on a wrecked passenger ship.
So we met each other and thus evolved to the following situation today.
However, even a fool can see that the relationship between this imperial idol and the illegitimate son of the Count is extraordinary.
"I see."
Lin Wei nodded, and an unusual red tide appeared under the coldness that could not be melted on her face. "It is his luck that Lin Hai can have a very famous friend like you... I think he probably never told you that after he graduated from Qingyuan College... our engagement?"
Her beautiful eyes under her red hair were as bright and evil as an ancient witch under the light and shadow. "At that time, I hope you can attend...that will be a great honor for us."
Now the whole meal is so silent.
Even the space battlefield where starships and giant cannons are bombarded, they are not as good as the smoke of gunpowder at this moment.
Is it going to be the New Year's Eve? Brothers and sisters, the year 2013 is about to pass, no matter what. 14 years are close, and any unhappiness, sadness and depression in the past year hopes to go through this and go with the wind. In the new year, we must face it better
In today's chapter, thank you for your understanding of my leave. Although not everyone understands me, thank you for your understanding of me. This is the critical moment of the plot. I don't want to make up for it simply to make up for it. I hope to write this key plot more refined and better. In this way, the development of the whole book will be smoother in the future. In addition, my baby has been quarreling lately, and I fall asleep almost every day at five or six o'clock, so I want to ask for leave. I have no state and will never force myself to write these things. I just don't want to write this critical turning point badly.
I hope you are worthy of your waiting.
Chapter completed!