The mall is crowded with people, it is the craziest time of the Christmas discount, and the escalators are densely packed with people, that is, there are slightly fewer people at the major brand counters on the first floor.

As soon as CoCo looked up, he saw a large poster of He Jiayang, the bottom of the light box was white light, which more and more set off his clear silhouette, and his facial features were incredibly handsome.

CoCo looked at it for a moment, and his eyes were gentle, looking at the bustling crowd, as if smiling, and as if thoughtful.

CoCo remembers that the photo was taken in Hong Kong, when Kitty asked herself to accompany him.

Hong Kong people are very dedicated, and she shoots a whole day in the studio, and she is hungry and tired when she stays next to her, and she doesn't even have the strength to speak. And he is at the mercy of photographers, but he keeps smiling handsomely, which is really difficult for him.

The counter sister saw her staring at her for a long time, so she gently walked over and asked her, "Do you need me to take out this watch for you to see?" ”

"Oh......" she felt a little out of shape, a little apologetically, "no. ”

After lingering in the mall for a while, the mobile phone "ticked", and a text message came in.

The sender was Gu Liang, he told her that he had arrived, sat on the No. 17 platform by the window, and told her not to worry, the time was still early, and she should pay attention to safety when driving.

CoCo looked at He Jiayang's poster, at this time, he must be about to take the stage, right?

He belonged to no one, she thought in infinite melancholy, and then turned and left the mall to go to the restaurant she had promised.

It's not a big restaurant, and you eat hometown food.

The restaurant is full of regular customers, and it is very lively. The atmosphere is naturally not enough to talk about, but the taste is superb.

CoCo had a great appetite and ate a lot.

Gu Liang: "I knew you would like it here." ”

A man with a little bit of masculinity, but not serious, very smart.

CoCo was a little unconfident and asked, "Why do you want to date me?" ”

He thought for a moment and asked, "Is it too early to ask this kind of question when we meet for the second time?" ”

"I want to know."

"I want to get married." He, "flew fourteen in a row in the most months, more than the flight attendants." Finally go home and take a shower and fall asleep in the bathtub. When I woke up, the whole room was dark, and there was not even a single light, and I felt very sad. At that time, I thought, let's fall in love and get married, at least someone will light a lamp for me and wait for me to go home. ”

CoCo: "I'm also very busy at work, maybe not your ideal wife. ”

He smiled: "Only a woman with a career is attractive." I won't ask you to do the housework, you can leave it to the part-time worker. I just want someone in this world to be waiting for me, and I know that I can go home when I'm done with work, and that's enough. ”

CoCo was a little embarrassed, she had been fighting alone outside for so long, and she had fallen asleep in the bathtub. Maybe it's because the taste of loneliness is too uncomfortable, the huge city, the vast sea of people, going around and around, maybe the requirements of love have been so low that they can't be lower, only the last heating is left.

She: "My conditions are very ordinary, compared to the women you come into contact with every day, I am not as capable as them, and I am not a great beauty." ”

Him: "When you got out of the car and talked to the man, I remembered that I had just arrived in the United States and collided with an American car. In fact, it was a very accident, he came down and scolded me fiercely, at that time I was not very good at English, and I couldn't even speak when I was nervous. When I saw your figure, standing across from that man, I was in my heart, and I must help this woman. ”

"You pity me, you don't like me."

"As soon as you turn your face, I see your face and think it's round, your eyes are dark, like a friend, it's cute. You know what? Pitiful and cute, there is a lot more than liking. ”

It's really a conversational man, CoCo couldn't help but smile again: "Then if you're so good, why don't you have a girlfriend?" ”

"It's too busy at work, and there are very few female colleagues in our circle. Even if there are female colleagues, they are not my cup of tea. I believe in fate, you picked up my wallet and called me as soon as possible, I think you have all the qualities I like, such as kindness, honesty, and not greedy, so I want to pursue you. Of course, if you feel disgusted, I will not force you. We can try to date, you may think I'm too anxious, then take your time, you can try to get to know me. Although I have many shortcomings, I also have many advantages, and I am sure you will think that I am a person worth associating. ”

CoCo was completely speechless, and she said, "I know you're a good person. ”

"Don't send me a good person card, I know that as long as the lady 'you are a good person', she is basically vetoing this man." is a good person', basically vetoing this man. ”

CoCo laughed at him.

