The dance party of the Department of Foreign Languages attracted almost all the young people of all departments of the university to participate, the auditorium was very simple, but also quite elegant, surrounded by ribbons and balloons, there was a big donation box at the door, everyone who entered the venue had to donate money, and signed, and the donation box was written next to the words "Gather the strength of all people, resist the invasion of the iron horse".

Ruikang, Jiaqi, and Jiawei came to the venue together, and the director of the Department of Foreign Languages made an opening speech, which was very inspiring, Jiawei rubbed Ruikang and Jiaqi with his shoulders, and glanced at a female student in a white dress in the venue.

"Xu Manlin is so beautiful tonight," Jia Qi praised.

"She's my target tonight. Hey. Jia Wei rubbed his hands.

Jiaqi sneered and laughed out loud: "Brother, I wish you success!" ”

Someone suddenly patted the three of them, and the three of them looked back, it turned out to be Xu Ziyan and Zhu Yafen, they are a recently developed couple, Xu Ziyan has a delicate face, a slender figure, and a pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose, which is more elegant and intellectual, Zhu Yafen is sweet and delicate, a violin plays well, and a graceful dance, which is really a perfect match.

"I can hear about your ambition, Jiawei." Zhu Yafen deliberately teased and said, "However, I heard that those who want to dance with Xu Manlin tonight have to donate money." Register there, how much have you donated? ”

"What? How did I not know? Cheng Jiawei screamed, and when he looked back, there was a table on the other side of the donation box, and there were several male classmates queuing up to register, so he hurriedly left everyone and ran to donate to register.

Between the laughter of everyone, the dance party has begun, the lights become soft, in the moving dance music, everything becomes romantic, the first three steps, opened by the head of the department and a female teacher, the dance music is halfway, the other students have to end in pairs.

"Ziyan, I heard that you plan to go to the UK to stay abroad?" Ruikang asked, in addition to Jiawei, Xu Ziyan is his best friend, especially Xu Ziyan has a calm personality and is taciturn, but he has extraordinary insights and can talk better than Jiawei.

"Yes. It's just ......"

The two walked over to the table next to them and grabbed a drink, and started talking as they sipped.

"But what?"

Xu Ziyan pursed his lips, his eyes showed a trace of contradiction, and said: "It's just that at the time of the national disaster, I feel ashamed to leave my homeland." ”

"Hmm." Ruikang nodded.

"I've got other plans." Xu Ziyan's eyes suddenly flashed.

"What are you going to do?"

Xu Ziyan took a deep look at Ruikang, pursed his lips and shook his head, patted Ruikang's shoulder, his expression seemed to be very firm and complicated, Ruikang didn't understand why he was like this, and looked at him suspiciously.

Xu Ziyan suddenly smiled and said, "I'm going to put pen to paper!" ”

"What? Do you have this idea too? Ruikang became excited, Xu Ziyan nodded and said: "Yes, the Japanese are arrogant, we can't always shout anti-Japanese on campus." went to the battlefield to kill a few of his devils and shed a piece of blood, and it was not in vain to live this life. ”

"That's right."

"I heard that there is hope for cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party."

"How?"

"There are also voices within the Kuomintang that hope that Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists will join forces to resist Japan."

"Lao Jiang is stubborn, if the Kuomintang and the Communist Party can really join hands to defend against foreign enemies, then there is hope."

"Yes, I plan to apply for the Whampoa Military Academy."

Ruikang's eyes lit up, and an excited smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "When are you going to go?" ”

Xu Ziyan sighed softly, glanced at Zhu Yafen's back, and a helpless smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Children are long, heroes are short, I am worried." He patted Ruikang's forearm, pointed to Cheng Jiaqi's back, and said, "I guess you also have a concern that you can't let go." ”

Ruikang took a sip of his drink and frowned, his concern was not only Cheng Jiaqi, he also had elderly parents, disabled brother, and ......

"Seriously, I don't want to talk about feelings here, it's just that everything happened so unexpectedly. Totally unexpected. Xu Ziyan shook his head helplessly.

Ruikang sighed lightly and whispered: "If you can put it away freely, it's not called love." ”

Xu Ziyan raised his eyebrows, studied him from behind the glass lens, and said with a smile: "You seem to be deeply touched." ”

Ruikang squinted at him, he didn't feel like he laughed, and he didn't know where to start, he actually became so sentimental, he was about to become a male version of Lin Daiyu, he sighed secretly, shook his head slightly, saw Jiaqi's back not far away, put down the cup in his hand, and walked up.

"Jiaqi, can I ask you to dance?" He asked.

Jiaqi was a little surprised, but it was expected, she smiled and nodded, Zhu Yafen pushed her aside and said with a smile, "Go quickly." ”

Zhou Ruikang gently took Jiaqi's hand and slid to the dance floor, it was the first time for the two of them to be so close, her hand was gently on his shoulder, his hand gently supported her waist, his dance steps were very gentlemanly, her dancing posture was very light, the two of them were very good partners, they stepped on the beat, slowly rotating on the dance floor. Xu Ziyan also followed and pulled Zhu Yafen onto the dance floor.

