Reborn next door twins first grow up

"Jia'er is in Yanjing."

When Lu Man returned to the prop room with a gloomy look on his face, Ling Zhi and Wang Xue'ai also came to find Gu Linyi. When he walked in and said this sentence, all the girls present were stunned.

The first person to react fiercely was Lingzhi.

"Lu Man! You bastard!"

Lingzhi raised her fist. Unlike the twins, who kept their hands and did not use any force, she hit Lu Man's arm with her full force fist.

"Today is her birthday! It's her 18th birthday!"

The commotion also alerted the two senior students in the school assembly.

They poked their heads in hesitantly, wanting to see what was going on but afraid of offending the person involved.

Following this momentum, the two seniors looked at each other and suddenly felt puzzled.

Why do you feel that this school girl who punches and kicks has an extraordinary relationship with Lu Man? It's like beating up a heartbroken person...

"I know." Lu Man's tone was restrained.

He turned to face Gu Lingyi, and she was staring at him with a complicated expression.

"She didn't disclose it to me at all."

Gu Lingyi sighed: "I didn't even notice any signs..."

She knew in her heart that if Jia'er told her sister, she would definitely stop her sister.

But it was precisely because her sister and sister were not able to pass the Qi that Gu Jiaer secretly went to Yanjing without telling everyone.

Calculating the time, she would decide to leave in the morning, take a car to the airport in the next city, and then fly to Yanjing.

Today is also Gu Jia'er's coming-of-age birthday, but she spent most of the day on the road to nothing.

Just thinking about it made Gu Lingyi feel uncomfortable and suffocated.

It is said that there is telepathy between twins. If one person feels uncomfortable, the other will feel the same.

But based on Gu Lingyi's many years of experience with her sister, there is no basis for this statement.

At most, the two of them have the same living habits and will get sick together when it's time to catch a cold. This is a level of synchronization.

There is another kind of thing...that is what it is now.

She seemed to be her sister Jia'er. Her sister's loneliness, disappointment, depression, and pain seemed like something she had also experienced, and at the same time, it made her breathless.

Gu Lingyi didn't hesitate much and looked straight at Lu Man.

She knew what Lu Man wanted to do, but she wanted to wait for Lu Man to say it himself.

"I'm going on a trip."

"Go ahead, Luman."

The two of them almost spoke in unison, but Gu Lingyi was a little late.

"Ah."

"Ah... going to Yanjing again?"

Wang Xue'ai opened his mouth and was speechless for a while.

Her first thought was that the world of rich people was really different. Lu Man had just flown back from Yanjing, and now he had to rush back again.

If it were her, the money for air tickets and taxis would be heartbreaking.

And there is another concern that must be considered...

"Is it too late? Lu Man." Lingzhi asked in a low voice.

"Let's go now. If you can't make it in time, you have to give it a try."

Lu Man said: "Find a car to go to Qindao, then fly to Yanjing, and then to the city... I think we can arrive before eleven o'clock."

I want to see Gu Jiaer before her birthday ends.

Lu Man stood up, squatted in front of Gu Lingyi's seat, and hugged her gently: "I'm sorry, Lingyi."

They had just been reunited, but they were about to separate again.

Moreover, she still has to go with her sister...

Gu Lingyi shook her head: "This is the most unforgettable birthday I have ever had."

It should have been the happiest, happiest and most unforgettable birthday.

But now I have my sister Jiaer to worry about...

Her almond eyes were also filled with the luster of reluctance and dilemma.

After a few seconds, Gu Lingyi bit her lip and said, "Brother, we all want to be nice to Jia'er."

"give it to me."

Although Lu Man still said this, he also felt that his words this time lacked the confidence of the past.

"I will report any situation at any time."

"Be sure to bring Jia'er back safely." Gu Lingyi whispered.

She took off her down jacket and handed it to Lu Man. This originally belonged to Lu Man, who had just put it on her at the venue.

Lingzhi put Gu Lingyi's down jacket on the girl's shoulders, then turned to Lu Man and said, "Don't look for a car, I'll take you to Qindao."

Her tone did not allow for refutation, and Lu Man was not polite. He always owed her favors, and the debts were too many to bear, so he saved them and paid them back together: "Thank you, Lingzhi."

The two of them exchanged a few words with Gu Lingyi and set off immediately.

Gu Lingyi sat in a chair in a daze, her thoughts wandering and somewhat scattered.

