Hello, How Long Has This Been Going On?

Huo Ran had another dream.

Surrounded by a dense forest that can't be seen as far as the eye can see, he was walking alone, with the sound of birds passing by above his head.

The soles of his shoes stepped on the ground covered by stones and fallen leaves, and the dry leaves made a crisp cracking sound. A crooked white sand was scattered on the forest path, guiding him to a place where he could not see the end.

So he walked carefully through the short bushes, lowered his head to avoid the staggered branches, and followed the guidance left by his predecessors to move forward.

Among the leaves rustling in the wind, the sunlight shattered into shining and floating stars.

He looked up at the star in the daytime, and was shocked to find that there were two huge dinosaurs walking in the silent sky.

Their long necks are infinitely close to the distant sun, and their dark green limbs are swinging slowly. When the soles of their feet fall, there is a slight vibration and roar from the entire forest.

Huo Ran thought in his dream that he must be dreaming.

He actually saw a dinosaur.

In this fantastic and magnificent picture, he was overwhelmed by the scene in front of him, stopped involuntarily, and in a trance, the bright white sand disappeared into the soil for an instant.

He forgot the way, stretched out his hand to push aside the bushes, and wanted to walk towards the long-extinct dinosaurs and follow the huge pits left by them when they passed by. Whining in pain.

He gradually lost control of his body, and was walking slowly towards the abyss, but suddenly there was a rushing sound in the woods, and something rushed out of the woods, throwing him straight to the ground.

In the midst of spinning around, Huo Ran was pressed down by something heavy. It looked like a furry big dark brown bear, but it shone with colorful lights strangely.

He seemed to have seen such a bear somewhere.

In the interlacing of dreams and reality, Huo Ran struggled to open his eyes and struggled to wake up from his sleep, but the feeling of being suppressed still did not fade away.

The curtains beside the double bed were left open, and sunlight flooded the room through the glass windows.

The ceiling was still, clear and white, and he heard a shallow breathing, hidden in the vague roar from outside the window.

Looking down, Huo Ran lowered his head slightly, and he saw Tao Zhiyue's profile.

His head was resting on his stomach, his face was illuminated by the sun and looked soft, his eyes were quietly looking out of the window, and the edges of his eyelashes were dyed a touch of gold.

A few seconds later, Tao Zhiyue's eyes curled up with a clear smile.

"Why are you peeking at me?"

Huo Ran originally wanted to tell him that he had just had a miraculous dream, but he was distracted for a moment and then forgot again.

Many things accumulated in his heart disappeared together, and at this moment he only felt surrounded by light and soft clouds.

He imitated Tao Zhiyue: "Why do you use my stomach as a pillow?"

"Of course it's revenge from last time." Tao Zhiyue pressed his stomach on purpose, and emphasized, "Today I took revenge twice in one go."

"What's the other one?"

Tao Zhiyue pointed to the curtains on one side: "You are so stupid."

"And how can you sleep so deeply, I opened the curtains, the light was so bright, you didn't react at all."

Huo Ran was fully awake, and argued: "It's so good, you won't wake up when it rains and thunders, and you can sleep until dawn."

"No wonder you say Sihan is a pig, and so are you."

"I'm not."

"You have to be logical, what is the pig's brother?"

"It's a dog."

"Why?"

"Because in the Chinese zodiac, the dog ranks ahead of the pig."

"...Is this a cold joke?" Tao Zhiyue trembled, "Thank you, the temperature has cooled down, Mr. Refrigerator."

Huo Ran laughed, and heard Tao Zhiyue complain: "There's an earthquake, don't laugh."

"Then you come down."

"I don't, the view here is very good."

Huo Ran originally wanted to change his posture and look outside with him, but then thought that he was now a pillow and couldn't move easily.

So he asked curiously, "What were you looking at just now?"

"Look at the plane." Tao Zhiyue was still staring at the long cloud trail in the sky, "It's great that the distance between the buildings is wide, and you can see the sky. If it's the top floor, the view should be better."

Huo Ran remembered that vague roar.

