Thursday, December 23rd.

As the millennium draws closer, everyone is starting to count the days.

Since tomorrow is Christmas Eve, the school has become popular with individual apples wrapped in fancy plastic paper.

Apples were also given the new title of "Ping An Fruit", and the cheapest one was sold for two or three yuan.

Many boys in the school buy and give to girls, and they make it seem like they are particularly fashionable.

Xu Yiyang is very uninterested in this kind of mixed Chinese and Western garbage culture, and even despises it in his heart, but he can't stand this thing and has a strong herd effect, so it sells very well.

Zhang Junnan was in love, so he bought more than a dozen in one go, saying that he wanted Wang Ying to eat for 2,000 years.

At the same time, Zhang Junnan also tried his best to ask everyone to go out together on Friday for Christmas Eve, but no one else was very interested in it.

Xu Yiyang is not interested because he is not a believer, so Christmas Eve and Christmas are naturally of little practical significance to him, while others are not interested because he has no girlfriend.

If you have a girlfriend, you can make any holiday, including Qingming Festival, Valentine's Day;

If you don't have a girlfriend, you won't be interested in any festival.

In the afternoon, Xu Yiyang received a call from the Civil Affairs Bureau, officially announcing that he was selected as one of the top ten outstanding young people of the year in Zhonghai City, and the official results will be published and broadcast in the newspapers and news tomorrow, and the award ceremony will be held at the China Overseas Grand Theater on January 7 after New Year's Day.

The title of Top Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the Year in Zhonghai City is an unattainable honor for college students.

Because the average age of those who can get this title is basically in their thirties, and many of them are high-end talents who have worked hard in various positions for more than ten years and have made extraordinary achievements.

Before that, no college student had ever won this honor.

If you were someone else, you might have been incoherent with excitement, but after Xu Yiyang answered the phone, he just thanked him lightly, and there was no wave in his heart, and he didn't tell anyone about it.

Hundreds of billions of dollars of companies have been invested, and a title of Top Ten Outstanding Young Persons is nothing.

In the evening, everyone ate together in an off-campus restaurant.

Although it is a proposal to skip the holiday, the dinner party has become a regular program for everyone every night.

Recently, the seven-person group that can't be touched by thunder has become eight people, and Wang Ying is basically the same as Shen Lele, staying with the people in the 309 dormitory every day.

During the meal, Xu Yiyang found that Shen Lele's mood was a little trance-like, and she asked several times that she said it was okay, which made Xu Yiyang a little suspicious.

After eating, Zhang Junnan and Wang Ying held hands and wanted to go to the barbershop, saying that Wang Ying was going to perm her hair.

The others thought it was too cold and insisted that Zhang Luo go to the club to take a bath.

Everyone's consumption level has risen, and the club has become a good place to warm up and avoid the cold in winter.

After signing up for a membership, a person only needs 20 yuan for a ticket, can take a bath, can rest, can eat buffet, can also play cards, the most important thing is warm, wearing the shorts and short sleeves provided by the club is just right, 10,000 times stronger than in the cold dormitory.

Moreover, this level of consumption is really not a luxury for the people in the 309 bedroom, and it can even be said to be very down-to-earth.

Shen Lele didn't want to go, so he asked Xu Yiyang: "Can you accompany me to the Bund?"

Shen Lele rarely took the initiative to ask Xu Yiyang for anything, so he agreed almost without thinking, and said to the other four: "You go to take a bath, let's go to the Bund." ”

Zhao Xin nodded and said, "Then let's go first, if you are cold and tired, come to us." ”

Xu Yiyang snorted and joked: "You should take a bath and rest, but don't make mistakes." ”

Chen Meng waved his hand: "Brother Xu, look at what you said, even if I, Chen Meng, can't find a partner in four years of college, I will definitely not embark on such a path!"

Xu Yiyang said with a smile: "I just want to remind you that you are all firefighting heroes, advanced individuals in the city, and outstanding young people in the school, so you must know in your heart." ”

Everyone waved goodbye at the door of the hotel, and Xu Yiyang asked Shen Lele: "How can we get to the Bund?

Shen Lele smiled slightly, shook his head, reached out to hug Xu Yiyang's arm, and stuffed his hand into the pocket of his cotton coat, saying, "Let's take the bus, there is no one at night, there are seats." ”

"Good. ”

Xu Yiyang naturally put his hand in his pocket, wrapped Shen Lele's hand, felt Shen Lele's hand warm, and said in surprise: "Why is it so hot today?"

Shen Lele replied shyly: "I pasted the warm baby you gave, which is very warm on the small belly." ”

Xu Yiyang nodded and asked her, "You don't seem to be in a good mood today, is there something wrong?"

Shen Lele said: "I'll tell you when I go to the Bund." ”

"Good. ”

The two maintained this natural intimacy, taking a bus from a nearby bus stop to the Bund.

It's cold, and there aren't as many people on the Bund as usual.

Walking on the Bund, Shen Lele suddenly stopped in front of an unmanned railing, looking at Xu Yiyang's big eyes, reflecting the colorful lights of the freighter on the river.

