I let him grab me so hard that my tongue went down to the left side of my face that he had just punched me, and I wondered what I would do if I was disfigured. After a moment of silence, he let go of me, and I patted him on the shoulder again, but I didn't rush to turn around, I thought he was going to punch me again. He knelt down with a "poof", the weather was cold, and there were few people who came out to smoke, only me and him on the balcony. I still keep my expression the same. I'm like that, no matter what happens, I will never think about the problem at the moment, for example, at this moment, I am thinking, the moment he kneels down so loudly, doesn't it hurt. I took out two cigarettes, lit them at the same time, and handed one to him. "Ahem", "How, in two days, you learned to drink and smoke." "It's the first time I've begged someone like this, I'm not pushing you, I really want to know. I smiled playfully again, and he thought I was going to do what I told him to do as I did yesterday, and I would tell him. But this time I didn't. "Get up, then go get the car keys, I'll go ask for leave. ”

I took him to the hospital where Tian Hui had been examining, and found the doctor who was more disgusting than me, and talked politely about Tian Hui, and he was always listening. I asked him to go back to the car first. Opening the car door, I threw a file bag to him: "Reimbursement, bought two cigarettes for that lewd man, and it cost me five hundred oceans." He threw his wallet to me and couldn't wait to open the file bag, which contained the report of Tian Hui's every inspection. When he was looking at the reports and sluggish, I took him to a law firm, and the same process, and after getting in the car, I threw him a file bag and took five hundred yuan for myself. I wondered how he could have brought so much cash with him.

In the end, I took him to Tian Hui's original residence, and the landlord saw me, looked at him behind me, lowered his head, sighed, and muttered why bother and walked away. The landlord is also a quirky person, like us, sometimes noisy, sometimes quiet, that frighteningly quiet. So for so many years, the landlord's house has three floors, and only Tian Hui has been living there, and over time, the landlord has forgotten how long he has confiscated the rent, after all, it is not easy to find a person with the same smell. If it weren't for the purpose of deceiving Du Kang, he would have forgotten that Tian Hui was his tenant, and thought that it was Tian Hui's family in the first place.

I pulled out a key and unlocked the lock that Dukang couldn't open.

It was the same as before, but it felt like something was missing, he walked to the refrigerator and skillfully took out a can of beer, and drank it in a big gulp, I came out of Tian Hui's room and took out a file bag, he threw the wallet to me again, and I threw it back: "This is not necessary." ”

I left him in the house and went to the landlord.

"She's a very nice girl. ”

"He's not bad. ”

"It's just that they don't fit. ”

"It's just that they were born at the wrong time, maybe they will be very happy in the next life. ”

"Aren't you an atheist? ”

"I'll pray too. ”

Tian Hui expected that there would be this day, so let's try to hide it from him, but she was also afraid that we would be embarrassed, so we arranged it.

Du Kang:

I don't know if it was a long time since you read this letter, or when I left, don't blame him, I asked him not to tell you, he can only help you get here, and he doesn't know what happened after this letter. Don't look for me, if the next day I haven't left this world, I'll go to you, I gave you a promise, maybe you didn't pay attention, but I always remember, maybe you are lucky, in the near future, you will meet someone who is very good to you, who can melt your iceberg, and in a certain year and month, you will have a big wedding, forgive me for not being able to attend.

By the way, I've got that world map of yours, and I'll go for you where you can't go. Don't read it.

On the evening of 22 July 2016"

On the evening of August 8, 2016, Shichahai

"What's the plan. ”

"I've sold the car, and I've got everything that can be reversed. ”

"Are you really going? Is it worth it? What's more, you know your map, thousands of 800 cities, look for them one by one?"

"You're a storyteller, you just need to know that there's a story. ”

"I'm a storyteller, and I also need to know why it's a story. ”

"Do it when you know you can't do it. ”

The next day, he and I packed up all the things he and she had left behind, and put them all in my house. Before leaving, he took one of my bank cards, they are really similar, because my savings are divided into three bank cards, Tian Hui took one when he left, and now he also took one when he went to look for her, fortunately I don't have a third friend.

