Dong Qiangqiang's Story of Leaving Germany

Chapter 834
After entering November, the sky is always gray, daylight becomes extremely rare, and dark clouds of different shades swim around every corner of the sky every day.Perhaps because of the Moselle River, there is always an indescribable humidity in the air, which lingers.

Dong Qiangqiang stood quietly at the corner of the platform, patiently waiting for the train to arrive.

Trier Railway Station is not big. From the outside, it can be seen that its scale and infrastructure are far inferior to Frankfurt Railway Station, which has more than 30 passengers per day. Like other German railway stations, the earliest Trier Railway Station It was already wiped out in World War II, but what is interesting is that the architectural style of the new station is neither Neo-Renaissance nor Neoclassical. It is just an ordinary medium-sized railway station with few platforms. If we say that it is impressive, there is only the simple and wide gray ceiling that can cover the sky very tightly.

Although it was noon, there was no one on the platform, only a few fat-headed pigeons walking back and forth one meter away from Dong Qiangqiang, lowering their heads from time to time to eat the bread crumbs left by passengers on the platform.

Pigeons in train stations and squares are said to be fed contraceptive pills by idlers, so they all grow fat and strong, and they don’t hide from people.

Dong Qiangqiang tidied up very energetically today: a fluffy black long hair with a faint curly smell, neatly trimmed sideburns, a masculine brown leather jacket, a neat light blue shirt, and a khaki slim fit With trousers and blue and white sneakers, the whole person looks clean and fresh.

Today is Sunday, he got up very early, and after tidying up the yard familiarly, he planned to go directly to the library, first finish the small report of the seminar, and then sort out the part of the big report that he was responsible for in one go .

Unexpectedly, when his car drove to a place where there was still a traffic light away from the university, he suddenly received a call from Du Lan, saying that she would arrive at Trier train station in 10 minutes and asked him to pick him up quickly.

Before Dong Qiangqiang could ask, Du Lan hastily hung up the phone.

It took about 20 minutes to drive from the university to the train station. Dong Qiangqiang didn't dare to neglect, stepped on the accelerator, and the car went straight to the train station.

At the time agreed with Du Lan, a German high-speed train was galloping into the station. Dong Qiangqiang was about to call to ask which carriage Du Lan was in, when he heard someone calling his name in the distance.

Dong Qiangqiang raised his head, and saw Du Lan standing by the door of the farthest train and waving at him vigorously, with a bulging brown paper bag in his other hand.

Seeing that she was much thinner than when we parted last time, with blue veins on her forehead looming, and sunken cheeks, she looked rather haggard. Dong Qiangqiang rushed to meet her, and asked loudly when she was five or six meters away: "Have you eaten?" Is it? If you don’t eat, let’s go to the city center to eat something? Or a Chinese restaurant? It’s 15 minutes by car, it’s very fast.”

Du Lan walked up to him, stared at his forehead carefully for a few seconds, and suddenly asked: "When did you come out as a beautiful woman? Your hair is curly too?"

Before Dong Qiangqiang had time to explain, she had already stuffed the bag in his hand: "I ate it before getting in the car. Open it and have a look."

"What is this?" Dong Qiangqiang shook the bag, staring at her faint dark circles and asked, "Did you not have a good rest recently?"

"Couple style." Du Lan pointed to his windbreaker, "Let's treat it as a gift to celebrate your enrollment."

"Why do you buy these when you are old and married?" Dong Qiangqiang said poorly, "So you came here specially to deliver clothes?"

"Narcissist. I don't care about you that much." Du Lan pretended to be angry and patted his arm, "I'm here to check whether you have studied hard, and by the way, inspect your life to see if there is anything you haven't explained style issue."

"Ms. Du is always welcome to come and guide me at any time." Dong Qiangqiang laughed and hugged her while making jokes, kissed her on the forehead, and said greasy on purpose, "Mr. Du, do you want to check my heart first? It doesn't seem to be dancing fast lately."

Hearing his words, Du Lan slowly raised her arms, as if facing her mother's cub, hugged Dong Qiangqiang's waist with infinite dependence, and then pressed her face against his chest, as if she wanted to hear his heartbeat .

The two smelled each other at the same time, but Du Lan was surrounded by a vague and elegant perfume, while Dong Qiangqiang exuded a mixture of herbs, cigarettes and hormones.

Although he didn't meet Du Lan very often, Dong Qiangqiang noticed her faint depression from the moment they met, and he stroked her hair affectionately: "You are thinner than when we met last time. Why did you suddenly think of running over today? "

"A sudden idea. I took a group in Luxembourg today. After lunch, the activity arranged in the group was shopping. There was another girl with me (as a tour guide), and (I) let her watch so that I could come and see Look at you, it's a surprise for you."

