It was late afternoon when he got back from the Sunset Boulevard bus, and Jester simply bought two beef burgers on the side of the road to satisfy his hunger.

The bus stops not far from the game store 'Jedi House', which is a maximum of half an hour's walk.

Jester simply walked away, which can be regarded as digesting food after meals, which is good for his health.

The bookstore on the street is also lit up, and it seems that it is going to remain open.

On the advertising picture posted outside the bookstore, there were a few lines of conspicuous handwriting printed on it, which looked a little familiar, and Jester couldn't help but stop and watch for a while.

The name of the book printed on the advertising picture was "The-Unbearable-Lightness-of-Being", and the cover of the book was designed with a literary and artistic bourgeois atmosphere, and it was specially marked in red to attract people's attention.

Jestmo read it a few times, and when he saw the name of the author of Milan-Kundera behind it, he realized that this was the famous book "The Unbearable Lightness of Life".

Counting the time, now is indeed the time for this magnum opus to come out.

In his previous life, in order to chase his girlfriend, he took literary history in college.

As a result, my girlfriend didn't catch up, but I heard a lot of small jokes.

The teacher who gave the lecture was a fan of Sholokhov and Milan Kundera, and at that time he took the time to talk about the world literary scene in 1984, and the world literary scene of this year was mainly the names of three people, Sholokhov, Milan Kundera and Margaret Duras.

For this teacher, this year can be described as a year of grief and happiness.

Sholokhov died that year, while Milan Kundera wrote The Unbearable Lightness of Life, and Marguerite Duras, although the Frenchman was far less famous than the first two, published her best-selling French novel Love in the same year. People.

Yes, it's Leung Ka-fai's 'sexy buttocks'. Person.

At that time, his teacher said that Sholokhov, one of the greatest writers of the Soviet Union, died in this year, and even the West, which was ideologically opposed, expressed deep condolences for the death of this great writer.

At that time, Jester was still a little suspicious that his teacher was a brainless fan, because what the other party said was illogical, a Soviet writer, and not a cent like Solzhenitsyn, but a real proletarian fighter who won the Stalin Prize for Literature and the May Day Medal, how could he be mourned by those Western countries?

It's just nonsense.

Jester walked into the bookstore and saw the English translation of "The Quiet Don" in a prominent place, which made him shudder.

This book is Sholokhov's greatest work, and it has been said that it can be used to put a coffin on his head after death, and he will write a book that he will never regret in his life, and most diao, it was written when he was twenty-five years old......

And these books can be placed in a prominent position, and the manuals are selling very well, you must know that this is the Western world, the ideological opposition between the East and the West is very strict, and Sholokhov is a Soviet writer.

Is it true that literature transcends the state and the mind?

Jester also had to sigh at Sholokhov's influence, as his teacher said back then, a truly world-class writer.

"Smack!"

Inadvertently, a soft noise came from nearby.

Jester couldn't help but look up in the direction of the voice, a dark-haired girl with a dress and temperament, who was out of place with the Americans of this era, blushed, and squatted down embarrassedly to pick up a book that had fallen on the ground.

Judging from the cover of the book, it is the immortal work of Milan Kundera that Jester just saw on the poster outside the bookstore, which shocked the world shortly after it came out, "The Unbearable Lightness of Life".

"Hello, Chinese?"

Seeing each other's clothes, Jester had already guessed the identity of the other party, and couldn't help but feel a sense of intimacy, although he had seen a lot of Chinese here, but he was reborn in the United States, and this was the first time he had seen a Chinese from the other side of the ocean.

The girl was very beautiful, giving Jester a lily feeling, her skin was very white, her hair was jet black, she wore a ponytail tied with a simple leather band, she wore a plain white dress, half of her white calves were exposed, and she wore a pair of black lace-up shoes on her feet, and white cotton socks wrapped around her ankles.

Seeing that everyone around her was looking at her with strange eyes, the girl's face was as red as a ripe red apple.

It was also at this time that the girl suddenly heard an extremely standard Mandarin sentence, which made her face can't help but show a look of surprise.

She has been studying in the United States for more than half a year, although she has met a lot of Chinese, and there are Chinatowns in Los Angeles, but most of them speak Cantonese, and very few speak Mandarin, especially as standard as just now.

