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Chapter 3 Ch3 Questions and Answers

Most of the Chinese in Budapest gather in the Sihu Market located between railways, streets, dilapidated warehouses and factories. It is like a time-space-displaced Yiwu small commodity distribution center. Under the curved tin shed, there are oriental faces and cheap handmade products from China everywhere. crafts.

When Shen Teng walked through the crowded and noisy crowd, he realized that he was probably dreaming—in the last century, countless Orient Express trains carried countless Chinese people’s yearning for the future across Siberia to Hungary to take root, sprout, and scattered It blossomed all over Europe, but the Sihu Market, which can almost be regarded as the birthplace of this westbound "gold rush", was declining day by day long before Shen Toma left home, and was eventually emptied and recycled by the Hungarian State Railway Administration.

All the strange and bustling scenery in front of me are completely derived from the description in the book and the memories of the people Shen Toma has heard about the past.

Oh, yes, at this time his name is not Shen Teng.

The Shen family is prosperous in the country, and when it comes to his generation, the word "Jia" is used - other than that, the former Shen Jiaying knew almost nothing about the Shen family.It was not until he left home as an adult and was about to go to Norway to learn how to make pianos that his grandmother Shen Yuru, who brought him up, told his grandson that their hometown is Yancheng in northern China. Although it is extremely far away, if he wants to, or When he needs it, there is always someone who can help him when he returns home.

The Shen family has strict family education, but things are always reversed, and every few generations there will be a rebellious bone.In the past few decades, the young Shen Yuru was the most rebellious youngest daughter in the family. In order to be free, she exiled herself to Central Europe, which she had never imagined before she left. engagement.Shen Yuru's daughter, who was raised by herself, grew up and eloped with others at the age of 17. Five years later, she came back with a child less than one year old. After staying for half a day, she turned around and left. The mother stood on the second floor holding her crying son Under the gaze of the window, never came back.

The stalls in the Sihu Market were filled with porcelain from Jingdezhen like a heap of waste products. Shen Teng stopped hesitantly under the yelling of the stall owner, picked up a delicate and small plate, and began to play with it.

He stayed in the dream for too long, and gradually lost consciousness. He has silently accepted the student logo that appeared on him, and the whole person is immersed in the interest of skipping class and wandering around, and he is still chanting After returning home, how should he continue to find excuses to escape the piano practice that his grandmother arranged for him according to the teacher's request.

"Shen Jiaying."

Shen Teng opened his eyes at this call.

It was night outside the porthole, and looking down, I could only see sporadic lights. They seemed to be on a ship, with clouds under their feet and fog in front of them. It took Shen Mao a while to realize that although he was getting closer and closer to Hungary It's close, but even at the nearest vertical altitude, he and Shen Yuru are separated by hundreds of thousands of miles, and the old man can't call his former name in his ear like this with suffocated anger.

What a surprise.

Shen Teng closed his eyes and pressed his temples, and realized speechlessly that he probably, should, unexpectedly... was homesick.

Home does not refer to the beautifully named Budapest, nor does it have anything to do with Yancheng, which only passed by once in a hurry and then left. The "home" that Shen Teng thinks of at the moment specifically refers to the old city of Buda, where he and his grandmother were among them, Sunlight can fall into half of the small pavilion in the afternoon.

Before departure, Shen Teng was full of confidence in his journey.

This day-to-day person even thought about buying a bunch of insurance and filling in all the beneficiaries as that Ms. Shen Yuru who didn't give him a good face in his dreams.But think about it, among the several ways of death he had imagined, probably none of them could allow grandma to legally obtain the filial piety from her grandson, so he had to regret it in the end.

After Shen Teng left home as an adult, they haven't seen each other for seven or eight years, but they still keep in touch, saying that they want video calls at least once a month.The years did not leave too many traces of carving on Shen Yuru, or because they communicated too frequently, Shen Teng couldn't find out what the time thief did to his beautiful grandmother in time.

After all the calculations, he should contact Shen Yuru again when he arrives at the destination. Shen Teng doesn't plan to tell her his plan, but Shen Yuru is too smart, so he may still be able to detect the clues. Let's talk about it when the time comes... .

Shen Toma glanced at the route map on the display screen absently.

