Chapter 9: Heat
Xingfu Nanli Community is located in the east of Xiangzhu City, if you only need fifteen minutes to walk from the city center, usually Zhou Linuo and Yi Xuejia meet to go to the city's business district are cycling or walking, but Ke Feifei thinks that Zhou Linuo is a fairy, and her feet should not touch the ground, how can she work? Riding a bicycle and walking are all labor, and you shouldn't take a bus, those rough-voiced aunts who carry vegetable baskets, and uncles who sneeze at passengers without concealment, their every move is all offensive to fairies.
"Nono, where do you want to go?" Ke Feifei stood outside the gate of the community, looking at the vehicles in the distance, "Whatever you want, let's take a taxi." ”
Zhou Linuo said: "Xinhua Bookstore. ”
"Uh...... Doesn't seem interesting? The corners of Ke Feifei's mouth twitched.
"Then listen to you, I'll do it."
"Then Xinhua Bookstore." Ke Feifei immediately made an excited expression, "It just so happens that I also have a look at some good books." He ran to the side of the road and waved at the taxi.
Zhou Linuo wanted to say that she didn't need to take a car so closely, but she felt that it was superfluous for her to say this, after all, Ke Yufei looked like a peacock opening the screen, she knew that he wanted to show his strengths, and the knowledgeable seniors would mention to her intentionally or unintentionally that the famous school would be escorted, and the handsome classmates would deliberately flirt with the shy female classmates in the classroom in front of her, she was used to it.
Sure enough, after getting in the car, Ke Feifei said in a treasure-like tone: "It's still comfortable to sit in the car, right?" In fact, you can take a taxi with me to class every day, which is safer than you ride. By the way, my dad said that as long as I get a driver's license, he will buy me a car, and now I am old enough to apply for a driving school, do you have a favorite car? I don't know much about cars, but I don't think the first car is expensive, two or three hundred thousand is fine, and you can change it after you slip away. ”
Zhou Linuo looked out the window with a sideways face the whole time, but fortunately, in less than five or six minutes, the car stopped at the door of the bookstore, and it didn't give her much time to think about how to talk.
When he got out of the car, Ke Feifei also breathed a sigh of relief.
After entering the store, Zhou Linuo walked to the foreign literature area familiarly, her slender fingers caressed the spine of a book one by one as if by name, and finally came across a new book that she had never seen before, pulled it out and flipped through it, and soon immersed herself in it, motionless.
Ke Feifei then circled around her, pretending to pull out a book and flip through it, not seeing half a word, so he changed another one, full of words so many that it was about to overflow between the pages, he closed the book impatiently, but held it in his hand as a cover, so that he could stand beside Zhou Linuo and peek at her as a matter of course.
There are a lot of people in the bookstore, because there are not many public places in the city for people to have fun, and the large bookstore only has a two-story Xinhua bookstore, and a four-story private store that collects all kinds of stationery, discs, and books.
The Foreign Literature Zone is a relatively quiet area in the store, where primary and secondary school students and parents with children are reading colorful picture books in the children's book area downstairs.
Several men approached Zhou Linuo's side by looking for books, but they were all glared away by Ke Yufei's disgusted gaze, and they still looked back reluctantly when they left.
Zhou Linuo stood up straight, lowered her head and hooked her neck, Ke Feifei kept dangling on her left side, because she pinned her hair behind her ear, revealing the left side of her face, the line from her chin to her neck was like exquisite, smooth and slender porcelain, her ears were also very beautiful like a small bite of a snack that people couldn't help but bite down, under the blue and white skirt that just covered her thighs, a pair of snow-white calves with warm red strokes made people can't help but trace the direction of the sun with their fingertips, she is too white, to melt into the fragile white in the light.
It is rare to see her wearing trousers, in Ke Feifei's memory, Nuo Nuo always wears a skirt, his first impression of her is in kindergarten, red puffy skirt and red patent leather shoes, everyone's focus, the whole factory area and even the entire Hedong, everyone knows the little princess.
