Chapter 021: The Child Who Looks at the Stars
Looking at Luo Fei's outstretched hand, Zeng Bo also showed a rare solemn expression on his face.
But he only thought about it for a few seconds, then shook Luo Fei's hand, nodded and said:
"You're a smart man, and if you make friends, you won't suffer. ”
Luo Fei shook Zeng Bo's hand and smiled as well.
Zeng Bo, although he looks like a nerd, is a NERD in the words of later generations.
But he doesn't just know how to mechanically copy books is just a two-legged bookcase, although it is only a few short sentences, it can be seen that Zeng Bo's IQ and observation are very high, with Luo Fei's previous experience in the technology circle, this kind of person often becomes an innovator in a certain field, one of the best is SpaceX's founder Elon Musk.
Therefore, Luo Fei was more interested in Zeng Bo.
The reason why Luo Fei came forward and tried his best to help Zeng Bo get out of trouble was just to get close to this top student with the best grades in the school, hoping to get his help and improve his grades as much as possible before the college entrance examination, especially his English weakness.
Through Fang Cai's contact, Luo Fei felt that Zeng Bo was really talented, and he would definitely have a great future in the future.
Although Luo Fei doesn't want to be too utilitarian in this life, if he can make a few more capable friends, it will also be of great help to his future.
Luo Fei was thinking, but Kevin, who was left out in the cold, couldn't stay still, he approached the two of them and said:
"Hey, Zeng Bo, the two of us helped you, shouldn't you show it?"
Zeng Bo returned to his usual restrained and quiet state, and he said as usual:
"My mother is at home the day after tomorrow, please come to my house for dinner. ”
Kevin thought that Zeng Bo would invite them out for a big dinner, but he didn't expect to go to his house, and he was a little unhappy.
Before Kevin could start muttering, Luo Fei replied first:
"Okay, it's a word, see you the day after tomorrow. ”
Zeng Bo nodded, looked at them with a little more closeness in his eyes, and said:
"See you the day after tomorrow. ”
......
The day after tomorrow soon arrived, and Luo Fei and Kevin came to his 4-story building in Dongcheng under the guidance of Zeng Bo.
The new Western-style building, the back garden full of flowers and plants, and a white Toyota Crown car parked in the garage all show the family's wealth.
In this era when commercial housing has not yet risen, the family with such a house is already a high-end person in Lucheng County, no wonder Kevin was surprised as soon as he stepped into the Zeng family.
"Zeng Bo, your family is too rich, this is a mansion. ”
For Kevin's praise, Zeng Bo still had a calm expression, led the two into the house, and introduced them to his mother who was standing at the door waiting.
"This is my mom, and these two are my classmates. ”
Zeng Bo's introduction was very brief, but neither Luo Fei nor Luo Fei cared about this, because they were both amazed by the beautiful woman in front of them.
With fair skin, oval melon seed face, and light makeup that was rare for women in that era, his temperament is the same as that of white-collar beauties in office buildings in later generations;
Zeng Bo's mother is not only good-looking, but also speaks very well, although Luo Fei and the two are first-time guests, but she has no shelf at all, greets the two warmly and thoughtfully, and while taking them to visit the house, she also stuffs various fruits into their hands.
The interior decoration and appearance of Zeng's house are the same, mainly white Western-style furniture, the style can be described as novel and fashionable in that era, and the price is expensive at a glance, which shows that Zeng Bo's mother has high requirements for the quality of life.
After walking around, Zeng Bo's mother beckoned everyone to eat together.
This meal is very rich, although Luo Fei's home-cooked food is also good, but Mulan is usually too busy and has no effort to make too many dishes, Kevin lives at a relative's house, of course, he can't talk about anything about eating, so after the two of them ate the dishes made by Zeng Bo's mother, they all praised each other, which made Zeng Bo's mother very happy, and a pair of big eyes narrowed into two crescents with a smile.
Halfway through the meal, Zeng Bo's mother picked up the glass with half of the red wine poured into it, looked at the two Luo Fei, and said with a smile:
"Lophi, Kevin, I'm glad you're here at my house. Xiaobo, a child, has not had any friends since he was a child, and you are the friends he brought home for the first time. So...... Auntie is very happy and hopes that you will continue to be good friends and come to our house from time to time. Treat this place as if it were your home, don't be inhibited, come as you want, okay?"
Facing this beautiful Zeng Bo's mother, who has high emotional intelligence, how could Luo Fei and the others say no, of course, they are full of promises.
The glasses in the hands of the four people clashed together, Zeng Bo's mother drank the red wine in her glass, and the three children also drank the coke in the cup.
