After the divorce, the ex-husband traveled six years ago to learn male virtue

Chapter 62 Quickly Closing the Distance

The sky in late autumn is always extremely blue, and as long as you look at it carefully, you can clear away the gloom in your heart.

Tang Jialin exhaled looking at the distant sky, shook her head and said: "What I want to shoot is not my feeling of visiting my childhood hometown, but to record my childhood memories through the comparison between the present and the past. These are two themes."

Xu Long didn't quite understand, so he simply took out his mobile phone, put on the handheld stabilizer, took a few steps back, and said, "But the process is still worth recording. I'll take a picture of it for you, and I can add it to your memoir in the future."

This statement is very interesting, Tang Jialin did not object, let him shoot.

The two walked to the intersection, crossed the road, turned left and went up a slope, and a tree of fiery red maple leaves came into view.

"Ah, this tree is still there!" Tang Jialin was very pleasantly surprised, and ran all the way to look at the nameplate on the tree, "It's really the tree I had when I was a child, it's amazing."

Xu Long did not approach in a hurry, and first took a panoramic view of her and the maple tree from a distance. This seemed to be a small park with a circle of seats around the maple tree. Although it had been pruned, the canopy was still very wide. One tall and one short, one big and one small, just form a sharp contrast in composition.

"Did you also climb this tree when you were a child?" Xu Long asked as he approached the whole scene.

Tang Jialin turned to look at him, and said with a broken smile, "No, when I was young, this tree was not so tall."

Xu Long walked up to her, raised his head together with her, pointed the camera at the beautifully shaped and vast tree canopy, and couldn't help sighing: "It's so beautiful."

"Yes, it's so beautiful." Tang Jialin sat down on the chair with Xu Long, "But where was this place before?"

Looking at the unfamiliar scene across the street, she thought about it for a while before remembering: "Ah, it's a kindergarten! It's the kindergarten I went to when I was young, and my mother works here."

"Do you remember what happened in kindergarten?" Xu Long asked.

"I don't remember much, I only have an impression of some things."

"Like what?"

"I remember that the principal liked me very much, because I love singing and dancing, I don't have stage fright, and I can recite poems."

Xu Long was very interested: "Is there a performance for everyone to watch?"

"Yes, it's a kindergarten practice to let children perform on Children's Day." Tang Jialin laughed and complained, "My family album should have photos from that time."

"Then there should be many little boys who like you?"

Tang Jialin stood up tactically, "I don't remember, let's go."

Xu Long followed her for another 10 minutes, and finally saw the gate of the No. [-] Primary School in Zhujiang City.

"Want to go in and have a look?" Xu Long asked.

Tang Jialin shook her head: "This is no longer my alma mater." She never went to this school, "Just take a few photos and compare them with the old photos of my home."

She took pictures with the camera by herself, and Xu Long took pictures of her by the side, and stopped by, "What did you look like in elementary school?"

"Hmm..." he asked, Tang Jialin really didn't know how to answer for a while.

"What is the happiest thing you remember?" Xu Long changed the question.

"Xiaoshengchu ranks first in the whole school."

Xu Long: "..."

Seeing him stunned, Tang Jialin asked, "Isn't this something to be happy about? I have never passed the first grade exam in six years of elementary school. I passed the most important exam. I was really proud for a long time. In order to reward me, my parents, Spend a huge sum of [-] yuan to buy me a bicycle."

"Uh, I just didn't expect it," Xu Long came back to his senses and cheered, "Congratulations!"

Tang Jialin was amused by his congratulations, "Do you feel worthy of being a Chinese student, and the stereotype has increased."

Xu Long nodded approvingly: "Yeah."

Tang Jialin turned around and walked back, "Let's go, let's go back and drive to the next stop."

"Apart from No.1, is there nothing else to be happy about?" Xu Long didn't give up.

"Yes, at the sports meeting, I won the No.2 relay competition with my classmates, and the prize is a pair of table tennis bats..."

"Can you play ping pong?"

"Not very good." Tang Jialin smiled, "This stereotype must be broken, not every Chinese can play table tennis."

Xu Long didn't believe it: "Grandpa also said he wasn't very good at it. I said I would. I learned it in the school club. He said try playing a game. Guess what?"

The ending is too easy to guess, "You lost?"

Xu Long nodded aggrievedly: "I only got one point."

If it weren't for being on the street, Tang Jialin would have laughed out loud. She suppressed it and comforted Xu Long: "Don't worry, I'm not like your grandpa, I'm really not good at it. I just touched the racket once." Twice, and then it went directly to my dad."

"Is your father good at table tennis?"

"It should be okay. Their unit has held competitions, and he has won awards."

