[Love and Producer] Time is long

It was early in the morning when Lei Ran woke up again, and the dizziness after alcohol made her unable to tell where she was for a while.A ray of morning light shines through the carved pointed window frame, the soft white bedding under the body and the poetry book and invitation card on the bedside coffee table... I am actually in a hotel room!The last moment in my memory is those terrible masks appearing in the square, and there are only vague fragments after that.How did I get back to the hotel?Leisurely looked down at the pink cotton pajamas she was wearing, and a terrible thought appeared in her mind.

"Hi, hello, I'm a guest of 1204, I..." Youran quickly dialed the number at the front desk.

Before You Ran could ask further, the front desk lady seemed to have guessed what she was going to say, and comforted her with a smile: "Good morning, Miss Youran, please don't worry, a kind gentleman sent you back last night. Your clothes We asked the waitress to replace you."

"Oh... That's it." Youran was still dizzy, and she blamed herself in her heart, she was too careless this time... "Thank you. By the way, did this gentleman leave his contact information? I think Thank him personally."

"Oh, this gentleman is the guest in room 1206 next to the lady, but he has checked out of the hotel very early today."

"Oh... that's how it is..." You Ran was a little disappointed. In her vague impression, she remembered that a masked knight had helped her last night, but she couldn't remember what happened afterwards, as if the knight had returned to her later. After removing the mask, he changed into Li Zeyan's appearance.You Ran felt that her face was slightly hot, maybe she had read too many fairy tales, and there was still an image of Li Zeyan kissing herself deeply on the edge of the bed in her mind, just like the scene of the prince waking up the princess in Sleeping Beauty.

"...Oh..." You Ran decided to wash her face to wake up, when suddenly the phone rang.

"Hey..." Youran was still inexplicably shy about that dream, but Li Zeyan called.

"Are you up?" The standard Li Zeyan greeting came from the microphone: "What time is it, why is this voice still there?"

"I...I'm still in London now. It's only 7:[-], so I'm early." After clearing her voice leisurely, she noticed that Li Zeyan on the other end of the phone seemed to be yawning softly.

"Are you sleepy so early?" Youran's voice seemed to have discovered a new continent.

"Jet lag, idiot...I'm late here."

"Oh..." I was 100% sure that the thing that made people blush and heartbeat was a dream, and You Ran felt a little disappointed.

"Why is your voice weak? Are you sick? Or are you drinking again?"

You Ran stuck out her tongue secretly, besides being able to control time, does this ghostly man have clairvoyance... "No, it's fine."

"You know? You are very bad at lying..."

"You're very good at debunking..." Youran curled her lips, and confessed honestly: "I just went to the Halloween parade last night and drank some alcoholic drinks. Now I'll be fine after a night of sleep."

"Are you sure you're all right?"

"Well, I feel refreshed now."

"Don't you know it's dangerous to go to that kind of place alone?" Li Zeyan's voice was full of reproach.

"I know I was wrong." Youran didn't refute, and obediently admitted her mistake, even she herself thought it was reckless this time.

"Don't do this next time."

"Are you worried about me?"

"Yes." Li Zeyan answered lightly, but without hesitation.

"..." Youran's heart was pounding, didn't Li Zeyan always deny it habitually?Why don't you play your cards according to the routine today...

"Hurry up and have breakfast, I don't want to hear someone complaining about my stomach pain and being unable to work." Li Zeyan didn't seem to notice her ups and downs at all, and just said it lightly.

"Okay, thank you...then you go to bed early, good night." Youran felt that her words were stupid, so she said thank you...

"Well... I will return to love language the day after tomorrow."

"Oh..." Youran was dumbfounded, was Li Zeyan reporting the itinerary to him? "I... I should have returned to love language by then."

"Be careful, hang up first."

"OK, good night."

*******

The hotel's breakfast is located in the restaurant next to the lobby on the first floor. Passing through the lobby leisurely, I suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar figure waving to me outside. It turned out to be the poet sister I met at the airport yesterday.

"Hello." Youran was pleasantly surprised, and quickly waved to her, and walked quickly to the hotel entrance.

"Morning, have you had breakfast?" The elder sister of the poet said that she just wanted to eat, but it was very consistent with Youran's impression yesterday.

"Not yet... What about you? Do you want to eat with me?"

