25 hour

Shen Teng spent two full days tidying up the apartment.

Compared to most of the cities he visited, Reykjavik was very small.As the capital of a country, it is incomparable with Paris, London, and Berlin. Even compared with some remote towns in Europe, it is a bit extraordinarily small.Walking from one end of the main street to the other would not even take 10 or [-] minutes if the footsteps are fast. Any fancy food street in the country will be able to throw it away, and even in such a small place, a suitable residence is also a must. hard to find.

In the previous plan, Shen Teng actually just wanted to come here for a short rest, try his luck to see if he could meet the aurora, and then got up and rushed to the next destination.But now, due to some unclear reasons, his plan has obviously changed, which also forces the homeless Shen Tom to act like a stranger who has just arrived and wants to settle here in order to find a favorite house. In that way, wearing glasses, constantly comparing information line by line on web pages and newspapers with a very low ratio of investment to return.

In this regard, the listener may have two questions.

[-]. About the aurora.Shen Toma once studied in Oslo. Norway and Iceland belong to the five Nordic countries. In terms of latitude alone, Norway is even closer to the North Pole than Iceland. Perhaps he should not be so attached to things he has probably seen long ago.

[-]. About renting a house.Shen Tom does not seem to intend to settle in Iceland (in fact, he does not seem to intend to settle anywhere). After leaving Paris, Shen Tom has been wandering without a fixed place for a long time. Instead of looking for a fixed residence, It seems that traveling between different hotels and homestays is more in line with his personality.

In response to the above two questions, Shen Teng's answer is also very simple: I really haven't seen it.Really short of money.

He lived in Norway for two years during his college years, and he has experienced the charm and distress of living near the Arctic Circle. The weather there is severe, and blizzards can easily deprive lives in nature. He has experienced all these, but only the aurora, He always misses with it for various reasons.Oversleeping, fevers in hotels, night shift work, rushing homework in the workshop, malfunctioning showers, everything you can think of and the unthinkable will prevent him from turning around and seeing that magnificent plasma phenomenon from the window. reason.

As for renting a house... He still doesn't know how long he will continue to live here, the cost of other options is too high, and it is obviously not suitable for Shen Tom who has not taken a job for half a year but is still wandering around the world.

Uh huh, if you want the prodigal son to be a good man, you only need to reduce his bank card balance by a few zeros.

As an aside, Shen Teng found rental information from the web.This is not because there is little information in the newspapers, but because the local newspapers in Reykjavik are really interesting. Due to the small size of the place, there are not many reports. Even the hot dog seller who likes to sing can make headlines .For several days, Shen Teng lay on a chair in the hotel and held up newspapers and translation software to read the whole afternoon without paying attention. When there was nothing to read, he suddenly looked up and realized that he had wasted several hours of time. .

The choice of web pages is not because there will be less irrelevant information. In fact, there are more temptations on the Internet. When searching, he can always be attracted by the eye-catching headlines that pop up according to the relevant indexes.But at this time, there will always be someone wearing glasses knocking on the door of his room in time, holding a notebook, and expressing innocently and expressionlessly: The WiFi in your room seems to be particularly useful.

The housing supply in Reykjavik is tight. Local young people who have left home as adults, international students, and foreigners who come to work here are all competing for extremely limited resources at the same time. The market with less supply than demand makes many landlords interview Even more demanding than job advertisements.

Shen Teng no longer remembers how he obtained this semi-basement in the competition with the Ph.D. Biologist, in order to arrange his own residence and workshop, especially for the violin-making tools he looted from Shen Yuru Putting them all in order, Shen Teng spent a lot of energy in the past two days.

It’s not good to live alone. Even if you die in the room, you will probably have to wait until the landlord knocks on the door after a long delay in collecting the rent, and then you will find his body through some not-so-good smells—even more terrifying In order to make himself more competitive than the doctor, Shen Teng paid half a year's rent in one go.

