Chen Chen still kept meeting Luo Yangfan on this campus, and every time he said that he wanted to have dinner together, but every time he didn't say what day it was. Chen Chen had a lot of things to do, so he didn't take it to heart. Two months have passed since the first meeting, and Luo Yangfan has not appeared for a week. Friends get along like lovers, and after sticking for a while, they will start to be busy with their own lives. She didn't care, so she wasn't surprised when she answered the phone.

"I said I made an appointment with you to eat, can I appreciate my face tomorrow?" Luo Yangfan speaks with a gentleman's taste, and it is difficult not to have a good impression.

"Okay, don't be very formal, I'll come back early after eating as soon as possible, I've been modeling with the professor recently, and I'm very busy." She was answering the phone, and her other hand was still writing and drawing.

"I see, then make an appointment with the light meal next to the school gate, I still hope you can give me a little more time, it's hard to have a chance to have a good chat with you, but I'm very interested in your ideas."

"I see, I'll try."

"Then tomorrow night, call me anytime you're done."

"Okay."

After finishing the next day, Chen Chen packed up his notebook, washed his hands hastily, patted the chalk ash on his skirt and went directly to the appointment.

When I was packing up, I suddenly remembered Zhang Zhe, when we met for the first time, I stood in front of the wardrobe for a long time and weighed it, put on and took off the skirt, and the suit I finally selected. She shook her head self-deprecatingly, and the heavy bag was hanging over her shoulders, weighing her a little hard.

As soon as he walked out of the school gate, he saw Luo Yangfan standing at the door of the restaurant from afar, saying that he would eat something casually, but he still wore a full suit and even folded a scarf in his pocket. Seeing Chen Chen coming over, he greeted him.

"I'll send you." He handed the flower in his hand to Chen Chen and reached out to pick up her bag.

"Thanks, what is this?" The flowers in his hand The five-petal leaves are arranged together, and the bright yellow color is set off on the green leaves, making Chen Chen's skin a little dull.

"Bermuda Cream Flower, the clerk said that its flower language is independent and strong, I think it is very worthy of you." He took the bag in Chen Chen's hand, only to realize how heavy it was, and he almost fell to the ground defenselessly.

Hamburger with fries, creamy mushroom soup. The most common food is matched together, and the large amount is a bit suspicious of life, after sitting down, Chen Chen didn't say anything more, picked up the hamburger and stuffed it into his mouth. She didn't have time to eat breakfast in the morning, and she didn't leave at noon because of the calculation in the key place, which was her first meal of the day.

Seeing her gobbling up, Luo Yangfan didn't speak to disturb her. He took a bite of the burger and swallowed it, suddenly feeling a little cramping in his stomach, he took a sip of the soup, intending to press it.

There seemed to be a sudden fire in his stomach, and the stomach acid seemed to be eroding the wall of his stomach, and in an instant, it turned from a slight burning to a convulsive pain, Luo Yangfan pressed his stomach and wanted to get the medicine, he stood up on the table, and knelt on the ground with a weak leg.

"Luo Yangfan!" Chen Chen pushed away the dinner plate and held him: "What's wrong with you?" “

He was speechless in pain, and sat on the ground with his knees limp and collapsed.

“Someone call Ambulances！” Chen Chen shouted loudly, and the waiter in the restaurant quickly picked up the phone.

"Luo Yangfan? Luo Yangfan, are you okay? She asked anxiously.

"I have gastritis." He gritted his teeth and said the reason, leaning on Chen Chen's body and unable to straighten his waist, his painful and slightly distorted face looked a little terrifying, and the blue muscles on his delicate face burst out.

He knew what was going on, and Chen Chen breathed a sigh of relief: "You hold on for a while, I called an ambulance." “

"Hmm." He gritted his teeth and didn't say anything.

There was no place in the ambulance, and after sending him up, Chen Chen took a taxi to follow. Luo Yangfan lay on the bed and told the doctor about his medical history, and after a brief examination, he was sent to the ward. After Chen Chen arrived, Luo Yangfan had already hung up the drip.

"I'm really sorry, I wanted to treat you to a meal, but I took it and made it like this." He had been relieved a lot, lying on the hospital bed waiting for the drip to end.

"It's okay, I'll make an appointment next time. What do doctors say? “

"It's okay, it's a history of chronic gastritis. Just take some medicine. I didn't have the medicine with you today, which made you anxious. “

"Just take some medicine, why don't I call an ambulance to stop me." Chen Chen sat next to him and put something under his arm.

"I guess you feel a little more at ease when you see an ambulance. After the injection, you can go. “

didn't speak, Chen Chen saw that he was fine, took out his notebook and began to work on his dissertation topic.

Luo Yangfan originally wanted to call her, but he felt that he didn't seem to have any position to pull her to talk to him, he turned his face to look at the ceiling and began to think about his thoughts.

"I'll send you back in a moment." Chen Chen realized that he would feel embarrassed by this, and opened his mouth to find a topic.

"Aren't you afraid that I'm a bad person, and I won't be able to get out if I get into the tiger's mouth?" Luo Yangfan looked at the ceiling and answered with a smile. After a moment of silence, he suddenly realized that his joke was not funny at all: "I'm sorry, I was empty in my mind just now, and I didn't think about it." I'm sorry. ”

"It's okay."

After his awkward jokes, the atmosphere really started to awkward.

