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Lu Chen wandered around like a lonely ghost for two or three days in a row.The school is on summer vacation, and he doesn't have to go to class now—it is estimated that even if he goes to class, he will be complained by students for his state of confusion.He didn't know where Shen Yi had gone, nor where to find him.

...I really should be grateful for this summer vacation, giving him two months to adjust his status.

Lu Chen ran all the places he could think of in the city where Shen Yi might go - including the homestay in Xicheng District.Not a single person was seen.

Occasionally, when I see a familiar figure from behind, I can't wait to run over and grab him, apologize, and finally leave disappointed.

Like a madman.

When he went to the B&B, he asked subconsciously as soon as he entered the door, "Has Shen Yi been here?" He didn't think about how the boss who received dozens of people a day could remember the residents more than a month ago.

Sure enough, the art boss shook his head in a dazed expression, apparently he no longer remembered them.

Lu Chen looked at the familiar B&B room, and once again sighed in his heart that things were different.

Three days later, Yang Mei could finally bear it no longer and called Lu Chen.It was only then that he remembered that there was still patient No. [-] waiting for him to take care of.

Yang Mei stayed in the hospital alone, without anyone to accompany her in bed. Now she can't get up with a broken arm or leg, and she can't keep bothering the nurses.

After Lu Chen, who was floating on the road, answered the phone, he hailed a taxi and went to the hospital.

As soon as Lu Chen entered, Yang Mei was keenly aware of his absence.

"Is Shen Yi gone?" Yang Mei sighed inwardly, and said straight to the point.

Lu Chen was taken aback, looked at her deeply, and could see the bloodshot eyes, "Hmm... how do you know?"

Yang Mei lowered her eyes and blinked her dim eyes, "He has been here", Yang Mei pointed her chin at the withered flowers on the bed, "That's what he sent."

Lu Chen pursed his lips. In fact, there was a pile of restlessness in his heart, but it was entangled with another pile of emptiness and helplessness, and it was impossible to tell who would win and who would lose.So the balance between the two seems to be very calm and steady.

"What did he say?" Lu Chen sat on the chair by the bed and said lightly.

"He came to apologize to me. Hey... I said how did I feel that something was wrong with him that day. Now that I saw you like this, I realized that it wasn't just him saying goodbye to me." Yang Mei paused here After a while, he took a deep look at Lu Chen, "It's also his farewell to the past."

Lu Chen felt a pain in his heart, and frowned impatiently. He took a long breath, "...The day you said a friend came to see you?"

Yang Mei nodded helplessly.

Thinking of passing him step by step like this, Lu Chen felt even more irritable.

What a coincidence?From the perspective of the parties involved, this kind of passing by may be the most helpless and saddest thing.

But from God's point of view, the development of all things actually depends on the human heart.How else to put it: character determines destiny!

Yang Mei took out her mobile phone and dialed Shen Yi's number... Sure enough, the number was empty.She looked up at Lu Chen's tired face, feeling guilty.

"I'm sorry, teacher, I'm the one who got you in trouble."

Lu Chen shook his head, no one would have thought that things would develop to this point.

"It's my fault. I know he thinks too much..." Lu Chen choked up, "I even got angry at him. I never got angry at him... He must hate me to death."

Yang Mei touched the phone hesitantly, "I have the photos he took before he left, but... don't be angry if you read them. I dragged him to take the photos."

Lu Chen looked up at her, Yang Mei took the phone from the bedside table, and took out the photo album.Click on the first photo and pass it to Lu Chen.

Lu Chen only took one look, and instantly understood Shen Yi's mood - it really hurts the eyes to see the other party intimately with others.He couldn't bear to have him watch it for a month without a word of comfort or explanation from the other party.

A week later, Li Xiao came back, applied for summer residence, and came to the hospital every day to take care of Yang Mei.Lu Chen, who finally calmed down, continued to wander around.

Two months later, Yang Mei was discharged from the hospital.At this time, Shen Yi had bid farewell to Tibet and started to go abroad.

