distorted impression

After nearly 13 hours of flight, Jiang Chengyue's passenger plane landed at the airport of country A. He pushed the suitcase and followed the crowd all the way out. He heard English with local accents, and occasionally heard someone answering the phone in German. After saying hello, he stood up and turned around, only to see a middle-aged German man with dull hair.

Before turning on the mobile phone that had been shut down for more than ten hours, he felt uneasy, but his hands didn't listen to the command very much, so he hurriedly pressed the power button.

I don't know if it's because the signal here is very poor at the airport, and the fan-shaped signal icon at the top of the screen is only a shaky dot.

Lu Xu's message was sent a few hours ago——

"Fly, if you don't come back when the time is up, I will fly over and break your leg."

Probably because he felt that this sentence was a bit too much after finishing speaking, Lu Xu added another one——

"Take care of yourself for me, and say hello to Aunt Qu for me."

The uneasiness and exhaustion of the journey were like smoke lingering in his heart, and he was dismissed by these two pieces of news. It was the first time that he came so far alone.

Walking out of the airport, the blue sky stretched in his eyes like a wide-angle lens. Under the sky, there were a few plants that he had never seen before, and the trunks of the trees towered up to the clouds, with a few scattered leaves on the tops of the trees. .

Before leaving, he thought it would be very hot here, but now it seems that it is far from the stove city in July and August.

Not far away, someone held a pick-up sign with his name written on it. Jiang Chengyue walked over quickly pushing his black suitcase, and greeted the person who came to pick him up.

The person who came was stunned for a moment, and then enthusiastically said: "Qu Jing's children have grown up so much, and they are so beautiful. I often hear her mention it, and I always feel that she is still a child of eleven or twelve years old."

"Does she often... mention me?" Jiang Chengyue asked.

The aunt's surname is Qiao, she is Qu Jing's colleague, and she is very talkative: "That's inevitable. It's our family Jiang Chengyue at every turn. We work here, and we often don't care about the academic performance of our children. She's still staring at it from so far away."

"Is she... okay?" Jiang Chengyue asked.

"She's already awake." The other party said, "I didn't tell you the whole story. When the conflict happened, an explosion fragment brushed past her neck. It was very dangerous, but only a little bit of skin was broken, and there was something wrong with the back of her body. After the operation, she heard that you were coming, and complained that she should not have notified you."

Jiang Chengyue's nails made a half-moon mark on the palm of his hand, and his heart sank all the way, and he relaxed a little.

He followed Aunt Qiao out of the airport, got into a car, leaned against the window, and looked back at the strangely shaped trees outside the window.

"Do you think this side is better than expected?" Aunt Qiao asked him seeing that he couldn't move his eyes.

"Well, it's not the same." Jiang Chengyue looked back a little embarrassedly.

This place is really not as barren as he imagined for more than ten years.

"The airport you just walked out of was built with the help of our country C. Isn't it magnificent?" Aunt Qiao said, "But we have to go further north, and it will be more desolate there."

Jiang Chengyue leaned against the car window and sent a message to Lu Xu through the unstable signal.

Lu Xu found Lu Nian, asking about the situation here, and at the same time taking time to take care of his emotions.

[Bamboo shoots]: [Photo], what a strange tree.

[kyle]: Well, I played photography for a while seven or eight years ago, and I took similar pictures when I was traveling there, you see. [photo]

[kyle]: Baobab tree.

[Bamboo shoots]: You actually know each other?

[kyle]: Just asked Nalson.

Jiang Chengyue wanted to reply, but when the message was sent out, she was hit with a bright red exclamation mark, and the signal was cut off.

"If you go north, the signal will get worse." Aunt Qiao said, "Sometimes to make a call, you need to find a place with signal coverage."

Jiang Chengyue nodded, and temporarily lost contact with Lu Xu.

The ward is very simple, but the basic facilities are fairly complete.Jiang Chengyue put the suitcase at the door and pushed open the somewhat mottled door of the ward.

He hasn't seen Qu Jing for about two years.

Whether it was the phone call or Aunt Qiao's statement, they were all reserved and buffered. The appendix surgery came first, and the injury came later. Qu Jing's injury was worse than he imagined, and the gauze wrapped around her neck There was blood oozing, and there was a sense of powerlessness under the cover of an forced calm when speaking.

"How about the midterm exam? Did the school ask for leave?" A familiar question.

"I asked for... half a month's leave." He stood still, breathing a little short of breath. He actually wanted to say, why did he stay here when it was so dangerous, but he traveled all the way from south to north, and saw the majestic building. The airport and exotic plants, he couldn't open his mouth again, and he couldn't say such things.

The relationship between them is different from the normal mother-child relationship, because Qu Jing always treats him overseas as if she was still treating him when she was a child.

"What's that expression on your face?" Qu Jing broke the dull atmosphere in the room, "Why do you still cry so much at the age of eighteen?"

Jiang Chengyue moved a chair and sat down on the bedside angrily: "I didn't cry."

He just felt lucky like he was alive after a catastrophe.

Few people can understand that he really doesn't want to lose his nervousness and fear when answering calls from strangers across the country.

"When the signal is good, send a message to your Auntie Lu, saying that you have arrived successfully." Qu Jing said, "She is very worried."

"okay."

Regarding the matter with Lu Xu, Jiang Chengyue thought about it countless times, how to speak up when he saw Qu Jing one day, but he couldn't tell Qu Jing about the current situation no matter what.

He temporarily stayed in this remote civilian hospital.

In fact, Qu Jing didn't need his care. Her colleagues were all doctors and nurses. Qu Jing urged him to go back to China to study, but he still stayed.