"Has it flown already?"

"Well, I can't see it anymore, I can only see the traces it left after it flew past."

"What color plane is it?"

"Red and white, very pretty."

Huo Ran recalled: "When we guessed the plane at the airport that day, one of them was also red and white, maybe it was the same plane."

"Let me think about it. Yanping is in the northeast of Jinbei City. The plane I saw just now was flying from the left to the right."

Tao Zhiyue paused, and decided to abandon the topic of southeast and northwest: "Forget it, pretend I didn't say it."

The earthquake was even stronger, and Huo Ran couldn't stop laughing.

"Then let me think about it. According to the orientation of this building, from left to right is from east to west. Jinbei Airport is in the western suburbs, so it is really possible that they flew over from Yanping."

"As expected of you, Yanping people."

"Huh? Why do you say that?"

"Because in the capital where I lived, the locals are also very good at locating everything by using east, west, north, and west. For example, help me get the cup of tea on the east side."

"...My dad seems to have said something similar."

This time it was Tao Zhiyue's turn to laugh and launch seismic waves in the opposite direction.

"So what's the name of the capital you lived in?"

"Beijing."

Tao Zhiyue hasn't mentioned this name for too long, and it even feels like a lifetime away.

"Beijing." Huo Ran repeated, feeling unexpectedly calm, "It doesn't sound as good as Yanping."

"The old names of Beijing were Yanjing and Beiping."

Huo Ran was surprised and said: "The remaining two words just constitute Yanping."

"Yes, these two cities are actually very similar. There seems to be sugar pancakes in Beijing, but I don't often go out to eat, drink and have fun, so I don't know them, and I haven't eaten them."

"If you think about it this way, it seems a little romantic. We live in two forms of the same city."

Huo Ran lay relaxed, the melancholy that haunted him for a long time in the past has not yet come.

He thought back to the brightly lit Yan Ping in his memory, when he walked through a certain familiar street, maybe Tao Zhiyue in another world was also walking by.

They have met very close and far away across the unpredictable time and space, time and universe.

"Then what is the prototype of Jinbei? Have you ever been there?" Huo Ran thought for a while, "No, the pronunciation seems to be Beijing in reverse. It seems that the author is probably a Beijinger."

Tao Zhiyue, who had just been infected by romantic reverie before, was silent for a moment, and complained: "Now I really hope that time and space can go back and let you take this question back."

Huo Ran thought of him together, and the corners of his mouth kept rising.

Tao Zhiyue was very reconciled: "Thinking about it this way... the author probably just has difficulty in naming it like me."

"I don't care. The right to interpret is in our own hands. When I say romance, it is romance."

Huo Ran once again displayed his spirit of arguing.

"Did you grow up in that capital like me?"

"No, I went there to go to college when I was eighteen, and stayed there to work after graduation. I stayed there for a total of eight years."

Memories flickered in his eyes: "It sounds like a long time, but now that I think about it, it seems like just a moment."

"When you grow up, the days go by very fast." Huo Ran's angle is strange, "Did you fall in love when you were in college?"

"...No." Tao Zhi more accurately predicted his next question, "Not at work."

"That's great." Huo Ran was very satisfied with the answer, "Me neither."

"Don't say it, we don't have it for different reasons."

Tao Zhi pressed his stomach harder to vent his anger.

Huo Ran, who accepted as soon as he saw it, changed the subject decisively: "What is your deepest impression on that city?"

He could feel Tao Zhiyue's emotion when he mentioned Beijing, which was fresh and bright.

Tao Zhiyue should have been unable to share these stories with others for a long time, and he was the first person in this world to hear them.

Under this blue sky with white trailing clouds.

"I think it should be an umbrella."

"I grew up in the south and it often rained, so when I reported at the beginning of the school year, I naturally put an umbrella in the suitcase. Sometimes when the weather was bad, I would take it to class."

"At this time, I often see other people's surprised eyes. I don't know why, but after the whole semester, this umbrella has never been used. The only day when there was a sudden heavy rain, I couldn't even find where it went. .”

