The wind and rain of the past, the return of the deceased in the morning and evening.

When Lin Jian left, he said that he had nothing to take with him, and so it was. He left alone, leaving all the imprints of the past ten years behind.

Six months before he parted ways with Shen Ke, his UCAS application was successfully approved and he became a first year student at Cambridge University in the UK.

Lin Jian began traveling between the school and Heathrow Airport on a monthly basis.

In the first year after parting with Lin Jian, Shen Ke and Pi Dan moved out of the original residence and locked up the garden house as if sealing up a memory of the past.

Six months after parting ways with Shen Ke, Lin Jian left the UK and traveled across the ocean to the eastern half of the United States to continue his undergraduate studies in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.

By this point, he continued to begin traveling between the College and Philadelphia International Airport with a frequency of once a month.

The year after he parted ways with Lin Jian, Shen Ke turned down a family business blind date arranged by his parents, and since then no one has ever mentioned anything to him about it, leaving him in peace.

The year after he parted ways with Shen Ke, Lin Jian was transferred to a new tutor for his major course. The German professor, who was always strict and rigid, praised him for the spirituality in his works and for his artistic style, which resembled that of a Chinese student he had taught many years ago.

In addition, he continues to travel between the College and the Philadelphia airport as often as once a month.

In the third year after his separation from Lin Jian, Shen Ke traveled to London on business, but booked a hotel in Cambridge, some ninety kilometers away from London. During that week, he would always walk to the world's top university at night and stop by the Cambridge Bridge for a long time.

People came and went all around him, with different faces, but he never stumbled upon the one he was thinking about.

In the third year after his separation from Shen Ke, Lin Jian completed his undergraduate studies ahead of schedule and pursued a postgraduate degree in the same field. Because he was too outstanding and dazzling, one after another, some classmates began to express their feelings of affection and love for him, both boys and girls.

But he's forever politely and detachedly refusing, on the grounds that he already has a favorite.

Other than that, he continues to commute between the Academy and the Philadelphia airport with a frequency of once a month.

In the fourth year after he parted ways with Lin Jian, the business territory of Shen Group was expanding and its overseas influence was increasing. Shen Ke's overseas trips took up most of his workload in a year, and he flew from one country to another like a trapeze artist. However, he left all the business in the area near London to the executive president, and he never went to that city again.

In the fourth year after parting ways with Shen Ke, Lin Jian won the Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Award and the Sir Geoffrey Jericho Award for a set of designs, making him an up-and-coming designer with a strong reputation in the industry.

Other than that, he continues to commute between the Academy and the Philadelphia airport with a frequency of once a month.

In the fifth year after parting with Lin Jian, "Lin Xiaobai", who had decades to live, died of an illness, and Shen Ke buried the ashes of the little white horse after incineration in the "Lok Fun Garden".

That night without wind or moon, Shen Ke stayed in the garden side of the building, looking out of the window lattice full of exotic flowers, seriously thinking about a person I do not know if I have grown up properly.

On the eve of his graduation from graduate school in the fifth year after his separation from Shen Ke, Lin Jian received an offer from a famous design institute in Hong Kong. Originally, with his academic qualifications and awards, he could have received an astronomical salary from any design institute abroad, but he eventually replied with a letter of acceptance.

During his final year abroad, he continued to commute between the college and the Philadelphia airport with a frequency of once a month.

Time bucket turn, white horse past the gap, the wheel of the year round and round, counting the deep love and thoughts that can't be said.

*

In early fall, the nights in the north have taken on a dry coolness.

The large office area was already empty, with only the windowed workstations still lit with office lights.

Youth wearing black casual suit pants, simple style white shirt, is against the design drawings of the manuscript to modify the electronic program, to confirm that there is no error, and then the final draft of the PPT together to improve and modify the final version.

