Chapter 7 Chapter Four: To Boston

"What's the matter? Tell me." As soon as Jiang Xia came out of Schweier's office, he found a corner in the corridor and called Ye Guangting. "Why didn't you answer my phone? I remembered where I saw the dark room in your dream! It was..." Ye Guangting was excited to finish speaking, but Jiang Xia interrupted: "You didn't go to class today ? Why are you thinking about this? There's enough chaos here." "Listen to me, in class today our teacher mentioned a professor of MBA at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and I suddenly remembered it. I have visited the black room before, and it is a research institute there."

Jiang Xia's heart skipped a beat: Massachusetts Institute of Technology?It's MIT again!If such a coincidence really happened, there must be something wonderful in it.This aroused Jiang Xia's interest, and asked, "The black room is all the same, how can you be sure it belongs to MIT?" Ye Guangting was stumped by this question, but he was not convinced, thought for a while and said, "I think so. I remember it was an acoustics laboratory. Yes, it is a big room that is completely dark when doing experiments. , I couldn’t see anything. The reason why I immediately thought of it was because of the feeling I had when I saw your dream. Didn’t you also say that it was a particularly depressing dream? We went to visit It's time for us to experience the feeling of being in the dark, it's a kind of... a kind of hopeless depression. Hey! Look at the word I use, depression, or despair!" Jiang Xia almost saw Ye Guangting on the phone beaming with joy proud look.

Ye Guangting went on to say: "That room is so quiet, it's indescribable. Let's put it this way, I can even hear the sound of blood flowing in my body." "What are you talking about?" "Really! Anyway, in that environment, I can hear a lot of voices that are usually masked by the noise around me. There are more than a dozen of us in the room. Although we all breathe as quietly as possible, or even hold our breath, I can still hear it. Hearing the sound of whirring next to me, it was obvious that there was some movement in anyone's stomach. I felt like I was standing in the middle of a pile of wriggling, steaming intestines and stomachs. It was so fucking disgusting! Later I opened The door is a bit bright, and I see that the outer wall of the house is about one meter thick, and the wall is made of sound-absorbing materials and has sound-absorbing pipes and sound-absorbing cones. That house can’t be taken down without thirty to fifty million.”

Hearing Ye Guangting's description, Jiang Xia really wanted to experience for himself what it was like to be "in the middle of a pile of steaming intestines and stomachs". Just now Schweil introduced to him that they use the energy of sound waves to stimulate the brain waves in the human brain, and then there is an acoustics laboratory, and it is located at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology!I'm afraid what Ye Guangting said was not fabricated.What's more, this kid spoke with certainty. If he hadn't seen it himself, how could he tell such a picture-like situation?

That's good, Jiang Xia thought, recording a few more dreams might be able to string together these fragmented clues. "Come on, come find me after you get home today, let's watch my video again. Hey," Jiang Xia suddenly thought, "What's for lunch?" "It's the fifth watch!" Ye Guangting responded quickly, "The more I talk, the hungrier I get." The two laughed and hung up the phone. On the way home, Jiang Xia made a detour to the Chinese vegetable market in Flushing to buy supplies for the week.The Chinese food market in New York is like this Kelong Nakelong in Beijing, and it is about the same size.Here you can buy things that Chinese people often eat, so it has become a place where foreign students like Jiang Xia visit every week.After wandering between rows of shelves and freezers for half an hour, Jiang Xia took four large tomatoes, two bundles of rapeseed, a pack of short ribs and a pack of beef brisket and lined up to check out.Two pounds of fat and lean pork stuffing are good for making boiled balls or ants climbing trees. Before handing over the money, he copied a small basket of green apples.The little Fujian girl at the cash register still had childish eyes, but her face no longer had the moisture that should belong to her.Jiang Xia asked her to go to the counter to get a pack of Hongtashan cigarettes.This pack of Chinese-flavored cigarettes can be mixed with Marlboros for a week.

The little girl picked up the same items and skillfully scanned the barcodes, then tapped a few times on the keyboard of the cash register and said, "Twenty-two four, thank you." Jiang Xia found out the money and handed it over, the phone rang. "Qingzi called and asked us to go out for a while, shall we go?" It was Ye Guangting. Jiang Xia picked up the shopping bag while taking the change back.He tilted his head and clamped the phone with his neck, embarrassed: "It's a big Monday, what's wrong with her not having class tomorrow?" "Just sit for a while, and it will be over at eight or nine o'clock. When we get home, we will study the video of your dark room. You go to bed at eleven o'clock and I retreat. I can't miss your class tomorrow. That's how I thought about it. Don't you have some concerns about Zhou Qingzi’s question? And what about Ding Xiwu, let’s make a side note today. You ask me, I’ll play the side drum, hey, buddy, the drum is played here, not for you..."

