chapter 77.

The first day of the Lake Baikal travel and photography trip was to stay in Irkutsk. I don’t know whether it was because of the thick clothes or the excitement. As soon as I landed, I was exposed to the temperature of minus 20 to 30 degrees, but Xue Youka didn’t feel it at all.

It was so cold that I dropped my luggage in the hotel room and got ready to go out excitedly.

"Where are you going?" Cheng Yu's body was filled with the smell of cabin and car leather, and he just wanted to take a quick shower.

"They said they wanted to go out and take pictures." As soon as they drove all the way here, Xue Youka took out his camera and took countless photos of street scenes. It was the first time he saw such an exotic street with his own eyes, so everything he saw was new. As soon as the group asked him to go out and take pictures.

, a casual meal, he immediately dropped his luggage and said, "Do you want to come with me? I said we can have coffee and steak nearby after the filming."

"No." Cheng Yu didn't want to eat with so many people.

"Then I'll come back to you after the filming. I searched for a Northeastern restaurant on Dianping. The two of us can go there to eat."

Cheng Yu said "hmm" and then said, "Why don't you wear more clothes?"

"I'm not cold." He was only wearing a down jacket, which contained autumn clothes and a He Xiaoyou brand sweater, but his pants were very thin.

"Here's the cashmere sweater I bought for you. Put it on." Cheng Yu started to rummage in the suitcase. His luggage was packed neatly. Each piece of clothing was packed in a separate ziplock bag, so it was troublesome to find it. Cheng Yu

Yu found him a sweater, and took out a down vest, cashmere socks, and short boots: "Put all these on for me."

Xue Youka put it on obediently. Feeling stuffy in the room, she asked him: "Is there anything else?"

Cheng Yu tied a scarf on him and put on earmuffs: "Do you know how cold it is outside?"

"Twenty degrees below zero."

"I know, the cold won't kill anyone." Just now in the car, I saw a Russian aunt wearing shorts taking out the trash.

Xue Youka put on her shoes: "Okay, I'm leaving. I'll call you back after I finish filming."

He walked to the door and was stopped again.

"Wait a moment."

Xue Youka turned around.

Cheng Yu said: "Forget it, I'll go too."

Xue Youka blinked.

Cheng Yu grabbed his scarf and headphones and said with a straight face, "I'm afraid that if you get lost, a bear will catch you and eat you."

Siberia is vast and sparsely populated, with few pedestrians and sparse traffic on the streets.

Except for the last time he went camping, Cheng Yu had never been with so many people. Not counting music festivals, they were all people in the circle, mostly seniors he knew. Now these are all strangers, but fortunately there are no strangers.

The one with long eyes came closer.

The girls took photos together in front of a nearby church and visited local beauty stores, while the boys were looking for beautiful compositions to take pictures of street scenes and people.

As the tram passed by, people on the car would look at them curiously when they saw Asian faces. There were all foreigners on the road. Every Russian child she saw looked cute and beautiful, and she was very excited to take pictures.

At a roadside cafe, the two of them went in and sat down. Xue Youka took off his scarf, changed the battery for his camera, and continued taking pictures - this cafe is also very unique.

Cheng Yu ordered American style and cappuccino, as well as dessert and ice cream.

Xue Youka was eating and taking pictures. At this moment, Cheng Yu's cell phone rang suddenly. He took it out and saw that it was Chu Peixin who hadn't called him for a long time.

Cheng Yu picked up the phone.

"Are you on vacation? When will you be back?"

"I don't know, I'm busy with something."

Chu Peixin: "Then why did you go to Siberia?"

"..."

Cheng Yu's bracelet has a positioning function. His cousin Cheng Ziwei was kidnapped because of his high profile, so Cheng Yu's heart rate measuring bracelet was equipped with such a function.

"It's winter vacation, I can't go abroad?"

"It's okay. It's too cold over there. Do you have enough clothes?"

Cheng Yu said he had brought enough.

"Wear more clothes and pay attention to safety. There are bears over there."

Cheng Yu: "..."

"I got it!" Why did his mother have the same mental circuit as Xue Youka?

"Don't be impatient. By the way, Xiaoyu, did you let someone hack into my phone?"

Cheng Yu stopped talking again.

"There are trade secrets in Mom's phone. Don't do this next time. I've already found someone to fix it." Chu Peixin was still very gentle. Although it took me who knows how many months to find out about this, she didn't criticize her son harshly.

"Unless there is an accident, I won't call you easily. You are playing outside... You didn't go alone, right?"

"It's time with my friends."

The two ended the call.

After dinner in the evening, the temperature was even lower and there was no one on the street. Xue Youka finally felt the depression in a foreign country, which was very different from at home.

Everyone crowded into a food store next to the hotel to buy wine and chocolates. Xue Youka originally just wanted to buy some chocolates, but suddenly he saw the small bottles of wine listed in the cabinet behind the teller.