Knowing that she didn't come by car, he drove her back after eating. Before I knew it, the car had already entered the loop, and CoCo was a little surprised and asked, "Isn't it going in the right direction?" ”

"Take you somewhere." "You're not going to bed at ten o'clock, are you?" ”

"I have a meeting tomorrow morning."

"I will never regret seeing it, and you will be happy to ask you to have ten more meetings."

When the car pulled up outside the park, she was even more surprised: "The park is already closing." ”

"It's okay, it's still too late."

She'd been to the park many times, but never entered through this door. After entering, they found that it turned out to be a hotel, and the waiter led them all the way, silently stepping through the silence of the winter night.

Under the moonlight, the blue-tiled and glazed buildings, the windows are bright and off, with the warm lights of the ancient meaning, and even the stairs are like a dream.

"Sit here." He stretched out his hand and took her hand, leading her all the way to Huang Huali's Eight Immortals table. The large floor-to-ceiling glass faces a pool of water, and the room heating is coming up, and the waiter hangs up the coats for them and asks them what kind of tea they drink.

"White tea?" He asked her as if he were asking.

She nodded.

The first time she dined with him, she ordered a pot of white tea, which he must have been paying attention to at that time. There are many varieties of white tea here, and the waiter recommended one to them.

Tea drinking in such a place is secondary, so quiet that it doesn't look like it's in the city, the moonlight is everywhere, shining on the roof tiles like residual snow, sparsely leaking down. The paper lantern on the eaves swayed slightly in the wind, and there was a faint sound of pipa.

Across the water, it sounds like fairy music.

Drinking a pot of tea with a few exquisite Huaiyang dim sum, I was quite full at night, but those dim sum were very beautiful, and the taste was good, and I ate a lot of them unconsciously. She exhaled, "How did you find a place like this?" ”

"Last time the company had an executive meeting here." He told her with a smile, "A bunch of foreigners found it quiet here, and they were in the conference room facing the garden, talking about hedge funds and the Southeast Asian monetary system." In addition to me, there was a Chinese who said to me: 'Burn the piano and cook the crane. Me: 'Yes, such a good place, you should bring your favorite people.' ’”

No matter how much you talk is redundant, the faint aroma of white tea is dense, and the voice of the commentary is very good. Suzhou dialect is fragrant and glutinous, but I can't understand half a sentence, so I called the waiter to ask, only to know that it is the famous "Rebirth Yuan".

"The two of us are also burning the qin and cooking the crane." CoCo couldn't help but laugh, "I don't know what I'm singing halfway through." ”

He started a different topic: "Can you skate?" ”

Of course, the Yellow River will freeze hard in winter, and there will be ponds, and the biggest fun for a group of children at that time is to go ice skating. After school, I would go skating in groups with skates on my back, and there were many tricks at that time, in addition to competing who skated the fastest, but also who could spin the most circles, and who could skate all kinds of tricks like on TV.

She told him about the winter in her hometown and the interesting stories of skating on the river, and he listened to them with relish.

She hadn't skated since college, and he encouraged her, "Why don't you try it tonight?" ”

"Huh?" She scoffed, "How can you skate here without skates?" Out in the pool? ”

"There must be skates in the hotel, let's go to the lake in the park, the lake must be frozen at this time."

She thought it was funny, like when the teachers and parents repeatedly threatened and would fall into the ice cave, but everyone still secretly went skating, and there was a kind of happiness like breaking the law. There is also a private door to the park. By this time, the park had been cleared and closed, and there were no visitors, and there were only lonely street lamps everywhere. They slipped in with their skates, the air was cold, there seemed to be frost on the ground, and after walking for a while, CoCo realized that it was not frost, but moonlight.

It's rare to see the city line, but it's as quiet as a different world. In the distance, I have seen the cold smoke of the lake, as well as the willow embankment around the lake, and the carved beams and paintings like Qionglou and Yuyu, all bathed in the moonlight. There was no one to be seen except them, and the entire royal garden seemed to be asleep, and they were the elves of dreams.

It was windy on the lake, and CoCo didn't wear a hat, so he took off his scarf and covered her head and face.