"You're so excited, Yang Shan, too?" Jiang Xia asked with a smile. "You misunderstood me, I'm very sad. Yang Shan has been fighting with me lately, and I don't like to talk to her anymore. Qingzi asked me to call you and say it's just the three of us. Baseball tonight! New York Yankees vs. Texas Mountie, I've made an appointment to be at GameOn at seven o'clock, that's it, bye." Ye Guangting finished speaking in one breath, no changes allowed. "Wait a minute!" Jiang Xia interjected before Ye Guangting hung up the phone, "Since when did you like baseball? Have you ever seen what a baseball looks like?"

"Come on! I've always been a New York Yankee fan, okay? Hurry up, the game is on!" Jiang Xia looked at his watch and it was already half past six.Since when did you only give half an hour in advance when you made an appointment?There is no time to go home now.It was only a five-minute walk from the vegetable market to GameOn, so he went into a Starbucks coffee shop on the side of the road with tomatoes, rapeseed ribs, beef brisket and pork stuffing. GameOn is a sports bar, and it's the height of baseball season.With New York barely making the playoffs this year, the bars must be packed.Ye Guangting decided to have the party there because he wanted Qingzi to relax.Ordering a medium vanilla latte, Jiang Xia sat by the window to waste time.He wanted to sort out what he had seen, heard and dreamed these days, but the sound of two Indians talking on the sofa next to him disturbed him.The store was playing former Beatles lead singer Paul McCartney's album, Jiang Xia didn't like this old guy with a baby face very much, he stood up and left the coffee shop, decided to go to GameOn to take a good seat and wait for them .

The sky has darkened, but there is still a jewel-like transparent and flawless blue in the sky, struggling not to fade away.The street lights have already been turned on, and the people under the lights are rushing home again like morning.Some people who were going out for entertainment went out and walked in small groups.A strong black man with a piece of clown's rubber red nose clipped on his nose was sitting on the side of the road singing something, shaking an empty Coke paper cup to beg for alms from passers-by, a few coins in it collided and made an unpleasant jingle sound like Indians talking.

When we came to the door of the bar, it was only 6:40.There are already a dozen people lined up at the door.Jiang Xia walked to the head of the line and told the big black security guard in a black suit and headset that he had reserved a seat. "Name?" "Jiang Xia." The security guard looked down at the registration book in his hand, checked Jiang Xia's driver's license to confirm his age, and then removed the isolation rope to let him in. The sports bar is surrounded by high-definition TVs, large and small, showing different sports.Today is home to the New York Yankees, so most of the action is baseball.

Jiang Xia followed the leading lady to the bar and sat down, putting the vegetable bag in the space under the chair next to her.This is really something that is very out of harmony with the surrounding atmosphere.He ordered a Jack'n Coke with ice and looked around.The game has not yet started, and the players from both sides are being introduced on TV.Jiang Xia occasionally watches baseball games and is familiar with those names, but he is not a New York fan. After waiting for ten minutes, Zhou Qingzi walked in, glanced at the room at the door and saw Jiang Xia who was bored.Lepton was in youth sports attire today, with a Yankees baseball cap.She combed a ponytail and pulled it out from the hole in the hat behind her head. The sweatpants with two pink stripes on the side and the pink logo Puma casual shoes are very light and casual.Her upper body is a short black tracksuit with a little silk shine, and her whole body seems to exude endless vitality.She beckoned, and walked over to sit next to Jiang Xia under the watchful eyes of several foreigners standing with drinks: "Are you here early?" "Ten minutes. I was nearby when Guangting called, so I came over directly. Give me the bag." Jiang Xia looked at the girl in front of her, her head was still hot.Although quite a few weird things have been going on around this girl lately.Qingzi's complexion has improved a bit, and she even put on light makeup today, almost returning to her previous look. "How have you been these two days?" Zhou Qingzi hung the oversized purple leather sports bag on the back of the chair behind him. "It's okay." Jiang Xia answered and looked out of the window. Only he knew that he was not looking for Ye