Chapter 037: How far into the future that person is

With Yu Han and Chen Shuo officially dating, Liu Jia has become a real "lonely" in our dormitory, she is not in a hurry, she still happily attends classes and trains every day, and is also used to going to the canteen and library alone. During this period, she also rejected one or two suitors for the sole reason of "not looking down." ”

Indeed, there is nothing to worry about in this matter of feelings, when you meet it, you meet it, and if you can't meet the right person, you don't need to compete, as if you have to be a "wrong person." ”

Looking at her now free and slightly lonely state, I sometimes think back to something about her in another time and space.

In the past time and space, Liu Jia only started falling in love when she was a graduate student, and the object of her love was her future husband, the handsome German guy Konrad.

In that time and space, Xiaoru signed a contract with a local education-related magazine in Beijing after graduating from her bachelor's degree, and lived a 9-to-5 life every day, living as comfortably as she expected. Her Jiang An stayed in school to continue her graduate and doctoral studies, and the two planned to get married as soon as Jiang An graduated. Yu Han and Liu Jia continued to study with me in graduate school, but Liu Jia did not stay in the university with us during the graduate school. She was admitted to other schools across majors.

Maybe everything is predestined, before intermajoring, she hesitated for a while whether to take the risk, after all, the difficulty of the interdisciplinary postgraduate examination is not small, but in the end, out of her love for "Chinese as a foreign language", Liu Jia followed her heart soon after the first semester of her junior year, determined to be interdisciplinary, studied hard for a whole year, and successfully went ashore for the postgraduate entrance examination. In her own words, more brain cells died in this year than in the past twenty years combined, and she doesn't know why. It was this decision that allowed her to meet the most important love of her life in a new environment. So when she talked about this experience later, she often proudly said that the decision was made to "meet happiness".

Conrad was a graduate student in the Department of International Relations, and Liu Jia was a graduate student at the time. The two met in the run-up to a forum at their school.

Konrad's father was a German diplomat in China, and Konrad came to China with his father when he was very young, so the Chinese was not bad, and there was no problem communicating at all.

Conrad is very handsome, and his personality is not as old-fashioned as the traditional impression of Germans, and he is very rigorous, but there is a lot more romance.

The process of getting to know the two is also very interesting. At that time, both of them were staff members of that forum, and when the first preparatory meeting was held, Liu Jia did not know that Conrad knew Chinese, but simply felt that this handsome foreign guy looked very pleasant, so she and her classmates began to discuss Conrad's appearance, and Conrad did not speak, just listened with relish on the side, watching Liu Jia unconsciously commit in front of him. After Liu Jia finished happily, Conrad said: "Thank you for your favor to me!" ”

Liu Jia, who was shocked by a sentence, wanted to scold her mother! After understanding it in an instant, she felt that she had been tricked like a monkey, and she kept pulling her face during the whole preparatory meeting, in fact, she was also a little embarrassed, after all, what she said just now was too frowning.

Conrad also saw the reason why Liu Jia was angry, so after the meeting, the others gradually dispersed, and he specially stayed to apologize to Liu Jia, saying that he should not pretend not to understand Chinese, and should not eavesdrop on Liu Jia's conversation with others.

Liu Jia was originally a cheerful girl, and it was not a big deal, so she forgave Conrad, "What's more, he's so handsome", this is her original words, I believe this is the most important reason why she forgave him.

Even if the two of them know each other, at first Liu Jia just thought that Conrad was very handsome, and he was not ready to fall in love with a foreigner, but he couldn't stand Conrad's strong love for the beautiful Chinese girl with black hair and yellow skin in front of him, and after some relentless pursuit, Liu Jia also agreed to talk for a while.

At the beginning, when I knew that Liu Jia was in love, and she was in love with a foreigner, the other three of us 614 were shocked. Xiaoru also deliberately organized a bureau after work on a Friday and invited the three of us who were still studying to dinner.

said that it was a meal, but in fact, it was to inquire about Liu Jia's gossip. At dinner that day, Liu Jia didn't bring Conrad at first, which was also what we requested, because we had to interrogate Liu Jia first before considering seeing this foreign family.

It can be seen that Liu Jia likes this German boyfriend very much, and words such as "gentleman, handsome, and personable" pop out of her mouth from time to time during the meal. So we became more curious about Conrad.

Finally, at Xiaoru's suggestion, when he was about to finish eating, Liu Jia called Conrad and asked him to pick him up. In fact, it is for us to meet this legendary character.

When Conrad appeared at the door of the hotel, we completely guessed what kind of intoxication Liu Jia's eyebrows flew that day to evaluate Conrad's state, and we knew Liu Jia too well after four years of getting along day and night in undergraduate, if she wasn't particularly devoted, she wouldn't have lost her temper on an occasion like a meeting.

Sure enough, he is a handsome guy from an exotic country, personable, and although he still has a more or less accent when he speaks his mouth, he can be regarded as a foreigner I have seen who speaks Chinese very well. He was the kind of person who had an aristocratic air at the first glance, perhaps which had a lot to do with the education of his diplomat family.

In addition to expressing happiness for Liu Jia's success in getting rid of the single, we also have some hidden worries, because after all, many ways of thinking between Chinese and foreigners are different, and besides, whether Conrad will stay in China in the future, and whether the parents of both sides can accept that their children have found a foreign partner, these are very real problems.

Xiaoru first told Liu Jia about these problems, and sure enough, people who entered the society in advance thought that the problems were more practical than us. Liu Jia said that he didn't think so far, and he might not be able to go that far.

At that time, Conrad's father had ended his tenure in China and was about to go back to his motherland, and Conrad also planned to go back to Germany, and hoped that Liu Jia could go to Germany to find him after graduation.

