Chapter 503: A Blizzard
After eating, Han Ying went out for a walk alone, thinking of buying a better bottle of wine to bring back. Coincidentally, she ran into Yu Linna on the road. Yu Linna was wearing a coat, a scarf around her neck, and seemed to be about to enter a convenience store. Han Ying went over to greet her, and they went in together.
“What a coincidence, Shion-sensei. Are you out buying a late-night snack?”
“No, no. I wanted to buy some snacks, and also to buy a pack of cigarettes for Sister Yumeng.”
“Hahaha, the shop assistant might say that children are not allowed to buy cigarettes.”
Han Ying was chatting with her one sentence at a time. Actually, she and Yu Linna were not really that close. They had only met a few times. It was only in Japan that they had cooperated for work, and there had also been a small friction because of Ye Zhiyun’s matter. But to be serious, Yu Linna was not particularly close to her.
But Han Ying had also thought of Yu Linna and Ye Zhiyun’s matter. After thinking for a moment, she still decided to ask a few questions.
“Shion-sensei, what are your thoughts on Zhiyun now?”
“What do you mean by that?”
“Nothing else. It’s fine if you don’t want to answer.”
Yu Linna paid for her things, thought for a while, and then decided to speak.
“To me, she is already in the past.”
She said.
Although she had thought of it, to be honest, Han Ying had not expected Yu Linna to be so decisive.
She had originally thought that the other party would at least have a trace of hesitation, that there would be some room for a turnaround, but there was none.
She was really very decisive, the kind that did not hesitate at all.
“Then do you think now that it’s her problem or your problem?”
“There are problems on both sides, I think,” she said. “But I think the biggest problem is still myself. I thought I could be unconditionally hardworking and uncomplaining, but in the end, I found that I couldn’t. She couldn’t give me what I wanted. It was just me who took it too seriously.”
When she had said those words, she had really let go of everything, had let go of this relationship.
Han Ying had found her own former shadow in her. The harm that a certain person had caused her in the past, no matter how she made up for it, she could not completely let it go. Yes, the harm was too deep. To have no resentment in her heart was almost impossible.
To be honest, to be able to see the other party as an acquaintance was already the biggest concession.
Ye Zhiyun, she had made her own mistake. This could only be blamed on herself. On her way back, Han Ying lit a cigarette to smoke. For some reason, she was reminded of her own love story, and her heart was a little sad.
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The next day’s recording was to eat hot pot in the great hall in T-shirts and shorts on a cold day. Although they had originally wanted to set up a table outside to eat hot pot, it was snowing today. The program team had considered this and had decided to move indoors. Beforehand, they had greeted everyone. Four people would form a team, and they would be divided into various groups. Whoever could eat until the end would win. Although that was what they said, to eat hot pot in short sleeves and shorts on a cold day was definitely a killer. And this was still the north.
Yu Linna was trembling, rubbing her own arms. Oh my god, to wear short sleeves and shorts on a cold day is really a killer. And you can only wear slippers. What’s even more deadly is that the main door is still open, and the cold wind is whistling in. Just think about it. On a cold day, it’s snowing outside, the door is open, and you’re dressed for summer. Do you think it’s cold or not?
“I can’t stand it anymore! It’s so cold!!”
Zhao Yuyan said that she was about to die. She was a pure-blooded southerner. She couldn’t stand the cold air of the north. At this moment, she was about to die.
During the grouping, because of Yu Linna’s insistence, she only teamed up with people she knew. And so Zhao Yuyan, Xiao Yanhan, and a Tang Yumeng had joined in, and the four of them had formed a team. As for Tang Yumeng, although she also felt it was so cold she could die, her expression was still relatively calm. She rubbed her own arms, blew a few hot breaths, and she felt it was still okay. Xiao Yanhan looked at the bulge on Tang Yumeng’s chest. She then compared it with her own, and could only puff out her cheeks in anger.
And looking at the other grouping situations, it was basically men with men, and women with women. There was no situation of men and women being grouped together. Coincidentally, they were divided into four groups. Ye Zhiyun and Han Ying, and two other female stars.
After the horn of this competition was blown, the hot pot had just been brought up, and the soup had just been boiled. The ingredients and such were all still on the side. The rules of this competition were like this: after the competition started, there would be specific staff to put down the ingredients. When the soup started to boil or the food was finished, someone would put down the ingredients, and there would also be services like adding soup. It was not much different from eating at a regular hot pot restaurant. But on this cold day, for you to wait for the hot pot to open, and also to endure the cold wind, it really tested a person’s endurance.
Yu Linna was extremely afraid of the cold. She desperately prayed that this fire could be a little bigger. As soon as the water boiled, she would immediately scoop it up.
“We’ve discovered here that Group C, where Shion-sensei is, has already started to eat. The scene is a bit exaggerated, hahaha. Shion-sensei and Air-sensei are now like they’ve gone crazy, desperately serving themselves soup. I can already see the future of having to add water in a bit, hahaha. Shion-sensei, is it delicious? Is it fragrant?”
“I don’t know if it’s fragrant, but it’s really cold!”
“Shion-sensei, as a Cantonese, you absolutely cannot be a coward. Seriously, just eat the cold wind too.”
“Are you a devil? I’m a weak girl. You’re actually asking me to eat hot pot in summer clothes on a cold day! Are you even human!”
