In the following months, Zhou Qichen recalled the two weeks he spent in Amsterdam as if it were a honeymoon.
Lang Feng only flew two flights in the past two weeks, and they spent the rest of the time in his apartment. Lang Feng not only took him home, but also took him to various tourist attractions. He originally laughed and said it was too tacky, things like tulip cheese farms and windmills seemed like middle-aged and elderly tour groups, but Lang Feng said if you want to go, I will take you there, and he said he wanted to find some niche places that no one has ever been to.
Finally, Lang Feng took him to the farm of his godfather and godmother's friend, who also made his own cheese. The two of them lay on the grass and listened to the wind, and slept in the dark cabin for a night. Lang Feng took him to see the windmill by bicycle, and he found the tulips when he passed a wild meadow on the roadside. Then the two of them stopped to look at the flowers for a long time.
Before leaving, Lang Feng went outside to buy a Polaroid camera and asked Zhou Qichen to take a photo. He knew Zhou Qichen didn't like taking photos, so he persuaded him to take a photo and put it at home for himself.
In that Polaroid photo, Zhou Qichen was smiling properly. Under the strong light, he looked a bit like a gentle movie star from the 1990s, who always played the role of the second male lead who was given the nice guy card in the drama. Lang Feng liked this photo very much and took a few more photos with him. In the end, one was put in his refrigerator, another one Lang Feng said he would keep for himself, and the last one was given to Zhou Qichen.
Zhou Qichen put the photo in the inner layer of his passport holder. The passport holder contains his passport, flight license and other important documents, which are more important than his wallet. While waiting before the flight, he would occasionally take it out to take a look. In fact, modern technology is so advanced that we can obviously upload photos or make video calls at any time, and there are so many social media for sharing photos, but holding this traditional and old-fashioned photo in your hand feels different.
After the trip to Amsterdam, Lang Feng started flying a new route, from Amsterdam to Singapore. He was very busy that month. Finally, when he had a little free time in his schedule, Zhou Qichen passed the physical examination and resumed flying. That month, they only met twice in Beijing.
In the next two months, Zhou Qichen really lived a life of not touching the ground except sleeping to adjust to the jet lag and the company's mandatory rest. He even forgot to wear any clothes other than his uniform and pajamas for two weeks. He got up early every day to sign in, and went home to take off his clothes and fall asleep. Sometimes, he was either flying or out of town seven days a week, and basically never went home.
Among his friends, even Fang Hao, who works as a controller, and Lin Xiao, who works as a nurse, who sees night shifts as a daily routine, said he was too crazy when they failed to make an appointment with him. Before, he was a hard worker, and he was the only one in Beijing and HNA, but now he is even worse than before.
Because the filming schedule was too tight, Lang Feng wanted to fly from Singapore to Beijing to see him twice, but Zhou Qichen couldn't make it. Later, by chance, they met in Singapore. Lang Feng raised the issue of too little time to meet, and Zhou Qichen said he would wait until the end of the year, and the two parted unhappily.