Chapter 37: The Journey of Love

I have to make long-distance phone calls on landlines for a long time every night, and the cost of phone calls is unbearable for me. Because I was embarrassed to always ask Mars Interstellar to call, I often took the initiative to call him later, and I didn't let him bear the long-distance call fee alone.

At the end of the month, when Mars's sister went to settle the phone bill, she found that he had made a landline bill of more than 600 yuan, and in a fit of anger, his landline was shut down.

We had to use TeamSpeak or QQ voice connection to completely replace long-distance calls.

But the computer is desktop, and sitting in front of the computer all the time will literally sit me like a popsicle because it's so cold. Besides, after playing the game for two or three hours, I am already tired of sitting, and it is very uncomfortable to continue to sit for a long time.

So sometimes, I still use the wireless extension of my landline phone to call his cell phone so that we can lie in bed and talk, and it is much more comfortable to sleep under a warm quilt, although I regret it when it comes time to pay the bill.

At this time, it is already entering the wax moon, and the south in the middle of winter is no better than the north, the outside is wet and cold, and the interior is like an ice cellar.

As a result, we spend almost less and less time playing games, and it is really hard to bear the freezing sting of the fingers that are bare and typing on the keyboard and mouse for long periods of time.

So most of the time we spent gluing together was spent chatting, and sometimes we would talk with our comrades who were on the TeamSpeak voice platform, but didn't have the heart to fight.

Mars Interstellar was as anxious as he was when he first came to see me, but whenever we were alone, he would mention that he wanted me to go to see him.

The reason he said was that, on the one hand, he wanted to come to see me again, but he spent all the money on the two southbound trips, and he had no money to go out again for the time being; Another one said that even if we couldn't get married, he would invite me to go to him, because his mother had heard from his sister that he had been making long phone calls every night, probably because he had found a girlfriend from out of town, and his mother kept urging him to bring her to her.

At this time, Mars often mentioned this matter, and repeatedly begged me to go to their Jiangsu, to act as his girlfriend and let his mother take a look, so that she could leave with peace of mind, because the doctor said that she only had about half a year.

After Mars's repeated persuasion, I finally agreed to go to him, mainly because of the reason he said later, which convinced me, alas! Who told me to have compassion for the heavens and people?

So I bought a train sleeper ticket for the 25th of the lunar month in advance, which is already the sleeper ticket on the top date. Mars Interstellar also agreed to me, saying that he would help me book a return train ticket for the 28th of the lunar month in advance on their side.

"If you can't buy a sleeper ticket, even if it's a hard-seat ticket, you have to help me buy it in advance, for sure."

I told him this again and again, because I insisted that I could not spend the New Year outside, and the train tickets approaching Chinese New Year's Eve must be difficult to buy, so he had to help me pre-purchase them there first, so that I could have the guarantee of returning home on time.

The train has a starting station and a terminal station, and we don't know how many times we will have to ride it in our lifetime, and it is not necessarily that we get on the train at the starting point and get off at the end point.

Many times, because of a hasty decision that seemed like a trip at the time, we became passers-by on a certain itinerary, sweating like rain in the crowd of people, and carrying hope in the rickety carriage.

But after many years, when I look back at the scribbled footprints I walked because of impulsiveness, I sometimes feel very emotional, if I hadn't made such a rash decision, would I have less regret today?

And at that time, I really regretted it, because I was afraid of the cold, I wore something "unusual", the popular casual brand down jacket in those years, the key is that its color is peach blossom red, very eye-catching.

As soon as I got on the bus, I had just found my berth, and in the process of packing my luggage, I was recognized by an acquaintance who was just passing by this carriage.

The moment she called my name, I was taken aback, as if I had been caught as a thief, because after all, this was the first time I went to meet netizens in other places, and this kind of behavior was despised by me before, and I thought it was childish and stupid.

An acquaintance asked me if I was going to the provincial capital and said she was. I quickly replied no, then sent her away with a few perfunctory words.

My heart was empty for a while.

The train started, and I flattened the folding chair by the window on the side of the aisle of the sleeper car, sat down, and looked out the window as it passed.

Then, just like Mars when Interstellar first came to see me, I texted him as soon as the train started, "The train is moving, I'm coming." ”

After that, I opened my bag, took out my MP3 and plugged in my headphones, and listened to the music, of course, the first song was "Glass", a song that I would listen to several times whenever I missed Mars.

I also experienced first-hand the extreme excitement and excitement that Mars Interstellar felt when he first came to see me.

Because the destination is a distant and strange place that has never been before, there is a sense of mystery and unpredictability, coupled with the psychological state of longing to meet as soon as possible, so it can make people restless and restless.

Every now and then, I would send a text message to Mars Interstellar, saying where I had just passed by, and it was the same as the Mars Interstellar when I first came to see me!

When the night came, almost all the people in the carriage were asleep, and the conductor had lowered all the curtains, but I was still sitting by the window of the aisle of the train, and I had no intention of going to bed.

I lifted the corner of the train window screen and looked through the thick and blurred glass outside, sometimes fleeting stars and lights, sometimes flying by the black sky.

At this moment, I realized that I had moved away from the mountains and mountain ranges in the southwest region and entered the vast area of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River plain, which meant that I was only half the way away from the location of the Mars interstellar area.

Most of the time during the day, I took the initiative to text Mars Interstellar because I was excited, and after the night wore on the last text message saying goodnight, I restrained myself and stopped texting, wanting to let each other have a good rest and see you tomorrow.

So later, I still forced myself to sleep, I didn't want to show Mars interstellar tomorrow, an insomnia, mentally poor me.

Sometimes things in life don't always run according to the trajectory you envisioned, and it may be like in a movement that seems to have a perfect ending, and suddenly a musician playing the main theme has a problem, and finally messes up the whole music.

It is very possible that wishful thinking will greet or accept something that is rare in a lifetime and very happy and happy, but what is obtained or presented in front of you is far from the original imagination and completely backfired.