crossing the northern latitude

Accepting reality does not mean facing reality.

If you want to describe the first half of Mengtunan's college life, half dead should be more appropriate.

In the past two years, he was unhappy, he found nothing interesting to watch, didn’t even bother to play games, and tortured himself with homework every day—he felt that there was really nothing to do. Give some comfort from loneliness.

Maybe Mengtunan didn't even realize that he seemed to be missing that person in this way?Be silent like Lu Yan, sit quietly, and concentrate on doing things... There will be an illusion that the other party has never left.

This kind of self-torture behavior made him have a good relationship before graduation-a famous teacher in the department took a fancy to him, and personally approached Meng Tunan to ask if he wanted to study as a graduate student.

That teacher has a lot of background, and his works are often placed in the most prominent position during national exhibitions, and he is considered a figure in the industry.At first, Meng Tunan didn't quite understand why this good thing happened to him. After some inquiries, he found out that the teacher likes hardworking students, and he is the only one among this year's undergraduates, whether he has classes or not, including Saturdays and weeks. People who go to the calligraphy practice classroom every day...

Moreover, this teacher is an expert in official script. Meng Tunan had previously participated in a school calligraphy competition and won an award, and this teacher was the judge.

For Mengtunan, reading and writing are the most boring things.The shock of being broken in love made him try to use the most boring things to numb himself, after all, he has no time to think about other things when he is busy... Unexpectedly, this kind of self-paralysis finally allowed him to take advantage of it.

Sometimes people's fate is so strange, those who don't like reading the most will keep reading all the time.

Meng Tunan went to school for a few more years by accident.When he was about to graduate, Jiang Yang came to celebrate him, and after drinking for three rounds, he talked to Meng Tunan about his business plan.

Jiang Yang's family has a lot of money. After graduation, he stumbled and started several businesses. The few stores he opened were all sold out. This time, he plans to enter the art examination training.

The employment of their calligraphy students can also be said to be strange, but as far as Meng Tunan knows, most of them take the examination of the system, and the rest are doing design work... Even his parents before graduating from university at that time were also I was persuaded to go home and become a teacher.

"Your teacher told you to stay in school?"

"Yeah, he even asked me if I wanted to do a Ph. D. I've read too much, so I didn't dare answer him." Meng Tunan frowned, "Headache."

Jiang Yang blushed from drinking: "Your personality...you can also be a teacher. I can't do it, I can't stay idle, and I like to make money."

"I also like to make money." Meng Tunan echoed, "Before this, I never dreamed that I would be a teacher..."

Jiang Yang raised his eyes and looked at him a few times: "What a great opportunity to stay in school, even if it is an administrative post, you can stay if you can. Seeing that you are so desireless now... shouldn't you like this state?"

This state?

Meng Tunan drank all the wine in the glass, and couldn't help asking: "Brother, do I look bad?"

"It's pretty good." Jiang Yang thought for a while, "It's just... the feeling has changed a lot."

"You haven't changed a lot." Mengtunan lowered his head, "It's not just me."

They looked at each other and smiled, and they both saw something right and wrong in each other's eyes.

"If you want to teach me, you can guarantee a higher salary than the school." Jiang Yang couldn't tell if he was joking, "If you come, I will support you and respond to your needs...but I still need a manager Yes, or you will come with me?"

Meng Tunan raised his eyebrows: "Am I serious?"

He just happened to be confused about his own way forward, and he didn't want to think about things that were too stable. Starting a business with Jiang Yang was a very challenging task, which happened to meet the rigid requirements of Meng Tunan's self-torture.

So after graduating, Meng Tunan took out his little savings and invested in Jiang Yang's shares, and without hesitation, he got on the thief ship of his good brother.

It didn't go well at first.Inexperienced and not proficient in business, the training center almost quit the market competition after a year of ups and downs. For a few months, their rent was borrowed from their parents.The source of students for the new school is a big problem. The parents of the students believe in the old brand, so where can they buy the account of the newcomers.

