The plane lifted off into the air and flew smoothly, Lin Li took out the German travel guide to read, staring at the pages of the book with a regular gaze, avoiding glancing to the left.

When reading the introduction to the city of Munich, she noticed the following passage: Munich, the capital of the German state of Bavaria, the center of biomedical engineering, with the European headquarters of major companies; It is also the second largest financial center in Germany, with Bavarian State Bank, Deutsche Investment Bank......

Lin Li understood that the headquarters of the German Investment Bank was in Munich, and Xiao Huai went to the headquarters on a business trip.

didn't turn a few pages of the guide, she heard Michiko Koyama and Xiao Huai whispering, not like idle talk, but like discussing work at a time.

She pulls out the tablet provided in her seat, puts on her headphones, selects a random tune, and plays the music in a single loop.

When she buried her head in this series of movements, Xiao Huai stopped talking and looked back.

She didn't pay attention to her surroundings, so she ignored his scrutiny.

After reading the travel guide, the aircrew sent a German-style dinner, and the dishes were not small: bacon sausages, steaks, goose legs, accompanied by wine.

Lin Li put down his knife and fork after a few sips, picked up the wine glass and shook it. In the glass is the famous German wine, transliterated in Chinese as "Rhine Riesling".

She drank very poorly, poured three glasses, and the reason why she knew about Rhine Riesling was also because her boyfriend preferred this white wine.

When she was eighteen years old, she asked him, "Why does it translate to Rhine Riesling when it's a sweet and sour wine?" It sounds cold and a little silly. ”

He said: "Mumu, today is my birthday, you must be entangled with me about the translation of the wine?" Shouldn't we say something or do something else? ”

The memories quietly stopped, and she brought the glass to her lips and drank it down.

When the wine entered her throat, the multi-layered fruity aroma once again reminded her of the old times: the crescent moon on a midsummer night, the flowery boulevards, the shadows of pairs, the light mood......

The past is so beautiful.

Alcohol relaxes the cerebral cortex and diverges thoughts. When Lin Li returned to reality from his boundless reverie, time had passed for a long time, and only the music in the headphones was looping over and over again.

A long time in a daze, the neck is stiff. Lin Li took off his headphones, moved his head, shoulders and neck, turned his face, and saw Xiao Huai staring intently at the laptop screen, and there were still a few documents on the table next to him.

As a doctor, she is very familiar with all kinds of strange clinical spectrograms, at first glance when she sees the undulating candlestick chart on the computer screen, it is difficult to take a few more glances, but unfortunately, Xiao Huai raised her head, and her gaze met unexpectedly in the air.

His expression was a little surprised, as if he had been caught.

She wanted to look away, but in this way, it indirectly proved that she was spying on him behind his back, so she couldn't help but hesitate.

Looking at each other, Lin Li was defeated.

She doesn't like long eye contact, and instinctively brings her knees together and leans back.

Xiao Huai closed the computer, signed the last page of the text, and handed it to Michiko. He used his left hand throughout the whole process, and his movements were calm and old-fashioned.

He turned, "Lin Li, I want to talk to you. ”

"I'm on vacation right now, I don't want to talk about the bungalow, and I won't change my mind." Lin Li refused straight to the point.

In fact, as soon as she saw him on the plane, she had a hunch that he would definitely talk to her about the topic that had been interrupted last time.

Xiao Huai said: "It has nothing to do with the bungalow. I've been busy lately and can't get in touch with you. Since we met on the plane, I would like to talk to you for a while so that you can get to know my grandfather better. ”

"Grandma has long since died, and it doesn't mean anything whether I know your grandfather or not."

Speaking of which, the atmosphere is cold.

Xiao Huai looked at Lin Li quietly, and after a while, the eyes that had no fluctuations became a little deeper: "I admire Ms. Su's loyalty and persistence in her feelings, and at the same time, I think that what she has been waiting for all her life may not be my grandfather, it may be a message, or it may be a reason." After all, in the 30s of the last century, there were not so many negative things in the world, and most people were in exile. ”

Lin Fei realized that he was thinking too one-sidedly about the problem, and silently straightened his sitting posture.

Xiao Huai saw that her attitude softened, and turned away: "I saw that you didn't eat anything for dinner, are you sick again?" ”

This topic eased the embarrassment in her heart, "No, I ate a lot of snacks at home before I left, and I don't feel hungry. ”

She recalled the bacon sausages and steak roast goose on the plate that had been taken away by the air crew, and said more: "It's a pity that I only drank a little wine and didn't eat anything else." ”

"I see, you like Riesling."

He even noticed it. Lin Li was a little surprised, so he asked, "Mr. Xiao, why does Riesling translate it as Riesling?" The name sounds cold and a little silly. ”

Faced with this slightly sharp question, Xiao Huai paused for a second or two, leaned over.

The reduction of physical distance led to the expansion of psychological distance, and Lin Li felt uncomfortable, but she took the initiative to ask, and she could only barely hold back the thought of retreating.

As soon as he spoke, a low and deep voice fell into her ears, "I thought that both the German and the Germanic nations always gave the impression of being cold and rigid, and wooden and sluggish. ”

This answer was a bit unexpected for Lin Li, and she waited for him to continue.

"I read my grandfather's diary, and when he first arrived in Germany, he was often struck by the sluggishness of the Germans. One day he went to the store to buy something, and the price of the goods was seventy-five pfennigs, and he paid one mark, and the clerk actually took out a lot of five pfennigs, and put one penthfennig, and said eighty, and then another, and said eighty-five. ”

Lin Li's eyes widened a little: "Could it be that the clerk plans to put it on the table for a mark, only to know that he is looking for twenty-five fennig?" ”

"yes, that's it."

