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Chapter 10 Ch10 The Superstitious

Shen Teng still remembered his second meeting with Qin Zheng.

At dawn on a cold spring night, grasslands, bandages, walkie-talkies, vultures hovering above his head, a wild elephant mother whose head was cut off to extract its teeth, and a pair of arms that pulled him back from the critical moment of life and death.

Going back in time, Shen Teng has been funding an elephant orphanage in Africa since the summer of his first year in college.The reason for the funding is quite simple. It was just that one time when he was walking in school, he passed by and listened to a lecture by an animal protection organization. After the meeting, like most of his classmates, he also walked up to the stage and took a print with gentle and vivid colors. Leaflet with ways to donate.

ElephantNursery. Compared with "Elephant Orphanage", perhaps translated as "Elephant Nursery" is more beautiful, but this second name will easily obliterate the tragic color behind it.At that time, Shen Teng was attracted by two words in the list of people waiting for help, and then it was the sponsorship that has persisted for eight years.

Oslo is a quiet place in the far north, but Shen Teng’s school has a strong artistic atmosphere and romantic and free thinking. Under the active publicity of the protection organization, various animal flags were set up on the campus at that time, which was very precious for a while. fashion trend.It's just that the heat came and went quickly, and soon after, the bulletin board was covered with colorful new campus activities.

People are always immersed in the joy and sorrow of the moment, and easily forget the never-ending mourning on the list.It wasn't until two years later that Shen Teng received a postcard congratulating him on his successful graduation and a small elephant woodcarving souvenir from across the ocean from Africa. His classmates were surprised to find that the original legend is still insisting on doing it. The students of Animal Protection Public Welfare are by my side.

"Persistence" is actually quite difficult for Shen Toma. He always maintains enthusiasm for everything for 3 minutes. Either he lacks interest or has no perseverance. The relationship with the elephant orphanage is probably one of the few in his life that has become inertia event.

The Elephant Orphanage, as its name suggests, is a very sad place, but also, hope is renewed there.

From a poor student living alone in Norway to a professional luthier who travels around the world, the amount of remittances Shen Teng goes to the bank every month has gradually increased from the negligible half of his part-time salary. During these years, he did not know the account number of his remittances. Who in the world is running the sum that has accumulated is not a small amount, but he knows every elephant in the elephant orphanage.

Every once in a while, Shen Teng would regularly receive postcards from afar, with a photo or portrait of a certain elephant printed on the front, and more or less text on the back, full of words about the wild elephant he helped with his remittances A detailed description of the current situation.Except for the graduation time, there has never been any specific words of thanks in the postcards before and after, but the deep and deep gratitude has been condensed between the lines.

It has to be said that these postcards have made great contributions to Shen Teng's eight-year persistence.

At the age of 22, one year younger than Qin Zheng today, Shen Teng left Paris, where he settled briefly after graduation, and started his global violin making tour.

Speaking of violin making, compared to a lifelong passion, for Shen Toma, it is actually more used by him as a means of eating to support his travel expenses.

Shen Teng was luckier than his grandmother, and at the beginning of his career in Paris, he met a violinist who soon became famous internationally.That young man is honest, and somewhat superstitious. He broke a violin that he had used since he was a child, and after searching for a famous teacher to repair it, he fell into a slump. One time, he accidentally came to Shen Teng's small workshop, and was lazy by this guy. Yangyang’s demeanor is completely different from his focused and attractive attitude at work. He hesitated and left an order. After that, he used the violin made by Shen Tomato to win the Italian Paganini International Violin Competition in the second year. Without any objection, he won the only laurels and the applause of the audience.

In the post-competition interview, in front of his colleagues and music lovers all over the world, the performer passionately and excitedly raised the musical instrument that he never left, and proactively mentioned where the new piano that helped him recover from the trough came from. After that, Shen Teng received orders continuously.

Unlike the luthiers represented by Shen Yuru who have spent most of their lives sitting in front of familiar workbenches and constantly improving their craftsmanship, Shen Teng’s way is too wild. After leaving Paris, he likes to change positions with one shot. Local election, after making the mold, he turned and flew to another place to find the most suitable gut strings, and flew back before re-strengthening the contour arc the next day.

His whereabouts are erratic and his behavior is weird, but many people just follow this pattern, and even try to invite Mr. Shen to their own city to show their friendship as a host.But at this point, Shen Teng has outstanding principles—he never communicates with guests beyond appeals.

Shen Tom's orders are full, but he is also very good at taking vacations for himself. In the second year of traveling around the world, Shen Tom, who delivered a new-made lute in Los Angeles, took a three-day short vacation on the sunny west coast. I ran into Qin Zheng on the sparsely populated Route 66.After leaving California, Shen Tom had nothing to do. He planned to "go back" to the mainland of his motherland, which he had never been to, but when he found the elephant sculpture that was almost lost at the airport, Shen Tom suddenly changed his mind and decided to go to the next stop. Go to Africa.

