no touch

Chapter 37

The room smelled of mist and formalin.

Then there was a dead silence.

Occasionally, an indistinct girl's voice of refusal could be heard from a dark corner. Under the miserable blue light, brown dried blood stains could be seen on the cracked walls from time to time.

She finally waited for her first meal after several days of hunger, a bowl of water mixed with impurities.Before she had time to think, she poured water into her belly, her lips were chapped, such a small bowl of water could save her life, even if there were still those dirty little particles in it.

"ta-ta-"

The sound of men's unique leather boots stepping on the stone steps is getting closer.Ye Xin curled up nervously all of a sudden, radiating fear from the bottom of her heart.

"Next, children should not watch it."

Jasmine, freesia, lemon blossom - sweet aromas float in dense darkness.

The cold night wind blows on the face with a refreshing breath, overlooking the clutter of the old city street from the labyrinth-like corridors, looking up, you can see the steeple of the cathedral standing not far away, and in front of you are open until late at night, densely packed festivals Comparable peer market.There is a faint scent of citrus in the wind, because there is a special perfume market nearby, and the gold and silver handicrafts displayed on the precious metal street emit brilliance, even standing here feels dazzling.For young girls, this is like a scene in a fairy tale.

The city at night is beautiful like a dream.

Apparently, this stylishly dressed woman with a smile on her face didn't stop for the beautiful scenery of the night market. Instead, she habitually put her hands in her coat pockets, strolled through the criss-cross streets, and stopped at the worship hall. The entrance of a quaint handmade perfume shop next to the church.

The hostess of the small shop has golden hair, and it seems that the other party is about to put up a wooden sign of "Closed Business".

"If it closes so early, would you mind taking in the homeless people~?"

The low voice is like the improvisation of harp playing in the night, light and bewitching.

The blond woman suddenly turned her head, and after seeing the person coming, she exclaimed in surprise, "Sindy!! Why are you back!?" She trotted all the way and hugged the smiling brunette.

"What? Miss me so much~?"

"Nonsense! Come inside."

The chiseled European woman speaks near-fluent Mandarin. When she trots, she is guided by the wind and has a faint scent of perfume. If it is not someone who knows her well, it is really hard to imagine that this plump blonde woman once Is Russia's leading doctor of clinical virology.

Guan Shili was pushed into the store, and the gentle fragrance that came to her face calmed her restless mood. She looked at her friend who used to work together jokingly, "I can't imagine that the expert who used to hold a scalpel is now a perfumer, and There seems to be something else going on, Dolly~"

"Shili, you are the one who laughs at me the most. How many times have I told you that you are the one holding the scalpel, and I am only researching clinical viruses!" The woman named Dolly accused the other party of never caring. fact.

"Ah - I'm sorry, I'll definitely remember it next time. Recently, I guess I'll be busy for a while." Guan Shili muttered as he fiddled with the small dried petals around him.

"Shouldn't you be doing some dangerous work again?" Dolly sighed as she met the other party's flickering ice-blue eyes, "Tell me, why are you looking for me this time?"

"Don't make me look like a debt collector." Guan Shili scratched his hair in frustration, and took out a glass container from behind, "This, I need to know its ingredients."

Don't you?Dolly looked at the tiny container on the table, and there was a gradually yellow and transparent spider that was hard to identify with the naked eye.

"Where did you get this strange stuff?" Dolly muttered, but she still carefully put the utensils into the safe on the lower floor. "Then when will you leave this time?" Although he was very reluctant, he still asked.

Sure enough, seeing the other party's pupils widen suddenly and then regained his composure, "I just came here and wanted to push me away..."

"You should too..."

"Aunt Sindy!" The sleepy little girl who ran down from the attic cheerfully called Guan Shili to stop, interrupting her mother's nagging.

The woman happily caught the other party, and circled around, "Hey, baby, do you want Auntie? By the way, Auntie didn't bring you a gift this time. Next time, please make it up..."

"Don't bring any more gifts. Her bedroom is full of all kinds of toys you gave her." Looking at the scene of Shili and her daughter laughing, Dolly didn't bother them anymore, but she was a little worried. Her best friend Just like the wind, free and ethereal, it will not stay in one place for a long time.

From before, she has been able to do everything with ease, as if nothing can stump her in front of her.As a retreat student of Professor Johansen Sr. of the Hopkins School of Medicine, Shili seems to be more at ease than himself.She is too perfect, she is kind and can tell some jokes that make people blush at the same time, such a person is so unreal.Maybe it's because we've been together for a long time, and it's the first and only time I've seen this guy's unconcealable sad expression—lonely and sympathetic eyes, although it's only for a moment.

Just such a person who always perfectly conceals his "optimistic" emotions, when will he be able to open his heart to accept his true emotions?

"Honey, don't look at me with a sad face." Guan Shili looked at her with sapphire-like eyes.

Dolly glanced helplessly, knowing that Shili always looked at people with ambiguous eyes, although she didn't know it herself. "I was just thinking about what it would be like if you were in a relationship."

The woman who was teasing the child couldn't help laughing when she heard her friend's ridicule. "Has your postpartum blues been prolonged for a century? Little Ruth, did you know your mother became an expert on relationships after you were born?"

The three-year-old girl didn't understand what Aunt Shili was talking about, but she was infected by her warm smile and amused herself.

"Hey, hey, why are you laughing? I'm thinking seriously." Seeing the other party's indifferent expression, Dolly felt that she was meddling, so she simply turned around and sorted out the flower buds she picked yesterday.

"Hahaha, I'm sorry, Dolly, it's just that I'm a little surprised that you suddenly said such a serious thing. You know, being forced to go on a blind date is a headache, and the family has hoarded a lot of blind date information..."

