Dongdu, Lin Xinlu's home.

"Hey, hello, is it Cheng Qing?"

Lin Xinlu found Cheng Qing's phone number left when she went home with Cheng Qing in the address book of her mobile phone, hesitated for a while, clicked on the data card, and then pressed the dial button. It wasn't until the "beep" sound of dialing the phone and waiting for the answer was over that someone on the other end of the phone answered that she asked slowly.

"I'm Cheng Qing...... According to the remarks on the caller ID, are you Lin Xinlu? What's the matter, is there anything I can do to help you? ”

At this time, Cheng Qing was very depressed, he was holding an umbrella and walking slowly on the way home with Wei Yibai. Who knew that the weather, which was still sunny just now, turned into a cloudy face in an instant. To make matters worse, the clouds came with raindrops.

Fortunately, Cheng Qing always carries his own backpack every time he goes out. Inside his backpack, he carried a lot of useful items. And one of them, which is applicable in the current situation, happens to have an umbrella.

However, even if there are umbrellas, there are only one of them. Then he had to take care of Wei Yibai on the side at this time. Because Wei Yibai disagreed with Cheng Qing to only favor her alone, so in order to keep the rain from wetting each other, the two had to stand much closer. This situation also leads to the possibility that one is not careful, and the two will bump into each other slightly. And every time the two of them make a slight contact, they will each stand aside as if they were electrocuted.

For Cheng Qing, this situation is nothing more than adding insult to injury. But he still has to put on a look of "It doesn't matter, if you have something, just say it" to answer Lin Xinlu.

After all, because the two have rarely had telephone contact with each other since they left each other's contact numbers. Usually, if there is something to tell the other party, at most it is to leave a message on the chat software, and it is very rare to talk like this.

Therefore, Cheng Qing thought that Lin Xinlu should have something more important to find him, so she tried her best to reply to Lin Xinlu in a state of fineness, and quietly waited for her next words.

"Yes, there is something I want to trouble you. By the way, have you heard of a group called Jinxi, because this group has just recently officially debuted, so its reputation may not be very high, I don't know if you have any impressions. ”

Lin Xinlu threw the name of a group to Cheng Qing and asked him if he knew anything about it.

"Sorry, I don't think I've heard of such a new combination. If the group is formed in the East City, then some of the news of the group's formation and performance activities should be reported in the local news......"

After Cheng Qing's thoughts flew in his mind, he only felt that he seemed to be very familiar with the name, but he just couldn't remember where the name had appeared. After thinking about it for a while, Cheng Qing could only identify his inexplicable sense of familiarity as accidental. Maybe he happened to come across this word when he was reviewing his English recently.

"That's right, this group was just announced in the East City not long ago, and it belongs to a local group, but haven't you heard of it...... That's right......"

Lin Xinlu's expression was a little disappointed, and she didn't continue to speak. At this time, Wu Jiechun, who was next to Lin Xinlu, was also a little lost and became listless after hearing Cheng Qing's words.

Jinxi Band, in the East Metropolis, announced its formation, reported, local news...... These key words came to Cheng Qing's mind one by one, and even though he attributed this familiarity to accident, he was still trying to think about it, hoping to get an answer that could convince him.

After all the keywords were strung together, Cheng Qing remembered that during the pick-up process yesterday, he had inadvertently swiped a piece of news about the establishment of this combination. It was only because of the extremely shocking fire incident that occurred soon after, that his memory was covered up.

"Wait a minute, I remember that the combination you mentioned should have been in the news column of the local news software. But that day coincided with the announcement of the Sunband's plans to hold a world tour, and the first stop was decided to be in the Eastern Capital, so it caused an uproar. Because of the heat brought by this news, the news software chose to report on this matter in a big way, and covered the information of the combination debut you said. By the way, does the combination you mentioned to me have anything to do with you? ”

Cheng Qing still remembers that she even complained about this at the time, and felt sympathy for this poor combination in her heart. What I don't understand is why Lin Xinlu suddenly mentioned this combination to him.

