Chapter 7: Youth

"Cheng Ran, Cheng Ran, I called you a few times, but I didn't come out, are you really reviewing? What are you doing, don't pretend, go out and play! That Intel tribe has another 'Tomb Shadow'! It's so fun that you don't know!"

Yu Xiao opened the door of Cheng Ran's room and poked his head in, and there was a smiling Xu Lan standing outside the door. Xu Lan is also very enthusiastic about Yu Xiao's arrival, after all, they are all her son's friends, sometimes she feels annoyed with these friends on the one hand, and she is always "wrapped" together, which affects learning, but on the other hand, watching the children play together, she feels that it is very good to have normal socialization.

Today Saturday, in addition to Cheng Feiyang, who was worried about going to the technical institute to work overtime, she was also at home, went to buy vegetables halfway, went to the department store, and came back to find that Cheng Ran really hadn't left half a step, so she locked herself in her room to read and study. Yu Xiao has actually made several calls today, but they have all been rejected by Cheng Ran.

This is not Yu Xiao came to look for it at night, so she let Yu Xiao in, thinking that it would be better to go out and have fun.

Cheng Ran raised his head from the table, and the long-term memories filled his mind again, the Internet café at this time was not called an Internet café, what was the Internet station, the Intel tribe, the E family salon and the like, in short, a very early name. In this era, the Internet is roughly the same as in the previous life, they are almost just starting, there are not many people online, netizens basically except for chat room BBS, what can be regarded as an online game is the text networking game called "mud", of course, these are almost the world of adult netizens, similar to Yu Xiao, these students and most people, just use the computer in the Internet café as a stand-alone game console. At this time, most of them are still playing stand-alone and LAN games.

And in the Internet café, there are basically a large number of people staring at the square pixel pictures that seem miserable to future generations, and they have fun with relish. Even when the game is intense, there are often a lot of people around to point fingers.

Nostalgia is nostalgia, but now for Cheng Ran, who is making a review plan, these have to be postponed.

Yu Xiao was very surprised by Cheng Ran's transformation, "Hey, you're really reviewing...... You took that bet seriously...... It's not what I said, in the last month or so, can you sprint up? What are you kidding......" In front of Cheng Ran, Yu Xiao, who was very familiar, didn't care about expressing his disapproval in person, and he didn't care about Cheng Ran's expression at this time.

At this time, Xu Lan outside the door appeared suspiciously, "What bet?"

Cheng Ran glanced at Yu Xiao, and the latter immediately snorted in shock, "It's okay, Auntie, what about what we said about jokes in the class...... After some coaxing, he still blinded Xu Lan, who was burning with a burning heart of gossip.

The sound of Xu Lan going back to the living room to watch TV came, and Yu Xiao found that he didn't seem to be able to persuade his dead friend, so he rummaged around in Cheng Ran's room with a stupid face, "Then are there any new comics recently, good-looking novels and the like, you don't want to play, it's not interesting for me to play by myself, I'll borrow a few books and go back to read them tonight......"

"Are you a bandit?" Cheng Ran didn't say anything but didn't reply, "You can take it yourself...... By the way, you must pay it back! How many books have you relied on the so-called 'borrowing' of me before?"

Yu Xiao looked for it in Cheng Ran's bookcase with a look on his face, and said, "By the way, I'll go to Liu Ying's house tomorrow night to play, I met her today, and she will call you later, it is said that Yang Xia was also invited, and some people from the government compound next door were invited," Yu Xiao paused when he spoke, and then said casually, "Also, that old ginger, red peony...... You know it......"

"Jiang Hongshao! She's coming over too. ”

Yu Xiao's pause just now, as well as the amplitude of his heart, were also received by Cheng Ran, who knew his dead friend no better. He turned his head for the first time and looked at Yu Xiao.

"Old Jiang?" Cheng Ran was puzzled.

Yu Xiao was a little uncomfortable, as if he was hiding his inner unpeace, and stammered, "That, the one we met in the government compound before...... Jiang Hongshao, ah......"

Cheng Ran squinted, and a girl who spoke standard and gentle Mandarin and would involuntarily make people ashamed of herself in front of her came to mind.

Because the unit of Huatong Branch is adjacent to the residential compound of the municipal government, a lot of trees are planted in the government compound, such as yellow cypress orchid trees, loquat trees, pomegranate trees, etc., when the season comes, Cheng Ran loves to go to the government compound to steal fruits.

