Chapter 13: If I Say I Like You (1)

For the past three years, I have been visiting the bar called "Qingkui" in the South Gate every Friday night. Although the name is very vicious, the atmosphere inside is mild and quiet that is completely different from the name, there is no bizarre, no bright lights, and the most lively are only the singers on stage who hold guitars and sing folk songs. Of all the bars in this bar street, it is the most chic.

I like the rare peace in this noisy area, and I get acquainted with the owner here when I come diligently. The boss is a young couple who have just graduated, and when they see that I am always alone, they often add two cups to drink with me. They love to hear my stories, especially those of our high school guys. Every time I finished, I got a free cup of Chambord sour from them. I spoke with great joy, and they listened with great pleasure.

Of all the stories, they were most interested in the part between me and Yu Qiuyun, and they urged me to tell it a few more times.

After many times, they also know that eight or nine are not far from ten. When I reached out to ask for the free "after-the-fact wine", the little girl held me down and said, "No, you didn't finish it."

What's incomplete?, I asked.

You only talked about how you were separated from you after you got better, and she seemed to catch a student who was lazy and didn't finish her homework, and said triumphantly, but you never explained how you got good!

I smiled and fiddled with the empty wine glass in front of me. yes, how did we get along?

It's so inexplicable.

Inexplicably, it's like a movie with the beginning cut out.

Naturally, it was fate. I answered her.

What is fate?, she asked.

Probably...... I probably dodged the wind, the rain, the puddles on the ground, and the speeding cars. I dodged everything that could hurt me. But he couldn't avoid the dazzling white shirt on that sunny and gentle afternoon.

(1)

On the afternoon after the monthly exam, I went home and grabbed two bites of rice and fell asleep before seven o'clock.

Lying on the bed, I only felt like two heavy iron lumps on my eyelids, and my mind gradually became chaotic, always feeling like there was something to do, and before I had time to think about it, my consciousness had already flown to Zhou Gong.

It was as if I had been groggy for a long time, and it wasn't until the next day that I was pulled back by my mother from the Manchu and Han banquets set by Zhou Gong.

"Do you have something to do today? Just your good friend named Qi Li just called and said that he had made an appointment with you to go out today. My mom packed up the quilt and shouted at me in the bathroom.

I was squinting my eyes and slowly brushing my teeth, and I was shocked when I heard this, and I immediately remembered that I had agreed with Tang Jibei about going to be an extras for him on the first day of the holiday.

I hurriedly spit out the mouthwash in my mouth, picked out a white shirt with a red-haired pony embroidered on my chest, put on a pair of washed denim overalls, and hurried out the door without bothering to pick up some breakfast.

I ran all the way, and when I arrived at the agreed intersection out of breath, Tang Jibei was leading a few of them, sitting cross-legged in front of the roadside food stall, with a few rice peels in his mouth.

"Miss, do you get up early to embroider?" Tang Jibei saw me, immediately sucked the remaining few in the bowl, pushed the empty bowl in front of him, and said angrily: "Look, I have eaten three bowls of rice and two bowls of eight-treasure porridge by this time of your effort!"

"That means you have a big belly, enough for a bucket of rice!" I replied angrily. Then he put on a flattering smile and waved to the rest of the people: "Sorry guys, I overslept." ”

Shen Zhongnan shook his head, smiled lightly, and comforted me: "It's okay, we didn't wait long. You're in such a hurry, haven't you eaten yet? Do you want pancakes or rice paste?"

I hurriedly waved my hand, thinking that I had been so late, if I delayed the beautiful scenery of the two of you again, Tang Jibei would not be able to draw circles all over the world and curse me to death? "Hurry up and beckon everyone to go.

We walked towards the bus stop, and Yu Qiuyun caught up with me in three or two steps, walking side by side with me.

"Have you really eaten it?" he asked.

"Hmm. I nodded, and sucked my belly carefully, for fear that it would not be angry at this time and make some noise for me.

"You didn't eat. "He was adamant in exposing me. Seeing that I was looking at him with a "how do you know" expression, he smiled smugly, "You don't have the smell of green onions in your mouth, only the mint smell of toothpaste." Then he took out a bag of bear biscuits from his backpack and secretly stuffed them into my arms: "Here you go." I guess you can't even take care of eating when you get up, I just secretly bought ...... at the commissary."

I blushed and clutched the bag of biscuits. "Thank you......"

"Ouch, hey!" Before I could finish my words of thanks, Qi Li suddenly shouted behind me, causing the aunt who was selling vegetables on the road to turn her head to look at us.

"And said that you two are not getting better!" Qi Li seemed to have found some indisputable evidence, pointed to the two of us and said to the rest of the people: "Look, the couple's clothes are all on!"

I took a closer look, and it turned out that Yu Qiuyun also happened to be wearing a white shirt with lapels, light blue washed jeans, and even the two of us were stepping on white canvas shoes.

I blushed in an instant, and squeezed my eyes at Qi Li, "What nonsense!"

"Coincidence! Coincidence!" Yu Qiuyun also explained with a red face.

Qi Li completely ignored our pale explanation and continued to make fun of us with Shan Shan. In her opinion, our faces as red as those tomatoes on the roadside vegetable stall were enough to tell the story.

Shen Zhongnan saw our reaction, and was embarrassed to follow the coaxing, but he was also secretly covering his mouth and laughing. Tang Jibei saw her so happy, and in order to please her, he whistled at the two of us even more vigorously.

Only Fang Chaomu fell last, he didn't seem to hear the excitement here, turned his head to look at the few clouds in the sky, there were a few startled birds flying by, they circled and flew back, their fluttering wings stained with the first orange red of this early autumn.

(2)

We staggered on the bus for almost an hour before we arrived at the picturesque place in Tang Jibei's mouth.

"It's really beautiful. Jumping out of the car, I threw my head up with my arms outstretched and took a few breaths of fresh air, finally barely holding back the nausea in my stomach that was getting stronger and stronger.

It's a sparsely populated hamlet, dotted with a few renovated red-brick bungalows among the cypress trees of Tsukamori. Tang Jibei pointed to one of them, turned back to us and said, "That is my house." After that, he bowed his head and whispered in Shen Zhongnan's ear: "How about it, if you marry in the future, the blue sky and white clouds, green mountains and green waters of this hometown, and my house will all belong to you!"

We were nauseous behind us, Shan Shan stepped forward and grabbed Shen Zhongnan's arm, and crossed her to Tang Jibei and pouted, "Have people promised you, are you delusional about marrying home at this time?"

"How can it!" Tang Jibei made an exaggerated expression, "My Zhong Nan is reluctant to let me go to the toilet with the majority of female classmates!, right?" After that, he grabbed Shen Zhongnan with his shoulder.

Shen Zhongnan glanced at him: "With your current shy and embarrassed appearance, it is quite appropriate to go to the women's toilet." With that, he pulled Shan Shan and stepped forward in a few steps, leaving Tang Jibei behind him with a depressed mouth.