Chapter 53: Encounter
Two months flew by.
A girl went out the door humming a lilting song.
She was dressed in a simple and loose overalls, pedaled a pair of canvas shoes, her hair neatly tied up in a ponytail, and her hair fluttered and swayed as her bicycle turned around a street corner, looking youthful and invincible.
The Nordic summer is not hot, and the sun is indeed abundant, which turns the girl's originally fair skin into a light honey color, making her look vigorous from head to toe, and the relaxed expression on her face is already like that of a local.
Today, Chi An rarely gave himself a vacation and put aside his career as a street singer for the time being. She was going to feed the pigeons in front of the church and clean a corner of the square that had been soiled by the pigeons.
Two months had passed, and she still hadn't given up on finding Tekelis. With the opportunity to sit in at the conservatory, it became logical for her to stay in Norway instead of returning home, and she made up her mind to use all the free time she had spent in the past six months to find Therkelis.
Da Lun persuaded her to give up, "How can you find someone who can't be found in several companies?" Don't waste your efforts. ”
Chi An stiffened, "I'm just going to school here, and I like to hang around and make friends when I'm idle, who is looking for what Lisi!" ”
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"Good morning, Aunt Antti!" Aunt Antti is a passionate Norwegian woman, and Chi An often hangs around the neighborhood and comes to her bakery to forage for food when she is hungry, and the two become familiar with each other.
Chi An parked his bike, walked into Aunt Antti's bakery, took a loaf of almond bread and a piece of cheese, ate it all the way, and walked towards the church.
Early in the morning, when there were few people in front of the church, Chi An held a bread with cheese in his left hand, and grabbed a bag of crushed corn from his pocket with his right hand.
"Goo, goo......" Chi An walked around, grabbing a handful of crushed corn and spilling it on the ground as he went. Not far away, a photographer was taking a scene, and was suddenly attracted by the scene in front of him-
The girl wore a loose overalls and a crisp ponytail, and her skin was not as fair as the people here, like the color of wheat just ripening, and a faint flush in the sun.
She took bread in one hand, grabbed feed from her pocket and sprinkled it on the ground, and the snow-white pigeons fell around her, and she walked slowly, sometimes mischievously running into the flock, and frightened the pigeons to flutter.
The blue sky, the church, the flying white doves, like a girl running out of a fairy tale.
The photographer was moved in his heart, pressed the shutter, and recorded this moving moment.
"Pretty right?" The photographer suddenly heard someone next to him ask, and he turned his head, a woman with short hair, holding a guitar, and it seemed that she was planning to play the piano here.
"She must be a very sweet girl." The photographer said from the bottom of his heart.
"I think so too." The woman nodded, and then asked, "Do you mind if I play the piano here?" ”
"Of course not, I would love to." The photographer shrugged.
The woman spread out the case and played it simply without using any amplification equipment.
The song is called "Shepherdesses and chimney sweeper", and the sound of the piano is cheerful and melodious, making people feel like they are in the fairy tale world of Hans Christian Andersen, seeing the shepherdess holding hands in the cupboard and the person with the cigarette sweep living happily ever after.
As soon as Chi An picked up the broom and was about to clean the steps soiled by the pigeons, he was attracted by a familiar melody.
She turned around and saw a man holding a camera in the distance, a woman sitting next to her, the melody slowly flowing from her guitar.
Chi An walked up to the woman, took out a few coins left over from the bread in his pocket, and put them in her piano case.
The woman smiled at Chi An.
Her hair was shaved very short, so short that it had barely grown, Chi An was attracted by her unique hairstyle, and didn't want to look too rude, so he quickly looked away, smiled back at her shyly, sat aside, and listened to the song quietly.
After playing the song, Chi An closed his eyes and asked, "Do you know how to play "Strawberry garden"?" ”
The woman glanced at Chi An in surprise, but saw that her expression was as usual, and there was no other hint, so she smiled slightly, her fingertips jumped lightly, and the melody of "Strawberry garden" jumped out like a little fairy.
When Ji An heard the sound of the piano, a look of both enjoyment and complexity appeared on his face.
It's this song, like a spell, that has been hooped around Wei Heguang's head so far, and has become a pseudo-stain that can't be washed away.