The office area is running a constant temperature fresh air system, shirt cuffs casually pulled up two folds, revealing a section of lean white wrist, forehead hair loose fall, soften a hint of coldness between the eyebrows, workplace light light bar lighting on the body, his whole person seems to be wrapped in a hazy cold-tone light and shadow, columns of pines such as emerald, but also cold and detached.

Lin Jian has been working in Hong Kong for half a year since he returned to China, but now that the project team has returned to the northern inland area for the first time, the dryness of the air index has made him feel a little uncomfortable.

It seems that it really has been too long away.

Lin Jian is currently working in this design institute is a Hong Kong-funded enterprises, counting on the industry's leading geese sequence, when Lin Jian hand two top international awards to work, in addition to the design institute's reputation in the industry, the operation of Class A landscape architecture level, including overseas landscape architecture project consulting and surveying, design and supervision and general contracting qualifications, but also to attract him to join the important reasons. .

Design Institute in three months ago, shortlisted a northern city park of municipal engineering primary bidding, and after several fights, now the project to the most critical stage of bid evaluation, shortlisted for the final link of a total of three companies, and the bid evaluation will be set in a week, so the project team responsible for this project came to the location in advance, in the emerging industrial park this side of the rented a close to the project site of the office space, which can be seen, they design institute for this project is imperative. Their design institute is imperative to this project.

Dozens of billions of projects, by the design institute vice president of the project team leader directly, the preparation of the design mission statement and construction drawings stage, the entire project team has spent a great deal of effort, now success or failure in this fight.

The silent clock on the wall pointed to ten o'clock, and Lin Jian pinched his brow, and just as he was about to pick up his glass of water to moisten his dry throat, he realized that there was no water left in the glass at all.

He rubbed his stiff neck with his backhand and was about to get up to get water from the pantry when the door to a separate office in the innermost position of the office area was pushed open.

Lin Jian stopped with his empty cup in his hand and looked at the man walking out of the office, nodding his head in greeting, "Team leader."

Fang Jingwei, the vice president, is a native of Hong Kong City, but speaks extremely fluent and standardized Mandarin. He appears to be only in his early thirties, but behind the scenes of the design institute, it is widely rumored that he is already over forty, but he is extremely young in appearance, and he has a suave and elegant Hong Kong City gentleman's style in the way he acts and walks, coupled with his still being unmarried and his sexuality is still a mystery, therefore, he has been rightfully honored to be the " Diamond" single man top chair of the institute. He is also unmarried and has an obsessive sexual orientation, so he deservedly ranked as the top "Diamond Class" single man in the hospital.

This time, because it is an independent project team, so usually the members of the team basically call him "team leader", and occasionally shout "boss" as a joke.

Even though it was just the beginning of fall, Fang Jingwei had already put on a standard business three-piece suit, and when he saw that Lin Jian was still there, he couldn't help but smile and say, "It's this time of the year, why don't you go back to your apartment and rest?"

The living apartment rented by the project team was also in the living area of the park, very close to the office area. Lin Jian was not interested in making small talk, and only gave a casual "hmmm" and said, "I'll be leaving in a while." After saying this, he raised the water cup in his hand toward Fang Jingwei and walked toward the pantry.

"Lin Jian, wait a minute." Fang Jingwei called out to Lin Jian, still wearing a warm smile on his face.

Lin Jian turned at his words, "Anything else?"

Fang Jingwei speaks Mandarin with a very nice tone of voice in Cantonese: "I'd like to ask, how sure are you about this last version of the bidding design?"

Lin Jian subconsciously rubbed the cup with his thumb and replied, "The design is the result of the cooperation of the whole team, I can't make this kind of conclusion myself, but jumping out of the project team member's identity, but from a professional point of view, I think there is a lot of hope."

The youth stood there as a whole, answering the question at an unhurried pace, yet perhaps because the tone of his voice was on the cold side, his personal aura was very apparent between words, indifferent and sharp, yet cold and simple.