"Well, I'll take you to a place!" Before Youran could react, the poet sister took her hand and limped into London's cobweb-like alleys.The two walked for about ten minutes, and stopped at the door of a very small coffee shop.The storefront is embedded in an old small white western-style building. In the clean and minimalist glass storefront, a tall middle-aged man is bowing his head and preparing food.There is only one table in the entire restaurant, and this weird setting reminds Youran of a saucenir.

"The breakfast here has a taste of happiness." The poet's sister pushed the door open and walked leisurely into the store.An aroma of freshly ground coffee spread over the face, and Youran hadn't smelled such a rich and rich taste for a long time.

"Good morning, please sit down, both of you."

The store manager walked out of the kitchen, pulled out a chair for Youran, and spread the tablecloth. "I'm Joseph, the store manager here. It's an honor to meet you for the first time."

"Hello, my name is Youran." Youran shook the hand he extended.The store manager has a round face and looks honest and gentle. When he smiles, his eyes are narrowed into two crescents, which makes people feel warm and friendly.

The layout of the shop is simple but warm. All kinds of knick-knacks are obviously not products sold in the market, and they all have rough but cute handmade traces.

"It's really a great store..." You Ran couldn't help but admire every detail in the store.

"Thank you for your appreciation." The store manager poured water for the two of them, then ran back to the counter and got busy.

"Well, that's what I thought when I first entered here ten years ago." The poet's sister said with a little pride on her face, "Then it got out of control and I have to come here every time I come to London."

"By the way, you... did you come to find me on purpose today?"

The elder sister of the poet smiled and nodded: "Yes, I saw you with your friends last night, so I didn't bother you. I wanted to come see you again this morning."

"friend?"

"Hmm... just a tall man dressed as a masked knight who seems to be with another older man dressed as Hunchback of Notre Dame. At first I was a bit worried when I saw that man carrying you away from the parade , I followed quietly all the way, and then I saw that he had entrusted you to the reception lady before I left."

"Yes... that's how it is... That's really troublesome for you, thank you..." Youran was a little embarrassed, so many people knew about her embarrassing thing, and she was still ignorant... "But in fact, I and I don't know that man, he's just a well-meaning guy who lives in the room next to mine."

"Oh, really?" The poet's sister was a little surprised, "I thought..."

"Why?" Youran felt uneasy...

"Uh...it's actually nothing..."

"What is nothing?"

The elder sister of the poet showed a bit of embarrassment, and after thinking for a while, she used the most euphemistic words she could know to tell Youran what she saw on the way back to the hotel last night.

"..." You Ran felt so embarrassing that the top of her head was about to emit green smoke, she also had this memory, but the object was only Li Zeyan.The gentleman next door must have felt that he had met a female pervert, and even forcibly kissed a strange man in the street...

""Just a harmless kiss. "The eyes of the poet's elder sister are full of gentle smiles, without a trace of criticism at all.

"Don't you think this is very casual?" You Ran asked cautiously.

"Compared with those few seconds, I believe in the complete you that I feel in front of me now. And your freedom is not up to others to criticize, right?" The poet sister's eyes turned and changed. With a naughty and sly smile, he rubbed his hands and said, "Let's not talk about this, let's look forward to the breakfast that Mr. Store Manager prepared for us today."

It suddenly occurred to You Ran that she hadn't ordered food since she sat down, and looked around, but there was no trace of any menu board: "Could it be that the manager decides what to eat here?"

"Hmm!" The poet sister nodded with a smile, "Some people think the store manager is too domineering, but I think the store manager surprises me every time he chooses. By the way, you shouldn't be used to this, right?"

"Hehe, no, I'm used to it..." What You Ran didn't expect was that besides Souvenir, there would be such a stubborn and domineering store manager.

The poet sister looked at Youran's face and asked with a smile, "What are you thinking about? Are you smiling so happily?"

"Oh, no, I just thought that there is a similar restaurant in my house, but the store manager is not as gentle and easy to get along with as Mr. Joseph..."

"Oh? It turned out to be like this? What kind of person is that store manager?"

"Well... When we first met, I thought he was unsmiling, serious, shrewd and shrewd. But after getting along for a long time, you will gradually feel the warmth and kindness in his heart. Although he is not good at expressing, But he was a very emotional person.”

"It sounds like a person with contradictions and stories..."

"By the way, what does that 'Jack Pumpkin and Your Friend's Secret' mean on the card you left me?"

The elder sister of the poet pursed her lips and smiled, patted herself on the head, and said: "Look at my memory, I forget about it when I think of eating. It's like this, I saw you reading my poetry collection yesterday, and I noticed It was one of the [-] copies that I printed with my own money. I have personally seen all the readers who bought this first edition, so I gave you the card so abruptly."

