There are traces of the galaxy

Li Zhi never told Lin Chaosheng that he had an older brother, nor that he lived in such a dignified place.

There were no sentries standing guard at the gate of the military area, but foreign vehicles were not allowed to drive in, and stopped on the side of the road to let the two get off.

Sentinels stood indoors in winter, registering visitors in the guardhouse.

Li Zhi walked to the window of the guard room and talked with the soldiers on duty inside. Lin Chaosheng stood not far behind him and looked inside curiously.

After a while, Li Zhi came over, holding a form and a pen in his hand, and handed it to Lin Chaosheng: "You need to register."

Lin Chaosheng was slightly startled, "Oh." He took it over.After filling in the personal information, the two were released.

There are tall and straight trees planted on both sides of the road, and all the leaves have fallen at this time.After walking along the main road for a few minutes, Lin Chaosheng remained silent.Li Zhi couldn't help asking: "Don't you have anything to ask?"

"Uh... yes," Lin Chaosheng paused, and asked cautiously, "Your family lives here?"

Li Zhi said with a smile: "Yes, otherwise why would I bring you here for a visit?"

Lin Chaosheng shook his head and laughed too.

Almost at the door of the house, Li Zhi touched his pocket and stopped, "I didn't bring the key."

He was so angry when he came out that he didn't even think about bringing the key.

He hesitated and pressed the doorbell.I don't know who is at home, as long as it is not Dai Mengting who comes to open the door, anyone will do.

The doorbell rang for a while before I heard footsteps coming from inside.

"Here we come." A lazy voice sounded.

It was Jiang Yanlai who opened the door.

He was wearing a pure black T-shirt, shorts and slippers, which was very cool, and it seemed that there were two seasons outside the door, like summer.

Jiang Yan always dresses casually at home. When he goes out, he wears a down jacket with short sleeves on informal occasions. He has always liked to wear it this way, and he is not afraid of the cold.

"Brother." Li Zhi called out first.

Lin Chaosheng also called brother.

Jiang Yan turned sideways to let the two come in, glanced at Lin Chaosheng calmly, and said, "Welcome."

"Are you alone?" Li Zhi asked.

"Yes," Jiang Yan nodded, and led the two of them upstairs, "Go to my study and talk about it."

Li Zhi followed behind and asked, "Why are you at home today?"

"I have nothing to do today," Jiang Yan asked indifferently without turning his head, "Can't I be at home?"

"Who said it can't be done?"

Jiang Yan snorted lightly, "Isn't that what you meant?"

Lin Chaosheng walked silently at the end, listening to the two of them throwing questions back and forth, he couldn't help wondering, is it a family inheritance to like to use rhetorical questions?

Li Zhi seems to often use rhetorical questions when he talks, probably unintentionally, and always asks in a joking tone. You can play in seconds.

Following Jiang Yan into the study, the room was filled with a strong aroma of coffee.

What caught my eye was a large black solid wood desk, and the things on it were arranged in a mess. Computers, notebooks, and folders of various colors were piled up on the table in a mess.A moka pot sits on a shelf next to the desk.

"Want a cup?" Jiang Yanshun pushed in the white porcelain coffee cup on the edge of the table and sat down on the chair.

"No." Li Zhi pulled Lin Chaosheng to sit on the sofa next to the bookcase.

"Are you two sure you want to drive by yourself?" Jiang Yan asked.

Lin Chaosheng nodded: "Yes."

"It's quite far, and driving will be tiring." Jiang Yan glanced at Li Zhi.

"We can change the driving." Li Zhi said.

Jiang Yan raised the corner of his mouth inexplicably: "Are you sure you can drive?"

"...Why not?" He retorted weakly.

Lin Chaosheng asked in surprise, "Can't you drive?"

"I will."

Li Zhi has a driver's license, and hasn't driven much since he got his driver's license.Jiang Yan felt that it was not safe for him to drive for so long.

"From here to Hunchun, it takes four or five hours to drive on the high speed. If you start today, you can rest in Hunchun for one night, and then leave the country with a travel agency tomorrow," Jiang Yan said in detail, "It shouldn't be too much to drive differently tired."

"Oh, good." It was the first time Li Zhi heard Jiang Yan talk so much to him, and nodded in a daze.