Guangting. He was looking for Ding Xiwu. Outside the window is a small street where not many people walk, and the street lamps cast swaying tree shadows on the window.Jiang Xia didn't see anything, but the phone rang. "Brother Jiang, are you here?" "Here we are. Where are you?" "Dude, we're on the way. I saw a girl who was very sassy, ​​and I was about to go up to ask for a phone. Give me half an hour, or I will go there if you don't ask for it. You can order wine and food first, and bring me a cheeseburger , add pickles! Hang up, the girl is going into the shop." Mr. Ye hung up the phone. "Guanting's call, he will be half an hour late due to urgent business, let's order something first, what do you drink?" Qingzi agreed, and leaned over to order a cocktail named "Hawaiian Sunset" from the busy bartender at the bar. Looking at Zhou Qingzi's small cheeks opposite, Jiang Xia couldn't help feeling a little pity in her heart.After some things happened, her originally pure eyes seemed to be mixed with some mysterious colors in Jiang Xia's eyes.He was wondering if he should ask her something while Ye Guangting was away, but he didn't know where to start. It was Zhou Qingzi who spoke first. "You..." She hesitated to speak. "What? What's wrong?" Jiang Xia and Qingzi's eyes collided, and they moved away unnaturally. "You really don't remember me?" Qingzi looked down at the wine in his hand and said to himself. Jiang Xia was confused by this nonsensical words, but her heart was indescribably comfortable and warm.He felt the heat on the top of his head for a while, and realized that the girl in front of him really didn't seem to be as simple as a passerby or a friend he just met.He turned his head to look at Qingzi and said, "I don't understand." The girl raised her head and looked directly at Jiang Xia.For the first time, Jiang Xia felt that Qingzi's eyes could be so hot.And this burning gaze seems so familiar, it seems to have the shadow of Xiting.But slowly, the temperature in those eyes cooled down.Jiang Xia was in a hurry, he tried to capture and retain that trace of heat, but he could only let it disappear behind Qingzi's black pupils. The waiter untimely brought a small plate of snacks with wine.Qingzi withdrew her gaze, moved away from the wine glass in front of her, and said thank you casually. "If you have anything to say, just say it." Watching the waiter leave, Jiang Xia plucked up her courage and said with difficulty, "Some things happened around me these days that I don't understand, and they really have something to do with you. Relationship. I don't know what ever was between us, but I really seem to feel a connection, a connection between you and me..." Without looking up, Qingzi picked up a small pretzel stick with her fingers and put it in her mouth. "How old are you this year?" Qingzi asked softly. "twenty four." "If I told you," the snacks on the plate were getting more and more messy, "you are twenty-seven years old this year, what would you think?" Jiang Xia was taken aback for a moment, really unable to understand what Zhou Qingzi said.But her seriousness and her innocent appearance made him unable to have any doubts.This illogical age is no longer important to Jiang Xia at this moment, he only knows that he has never been so close to this girl as he is now.Suddenly, he didn't know where an evil force came from, and he held Qingzi's hand in his. Qingzi was shocked, lowered his head, blinked his eyes helplessly, the corners of his mouth moved slightly, almost crying.But she didn't refuse, she slowly pulled out her thumb and gently put it back on Jiang Xia's finger.Qingzi's soft and delicate fingertips rubbed gently, sending a steady stream of throbbing into the softest corner of Jiang Xia's heart. The game has already started, and the atmosphere in the bar is getting hotter and hotter.At this moment, Jiang Xia's heart seemed to release a lot of beautiful colors, flowing from the chest to the whole body.He had never felt such a strong connection between himself and the girl in front of him, yet everything was so natural, as if it flowed from the blood.He didn't even feel sorry for Xiting at all.Time seemed to be frozen at this moment, Jiang Xia hoped that everything would stay still like this, never move. However, Qingzi slowly withdrew his hand, tapped the corner of his eyes with his middle finger, and wiped away the tears.She took a long breath, said sorry, got up and pulled the handbag from the chair and went to the bathroom. Jiang Xia glanced at the Yankees fans who were sitting or standing in front of the bar, they cheered for every good ball hit by their players.The bartender