Chapter Ninety-Five: Graduation Trip (Part II)
"Do you really like it?" I'm still skeptical.
"I trust you, you're the only one who can make me willing to speak my heart. So, what I'm saying is true. β
The corners of my mouth rose slightly: "Oh, I've always believed that this is a scandal, you are innocent, I didn't expect you to really like her, it's in vain that I tried so hard to help you out." Hey, I'm so blind! β
My mind suddenly went back to elementary school. Geng Qiming's current situation reminds me of the time when I had a crush on Yan Jinfeng. The scandal between me and her, how deep was the wound on my psyche at that time?
I only remember that under the influence of those scandals, although I liked Yan Jinfeng very much, I didn't dare to approach her because I was more afraid of the coaxing and ridicule of the classmates around me. Isn't this exactly the case with Geng Qiming now, as soon as he approaches Fang Cuilan, he will be teased by his classmates.
This kind of teasing is like a sharp sword, the same as what Geng Qiming said, I may be able to bear it, but I am very worried that Yan Jinfeng will be hurt. To avoid her being harmed, I would rather choose to let go, drop my weapon, and leave the battlefield.
I quietly looked at Geng Qiming's figure in the dark. I can fully understand his feelings at this moment. The deep hatred of the scandal and the extreme timidity of wanting to get close to the person he likes but not daring to wake up again. In my eyes, the dark shadow lying there seemed to be my former self. And I'm already a passer-by.
"So this time, brother, you have to help me, help me come up with ideas, what should I do?" A muffled voice came from the shadow.
I sighed: "I thought it was a scandal before, I can try to help you out, and I did." Now that you really like her, what can I do to help you? β
"Heyβ"
"Does she know you like her?"
"Yes."
"How do you know?"
"I said it when I talked to her alone that day."
"What! Did you confess to her? β
"Well, I told her that I liked her, but we weren't a good fit."
"Oh? What's the wrong way? β
"She went to Beijing for graduate school, and I will work in Shenzhen, which is thousands of miles apart, where is there an opportunity. It's not like the class president and the girls he is courting, they are all in Guangzhou. β
I fell silent, and my mind suddenly returned to the day I graduated from high school. That day, when I gave the Tibetan poem to Lin Ximeng, I was determined to forget her. Because of the failure of the college entrance examination, or it can also be said to be the fool of fate, I had to leave the country and come to distant Changsha, while she stayed in Jiangsu.
I kept convincing myself that we were so separated from each other that there was little hope that we would be together in the future, and maybe fate should end here. So I spent four years trying to forget her, but God continued to play a joke of fate with me, so that I could not abandon my thoughts about her.
Now Geng Qiming and Fang Cuilan are just like me and Lin Ximeng at the beginning, and they will soon be separated. On this parting occasion, is Geng Qiming's sadness the same as that of me at the beginning? Did he really want to forget Fang Cuilan? Although he still likes her very much, he directly said "we are not suitable" after confessing. It's like I love Lin Ximeng deeply, but I still want to say that the poem is for "friendship lasts forever".
"Since you think you are inappropriate and told her, then since she already knows your true thoughts, she will no longer be affected by those scandals, what do you have to worry about?"
"I don't know if you can see it, there are several people in our class who also like Fang Cuilan."
As soon as these words came out, it was like opening a valve, and I suddenly felt that there was a topic: "Well, I do see that there are so many." At the same time, Xiao Zheng, Xiao Lu and others flashed in my mind.
"Oh? Do you see that? Then do you know why they didn't dare to attack Fang Cuilan easily for so long? β
"Why?"
"Because there's a brother in town! They did not dare to act rashly. β
"Huh." I thought to myself, this reason seems to have a little bit of truth, Xiao Zheng and Xiao Lu may not have a chance, but if I really want the other party Cuilan to start, where can he Geng Qiming hold it.
"So, when my brother is no longer there after graduation, they will start to do it, and someone has started to do it recently, have you noticed it?"
I deliberately pretended I didn't know anything: "Oh? How can you tell? β
"There are a lot of them, and that's a long story." Geng Qiming paused for a moment and said, "Hey, I still won't talk to you more." β
I was energetic: "If there is anything, I found that Xiao Zheng and Fang Cuilan sisters chatted for a long time in the car today." Does this count? β
"Huh? It's true? Brother fell asleep by the window, I didn't notice it! He's acted so blatantly! β
"Well, this is indeed true, I saw it in the hallway. However, it was mainly Xiao Zheng and Fang Cuilan's sister chatting, and Fang Cuilan did not behave very positively. β
"No, it can't be like this!" Geng Qiming took a deep breath and sighed again, "So my brother feels very uncomfortable!" β
"Isn't it impossible for you to have further relationships with Fang Cuilan anyway, what do you care about?"
"I don't want her, but I can't let her fall into the hands of this group of lewd men in our class!"
This sentence shocked me all of a sudden, so it seems that Geng Qiming may be in love with Fang Cuilan! Only when you love someone, you will hope that the other person can have the most perfect home, instead of falling into the hands of someone you despise.
I still feel that way to this day.