Liu Jia discussed with her parents for a long time, and at first Liu Jia's parents were very opposed to this relationship, as if it was difficult for all domestic parents to accept their children finding foreign boyfriends and girlfriends. But Liu Jia has made up her mind and decided to let Conrad go back to Germany first, if the relationship between the two is still good after a year, she will go directly to Germany for development after graduation.

I have to say that Liu Jia is the bravest girl among us. This kind of thing of flying to a foreign country to pursue love is different from a long-distance relationship in China. Two people in a long-distance relationship in China may not be able to solve the problem of who goes to whose city well, and there are often couples who end their relationship for such reasons, no matter how sweet they were before. And Liu Jia flew to Germany so resolutely, leaving no way back for himself at all.

On the day she left, Xiaoru, Yu Han, and Jiang An and I went to the airport to see them off. Seeing the three of us crying, Liu Jia held back her tears and said, "I'm going to get married, not to die." You don't want to look like a mourner, okay", we are sad about parting, and we don't care about scolding her for taking advantage of us before leaving. She also warned Jiang An that he must be good to Xiaoru, otherwise she would definitely fly back from Germany and beat him on the head and break his blood.

Before getting on the plane, Liu Jia dragged me aside alone and said to me seriously, "No matter how good Xu Zhekai is, it is already in the past, according to one, you will definitely meet better people and live the happiest life." ”

I was crying so much that I couldn't speak, so I held her tightly until the sound of her boarding came over the radio.

After Liu Jia left, he never came back. She teaches Chinese at a language school over there and earns a good income. Shortly after arriving in Germany, Conrad proposed to her. She later sent us a video of the proposal. In the video, Liu Jia is more feminine, and it can be seen that her life is indeed very good, the corners of her eyes are full of smiles, and happiness overflows inadvertently. About a year after getting married, Liu Jia became pregnant and gave birth to an extremely beautiful and cute mixed-race chubby boy.

Unexpectedly, the last one of the four of us to fall in love was the first to get married and have children. At Xiaoru's wedding, the blessing video recorded by Liu Jia also caused a sensation among the college classmates present, and everyone was amazed that Liu Jia, who rejected all male sex when she was an undergraduate, actually became a mother so early.

I am very happy for Liu Jia, and I sincerely wish her to be happier and happier.

Everything has its own law of growth and the timing of growth. I guess it's the same with love. Sometimes just because you start ahead of others doesn't mean you're one step ahead of others. Love is the most unreasonable thing in the world, not a first-come, first-served item, but the luck of the right time, place and people.

I looked at Liu Jia, who was chic and happy in this time and space, thinking about her foreign happiness in another time and space, and would secretly say to her in my heart, "My dear, don't worry, that right person is in the near future, even if it is later, he will definitely come in the end." ”

When it comes to cross-country love, when it comes to courage, I am naturally inferior to Liu Jia, and in a sense, I am not as good as Ji Yang. Back then, Ji Yang followed Xu Zhekai to study abroad without hesitation, although she didn't deliberately follow it, but I know that her decision to study in the United States must have been made with Xu Zhekai in mind. Before that, I was still in a foreign relationship with Xu Zhekai, and then he returned to China, and we achieved a positive result. If I had decided to follow Xu Zhekai earlier and give him the confidence to spend this life together, would our ending be different?

Many times, love does require sacrifices on the part of one of them, and real life is not as dreamy as fairy tales, nor is it full of coincidences and natural luck like novels and idol dramas. Reality is reality, when it is time to decide, when it is time to give up, it is necessary to give up. And when it's time to let go, you have to let go, and if you are willing to gamble, you have to admit defeat.

I have never regretted making the decision to stay in China, this is my truest thought, although I regret that my relationship with Xu Zhekai ended early and has no future, but I also do not resent his decision to study abroad. After all, people have to become a better version of themselves before they can become better for each other.

In this time and space, I sometimes can't help but ask Xu Zhekai about his plans for the future, and he once said that he had the idea of going abroad, but he didn't finalize it. After each question, I didn't say anything, I didn't say anything in support of him, and I didn't try to dispel him. Because I don't know whether everything that happens in this time and space is real or nothing, and I don't know what kind of connection there is between this time and space, except for the people I know and the things I have experienced are similar to those in the past, I can't influence Xu Zhekai's thoughts, nor can I interfere with his decision. If everything goes naturally, it might have ended better, although it wasn't something I could have predicted.

As April draws to a close, the second semester of the sophomore year has passed for two months. In the past two months, I have survived too much exhaustion, experienced too many wonderful moments, and witnessed the friends and lovers around me shine in their lives and harvest happiness. I know the general direction of these people in another time and space, but I don't know if everything will develop as usual in this time and space, according to the current situation, it doesn't seem to be exactly the same, it doesn't matter, I just need to accompany them to experience, no matter the joy or sorrow, no matter the success or failure, I will witness with them, I don't know how long this period will be, but I hope it can be longer.

It suddenly occurred to me that in the past time and space, when Liu Jia was in her senior year, when she had not met Conrad, she also had a short period of self-doubt, and she wondered if she would not be able to meet true love in her life. During that time, every time she went to KTV to sing, she would habitually order a song of Stefanie Sun's "Meet", singing over and over again, "Who I meet, what kind of dialogue will there be, who I am waiting for, and how far in the future he is." But less than a year after graduating from the bachelor's degree, she met the person who followed the number plate of her love, took her hand and walked into the palace of marriage, and had the crystallization of love.

All happiness has its own certainty. The person we are waiting for is in the near future.