was so busy that he didn't forget to glance at the TV opposite.Jiang Xia leaned on the back of the chair, not understanding how all this happened.But it didn't matter, he didn't even bother to think about it.At this moment, only Qingzi's charming appearance, her eyes, her hands and tears are in his mind. After sitting there for a while, Qingzi still hasn't come out.It must be because after crying for a while, I need to touch up my makeup a little bit. Why did she say that I am twenty-seven years old?After a while of sweetness, Jiang Xia couldn't help thinking about Qingzi's words.The image of Ding Xiwu also gradually appeared in his mind, as well as the happy expression of Qingzi snuggling in another man's arms on the subway.These pictures are slowly devouring his happiness just now. Qingzi really didn't look like he was joking, and it wasn't funny at all.But what she said really made Jiang Xia unable to get the slightest clue.Faintly, Jiang Xia felt something crawling on his face, he sat up straight and quickly wiped it off with his hands.Wet, from the corner of the eye... He actually wept. Jiang Xia seldom shed tears, even his mother wondered why he hadn't seen him cry since he went to middle school.But what happened today?Although he suddenly felt an inexplicable emotion in his heart and went to grab Qingzi's hand, but he didn't feel like crying at all.How did the tears fall? At this time, Ye Guangting entered the door excitedly, squeezed through the crowd of people, and sat down.He speaks broken Cantonese: "Seek Yixi seek Yixi." Jiang Xia gave a simple smile: "What's the matter? Have you sniffed it?" "One word! Everything is going against the odds!" Ye Guangting was very proud, "This girl is crossing the road, so let me take aim. After hanging up your phone, my buddy will go up. This girl is much better than Yang Shan. The key is that she is not that strong." It’s exciting. Do you want a phone number? Okay! Here you are... eh? Where’s Qingzi?” Ye Gongzi was busy showing off his exciting experience of making phone calls with strange girls on the road, only to realize that there was someone missing. "Toilet." "Are you all right? Why are your eyes red?" Jiang Xia shook her head. Ye Guangting turned his head to look at Jiang Xia, and smiled badly. When Zhou Qingzi came out of the bathroom, he had returned to his original tranquility, and his lips were filled with some light-colored lipstick.She waved to Ye Guangting and sat back in her original seat. "Have you eaten yet? Come on, come on," Ye Guangting picked up the chopsticks, "Where's the hamburger I want?" "Yo! I was so busy talking that I forgot!" Jiang Xia greeted the waiter. Qingzi shook his head with a smile and said, "I asked you out today to ask if you want to go out and have fun?" Both Jiang Xia and Ye Guangting looked at Qingzi, as if looking at something strange.This made Qingzi feel a little uneasy: "I want to go out to relax. I also want to talk to you more. You decide the time and place, as long as you leave New York. I will pay the travel expenses, as long as it is not too expensive." "Then how? Either I will go out alone, or Jiang Xia and I will go out. It is our wish to go out with you. What do you say, Professor Jiang? Then who, is Yang Shan going?" Ye Guangting looked at Jiang Xia maliciously. There was a sudden burst of shouting in the bar, startling the three of them.Ye Guangting hurriedly watched TV. It turned out that the Texas Cavaliers hit a home run and scored two points. A man cursed at the back, and the people next to him laughed.Ye Guangting also cursed with a smile. "What are you coaxing? I want to ask Yang Shan to call you yourself. I have time on weekends." Jiang Xia was very happy.He really hoped to have more time with Qingzi, to get to know this mysterious girl, and let her know himself.Qingzi is a person with a story, and he wishes he was the hero of that story. The waiter brought out a large plate, which contained Ye Guangting's cheeseburger, and it was accompanied by scattered golden fries.Ye Guangting rubbed his hands and greeted everyone to eat, and said, "Let's go to Boston. The golden autumn season in New England is like this big hamburger." Changing his Shaanxi accent, "Charm meets hate!" Jiang Xia glanced at Ye Guangting who was feasting, and understood that he just took this opportunity to take himself to confirm the dark room in his dream.This kid usually looks carefree, but he is really a talent! Qingzi smiled, squinting his eyes beautifully: "Okay, I haven't been to Boston yet. You can go to Harvard University." The American next to them looked at them with strange eyes.Jiang Xia