Chapter 182: A Lifetime of Water (End)
Dr. Xu also stayed in the hotel that Lu Li was looking for, and the three of them found a bar in the town to sit down, obviously it was already past one o'clock in the morning, and the sky outside was quite bright.
"I still prefer the polar night." Lu Li sat by the window, looking at the sky outside and muttering to himself.
Dr. Xu also followed her to look at the same place, "Yes, I also seem to prefer the polar night, and I don't like to be so bright all day long, Mark, what about you?" ”
Mark replied, "I can, I'm used to this state of half the night and half the day here. ”
The three of them tacitly picked up their respective wine glasses and touched them, cheers.
"What is Dr. Xu doing here this time?" Lu Li finally asked the reason why Xu Xu came over, and he hadn't mentioned this since they met.
Dr. Xu turned the wine glass in his hand, "Come here in Norway to participate in an international ophthalmology medical exchange meeting, the meeting will be held in a few days, I will come here first, I didn't expect you to be there." ”
"I came to find Lin Lone, I thought he would be here." Lu Li still didn't hide it.
"I guessed it." Speaking of Lin Lone, Dr. Xu's mood sank a lot, "I didn't expect him to encounter those things, it's too difficult, and it's ......" Dr. Xu glanced at Lu Li, "When we find him, I will beat him for you, so that he always says goodbye again and again, it's too ......"
Mark looked at Dr. Xu, who was about to speak, and blurted out his words, "Brother Lin is so kind to Sister Particle, it's too scumbag!" ”
Lu Li and Dr. Xu quickly exchanged a look.
"Okay, Mark, you all know this kind of characteristic Chinese words, amazing!" Lu Li pretended to be surprised and raised his glass, "I have to have a drink with you." ”
Mark was embarrassed to raise his glass and bump into Lu Li, "I have a few Chinese netizens who play games together, and they all learned from them." ”
Dr. Xu watched Mark laugh all the time, and waited for Mark to put down his glass before he raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Mark, you should go to China to live, you must adapt quickly, you will like it very much, maybe you will settle down in China." ”
Mark nodded in agreement, "I really thought so!" The last time I contacted Brother Lin, I just wanted to hear his opinion, but I couldn't get in touch. ”
Speaking of this, the three of them looked stunned almost at the same time.
After that, they drank two more glasses, and the interest of several people was almost gone, and they checked out and left the bar to go back to rest, and on the way Mark and Lu Li separated from them, and made an appointment to eat together after work tomorrow.
Lu Li and Dr. Xu went back to the hotel on the same road, and at first neither of them said anything, but Lu Li kept looking at the special scene in the middle of the night under the polar day, and silently compared it with the polar night in his heart.
Until Dr. Xu's questioning interrupted her.
Doctor Xu asked Lu Li what he was going to do next, Lin Lin should not be on Irbin's side, and Dr. Xu had been looking for him in his own way, he was not sure of anything else, but he dared to say that Lin Lin was not abroad.
"You mean, he's in the country." Lu Li listened and remembered that Qi Ju had said something similar to her before he went abroad, saying that she could be sure that Lin Lin had not left China, but Lu Li didn't believe it.
Now that Dr. Xu said the same, Lu Li knew that he was emotional, so he couldn't listen to the truth objectively and calmly.
But she didn't regret crossing half the world to make such a trip, and if she didn't find it, she would die. Go back and keep looking, and you'll definitely find it.
"It should be, but I can't get in touch with him, so I'm sorry I can't help you." Dr. Xu sighed and slowed down.
"What are you sorry for, I can do it myself, find it slowly."
Dr. Xu opened his mouth and finally swallowed back the words that rushed to his mouth, but fortunately, Lu Li didn't notice this, and the two continued to walk towards the hotel.
At noon the next day, Lu Li, who had just woken up, received a WeChat message from Dr. Xu, saying that he had something to leave early at the meeting, and he didn't wake her up for fear of disturbing Lu Li's rest.
Lu Li sat up from the bed and replied to him, and then lay down again.