He was naive at the time, he just wanted to go to the elephant orphanage he had only seen in the photos to see the real scene, and leave in a week or less. He never thought that he would be in that elephant orphanage where even normal bathing would be a problem. After staying in such a bad place for so long, what he didn't even expect was that he would have a reunion with someone he hadn't thought of at all.

It was originally just a daily patrol, and the only volunteers sitting in the off-road vehicle to shuttle through the grassland were Shen Ma and his guide. Unexpectedly, the two encountered poachers on the road.

That place was a certain distance away from the surrounding companions. After a brief decision, they took the risk after applying for rescue, took all the equipment, and decided to rescue the hunting target alone who didn't know whether they could wait to get them.

Unsurprisingly, accidents happened to both them and the elephant.

The weather was too cold, and Shen Teng still remembered how he was shivering in the cold night of the grassland where the temperature dropped sharply.The guide went to the front to ask for help. Shen Ma wrapped himself in the coats of the two and shrank himself obediently, trying to turn into a lifeless rock in the cold eyes of the predator lurking. He felt sleepy and cold, but he was even more unwilling Dare to close your eyes, because your eyes will be full of the last bloody appearance of the mother of the wild elephant.

When the lantern was on the way to sighing that Shen Yuru was about to get the news of the death of a loved one again, the radio walkie-talkie that had no signal all the way in his hand suddenly moved, and what was more unexpected was that the person talking to Shen Teng turned out to be a Chinese with a friendly voice.

He was saved.

Death is a cold dark room. When he walked to the door, several spotlights as bright as day suddenly appeared in front of him.

He realized that he was surrounded by a pair of powerful arms, and behind the door of the dark room was the dazzling holy light of heaven. Shen Teng opened his eyes in confusion, and saw a face that he had never imagined that he would meet again.

"Such a coincidence."

At that time, he seemed to have said the first sentence to Qin Zheng like this.

How did Qin Zheng answer?At that time, Shen Teng almost lost his temperature and fainted. He was in a daze and couldn't remember clearly.

"If you think it's a coincidence."

Ah, I remembered, just like on the train today, Qin Zheng seemed to answer like this.

Obviously the tone of voice was colder and harder than when we first met, but maybe I was really dizzy at that time, and I could hear a trace of anxiety and panic from that voice.

Sure enough, I still remember it wrong.

On the regional train to Budapest, Shen Teng, who returned the hat to its owner, sat back by the window again, looking thoughtfully at Qin Zheng raising his hand to straighten his hairstyle.

I must be remembering wrong, he thought.

Qin Zheng must have been in the same mood at the time. He was so calm and relaxed that he didn't care about anyone.

Originally thinking that his lost traveling companion had returned to him, Shen Teng propped his head up with one hand on the small table, tilted his body, and looked at this handsome guy who felt like three autumns since he hadn't seen him for a night, from beginning to end several times, until As usual, Qin Zheng raised his eyebrows and looked over suspiciously. Then he stretched out his free left hand and said solemnly, "Let's get to know each other again? My name is Shen Teng, I'm 26 years old, a luthier, and my business is mainly violin. I'm looking forward to someone customizing guitars. "

"Qin Zheng," Qin Zheng paused, "a freelancer."

At that time, he took off his tie and walked casually in Jiangcheng, but now he also puts "jobless people" in a good way.

The beautiful fingers of the luthier who were shaking and waiting to be grasped were completely ignored. Shen Teng took it back indifferently, and asked with a smile: "So, why is it Budapest?"

While another destination, Paris, sounds irrelevant to their eventual journey to Northern Europe, a direct flight to Iceland from there remains one of the duo's best options.Qin Zheng's luggage has been left at Reykjavik Airport for several days, isn't he in a hurry?

"I haven't been there." Qin Zheng brought out a reason that sounded most like an excuse but was actually true.

Shen Teng nodded in understanding, and after a while, he rubbed his chin and looked back: "Then what if I don't plan to go to Budapest, do you want to find a place to accompany me?"

This is not difficult.Europeans—especially European college students and leisure people always like to work part-time as local tour guides during their holidays. Earning money is second. They are more keen on introducing their beloved hometown to the world.As long as you pass the English test, you can always encounter authentic and detailed free explanations when visiting popular attractions.

"You will go."

But Qin Zheng's tone was so firm that Shen Teng was speechless for a moment.

He blinked in confusion, "Why?"

Although he never mentioned it, Shen Teng always felt that Qin Zheng should know that he was racing against time every day.

From the very beginning, Shen Teng had a very clear goal, and made up his mind that he would not go back to any of his favorite places to take a look. Barcelona and Budapest are all on this list.But obviously this morning he was still hesitating about the two tickets, but Qin Zheng had already confirmed the destination Shen Toma would choose for this train before buying tickets for them.