Wang Xue'ai put his hand on Gu Lingyi's shoulder and squeezed it gently: "Aren't you going with them?"

Gu Lingyi was silent for a few seconds and shook her head.

Wang Xue'ai sighed and said: "To untie the bell, you still need the person who tied it. Do you need heart medicine to treat heart disease?"

"Today is also my sister's birthday." Gu Lingyi's voice was bitter, "I don't want Jia'er's birthday to be spent in sadness and tears."

"Only if he goes by himself and finds Jia'er can he make up for the tears Jia'er is crying now..."

Wang Xuecheng was holding back her words, but it was not convenient for her to say them out.

What about you, Lingyi?

What about you in the future?

Wang Xue'ai just ignored these questions in his mind and stayed with Gu Lingyi silently.

……

On the highway, Lingzhi kept a close eye on the road ahead.

The more anxious she was, the more she had to be steady. Although she could hit the speed of 132 kilometers per hour, she still kept the speed between 100 and 110 for the sake of safety.

"Lu Man, has Jia'er replied?"

"No." Lu Man kept scrolling through the chat box on his phone. "She probably noticed that I wanted to fly there again and thought that if she didn't tell me the location of her hotel, I would give up the idea."

"Where are the seniors?"

"Senior Ni Xiaoyu and Ju Xiaoyu all tried to make some insinuations, but Jia'er was wary and kept her mouth shut, so she didn't tell anyone."

"What should I do?"

Lingzhi sighed: "After you go there, will you look for them in one hotel after another?"

"Maybe there's no need to look for a needle in a haystack."

Lu Man leaned back on the back seat: "Jia'er often plays the self-made social networking site bound to "Twin Farms". I asked the technology and operations to rush to organize a tag sharing event, 'Share your photos on New Year's Eve.' Then I deliberately pinned a few selected posts that were sad.”

Lingzhi looked surprised: "Jia'er has seen it, maybe she will send her own photos?"

"Well, I hope so. If it doesn't work, think of other ways."

After spending two hours, the Nissan car arrived at Qindao Liuting Airport on time.

"Do you have any clues about Jia'er's location?"

"Yes, she sent three pictures."

Lingzhi came over and took a look: "Yanjing, it's snowing."

The first picture is a snow scene taken from the floor-to-ceiling window, with snowflakes flying between high-rise buildings.

The second picture is an interior view of a hotel room. There is a small four-inch cake placed on the small table, with happy birthday written in chocolate cream. It should be a small gift given by the hotel to guests celebrating their birthday.

The third picture is an overhead shot, also taken from the room. There are only two streets and a low-rise community.

"This is no different from searching for a needle in a haystack at a hotel, isn't it?" Lingzhi's head suddenly got bigger, and it showed something.

Lu Man's mind was racing and he kept scanning the only three photos.

"Not necessarily. If you pay attention, you can tell a lot of information from the details."

Lu Man pointed to the second cake picture: "Jia'er didn't order this cake herself. Normally she would have bought red velvet, tiramisu and other desserts instead of this kind of formal cake. Ordinary hotels are not so considerate. Birthday service, and Jia'er is staying by herself, so she must consider comfort and safety first, so she went to an expensive hotel."

Lingzhi's eyes widened, as if she was getting to know Lu Man all over again, and she looked him over: "Jia'er's boyfriend of two years really didn't go to waste..."

Lu Man called one of the leaders of the Yanjing Three Kingdoms Killing Team: "Dai Qing, um, I have to trouble you with something. Help me find all the high-end hotels in Yanjing. It's best to simply sort by price from high to low. Get in line—that’s okay, okay, thank you, thank you!”

"I'll study the rest slowly on the plane."

"Lu Man, although I really want to punch you in the face now, please remember this time."

Lingzhi glared at him fiercely: "We must celebrate Jia'er's coming-of-age birthday well!"

"Ah."

"Call me back as soon as you land!"

Lingzhi's loud voice attracted side glances from passers-by.

She was a little embarrassed. It was too easy to be misunderstood as a couple breaking up.

"I won't go back to Haiqu now. I will just spend two days on Qindao. If you come back by plane, I can still pick you up."

At this point, Lu Man felt that he could no longer express his gratitude in words.

"Come in quickly, Lu Man."

…    While waiting to board the plane and fly, another two hours slipped by.

