Chapter 205 Awkward Reminiscing in Oslo
Although Norway's industry is not as large and comprehensive as China's, it is still a heavy industrial power with specializations. Especially in electrolytic aluminum, hydropower engineering and cruise ship manufacturing, Norway ranks high in the world.
NorskHydroA.S. is a giant in the global aluminum industry and a famous company ranked among the world's top 500. Of course, no matter how awesome Hydro is, it has nothing to do with Zhuo Yang, a professional player and pianist. We talk about it because Zhuo Yang’s former confidante Rose Sun Sun Yumei works here.
Last summer, Yu Mei finally graduated from the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of London. After a short break, she applied to Oslo, the capital of Norway, and became an assistant engineer at Hydro.
In fact, judging from her appearance, Yumei is not compatible with the profession of engineer at all. She is more like a young literary girl full of economics, rather than a capable and sassy woman with a scientific temperament. She seems to be running a pink and elegant Internet celebrity store. More suitable for her.
Seriously, Zhuoyang and Yumei haven't seen each other for a while. The last official meeting was in Milan, when the Green Wind Band held a concert in San Siro. Not counting the time on New Year's Day last year, Yu Mei saw Zhuo Yang behind the velvet curtain, but Zhuo Yang didn't see her.
From that day on, Zhuoyang and Yumei really lost contact. Not only did they no longer talk on the phone, they didn't even have the most basic daily greetings. A text message during the New Year and holidays was the only contact with each other.
Sometimes Zhuoyang thinks about it and feels quite regretful. Once upon a time, his mobile phone was like a hotline. Li Xiaoqing, Midel, Sun Yumei, Kexi, and for a while, Fia Meta and Lindsay will be added. There are six people in total. Beauties, big and small, lined up to grab his call, and it was really lively in their spare time.
Slowly, everyone gradually became alienated for their own reasons. The most important thing was that the appearance of Kou Kou made Zhuo Yang take the initiative to cool down the heat of the porridge. There should only be a bowl of porridge in his world.
Zhuo Yang knew that Yu Mei was working in Oslo and was told by English singer Jenna Pence. Perhaps because they have always been in the purest heterosexual friendship, without a trace of ambiguity floating around, Zhuoyang and Jenna have always maintained normal contact. At the beginning of this year, Jenna went to Barcelona to hold a fan meeting for the album signing and release, and she even brought a large package of gifts to Kou Kou who was staying at Zhuoyang during the winter vacation.
When he came to Oslo this time, Zhuo Yang wanted to meet Yu Mei. He had been working for a year and had never cared about her. She was not at all like how she should have been when she was young.
I came to Oslo to play a friendly match with the Chinese national team and the Norwegian team. Four days ago at Wembley, the Chinese team lost 1:3 to England. Zhuo Yang only played in the second half and scored the team's only goal in the 73rd minute.
That game is over,
Zhuo Yang thought of Yu Mei, because Wembley Stadium is very close to the University of London School of Engineering where Yu Mei once studied, and Zhuo Yang had been there before. Seeing things makes me think of people. Anyway, we were good friends in the past.
At the Ullvar Stadium, the Chinese team and Norway tied 1:1. The captain of the Norwegian team, Bred Hanglund, a two-meter-tall center back who plays for Fulham in the Premier League, scored a header in the corner kick. . The Chinese team was no ambiguity either. Captain Zhuo Yang, who came on the scene in the second half, used free kicks near the sideline and his tricky passing routes to assist Feng Xiaoting to hit the top and return the favor.
Being able to evenly score headers against the Norwegian team, which is full of high players and has as many aerial bullies as dogs, shows that the "Chinese leading team" of the past is still vaguely there.
The day after the game, those in the team who were due to go back to China returned to China, and those who were due to travel from all directions returned to the club. Zhuo Yang deliberately stayed for a long time and caught up with Yu Mei in the afternoon.
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"How are you... lately? How are you?" Zhuo Yang's opening remarks were very corny in the corridor of the Norwegian National Museum of History and Culture.
Zhuoyang is not familiar with Oslo, and this is his first time here. He chose to reminisce with Yumei at the museum because the museum was very close to the Continental Hotel where he was staying, more than 300 meters away, which made it convenient for him to live in a place he was unfamiliar with.
Furthermore, other places, such as hotels and restaurants, are not very suitable, not for meals, and more importantly, we should not let Kou Kou, who is far away in Barcelona, worry. The museum is very particular, with a strong atmosphere of elegance, but it is relatively quiet in public, so it is perfect for talking alone.
"Hmm... not bad, still the same." Yu Mei smiled lightly.
Having said that, Zhuo Yang still clearly felt the changes in her, especially compared to the time when they lived together in Hannover day and night, Yu Mei had matured a lot, and her short hair exuded a sense of competence. It seems that studying science and engineering may not necessarily change a girl, but working as an engineer seems to interfere with her temperament.
Zhuo Yang has not seen Yu Mei for more than two years. In fact, she is older, two years older.
Zhuo Yang didn't mention Yu Mei's discreet visit to the Warsaw concert last year. Although he didn't fully understand her purpose that day, since Yu Mei didn't want him to know, he could guess a little bit.
With Yumei's intelligence, she would have thought that Mark could not hide it from Zhuo Yang, but since Zhuo Yang didn't ask, she would not explain it anymore. The tacit understanding and respect between old friends remains as strong as ever.
The tacit understanding is indeed still there, but since they haven't contacted each other for a long time, the relationship has slowly grown. After the dry exchange of greetings, the two of them didn't know what to say for a moment. Zhuoyang's affairs are all in the newspapers, so there is no need to ask any more, but Yumei's life is simple and boring, and a few sentences are enough to explain clearly.
"Kexie and I broke up."
"I heard, Jenna told me."
Yu Mei and Kexie Piernan ended their eight-year relationship, but they did not fall out of love and become enemies. On the contrary, they still kept in touch like ordinary friends. Zhuoyang also heard from Jenna that Kexi already had a new lover.
"Yumei, are you...still alone?"
"Well... it happened last year, but at the beginning of this year he went to the United States to work, so forget it." Yu Mei paused. "It's a Swede,...it's 'him', he..."
‘he’ means ‘him’, not ‘her’, and Yumei is talking about her ‘boyfriend’. Zhuo Yang is a smart person, not to mention such an obvious special explanation, but it is even more difficult for him to appear curious and ask questions, and the conversation between them fell into silence again.
For a long time, Zhuo Yang was at a loss for words: "Norway is very good, and its social security is top-notch in Europe, and it's not bad compared to China."
"It's okay. It's best not to stay out for too long at night. There have been more immigrants in the past two years. It's not like there aren't scary things happening. There was an attempted murder in our company not long ago..."
As if she had found something to talk about, Yu Mei kept telling Zhuo Yang about the case that happened around her not long ago. The two men and women, who had not seen each other for a long time and had been slightly ambiguous, now only talked about other people's gossip.
A good man will consciously not give his woman a chance to be suspicious! Zhuo Yang did not put the old memories in the hotel, or in the evening when the time was more pleasant, just to catch the evening flight back to Kou Kou. Without much words, it was time for Zhuo Yang to go to the airport, and the two said goodbye to each other with blessing smiles.
After Zhuo Yang left, Yu Mei kept making assumptions: If I had agreed to his confession that year on the top of the mountain in Greenwich, what would happen to us now?
Zhuo Yang on the flight was still thinking about the story Yu Mei told, a bloody scene in which two women competed for a man and the woman stabbed the man seriously. The woman in the story naively thought: If I make him disabled, she will give up on him, and he will only belong to me.
This is really a ridiculous and interesting logic.
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