Meng Tunan has saved some money over the years of studying, most of which is saved by working with him to earn extra money, and the prize money he got from participating in exhibitions and competitions with his teacher in the past few years. The money is not much but it is not easy to come by. , didn't even hear a sound.

His parents didn't understand this kind of suicide entrepreneurship. They wanted Meng Tunan to go home and work. Otherwise, wouldn't it be safe to stay in school after listening to his teacher?It's okay for Jiang Yang to fail in starting a business, after all, he is a man with a family background, but what about him?

In the eyes of his parents, Meng Tunan is just ignorant and fooling around, and he is still capricious even at a young age.

The lack of support from relatives made Meng Tunan very unconvinced.Because of this matter, he had almost quarreled with Meng Jianjun and Gao Hui, and coupled with the grievances in Lu Yan's heart, Meng Tunan was so angry that he didn't go home for several years, and vowed not to do anything before. not going back.

After several years of stumbling, he and Jiang Yang still did not give up.The publicity and charging model of the training class was adjusted several times, and Jiang Yang used Meng Tunan and his so-called inspirational experience as a gimmick, and even recruited a few experienced teachers from the industry... When the spring of a certain year finally came, The students in their class have a good online rate of fighting spirit, and this time it can be regarded as a turnaround.

During that time, Meng Tunan was not idle either.When the new media was trending, he set up an online store to sell stamps. Unlike traditional engraving stores, he gave the store a literary and petty name, put a lot of effort into packaging and publicity, and uploaded short videos of his own handmade printing from time to time... …

The sales of seals were bleak, but unexpectedly, Meng Tunan became a small hit.Because he is good-looking and loves to laugh and be funny, he often speaks amazing words, and the seal cutting knowledge he explains is easy to understand. His videos were quickly recommended by the platform as the popular recommendation of traditional cultural craftsmen.

...However, what troubled him was that the sales of seals still couldn't increase, and he didn't get rich by relying on side jobs.

The Jiji camp is busy, and the training institutions are barely improving.Seeing that his son had finally done something serious, Jiang Yang's father gave him some investment with a wave of his hand.

The next thing is to be busy, choosing a site, building a school, recruiting people, and participating in endless local dinners... Meng Tunan has been running with Jiang Yang for a while, and he is about to collapse. He has gastritis twice in a row and wants to continue fighting. Mr. Jiang Yang Unable to see it anymore, he ordered Meng Tunan to go to T City to watch the start of the new school.

"Anyway, your home is also close to T City, so you just happened to rest there for a while." Jiang Yang waved his hand, "I will continue to expand the territory, you take a rest first."

They really went through adversity and are still in friendship with Fugui. Meng Tunan knew that Jiang Yang was thinking of himself, but he was a little bit...

"I don't really want to go back."

"Hey, I said you..." Jiang Yang was surprised, "I haven't been home for two years, I think your parents are not bad to you, are you afraid that you will be urged to marry when you go back? Is it close to home? okay?"

It's not that the relationship with my parents is bad, but there are some unspeakable rifts.It's not just because he doesn't support his career, Meng Tunan is not stupid, he has vaguely guessed the reason for the past incident, but he doesn't want to press his close relatives, the only way he can think of is to escape.

It's been almost ten years since I escaped.

Meng Tunan hesitated: "It's not that I don't want to go back, I just want to be busy..."

"Brother, it's time for you to rest." Jiang Yang patted him on the shoulder, "Didn't you say that the platform let you, a traditional craftsman, participate in some activities last time? Where did you come from?"

Jiang Yang actually didn't want Meng Tunan, a calligrapher's lover, to talk business with him in Jiuchi Roulin, for fear that his teacher Meng would lose his grip on the brush after drinking, and who would make him a signboard in the future.

