[Comprehensive] First Love Trainee

Enter the password, and the door opens.

The curtains at home are all drawn, the bedroom door is tightly closed, a pair of women's leather shoes are placed next to the shoe cabinet, a windbreaker coat is hung on the hook in the entrance, and the car keys are placed in the storage basket at the door.

There are unwashed dishes on the kitchen counter and changed clothes in the bathroom laundry basket.

It is now three o'clock in the afternoon. Calculating the time, it will be nearly ten o'clock when Zhenji returns home after the night shift, after checking the room and handing in the shift. She only slept for five hours after all the work, which is obviously not enough.

Tezuka didn't mean to call her either, first put the bought things into the refrigerator and lockers by category, then closed the door to clean the used tableware, and finally tidied up the room.

Zhenji is usually a very organized person. Although he is busy with work, the house is not too messy. Occasionally, a few clothes that are too late to be folded are thrown on the sofa, and they can be sorted out easily.

Fearing that the noise would make Maki take a break, Tezuka didn't turn on the washing machine, closed the bathroom door and washed the shirt and trousers in the laundry basket by hand, didn't turn on the spin dryer and dryer, and hung it directly on the balcony.

It took only half an hour to finish all these things. He walked into the study room, looked over Maki's various but neatly arranged books, and saw a set of 12 small wooden sculptures with different expressions in the middle of the second shelf. The knight couldn't help but smile slightly.

He recovered twice in Munich. Because of his injuries, he was not in a very happy mood. It was difficult to find other ways to relieve his emotions except for the time of treatment.Especially at the age of 19, the relapse of an old injury when he was in the limelight was like pouring cold water on his head, making it unbearable for a determined person like him.

At that time, receiving a letter from Maki from London, for Tezuka, it was like a traveler in the desert finding the long-awaited oasis.He never thought that he needs a person's support and encouragement so much, and yearns for the affirmation and warmth from others so much.

After a period of time after resuming contact, his anxiety gradually calmed down, and he also began to find his own unique means of soothing.Reading in the square in front of the tower of the Old Town Hall in Munich is Tezuka's way of exercising his spiritual power.

The 12 hours of the group clock on the tower are composed of 12 knights. From 11:[-] noon every day, every hour, the twelve knights will come out to tell the time like a lantern, and a group of painted figurines will dance in a circle, showing the It is the scene of the marriage between Duke William V and Miss Retana von Lothring in German history.

That is the iconic landscape of Munich, and many tourists even make a special trip to stay for several days in order to watch it.In this square, there are always an endless stream of tourists from all over the world. The relatively noisy environment is actually not suitable for reading. However, once you learn to abandon the influence of the environment and devote yourself to the books, it will exercise your concentration and spiritual power. It is also unmatched.Tezuka became a frequent visitor to the square, and naturally watched the timekeeping of the Twelve Knights many times actively or passively, so that this scene has been deeply engraved in his mind.

Later, he made wood carvings of these 12 knights of different shapes and sent them to Maki.

Since he was a teenager, woodworking has been Tezuka’s other hobby and way of decompression besides tennis. His hands have become more dexterous because of this, and he has also cultivated his long-term concentration and concentration.He has been doing this group of wood carvings for several years. One reason is that he doesn't have so much free time, and the other is his unparalleled seriousness.

Maki went to Munich twice, one time when he was 15 years old and his teammates came to visit him, and the other time when he was 20 years old in the second half of his rehabilitation, he came to communicate and learn with his mentor, squeezed out of the busy schedule Come see him in two hours.Both times we were in a hurry, leaving little time for sightseeing.As the city where he trained, healed and studied, Munich is irreplaceable in Tezuka's life. The spirit he tempered in front of the group clock, the peace he got, the opportunities he got in this city, and the journey he started, Tezuka Hope to be able to share all this with Maki.

That's why, he repeatedly polished this group of woodcarvings and strived for perfection, and when they were actually sent to Maki, it was already two years later in the spring, after he defended the Miami Masters again.

He still remembers the gift Maki gave him in return.

A stack of sketches of lakes and mountains, depicting the scenery along the way when she drove to Scotland during her school field trip.All the way to the north, the days are getting longer and the nights are getting shorter, the clean lake area, the vast countryside, each painting has a small note written by Maki.Along with the stack of paintings, there is also a three-color postcard from the island of the sky.Earthy yellow represents the land, sky blue represents the sky, and dark blue represents the sea.On the back of the postcard, Maki's familiar handwriting is written - the island in the sky is the end of the world, I watched the afterglow disappear on the sea level, and the journey of the world has just begun.

In the past few years, he has moved several times, and many supplies have been "discarded" because they are inconvenient to carry. The only thing that has always been with him is the letters and souvenirs sent by Zhenji and him, and he keeps them carefully.

It turned out that she was the same.

A pair of arms circled behind him, the girl's warm body leaned forward, her forehead was lightly pressed against his back, Maki's voice was hoarse and lazy after just waking up: "What are you looking at?" She asked Standing at the door for a long time, Tezuka didn't pay attention, he was too engrossed.

Putting away his drifting thoughts, Tezuka naturally turned around and hugged his girlfriend who was still a little dazed: "Did I wake you up?" She had been on shift for 36 hours in a row and only slept for five hours, which was too little Some.

"No." Although he was not too awake yet, Maki still shook his head hard and opened his eyes, "I won't be able to sleep at night if I sleep again." Saying that, he raised his head to look at his boyfriend's sharp jawline, and followed suit. Looking at the bookshelf with his gaze, he saw the row of wooden knight carvings.