"You are too conservative." Fang Jingwei said, "The whole project you have contributed the most to the design concept in the early stage, including the first few versions of the design drawings are mostly the presentation and expression of your artistic ideas, why, do not you have confidence in yourself?"

The admiration and praise in his voice was not hidden, but Lin Jian was not overjoyed by the praise, but simply said, "I have confidence, but I don't dare to take credit for it."

Fang Jingwei raised his eyebrows slightly at the words, and then a deeper smile spread under his eyes, "In that case, I'll give you a chance to build up your skills, and you'll be the keynote speaker at the bid evaluation meeting a week from now."

Lin Jian was slightly stunned, then frowned very lightly, "Team Leader, this is inappropriate."

"There is nothing inappropriate." Fang Jingwei seems to have made up his mind, "Seventy percent of the design concepts are originated from you, you are the most appropriate person to give the lecture - why, is it difficult?"

Although Lin Jian has been the main author of the design program, he is too young and inexperienced compared to his colleagues who have been working in the group for many years, but the highest person in charge of the entire project team is Fang Jingwei, and it was impossible for Lin Jian to refuse his proposal, so he said, "I will try my best. I'll do my best."

"Good." Fang Jingwei smiled elegantly, "We'll have a meeting tomorrow morning, after which we'll take the time to finalize the draft, and tonight, you only need to do one thing-" Here, Fang Jingwei paused, his smile deepening, "Go home early and rest, OK? "Go home early and rest, OK?"

Lin Jian pursed her lips and replied yes.

Although she had promised Team Leader Fang to go to bed early, Lin Jian still finished revising the last three drawings before returning to her apartment, and it was almost 1:00 a.m. when she went in to wash up and take a shower.

This time is not too late for the designer, after all, in those days and years when he was studying abroad to catch up with the design drawings, he often had two cups of espresso to hang an all-nighter - there is no way to do so, the more desirable the student tutor the higher the requirements, especially Lin Jian such a particularly desirable.

At the moment, however, he was no longer holding a strong, bitter coffee, but a cup of lukewarm water. After taking a shower, he still didn't bother to blow-dry his hair completely, and after scribbling it, he stood up on the small terrace of his bedroom with a slightly damp head of auburn hair.

Lin Jian's room is on the sixteenth floor, and from this angle, the city's lights are bright and shining, like an inverted sea of stars, and when the night wind blows, the micro-mango flickers, and the stars fall like rain.

Lin Jian took a sip of the warm water and turned his eyes slightly to look over to the north.

The city of Lin, a three-hour highway ride from here, is the city where the man is.

The same city he left back then.

Three hours, more than 290 kilometers, this is the closest Lin Jian has been to him in more than five years of separation.

The night wind slightly raised the corner of Lin Jian's pure white bathrobe, his eyes gazed longingly at the northern direction, yet there was nothing else but the same inky sky and the same slightly cool air.

More than five years, nearly two thousand days and nights, had long ago erased all traces of life belonging to that person.

And all he could do was to copy that face and those eyes in his memory at the end of the night, to savor his thoughts alone, to think and love again--

It hurts all over again.

In the end, the design institute is also the nature of the company, but the practitioners to take a high-end route of feelings, so the workplace in the high and low on seniority to see people under the dish that set of "unspoken rules" in the same general here, Lin Jian joined the job in just half a year, although there are top awards, but in the eyes of a group of seniors is still a newcomer! Talent is not equal to experience, and aura is not equal to ability.

But in the end Lin Jian will be revised final version of the design program out, usually behind the back of many disagreements of the "veterans" is silent shut up, no other, this idea is too top, the key can make the ethereal ideas floating in the sky real landing, this ability is not everyone has, so sometimes have to admit, do design this So sometimes have to admit, do design this line, aura is higher than experience.

Therefore, the next step of finalizing the program was extremely smooth.

A week later, it was the day of the official bidding.

The venue is set in the city's financial center multi-functional business conference room, 2:00 pm bidding officially started, the three bidding companies have arrived nearly an hour in advance.