"In Beijing." Meng Tunan sighed, "I'm too lazy to go, it's a waste of time to do that stupid live broadcast! It's not like I can't sell my seal!"

"Oh, how can you think so, you think those people really look at your engraving, it's all about you!" Jiang Yang immediately made a decision for him, "Go, you are our ace teacher now, go to participate more There are only benefits to this kind of activity...Well, I will let Xiaoxue accompany you all the way in Beijing!"

Jiang Yang's assistant Gao Xue smiled behind Jiang Yang: "Teacher Meng, let's take a vacation."

Although he often volunteered to follow Jiang Yang around the rivers and lakes, in fact, Meng Tunan's main job is to teach, and everyone used to call him Teacher Meng.He is very attractive to students. The class he leads has a good rate of online attendance every year. He is good at business and has no airs. The employees are very close to him.

Ten years ago, I was sitting in the classroom of a training institution holding a brush and scolding the teacher for being inhumane, but now I am actually doing the job I hated the most back then.In fact, every time he heard someone calling him Mr. Meng, he always felt a little dazed, and always felt ironic, thinking that people would eventually become the person he hated the most.

Unable to resist Jiang Yang, Meng Tunan rolled to the airport with his luggage and Gao Xue in desperation, preparing to go to Beijing to participate in the event invited by the platform.

Because of frequent business trips to talk about things, lectures and trial classes, he used to be a person who would faint in any car, but now Meng Tunan has practiced the ability to fall asleep in any vehicle.

The weather was bad that day, and it rained heavily before going out.They deliberately took a taxi to the airport in advance. Meng Tunan fell asleep with his head tilted as soon as he got in the car. It's almost boiling red.

Being busy seemed to be the best consolation he could grab.He was so busy that he didn't even have time to sleep, so he didn't have time to think about anything else.

Woke up after sleeping and found that there was still a traffic jam.Meng Tunan looked at his watch and asked, "Master, can you arrive before two o'clock? We're catching a plane."

"It is possible to arrive... But young man, it is estimated that there will be a delay due to the heavy rain."

Gao Xue also echoed at the side: "Mr. Meng, you can sleep a little longer."

Looking at the time, Meng Tunan closed his eyes in relief and continued to sleep.

The driver was right, and when they arrived at the airport, they learned that their flight would be delayed for two hours.

They looked at the heavy rain outside and sighed in unison.

After discussing, they plan to find a shop to sit and write lesson plans.I wrote in the coffee shop for two hours in the dark and prepared to board the plane, but after rushing there, it was said that there would be an hour delay.

Furious and impotent, they pushed their stuff back to the coffee shop again.

This kind of waiting is the most boring.Meng Tunan became irritable after writing for a while, and began to sit and play with Gao Xue on his mobile phone.

He planned his itinerary for this trip in his heart... thinking of the event staff who suggested that he should wear Chinese style clothes when he went there—he had a headache, should he still wear Hanfu?

Gao Xue on the opposite side looked at the phone and suddenly sighed.

Meng Tunan looked up: "What's wrong?"

"..." Gao Xue looked melancholy, "My first love just sent me a WeChat message, saying that he was getting married next week and asked me to have a banquet. I am so annoyed."

"Yo." Meng Tunan became interested, "You keep the contact information of your first love."

"That's right, I knew I would have deleted him!" Gao Xue glared at the phone, "Mr. Meng, should I go instead?"

Meng Tunan thought for a while: "Go, definitely go."

"Ah?" Gao Xue tutted twice, "No, I'm a bit afraid to go, I haven't seen him for many years."

Haven't seen each other for many years.

"Why don't you dare go?"

"There is no way to accept that kind of change..." Gao Xue thought for a while, "I always feel that some people just need to live in a certain stage of your life forever. If there is another intersection, no matter what he becomes, I will be sad .”

"I don't think the same way as you do." Mengtunan said lightly, "You at least know where your first love is, but I don't even know where the other is. I hate him to death, if one day he dares to follow If someone else gets married, then I will kill him first, then commit suicide, and finally drag him to be buried together."

