ink dyed reeds

After Bai Ruozhi left, I told the waiter that I don't need to serve the food I ordered, and I'll count the price of the wine.

A slow-toned English tune is playing on the stereo in the restaurant, and a husky male voice sings in a low voice:

"Like blackice,

Scrolled over with unintelligible patterns.

byanignorantskater.

Isthedulled surface of my heart..."

I knew it was really scaring her this time.

But I can't wait...

"Are you really, aren't you joking?"

"Why do you have to get this answer? Do you have to live so clearly? Do you have to persecute others like this? Persecute yourself?"

"I don't know and I don't want to answer. Don't ask me any more."

Bai Ruozhi's voice echoed in my mind, I rubbed my forehead, took out my new mobile phone and dialed Shao Zhe's number.

"Hello? How's it going? Where are you now?" Shao Zhe's voice was distorted by the loud music in the background.

"I'm broken in love." I drank the last sip of brandy and told him, "I'll go to Mu Xue to find you."

"The Qin family went to complain to your father?" Shao Zhe opened a bottle of Hennessy, looked at me with a teasing face, "Unexpectedly, Qin Haisheng has only seen you a few times in total, so it must be you?"

I smiled: "Probably it must be the Lu family."

"I'm sorry for you, haven't you always stood out for the supremacy of freedom? How can you be so useless that your mobile phone was confiscated. They locked you up for a few days?"

"It's not so bloody, just having dinner with Qin Haisheng, watching a movie and attending an event, no matter how boring you are. I can bear it, but I can't marry him just because he recommended me which brand of pear paste candy is delicious."

"Married? Is this a little too anxious?"

"It's not too urgent," I took the bottle and filled the goblet, "it's impossible at all."

"So your dad talked to you?"

"We haven't spoken for a long time."

"Then you come back this time?"

"I asked Lu Yan to tell him that I already have someone I like." I took a sip of the wine, hot alcohol filled my lips and teeth, and my tongue was a little numb, "Lu Yan asked who I was, and I said it was Bai Ruozhi. "

"...What's your brother's reaction?"

"He doesn't believe it." I continued pouring wine into the glass, "Actually, it doesn't matter whether they believe it or not. With my dad, it never mattered what I thought."

Shao Zhe sighed: "Then what are you going to do next?"

I looked towards the diagonal corner of the downstairs bar, behind the emerald curtains was a row of dark gray sofas, where Bai Ruozhi once sat.

"Probably to Iceland."

A week later, I arrived in Akureyri, Iceland along the Ring Road 1.The towering snow-capped mountains are surrounded by rivers, and when you sit on the bank at dusk, you can see a herd of glacier horses running in the distance. Their long manes are fluttering in the evening wind, like flying war robes.

For more than two months, I saw the floating icebergs on the glacial lake that broke into the water during the Ice Age. The ice floes from ancient times showed a pure blue color; The milky white ooze on the shore of the lake; I have reached Zejonen in Reykjavik, where black and white swans often perch on the ice of the pond, and their feathers and ice flowers are almost integrated.

On the way, I sang a French folk song "La Vie en Rose" on a whim in a Baroque-style bar, and was invited by a passing photography group to watch the aurora together.

Then I photographed the huge algal blue bubbles floating before the geyser erupted, and the mist shrouded it like lingering clouds.

The leader of the photography team is Adonis, and he invited me to ice dive in Lake Baikal next winter.

I changed various communication accounts to ensure that I would not be disturbed by anything. Eric and Shao Zhe should be used to it. People who know me well know that I like to go far away alone when I am in a bad mood.

I just saw a light-colored Lopapeysa sweater with broken patterns when I was strolling in Kringlan. Amber, a Portuguese girl who stopped by for a few days, looked at me who stopped in front of the dress and said in disbelief: "Oh my god, Rory, you like it." This style of sweater? Stop kidding, it doesn't look like you at all."

I said, yes, it's not like me.

But it is very suitable for Bai Ruozhi.

When I left again to go to Vik, the southernmost tip of Iceland, Eric contacted me through a local bar owner. He said that he and Brian were already in Beijing, and he expected me to be a landlord.

I changed back to the previous mobile phone card, set all the accumulated calls and messages as read, and bought a plane ticket back to China.

When he arrived in Beijing, Shao Zhe called and said that he had been dragged to Majiagou in Sichuan by Brian and the others.

I said, it seems that I don't need to come back.

Shao Zhe was silent for a while, and said, Bai Ruozhi wants to see me.