Xu Long immediately showed a look of admiration, and at the same time couldn't help complaining: "You Chinese, can you not be humble, you have won awards, is it okay?"

"It's not a formal competition, it's just an internal competition among the employees of their unit."

"How many people are there in the unit?"

"There were hundreds of people at that time...but not everyone participated."

"It doesn't matter. If my dad won the prize in a competition with his colleagues, we must brag like he won the Olympics."

Tang Jialin was amused, and became curious about Xu Long's family, "What does your father do?"

"He's an engineer. He makes cars."

Tang Jialin was surprised: "What a coincidence, my father is also in the car company, but he is not an engineer, but a safety supervisor."

"My father is not even a supervisor, but an engineer." Xu Long paused the recording on his mobile phone, "He is very interested in high-speed rail, and he plans to travel to China with my mother after retirement and take the high-speed rail."

Tang Jialin remembered that his father was of mixed race, so she asked, "Can he speak Chinese?"

"It's only very simple, but he can understand some daily conversations. When he was a child, he would occasionally go to live with his grandmother...ah," Xu Long stretched out an index finger, "he can understand curse words."

"Push."

"He said his grandmother was very swearing, and he heard it too much when he was a child."

The two chatted and walked back to the parking place, and drove to the first building Tang Jialin lived in after the demolition.

"This is a room in a middle school district. Do you know what a school district room means?"

Xu Long nodded: "I know. It's a very expensive house."

Tang Jialin smiled: "It was okay back then, but because it is not far from the Fourth Primary School and the First Middle School, it is an intermediate location. My parents bought a house here after the demolition."

"You seem to be relatively ordinary here."

Because Tang Jialin didn't even get out of the car, the two of them were sitting in the car, looking at the buildings and talking.

"Well, because I only lived here for six years, I graduated from junior high school, and I went to the city to study high school. My parents thought the community environment here was not good, and the heating in winter was mediocre, so they sold the house and replaced it with a newly built elevator room."

In fact, her parents bought a new house at that time, and their savings were enough, so they didn't need to sell the house. However, considering that Tang Jialin had already gone to the city to study high school and was admitted to university in the future, it was impossible for her to return to live in this small place of Zhujiang, so the house was reserved for rent. There is not much money, so it is better to sell it and go to the city to buy another set.

But there's no need to talk about this kind of private matter.

"Where is the next stop?" Xu Long asked.

Tang Jialin looked at the time, it was almost 11 o'clock, it was not polite to go to grandma's house at this time, and was just in time for lunch, so she said, "Go home and get the photo album, and then go to my grandma's house in the countryside after lunch."

Her parents had dinner at work at noon, and there was no one at home. Tang Jialin drove back directly to the downstairs of the house and asked Xu Long, "Do you want to go up, or wait here?"

"Is it convenient for you at home?"

Tang Jialin thought for a while: "I don't know either, I'll go up and have a look first, get off the car and wait for me."

She took the keys to the house, first went upstairs and looked inside and outside the house, and there was no one there, and the house was tidy, so she called Xu Long and asked him to come up.

When Xu Long entered the door, he first sighed: "Wow, your house is so clean."

Tang Jialin brought him a pair of slippers, "Yes, my mother is very clean, so..."

Xu Long has lived in China for several years, and he also understands the habits of Chinese people, so he changed into slippers accordingly.

Tang Jialin took out all the photo albums at home and put them on the coffee table, opened them together with Xu Long, and arranged them in chronological order.

"Let's take this one directly." Otherwise, if it's too much, take it away, her mother will definitely notice, and she will have to explain it when the time comes.

"OK." Xu Long switched the camera to shooting mode, "The light in your house is quite good."

It was close to noon, and the living room facing south was really well lit, but Tang Jialin didn't know what it would look like, so Tang Jialin asked, "Don't you need to turn on the lights to fill in the light?"

"It shouldn't be necessary, let's take a test shot first."

Tang Jialin took out the earliest one, "This is a photo of me at the full moon. If it weren't for the words on the photo, I would never recognize it as me."

Xu Long tweeted a close-up of the photo, looked at the chubby baby in the photo, and said with a smile: "I can recognize it, the eyes and eyebrows haven't changed."

"Don't you feel like a boy?"

"Emmm, it's okay, babies can't tell gender very well, I was often recognized as a girl when I was young."

Tang Jialin suddenly looked over with bright eyes: "Really? Show me."

"..." Xu Long regretted it very much, "We are filming."

"Isn't it a trial shot? It's all right here." Tang Jialin was very interested in Xu Long's appearance when he was a child, "Do you have any photos when you were a child?"

Xu Long stopped recording and showed Tang Jialin the replay. After searching for a while with his phone, he found a photo and showed it to her.