Zeng Bo's mother seems to have a good amount of alcohol, although the three children only drink drinks, but she poured herself a few glasses of red wine, and there was an extra layer of blush on her white and tender face, which made her more radiant, she looked at Kevin, who was busy eating and drinking, and then looked at her son, who was also meticulous in eating, and then looked at the delicate watch on her wrist, stood up, and said with a smile:
"Auntie has something to go out at work, Luo Fei, Kevin, you and Xiao Boduo can play for a while, and you can sleep in our house at night, we have a lot of rooms. ”
Luo Fei and Kevin were guests, of course, they could only nod their heads and agree.
Zeng Bo seemed to know that his mother was going out, there was no expression in his eyes, he just sat upright.
Zeng Bo's mother touched her son's hair with pity, sighed softly, picked up her small bag, and walked out of the house.
After Zeng Bo's mother left, the atmosphere of the meal suddenly became quiet, Kevin didn't care, and concentrated on dealing with a big crab, Luo Fei took a small sip of his drink, and looked thoughtfully at Zeng Bo, who was still expressionless.
......
After eating, Luo Fei and Kevin moved to Zeng Bo's room to play.
A mansion is a mansion, and Zeng Bo's room occupies the size of a floor, with a study, a recreation room, and a games room in addition to the bedroom.
Although Luo Fei's books at home are already a lot, they are more than a step behind Zeng Bo, and many of Zeng Bo's bookcases are original English books, which is also the gap between Luo Fei and him.
Not only that, Zeng Bo's hobbies are also very wide, from model airplanes to vinyl records, from retro radios to walkie-talkies, and even the rare Lego models in China at that time, he has several sets.
Of course, these hobbies, including this large house, would not have been possible without a lot of financial support.
These made Luo Fei more interested in Zeng Bo's family situation, and he was more curious about Zeng Bo as a person.
However, Kevin was not interested in any of this, and his interest was completely attracted by Zeng Bo's Sony playstation console that came in from Hong Kong by water, and he soaked in front of the big-screen Sony color TV, and played GT racing with great joy.
As a middle-aged man born again, Luo Fei was not interested in games or anything, Zeng Bo seemed to see this, and he took Luo Fei to the spacious terrace on the third floor, and pulled open a waterproof canvas cover, revealing a silver long object.
The 4-foot-long tube and a stool-sized stand that can be rotated to resemble an astronomical telescope.
As an amateur space enthusiast and a Martian explorer in his previous life, Luo Fei stroked the cold aluminum alloy lens barrel and said with recollections:
"This is an 8-inch Dobson's Newtonian reflecting telescope, which is the best model of a home-grade astronomical telescope, because the primary mirror of this model can be cooled to an adapted temperature in less than 1 hour and is less affected by the air flow of the lens barrel than larger telescopes. “
Zeng Bo looked at Luo Fei's eyes with a look of surprise, and he also had a feeling of finding a confidant.
Just like Luo Fei, it is extremely unlikely that you can find another astronomy enthusiast in a small county town on the east coast.
He skillfully fiddled with the telescope, like a child playing with his favorite toy, and said as he adjusted the focus:
"On a night with a good atmosphere, you can see Cassini Cracks in Saturn's rings, Jupiter's Great Red Shift, thousands of lunar features, Orion's quadrilateral object at the heart of the Orion Nebula, hundreds of stars in the Herculese Cluster, and galaxies 60 million light-years away. “
Listening to Zeng Bo depicting the star map he saw like a few treasures, Luo Fei could read the loneliness in his heart.
Only lonely children will regard the lonely stars in the distant universe as their friends.
"We live in a world similar to the universe, which looks crowded from the Earth, but in fact every star is far away, hundreds of thousands of light-years away, and so is the distance between human hearts. “
Luo Fei didn't use a telescope, squinted his eyes at the deep starry sky, and said with feeling.
In their previous lives, although Luo Fei and Zeng Bo studied together in Lucheng Middle School, one was a top student in the fast science class, and the other was a poor student in the slow liberal arts class.
Everything changes because of the rebirth, and this accident brings their orbits to an intersection and a friendship to begin.
"From a very young age, I was only surrounded by my mother, and she always had to go out to work and make money, and at that time, I could only look at the stars and talk to them, and I regarded them as my best friends. “
Zeng Bo raised his head, looked up at the sky like Luo Fei, and said with a star-like light in his eyes:
"When I was a child, I had a dream that when I grew up, I would fly into space and see the hometown of the stars. “
Luo Fei reached out and patted the thin boy on the shoulder, and said in a prophetic tone of a reborn:
"Yes, our dreams will come true. “
Zeng Bo didn't say anything more, Luo Fei didn't speak, the two stood side by side, looking at the starry sky, like old friends who had known each other for a long time.
All this silence was interrupted again by Kevin, who came over from behind at some point, reached out and put his arm around the shoulders of the two, and said with a smile:
"Hey, what are you two talking about, don't leave me alone. “