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Chapter 431 Arrival in London
"Thank you." Li Mai neither accepted nor refused Meng Donglai's promise.

After Komura's failure to keep her promise, she has grown up a bit.

"Don't give up on your dream, I'll be back soon."

"Ah."

After the farewell, Meng Donglai took a plane to the UK in a formal procedure that day.

It was Meng Er who came to pick him up.

After getting into Meng Er's car, Meng Donglai sat in the back seat, while Meng Er sat in the driver's seat and drove.

"Where's Meng San?"

"Going to the witch."

"Is it so hard to find? According to her ability, she should be very famous, and she showed her face in the movie. The omnics sent here before have not made any progress yet?"

"The entire city of London has been turned upside down by us. Jade Document has established a database of all 1400 million people in the city, and indeed we have not found any witches that appeared in the movie." Meng Er replied.

"and then?"

"So we now guess that this witch is not resident in London, but a mobile business. The scene in the movie should be that she just came to London, and the hero and heroine just met her." Meng Er analyzed.

"In this case, the scope of the search will be much larger." Meng Donglai never thought that such a simple matter could have twists and turns.

According to Meng Er's analysis, this witch may be located anywhere in the UK.

Also possible anywhere in Europe.

Even more outrageous, and more likely anywhere in the world.

"Then look for it slowly. There are only 70 billion people on the earth who are exhausted. You can always find her."

"Good boss."

Since the "hypnosis" skills in the world of "Old Boy", Meng Donglai has paid more attention to the magical skills in the movie world.

The hypnosis skill played a great role in the previous missions, and it is still a very useful skill even now.

The abilities shown by the witch in "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time" are even better than those of the hypnotist in "Oldboy".

Meng Donglai was very envious of her abilities.

Even if all 70 billion people in the world are monitored with the help of omnics, she must be found.

"How is the place I asked you to find?"

"We've found it, shall we go take a look now?"

"Okay, let's go and see now."

Meng Er listened to the order to turn around at the intersection and drove towards Meng Donglai's "performance studio" for the next few years.

The car soon came to a middle-class neighborhood. There were four or five-story old-fashioned apartments on both sides of the street.

The street is very narrow. After a two-way two-lane lane is set up in the middle, there are only less than two meters of sidewalks left on both sides.

With such a narrow street, one car parked on the side of the road can directly block the entire street.

There are various small shops on both sides of the street, mainly selling handicrafts, coffee shops, and taverns.

It can be seen that this place should have a certain nature of a tourist attraction, and foreign tourists like to see this kind of old block with certain historical and cultural attributes.

But for those who live here, it's even worse.

Transportation is inconvenient, houses are old, consumption is high, and it is noisy during the day. Apart from cheap rent, there are basically no other advantages.

"Boss, the house is on the third floor. Here is the key. I won't go up."

The car just stopped at the door of an apartment, followed by three or four cars. Some people saw that the person who got off was an Asian, and they started to honk impatiently.

Meng Er couldn't go up with Meng Donglai, he had to find a place to park the car first.

"Okay, go get busy. I'll go up by myself. I'll find you if I need anything." After getting off the car, he waved his hand at Meng Er.

"Okay, boss."

The car drove away, the road became smooth again, and Meng Donglai walked into the apartment empty-handed.

The old apartments don't even have management, and anyone can get in.

Fortunately, there is a fence door at the stairwell of each floor, which can be locked at night. Otherwise, anyone would be able to enter and exit, and the security would be too bad.

Meng Donglai opened the fence door and walked in. The entire corridor was dim because there was no lighting, only the small light bulbs on the ceiling at the top of the corridor provided some illumination.

Walking along the aisle, roughly counting, there are a total of twenty doors on the entire third floor, ten in the north and south, belonging to a very old-fashioned "Tongzilou".

Walking all the way to the corridor, Meng Donglai easily distinguished which two rooms were prepared for him by Meng Er by distinguishing the cleanliness of the doors.

Meng Donglai specifically asked him to rent two nearby dilapidated small apartments, and Meng Er would definitely follow the request.

But Meng Donglai didn't ask for "dirtyness", so Meng Er would definitely do what he didn't ask for to the extreme.