The girl looked in the direction of the sound in surprise, and saw a young yellow-skinned and black-haired man of about 1.8 meters walking towards her with a smile.

The girl was a little distracted for a moment, and Jester had already crouched down to help her pick up the book that had fallen to the ground.

Then the book was handed to the girl.

"Thanks... Thank you! ”

The girl was still a little shy, stood up, quickly took the book, blushed and lowered her head, and then stammered a little thanks.

"Yikes! So you're really from China! ”

Hearing the girl's reply, although it had been confirmed before, Jester still showed a look of surprise.

Hearing Jester's words, the girl was surprised, originally she thought that the person who could speak such authentic and fluent Mandarin must also be an international student from China.

Although there are a lot of international students in Los Angeles, there are not many of them, she has been here for so long, and she has met a few times, and most of them have also seen.

Unexpectedly, listening to his question just now, it seems that he is not from China, but can a Chinese person speak such good Mandarin......

"Yes, I'm from BJ, you... Aren't you studying in China? ”

The girl's voice is not loud, and she does not have the taste of Beijing films, but there is a bit of a cowardly Jiangnan atmosphere.

"I ...... I'm not, I'm Chinese, my grandfather came to the United States in four or five years, and your accent sounds like a generation from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, not like a northern. Jester was stunned when he heard the girl's question, and was about to blurt out his original identity, but then suddenly thought that now that he had been reborn, the world had already changed greatly, and even the city where he was located did not appear because of the problem of administrative division.

At this time, the look of surprise on the girl's face was even more prevalent, and a few hints of doubt flashed in her bright eyes, even if it was a domestic person, not everyone could tell where the other party was from just by the accent.

But the girl still replied: "My ancestral home is Jiangsu, and I also lived in Jiangsu when I was a child, and I didn't return to BJ until I was in college." ”

Jester nodded, in fact, he was an otaku before he was reborn, the kind that couldn't say a word in front of the girl for a long time, and this time he was able to take the initiative to talk to this girl just out of an impulse that he hadn't seen the Chinese people for a long time, and after this impulse disappeared, he didn't know what to say.

For a while, there was a bit of a cold scene between the two.

At this moment, Jester inadvertently looked down and saw the copy of Milan Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Life" that was still in the girl's slender white palm, and took the initiative to say: "This book is very good, I have a friend who recommended it to me." ”

Hearing this, a hint of joy appeared on the girl's face, and after chatting with Jester for a few words, she also felt that the other party was not like a bad person, and she was not so shy, in fact, she was still very talkative in front of acquaintances, especially when she heard that the other party liked "The Unbearable Lightness of Life", she said with some excitement: "Do you also like this book?" This was recommended by one of my teachers at school, and said that this book was the best book that had ever appeared in the entire 80s, up to now...... It's a pity that there are a lot of things in it that I can't understand......"

"Can't understand?" Jester hadn't actually read much of this book, he had never read this kind of literary book, and his knowledge of this book was only from his elective teacher, but he had heard friends who had read this book say that there were some parts of the book that were difficult to understand, but the problem was that he didn't know.

At this time, Jester hated himself for not studying the book in the first place.

The girl thought that Jester had read the book and understood more people than her, after all, the other party was a person who grew up in the United States, and her English must be very good, and her English level was not too high, after all, she was not a foreign language major.

She gently opened the cover of the book, stretched out a finger like white jade to point to the string of letters on the title page that was obviously not English, and asked Jester with a little hope and a little grievance, "This is it!" This is it! I copied it down and asked a few of my classmates, but they didn't know what it meant, and said it wasn't in English or French. ”

Jester glanced at the string of sentences on the title page, which looked familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.

Seeing the puzzled look on Jester's face, the girl's originally hopeful face couldn't help but dim, and she thought silently in her heart, it turned out that he didn't know what this sentence meant.

Suddenly, Jester's eyes lit up, and then he slapped his head sharply, and he remembered.

The girl seemed to be startled when she saw Jester's watch just now, and she held the book around her chest in her arms, and looked at him with some panic and confusion.

A smile crossed Jester's face.