Could it be that she is part of this group?

Cheng Qing guessed casually.

"Have you heard of it, that's good, where are you now, if you have time, I'd like to ask you to come over and help solve some problems."

"Now? I had just finished breakfast and was on my way home with the metro station not far in front of me. But because it's raining all of a sudden, I'm getting a lot wet, so I need to go back and change my clothes and tidy up before I come back, okay? ”

Cheng Qing is actually not thinking about getting wet in the rain now, but thinking about sending Wei Yibai home first. First, I don't want her to catch a cold because of the rain, and second, if he brings Wei Yibai over, I don't know what Lin Xinlu will think.

"We'll meet you in a moment at the café in the mall, where you can change into neat clothes, if you're at the subway station near your house...... Then I'll ask the master to pick you up by car right away, you can stand at the entrance of the subway station first, where you can take shelter from the rain temporarily, and the master will arrive soon, don't worry. ”

"But ......"

There is no need for Lin Xinlu to say, the moment Cheng Qing and Wei Yibai saw a place to shelter from the rain, they walked quickly to the eaves of the subway station as if they had seen a life-saving straw, avoiding the sudden rain. Fortunately, the rain just now was not very heavy, and after the two of them walked to the subway station, the momentum of the rain seemed to become more and more violent, hitting the ground quickly and making a loud noise.

At this time, Cheng Qing looked at Wei Yibai beside him and couldn't make a decision. If you do what Lin Xinlu said now, then you will inevitably let Wei Yibai go home by herself. It is impossible for her to wait here alone for the rain to stop, because no one knows how long this rain will end.

But if Wei Yibai is to go back alone, Cheng Qing is also worried about her safety, if she really encounters something in this huge eastern metropolis by then, Cheng Qing herself will fall into endless self-blame.

Wei Yibai looked at Cheng Qing's current dilemma, turned on his phone, entered a text, and then quietly handed the phone to Cheng Qing.

Cheng Qing took the phone, looked at the text displayed on it, and said: "I can go back by myself, it doesn't matter, I wrote down the way over." If I make a mistake, I can use navigation software to guide me. ”

Cheng Qing typed with one hand, pressed the enter key behind the text, and then typed in two words, "safe".

Wei Yibai took the phone and was helplessly silent after seeing these two words. She understood Cheng Qing's worries at the moment, but she didn't want to disturb his arrangements because of herself.

"But what, you're silently discussing something with the girl on the phone, and there's a question about what she should do now, right?"

Cheng Qing didn't say anything more after saying the word, and Lin Xinlu didn't say anything to break the silence, just waited quietly for a while before speaking.

"Looks like you know."

"It's just my guess, because she just came to your house yesterday, I think you should take her with you wherever you go, maybe it's not easy to leave her alone at home, or you want her to know more about the city of Dongdu. And my current request has created a situation that is difficult for both sides of the country to decide. ”

Guessing as if she knew about it.

Cheng Qing listened to Lin Xinlu's words and thought to herself.

"It's okay, just bring that girl here, one more person will also contribute more wisdom power, and there will be clothes in the café that she can change. If I'm not mistaken, that girl's name is Wei Yibai, and she will convey the invitation for me. So let's wait a minute, we'll meet at the café, hang up first. ”

After Lin Xinlu finished speaking, she hung up the phone.

Cheng Qing took the phone away from her ear, took it to the interface in front of her and looked at the interface where the phone hung up, and after thanking her for her reasonableness, she said to Wei Yibai: "Don't worry about us, the person on the other side of the phone said that we can go over together, it doesn't matter." ”

Wei Yibai asked suspiciously, "Is the other party who needs us to help her do something?" ”

"yes, maybe it's about a budding band. The person who called me, that is, Lin Xinlu, you should have an impression of her, that is, the girl you saw for the first time when you returned to my house yesterday, she is really good. When the summer vacation is over, and you transfer to our class after the school starts, you and she will become classmates. I hope you can build a friendship first during the summer, and it would be nice to get to know one more friend now. ”

"Sorry for the trouble."