As early as the lewd man in front of Lin Ximeng, that is, when Lu Feng always bullied her, I never regarded it as an ordinary joke between classmates. I was worried that Lu Feng was plotting against Lin Ximeng, and I was afraid that Lin Ximeng would fall into his dirty hands.
Now, similar words are coming out of Geng Qiming's mouth and are constantly echoing in my ears. When he was able to say this, it also proved that his attitude towards Fang Cuilan was similar to my attitude towards Lin Ximeng, that is, he was really in love with each other, and it was not just about liking it. That's the possessiveness of love, even if you can't get it, you don't want to be casually obtained by others, especially those you hate.
I fell silent again, this time truly speechless, he was beyond my imagination.
Geng Qiming sighed again, and then said, "Actually, I think you are quite a good match for her." β
"Me?" My eyes widened for a moment, but there was still a dark shadow in front of me, "Do you really think I'm a good match for her?" β
"yes, I don't know why, I just think you two are a good match when you're together. What do you think? β
I closed my eyes slightly, and the corners of my mouth showed a knowing smile, but when the lights were turned off, he would definitely not be able to see my secretly happy expression, and I must have a dark shadow in his eyes.
"Since you've said so much from your heart, I'll tell you what I really think." I said in a soothing tone, "Actually, I have long liked Fang Cuilan, but because of the three standards I set for myself, I took the initiative to control myself and not attack her." β
"Oh? What kind of standard? β
"First, the height cannot be less than 1.6 meters. This one was enough to kill her in seconds. β
"It's true, Fang Cuilan is too short, I'm so tall, this is also where I think I'm inappropriate with her. But you're short anyway, and when you're next to you at her height, there's nothing out of place for you, but she's more birdish. β
"Well, I just want to think more about the next generation."
"Oh, well, what about the second one?"
"The second is that you can't look like a boy I know, which has nothing to do with Fang Cuilan."
"Huh? Will there be girls who look like boys? β
"I can see a lot of pairs of men and women, and if you look at the face shape and facial features alone, you can see that they are really similar."
"Well, I can't tell. And what about the third one? β
"I never do anything to a girl that my buddies like. So you see, out of the three, Fang Cuilan committed two of them, so I kept telling myself that I couldn't accept her. If I hadn't set these three standards myself, I would have attacked her a long time ago, and would it be the turn of the group of people in the class? β
Geng Qiming didn't say much, but sighed and asked me how he could get rid of this boredom.
I didn't have much advice, although I had encountered similar situations, and although I had gained a lot of knowledge from He Xiaoyu, Geng Qiming's situation this time was still a little different from what I was at the time. When I graduated from high school, when my classmates were partying together, when so many boys who usually had a crush on Qiao Qiao were about to move, I was proud of this group of lewd men as a winner. At this time, when so many boys who usually had a crush on Fang Cuilan began to show their affection, Geng Qiming could only hide in the corner as a loser and condemn this group of obscene men and could do nothing.
Of course, after all, my attitude towards Qiao Qiao is to regard this liking as friendship, and Geng Qiming's attitude towards Fang Cuilan is probably already in love with him.
Geng Qiming suddenly mentioned another problem: "I found out that Fang Cuilan is a very scheming girl, and she always works against me in many places. β
"When you first instilled political ideas in her, she did make some arguments to deny you, but I don't see anything else going on."
"Don't you see, she's been working against me lately, and she has done it today."
"I really don't see that."
"Forget it, you don't understand anything anyway."
"If you insist that she is against you, that will make sense. She is Sagittarius and fire, while you are Scorpio and water. β
"Isn't fire and water incompatible?"
"Just like me and Lin Ximeng, I belong to fire, and she belongs to water. So I always felt that it was difficult for me to get close to her, and I was very distressed. β
"No wonder I see that you and Fang Cuilan are so compatible."
"Yes, it's all fire, and it's really a good match from the constellation, but it's a pity, hey......"
After the ridicule, a wonderful feeling suddenly rose in my heart, and then condensed into a thought: "scheming", "doing the opposite" or something, maybe it is a hallucination caused by a man mistaking a woman. I remember He Xiaoyu telling me: "Girls are single-celled organisms, very simple, and they don't have any scheming." At that time, I was in the sorrow of Lin Ximeng and me "working against each other", and I didn't understand it very well. And now, when Geng Qiming mentioned this word, I seemed to suddenly understand the truth.
Indeed, girls are very simple, they don't have any scheming for boys, the so-called scheming is actually a reflection of the boys' own complex mentality. The boy himself becomes very scheming because he loves a girl, and when he is deeply involved in the backlash of his own scheming, he will mistakenly think that it is the girl's scheming for himself. In the quagmire of love, it is the boy himself who is setting up a plan for himself, and he is just doing it against himself.
That's it!
Lin Ximeng has always been the simple and kind Lin Ximeng, and I am the one who is very scheming. It's that I'm always unwilling to let go of Lin Ximeng, and I'm always unwilling to let go of myself!
It turns out that this is the truth!
However, I did not tell Geng Qiming the truth about this.
We also talked a lot that night. The first time I had such a feeling, Geng Qiming, who had always made me think that he had seen far away, understood a lot, and thought deeply, turned out to be so naΓ―ve emotionally. And I, after years of baptism, seem to have a deeper understanding of feelings.