Chapter 60: Centennial Celebration (I)
Bei Yinan always came back late during her lunch break recently, and sometimes her eyes were red, and Liuying wanted to ask her but she was afraid of touching her personal privacy, so she had to give up. Although Bei Yinan was not in a good mood, it never affected their work process, and after a week, their preliminary design had already taken shape.
Liuying has always felt that Mu Huaiqin is difficult, but she didn't expect that Shen Qiuzhong was not a fuel-efficient lamp, he thought of the simplest and most violent way, he and Mu Huaiqin, Shen Youxia's hand wrapped in gauze may be disabled if he doesn't take care of it well, and he also needs someone to take a bath and change his clothes on weekdays, except for him, no one can really do this errand, and promised Mu Huaiqin that as long as Shen Youxia's hand is good, he will go back to school immediately. Shen Youxia watched Shen Qiuzhong from the sidelines, and he was about to squeeze out two tears, and almost believed his nonsense. When Mu Huaiqin left, Shen Qiuzhong honestly said that this was a delaying tactic.
It wasn't until the centennial celebration that Liu Hotaru relaxed her tense nerves a little. It feels very different to go back to college again, she has transformed from a girl who always walks with her head down to a person who can also stride forward with her head held high. The school is full of banners for the centennial celebration, there is already a long queue at the entrance of the report hall, and there are students wearing specially customized school uniforms for the centennial celebration everywhere, holding mobile phone cameras and constantly taking pictures, and some gray-haired old people who have graduated from here sit around to reminisce about the passing years.
"My university life seems to be covered with a thin layer of gray, there are no particularly good memories, just going back and forth between school and home every day, taking classes that should be taken, doing what needs to be done, and going to the library when the time of the two classes is too far apart, in short, it is not shocking, and I don't particularly understand the excitement of returning to their alma mater. Liu Ying and Lu Yu went to the building of the Department of Architecture, walking as they went.
"We coincide with that, and I don't really like university life. ”
The two chatted about college, and Liu Ying suddenly remembered that when she first met Lu Yu, Xia Midou told her about Lu Yu giving up the college entrance examination and failing the list, and asked casually: "Why did you give up the guarantee when you were in your third year of high school? And why did you hand in blank papers during the college entrance examination?"
"It's Xia Midou with you again. Lu Yu said softly, it's a pity that Xia Midou didn't go to the Intelligence Bureau, "Because I have encountered the second important turning point in my life." ”
"There are so many turning points in your life, I don't know how twists and turns your life is, it's obviously so smooth sailing, you have to toss yourself. ”
Lu Yu stopped, turned around and stood face to face with Liuying, rubbed his temples and said, "You've been giving me more and more headaches lately. ”
Liuying winked at Lu Yu and grimaced, then ran away around him. She thought to herself, who gave whom a headache? Obviously, Lu Yu, this monster, gave her a headache, and she didn't have the slightest childlike innocence facing the sea. When she had nothing to do and asked Siri to tell her a joke and send him a screenshot, he always sent her a string of ellipses, and later Hotaru taught him to use emojis, so he sent her an expression that looked retarded, and when she danced to him about Hayao Miyazaki, about Spirited Away, and about Howl's moving castle, he always had a look on his face, which made Hotaru extremely frustrated, feeling sorry for him and feeling that he was simply a monster left over from ancient times. But Lu Yu is happy in it, only when she is by his side, he will feel that his world is complete, and he also has that part of his childlike heart.
The two of them went to the building of the Department of Architecture, Xu Fei's sign-in office was in the hall on the first floor, and the sign-in was organized by the former secretary of the student union. When Liuying went to sign in, some people around began to whisper, she could vaguely hear them discussing the monster next to her, she signed in and took a flow chart for the centennial celebration, and pulled Lu Yu and left in a hurry.
"It's okay for you to be on other occasions, it's too eye-catching in a crowd of people in the field of architecture. Liu Ying rushed to Lu Yu and said.
"I feel like I'm a bit like a walking billboard. ”
Liu Ying smiled, this method also makes sense. Not far from the Department of Architecture is the Department of Mathematics, and Liu Ying saw Li Songyuan waving at her from afar, she wanted to pretend not to see it, but Li Songyuan had already run in front of them.
"You're here. Li Songyuan greeted her with a smile, and the boys from the mathematics department behind Li Songyuan coaxed behind him, nothing more than that Liu Ying was his goddess in college. Hotaru didn't listen very happy, but nodded politely.
Li Songyuan continued, "I thought that with your character, I wouldn't go back to school to participate in the centennial celebration, but I didn't expect ......."
