"By the way, Lu Fei, do you still keep that envelope?" Xin Chen is now traveling with Lin Yueqing in the Czech Republic, and she routinely calls Lu Fei at about the same time every day, and when she is about to say goodbye, she suddenly asks.

Of course, Lu Fei knew what Xin Chen was talking about, and the envelope with Xin Chen's mother's address had been in his possession for twelve years.

"Of course you keep it, why do you suddenly remember this?"

Xin Chen was silent for a moment and smiled, "Maybe it's because the Czech Republic is close to Austria, maybe." Her voice came low from the receiver of her phone, "It's because of what you said to me that day." ”

She agreed to start over with Lu Fei, but still insisted on staying in Beijing to work, her reason is simple: "The work is done quite smoothly, and I have to do it for a while. ”

Lu Fei admits that she has a point, but at the same time knows that this is at least not the most important reason why she is reluctant to return. She remained cautious and refused to go too fast, he understood and enjoyed the process of getting closer to her.

He offered to come over to see her over the weekend, and she repeatedly said no, "Your leg is not suitable for a business trip, so you should wait for me to come back in time." ”

She did make good on her promise and came back one Saturday morning and went straight to his lodgings and gave him a big surprise. It's a pity that his mobile phone keeps ringing, and he has to go out for entertainment at night, and when he comes back late at night with tiredness, Xin Chen has already fallen asleep in bed.

He sat on the edge of the bed and looked at her calm and serene face for a long time, feeling sorry, and the next day she woke up as if nothing had happened, which made him even more uneasy.

The investment company's business development is going well, but Lu Fei's work is becoming more and more arduous. After he was able to throw away his cane, he immediately took over a job on a business trip to Beijing. The steel nails on his legs made a strange noise when passing through the security check, and the staff inevitably had to send out a hand-held metal detector to probe him up and down, and even use manual physical inspection. He has always had a habit of cleanliness, avoiding physical contact with strangers, and of course having to endure the process.

Xin Chen was happy when he saw him, but he mentioned that his sister Lu was also in Beijing on business at this time, and he intended to ask his sister to have dinner together, so she hesitated and paused for a while before saying, "Let's talk about it next time." ”

Lu Fei didn't want to force her, and nodded, "Okay, I should come here often for business trips in the future." ”

"I plan to take advantage of my vacation to go to the Czech Republic next month, and I have already obtained a visa."

Lu Fei was a little embarrassed, "Next month, I have to focus on following up on the acquisition of shares of a company in Hunan, I'm afraid I won't be able to find time to accompany you." ”

"I don't need you to accompany me, I made an appointment with Yueqing, and the itinerary, hotel, air tickets, and tickets were all booked."

He smiled bitterly, took her, and looked into her clear eyes, "You didn't include me in your plan at all, did you?" ”

Xin Chen shook his head with a smile, and said calmly: "You can't be at peace for a weekend, your mobile phone keeps ringing when you turn it on, and you probably think about work when you go out to travel, which will only live up to the scenery and waste money." ”

He admitted that she was reasonable, of course she was no longer the little girl who held his arm and refused to let go, but her rational attitude made him unable not to sigh, he smiled gently, "Xiao Chen, we are like this, can we be considered in love?" ”

Xin Chen was stunned, his eyes dimmed, and he was silent for a long time.

"You know I'm not complaining, and I don't want to force you, but living apart like this won't help us get closer, and if you decide to stay and work in Beijing in the future, I will reconsider my work arrangement."

"We'll talk about it when I get back, okay?"

Xin Chen has been to many places, but the places she used to travel in the wild were all wild environments, except for where she was born and raised, Kunming, and Beijing, where she lives now, she has little concept of other cities.

The yearning for the Czech Republic stems from a travelogue that I occasionally saw on the Internet with many photos, one of which was a hilltop overlooking the whole city of Prague, and against the backdrop of the sunset at dusk, those undulating, red and yellow buildings looked even a little crowded, but with a warm and pleasant gold* tone, which made her heart move.

