winter in greenland

Dan went home and simply took a shower and changed his clothes. Instead of riding a bike, he strolled out of the door slowly.

June has always been the peak tourist season in Reykjavik. The streets are full of tourists with different skin colors, most of them are with children, and there are also couples in pairs.Reykjavik is a very open city. Dan just walked through a street and saw several same-sex couples, both men and women, all of whom clasped their fingers together, with happy smiles on their faces.

He put his hands in the pockets of his coat, with his usual gentle smile on his face, but the expression in his eyes became colder and colder, the originally clear green sank and became like emeralds.

"Ouch..." He just passed by the door of a toy store, when a little girl rushed out of the door like a bullet and bumped into him.

The little girl looked about 4 or 5 years old, she was not big, but she was hit hard at that time.

Dan rubbed the bumped area on his thigh, lowered his eyes to look at the little person in front of him, and just about to speak, the little girl flattened her mouth and burst into tears with a "wow".

Dan: "..."

She was wearing a pale pink tutu dress, holding a white box with a red belt in her hand, her golden curly hair was tied into two bundles hanging on her shoulders, a bowknot of the same color was tied on the left head, and the bump on her forehead There was a red spot in that place, and with those tearful blue eyes, it was really temperless.

Dan squatted down, his eyes were at the same level as the little girl, and he asked patiently, "Does it hurt?"

The little girl stopped crying with sobs: "...it hurts..."

Dan raised his hand and rubbed her forehead, and sighed: "Be careful when you walk next time. Today you bumped into me, and it only hurt for a while. If there was a car outside, your pain may not only hurt your forehead."

The little girl still pouted and said nothing.

"What's your name?" Dan asked patiently.

"Nina." The little girl raised her hand and rubbed her eyes, wiping away the teardrops hanging on her eyelashes.

"So, Nina, where are your parents?"

Nina glanced back at the toy store with a look of grievance: "They are picking out gifts for my brother. I want the big one, but my mother said no, I already have this one." She raised the gift box in her hand. Box.

Dan showed a curious expression: "What is this?"

Nina curled her lips: "A doll. I already have many such dolls in my family."

The look on her face at that moment reminded Dan of Datta, whom he hadn't seen for nearly two years, and he didn't know if the little girl still remembered him.

"So, you ran out by yourself to run away from home?" Dan raised his eyebrows.

Nina nodded heavily: "I'm very angry, I'm never going back!"

Dan laughed: "Then what if you are hungry or want to go home?"

The little girl rolled her eyes: "What's your name?"

"My name is Dan."

"Our teacher said in kindergarten that we are good friends after exchanging names. Now you know my name is Nina, I know your name is Dan, we are good friends, so you can take me to eat delicious food, I don't will be hungry."

Dan laughed at her logic: "What if I'm the bad guy?"

Nina moved closer, looked at him carefully for a while, and shook her head firmly: "You are not a bad person, your eyes are as beautiful as our teacher's, and anyone with such beautiful eyes is not a bad person."

Dan couldn't help laughing, and raised his hand to rub her head: "Okay, Nina, I think you should go back to your parents."

As soon as he finished speaking, the door of the toy store was pushed open again, and an anxious young lady ran out. After seeing Nina, she was obviously relieved: "Nina! Why are you here?"

The little girl looked back, pursed her lips and said nothing, lowered her head and fiddled with the box in her hand.

Dan stood up, turned around with the little girl in his arms, and smiled politely at the lady: "Hello, my name is Dan, and I accidentally bumped into your daughter just now."

A grateful smile appeared on the lady's face: "Thank you for taking care of her." She said and pulled Nina, and was about to go back to the store.

After walking two steps with her mother, Nina turned her head as if remembering something, and shook her hand at Dan: "Dan, remember, we are already good friends."

Dan smiled and waved at her to indicate that he knew.

After this episode, it was nearly 8:20 when Dan got to Corena, and Harvey and Joe weren't in the store.

The foreman who looked after the store knew him, and greeted him with a smile: "The boss and Joe left a little earlier, and they asked me to tell you that they are waiting for you at the gate of the old port."

Dan thanked him, turned and walked in the direction of the Old Port.

The fireworks show officially starts at 9:[-] p.m., and the Old Port has always been the best place to watch it. There are also tourists who rent small boats to watch the scenery on the sea near the port.In order to grab a good position, people on this whole street are flocking to the old port one after another.

Dan himself was not very interested in the fireworks show, and he walked slowly behind the crowd. By the time he arrived at the port, it was almost 10 minutes to 9 o'clock.

"Dan—this way!" He heard Joe's voice from afar.

Joe and Harvey stood under a lamppost by the side of the road, and the doll's face was full of excited smiles: "Why did you come here, walk around, if you're late, you won't have a good seat."

Harvey next to him looked indifferent. Seeing Joe's excitement, he sighed: "Be careful, don't be squeezed down again, I don't want to jump into the water to save you again."

Joe turned and glared at him: "It was squeezed by others, besides, I can swim by myself."

Harvey didn't say anything, just glanced at Joe with some warning, and grabbed his wrist involuntarily.

Dan's eyes caught on to this small movement, and his footsteps froze for half a second, then he followed as if nothing had happened.

The main road leading to the port was crowded with people, and Dan was intentionally half a shoulder behind Harvey and the others, his eyelashes drooping and he didn't know what he was thinking.Amidst the noise of the crowd, he seemed to hear someone calling his name, stopped in his tracks, and turned his head in doubt.

