bosom friend

After dinner, continue on the road. At 03:30, they arrived in Xining.The route they are going to take this time is the Qinghai-Gansu Ring Road, which was discussed before coming here, but they have not yet decided whether to go clockwise or counterclockwise, it depends on the weather conditions, especially the climate in the Qilian Mountains is very variable. .

Sheng Xia checked the weather forecast, "The weather over Qinghai Lake is good, so let's go clockwise."

If you go to the Qilian Mountains first, it will be counterclockwise.

"Okay."

Their first stop was Kumbum Monastery (the 5a scenic spot was founded by Zhu Yuanzhang, and it was one of the six major monasteries of the Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism). Parking took a lot of work.After buying tickets to enter the temple, I found that there were a lot of people inside, which can be described as crowded.

Sheng Xia said: "This is a temple? This is a popular attraction."

Liu Donglai: "Isn't the Shaolin Temple also a popular attraction? Like these religious places, there are many places where tourists are prohibited from entering, and a certain amount of personal space is reserved for practitioners."

Sheng Xia sighed: "Okay, Da Yin lives in the city."

The sounds of "city" and "temple" are very similar. Xin Yu often uses homonyms when writing advertising copy, so he smiled when he heard it, "Well said."

Liu Donglai said: "Practice in the world, the world of mortals refines the mind."

Xin Yu smiled and said, "Do you believe in Buddhism?" Nan Huaijin said: The real practice is to cultivate the mind in the world of mortals.

Liu Donglai shook his head, "My ex-girlfriend likes Buddhist philosophy."

Xin Yu thought, as if she knew why she became an "ex" girlfriend. Fortunately, Qiao Ping had no interest in religion.Thinking of Xiao Qiao, he took a few photos with his mobile phone and sent them over.

Qiao Ping once: I want to see you, not the building.

Xin Yu handed the phone to Liu Donglai, "Take a picture for me, take a picture of my back." Don't you want to see my picture, the back is me too.

"Let me choose a scene." Liu Donglai looked around, then pointed to a temple corridor and said, "Let's go over there to shoot."

After walking up the corridor, Xin Yu walked in front, and Liu Donglai followed behind him.

Suddenly Liu Donglai called him, "Xin Yu."

"Huh?" He turned around.

At this moment, Liu Donglai took a few shots in the continuous shooting mode. After the shooting, he lowered his head to check, "Well, the effect is good, come and take a look."

Xin Yu walked over and took a look. The photo showed him not from the back but from the side. He stood sideways on the empty red corridor, as if he was about to turn around, and also seemed to be looking at the paintings on the temple wall... a bit of an artistic conception.He boasted: "The composition is good, you are very professional."

Li Yunshen, who hadn't spoken much along the way, said, "He majored in photography in college."

"Oh? Then how do you design it?"

"Because of poverty, photography is too expensive."

"..." Xin Yu didn't know if he was joking or telling the truth.

Sheng Xia said: "It's good to do design. In the photography circle, he is only a third-rate photographer, but in the design circle, he can become a first-rate photographer."

Xin Yu smiled and said, "It makes sense."

Liu Donglai was dissatisfied, "Sheng Xia, you are still a first-rate designer in the design circle. Xin Yu, let me tell you, he originally studied design, but later went to become a programmer."

Xin Yu was quite surprised, "This is amazing." There are similarities between photography and design.Design and programming are far from it.He always thought that Sheng Xia was also an advertiser, and guessed that he might be from the customer department, but he turned out to be a programmer.

Sheng Xia said modestly: "It's nothing, just interested."

Li Yunshen said: "It's not enough to be interested, you have to be talented. Both are painters, my dad is a painter, and I'm just an illustrator."

"..."

Liu Donglai smiled and said, "Don't listen to him, he is very famous for his illustrations, and has hundreds of thousands of followers on Weibo, his father's followers are only tens of thousands."

