After coming out of the snack bar, Fang Zhuoran took Lin Mai's hand and looked for hotel accommodation.
A bicycle rushed towards them, and the two of them quickly dodged.
The bicycle sped away close to Lin Mai.
When the man sitting behind the bicycle passed by her, he pulled hard, broke the strap of the cross-body bag she was carrying on her back, and snatched the bag away.
Lin Mai was so anxious that he shouted: "Robbery! Catch the robbers!"
This kind of thing happens countless times every day on the streets of Guangzhou, and passers-by are used to it.
Lin Mai shouted at the top of his lungs, but passers-by reacted indifferently.
Lin Mai and Fang Zhuoran chased for a distance, but the bag robber had already escaped without a trace.
The two looked at each other in frustration, dragged their heavy footsteps, and found a small state-run hotel to stay.
Entering the room, the sadness on Lin Mai's face disappeared. He smiled and said to Zhuoran, "I wonder how those robbers felt when they took away a large package of newspapers."
The robbers who had robbed the bag happily returned to their lair, and the first thing they did was to close the door and divide the loot.
The leader took out the contents of his bag with a beaming look on his face: "I'm lucky tonight, I did something big."
The others nodded sharply: "There is quite a lot of money in it. I see that the woman never leaves the bag and carries it on her back even when going to the toilet."
After taking out the top few pieces of clothing, the leader took out several packages of rectangular boxes neatly wrapped in newspapers.
The eyes of the other robbers were all as bright as light bulbs. Judging from the shape of the paper, the money contained in the newspaper would not be small, at least tens of thousands.
One of the robbers already shouted excitedly: "Now we are so prosperous!"
The leader slapped him on the head: "Why are you shouting so loudly? Do you want to call the police?"
A few pairs of hands couldn't wait to open the newspaper. After opening it, everyone was dumbfounded.
There is still a newspaper inside, but it is just a newspaper cut into the size of a large unit.
The group of people were all furious.
The leader slammed the table with his fist: "Don't let me touch that couple of bitches again, or they will be left with nothing to eat!"
In the state-run small hotel, Fang Zhuoran stared at Lin Mai's bust, which was much larger than usual: "Hurry up and take a shower. If you don't take a shower, the money hidden in the bra will be wet with sweat."
With so much money, I have to hide it.
But it was a hot day, my clothes were thin, and there was no place to hide the money. Where else could I hide it if not in my bra?
But how did this guy know? I didn’t tell him...
Lin Mai's face turned red. He looked at the man in front of him cutely and asked stammeringly: "You...how do you know me and where am I hiding..."
Fang Zhuoran waved his hand: "Your breasts are not that big~"
Lin Mai's face turned even redder. He took his change of clothes from his backpack and plunged into the small bathroom that came with the room.
Fortunately, he had two sets of changes of clothes in his backpack, otherwise he wouldn't be able to change his clothes tonight.
The bathroom was small, so Lin Mai put up with it, and the bathroom wasn't clean enough, so she put up with it.
After all, this was the 1980s, and it was an ordinary state-run hotel, so the requirements couldn't be too high.
But there was only one cold shower, which was unacceptable.
Maybe people in Guangzhou can accept cold water baths, but as a native of Hu Province, Lin Mai really finds it difficult to accept it.
The hotter the day, the more hot water you need to take a shower, so that your pores will be completely opened and you will feel clean and comfortable.
When you're out and about, you don't have to worry about that much, so just take a shower.
Washing is better than not washing.
Lin Mai stayed in the bathroom, but there was no movement for a long time.
Fang Zhuoran was worried and knocked on the door: "Maizi, what are you doing in there? You can't hear the sound of water at all."
Lin Mai looked up and down in the bathroom: "There is no water in the faucet..."
Even if there is no hot water, there is no cold water either.
When the faucet was turned on, it made a few whimpers as there was no water, as if it was dying of thirst, and there was no response at all.
Fang Zhuoran asked very gentlemanly outside: "Can I come in and take a look?"
Lin Mai responded: "Okay."
I haven't taken off my clothes yet, so I'm not afraid of him coming in.
Fang Zhuoran opened the door and walked in, and soon found the reason why there was no water.
I don’t know whether it was an honest mistake by the hotel cleaning staff or a previous tenant who turned off the water inlet valve installed at the bottom of the wall. Of course, no cold water could flow from the faucet.
Fang Zhuoran opened the water inlet valve, and cold water immediately flowed out of the faucet.
He frowned: "Is there only cold water?"
After searching around, there really was only cold water.
His handsome eyebrows knitted tighter: "How can I take a shower without hot water?"
Lin Mai hurriedly said: "It doesn't matter if you just wash it off."
Fang Zhuoran looked at her seriously: "It doesn't matter? Do you think you are a rough guy like me and can take a cold shower?
It is very harmful for girls to take cold baths. Irregular menstruation, cold uterus, and rheumatism will all trouble you.
Do you want to be like a white lady who drank realgar wine, writhing in pain every time you have your period, revealing your true colors?"
Lin Mai broke into cold sweat as he spoke and shook his head wildly: "I don't want to..."
Then he added: "But there is no hot water..."
Fang Zhuoran looked at her speechlessly with an expression like "You are a little retarded": "There is no hot water, why don't you ask the waiter for two bottles of hot water?"
Lin Mai was a little shy.
It's all my fault, I'm too good at enduring hardships and getting along, so I didn't think about it at all.
"I'm going to ask the waiter for hot water." As he spoke, he ran out of the room.
This state-run hotel has no waiters at night and only two front desks.
Lin Mai went to two front desks to ask for hot water. One of the front desks said coldly in Cantonese Mandarin: "What kind of hot water do you use to take a bath on a hot day? You are really a country bumpkin from out of town!"
Guangzhou in this era is more prosperous and vibrant than any other city in the country.
Therefore, some locals look down on outsiders, but they are only a minority.
Lin Mai cursed in his heart, you are just a receptionist, why are you so arrogant!
Fang Zhuoran saw her coming back empty-handed and asked suspiciously: "No hot water?"
Lin Mai shook his head: "I don't know, I just know that they won't give it to me."
Fang Zhuoran put down the medical book he was reading: "I'll try it."
Relying on his natural beauty that he couldn't let go of, he only said to the two receptionists: "Can I give you two bottles of boiled water?"
The two little girls immediately blushed and rushed to prepare hot water for him, and delivered it to the room with considerate service.
As soon as he entered the door, the front desk saw Lin Mai sitting in the room, and his face suddenly looked a little ugly.
They were happy to serve the handsome man Fang Zhuoran, but they were not willing to serve Lin Mai.
When the two receptionists left, they said angrily: "You two don't have a marriage certificate, so you can't sleep in the same room."
Fang Zhuoran smiled gently at the two of them: "We have rented two rooms."
The two receptionists had nothing to say and turned around and left.
Fang Zhuoran considerately poured hot water into the basin, and then mixed it with an appropriate amount of cold water.
Lin Mai took a hot bath comfortably.
This is her first real love in her two lives, and it is also the first time she has enjoyed such considerate care from her boyfriend.
While taking a bath, she vowed in her heart that she would cherish this relationship and Fang Zhuoran.