If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon.

It was raining continuously. There was a parasol in the small garden outside the cafe on the roadside in the CBD. The porcelain tableware on the small white round table under the umbrella was floating with some rainwater blown in by the wind. The entire table was wet with irregular water. The film reflected the gardenia in a corner of the garden. The white petals swayed in the raindrops, shaking off the fragrance of the flowers in the gusts of wind and rain.

Lin Nian didn't know why girls always liked to meet in coffee shops.

Brown German beer bottles are placed on the wooden stools outside the huge floor-to-ceiling window. Three or two well-built potted plants are placed at the entrance of the store deep in the garden. A wooden sign for business is hung on the door. Through the door glass, you can see that the front desk is carefully cleaning. Female boss holding coffee cup on shelf.

He actually doesn't like coffee shops that are full of petty bourgeois sentiments, not because of the decoration and atmosphere, but because of the price. A glass of Sprite mixed with lemon and ice usually costs upwards of thirty yuan here. He doesn't often go to these places and doesn't quite understand that thirty yuan is not Sprite money, but money to buy a seat, so he always feels like he's been charged an IQ tax, which makes him indifferent to places like coffee shops. feel.

But Su Xiaoqiang doesn't seem like someone who cares about money. She never cared about these external things when she was in high school. On her birthday, a five-layer super cake will be delivered to the class, and she insists on dragging Lin Nian along. Cut them together. If Lin Nian hadn't been unwilling, maybe the candles would have been blown out with him. After the cake, every student would have a free bucket for the whole family. He was so proud that he was speechless because his mouth was already stuffed with chicken legs and wings. .

Before he walked through the door of the coffee shop, Lin Nian saw the girl through the floor-to-ceiling glass window in the small garden. She was sitting by the window writing "person" in her palms and then swallowing it in her mouth. He was a little dazed watching this scene and didn't understand what the girl was doing. While he was in a daze, the little goddess behind the glass window also caught a glimpse of him. At this time, she was swallowing the word "person" written in her hand into her mouth. For a moment, A little embarrassed and even choked to the point of coughing?

"." Lin Nian half-raised his hand as a greeting and walked towards the glass door of the coffee shop. When the little goddess in the seat saw that the boy was gone, she immediately lay on the table and let out a very low-pitched cry of depression.

Pushing open the store door and ringing the bell in the corner, there was no welcome. Only the waiter and the boss nodded slightly. Lin Nian didn't hate this kind of welcoming spirit, which was polite and yet enthusiastic. In the space separated by the bookshelf and the cat climbing frame , he found where Su Xiaoqiang was sitting by the window.

Today, the little goddess is wearing a gray Dior dress. Only one side of the sloping shoulder is exposed, revealing most of her fair skin. She has a decorative bracelet on her wrist. She looks mature beyond her years. - There are a lot of clothes that have been hidden in Su Xiaoqiang's wardrobe for a long time. But because they are not easy to wear to school, they can only be worn when shopping in private. Today's occasion is perfect for her to dress up more boldly. Touching.

Lin Nian didn't know whether praising an 18-year-old girl for having the beauty of a 22-year-old was considered a straight man's statement, but he was smart enough to know that some words might be wrong, so it would be better not to say them, or to shorten them and only take the least offensive ones. Part: "This dress looks beautiful on you."

"Really?" The little goddess, who was a little embarrassed when she was discovered by chance because of her little act of swallowing herringbones, suddenly felt happy after Lin Nian said these words. She felt that spending two hours dressing up today still couldn't get rid of it. The sense of haste completely disappeared with these words.

Lin Nian took off his windbreaker when he walked in. He only had a white shirt on him. Because he was wearing a windbreaker, a few buttons were opened on the collar of the shirt to dissipate heat, exposing a bit of his collarbone. The little goddess's eyes were always drawn to it involuntarily, and again Worried that it seemed too weird, he lowered his head and stared at the empty table in front of him.

"Cappuccino, thank you." The waiter handed over the menu. Lin Nian flipped through it twice before making a decision, and then handed the menu to the little goddess' eyes.

"Same as him." After adjusting her mentality, the little goddess raised her head, and immediately met Lin Nian's serious gaze. The notes on embarrassing topics that she had made in her head before setting off suddenly became wet. As soon as I sat in front of me, I couldn't think of anything. My head was buzzing. I just felt that this scene was very good. I liked it very much and wanted to keep it going.

The two sat opposite each other for dozens of seconds, neither of them speaking. The rain outside the window made silver threads on the glass, and the water droplets kept crawling down the glass. The winding trajectory and the speed that was fast and slow were like cat's claws. Scratching in the heart makes people itchy. When the rain increases, a hundred cat paws will scratch at the same time, making people unable to sit still at all.

"Let's sit down for a while and rest before we get down to business. It's actually not the agreed time yet, so we'll have to be in a hurry when we come out early." Lin Nian said.

"Wouldn't it look weird if you don't say anything?" the little goddess whispered. Fortunately, it was raining again in the morning. There were no people in the coffee shop. Except for the waiter, there was only a young girl playing the piano in the corner, playing a song. It's called "caresse", a classical piano piece. It's very lyrical. If you knew the original meaning of its title, it would probably be more lyrical.

"The most comfortable relationship between people is not to talk all the time." Lin Nian said, "but to not talk to each other all the time, or to talk at any time."

