Chapter 271: Coins
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Indie musician Sapientdream's slow-paced, melancholy "Promise" slowly sounded on the pillow, and the white and spicy sunlight seeped in through the curtains, falling on the face of the girl on the bed, like a cat's whiskers. She breathed evenly, her fair skin reflected the beauty of the sun, illuminating the equally beautiful snow-white neck and collarbone, her arms hung beside the bed, and the light penetrated the curtains to print stripes on it, and the tiny fluff was a little golden and beautifully white.
Su Xiaoqiao woke up, in the dream she seemed to float on the warm ocean, the music took her from the sea all the way up, rose over the golden clouds, rose over the sky written by the grand sun, and finally rose from the dream to reality. Her eyelashes, which were illuminated white, trembled, and she saw that the boy she had met in her dream was sitting on a chair beside the bed, and the light was shining in from behind him, and by the light he was looking quietly at a book on his lap with his head down.
"The Siege", with a blue hard-shell cover, has a labyrinthine circle around the white title, and at the bottom is the author's name.
Xiao Tiannu has never read this book, she vaguely remembers some famous quotes and dialogues in it, such as what it said in it, there is no accident in the world, it is just the inevitability of wearing makeup and masks.
"It also said that most of the love is unsuccessful, either suffering from the boredom of finally becoming a family, or suffering from the sadness of not being able to become a family member in the end." Lin Nian put down the book, he noticed that Su Xiaoqiao was awake, so he said, "Good morning." ”
"Good morning." Su Xiaoqiao said, and couldn't help but raise his arm to block the grand sunlight that greeted him after the boy opened the curtains.
When the white light turned from dazzling to soft, the city emerged from the light, and the glass-walled buildings reflected the fireworks in the sun, and the clouds in the sky washed blue.
Today's coastal city has a rare good day, as if yesterday's heavy sky of ink and dreary was washed away by a rain and flowed into the canal and into the sewer. There should have been a blue sky and white clouds on the white paper, and in this weather, even the seagulls that strayed into the city were singing the praises of the youth of the young people passing by.
"It's a nice day." Lin Nian said.
He turned around, and Su Xiaoqiao took his eyes back from the side of the boy's face, and some hypoglycemic brain circuits reacted when it was and where she was, there was no doubt that she was in reality - because even in a dream, she was reluctant to have such extravagant dreams.
"Go wash up, I've got breakfast."
Lin Nian got up and walked out of the room, the blue books covered the chair, more than half of the pages covered, the white pages in the sun seemed to be able to be sunburned, and the smell of ink and the smell left by the boy in the air was carefully smelled.
It wasn't until the slight sound of the door closing that the girl completely returned to reality, she looked at the chair the boy had sat on and the book he had left behind, and after a few seconds of coming back to her senses, she suddenly buried herself in the quilt, wrapped herself in a warm quilt with both hands, and gathered the cotton wool inside around her face little by little.
In the middle of the night, when Lin Nian walked into the room with breakfast, Su Xiaoqiao still finished washing and sat on the bed, because the clothes were not dried thoroughly due to the rain, when the sun came out, Lin Nian was taken away and hung on the balcony, with today's temperature and light, it can be dried in about half an hour, which is just the time for breakfast and chatting.
"Warm up with milk first." Lin Nian handed her a glass of warm milk.
Su Xiaoqiao obediently took the milk, if her nanny was lucky enough to see this scene, she would probably pack up fruits and gifts overnight and go to Lin Nian's family to learn from her, the eldest lady of the Su family is notoriously difficult to take care of, especially hates to eat breakfast, every time she knocks on the door and asks her to eat, she will have a low blood sugar attack for a while, although she still apologizes to the nanny very understandingly afterwards, but the anger of getting up at that time is not something that ordinary people can serve.
"Good choice for breakfast at the hotel, I only took some bacon fried eggs and cheese bread." Lin Nian put the dinner plate on the bedside table, picked up the book with the blue cover, sat on the chair with his legs crossed, watched her eat carefully, and from time to time picked up a tissue and handed it to her to signal that there was something in her mouth.
