Chapter 8: Hundred Miles
Facing the desolation in front of him, Yuchen put his hands in his pockets and asked blankly, "Where are we?" β
"I don't know." Yi Xuejia said triumphantly, "It's right if I don't know." β
She proposed to take a road that she had never walked before, usually in addition to school and home, or play in the city center, three points and one line, she was already tired of seeing the scenery along the road, so today on a date with Yuchen, she saw the fork in the road, so she chose the direction she had never been.
As a result, the two of them walked further and further, and the high-rise buildings had long been gone, all fields, and were run through by a railway, and one after another green trains rumbled and passed by.
"Longquan Road?" Yuchen looked at the road sign, "It should be called Ruin Road." β
"So many opinions? You see. Yi Xuejia took out his mobile phone to take a picture of the sky, "How blue is this sky, endless, how beautiful, do you usually pay attention?" Well. She shook her head and replied for Yuchen without permission, "You don't." β
Yuchen pointed to the barbed wire fence that surrounded the railway, "Look, what does it look like from this angle?" Yi Xuejia raised his head and saw the barbed wire cutting the blue sky into pieces, "Prison." We're on a day trip to the prison today. He laughed.
"Cut." Yi Xuejia stretched, "I'll invite you to ice cream." β
"That's got to be there." Yuchen smiled and looked into the distance, although there were a few dilapidated houses on both sides of the road, but there were no shops, and there were no oncoming pedestrians, the vision was empty, and a few dog barks came from the distant direction, making the surroundings even more desolate.
"I'm tired of being here, day after day, I want to see something different, and I want to live a different life." Yi Xuejia kicked a pebble in front of his toes.
"Who wouldn't?"
"You think so too?" Yi Xuejia was surprised, "I see that you look like you have seen through the red dust, and you always have a fake smile on your face, and I thought you were very satisfied with your current life." β
Yuchen was happy, and couldn't help but smile exaggerated at her, "Am I smirking?" β
"Or else? Whoever smiles on his face every day, you're not a fool. β
"Maybe I'm just a fool."
"Then you have a good life, you are good-looking, ugly fools are going to be bullied."
Yuchen showed a helpless smile, it was the kind of smile that adults face children, and his aura was three or five years older than Yi Xuejia.
"It's coming! That's the kind of laughter. Yi Xuejia pointed at him, showing a disgusted expression, "It's perfect." β
"Thank you." Yuchen nodded in satisfaction.
"I'm not praising you." Yi Xuejia said, "The 'perfect' I said is fake, you are fake." β
"Hey, don't talk nonsense, I'm not a bad person." Yuchen stopped, pointed to an abandoned factory on the left-hand side, and raised his eyebrows wickedly, "Be careful that I throw you here and send you to Focus Interview." β
Yi Xuejia shook his head in an old-fashioned manner, "You won't do bad things, you are a person, the future is bright, so you will definitely not do bad things, the gains outweigh the losses." β
Yuchen was noncommittal, and asked slowly: "Isn't Zhou Linuo perfect?" She's also fake? β
"She is the same inside and out, the most true and perfect I have ever seen." Seeing Yuchen browning, Yi Xuejia shook his hand, "If you don't understand, forget it." β
"I'm not with Zhou Linuobi, I can't compare to her." Yuchen continued to pace forward, although he had a pair of long legs, he deliberately slowed down in order to match Yi Xuejia's speed.
"You're so humble." Yi Xuejia pursed his lips, knowing that he just didn't care about himself.
Yuchen always has a leisurely and calm attitude, he knows very well in his heart that he is the pride of the sky, and there are not many people and things in this world that are worth his attention to.
Yuchen, whose mother is of mixed Russian descent, was born in a well-off family, and has no worries about food and clothing since he was a child, and his parents' hometown are also scholarly, with amber-like eyes, butterfly wing-like thick eyelashes, and a hilly-like nose bridge.
Genes destined him to be smart, all the skills that need time to learn are handy, sports are not strong but in the school sports meeting is absolutely good, high jump, long jump, 400 meters can earn back the class certificates, musical instruments also basically master the trumpet, piano and guzheng, the trophies taken back since childhood are also piled up on the shelves, reading is not biased, although not up to the height of the first place, but the scores of each subject are perfectly floating in the upper reaches of the school rankings, is an absolute top student in the eyes of the teacher.
Now, he lacks nothing, and in the future, he has everything he wants.
"If you say so, you won't believe it." The smile on Yuchen's face faded, "I can't understand Zhou Linuo, so I don't compare with her." β
For Yuchen, knowledge, wealth, popularity and reverence, these worldly people set the label of "winner in life", it seems that in the near future, it seems that he can be caught, if asked what he can't get - Zhou Linuo - she is a mystery, an outlier, she is the only girl who does not have a good impression of him, in the sixteen years he has experienced as a little prince, she is a stubborn stone that has steadily stopped in the torrent, neither humble nor arrogant, not sad or happy, spring breeze and rain, unmoved.