Looking at this aisle, you can see that there are no sundries and rubbish in the aisle, which means that the quality of the people living here is not bad (the poor quality has probably been driven away by Meng Er).

But the cleanest ones were the two doors prepared by Meng Er. The paint on the doors was a little peeled off, but there was no dust at all.

It can be seen that it has been cleaned carefully.

Just use the key to open a door and walk in. There is about 30 square meters inside, one bay. Except for the closed toilet, the living room, bedroom, dining room and kitchen are all open.

If you cook Chinese food in this kind of room, the bedding will be disfigured by the oily smoke.

This type of room is more suitable for Westerners to live in, and Western food is less fried and fried.

Meng Donglai walked into the room and looked around. All the equipment looked old, but the daily necessities had been replaced with new ones, including bedding.

All kinds of electrical appliances and cabinets are old, but they are all cleaned up very clean.

Meng Donglai walked into the open kitchen, which had been remodeled, with a gas stove installed and a second-hand powerful range hood installed.

Looking up at the fire-fighting smoke detector above the head, it has also been modified, and it will not trigger a fire alarm just because of a pot of cooking.

The door of this house faces north, and the window in the room faces south. From the window, you can see a small river. There are sidewalks and green belts along the river. The environment is very good.

Meng Donglai used the key to open another room, this one is worse than the previous one, the open kitchen has not been remodeled, the window outside is the street that just entered the apartment, and the windows are not soundproof windows, it is estimated that at night There will be some noise.

According to the color of the bedding, this unmodified room should have been prepared by Meng Er for Qiu Qian.

Qiu Qian doesn't know how to cook, so remodeling his kitchen is a waste.

"Although it's not exactly the same as in the movie, it's not much different."

Meng Donglai was very satisfied that Meng Er found these two houses, it was realized exactly according to his idea.

Go back to your own room, take out some frequently used things from the Xumi space, and place them one by one where they should be.

In order to look literary, Meng Donglai placed more than [-] books on the bookshelf above the desk.

Also for the sake of art, he also vacated a place against the wall and placed a piano for practice.

Other smaller instruments such as violins, guitars, and harmonicas hang on the walls.

The whole room was decorated in such a circle, and it immediately seemed very literary and artistic.

Meng Donglai's next role in front of Qiu Qian is an "inspirational young man who is very talented but has no chance to display it, and can only stay behind the scenes but has not given up on his dream".

It's a bit long, but Meng Donglai believes that this identity will definitely be able to quickly capture Qiu Qian's heart.

"It's time to go."

Looking at his watch, he saw that there were only less than two hours left before Qiu Qian's flight landed, and it would take an hour to get to the airport from here, so the time was already very tight.

Meng Donglai took a marker, went downstairs to find a used cardboard box from the trash can, tore off a relatively square piece of cardboard that was [-] centimeters square, then hailed a taxi and went straight to the airport.

Sitting in the taxi, Meng Donglai began to write and draw on the cardboard with a marker.

The road to the airport was occasionally blocked, but fortunately, it was generally smooth. Meng Donglai finally arrived half an hour before the flight landed.

After getting off the bus and arriving at the exit, the radio was already announcing that an international flight from Shanghai was about to land.

Meng Donglai relied on his physical advantage to squeeze into a favorable position and wait quietly.

For an international flight, Qiu Qian had to go through several procedures after getting off the plane. When she walked out of the exit, another hour had passed.

As he walked out, he searched among the crowd who picked him up from the airport.

This time the company entrusted an Englishman named Anthony to pick her up and take her to the school and settle her down.

Qiu Qian, who went abroad for the first time, suppressed the fear and anxiety in her heart, eager to find Anthony.

"Qiu Qian!"

He suddenly heard the familiar Chinese, as if he was calling himself.

However, is this title too standard?

Isn't it awkward for foreigners to pronounce?
"Qiu Qian, here!!"

Following the sound, he looked over and saw the agent holding a sign waving to him.

Qiu Qian hurried over.

"Why are you here?"

"Surprise!" Meng Donglai exaggerated.

"This is not a surprise, it is simply a shock."

"Let's go, I'll tell you slowly on the way." Meng Donglai took her suitcase and handed her the cards in his hand.

Qiu Qian looked at the card and wrote the word Qiu Qian in cartoon characters, and also drew a cartoon of Qiu Qian's head portrait.

