always with you

The days passed by like this, and it was already June in a blink of an eye.

These months seem to fly by.

Lin Qiu has gotten used to life in London. Her daily life is not limited to studying. She has also participated in various activities and visited many tourist attractions, such as Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Elizabeth Tower, and her favorite British Museum .

After living for a while, Lin Qiu found that this is a diverse city. Staying in this place gave her a wider perspective, a broader mind, and her social experience and professional knowledge also increased day by day.

A few months, neither long nor short.

She and Lin Ni have long been used to this jet lag.

Usually the two would have a phone call when Lin Qiu got up, and Lin Ni was getting off work at noon at that time.

The other phone call was before Lin Ni went to bed at night, at about three or four o'clock in the afternoon of Lin Qiu.

And Lin Ni always seems to be very busy at work, even busier than when Lin Qiu first met her. She often has surgery to do, so that she has no time to fly to England in the past few months.

And Lin Qiu is the same as her, it's not that she doesn't have time, but that she doesn't have that kind of long vacation, and most of her free time is trivial.

Sometimes the two had video calls, Lin Qiu looked at Lin Ni's appearance, and wanted to hug her or kiss her several times, but couldn't touch her.This untouchable feeling is actually the hardest.

At the beginning of July, Lin Qiu's school finally had summer vacation.

But she made a decision not to return to China, but to stay in London.

Lin Qiu has a plan. September is Lin Ni's birthday. There will be two months of summer vacation. She decides to work in London for a month first, and then return to Beijing for the remaining month.

The reason was that she wanted to prepare a birthday present for Lin Ni, but she didn't want to spend Xue Hui's money. On the other hand, the air ticket was very expensive, and Lin Qiu wanted to pay for it herself.

And the part-time job she chose was not serving dishes or washing dishes.

After arriving in London, she discovered that there are many people here who are very interested in Chinese culture, such as Chinese, calligraphy, landscape painting, ancient poetry, etc. Many young people even set up such clubs.

After learning about it, Lin Qiu found that good Chinese is also a skill. She can't guarantee that she can master all of them, but there are a few things she is good at, such as calligraphy and ancient poetry.

She has had a unique preference for poetry since high school, and she is definitely no less proficient than students in some professional courses.

So Lin Qiu's friend Willow heard that Lin Qiu wanted to stay and take part-time tutoring, and immediately introduced a local boy to Lin Qiu.

The boy's name is Neil, and his family is considered middle-class, with no shortage of money.

I heard that Lin Qiu is Chinese and her Chinese is very good, and it was introduced by Willow, so the matter of tutoring was settled immediately.

But for tutoring, Lin Qiu didn't know how to charge, just let Neil watch and pay.

The other party said that he was willing to pay Lin Qiu £100 for each class, and each class lasted for an hour and a half.

The time for making up lessons was set at 40 days. Lin Qiu calculated that 4000 days would be 3.5 pounds, about [-] yuan, which was quite a lot for her, so everything was negotiated and decided. It's officially over.

Originally, Neil told Lin Qiu that he could go to his house for tutoring, but Lin Qiu thought that Neil was a boy after all, and considering safety issues, Lin Qiu finally refused.

She decided to decide the place of tutoring by herself.

Because the number of people staying in school during the summer vacation was halved, and there were more than enough reading rooms, she asked the school if she could temporarily use a classroom at a fixed time, and the school approved it.

So she and Neil's tutoring place has been settled.

The details of the two are communicated through WeChat, and the real meeting time is the third day after the holiday.

It was a cloudy day, Lin Qiu and Neil made an appointment to meet in the reading classroom, Lin Qiu specially brought an umbrella with her before going out.

Lin Qiu arrived first, and the other party arrived after a while. Neil was a white-skinned, big-eyed Englishman, tall and thin, with blue eyes.

When he saw Lin Qiu, he smiled, looking very sunny.

The two chatted in English for a while, and within 5 minutes, Neil began to speak Chinese.

"Lin Qiu, who is your favorite poet?"

"I don't have a favorite, but I like Su Shi more."

"Su Dongpo! I like it too!"

Although his Chinese sounded a bit crappy, it was already considered good compared to others. Lin Qiu thought about it too. Neil must already have a certain understanding of Chinese, otherwise how would he learn poetry?After talking for a while, Lin Qiu found that this person was inseparable from the ancient poems in every ten words, and he could see that he really liked it, and he felt a little bewildered.

"Since you like it too, why don't we learn his poems first?"

As soon as Lin Qiu proposed, Neil immediately agreed with both hands, saying that there is no problem at all.

The two walked up and down while chatting, and arrived in the reading room after a while.

Lin Qiu didn't bring any translations of poems to Neil's class. She felt that the class for Neil should not be too boring, and she didn't need to explain word by word like she did during the college entrance examination. After all, Neil was for interest, not for the college entrance examination.

Before class, she briefly introduced Su Dongpo to Neil. Apart from his being a master, Lin Qiu had already read "The Biography of Su Dongpo". Lin Qiu is sure that she can tell Neil something he never knew.

Take Su Dongpo's life story for example.

Sure enough, this quickly caught Neil's interest, and he was really like a well-behaved student, listening to Lin Qiu's lecture with great interest.And Lin Qiu called Lin Ni several times during class, but Lin Qiu didn't hear it because the phone was on mute.

