Chapter 166: Sweating

Lin Tingting was also a fashionable girl and was earning a salary. She obviously came to the cinema often. Without thinking, she said, "Let's go to Red Star, it's just on the way back."

Li Xuewu looked at the watch on his hand, it was almost seven-thirty.

"Then we have to eat quickly, otherwise we won't make it."

Originally, he planned to watch at Dahua, which was on the same street, close by, and the time wasn't rushed. But since Lin Tingting wanted to go to Red Star Cinema, they could only eat faster.

The two stopped talking and buried their heads in eating.

Li Xuewu ate a lot and fast, Lin Tingting ate slowly but little, so the two looked at each other and smiled, divided the last two pieces of small sancha, shabu-shabu the pot, and drank the last glass of wine.

Li Xuewu looked at Lin Tingting, who was wiping her face with a handkerchief, and asked, "Are you full?"

Lin Tingting, looking like a foodie, pouted her red lips and said coquettishly, "I'm stuffed."

"Hehe, let's go walk off the meal then."

The two put on their clothes and hats and went out the door. The cold wind blew fiercely on their faces, making the two, who had drunk wine and were sweating, shiver together.

"Let's push the bikes and walk for a while, I'm afraid you'll catch a cold," Li Xuewu said with great concern.

Lin Tingting didn't care and wrapped the scarf on her face for another circle, "It's okay, if it's any later, we won't be able to buy tickets."

Truly, she would rather freeze than miss a chance to watch a movie.

The two got on their bikes and rode back along Dongdan North Street, turning left at Mishi Street.

Red Star Cinema was located on the west side of Mishi Street, adjacent to Jinyu Hutong in the north, so its exit door opened into Jinyu Hutong.

To the south of the cinema was a restaurant, the YMCA, and a youth sports school.

The ticket office was on the south side of the cinema entrance. Seeing not many people, Li Xuewu asked Lin Tingting to wait for him in a place sheltered from the wind, while he lined up to buy tickets.

There weren't many people, and he bought the tickets in about 5 minutes.

"How many?"

"2."

"4 dimes."

After paying, the ticket seller "ka ka" stamped and tore the tickets and threw them over.

"Next!"

He took the tickets and walked back.

Li Xuewu looked at the tickets in his hand, a long white paper slip two fingers wide. Looking from the tear mark on the left to the right, there were two boxes on the ticket price, one saying "Additional price 1 dime, Additional price 5 cents."

Looking further back, it was the seat number and ticket price "Downstairs Row 6, Seat 13, 5 cents." Behind it was written Red Star News Cinema, stamped with a blue square three-grid seal, printed with "Night show, December 1st, 8:00," and below it was the text 8-45.

Lin Tingting's ticket was "Downstairs Row 6, Seat 15."

The ticket price was 5 cents, but the additional price position had the 1 dime and 5 cents torn inside, meaning the ticket price was 2 yuan.

This row of seat numbers was odd-numbered, so Seat 13 and Seat 15 were actually adjacent.

He shook the tickets in his hand, found Lin Tingting waiting by the hall door, led her up the 5 stone steps, and entered the cinema after checking the tickets.

"The time is just right!"

Lin Tingting was still panting a bit at this moment, having ridden a bit fast just now to catch up with the time.

"Are you cold?"

"Not cold, the wine's kick just now came up, and I'm sweating a bit."

Looking at Lin Tingting, who was coquettish after drinking, Li Xuewu helped her untie the scarf and hang it around her neck.

"Don't take off your hat yet, wait until we go in and sit down, and let the sweat cool down before taking it off."

"Okay."

Looking at Li Xuewu's attentiveness and words, Lin Tingting felt that this big guy was not only fierce and domineering on the surface, but also had a delicate and warm side.

Although her family wasn't particularly wealthy, there were only two people in the family, her and her brother. Her parents and brother all worked, so they weren't short of money. She always wanted to find someone who looked good and had good conditions.

Since meeting Li Xuewu, she felt that this person was a bit unreliable, glib-tongued, but generous, decisive in doing things, especially having dealings with Director Ma after the first contact.

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Listening to him talk about giving gifts today, and listening to him count his connections, just like her father and brother, he was clearly sharp-minded and definitely not the reckless man he looked like on the surface.

Good conditions, knows how to care for people, speaks and acts openly, and although there are flaws in his appearance, they aren't innate, and she likes him, so that's enough.

She smiled at Li Xuewu and secretly decided in her heart that if there were no other reasons, it would be him.

The front hall of the cinema wasn't big, about 10 or 20 square meters, divided into left and right entrances. The screening hall, together with the second floor, had about seven or eight hundred seats.

Li Xuewu and the two came late, so they bought night show tickets. The evening show started at 6:30, and the night show started at 8:00.

The night show usually had the fewest people, because everyone had to go to work tomorrow and didn't dare to sleep too late. They were all young people with energy, who were tired from playing in the afternoon and came to watch the night show.

The floor of the screening hall was wooden. Li Xuewu and the two stepped on the wooden floor "ga zhi ga zhi" to find their seats.

"You go in and sit, I'll go out for a bit," Li Xuewu instructed Lin Tingting and walked out.

"Where are you going? It's starting soon."

"Right away," Li Xuewu said right away, and he was already walking out against the crowd.

Li Xuewu found a lounge on the left side of the front hall, reached into his bag, took out his military water bottle from the space, pushed the door, and entered the lounge.

The lounge had a circle of seats placed along the wall, and movie stills and posters were hung on the wall.

The south side of the lounge had several windows, from which one could see the street scene of Mishi Street.

Li Xuewu was aiming for the boiling water in the lounge. In this era, cinemas were equipped with boiling water.

A white iron thermal water bucket was placed on a long table. Li Xuewu touched the water bucket, and the water temperature was appropriate.

There was a water nozzle under the bucket, and a bucket was placed on the ground to catch the leaking water.

On both sides of the water bucket were small wooden cabinets, two layers, marked with "Clean" and "Used."

Li Xuewu saw someone open it and saw small porcelain water cups placed inside. The cups weren't big, and there was a blue rim around the cup mouth.

These were public water cups. At this time, although the service attitude of the cinema staff was average, they truly served the people at this time.

If the weather was cold, it would be a very pleasant enjoyment to drink a cup of warm boiled water after entering the cinema.

Li Xuewu filled a bottle of warm water at the water nozzle with his military water bottle, tightened the lid, and put it back into his bag. At the same time, he took out some dried fruits from the space and put them together with the water bottle.

After leaving the lounge, he saw a wooden staircase on the right side of the front hall leading to the second floor. Li Xuewu curiously went up to take a look. There weren't many seats on the second floor, about 6 or 7 rows, and the guardrail of the second floor was made of wooden fences.

Because the first floor wasn't full, the second floor was also empty.

After seeing something fresh, he hurriedly went downstairs and entered the first-floor screening hall. Lin Tingting was looking over here to find him, and when she saw him enter, she hurriedly waved.

It turned out that the attendant was already shouting to take their seats.