knew that it was "dangerous" to mention Boston on New York Yankee territory.Fans of the two arch-rivals are not friendly with each other.Luckily, Lepton was wearing a New York ball cap. Several people reached an agreement to leave on Friday evening and return on Sunday, so they discussed the details of the trip while eating and drinking.When driving Ye Guangting's car, Jiang Xia and Qingzi will share the fuel money.Of course Ye Guangting didn't care about the small money, but he couldn't hold back the two students and agreed.Ye Guangting reminded everyone of a few places to visit, among which, as Jiang Xia expected, he mentioned visiting Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Naturally, he said it very tactfully, as if it was all to satisfy Zhou Qingzi's wish. It was nearly 10:30 after the discussion was over, and New York lost 0-8 miserably.The drinkers were upset and left one after another.Excited are just these three, all looking forward to their weekend trip to Boston.Ye Guangting waved his hand proudly and shouted: "Go Boston!" Jiang Xia looked around with a smirk. A week passed quickly. Jiang Xia conducted two more experiments in public, and another experiment alone with Dr. Schweil.There were not many abnormalities in these three dreams.The three characters Qingzi, Ding Xiwu and Jenquis didn't even appear again.He dreamed that the school gave him a prize of 10,000 US dollars as an experimental subject, and he poured a large stack of green notes into a lockbox, and then walked around the street with a high spirit, constantly tipping beggars on the roadside. Jiang Xia didn't make this record public because he was afraid that his colleagues and Schweil would see the joke.In addition, I dreamed of my parents in China.During these days abroad, he didn't dream about them much.On weekdays, when I have nothing to do, I use the overseas calling card to make a call and go back to greet me. When I have more time, I even chat with my mother through online video.Dad doesn't know much about these new gadgets, but he always pretends to sit next to his mother to read the newspaper, interjecting a few words or turning his face to look at the camera from time to time.Looking at their appearance and listening to their voices, Jiang Xia didn't feel much lovesickness.The parents in the dream are really young, and the family of three enjoy themselves happily.In real life, they are all old this year, and every time they think of Jiang Xia, they feel bad.He hopes that he can serve them by his side and repay them. The weather on Friday was a bit gloomy, and it actually rained for an hour at two or three o'clock.Ye Guangting had no class in the afternoon, so he went home early to pick up the car and filled up the gas.At half past five, Jiang Xia and Zhou Qingzi made an appointment to meet in the square in front of the school library.The two went to buy water and snacks, and when they arrived at the agreed place, Ye Guangting was already waiting for them in his Mustang sports car. "We are still inexperienced." Ye Guangting said while helping to put things into the car, "My road is a traffic jam! If you want to enter and exit New York City at five o'clock on Friday afternoon, you can't even think about it in an hour!" Jiang Xia and Qingzi glanced at each other, stunned for a moment, and said: "It's not that serious, is it? It really can't be a cruise river. Why don't you arrive in Boston at eleven o'clock?" "With your words, I feel at ease, get in the car!" Just as Ye Guangting said, the car was moving out of the city step by step.The yellow taxi honked its horn impatiently and twisted forward, but it could only face the long traffic flow and had no choice but to do anything.Fortunately, the New York Yankees are not playing at home today, otherwise, countless vehicles flocking to the northern part of New York City will make them unable to leave the city before eight o'clock. Jiang Xia's phone rang, it was from Chen Xiting.These days, although he and Xiting have maintained a routine one-to-one phone call every day, the miss for her has indeed faded a lot.Jiang Xia was surprised by her changes.He used to think that he was not a person who would like to change his mind, and he had always been very optimistic about the relationship with Xiting.In his thinking, geographical separation has never been an emotional hindrance.However, since Lepton appeared in his life, he realized some changes in himself.As he pays attention to Qingzi, he finds that the two girls have many similarities, a certain look, a certain movement, a certain casual word.He didn't know if it was because of their similarity that