"No, don't be abrupt... You gave me biscuits yesterday when I was cold and hungry, and you took care of my emotions very intimately. I am already very grateful. And you are the author of that poetry collection, after I know I'm super excited, when we parted in a hurry yesterday, I still felt very sorry that I didn't have the chance to chat with you more."

"The weird store manager you just mentioned is the friend who borrowed your poetry book?"

"Yes."

The elder sister of the poet looked at the innocent and lovely girl in front of her, with a gratified smile on her face: "It seems that he still found it..."

"Found it? What do you mean?" The poet's sister's reaction made You Ran not understand.

"Didn't he tell you?"

"tell me what?"

The corner of the poet's elder sister's mouth curled into a quiet and gentle smile, her eyes were downcast as she looked at the poetry collection in Leiran's hand, and she stroked the corner of the brand-new book with her fingers as if feeling distressed.

"Would you like to hear the story about the Halloween Jack pumpkin?"

Nodding leisurely, she listened curiously to the story told by the poet's sister.

"There are actually many legends about the origin of the common jack-o-lanterns on Halloween in the West. The most famous one is the story about the miserly Jack. It is said that there used to be a man named Jack in Ireland who was very miserly by nature. One day he was drinking in a pub, and suddenly Finding that there was no money to pay, he tricked the devil into sixpence for wine money. Instead of using the sixpence, he tied the sixpence tightly with a silver cord, so that the devil was trapped in the coin, and could never be recovered Prototype. Later he reached an agreement with the devil to release the devil, but in exchange for this, the devil can no longer seduce Jack. Suddenly one day Jack died, because of the contract with the devil, he could not go to hell, and because of the crime of deception, he could not go to hell. Go to heaven. Therefore, Jack’s soul is trapped in the world. The devil gave him ashes that can not be extinguished to illuminate the way forward. , put the devil's ashes on the passing Jack, and continue his wandering year after year."

"This... is too pitiful."

"I also thought the same way when I heard it. I thought he was too bad. How could I have just made a bet to get such an ending, and why should I commemorate such a person? Later, by chance, I went to Ireland, and that day It happened to be Halloween, and I saw an old mother carving a jack-o-lantern in an alley. She told me another part of the story."

"Jack fell in love with a girl, but the beauty of that girl was coveted by the devil. So he designed to deceive the devil, so that he could never lay hands on the girl. Jack with the contract guarded the girl's side so that the devil could do nothing. The devil decided to let Jack died, and no one could stop him when he went to heaven. Jack refused the entrance to heaven when he was on trial, preferring to wait forever in the world for the girl he had never had time to confess. The devil sent the eternal ashes , laughed at Jack's persistence and stupidity. Later the girl died, but Jack's soul, who was immersed in love and longing, still remained in the world. The devil deleted the second half of the story, making the world think that Jack's tragedy was only because of his Miserly and stupid. But no matter what the world thinks, Jack is always persistently carrying a jack-o-lantern, looking for the love he will never find."

The poet's elder sister's voice was low, and the simple sentences struck Youran's heart.The two immersed in the story coincidentally fell silent for a while.

"...It turned out to be such a sad story..." You Ran lowered her head and bit her lips. Although she knew it was a legend, she couldn't help feeling sad for this attachment.

"I wrote the short poem you saw after hearing the old mother's story. I deliberately didn't add captions, so many readers of this poem will find it very strange."

"To be honest, I didn't understand it when I just read it. But after listening to you tell the story behind it, I can understand it." Leisurely turned to the poem, and suddenly noticed the mark next to the poem Jack Pumpkin.Does Li Zeyan also know this story?

"Actually, this story is not over yet." The poet sister smiled, as if recalling some warm scene. "Afterwards I lived in Ireland for a while. One day I found that the notebook I had been carrying with me was missing. It was full of random flashes of inspiration and some fragments of verse. I searched for two days, and then a The young brother sent it back to me."

"He also looked like a backpacker. He came to the hotel where I was staying and gave me the notebook and was about to leave. Unlike ordinary teenagers, he seemed to speak and behave much more maturely than his actual age, with a serious and calm expression. Although the answer is decent and polite, it is always a few words, not too much. I am very interested in contradictory people, so I insisted on asking him to have a meal to show my gratitude. He hesitated and agreed. "

"That young man is Li Zeyan?"