"She came with me. Lu Yu interrupted Li Songyuan's words on the side, "I'm sorry, we still have something to do, let's go first." ”
Lu Yu pulled Liu Ying and left the teaching building of the Department of Mathematics, and Liu Ying gently patted Lu Yu's chest on the side, and said funny: "Eliminate Qi and eliminate Qi." ”
Lu Yu took a deep breath, "I didn't take him seriously." ”
"Good, good. Liuying echoed him, and by the way, she also complained in her heart about a childish ghost.
They walked along the edge of the lake to the Great Hall, which was on the opposite side of the lake, and the whole Great Hall looked like a newborn seedling from a distance, which was particularly vibrant.
"Hey Dad, we're heading to the Great Hall. Lu Yu's father called him and asked where they were, "Okay, I'll come over later." ”
"I'm not going. Liuying said to Lu Yu with a sad face.
"Haven't you always wanted to hear his lectures? There are only a handful of public lectures he has given publicly, which is a rare opportunity, and you can communicate with each other up close, and maybe he can answer your questions. ”
"That's right, but he's not just Lu Guqing, he's also your father. "The flow of fireflies showed her own contradictions.
"He'll be your dad in the future. ”
As soon as Lu Yu finished, he couldn't help but pick up Liu Ying and walked in the direction of the auditorium, following her as he went, "I really didn't like him very much when I was there, I always felt that he put on a self-respecting appearance to show his authority at home, and the time spent in the family was less than one-tenth of what he spent on buildings, so why didn't he hold those models of him for the rest of his life, why should he marry a wife and have children." When I first remembered, my mother quarreled with him all day long, but he was indifferent to my mother's beating and scolding, and then my mother fell ill and finally left me. After my mom left, he spent a lot of time with me, accompanying me to various cram schools, maybe he felt guilty, he wanted me to be a proud child. Until now, although there is still an invisible gap between me and him, but now that I look back on the past, I realize that he didn't care about his family, and it wasn't that he didn't love me and my mother, otherwise he wouldn't have aged so much overnight, he just used the wrong way, he thought that as long as I let my mother and I live a life that everyone envies, it was all his responsibilities as a husband and a father. I didn't alienate him anymore as much as I used to, and he ...... now I'm really trying to be a qualified father, it's good for me, it's good for Lu Zhi, at least he's changing for us, so even if he stands in front of you today, it's definitely not as a master builder, just as a father, a father who feels happy because of his son's happiness, can you fulfill his wish as a father?"
Liuying listened to Lu Yu's words, and felt a lot, although she couldn't understand the meaning of the word father's love, but Lu Yu obeyed her, she thought it should be for Lu Yu, in order to fill some of the gaps between him and his father, at least her existence brought them all together here today, didn't it?
Hotaru nodded, "If there's something I'm not doing right, you have to warn me." ”
Lu Yu touched her head and smiled softly, "Just be yourself, you don't have to care about the rest." ”
Lu Guqing still exists in the photos of the forum in Liuying's impression, but it has been too long, and she has been very vague about Lu Guqing's appearance. When she saw Lu Guqing in the classroom behind the auditorium, she recognized him from the crowd at a glance, the similarity between him and Lu Yu could reach about fifty or sixty percent, his hair was curler than Lu Yu's, curled and fluffy on the top of his head, a pair of amber eyes were particularly deep, she always felt that his eyes were full of the vicissitudes of a thousand sails.
When he saw them coming, he immediately got up from his chair and walked towards them, Liuying was so nervous that he half-clenched his fists slightly, and called out "Uncle Lu" when he walked in front of him. ”
"Dad. ”
Lu Guqing laughed and his eyebrows curled, and he rushed to say, "I finally saw you." ”
"I'm sorry, Uncle Lu, I should have visited you a long time ago, but I just started working at that time......"
"It's out of the way, it's not in the way, uncle can understand. Lu Guqing smiled, glanced at Lu Yu again, and said, "He didn't make you angry, right?"
"Nope. Liuying shook her head stiffly, not knowing why Lu Guqing said this.
"Dad, you've seen it too, you're busy with your going, I'm especially worried about your stage fright, you know that you haven't been on stage a few times in your life. Don't make a fool of yourself if you prepare well, we can watch from the audience. Lu Yu said expressionlessly.
Liuying stretched out his hand and gently pinched Lu Yu, the way he talked to his father was more ruthless than Shen Youxia and Shen Qiu.
"What do I have to prepare? I came to the stage so casually and said it is a classic, don't think that you have won a few awards and show off your power in front of me, at most you will deceive people who don't know the goods, if you are really good, why don't people invite me?"
It's really a father and son. Liu Hotaru said to herself in her heart.