Dr. Xu quickly replied, "Lu Li, there is something I still can't hold back, and I want to tell you." If, I say, if Lin Lin no longer has a decent social status and a healthy body like before, will you continue to be with him? Don't mind if I'm asking so cheesy, because I think feelings are affected by these realistic conditions, I want you to be happy, but I'm afraid that you will all regret it in the end. ”
Lu Li held up her mobile phone and read this WeChat three times, she understood that Dr. Xu's Chinese was not so proficient, but she fully understood what he meant.
"Thank you for asking this so sincerely! I don't know what he's going to think, but I will, as long as I find him and be with him, I can. ”
Lu Li also added a cheering expression at the end of this reply.
After a while, Dr. Xu's reply came, "Then I bless you!" Lu Li, it's a pity that I didn't have the opportunity to be the person you stick to so much, you will be happy! Go for it! ”
Lu Li only replied with a laughing expression.
Three days later, Lu Li was ready to return to China first, and Mark went to the airport to see her off.
When saying goodbye at the end, Mark took out something from his backpack and handed it to Lu Li, who thought it was a gift from Mark, but when he took it and opened it, he saw that it was not.
"What is this?" Lu Li slowly unfolded a painting scroll that he had received from Mark, and a bust of a white-drawn figure gradually revealed.
The person in the painting is herself. The brushwork and brushwork of this painting are also very familiar.
Mark raised his hand and scratched his hair, "This is what Brother Ringo left in the small hotel, he told me the last time he left, let me take care of this painting for him, saying that it is not completely finished, and he will continue to finish it when he comes back next time." ”
Lu Li stared at the picture, this painting was the first time she saw it, she was smiling brightly on the painting, from her clothes and expression, it could be seen that it was the last time Lu Li came to Irbin, and she looked up slightly in the air on the painting.
He drew what he looked like when he saw the aurora, and Lu Li reacted violently in the next second. I don't know when he started writing.
"Listening to what you and Dr. Xu said this time, I think it's better to hand over the painting to you and take it away, Brother Lin shouldn't blame me if he knows, and it's okay to blame me." Mark felt his nose sore as he spoke, and turned his head to try to control his emotions.
Lu Li put away the scroll and looked up at Mark, "Thank you, he won't be angry, I will find him and let him finish this painting in front of me, and take pictures for you when the time comes!" ”
"Good! I'll wait, maybe I'll go to China to find you myself, I'll see for myself! ”
"Okay, that's it."
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Lu Li returned to China in advance without notifying everyone, she also said hello to Dawei to help her keep it secret first, and went home directly when she arrived in China, and fell asleep with jet lag.
After sleeping for a whole day, I got up to get food, and when my stomach rumbled and waited for the instant noodles to be eaten, I turned on the TV that had not been turned on since it was good, and the channel stopped at the news station.
Continuing to wait for instant noodles, Lu Li's eyes stared lazily at the TV screen, and a video switched out of the news broadcast, and Lu Li could see at a glance what the image in the video was.
She breathed as news videos showed several murals cut into cubes of various sizes, and although the images weren't very high-definition, she could still recognize at a glance where the murals came from.
It was a mural in Tianle Palace.
Lu Li listened carefully to what was being said in the news, and soon understood that this news was about the fact that the few murals that were lost and stolen during the relocation of Tianle Palace were returned to Zhao, and the news said that the police and relevant professionals cooperated to recover the national treasure murals from abroad at the risk of their lives, and it also specifically mentioned that the police and professionals were unfortunately infected with infectious diseases in the process of handling the case, in short, it was all kinds of praise.
However, Lu Li noticed that the specific names of the police officers were mentioned in the news, but the names of the professionals were not mentioned.
At the end of the news, the handover ceremony of the recovered mural was returned to the new site of Tianle Palace, and the cultural preservation department of the new site promised that the murals would be restored to their original appearance as soon as possible under the auspices of professionals, and if everything went well, the complete murals of Tianle Palace could be displayed to the public at the end of the year.
After the next news started, Lu Li remembered that her instant noodles had already been ready, she got up and went to the kitchen to bring out the instant noodles, sat back in front of the TV and continued to watch the news, but she didn't watch what was broadcast in the news at all.