"What's the trouble here, okay, don't think about anything, let's take shelter from the rain here, and then someone will come to pick us up, the destination is a café, when you want to order something, tell me, I can invite you......"

At this time, it was at Lin Xinlu's house.

"You finally dialed this number, I think you have been planning to call Cheng Qing since the beginning of the summer vacation, but you have never had the opportunity or courage. It's great to finally be able to take this step. ”

Wu Jiechun stood next to Lin Xinlu at this time, and after watching her put down the phone, she said out loud.

"I didn't have that." Lin Xinlu calmly replied to Wu Jiechun at this moment. But from the two points that she hung up the phone in a hurry just now and her hands that were still shaking when she put down the phone, it could be seen that she was very nervous both during and after the phone with Cheng Qing.

Looking at Lin Xinlu's performance, Wu Jiechun asked with interest: "Then why did you only find Cheng Qing and not your usual friends?" ”

"There are two reasons," Lin Xinlu was asked by Wu Jiechun, a little difficult to deal with, but after thinking for a while, she stretched out a finger and said, "The first point is that I can't trust all of my good friends...... Even though Chen Jiayan called me last night for no reason and apologized to me for what happened on that rainy day for a long time, I felt a little estranged in my heart for a short time...... It's hard to get rid of, and it may take me time to get used to it. And Cheng Qing's words, I feel that I can trust him, because of his character, and that day......"

"The second point is that he has a very good ability and I believe that if he comes, he will be able to help you solve some problems in the combination. So, it really didn't have any personal feelings on my part. ”

Stretching out her second finger, Lin Xinlu finished speaking.

"That's the case, it seems that I really have the heart of a villain and live the belly of a gentleman," Wu Jiechun smiled, but there was some bitterness in his smile, "Recently, some of my things have troubled you, and the things I planned to combine were all solved by myself, but unconsciously, the focus of the matter shifted to you, I ......"

"Okay, okay, when I asked one driver master to go to Cheng Qing and them, I also asked another master to pick us up at the same time, so the masters may be almost there. Let's prepare for now. I had everything I needed to bring, all in that document bag, on my nightstand. ”

Wu Jiechun heard the prepared documents, and walked to Lin Xinlu's room suspiciously, and saw a file bag on her bedside table. She picked up the file bag, which seemed to have a lot of documents in it, and the weight at her fingertips surprised Wu Jiechun.

"It's all the information of your combination, after all, if you want to solve the problem completely, you should be well prepared." Lin Xinlu saw Wu Jiechun walking out of her room, still holding the document bag she had prepared, and spoke.

"Thank you for being so attentive."

"It's okay, isn't your business naturally my business? If you don't have anything to prepare, we'll go out now. ”

Lin Xinlu opened the door and waited for Wu Jiechun's response.

"Well, let's go, don't let the driver wait downstairs for too long." Wu Jiechun's eyes were a little moist, and after hiding it without a trace, she followed Lin Xinlu and left the house together.

East City, shopping mall, café inside.

The café had just opened in the morning, and there weren't a few people inside. And there was a table inside, and there were two people sitting who seemed to be talking about something. One of them is one of Cheng Qing's few friends, Xu Huichen. The appearance of the other person is somewhat similar to that of the architect Qiao Jialiang.

"Tell me, you called me here early in the morning, do you have something to discuss with me? I came here on a bicycle just now, but now it's unfortunate that it suddenly rains, so I have enough time to listen to you, former student council president, Qiao Wenye. ”

Xu Huichen took a sip of the pure water on the table, looked at the person in front of him who seemed to be busy doing something with the laptop, and was also known as "former student president, Qiao Wenye".

