Dong Qiangqiang sat back at the dining table: "What did we talk about just now?"
Lei Lanting looked at Tong Lele expectantly: "Tell him again what you just said."
Tong Lele put down the coffee cup: "I have a... classmate. His girlfriend seems to be studying law at Han University. I can ask."
"Okay," Dong Qiangqiang said happily, "It will be good for us to ask more." He excitedly swallowed a big mouthful of curry rice mixed with beef, and while eating, he kept boasting: "Hey, this beef tendon is really chewy. , It would be nice if I had another two ounces of wine."
Lei Lanting suddenly remembered something: "Lele, do you have a good relationship with this classmate? Is it convenient for him to know about us?"
"What do you mean?" Dong Qiangqiang made him feel a little confused.
"Hannover is a place that is neither big nor small. Although some people are warm-hearted, some people who like to help also like to talk. Some people can talk and some can't listen. I don't want our situation to change. It became news. Of course, I'm not saying that Lele's classmates love to spread gossip. I just asked to see if Lele understands each other. Well, Lele, are you right?" Lei Lanting stared at Tong Lele with a stern expression.
"We knew each other better before," Tong Lele's face turned slightly red, she paused, and said in a low voice, "I didn't know much after the breakup."
Lei Lanting was unprepared for this answer. His expression was stunned and he murmured: "Break up...break up? Do you have a...boyfriend?" But what Lei Lanting didn't know was that Tong Lele's blush was not because of him.
Tong Lele stood up and nodded to Dong Qiangqiang: "If it's okay, I'll leave first. If you ask me, I'll call you."
Dong Qiangqiang nodded and warned: "Be careful when you go back. Let's call."
Tong Lele's figure disappeared outside the restaurant. Lei Lanting was still sitting on the chair in a daze, without saying a word, as if he had not recovered from the shock just now.
Dong Qiangqiang took another big mouthful of beef tendon without looking at Lei Lanting: "If you really plan to pursue someone, you must first learn how to manage your emotions. In addition, you must learn some tricks to attract girls. How can you do that? He talks to girls like interrogators, and that Thomas this afternoon was gentler than you."
Lei Lanting grabbed his hair with his hands in frustration and complained: "Hey, I always thought she was single."
"Who are you? Do I need to report to you when we fall in love?" Dong Qiangqiang finished a large plate of curry rice like a storm and wiped his mouth with unfulfilled interest. "And your attitude when you shared the money," he said. As he spoke, Dong Qiangqiang suddenly realized that he was preaching, and immediately changed his words, "That's too much."
Lei Lanting looked out the window absentmindedly and said regretfully: "The bonus is gone, and the money for cleaning is probably gone too. I really lost my wife and lost my army."
Dong Qiangqiang glanced at him, his eyes full of sympathy.
It was almost four o'clock in the afternoon when he got home. Dong Qiangqiang quickly changed out of his dirty clothes, took a nice hot shower, and then sat in the room and lit a cigarette for himself.
The weather in Germany is like a child's face. It changes at a moment's notice. The sun was still shining brightly when we were eating, but now the sky is filled with dark clouds that look like blackened by an overturned ink bottle. From time to time, a light shines through the layers of clouds. Lightning and fine raindrops were blown by the wind. Looking at the raindrops splashing on the window, Dong Qiangqiang suddenly became homesick.
He put his hand on the phone button and kept rubbing it, but he didn't press it for a long time. It’s been more than a week since I came to Germany, but I haven’t made any progress in my studies. What can I say to my parents? Are you talking about working part-time? Doesn’t that make parents sad and worried? After much thought, I decided to forget it.
Misty green smoke enveloped him, and he suddenly remembered that the day before going abroad, it was also a rainy day. He stood waiting for her at the gate of her university, and what was waiting for her was a letter sent by her roommate.
The letter simply contains two lines of beautiful words. The first line is: Congratulations on getting your visa. The second line is: Let's break up.
Although it was only a few months ago, Dong Qiangqiang could not remember his reaction after seeing the letter. He originally planned to share the joy of success with her and propose to her, but the relationship of more than three years ended in one rainy day.
His umbrella fell to the ground and the rain hit his face. He couldn't even remember whether he cried or not.
Rain is salty, and so are tears.
The cigarette butt burned his hand, and he put it out in the ashtray. Opening the window slightly, a cool breeze immediately rushed into the room from the outside like a monster. A small airflow suddenly appeared in the room, just like a hole in an inflated balloon.
Dong Qiangqiang lay flat on the bed, staring at the ceiling.
Later, he learned that she was also preparing to go abroad and started taking tutoring classes for TOEFL and GRE, with the goal of going to an Ivy League school in the United States. He asked someone to bring her a lot of exam books, but she returned them intact.
He called her, but she never answered, nor did she change her phone number. He didn't know where he was wrong and wanted to ask her face to face, but he never saw her again, as if the two had never known each other.
Dong Qiangqiang suddenly saw the Zippo lighter next to him, which was a birthday gift she gave him not long ago. Now the people are no longer together, but the love object is still there. The moment I see it, the memory seems to be brought out by an invisible thread.
Dong Qiangqiang suddenly had a strong impulse to call her. Just as he was about to dial his cell phone, his cell phone rang first.
