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Wen Tingli went to her room to put her things down, and when she came out, she saw Lu Shicheng still standing quietly at the door.

She smiled, and quickly dragged Lu Shicheng to the table, and unscrewed the bottle of medicine that Kuang Zhilin gave her: "Let me see your arm."

[Hasn’t the car been medicated? ]

Despite this, Lu Shicheng immediately rolled up his shirt sleeves to show her.

Wen Tingli was indeed very distressed, and applied medicine to him carefully: "I heard that burns are different from other wounds. The heat seeps into the inner layer of the skin little by little. If you don't apply medicine a few more times tonight, blisters will probably appear tomorrow."

Mrs. Zhou brought out the tea and saw this scene. Her eyes suddenly became meaningful and she asked with a smile, "What happened to Mr. Lu?"

"He was scalded by the tea."

"Oh, applying medicine alone won't work for burns! You have to rinse with cold water. Don't rush, or it will get worse. I'll fetch some water from the well at the back."

Wen Tingli didn't dare to continue applying the medicine, but Lu Shicheng didn't think it was necessary to mobilize a large force, so he stood up and tried to stop Mrs. Zhou. Wen Tingli stopped him: "Mrs. Zhou is right. Well water is cooler than tap water. Applying it will heal faster."

Mrs. Zhou had already gone out like a gust of wind, carrying a tin bucket.

As a result, Wen Tingli and Lu Shicheng were the only ones left in the living room.

Wen Tingli looked at Lu Shicheng. Although it was not his first time here, he was carried in by her and Li Chengying in a coma last time. But tonight, he was sober and sitting face to face with her in the living room of her house.

She felt a little bit at a loss as to what to do, and so was much quieter than usual.

Lu Shicheng waited for her curiously, and seeing that she had no intention of speaking, he picked up the teacup beside him, looked at her and took a sip, then turned around and looked around the living room.

He looked very carefully, as if he wanted to take a good look at every corner of the room again.

Wen Tingli followed his gaze as she looked around. In order to save electricity, there was only a 50-light bulb hanging above the living room. Unlike Lu Mansion, every hall was hung with a huge crystal chandelier. Of course, there were no roses, lilies and tulips that were everywhere in Lu Mansion. There were not even a few decent vases in the entire space.

However, Lu Shicheng liked everything here. He saw a flower container on the coffee table. It was probably made by her using the milk bottle left over by Xiao Taozi. It was unique in style and practical.

Not only this vase, but every corner of her house is decorated very elegantly. The sofa surface is covered with a newly made cardamom green cloth, and the curtains are also the same color. Matching with the plain furniture, it is not only not vulgar, but also has a fresh and lovely atmosphere.

Newspapers were neatly stored on the bookshelf next to the coffee table, and even Xiao Taozi's toys had a special wooden shelf. There were many things, but it was not messy at all.

Every corner of this place is so warm and lovely, unlike Lu Mansion, which is cold and lifeless.

He just kept looking and thinking like that, which made Wen Tingli feel a little embarrassed.

"I'm going to get you something to eat."

She slipped into the kitchen and soon came out with a plate of cakes. This time Lu Shicheng stopped looking around the living room, but began to study the tea bowl in his hand.

Wen Tingli smiled. How come this man was as curious about everything about her as Xiao Taozi tonight? She stepped forward to introduce him:
"Isn't it beautiful? I bought this cup from a Russian teacher a few years ago. He was a foreign professor specially appointed by Xiude Girls' Middle School. He was originally a Russian aristocrat, but was forced to go into exile because he was not tolerated by the new government. These are all royal porcelains collected by his family. Normally, he would not easily take them out to exchange for money. Seeing that I really liked them, he reluctantly gave them to me. This cup is only sold to me for two dollars. Isn't it a good deal? Look, there is also the family title bestowed by the Tsar on my teacher at the bottom."

She excitedly turned the saucer over to show Lu Shicheng the line of Russian text at the bottom.

Lu Shicheng smiled slightly when he saw the line of words.

Wen Tingli thought that he didn't know Russian like her, so she read it to him.

"Dear Prince Ivanov, Tsar Nicholas II bestows upon you the highest honor."