Did he really learn some sorcery from some gypsy woman?

Seeing that Qin Zheng didn't answer himself, Shen Teng's brain immediately widened, and he didn't hesitate to speculate about the people around him with the worst malice: "You can't forge the ticket to Paris, can you? It's fake, you can't get on the bus at all?"

He can think even more outrageous.

Qin Zheng took out the Bluetooth headset from his jacket pocket without paying attention, and handed the left one to Shen Teng who was sitting on his left very naturally.

The two were shoulder to shoulder, earphones to earphones, how much he didn't want to hear his companion chattering.

Shen Teng, who was slightly dissatisfied with this, imitated Qin Zheng's appearance, folded his arms, tilted his head, and didn't look at the other party, but every pore on his body was signaling that the second young master should condescend to help him wear it himself.

At this time, he doesn't talk about distance and proportion.

I have to say that Shen Teng's appearance of being so obviously spoiled and confident is really hateful, but it's also really cute.

Qin Zheng squeezed the earphones and paused for two seconds, then succumbed.

Although the left earlobe of the person next to him was smooth and unmarked, and was not inflamed from the piercing like the right ear, he still carefully lifted the other person's long hair as he did last night, and poked the earphone into Shen Teng's with extremely gentle movements. cochlea.

/gone darling

/Sorry I can't predict the future weather

/wait for every year older old setbacks go backwards

/didn't remember your partner

(Wei Lan's "Retreat")

The Cantonese song that was randomly played, Shen Teng couldn't understand it at all, and Qin Zheng didn't understand it at all, but based on the pronunciation of individual words and the melody, he could probably tell that it was not a sweet love song.

Picking up the phone, the lyrics of "/every love walks through the wrong people/forgetting you is equal to saving me" just turned on the screen.

Besides, the train was strenuously moving forward, and Shen Teng was leaning against the window carefully distinguishing the pronunciation of the female voice in the earphones, which was too vague for him, when Qin Zheng suddenly caught the corner of Qin Zheng's mouth, as if laughing.

Out of curiosity, he moved his head closer, wanting to see what kind of joke the Second Young Master had discovered, but Qin Zheng reacted very quickly and immediately locked the screen of the phone.

"Do you believe in prophecy?" Qin Zheng raised his eyes and asked him.

Shen Teng blinked innocently.

"..." Qin Zheng reluctantly changed a few less difficult words for him: "I mean, prophecies, omens, and various superstitions."

Shen Teng thought for a while, then replied: "Have doubts."

"Well," Qin Zheng nodded, "I don't believe it."

Shen Teng laughed: "Why? Are you a materialist?"

Seeing that he was about to raise the banner of confrontation between capitalism and the proletariat, Qin Zheng stopped in time: "No, I just believe in myself."

Very arrogant, and because this arrogance is too calm, it seems that he is simply extremely arrogant.

But because it's Qin Zheng, it can only be Qin Zheng. Even under the gaze of Qian Fan who has exhausted Shen Toma's reading, this youthful arrogance will not make people feel funny or childish at all.

In this world, if the first person to believe in Qin Zheng is Qin Zheng himself, then the No.2 must be Shen Teng.

After all, in a certain sense—even the facts have long proved that he is Shen Teng's savior.

But the role of savior is too stressful, just do it once.

"Qin Zheng."

The companion slightly raised his eyebrows, turned his head to look over: "Huh?"

"Your medicine is working very well."

"Ah."

"My earlobe doesn't hurt so much anymore."

"uh-huh."

"So, you can also give me the earphone on the right."

"……I'm afraid not."

"?"

Qin Zheng turned his head towards him - he couldn't see clearly because of the limited angle of view before, but now Shen Teng could clearly see that Qin Zheng's left earlobe also had a black gemstone exactly the same as his own.

Today it's His Majesty's turn to be in pain.

Shen Teng lowered his head, smiled and fell silent.

The second young master is delicate, and his red and swollen earlobes look scarier than Shen Teng yesterday, and the medicine he bought for others was used on himself today.

The two looked at each other for a moment, Shen Teng tilted his head, and while gently rubbing the ointment on Qin Zheng's earlobes, he did not forget to seize this rare opportunity to make a joke: "Are you a smart learner?"

There was another song in the earphones, and this time they both understood it, it was "BeforeIGo" by Guy Sebastian.

Qin Zheng ignored him, but his Adam's apple rolled imperceptibly during the sticky perception process.

Shen Teng withdrew his hand.

"Qin Zheng."

In the background of the increasingly high-pitched music, Shen Teng called his name again.

"Huh?" Qin Zheng answered him.

Shen Teng curled the corners of his lips: "It's nothing."

It's just that I'm so, really, really, really happy to meet you.

The first volume [Wandering Soul, En route, Blue Danube] is finished

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