Lin Jian They are in the center, the second in order to explain the demonstration.

Business Hall conference room, the long table on both sides of the municipal side of the project is filled with responsible parties, housing construction, development and reform, the city of Tong and other departments of the main person in charge of the list, and this time the city park investor boss, sitting in the first place.

In the waiting room, Lin Jian is finalizing his PowerPoint presentation on a spare computer. The first company's business team is already being reviewed in the conference room in front of it, while in the other waiting room, just across the wall, the last bidder is making preparations.

Lin Jian fingertips in the laptop sensing area lightly scratched, all the PPT all browsing once, browsing the process in the back of the mind in conjunction with the silent recitation of the words of the introduction, and so on the end of the last PPT, more than an hour has passed, coincidentally, the staff came to the door of the waiting room knocking on the door to notify them that they can be ready to enter.

Lin Jian unplugs the hard drive from his laptop and walks to the conference room with the rest of the project team.

At the door of the conference room, Fang Jingwei, who had been walking in the front, suddenly stopped, turned to the project team, and asked with a smile, "Is everyone nervous?"

The crowd standing in the doorway took several deep breaths visible to the naked eye.

"There's no problem, I believe in you guys, go for it." Fang Jingwei's smile remained unchanged, giving the crowd a case of peace of mind, but when he said the last line of encouragement, his eyes looked towards Lin Jian.

Lin Jian's eyes were fixed, no waves could be seen, he just nodded his head very softly.

The staff pulls open the frosted glass door of the conference room and Lin Jian and the crowd enter.

In front of the large conference room is a whole wall of projection screen, connected to the computer equipment of the main podium is set on one side, directly below the projection of the position is a row of long tables, long table on both sides of the table were seated in the main person in charge of the various departments, the atmosphere of the meeting place is serious and quiet, all the people stand at attention.

Fang Jingwei firstly made a brief introduction on behalf of the design institute, and then led the team members to take their seats in the designated area, Lin Jian took the mobile hard disk to the stage, connected it, and opened the program PPT home page, and waited for the stage to indicate the start.

And just at this moment, the door of the conference room was suddenly pushed open, a chest don't have a work permit staff jogged into the inside, walked straight to the project next to the person in charge of bidding, bent down and whispered a few words, did not expect the person in charge of the face suddenly changed dramatically.

"Excuse me, please pause." The person in charge, after a brief and quick exchange with several major departmental leaders around him, said to Lin Jian on the stage, "The meeting has to be postponed for ten minutes or so, the boss of the capitalist group has arrived temporarily, and is waiting for the elevator on the first floor, and in a while the venue will have to rearrange the seats to set up the table cards, so please go to the nearby lounge and wait for a while first."

A few simple words but contains a huge amount of information, Lin Jian slightly frowned a little, and then saw all the people in charge of the meeting have risen, fish out of the collective to the elevator door outside the meeting to meet people.

And the conference staff entered at this point and began to rearrange the venue.

The members of the project team on the field looked at each other and muttered in a low voice: "How can there be a capital boss, we are not bidding for a municipal engineering project this time, and the company that cooperates with the government to fund the project is not Teng Sheng? The person in charge was on the field just now?"

"Will ...... Teng Sheng be just one of the funders?"

"Impossible, if that's the case, it should have been listed on the project's bidding notice, but it's true that there's only one company, Teng Sheng."

"Go to the rest room first and wait for the notification." Fang Jingwei stood up and softly interrupted the members' speculations, "I'll go find the head of the program team and ask."

The frustration of having everything interrupted gave Lin Jian a brief but subtle irritation, but he didn't say anything, just unplugged the hard disk again and followed everyone else into the conference room's inner lounge as the last one.