There was only the sound of chewing food in the room, no one spoke, Lin Nian looked at him quietly, with the help of the sun, the girl on the bed was like transparent, about to melt in the bright sunshine, her fingers and skin were as red as apples, and she didn't know if it was sunburned, or she accidentally dyed it.
The alarm went off again, and the phone screen showed half past eight, and the song was still the same English song, it seems that Xiao Tiannu loves this song to a certain extent, because no matter how much the song she likes is put on the alarm clock for a long time, it will make people feel psychologically disgusted, unless she really likes this song, for some reason, some lyrics, no matter how many times you listen to it, it's like listening to yourself and singing yourself.
Lin Nian helped Su Xiaoqiao find the mobile phone next to the bed, turned off the alarm clock, and the screensaver was displayed on the screen, he took a look, and found that the little goddess was secretly looking at him when she was drinking milk, noticed the eyes he looked at, and quickly stared at the milk in the cup, almost spit out a few bubbles.
"I didn't expect you to be so good at taking care of people..."After drinking milk and eating breakfast, the tableware was piled aside, and the little goddess who took the wet towel to wipe the corners of her mouth and hands couldn't help but whisper.
"The more people are taken care of, the more they will take care of people." Lin Young said in a young voice that he looked at the lock screen wallpaper on the phone screen for a while before turning off the phone, "When is the photo?" ”
"What? Oh... You said lock screen wallpapers. Su Xiaoqiao didn't come back to her senses at first, because according to her memory, every time she encountered such an embarrassing situation, this boy would skillfully avoid the past, and when people secretly breathed a sigh of relief, they were stunned a lot, but in the end, more longing would spring up in their hearts. Not refusing often makes the crush have expectations, even if the other person never says yes.
"In the first half of the sophomore year, you represented the boys in our class to participate in the 5,000-meter run."
"Oh, I remember."
With just a slight reminder, Lin Nian flipped through the photo album of memories to that dusty corner, he could remember a lot of things, but he only remembered those memories when he needed them.
For example, in that sports meeting, the girls sent Chen Wenwen to appear, and the president of the literary club was not bad in terms of physical fitness, and he gritted his teeth and ran for a good third place, and the boys were ready to go on the road at the beginning, but it was a pity that this kid was strong and dry, and he was a little out of breath when he was warming up, Lin Nian took the initiative to take over his task, and quickly left all the players behind him on the field, and he had already crossed the line when others were still running the fifth lap.
When he won the trophy, he won it once, Lu Mingfei counted it as a participation award, and Chen Wenwen took a photo with him, when Lin Nian won the cup, Su Xiaoqiao came up, and it happened that there were bored people standing on the high platform and throwing shredded colored paper, the scene was so festive that it was like winning the Olympic Games, and in the coaxing, Su Xiaoqiao took out his mobile phone and took a selfie... Probably this is also the only photo of her appearing alone with Lin Nian.
"It's a pretty good shot." Lin Nian said, "You like me? ”
God turns.
Who would have expected him to ask this question? Maybe it's because of the lock screen wallpaper?
Nobody knows.
Su Xiaoqiao's hand grabbing the quilt subconsciously became nervous, and grabbed the cotton wool in the quilt into a ball... Just as Lin Nian's question pinched her heart hard, it was no longer the scratch that she had intentionally or unintentionally.
If the chance of lightning striking a tree is 1 in 3,000, then after 3,000 inadvertent times, the lightning finally found an opportunity and slashed down on the tree that had been waiting for him in the rainstorm, smashing the tree apart.
"I..."
At the most critical moment, Su Xiaoqiao suddenly fell dumb, she had a slight lack of blood supply to her brain, and she was a little dizzy. Hell, she used to laugh with the girls she was playing with, and in the Middle Ages, ladies liked to corset their waists, and blue satin tights could squeeze the delicate flowers out of breath and faint at the slightest irritation.
So the nobles of the Middle Ages always liked to boast to the noblewomen about their adventures, or the extravagant grandeur of the romance, and if their bravery could not make a few women faint, then the nobleman was unqualified and would be laughed at by his friends.