Li Yunshen said: "There is no way, with the level of ordinary people, you can also read popular illustrations."

"..." As ordinary people, Xin Yu and the others had no choice but to keep silent.

After visiting Kumbum Monastery, they continued to move forward.In the car, Xin Yu selected one of several continuous shots taken by Liu Donglai and sent it to Qiao Pingyi.

Qiao Pingyi: (kiss) Looks good!Who took the picture for you?

Xin Yu: (smiling)

After driving for 10 minutes, they arrived at Laji Mountain Pass, where there was a small temple. Liu Donglai stopped the car on the side of the road, "Go down and have a look? It is said that you can see the most spectacular Fengma in the entire Northwest Ring Road here." The flag—that is, the prayer flag.”

Li Yunshen picked up the camera, "Let's go, I want to take a look, maybe I can take some photos as reference materials for drawing."

Liu Donglai nodded, and put his professional camera on his back, "I'll also take some design materials."

Sheng Xia thought it was funny, "You really don't forget your work all the time."

"That is, unlike you, an unemployed person, who has no job to worry about."

"..."

On the mountain behind the temple, there are indeed layers of five-color wind-horse flags hanging in layers. They dance violently in the wind, broadcasting wordless prayers into the distance.

The ground was covered with a small white square piece of paper with scriptures printed on it. Xin Yu wanted to check what it was on the Internet, but unfortunately, she found that her mobile phone had no signal.It was only later that I learned that this is also called a wind horse, specifically, it is a piece of wind horse paper.

Liu Donglai asked Xin Yu after taking his own photo, "Do you want to take a photo? I'll take it for you."

"..." Xin Yu seldom took pictures when he came out to play, and usually just took pictures of scenery, and was about to refuse, but thinking that Qiao Ping would like to see his own photos later, he accepted Liu Donglai's kindness, "Okay, thank you. "

Putting his hands in his pockets, Sheng Xia urged them, "Let's go soon? Don't you feel cold? The wind makes my head hurt..."

Liu Donglai said: "Your headache may not be caused by the wind. The altitude here is high, so you may have altitude sickness."

"what?"

"Slow down, don't exercise vigorously, or it will get worse."

"Wait for me." Xin Yu stood down for a second under the wind horse banner like a colorful wall, and then asked Liu Dongxi, "Is it alright?"

"Okay." Liu Donglai said, "Look, these two are pretty good."

Li Yunshen also came over, "Let me take a look."

Liu Donglai’s two photos have the same background—both are five-color wind-horse-flag curtain walls. The difference is that the characters in them have changed. One of them shows Xin Yu looking up at the sky, and the other shows him with his head down. Looking at the small piece of paper on the ground that was blown up slightly by the wind.

Xin Yu smiled and said, "Your skills are really good."

Liu Donglai said modestly: "It's also because you are a model, not only your looks, but also your temperament..."

Xin Yu laughed, "You are enough... Are you straight?"

Li Yunshen said: "As far as I know, he is very straight, but he just ended a heterosexual relationship that lasted for eight years, maybe he started to fear heterosexuality?"

"Don't spread rumors!" Liu Donglai pushed Li Yunshen with a smile, and then said to Xin Yu, "I'm serious, I'm not joking. Don't other big-name models have their own unique temperament? You can understand it as a kind of temperament Field. I think Xin Yu's aura matches the bleak scenery in the northwest."

Li Yunshen looked at Xin Yu, "No, he looks pretty good, I think we are much more desolate, more suitable for this desolate scenery."

The desolate Liu Donglai looked at Li Yunshen and shook his head, "It's fine for you to be desolate, but you still have to take me with you..."

Then Liu Donglai looked at Xin Yu again, "Xin Yu, what were you thinking when you stood under the wind horse flag just now? At that moment, there was an indescribable atmosphere that affected the style of the photo, (Li Yunshen looked at him with disdainful eyes : Do you really regard yourself as an artist?) Ordinary photographers will deliberately create a certain atmosphere, but we are natural, and we can’t find it.”