"Of course there is something, and I just picked it up until today, so I will call you out. The weather forecast clearly states that there will be sunny to rainy weather today. And on a sunny day, you're almost always on a bike. So I called you out when the weather was still fine, and I expected it to rain shortly after you arrived. The purpose is to allow you to ride your bike right away, and because it's raining you can't leave your valuable bike and go back on your own. So you can only stay here for a long time and listen to me. ”

The person known as Qiao Wenye picked up a glass of Coke on the table and took a sip, and the ice cubes in the cup collided with a crisp sound. Then he put the Coke down, pushed his glasses, and said to Xu Huichen.

"I just didn't expect you to plan so much...... But even if you don't use it, I'll be here to hear you finish. Even if it's a long time, I can't just leave you behind and leave, you won't think of me as this kind of person. ”

When Xu Huichen heard Qiao Wenye's detailed and meticulous plan, he felt a little speechless for a moment.

"How can there be, I'm just not afraid of 10,000, just in case......" Qiao Wenye saw Xu Huichen put on such a serious look, and hurriedly waved his hand to make a round. Then he raised his glass and took another sip of his Coke before moving on to his laptop.

"Wouldn't it be nice to drink less Coke and more healthy purified water like I did?" Xu Huichen complained.

"Brother Xu, the extreme heat in the air in summer can make people feel oppressed, ice cola is a great weapon to clear the heat and cool off, in the most suitable summer to drink it, I naturally want to drink a little more."

Qiao Wenye raised the cup containing Coke in his hand, and seemed to show off to Xu Huichen proudly.

"I won't be dragged into the pit by you, if there is anything important, just cut to the chase, seeing that your plan is so detailed, naturally you need to tell it for a long time."

Xu Huichen put on a gesture of refusal, and went straight into the state of talking.

The person named Qiao Wenye in front of Xu Huichen was a classmate in the same class as Cheng Qing, Xu Huichen and others. At the same time, it has excellent performance, extremely cheerful personality, and is good at enlivening the atmosphere. In his first year of high school, he participated in the student council election, and after a student vote and discussion in the school's leadership team, he was appointed vice president of the student council.

It is worth mentioning that he has a good relationship with Cheng Qing, and he is one of the few people in the class who are more familiar with Cheng Qing.

"Oops, I really can't wait, I didn't even take the initiative to get to the point, you started to ask. But that's fine, and there are a lot of things to talk about next. Qiao Wenye flipped the laptop over for Xu Huichen to watch, and then said:

"The performance of the last student president in all aspects was almost impeccable and of the highest standard. His name, you should have heard of it, the top talent of this school, an elite student named Su Yicheng. ”

"Isn't it the person currently displayed on your computer, you don't need to look at his photo, you can already understand who he is just by listening to the name," Xu Huichen took over the computer, showing a photo of a male student wearing a school uniform, he already knew who this male student was after a glance, and he began to slowly search for memories of this senior, "Senior Su Yicheng is a student specially invited by this school, one grade older than us, if the school starts this year, he will be a senior in high school." Since he entered the school, he has participated in the student council election, and in his first year of high school, he has served as the president of the student council. ”

According to some students' grapevine, when it was time to vote for Su Yicheng's senior, all the teachers in the election team voted for him, and most of the students also supported him. In this way, he won almost a monopoly election and became the president of the last student council. And this phenomenon continued until last year. ”

"Last year, Senior Su Yicheng still participated in the election. As everyone expected, he still won like this. However, last year's vice president, a little strangely, I don't know why it ended up on you. I think that in terms of your popularity at the time, although it was relatively high, you were far from being able to reach this position. ”

When Xu Huichen said this, he also sensed that something was wrong, and looked up at Qiao Wenye, wanting to hear how he explained the result.

