(The storyline is completely fictional, the official must not sit in the right seat, if there is any similarity, it is purely a coincidence)

The return train from London to Oxford seemed to have entered a magic channel, and it felt like it had traveled several times the road and time, so slow, and never reached the destination.

The next day, Jing Hao was looking for materials in a library in the heart of Oxford City, and by chance, she saw a new book written by Harry on the shelf.

Taken off and opened, she saw that in the preface, Harry wrote, "Thank you Nan Yongzen for your emotional and moral support during my time in writing this book"—and Nam Chung again. Jing thought about it for a while, turned to the last page, looked for something, but she didn't find it, she turned to the first page again - she looked for the publication time, she forgot that British books and Chinese books are opposite, and the data information of British books was put at the front, and she saw it: this book was just published a month ago.

Jing Hao immediately remembered the town of Nanchong that Harry had said on the train, and the "Nanchong Town" that Harry had told her about the day before when the two of them were in London.

Jing Hao wondered a little, according to the story Harry had told, didn't that Korean woman completely treat Harry as a temporary replacement boyfriend? Every time her ex-boyfriend reappeared, she tossed Harry aside. So why did Harry write such a heartfelt tribute to his new book?

Was it Harry's love and righteousness, or was he too lonely to let go of the man who had been with him for a while? Or is he just a soft spot for her and unforgettable? Or have they never really separated?

She took a picture of the preface with her phone, then put the book back in its place, and sat sullenly back in the small partition where she had just sat in the reading area, and continued to look through some of the materials she had just found. After reading the book for a while, I couldn't help but turn on my phone and look at the photo I had just taken—thank you Nan Yongzen for her emotional and moral support during my writing of this book......

I read it word by word, and then read it again word by word, and blinked quietly. What do you mean by "emotional and moral support"? That's a heavy word.

Back on campus, go to Harry's office to have a separate class, discuss the end of the homework, and before leaving, Harry took out the big notebook he used to record Chinese, read the poem "Guan Ju" and asked Jing Hao to correct his pronunciation.

Jing Hao praised him and said, "Your pronunciation is really getting better and better!" It's getting better! Harry was so happy that he said he practiced three times a day. Jing Hao smiled.

Jing Hao originally got up to leave, thought for a while, sat down again, took the opportunity to use this Chinese love poem as a reason, and asked Harry very tactfully, since Harry saw the Chinese concept and attitude of love from this poem, I don't know if in his opinion, the attitude of Chinese and British towards love is very different? What is the attitude of the British towards love?

Harry replied earnestly: "Every Englishman has a different view of love, but the English advocate a serious and loyal attitude towards love, which can also be seen from the love poems of Shakespeare's time." This should be very similar to the Chinese. ”

Jing Hao said: "In this way, people all over the world are actually similar on this issue, although different nationalities and different countries, they all advocate 'a serious and loyal attitude towards love'. ”

"But some people are not as stubborn as some animals, such as swans, who die or lose a mate, and then swim alone and never look for a second mate......," Harry said.

Jinghao heard for the first time: "Really? What is it like for a swan? ”

"Of course, their 'emotional single-mindedness' may just be a ...... that we humans have imagined and given to them," Harry said

Jing Hao asked again: "I heard that British authors have such a tradition of liking to put all their romances, including unrequited love and even extramarital affairs, in the preface of their works as a souvenir?" Is that so? ”

Harry had no expression on his face, raised his eyebrows, his eyebrows trembled slightly, he guessed in his heart that she was referring to his new book, and the passage on the new book, he was a little embarrassed, bowed his head and said: "It can't be said to be traditional, but some British authors have this habit, there are things or people worth remembering in a certain period of life, and certain days are worth remembering and thanking for, then they may dedicate the book to someone or a certain time, a certain place, etc., and that's it." ”

Pondering Harry's words, she lowered her head in thought.

Harry said casually, "But often the feelings of authors when they write certain words are not necessarily exactly what they were in when they got the book, for example, I have a manuscript for a book that was submitted to the publisher more than a year ago, but in the past two years, a lot has changed in my life." ”

Harry's words seemed to imply something, and Jing seemed to understand whether she understood or not, and she couldn't figure it out.

Harry stretched out his hands and asked, "Uh——, what about your Chinese?" ”

Jing Hao replied: "Oh, my father has also published several books, but they are all blunt and not very interesting theoretical readings, and the printed numbers are very small, and there is no preface to this tribute. Again, Chinese authors seem to rarely do this, and of course I know very little, so maybe Chinese be more subtle. ”

At this time, the students who came to class knocked on the door, and after a good look at her watch, she found that her class had been extended for more than ten minutes longer than the normal time, and she was going to delay the classmates behind her, so she quickly got up to thank Harry, said goodbye, and left Harry's office. Harry nodded goodbye, his face calm.