Everyone was still discussing in low voices during the waiting period in the lounge, not long after, Fang Jingwei came back with slightly hurried footsteps, and when he saw the uneasy group members, he first relieved them, and then solved the problem for all of them, "Don't be nervous, it's just a small incident." He tried to relax his tone as much as possible, "But just now, after a little bit of probing, this time, the project that we are bidding for, although Teng Sheng is one of the funders, it is really just a group subsidiary."

"What does it mean? It means that Teng Sheng really does have a big brother behind him?"

"Then is Teng Sheng sure that it is independently funded? It's not like we've been busy for half a day and we're not even clear about who the real Party A is, right?"

"But the one who has docked with us before has always been Teng Sheng ah, not only is this true for our design institute, but several other companies have never contacted other funders."

......

Once the feedback came out, the project team became more impatient, Lin Jian sat on the edge of the desk and did not take part in the discussion, but just knit his brows a little deeper.

"Teng Sheng is an independent funder, which has just been confirmed, but ......" Fang Jingwei also feel that this matter is somewhat incredible, but as the project team leader at this time must stabilize the military heart, he pondered for a moment. "Just now and development, reform and housing construction of the two departments of the relevant comrades in charge of a brief understanding of how the final bidding results, Teng Sheng does not seem to have a hundred percent of the right to speak, but full reference to the views of the upper group."

As soon as Fang Jingwei said this, a brief and eerie silence fell over the lounge.

It does make the problem a bit trickier if that's the case.

"Lin Jian." Fang Jingwei took a deep breath and turned his attention to the youth who had been silent, "Emergency situation, don't stress."

Lin Jian slowly raised his eyes to him.

Worthy of being a team leader, a light sentence, seems to be a relief and appeasement, in fact, secretly throw the hot potato directly to him, successfully shifted the project team people contradictory points.

At this time, the members also realized afterward - yes, this time the main speaker is Lin Jian, if the bidding is successful, then the credit must be collective, but if it fails ...... is not related to the main speaker is young and inexperienced, to deal with emergencies But if it fails, is it related to the fact that the presenter is young and inexperienced, and his ability to cope with unexpected situations is inadequate?

Lin Jian's eyes are light, but he stares back pensively, and slightly hooks the corners of his mouth in the middle of the day, "In that case, I'll apply for a final tweak to the design."

"What? We have to fine-tune it now, where do we have that outer space time?!"

"It's too bold and inappropriate; it's better to be steady and strong!"

Lin Jian turned a deaf ear to these comments, and just calmly told Fang Jingwei, "It's just a partial adjustment of individual details, and we should be able to make it in time."

Fang Jingwei, apparently not expecting such a bold proposal from him at this point either, frowned, "Reason?"

"Because of the transfer of the final decision." Lin Jian was unassuming and calmly said, "Since Teng Sheng is only a subsidiary company, and it is the upper group that gives the final nod, there are some detailed parts in the design plan that we have done too conservatively."

The implication is that a higher level of vision should be challenged with a more macroscopic and majestic idea.

Fang Jingwei thought quickly about the feasibility of Lin Jian's suggestion, raised his hand to glance at his wristwatch, and sighed, "I can only ask the person in charge for half an hour of reserved time for you, never more, can it be accomplished?"

As he spoke, Lin Jian had already reopened his laptop, connected the hard disk, and replied with a faint voice, "Twenty minutes is enough."

At this point, the staff finally informed that the venue had been redecorated and they could be invited to enter and speak.

Fang Jingwei gestured to the crowd, "Everyone follow me into the arena first, I'll go to the person in charge and explain the situation."

After the project team left, the originally noisy lounge suddenly became quiet. Lin Jian's eyes are always fixed on the computer screen, which looks like it has completely blocked out all external noises and interferences.

Inside the venue, the project team members took their seats in their original areas, and after their gazes roamed around for a week, they all landed on the two extra people in the venue.

These two people were sitting at the very center of the long table, and the one on the left looked like a working secretary, looking down and sorting out the project materials that the head of Teng Sheng had submitted, and then neatly handing them over to the hand of the person next to him.

