"Hey, my name is Nuan Nuan. How about you?" I met Nuan Nuan during a student summer camp on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. I forgot the detailed name of this summer camp, but I only remember keywords like "cultural roots". At that time, I had just passed the oral examination for my master's thesis, and I saw this event on the school's website when I was going through the school leaving procedures. Since I planned to take a month off before entering the workplace, I simply signed up. Fly to Beijing with a few juniors from our school and college students or graduate students from three other schools.

College students from four schools in Beijing are waiting for us. The event will last for eight days and seven nights, and the range of activities will be around Beijing. Four teachers (two in Taiwan and two in Beijing) lead the team, leading this group of about fifty students. The teachers are not much older than us, and we are considered adults, so they are only symbolically responsible for scheduling and other chores, and do not manage us much. Although they are responsible in case something happens, we are the ones who are nervous. When we first met, it was time to prepare dinner. The teachers said to each other polite words such as hard work along the way, okay, please sit down, no, no, please first, please don't be polite; but all the students' faces were tense.

If you have ever had a very heavy sleep, you should know that your skin is almost inelastic when you wake up. That's right, that kind of inelastic tension permeated the faces of all the students. All the people sat at six tables, and within two minutes after the first dish was served, no one touched their chopsticks. The teachers graciously urged everyone to raise their chopsticks, while the students were very quiet. There is no teacher at the table where I sit, and the students at the same table are not only quiet, but I am afraid they have reached the state of silence. Just when the Beijing teacher at the next table persuaded me for the third time, "Everyone, you are welcome", the girl sitting on my left opened her mouth and asked me my name by the way.

"My name is Liangliang. 』I must have been too nervous to blurt out the name. If you're my parent or friend or classmate or anyone who knows me, you'll know it's not my name. "Are you serious?" She said excitedly, "My name is Nuan Nuan and your name is Liang Liang. What a coincidence." Nuan Nuan smiled and became the first student to restore the elasticity of facial muscles. "Comrades, let's start." After finishing speaking, Nuan Nuan picked up the chopsticks with his right hand, turned the chopsticks upside down, and tapped twice on the table; then turned the chopsticks upside down, and arranged his fingers to hold the chopsticks position, then straighten your right hand toward the plate.

Nuan Nuan's movements were light and took a long time, as if she wanted others to follow. It was like a soldier huddled in a trench suddenly saw the commander standing up straight and shouting impassionedly: Go! So they climbed out of the trenches one after another and picked up their chopsticks. Nuan Nuan paused when she picked up the dish to the sky above her own bowl, then turned right 90 degrees and put it into my bowl. "This dish is quite authentic, try it," she said. "this is? "I asked. "Hubei cuisine." Actually, I just wanted to ask what this red and soft thing is, but since she answered that, I had no choice but to ask again: "How do you know it's Hubei cuisine?" "You're asking a very deep question," she replied, "it's written on the sign of the restaurant outside." It seems that I asked a stupid question, and if I want to open it again, I need to ask some really deep questions.

I know that the Taiwanese term for "authentic" is "authentic", and there are too many food shows in Taiwan that have said it. So I won’t ask if the dishes are cooked authentically. Is it because during the War of Resistance against Japan that the dishes had to be cooked in tunnels in order to avoid the bombing of Japanese planes, so there is a persevering fragrance in the dishes, which symbolizes the nation’s hard-working and unyielding spirit? , It evolved to the point where you want to praise the dishes for their authenticity, so you use "authentic" to describe it?

After thinking about it for a while, the esoteric question I asked was: "Are you from Hubei?" "No." Nuan Nuan shook her head, "I'm from Heilongjiang, and I came to Beijing to study at university." "Sure enough. ’ I nodded. "What's wrong?" "You said you were from Heilongjiang, right? ’ “Well.” ‘This is Beijing, it should be in Hebei Province.right? ’ ‘That’s right.’ ‘You haven’t been to Hubei, have you? ’ ‘I’ve never been there. ""This question is also quite profound." Nuan Nuan stopped her chopsticks, hesitated for a while, and then said, "I heard it from someone." "Huh?" 』"After all, you are from Taiwan. I'm a landlord, so I have to pretend to be an expert." Nuan Nuan smiled after finishing speaking.

My nervousness disappeared instantly. Looking around, the students' faces have regained their elasticity, and they will nod and smile at each other when they pick up vegetables and ladle soup. "By the way, my surname is Qin." Nuan Nuan said again, "What about you?" "My surname is Cai." ""Cai Liangliang?" Nuan Nuan laughed suddenly, "Liangliang sounds nice, but with Cai Lian..." "No matter how bright the name is, it will lose its brilliance when it is with Cai Lian." ""Not necessarily." "Really?" "The food is not tasty when it's cold, so eat it while it's hot. Your name is quite philosophical." Nuan Nuan said with a smile, "Your father probably hopes that you should seize the opportunity and work hard as a human being." "Then you Does the name Nuannuan have a special meaning? "I asked.