Dong Qiangqiang is also a tour guide, knowing that Du Lan’s doing this is equivalent to giving up the biggest profit of leading the tour group to others. This shows that Du Lan cares more about himself than money, and he is moved and distressed: "Then I will take you in the city. Take a stroll, or let’s go to a winery? You can enjoy the scenery on both sides of the river while drinking on a boat.”

Du Lan shook his head: "I'll stay for two hours at most, and I can't go anywhere."

"Then..." Dong Qiangqiang was really embarrassed, "In fact, there is nothing to see in the city center except for the Daheimen and Marx's former residence, and the shops are also closed."

"There will be opportunities (to go shopping) in the future. I want to visit the place where you live." Du Lan blushed, "It doesn't matter where you go, but who you go with."

There were hardly any vehicles on the winding national road. While driving, Dong Qiangqiang secretly glanced at Du Lan in the passenger seat from time to time.

She stared at the large green wheat field outside the car window without saying a word, as if she had something on her mind.

"Strictly speaking, the place where I live is actually the outskirts of Trier, which is sparsely populated at ordinary times, and even less so on weekends. Compared with Munich, Trier is like a big rural area." Dong Qiangqiang took the initiative to provoke the topic.

Du Lan turned a deaf ear to Dong Qiangqiang's words, as if he didn't hear him at all.

Dong Qiangqiang guessed that she didn't want to talk, so he shut up and concentrated on driving towards home.

"Ms. Yulia, are you there? My girlfriend is here to see me." As soon as he opened the door, Dong Qiangqiang took the initiative to greet the landlord. He couldn't wait to take the initiative to report mainly because he was afraid that the landlord would misunderstand him and lead a stranger home.

There was no sound in the villa, and no one responded. Dong Qiangqiang searched upstairs and downstairs, but the landlord was nowhere to be seen. Only the cat that had been rescued by the landlord ran over and put his head on his feet as a gesture of goodwill. , but before he entered the door, he clearly saw that the landlord's car was still in the parking space.

"The landlord may be in the yard. I'll take a look. You still have to lead a group this afternoon, why don't you go to my room to rest for a while? I'll go to the kitchen and get you some fruit. Do you want grapes, apples or pears?"

"You can rest on the train, you should take me to the yard." Du Lan seemed to be in a better mood than on the way, "This house is quite beautiful, I want to see more about the place where you live."

Dong Qiangqiang took her hand to the backyard.

"When I first moved in in October, the yard was still full of green. It's only been a month, and the backyard is now such a bleak scene." Dong Qiangqiang explained.

The poultry were playing in different corners of the yard, but Dong Qiangqiang did not see the "radar" who worked with him in the morning.

It took him a month to get acquainted with "Radar", and its hostility towards Dong Qiangqiang has turned into trust.

"'Radar'!" Dong Qiangqiang roared, but he could only hear the rustling of the leaves blown by the wind, but could not hear the response from "Radar".

"'Radar' is the landlord's dog. Every time I clean the yard, it will lie down under the apple tree and look at me, or let me throw sticks to play with it. I accidentally threw the stick into the pond this morning, and it also Jump in and grab it out." Dong Qiangqiang pointed to the calm water surface of the pond and explained, "Maybe it went somewhere to play again."

"There are no chestnut trees here, where did you pick up the horse chestnuts?" Du Lan walked along the inside of the fence and looked around, "Is it in the woods?"

"It's over there." Dong Qiangqiang pointed to the woods outside the yard and laughed at himself, "To be honest, I was really happy when I picked up chestnuts that day, and I was also happy when I ate them, and then I got poisoned somehow, hahaha..."

"So grown-ups don't have any common sense at all, and they are still greedy like a child, which is not reassuring at all." Du Lan scolded, "Next time, have a better memory. Don't embarrass the Chinese."

Only then did Dong Qiangqiang realize that Du Lan came here on a special trip today to see if he was okay, and thinking of her giving up the opportunity to make money for him, a warm current flowed through his heart.He really wanted to say something thankful, but he felt awkward and didn't know how to express it. In the end, he had to grin foolishly to cover up his embarrassment.

"Now you are more and more like the silly son of the landlord's family, especially when you laugh..." Du Lan saw him and didn't try to defend himself, the little anger in his heart disappeared, and he changed the topic calmly : "Where was the wild boar found?"

"It's about the same position as chestnuts." Dong Qiangqiang pointed again, "I really don't know if I don't pick up chestnuts."

"Did the old lady tell you about catching wild boars after you told them there were wild boars in the woods?"