"You observe really carefully." She couldn't help picking up a knight and touching it, her voice sounded amazed, "I searched for pictures on the Internet, and the 12 knights are really carved exactly like you."

"At that time, I went to the square every day, and I didn't know how many times I saw it." Tezuka also picked up a wooden carving, and pointed to one of the knife marks, "But it's still a little bit damaged here." The figure is not good. Even if it is meticulously crafted, it is inevitable that there will be one or two mistakes. In comparison, this is already the best one.

Maki leaned over to take a closer look, and smiled: "I think it's pretty good. The only set in the world is limited, and it's a collector's edition!"

After coming back from work in the morning, he casually dealt with some food and went to catch up on sleep. He also fell asleep and didn't eat at noon. After waking up for a while, Maki began to feel hungry.As an active player, Tezuka's daily diet is very strict, and he insists on a high-protein, low-fat diet almost all year round.Now that the competition is about to start, in order to prevent inadvertent intake of prohibited substances, it is even more impossible to eat out at will.Therefore, the two decided to make Japanese hot pot at home. The ingredients have already been bought, and they only need to put them in the pot to cook, which is safe and healthy.

Divide the labor and work together to cut the required ingredients. Shinji dug out a casserole from the cupboard and adjusted the soup base. After putting it on the cassette stove, the soup and ingredients started bubbling, and the aroma of the hot pot gradually overflowed.

They dragged two cushions and sat side by side in front of the tea table. They picked out a movie while eating hot pot. The curtains were not drawn, and the light in the room was very dark, which was quite interesting.

The movie is an Irish musical movie, "Once Upon a Time", the theme is a romantic love story, and the biggest highlight is the music in the movie.

This is one of Maki's favorite movies.The woman played and sang unappreciated ballads written for her husband, and left her country with her daughter and mother; the man had the ex-girlfriend who abandoned him and went to London in his heart, and the souls of the two collided in the music.The closest they got together was just imagining the future of going to London to form a band and release an album together. The temptations of each other were hidden in jokes, and they retreated to a safe distance in jokes.

Life is very vulgar, the encounter is short, but the vulgarity is clean and warm.Don't forget what you once had; cherish what you can't get; don't give up what belongs to you; keep what you have lost as a memory.Life is inevitably mediocre, but there are faint and real dreams, shining and becoming the eternity of life.

"I watched this movie while traveling by car." The hot pot was steaming, and the music in the movie was light and melodious. Shinji looked at the TV screen and said suddenly. "On the first night of our departure, the motel we stayed in was a bit cold, and everyone couldn't sleep. There was a girl on the team who was Irish, and she ran to my room and asked me to watch a movie together, which was this movie."

"I was painting on the road, and that girl wrote a lot of poems. Later, she pursued a senior from Imperial College of Technology, and treated those poems as love letters, and sent them a letter every day. That senior was an out-and-out engineering student. What a passionate Finn, we all think she is playing the piano with a cow."

"Then did she catch up?" Tezuka asked after putting the cooked Wagyu beef into Maki's bowl.

Maki nodded amusedly: "It miraculously succeeded."

"And the gift that the senior gave her back was a homemade hand-cranked generator." Laughing loudly, the introverted Finnish engineering student and the cheerful Irish liberal arts student, the opposite personalities are magically perfectly matched, although Maki is not Gossip, but it was too famous in the academy at the time.

She thought then, Maybe, that’s what the Irish girl suggested her to see the movie for—how long does it take for you to find the right guy?If you don't try it, how do you know if it's right for you?

After watching that movie, Maki walked and painted all the way until he came to the north of the Scottish Highlands, the island in the sky known as "the end of the world".She bought the postcard, and while she was sitting by the lake painting the last picture, the group played Jamie Cullum's "Ithink, Ilove," though she didn't mean to.

A bit melancholy and deep melody, by the lake in the extremely clean and heavenly town, because of the group of lifelike wood carvings that I received before departure, Maki suddenly had a strong nostalgia for a moment.

That's why she wrote that sentence on the back of the postcard.

It is an encouragement and blessing to the other party, and it is also a reminder and self-encouragement to oneself.

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Note: "Ithink, Ilove" lyrics

I think I love

Every single little crack on your face

I think I love

Even our most casual embrace

You don't have to try

Cause I've made up my mind

Baby I think I love you today

Remember that time

Youthrewacanofbeeratmelikeastone

Youdrunktoomuchwine

And threw up in the taxica on the way home

You looked like amess

But I must confess

Baby I think I love you today

When I think what we could do

If I could only say to you

All of these things we'll do Idare

And would you care?

I think I love

Everytime you honor with akiss

I think I love

Well there are just a million things I could list

Should let you know

But maybe tomorrow

Baby I think I love you today

In fact, I think, Tezuka and Maki are quite literary.

According to the formula book, Tezuka’s favorite movies are adaptations of famous novels, and he usually does carpentry and fishing in his spare time. These hobbies are actually different from those of teenagers who like outdoor activities, but they are more in line with the kind of quiet and calm Literary youth.When they were students, since the books Tezuka and Maki could communicate with each other were esoteric philosophical books such as "The World as Will and Appearance", it shows that the two people have similar aesthetics in literature, at least in literary appreciation.

As a former female literary youth and author, sometimes when I hear a certain song or see a certain scenery, I will instantly compose tens of thousands of words in my mind, so they use lyrics, handwork, and sketches to compose I really think it is very romantic to record the mood at that time and give it to the other party as a gift

Not soulmate, it is really difficult to obtain effective communication information in this kind of exchange