Those bottles are all palm-sized and come in various colors. The wine is also in several colors, yellow or transparent. It is placed in a small and exquisite glass bottle with a label in Russian. When I asked about the price, it was only two hundred rubles.

, the expensive one costs four to five hundred rubles, which only costs a few dozen yuan. Even girls who don’t drink can’t help but buy it, saying they can take it back as souvenirs.

Xue Youka also bought a few bottles at a cheap price. The locals did not speak English well and could only communicate with gestures or a Russian translator.

Cheng Yu: "Why did you buy so much liquor? Do you know what kind of liquor these are?"

Xue Youka took out the change to pay the bill: "I don't know, buy it back and give it away. And didn't the president say it will be very cold when we go to Lake Baikal tomorrow? The bartender will keep you warm."

"You feel dizzy as soon as you drink it, so you might as well post a few more baby-warming pictures."

"Nuan Baobao also posted it. Can I give you some wine? These look delicious."

The hotel they booked this time is in the city center. It is a modern five-star hotel. There is no feeling of hardship at all. Back at the hotel, Xue Youka took a shower and continued to turn on the computer to work on the paper. His last heavy computer

The laptop finally died a few days ago, so I borrowed Cheng Yu's computer for use.

"Aren't you tired?"

"I'll change it again."

After Cheng Yu took a shower, he went straight to bed and rested. The room was a suite he had booked, with a large bed. Xue Youka turned off the light beside the bed for him, sat at the desk, and typed on the keyboard facing the park outside the window.

A flat mirror reflects the light of the computer screen.

He didn't write for too long. He had to get up early tomorrow. He gently turned off the computer and desk lamp, and got into bed from the other side.

Xue Youka set the alarm, turned off the sound, and lay on the pillow. He felt that Cheng Yu must not have fallen asleep yet because he was lying on his back. This bed was not as big as the one at Cheng Yu's house, so he leaned on it without hugging him.

Sleep next to Cheng Yu.

After a while, Cheng Yu turned over and hugged him.

"I knew you weren't asleep." Xue Youka was almost asleep. She closed her eyes and cradled his neck with her head. Cheng Yu patted his back gently and said he was asleep.

Everyone was tired that day, and the night was getting darker. The whole hotel was silent, except for the signboard, which was erected on the top of the building and lit up.

The next morning, before breakfast, he and Cheng Yu went for a walk nearby alone. Since they were abroad and they didn't know anyone, most of the club classmates were probably sleeping, so they simply held hands while Xue Youka put his hand in his coat pocket.

Here, I walked around the park full of fallen leaves. The clean morning light fell on me through the gaps in the trees, and even my hair burned into a warm golden color.

At 9:30 in the morning, a group of people chartered a car to Olkhon Island. The car was a long van, a small Russian steel cannon, which could carry ten people. Several vehicles formed a convoy and drove further on the uninhabited Siberian highway.

Ahead, on the dark road, there is a vast snow-white wilderness on both sides, and rows of birch forests undulating with the snow line recede in sight.

Although I used a local phone card, the signal in the car was very poor and was sometimes good or bad. I held my phone against the window and took a short video, which took twenty minutes to upload.

The scenery was like this all the way, but it seemed that I never got tired of it. At three o'clock in the afternoon, the car passed through a piece of blue ice and arrived at a small village on the shore of Lake Baikal.

There are no formal hotels in the small village. They are all B&Bs contacted by the president. They and their group of dozens of people took over the wooden house B&Bs in the entire village. Xue Youka went to choose the rooms by himself, but he did not grab them and let the girls choose the big ones first.

Room, but when he chose it, there was only a small room on the first floor. Not only was it a small room, it also had two beds.

Cheng Yu looked at the two beds, a little unhappy but didn't say a word.

Two small beds less than one meter wide are placed against the walls on both sides of the room. In the middle is a bedside table covered with red. The curtains are opened, and directly opposite is a blue and white mini-church. The owner of the B&B lives in the next room.

Although the room is small, it is very warmly decorated. Xue Youka brought his own bed cover, which happened to be used by Cheng Yu at this time: "It's made of silk, super comfortable, for you to sleep on."

"Why don't you sleep?"

"Two beds, only one bedspread, I will give it to you." Although the decoration is warm, it is not a regular hotel, not to mention that Xue Youka knows that Cheng Yu is "delicate", maybe because he has never suffered anything since he was a child.

Immediately, everyone left the village wearing sunglasses and took crazy photos on the frozen blue lake. In the evening, they had dinner together and had a party with singing and dancing. Cheng Yu drank a little vodka at the party, and the wine seeped into his lungs.

It warmed him inside and out. Even later, they were still outside the B&B

Stay, the village is small and sparsely populated. Walking in the dark blue snow at night, occasionally passing a wild cat, the moonlight above your head is as gentle as water, and the stars in the sky cover the shores of Lake Baikal. Take a breath of air-conditioning, and feel peaceful and happy.

, as if I have temporarily forgotten all the trivial matters that require effort.

It's just too cold, otherwise I would like to live with Cheng Yu in a small village like this.
To be continued...