25 hour

Chapter 31 Ch31 Seeing Through

In May, Reykjavik is already bright at 06:30 in the morning.

Now is the summer tourist season, and the fifty seats on the bus are full.Shen Toma arrived not too late, but it was still not as active as those serious tourists who came to Iceland for vacation. When he got on the bus, the front row, the window...all the popular seats you can think of were already occupied. In the end, he had no choice but to walk slowly through the narrow aisle from the front row, and walked all the way to the back of the middle to find a seat not near the window to sit down.

After graduating from middle school, Shen Teng almost never participated in such a group activity where a large group of people were loaded up by a public transport and sent to a certain place for sightseeing.

"Group activity," a word that sounds like it might excite one group and crush another.

From childhood to adulthood, Shen Teng's popularity has been good, but he has never been a gregarious person.

With the support of Shen Yuru, the young Shen Jiaying has basically never missed the group activities organized by the school, but even if he participated, he would usually just stay outside the small groups assigned, and walk together when someone invited him. When you get close to him, you can bend over and stand alone on the side of the road to study insects, and you can feel at ease anytime, anywhere.

Since the fifth grade, he has finally had a friend in school who can talk—that is, the kid Shen Jiaying fought for him on the first day of primary school.He has always remembered Shen Jiaying's goodness. After finding out that he and her were assigned to the same class in the new semester, he finally plucked up the courage to take the initiative to approach him, and soon discovered that this maverick guy was unexpectedly easy to get along with.

That guy always claimed to be Jiaying's little follower. Shen Jiaying couldn't correct him several times and let him go. Later, he went to Norway to study, and his friend stayed in Budapest. The two maintained a friendship for a period of time through letters and emails. Gradually lost contact.

It was a very normal and regrettable ending, but Shen Tom was very clear that this friendship did not last, except that the other party always put himself in a lower stance, and it was also because of Shen Tom's own long-term and stable relationship with another person. Relationships are very bad.

Even friends are the same, Shen Teng likes to be accompanied by others, but most of the time, he seems to be better at being alone.

Just like at this moment, although he is not disgusted to the extent of the mixed breathing of the people around him, he is still not quite used to the dizziness caused by the mixing of the loud voices in the carriage and the cheap smell of air freshener.

After discovering that he had such a stink problem, Shen Teng had hardly traveled with anyone other than Qin Zheng, and group trips like today's were not considered at all.

It’s still the most comfortable being alone, you can stop when you want, and go when you say, and you don’t have to work hard to find something funny for the harmony of the atmosphere.

... Otherwise, he still slipped away?

"Wearing such a tight mask, won't you be out of breath later?"

The back drum was interrupted halfway through.

Shen Teng raised his head, just in time to see someone who appeared suddenly throwing his bag on the bus rack, and when Qin Zheng reached out to him, he had already reached out the backpack in his arms and handed it to Qin Zheng. other side.

...Well, I can't run away at all this time.

Qin Zheng naturally sat on the seat next to Shen Teng that was also not near the window. After brushing the invisible dust on his legs with the back of his hand, he took out something from his coat pocket and handed it to Shen Teng.

"Motion sickness medicine, the total round trip today will take fifteen hours. It would be better to take it in advance."

"I don't get motion sickness." Shen Teng still tried his best with a sullen face.

Qin Zheng said "oh", "I'm afraid you'll get carsick."

Seeing that Shen Teng was indifferent, he added in a soft tone: "I'm timid."

"……Fine."

Shen Teng "reluctantly" took off his mask, took Qin Zheng's well-prepared medicine and water cup, straightened his back before taking it, and announced in a wolf-hearted way: "I'm here for you."

Qin Zheng nodded in agreement: "Thank you very much."

The temperature was low in the morning, and the water Qin Zheng gave him was warm. Shen Teng swallowed the medicine with his head up. From the corner of the eye, he caught a suspicious glimpse of Qin Zheng, who was sitting by the side, who seemed to be studying the mask on his ear again.

Does he have ADHD?After taking the medicine, Shen Teng immediately took off the mask, and unexpectedly found that there was an unremarkable small object on it.

"It has the same effect as motion sickness medicine, and the volatilization of the smell in the popping beads can make your mind clearer."

Qin Zheng cut first and then played: "Do you like orange flavor?"

Before he could get motion sickness, Shen Teng was so dizzy from his series of operations that he put the mask back on and met Qin Zheng's concerned gaze angrily: "What else are you going to do? Take it all out."

