intellectual norms

According to Lin Zhihua's temper, he should immediately buy a ticket back on the same day on the spot, and call a car directly to the airport.

However, after listening to Qiao Yu's words, he just rushed into the bathroom and locked himself up.

Qiao Yu didn't call him outside, but heard a restrained, sobbing cry from the bathroom.

I don't know how long it took before Chen Ke called him and said that the bus had arrived at the hotel and was ready to leave now. He had already notified the other members of the delegation one by one, except Lin Zhihua.

Qiao Yu replied to him: Got it, wait for me to download.

He packed the food in the dining car that he hadn't had time to eat, and quickly packed up Lin Zhihua's scattered clothes and items, and checked if there was anything left in the room. After doing all this, Lin Zhihua still didn't come out of the bathroom, silently .

Qiao Yu went to knock on the door: "Zhihua, you come out first."

There was no sound from inside, Qiao Yu knocked on the door again, and there was a muffled echo: "Wait a minute, it will be fine."

After a while, the faucet of the sink was turned on to the maximum, and Lin Zhihua washed his face again, looking at the haggard, tired, and sad self in the mirror, his whole body was surrounded by a sharp pain.

He reluctantly packed himself up and opened the door. Overlooking Qiao Yu's eyes, he found a pair of sunglasses from the suitcase and put them on. He wiped his nose again, and said, "Okay, let's go."

Qiao Yu helped him push the suitcase downstairs together. There were already a full load of people on the bus. At this moment, the number of people was one-third less than at the beginning. Several old professors from Columbia University finished their work. After the academic lecture, he had already gone back ahead of schedule, and those who remained were young and middle-aged scholars. Qiao Yu put the suitcase in the luggage space under the bus and got on the bus. He saw Lin Zhihua sitting in the last row of the bus by himself, leaning against the window. The sunglasses were slumped on the bridge of the nose, and the head was turned to the window.

After hesitating for a while, Qiao Yu still didn't sit down, and sat next to Chen Ke.

The bus started to go to the first destination. After getting on the expressway, the people who had been too noisy the night before fell into a coma. Chen Ke glanced at the last row and asked Qiao Yu, "What's wrong with that one?"

At the celebration banquet last night, Lin Zhihua was still alive and well, Qiao Yu said softly, "It's nothing, I made it clear."

"Oh..." Chen Ke dragged his tone, nodded, and secretly gave Qiao Yu a thumbs up.

Qiao Yu knocked off his hand: "Don't make blind gestures."

"You two are really... Really..." Chen Ke couldn't think of an adjective, and even he was a little bit emotional. Lin Zhihua's conditions are so good, and they have been together for so many years. Ke didn't say anything, but for a while she wondered if Qiao Yu couldn't bear it, and she really left with someone after the event was over.

Fortunately, he said: "You, if you really reconcile with him and return to the United States, you will be back to the original point in a year or two, and you will break up again. This and that are a mess, and it will be even more difficult to clean up. .”

People's personalities are actually the hardest thing to change. The unsolvable problems between them, temporarily healed because of the breakup, will break out again sooner or later when they get back together. Of course Qiao Yu knows this.

More importantly, he really wanted to look forward, and he didn't want to entangle too much about the good and bad of the past, and he hoped that Lin Zhihua would do the same.

Chen Ke suddenly asked again: "You have been away for so many days, does your kid know?"

...Your family... Qiao Yu frowned, and lightly reprimanded: "Don't use words all day long."

"Good leader." Chen Ke put on a serious face: "Does that big friend of yours know?"

Qiao Yu: ...

Simply ignoring it, he also adjusted the seat back, closed his eyes and rested his mind.

Calculating the time, the last day of this inspection happened to be his birthday, Christmas Eve, and the filming time set with the director team of "Heavenly Creation" was [-] pm. It is estimated that the filming will be over within three hours, and there is still time Go back to Denghong City.

It may be a bit rushed, but...why do you have to go back that day?Qiao Yu just thought to do this based on intuition, he didn't analyze it, just after thinking for a while, he fell asleep drowsily.