Whenever this story is mentioned, Su Xiaoqiao and her friends laugh, thinking it is incredible and ridiculous... But now the boy in front of her just said four words, and she was a little out of breath.
"yes."
But she plucked up the courage to say so.
There's no reason to back down, if you like it, you like it to be bright and bright, it's not a bad thing, she can say that I raise him when the boy is ridiculed, so now she can say this naturally...
"I like you."
Lin Nian didn't say anything more, turned his head to look at the city as clean as washing outside the sun, his eyes were also very clean, there was not too much haze and heart, this kind of weather was great to talk about love, everyone's hearts and tongues were free of dust, and what they spit out was the most straightforward and unadorned joy.
"Why?" After a moment he asked.
"Is there a reason?" Su Xiaoqiao asked subconsciously.
"Yes." Lin Nian found himself asking a stupid question.
It could be an opportunity for a dispute at the beginning of school, or a three-pointer hitting the basket on the basketball court, or a ride on the track... There are too many reasons to like someone, those bits and pieces of reason are like being divided into grains of sugar, added to water little by little, inadvertently drinking such a sip, and then looking at him, only to feel a mouth full of sweetness, probably at this time to introspect, oh, it turns out that I like him.
"Haven't you thought about giving up?"
“... There were. ”
She knew she should be tough and let the other party see her determination, but she couldn't do it, she couldn't lie in front of this boy who represented all the good things she could fantasize.
Su Xiaoqiao actually has a lot of twists and turns in her heart to say, she is a girl who is not good at words, she is not Chen Wenwen, she can dissect her mind and show it to the boy she likes.
Maybe she wants to say, you are a new star in the eyes of the track and field department, you can run fast on the track of the track, I will chase behind, but I can't catch up, every turn may fall or something, I don't want to get up if I fall, but seeing you running farther and farther, I can't help but cheer myself up, get up and continue to chase. chased circle after lap, her knees were broken and bleeding, the distance still didn't get closer, and everyone thought about giving up, but she still chased with a stubborn temper.
Feelings are always like this, you are chasing a person's back on the runway, and there is a person or a group of people chasing you behind you. Everyone can't catch up, and they don't want to stop and wait for the people behind them, so they stubbornly lose their temper, keep their heads down, and run until they can't run anymore before they are willing to compromise with the people who catch up with them behind them, help each other out of the runway, and live a dull life.
But Su Xiaoqiao didn't want to compromise, although the back in front of her was very open, and she couldn't see it, she was also running in circles on the track, the people chasing her behind had already given up, and she was also running alone, and now she finally saw the familiar back again, how could she stop and let him go?
"Will you give up?"
"No, it won't."
This time she answered categorically.
"Okay." Having obtained the answer, Lin Nian nodded.
Almost just when Su Xiaoqiao thought that she would be rejected most absolutely and ruthlessly, a coin appeared in her sight, and when she looked up, she saw only in the sunlight, Lin Nian stretched out her right hand, and there was a coin lying in her palm.
"Do you see clearly?" Lin Nian asked, "Coins." ”
Su Xiaoqiao was stunned for a moment, then nodded.
Lin Nian slowly clenched his fist and pinched the coin in his right hand, then stretched out his hands and placed them in front of Su Xiaoqiao.
The sun shone on his face through the balcony, and he looked at Su Xiaoqiao and said seriously, "Guess which hand the coin is." ”
Su Xiaoqiao was stunned, because this was a question of giving points for nothing, Lin Nian held the coin in his right hand and then stretched out his left hand, and there was no other movement, of course the coin would only be in the...
"Right hand."
Lin Nian opened his right hand, there was nothing in it, and then he opened his left hand again, and the coin lay there quietly.
"Is this magic?" Su Xiaoqiao asked.
"You can assume that I cheated, so you didn't guess." Lin Nian nodded in acknowledgement.
Su Xiaoqiao didn't understand what he meant, Lin Nian said that she cheated, but she didn't find any clues.