Isn't this the one that his cheating elective teacher wrote on the blackboard and told everyone bluntly that the exam questions of his class must have a question that explains what this sentence means?

After thinking carefully about what his elective teacher said at the time, and organizing his words, Jester began to pretend to be forced at the girl, and at the same time couldn't help but secretly sneer: "These American publishers are too bastards, why do you have a Czech sentence on the title page that is not translated?" ”

"This is Czech, Milan Kundera is Czech......"

"Ahh Kundera is a Czech, huh? I heard the teacher say that he was a French writer......" As soon as the girl heard Jester's explanation, she couldn't help but make a sound in surprise, but she felt that it was a little rude to interrupt someone else's explanation to herself, so she couldn't help but stick out her tongue in embarrassment, and her white cheeks immediately turned red.

Jester just smiled disappreciatively and continued to explain to the girl.

"Well, he's a French writer, but he's a Czech, he's written in French, he's written in Czech, and this book The Unbearable Lightness of Life is written in Czech, because it's a story that takes place in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic......"

Jester carefully introduced the background of "The Unbearable Lightness of Life", and the girl listened with relish.

As for the reason why Jester didn't read the book but knew the content of the book - he had seen the famous film "Prague Love", which he remembered was based on the novel, maybe in some places, but the background was still correct.

"The phrase on the title page is in Czech, which means 'a qiē sin has been forgiven beforehand, and a qiē is vilely permitted!', which means that a sinful thing done by a human being is forgiven before it is done, which causes the sinful thing to be allowed to happen. It is used to satirize Jesus and the Christian spirit, because no matter what Christians confess before death, they will get an answer of "the Lord has forgiven you", which is also the core idea of the whole book "The Unbearable Lightness of Life", and it is easy to understand it when you read this book again. Jester recounted the words of the former lecturer of literary history almost exactly.

After hearing this, the girl's eyes also flashed with admiration, college students in this era are still very simple, and they will naturally admire those who know more than themselves.

In fact, she didn't know that it was just Jester reading from the script......

"Yikes! It's so late, I'm going back......" The girl looked at the sky outside, it was completely dark, and then looked at the copy of Milan Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Life" in her hand, and carefully put it back on the shelf.

Jester knows that this is because American books are too expensive, in this era, they are all sent by the state to study abroad, and the living expenses are very small, and the rest of the money is to buy books that are beneficial to their studies, such as this kind of best-selling novels that have just been published, even if it is very good, it will occupy a pivotal position in the world literary scene in the future, but it is still impossible to spend precious foreign exchange to buy.

Then the girl said goodbye to Jester and hurried out of the bookstore.

Looking at the girl's slender figure, naked. The exposed calves were like white jade, and the tip of Jester's nose seemed to be able to smell the fragrance of the previous girl, a bit like the fragrance of the lily after it bloomed.

Jester knew it wasn't the smell of cosmetics, it was the natural body scent of the girl.

Then Jester slapped his head hard, and he remembered that he had forgotten to ask the girl's name, contact information, and what university she was studying at......

I'm such an out-and-out otaku!

Secretly scolding himself, Jester picked up a copy of "The Unbearable Lightness" from the bookshelf without saying a word, turned it over and looked at the unit price of sixty dollars, and scolded the greedy American bookseller, then hurried to the cashier and threw down a hundred-dollar bill, and then rushed out of the bookstore, running briskly towards the girl.

Jester didn't know the girl's name, and shouting 'hey, hey' was too impolite, for fear that it would leave a very bad impression on the other party, and shouting 'beauty' was a very common word in later generations, and Jester could only chase after him tightly without saying a word.

Although the girl may have been in a hurry and walked quickly, she was a weak woman after all, and she could not compare to Jester, a man with a strong body, in any case.

In less than a minute or two, Jester chased after the girl.

The girl with the scent of lilies looked at Jester, who was sweating profusely and panting in surprise, wondering why the other party was chasing her.

"Give!" Jester handed the book to the girl.

It is the book "The Unbearable Lightness of Life", which the girl was reluctant to give up before.

The girl's shining eyes were fixed on the book Jester handed to her, but she didn't reach for it, and despite the look of hope in her eyes, she shook her head firmly.