Jiang Yan and Li Zhi have not communicated much, but he knows that Jiang Yan is not a man of few words.On the contrary, Jiang Yan is very eloquent and good at organizing language logic. Some of his insights often make grandpa and uncle nod in praise.But Li Zhi was completely opposite to him, maybe because of the different fields, or maybe because of his narrow vision, Li Zhi was not interested in what they talked about at all, and he was never able to intervene when his grandfather and uncle were talking about anything.

"If the road conditions are bad, if it's snowing or icing, you'd better stay away—" Jiang Yan saw that he was absent-minded, so he called out, "Li Zhi."

Hearing his name was called, Li Zhi came back to his senses, and met Jiang Yan with teasing eyes.

"I can drive," he emphasized emphatically, and then added weakly: "Let's talk about it when the time comes."

Lin Chaosheng glanced at Li Zhi, but didn't take the initiative to say that he could actually drive the whole journey, for fear of hurting Li Zhi's self-confidence again.

Jiang Yan took the two of them down to the garage to show them the car.

A Range Rover Evoque, a convertible SUV, was parked in the innermost part of the garage. Jiang Yan bought it and hadn't driven it a few times. He wanted to resell it, but then the price dropped again and again, and he lost money after selling it, so he kept it in the garage.

"This car has been overhauled before, and there is no problem, so don't worry about driving." Jiang Yan said.

Li Zhi patted the hood of the car, only to be covered in ashes.

Only then did he realize that the windows and the front and rear covers were covered with a thick layer of dust, and no one had opened them for a long time.

"The tires need to be changed." Lin Chaosheng observed and said.

"Ah?" Li Zhi kicked the rear tire lightly, it's not a problem.He asked a little strangely: "Is this time too long to use?"

Lin Chaosheng said: "We need to change snow tires."

Only then did Li Zhi suddenly realize: "Oh." He turned to look at Jiang Yan again, and found that he still had that slight smile on his face, as if mocking him for his lack of common sense.

After driving the car to the 4S store to change the tire, the two bought some travel necessities in a nearby supermarket and set off.

Hunchun is in the east of Jilin, at the junction of China, Russia and North Korea.

This is not the bustling city with a well-developed tourism industry as Lin Chaosheng imagined, without tall buildings and heavy traffic, but like the usual county center, full of city atmosphere.The difference is that almost every storefront on the street is marked in Chinese, North Korean and Russian languages.

During the Chinese New Year, there are almost no pedestrians on the road.

Lin Chaosheng glanced out the car window, "It feels like the cities here are very similar." He sat in the driver's seat and stopped at an intersection to wait for a red light.

"Actually, it's the same everywhere," Li Zhi said with a slight smile, "but this place is very close to the sea."

The closest place in Hunchun to the sea is only a dozen kilometers away from the sea. Standing on a high place, you can see the blue ocean and smell the sea breeze, but there is no coastline.

"If we go to Vladivostok, we can see the sea, but the seaside is too cold now." Li Zhi opened the car window a little.

"Ah," Lin Chaosheng said, "I'll take you to see the sea in the summer." He had a light smile on his face, and he seemed to say whatever he wanted.

Li Zhijing paused for a moment, all smiles disappeared, and he stared at Lin Chaosheng almost stubbornly.

Feeling his gaze, Lin Chaosheng turned his head, "What's the matter, don't you want to go?"

"No."

"I always feel that you have been a little..." Lin Chaosheng looked straight ahead again, paused, and did not continue.

Li Zhi suddenly became nervous, and clenched his seat belt tightly, "What's the matter?"

"That's right, it's kind of weird. I can't say exactly how weird it is."

"Really." Li Zhi pulled the corner of his mouth and forced a smile.

"Recently, you often look at me like just now, sometimes for a long time, you know," Lin Chaosheng glanced at him again, and continued, "Actually, I can feel it."

Li Zhi's throat choked up, and his expression became even stiffer: "..." So you know it all.

The green light came on.Lin Chaosheng didn't say anything more, and continued to concentrate on holding the steering wheel and driving, as if the conversation just now was just an insignificant episode, and he didn't know that it stirred up a thousand waves in Li Zhi's heart.