Xia Xiaoli knew that Qiao Yu was going out today. Since they met, it seems that they haven't seen each other for so long. Oh, by the way, except for the week after the end of the summer vacation, Xia Xiaoli was inexplicably confused from early in the morning. Unknown feeling, obviously he was still in school, everything was no different from usual, but when he looked at the closed window of the design building between classes, he felt empty in his heart.

This feeling of emptiness lasted all day, and he didn't contact Qiao Yu on WeChat. He vaguely felt that it was his fault, until he returned to the apartment by bike after studying at night, and saw the card on the door. He froze for a moment, and then the corners of his mouth kept curling up.

She even forgot to open the door, Xia Xiaoli stood at the door, just looking at the raccoon cat on the card in the corridor, and the phrase "go and return", my heart was suddenly filled with steadfastness.

The raccoon cat was placed on a shelf on the desk when doing the questions, and Xia Xiaoli could see it as soon as he looked up. After finishing a set of comprehensive examination papers, he couldn't help but pat the cat and send it to Qiao Yu. It took only a few seconds Qiao Yu came back with a message: "Is it time for self-study?"

"Well, it's not like me at all. I'm not so fat." Xia Xiaoli typed arrogantly, but the corners of her mouth kept turning up honestly.

"It doesn't matter, I just drew it as soon as I thought of you. Maybe it doesn't look like a soul." Qiao Yu was also arrogant for a rare time.

Xia Xiaoli: ...soul?The cat's expression was dazed and dumbfounded, and I felt this silly virtue in Brother Qiao's heart... But I couldn't help but laughed out loud at that silly cat.

"Brother Joe, where have you been?"

As soon as Qiao Yu and the others arrived at Yuanqing City, the first stop, they were taken over by the reception staff of the local government to inspect the most famous continuous sea-crossing bridge project. This continuous bridge uses different bridge forms in different spans , The cables and suspension cables alternate between the mountains and the sea, and they are well-known in the history of bridge construction in China. Naturally, there is a social meeting with the local government at night, and this has just finished.

He said: "In Yuanqing, I went to see a few bridges, which was quite shocking."

While talking, I sent Xia Xiaoli a few photos, which were taken by him on the road. In the evening, the sea and sky are all blue, and the long-span bridge is decorated with street lamps like night pearls, like a string of winding necklaces on the sea. , very beautiful.

Xia Xiaoli remembered that the bridge where Qiao Yu won the Arthur Haydn Award was also a sea-crossing bridge. He said, "It's beautiful, but it's not as good as your zither in the sky."

Qiao Yu smiled and said, "They are different. There is no need to compare. Every bridge has its own mission."

"Ah."

It was only the first day, and Xia Xiaoli actually wanted to ask when you would come back, but she felt that she was too clingy. Brother Qiao was at work, and he couldn't act like a tail that couldn't be shaken off, so he held back, and the two chatted again After Xia Xiaoli's homework, Qiao Yu asked him if there was anything he didn't understand, so he simply made a video call and explained a few questions to him before hanging up.

Before going to bed, Xia Xiaoli looked at the calendar on his phone. He marked the date early on December 12th, which happened to be Saturday. He reckoned that Qiao Yu would be back when he finished school in the afternoon. He'd put pre-ordered cakes in his house ahead of time, like a little Santa Claus.

The plan was perfect and he was looking forward to it.

Qiao Yu’s inspection trip went according to plan. The Columbia delegation was not a real tourist, but a professional. They were very interested in the representative buildings and bridges they visited. They did a lot of things along the way. Less notes, in some places, the local government specially invited the designers of those buildings to come here, so it was upgraded to a small-scale exchange meeting.

This trip is also very precious to Qiao Yu. He has lived abroad for a long time. For him, he feels the same as the members of the Columbia delegation. These buildings and bridges on the mountain top and seaside represent the development of domestic construction industry , he also saw it for the first time.

Lin Zhihua was extremely silent throughout the whole process. He hardly said a word in the first two days. The local leaders knew his reputation, so they naturally made him a key reception target. Said that he was unwell, except for project visits and communication with designers, other social activities were blocked for him.

