Chapter 7 Chapter 2.London Encounter (3)
"Honey, congratulations on getting off the list!" Alice congratulated me, "Would you like to stir up some Chinese food for me to celebrate?" I don't want to eat sand tea noodles anymore, I want to eat tomato scrambled eggs and West Lake vinegar fish! ”
"Shall I command you?"
In fact, Alice's mother is Chinese and her father is British, but her Chinese skills are very poor, just like the level of English we learned for two years in primary school.
She likes to eat Chinese food very much, she used to eat what her mother made, but now she eats what I make when she is studying abroad. When I was a freshman, I didn't know how to cook, but I couldn't get used to eating cheese and smelling cheese, so I had to study Chinese food skills painstakingly, and with Alice's moral support, I finally found a hard way.
We agreed to cook and eat in the apartment after moving this weekend, and last time I taught Alice how to make scrambled eggs with tomatoes, this time I was in charge of the guidance.
Alice is a simple girl, and when she laughs, she can see the dimples on her cheeks, which makes people want to kiss each other.
On the day of the move, Jay and Chen came to help us, and later the four of us were crammed into a small living room for dinner.
Alice's fried red and yellow tomato scrambled eggs with green green onions have both color and flavor.
In the other pot, I made a simple corn rib soup, which is just in time to come out of the pot at the moment. Jay and Chan went to buy pizza, and when they returned, their cell phone rang, and the Beatles' "Let it be" rang all the time, and the melody was melodious. Outside the window, it was already dark at the moment, and the cool breeze of early autumn blew in through the screen window, and we ate these two dishes with relish.
Alice went on a date after eating, and I was alone in front of the pots and pans in the kitchen, although it was not cold, but I really didn't want my ten slender jade fingers to be forced to wash the dishes.
"Take you somewhere." He said.
I looked back in the direction of the kitchen and said, "You promise me one condition and I'll go out." ”
"No, are you trying to make me sign some kind of humiliating treaty?"
"It's not that serious, help me wash the dishes, and I'll go out with you."
"I've never washed any dishes in my life."
"I'll accompany you, come on." I said unceremoniously that he pulled in through the door.
But I relented, threw away the kitchen clutter, got into a taxi, and arrived at my destination 20 minutes later, London's Southbank Art Centre.
"What is this?"
"You told me that you studied vocal music, and I only bought a ticket for one of Rupp's concerts, can I invite you to listen to it?"
When entering, the staff looked at the tickets and said, "I'm very sorry two, you are ten minutes late, and you can't go in according to the regulations." ”
"Huh?" I was a little disappointed and pleaded for a long time, and just as Jay was about to give up, I secretly whispered into the staff's ear that I had a fight with my boyfriend and wanted to ask him to watch a show to get his forgiveness.
She finally let me in and said, "Good luck to me."
Jay was curious to see what I was telling her, and I joked with him, "I said you proposed, but I never agreed, unless you could bring me to a concert with Maestro Rupp." ”
"That's it?"
"yes." I say proudly.
"That's too easy to deceive."
"Uh-huh."
It was close to ten o'clock in the evening when I walked out of the theatre, and there were far fewer pedestrians on the streets outside, and it was a little bleak, and the wind was blowing on my face, and I felt the autumn in London. The leaves of Hyde Park must have begun to turn yellow, and by the time the early winter comes, they will begin to fall off in pieces, revealing the desolation of winter. It always rains in the city and is not as dry as the Mediterranean.
And why do I love London? Because the great landscape painters Turner and Constance were born here, there are countless unknown painters in East London. There are countless art exhibitions, design objects, and endless rock music and street graffiti in East London.
Jay, who has a Hong Kong driver's license, borrowed a London friend's sports car to take me to the countryside, and in the evening, he parked the car by the river. There were no shops nearby, so we ate the sandwiches and plain milk we had brought and watched the sunset fade into darkness.
The melody of "Vincent" spreads across the silent wilderness, and the stars above the sky become denser and denser, adding a sense of mystery and romance to the night. The lonely man sang the story of Van Gogh, and later, there was no more.
A night in the suburbs was extremely peaceful, and Jay enjoyed such a run-down romance, unadulterated, simply with the starry sky, the river and the people he liked.
We drove back the next morning, and at eight o'clock he was in a hurry to get his homework sketches from the student apartment to the school. Jay said that this class was the only time in his history that he felt the urge to skip class, his eyes were dark, and he didn't know how he survived the morning classes.
I stood in the shade of a tree at the school gate waiting for him to get out of school, my new shoes getting wet with mud again. I didn't have classes in the morning, so I spent the morning dressing up at home, wearing an orange beret and an orange trench coat, which frequently attracted the stares of passers-by.
“Hua?” An unfamiliar voice sounded behind him.
I turned around and saw a well-dressed man standing there with a school bag on his back.
"Remember me? A night at the bar a month ago. ”
I tried to think about it, and nodded, "Shaye! ”
"It's me." He smiled happily when I called him by his name.
"Are you waiting for someone here?"
"Yes, I'm waiting for my boyfriend."
The smile on his face froze visibly, and he said slowly, "I just got out of class." ”
"Yes."
"Well······ Can I leave a contact information? I'll treat you to dinner another day. ”
"Yes."
"Really? Ali Kadu (transliteration, Japanese: thank you). ”
“It’s OK.”
Saying goodbye to the sano, Jay also happened to come out, and we had a kiss and hugged each other.
"Tell me first, who was that boy just now?"
"I know a friend who is an exchange student at this school, Japanese."
"What did you say?"
"It's nothing, just leave a contact information."
"Just met?"
"No, we met from the last pub night."
"I don't allow you to talk or laugh with other boys!"
"Okay, don't be jealous, let's go."