The delicate cashmere is soft, with a hint of tea, and a mint-like cool aroma that CoCo feels warm.

Him: "I'll go down and try it first." ”

"Will there be ice caves?" CoCo was also talking because his face was covered by a scarf, and only a pair of eyes were exposed, looking at him worriedly.

"No, it won't." He seemed quite sure, "There are many people skating in Shichahai, and it must be quite safe here." ”

He walked on the ice, against the back of the distant mountains, and the man was the mustard seed in the ice and snow world. From afar, I saw him turn around and smile at her: "Come down, it's quite sturdy." ”

CoCo hadn't skated for a long time, and she almost got into a fight as soon as she went down, but fortunately, Gu Liang held her hand.

He didn't let go anymore, and the two of them held hands and skated on the ice, like two free shooting stars. Looking up, the sky was blue, and the moon was a white remnant, and the cold air was clear.

The wind cut his face like a knife, but his heart was warm.

Him: "If only there was music." ”

"Do you want a cell phone?" She also feels very happy, and when she is happy, she always wants to have music.

"My phone is full of default ringtones."

"It's okay." She pulled out her phone, took off her gloves, and then connected to the Internet, quickly downloading a ringtone. The sound played by the mobile phone is very good, but such a quiet late night is enough.

He joked with her: "Ming will give you a knock-off phone, it will be louder." ”

The melody sounded over and over again, and he asked her, "This song is really good, what's the name?" ”

She paused for a moment before telling him, "Starlight." ”

Fortunately, he didn't ask who sang it.

The singers are still tongue-curling, and their voices are not as well-trained as those of professional singers, but they seem to have a kind of magic.

"You are my starlight, and my emptiness shines brightly because of you...... Gu Liang said, "The lyrics are really well written." ”

She looked up, there were no stars, only an ice wheel on it, and a clear and cold light shrouded the earth. Surrounded by an ice basin on all sides, they slowly glided across the ice, their blades clattering like a whisper. The skate blade will leave pale white marks on the ice, and the heart of the past will also be deep and shallow, and those marks will be carved? So is there a way to erase all traces?

There was footsteps in the distance, and she could faintly see a portable lamp flickering from behind the dense forest, like an eye too bright, interrupting her thoughts. She asked, "Could it be security?" ”

"Well, we'll punish us for cleaning the whole park. That's miserable, and I can't finish sweeping it for three months. ”

She glared at him, when did she still have the heart to joke?

As a result, it was the waiter of the hotel who came with the lantern, worried that they would be too cold, so he brought a few very long down jackets.

They went ashore to put on their down jackets, and the large clouds of white air they exhaled were almost condensed on their eyebrows, and they felt really cold. Especially in the middle of the night. Him: "Let's go back, it's too cold." ”

She saw that the waiter still had a down jacket in his hand, and couldn't help asking, "Is there anyone else skating here?" ”

"Yes." The waiter smiled, "There's another gentleman, on the other side of the bridge." ”

"Mo Dao is an idiot, and there are even more fools who seem to be like a princess......" Gu Liang muttered.

CoCo knew that this was a passage from "Tao'an Dream Memories", and couldn't help but say: "Hey, have you also read "Tao'an Dream Memories"? Gu Liang smiled: "Do you think I'm a fake foreign devil?" Then he said to her, "Come, let's go and see, who else is like us, skating here in the middle of the night at three watches at minus ten degrees." ”

After walking a long way, I saw that there was indeed another person, who skated on the ice alone and had very good skills, although he had few tricks, but he just slid under the bridge and immediately turned back. But as soon as CoCo saw the way he turned around, he knew that this man must have been professionally trained, as if he were flowing smoothly.

Gu Liang was also convinced: "This is called skating." ”

The beauty of the movement is full of power and tension, the skate blades "swish" softly, and the person alone on the ice, as if free, as if detached from the world, but also with the landscape and moonlight.

The three of them stood on the shore for some unknown amount of time before the man slowed down, turned and slid towards the shore.

Gu Liang stretched out his hand to applaud, and the CoCo and waiter were driven by him and also clapped their hands. The man on the ice was very personable, and bowed far away to his chest, as if he was taking a curtain call.

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