At 9:30 a.m., the high-speed train from Beijing to Shenzhen stopped steadily at the terminal Shenzhen North Railway Station. I used to look out the window before I got up and got off the train, and the scenery inside the platform didn't change much from when I first came here more than a decade ago. If I had to find something different, it might be because this platform has grown a little bigger, or maybe it's because I'm a little older now.

The platform is still the same platform, and the female conductor standing at the door of the train is still so tall and sassy; The officers on duty walking around the platform were still blowing short whistles with the same tune; The people on the platform are still in such a hurry, as if they can't wait to go out and experience this beautiful and charming dream city.

It is also the season of late autumn, and the weather in Shenzhen is still warm and smooth, and the sun is warm, unlike the late autumn in the north, when the leaves are already drifting and the first snow is flying. The only thing the two have in common may be that the air is filled with the breath of longing for distant lovers, and there is a lot of "sadness and loneliness in autumn since ancient times"; "One lovesickness, two sorrows".

It was in this season that more than ten years ago, I was alone, supported by dreams of a better future, and set foot in this strange and beautiful city for the first time, where I met Lynn for the first time, whom I had known for a long time online.

I met Lynn in an online forum, at that time, social platforms were not as many and developed as they are now, and in my impression, Nokia mobile phones were still in a monopoly position. If you want to learn some extracurricular knowledge that you are interested in or want to show off what you have learned, most of them will go to the "Tianya Forum" to have a visit.

At that time, I was still a fledgling financial novice, and naturally I often went to the forum, firstly, to prostitute some stock trading techniques in it, and secondly, to pass the boring time in the long night.

Sometimes I also like to write some of my own learning insights and youthful trading experiences, and the posts are published in the forum circle where I can't remember the name anymore. Maybe it's a little clever, a little writing, the small composition posted on it can always be added by the circle administrator, and the post written will naturally be read by more people.

Lynn's job is a brokerage in a securities company, and her job is mainly to pull customers for the company she works for, and the number plate is engraved with the words "account manager". But she is different from other brokers in that she does not have a particularly strong utilitarian heart, according to her words, if you can meet someone who wants to open a stock account, it is a blessing, according to the current popular saying, it is a type of "Buddha nature" marketing.

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After leaving Shenzhen North Railway Station, there was an underground passage leading to the subway station, and I followed the underground passage to the turn of a staircase, and saw Lynn, who was already standing here to pick up the station.

Lynn was wearing a white dress that day, holding a light-colored flower umbrella in her hand, and she smiled and waved at me, showing a shallow dimple on the side of her pretty fair cheeks. Lynn is not very tall, about 1.6 meters tall, a small black bag is crossed in front of her, and the shiny chain is diagonally pressed against the skirt collar on her chest, making her petite body more exquisite.

When I walked in front of her, she enthusiastically and generously stretched out her little hand and shook it gently, which made me feel the temperament of my hand for the first time, warm and soft.

"Isn't it the road, haven't you had breakfast yet?" She smiled and looked up at me. That soft tone complemented her beautiful and dignified appearance, and the feeling of exhaustion from the journey had lost its trace in that moment.

We said goodbye to the underpass, greeted by a very wide station square, the square is orderly planted with a variety of subtropical plants, if the northern trees are described as vigorous and powerful and bony beauty, then the trees here are described as enchanting and gentle and beautiful. The warm sunlight from the thin clouds gently trickles down through the shimmering leaves, the broad leaves swaying in the breeze, and the shadows of the trees are reflected on the clean, flat ground.

There was an endless stream of tourists in the square, and we walked out with the surging flow of people in the square, until we stopped in front of a building that seemed to be a combination of Chinese and Western shapes. Lynn smiled and said to me, "Let's just sit here for a while, you can rest for a while, eat something to cushion your stomach, and I'll take you to a special and delicious place at noon." ”

"Or don't go in," I said to her apologetically, glancing up at the time on my watch, which was almost half past ten, "and it's almost noon, so you can come with me to find a place to stay." ”

As I spoke, I took out a small note and handed it to her, and she took it and looked at it and said, "Oh, that's fine, it's going to take more than an hour to get to the spot on the note." With that, she returned the note to me.