During their ten days in Tibet, they met a "lunatic"--that's what people who knew him called him.

"Madman" is nicknamed A Feng, and his full name is Liu Feng.Also a photographer.Afeng is a second-generation petty bourgeoisie. According to him, his family digs coal in Shanxi.

A group of four people, including the lunatic, a total of five people, sat together on the Namco grassland, admiring the "Sky Lake" and taking a questionnaire for the "lunatic".

Holding the madman's camera in his arms, Siyue looked at a picture, glanced at the madman, looked at two pictures, and looked up at the madman twice.

"I said," Si Yue frowned and said, "It's just your skills that have surpassed the top domestic photographers on this plateau. You are sick, why are you spending time in this poor place?!"

Shen Yi looked at the lunatic's outfit... he looked like a beggar - a pair of white sneakers had been tossed and turned black, and he was not willing to throw away the soles of the shoes.Wearing a yellow overalls jacket, it is a bit more shabby than the migrant workers on the construction site.

Ever since Afeng became a "lunatic", he has been cut off from his source of income by his petty bourgeois father.He wandered in Tibet all year round, taking pictures, selling them or doing odd jobs to save money, and then continued wandering and taking pictures.

He gave up his family property and the glory of a photographer who was enough to win the top spot in China, and wandered in Tibet for four or five consecutive years.Explain what is called "crazy" with actual experience.

Shen Yi was holding the notebook, his expression looked like he really wanted to write a book for this "crazy" comrade.

The lunatic smiled shyly at Siyue, and extinguished the anger in Siyue's heart with just one sentence. He said, "I like this place, it's simple."

Shen Yi can be sure that April's trembling beard is not only due to the wind on the plateau.

Shen Yi added fuel to the fire, "I like this place too", he looked at A Feng almost sincerely.

Afeng's eyes lit up instantly when he heard the words, as if he had found a confidant.

Shen Yi went on to say, "I'll stay here when I'm done. I'll come to you when the time comes. Let's wander together, okay?"

A Feng restrainedly stroked the hair that had been plucked because it hadn't been washed for a long time, and then nodded sincerely to Shen Yi's handsome face.

Si Yue stared at Shen Yi's smiling face, "You come here", he pointed his index finger at the ground, and then pointed at A Feng, "Fucking with him?"

Shen Yi looked at Si Yue with a smile, nodded very seriously, and shook his hair that was blown by the wind.

"Hey, you're sick! You've been here for two years, and you can take the position of editor-in-chief when we come back. You're sick and come here to drink the wind and eat the dirt." Si Yue tried to persuade Shen Yi with a look of disbelief. insane thoughts.

Si Yue suspiciously looked at Shen Yi's smiling handsome face, and then at the shy madman.

He suddenly moved closer to Shen Yi's ear and covered his mouth with his hand, "I said, you don't think you've taken a fancy to him, do you?"

Shen Yi licked his molars, blinked, and told him with his expression: Do you think it's possible?

The two looked at each other for a while, then Si Yue uttered a sentence at Shen Yi - "Fool!"

Shen Yi said lightly, "You're still a ruffian."

Afeng connected seamlessly, he pointed at each of them, "Crazy, fool, ruffian"

April:"……"

Shen Yi couldn't help laughing, accompanied by the beautiful scenery of Tianhu Lake, accompanied by the sheep grazing on the grassland.

Si Yue sighed, shook his head helplessly, and realized that he was the most "powerful" one among them.

one year later.

July.Graduation season.

It is said that the older you get, the faster time flies.

Bullshit!

Lu Chen stood at the school gate, took his last puff of cigarette, stamped out the cigarette butt, and then walked into the campus.

Today is the last day of final exams, and the senior year will have a graduation ceremony tonight.It is a special day for the students who are soaked in books day after day.

It is also a special day for the faculty and staff who work from [-] to [-].

Summer is always pleasant, especially when the evenings are cool after sunset.Don't soak on the wine table until 02:30 in the morning and don't leave the table.