After they left, my life didn't make much of a difference, maybe we were all used to people coming and going, and they incorporated each other into themselves. The next time I heard from him was when he found her footprints. Tian Hui fulfilled her promise and went to his hometown as Du Kang's daughter-in-law, visited his relatives, cleaned up Du Kang's old and dilapidated house, and left her photos and traces of her life. Later, three years later, Tian Hui sent me a postcard of Barcelona, she was standing on Plaça Catalunya, she told me that it felt almost the same, and the next stop was Iceland, she said that she didn't know how long she could last, but she could live a year or two longer than expected, and she felt that she had earned it. She asked me to wait for her in Iceland, she was afraid that Iceland would be her last stop. I always thought she wouldn't be scared anymore. We all think that we can face anything calmly, even death has never scared us, but when we know that we are about to leave, we are so unwilling.

I arrived in Iceland first, she left Barcelona and went to Norway, came from Bergen, and she saw me as much as I saw her, nothing particularly exciting. I took her luggage and took her to the room that had been opened for her, and she told me that this was the last stop, and that night, Du Kang also arrived, and I told him. For dinner that night, we found a Chinese restaurant. Later we rented a car and went to a hill that we didn't know about, and with good luck, there was an aurora tonight, and with bad luck, they were watching the aurora while I pitched a tent.

In the middle of the night, I was hungry, so I got up and roasted the food we brought by the campfire, and Tian Hui also came out. I glanced at her and ignored her. She sat down next to me, handed over a can of beer, and opened another one herself. Later, she asked me, "How long have we known each other?" I sniffed the meat in my hand and handed it to her: "We met when we were six years old, and we Chinese New Year's Eve today." ”

"It's been a long time. ”

"It's okay. ”

We fell silent again. Later, I asked, "I saw the sleeping pills in your bag, and I bought a lot of new ones." ”

"If I am destined to die, why don't I choose my own way of death. "When are you going to do it?" "How's it going tonight?" "The body will be cremated before it can be shipped back to China, and no organs can be donated." "That's what I thought before, and I suddenly thought, I'm dead anyway, why don't I leave a whole corpse, at least let myself walk a little better." I'm not a saint, so there's no need to think about benefiting society. ”

It was already noon when I woke up the next day, and the Icelandic winter was cold, and that day was probably even colder, for Ducon. I drank too much again last night. Du Kang sat slumped in front of Tian Hui's tent, his eyes red. I didn't care about him, I bypassed him and packed up Tian Hui's things, Tian Hui was also carried into the car by me, and after everything was packed, I said to him: "Let's go, take her home." "The police process and language barrier caused us a lot of trouble, and after the cremation, we added all the money together, barely managed to get a helicopter, flew into a forest, and we scattered the ashes, I don't know if it was environmental pollution. Later, we worked in the Chinese restaurant in Iceland for a month to get the tickets back home.

After returning home, our lives did not get back on track as we thought we would have been, because none of us had a job and we had spent all our savings.

We were at the airport, and he said he was going back to spend the rest of his life guarding an acre of land because it was their home. I went to the landlord and he took me in because he took all our stuff when I went to Iceland.

No one is really inseparable from anyone, no one is really in need of anyone, everyone is a passerby, but some passers-by will make us speed up the pace of life, or slow down, just want to keep up with him, all plans and dreams will also add him, and when he leaves, we just have some unwillingness and discomfort. Just like Tian Hui can ignore Du Kang's free and easy walking, just like Du Kang can still change his life plan without Tian Hui. In the end, he didn't find the woman he loved and hated and didn't even remember much, but he met a woman he loved and hated that he would remember even if he died.

My landlord and I opened a teahouse called "Spirits" and a tavern called "Bitter Tea" next door, and business has been bleak. Later, Du Kang came once, it was three years later, he was still alone, he came back to look for the woman, he found it, the woman who wept on the day they met. That woman may have been out of guilt for him, so she was also very kind to his friends, and often brought her big friends to cheer on him. I was very happy because business gradually improved, and later we built a small room by opening the wall between the bar and the teahouse. I set up an operating table in a small room, this small room can only seat one guest, there is no money to drink here, you need to exchange for a story, a glass of wine, a story.