Chen Ying put on Wu Yun's coat and took her hand and went out. They deliberately walked along the path near the lake to avoid encountering the crowd returning from class. Dense snowflakes swirled in the wind, sprinkling frosting on the hats and shoulders of both men. They finally walked out of the school gate and walked on the road outside the east school gate. The snow on the sidewalk was cleared, revealing a brick road with red bumps. It reminded Chen Ying of the gravel roads of Copenhagen, which worked together to leave a series of hard calluses on the soles of her feet during her months abroad.

"Here we are." Chen Ying said as she pushed Wu Yun up the black stairs of the Halloween Book Garden. Outside, the pink storefront looked blurry in the snow and wind, and Chen Ying pushed open the plastic steel door that had been replaced with brown glass with the help of memory. Two girls shake off the snow off their clothes like freshly landed waterfowl on plastic mats. They walked to the second floor in the direction of the warm wind, and found two sofa chairs connected to sit down. Before they could fold their coats, a chubby tabby cat jumped on Chen Ying's lap.

"You're still so popular with cats." Wu Yun said lightly.

"How about ordering your favorite food?" Chen Ying asked.

"It's up to you."

It is a real pleasure to be able to eat steaming hot pot in such weather, especially for Chen Ying. She feasted on the steaming copper pot without raising her head. may have been infected, Wu Yun also filled a bowl full of shabu-shabu and ate it violently.

"How good does the food taste like here?" Wu Yun put down the dishes and chopsticks and stroked the cat lying on Chen Ying's lap. It stuck its head out as it ate, wondering what the dishes were on the table. Through the mouths of the two young girls, it was now full, curled into a ball and snorted contentedly.

Chen Ying smiled and turned on her mobile phone to look at the stock market. A few trading days towards the end of the year, the overall market sentiment was low.

"Why don't you ask me how I've been doing?" Wu Yun said.

"Y-what do you want to say?"

Wu Yun sighed, raised his head and drank the remaining half cup of flower tea in front of him. They sat silently for a moment. Chen Ying saw that the mosaic lamp that had been placed on the table of the Eight Immortals had been replaced by a lampshade with multicolored transparent glass shells. Around the black-walled bar, a few black-clad staff members were busy drying glasses. The background music plays slowly through the overhead speaker, and the set songs are played in order:

"I didn't turn around

The most cruel moment

Watch you go

Not like me at all

It turns out that people will become gentle

It is understood thoroughly

Love is fluid

Not by people

Why bother asking for a reason

I'm sure you're just afraid of hurting me

Not lying to me

Who will be willing to love it very much

Woke me up from my dream

Declare that happiness will not come

I forgave with a sad smile

also crossed over

It's good to have yesterday

But tomorrow is their own

I'm starting to understand

Happiness is the choice

……”

Chen Ying listened quietly as Wu Yun recounted what had happened, even though she had learned a lot from Sun Wei earlier. Wu Yun told again and again, and she could see that the rough and hurtful words of the other party when they broke up were still fresh in her memory. Through her black eyes, Chen Ying seemed to be able to see the terrifying scene at that time and Wu Yun's self-esteem that had nowhere to hide.

"That's all." After a while, Wu Yun sighed and said, "He said he couldn't stand me anymore." After two years, one month and three days, he left. ”

Chen Ying was sad to see the tears in her eyes burst out of her eyes again. Unlike what she saw in the movie, Chen Ying felt that the pain spread quickly in the air like a disease, and her heart was silenced.

"You say, is it possible for him to change his mind?" Wu Yun asked.

"Why do you want him to turn back?"

"It may be unwilling. I always think that my contribution can't be denied in an instant. Her reddened eyes turned away, "A lot of times I think if I do something about it, maybe he'll be back." However, this is not the case. I talked to him on QQ and called him, but he not only ignored me, but also blocked me. Later, I started to follow him, trying to fetch water and put it at the door of the corridor like before, and it turned out ......"

She smiled wryly, tears dripping down her arms.

"You don't have to worry about him anymore." Chen Ying said, "Just take care of yourself." ”

Sun Wei also asked me to stop caring about He Si, saying that he should be taught to fend for himself. But I couldn't listen to any lectures, I couldn't read books, and my heart was full of it. I couldn't eat and went to sleep when I was hungry and confused. In the dream, we were in love, and when we woke up, we realized that he and I had become strangers. ”

"A wounded heart needs time to recover, and in a few days you will be healed."

"Actually, it's not this thing I'm worried about." Wu Yun suddenly said, "What really scares me is that I won't like anyone in the future." My heart has been broken into pieces, who would like me like this? ”

"No one can predict the future, but I don't think it's necessary to punish yourself for someone else's mistakes." When you cry about missing the sun, you also miss the stars.'" ”

"I also like Tagore's poems. I peeked at that book while you weren't there. ”

They laughed together. A joyful atmosphere grew in the middle of the table, and the cat stretched and sat on Wu Yun's lap to look at her. She scratched its chin carefully.

"I like that one the most." Wu Yun touched the cat's head and said, "'I can't choose the best, it's the best that chooses me.'" ’”

"'Don't be in a hurry, the best will always come when you least expect it. Even if you're sad, don't frown, because you don't know who will fall in love with your smile. To the world, you are a human being; And for someone, you are his whole world. Chen Ying replied.

"'Believe in love, even if it brings you sorrow.'" ”

"'Just walk there, you don't have to linger to pick flowers to preserve. Because along the way, the flowers will continue to bloom. ’”

The wind continued to blow outside the window, and the houses on the opposite side seemed to be crying in the snow. The trees on the side of the street were still standing strongly, their bare branches swaying in the wind, and their bodies were covered in snow-white frost. The people in the seats next to them came and went, and gradually only the two of them remained. The background music was replaced by a piano piece without lyrics, and strings of notes danced briskly in their ears.

"Why don't you say, the tree wither in the fall, like the grass, and be reborn from the soil the next spring?" Wu Yun asked, "How much torture do you have to endure in such a severe cold?" ”

"They don't suffer in vain. Today's pain will become tomorrow's wealth, allowing them to stand higher and see farther. ”

They sat and talked for a while. Wu Yun told Chen Ying a lot about what happened in the class this semester. After all, they are already in their third year of college, and their plans after graduation are no longer far away. Many people started looking for internships in their spare time, and more people joined the certification army, spending more and more time on the review materials distributed by extracurricular tutorial classes. By the second half of this year, they will also be students in their graduating class, and all kinds of practical problems will be in front of them.

"Do you have any plans after graduation?" Chen Ying asked.

"I want to go to graduate school." Wu Yun said hesitantly, "Actually, I also want to go abroad to see." What do you think of going to Europe? ”

"It's good, but the food is a little unaccustomed."

"What about the rest?"

"I don't know if I'm too sensitive." "In Europe, I'm often confused – not just because of the language differences. More often than not, I don't know much about what's going on around me, but I don't know where to start. I don't know anything about the myths and stories of the Nordics, let alone their cultural development. Europe is a land of thousands of years of history, and the differences between countries complicate it, and when you think you finally understand a certain part of civilization, you leave hundreds of kilometers and find yourself back in a state of idiocy again. ”

"How can this be?"

"Let's put it this way. It may be better understood if you think of each European country as a family. The culture of each country is equivalent to the tradition of the family, and due to certain living habits and other factors, each person will be influenced by the 'family' in which they live, and thus show different personalities. It was difficult for me to understand at first, after all, they lived next to each other and had so many connections. Later, I think they are more about defending their independence through respect for each other's choices. ”