Lu Chen exhaled the last puff of smoke.This is of course a special day for him, but it's not just a day.At this time last year...he didn't even know the specific day when Shen Yi left.

All I know is that he left with these graduates a year in advance.

This year...was originally his graduation season.But the man didn't know where he ran to.

A stone on the road blocked his way, Lu Chen kicked it like a cheap foot, and then walked while kicking like a primary school student.

Shen Yi's last message said that he would not be able to return to the country for a year or two.Lu Chen bought a map of the world and stuck it in his bedroom. Holding a black marker pen, he marked the places he might have been to on the dense geographical names.

Heh... The world is so big, how could he know where Shen Yi would go?It's just self-consolation.During this year, Lu Chen thought that if he was allowed to take the geography exam, he would definitely get full marks.

After Lu Chen calmed down, he tried to contact their magazine from the contact information marked on "In the World" magazine, but of course it failed.

Needless to say, how many authors a magazine can sign, even if they know the author's information, they must respect the author's wishes and keep them secret.

No direction, powerlessness, the most terrifying thing in the world is this powerlessness.

The stone accidentally rolled into the crack of the brick, and Lu Chen's footsteps were fixed by the crack for a long time, but he couldn't kick the stone out after touching his toes several times.

If he had left it before, he would have kicked it directly to the ground, and would have scolded happily, "Damn it!"

But now, he just stared at this bad brick for a long time, sighed, bent down to pick it up, and kicked all the way forward.

"Miss Lu, are you so childlike?"

Lu Chen raised his head subconsciously when he heard the sound—ah, I didn't expect to arrive at the teaching building so soon.

Li Mulan stood at the entrance of the corridor with her bag on her back and looked at him, half of her eyes were covered by the reflection of the morning light on the lenses of her glasses.

"Oh", Lu Chen said in a low voice, then lowered his head and kicked the stones that had been kicked all the way into the flower bed.

"Why did you come so early today?" Lu Chen walked towards the teaching building, and walked to the office side by side with Li Mulan.

"Isn't there an invigilator today? Come earlier."

Li Mulan stomped on her stilettos with a "dang bang", and the sound disappeared in the echoing echoes in the corridor.

The sound of wind, rain, reading, the sound of the ear.

"Do you have an invigilator today? If not, you can go to the senior year's graduation ceremony." Li Mulan turned to Lu Chen after punching out her card, "There are more art students graduating this year, so the program should be very exciting."

"En", Lu Chen nodded listlessly.He moved to his desk one step at a time, tilted his head, and lay down on the desk to see Duke Zhou.

Of course, he can't really sleep during working hours, and there are a lot of graduation matters waiting to be dealt with.After the students finish their exams, the teachers have a lot of things to do, and they may not be able to sleep for several days just for grading papers.

Sitting in her seat, Li Mulan sighed deeply when she saw Lu Chen's listless appearance.

Since Shen Yi left, Lu Chen became calm and matured instantly.It seemed that the last trace of fresh and restless spirit belonging to young people was suddenly pulled out completely.

Li Mulan bit her pen cap and sighed: In this world, tsk, how should I say it.It can only be said that fate likes to treat people like monkeys.If last year hadn't caught up with the graduation season, if Lu Chen hadn't been busy pushing the work to her at that time, maybe she had already discovered Shen Yi's "plan" from some "gossip".There will be no later releases.

Everything was too coincidental, as if God stipulated that they must be separated at that time.

Li Mulan took a sip of coffee... Tsk, her mouth was burning.

Shen Yi and Si Yue flew back to City G overnight. This was the second time they returned to China to report on their duties after the start of their journey.The last time was half a year ago.

As the plane started to land, Shen Yi woke up Si Yue who was sitting next to him and was snoring, and rubbed his sufferer's ears.Then he took out the mobile phone from the travel bag and put it in his pocket - the mobile phone is a part of the body, no matter whether someone has contacted him or not, holding it in his hand is inexplicably reassuring.

The weightlessness of the plane's landing made the whole cabin agitated.

