Castle Peak

Los Angeles.

Six thirty in the morning.

The jet lag was not deliberate, and I got used to it quickly. It probably has something to do with my job. In the past, I used to have a surgery until midnight, and there were very few chances of going to bed on time.

Sometimes even after lying down, when a phone call comes from the hospital, he still has to get up lightly, get dressed and rush to the hospital. Now, he is a little unaccustomed to the days of shuttling between the laboratory and the center every day.

Especially, without that child around.

I don't know if Xie Cen has adapted to the life of a graduate student. According to my previous experience in graduate school, I still need to take classes in the first semester. be able to stand.

The two are now separated by such a distance that communication can only be through the Internet and telephone.

Yu Nian calculated that it should be past ten o'clock in the evening in China, and Xie Cen should be reading a book.

Opening the floor-to-ceiling curtains of the bedroom, the sky of the foreign city is still smoky blue, and after a while, wisps of red will float into the sky, until a beam of sunlight shines directly on the position where she is standing.

A new day begins.

With her little finger, she hooked a strand of hair behind her ear, and saw her vague figure on the floor-to-ceiling window.

The other end of the phone just kept beeping, but no one answered.

So I had to hang up.

While queuing to buy coffee, the phone rang.

Yu Nian first glanced at the time, it was [-]:[-].

It's past twelve o'clock in the evening Beijing time.

"Hey."

"it's me."

"Sleepy?" She said this almost with a smile.

The American girl with blond hair and brown eyes handed her a glass of American style, and Yu Nian thanked her softly in English.

"Are you busy? How about I..."

Before the little girl at the other end could finish expressing her feelings, Yu Nian interrupted her, "Not busy."

"Just now in the laboratory, the mobile phone was adjusted to vibrate, and I missed your call."

"What subject are you working on? So devoted."

"I haven't done a project yet, and I'm learning how to pour glue recently."

Hearing the depression in Xie Cen's tone, Yu Nian guessed that the process might not be going well.

"How is the tutor? I never asked you."

"The boss is very nice. I heard from my fellow teachers that he is a teacher who takes students seriously."

Yu Nian thought about it for a while, but he still didn't have the impression of the master supervisor that Xie Cen mentioned. It seemed that he was only transferred to the school's professor in the past two years.

"Are you going to work?"

Xie Cen spoke with a nasal tone.

"Not yet. Have a cold?"

"Just take some cold medicine later, don't worry about me. Are you... busy recently?"

For some reason, since the two of them separated, Xie Cen didn't say "Teacher Yu" too much.

"Fortunately."

The sound of the printer came from Xie Cen's side.

"I'm going to stay up late again tonight." Xie Cen said with a helpless smile.

The temperature of the coffee was just right, Yu Nian followed the two into the elevator in the center.

"Don't put so much pressure on yourself."

Yu Nian knew that even if he said so, Xie Cen would still study hard.

Her little friend has gradually transformed.

It's [-]:[-] p.m. Beijing time.

In N City at the end of December, there were some fluttering snowflakes.

Xie Cen cleaned the test tube, and when he raised his head to look out of the laboratory window, the campus had already been covered with a thin layer of white.

By dinner time, the snow was thicker again.

When Xie Cen finished eating the glutinous rice balls, he received a text message from Jiang Jiayu, inviting her to celebrate the new year together in three days.

gladly agreed.

On the way to the bus station, I walked slowly holding an umbrella, listening to the slight movement of snow falling on the umbrella, my heart suddenly became quiet.

Before he knew it, it had been half a year since Yu Nian left.

Xie Cen took out his mobile phone from his coat pocket, took a photo of the snowflakes flying under the street lamp, and sent it to Yu Nian.

"It's snowing."

Yu Nian replied almost in seconds.

"What about you? What do you look like in the snow?"

Xie Cen suddenly smiled. She leaned her umbrella against the platform chair and took off her mask. Two flakes of snow fell between her eyebrows, and her eyelashes were sparkling. It was a flake of snow that had melted.

The warm Christmas atmosphere in the foreign country has not completely subsided, Yu Nian propped her chin with her right hand, looked at the girl with bright eyes and smiling mouth on the phone, and recalled the scene when she first met Xie Cen.

The thin girl crossed her arms and walked alone on the city streets. Although her surroundings were brightly illuminated by street lights, Yu Nian felt that Xie Cen's surroundings were very dark.

In the hospital, she recognized the shy girl who liked to smile slightly and pursed her lips unconsciously when she was nervous. She deliberately kept this intern by her side, even when When Xie Cen was transferred to Jiayu's department, he went there specially to let Jiayu take care of Xie Cen.

Before meeting this girl, Yu Nian didn't pay attention to a person's experience like this. She didn't know that one day her heart would suddenly soften and become tender.

And now Xie Cen is no longer the girl who blush when she looks at her and can't speak well. Although she still doesn't want to waste her time because she is worried about her work, she will show herself to herself from time to time. Something in her nature.

Although the physical distance between the two has indeed become much farther, the communication above the soul has also become much smoother.

"I'm trying to get closer to you, and I don't want to hide behind you anymore."

said her little girl.

The author has something to say: it's almost over.

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