By the time she actually arrived in the city, she had no regrets about the trip.

Late August is still the peak tourist season in Prague, Xin Chen and Lin Yueqing came out of Prague Castle, looked at each other and smiled. Needless to say, there are also tour groups from Taiwan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, under the leadership of the tour guide who waeds a small flag and holds a small electric horn, and visits in a serious way, which is really a bit of a bad scenery.

Prague is a small city, with simple metro routes, and with a little homework, it's actually a great city to walk around.

Lin Yueqing studied architectural design, and along the way, he introduced Xin Chen to various architectural styles in the city: Romanesque, Gothic, Rococo, Baroque, Renaissance...... It doesn't matter if she seems to be listening or not.

Old people and organs in the streets, saxophone players in the Old Town Square, calm water of the Vltava River, girls sunbathing on the lawns, winding alleys of the Old Town, slightly broken brick and stone streets, moss and fine weeds in the bricks, the lights of the streetlights flickering in the dim yellow, trams, horse-drawn carriages...... These scenery makes people feel no tension of walking in an unfamiliar city, no need to look at the map, and feel happy and relaxed.

Xin Chen talks to Lu Fei on the phone every day, and most of the talk is trivial things.

"It's weird that you have to turn on your lights when driving during the day in Prague.

"The water in the attraction is so expensive, a 500ml bottle of purified water costs 15 crowns, which is equivalent to 6.6 yuan.

"Yueqing and I drank 8 crowns of black tea at KFC with unlimited refills, and left after filling it full.

"Passing by a garbage room, there is a modernist sculpture on the door, which is really a luxury of art.

"Somehow, when I saw such a majestic and gorgeous St. Vitus Cathedral, I suddenly remembered the village church passing by in the mountains of Dulongjiang, but unfortunately I didn't hear the legendary Lisu people's unaccompanied natural singing.

"The taste of Goulash is okay, it's just that the word is easy to conjure, haha.

"There were a lot of kissing couples on the Charles Bridge at night."

Every time Lu Fei answered her phone, he listened carefully and happily, with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, especially this sentence, which made him even more excited. He has traveled to many countries on business and has never had a particular interest in sightseeing. But holding the phone, he couldn't help but think about how happy it would be if he stood with her at this time on the Charles Bridge in the night, instead of facing the papers piled up on the table.

"I'll go to Hunan tomorrow on a business trip."

"Yueqing and I will take a bus to Cesky Krumlov tomorrow, which is said to be a very beautiful town."

Lu Fei* snorted, "It's so unfair for you to say this to someone who hasn't taken a vacation. ”

Xin Chen chuckled softly, "Workaholics don't complain. ”

"I don't complain about work, I just complain about not being able to accompany you to the Charles Bridge."

Xin Chen coughed and reported with a smile: "By the way, Yueqing had an affair there, a beautiful Eastern European girl accosted him, and I went back to the hotel alone." ”

Yueqing's protest was already heard on the phone: "Don't listen to Hehuan's nonsense, I just had a glass of wine with her." ”

Lu Fei was amused by the laughter.

Xin Chen and Lin Yueqing took a bus to Cesky Krumlov, a small, remote town of 14,000 inhabitants far from Prague. It's a backpacker's favourite, almost a miniature Prague with Gothic architecture, cheap beer, lively pubs and a horseshoe-shaped stretch of the clear Vltava River.

They booked a country hotel on the back street online, a house with white walls and red roofs, flower boxes hanging on the windowsill, planting all kinds of blooming flowers, the room is clean and warm, and the window is a well-tended small garden-like courtyard, which is very homely.

It only takes 10 minutes to walk from one end of the town to the other, except for a visit to the ancient castle together, they decided to go their separate ways, Lin Yueqing took the camera to take pictures of various buildings, Xin Chen was happy, and strolled.

Everywhere you can see tourists dressed casually or even shirtless, some people on the river are rowing rubber boats with great interest, and some people are lying on the spot by the river, putting their legs on the bank to bask in the sun in a daze, people come and go, lively but not disturbed.