Lin Li thought about the appearance of the German clerk clumsily fiddling with Finney, shook her head speechlessly, turned her face, and found that Xiao Huai was looking at her.

He seemed to be smiling, his lips curved in a vague arc, and his clear and bright eyes pouted with a little tenderness, making others feel close.

At the moment, her mentality is a little delicate, she feels less rusty and defensive about him, and she is no longer overly restrained when communicating with him.

"Mr. Xiao, what's your grandfather's name?"

"Xiao Chenghan."

"What year was you born?"

“1919。”

"Coincidentally, my grandmother was also born in 1919. Our elders were all 17 years old when they got engaged. ”

Lin Li and Xiao Huai gradually chatted. The content of the next conversation involved the family**, Xiao Huai did not say it directly, but roughly wrote down his grandfather's life deeds in a notepad.

Lin Li saw a story that had been sealed in the dust of time.

After arriving in Germany with his parents, Xiao Chenghan did not watch the Winter Olympics as he wished, but listened to rumors and went to Switzerland to escape the war. Not long after, his father Xiao Zhengfu died, and almost all of Europe was occupied by the Germans, and China was plunged into a protracted war against Japan.

Xiao Chenghan succumbed to his mother's pressure and had to get married and have children in Switzerland. The eldest son died young, and Xiao Huai's father was the second son.

Xiao Chenghan and his wife's married life is very unsatisfactory, and they often quarrel, and almost all of the quarrels revolve around Xiao Chenghan's desire to return to China.

In the eighth year after marriage, Xiao Chenghan's mother died, Xiao Chenghan divorced his wife, and prepared to return to China with his young son. However, the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in China and the War of Liberation began immediately. Hsiao was already stateless at this time and had to apply to the government of the Republic of China for an entry permit order.

The entry permit order was delayed, Siu Chenghan's mood became more and more depressed, and his health deteriorated due to his busy work at a Swiss bank, and he died of a heart attack in 1949 at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve.

After reading it, Lin Li felt quite uncomfortable.

Xiao Chenghan only lived to be thirty years old, and died in his prime. Grandma didn't know the truth, and waited for the deceased to return.

A wrong decision leads to a lifetime of misses.

Lin Li also wrote down the story of her grandmother.

After the end of the Liberation War, my grandmother's family's textile factory was incorporated into a public enterprise. My grandmother was reluctant to stay at home, so she submitted an application to her superiors and was hired as a teacher at the East China Textile Institute of Technology in Shanghai.

In 1959, my grandmother went to Hunan Normal University as a backbone teacher to teach. In the second year of the famine/famine, my grandmother called on teachers and students to donate some food stamps to cook rice porridge to help the victims, including Lin Li's mother. My mother was only 3 years old at the time, and she lost her parents and was adopted by her grandmother.

From 1966 to 1976, there was a whole decade of turmoil, my grandmother was identified as a capitalist roader and was criticized/fight, and the old house was confiscated. My grandmother had several nervous breakdowns and wanted to end her life, but she survived in extreme pain at the last moment.

In 1978, the chaos was put in order, my grandmother's reputation was restored, and the old bungalow was returned by the municipal government. After her grandmother retired, Lin Li's mother was admitted to medical school and met Lin Li's father.

Lin Li's parents got married after graduation, gave birth to Lin Li the following year, and lived with her grandmother in the old bungalow until her grandmother's death in 2006.

Xiao Huai was silent for a while after reading it: "There are some details that I can't understand. It seems that Ms. Su and your mother are not having a good time at home. ”

Lin Li corrected: "It's just that a few years of it have not been good. ”

"Didn't your father have a bad time in those years?"

"Yes."

"How are you doing?"

Lin Li was stunned.

Xiao Huai stared into her eyes and repeated, "Lin Li, how are you doing?" ”

It's obviously a very ordinary question, but it hits the bottom of my heart like a pebble unexpectedly. His gaze was unabashedly staring at her, but the information in his eyes was so pitiful that she couldn't tell the difference. Is it questioning? Or is it small talk?

In the end, Lin Li pulled the corners of his mouth: "Me? Very good. ”

Xiao Huai was about to ask when Michiko said "I'm sorry" and whispered a few words in his ear.

After listening to this, Xiao Huai cast an apologetic look at Lin Li, turned around and opened the laptop.

The conversation ended suddenly, and Lin Li still stayed at the last question, difficult to pull away.

She watched Xiao Huai and Michiko discuss work affairs, her expression slightly apprehensive, and then turned her face away, and her eyes looked at the boundless night outside the string window for a moment.

After a while, the flight attendant came over and smiled and asked if he needed help putting the seat down and making the bed. Lin Li looked at the time, it was close to 22 o'clock.

She shook her head and whispered, "No, I can fall asleep while I sit." ”

When she said this, Xiao Huai had just made an important decision in a very short period of time, and she looked sideways inadvertently.

He saw her click on the music list on the tablet, her fingers wandering aimlessly, choosing a piece of music, putting on her headphones, closing her eyes, and preparing to fall asleep.

From beginning to end, she looked indifferent and did not show any emotion.

The first-class cabin grew silent, and he could hear the sound in her headphones, a classical string piece he knew, composed in the 18th century, titled "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" in German.

It means "a serenade".

The bland name, the not bland melody, the short and gorgeous eighth trill, and the layered Allegro rondo are full of clear and fluent feelings.

It's not a good piece of music to listen to before bed. On the contrary, the calmer the heart, the more the feelings hidden in the heart will be aroused by the notes that are like a sweet spring.

Feelings that are unknown and do not want to be known.