Everything is so pure and beautiful, after a while, these two pairs of beautiful people danced together, Xu Ziyan turned his head and said with a smile: "Look there, Jiawei really got what he wanted." ”

The four of them stopped dancing and looked back, sure enough, Jiawei was that very gentlemanly with one hand behind his back, one hand stretched out, bent down to invite Xu Manlin, and Xu Manlin gently pulled the white pleated skirt, half-squatted in return, and elegantly put his hand into Jiawei's hand, the two also danced, Jiawei's face was full of smugness, his eyes kept looking at Xu Manlin, and Xu Manlin was expressionless, coldly following the beat of the dance.

"This Xu Manlin is really a well-deserved iceberg beauty, so beautiful, why does she always have a cold face?" Zhu Yafen shook his head and said.

Jiaqi also shook her head and looked at her brother who was smiling, and sighed: "Alas, I want to cry for my father." ”

"Why?" Zhu Yafen asked curiously, and Ruikang and Xu Ziyan also had questions on their faces.

Jiaqi held back a smile and said seriously: "He, in order to dance with the iceberg, I don't know how much it spent." It doesn't cost so much to buy a piece of ice for him to hold! ”

As soon as she finished speaking, everyone burst into laughter.

I don't know when, the sky began to rain, the raindrops hit the window of the auditorium, Jiaqi was invited by another male classmate to dance, Ruikang walked to the window alone, looked at the rain outside, the rain seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, accompanied by the spring thunder, yes, the spring thunder, the thunder that heralded the coming of spring, everything recovered, Ruikang hoped that the sound of spring thunder could wake up the sleeping Chinese earthquake.

He has an urge to rush into the rain, wanting the rain to wash his head and soul clean, and now he has made a love agreement with Jiaqi, he must be serious and responsible, and he can no longer have half-hearted thoughts, let alone those who violated etiquette and religion in the past, and the dirty and filthy desires, he wants to love Jiaqi wholeheartedly. He listened to the spring thunder and secretly swore in his heart.

"Hey, Ruikang!" Someone called him, and as soon as he heard the voice, he knew it was Jiawei.

Ruikang turned around with a smile, only to see Jiawei leading Xu Manlin in a white pleated skirt to come to him.

"Hello, I'm Xu Manlin from the Department of Foreign Languages." Xu Manlin was also generous and introduced herself.

"Oh, I'm ......," Ruikang hurriedly introduced himself politely.

"I know who you are? Zhou Ruikang, a talented person in the Department of Chinese Literature, I have listened to your speeches many times. She interrupted his self-introduction, lifted her eyelashes, and raised a smile on her red lips with a cold feeling.

"Uh...... Yes, thank you. Ruikang didn't know how to answer.

"Why don't you dance?" Xu Manlin asked.

"This ...... I didn't jump well. ”

"How so? I just saw you on the dance floor, dancing very well. Xu Manlin said, looking at Ruikang with interesting eyes.

Cheng Jiawei interjected and said, "Oh, he's waiting for my sister, and the two of them have already made a marriage." ”

"What? Engagement? Xu Manlin looked at him again in some surprise, glanced at him squintedly, and a somewhat disdainful smile suddenly appeared on the corner of her mouth, and said, "Haven't you always advocated freedom of marriage and love and broken feudal arranged marriages?" How do you get married? ”

Ruikang himself also had a feeling of being slapped by himself, which was really ironic, he was silent, and he was not interested in talking to Xu Manlin again.

"Hey, it's not necessarily a bad thing to get married, the two of them are very compatible, very suitable, and they know each other, and they are not blind marriages and dumb marriages, what's wrong with getting married?" Cheng Jiawei argued.

Xu Manlin ignored Cheng Jiawei, still staring at Zhou Ruikang, snorted lightly from his nose, and said coldly: "It seems that this person is really difficult to be consistent with what he says and what he does, and I will have to learn to distinguish between truth and falsehood in the future." With that, he raised his head and turned around proudly, and walked away.

"This woman is really cold enough, she is cold, and she speaks cold, no wonder she is called an iceberg beauty, I knew that she was such a cold-talking weirdo, so I wouldn't spend 100 yuan to dance with her."

Zhou Ruikang didn't care how sarcastic and cold Xu Manlin's words were, because what she said was the truth, and he thought she was a very special woman.

I don't know if it was because of the rain or because he was ridiculed by Xu Manlin, Ruikang's mood was low, he suddenly lost interest in this ball, and he wanted to go home.

After a dance, it seems that more than half of the people already know the news that Zhou Ruikang and Cheng Jiaqi have been engaged, Jiaqi feels very embarrassed, and Ruikang feels very irritable. I looked at my watch, and it was already half past ten.

The rain outside was very urgent, and there was no tendency to abate, everyone crowded at the entrance, and some students who lived on campus kindly ran to the dormitory and took out a lot of umbrellas to distribute to the students who did not live on campus.