However, Shen Teng himself is very satisfied with the place he rented. Although it is only a semi-basement, the location is superior. It is hidden in a colorful steeple house near the cathedral in the city center. Most of the furniture can continue to be used. After he moves in, he only needs to buy more A few odds and ends of dishes will do.

The landlord is a kind old lady, and Shen Teng is particularly satisfied with this. After all, because of Shen Yuru, he always has some natural affection for old ladies.

As for the person who came with him—half a month has passed since Shen Teng started looking for a house and finally moved in at Easter. He and Qin Zheng only...

"Ding dong."

Well, we only get together briefly and tacitly at a certain period of time every day.

Sometimes it’s an afternoon tea downstairs in the hotel, sometimes it’s a walk along the main street until the sun sets, sometimes it’s feeding the ducks by Lake Toning. We arrived, walked side by side for a while, and then separated naturally at a certain street corner.

But sometimes there are surprises.

The afternoon before yesterday, when standing on the steps of the hotel with the toolbox in his arms, watching Qin Zheng stuff his luggage into the trunk of the car he rented from nowhere, Shen Teng's eyes were blank, and he could hardly bear it. You have to wonder if this guy has settled here in advance for a long time behind his back.

Today... I have an invitation today.

For the first time.

Shen Teng didn't sleep well last night.

Although generally speaking, his sleep quality is really poor, he can't fall asleep at night, he can't wake up during the day, and he will be woken up by a little light and movement, and the bad situation will only happen when he sleeps next to someone full of aura It's getting better, but he still didn't sleep particularly well last night.

Maybe it was because I moved to sleep in the place that will be my new home for the first time, maybe because there will be visitors today, Shen Teng woke up at [-]:[-], [-]:[-] and [-]:[-] in the morning (and helplessly) It was he who tossed and turned last night, barely falling asleep after one o'clock).The first time he woke up he was happy, thinking he'd finally made it through the night when he thought it was just the beginning of another long night.

After finally struggling until [-] o'clock in the morning, without any sleepiness, Shen Ma got up to make the bed, baked bread, washed, and after cleaning the house (although it was not very detailed, at least every place was fooled once), Shen Ma was relieved Slowly made a cup of coffee for himself, took the cup and walked to the bookshelf, and began to study which book the landlord should leave behind to pass the time.

Qiu Miaojin's "Montmartre Posthumous Letter" has a beautiful cover, but the name is not very auspicious. He is worried that a visitor who passes by will see him and get nervous.Hoshino Michio's travel notes, Shen Tomoe, has been read more than once during different trips. Whenever he closes the book, he can't help but imagine what the Japanese man was thinking when he was finally thrown down by the brown bear.Camus, Hesse, Icelandic poetry anthology, "2001: A Space Odyssey"... Shen Toma's fingertips jumped on the spine for a long time, and finally he reluctantly selected an old work of Keigo Higashino that he hadn't read.

The reclining chair under the high window just got a little sunshine at the moment, Shen Ma walked over and sank into the soft cushion, unfolded the pages of the book comfortably, took a sip of coffee, and walked leisurely into the palace of infinite reasoning wisdom.

How calm, how unhurried, even Shen Yuru would praise him for his neither humble nor overbearing ability when he greeted His Majesty's arrival.

But despite being so calm and unhurried, Shen Teng didn't realize until the moment he heard the doorbell that he got up and went to open the door. Swap out the goofy teen striped pajamas you brought in the house.

"Can I do it all over again?"

Facing Reykjavik Sunshine and guest Qin Zheng outside the door, Shen Teng said expressionlessly.

The spring wind in Iceland in mid-April is still cold. The feeling of facing the cold air from a well-heated room is the same as when you landed in Northern Europe from the warm and humid Budapest. real air.

But in this cold and silent reality, Shen Teng saw the corner of the young man's wool cap raised his lips and winked at him hatefully.

"There is no dress rehearsal in life, sir." Qin Zheng said to him.