"I can only say that I was lucky to be in the eyes of Senior Su Yicheng," Qiao Wenye said with some nostalgia, "Last year, I was just a freshman in high school who had just entered the school. I just mustered up the courage to run for some positions in the student council. ”

"There are many students and seniors who compete with me. It's just that before the voting results for other positions in the student union came out, Senior Su Yicheng first asked for a list of students from the teacher who was to be arranged. ”

"These students are selected by the teachers after many batches of elimination, and then the teachers only need to place them in different positions according to the results of the vote and their own wishes. However, Senior Su Yicheng did not agree with the teacher's arrangement, and he asked some questions according to the pending student list he got from the teacher, and the students above were asked some questions one by one during leisure time such as recess, after school or on rest days. Such as what you want to do if you enter the student union, what position you want to be in, etc. ”

"Although I had just entered the school at the time, I borrowed my father's identity, and my popularity was not very bad, even if it was not as popular as the most popular people in the school, but my voting results just made my name on the student list, so I was able to talk to Senior Su Yicheng for a period of time on the weekend."

"But because I'm a freshman, I don't know anything about some of the big names in the school, including Senior Su Yicheng. When my senior approached me and had a very relaxed conversation with me, I didn't show any inhibitions, so I was able to pour out some real thoughts. Of course, when I later learned that the person I was talking to was Senior Su, I was very shocked. ”

After the conversation, Senior Su Yicheng praised me for saying that the ideas were very sincere, without any artificiality, and the plans were all substantive and worthy of reference. Only then did I realize that the vice president partner that the senior was looking for was not the kind of person who had no opinion or was completely afraid to make suggestions because of respect and restraint. Some other people who are also on the list have more or less heard of Senior Su Yicheng's name from various channels, and they can't let go when talking to him, so the state they show is not very natural. ”

And I just happened to break through this shackle, which made the seniors more satisfied. Later, Senior Su Yicheng broke through the restrictions of voting results by writing letters of recommendation and handed over the position of vice president to me. ”

Qiao Wenye paused at this point and began to be silent, it seemed that he was very grateful to Senior Su Yicheng. After reviewing last year's election process, the grace of that encounter was also stronger in his heart.

"So that's the case, it's really hard to find a bosom friend. Then you must also participate in the student union election after the start of school, this year Senior Su Yicheng has been promoted to the third year of high school, so this year is also Senior Su's last year in school. You should take advantage of this last opportunity to work with him at this school. After listening to Qiao Wenye's experience, Xu Huichen was also touched in his heart. Thinking about it, Su Yicheng seemed to have entered the third year of high school this year, and reminded Qiao Wenye.

"I know this very well, but this year, Senior Su Yicheng does not plan to continue to participate in the election of the student union." Qiao Wenye's eyes darkened a lot when he said this fact.

"What, Senior Su Yicheng is no longer participating in the election of the student union? If he is re-elected this year, it will be the end of his career as president. ”

Xu Huichen was also very unbelievable after learning the truth that Qiao Wenye had now told him personally.

"That's right."

Qiao Wenye fell into the memories and began to talk slowly to Xu Huichen.

This year, at the end of the semester, the student council room.

"Everyone's got your things packed, we're going to leave this room soon. If you have any nostalgic items in the student council room, remember to take them with you. This room will be used by the next student council students. ”

In front of the student council's exclusive seat, a very kind-spoken man stood up and said to some of the student council members who were inside. And he is naturally a well-known outstanding student of this school, and he is also the president of this year's student union, Su Yicheng.

"President, we're all sorted out, but won't you still be sitting at that desk next time, leading the members of the student council?"

"Yes, the reputation of the president is well known throughout the school, and the position of student president can naturally continue to be competent." ……

After Su Yicheng finished speaking, it caused a heated discussion among the remaining students in the student union room, and they all indicated that he would definitely be the next student president.

"Yes, if I am competent, I hope I can still lead you and contribute to the school," Su Yicheng smiled with satisfaction, "So in the next election, you all have to continue to work hard." ”

"Yes, President!"

All the students in the student council room said the words "yes, president" at this time.

"Okay, let's disperse first, I still have a lot of items to sort out, and some handover affairs with the next president still need to be prepared now, so I won't leave with you first."

"Goodbye, President!"

Everyone put down their belongings at the same time and said goodbye respectfully, and then they left one after another.