he regarded Qingzi as Xiting's substitute.Maybe it's more because of the mysterious feeling that Qingzi gives people?However, as far as those similarities are concerned, Xiting seems a bit contrived.This is the so-called liking the new and disliking the old, right?This sense of guilt slowly accumulated in Jiang Xia's heart.When Jiang Xia was alone, several times he tried to do some introspection, and he even felt that he had become a very annoying type of person.However, when he thought of Qingzi, the desire to be close to her would eventually prevail. At this time Qingzi was in the car, he felt a little embarrassed, but still connected to Xiting's phone. "Hey, dear, where are you?" Xi Ting asked sweetly on the other end of the phone. Jiang Xia quietly turned down the volume of the handset: "Oh, I'm in Guangting's car. Let's go out for a while..." "Brother, find a CD in your schoolbag and listen to it." Ye Guangting said to Jiang Xia who was sitting in the back row at the right time. Jiang Xia turned around and flipped through her bag.Suddenly he saw a very familiar side face on the taxi on the left, and then it was covered by the people next to him! The rear side windows of Ye Guangting's car are not big, and they are covered with dark window film.Jiang Xia leaned down a little and looked into the car next to him. There is a man and a woman in the back seat of the taxi.The man's head covered more than half of the woman beside him. Jiang Xia tried to change the angle to see the woman's appearance clearly, but failed. "Did you find it?" Ye Guangting became impatient. "It's all for you!" Jiang Xia handed the whole bag to the front row. "How are you doing today?" Jiang Xia asked concerned, still staring at the taxi on the left. "It's still the same, and I have a class for a day." "What are you doing?" Jiang Xia tried not to let Xiting ask herself what she was going to do.He didn't tell Xiting about this trip. "I drove out to buy groceries, hehe." Jiang Xia felt that Xiting's two laughs were very strange. Ye Guangting lowered his head to pick up the CD, not noticing that the car in front had moved a few meters away.The car behind frantically honked its horn to urge Ye Guangting.Jiang Xia covered the microphone with her hands, afraid that Chen Xiting would hear the noise from here. "Damn it. What a fart!" Mr. Ye was not happy, and stopped in place in a fit of anger.The driver behind couldn't help but blew his horn fiercely to vent his anger. Jiang Xia suddenly stood there in a daze!He clearly heard the same horn sound coming from the other end of the phone! "It's so noisy outside," Xi Ting complained, "Maybe everyone is going to Boston to watch a baseball game. You say they play in Boston, why are Rhode Island people going to make fun of it?" "They're all considered New England, right? Of course there are only a few small states in this area that need to take care of each other. Besides, your state doesn't have a baseball team. Of course, it depends on the Red Sox..." Jiang Xia didn't even know what Uli Wutu was talking about, he pressed the phone again with his hand, leaned forward and whispered to Ye Guangting: "Help me honk a few times, two long and one short." "What are you doing?" Ye Guangting and Qingzi both turned their heads to look at Jiang Xia. "Click it, I'll tell you later." Ye Guangting did as he did, with two positives and one negative. Jiang Xia really heard two long and one short horns on the phone!He raised his head to look at the men and women in the car next to him, feeling as if his heart had been hollowed out.The woman straightened up from the arms of the man next to her, raised her face and looked at the busy traffic in the distance with disgust, it was Chen Xiting who it was! Jiang Xia's head exploded with a buzz. "This man is crazy. Are you okay? Your reaction seems to be very slow today." Chen Xiting leaned back into the man's arms and continued talking on the phone. "I'm fine, we're also blocked here. I'll call you later, ah." "Then give me a kiss, Mu!" Jiang Xia hung up the phone, bowed her body and still looked into the car next to her.I saw Chen Xiting put away the phone, but raised his face and kissed the man beside him with a smile. The sky outside the car turned gloomy, and the autumn wind forced in from the gap in the car window swished into Jiang Xia's neck.It was a kind of cold that penetrated into the bone marrow, making his body shiver uncontrollably.Some small heat was generated with the shaking, but it was lost in this boundless despair in an instant. Jiang Xia gasped heavily, not knowing what to do. Ye Guangting felt that something was wrong with