I also ate instant noodles in a daze, and finally lost my appetite completely, and my mind was filled with a conjecture.
The news of this mural in Tianle Palace made her suddenly think of another possibility of Lin Lone's whereabouts, and she had a strong sixth sense, and this destination was probably the most reliable.
Lu Li quickly picked up her mobile phone and inquired about the air and train tickets to the new site of Tianle Palace, she will leave there tomorrow to continue looking for people.
The booking process was very smooth, Lu Li's original sleepiness caused by jet lag and long-distance flight was instantly lifted, the next day's plane was more than nine o'clock in the morning, she packed her luggage and rushed to the airport, and she was not sleepy on the plane for three hours all the way.
After getting off the plane, it took another four hours by train, and then a two-hour minibus to reach the new site of Tianle Palace, and Lu Li felt as if he had been doped.
Fortunately, the road was very smooth non-stop, and at nearly seven o'clock in the evening, Lu Li finally saw the main entrance of the new site of Tianle Palace, but at this time Tianle Palace had stopped operating, and he couldn't enter inside.
Lu Li found a hotel in the county seat of the new site to live, checked the tickets and business hours of the Tianle Palace on the Internet, and after placing an order and buying a ticket, he remembered that a staff member he knew when he moved the Tianle Palace seemed to have come here with the new address, and she had the other party's WeChat just added and never spoke.
She was going to contact people tomorrow morning, and it would definitely be more convenient when an acquaintance came over.
Early the next morning, Lu Li got up early in good spirits to have breakfast, and then set off to Tianle Palace to wait for the door to open.
Not long after, people dressed as tourists appeared around one after another, waiting to open the door and visit like Lu Li.
Lu Li lowered his hair and contacted the person he knew, and that person was called Wang Lin. The other party replied quickly, and when he heard that Lu Li was at the gate of Tianle Palace, he immediately said that he would come out.
In less than five minutes, Wang Lin trotted out to see Lu Li, he warmly greeted Lu Li and let him in through the door of the internal staff, and said as he walked that he thought he would never have a chance to see Lu Li again.
When he entered the courtyard of the new site, Lu Li looked around at the quiet courtyard that had not officially opened, and several staff members were making preparations before opening the door, and they all looked at Lu Li curiously when they saw him come in.
Wang Lin led Lu Li into the office, and after hearing that Lu Li was his private trip this time, and he had come to see the mural, he immediately said that he could be a tour guide for Lu Li, although the mural has not been completely restored and cannot be fully exhibited to the public, he can take Lu Li in to see the part that is not open to the public.
Lu Li thanked him, and was ready to talk to Wang Lin thoroughly during the visit, to see if he could ask some things related to Lin Lin.
After sitting for more than ten minutes, Tianle Palace officially opened for business, and the courtyard soon became lively, Wang Lin told Lu Li that because of the news impact of the documentary and the recovery of the murals, the number of tourists here has increased rapidly recently, and almost every day as soon as the door is opened, everyone is busy, especially the commentators.
Because of the severe shortage of manpower, every docent is overworked.
Lu Li listened and thought for a while, and when he followed Wang Lin into the external exhibition area of the mural, he asked Wang Lin that if the mural of Tianle Palace needed volunteers, she could stay and work on it for a few days.
"That's great, I can't ask for it!" Wang Lin became excited when he heard this.
When the two of them left the external exhibition area to prepare for the non-public area, Wang Lin casually said to Lu Li that tomorrow there will be a volunteer docent from other places, which is said to be very professional.
Lu Li didn't pay much attention to what she heard, her mind was thinking about something else.
When he returned to the office after the visit, Lu Li asked Wang Lin if he had any news about the rest of the relocation team.
Wang Lin said that there are, especially when they first moved over, and now there are a lot less.
"That Teacher Lin Lin is the one who presided over the relocation of the mural, has he ever been here later?" Lu Li finally asked about this.