Luo Yangfan thought it was his boring joke, but Chen Chen thought of her and Zhang Zhe's first date. Zhang Zhe said that he was afraid that she would think she was a bad person, so he made an appointment for afternoon tea. It turns out that I really haven't forgotten. Luo Yangfan's appearance more clearly reminded Chen Chen how high Zhang Zhe's status was in her heart.

Luo Yangfan had been holding his stomach, his face was as pale as a paper man, and Chen Chen finally decided to send him back.

He lives alone in an apartment. The gray-blue style in the room is very similar to the atmosphere of Zhang Zhe's house, but Zhang Zhe chose a different level of gray. After helping him sit on the sofa, Chen Chen went into the kitchen to pour hot water for him.

"Thank you for today." He took the water and thanked Chen Chen.

"It's okay, do you hurt a lot?" Chen Chen walked around the room absentmindedly.

"Well, it's a little bit worse when you're stressed. I'll call a taxi to take you back in a moment. ”

Chen Chen didn't listen to him at all, and his attention was all attracted by the shelf on the side of his room. A hemispherical fish tank is placed on the circular lattice in the center of the shelf, in which the small red fish with its big tail hang its tail and do not move.

"Do you raise betta fish? Thailand, it's so beautiful~" Chen Chen lay on the edge of the shelf and stared at the red fish with wide eyes.

"I was passing by the market the other day and I saw it, and I thought it was beautiful and bought it. But it didn't eat, and I wondered if it was sick. Luo Yangfan walked over slowly.

Chen Chen picked up the fish food jar on the side, poured it out and looked at it little by little. The small brown particles give off the smell of surimi. She shoved it back and walked to the edge of the refrigerator, took out a slice of bread, twisted it into small pieces in her hand, and threw it into the water.

The little red fish pounced on it with its tail spread out like bread crumbs.

"Huh? Why doesn't it eat fish food and eat this? Luo Yangfan was a little shocked by the scene in front of him.

"I don't know why it doesn't eat. I used to raise a blue Thai bucket, and the boss also brought me this fish food, but it didn't seem to like it. Chen Chen stuffed the rest of the bread into his mouth and ate it: "I bought two more small fish foods that are very broken, and it doesn't seem to like it very much, and it is not very positive every time." I threw some bread crumbs. Later, I would sometimes throw minced crab meat, fish or something, and sometimes I would break it up when I ate fried chicken, and it would eat everything, but it wouldn't like to eat the fish food I bought. ”

"When I first got it back, he would swim around in the bathtub, very beautiful, but lately he has been depressed, always like that, his tail does not move, is it because he is hungry?"

Chen Chen didn't say anything, looked around a few times, picked up the mirror on his desk, and placed it next to the fish tank. Seeing his own shadow, the little fish exploded its bright red tail in an instant.

"Betta fish are aggressive, and they will be very decadent if they raise one alone. Two of them will fight again, and if one dies, it won't stop. You put a mirror for it~" She adjusted the mirror: "It will think that it is an opponent, and it will be very energetic, just look at the mirror for it occasionally"

"Imaginary enemy?" Luo Yangfan said with a smile.

"Mmmm, bettas, a life without fighting is meaningless to them." She stared at the small fish swimming back and forth with their tails in the fish tank.

"I feel very energetic, but I feel like a lonely way of living." He looked at Chen Chen with a smile: "Do you like fish very much?" “

"Well, fish farming is quiet and lively."

Luo Yangfan didn't say anything, looking at her distractedly; She looked at the small fish in the bathtub and was fascinated.

Do you remember something? She seems to have hidden a lot of things on her mind and didn't say anything.

"Doesn't it look like you?" Seeing Chen Chen looking at himself suspiciously, he added: "Betta fish, is it very similar to you." “

"You look fine, it's time for me to go." Chen Chen picked up his bag, didn't wait for him to stay, turned around and walked out.

Chen Chen raised a blue betta fish when he was admitted to graduate school in his first year. When I came home from work at dusk, the fishmongers at the night market had a whole row of small white square boxes on the ground, each of which was swimming in a box belonging to its own species with its own kind, except for the betta fish boxes separated by glass. Small fish of different colors swim in the lattice with their tails flicked. The small fish in the corner bent its body in the lattice, and the narrow place could not accommodate its huge tail, and it awkwardly opened its blue tail in its own small lattice to intimidate the neighbor's betta fish, fragile and aggrieved, but did not show weakness at all. The atmosphere was tense, and it seemed that the next moment it would break through the thin glass partition and start tearing apart.

None of the same kind are compatible, this is the loneliest way of life. Humans are social animals, and most of us want to find our own kind in this world, but most of us find our own kind, and they are also incompatible with each other. A beautiful encounter can be hopeless, but it's like someone who is deeply in love with a poppy. The lonely Chen Chen did not hesitate to buy the stubborn little fish.

During that time, she started to revise every night after work, and put the fish tank under the table lamp. Her pen wrote vigorously on the straw paper on the table, and the dilapidated table shook gently with her movements; The little fish under the light was disturbed and flicked its tail back and forth in the bathtub to dodge.

It looked panicked, but it was not brave at all. After getting used to it, the little fish no longer swam with the trembling table, Chen Chen took the pen and gently tapped the bathtub, watching it explode its tail in an instant and start looking for his imaginary enemy, Chen Chen always felt that there was still hope in life.

Even if he is an imaginary enemy, there is hope for fighting in life.