April rubbed his eyes, "Huh? Arrived?"

Shen Yi checked his travel bag to see if he lost anything, "Well, have you booked a hotel yet?" He said casually.

April looked at him blankly, without blinking.Shen Yi understood in his heart when he saw this look.

"Okay, let's sleep on the street today."

"Can't we make a reservation after we get off the plane?" Si Yue said, "I thought it would be more convenient to make a reservation after returning home, isn't it?"

Shen Yi sighed, "It's already more than July, the students are all on summer vacation, tourists are everywhere, and the hotels are likely to be full."

Si Yue was stunned for a long time, and frowned, "I didn't expect so much. Hey, let me tell you, why didn't you say it earlier if you knew it earlier?"

Shen Yi turned his head and looked at him imitating Si Yue's expression, "...I just remembered too. The jet lag is not reversed."

Si Yue: "Are you jet lagged for months?" Si Yue gave him a thumbs up, "Awesome!"

Shen Yi raised his eyebrows, "...This is not my fault alone. Forget it, let's go down and try our luck."

The plane began to taxi on the runway. After the plane stopped, the stewardess opened the door, and the announcement of arrival and disembarkation was announced on the radio.

They did not bring much luggage when they returned home to report on their duties—one travel bag for each of them.Because I can't stay for a week, I have to rush back to Italy to continue the rest of the journey.

This road, it is better to say that it is a journey than simply saying that it is a free labor.Busy interviews and investigations, taking pictures and writing reports, and meeting the local "head snakes", after a year, apart from "seeing the world", it can be said that I am poor and useless.

After getting off the plane, Shen Yi moved his stiff body first, then turned on the phone, opened the mobile phone software and prepared to book a hotel.He didn't want to be one of the homeless people in this first-tier city.

Sure enough, Shen Yi frowned and swiped his phone a few times.

Si Yue glanced at him, "Nowhere to live?"

Shen Yi nodded silently.Then happily put the phone in his pocket, "Sleep on the street."

April:"……"

Shen Yi: "What are you afraid of? It's not that you haven't slept. This is still in China, don't worry."

Si Yue raised her eyebrows, and said in her heart: Yes, I have slept in the wilderness, so I still live well.

Si Yue caught up with Shen Yi, "Then let's go to the magazine office first?"

Shen Yi nodded.

The two of them left the airport and took a taxi to the studio of "In the World" magazine.

The person who received them was the leader in charge of this project.His name is Yang Tengfei, and he is about forty years old.A school of literary and artistic style, thin and thin, wearing suits and leather shoes.

Three people sat in Yang Tengfei's office.Shen Yi opened the travel bag, found a dozen folders, and began to explain the investigation and gains along the way.

Sure enough, as Shen Yi said, the team organized by Huasheng is indeed planning to recruit partners.This is why this edition of the magazine only has ideas and plans, but has never decided on a name.

Si Yue readily signed the contract, and Shen Yi also readily refused.

It wasn't until he left the gate of the office building of "In the World" that Siyue grabbed him like a lunatic, "Why didn't you sign the contract? Then your hard work for so long is not in vain?"

Shen Yi walked down the steps disapprovingly, "Of course it's for... traveling around the world."

"Yes, yes", Si Yue Fu forehead, "Then where are you going after swimming?"

Shen Yi looked at him with the corner of his mouth curled up, "I said it a year ago, go to Tibet to wander."

April:"……"

"Are you really going to find that lunatic?!"

"Could you please keep your voice down? It's on the street now."

Siyue lowered her voice, "You...you really plan to beg for food while walking like him?"

"What do you mean begging for food? People rely on their ability to make money, so why beg for food?"

Si Yue glared at him, "...fool! No, no, you are crazy too!"

Shen Yi ignored his teasing, looked up at the sky, the sun was setting, and it was almost night.After a busy day, is it possible that I really want to sleep on the street?

I will stay here for three or four days.

"How about we find a youth hostel for a few days? It's better than sleeping on the street." Shen Yi suggested.