"No, not once! I still thought about it, that Mr. Lin should have come to take a look, but I heard that he went back and became a restorer, but then he couldn't be contacted, and I heard that something happened. ”
Lu Li listened to Wang Lin's words, and the mood that had been excited suddenly fell, and he pursed his lips and lost the intention of chatting.
But she wouldn't just forget it, and when she left, she told Wang Lin that she would come over tomorrow to see how the docents worked, and she was going to stay and help for a few days.
When I went to Tianle Palace the next day, the blue sky was clear, and the bright sunshine spread on the palace wall, which attracted many tourists to stop and take pictures.
Lu Li also took a picture with his mobile phone, and Wang Lin, who came out to pick her up after the photo, also arrived, and Lu Li followed him inside, ready to learn from the narrator.
When the narrator started work, Lu Li opened her backpack and wanted to take out a pack of tissues, but when she rummaged through the bag, she saw the small box containing the wedding ring, and she forgot when to put this in the backpack.
She took out the small box and took out her own ring inside, where Lu Li sat against the carved wooden window, the sun shining wantonly on her through the pane, and also on her wedding ring.
The pale gold wedding ring looked particularly bright in the sun, and Lu Li put the ring on her finger, and the ring shone more and more as her finger turned.
If only he were at this time, they could wear their wedding rings together and look forward to the future together in the sun.
Lu Li felt that he was too capable of fantasizing, and just as he tried to pull himself back into the real world in front of him, he heard a burst of speech amplified by a microphone outside.
Wang Lin also walked into the office at this time, he told Lu Li that the commentator he said yesterday had arrived, and he had officially started his work just now, and he came in to call Lu Li to go over and listen to this first.
Lu Li got up and followed Wang Lin out, following Wang Lin's gesture and looking not far away, more than a dozen tourists were following a person to a side hall next to the office, and the voice he heard just now should have come from there.
Lu Li walked a few steps forward, and heard the voice after the microphone amplification: "Let me explain first, because of my personal physical reasons, I have some problems with my eyesight, so I need everyone's help when I move, don't go too fast, thank you for ......"
Tourists responded in a coordinated manner.
Lu Li was stunned, although this voice was a little distorted because of the amplification, but she still felt familiar, maybe because she had almost never heard the voice speak at such a high volume, so she was not very sure, but Lu Li still had all kinds of emotions in her heart for a moment.
It's him.
Wang Lin noticed that something was wrong with Lu Li, and was about to ask what was wrong, when he felt a figure swishing past him, bringing a refreshing cool breeze from the morning inspection.
The voice from the microphone over there continued, "What I'm going to take you to visit now is a side hall in the Tianle Palace, which was also in this position when it was on the original site, and it was used to worship ...... since the palace was built."
The explanation stopped abruptly, and the tourists who were listening were stunned for a moment, and then realized that it was a young girl who suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
The girls squeezed in through the crowd and stood in front of their handsome interpreter in sunglasses.
Probably moving too fast in an instant, the young girl's wheezing voice was heard very clearly by everyone around her, and everyone didn't know what was going on, and finally focused their eyes on the young girl and the narrator in sunglasses.
Lu Li stood there, except for the sound of wheezing, she didn't say a word, but she believed that this breathing sound was enough for the man opposite who claimed to have poor eyesight to identify who she was.
She looked at his eyebrows and felt that life was really like a dream.
Thankfully, she found it.
Wang Lin, who followed behind him, also squeezed to the front of the onlookers, and he carefully looked at the new commentator opposite Lu Li, who was coming today, and always felt a little familiar, but he was not so sure.
It wasn't until the narrator took off the pair of sunglasses he was wearing that Wang Lin recognized him, this was not the teacher Lin of the relocation team.
Lin Lin took off his sunglasses, and his unfocused gaze tried to freeze on the location of the wheezing sound in front of him, his left eye was completely blind, and the other one was no better, so he almost knew who was on the other side by the sound.
"Lu Li." He called out in a very soft voice.
Lu Li didn't answer, but just looked into his eyes with all his might, and saw the water there.
She knew she was going to be addicted to it for the rest of her life. (End of text)