"What's the matter?" Harvey noticed that he was lagging behind and turned his head.

"I think I hear someone calling me." Dan looked around.

Qiao Wenyan also turned his head: "Your friend is here?"

While speaking, he heard "Dan!" again, this time closer, with a childish voice.

"Is that over there?" Harvey pointed to their right. Dan looked in the direction of his finger, and saw a family of four walking towards them. Looking at her daughter, she frowned irritably because of her restless twisting and twisting. The little girl was Nina. She saw Dan somehow and was waving at him.

A smile appeared on Dan's face unconsciously, and he waved his hand to indicate that he saw it.

"You know?" Harvey was a little surprised.

"I met on the way here." Just as Dan finished speaking, the family of four had already walked in front of him.The young mother recognized Dan and gave him a polite smile.

"Dan! Are you going to watch the fireworks too?" Nina struggled to turn around and held out her hand to Dan.

Dan was a little stunned, but still took her subconsciously: "Yes, you too?"

Nina's mother was a little surprised by her daughter's actions, and reprimanded in a low voice: "Nina, what are you doing? How about your manners?" Then she smiled awkwardly at Dan: "We also went to watch the fireworks."

Nina shook her head vigorously at her mother, then turned to Dan: "Can you take me with you?"

Dan saw the pleading in her eyes, and hesitated for a moment: "But your parents are here..."

Nina glanced back at her mother and said loudly, "But I want to watch it with you."

Nina's mother was in a bit of embarrassment at the moment: "Nina, come down quickly, what does it look like!"

Nina didn't look at her mother at all, but hugged Dan's neck more and more tightly.

Dan dragged her up and looked at Nina's mother: "It's okay, if you don't mind, I can take her to watch it together."

"But..." Nina's mother hesitated.

Dan freed one hand and took out his mobile phone: "I can leave your number. After the fireworks show, I will take Nina to wait for you at the entrance of the Old Port. If you are worried, I will go with my two friends ’” He pointed to Harvey and Joe.

Nina's mother hesitated for a while, looked at Nina's firm back, finally compromised, and took out her mobile phone: "Then I will trouble you."

So the final situation became: Harvey pulled Joe to walk in front, and Dan walked behind with a 5-year-old girl in his arms. Such a strange combination.

When she was about to walk to the pier, Dan bought her a huge pink cotton candy. The little girl smiled, looked at the cotton candy in her hand, then at Dan, and said in a serious manner: "Dan, I'll come down by myself. Let's go, if the cotton candy falls on your clothes, it will become sticky, and you have hugged me for a long time!"

Dan smiled: "The fireworks show is about to start, and you won't see anything when you come down."

Nina thought hard after hearing this, and carefully moved the marshmallow to the other hand: "Then I still won't come down, but I will hold the candy very carefully so that it doesn't fall on your clothes."

Dan smiled and shook his head: "It doesn't matter if it falls on the clothes, because today is Midsummer's Day."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a loud "bang—" not far away, and then the first huge firework exploded in the clear night sky.

"Ah, I was scared to death!" Nina raised her hands to cover her ears.

Dan supported her with one hand, and the other hand was free to help her cover one ear: "Is this okay?"

Nina laughed loudly, and put down the hand holding the cotton candy: "Yes!"

The midsummer night sky is clear and clear, with thousands of diamond-like stars dotted on the blue velvet-like background, and huge fireworks bloom one after another against this background.Gold, orange, red, pink, indigo, emerald green, bright purple, silver white... It seems that all the colors in the world are collected, and then a pair of invisible hands mix them, and then paint them in the most beautiful shape In the night sky.

"Wow——" Hearing the admiration of the little girl in his arms, Dan unconsciously showed a smile.

The fireworks show lasted only half an hour. When they walked out with the crowd, Nina was still full of enthusiasm. When they walked to the entrance, she was happily pulling Dan to tell a story about rainbows that he had heard before. Dan glanced at Then I saw Nina's mother, standing beside the port administrator's hut, with a look of anxiety and regret mixed on her face.

"Nina, your mother is here." Dan raised his hand and pointed not far away.

Nina's mother also saw them, she rushed forward eagerly, took Nina into her arms, and looked at Dan apologetically: "Nina has always been naughty, I can't do anything with her. Thank you very much."

Dan shook his head and scratched Nina's nose with a smile: "She is very good, and I am very happy to be with her tonight."

Nina's mother wanted to say something more, but just as she was about to speak, a voice from the side interrupted her: "Dan?!" The tone contained disbelief, disbelief, and a slight surprise that the owner of the voice might not have noticed.

Dan's body froze the first time he heard the voice, his face sank, and the smile faded from his eyes.

He turned around slowly, and when he was completely facing the owner of the voice, he had a just right smile on his face: "August, long time no see."

August stood a few steps away from them, his eyes turned back and forth on him and Nina and her mother and daughter, he pursed his lips tightly, and did not speak for a while.

Nina looked at August curiously, then turned to Dan, and stretched her neck: "Who is he?"

Four or five steps behind them, Harvey and Joe were also sizing up the unexpected visitor. The difference was that Joe's eyes were completely curious, and Harvey's eyes swept back and forth on August and Dan. , showing some thoughtfulness.