"When my father thinks it's cold, Nuannuan, Nuannuan yells like this, maybe it won't be cold anymore." She replied. "Your name is better, not profound but artistic. "Thank you." Nuan Nuan smiled. I started to feel uneasy.Because my name is Liangliang, not for the real thing, but for the fake one. I didn't expect that the "cool" that I just blurted out would have so many follow-up developments. I wanted to tell Nuan Nuan that my name is not Liang Liang several times, but I still couldn't catch the good time when my conscience discovered it.

"Why stop chopsticks?" Nuan Nuan turned to me and said, "Hurry up and eat." The meal was already half eaten, and many people started chatting and laughing. Compared with the atmosphere when I first sat down, it really seemed like a world away. Nuan Nuan and I also chatted about Heilongjiang being cold or Taiwan being hot. While chatting, we talked about the topic of place names. I said that in my hometown there are place names such as Suantou, Taibao, and Shuishang. "My hometown is called Budai. "I say. "Is that the cloth bag used to hold things?" Nuan Nuan asked.

"That's right. ""This place name is very interesting." "There is also a place in Taiwan called Nuan Nuan." 』I said in a tone as if I suddenly remembered something. "Are you serious?" "This time it's absolutely true, not fake. "This time? False?" "It's okay." ’ I pretended not to see Nuan Nuan’s suspicious gaze, and hurriedly continued, “Nuan Nuan should be in Keelung. It’s a peaceful and beautiful place with mountains and water. ’”Have you been there?”“I haven’t been to Nuan Nuan either. ’ I smiled, ‘This time it’s my turn to pretend to be an expert. ""How can there be such a gentle and virtuous name?""Well said.Nuan Nuan is indeed a gentle and virtuous name. "Thank you for the compliment." Nuan Nuan smiled. "You're welcome.I'm just telling the truth. "Can you tell me more about Nuannuan?" "As far as I know, during the Qing-French War, the Qing army and the militia confronted the French army across the Keelung River in Nuannuan to prevent the French army from crossing the river." Go south and attack Taipei City. 』After thinking for a while, I said. "What happened later?" "The French army still couldn't cross the Keelung River.Later, the Qing Dynasty negotiated peace, and the French army withdrew from Taiwan. ’ ‘There’s still this history.’ ‘Well. ’ I nodded, ‘It was one of the rare times in the last years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty that we did not lose a battle. Nuan Nuan also nodded, and then fell into deep thought. "I really want to see that place with a warm name." After a few minutes, Nuan Nuan spoke again. "Great. "What kind of place is that? I really want to see it." "Very good." ’ ‘I mean it.’ ‘I know. ’ ‘This is an agreement.’ ‘Huh?Did I promise something? 』"Anyway," with a weird smile on Nuan Nuan's face, "I must go to Nuan Nuan to have a look." I looked at her and didn't answer, trying to feel her desire to go to Nuan Nuan. I know that Nuan Nuan should not be the kind of willful girl who will die for you if you don't take me there; let alone the cruel girl who will die for you if you don't take me there. Maybe the agreement she made was just an agreement with herself. After dinner, we went to a university dormitory, where we spent the next seven nights. Because the meal took an hour longer than expected, and considering that the Taiwanese students had just got off the plane, the scheduled self-introduction was canceled. After all the students were divided into six groups, they went back to their rooms to rest. I was relieved to cancel my self-introduction, because I can't say my name is Cai Liangliang in front of everyone. Four people share a room, men and women are separated (this is helpless, of course). However, when the room was divided, it still caused a small commotion. The names of Taiwanese students are all three characters. As far as I am concerned, in elementary school, junior high school, high school, university, and graduate school, I have never met a classmate with two words. But the names of Beijing students are mostly two characters. Boys' names are fairly recognizable, while some girls' names are very neutral or even masculine. A Taiwanese girl caused a commotion when she found out that her roommates were named Yue Feng and Wang Ke. "Can you imagine a gentle and dignified girl named Yue Feng?" the girl named Yue Feng said in a sad and indignant tone. As for Wang Ke, she was a petite and delicate girl. Yue Feng and Wang Ke are both mysterious and mysterious names. The students began to study each other's names. Some said that three characters sound nice and two characters are easy to remember; While chatting, I forgot to go back to my room. The teachers came over and urged me to go to bed early and get up early tomorrow. On the way back to the room, I just happened to wipe Nuan Nuan, "Liang Liang, see you tomorrow." Nuan Nuan said with a bag. Others looked at me suspiciously, and I thought that the matter of Liangliang would be ruined sooner or later. One of the roommates in the same bed is a junior from my school, and the other two are students from Beijing, named Xu Chi and Gao Liang. Names like Xu Chi and Gao Liang are not esoteric. Since I was about two years older than them, they called me Lao Cai, and my juniors followed suit. The four of us farted and chatted in the room. The Beijing language is called cutting down mountains. I was worried about something cool and tired, so I cut it once and took a rest, chopping once and for all. Closing my eyes, I told myself that this is Beijing, I am under the sky of Beijing, and I have come to Beijing. In order to leave a good impression on the first meeting in Beijing, I must not lose sleep. But I seemed to worry too much, because it didn't take long for me to fall asleep in a daze.