Tang Jialin took the phone and exclaimed first: "It's so beautiful! It's too cute. Is this really you?"

The child in the photo looks to be only three or four years old, with fluffy and shiny blond hair, clear blue eyes, skin as white as snow, holding a handful of red gerbera in his arms, looking at the camera and smiling like a little angel .

Xu Long didn't want to answer, but Tang Jialin could already see his shadow from the little angel's bright smile, and couldn't help sighing: "I really can't tell whether it's a boy or a girl."

"Thank you for not directly saying like a girl."

Tang Jialin returned the phone to him, and couldn't help being curious: "Did your mother wear a skirt for you?"

"No!" Xu Long returned quickly, "How is it? Just shoot like this?"

Tang Jialin didn't look at the trial footage carefully just now, but when she heard that she picked up the camera and played it again, Xu Long just breathed a sigh of relief when she suddenly said, "No wonder Grandma Pang called you Longlong."

It's an appropriate nickname.

Xu Long: "...what's wrong with Longlong?"

Tang Jialin blinked innocently: "It's very cute. It sounds like a beautiful child."

"..."

As Tang Jialin has always been a person, she would not be so casual about a boy she has only met a few times—especially a foreigner—but it may be the communication about childhood in the morning that made her open the door with clear boundaries , quickly shortened the distance between each other.

"Thank you," Xu Long simply shrugged and stopped resisting, "You are beautiful too."

Tang Jialin watched the test shot with a smile, "It's pretty good, as long as it can capture the texture of old photos, I don't need to tweet close-ups. I don't want everyone to see my full moon photos so clearly."

She handed the camera to Xu Long, and pointed to the photos on the album, "These few photos are just for a panoramic view, and later, like these few photos, with courtyard houses and trees, tweet a close-up..."

The two discussed and started filming. From Tang Jialin's birth to elementary school, it took almost an hour to shoot.

"Are you hungry?" Tang Jialin was a little hungry, and she suddenly realized that she hadn't poured water for Xu Long while she was looking for a photo album, so she stood up quickly, "Are you thirsty? I'll get you some water."

She was a little thirsty herself.

Xu Long stretched out his hand to flip through the photo album, wanting to see how many photos he hadn't taken yet. He accidentally flipped to the front and asked in surprise, "Are these your parents?"

There was no bottled water at home, so Tang Jialin poured two cups of cold boiled water out of the kitchen, saw the photo pointed by Xu Long, and nodded: "Yes, this seems to be their wedding photo, huh?"

"Is this your yard?"

"Yes."

Tang Jialin also just discovered that the photos of her parents when they got married showed the courtyard structure of their house very clearly. Just as she was about to take these photos, footsteps came from outside the gate, and then the key was inserted into the lock.

"It's broken, my mother is back."

Tang Jialin panicked, looked left and right, wanted to tell Xu Long to hide, but before she could speak, the key turned twice, and the door opened.

"Ouch!" Sun Yueqin was startled when she saw someone at home when she entered the door, and when she saw that it was Tang Jialin, she was shocked again when she saw that the person sitting on the ground was a foreigner before scolding her.

Tang Jialin laughed dryly, pulled Xu Long to stand up, "Mom, have you eaten yet?"

"..." Sun Yueqin glared at her, "Why didn't you tell me when you got home?"

"Hehe, I just came back, so I didn't take care of it. So what..." Tang Jialin turned around and introduced, "This is a friend who came to help me take pictures. His name is Xu Long."

Xu Long showed his signature smile: "Hello."

"Hello..." Sun Yueqin didn't speak to foreigners before, she was a little confused, "I can speak Chinese."

"Yes, he is an overseas student."

Sun Yueqin finally came back to her senses, put the spare ribs in her hand on the shoe cabinet, changed into her slippers, and asked, "Have you two eaten?"

Tang Jialin and Xu Long said at the same time: "I have eaten." "No."

"..."

"..."

Sun Yueqin glared at her daughter again, then put on a smiling face and looked at Xu Long, "Then let me make something for you, what do you like to eat, child?"

Xu Long took a look at Tang Jialin this time.

"Don't look at her, just tell auntie what you want to eat."

Xu Long thought about what his Chinese friends taught him, and said sincerely, "Anything is fine."

Tang Jialin couldn't hold back, she smiled, stepped forward to take the ribs from her mother, and asked, "Whatever is there at home, just make some. I'll be with you, Xu Long, take a rest first."

When the mother and daughter entered the kitchen, Sun Yueqin closed the door behind her and asked Tang Jialin in a low voice, "What's the matter with this foreigner?"

　It's not good to break the chapter today, let's update it together

　　
　
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