Xin Chen used to stride and stride, not like to sit idle, but when he came here, he was infected by everyone's leisure, and he was extremely relaxed, walking and stopping, resting casually on the wooden chairs of the open-air café, the steps of the alleys, and the stone benches on the banks of the river.

A man came to talk to her, but she spoke plain English and had no intention of chatting with anyone, so she just smiled and shook her head. Occasionally a entangled, not annoying, just sitting beside her, turning over a travel conversation manual to nag her, one time Japanese, one time Chinese, as if to do conversation practice, Lin Yueqing just got around, put his hand on her shoulder, smiled at the person, and the person retreated.

"I'm going to tell Lu Fei that he's too anxious to sleep." Lin Yueqing sat next to Xin Chen and said while fiddling with the camera.

Xin Chen only looked at a little girl on the brick road, she looked like she was only a little over a year old, her soft light chestnut hair was blown by the wind, her snow-white skin, a pair of big gray-blue eyes were almost disproportionate to her small face, she happily raised her fat little hands and walked forward, faltering but not hesitating, pounced on her mother who was squatting in front of her, and another man watched with a smile on the side. Xin Chen took the camera in Lin Yueqing's hand, quickly adjusted the focal aperture, and took a few shots in a row, just to capture the moment when the little girl threw herself into her mother's arms and hugged each other and the naughty smile on her mother's shoulder with her fluffy little head resting on her mother's shoulder.

Lin Yueqing took the camera and admired it: "This shot is really good, the background is blurred just right, and the angle and expression are impeccable." ”

He stood up, took the camera and walked over to show the man who was standing, the woman also picked up her daughter and looked at it carefully, smiled happily, talked a few words, the man took out a pen and paper and wrote something and handed it to Lin Yueqing, and then turned his head and waved to Xin Chen, who had been sitting in the same place, and she also smiled and waved to them.

"They loved these pictures, let me thank you, gave me the email address, and asked me to send them back." Lin Yueqing sat back beside her.

Xin Chen smiled silently, if she was the only one here, she would not take the initiative to take the camera to show others. In fact, she shied away from the opportunity to connect with people, preferring to go on a hike with strangers and to places where few people lived, and now she felt suddenly lost in the warmth of the landscape.

The young mother held her daughter in her arms, her husband's hand on her waist, and the family of three snuggled up, talking as they walked slowly away, their figures gilded in the sun with the same gold as this town, intimate without gaps.

She had once walked arm-in-arm with a boy along the quiet boulevard behind the park, from the sunset to the bright streetlights, sometimes dragging long trails behind her, sometimes diagonally in front of her. She took his arm and rested her head on his shoulder, the two shadows, one tall and one short, always overlapping partially, and that scene was deeply etched in her memory.

"Can we be in love like this?" These words came back to her mind with memories.

Two men had already said this to her, and although Feng Yi'an was indifferent and Lu Fei was gentle, the doubts were unanimous.

Do you really want to keep a safe distance from everyone? After Lufei regains more and more of your heart, will you really be able to hold on to this distance? She asked herself.

"What are you thinking, Acacia?"

"I was thinking, I seem to be cowardly now." In front of Yueqing, she didn't mind confiding in her heart.

"Are you cowardly? Cowardly people do not dare to take the road in northwest Yunnan. Lin Yueqing disagreed, Xin Chen gave him the link to the guide posted by Lao Zhang on the traveler network, and he was fascinated, "Seriously, I plan to try it when I have time next year." ”

"That's not bravery, it's just walking a path with fewer people. The bravery I understand is. Xin Chen tilted his head and thought for a while, "It's like that little girl, who has just learned to walk, but how firm she walks, she is not a little afraid." ”

"This analogy doesn't hold, that's because no matter how young she is, she knows that there is nothing to be afraid of with her mother's arms waiting in front of her." Lin Yueqing carefully wiped the lens with the lens cloth and said casually.

