"Are you coming to Taipei?"

"Well, I have some other things. ”

"Looking for a friend?"

"You can say yes. I write stories, so I came to Taipei to walk around and collect stories. ”

"Oh, that's it. ”

"yes. ”

"Oh, you're so good. ”

"No, I don't. ”

Cheng and I didn't hold an umbrella. We walked side by side on the drizzling street, and Ah Cheng chatted with me in his fluent Taiwanese Alishan style Mandarin.

This is Taipei.

The maximum temperature is 17 degrees Celsius and the minimum temperature is 7 degrees. In winter, rain.

I had made an appointment with my friend to pick me up, but he couldn't come, so he sent Ah Cheng, a Taiwanese boy, to pick me up.

The moment he appeared at the exit of the airport, I saw him wave at me with his hand held high. A cheerful look.

I was amazed that he could recognize me at a glance in the crowd.

"How did you recognize me?"

"You texted me that you were wearing a maroon long down jacket, and it was so hot in Taiwan, who would wear a down jacket except you. ”

"Roar~ I see. ”

"But aren't you hot?"

"It's hot... But before I got on the plane, I told you I was wearing a down jacket, so I had to wear it all the way..."

"Stupid~ You can take off your coat and send me a text message telling me what you're wearing inside. ”

"The signal from my mainland phone card is very poor, I tried to send you a new text message, but it has been failing... So..."

"Do you want to take off your coat now?"

"yes, it's really hot to wear. ”

Ah Cheng wears a peaked cap and a blue hooded sweatshirt. He smiled at me the first time he saw me. He looks like the kind of typical Taipei boy with a big grin and a sunny face. His eyes convey his cleverness.

The first thing I did when I met him was to take off my long, heavy down jacket from the southern part of the snowy continent.

The temperature of the body suddenly returned from the hot 40 degrees Celsius wrapped in the down jacket to the ideal 37 degrees Celsius.

Then Cheng helped me carry the box. I walked out of the airport hall with him in my down jacket.

The 10-degree wind in Taipei greeted me.

However, because of the rainy days, the sky in Taipei is always a little gray.

I looked at the gray sky and thought to myself, I have moved from minus one degree Celsius on the snowy continent to ten degrees Celsius in the rain in Taipei.

The trip began.

"Where are we going next?"

"Whatever you want, anyway, Akai asked me to accompany you around. ”

"I need to go to the hotel to drop off my luggage first. ”

"Yes, I'll accompany you anyway. Don't worry, leave it to me on the day you come to Taipei, and I will make you super at ease. ”

So Ah Cheng accompanied me back to the hotel to put my things. We agreed that I would take a break, and then he would pick me up in the afternoon and take me to the Eslite bookstore.

But I didn't expect to see him in the afternoon, and he would come on a cool motorcycle.

He wears a black helmet with only bright eyes. If it weren't for the dark blue sweatshirt he wore in the morning, I almost didn't recognize him.

He saw me, shoved a pink helmet into my hand, then twisted his head back and said, "Get in the car." ”

This look makes me think it's the plot of a Taiwanese idol TV series.

"Why do you have a pink helmet, though?"

"I have one for my beloved woman. ”

"What?" startled me.

"Haha, no, it's another girl I'm chasing. ”

"Oh, I said. You're so good, you're still pursuing others, and you've already prepared your helmet for others. I quipped.

"I bought this helmet when I saw it, and when that girl became my wife, my locomotive won't be my only wife, haha. ”

I've heard for a long time that Taiwanese boys take locomotives very seriously, and many boys will repair or modify locomotives by themselves, and locomotives are sexy toys that carry their mechanical dreams.

Ah Cheng's motorcycle is a very muscular and powerful style. I sat in the back seat of Ah Cheng's locomotive, and suddenly I felt much taller and more powerful.

With the roar of the accelerator, I wore a pink helmet and followed the locomotive and Ah Cheng all the way.

In the afternoon I wore only a light sweater and no jacket. After spending a little time outside, I actually felt a little cold.

I shrunk into the back seat of Ah Cheng's motorcycle, and his body could shield me from the wind and rain at the moment.

At this time, the outside temperature is about 10 degrees.

I didn't wear a coat, and my body felt 15 degrees.

Because I want to take Ah Cheng's locomotive to speed, I feel a little cold, and I feel that the temperature is only 7 degrees.

However, I was able to shrink into the back seat of Ah Cheng's locomotive, and finally it was not completely cold. In a small warm area in the back seat of the locomotive, it can be about 20 degrees.

Our locomotives are fast through the two-lane or three-lane roads in Taipei. The Japanese-style light box sign hanging on the sixth or seventh floor of the building passed by quickly.

Ah Cheng's car is like a street rat with full horsepower, roaring and racing with the car. Often at a speed of 70 mph in front of only one metre away, it is more than 50 mphath a car.

It's so exciting.

Today is the first time I have met Ah Cheng, and although I have some worries in my heart, I am embarrassed to say anything. I had to believe Ah Cheng and gave my life to this big boy I just met.

We weren't the only locomotives I saw on the road.