On the morning of the fifth day, everyone set off to the last inspection site, which was also the recording site of the program "Heavenly Creation". Qiao Yu was a little worried about whether Lin Zhihua's current mental state would be able to finish recording the program smoothly, but after breakfast at the hotel At that time, it was the first time in the past few days that I saw Lin Zhihua go downstairs to have breakfast, and he was not wearing sunglasses, and he looked better.

Daiyu Island is one of the small islands in the Zhoushan Archipelago. It was always inhabited by fishermen until the early days of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Later, due to various reasons such as the decline in the birth rate and typhoons, the number of residents on the island became less and less, and the remaining people gradually migrated. As time went by, the entire island gradually became empty.

But the houses on the island have been preserved in their original form. They are still stone and wooden houses with fishermen's characteristics. Over the past few decades, they have been covered with moss and various plants, becoming "green houses".

A group of photos and videos were taken by netizens who were traveling and exploring in the background and spread on the Internet, which instantly became popular and became a paradise for explorers.

It wasn't until the local government set the "ancient village protection and development" plan for the entire island, hired well-known domestic architects, and carried out reconstruction and development without changing the characteristics of the original fishing village and without destroying the natural environment. village.

The bus of the inspection team can pass through several large islands from the land via the sea-crossing bridge. When they arrive at the last Fushan Island, which is the closest to Daiyu Island, there is no cross-sea bridge and they need to take a car to cross it.

Daiyu Island is very close to Fushan Island, and the naked eye can see the opposite island which is still green in winter. Today is a cloudy day with some mist. When everyone was waiting for the ferry at the ferry, the sky became cloudy again. The fog also curled up, making the other side looming, ethereal and empty, just like the sacred mountain in "Shan Hai Jing".

The qidu came. Today, because of the need to receive delegations and record programs, Daiyu Island has suspended receiving tourists, and they are the only ones on the entire qidu.

Everyone in the car got off, standing on the front deck of the ferry, looking at the gray-green island getting closer, Lin Zhihua walked to Qiao Yu's side, and put his elbows on the iron railing with him, wearing sunglasses , her hair was blown flying by the sea breeze, and she said: "Joe, in your heart, I should be very good at it?"

Qiao Yu was also wearing sunglasses, and raised her eyebrows when she heard this, and said, "No."

Lin Zhihua smiled wryly: "All my self-willedness and actions are all because I think you love me all the time. With this confidence, I dare to act recklessly, but now I know this is my misunderstanding, and I came here for me this time. , sorry for all the embarrassing and embarrassing things I did, Joe, I'm sorry."

Qiao Yu was very surprised, he looked at the other party, Lin Zhihua took off his sunglasses, it was a look that Qiao Yu had never seen on him, clear, sincere, and full of sadness.

This is a person who has been proud since he was a child. Qiao Yu doesn't remember who Lin Zhihua said sorry to, maybe he was the first one.

Thinking of this, he somehow had the feeling that this ex, who was once pampered by him, had finally grown up.

So he also took off his sunglasses and said: "Needless to say this, Zhihua, we can always be honest with each other, those things are in the past, we all look forward."

Lin Zhihua lowered his eyes and nodded, then raised his head and said, "Can we still be friends?"

"Of course." Qiao Yu said, "As long as you want, always."

Lin Zhihua's eyes were red again, he turned his back and leaned against the guardrail, the wind blew from behind him, his hair became even messier, and said: "I just now know how difficult it is to restrain myself from liking someone, but I can only That's it."

The winter sea breeze was humid, and the people who got out of the car had already returned to the car, and there were only the two of them left. Qiao Yu helped him gather his coat and said, "It's cold, let's go back to the car?"

Lin Zhihua looked at him: "Can I hug you again? One last time."

After a pause, Qiao Yu nodded slightly and reached out to him.

Lin Zhihua leaned on Qiao Yu's shoulder, the wind was too strong, and he couldn't smell Qiao Yu's familiar scent. He whispered in his ear: "Joe, happy birthday, happy forever."

One year ago today, Lin Zhihua took the initiative to let go, and one year later, he lost this person forever.

There are many on-off and on-off relationships in the world, but Qiao Yu is not such a person. He is romantic and old-fashioned. Being together or apart is eternal to him.