After hearing Wen Tingli's translation, Lu Shicheng's smile turned into a muffled laugh, and he couldn't stop laughing.

Wen Tingli was confused: "What's wrong?"

Lu Shicheng held back his laughter, poured some tea on the table and started writing stroke by stroke.

[Josephine porcelain workshop in St. Petersburg, two rubles per piece. ]

Wen Tingli was stunned.

"You mean, this line of words actually means this?"

Lu Shicheng nodded.

Wen Tingli was so angry that she fell backwards.

"This liar! I'm going to write to Xiu De to expose him!"

She was about to throw the cup into the dustpan in anger, but Lu Shicheng stopped her.

[After this throw, there will be nothing left of your two dollars. ]

Wen Tingli put the cup back on the table angrily. She was only fifteen years old that year. She was young and naive and everything she saw was new to her.

Looking at Lu Shicheng again, there was actually a smile on his face. She stared at him for a while and couldn't help laughing herself.

Lu Shicheng took out the pen she gave him from his shirt pocket, wrote a line on the notebook and handed it to her.

"what is this?"

【The numbers one to ten in Russian. 】

Wen Tingli's heart skipped a beat.

Lu Shicheng wrote it again at a very slow speed.

Wen Tingli bit her lip and smiled: "Are these the only digits? It seems that they are not enough to deal with scammers. How do you write 'give me back my money'?"

Lu Shicheng wrote it for her to see.

"What did the old man say? 'Old man, give me back my money!' Wen Tingli became more and more excited as she spoke, "And 'shameless', how do you say 'shameless'?"

In fact, Lu Shicheng only knew some basic Russian. As they wrote, he used the Russian words for "fool" or "liar" to teach her. Wen Tingli laughed the whole time. Every time she learned a sentence, it was as if she was scolding the liar herself. It was as satisfying as she could be.

Unconsciously, the fire in her heart had dissipated, and she sighed comfortably: "I won't curse anymore, I want to learn other words. How do I write this sentence, 'Miss Wen is the most beautiful, the most sincere, and the most lovely'?" Lu Shicheng raised his eyes to look at her, and Wen Tingli's ears felt a little hot.

Whenever Lu Shicheng looked at people calmly like this, it was as if there was a black magnet in his eyes that firmly attracted people.

Wen Tingli deliberately turned her face to the other side, and saw him pick up the pen again from the corner of her eye. She quickly covered her eyes with her hands. After a while, she slowly glanced down through the gaps between her fingers, and saw three lines of words.

The line above was the Russian sentence she asked him to write, and the handwriting was extremely neat and beautiful.

There is a line of Chinese characters below.

[That night I went to Taotaoju to look for you, but unfortunately I was ambushed on the way, so I didn’t make it. ]

Wen Tingli slowly took her hands off her face. Her expression was completely still, but everyone could see that her whole face was glowing.

She was quite stubborn about this matter, and when she finally saw the answer, her surprise and joy were almost indescribable.

He kept the appointment, and before she could save his life, he rushed to Taotaoju to keep her appointment.

At the very bottom are the four shortest words.

【I like you. 】

Her heart was pounding and everything around her seemed to disappear in an instant. The only sentence in her sight was this. The words kept jumping back and forth on the paper, making her eyes dizzy and her head feel dizzy.

After staring for a while, she turned her eyes to the words "Miss Wen is the most beautiful, the most sincere and the most lovely" written in Russian, and the words "Taotao Ju" in the middle, scanning back and forth.

After watching the whole thing, she couldn't help but hold her hot cheeks and smile.

He is so sweet and genuine.

This taste is like a bag of sugar that she stole when she was a child, without any sourness or astringency, just pure sweetness. It seems inappropriate to describe a man as "sweet", but now she can't think of any other words to describe Lu Shicheng. Now Lu Shicheng is like a candy, silently emitting a sweet fragrance.

She was a little restless and said to the "candy" in front of her.

"Just wait for me."

Candy looked at her and nodded.

Wen Tingli's mood was like a kite in spring, fluttering up. She went back to her room and took out a small box from the closet. She opened it and found a stack of snow-white silk handkerchiefs inside. Under each handkerchief was embroidered her name abbreviation: wtl.