That time they found a place, in front of a row of single-family small western-style buildings in the courtyard of the government community, there were loquat trees that they had not found before, and the fruit was big and round, and it was not picked up first, how could the two miss it, Cheng Ran climbed on the top, Yu Xiao looked at the wind below, Cheng Ran picked the loquat and threw it down, Yu Xiao's so-called Wangfeng, and finally got carried away after stuffing his mouth with food. Then they found that there was a girl standing not far from the tree, very beautiful, looking at them calmly, and they didn't know how long they had stayed before, so they let the two people who were pouting and stealing food in the tree climb down in a row, desperately wiping their mouths to destroy the evidence, and they wanted to find a hole in the ground to get into.

Later, I learned that the girl lived in a small detached house in the red door, and the tree was the fruit tree in front of the house. The most hurtful self-esteem is that the girl didn't pursue it much, and returned to the house, took out a bag of fruit and handed it to them, the frustration of the two at that time, it was like a stupid thief stealing to the generous master's house, and the people finally sent it to wrap up, and they almost didn't say "Take it, and be a good person in the future......

Later, they learned that the girl was from a middle school class, her name was Jiang Hongshao, and the name seemed a bit earthy at first glance, but with such a girl, the word soil was simply untouched.

She moved here when she was in junior high school, and the transfer student was a classmate of Liu Ying who was also in the same class in the compound of their unit. Liu Ying is a cheerful, confident, and good at making friends, and on her birthday that year, she invited her friend Jiang Hongshao from the same class. At that time, Cheng Ran and Yu Xiao knew her name. Of course, the girl recognized the two of them, but she was stunned for a moment, and then waved at them with a cheerful, sweet smile, as she did to the others.

Affinity, but separated by a layer of distance. Like her whole person, like a sparse shadow in a navy blue ink painting.

Jiang Hongshao's appearance at that time undoubtedly shocked the entire circle of children in the compound, even Yang Xia often said in private that her favorite girl was Jiang Hongshao, beautiful, intellectual, and simply a first-class goddess. And Jiang Hongshao in junior high school, although she is not under the mainstream discussion, in fact, there are many voices in private who named her the school flower. It's just that because she transferred to another school, she is very low-key, and she always keeps a distance from people, so probably many people's first reaction is to stay away from her.

"Original...... She hasn't disappeared either......" Cheng Ran muttered to himself. For Jiang Hongshao, even if it is like a lifetime, he can still remember the throbbing that had an impact on the young man's heart back then, and he can't blame him, I'm afraid that any boy will not be indifferent to such a beautiful girl. It was so amazing at that time, and I am afraid that it will be even more disaster for the country and the people in the future...... It's a pity that she also continued to study in the first middle and high school back then, and Cheng Ran was brushed to the fourth middle school, and where can I know her information in the future.

But now that I think about it, Jiang Hongshao is really a mysterious girl, and her overall temperament is very educated, which is not what ordinary girls have. At that time, she lived in a single-family house in the inner courtyard, which was not surprisingly called the "Red Gate Courtyard", which was a very high-level residence in the government.

This girl, the whole person is like being in the fog, and she is also an existence that Cheng Ran has never decrypted when he was a teenager.

"Old ginger" has also become a common nickname they give to others.

And at that time, she was probably the unforgettable glimpse of the ephemeral in the hearts of many young people, such as Yu Xiao, who couldn't calm down for a long time even when her name was mentioned.

"What's gone?...... your brain is forked," Yu Xiao shook his head, and said, "In addition to Jiang Hongshao, there are also a few people from the government compound who are coming...... Dog skin plaster...... Belch...... You are, you are ......"

Yu Xiao turned out the newspaper where Cheng Ran practiced calligraphy, and then saw the calligraphy written on it.

He turned his head in disbelief and pointed to the beautiful font, "You wrote this?"

Cheng Ran lived two lives, and later practiced calligraphy when he worked, of course, at this time, he knew that he could come back with the experience of the previous life, and he was never unfamiliar, but Yu Xiao, who was used to seeing Cheng Ran's font before, of course, saw calligraphy that was many times better than the previous messy font. Perhaps Cheng Ran's words can find flaws from an expert perspective. But in Yu Xiao's eyes at this time, coupled with the state of mind written by Cheng Ran when he was just reborn, those pen turns, those awe-inspiring meanings, and those emotions that want to jump out of the paper are so simple, but they hit him with great power.

"No, no...... Could it be that you wrote the poem above...... I mean, you made your own?"

"Someone else's, I've changed it. ”

"Can I take it back...... This one...... Take a look at ......"

Cheng Ran waved his hand, "Okay, remember to return the book you borrowed before next time!"

Yu Xiao tucked the newspaper full of brush words, and "forcibly" borrowed a few comics, and when Cheng Ran was about to protest against him for smoking an out-of-print "Youyou White Book", he simply ran away.

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