It was Lu Wei calling.
"Hello, I'm Lu Wei." The opening line that has remained unchanged for thousands of years is as plain as boiled water.
"Hello." Dong Qiangqiang sat up and leaned against the wall.
"I started calling you yesterday, but your phone couldn't get through. Are you okay?" Lu Wei said quickly.
"The phone is out of battery." Dong Qiangqiang didn't want to talk about what he had experienced in the past two days, so he covered it up.
"No power?" Lu Wei was a little skeptical of this statement. The voice prompt for no power was usually "The user you dialed has turned off", never "The user you dialed is not in the service area", but she did not tell her question.
"Is something wrong?" Dong Qiangqiang was still thinking about calling China, and his tone was a little impatient.
"That's right. Recently, many new students like you have come to Han University, so tonight there is a welcome party among Chinese students. The main purpose is to let everyone get to know each other so that we can have mutual understanding in the future, whether in studies or job hunting. To take care of him or something. Can you come?" Lu Wei's tone was full of expectation.
Dong Qiangqiang felt a little lazy after taking a shower. He planned to read the driving school materials at home and prepare for class tomorrow, and did not plan to go out again. Thinking of this, he said in an apologetic tone: "I feel a little uncomfortable today, so I won't go. I'll wait until I have the chance next time. Thank you for telling me." He added, "I'm sorry."
"Not feeling well? Do you have a cold?" It was obvious that Lu Wei cared about Dong Qiangqiang.
"Maybe I caught a cold last night because I didn't close the window. I just need to go to bed early today."
"Okay then." Lu Wei said regretfully, "I originally wanted to introduce you to a few classmates who took the preparatory exam last year. Since you are sick, let's wait until you recover."
Dong Qiangqiang's eyes lit up when he heard the words "preparatory exam". He thought about it and changed his words: "What time is the dinner party and where is it?"
"Do you know the student dormitory diagonally opposite the main building of the university?"
"Know the approximate location."
"The welcome meeting will be held in the multi-purpose room of the student dormitory. It will start at 18:30. We will communicate for half an hour first, and then have a dinner at 19 o'clock. Everyone will chat while eating."
"Okay, I'll try to go." Dong Qiangqiang didn't finish his words.
After hanging up the phone, the sad emotions before were carried away by the wind. Dong Qiangqiang looked at his watch. It was still early for the dinner party. He opened the book and simulation paper he bought from the driving school, and read the book while answering the questions. It is always right for the stupid bird to fly first.
Every time he read books and newspapers, Dong Qiangqiang found that his German was deteriorating. It seems that in addition to reading newspapers, I still need to talk to Germans more. But my daily time is mainly working and reading. Where can I find someone to talk to and practice German? Although the landlady Sasha is a nice person, she usually doesn't get up until noon or afternoon, and there's really nothing to talk about with her. The alcoholic brother holds a wine bottle every day and speaks German with a Ukrainian accent. Even if Dong Qiangqiang can practice it, he will probably be able to speak Ukrainian more fluently. After thinking about it, the real German in the building is Big Max. What should I do to practice speaking German with him?
Dong Qiangqiang was thinking wildly in the room when there were two knocks on the door. He opened the door and saw Sasha standing at the door with coffee in one hand and a cigarette in the other.
"Good afternoon." Since the last time Sasha acted righteously in the nightclub, Dong Qiangqiang has changed his view of Sasha and his words have become very polite, "Is something okay?"
"The police came to see me this morning." Sasha walked in with a swagger, holding a cigarette. Dong Qiangqiang didn't want her to enter the house, for fear of causing misunderstanding, but he couldn't stop her directly, so he had to step aside and let her in. , "I thought it was what happened last time, but this time they said you were suspected of burning down a building."
"I didn't burn down other people's buildings." Dong Qiangqiang quickly and seriously denied, "It was other people who did it, not me. I am also a victim."
"Are they the ones who wanted to catch you and steal things last time?" Sasha squinted his eyes and took a drag on his cigarette.
"I don't know either." Dong Qiangqiang shook his head, "What did the police ask you?"
"I didn't ask anything special, I just wanted to know about you. I told you that you are a student, studying here, and you have lived here not long ago, but you are good at hygiene and love cooking, so I complimented you."
"Thank you." Dong Qiangqiang breathed a sigh of relief, "I didn't know it would end up like this. I was going to clean. But..."
"I see there are a lot of strange faces downstairs recently." Sasha said as she wandered in front of Dong Qiangqiang and slowly blew a puff of smoke into his face, "Dong, you'd better pay more attention to safety and don't be like JIN."
"JIN?" Dong Qiangqiang was stunned, "What happened to Jin Yuan? Is he back?"
"That's not true. Even before he moved, he was in a similar situation to you now. I didn't expect it before, and it suddenly occurred to me when the police called me this morning."
"Well, what does 'similar situation' mean?" Dong Qiangqiang asked.
"I've seen him with some weird people," Sasha said mysteriously.
"Weird person? What do you mean?"
"He was with some customers in our store," Sasha blew out a smoke ring. "Of course it wasn't drinking and chatting, but... fighting."
"fight?"