On campus, coming out of Harry's office, Jing Hao was about to turn around and walk to the opposite road, and he actually ran into Mayo by the grass, which was really unexpected, and Mayo asked Jing Hao to go to the café for a while.

Mayo seems to be in good spirits, and working as a teaching assistant at the University of Reading, north of Oxford, should be a good idea. She told Jing Hao that she was back in Oxford to see a few friends participate in the rowing race that day, and that she had heard that the Brooks team was very good, and that two members of the team had participated in your Beijing 2008 Olympics before.

As they chatted, Mayo and Shizuhao inevitably talked about Harry.

Mayo asked, "Professor Harry, okay?" ”

Jing took a good look at Mayo and said, "It should be fine, I just saw him in class, and I think he's pretty good." ”

With a somewhat melancholy expression, Mayo said that Harry had a sense of loneliness that was attractive and appealing to her, because she felt that she was also a lonely person at heart.

Jing Hao laughed at Mayo's "sentimentality", Jing Hao didn't know exactly that Mayo had been secretly in love with Harry, but she thought that Mayo admired Harry, so she didn't really understand what Mayo meant.

Jing Hao joked: "You are all film scholars, you must have the kind of little feelings of sympathy for each other." You are all too high and lonely. ”

Mayo didn't explain anything.

Before parting, Mayo invited Jinghao to watch the rowing competition, saying that it was spectacular and cheering for her friends together...... Jing looked at his watch, there were still two hours before the game, so he and Mayo made an appointment to meet by the river near Church College to watch the game together.

After Jinghao broke up with Mayo, she went to the supermarket first, bought a lot of daily food, milk, fruits, bread and the like to take home, and just entered the door to put things in the restaurant, Mayo sent her a text message, telling her to be a little early, don't go late and have no place.

Jing Hao hurriedly went upstairs to his room to put his schoolbag, and when he saw that the door of Li Ruoshi's room was open, he said a little more and asked Li Ruoshi if she would go to watch the game together.

Ruoshi said at the beginning: "If I don't go, my feet don't seem to be completely healed, and sometimes it hurts when I walk a lot, and I don't dare to go to places with so many people." ”

Jing Hao went downstairs to the kitchen and made something to eat, and said goodbye to Ruoshi before going out: "Then I'll go to watch the game." ”

Ruoshi said again at this time: "Otherwise, I will go too, you wait for me." ”

Jing Hao asked, "What's the matter with you?" Didn't you just say you wouldn't go? Besides, you don't decide sooner if you want to go, I'm going out now, how do you have lunch? ”

Ruoshi said: "I got up late today, and I ate brunch, and I can eat two meals a day." I think it's a rare opportunity, so I'll go and see it, I've never seen it on site, and I don't want a ticket, so why don't I go. He hurriedly changed his clothes, and the two went out.

Jing Hao joked and said Ruoshi: "You, looking at the appearance is very foreign, you are simply a sunny young man with an international style, but in fact, you combine Chinese and Western cultures, and there is no shortage of all kinds of problems." ”

Ruoshi said, "Why do you say that about me? ”

Jing Hao said: "You don't spend money, you don't refuse to come, you don't spend money to see the excitement, and you have to go with sore feet, just like what was said on the Internet, some elderly Chinese who are obviously quite rich go to the church in the United States to receive relief bread; At the same time, you're still engaged in these things like brunch, in fact, you love to sleep lazy, and it's past breakfast when you get up, and there's no way to merge the two into one. ”

Ruoshi said: "Do you think everyone is like you, with a strong family as the backing? I can't help it, I have to be self-reliant, I sometimes eat brunch, but also to save a meal, especially when I am working, I go to McDonald's in the afternoon to eat, which is equivalent to saving two meals! ”

Jing Hao didn't believe it at all, and said, "Your family's economic strength is not strong, so you came here to study for an undergraduate?" Besides, why do you take me as an example, my parents are just poor teachers, where does our family have the economic strength? ”

Ruoshi swallowed a mouthful of saliva, wanting to say something, but didn't say it.

Jinghao and Ruoshi took the bus first, and then walked to the river to find Mayo to meet, and they were already several layers of audience. In a place like Oxford, there are only 150,000 people in the whole city and suburbs, and it is rare to see so many people gathered together except for the Meadow Carnival.