Yi Xuejia asked: "You don't like Nuonuo, right?" β
Yuchen's smile returned to his face, "You're so gossipy?" β
"Where are there people who don't gossip." Yi Xuejia continued triumphantly, "Where are there boys who don't like Zhou Linuo? Ohβ" She paused, and added as she thought about it seriously, "maybe I don't like it because I'm a man with a sexual orientation, hey, no, it's not like it, it's not a child's liking, but it's probably an appreciative liking." Hey, our family Nono, that's reallyβhey, fairyβ" She shook her head and sighed as if she were showing off her daughter, and patted Yuchen on the shoulder heavily, intending to cheer him up.
"Don't worry, I'm not going to pry you into the corner." Yuchen said, "I won't fall in love rashly." β
"Yes, yes, you're a person with a plan." Yi Xuejia nodded, "Of course, you have to wait until you have a successful career, a house and a car, and the house must have at least four bedrooms and two living rooms before you start falling in love. β
"Clever." Yuchen raised his hand and shook the tip of Yi Xuejia's nose with his index finger, and when he saw Yi Xuejia "cut", he immediately smiled and said, "Don't tease you, I just think it's not the time, we are students, learning-oriented, who do I really like, I don't want to talk about a love that can't afford to pay, that's hurting her." β
"Mature." Yi Xuejia gave a thumbs up, "You are, you are old from birth." β
"Then I really envy you, young man, full of blood." Yuchen casually found the topic as he walked, "So, do you have someone you like?" β
"I don't know, I can't imagine the picture of me getting married and having children in the future, my husband? What kind of person does that have to beβoh my GodβI feel sick just by saying the word 'husband'. Yi Xuejia shrugged, made a disgusting look, and then stared at the chimney in the distance, a pair of eyes motionless as if desperately imagining the future, "I can't imagine what I look like at work, although I am now 16 years old, but I feel that 'becoming an adult' is still too far for me, so far away that day it seems that it will not come so far." β
"I can imagine that every step of the way, I can see it clearly when I close my eyes." Yuchen's tone was a little yearning, "I'm pretty sure I'll leave here, not just a different city, I'll go to a far place." β
"What? Are you going abroad? Yi Xuejia's tone revealed disbelief, for her, "going abroad" is more unattainable than "growing up", after all, the city she was born in is too small, less than 10,000 square kilometers, it only takes forty minutes to take a taxi to the provincial capital next door, she has never left the place of household registration, although she thinks about the distance, but her eyes can't see farther.
Yuchen smiled but did not speak.
Yi Xuejia suddenly became anxious, "Then can we still be friends?" It's notβ" For a split second, she suddenly realized something she hadn't thought of before, "I thought we'd be together forever." β
Yuchen's eyebrows showed a hint of surprise, and then a little melancholy.
His micro-expression made Yi Xuejia blush, and he made her face her naivety very abruptly - it turned out that we would be separated - she didn't know, this is obviously an inevitable thing, how can there be a banquet in the world, but she has never faced it, she is too accustomed to their existence, just like the clouds are used to the wind, the mountains are used to thunder and lightning, she has some chest tightness, like a fish forced out of the water.
On the next journey, Yi Xuejia no longer talked endlessly, she was uncharacteristically silent, as if she was angry with Yuchen.
"Hey, girlfriend?" Yuchen followed behind her with half a step, and gently coaxed, "I'll invite you to ice cream later?" β
Seeing that she didn't react, and rushed forward with her head down, Yuchen easily stepped on a pair of long legs, and turned to her eyes, forcing Yi Xuejia to plant his head on his chest.
Yi Xuejia raised his head angrily, Yuchen made a nerve-wracking expression, and compared two fingers, "Two? β
"Fuck off." Yi Xuejia tried to dodge him to the left.
Yuchen also leaned to the left, and he added, "Three? β
"Cut." Yi Xuejia's anger came and went quickly, and she couldn't hold back her face to laugh.
Following Yi Xuejia's movement to the right, Yuchen also tilted to the right, and said with a very embarrassed expression, "Four? - It's not that I can't afford it, I'm afraid that you will have diarrhea. β
Yi Xuejia grabbed Yuchen's four fingers, she was stunned for this feeling, it turned out that the boy's palm was so big, and his body temperature was at least three degrees higher than herself, but she immediately said with a hippie smile: "Then it's decided." β
"Hey, I've been tricked." Yuchen sighed in annoyance, but his face was full of smiles.
After walking a little further, Yi Xuejia could already vaguely see the spire of the tallest building in the city center, "Hey, you can't get lost if you want to." She sighed, and for a moment had an opinion about her hometown, "I can walk home with my eyes closed." β
"Are you eating out for lunch?" Yuchen put his hands back in his pockets, "Since I'm my boyfriend, I'll ask you." β
"So polite? Then I'm sorry to be polite. Yi Xuejia took out her mobile phone, "Wait for me to call my mother and say - hey?" β
As soon as she opened the cover of her mobile phone, she happened to receive a call from Ke Yufei.
"Lao Yi, where are you?" Ke Feifei was so anxious that he spoke incoherently, "Nuo Nuo is uncomfortable, I don't know what to do!" Come on. β