Su Xiaoqiang was startled for a moment, and the hands that were placed on her knees to make fists were slowly released, and she couldn't help but burst out laughing. Lin Nian didn't ask her what she was laughing about, but just leaned her elbows on the wooden striped tabletop and gently supported her cheek. Bones looked sideways at her.

"I took notes before coming here." Su Xiaoqiang smiled for a while before saying.

"notes?"

"I'm afraid that it will be embarrassing not knowing what to say when drinking." Su Xiaoqiang said, "When I used to talk to those friends about the details of their dates, this was the most common surprise mentioned."

"Why do you feel awkward?" Lin Nian looked out the window at the pattering garden, "I think the most important thing about a date is that two people are together, not what they do together. Even if they don't do anything, they just sit and drink together all afternoon. Aren’t the things pretty good?”

Su Xiaoqiang trembled when she stopped breathing, and her breathing became unsteady. She knew that Lin Nian was simply talking about his own opinions, without much metaphorical meaning. But she couldn't help but tremble, and then When I realized it, it turned out that the boy sitting opposite me was never an idiot when it came to things like emotions, but simply that his ideas were contrary to too many people, or that the starting point was too high, and few people understood his ideas.

Two drinks were brought to the table by the waiter. It was only because of them that the coffee shop almost only revolved around them. Even the piano changed from lyrical to more lyrical.

This was probably the strangest and happiest coffee Su Xiaoqiang had ever had. If she were usually with other girls, they would have already started chatting, but the two of them sat for a long time without saying anything. She was just drinking, looking at the garden in the rain outside the window. Occasionally she glanced at the other person through the refraction of the window, and when she found that the other person was looking at her, she just smiled. She didn't have to say anything, and the other person wouldn't say anything either.

This process lasted for a long time, although in fact it was not that long. It was just a cup of coffee. After both of them finished drinking it, their whole bodies were filled with warmth. When they looked at each other again, the original tension had already disappeared. About this time Is this the first step in getting along with the boy across from you?

Su Xiaoqiang didn't know, but she only knew that she was already too far ahead of the girls who were on the same starting line with her. At least no one had the honor to finish a drink with this 'isolated' boy and listen to what he said. There are so many words that are never shared with others.

"Let's get down to business now." Lin Nian said, "Have you gained anything from what I troubled you to check?"

"Oh." Su Xiaoqiang woke up as if from a dream, and the strings of roses growing around the boy disappeared as she woke up. She finally returned to reality from the perspective of girls' comics. No wonder there are always girls' comics I like to draw so many flowers and plants around boys, not because boys carry a lot of flower fertilizer with them, but in the eyes of girls, no matter how they look at the boys they like, there will always be flowers blooming around them.

But once she got back to business, the little goddess found that Lin Nian's temperament and mood had changed. From the gentle and calm at the beginning, he turned into something as hard as metal with a cold light. Sitting in front of the coffee table, his body was straight and his eyes were filled with emotion. The rising rationality and calmness eliminated all the charm.

The little goddess made up her mind while taking the documents aside. If she really tricks this boy into bed in the future, she will definitely not let him do any work. Although serious men who do business are very handsome, Lin Nian's kind of thing doesn't matter if you are interested. If you get entangled with An Ran, you will probably be choked and pinned to the ground, asking you to wait until he is done with his work before going to find him. All of a sudden, your interest is gone.

"Chu Tianjiao, I asked someone to check this name. It doesn't seem to be an important person, right?" The little goddess took a blue folder and put it on the table and pushed it to Lin Nian.

"If I ask you to investigate Lu Tianming, will the speed of getting the information be much slower?"

"Maybe lunch will have to be postponed until the evening." Su Xiaoqiang hesitated, "Lu Tianming is referring to our local entrepreneur who is engaged in foreign trade, right? Our family seems to have cooperated with them, and we want to investigate what he is involved in." If there are too many, it may not be completely sorted out at one time.”

"That is to say, the amount of information in the latter is dozens or even a hundred times that of the former, which is why it is so difficult to investigate. However, if Chu Tianjiao's information reaches a certain limit, the investigation will be completed and compiled into documents within a few hours." Lin Nian He took the blue folder and said.

Su Xiaoqiang was also startled, because what Lin Nian said seemed to be the truth, but when he thought about it carefully, it seemed like he was talking nonsense. After all, why can the resume of an unknown person be compared with everything of a big entrepreneur? Perhaps the list of the latter's mistresses would be an inch taller than the life of an unknown person.

"Have you seen these files?" Lin Nian took the folder and the first document he saw after opening it was an application letter. Chu Tianjiao's name was clearly written in the place of the name. Next to him was a man with shaved hair. A one-inch photo of a middle-aged man with a slicked back that can be used to identify people.

"I've looked at some out of curiosity, but there's nothing noteworthy." Su Xiaoqiang said truthfully.

"Indeed, there is nothing eye-catching." Lin Nian read Chu Tianjiao's information and said softly, "But it is because of this ordinaryness that he seems to be particularly eye-catching to me."

An 'S' class driver who has been driving in this coastal city for decades and has become an average driver?

Judging from the fact that another 'S' class turned the page on his life a few years later, this is simply remarkable.

ps: The five chapters are written slowly, and I don’t want to write them quickly. I suggest you read them together after twelve o’clock or tomorrow. Of course, it doesn’t matter if you want to follow them.