Jiang Xia, but he didn't know what to ask him, so he continued to roam around the beautiful girls walking on the street with his eyes.And Qingzi glanced at Jiang Xia with a gloomy expression, then turned around and closed his eyes to rest. No one was talking in the car, so Ye Guangting turned up the music a little.Jiang Xin's old song "Ah Yi Yi" is light and slightly sad and helpless.The crunchy tone of the acoustic guitar is beautifully represented by the in-car stereo.Ye Guangting babbled along with Jiang Xin softly.Qingzi listened to the lyrics quietly: Jiang Xia was very confused.He even hoped that Ye Guangting would turn the car around and go back. What he wanted to do most now was to smoke two cigarettes viciously and then hide in the big quilt and never come out again. After a few blocks, the road conditions gradually improved.Anxious taxis hit the accelerator and overtook them.Ye Guangting also jumped into a run.Jiang Xia glanced blankly at Qingzi, she was listening to the song with her eyes closed, her long eyelashes were trembling. The car quickly got on Highway 95 heading north.Next to it, there are many large and powerful trucks painted in bright colors roaring and galloping, raising white mist on the rain-wet asphalt road. Ye Guangting opened the car window an inch wide, the wind suddenly blew up, and the air in the car also flowed. "Smoke up smoke! It's killing me! Qingzi, don't you mind if we smoke one?" Qingzi smiled: "What can I do in your car?" Jiang Xia took out a cigarette from his schoolbag, and his movements were slack and slow. He put two cigarettes on his lips at the same time, lit them with a lighter, and handed one to Ye Guangting.Taking a big mouthful, Jiang Xia felt the barbed gray-blue smoke slowly eroding every inch of space and every gap in her lungs.The smoke lifted his soul, left his body for a while, rose, spun, and became a lonely ghost without an owner for a while, as if his joy and sorrow had nothing to do with others. Qingzi also opened the window on her side a little, and the wind messed up her hair.She squinted and looked out the window. The car soon entered Connecticut, often referred to simply as "Connecticut."Yale University is located in New Haven, Connecticut, and is connected with Columbia University and Cornell University in New York, Princeton in New Jersey, Harvard and MIT in Massachusetts, and Dartmouth University in New Hampshire. First line, become a famous Ivy League school.Anyone who travels back and forth between New York and Boston knows that when they see New Haven, there are optimistic people who say that the journey is already halfway, and pessimists who say that there is still half the way to go.At this time, the colors of the trees on the roadside gradually increase, and the time to really enjoy the autumn leaves should be at the end of October and the beginning of November.None of the three young people came here to enjoy the leaves, they were thinking about their own things. Jiang Xia kept silent, he didn't even know where to look.His eyes passed between the two people in front of him, staring at the straight road.His heart hurts.This is the pain of feeling cheated, and the deception is being exposed right under your nose!What happened in the past few days has already made him feel uneasy, and he feels that something is wrong, very illogical.He felt that these things were not accidental, yet he had no way of knowing for sure what it was that was disturbing him.The scene just now made him almost forget all the previous doubts. He just wants to know why Chen Xiting lied to him! From the time they met in college to an hour ago, Jiang Xia always thought that Xi Ting loved her as always.From the caring in every phone call to the love for his children when they met, he never thought that he would be deceived, and he was deceived so embarrassingly. When he just graduated, he fell seriously ill and almost died.After being in a coma for about two weeks, he woke up and found himself lying in the Presbyterian Hospital in New York, the same hospital where Ding Xiwu died.It was his parents who contacted authoritative doctors in the United States for him and took him to the United States for treatment.Dad has made many American friends over the years of working in the customs, and many of them are powerful businessmen.They even funded Jiang Xia's medical trip and arranged for a very good doctor to conduct a comprehensive consultation and treatment for him. One month after arriving in the United States, Jiang Xia gradually recovered her sanity.The first thing he did after waking up was to call Xiting who was far away in China.Although from