when question marks become people

"Where did Mr. Fu study as an undergraduate?"

We were still talking about reading earlier, so Wen Hao's question is not too abrupt.

"University A, Teacher Zhu and I are alumni."

It's not City Y that Uncle Luo mentioned when he was in Eagle Country.

"I was admitted to University A, and my parents were so happy that they invited all my relatives and friends to eat at home." Fu Shenlu continued, "My grandparents are all fishermen. They think that life in the inland is more comfortable, so they named me 'Shenlu' ’, and later figured out what major I applied for, and kicked me out half a block.”

Everyone at the table laughed. "We used to fool our parents, but now it's our children's turn to fool us. Sometimes we have to pretend to be stupid knowing that we have been fooled. Has Mr. Fu's child graduated from college?"

"I've been living alone and have no children," Fu Shenlu replied with a smile, "So I'm still the one in charge of fooling around."

Others praised Mr. Fu for being unrestrained, but Wen Hao was moved in his heart.

After dinner, Wen Hao and Fu Shenlu took the TV station car back to the hotel together.

"I had a great chat with the teachers. Everyone didn't drink much. I only drank a small cup. I didn't feel anything at all. Don't worry. I'll let you know when I get to the hotel." Wen Hao sent out the WeChat voice with his left hand, and closed the car door with his right hand .

Fu Shenlu, who got into the car first, turned his head: "Xiaowen, is this the dog food you young people are talking about?"

Wen Hao deliberately crossed the line and joked: "You are a celibate, even if I sprinkle golden dog food, you don't care about it."

Fu Shenlu raised his hand and patted the seat, the smile on his face remained unchanged: "You're wrong, I'm not a celibate, I just haven't met the right person."

Wen Hao continued to play the young man who loves gossip and speaks incompletely: "Your deception skills are very high. You just told me this morning about buying a red coat to go to your man to be handsome."

"Just that one."

Fu Shenlu looked ahead, and his smile widened.The light from street lamps and billboards slanted in through the car windows. Wen Hao couldn't judge how much nostalgia was in that smile from his side face with deep and shallow shadows, but he felt that he didn't see resentment and regret.

After a pause for a few seconds, Fu Shenlu looked back at Wen Hao, and said in a flat tone as if he had nothing to say to others: "I had a good relationship with him at that time, but we separated later and were depressed for two years. I didn't deliberately Staying single, focusing on study and work, slowly living alone has become a habit, and I don’t feel uncomfortable.”

He said "separated", not "broken up".

"Did you lose contact?"

"Well, communication was not so developed in the past, and the contact methods agreed upon were invalid, so people couldn't be found."

Maybe because he was in a relationship and had empathy, Wen Hao was a little anxious, so he couldn't help but ask, "Do you want to find him?"

Fu Shenlu smiled again, and the forehead lines approached the receding hairline, outlining the "more" and "less" that time gives to people.

"I think about it, but I don't want to say whether I can find it...or forget it..." He put his right hand on his knee and looked over, not condescending, but with a deep meaning of someone who has experienced it, "You may not understand it yet, when you get here At my age, the trajectory of my life is basically fixed. I live a good life, and he should have his own family and life. Relationships are not a necessity, let alone past relationships. There is no need to destroy his life status quo just because of my thoughts. , maybe he doesn't want me to find him."

No, Wen Hao thought, if things are as imagined, if I have not identified the wrong person, that person has been looking for you for many years, even though he didn't know he was looking for you.

The hotel is not far from the place to eat, and it will be there in a while.After getting out of the car, Fu Shenlu closed the car door forcefully, but he staggered backwards. Only then did Wen Hao realize that he was fine with the drink tonight, and Teacher Fu was actually a little drunk.

Walking into the hotel, Fu Shenlu didn't want Wen Hao's support, his dark face could not tell if it was red, but he articulated clearly: "It's okay, I just didn't stand firm just now."

He walked forward steadily, and stopped suddenly while walking. Wen Hao, who was paying attention to him, helped him up, just holding his right arm.

Fu Shenlu might feel that the place where he stopped was wrong, so he walked out of the shadow of the whirling tree in two steps, came to a brighter place, raised his right arm, pointed at the position close to his elbow through his clothes, and said to Wen Hao: "There was a tattoo of a formula of universal gravitation here before. , the half behind the equal sign, the first half is in his place. Newton deduced, "All objects, no matter what they are, are endowed with a mutual gravitational force", the gravitational force between two objects is proportional to the product of mass, and is proportional to the distance is inversely proportional to the square of .

Wen Hao had to spend more time slowly verifying the conjecture in his heart, but he didn't expect the other party to put an important piece of evidence in front of him.But at this moment, Wen Hao hesitated whether to inquire about the other party's past when the other party was drunk, and just nodded obediently like a student.

Fu Shenlu smiled without any haze, and patted his forehead: "Look at me, why are you telling me this? You must know the law of universal gravitation. I wanted you to see that just now."

Wen Hao followed his fingers and looked over. In the landscape pool of the hotel, next to the peaceful and closed water lilies, the lifelike sculpture of little dolphins seemed to be playing and playing in the water.

"Didn't you ask me about the interesting things about going out to sea today? I forgot to say that you can meet dolphins in some sea areas. They are very friendly and sometimes very mischievous. Haha, seeing them makes me feel good."

"From what you said, I want to see real dolphins."

"Don't go to the aquarium, go to the beach." Fu Shenlu said.

He walked forward as he spoke, but he seemed unable to stop talking: "Back then, my partner also wanted to see dolphins, and I patted my chest and agreed, but in the end I didn't take him to see it."

Wen Hao didn't answer, knowing that he didn't mean to tell anyone.

