Chapter 52: The Old Man
Until the bus disappeared not far away, Bai Ye was still standing in place, looking at the hazy rain and mist, thinking about the stranger with a familiar smile just now.
This shouldn't be the first time we've met.
A strange thought suddenly appeared in Bai Ye's mind, he didn't know why he thought like this, and he didn't think of what it meant for a while, so he didn't care, turned around and walked towards Chen Xiaodi.
"Why did you come back so soon? I thought it was going to be better for a while. ”
"It's just the bus stop across the street from the intersection, and the bus comes as soon as I get there."
"No wonder."
The two of them said as they walked all the way to the nearby subway station, which was past eight o'clock in the evening, which was the busiest time in the city, and although it was raining, there were still many pedestrians and vehicles on the street.
"Bai Ye, do you think that old man just now seems to have seen it somewhere?"
"You feel that way too? I thought it was my delusion. ”
"It's not an illusion, I must have seen it before."
Chen Xiaodi said firmly, falling into deep thought, she was sure that this feeling was very real, and it was not the same as the feeling of experiencing a certain scene that she had once dreamed of.
"By the way, I remember, it's my sophomore year."
"Sophomore?"
"When the theme park in the North City first opened, we met him at a restaurant nearby, do you remember, when you went to get the menu, he was sitting across from me."
"Yes, it's him."
"What a coincidence, he seems to be wearing this dress that day."
"yes, it happened to be a rainy day, too."
"What's wrong? You seem to care. ”
"It's nothing, it's just feeling...... Maybe we'll see each other again. ”
"If that's the case, then the fate between you is really not shallow."
The return subway was not crowded, the two found a place to sit down, and it didn't take long for Chen Xiaodi to lean on Bai Ye's shoulder and fall asleep in a daze, and when he was woken up by Bai Ye, the subway had already entered the station.
"Originally, I wanted to take you out for a relaxing day, but now it seems to be a bit counterproductive."
"I think about it too much, although I'm a little tired of playing, but it's really a lot easier, this experiment has been really disturbing recently, but fortunately I have you with me."
"Don't you also change your way to leave messages in my space to encourage me every day, recently I will go to see your messages every time I read the literature and change the papers, or go to your space to see the journals you wrote, to be honest, I think the poisonous chicken soup you have written in recent years is more encouraging than the chicken soup for the soul in high school."
"I don't think you're scolding me around the corner."
"What's the matter, I'm complimenting you on getting better and better at writing, and getting closer and closer to a real writer."
"I hope so."
The two separated at the school gate, and when they left, Chen Xiaodi stopped Bai Ye.
"When the time for your pre-defense is set, remember to tell me."
"Okay."
The next day, Chen Xiaodi received a message from Bai Ye, and their pre-answer was scheduled to be two days later, Chen Xiaodi adjusted his experimental plan, and worked two extra days to free up the day's time.
Before going out, Chen Xiaodi grabbed a notebook and put it in her bag, she and Bai Ye agreed to meet in front of the supermarket they often went to in Moda, and Bai Ye had already arrived, and was drinking juice and looking at the notes in his hand, and put a cup of milk tea for Chen Xiaodi on the opposite side.
"The pre-defense didn't start at two o'clock, why did you ask me out so early?"
Chen Xiaodi took the umbrella and sat down opposite Bai Ye, shaking the cup of milk tea without ice, but made with ice milk, in the hot temperature of noon, its chill was disappearing little by little.
It was one o'clock in the afternoon, there was not a trace of wind in the hot air, and the sultry weather made people drowsy, and even a little out of breath from time to time.
"I remember you said that there is no air conditioning in the dormitory, so staying in the dormitory in this kind of weather must be boring, right?"
"That's right."
Chen Xiaodi smiled softly, drank the cup of icy and sweet milk tea slowly, and quietly swiped his mobile phone, without disturbing Bai Ye.
This taste...... It's so familiar.
Seeing that Chen Xiaodi frowned slightly, as if she was a little confused, the corners of Bai Ye's mouth rose slightly, as if she had guessed what she was thinking.
"This is the kind of thing you love to buy, right?"
"It should be, it tastes similar."
Chen Xiaodi looked at the label on the cup, the name of the store was also a familiar name, and when she turned her head, she found that the hamburger station was gone, replaced by her favorite bubble tea shop, and the cup of jasmine custard in front of her was one of the signboards of this store.
"You love to go to this store when you're at home, and most of the time you order this, but fortunately I don't remember the name correctly."
"When was it opened?"
"Last semester, near the end of the semester."
"It's great, it's just a pity that I'm about to graduate."
Although this bubble tea shop is a chain store, Chen Xiaodi has only seen it at home, and it is a local brand there, and now that Moda has this store, I don't know if I will see it elsewhere in the future.
"What's the matter, I'm also here for graduate school, and when you go online next year, I'll bring it to you when I go to see you on the weekend."
"Hmm."
Chen Xiaodi smiled sweetly, Bai Ye hadn't seen her smile like this for a long time, his heart was much more relaxed, and his eyes became more and more gentle when he looked at Chen Xiaodi.
Half an hour later, Bai Ye packed up his things and took Chen Xiaodi to the large conference room of the college, the door had been opened, and the two students were debugging the equipment, and the students arrived one after another, and the teachers were still nowhere to be seen.
"Your tutor has brought so many students?"
"No, most of them are junior students, who followed the tutor early to do the project and were called over to audit."
"Oh......"
Chen Xiaodi nodded lightly and followed Bai Ye to the back of the conference room, where the students who participated in the pre-defense sat around the conference table and they sat next to them.
A year ago, Chen Xiaodi's direct seniors and seniors also went to listen for a while when they were defending, but she happened to have a course experiment to do that day, although it was upstairs and downstairs, she couldn't listen for too long.
Bai Ye's major is fundamentally different from hers, and there are many different places when she defends, so she came here today to feel the atmosphere of the scene and understand the general process by the way.
Although there were only a few people who participated in the pre-defense, the whole process lasted more than two hours, and the teacher would seriously correct the problems that occurred in the process of each student's slides and narration.
"Listening so carefully?"
"Just in case, if we really don't have a pre-defense, we'll have to go straight to the battlefield."
Chen Xiaodi said this easily, but the expression on her face was a little solemn, after listening to this pre-defense, she suddenly had a little worry about her defense.