The two of them played one and the other listened, and the two were relatively speechless, allowing their bodies and minds to immerse themselves in the world of music.
The photographer was on the side, moved by the peaceful atmosphere of the two people, and quietly walked away to take two photos of them.
At the end of the song, Chi An opened his eyes and carefully looked at the woman who played the piano, she had a short prickly head like a boy, and was wearing a wide T-shirt and brown trousers, and her exposed arms were fat and white.
Just as Chi An was trying to remember where she had seen this person, the woman asked, "Do you like this song?" ”
"I have mixed feelings about this song, love and hate......," Chi An whispered.
"That's the wonder of music, everyone has their own feelings, and every time I hear it, I think of the little garden at home."
Hearing the nostalgic tone in her mouth, Chi An suddenly understood something, raised his eyes suddenly, and the slightly puffy white face in front of him gradually coincided with the thin, lonely missing person revelation in his mind, Chi An said in disbelief: "Are you Terkelis?" ”
"You know me?" Terkelis was surprised that even in her home country, she was not a famous singer, let alone a girl with an Asian face.
She was surprised that she could call her name.
More than just knowing you! Chi Anxin shouted.
"I've seen your pictures online, and I've heard a lot of your songs." In the past few months, in order to have something to talk about when he met Tekelis, Chi An memorized all of Tekelis's songs backwards.
"I'm very different from the photos on the Internet, right?" Tekelis smiled gently, "I haven't taken a picture in a long time, so it's hard for you to recognize me." ”
"To be honest, you look much better than in the photos, you look relaxed and happy." Chi An said sincerely.
"Indeed, when I was younger, I was an angry young man. Are you a church worker? ”
"No, I'm wandering around and now I'm an auditor at the Norwegian Conservatory."
"You also studied music?" Tekelis showed a surprised expression and immediately invited her, "The day after tomorrow we will have a small party to celebrate my discharge from the hospital, all of them are my friends, if you want, you can come and see." ”
Chi An captured the point of "discharge", "Are you sick?" Chi An showed a look of regret.
Kate shrugged, it didn't seem like a big deal, "yes, just got out of the hospital the day before yesterday." ”
No wonder I haven't met you after wandering around for almost three months, Chi An muttered in his heart, and then said happily, "I like this kind of activity the most, I must go!" ”
"I don't know your name yet?"
"Chi An, my name is Chi An."
Two days later.
The discharge party was held on the grass of a modest park, and Kate's friends set up a long table and set up simple fruit snacks.
Ji An came to the meadow with the present, and Kate immediately introduced her to her friends.
Old painter, poor student, street rock singer, chemotherapy patient with a bandage on his chest...... Different occupations, different embarrassments, the same carefree smiling face, everyone gathered around the table, played the piano and sang, and raised a glass to cheer.
Chi An rarely had the opportunity to participate in such a group activity since he was a child, singing and dancing in the crowd, and having a lot of fun.
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Chi An learns from Te Kelis that her real name is Kate.
"Kate, I didn't ask you, what's wrong?" After a break in the party, everyone lay on the grass and basked in the sun, asking in a low voice.
"Breast cancer." Kate replied simply, remembering that Chi An might not understand the word, and gestured with her hand to her chest, "There's something growing here, cancer, cut off the chest." ”
Chi An's heart suddenly became sad, she looked at Kate's loose clothes, looked at her friends who were also poor, and looked at this simple but loving party, and didn't know what to say for a while.
Do you want to cut it off...**......
While she was suffering such a cruel blow and living such a poor life, in another country, someone took her heart and soul and tried to destroy another person.
Why is the world so unjust?
Chi An was so sad that she didn't know what to say, so she had to give Kate a gentle hug.
"Don't be sad, I'm fine now." Kate smiled, "It's not a terrible thing, at least I'm alive, am I?" Besides, my child is 16 years old, so I won't delay him from feeding. ”
Chi An's sad mood was amused by her sudden joke, and said, "I thought musicians didn't have children." ”
"I'm just an ordinary person who likes to sing, as you can see, I don't have much money, I don't have much fame, I can't be more ordinary." Kate spreads her hands.