Xu Ziyan and Zhu Yafen ran to the entrance of the auditorium with umbrellas, held six or seven umbrellas, distributed them to the students, and stuffed the last two into the hands of Ruikang and Jiawei. Saying that, he pulled Xu Ziyan and left, Xu Ziyan turned around and smiled helplessly at Ruikang, and followed Zhu Yafen away.

The three of them held the umbrella and walked outside the campus, Jiaqi was a little embarrassed to play an umbrella with Ruikang, and wanted to snatch the umbrella from Jiawei's hand, so that the two boys could play an umbrella, Jiawei dodged, ran away quickly with the umbrella, and laughed in his mouth: "Don't you think, hide under the Ruikang umbrella, I'll go first, wait for you at home, if you can't go back, go to your future in-law's house to sleep for one night." ”

As he spoke, he walked out of the gate quickly, found a rickshaw, and jumped on it.

Jiaqi stood under the umbrella shyly, looking at Ruikang, because standing on the edge of the umbrella, her back was almost wet, Ruikang couldn't bear it, the corners of her mouth turned up slightly, it seemed to be a smile, but it was actually a rather embarrassing expression, she reached out to pull her closer, and put her hand on her elbow, in this way, she was actually holding his arm, she blushed and approached him, and slowly rested her head on his shoulder...... At this moment, both of them have one thing in their hearts, that is, to cherish this fate.

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When Ruikang returned home, it was almost midnight, and Zhou Gui opened the door to let him in, and said:

"Second Young Master, you're back."

Ruikang glanced at Zhou Gui very casually, and said a little apologetically: "I'm sorry, Zhou Gui, I came back late and woke you up." ”

"Ouch, Second Young Master, don't say that, Zhou Fu has just come back."

"Huh? Didn't Zhou Fu and Cuiliu accompany Ruojun back to her parents' house early in the morning? Why are you only coming back now. Ruikang's eyes widened, and he asked in surprise.

"Ahem, I don't know what's going on, I came back a quarter of an hour earlier than you, soaking wet, and went straight to the hall, I just called the old lady up......"

Before Zhou Gui finished speaking, suddenly there was a thunderclap in the sky, Ruikang's heart sank, and a strong sense of foreboding enveloped his heart, which made him tremble all over his body, and walked quickly towards the hall.

As soon as I arrived at the steps outside the hall, I heard Zhou Fu's voice from inside the house: "Master, madam, the master of the Mei family is estimated to be unable to pass tonight, and the eldest young grandmother will not be able to come back." I let Cuiliu stay at Mei's house, and I came back first to report to the old lady. ”

"Hmm, cough, it's really ......" Mrs. Zhou kept twisting the rosary on her hand, frowned, and looked back at Master Zhou, who pondered for a moment and said, "It stands to reason that Ryan should go." But ......"

"Yes, as soon as this old man Mei died, there were only three women left in their family, and there was no one who was in charge, which is also strange and pitiful. Ryan was supposed to help with the cooking. But Ryan was bone-on, coughing ......," Mrs. Zhou shook her head and sighed.

"I'll go!" Ruikang strode into the hall, the second elder of the Zhou family looked up at him, Mrs. Zhou frowned, Ruikang hurriedly added, "I'll go for the eldest brother." ”

Master Zhou thought for a moment, nodded and said: "It can only be like this, although Zhou Fu can deal with all kinds of things, but after all, he is not the master's family, we are in-laws, if a master does not come forward, it will be said that our Zhou family dislikes the daughter-in-law's family is poor, impersonal, and it is always inappropriate." ”

As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Mrs. Zhou, wondering why his wife did not echo his words, but frowned and bowed her head silently.

"Shulan? What's wrong with you? Say a word! ”

Mrs. Zhou's heart was very chaotic, I don't know why she always faintly felt that there was a huge force in the dark that was pulling her two sons into a huge whirlpool, although she wanted to try her best to stop it, but she felt powerless.

Sighing, Mrs. Zhou still had no choice but to nod, turned to look at Ruikang, looked at her son worriedly, and said earnestly: "Ruikang, you are a person who has already made a marriage, and you must be measured in your work, you know?" ”

Ruikang's heart had already flown to Mei's house at this time, and he couldn't wait to fly to Mei's house with wings, so he just nodded indiscriminately.

Mrs. Zhou turned her head to Zhou Fu and said, "You quickly change your clothes, and then go to Mei's house with the second young master, if Master Mei passes, you will help take care of the future, and you can cut whatever you want." It can be regarded as our Zhou family's dedication. ”

He also said to Ruikang: "Ruikang, if Ruojun's father dies, you have to go to Dai Xiao for your eldest brother, help them take care of things inside and out, and discuss with Zhou Fu if you don't understand anything, and when everything is in order, I will go over with your father." ”

"I see, mother!"

Mrs. Zhou patted her son's shoulder, turned around, and stopped talking, Master Zhou felt that his wife was a little weird, but he couldn't say what was strange, so he turned his head and told Zhou Fu and Ruikang to go on the road.