She begged her mother to embroider this for her when she first entered middle school. With this small mark, she no longer had to worry about confusing her handkerchief with others at school.

She came out holding a box of handkerchiefs, and without saying anything, she silently took out the top handkerchief and wrapped it around his wrist, and deliberately put the side embroidered with the three words "wtl" inside.

Lu Shicheng's eyes flickered slightly, but he said nothing. After she had wrapped it for him, he gently wrapped his other hand around the handkerchief, showing his undisguised love for her.

Wen Tingli lowered her eyes and smiled. She liked this silent and firm expression of emotion. At this moment, the sound of a car came from downstairs. She and Lu Shicheng looked at each other, got up and looked at the window. It turned out that the young couple surnamed Liu from opposite door came back from dancing. Mrs. Liu was wearing a western dance dress and a sweater on her arm, and Mr. Liu was busy paying the driver of the car dealership.

She turned back and whispered to Lu Shicheng, "It's the neighbor next door who's back."

They looked at the western clock on the wall at the same time. It was almost twelve o'clock without realizing it. She felt a little reluctant, but it would not be appropriate to stay any longer. When she heard the sound of the door closing from the house opposite, he also got up.

Mrs. Zhou happened to come back, and Lu Shicheng took the bucket from her hand. Mrs. Zhou said hurriedly, "Mr. Lu, you are always so polite. Don't forget that your arm is still injured. Don't move. Yes, it's a little late, but it doesn't matter. Please sit for a while. Hey, are you leaving now? Mr. Lu, you are really too--"

He was so considerate of her that Wen Tingli understood everything. It was inconvenient to send him downstairs, so she simply ran through the living room to the master bedroom. After entering the room, she opened the window, rolled her hands around her mouth into a trumpet shape and whispered, "Mr. Lu."

He couldn't have heard such a small sound, but perhaps there really is telepathy in this world, as Lu Shicheng happened to stop on the steps and looked back.

He found the windowsill of Wen Tingli's room at a glance and gave her a knowing smile.

Seeing that Wen Tingli seemed to want to say something to him, he glanced at the window of Liu's house, and suddenly put his index finger on his lips, signaling her not to speak.

Wen Tingli guessed that someone was coming to Liu's window.

She had no choice but to point at her arm at Lu Shicheng without saying a word.

Lu Shicheng lowered his eyebrows to look at his burned arm, then raised his eyes and nodded to her tacitly.

But he still didn't leave, just looked up at her on the steps.

Wen Tingli's heart moved, and she made a "wait for me" gesture to him, turned back to the dressing table, and gently opened the gorgeous pink enamel dressing box.

In the past, she would never have accepted such an expensive gift from anyone, but tonight, everything was different. She took out the necklace from the jewelry box, put it on carefully in front of the mirror, then walked to the window sill and leaned her upper body out to show him.

Lu Shicheng's gaze did not linger on the dazzling necklace, but slowly moved up and fell on her face.

Did she know that no matter how beautiful the jewelry was, it was not even one-tenth as beautiful and brilliant as she was? Under the moonlight, she was as beautiful as a fairy.

His heart was pounding, and she stared at him for a long time.

All night long, his heart was filled with joy and satisfaction.

So this is what it feels like to sink. I wish time could stop, stay at this incredibly wonderful moment.

I don’t know how long it was before Mrs. Zhou came downstairs holding a lantern.

"Mr. Lu, this place is too dark, watch your step."

He had no choice but to withdraw his gaze from her face.

Upstairs, Wen Tingli dodged and retreated, only to hear Mrs. Zhou muttering something downstairs. After a while, the sound of a car driving away was heard outside the window.

When I returned to the window, Lu Shicheng had already left.

Wen Tingli looked towards the alley with joy, her mood could not calm down. This was a night of extraordinary significance, and two hearts could be so close to each other. She stroked the necklace on her neck, lowered her head and savored the memory. She stood in front of the window for a long time before she slowly returned to the room, lay back on the bed, and smiled sweetly at the ceiling.

(End of this chapter)