He had heard some legends told by the older generation that Zhou Linuo's mother Zhou Shuguang was once a great beauty who caused a sensation in the city, but unfortunately fate treated her harshly, making her an ordinary aunt.
"Alas......" Ke Feifei stared at Zhou Linuo's side face, and sighed unconsciously, he liked her, he liked her very much, and he wanted to give her all the best kind of like, he was reluctant to let her become an aunt.
When he was very young, Ke Feifei had a vague understanding of the feelings he liked, compared to liking, he even thought he hated Zhou Linuo at that time, because he had a good time with a group of little boys playing with mud, when she appeared, although she was just passing by, he immediately lost the nature of playing, and even wanted to hide himself, feeling that he looked ugly when he was dirty. It also made him feel ashamed.
Every time he saw her, he would be melancholy for a long time, and the joy of the previous moment of brain emptying was immediately gone, and he was upset when he saw her, and even spoke ill of her, and he made faces at her with the other boys, and frightened her with caterpillars and cannons, and he wanted to drive her away from his eyes and head, so as not to delay him from playing happily.
The other boys must have thought the same way, she was like a little devil, upsetting everyone, but what made Ke Feifei puzzled was that out of sight and out of mind, everyone should avoid her, but the boys liked to follow her around.
In the fifth grade of primary school, he knew for the first time what it was like for his heart to be torn apart, when he was less than 1.6 meters tall, he suddenly understood the interpretation of "the heart is like a knife", "the liver and intestines are broken" and "ten thousand arrows pierce the heart" in the Xinhua dictionary.
It was after a mid-term mock exam, Ke Feifei's schoolbag was stuffed with a stack of test papers, except for the passing of the language, all the troops were wiped out, but he still had no heart to play the game handheld, while humming and walking home, and then when passing by a hidden bush, he had already passed by but was attracted by a transparent white in the corner of his eyes, and retreated.
It was a pair of calves wearing white sneakers, looking up along this ice-carved ladder, a blue school uniform skirt, a pair of jade-like hands folded on her knees, and a math test paper with 89 points pressed under her hands, Zhou Linuo, who was combed with a ponytail, sat on the stone steps of the green belt, and the shadows of the leaves around her hid her, she lowered her eyes, tears flowed all the way, but she hung there with a special nostalgia for her bright red lips and did not want to fall.
At that moment, Ke Feifei wanted to throw away his schoolbag, throw away his shoes, and throw away all the burdens on his body - he didn't even know how big the earth was at that time, only that it was big - he just wanted to run and pick all the flowers in the world and pick up her tears.
It was so distressed that Ke Feifei's facial muscles also lost control, so he put on a very ugly flattering expression between crying and laughing, "That ......" He leaned up lightly and softly, trying to comfort Zhou Linuo, "What is there to cry about?" You get such a high score, it doesn't matter if it's not a perfect score once in a while, right? ”
Only then did Zhou Linuo notice his presence, her red eyes opened like a frightened rabbit, she wiped her face with the back of her hand, glared at him angrily, got up and ran away.
This glance opened Ke Feifei's long crush time.
The next day, Ke Feifei secretly bought a large bag of snacks and took advantage of the recess exercise time, ran to Zhou Linuo's class and stuffed it in her drawer, and then hid out the window to watch, and when she came back, she took out this large bundle of beautifully packaged snacks with a confused face, and then the other girls came up and screamed, so she casually gave them the whole bag to divide up.
Ke Feifei was so anxious that she stomped her feet, until a girl pestered Zhou Linuo to ask her to take at least one candy from the bag, so she took out a plum candy casually, Ke Feifei immediately laughed again, but she also stomped her feet and jumped back to her classroom.
It's just that the snack gift package he gave after that, even if it was a grain of candy, she never ate it again, but it didn't prevent him from liking her and wanting to give her all the things he thought were good.
"You like this book so much, I'll buy it for you, right?" Ke Feifei watched the passage of time boredly, Zhou Linuo had been standing here reading for more than an hour, and he had read two-thirds of the 400 pages, and he felt that it would be dark if he delayed any longer, so he pulled out the same book from the shelf, "Let's go." ”
"Wait a little longer, I'll be done right away." Zhou Linuo didn't mean to move, his eyes were still staring at the lead words.
