Tropical Highway

Viva closes at 02:30 in the morning, You Zhen and Zhai Lan don't want to stay there all the time.After drinking and chatting enough, Zhai Lan first proposed to go back to the hotel, it was almost midnight.

Almost all the shops on the street were closed, and only half of the lights were turned on. The shadows of buildings on both sides were swallowed up by the night, and the wind chimes and prayer wheels occasionally made a sound, but it quickly disappeared, as if the stars had the magic power to make the world stand still.Not enough to illuminate the path under the feet, Zhai Lan stretched out his hand, but saw starlight filling the palm prints.

"Where do you want to go tomorrow?" You Zhen asked, "Are you in a hurry, do you think of Yanghu Lake, Karola Glacier, Namtso...Yangjin sent me a lot of glaciers, snow mountains, and salt lakes, all of which are round trips on the same day. "

Zhai Lan didn't answer right away, but gave a long "hmm" in deep thought.

"However, the Holy Elephant Heavenly Gate is not open recently, and it's only April, so Namtso may still have ice..."

"Aren't you in a hurry?" Zhai Lan interrupted him.

You Zhen: "Huh?"

Zhai Lan looked at him seriously: "It's not that you have a heavy responsibility to go to Linzhi. You have to deliver things to Yang Jin's younger brother and take him to the city hospital for an examination. Why waste time on the road?"

You Zhen was speechless.

Stopping right under the street lamp, he lowered his head, Zhai Lan's shadow covered his chest.

The most secret emotion in my heart can find an outlet at this time, You Zhen puts one hand in his pocket so that Zhai Lan can't see his fingers twirling each other in a panic, as if they are about to ignite the thin cocoon of playing the piano.As if nothing had happened, he looked around, and behind him was a small shop selling accessories, with Tibetan opera masks hanging at the door.

The night was dark, and the red scare seemed to be his nightmare suddenly materialized.

Zhai Lan said sharply, "You're scared, aren't you?"

You Zhen: "..."

"Deliberately procrastinating, I don't know the address, and I rarely bring up the main purpose." Zhai Lan said, and continued to walk slowly with him, his figure was always half a step ahead of You Zhen, "Thinking differently, it's already so bad At this point, if it were me, I must be very worried about getting a bad result at this time."

"..."

"I will think, let's face it after two days, it's not my fault anyway."

The gap between the sentences stretched, You Zhen snorted and admitted vaguely.

He really didn't know what to do.

He was still young when he decided to support Yang Jin's family, and his parents had full control over him. He only thought that he had a few friends thousands of miles away.At the beginning, he often wrote letters to the three brothers and sisters Yang and Jin. With the advancement of education and family changes, his parents decided to immigrate and he stayed in Chengdu. connect.

Later, the help from his parents was reduced to money. If Yang Jin hadn't been admitted to the same university as him by chance and told him, the friendship that You Zhen had entrusted to paper when he was young might have been stumbled and broken.

Now he has no way of finding out his parents' attitude towards Yang Jin's family. Fortunately, Youzhen is old enough to have a stable income and decision-making ability, so he continues to fulfill his promise.

Sending the book is out of sincerity, and treating him is out of responsibility, but it doesn't mean that You Zhen should bear a life.

"...I'm afraid. If Tenzin's illness turns out to be bad, then what else can I do, and how should I face Yang Jin's expectations?" You Zhen said in a muffled voice, "Can you understand?"

Zhai Lan nodded: "Yes, but I won't hide."

You Zhen looked at him in surprise.

"Because I don't want to think about the present in a few months, a few years, or a few decades later, and only regret it." Zhai Lan lightly touched the back of Yu Zhen's cold hand, "Didn't you just say 'the person you see every day? Suddenly there is no ', and a piece of my heart has been hollowed out? At least this time, you can do your best first, right?"

It is human nature to be weak and fearful of difficulties, not to mention that it is a matter of life, old age, sickness and death, but if you delay until the dust settles and then choose to accept directly, will you in the future forgive yourself for not moving forward at this time?

That's all Zhai Lan said.