These locomotives not only race against four-wheeled cars, but also against each other.

But there is a harmony in this seemingly dangerous picture. Presumably, Taiwanese car drivers have long been accustomed to being with and coexisting with locomotives. These locomotives are like a type of obstacle in a video game, and the cars are careful to avoid or lean on the locomotive to drive at a constant speed, giving them a full twelve points of patience.

Soon, the Eslite bookstore arrived, and we parked the locomotive and entered the warm, fully heated Eslite bookstore.

25 degrees.

Taiwan's 24-hour Eslite Bookstore is bustling with people, with a wide variety of books on the shelves.

Ah Cheng and I wandered between the bookshelves, I picked up a random book, flipped through it, and put it down. Cheng found the comic book area and plunged into it, refusing to move his steps.

I found a copy of "Foggy Forest", read the beginning, and thought it was good, so I kept it in my hand and prepared to buy it.

After a while, I went to look for Ah Cheng, he was flipping through a copy of "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms", and when he saw me coming, he began to secretly introduce me to this comic, which game is a derivative of which game, comics, etc., etc.

Then he asked me what I bought, and I showed him the copy of "Foggy Forest" in my hand.

"After reading this story, is it a little higher than love. ”

"Do you have any problems with love? ”

He put down the comic, his eyes lonely for a moment.

"I don't understand you girls. It's the girl I like, obviously I went to dinner, but after chasing for three months, she still looks tepid, neither accepting nor refusing. ”

"Isn't that what you haven't confessed to her yet?"

"I confessed to her, but she didn't say yes or no, she just looked at me with a smile and said to be friends first. ”

"Then you understand the literal meaning, so let's be friends first. ”

"But it took a lot of effort to chase her, and I often waited for her to get off work, gave her gifts, and took her to dinner. ”

"Girls enjoy the boys' pursuit of themselves. ”

"Yes, but there are too many boys pursuing her. ”

"Is she a little special to you?"

"I don't know. ”

"Okay, then you can observe. But... How do you think she's accepted you?"

"It's just that you can hold hands, kiss, hug, that kind. Ah Cheng said with a shy and honest smile. "But she doesn't want me to hold her hand now. In front of others, he only introduced me as his ordinary friend, not his boyfriend. ”

"Maybe she's just shy?"

"I don't know. It's so hard to think about, but it's just going crazy for me. ”

Ah Cheng complained for a while, and said from the perspective of a complete boy, "It's not good, if you like it, if you don't like it, if you don't like it, just tell me quickly, it makes me feel bad to hang my appetite like this." ”

I silently listened to Ah Cheng pour bitter water on me. I myself looked down and flipped through the book. I could only comfort him and say, "Maybe that girl is shy." You don't overthink it. ”

In this way, Ah Cheng confided in me in distraught for an hour, and when we finally left Eslite, he still bought a book, "Did You Know? Actually, I Like You". Cheng said he wanted to give the book to the girl.

I picked up the sister piece of the book that was on the shelf and handed it to him, and I said, "Why don't you give her this one too, so you can know her answer." ”

The book in my hand is called, "I Like You, Do You Like Me?"

Ah Cheng went on to say, "That makes sense, then I'm going to buy another book, "How to Tell if a Girl Likes Yourself." ”

I couldn't help but laugh, it seems that Ah Cheng is really distressed about this problem.

As we walked out of Eslite, it was getting dark. The outside temperature is only about 6 or 7 degrees.

Makoto and I walked aimlessly in the arcade of the West Entrance Hall. A arcade is the kind of building where people can live on the upper floor, the first floor is a shop, and there is a semi-open corridor between the first and second floors.

Such arcades can be seen everywhere in the downtown area of Taipei.

Because there is shelter overhead, even if it is raining lightly in Taipei, people can hide in the semi-open corridor on the outside of the first floor, and go shopping without worrying about the intermittent rain.

Taipei's night markets are densely packed with a variety of Taiwanese delicacies, including large intestine wrapped in small intestines, Dingbian file, fried oysters, Ah Zong noodles, sweet or spicy, coffin board, Changhua pork, ginger duck, and so on.

Because Ah Cheng was kind enough to accompany me in Taiwan, I invited him to drink milk tea, and then invited him to dinner.

The content of the dinner is Taiwanese braised pork rice, Qibao soup, and fried clams. When I was content with the deliciousness and heartiness of the dinner. Ah Cheng showed some absent-mindedness.

He's been looking depressed ever since we talked about the girl he's chasing at Eslite in the afternoon.

"Please, don't do this again... Try this fish ball, it's delicious. "I tried to distract Cheng with the food on the table. But he smiled reluctantly, and it seemed that my concern and enlightenment had little effect.

I sighed inwardly and asked the boss to bring a pot of tea.

After a while, the boss brought a stainless steel teapot.

I poured a quarter of water into the cup. The pot was filled with cold water.

But I had just entered the store from the cool air outside, and I urgently needed a cup of hot water to warm my hands, praying that the hot water would transfer its temperature to me.

So I asked the store to bring it to a pot of hot tea.

