Chapter 31: Those Unanticipated Reunions

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(1)

In June 2010, the entire middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River spent a long rainy season in the aftermath of El Niño.

The summer in the Chinese university outside the provincial capital was not affected by the cold air, and the short skirts with fluttering skirts and white dangling thighs spread in every corner of the campus. Tang Jibei held the camera and followed me all the way through the long legs, wearing a bachelor's gown that I don't know how many sizes larger, stopping in front of each of the representative buildings of the university, and posing my signature V-shaped hand movements.

"How's it going?, is the light okay?" I rubbed my sore arm and reached out to Tang Jibei to ask for a camera. The playground was full of people like me, wearing bachelor's uniforms and holding cameras, about to go to the unknown future.

"No problem, brother, I am the legendary boyfriend of someone else's family, I can coax the girl to take a photo, and I can buy lipstick to grab Jay Chou's ticket!" Tang Jibei's face was hidden behind the camera, but I could still guess the shameless expression when he said this.

Those who can deceive themselves live happily. I rolled my eyes and snatched the camera.

Sure enough. In the photos that almost fill up the storage space, except for two or three photos of me who are so pasty that I am about to lose my shape, the rest are long-legged girls with reasonable color saturation.

"Tang Jibei!" I raised my eyelids, wishing that my eyes would turn into ten thousand sharp blades, so that Tang Jibei would die in it immediately.

"Hehe," Tang Jibei immediately took two steps back, rubbed his hands and smiled sheepishly, "You have to look at this matter from a different angle." If you think so, in another ten years, you should have almost forgotten what the school looked like, and when you turned up the graduation photos, it was all about you standing in front of those stupid buildings with a V-shape, how boring! ”

"Fuck your uncle's hormones! Sister let you taste the taste of youth hormones today, lest you ......" I raised my camera and was about to smash him, but suddenly saw that behind Tang Jibei, who was about to hug his head, there was a person hiding in a group of bachelor's uniforms, and he poured into the playground with the flow of people.

My hands were in mid-air.

Why is he? Didn't he drop out of high school? How could he be in our school, still wearing a bachelor's gown?

Tang Jibei jumped out a few steps and saw that I didn't chase after me, but stopped in place, so he followed my gaze.

He was visibly stunned.

In just a few seconds, I was awakened by his low roar that squeezed out between his almost crushing teeth.

"him, uncle!"

The people passing by him were frightened by the appearance of his gritted teeth, and quietly walked around half a step. The man in the eye had apparently noticed this too, and was looking towards us.

The six eyes met, and the air seemed to be filled with gasoline, which ignited at a moment's notice.

Half a minute later, the palpitation and dazedness on the other party's face gradually faded, and he lowered his eyelids and turned around and walked towards the gate of the playground.

"Fuck!

I ran a few steps quickly and grabbed Tang Jibei's arm, his steps to catch up were interrupted, and he turned his head to look at me with an annoyed face.

"What can you do if you catch up?" I asked him in a deep voice.

"It's okay to beat him!" Tang Jibei angrily shook off my hand. "Why the have you become so much! That grandson did the business of the ancestors of the eighth generation, did he remove one of his arms too much!"

I met his gaze straight up, "And then, will I go to see you in the bureau again? You've already unloaded one of his legs, and you forgot how your dismissal was revoked in the first place?"

I looked at him speechless but still holding his neck, and sighed. Raise the watch on your wrist: "It's almost five o'clock, Qi Li is also coming, do you want her to watch you unload Lin Suhao's arm?" Not to mention ......"

I struggled to swallow the almost nausea sensation in my throat, my tongue numb to the point that it seemed to be knotted, and the sound I made was almost unrecognizable: "Don't forget, that incident...... We are all accomplices. ”

(2)

Everything in the new semester is worth looking forward to.

The damp rag dusted off the dust accumulated on the table and chair for a holiday, and then took out a clean heart-to-heart paper towel to dry the fine water droplets left on the wooden tabletop inch by inch, and carefully stacked a thick stack of ink-scented textbooks on the corner of the table.

The stationery store is full of twittering girls, and although the sixteen or seventeen-year-old has long since lost the enthusiasm for collecting stationery as a child, at the beginning of each semester, a few pink ballpoint pens and colorful meal card stickers always make everything in the new school year full of ritual.

In the first week of school, the course content is almost all introductory and simple teaching, the density of homework is small and simple, physical education and activity classes are not suddenly occupied by a subject teacher, and the opening ceremony takes up most of the day, enough for us to whisper under the rostrum about the anecdotes of this holiday.

