Chapter 1193 - 1192: Jerusalem
The sofa shook for a full two hours before it gradually calmed down.
"Why didn’t Sister Lingxi and Sister Ying come over?" Lin Wan brushed aside the strands of hair dampened by sweat.
"You only just noticed they didn’t come?" Lu Zheng laughed.
Lin Wan pouted, her slender fingers opening and closing as she practiced her grip strength, and said, "Did something happen over there?"
Whether it’s online entertainment or professional knowledge, Blue Star has more and easier access than Great Jing. If Si Lingxi and the other two had nothing to do, they’d usually run back and forth between the two sides.
Now a week had passed, Lu Zheng had already gone over, but they still hadn’t come; that meant something had happened in Great Jing.
Lu Zheng nodded. "There’s been a bit of a disturbance in the Netherworld. Shen Ying is sitting guard at Taohua Temple, and Lingxi came over yesterday and took a few more books back with her."
Lin Wan chuckled. "Still novels? Whose this time?"
Lu Zheng’s hands weren’t behaving either. "You’re underestimating Lingxi. This time she took a few books on agriculture and basic industry back as well."
"So... planning to put Phoenix Mountain on the road to an industrial revolution?"
Lu Zheng shook his head. "Lingxi says it’s very hard to realize industrialization over there, and it might not even be suitable. But basic iron smelting, pharmaceuticals, greenhouse vegetables and so on can more or less make common people’s lives a bit better."
Lin Wan thought for a moment, then nodded, her breathing slightly heavy as she said, "That’s true. It’s just to light a fuse. As for the road after that, the world will naturally make its own choice."
As they were talking, the two exchanged a look, then Lin Wan flipped over, and that high-end sofa worth over a hundred thousand started shaking again.
...
Maybe because she’d gotten something off her mind, Lin Wan’s fighting spirit had been sky-high last night. She kept blowing the horn, forcing Lu Zheng to battle until midnight.
So the next day, she very naturally slept until almost ten. When she woke up and walked out of the bedroom, she saw seafood congee, five-spice pot stickers, and little pickles laid out on the dining table in the living room.
"Are you going to work later?"
Lu Zheng came out of the kitchen with a basket of buns and set it on the table.
Lin Wan glanced at the time, then took a sniff of the fragrant meat buns. She raised both hands high and pushed them down, stretching in a big lazy yawn.
"No need today. I already went to the office yesterday and handed over my tasks to the section chief. We get compensatory time off after business trips," Lin Wan said.
Lu Zheng nodded. "Got it. Let’s eat breakfast first, then go out and wander around this afternoon?"
"Eh? We’re not going back to Tonglin County this afternoon?" Lin Wan pinched a pot sticker and popped it into her mouth.
Lu Zheng hugged Lin Wan from behind and inhaled the fragrance of her hair. "I’m spending today with you."
Lin Wan pouted. "Scumbag!"
Lu Zheng: "..."
Lu Zheng blinked. Seeing Lin Wan eat another bun and regain a bit of strength, he supported her waist and pressed her upper body down again.
"Hold onto the table!"
...
Fortunately, they’d spent big money on the renovation. The dining table was also made entirely of solid wood.
...
So time quickly slipped to noon. The two didn’t go out; Lu Zheng just made lunch directly.
It was quite simple: Braised Giant Shrimp, sweet-and-sour pork, and Lin Wan’s favorite four-joy meatballs.
Lin Wan rarely acted cutesy and asked Lu Zheng to feed her, and the two of them had a sweet and sticky intimate lunch.
...
Lu Zheng was in a T-shirt and shorts, while Lin Wan wore a black gauze dress, revealing her crystal-clear, fair, tender calves. On her feet were eight-centimeter high heels, making her long legs look even whiter and straighter.
The two strolled along the coastal street of Yalong Bay in Yashi, Qiong Province, enjoying the sea breeze and the ocean view, feeling quite at ease.
Yes, they’d flown to Yashi.
After staring at the desert for over a week, Lin Wan wanted to see the sea, so they came to Yashi. It was convenient anyway, right?
Even though it was already autumn, the temperature in Hai City hadn’t dropped yet, let alone in Yashi. It was still summer temperatures.
"It’s almost October. There are more and more people in Yashi now," Lin Wan said.
Lu Zheng nodded, looking at his phone as he said, "Hotel prices have already started to rise."
"We’re staying in a hotel tonight?" Lin Wan asked.
"We’re heading back today?" Lu Zheng asked in return.
Lin Wan happily hooked her arm through Lu Zheng’s. "I want to stay in a luxury hotel!"
"Done!" Lu Zheng snapped his fingers. "Same Hongfeng Hotel as last time?"
"Sure!"
So Lu Zheng booked a suite on the official website of Hongfeng Hotel.
But they weren’t in a hurry to head to the hotel. Lu Zheng took two pairs of slippers out of the gourd, swapped shoes with Lin Wan, and they walked onto the beach at Yalong Bay.
"Hahaha!"
"Heeheehee!"
There were quite a few couples and families on the seaside beach, playing in the sand, going into the sea, resting—everything.
They watched a few kids stomping through the sand as they ran past, and a guy rushed by carrying a girl on his back, right past the two of them.
And then...
With a "thud," they tripped and fell, eating a mouthful of sand.
Lu Zheng burst out laughing, and under the furious glares of that couple, he scooped Lin Wan up sideways in a princess carry, accelerated, and shot past the pair.
"If you’re going to carry your girlfriend, it’s gotta be a princess carry. That’s how you show your manly charm!"
Seeing that Lu Zheng didn’t look particularly muscular, yet was holding a tall girl and taking off like the wind, that couple went dumb.
"Should we... give it a try?"
"Can you even do it?"
"A man can’t say he can’t. Come on, let’s go!"
"I gotta say, this feels kinda—aiya!"
The two of them toppled over again, but this time it was the girl who ate sand.
Then they heard a burst of laughter coming from far away.
...
"Did you trip them the second time?"
Lu Zheng denied it immediately. "Slander! That’s slander! Don’t you slander me!"
Lin Wan couldn’t help laughing. "That guy clearly doesn’t work out regularly. If he fell while carrying his girlfriend, they might’ve gotten seriously hurt.
But that spill just now, aside from eating a mouthful of sand, they didn’t even get a scratch. Obviously you gave them a little support."
Lu Zheng laughed. "I riled them up like that; I couldn’t just goad them into getting hurt. I gave them one experience. If they wanted to keep going after that, then it had nothing to do with me."
Chatting as they walked, they left the beach and went back up to the street, and soon they arrived at Hongfeng Hotel.
They picked up their room cards, changed into swimsuits, and headed to the hotel’s outdoor pool.
And then... they ran into that same couple who’d just eaten sand.
Both sides promptly pretended not to know each other, keeping a good distance and doing their own thing.
Lu Zheng and Lin Wan felt a bit embarrassed, since they’d made the couple eat extra sand for fun.
The couple felt embarrassed because both their stamina and their looks couldn’t compare to Lu Zheng and Lin Wan, and they’d even face-planted in the sand twice right in front of them.
So they tacitly stayed far away from each other.
...
Just a small episode, not enough to ruin Lu Zheng and Lin Wan’s mood for swimming.
They swam for a bit, went back to the room to wash up, had dinner at the restaurant, then took another walk by the sea, and before they knew it, it was bedtime again.
...
Lu Zheng lay on the bed, rubbing his hands together, and then saw Lin Wan step in, wearing a white tight-fitting tank top and black leather shorts, her long legs wrapped in black stockings.
"Jerusalem!"