"It's just that you don't want to." Dolly added angrily.

Her blond hair was being teased by her friend's fingers. Dolly was looking into those blue-gray eyes, and she saw a charming smile floating around her rose-like red lips. Elastic voice, "If possible, I would like to date the beautiful Miss Dolly, as long as Mr. Han doesn't mind being jealous."

Look, it's starting to emit high concentrations of hormones anytime and anywhere again...

If she could, she really didn't want to deal with this slippery guy!

Guan Shili looked at the friend who came over with a smile. The other party pretended to be annoyed and handed him a glass of wine from nowhere, and then kindly reminded him, "I only drink..."

"Magao Zhuang's, only it can shut your mouth." Dolly interrupted the other party angrily.

"Thank you~"

After taking a sip, Guan Shili watched Dolly's little Ruth happily playing with the petals that were about to dry, and couldn't help thinking. Dolly Reese, a smart girl from the northern country of Russia, was at the peak of her career. Shi Shi silently declined the invitation from the Hopkins Research Institute, but came to China to open a perfume shop of her own. Maybe this is the magic of love, or maybe "are you so willing?" She never asked Dolly, because--

Looking sideways at the color on Dolly's face, she is happy now, and that's enough.

As the little daughter playfully opened the window down, another burst of very light and familiar fragrance brushed the tip of her nose.

"I wanted to ask just now. I just smelled a very light and soft aroma when I entered the door. Did you concoct it?"

"God, you can smell it!" Dolly looked at her in disbelief.

"Why, is it strange?" Guan Shili was a little dazed by what she said.

"No, no, wait for me for a while." Dolly turned and ran to the attic. After a while, she held a very chic perfume box and put it in front of Shili. "I have been making this perfume for a long time. Although it is still in the research stage, it The unique feature is the 'breath that can only be smelled by those who are destined', because it is really elegant and attractive, and almost no customers who come to my store notice the special aroma, which makes me very distressed, I thought I was I failed to perfume. Its top notes, middle notes, and base notes all use different degrees of cornflower and a little vetiver, which is very special."

Guan Shili carefully picked up the exquisite small bottle of perfume on the table. Although he didn't open it, the lingering breath lingered in his heart, "It smells good, can you give it to me?"

"Of course, I hope you accept it." Dolly glanced at the other party slyly, "It also has a special name 'meetlove' (about to meet love), which is the flower language of cornflower, please accept it. "

Unable to resist Dolly's kindness, Guan Shili accepted the perfume.After saying goodbye to Dolly, it was already past midnight, and the brightly lit streets of the night market in the distance became much quieter now, and occasionally a few passers-by with lowered heads and eyebrows rushed home with bags in their hands.

"Are you about to meet love..."

A man walks on a snow-covered street, his boots creaking on the snow.After three cups of Margaux, he was not obviously drunk, but became more sober after being gently blown by the cold wind. Thinking of the meaning of the bottle of perfume given by his friend, the corners of his lips curled up a little funny.

A burst of soft and mellow cake scent stimulated Guan Shili's slightly hungry taste buds at two o'clock in the morning, but this taste was not at all offensively sweet and greasy, but bitter.

The shiny signboard of Baumkuchen (Baumkuchen) was erected in front of her. It turned out that this was the cake shop that Dolly had introduced to her, and his 'White Lover' was very delicious.However, it seems that the other party means that it is about to close?

After seeing clearly that there were still two finished products in the cupboard, Guan Shili still pushed open the door and tried his luck. In such an era when delicacies are produced in deep streets and alleys, you have to find them by yourself.

"Can I have a copy of this?" Guan Shili pointed to the dark brown annual ring in the window freezer.

The middle-aged man with a full beard poked his head out from the back cabinet, and after seeing the person clearly, he replied with a little apology, "My guest, I'm sorry, this one is reserved for a lady who made an appointment, so I'm really sorry." I'm sorry."

"Ah, that's it." Guan Shili looked away reluctantly.

"Yes, it's specially ordered by a lady. It tastes like tartary buckwheat. If it's your first time eating it, you might as well choose the one next to it." The bearded Japanese man couldn't bear to say, knowing the girl in front of him The sad eyes are heartbreaking, not to mention the woman who comes to buy in the middle of the night in the cold winter, so he strongly recommends the best-selling flavor of the store.

"Buckwheat taste?" asked a bit suspiciously, although she doesn't like sweets very much, but she has also tasted the annual rings, which are soft and mellow.It is usually caramel, honey, matcha or strawberry flavors, of course she doesn't like these flavors very much, maybe this is the flavor that attracted her just now.

"Well, it's bitter, not sweet at all, um...the kind of bitterness that makes people tongue-tied." The Japanese boss is trying his best to think of suitable words to describe the taste of this cake.

Listening to the other party's interesting description, she was actually interested in the buckwheat-flavored growth rings.

"Hey, okay, then I'll come back next time."

Feeling disappointed, she pulled up her fur collar and put on her hat. The hair in the front covered her two bright eyes. In fact, she was not cold at all, but the feeling of desolation when she opened the door empty-handed drove her so Do it, the little heart at this moment is fragile.

"Goo-"

With a growl in his stomach, Guan Shili nodded embarrassingly to the person who just opened the door and walked out of the cake shop that was about to close.

Putting aside the troubles at work, she tried her best to pick it up before twelve o'clock. Although she was a regular customer, she felt sorry for making the boss wait for a long time.After she habitually made sure that she did not have the unpleasant smell of cigarettes on her body, she pushed open the door, and the woman who passed her by was oncoming. She was surprised that there were still customers in the shop at such a late hour , she originally thought she was the last one.