"It's uncomfortable to stand here, let's buy it and watch it at home." Ke Yufei took out a number of books in the "New Books on the Shelf" column, and walked to the cashier counter with a small stack, "Buy a few more books and read them slowly at home." ”
"I don't want it." When Zhou Linuo raised her head, she saw that Ke Yufei had already gone to pay, she hurriedly put down the book and took a few steps forward, "I really don't need it." ”
"It's okay, it's okay." Ke Yufei had already taken out a few hundred-yuan bills, these books were all hardcover foreign novels of thirty or forty yuan each, and he said as a matter of course, "It's not sinking, I'll mention it." ”
Zhou Linuo saw that it had been bagged, so she walked out of the bookstore with a calm face.
"Huh? Ay! Nono? Ke Feifei hurriedly chased after him with the book.
Zhou Linuo's pace was not fast, Ke Yufei quickly caught up, and walked side by side with her in front of her under the scorching sun, "Why are you unhappy?" His tone was urgent, but not to blame, but to ask in a low voice, "I...... Makes you unhappy? ”
"I don't need it." Zhou Linuo muttered softly.
Ke Feifei smiled when he heard this, "Then it doesn't matter if you don't want it, you don't want me, it's not much money." ”
Zhou Linuo stopped talking when he heard this, and just walked with his head bored.
"Where are you going?" Ke Feifei followed step by step, a little aggrieved, seeing that she didn't speak, he didn't dare to ask any more questions, his ears were full of traffic and cicada chirping, which made him even more flustered, and his back was wet with sweat after a while.
Depending on the situation, Zhou Linuo wanted to walk home, Ke Yufei knew that today's date was smashed, but he didn't know what he had done wrong, and resentment rose in his heart, but he didn't blame her, he only hated himself for being stupid, "No wonder I've been single for sixteen years." He muttered to himself, "Ah." His hands were also sore, and after five books were lifted for a long time, they were like bricks that had fallen into the water, and they dragged his arms down, and under the scorching sun, he felt that the muscles all over his body were getting heavier and heavier, and his heart was falling to the ground.
When passing by the riverside scenery belt, without waiting for Ke Yufei's proposal, Zhou Linuo actually took the initiative to go to the public seat under the awning to rest, he immediately felt that the clouds were swept away, and the next activity seemed to be playful, "Take a break?" It's so good, I'm tired too. He sat next to her, and didn't dare to get too close, "After walking for so long, are you hungry?" Let's go to the department store for steak? Ramen? ”
She didn't answer, so he closed his mouth and waited for half a minute, and then turned his face away, only to see that her face was white and blue, her lips had lost their bloody color, and her hands were clenched together with a slight trembling.
"Nono?" Ke Feifei was stunned at first, and suddenly confused, "What's wrong with you?" ”
He didn't remember being nervous when he was in a hurry, so he stretched out his hand and held Zhou Linuo's hand, which was small, soft, and very cold, "It's so cold!" Your hands are so cold! He cried out, and the whole person bounced up from the seat, "Are you uncomfortable? I, I'll call an ambulance right away! He began to pull out his phone.
Zhou Linuo took a breath before he said weakly: "No, I'll just rest for a while." ”
"You're running out of breath? Are you alright? Don't scare me! Ke Feifei shuddered and opened the cover of his mobile phone, "What is the emergency number?" 119? 120? Or what? ”
"Don't ......" Zhou Linuo raised his hand and put it on his wrist very softly, raised his head, and looked at him with a little out of focus, "Don't make a fuss." ”
Ke Feifei looked at her pitiful appearance and was in a trance for a while, Zhou Linuo had never shown weakness to others, but he had seen her cry, she was the most intoxicating when she was indifferent, and she was fragile but took people's souls, after coming back to her senses, Ke Feifei called Yi Xuejia and cried for help: "Old Yi, come quickly!" ”