I asked her if she knew about this place, and she said that she would know the approximate location, there should be that station on the subway, Shennan Avenue is a very prosperous street in Shenzhen, and she smiled at me after speaking, and didn't say anything more. As she left, she waved apologetically at the waitress who walked to the door to greet us.

"You know, I've planned all of today's activities, but my plans were disrupted by your little note written like a spider's crawl." After we got off the subway and left the station, she muttered and puffed out. At this time, I have to admire the experience summed up by the ancients, a woman, is a transmuted animal.

Lynn is a native of Bailing Town, Xiushui County, Jiujiang City, and since I got acquainted with her in the forum, I deliberately went to the Internet to check the customs of her hometown. The information is introduced like this: Jiujiang Xiushui County, a county with the most beautiful women in Jiangxi, is known as the "Beauty Nest". It is said that "the beauties of Jiangxi count Jiujiang, the beauties of Jiujiang are repairing the water, and the beauties of repairing the water are hiding Bailing", there are many beauties in Bailing. Bailing Town is rich in golden silk chrysanthemum, and the locals often rely on drinking chrysanthemum tea to maintain it. In ancient times, the economy was very developed here, so the girls here received a good education from an early age, in addition to beauty and self-cultivation.

I saw her puffing up, and I couldn't help but have a feeling of happiness in my heart, thinking about how to make her laugh, thinking about it, suddenly a flash of inspiration, I recited the information I had checked to her, sure enough, when she heard the last sentence "In addition to beauty and connotation", her face showed a smile like a flower, I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, women, I can't help it.

"Well, for your sake of doing so much homework on me, I'll forgive you this time." She looked at me with her little hands behind her back and said, "Let's go, hurry up to the hotel you mentioned on the note." ”

"That little dimple of yours is so charming." She grimaced at me again.

According to the location recorded on the note, we quickly found the hotel where we stayed, the hotel is the kind of apartment, judging from the exterior wall and interior decoration style, it should have been a few years.

Personally, I don't have a strong requirement for accommodation, and the beds and bathrooms can be clean and tidy. After a brief consultation at the hotel registration office, I asked for a single room, the room was on the fifth floor, there was no elevator, and I climbed the stairs and panted to carry my suitcase to the room.

The room is the kind of one-bedroom layout, entering the door is a small living room, the living room is placed with a three-person wooden sofa, a wooden coffee table painted with red paint, the bedroom is on the left side of the door, the bathroom and the bedroom are in the same room, it is very convenient to get up at night, this is the first idea that came out after seeing this layout.

An ordinary double bed, washed with some yellowed sheets, the bedside table and the coffee table outside are made of the same material, and interestingly, there are two boxes of adult products on the bedside table. I stole a glance back at her, and I believe she must have followed my gaze to see what I saw. When I saw her disapproving expression, I suddenly thought that I might not be used to life in this big city.

"After reading it, let's go to dinner, I'm a little hungry if you're not hungry." Lynn stood at the door of the bedroom with her hands crossed and said with an angry look at me.

"Let's go eat at the food stall together," she said with a lively smile on her face as she left the room. ”

I asked her how she always had a straight face after entering this hotel, she said that she thought I would go to her to find a place to stay, and later when we chatted, I learned that she lived in Longhua District, and I lived in a car for more than an hour.

She also said that she has a different time to get off work every day, and it is difficult for the two of them to see each other on weekdays. When I heard this, my heart warmed and I was moved to hold her hand, she didn't show any resistance, I think this is also a success in holding hands.

There were a lot of people on the road, and when we passed through a vegetable market, we saw that every stall on the side of the road was wide and open, and there was a rain ride about two meters wide in front of the stall. The weather in Shenzhen is still sunny in the first second, and the next second can be pouring rain, and the pedestrians on the road have long been accustomed to it.