"Yeah." You Zhen wanted to laugh, "I was actually comforted by you."

Zhai Lan stepped up his strength this time and slapped him on the back: "Sometimes you are much more timid than me, you Zhen!"

You Zhen nodded: "I have always been a coward."

"what……?"

"So don't think of me so well, people are selfish and weak, and I am no exception." You Zhen raised his head and exhaled, the white mist swelled in the middle of the night, "However, what you said makes sense, tomorrow, tomorrow I'll go to Linzhi—Xiaolan, thank you, I suddenly figured it out."

Serious words combined with a gentle and overly gentle tone, Zhai Lan's face turned red again in an instant, instead of looking at You Zhen, he straightened his back and trot forward for two steps before stopping, turned around and walked backwards.

"You're welcome, just take me with you." Zhai Lan said frankly, as if he should have been with You Zhen in the first place.

You Zhen said "OK".

The air was silent again, and Zhai Lan turned his head to look at the wide road behind him, and suddenly asked, "You Zhen, isn't that song you just sang famous?"

"Huh?" You really couldn't imagine that a teenager who would buy tickets to watch a niche band's performance at Zone didn't know about "Hotel California", or he finally remembered that Zhai Lan had long stated that he was not a fan of music—not theirs, nor Not the rock audience—a slow, "Oh, yeah."

"I've never heard of it." Zhai Lan said as expected, "It's the first time I heard it, it seems that you play the guitar very well, and the seat next door keeps praising you."

You Zhen couldn't help but smile: "It's a bit difficult to finish playing alone. I have practiced for many years."

"Then why did you want to sing this song just now?"

"Tell me the truth?"

"what."

"Then, I don't know, subconsciously, when I'm with you, many decisions are out of my mind."

It didn't sound like good words, but Zhai Lan smiled helplessly: "Speaking of which, we're both pretty willful, so it doesn't matter where we go."

"Maybe."

You Zhen took a step, and then Zhai Lan took a step back. He was always in a hurry, and he couldn't get close to him easily.A little anxious, but enjoying the tacit understanding of the moment.

When Zhai Lan said that he had never heard this song before, You Zhen was only pleasantly surprised.

He feels that "Hotel California" can interpret 1000 million feelings, but the feeling is the most profound when listening to it for the first time.And no matter what emotion is perceived, the guiding result will actually be the same.

As long as the chord is played again, Zhai Lan will always remember the tavern in Lhasa and him who sang.

The Lalin Railway has been in operation for less than a year, and there are limited trains every day. There are only three trains departing from Lhasa.When I decided to take the high-speed rail, there was only the earliest ticket left for the next day, and the rest time was greatly reduced.

Zhai Lan didn't even have time to tell Li Feimu, and only thought of it when she got into the car with her bag on her back in a daze.

After the editing message was sent, there was almost no interval, and Li Feimu's phone call came impatiently.Before Zhai Lan picked it up, he complained helplessly to You Zhen: "Look, he really looks like a male mother."

To prove this, Li Feimu's first sentence after the phone call was as expected: "Zhai Lan! Why didn't you tell me in advance?"

"Temporary decision." Zhai Lan was very calm, "Oh yes, I still want to ask you, where should I get off? After that, should I take the bus or find a car to go to your side... Which village are you in? ?”

Li Feimu: "..."

Almost got cerebral hemorrhage from this self-assertive stinky brother.

But Li Feimu always knew Zhai Lan's virtues, so he didn't explode immediately: "Get off at Milin Station, I'll pack up now and leave, I'll pick you up later."

"Ah." Zhai Lan responded, and immediately became anxious after hanging up the phone.

After careful calculation, he and Li Feimu hadn't seen each other for more than half a year before this trip to Tibet.After finishing the funeral, Li Feimu immediately returned to Tibet to continue his teaching support, while Zhai Lan was too autistic before and completely refused to communicate with anyone.

Although it is said that the brothers have no overnight feud, but it has been too long since they have seen each other, and it is inevitable that they are too close to the hometown.

"Li Feimu won't hit me..." Zhai Lan murmured.