While watching the game, Jing Hao suddenly inadvertently saw the other side: how could Harry be there, I saw him sitting with an Asian woman, watching the game on the other side of the river, Harry seemed to be very warm, very caring, and very polite to the woman, and helped someone get a cup of hot tea or hot coffee and other hot drinks, when the unknown woman took the drink, she accidentally spilled a little on her clothes, Harry also carefully handed her tissues, and what was even more surprising was that Harry also helped her wipe the tea on her clothes......

Who is that woman? She suddenly felt a little sick to her stomach. Jing Hao didn't want to look at the other side, but when she looked up, she could always see the location of Harry and the Asian woman.

She told Li Ruoshi and Mayo that she suddenly had a stomachache and wanted to go back first. Mayo and Ruoshi asked if they needed to send her, and she said no, she walked around and went back.

Jing Hao quietly left, with a faint disappointment and doubt on her face, and a gust of wind blew her hair out. She passed a pasture meadow, which was oily green. She recalled the scenes just now and before, and guessed that this should be Harry's ex-girlfriend, the person written in the book - Nam Chung Town, the person he will never forget.

So, the two of them must have been dating all along! But if that's the case, why did he deliberately ask her to watch a movie in the heavy rain? And let yourself be a temporary teaching assistant to accompany him to London to attend lectures? Is it really just that I can't find anyone else temporarily? No wonder he was so serious about giving himself an extra £50 for his work......

Thinking about it, Jing Hao was a little angry with herself. Thinking too much about himself, Harry shouldn't mean anything else. Self-inflicted affection.

By the river, Harry accompanied the Asian woman to watch the game.

On the not wide river, a few racing boats chase me, the waves splash around, fly up and down, the racing boat is in front of this one for a while, and that one surpasses the past for a while.

On the water, in the rowing, all the rowers are muscular handsome guys, swaying their exuberant strength and hormones on the boat, and the cheers and cheers of "hi hi" on the shore are boiling, so lively.

Harry politely stood up and said to the Asian-faced lady that he was going back to prepare for the next day's work, and that he was sorry to leave her alone to watch the game.

Of course, that person was not Harry's ex-girlfriend, she was just a Chinese scholar who came to do academic exchanges, and she happened to come to the school for a visit these days, and was very interested in the rowing competition, so the school's international exchange center handed over the task to Harry, who bought a hot drink out of politeness and enthusiastically accompanied her to watch this prestigious rowing race.

As soon as she heard that Harry had something to leave, the female scholar hurriedly and politely said that it didn't matter, she knew the way, and after watching the game in a while, she would go to the supermarket to buy something and walk back the way she came, so that he could rest assured.

Harry nodded, and walked away gracefully and slowly.

Li Ruoshi watched the rowing competition with great joy, who expected that when he got up to cheer for the contestants, there were too many people, he didn't stand firmly, and accidentally knocked his ankle, which had not completely healed, and hurriedly held on to the railing......

Jing Hao had already crossed the corn market street at this time, and walked back to the wide street, his face seemed to have been wronged, the corners of his mouth were tightly closed, and he walked with his head down.

When passing by Blackwell's bookstore, she glanced inside the bookstore through the glass window, stopped, couldn't help but turn in, went to the coffee corner, asked for a large cup of hot chocolate, and sat alone on the bookstore sofa.

Jing Hao's admiration and enthusiasm for Harry gradually grew in her heart, and even occasionally thumped her heart, she herself understood, but the picture just now gave her a basin of cold water, and it also made her a little puzzled.

She has her own problems that need to be solved, she and Chen Dongliang have known each other for so many years, and their parents want her to start a family with Chen Dongliang, but she doesn't want to marry Chen Dongliang. She wanted to break up several times, but she didn't share it, although she didn't break up clearly, but Chen Dongliang became more and more philistine, which did not meet her wishes. Of course, she prefers to communicate with Harry, and she has even considered whether her parents will be able to accept her relationship with Harry after graduation.

However, now it seems that all these things that have been pondered are meaningless, and they are simply "hot on the fire stick" or "hot face on other people's cheeks" as Mr. Chen put it......

After Harry broke up with the Chinese female scholar, he also walked back along the path that Jing Hao walked. Not coincidentally, this was the shortest walk they could have from the river back to campus.

Passing by the Blackwell bookstore on Broad Street, Harry also habitually glanced towards the bookstore, and through the glass wall, he saw Jing Hao sitting inside. Jing Hao kept her head down and thought about her thoughts, not noticing Harry outside the glass wall.