Xiting's tone, Jiang Xia could feel a little strangeness brought about by the separation of time and distance, but it didn't take long for them to restore their previous tacit understanding and concern.After another two months of rehabilitation treatment, he fully recovered.One day, a gentle American——Adam Higgins came to the ward. He was entrusted by Professor Schwell to interview Jiang Xia.It was also recommended by my dad's friend.When Professor Schweil heard about his situation, he proposed to send someone to the hospital for an interview.Of course, Jiang Xia was flattered. After introducing each other, he found that his major in college was very compatible with Schwell's research, and his grades met Schwell's expectations.Adam was completely different back then than he is now.Not only did he not make things difficult, but he also spoke kindly to Schweil.After talking with Jiang Xia alone in the ward for less than 30 minutes, Adam told Schwell about his decision: TOEFL and GRE were exempted, and he was admitted as an exception.This is basically impossible under normal circumstances, but who in the school must jump out to obstruct the person who the professor agrees to accept? While excited, Jiang Xia thought of Chen Xiting.He had imagined countless endings between them, but the final decision was that the two of them worked together to connect Chen Xiting with a school in the United States.A few months later, Chen Xiting successfully came to the United States.Although it is not the most satisfactory in the same city, but it is much more convenient.During the period of contacting the school, both of them were very bitter, but they encouraged each other and never gave up their beliefs.But who would have thought of the distance!distance!Still beat them in such a short time.The way Chen Xiting made out with other men in the car seemed to be a stranger, making Jiang Xia's heart so cold that it couldn't be worse. why why why?Jiang Xia asked himself repeatedly in his heart, but he knew there would be no answer. Ye Guangting suddenly said: "There is a rest stop ahead, I'm going to the bathroom, let's go all the time." Then he turned on the turn signal and went out. The rest station is built next to the expressway, and people who travel by car for a long time can get down there for convenience, or buy some snacks and drinks, and rest and adjust. Standing in front of the urinal, Ye Guangting asked the listless Jiang Xia beside him: "What's the matter, buddy? What happened?" "I do not know how to say." "What happened to Xiting?" Jiang Xia turned her head in Ye Guangting's direction, but she didn't meet his gaze.Jiang Xia didn't answer, it was a tacit agreement. Ye Guangting packed up his clothes and looked at Jiang Xia who was washing his hands. Besides the two of them, there were three or four Americans in the toilet. "Xiting has been lying to me..." Jiang Xia said beside the dryer. "Really? You have to be willing to say that I can help you analyze and analyze." Jiang Xia shook her head: "Don't analyze it, I've seen it all. When she called me before leaving New York, she and a man were in the taxi next to us." Ye Guangting was stunned, this was something he never expected.He began to understand why Jiang Xia asked him to honk at that time.他试图为朋友排解一下却一时不知道说什么，只得问道：“你看清了吗？这事听着可有点儿……太寸了吧。而且我觉得夕亭也不像是那样的人吧？” “我也希望我看错了，”说到这里江夏几乎有些哽咽，“我也希望她不是这样的人……走吧走吧，不说了。” 两个人走出厕所，周轻子已经在车边等了。不断有车辆从高速公路上驶进休息区，也不断有车辆驶出去重新加入行进的车流。轻子瘦长的身影在路灯下显得那么凄冷孤单。 自己何尝不是一个孤独的人呢？江夏想。 “七点多了，估计还有两个小时的路。咱们就在这儿吃点儿东西吧，让我也歇歇，开车久了神经紧张。”叶广庭张罗着去后备箱拿出几瓶水和一些食物，几个人来到一处亭子旁边的草坪上坐下。江夏仍没有说话。 旁边的草地上有人借着昏黄的灯光在遛狗。三个人看着那狗发呆。 “是不是出什么事儿了？”周轻子首先打破沉默。叶广庭看看她又看看江夏，没有作声。 江夏一直在盘着腿漫无目的地摆弄手里的塑料袋，不住地用手指在上面戳出一个一个窟窿来。听了轻子的发问，他停下手中的动作，垂着头左顾右盼却也所视无物。这样待了片刻，江夏发狠一般在右腿上轻轻一拍，站起身走到叶广庭车旁，探身进去拿出自己的手提电脑。 “给你看样东西。”江夏边走边打开电脑，又站住看了看屏幕，然后盘腿坐在周轻子身侧。轻子不知道要给她看什么，她也没有问，只向江夏凑过身子去。叶广庭没有动，他明白最近发生在江夏身边的事迟早应该让周轻子知道。 江夏边启动光盘里的图像边说：“那天在GameOn和你简单提了一句但没细说。最近是发生了很多没办法解释的事情，和你有关系。我觉得应该让你知道一些。也许你还能帮我分析分析，告诉我一些事情。” 轻子抬眼望了望目不转睛盯着屏幕的江夏，眉间凝起一线疑惑。 “你来看，”江夏指着屏幕，“以前和你说过的，我现在正在进行一项关于记录梦境的实验。” 轻子点点头。江夏接着说：“这个技术可以把人的梦记录下来，这上面的图像就是我的梦。你看这段，”江夏把时间调好，“这段梦发生在我第一次见到你之后，确切地说是见到你的第二天。”江夏顿了顿，瞧着周轻子说：“但是录这段梦的时候我还没有见过丁西武。我现在提他你不会太难受吧？” 轻子微微摇了摇头，发丝飘进唇间，她用手轻轻地拨开。 随着画面动起来，屏幕上显示的是白色的床和彩色的标靶。江夏告诉轻子这是他在北京的家。 轻子看了眼江夏又把目光投回到电脑上。叶广庭胡乱吃了些东西，找出烟点上，并不去打搅他们，只偶尔瞥一眼计算机屏幕上的画面。 画面上周轻子穿着亮色丝质的睡衣走了进来。江夏扭头看了看轻子。女孩的脸上出乎意料地并没有太吃惊的样子。她精致的鼻尖被秋风吹得有些泛红，眼睛被屏幕的白光映得格外闪亮。 待到丁西武拿着酒杯走进画面时，江夏按了暂停键，说道：“这应该是丁西武吧？怪就怪在我当时还不认识他，更不知道你们是男女朋友。你们俩的形象怎么会同时出现在我的梦中呢？” 在江夏的想象中，周轻子看到这样的画面，听到他的阐述，应该像他一样惊讶和迷惑。叶广庭也偷偷探了探头看轻子。然而周轻子脸上没有更多表情，甚至垂下了眼。 江夏和叶广庭都在想，是不是这样做太突兀，触碰了周轻子心中刚刚结好的伤疤？毕竟丁西武曾经是她的男朋友，又刚刚以那样残忍的方式结束。 踌躇了片刻，轻子抬起眼帘，转过头来看着两个男孩子。只听她低声说道：“是丁西武没错，但女的不是我……”