And the man sitting in the center--

It looks like the early thirties of age, the body rhyme calm and calm, the color of the eyes warm and calm condensed, but it is also a touch of the seemingly careless laziness temperament, just to hide the innate sharpness and strength ...... such a gesture charm, should be the Teng Sheng upper group of the big boss.

Fang Jingwei is well versed in the rules of the workplace, will not rush directly with the big boss face to face, in the eyes of the crowd, he walked to the head of Teng Sheng side, whispered a few words in the ear.

As expected, after Teng Sheng s General Manager Zhang heard it, he was first surprised for a moment, and then he directly got up and walked to the position next to that big boss ...... and bent down to convey the message to the secretary of the big boss.

It was probably because the distance between their positions wasn't too far, so even though they were separated by a person, the conversation between the secretary and Mr. Zhang didn't need to be relayed and was directly heard by the big boss beside him.

"Temporary modification of the program?" The man's voice was on the low side, warm and deep but very nice.

When the secretary heard him ask this, she glanced at Mr. Zhang and replied in a low voice, "Yes, it says that it will take twenty minutes, you see ......"

The man sitting in the center pondered for a moment, raised the corners of his mouth very lightly, and suddenly smiled as if with interest, "A very risky yet brave attempt ...... I'll check it out."

In fact, on the way to come to the venue, the secretary in the hands of the three design programs that have been shortlisted for the final bidding qualification, in the car very detailed to him: "These three design companies, one gives a program without merit, no surprises, the other is slightly inferior in the original idea and conceptual effect presentation, but the offer is very sincere, and the other one either overall style or final effect, are very bright, but ...... the highest cost."

At the time he casually asked, "Very bright? How outstanding is it?"

The secretary didn't give a direct answer, but politely but obviously hinted, "From the information reported by Teng Sheng, it is said that one of the designers in their project team, is your fellow disciple."

The combination of the outstanding design effect and the fact that he was his mentor was the main reason why he decided to come to the bidding meeting to observe the event in person.

And now ...... explain before the temporary modification of the program such a bold move, really let him have the idea of wanting to get to know this "little brother".

Shen Ke rose from his seat, waved a hand toward the crowd to indicate that there was no need to follow, and headed straight for the lounge door behind him.

At this point, less than five minutes remain before Fang Jingwei's time limit is reached.

In the lounge, Lin Jian makes a final quick check of his PowerPoint, saves the final draft, and then quickly gets up, unplugs his hard disk, and prepares to enter the conference room.

Just as he was sprinting to the side of his desk, there happened to be two not-so-gentle knocks on the break room door.

"Please ask ......"

Lin Jian stopped walking and looked up at the sound of the voice, he looked at the person in front of him, and after a few seconds, he only felt his brain "buzzing" and suddenly fell into blankness.

The moment the four eyes met, even the breath was as shallow as if it were not there.

Shen Ke still maintained the posture of knocking his fingers on the door, staring blankly at Lin Jian a few steps away.

The early fall sunlight is not cold and not hot, through the high-rise glass windows drifting down, like a layer of orange gauze mist fell between the two.

And there they stood in this misty mass, nearly two thousand separate days and months floating and lingering around them.

Quietly and silently nestled in the study to read, pen relative to the long case waving, the most tender rejection on the parachute plane, the airport look at each other without words to separate ...... all the everything is so far away that it seems like a lifetime ago, but with this side of the moment, this glance, and then all brought back to the side.

After the mist and fog that had been drifting outside the borders of the ocean for more than five years had cleared, I finally saw the face that I had missed so much.

The journey to the wilderness, the days to go are many and bitter-

In this instant, the wind and rain of the former dust guest, the return of the old man in the morning and evening.

Like waking up from a big dream, after a long time, Lin Jian clenched his fingers holding the mobile hard disk, blinked his feverish eyes rapidly, and said in a very soft voice, holding back the hoarse and sour swelling of his throat:

"...... Little Uncle."