Si Yue pursed her lips angrily, feeling angry when she saw Shen Yi's "crazy" face, "That's the only way to go. I hope I can find a single family, not a one-bedroom with six beds."

In the end, they were led around by an aunt holding the word "accommodation" written in red letters on a white background, and turned them to a hotel with bumpy roads that they probably couldn't find on the map... and made do with overnight.

However, the space is small and small, but fortunately, it is a room with two beds.It's not so tragic that they only live in one bed and smell each other's feet.

"Going out for a stroll at night?" Shen Yi went to the public bathroom to take a shower, and changed into the clothes he had been busy with all day.He returned to this narrow space in a bathrobe, and said while changing clothes.

Si Yue glanced up and down at him, feeling more and more angry.Such a handsome and talented person...to beg for food? ?

A Feng's attire unconsciously appeared in Si Yue's mind, and then she glanced at Shen Yi again.Then in my mind, Shen Yi was wearing a work uniform, dragging dirty sneakers that didn't need to be changed, and wearing strands of long hair, setting up a stall with A Feng to sell photos on the side of the road against the cold wind... …

Huh~ He couldn't help shivering, and gave himself a comforting hug.

While his thoughts were racing, Shen Yi had already put on new clothes.By the way, pack the dirty clothes and send them to the dry cleaner when you are ready to go downstairs.

Maybe seeing that he didn't reply for a long time, Shen Yi looked back at him, and was facing the appearance of Shang Siyue hugging herself.

Shen Yi raised his eyebrows, "Do you feel cold?"

The hot summer day in July...

Si Yue immediately put down her hands and arched her nose.

"Ah, what did you just say?"

Shen Yi didn't argue with him, "What's for dinner?"

"Oh, then let's go out for a stroll? Absorb some Chinese flavor and replenish some energy."

"Okay, let's go."

After leaving the door, Si Yue's thoughts were racing and he was silent halfway, Shen Yi didn't ask him what he was worried about.The two walked side by side, silent to each other, with a tacit understanding.

Si Yue didn't speak until Shen Yi suddenly left, took the clothes to the roadside dry cleaner and came out again.

Si Yue said: "Even if you don't want to be the editor-in-chief here, there is no need...to go to that place to eat soil, right? China is so big..." Si Yue raised his head, as if describing the size of the country, "Where can't you go? Okay , even if you are not in China, the earth is so big, where can you go?"

Shen Yi pursed his lips, "I have considered settling in Australia."

Si Yue glanced at him a few times, with a bit of contempt in his eyes, "You can beat a kangaroo with your small body? You are full of bones."

Shen Yi was amused by him, "So this is not planning to stay in Tibet."

April:"……"

He licked his lips, ready to seriously discuss the whereabouts with him.

"Shen Yi, you are a noble man. You shouldn't suffer like this."

Shen Yi raised his eyebrows, and looked at Siyue with a confused face, "Where did you see that I am expensive? I think it's the young master's body, I'm begging for my life."

Si Yue waved his hand, "I'm not joking with you. I generally don't advise other people's future, after all, everyone has their own way of life. But the first time I saw you, I thought... you should be that Kind of... well, you know the kind of people who are taken care of? Oh, I can't say it, that's what it means, you understand?"

Shen Yi shook his head sincerely, he really didn't understand what Si Yue hesitated to express.

Si Yue let out an irritable "tsk", he felt that Shen Yi couldn't stand the pain.Alone, just that lunatic, no matter how you look at it, he doesn't have enough IQ to take care of others.At that place, if something happened, I didn't know if I could get there in time if I called 120.

Thinking about it, Si Yue couldn't help but "tsk" several times, mixed with sighs.

Shen Yi finally couldn't help but speak, "If you continue to sigh, you will lose your breath. There is a noodle shop over there, eat something to shut your mouth!"

After saying that, Shen Yi dragged him into a noodle shop by the roadside.

A year of wandering, nothing else, the problems of picky eaters have been corrected a lot.