It was already past eleven o'clock when we arrived at the Capital Airport in Yanjing, later than expected.

Lu Man took a taxi, sat down and set off, and immediately called Lingzhi back.

"Hey, hey, Lu Man, do you know Jia'er's location?"

"I guessed it."

Lu Man replied.

"Guess?" Lingzhi was stunned, "Can you do it? I see that Jia'er has never sent anything again. If not, we will ask Lingyi to call her directly and tell her that you are in Yanjing and can't see her. Just stand in the snow and freeze to death."

Lu Man: ...

"You are willing to play with my life."

He turned on his phone and looked at the third picture carefully: "Lingzhi, look at the picture Jia'er sent."

"The composition of this third photo is very strange. It doesn't look like Jia'er's style of taking pictures. Unless...there is something worthy of her attention, she would deliberately take a photo of a scene without a visual subject."

"Ah..." Lingzhi was confused.

"So I guess there should be places in this community down there that Jia'er and I have been to, or places that Jia'er is familiar with."

Even though Lingzhi didn't like Lu Man, he had to give in at this moment. He used his mind and he did have two brushes.

"Fengrong Garden."

Lu Man said: "Their father has two houses here. During the summer vacation, our two families and you, Lingzhi, came to Yanjing to live here. Do you still remember?"

Out of curiosity, Lingzhi searched the Internet for pictures of Fengrong Garden. After comparison, the exterior wall facade, air-conditioning bracket, and roof shape all matched.

"Then we can only guess that she lives nearby. Which hotel and room is she in?"

Lu Man said: "I have checked the map and found out that the hotel Jia'er is staying at is the Liton Hotel on Financial Street. It only opened this year and is one of the more expensive ones."

Lu Man was thankful at this moment. In 2006, many high-end hotels had not yet opened. The famous Bvlgari, Puxuan, Guomao, Marriott, and Regent were all still missing.

It saves him a lot of comparison and elimination work.

Lu Man continued: "In the first picture, she took a photo of a high-rise building opposite. The map shows that it is also a hotel, the Vidin Hotel."

"A picture can reveal a lot of things. In photos of buildings, because the perspective is large near and small at far, the horizontal lines between the two-story curtain wall glass are not parallel. If they are extended infinitely, the height of the intersection is the shooting point. or one’s own height.”

Lingzhi was dumbfounded.

"Then... did you also push out the room where Jia'er lives?"

"After drawing the intersection, count the floors on the opposite side, which corresponds to around the 15th floor. Combined with the orientation of her floor-to-ceiling windows and the direction of the street, we can roughly locate the room number. I will knock on the door then."

"The road is full."

"Ok?"

"You're so awesome." Lingzhi rushed to the northwest in the direction of Yanjing and gave a thumbs up, "If you really appeared in front of Jia'er like this, she would probably be in a good mood knowing that you exhausted all your brain cells to find her. Be better."

"Okay, I'll give you the good news then."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Man rubbed the bridge of his nose and closed his eyes to relax.

The taxi stopped on the side of the road.

"Master?" Lu Man was confused, "He hasn't arrived yet?"

"Pull someone over," the driver replied.

Lu Man frowned and was about to say that this was not in compliance with the regulations, but it would be quite unwise to have a conflict with the driver at this time. He would throw himself on the side of the road again and waste precious time looking for a car.

"Just arrive as soon as possible." Lu Man's tone became hard.

The driver felt a little cold behind him, and he quickly explained with a guilty conscience: "I'm going to pick up a passenger and go to your hotel. I won't take a detour, so I'll just stop here for a minute. Please forgive me."

A young man opened the rear door.

He looked at Lu Man with a displeased expression on his face. He was obviously young, but it gave him a sense of oppression.

So he smiled apologetically, opened the front passenger door, and sat in.

Lu Man made another phone call.

"Hello, is this the Laohutong rice noodle shop? I would like to order a meal. You provide food delivery within three kilometers, right?"

After ordering midnight snacks, Lu Man recalled that there used to be a stall near Fengrong Garden that was open late.

"Boss, could you please travel a little more and help me buy some roasted ham?"

It was a cold day, so the boss opposite me naturally shied away. Lu Man then said: "I will give you two hundred yuan as hard work fee. Do you think that's okay?"