They had only traveled a quarter of the way, and he couldn't tell which time zone he was in now, Shen Teng just thought in his heart, maybe they would see the dawn on the plane in a few hours.That's fine, and most people should get on with it, especially one.

Shen Teng turned his face to the side, and glanced at the seat in front of him on the right—the seat where Qin Zheng was.

The second young master is probably sleeping, wearing big headphones on his head, limited by the angle of view, Shen Teng can only see his arm resting on the armrest supporting his forehead. If I remember correctly, if he pulls up the sleeve of the sweater, the There should still be the marks left by my nails last night.

I thought yesterday was the last time we saw each other.

For this reason, he was in particularly good shape yesterday. He scratched and bit people harder than usual, trying to leave his marks on Qin Zheng's body longer as a prank.

But that's all, he didn't expect... Qin Zheng would appear at the airport, and now he was sitting on the same plane as himself.

It's hard to understand.

To be honest, Shen Teng was really confused. He didn't understand what Qin Zheng wanted to do. Because of this confusion, he woke up several times and felt that he was still deep in a dream. He had to stare at the corner of the second young master's clothes to study It took a long time to frown and recognize the fact that the other party had indeed boarded the plane with him in Jiangcheng.

At Copenhagen Kastrup Airport on the connecting flight, Qin Zheng bought burgers for the two of them in a noisy restaurant.When he was a teenager, he went abroad to study early, and the young master put away the shelves freely, and when he came over with a plate, he even skillfully handed a cup of Sprite with a straw inserted to Shen Teng.

As if aware of the other party's doubts, Qin Zheng rarely kindly suggested: "Do you want to exchange questions and answers?"

He catches up on sleep on the plane very well, and he is full of energy when he gets off the plane, unlike Shen Teng who just wants to lie down on the table.

There were too many people in the restaurant, and the two only found a remote corner. Shen Teng looked up at the handsome "waiter" standing by the table, his brain was running fast, and his face was still calm: "Answer all? Tell the truth?"

Someone ran past them with a backpack in their hands. Qin Zheng subconsciously reached out to protect the person in front of him, but Shen Teng reacted faster than him. He said "watch out (be careful)", and the Asian thief with a heart but no courage In the man's full smile, he blushed and ran away.

At times like this, don't forget to be seductive.

Qin Zheng withdrew his hand calmly, and said lightly: "You can have reservations. Tell the truth."

"Deal," Shen Teng blinked slyly, "I'll start first."

The big screen at the airport keeps pushing the latest information on international flights, and the electronic clock is accurate to the second to provide convenience for passengers all over the world, but Qin Zheng still only believes in the time on his wrist.

Shen Teng tilted his head with the straw in his mouth, and looked at the wrist raised by the second young master together with Qin Zheng who was sitting next to him—a hollowed-out watch, self-winding, stainless steel with diamonds.

Very good, not the one I gave him last Christmas.

"What time is it?" Shen Ting asked.He always couldn't understand the ancient and fancy display method of these mechanical watches.

Qin Zheng, who hadn't met his eyes all the way after setting off from Jiangcheng, finally raised his eyelids, glanced at him with deep meaning, and replied lazily: "Beijing time, 02:50..."

"It's not my problem!" Shen Teng finally realized and stopped him quickly.

But it was already too late, Qin Zheng also gave him an answer: "There are still three hours and 4 minutes to board the plane."

Really have him.Shen Teng twitched the corner of his mouth: "I'll let you once."

Qin Zheng leaned back on the back of the chair and asked casually, "Why did you learn how to make a piano?"

Unexpected questions.

There was a conflict at the bar. Qin Zheng didn't seem to be expecting an answer when he asked a question. He turned his head to look at the source of the noise, only leaving Shen Teng with a profile.

It's very nice, not a very delicate one, but all the corners and depressions fit into Shen Thatch's aesthetic center.

I am embarrassed to say that Shen Teng will always be extra patient with Qin Zheng because of this.

"I told you, my grandmother is a luthier maker, and I have been fascinated by it since I was a child."

Qin Zheng turned around and looked at him unexpectedly: "Then why don't you stay in Budapest, or go to school in Italy with the best major?"

why?

Shen Teng shook his head, remembering that he had asked his grandmother similar questions before.