"Well, yes." The poet's sister nodded: "During the meal, he asked me what the poems about Jack Pumpkin I wrote in my notebook meant. I told him the full story I heard, and I thought he would not like this kind of love legend. Unexpectedly, he nodded and told me seriously that he liked the last three sentences. At first I thought he was traveling in Ireland, and then I learned from the hotel owner that he has been Looking for someone, a girl who had been missing for nearly ten years."

"The girl who has been missing for ten years?" This was Li Zeyan, whom You Ran didn't know about. For some reason, she felt a little sour in her heart.

"Later, when I was about to leave, I saw him briefly. It was raining heavily at that time, and he was walking alone with a big backpack on his back. His face was still so calm and persistent. Later, I published a hundred copies of the first edition of poetry anthology , I sent him a copy. In my heart, there seems to be some kind of connection between the story of Jack Pumpkin and this young man. So, yesterday I saw the copy in your hand and I sent it to him personally collection of poems, I thought the young man had finally found the girl."

You Ran was a little embarrassed, and shook her head: "You misunderstood, I should not be the girl he was looking for."

"Isn't it?" The poet's elder sister smiled, her bright eyes looked at Youran gently, "You think...don't you?"

"No. I haven't been missing...and I haven't known him for a long time." Youran shook her head subconsciously, as if trying to get rid of the waves of disappointment in her mind.Looking up at the face of the poet's sister, I wanted to smile, but it seemed that I couldn't lift the corners of my mouth.

"My words seem to make you sad." The elder sister of the poet gently shook her hand, blinking her eyes, "This is not my original intention."

Looking at the gentle eyes of the poet's sister, the sorrow in Youran's heart seemed to ease a little: "I'm fine, thank you for telling me this. In fact, I really like your poems, which are free and easy, romantic and delicate. I actually have I'll write a little bit from time to time, but..."

Leisurely remembered the Mid-Autumn Festival poem Li Zeyan laughed at himself before...

"but what?"

"Oh, but it's not well written, and I don't even like to read it."

That breakfast ended in the short and warm daylight in London. Joseph's cooking skills were very good, which made Lei Ran experience the authentic British home-cooked taste that he hadn't tried in the past few days.The poet's sister's words are always warm and playful and humorous. The two seem to have endless topics to talk about. It's not that Wei Qian called and said that the plane can take off normally, and they will send someone to pick you up at the airport at noon. Breakfast can last the whole day.

"Goodbye, cute little sister. Say hello to your friend for me." The poet sister suddenly stepped forward and hugged Youran gently, "You can tell me what's on your mind in the future. Come on!"

"Come on... Come on..." Youran's nose was a little sour, but she felt a little silly.In this era where you can contact at any time with just a phone call or a text message, why is it so sad to part with someone you just met?

Later, leisurely thought, maybe this is fate.The one-day and one-night delay in London shook her already firm heart. Li Zeyan, who thought she understood, had many aspects that he didn't know about. The girl he had been looking for probably already occupied everything in his heart. The gentleness, just like him in my dream.

Leisurely didn't mention Jack Pumpkin's secret to Li Zeyan, she thought that if the day came when Li Zeyan wanted her to know, he would take the initiative to tell her.Tell yourself who that girl really is and what kind of relationship he has with her.

**********

"President, should we continue the investigation?" After confirming that the girl in Scotland was not the one he was looking for, on the way to the airport, Lao Bao had been thinking about this question in his mind, and finally he couldn't help asking.

"Check." Unexpectedly, Li Zeyan's answer was straightforward.

"……All right."

Lao Bao agreed without saying anything.Have you lost your sight?Originally, I thought that Li Zeyan would slow down or hesitate because of the weight of that girl last night in Li Zeyan's heart.But now it seems that the one who is close by is still not as good as the girl who has been worried about for many years and cannot be found.

The sky outside the plane window was gradually getting dark, Li Zeyan closed his eyes slightly, trying to make up for the lack of sleep last night.That idiot should have returned to Love Talk safely.When the family in Scotland confirmed that it was not the girl today, Li Zeyan couldn't tell whether he was happy or sad. He will continue to look for the girl who gave her life to save him 17 years ago. No matter what, he still wants to thank her face to face, and then do his best to protect her in the future.

As for that idiot who has been rambunctious all night, the corners of Li Zeyan's mouth twitched unconsciously, he is still in a daze and doesn't know anything... It seems that it will be difficult to wait for her to enlighten herself.