Just when Qiao Wenye was about to leave after saying goodbye, he was patted by Su Yicheng without a trace. When he reacted, he realized that he had an extra note in his hand.

Qiao Wenye quietly adjusted the angle of his body, turned his back to all the other student council members, and began to look at the content of the note in his hand.

"Don't leave yet, there are some situations to explain to you."

After looking left and right to make sure that no one around noticed his actions, Qiao Wenye crumpled the note into a ball and stuffed it into his pocket. He turned his head to look at Su Yicheng, who was still standing in his position, and happened to be opposite his gaze, and at this moment he seemed to feel that the student president's gaze was actually a little heavy.

Qiao Wenye bowed slightly towards Su Yicheng, and then pretended to have a lot of items that had not been sorted out, deliberately delaying time in the meeting room, waiting for all the other members to leave gradually.

"Then, President, Vice President, goodbye!"

In addition to Qiao Wenye and Su Yicheng, the last remaining student had also packed up and left the student union room.

"President, what......'s the matter?"

"Call me senior, I'm not the president anymore, this year's student union is over."

"Senior, is there anything you need to tell me?"

Qiao Wenye originally wanted to continue to call him "President", but seeing Su Yicheng's suddenly more serious face at the moment, he had to obediently change his mouth and call him "Senior".

"That's right, as for the next student president, I don't plan to continue to run."

Su Yicheng's seemingly insipid words seemed to cause an uproar in Qiao Wenye's heart, and he stared at the senior in front of him in disbelief, not knowing how to continue the topic.

The breeze blowing outside the window stirred some of the files on the president's desk, all of which were the achievements of the overall student council during President Su Yicheng's tenure. He has recorded all the events on those files, which symbolize the indelible memories of all the members over the course of a year.

"If the senior is re-elected as the president, he will become a legend on this campus, and your achievements in office are obvious to all, and we all hope that you can continue to lead everyone down."

Qiao Wenye picked up the files on the table, flipped through them page by page, and said in a choked voice.

"I hope to continue to work with all of you, all of you names, birthdays, hobbies, personalities, etc., all of you are deeply imprinted in my mind. It's just that there are a lot of constraints that don't allow me to continue in this position. ”

"First of all, I will be a senior in high school from the beginning of the next semester. You also understand that after being promoted to this grade, the pressure of academics naturally increases exponentially. So I also need to have enough time and energy to devote myself to my own business, if I dedicate my energy to manage the student union, it may lead to half the effort, whether it is my studies or the affairs of the student union, I can't do it perfectly. ”

"In addition, I also established a club myself, and at the same time, I invited many students to participate in it, and the club has grown and is relatively small. There are a lot of necessary daily tasks that I also need to take care of, and I have to participate in club activities. Otherwise, the community will be unmanaged, and it will really exist in name only. ”

"So I have to take care of both of these aspects."

Looking at Su Yicheng, who looked a little bitter in front of him, Qiao Wenye also deeply felt that behind his honor and brilliance, it was also all the accumulation of hard work and pressure.

"However, I hope that you will continue to participate in the elections next year with my will. You are one of the most active thinkers in my opinion, and many times your ideas coincide with mine, and your ability to implement them is higher than many people. It seems that the way I chose you out against the crowd was also very worthwhile, and you have become my best partner. ”

"Speaking of which, your election next semester is likely to be difficult. Some of the candidates I've put down this year will be ready to go in next semester's election. At the same time, it may also be because I specially chose you for this move, and deliberately targeted you. However, I think that the person I fancy is naturally also a leader with strength, and I will definitely not lose in the competition because of the deliberate targeting of those people. You say, yes? ”

At the end of Su Yicheng's words, his voice became extremely stern, and there was a terrifying majesty in it.

"Yes, President!"

Qiao Wenye straightened up and replied to the senior in front of him with confident words.

The breeze is still there, and the sunset is shining down, reminding people that it is dusk, as if it is also telling the end of this year's student union......