"It was later discovered that it had fallen into the gap under the table. I took it out and wiped it clean. I still didn't believe that it doesn't rain like this in Beijing, so I never gave up this umbrella that couldn't get wet. I took it with me every time I moved. Where, it also goes there."

"Later, the weather became more normal, and it rained from time to time. Every time I support it to go out, I still feel inexplicably moved."

"I don't know if anyone has found it now. Although it is very old, it looks very new and the quality is very good. It can be used forever."

Tao Zhiyue finished speaking calmly, then turned to look at him with a smile: "Is it a strange impression?"

"It's not surprising, it's very interesting." Huo Ran stared at him, "Now it's also my deepest impression of Beijing."

"You empty-glove story, I will charge you."

"Okay, then I'll make you lunch."

"...Forget it then."

When it came to lunch, Tao Zhiyue realized that it was almost noon, and the weekend really made it easy to forget the passage of time.

"What to eat for lunch?"

"Go downstairs to see what to eat nearby. After eating, let's go shopping together."

"buy what?"

"The ingredients for the stewed beef, I want to eat your stewed beef. This time I will accompany you to make it, and you will definitely not hurt your hands."

"...It's only you who are in danger."

After staying in bed for a long time, they finally got up, washed, changed their clothes, and went downstairs to have lunch.

Autumn is getting stronger, and many trees in the community are turning yellow.

There are two tall sycamore trees in the central garden, all of which have turned golden.

Huo Ran stopped under the tree, looked up, the golden leaves and the bright sunlight complement each other, like countless small suns.

It seemed like I had a very similar dream last night.

He no longer remembered that dream, but he was sure that everything in front of him was more beautiful than in the dream.

He said to the people around him: "It's the autumn sycamore leaves, your head."

In the past, Huo Ran never cared about the species of a certain tree on the side of the road, nor could he experience the alternation of seasons and the passage of time so vividly.

Everything changed because of a miracle.

Life is unpredictable. If you stay in yesterday, it may be sad, but if you take one more step forward, it may become unique luck.

He heard stories that did not belong to this world, remembered an umbrella that did not exist here, and his life seemed to be extended because of this, with a romance beyond the usual years.

The fallen leaves swirl and float down, like peaceful butterflies.

One of the butterflies happened to land on his shoulder.

Huo Ran was about to reach out to brush off the fallen leaves when he heard Tao Zhiyue's voice.

"Wait a minute, don't move."

He stopped immediately, obediently, motionless.

A few seconds later, Tao Zhi was more satisfied and said, "It's done."

Huo Ran turned back to look at him, and saw that he was fiddle with the phone with his head down.

"What are you doing?"

"I won't tell you."

"Did you take a picture? Let me see."

"I didn't shoot you again, why are you so excited."

"I don't believe it, otherwise why don't you tell me not to move."

"you guess."

When Huo Ran turned on the phone by himself, he noticed at a glance that Tao Zhiyue had changed a new avatar.

Although the difference between the two avatars is very subtle, he also posted a separate post with the same photo.

Huo Ran is wearing a gray coat today, so in the dynamic picture, there is a light gray background against a clear and beautiful sycamore leaf.

Surfing expert Guan Yudong was the first to arrive at the scene.

[Comment] Guan Yudong: Classmate Tao Tao seems to have changed his avatar, but he doesn't seem to have changed. Is it because I have hallucinations after looking at my phone for too long?

[Comment] Guan Yudong: It seems to have been changed, but why deliberately change the avatar that is almost exactly the same! Is there some mysterious message hidden inside? Do I need to use some special software to decode the code!

Huo Ran thought it was fun, so he helped to answer it seriously.

[Comment] HR replied to officer Yudong: The background of the last picture is the color of the skin, but the background of this one is gray, and these are two different leaves with different textures.

[Comment] Guan Yudong replied to HR: ...Thank you, kind person. I have to say, there is a very obvious difference! /fading

Meanwhile, another new reply popped up.

[Comment] Tao replied to official Yudong: That is my palm, and this is the shoulder of the afternoon tea.