During his time studying in the UK, Meng Li tasted loneliness. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Admittedly, from a physical and biological point of view, he is not alone, he has school, teachers and classmates during the day, and his host family is very warm and attentive at night, but all this is a substitute for a real home. Wandering in a foreign land, breathing foreign air, eating foreign food, and hearing foreign Chinese in his ears, all this made Meng Li very uncomfortable.

Before he left China, he was also full of ambition and made up his mind to stay in the local area to find a job as much as possible after he successfully studied abroad, and did not return to China. What is good in China? Food safety, air quality, and some social chaos that has not been resolved for a long time...... However, when he really came abroad, he missed the things that he hated deeply - no matter how bad the air quality was, but it was very familiar, no matter how bad the food safety was, at least it was delicious, what did the social chaos have to do with him?

He's not the only one who can't adapt to the environment. Several of them came out of the same group because of the sudden change in circumstances and lost themselves.

The host family was welcoming. Although he has never been able to fit in, he has to admit that the family is very hospitable, and they don't treat him as an outsider, but he has imprisoned himself, and he always feels that there is a barrier, and he always feels that they are looking at him with strange eyes.

There was a puppy at home, and he didn't care about it at first, because there are so many pets abroad, and it's too common. In addition, he didn't know what kind of dog it was, and he had never seen it in the country. After asking, he found out that her name was Julie, and she was a cocker spaniel.

The host family was so good that they probably saw that Meng Li was a little unhappy, so they assigned him a task - to take Julie out for a walk every morning and evening.

This task is easy but time-consuming, and cocker spaniels are hunting dogs, more active and energetic than ordinary dogs, with long walks and the responsibility of picking up poop.

Meng Li had never had a dog before, and he had no expectations for raising a dog but he didn't reject it, but he hated the feeling of stepping on dog poop while walking on the street. However, when he came to the British town where he lived, he realized that due to the large number of dog owners, the dog poop flood in the United Kingdom was not much better than in China.

Julie resembles the one in the display case, with large, round brown eyes and well-defined cheeks that make her look like a serious senile philosopher when not screaming. Meng Li often forgets that it is actually a young female dog, and always calls it "Old Zhu".

The cocker spaniel has a very long fur, is very active, and likes to burrow around, which causes Julie's fur to get caught in the grass and thorns when walking the dog outside, causing it to whimper and whine in pain. When Meng Li untangled the tangled hair, it would happily lick his hand to express its gratitude, and then quickly forget the pain and continue to burrow through the messy grass.

In the beginning, Meng Li only walked his dog near his host family, and gradually walked farther and farther, even all the way to the outskirts of the town. As he came and went, the residents along the road also knew him, and there were often familiar and unfamiliar people who greeted him, and occasionally someone led a dog to catch up with him and walk with him.

The days passed uneventfully, and nothing memorable had happened until the end of his studies. After graduating, he changed his mind and decided to return to his country, which was not perfect but he knew very well. The night before he got on the plane, his host family threw him a lively farewell party on the lawn in the backyard, which was attended by many townspeople he knew or had never met.

He prepared a lot of gifts, hugged and thanked the family one by one, and also said goodbye to Julie. Julie probably didn't know that he was leaving, and bit the corners of his pants and dragged him out, urging him to go out for a walk. He patted it on the head, pulled the corner of its pants out of its mouth, and said goodbye to it in Chinese, which it didn't understand anyway. Julie didn't linger, and after one look at him, she ran to the farewell party and chased and played with the dogs brought by the others.

Early the next morning, because he had to rush to the airport in the big city to take a plane, he got up early in the dark, quietly dragged his suitcase out of the house, and took a taxi to leave.

There was nothing reluctant, only the expectation of returning home occupied his heart.

It wasn't until he boarded the plane, sat in the seat of the plane, and looked out the porthole at the busy airport that a trace of melancholy was born in his heart. You're really leaving......

The flight attendant is making a final check and announcement before take-off, reminding passengers that the plane is about to take off and please turn off their mobile phones.

At this time, his mobile phone rang, causing the surrounding passengers to look sideways, and the flight attendant smiled at him in a friendly manner, reminding him to turn off his phone.

Meng Li was embarrassed and hurriedly turned off the ringtone. It wasn't the ringing of the phone, it was the alarm on his side, and at this point in the day, he took Julie out for a walk - he sometimes forgot to do his homework, even if it was only a few minutes late, Julie would be restless and wander around the house, and the host or hostess would unceremoniously knock on the door and remind him to do his job. Could this be the stereotypes and punctuality peculiar to the British?

After going back and forth, he was also embarrassed, so he turned on the phone alarm to prevent himself from forgetting again. When the alarm goes off, as long as there is no wind, frost, rain or snow outside, he will put down his homework, change his clothes, take the leash and shovel tools and go out on time, and Julie will also wait at the door with joy. After tying it on a leash, it was not so much that he was leading it for a walk, but that it was eagerly dragging him out of the house......

Meng Li smiled apologetically to the passengers around him and apologized, canceling the alarm that had to ring every day, because there was no need to ring it anymore.

He put his finger on the power switch and was about to press and hold it to turn it off, when he received a message from the host of the host family. There is a photo in the message of Julie crouching at the door of his room, leaning out a paw on the door, looking back at the camera, her eyes full of confusion. The message was accompanied by a very short sentence: it is still waiting for you to get out.

Until this moment, the long-suppressed emotions exploded. He remembered the care that his host family had taken care of him for a long time, the friendliness and warmth of the townspeople, and the time he had taken Julie for his daily walks.

The passenger next to him thought he was sick and uncomfortable, and hurriedly called the flight attendant, but he could only smile in tears, saying that he was okay, but he was reluctant to leave.

Meng Li has always thought that he has not integrated into the life of the UK, in fact, he is really the only one who thinks so, whether it is Julie or the host family, they have already regarded him as a member of the family, and they have not regarded him as a guest, which will support him to do this and that.

He suddenly regretted that he should have said goodbye at least in the morning, and he must have acted like a coward.

Under the repeated reminders of the flight attendant, although he wanted to reply to something, he still turned off his phone.

The plane took off, leaving the once strange and now familiar country, and flying to the once familiar and now strange motherland......

When he said this, Zhang Zi'an heard the sound of a mobile phone ringing in Meng Li's pocket.

Meng Li took out his mobile phone and turned off the alarm interface.