"This..." the boss was moved, "but...brother, let me tell you the truth. I have been working for so many years and have delivered so many meals. There are too many people who talk nonsense. I asked you to bring a pack of cigarettes and a box of beer. We agreed to pay more for running errands, but we regretted it when we arrived and couldn't pay so much. Some of them smelled of alcohol, so we didn't dare to offend them for fear of getting beaten in vain."

"You can also use phone bills." Lu Man knew his concerns and immediately responded, "Boss, for your current mobile phone number, I will first recharge 100 yuan for your phone bill. The rest will be paid in cash after it is delivered. Okay, you can just recharge the phone bill."

The shop owner thought for a while and agreed: "Okay!"

The young man in the passenger seat turned around and said, "This is a good idea. Pay online first and the merchant will deliver the goods to your door."

"There is a huge market and business opportunities." Lu Man relaxed temporarily and was happy to chat. "But we have to wait until mobile phones can pay quickly, and then we can make money by building such a platform."

"Well, that's right."

The young man touched the stubble of his beard and nodded frequently.

"Takeout was actually something that existed in restaurants in the Song Dynasty. The difficulty lies in that if an Internet business model is really formed and grabbing market share, it will burn money especially based on strength." Lu Man said.

"Brother, are you starting your own business?"

"That's it."

"This idea is very advanced. Retail and catering are huge consumer giants. If we can grasp these two, we will definitely become stronger. Unfortunately, the environment is not yet mature."

The young man handed over his business card with both hands: "Let's get to know each other. I am engaged in Internet social networking. The world of social networks is still dominated by social networks. I am planning to launch a mini-blog product."

Lu Man took the business card and saw that the man's name was Wang Xing.

"Mr. Wang Xing? Have you named your new project?" Lu Man looked up at him.

"Food or not?" Wang Xing said.

……

The taxi arrived at the Financial Street Hotel.

Wang Xing is the entrepreneur who founded Xiaonei.com. In the future, he will also found Fanfou and the most well-known "yellow-robed" Meituan.

Speaking of which, the food-stealing game Lu Man developed in this life has some connection with Wang Xing's school network.

After the two got off the car and agreed to contact and chat when they had time, Wang Xing went to the Vidin Hotel next door, while Lu Man looked up at the sign of "Leighton Hotel", took a breath, and walked in.

"Hello, I have a reserved room. A girl named Dai booked it for me."

"Okay sir, please follow this bellman, your room card..."

"My friend also lives here. I'll go to her floor first and meet her."

"Okay, the bellman will help you swipe the elevator card."

Lu Man went to the 15th floor first and knocked on the door: "Jia'er?"

The person who opened the door was a middle-aged woman.

"Sorry, I went to the wrong floor. I'm really sorry."

Then he went to the 14th and 16th floors.

"Feel sorry……"

"Sorry, I typed it wrong..."

neither.

Lu Man stood in front of the elevator entrance, holding his chin and thinking repeatedly: "It shouldn't be."

The cell phone rings.

"Hello, Lingzhi?"

"You just sent a message about arriving at the hotel. What now? Have you seen Jia'er?"

Lu Man sighed: "It seems that I made a mistake in my judgment. I searched three floors and it was not Jia'er."

Lingzhi then became anxious: "Alas! I asked Jia'er again, but she said she wanted to be alone, and now she doesn't even reply to my messages. Alas!"

"Sir, the elevator is here."

The bellman followed behind him, and Lu Man ran blindly up three floors. He was dissatisfied in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it, so he could only ostensibly ask the guests to go back to their rooms on their own floor.

Lu Man entered the elevator, still unwilling to give up: "I'll think about it again, it should be right here..."

The bellman swiped his card and pressed the floor, and his eyes fell on the elevator buttons.

B1, 1, 2, 3, 5…

"Where's 4?" Lu Man was startled, "Where's the fourth floor?"

He then scanned the two rows of floor numbers.

"Lingzhi!"

Lu Man shouted happily: "I know!"

"what?"

"This hotel is not materialistic at all..." Lu Man rolled his eyes, "It doesn't have a 4th or 13th floor, so the 15th floor I think should be their 17th floor!"

Lu Man asked the bellman to swipe his card again and the elevator went up to the 17th floor.

He gathered himself.

After going through many twists and turns, he finally reached the door of her room. How he would face Gu Jiaer was revealed by the two knocks on the door.

Tuk, Tuk - Tuk -

"Jia'er." (End of chapter)