"Now you know the rules of the game." Lin Nian stretched out his hands again, the coin was in his left hand, "I still cheat, you can continue to guess, but I want to warn you in advance, you can almost impossible to guess in this game, because I cheat every time, but you can guess once every time you see me." ”
"Okay." Su Xiaoqiao has no reason to refuse this kind of fun game.
"You like me, I won't persuade you to give up, because you're not like someone who will give up, as long as you know that there is no one else around me, you will never give up, and dying is a very difficult thing for you." Lin Nian looked into Su Xiaoqiao's eyes and whispered.
Su Xiaoqiao nodded silently, just like Lin Nian said, if Lin Nian has no one else by her side, she will keep waiting, even if he refuses, she will keep waiting, while waiting, thinking that if he will change his mind, if he will appear on the street corner, if he will like me... Sit under the tree, eat the next if, peel another if.
"So I'll give you the chance to guess the coin, but you have to promise me that before you guess the coin, live your life, meet more people, and find more options." Lin Nian said, "After I leave the city, don't try to come to Kassel to find me, don't hang on a tree, you promised me, I will play this game with you." ”
"What happens if I guess the coin correctly?"
"I'll be with you."
The room was quiet, and on a beautiful day, you could hear the sunlight flowing slowly on the railing outside the window.
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Wan Boqian looked at Lin Nian who walked out of the room, didn't speak, just waited for the boy to close the door, lifted the heavy long box beside him, and followed him to the door of the suite.
Passing through the hallway and entering the VIP elevator, the elevator doors close and the overhead lights jump in turn.
No one spoke.
The silence was not broken until the elevator doors opened.
"I was eavesdropping outside the door." Wan Boqian whispered.
"Hmm." Lin Nian nodded.
"Your words are 'instantaneous', right..."
"Hmm."
"Then she won't be able to win this game for the rest of her life." Wan Boqian said softly.
Lin Nian stood at the door of the hotel, and outside, the blue Panamera was quietly parked on the side of the road, and the boy in sunglasses stood by the car in the sunshine waiting for them.
"At the right time, she always wins the game." He said.
"It's better to reject her directly, even if she is persistent, sad for a few months, half a year, and she will find other boys when she is tired of crying." Wan Boqian shook his head, he knew what kind of spirit 'instant' was, this kind of game, as long as the boy was willing, the girl would not be able to guess the coin in her life.
"Everybody deserves a chance, not half a year or more of pain, and no one deserves to be treated like that." Lin Nian said.
"But does she really have a chance? This kind of thing is still up to you, since you don't like her..."
"Why?" Lin Nian turned his head and asked Wan Boqian.
"What, why?" Wan Boqian was stunned.
"Why are you so convinced that she will never be able to win that game for the rest of her life?" Lin Nian asked.
"Because you don't—" Wan Boqian opened her mouth, but suddenly closed it.
Looking into the boy's eyes, she suddenly understood the meaning of the boy's words.
... A pretty girl who is there for you when you're ostracized, rushes to cheer you on when you win a competition, stands up for you when you're insulted, sneaks in the DVD player you want for your birthday... Can anyone really be tempted in front of such a girl.
Who can guarantee that a girl's endless pursuit will not move so little heart? Even if it is very small, as long as there is a crack in the stone statue that has been drenched in heavy rain, the rainwater can always flow into the closed heart of the stone statue.
But the stone statue can't speak, he has his own fate, and it can only be a stone statue until the fate ends.
“... I'm also human and emotional. I didn't know why I couldn't accept her before, but I found out until you found me... I want to give her a chance and give myself a chance. There's still a long way to go, and too much can happen. We're still young, we haven't met too many people yet, and our minds may all change... Who can say what will happen in the future? Lin Nian looked out the window at the boy who was waiting for him and whispered, "Now is not the time to talk about these things, at least not now... There are more important things waiting for me to do, and when those things are done, I will leave if she has someone she likes, but if she and I are still the same as now, then what about making an appointment to toss a coin again and let her win again? ”
"Hmm." Wan Boqian was silent for a long time and nodded.
Taking the heavy weapon box with the Half-Immortal World Tree emblem in Wan Boqian's hand, the boy pushed open the door and walked out, drowning in the midsummer sun.