Harry got closer and closer to the glass walls of the café, and he stopped for a moment, looking at the silence inside. Jing Hao was unaware of it, staring at something in a daze, his eyes motionless. Harry hesitated, then pushed the door open and walked into the bookstore.

He took the initiative to go over to say hello to Jinghao, because he didn't know that Jinghao had just returned from the rowing competition, so he suggested that she go to the river to see the excitement of the race.

Jing said politely, I just went to see it, and I saw a very wonderful picture, it was too lively, I didn't like the excitement, so I left early, now it's good, it's a lot cleaner here.

Harry didn't know that it was he who accompanied the female scholar to watch the game that caused Jinghao's misunderstanding, and thought that Jinghao really didn't like the noise caused by too many people by the river......

The two chatted about something else, and while they were talking, Jing Hao suddenly received a call from Li Ruoshi, asking her to hurry back to pick him up, his ankle injury happened to be broken again, and he couldn't walk because of the pain, and now he wants to go back.

Jing Hao said: "Ruoshi, you can just call a taxi, I'll walk back, go quickly, it will take seven or eight minutes." ”

Li Ruoshi said: "Call a taxi, it will cost me at least 10 pounds, you are active, come back to pick me up, help me and we go to the bus together, you have an annual pass and it doesn't cost money, I didn't buy an annual pass myself, it costs two pounds, but this time I saved 8 pounds, don't forget to go to McDonald's to work for an hour and can't earn 8 pounds." ”

Jing Hao shook his head, there was no way to take Ruoshi. She turned to Harry and explained that one of her friends had suddenly come to her in a hurry, and she had to go first, and she was sorry.

Seeing that Jing Hao was leaving, Harry suddenly took out a new book of his own from his bag and gave it to Jing Hao, saying that it was a birthday gift for her, and he gave it to her in advance.

Jing Hao was stunned, how could Harry know his birthday? Besides, my birthday is more than half a year away. Harry said he had seen from Quiet's Facebook that her registered birthday was coming soon. Jinghao hurriedly thanked him.

Actually, Jing Hao forgot that the birthday in Facebook was the birthday of her mother and Chen Dongliang, and the two of them happened to be on the same day. Many people don't put their birthdays in QQ or Facebook files, but write the birthdays of people close to them, which is not only a reminder, but also to avoid revealing too much personal information. Jing Hao didn't feel the need to explain it to Harry so carefully, so she accepted the book and thanked her repeatedly. She opened the book and saw that the title page read "To Jinghao" and Chinese: "To Jinghao, I wish you happiness without stopping." "The handwriting is deliberately round, which is very fun.

There is also a small sun painted next to it. The signature is: Harry.

Jing Hao saw "non-stop happiness", and immediately laughed, Harry has studied Chinese for so long, he wrote it on purpose? Or did he think it was the right thing to write like that? Although there is no problem with grammar, what does it mean to be constantly happy? Speaking Chinese like this is somewhat problematic, at least Chinese are not very good at writing blessings like this.

Jing Hao remembered the story of a Chinese landlord I heard. It was said that he taught his daughter, who was born in Oxford, Chinese to say: "Scramble, that is, afraid of slowness, hurrying up, the landlord asked his daughter to make a sentence, but the daughter said: "Every evening, my mother rushes home...... which seems to be a bit similar to Harry's "non-stop happiness".

Ruoshi sent a WeChat message to urge Jing Hao, Jing Hao hurriedly said goodbye to Harry: "Thank you for the gift, my friend is in a hurry, I have to go immediately." ”

Jing Hao trotted all the way, snorted and hurried back to the shore of the rowing race, and helped Ruoshi to the bus station in the direction of Broad Street.

Harry never left, sitting in the café area of the bookstore reading a book and drinking coffee, and ten minutes later, through the large glass wall, he saw Jing Hao helping Li Ruoshi from a distance, walking in the direction of the nearby bus stop. Although Harry knew that the glass wall was partially reflective, and from the outside in, he needed to look carefully to see the people inside, he still subconsciously leaned towards the corner of the wall again, so that he could barely be seen from the outside.

Li Ruoshi's feet hurt so badly that she relied on Jing Hao to support her all the way, and Jing Hao deliberately put his arm on her shoulder to make him comfortable.

Harry, who was sitting on the large glass wall, saw the scene and remembered that on the day of Bean's lecture, it was the boy and Jing Hao who had eaten together at the coffee shop, and then the two of them went to the lecture together, and there was talk and laughter on the way, and they also walked together after the lecture......

Now that the two of them were so close together, the cautious Harry added a little more speculation and doubt.