“Hahaha, Shion-sensei, if you don’t eat soon, you’ll have to wait for the water to boil again after it’s all eaten.”
“Don’t! Leave some for me!”
Lan Qianyu found that this program was recorded quite well, and the effect was also great. It was not in vain that they had spent a lot of money to invite so many stars over. This program would surely have very high ratings after it was broadcast. In this era of entertainment to death, variety shows were one of the programs that could most attract the mainstream. As long as they filmed what the audience liked to watch, then the ratings would basically be stable. This was also the reason why many people wanted to do variety shows.
But filming a variety show also had its disadvantages. For an actor, to do so for a long time would not be conducive to the development of their star path. An artist with a little bit of self-awareness would only film a few episodes or would only go on a variety show after a long time. Otherwise, when they went back to act in movies or TV, the audience would be taken out of the scene in a minute.
Who would have thought that the first group to be defeated would be Yu Linna’s group? Originally, Yu Linna had been desperately enduring, but who would have thought that Zhao Yuyan would be the first to surrender?
“I’m not eating, I’m not eating! Achoo! I can’t stand it anymore! I’m leaving! I surrender!”
Because of Zhao Yuyan’s withdrawal, Xiao Yanhan was also affected, and afterwards, she also said that she would also surrender.
“I give up, I give up! I’m not eating anymore! It’s too cold! I surrender!”
With two people withdrawing in a row, Yu Linna’s group had been eliminated. At that moment, Yu Linna wanted to drag these two troublemakers out and give them a good beating. But because it was too cold, she could only withdraw with tears in her eyes and run back to put on her clothes.
Tang Yumeng looked at the empty seats, the cold wind whistling. She put down her chopsticks and thought to herself, As expected, these teammates are all unreliable. I still wanted to continue to eat.
In the end, the winning group was Ye Zhiyun’s and Han Ying’s group. The remaining group of two men had also been defeated. On the contrary, Ye Zhiyun had even said that they were too weak. To not even be able to do this, how shameful.
“Alright, we congratulate Ye Zhiyun, congratulate Han Ying, congratulate Cheng Xiaoxiao, congratulate Mu Yu, for winning this victory! You are the best!”
The competition was over, but Ye Zhiyun did not feel very glorious. After all, this was just a small competition in a small variety show. To have won, it really couldn’t be said to be glorious.
Up to this point, the variety show had also been recorded halfway. This program would soon enter its next stage.
“The weather outside is getting colder and colder, but there’s a good news, and that is that the snow has stopped. Next, let’s get close to the local customs and traditions here. Come on, everyone. Let’s go shopping.”
The program was still being recorded. Yu Linna and the others wanted to rest, but helpless, they had to listen to the program team’s arrangements. They had to go out to the market at night. It had just stopped snowing. Although they wanted to see the night view here, what they could see was extremely limited, and the night market that the program team wanted to film was not lively either. In the end, they had no choice but to give up and record the next day.
On a cold day, it had just finished snowing, and the road was relatively slippery. Yu Linna had almost fallen several times. She was walking in the cold night market, looking at the brightly lit lights. As she was walking, she suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
This was a feeling she couldn’t describe.
“Freshly roasted lamb, welcome to eat~”
“Take a look, take a look! One shot, one small doll! One hundred shots, a big doll to take home!”
She looked at the surrounding stalls, and the somewhat pitifully deserted street. She really felt that there was a familiar place somewhere.
Winter, and it was also the snow season. How could she feel familiar? She had grown up in the south. She had been to many cities since she was little, but she had basically never been to the north. Before she had settled in Guangnan at the age of 12, she had been living in the south all along. It could be said that she had never experienced a snow season, but why would she feel that this snow, this winter, would be a little familiar?
Was she really just overthinking it?
She told Zhao Yuyan that she was going to buy some barbecue, and that they could go back first and not wait for her. At that time, Zhao Yuyan didn’t think much of it and just told her to come back early. And so Yu Linna went to buy some roasted lamb skewers. As she was eating, she walked out of the city by herself. She wanted to go and see outside the residential area by herself. As she was walking, she left the big city and ran to the vicinity of the foot of Mount Everest. She walked aimlessly, with her phone’s light on, looking at this snowy ground. But she found that no matter how she looked, she couldn’t think of anything.
Why was she so persistent about the winter in the north?
(“Winter… harsh winter… let’s just call it…”)
“Mmm…”
Yu Linna touched her own head and felt a headache for no reason, as if a stone were stuck in her head. This feeling was so strange.
Suddenly, it started to snow again, and Yu Linna also noticed that her phone was about to run out of battery. She thought she should go back and returned on the road she had just come from.
Suddenly, a chill came from behind. A pair of strong hands gave her a push from behind. Her feet slipped, and she suddenly flipped forward. Her whole person fell down the slope. She only knew that it was dark in front of her, and then she lost consciousness.
Her phone slowly also ran out of battery and automatically turned off…
This night, Yu Linna did not come back.
The cold wind whistled, and the snowflakes flew. Those hands clapped, looking at the unconscious girl at the foot of the mountain. He silently wiped away the footprints he had left and left this place. Only that blonde girl was left, passed out at the bottom of a small cliff. The blood on her forehead also slowly coagulated.
The wind this night was a little strong.