The doctor said that the fragment almost cut Qu Jing's neck, and he felt scared.

This area is neither the capital nor a big city, and the signal is very poor. After Jiang Chengyue came to this area, he still hasn't been able to make a full phone call with Lu Xu.

Qu Jing was just over 40 years old, and her body recovered quickly. After about a week, she was able to sit up on the hospital bed.Her colleagues around her were full of praise for Jiang Chengyue, saying that he was sensible, and several of them even said they would introduce him to girlfriends, but Jiang Chengyue just smiled and didn't answer.

That day, Jiang Chengyue was walking out with a towel when his mother stopped him.

"What's that behind your ear?" Qu Jing asked.

Jiang Chengyue thought for two seconds before realizing that Qu Jing was asking about the tattoo behind his ear.

"It's... a pretty dandelion." Jiang Chengyue said hesitantly.

"I know both 'beautiful' and 'dandelion', why do you get tattoos?" Qu Jing was puzzled, "You obviously didn't like such things before."

Jiang Chengyue is not good at lying, but Qu Jing's current state and the matter between him and Lu Xu cannot be said.

"I just...suddenly liked it very much, so I went to get a tattoo." He said.

In fact, it's not right, I like Lu Xu, so I love Wu Wu.

"No special meaning?"

"No……"

lie.

A voice in his mind said.

"I'm still a freshman, I'm young, I don't study well." Qu Jing said to him, "It doesn't make sense to take the time to wash it off, it doesn't look like a good student at all."

The mother would always nag a few words when she saw her son whom she hadn't seen for a long time, and Jiang Chengyue answered in a daze.

After leaving the ward, he stood under the scorching sun, a little dizzy.

"I'm sorry Brother Lu, I lied, I'm a scumbag." He thought a little sadly.

He said something against his will.

In a foreign land, he missed Lu Xu almost crazily.

On that rainy night, Lu Xu pressed him against the floor-to-ceiling windows. Lu Xu lifted the hem of his pajamas and pushed him from behind. He didn't enter, but stuck to him tightly, allowing him to get close to him in the cold late autumn night. bear the heat.

"I won't let you off next time, I will do it whether you cry or not..." Lu Xu swears in his ear in English.

Except for the messy Sichuan dialect that he learned from him, Lu Xu seldom swears, so when Lu Xu explained his desires in his ear over and over again with explicit lust, he failed excitedly and guiltily. In Lu Xu's hand, the knuckles pressed against the glass were bent, leaving water marks.

"I'll wipe you clean after I really get you dirty." Lu Xu's voice was low and hoarse with magnetism.

But when the screen changed, mountains and seas separated them again.

A newspaper from several days ago was placed at the front desk of the hospital, and the nurse used it to pad things. Jiang Chengyue had seen it several times.But when he passed by today, he glanced in the direction of the newspaper and saw the familiar brand name "NancyDeer".

In such a country, it is very rare to see Luxu's brand name.

The corner of Jiang Chengyue's mouth was about to curve slightly when she saw the content under the title: "Because of dissatisfaction with NancyDeer's spring and summer fashion show entering the Asian market, a certain man violently injured the sales clerk at the counter."

Jiang Chengyue frowned.

The signal here has been intermittent recently, and the call cannot be maintained. The nearest base station has a problem and has not had time to repair it. It is a little closer. He asked Aunt Qiao, which is 10 kilometers away.

Qu Jing was taking a nap, Jiang Chengyue poured her a glass of water and put it on the bedside, picked up her phone, opened the door and went out.

He took a car to a village five kilometers away, got off the car, and walked in the direction of the base station. There were quite a lot more people in this area. His complexion was rare in this kind of place, and people frequently looked back at him.

He was a little uncomfortable, and walking further, near the base station, there were many more oriental faces. He even met a Sichuanese who was shooting a short video. The fellow had set up a pot and was pouring oil.

"Looking for the signal? The signal over there is good." The fellow pointed to the front and said, "Scattered? Call your family? I think you seem familiar?"

Jiang Chengyue nodded: "Well, it's family."

He finally dialed Lu Xu's international call under the signal coverage of the base station, and he didn't even care about the time difference of about 7 hours between them.

"My dear moon?" It was Lu Xu's voice, which was gentle with a smile at first, and then turned into an accusation, "You can do it, you haven't called me for a week, and you haven't even sent me a message. Nalson the day before yesterday He also asked me if my little boyfriend ran away."

"The base station is broken and there is no signal. I walked five kilometers to find the signal, and I have to walk back later." Jiang Chengyue was relieved when he heard that his voice was normal and was still teasing him, "Lu Xu, you... are fine Bar."

"It's okay. You saw the news, right? It's being resolved." Lu Xu said lightly, "How about you, mom?"

"...that's my mother, not yours." Jiang Chengyue whispered, "She's recovering."

"It's no difference." Lu Xu asked again, "Shall I buy a plane ticket to come and see you?"

"Don't come!" Jiang Chengyue disagreed.

He didn't want Lu Xu to delay any work because of him.

"With such a big reaction, why don't you want to see me so much?" Lu Xu asked.

"No, you work hard." Jiang Chengyue said, "I like...a man who works hard."

Lu Xu dragged his voice and let out a long sigh: "Then you miss me?"

Jiang Chengyue's mood of being bored all day was resolved by Lu Xu with a few words: "I walked 5 kilometers to call you, and I have to walk another 5 kilometers when I go back. Do you think I have thought about it?"

"Which part are you thinking about?"

Shameless, Jiang Chengyue said in her heart, such an expensive international phone call, Brother Lu will use it to talk about it.

"I want to sleep with you." He said blankly.

I'm not a waste anymore, I teased him, Jiang Chengyue thought.