"..." Gao Xue was terrified and silent for two seconds, "What kind of enmity?"

"It's not a big grudge, but he owes me an explanation." Meng Tunan stood up, "Stop talking, I'm going to buy some food. What do you eat? I think his croissant is not bad."

"...Then it's good, thank you Teacher Meng."

Gao Xue looked at the back of Meng Tunan who was leaving, and thought that Teacher Meng's expression turned grim at the mention of first love, which looked quite scary.

First love, Meng Tunan repeated these two words in his heart.

It seems that many years have passed, so far away that I feel a little trance.

Regret is the most difficult knot to let go of.It's fine if you say goodbye and break up peacefully, but that person's parting is not clear, and you won't even let you understand it.

Sometimes Meng Tunan would think about it all night, how to question and how to reason, every word and every word was arranged in his mind.He tried everything to find Lu Yan. After being disappointed again and again, he slowly began to try to convince himself to accept his fate, persuade himself to forget, and make that period into the past... But this kind of self-healing effect is very poor. Yen would still grit his teeth, hating and feeling sad.

No one knows how he survived all these years.

While queuing up, Meng Tunan felt that he couldn't think about it anymore.

He turned his head to look at the desserts in the cabinet, decided to eat a chocolate cake, and bought a croissant for Gao Xue... Then he turned his head to look at the weather outside, the rain was still heavy, and it didn't look like it was about to stop.

He turned his head back and counted the number of people in front of him in a bored manner.One, two, three, four, five...

When he counted to six, Meng Tunan froze.

The sixth person...

With his back facing, from Mengtunan he could only see the man's white shirt uniform and the four stripes on his shoulders.Perhaps it was because of the good proportions of his figure, the suit looked especially good on him, Meng Tunan even saw someone taking a sneak shot with a mobile phone nearby.

pilot.

For no reason, Mengtunan's heart beat wildly, feeling something was wrong, it was an instinctive reaction of the body - nervousness.

The man in sight handed a black cup to the clerk.He had a watch in his hand, with a red string on it, very old and almost faded.

Having experienced too many disappointments, Meng Tunan was not sure at first.

He rushed to the front in a hurry, and abruptly poked his face in front of the cashier to see the man's face...

Someone behind said dissatisfied: "Oh, why did you jump in line!"

The waiter in front of them was still calling the stunned Lu Yan: "Sir, your change, sir!"

How many times have I thought about the scene of the reunion, Meng Tunan was completely dumbfounded when it happened in front of my eyes, I couldn't say a word I wanted to ask, I just stared at Lu Yan blankly...

He even doubted himself in his heart that he was wrong, it was fake, he was dreaming.

Looking at each other for a few seconds, Mengtunan felt like he was 17 years old again.He saw Lu Yan in school uniform, Lu Yan who was drunk, and Lu Yan who was crying on his shoulder... The past and the present overlapped repeatedly, and Meng Tunan was a little confused for a while, not knowing which one he was missing he.

The panic flashed by, and Lu Yan in front of him took a step back, and finally let Meng Tunan see clearly this time.

A lot has changed.After all, he grew up, looking handsome and calm.His eyebrows were already good-looking, and the clothes set him off perfectly.

After a while, Lu Yan turned his head away.

He closed his eyes, then turned his head to leave.Mengtunan came to his senses and grabbed his arm tightly.

"Where are you going?" Meng Tunan didn't expect that this was the first sentence he said to him, "Going again?"

"I still have something to do." Lu Yan seemed quite calm, "See you next time."

"See you next time?" Meng Tunan's voice rose instantly, and he lifted his collar anxiously, "Wait for you to hide and let me look for you?"

The two pushed and pulled.The people on the side looked at it and thought it was a quarrel and wanted to fight. Someone came up and took Meng Tu who was very aggressive.