With just a few strokes, it miraculously depicts Qiu Qian's charm, making people know that it is her at a glance.

"I didn't expect you to have this skill." Qiu Qian liked this cartoon very much, and really wanted to cut it out of the cardboard.

"How much do you know about me?" Meng Donglai seemed very immodest.

"cut."

Walk out of the waiting hall and pass a trash can.

"Throw it away, we're going for a ride."

"No, I want to keep it." Qiu Qian held the cardboard tightly.

"I like it when I go back and draw a better one for you. This waste cardboard is inconvenient." Meng Donglai said.

When Qiu Qian heard what Meng Donglai said, she felt that it made sense, but she was still reluctant.

Reluctantly looking at the cardboard for a few times, he finally snapped off the small cartoon picture on it with his hands before throwing the cardboard into the trash can.

"Let's go."

The two walked to the side of the road, hailed a taxi and got on it.

"Why did you come to London?"

"I'm your manager, so I will accompany you here naturally."

"Aren't you the director of the brokerage? Why did you come here for my small role?" Qiu Qian asked puzzled.

"I'm not the director anymore."

"why?"

"Because I signed a contract with you and deposited 100 million, I was specially approved by the boss to follow you. Only by training you can I resume my position." Meng Donglai replied with a pitiful expression.

This is a bit nonsense, but Qiu Qian will definitely believe it.

"Really? That's because I got you in trouble." Qiu Qian really believed it, but she still had some cleverness: "But I feel that your excuse is so far-fetched. It's not because you are afraid that I will take the money and run away, so you just did it." Send you over to spy on me."

"Hahaha, I can't fool you." Meng Donglai changed his pitiful attitude and replied with a smile: "Actually, the company is planning to develop in Europe and sent me to be the front line. I'll keep an eye on you by the way. Don't let you here. Do this nonsense, lest our 100 million be wasted."

"Bah! I don't mess around."

"It won't be the best."

The two chatted non-stop along the way, and Meng Donglai successfully relieved Qiu Qian's fear of coming to a foreign country.

By the time they arrived at the apartment, the two had become a lot acquainted.

Qiu Qian got out of the car and was pleasantly surprised to see that she lived in such a retro street.

Shouting and thinking about going for a stroll.

"Go upstairs and settle down first, and I will have plenty of time to go shopping later." Meng Donglai led the way with a salute in hand, and Qiu Qian reluctantly followed.

When she came to the third floor and saw the dark corridor, Qiu Qian didn't feel that the environment was bad at all, but was amazed.

"It's like an environment in an old British movie. I feel like I've stepped into a movie."

"Hehe." Meng Donglai didn't comment on the foreign moon's relatively round remarks.

Go all the way to the end of the hallway and open the door with the door facing south (window facing north).

Seeing the environment inside, Qiu Qian sighed again.

In fact, the size of this apartment is not as big as Qiu Qian's living room.

In China, although the conditions of her family are not good, the living conditions are not bad. As an "indigenous" Qiu Qian's family owns a small two-story building facing the street in the old city.

The living environment is much better than this apartment now.

If they can be demolished before 16, the compensation will allow their family to gain wealth that others cannot earn in a lifetime.

"Don't look at the smallness of this place, I have already managed to rent this place. You must know that the rent for a single room with its own kitchen and bathroom far exceeds the budget given to you by the company."

"How expensive is this?" Qiu Qian walked into the room, touched here and looked there.

Growing up so big, it was the first time to leave my hometown and live alone without my parents, which was full of freshness.

"It's very expensive. The annual rent for this house is 10 pounds, which is equivalent to 30 yuan. That is to say, the rent for three years alone will cost [-] yuan."

"So expensive!?" Qiu Qian's eyes widened.

"It's just rent, water, electricity, heating and property fees, and it costs two to three thousand pounds a year."

"Besides, eating is also a big expense. If you eat out, it will cost 10,000+ in a year. So you'd better cook for yourself in the future." Meng Donglai said.

"But, I don't know how to cook." Qiu Qian looked embarrassed.

She was taken very well by her mother.

A girl who grew up in an ordinary family rarely knows how to cook at her age.

"If you don't know how to go to school."

(End of this chapter)