"Xu Yiyang, let me tell you something, you don't have a psychological burden. ”

Xu Yiyang nodded: "You say, what psychological burden can I have." ”

Shen Lele said: "My mother called me in the afternoon and said that the Supreme People's Court's review of Chen Xuesong's death sentence had come down, and according to regulations, the sentence would be executed within seven days. ”

Hearing the news that Chen Xuesong had approved the death penalty, Xu Yiyang was stunned.

"How is it so fast?"

Shen Lele said: "My mother said that the superiors have positioned and supervised the case, and the people's voice is very high, so the process is much faster from the second instance." ”

Xu Yiyang nodded lightly.

Frankly speaking, from the beginning, he didn't want to put Chen Xuesong to death, he just wanted Chen Xuesong to sit in prison for the rest of his life.

But unexpectedly, Chen Xuesong was full of evil, and as soon as the crime was dug deeply, he dug out his grave.

Therefore, Xu Yiyang has no sense of guilt, thinking of the crimes he has already done, as well as more crimes he will endanger one party in the future, it is the luck of ordinary people that such a person dies.

So, he spoke: "Today on the 23rd, the execution within seven days you said, whether it is counted today or not, he should not live for 2000 years, right?"

Shen Lele bowed his head slightly and said, "It's definitely next week, and it won't be this year." ”

Xu Yiyang let out a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "The sin deserves it, and before the next thousand years come, end his sins, this arrangement is very good!"

Saying that, Xu Yiyang asked her: "Are you in a bad mood today because there is a psychological burden in this matter?"

"Probably. Shen Lele pursed his lips, gently leaned his head on Xu Yiyang's shoulder, and said in a low voice: "No matter what, he was arrested by me at the beginning, and now he is about to be executed, so I ......"

Xu Yiyang stretched out his hand, grabbed her shoulders, and pulled her arms to his chest, and took her into his arms.

Hugging her tightly, Xu Yiyang said in her ear: "Don't think about it, he was designed by me to arrest him; the 50,000 yuan that I was convicted of was withdrawn from the bank that afternoon; and so many cases that reported him later were only brought out little by little after that, so it was me who sent him to the guillotine, not you." ”

Saying that, Xu Yiyang hugged her tighter and continued: "And you didn't call the police to arrest him, you called the police just to save me." ”

Xu Yiyang understands the psychological barrier that Shen Lele is facing.

He also knows that the reason why Shen Lele feels like this is not because she is fragile, let alone because she is hypocritical, but because the vast majority of people inevitably have such psychological barriers when facing such problems.

The bailiffs shoot and kill the most heinous people to defend the laws of the country and the interests of the people, but because they want to deprive a person of his life with his own hands, in most cases, the bailiffs who execute will also have certain psychological obstacles.

Not to mention the police force, veterinarians who euthanize animals will also face huge psychological barriers.

There are even veterinarians who choose to commit suicide because of mental illness.

Shen Lele is not a trained bailiff, nor is she a veterinarian with vocational training, she is just an ordinary nineteen-year-old girl, so it is impossible for her to have no psychological barriers.

But Xu Yiyang was afraid that she would be deeply involved, so he hugged her tightly without hesitation, telling her that the driving force behind all this was himself and had nothing to do with her.

But what really made Shen Lele put down the big stone was not Xu Yiyang's honesty, but Xu Yiyang's last words.

It was this sentence that made Shen Lele understand that he did all this for Xu Yiyang, as long as he was safe and sound, it was more important than anything else.

If he didn't call the police, and in the end, Xu Yiyang was hurt and even died, then he would never forgive himself for the rest of his life.

Fortunately, Xu Yiyang is safe and sound now, and even, he is hugging himself tightly in front of him, his body is very warm, being held by him like this, it is like lying in a warm quilt, which makes people feel a strong sense of security from the bottom of their hearts.

She subconsciously hugged Xu Yiyang tightly, and murmured: "Xu Yiyang, I like you so much......

Xu Yiyang bit his lip hard, and he was asking the same question in his heart.

Shen Lele, I found out that I liked you a little, what should I do......

What should I do?

What do you do?

What about Gu Sijia?

All of a sudden, he felt as if he had been swept into the air by a tornado, and he couldn't help himself as to where the wind would take him.

Looking at the river in front of him, Xu Yiyang's whole person fell into a strong struggle and struggle, and he even forgot to respond to her at once.

Fortunately, Shen Lele's words were just muttering to himself, and he didn't want Xu Yiyang to respond at all.

Xu Yiyang hugged Shen Lele by the river for a long time.

All the fragments since the rebirth flashed through my mind.

The first person she saw when she opened her eyes after being reborn, and she was the first person she offended, but she was the one who helped herself the most;

The first person to like herself was her, who took the initiative to confess to herself, and even took the initiative to kiss herself;

I never told her that I was going to come to Zhonghai to study at university, so it was she who hurt and disappointed her, and finally gave up Tsinghua and came to Zhonghai from Yanjing to find herself.

Twists and turns, twists and turns, seems to have become an unbreakable knot......