"I can't ask for it, this book is too valuable, and we've only just met......"

Jester was a little speechless.

College students in this era should not be so simple.

He had no choice but to change his words: "It's not for you, I'll lend it to you, you can see it whenever you want, my name is Jester Lee, I'm a student at UCLA, I'm going to be in my third year at the end of the vacation, electrical engineering, you can come and return this book to me after you finish reading it, and you're from China, I'm an overseas Chinese, shouldn't we help each other?" Isn't the lyrics of the song sung by Zhang Mingmin on this year's Spring Festival Gala like this, 'The blood flowing in my heart, surging with the voice of China, even if I am in another country, I can't change it, my Chinese heart!'" ’。 ”

Hearing Jester's words, the girl was even more surprised: "Have you also heard "My Chinese Heart"? ”

Jester smiled and said, "This song is written about us overseas Chinese!" My grandfather got the tape from a friend, and when he heard the song, he burst into tears and kept saying, "That's what we're talking about!" That's what we're talking about! ”

When the girl heard Jester's explanation, she still bit her lip hard, and her delicate face showed a look of struggle, or maybe the book was too confusing, and the girl finally took it.

But she still emphasized again and again that she just took a look, and she would definitely take good care of it, and when she finished reading, she would definitely return it intact.

Jester just smiled and didn't speak, in fact, in his heart, it didn't matter if the girl was still there.

He is also very happy to be able to help an international student from China.

Moreover, he looked at the clean, neat, and generous girl in front of him, and inexplicably felt a good feeling in his heart, which seemed to be ...... What is love at first sight?

Jester didn't know if it was or not, but he knew that the girl was indeed the type he liked, unpretentious, unpretentious, and principled.

The girl looked at Jester, looked down at the book she was holding in her hand, hesitated for a moment, but still spoke, her voice was still the cowardly accent that Jester never got tired of listening to, full of Jiangnan water-like accent: "My name is Qin Shuyao, I studied film production and screenwriter at USC, thank you for the book!" ”

After saying that, it may be the first time to introduce herself to a strange boy, and the girl's face instantly turned red,

Then he turned his head and walked briskly towards a bus stop sign in the distance.

Jester looked at the girl named Qin Shuyao quietly, and his eyes couldn't help but fall on her feet wearing a pair of black lace-up shoes, and he realized that it might be that the girl was in too much hurry just now, and the laces were too loose, and the laces of one shoe had been loosened.

Seeing this scene, Jester just couldn't help but chase after him quickly, and then, without saying a word, he squatted down and tied the girl's shoes.

When Qin Shuyao saw this scene, his face instantly turned red from his cheeks to the roots of his ears, and at the same time, his face also showed an angry look.

"Why is this man like this! How embarrassing it is on the street...... "Qin Shuyao's heart was like a deer constantly bumping, she wanted to scold the other party fiercely, and then throw his books to him, and then said that she was not rare in his broken books...... But she looked down at Jester quietly and gently tying her shoes, but she couldn't scold her anyway.

Tying up his shoes, Jester stood up and was about to say, 'Okay,' but when he saw the look of anger on the girl's face, he immediately understood how much of what he had just done was for a girl from China...... Excessively. Putting it to life first, Jester really couldn't think of a better word to embellish it.

The girl stared at Jester with wide bright eyes, her eyes filled with moisture, and she pursed her lips with some grievances, blushing, and didn't speak, just like that, a second or two passed, and then she turned around, and the figure quickly disappeared into the crowd.

Jester watched Qin Shuyao's back gradually disappear, and a feeling of loss inexplicably arose in his heart.

It's a feeling of extreme loneliness.

This is the first time he has felt this in this world.

This seems to be love at first sight.

He could only comfort himself like this.

PS: I only updated one chapter yesterday.,It's because the second chapter.,That is, this chapter is too difficult to write.,I want to write an innocent encounter.,Create a girl I want to appear in my mind.,I wrote from seven o'clock to three o'clock to finish writing these 6,000 words.,I don't know how many times I've modified, added or deleted.,There's really no way.,

Please bear with me. In addition, thanks to the more vulgar god tying his shoes in the waterway for giving me inspiration, it is used to express a scene of innocent encounters, this paragraph is very suitable