"Any idea why I've been talking to you online for so long?" She lowered her head and kicked the pebbles under her feet, paused for a moment and asked me, "Do you remember telling her that sometimes she would volunteer at the welfare home?" ”

At this point, I finally understood that I had indeed told her in an online chat.

"You're not going to be an orphan, are you?" I asked her curiously.

"That's not really, I just think that people who volunteer regularly must have a strong sense of responsibility."

When I said this, I suddenly felt her eyes moisten, which made me a little overwhelmed at the time, and quickly asked her what was wrong, but she didn't say anything more, and turned her head to look into the distance.

"Hungry or not, do you want to go get some food first?"

"I don't want to eat now, I just want to go on like this."

We walked to an intersection at a traffic light and waited for the green light to pass, and she raised her hand and pointed to the turn across the road.

"It's like a park."

There is a silk exhibition being held in the park, it is crowded, I asked her if she likes these, she said she likes to see, but not yet the age to wear such materials, if she gets married in the future, she will make herself a beautiful cheongsam, wear it at home when no one is around, I said then I am giving you a peach blossom fan, you can sing a song in Shanghai at night, she giggled, and pinched my arm with her fingers.

Passing through the passage of the silk exhibition, I saw an octagonal pavilion not far ahead, and visitors chatted in groups in the pavilion, looking at the scenery in the park. Outside the pavilion, there are red, pink, yellow, and small white flowers blooming on the ground one by one.

We sat down on a seat against a red pillar, she put her arm around me, her head resting on my shoulder, neither of us spoke, just silently, as if to block out the outside world, and the world suddenly became quiet at this time.

We went back very late that day, and it was natural to switch from a netizen to a real-life lover relationship, and no one confessed to anyone. I love her so much and she loves me deeply.

The two of us don't have the kind of vigorous love like in film and television dramas, and the process of love is so resounding. When we are together, we are always so relaxed and natural, we will go to the cinema to watch a movie together, go to the playground to play games, and we will also go to Chung Ying Street to buy our favorite things.

When we were in love, we would touch each other's bodies, we would hug each other deeply, we both loved to kiss, kissing for a long time, until I dropped her off at the station, and she asked me to kiss her one last time.

Yes, we didn't choose to create that kind of crying scene when we broke up. I booked her a train ticket, I took her to the station, and before she got on the train, we also made a deep hug on the platform and made a final kiss goodbye.

"I'll always think of you."

"I'll always think of you, too."

My love story with Lynn began on this platform and ended on this platform.

Okay, I'm going to tell the next story, and I'm going to set foot on this long-lost city from this platform again. The name of the heroine of this story I'm going to talk about next is Lynn, not because I don't know how to name it, but because I really like it.

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The main purpose of coming to Shenzhen this time is to learn how to make bread, and I have loved eating bread since I was a child.

I am the youngest in my family, there is an eldest sister and two older brothers, so when I was a child, I had to enjoy whatever was delicious at home, and my mother often bought me that kind of old-fashioned Chinese bread to eat, with red bean paste, jujube paste filling, lotus paste, and my favorite food is the kind of Russian big leba with kernels and raisins.

When I was in elementary school, it was particularly popular to drink malt milk essence, which was a Shanghai brand, so my mother went to the store of the supply and marketing cooperatives at that time to buy me malt milk essence to drink. Every morning, my mother cut the big lieba into thick slices, smeared a layer of peanut oil in a pan and fried them until golden brown on both sides, so that I could eat the fried bread slices while drinking malt milk essence.

One year during the summer vacation, I asked my mother why she was able to make bread so delicious. While doing needlework, my mother told me the story of her relationship with bread: "When my mother was young, the adults in the family got up early every day to light the stove, make all the noodles, and then make all kinds of pastries and send them to the confectionery shop in the market to sell. My mother has also been very fond of eating bread since she was a child, and your grandmother cut the bread into thick slices every day, and then fried both sides with oil and brought it to me to eat. So my mother learned the art of frettel too.

I can still recall eating froutons and drinking malt cream.