Even the apprehension of being afraid of being discovered by the teacher that the winter vacation homework "must be torn up every time the essay" seems to be interesting.

What's more, behind all these new things, it means a reunion after a long absence from a holiday.

I sat under the rostrum, listened to the "Mediterranean" old white chatter and read the president's speech for the new semester and the summary of the work of the previous semester, and I always felt that these drafts were very familiar, as if the words I had heard in the past three semesters were similar to those now.

I craned my neck to look around, but I didn't see the Records Inspector. When he turned around, he happened to meet the warning gaze of the head teacher Liu Yue.

I hurriedly retracted my neck and gently poked my elbow at Qi Li beside me.

"I haven't asked you yet, what do you mean by that call me during the winter vacation?" I asked in a whisper.

"Ah?!Break up?What breakup?Who broke up with whom?" Shan Shan poked her head out from the other side of Qi Li, her voice a few decibels higher than mine because of surprise.

Although Qi Li made a small gesture in time to block Shan Shan's continuous upward voice, our conversation was still listened to by the classmates in the front row, and he turned his head and asked excitedly, "Break up?

I kicked him on the stool, "None of your business." ”

He turned his head stupidly, but Fang Chaomu, who was sitting next to him, turned his head and looked at Qi Li and then at me.

"Puppy love is a violation of discipline, and breaking up is the right choice. Your friends are much more sensible than you are. He said lightly and turned back.

I gave him a blank look. It's rare for this person to say a few words, but it's a pity that he doesn't like it every time!

"That's what it means literally," Qi Li said softly, "break up." ”

I thought the word breakup had a magical power. Regardless of whether the person involved is really hurt by this, the moment it is mentioned, it is inevitable that the tone is bleak and sad.

However, I did not search for these feelings from Qi Li's words. So I asked, "Why, aren't you sad?"

She actually smiled and replied to me: "Separation is not necessarily the end, rather than deliberately pretending to be deaf and dumb to maintain it, I prefer to let our relationship go back to square one and start again without burden." ”

"Aha?" I listened in confusion, carefully retranslating her words into our human language.

So, this is "you hurt me, I laughed it off, not only to give you back your freedom, but also to pursue you again so that you can choose freely"?

What a strong logic.

Shan Shan on the side couldn't help but give a thumbs up: "Awesome! you ......"

Before she could finish speaking, a chestnut fell on her head. The head teacher who came pacing lowered his voice and rebuked us: "There are so many words, it's time for the student representative to speak, why don't you give you the microphone and talk to you!"

We hurriedly craned our necks and stuck out our tongues.

As if he had discussed it with Liu Yue, before his words fell, Principal Bai coughed lightly on the rostrum: "That's all for my speech." ”

Just a few eye-catching people in the audience burst into a few sparse applause in time, and Principal Bai waved his hand to interrupt: "Save time, no need to applaud." With that, he turned his head to look at the senior regiment officer beside him and motioned for the process to continue.

Secretary Tian cleared his throat, read the list in his hand, and looked at the audience with his eyes hanging from above the glasses that collapsed on the bridge of his nose.

The following is the statement of the student representative. He paused, "This year, unlike previous years, is speaking with a new classmate who is about to join our big family. She has returned from our city No. 1 middle school and her grades in the city No. 1 middle school are among the best! Everyone should listen carefully to her speech and learn more from other people's learning experiences. Everyone's applause!"

"City No. 1 Middle School is so difficult to take the exam, every year everyone squeezes their heads to go, why did this person transfer from City No. 1 Middle School to the county, isn't this sick?" Shan Shan said to us while clapping and poking his head out.

"This kind of god-level person doesn't usually care about the quality of the school, right? People must have their own reasons. I replied as I craned my neck to look at the stage.

For us when we were students, there were no more than two kinds of legendary characters, one was like Fang Chaomu, who had extremely good grades and could throw us off 108,000 miles without much effort. The other kind of person spends all day in and out of school, and the score is not good in a semester.

It's much harder to be good than to fall. So I adore the former even more.

What's more, this person may be more awesome than Fang Chaomu.

In a burst of vigorous applause, a figure wearing a blue and white school uniform walked towards the rostrum.

My applause awkwardly stopped in mid-air.

Such familiar faces.

Her meaningful, eerie smile seemed like it was yesterday.

"So, I won't be half sorry for you in the future. ”

Her words rang in my ears.

I turned my head slowly towards Qi Li: "Yao ...... Yao Chunhe?!"