"We don't have many hobbies in common. We both like the sea, but how can a person who paints in the studio and a person who grows up by the sea like the same angle? I didn’t understand half of it, so I came to tell me that the law of universal gravitation is really romantic, and there is an attraction between any two objects.

"What romance do I know? What are you trying to do? You want us to have more in common. If I always wear blue clothes like you, it's over.

"He said he couldn't do it, he needed to find out. Take out everything he knows, he is actually good at cooking, and he said it is a hobby for decompression. At that time, we were in A University, and we would go out from time to time to find places to cook." Fu Shenlu Talk and laugh.

After getting on the elevator, someone came in from behind, and he pulled Wen Hao to stand in a more relaxed place, looking very sober, except that the words in his mouth were not like what an academic master would say to a young friend he met not long ago.

"Oh, you don't know, he's good everywhere, I only have my face and figure, I don't dare to be ugly."

When he arrived at the room, Wen Hao followed in uneasy, and Fu Shenlu urged him to go to rest.Wen Hao's question that had been on his lips for a long time was finally left unanswered. The thought search that has been working since he heard the key words has fortunately found the results in the old materials.

During the estimated period of time, there was a student named Luo Xiuwen at the School of Art of University A.

There is no need to know more, those causes and effects should be spliced ​​by the parties themselves, if they wish.

Back in his room, Wen Hao immediately asked Locke for Uncle Luo's mailbox.It was daytime in Eagle Country at this time, and Lockhart responded quickly without showing excessive curiosity.Wen Hao thought about it and wrote an email to Uncle Luo.

Wen Hao is just a passerby, and he accidentally saw a separation, and his regret and emotion are all his own feelings.From Teacher Fu's words, he heard the desire to miss and goodbye, but as Teacher Fu said, Uncle Luo already had a stable life. After so many years, he lost his memory again. When he knew that lost memory There is such a truth in the book, will he choose to accept it and choose to meet his old friend?

Although Wen Hao thought, he would.

With his mind full of matters about the two elders, when Ying Annian's name appeared on the phone screen, Wen Hao remembered that he forgot to tell him that he had arrived at the hotel.

There was indeed worry in Ying Annian's voice, Wen Hao mixed his guesses about Mr. Fu and Uncle Luo and chose what he could say.Other people's stories kept the two of them silent for a long time through the information flow.

"Shall I visit you the day after tomorrow?" Ying Annian said suddenly.

Even though according to the plan, Wen Hao could finish recording the first episode the day after tomorrow, and if he was in a hurry, he could fly back that night, but he still replied: "Okay."

Maybe it was because I saw the email late, or maybe I thought about it for a long time. Luo Xiuwen's reply email was not sent to Wen Hao's mailbox until the next morning.

After reading the full text, Wen Hao jumped off the bed. After packing up, it was not yet the running time agreed with Mr. Fu, so he had to wait patiently outside his room door.

Fu Shenlu opened the door and saw him, and smiled again: "So early? You are the most energetic young man I have ever met, and you work and rest with us middle-aged and elderly people."

"There's something I want to talk to you about."

Seeing his seriousness, Fu Shenlu let him into the room and went to fetch him water.

Wen Hao stopped him, showed him the photo sent by Uncle Luo in his mobile phone, and motioned him to turn it back, but the first photo fixed him.

On the arm that is no longer young but still white and clean, the small "f=" is so conspicuous, so familiar that Fu Shenlu opened his mouth, but it was hard to say.

It wasn't until Wen Hao reminded "you scroll back" again that he hurriedly slid to the next photo.

That was Luo Xiuwen, the same but different Luo Xiuwen from memory.

The video request was passed by the person on the other side of the ocean almost without stopping for a second. There was no need to adjust the angle of the computer, and the two middle-aged people saw each other's face again after more than 20 years.

Fu Shenlu's eyes immediately turned red.

Except for the first two years when Luo Xiuwen disappeared, he has never deliberately searched for, remembered or forgotten these years.

Not crazy, not desperate, not depressed.

He has a passion for the sea and science, a career worth dedicating his life to, and respectable teachers, peers, and lovely students. He feels that he is living a normal life, pursuing happiness, and creating value.

Fulfill the "joke" agreement that the two choked up when they parted: be positive, and goodbye if you are a better comrade.

But at this moment, he can no longer take the past lightly.

He remembered how he was attracted by this man when he was young. The poor boy from the fisherman's family didn't know how to have the courage to pursue the young master from the rich family.

He remembered that year when he injured his arm, he felt no sensation from the wound, but his soul was in a heart-piercing pain.

There is a gravitational force between any two objects. They secretly carved tattoos back then, believing that as long as there is each other in their hearts, there will always be a day of reunion.However, their tiny mass product cannot match the long distance and strong external force after all.

The tattoo disappeared, and gravity seemed to break at that moment.The uncontrollable terrifying thoughts made him unable and afraid to confirm whether Luo Xiuwen was still living in a certain part of the world.

It was only a skin trauma, but he had a high fever, and in the middle of the ocean far away from the land, he scared a boat full of people.

Thank goodness and goodbye.

Luo Xiuwen on the opposite side of the screen was anxious, but like Fu Shenlu, he didn't speak immediately. Wen Hao suddenly seemed to see childlike confusion in his eyes.

Uncle Luo didn't remember it, but Wen Hao somehow felt that he was about to cry.

An Jing withdrew from Teacher Fu's room, and Wen Hao left space for them.

Countless layers of ups and downs of thoughts rolled in his mind, entangled back and forth with sadness, joy and confusion, and one idea became clearer and clearer.

The love has been born and deep, and everything will not return to the original point because there is no promise to keep together.

It is more likely that we each live a good life, just because we have met you, and we can't meet the right person again.