Dong Qiangqiang thought about it carefully for a few seconds, and replied in an affirmative tone, "She looked for a local hunter, but the result was not satisfactory, so she never looked again. I think what you said is right, so I didn't take the initiative Let’s talk about helping her catch wild boars, let’s talk about the situation later, at least when I’m settled down.”

The two unknowingly walked under the apple tree. Du Lan patted the brownish-green trunk twice, and then supported the trunk to look up at the top of the tree: "Are you still reading newspapers and magazines to her every day?"

"Yes, I have to chat with her after reading it. This is her request to the tenant. It was agreed during the house inspection."

"Have you read it for a month? How does it feel?"

"It's very annoying at the beginning, especially when the old lady read and talked to me on the first night when I moved in. At that time, I thought these crap things were torture." Dong Qiangqiang said with a wry smile.

"and after?"

"Then there was something about Ma Lizi, but the old lady didn't drive me out, so I really thank her. Originally, what she asked was to read aloud and communicate for half an hour, so I secretly took the whole time Increase to 70 minutes, sometimes 80 minutes. On the one hand, I want to thank her for not caring. On the other hand, I also want to practice oral English. I will give a speech in the seminar at the end of the semester. In addition, I am home-classroom-library every day. In front-line life, there is only input but no output. If you don’t talk too much German with the old lady, you will have no time to speak German with other people. You also know that foreign language learning is always a step back, so now you talk to the old lady every day. Talking is actually quite good, it’s both output and practice. The old lady seems to be quite lonely, and she doesn’t have any family and friends. She usually stays at home, but today is an exception, and I don’t know where she went.”

"Well, then this landlord is really nice to you." Du Lan said with emotion, "I think this is much better than where you live in Hannover, and the rent is cheap, which means living for nothing every month."

"There is a photo of her and her family in the kitchen, and Zheng Chunhua thinks there is a photo that looks like me."

These words instantly aroused Du Lan's curiosity: "Take me to see."

Standing in front of the photo and carefully observing it for a few minutes, Du Lan agreed: "Your eyebrows and eyes are indeed similar to the person in the photo. At first glance, you two have different hair colors. Is this the old lady's son?"

"should be."

"Where is he now?"

"I don't know, I never asked."

"Maybe this is why she is more tolerant of you. Her son is not around, and she thinks you are her son." Du Lan analyzed.

"Maybe."

"By the way, what happened to the reference book you mentioned last time? Has the problem been solved?"

"Well, it's basically solved."

"How did you solve it? Let's hear it."

Just as Dong Qiangqiang was about to answer, he heard a dog barking outside the courtyard, and then saw a black figure jumping out of the woods, then turned around and barked in the direction of the woods again.

Dong Qiangqiang and Du Lan turned their heads to look at the source of the sound at the same time, and he immediately recognized that it was "Radar" running out of the woods.

"'Radar'!" Dong Qiangqiang went to the window and shouted, "Come here."

Hearing Dong Qiangqiang's call, "Radar" turned his head to look at the kitchen for a few seconds, and then rushed over immediately.

Dong Qiangqiang pushed the door out, knelt down on one knee, and opened his arms towards "Radar", gesturing for it to come over.

Unexpectedly, "Radar" ran to a place three or four meters away from him, suddenly turned around, and rushed towards the woods again.

"Why doesn't it come over?" Du Lanqi, who was standing behind Dong Qiangqiang, said, "Is it because of me?"

Dong Qiangqiang thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "If it was because of you, it should have come and barked at you, but now it has entered the woods, maybe there is something weird there."

"Weird?" Du Lanpin immediately realized Dong Qiangqiang's meaning in a few seconds, "You mean... there are wild boars in the forest?"

"I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. Maybe the landlord also ate horse chestnuts and passed out in the woods."

Du Lan thought he was going to say something insightful, but he was talking nonsense, so he kicked him angrily: "Don't be poor, be serious."

"It's serious," Dong Qiangqiang got up and warned, "I'll go to the woods to have a look, you go back to the kitchen and lock the door, and don't come out until you see me coming back."

"Let's call the police..." Du Lan grabbed Dong Qiangqiang's hand, "If it's really a wild boar, you're in danger."

"How to call the police? Tell the police that the landlord's dog is barking at the woods. We suspect that there are wild boars in the woods? The German police will definitely ignore it. Don't worry, I will go and have a look, not too close. If I really see wild boars, I will immediately Come out, you'll be fine."

Du Lan couldn't resist him, so he had to go back to the kitchen alone, watching Dong Qiangqiang flash into a wooden house, and about half a minute later, he came out again wearing a hat and gloves, with an extra shovel in his hand.

He gestured an "OK" gesture to Du Lan, then lightly crossed the fence and disappeared into the woods.

(End of this chapter)