An hour and a half was not long or short, but because Lin Qiu's lectures were generally quite interesting and Neil's interest was firmly hooked, the time generally passed fairly quickly.

After class, Lin Qiu took out her mobile phone and saw that Lin Ni had actually called her. There were three missed calls, and the dialing time was not at the usual time. She thought she was in a hurry, so she immediately called her.

While she was on the phone, she was still packing her things and walking out with Neil, who was walking beside her. The two had just walked out of the reading room when Lin Ni connected the phone.

"Hey, senior sister, you are looking for me!"

"Well, why didn't you answer the phone?" Lin Ni's voice was flat, as if he had no emotion.

"I was busy with something just now, so I didn't hear it."

"Oh, that's how it is. When are you going to come back?"

When Lin Ni asked, Lin Qiu glanced sideways at Neil, and she didn't intend to let Lin Ni know about the tutoring for the time being.So he said to Lin Ni on the phone: "I'll come back next month, and I will stay in London for forty days."

When Fan Linqiu said this, there was silence on the other end of the phone. Lin Ni was silent for about five or six seconds, and when he spoke again, his voice was a little hoarse: "Is there something that makes you have to stay there?"

Hearing Lin Ni's tone was a little awkward, Fan Linqiu smiled and said, "Hey, I won't tell you for now, anyway, I will come back when the time comes, and we can stay together for about a month!"

Her tone was brisk, but Lin Ni on the other end of the phone didn't seem to be very interested, and her voice was still low: "Okay."

Lin Qiu glanced at Neil, thinking that he probably understands Chinese, and it's inconvenient to talk too much with Lin Ni now.

"Sister, I'm a little busy right now, can I call you back when I get back to the dormitory later?"

"it is good."

Lin Qiu was about to hang up the phone, but Lin Ni suddenly asked her: "Do you miss me?"

It was abnormal for her to hear Lin Ni's question.I don't know what's wrong with her, so even if Neil is by her side, she can't care so much, and said, "I miss you, of course I miss you, what's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing, I'll just ask, and I miss you too."

"Then I'll call you when I go back to the dormitory?"

"it is good."

After talking about this for a long time, Lin Qiu hung up the phone, and looked at Neil apologetically.The other party smiled at her and said, "boyfriend?"

Lin Qiu shook his head, then nodded again, he simply didn't explain men and women, just said: "yes, lover."

Neil raised his eyebrows. Hearing what Lin Qiu said, he winked, with a funny expression on his face, as if he had eaten dog food.

The two walked to the boulevard, and Lin Qiu told Neil that she was going back to the dormitory to cook.

Neil invited her to dinner and was very enthusiastic.

After much deliberation, Lin Qiu couldn't agree with him, so she decided to have lunch with him.

The two discussed it and finally decided to eat Gaisi curry rice. Before the meal, Lin Qiu specially sent Lin Ni a message, telling her that she went to eat by herself, and would look for her later when she returned to the dormitory, but Lin Ni didn't reply her. Qiu thought Lin Ni just didn't see it.

So she and Neil had lunch before going back to the dormitory, maybe it was out of gentlemanly demeanor, or maybe Neil wanted to talk to Lin Qiu about Chinese poetry again, Neil proposed to send Lin Qiu downstairs in the dormitory, Lin Qiu immediately refused.

But Neil insisted on giving it away, and then Lin Qiu understood what Willow said, "Don't try to reject an Englishman, especially when you want to show his gentlemanly demeanor."

Lin Qiu smiled helplessly at Neil, after thinking about it, she agreed.

So the two walked back from the restaurant where they ate curry rice. Neil didn't talk about ancient poetry anymore, but chatted with Lin Qiu from all over the world. He said that one day he also wanted to visit China, especially the capital Beijing.

He also asked Lin Qiu for scriptures, and Lin Qiu told him that his partner was from Beijing and lived in Beijing for a while.If you have a chance, you can introduce him to several famous scenic spots when you arrive in Beijing.

Just chatting and walking towards the dormitory like this, it has been more than an hour since I arrived at the downstairs of the dormitory after calling Lin Ni.After finally getting to the downstairs of the dormitory, Lin Qiu was about to go upstairs, but Neil called Lin Qiu to stop.

Before Lin Qiu noticed, Neil gave her a farewell hug.

Before Lin Qiu could react, he was already hugged by Neil, but he hugged her neatly, and said thank you to Lin Qiu.

Lin Qiu came out of his arms, smiling awkwardly.

But Neil waved Lin Qiu generously, smiled and watched her go back to the dormitory.

Lin Qiu was a little dazed, but he wasn't surprised. For the British, this kind of behavior couldn't be more normal. It was purely polite, or an expression of pure liking.

Lin Qiu didn't think too much, and went back to the dormitory directly.

As soon as she stepped into the dormitory, she picked up her mobile phone to check the WeChat messages, and found that Lin Ni still hadn't replied to her.

After watching Lin Qiu leave, Neil turned around to go home, but saw another Asian face.She is a woman with a good figure and face, very temperament. Neil's eyes were attracted to her, because she was so beautiful, and she happened to meet his eyes.

So Neil greeted each other friendly and said "hey".

Unfortunately, Lin Ni did not respond to him.