The shopkeeper said, "It's freshly boiled boiling water, it's very hot~"

I smiled and said, "It's okay, I just had some cold water in my cup, and some boiling water, just right." ”

So I continued to get some hot water into the cup, and the glass was steaming hot.

I picked up the teacup and took a tentative sip, it was so hot!

Then I poured some cold water into the cup with the pot of cold water, and touched it with my hand, and it seemed to be less hot.

I held the cup, blew on the hot air, and took a careful sip. The water temperature is just the right temperature for hot boiled water to drink.

It was just perfect.

The temperature of the hot water warmed me up all at once. The warmth spread throughout the body.

Suddenly, an idea came to my mind, I raised my head and looked at Ah Cheng, and said, "Eh Ah Cheng, don't you think, you pursue a girl, give a girl love, it is like putting a cup in her hand, your endless love is like pouring hot water into this cup, if this love is too hot, it will hurt her, if it is too cold, it will not be able to warm her." ”

Ah Cheng raised his head and looked at me stupidly, then grinned and said, "Yes~ Maybe I gave her too much, too full and too hot, so I embarrassed her." ”

"Yes, two people together are meant to be warm to each other. This relationship can't be so hot that it hurts each other, and it can't be cold enough to warm each other. ”

"Yes. But... Maybe it's not that exaggerated. It's true that I'm good to her, but I'm not so good to her that I suffocate and hurt her. ”

"And isn't the temperature between the two of you yet up to what she needs to be?"

"But it's hard to handle the temperature. ”

That's why you need to be more patient and considerate to understand what she needs and likes. The care that girls need is so delicate and subtle, it is natural that you need to continue to give, adjust and take care of it. ”

"You girls, it's so hard to understand. No wonder it is said that a woman's heart is a needle. ”

"Maybe you should enjoy the process and not focus too much on whether she will accept you in the end. Love is a beautiful thing, you feel good about her, you give your friendship. Giving it in itself makes you happy, doesn't it?"

"It's... Rather. ”

"So, from now on, you don't care too much about the results. Just like her and be good to her. ”

Ah Cheng was thoughtful.

"Okay, don't think about it, I'll make an appointment with her tonight, or I'll just ask you how she feels about you, right? I asked directly, it's much faster!"

I asked Ah Cheng to eat. Don't think about it anymore.

In the evening, Ah Cheng and I were sitting in a bar in Taipei, and I ordered a glass of Pink Lady and he ordered a glass of Love on Long Island.

The lights in the bar are blurred and the rock music is deafening.

The atmosphere was 50 degrees warm.

Ah Cheng took his mobile phone and sent a text message to the girl he liked. But after making an appointment with someone for half an hour, he never said that he would come over.

Although there was a lively atmosphere around him at the moment, the air that belonged to Ah Cheng was filled with a kind of frustration and coldness.

"Won't she come out?"

"Don't come out... I can't say anything... It's often like this, I want her to come out, I want to meet her, but she refuses. ”

"That's how girls are, you have to be patient. And, perhaps, she has something to deal with right now. ”

"No, she just thinks I'm not important. My grandma lives downstairs from her, and I just called my grandma and said that I saw her walking the dog downstairs. She would rather walk her dog than come to see me. Saying that, Ah Cheng threw away his phone in frustration, and said angrily, "I decided that I don't like her anymore if she doesn't come out today, and she doesn't care about me at all." ”

"Don't make jokes. ”

"I'm not joking, you see the sister over there, I'm going to go over and invite people to drink and pursue people. ”

I turned my head to see two girls with charming faces and good bodies leaning against the bar and chatting and drinking.

Ah Cheng, who was across from me, really stood up and walked towards them. Ah Cheng invited these two beauties to drink, and after a while, he had a hot fight with the two beauties. Probably Ah Cheng proposed to take a photo, he grabbed the shoulder of the girl on the left, his hand was triumphant, and the girl on the right also leaned her head close to him.

It was only a few minutes after they took the photo that Ah Cheng suddenly ran towards me like a flustered child, holding his mobile phone.

"I replied, she messaged me back. Ah Cheng is simply dancing, he looks like that, he is happy from the heart, and he looks very happy.

"What's back?"

She said she would come right away. ”

"What did you do that she suddenly changed her mind?"

"I posted a photo I took with my sister to Facebook, and she saw it and immediately said she wanted to come. Am I smart?" Cheng smiled slyly.

"Haha, it looks like she still cares about you!"

Ah Cheng's face was red, and he happily held his mobile phone and sent text messages to the girl he liked.

Ah Cheng waited for his girl expectantly. He told me that his heart pounded every time he saw her. The face is so red that it is hot, it is 100 degrees!

Cheng said that today he would make the one hundred and first confession to the girl, and if she refused, he would continue to care about her. If she said yes, he would want to kiss her today.

This was the first stop of my trip, Taipei.

Seeing Ah Cheng expectantly and happily waiting for that girl, I was also very happy for him.

In fact, there is also a temperature between friends. Today, on the first day, I met Ah Cheng, from 0 degrees to 37 and a half degrees. 37 degrees semi-warm and cozy, just right for friends.