Beside him, You Zhen yawned because he was too sleepy to get up early: "What are you muttering about?"

Zhai Lan: "No."

You Zhen leaned halfway on the seat: "I'll also say hello to Tenzin's teacher, so as not to be embarrassing if you don't invite yourself—oh, by the way, which school does your brother teach at? Is he coming to pick you up?"

"He said he was waiting for me at Merlin Station."

You Zhen agreed, turned his head, and stared intently at the scenery outside the spacious car window.

The Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the Yunnan-Tibet Highway, and the Sichuan-Tibet Highway weave a transportation network, break through the rock walls of the paradise, and bring in the humid monsoon.Medog, the only place without roads, is no longer an uninhabited land that is difficult to enter. They boarded this "most beautiful high-speed train in Tibet", which also seemed to mark that the arduous hiking with wind, food and camp has become history.

Connecting the Lari Railway, starting from Lhasa, first going east, then south, there are more than 40 tunnels along the way, a total of 16 times across the Yarlung Zangbo River, and finally arrive at Nyingchi, a river valley less than 3000 meters above sea level.

The snow line of the mountain is getting higher and higher, meadows, shrubs, forests...

The brown mountains began to lose sight of their peaks, the vast sand dunes disappeared after being drilled into the tunnel and then out, the red forest grew taller and taller, and the quietly flowing salt water was exactly the same color as the blue sky.

They sank together with the green train. Outside the window, the Niyang River was rushing, and in the depths of the valley, the sporadic pink was like a small cloud stained with the morning glow.

"Is that peach blossom?" Zhai Lan sat up straight suddenly, took out his phone and tried to take a picture.

He sat on the outside, and You Zhen could see the fuzzy powder from the screen, but soon the mountains and forests blocked it, Zhai Lan's eyes showed obvious loss, and he sighed unconsciously.

You Zhen thought about it, didn't comfort Zhai Lan first, but secretly had a plan that he would like.

Passing through a large mountain grassland, and crossing the Yarlung Zangbo River for the last time, the humid air in the valley temporarily relieved the dryness through the gaps. Three and a half hours passed in the blink of an eye, and the train slowly approached the platform.

The signal is full, Zhai Lan is not in a hurry to call Li Feimu, he guesses that the other party's character may call first.

However, until he was about to leave the station, Li Feimu didn't say a word except for "Are you there?"

"What's going on?" Zhai Lan thought to himself, "Brother Fei changed his sex in just three hours?"

Or he was busy with other things and forgot about it?

On the contrary, You Zhen, who was always two steps behind, had been listening to and making voices non-stop since arriving at the station.Zhai Lan asked him, and he said that he was communicating with Tsering Tenzin's teacher.

The two had been communicating with Yang Jin before, because they had no direct contact, so the exchange of information did not affect anything.But now that we have to meet suddenly, it is not an option to always make a detour, so we add the contact information.

"...Okay, see you later, sorry to trouble you."

Hearing that You Zhen's "official duties" came to an end, Zhai Lan stopped, and when he came to him, he asked, "Have you got the address?"

"Well, Renqing Village." You Zhen said, not noticing the change in Zhai Lan's face, "He said that he just came to pick up people at the train station today, and asked me to wait at the exit——Eh, Zhai Lan?"

Zhai Lan: "...Renqing Village?"

The accent was subtle, and the two thought of a certain possibility almost at the same time, and they both ignored that it was a coincidence that they got off at Mirin Station.

You Zhen took off the earphones: "Your brother, what's your last name?"

"Li." Zhai Lan said, "Li Feimu."

You Zhen: "..."

He couldn't tell whether it was "the world is so small" or "what a coincidence". The crowd was surging, and he and Zhai Lan kept still at the same time. After a while, You Zhen wiped the tip of his nose briefly.

"That's it." You Zhen finally said.

And Zhai Lan fully understood, he tried to check You Zhen's phone.

The screen was still on, and the avatar who sent a long voice and short text was the iconic panda butt in Chengdu, and at the top was written the WeChat note of "Tsering Tenzin's teacher".