Xin Yu looked at the wind-horse flag fluttering in the wind. A place with a religious atmosphere would give people a sense of solemnity and solemnity, making it impossible for people to perfuse other people's questions as usual. He smiled and said, "The wind-horse flag is not Can it spread blessings? I was thinking that I wish him a happy life no matter what.”

Liu Donglai clapped his hands and said, "Let me just say, your aura is compatible with this place."

Li Yun said coldly: "I won't wish her happiness." He turned and walked away.

Liu Donglai lowered his head and sighed, "I don't know whether to wish her happiness or not, and she doesn't care." He also turned around, "Let's go."

Well, Xin Yu is clear about the reasons for these three people to come out to relax. One is unemployed and two are broken in love.

Several people returned to the car, Sheng Xia complained: "What are you all doing there, are those prayer flags so beautiful?"

Liu Donglai said: "You are still studying design, have you lost all your aesthetics?"

Sheng Xia said: "I'm sorry, I just changed careers because I was not good at aesthetics."

Li Yunshen said coolly: "We are lovers in the end of the world, so we were sad together. I'm sorry to waste your time."

"..." Sheng Xia said, "I'll just say it casually, don't be so serious."

Xin Yu smiled and said, "I'm not broken in love, we're not officially together yet."

"Oh, no wonder you bless her." Li Yunshen expressed that he could understand.

Liu Donglai said: "Why are you still not together? Don't you love her?"

Xin Yu thought for a while and asked him, "Why did you break up with your girlfriend? Because you don't love her anymore?"

Liu Donglai sighed, "No, I love her, but she never loved me. She is like a heartless stone that can't be warmed up. Our cat loves me more than her... We are together because she feels I was kind to her, and when we broke up, the reason she kept me was because I was kind to her—isn't this stabbing me with a soft knife?"

Xin Yu said: "That's right, no one needs anything in return. I'm also worried that there will be too much imbalance between our contributions and returns."

Li Yunshen said: "Liu Dong is right. If she doesn't love you, don't deceive yourself. Short-term pain is worse than long-term pain."

Xin Yu thought for a while, "No, it's because he showed that he loves me too much."

"But you don't think she really loves you?"

"No, let me think about it." Xin Yu looked at the rolling mountains outside the window and thought for a long time, and when the car had reached the foot of the mountain, he said, "I love you, but I'm not sure if it's the kind of love that must be loved." Love."

Sheng Xia interjected, "Have you watched too many idol dramas?"

Xin Yu smiled and said, "It's not what you think. We are friends—friends for many years. Love is definitely love. I believe he can do most things for me, and I am the same, but I don't know if there is something in between. How much love is there."

"Oh..." Sheng Xia said, "I understand, above friendship, below love, right?"

Xin Yu said: "It may have reached the standard of love."

Liu Donglai said: "She and I are also friends, friends for four years, lovers for four years, and now strangers... Sometimes, it's really... If you don't love, you don't love, you can't force it."

Li Yunshen said: "Love is useless, because love has a shelf life. Today she loves you to death, but tomorrow she will love someone else."

Well, Xin Yu understood, Liu Donglai broke up because the other party didn't love him, and Li Yunshen broke up because the other party cheated on him.

Sheng Xia said: "Xin Yu, they are too negative, don't be influenced by them."

"No." Xin Yu said, "Liu Donglai, how do you define love and friendship?"

Liu Donglai said: "Love is blind, friendship is responsibility. Love can be greedy, but friendship is contentment."

Xin Yu smiled and said, "You may consider changing careers to become a copywriter."

Liu Donglai said, "You don't believe me?"

"It's not that I don't believe it, but I think it varies from person to person." Xin Yu said, "Like me, I don't want to be too blind or greedy."

Liu Donglai smiled and said, "Okay, maybe my experience doesn't apply to you, so you can think about it slowly."