At that time, he was only seven or eight years old, the age that even dogs would hate. He jumped up and down every day, and finally calmed down. He was lying in front of Shen Yuru's workbench, playing with a small carving knife, and calling him "grandma" regardless of age. daimyo.

——Shen Yuru, what's so good about Budapest?Why don't you go to Vienna?There are golden halls, Schubert, Liszt...

— Liszt is a Hungarian.

Shen Yuru pinched his wrist to take back the carving knife, then tapped the kid's empty head with the fingers that had carved nearly a hundred pieces of the piano body, and answered the grandson's question concisely: Where do you care about me.

Don't care about anyone—Shen Yuru's attitude towards life also runs through the process of educating her offspring.

The daughter left without saying goodbye for many years, and when she came back, she gave her a child, but she didn't say anything.

The grandson is a big kid, and she put a nest of bird eggs in her fiancé's bed, but she didn't say anything.

Later, Shen Teng chose the same major as her, but unexpectedly decided to go further north, and she also didn't say anything.

It's amazing to say that Shen Teng doesn't look much like his mother, but he has the same passionate and flirtatious eyes and lips as his grandmother.But apart from these appearance characteristics that gradually emerged after they grew up, the reason why the mother-in-law and grandson never doubted whether the other party was their biological family was probably because of their too similar personalities.

Even though Shen Yuru is more venomous than Shen Teng, and Shen Teng is more laughable and unprincipled than Shen Yuru, but the stubbornness, arrogance, and instability in the bones of the two of them are indeed passed down from generation to generation. I'm afraid that he will live a more reckless and fearless life than the other party is now.

One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers. In order to avoid two tigers hurting each other, Shen Teng did not hesitate to choose a place that was completely different from the environment he grew up in when applying for a school.

But Oslo is really too cold, it’s not like a place where a flowery guy like Shen Toma can stay, and in fact he really can’t stay too much, except for the days when he has to go to school in a year, Shen Toma almost catches Spent every opportunity to vacation down the Faroe Islands.

Why did you choose Norway?Why did you choose Iceland now?Qin Zheng probably wanted to ask these questions for a long time.

But Shen Teng laughed: "It should be my turn. (It should be my turn.)"

Qin Zheng nodded slightly, and signaled Mr. Shen to ask questions casually in a gentlemanly manner.

However, Shen Teng answered his question first: "My mother was deceived by the Italians. I don't like those sweet talkers."

Unexpected answer.

Qin Zheng raised his eyebrows lightly, his sharp gaze descended from the peak of Shen Teng's handsome eyebrows, slid across his deep eye sockets, fell along the nasal bone to the corners of his lips, stayed for a moment with vague ambiguity, and finally looked at On those black eyes full of smiles.

Even though Shen Tom's facial features are more beautiful than most orientals, he is undoubtedly a half-moistened Asian.

Shen Teng was still smiling: "I listened to you, I didn't lie."

His mother did go with an Italian violinist who was full of lies, but she did have an affair with a black-haired Chinese guy.But the truth of these things ends here. Shen Jiaying still doesn't know who her father is, and Shen Yuru doesn't know whether her daughter is dead or alive. They can be regarded as a free and unruly family.

After graduating from university, Shen Teng changed his name and traveled around the world, only staying in Paris for a while.It is a bit exaggerated to say that he masters eight foreign languages, but relying on this person's social talent, Shen Teng can communicate freely with the locals within a week wherever he goes.

He was a born drifter, gifted beyond measure, who could and should not be restrained.

And Qin Zheng didn't think about restraining him... Well, very occasionally, when Shen Teng spread his teeth and claws too much on the bed, and Qin Zheng was extremely annoyed by his bed partner biting his Adam's apple and making fun of him, very occasionally, He also had the idea of ​​simply tying up the people under him and imprisoning him for a lifetime.

But that's just a one-in-a-million chance.

Qin Zheng learned early on that if he can't get something, he should never look at it again.

Finally, it was Shen Teng's turn to ask questions.

The man took off his peaked cap and stroked his long hair back. Under the involuntary gazes of the people around him, he asked casually, "You shouldn't be here, you know?"

It's okay to keep it, but don't lie.

So Qin Zheng didn't answer.