Early summer in Guangzhou is always extremely hot.
It was past eight in the morning, and the sun was already scorching the earth like a blazing fire. Elizabeth took a bus to the bus stop near Guangcheng Hotel. After getting off the bus, she took out her cell phone and called her mother.
"Mom, I'm near the Guangcheng Hotel and will be there soon. Can you tell me more about what the blind date looks like?" Elizabeth asked.
Mrs. Smith responded on the other end of the phone: "Don't you have his photo?"
"I forgot." Elizabeth was a little embarrassed.
" You are always so careless. Even if I told you what he looks like, you might not be able to imagine it. Anyway, you went into the hotel and looked for him in the cafe on the first floor. He works at a construction site nearby. Whoever you see wearing migrant workers' clothes and a safety helmet is your blind date." Mrs. Smith explained in detail.
Elizabeth pushed her glasses up on her nose and responded.
"Elizabeth, I tell you, you can't be picky this time. You are already 27 years old. If you don't get married, you will become an old spinster. Don't hide in your orchard all day long." Mrs. Smith's words revealed a bit of anxiety.
"Mom, I know, I..." Elizabeth was knocked down before she could finish her words.
" Girl, are you okay? I'm sorry, I was in a hurry and didn't see you." The person who knocked Elizabeth down was a woman in her sixties. She quickly helped Elizabeth up and apologized repeatedly.
Although Elizabeth was fine, her glasses fell to the ground and the lenses shattered. She is highly myopic, and without her glasses, everything around her becomes blurry.
"Auntie, I'm fine." Elizabeth didn't want to argue with the auntie, so she quickly said that she was fine. After the auntie asked again and again, she insisted that she was fine, and the auntie left.
She bent down to pick up the broken glasses, which could not be repaired, so she had to fold the glasses frame and put it in her pocket. Finding that her mother had not hung up the phone, she briefly explained the situation, hung up the phone in a hurry, and walked into the Guangcheng Hotel.
Elizabeth's vision was blurry without her glasses, so she had to get close to see clearly when looking for a coffee shop. The coffee shop was crowded, and after looking around, she finally saw a man in a corner who was dressed like a bricklayer on a construction site, and he was wearing a safety helmet.
That person was her blind date today—William.
Elizabeth walked straight over. William noticed someone approaching and asked politely, "Excuse me, are you William ?" Although William was confused, he still responded in a low voice.
"Hello, I'm Elizabeth, your blind date today." After getting confirmation, Elizabeth naturally sat opposite William and introduced herself.
Due to her severe myopia, she couldn't see William's face clearly even when they sat face to face, but she didn't care, as long as his facial features were complete.
William raised his eyebrows slightly, and stared at Elizabeth with deep and cold eyes. However, when he saw Elizabeth was calm and clear-eyed, he restrained his sharpness and coldness.
" Mr. Moore , did the introducer tell you about my situation? I am 27 years old this year. I had a love experience that ended without any result. Since then, I have been single. I have my own business and contracted several orchards, growing lychees, longans, mangoes, papayas, grapes, oranges, watermelons and other fruits."
"I'm usually very busy with work and don't have time for a relationship. So I thought if we hit it off on a blind date, we could just get married. This way I can avoid my parents constantly urging me to get married, which is giving me a headache."
"Oh, by the way, there are three of us in my family. My elder sister is married, and my younger brother has started a family. Now I am the only one who is still single, so my parents are pushing me very hard." As soon as Elizabeth sat down, she talked about her situation non-stop.
William looked at Elizabeth, a different woman, with great interest. She was not as bright and noble as those daughters of famous families he had seen before, but she was good-looking and more charming the more he looked at her. Her straightforwardness and honesty also gave him a good first impression of her.
Since Elizabeth had introduced herself, William also introduced himself politely: " Miss Smith , I have many brothers in my family, and I am the eldest. I am 31 years old and still unmarried. But I have two children who need to be taken care of. They are the orphans of an old friend of mine. After he died in an accident, his wife also disappeared, leaving the two children unattended. So I adopted them and treated them as my own."
" How old are they now?" When Elizabeth heard that William 's situation was different from what the introducer said, that he was not only older but also had two children, she was a little surprised but did not show it.
“They are four years old and will be entering the last year of kindergarten in September. They are twins, a boy and a girl,” William replied.
Elizabeth was relieved when she heard this. As long as the child can go to kindergarten, the adults can relax a lot.
"Do you have their photos? I want to see them." Elizabeth felt that William was an honest and kind person because he was willing to adopt the children of his deceased friend without fear of affecting his marriage. Moreover, an unmarried man who could take good care of two children also showed that he had a good temper and was tolerant. This was exactly the type of man she was looking for.
William took out his mobile phone, opened the album, and found photos of the two children to show Elizabeth. The two children were beautiful and cute, just like the lucky dolls in the New Year pictures. Although Elizabeth was severely nearsighted, she could still see the appearance of the two children by holding the phone close to her. She fell in love with these two cute kids at first sight.
After looking at the photo of the child, Elizabeth handed the phone back to William and asked bluntly: "Mr. Moore, I have a good impression of you. If you think I'm good too, do you dare to get married quickly? If you dare, let's go and complete the formalities now!"
For Elizabeth, getting married is not a difficult thing. As long as her parents stop nagging her to get married, she can focus on her career. And getting married quickly requires courage, which Elizabeth has never lacked. As a girl, she dared to borrow millions and borrow from relatives and friends to contract several orchards to do what she loves most. This courage is not even matched by many men!