"It's a bit much," Qin Zheng declined his suggestion, "It will be distributed in batches within the next fifteen hours."

She's pretty good at showing off, Shen Teng curled her lips.

As they made jokes, they were already filled with people.

Today's tourists only partly overlap with those who followed Qin Zheng yesterday. Although most of them are new visitors, there are also familiar faces. An Italian with messy red hair recognized yesterday's guide and guide (male) as soon as he got into the car. Friends, I immediately greeted the two of them with "Hello" and "Good morning" very excitedly.

The enthusiasm of the young people was really overwhelming. Even Shen Teng, who was swearing at Italy, waved his hand and said "hi" to the other party with the corners of his lips curled up under the mask.

"Our Mr. Shen is really polite." Qin Zheng teased him in a low voice.

Shen Teng glanced over with her pretty eyes, and said with a snort, "I won't give the Italians a chance to chew my tongue."

Qin Zheng leaned back to the side, raised his eyebrows slightly, and silently expressed his unspoken "wow" with actions.

Wow, wow, Shen Teng raised his elbow and gave Qin Zheng a slap in the face, rolled his eyes again, and approached curiously: "It's not that I discriminate against the region, but it's fine for them Italians to be flirtatious, so why don't they care who they see?" Walking together, also whistling blindly?"

This is really unfair to the Italians.

Qin Zheng glanced sideways at Shen Teng's right earlobe which was covered by his long hair - there was a black gemstone there, the same as the one on his left earlobe, only a blind man could not tell that it was a pair.

After waiting for a long time for a response, Shen Teng turned his head suspiciously, and happened to see Qin Zheng touching his earlobe with a thoughtful look.

...he is not a fool.

Shen Teng sat upright, cleared his throat, and was about to change the subject and ask the second young master why he didn't go to the place where the tour guide was supposed to go, when suddenly a good morning greeting with a British accent came from the speaker in front of the bus.

Shen Teng turned his head to look at Qin Zheng, who was in a daze with one hand resting on his face, and calmly stated his discovery: "You are not a tour guide today."

Qin Zheng said "hmm": "It's my first time here too, step on the spot first."

He is only a trainee tour guide, and his salary is only half of that of regular employees.

Shen Teng sighed in surprise: "It's so oppressive."

Qin Zheng weakly echoed: "Isn't it?"

In the background sound of the official tour guide's introduction to today's journey, the bus started slowly.Shen Teng moved his head closer to Qin Zheng, and Qin Zheng also brought his ear closer tacitly. When he heard the other party lower his voice, he asked him seriously: "How is the recent situation of the US stock market?"

The Adam's apple rolled slightly, Qin Zheng lowered his eyelids calmly, and replied in a low voice: "It's not optimistic."

Compared with the time when he made the most money in college, the free time now has increased unabated, but most of the energy is spent on other things, less investment, and naturally less return.

But there are actually quite a lot.

But Shen Teng didn't know this.

"Then can you still have enough to eat?"

——The kind Mr. Shen even frowned and asked Qin Zheng so seriously, as if he really cared about whether he was holding on.

If he told him his current bank balance at this moment, Shen Teng wouldn't be so angry that he would jump out of the car immediately.

Qin Zheng softened his voice: "What should I do if I don't have enough to eat?"

"What else can I do?" Shen Teng looked at him sadly, and sincerely proposed a solution, "Then eat less every meal."

Qin Zheng lowered his head and finally couldn't help laughing.

He was seen through.

But also expected.

"My father really cut off most of my sources of income." Qin Zheng confessed.

The remaining part is a side job he developed while studying. He never did it seriously before, but it is really difficult to pick it up now.

"You can probably guess it."

Shen Teng pushed her long hair behind her ears, covered her lips and yawned lazily: "But you are Qin Zheng."

No matter where he is, Qin Zheng always has a way to live a good life, right?

"I believe you."

"..."

Qin Zheng raised his head slowly, and looked at the man next to him who lightly dropped four heavy words and then turned to study the scenery outside the window.

I wanted to say something at first, but after thinking about it again, it seems that there is not much need.

"Yeah." He just replied with a smile.

The author has something to say:

There are many bibliographies and videos used as background reference for this article, mainly Liu Zichao's "Arrival Before Midnight" and Jiaqian, two writers I like very much, you can watch them if you are interested.