It's eight o'clock in the evening in California, and outside the airport, it's already dark and gloomy.
Tang Yili opened the website of the General Administration, hoping to see the address of the athletes' collective stay. Just like in Osaka, if they booked a hotel, she could go directly there.
But after searching around, I found that there was no useful information on it, so it was better to ask Cheng Zhun directly.
Tang Yili clicked on WeChat again, but suddenly found that Wei Ran had approved her friend application.
She didn't even hesitate and immediately dialed the voice call.
Wei Ran picked up the answer and asked, knowingly: "Miss Tang, why did you remember to add me on WeChat?"
No matter how bad Tang Yili's temper is, he can only endure it now.
"Do you have Xun Lang's phone number? I can't contact him."
"Me neither, sorry."
Tang Yili asked in a good voice, "Then is he with you?"
"Not here."
Tang Yili almost collapsed due to the frustration of running into obstacles at every turn.
"Then how can I find him?"
Wei Ran said mischievously: "You come to the United States to find him."
It was obvious that Wei Ran did not want to provide any help to Tang Yili, but instead deliberately made things difficult for her.
Just at this time, the airport announcement sounded, and a female voice with American pronunciation was making an emergency weather forecast.
The sound was so loud that the other end of the phone heard it.
Wei Ran's voice tightened and he asked Tang Yili, "Where are you."
Feeling wronged and out of control, Tang Yili breathed hard to stop himself from crying and said.
"Airport."
United States, California, San Diego Airport.
Wei Ran gasped heavily, and finally turned into gritted teeth, "Are you really here?!"
"Are you crazy, Tang Yili?!"
"Let me tell you, everyone in the media is criticizing Xun Lang's withdrawal from the competition. Please stop making trouble, okay? What can you do to help him by coming here? Aren't you just causing trouble for him?"
Tang Yili cried: "I just want to take a look at him without disturbing him. I promise you can look at me and I will never appear in front of him."
"No, I can't help you."
"Then I will go to your camp by myself."
Wei Ran: "He's not in the camp. Please stop making trouble, okay."
"Go back quickly."
He seemed to have seen the weather outside, or felt that he had been exposed.
Wei Ran immediately changed his mind: "How about this? I'll go find you and let you stay here tonight. We'll talk about it tomorrow morning when the weather gets better."
Tang Yili is not stupid either: "I'm going to see him tonight."
She hung up the phone and went to the airport information desk. As a tourist, she asked where the World Championships would be held and where the athletes lived.
The service staff were very enthusiastic. Although they didn't know where the Chinese team would be, the World Championships was a big event. They gave Tang Yili the address of the stadium and told her that there would be a game tonight.
At this time, Wei Ran called again. He was already furious.
"If you weren't a woman, I would have rushed over and hit you!"
Tang Yili: "Then tell me where Xun Lang is, or his phone number."
"Xun Lang is really not in the camp." Wei Ran paused and then said: "The teammates he met during training in the United States retired after this competition. They held a party and asked him to come over. He was already driving in the afternoon.
Been gone for a long time."
Tang Yili: "Where is the party?"
…
Tang Yili hailed a taxi outside the airport and gave the address given by Wei Ran.
The driver was a white uncle with a bit of bald head. He kept saying that in such bad weather, you have to pay extra to go to such a far place.
Tang Yili didn't care about money, and adding five times or ten times was not a problem. However, considering her personal safety, she still tried her best to bargain with the other party, pretending to be in a tight situation, and finally settled on 30% of the price.
tip.
When the car set off, the snow had already fallen. An hour later, when we arrived at the street in the navigation, the white snow was already ankle deep.
A series of short houses stand sparsely in the snowy landscape, with warm light seeping out of the windows, like a world in a European fairy tale.
Tang Yili got out of the car, but was not sure which house No. 85 was.
Snow flakes fell on the eyelashes like goose feathers, and the weather was so cold that it made one's teeth chatter. Tang Yili put the hat of his black down jacket on his head, passed the window, and looked in.
Black Martin boots, a line of footprints can be guessed in the untouched snow.
In this kind of weather, no one will go out, so gathering around the table and having family reunions is the best choice.
Tang Yili was a little envious of others and looked for Xun Lang even more anxiously.
The first one, no.
The second one, no.
When we arrived at the third house, there was indeed a party going on inside. There were men and women, very tall, in a small room that almost reached the roof. Everyone was laughing and having a good time.
It should be here.
But Tang Yili lay at the window and looked for a long time, but Xun Lang was nowhere to be seen.
Twenty-four hours have passed since he announced his retirement. Will he really come to the party?
Is he in a better mood?
Tang Yili was troubled by various questions. He clasped his fingers on the window lattice and wanted to press his face against it, just to find out.
Many years later, Xun Lang still remembered the scene of Tang Yili lying on someone else's window, like a little thief, which was both ridiculous and pitiful, and caught him off guard.
"Tang Yili?"
Xun Lang looked at it for a long time before he was sure that he had read it correctly.
Tang Yili, who had traveled half the world, froze, then suddenly turned around, and the corners of his mouth turned downward uncontrollably.
She wanted to cry, but had to hold back.
Finally, the smile turned into an awkward expression.
"Xun Lang..."
The breath in her mouth dissipated instantly, and she shivered from the cold.
Xun Lang walked over with the sound of crunching snow, "Why are you here?"
"I...I, I'm coming to find you."
There was sparkling water in Tang Yili's eyes, crystal clear. On this snowy night, there was no trace of starlight. Only this bright spot made Xun Lang look at it for a long time.
He stood with a straight body, like a silent ice stream with deep snow. After a long time, he said, "Go in, it's cold outside."
He walked in front and pushed open the door. It was as if demons and ghosts rushed out of the room and music bombarded him.
Tang Yili followed and walked in, only attracting the attention of some people.
The host of the party, James, who had just announced his retirement, came back with a smile on his face and asked: "Xun, you still haven't left after all... Oh, you also brought us new friends."
Tang Yili smiled, and James was startled.
Some people always say that the beauty of the East that Westerners accept is red and phoenix eyes and slender eyebrows, but the real beauty can be found in both the East and the West.
Tang Yili belongs to the latter group. Even if she flies for a long distance and does not apply makeup, beauty is beauty and cannot be evaluated.
James and a few people around him came together and insisted on being introduced by Xun Lang.
Xun Lang said sternly: "I met a friend of mine when I went out. The weather is bad tonight and the car can't start, so we won't leave."