But there was a hug waiting in front of her, and she hesitated, even if that person was Lu Fei.

This hesitation is not even about trust.

She thought she had a full set of logic for life, but she didn't know when she began to lose the courage to face it.

Lu Fei sent the address in German with a note in Chinese, a small town below Steyr, Austria's manufacturing center. After inquiring with the innkeeper, Lin Yueqing learned that there was a local service that offered a chartered bus service to Linz, Austria's third-largest city, only 30 kilometers south of the Czech Republic, which only took an hour and a half to drive, while Linz was only 40 kilometers to Steyr, where the traffic was very convenient.

Twelve years later, will she still live where she is? Xin Chen was not sure, but she decided to take a look, she was not interested in mother-daughter recognition, reconciliation, etc., and only planned to start by looking directly at the first gap in her life.

Xin Chen called Lu Fei and told him his arrangement: "I plan to go to Steyr the day after tomorrow, at most two days, Yueqing will go to Hot Spring City as originally planned, and I will meet him in Prague and go back to Beijing together." ”

"I'm already at the airport now, I'm going to fly to Vienna right now, you turn on your phone, let's meet in Linz." Lu Fei didn't wait for her to object, "This is not a simple trip, you don't have to face it alone. ”

When approaching Linz, the first thing you see is a lot of towering chimneys. This was the first time Xin Chen had embarked on a trip without having time to do his homework, only to listen to Lin Yueqing's introduction to the owner of the translation hotel, which is an industrial area in Austria. The city where she was born and raised is also known for its industry, but when she entered the city, she realized that Linz is also a city with a rich culture.

She made an appointment with Lu Fei to meet in the square in the center of the city, where there is a yellow miniature observation train. She had no intention of sightseeing, but it was still early, so she sat on it, and there was actually a Chinese commentary on the car, and the music was played in conjunction with the scenic spots, and to the place where Mozart once lived, it was the "Linz Symphony" he wrote for this place; The train passes by Linz Cathedral and the religious music of Bruckner* sounds. After half an hour, I returned to the square after browsing the main scenery of the city.

When Lu Fei arrived, he called Xin Chen's mobile phone, and she quickly answered: "I'm next to the city hall on the east side of the square, you listen-"

The mobile phone came the familiar violin melody of Lu Fei, Chrysler's "The Joy of Love". His heart stopped beating a few beats, he took the violin to study abroad, playing the violin was one of his self-entertainment in his spare time, and of course he remembered what this piece meant.

Austria is a country of music, and street performers are everywhere. Four years ago, in the late autumn, he went to Vienna on a business trip, and on the way back to the hotel after official business, he also stopped in the sound of this song, standing in the cold and windy weather, listening to this song full of happiness, joy and romance, he could not help but think of the warm spring day and the bright smile that passed away in his life.

In a foreign and unfamiliar city, they actually listened to this music at the same time, and the two remained silent until the end of the song, Lu Fei whispered: "Thank you for giving me such simple joy." ”

Xin Chen held the mobile phone, fascinated by the scene when he stood in front of her and played for her for the first time, from then to now, she once thought that after the insurmountable years of Guanshan, the two life trajectories that could no longer intersect actually coincided in this strange city.

Another famous Bach song, "Aria on the G String", came from his mobile phone, and Lu Fei walked through the square, getting closer and closer, and the music was amplified in his ears.

On the side of the old city hall, a middle-aged man with a beard was playing the violin intently, and among the tourists, he saw Xin Chen carrying a backpack, bending down to put a euro bill in the piano case, and then stood up, still holding his mobile phone in his hand. Lu Fei stood behind her and was about to put his hand on her shoulder, only to see her head tilted slightly, and said softly into the phone: "I love you, Lu Fei." ”

Accompanied by the music of the violin, the voice came from her lips and the earpiece of her mobile phone at the same time, until it penetrated into Lu Fei's heart, he put down the phone, took her into his arms, and hugged her tightly.