38. Confessions and tokens

The sports day is on May 17, and the so-called Valentine's Day is immediately after the sports day.

In fact, this kind of festival is groundless, May 20th, the so-called 520, is also a homophonic stalk.

According to this algorithm, there are several Valentine's Days a year, Valentine's Day, White Day, 520, Qixi Festival, which is a very common but abnormal social phenomenon, there is only one Mother's Day a year, a Father's Day, but there are all kinds of Valentine's Day, I think if there are thirteen months a year, it is estimated that there will be a 1314 Valentine's Day.

It's absurd, but it makes sense.

On May 20th, the streets near the school gate were full of couples, all young people, and the slightly older post-80s generation did not think it was a holiday worth celebrating.

It's not a holiday, but it's celebrated by young people.

Couples will go out to have a good meal on this day, or send each other to continue, and those who are not couples will also become couples on this day.

Li Youbin was preparing to confess to Lu Chaoling on this day, and he had been planning for a long time.

On this day, a very romantic thing happened in the college playground, a boy from the automobile department confessed to the girl from the department of economics and management, and made a heart shape with a candle in the playground, and surrounded it with balloons.

The boy brought the girl to the middle of the balloon, a group of onlookers watched, and a host was reading the confession, and after reading it, the boy said affectionately: "Be with me."

The girl covered her mouth shyly.

Li Youbin has always been strange about this matter, and I don't understand why girls cover their mouths when they encounter such similar things, probably because they have been imaged by some popular idol dramas.

"Kiss one!"

I don't know who started it, but there was another wave of heckling at the scene.

"Kiss one!" "Kiss one!" ……

Just like the plot we expected, the boy smiled and kissed the girl.

Li Youbin didn't go to the scene, he saw the process on a short video app.

He thinks it's too idealistic, or rather pre-arranged.

The man and woman are estimated to have been a couple before, but this day was expressed in a more romantic and solemn way, if this was not arranged in advance, the girl's performance would not be so calm, in Li Youbin's eyes, the girl has always been an easily shy animal, even if it is a female man, most of them are not as fierce as they seem.

Either it's a game for couples to deepen their relationship, or they simply want to be popular on a short video platform.

The first one is easy to understand, and the second is difficult to understand, but there are many people who want to be a so-called Internet celebrity in various strange ways.

Li Youbin doesn't approve of this kind of confession with high consumption and low return, he also knows the boy, he is not a rich second generation, and the family conditions are also very average, but the confession that day is said to have cost hundreds.

This is Li Youbin's living expenses for ten days, there is no need, if two people who really love each other will not care about this form of things.

Li Youbin advocates the kind of simple romantic confession.

After deciding on it, it began to be implemented, and in the evening, he called Lu Chaoling.

"Hello?"

"Out for a walk?"

"Let's go."

On this day, Lu Chaoling wore a long white dress, which looked very good, just like a girl who came out of the comics, looking pure and clean.

"Where?"

"Zhongshan Bridge."

The reason why he chose Zhongshan Bridge is because Lu Chaoling said there not long ago that she also likes him, and he wants to continue their feelings there.

Zhongshan Bridge is more lively than usual, full of couples, some holding hands for a walk, some hugging each other and kissing, and some showing affection in a fancy way.

There are very few people like Li Youbin and Lu Chaoling who simply walk together.

Such a place is not suitable for confession, Li Youbin knows very well, it may also be for the sake of face, it is very embarrassing to be rejected in a place where there are many people.

The two of them turned around at Zhongshan Bridge for half an hour and ate at the nearest restaurant.

After eating, I went to the river beach.

The Yellow River has a large sediment content, and the places that flow from the upper reaches are wrapped in sediment and silted up in the places where the middle and lower reaches flow are gentle, forming a wide river beach.

The sand on the river beach is not as soft as the beach, just like the fields where we usually rain, and walking past it leaves shallow footprints.

It is dangerous to play on the banks of the Yellow River, and there are guardrails in the depths of the river near the river.

The guardrail is forbidden to climb over, but there will always be some blind people who run in to take pictures, of course, this has nothing to do with Li Youbin, he thinks that these people are washed away by the water, they are all self-inflicted, there is nothing to sympathize with.

Lu Chaoling still likes to hunch over and lie on the railing, covering her mouth and quietly watching the water tumbling from top to bottom.

Li Youbin was the opposite, leaning on the railing with his back and his arms propped up.

The sky was clear that night, and there were still bright lights in the sky.

One looks at the river, the other looks at the sky.

There was silence for a long time.

Li Youbin took out a necklace from his pocket that he had spent half a month of living expenses to buy in a jewelry store, turned around and quietly wrapped his arm around Lu Chaoling's neck.

"Huh?!"

Lu Chaoling was startled, hurriedly stood up straight, and did not resist after seeing Li Youbin's movements clearly.

"Lu Chaoling." Li Youbin buckled the necklace and turned to look at the Yellow River, "Do you understand what I mean?" ”

"I don't understand." Lu Chaoling was a little flustered in her heart, she knew that what was supposed to come was still coming.

In fact, Lu Chaoling likes Li Youbin very much, and she even thinks about being able to leave everything behind and be with him many times, but she has her own unspeakable secrets, and she can't delay Li Youbin.

"Would you like to be my girlfriend and spend the rest of your life with me, rain or shine?"

The wind was so strong at night that it almost drowned out Li Youbin's voice.

"What did you say?" Lu Chaoling was still evading, and she reminded Li Youbin in this way.

"Would you like to be my girlfriend?" Li Youbin didn't seem to understand, and shouted at Lu Chaoling in a louder voice.

Lu Chaoling was silent, and tears moistened her eyes.

She tilted her head and held back tears and said to Li Youbin: "I'm sorry, Li Youbin, I love you so much, but I can't be with you, I have secrets I can't tell, I don't want to delay half of your life because of me, don't be stupid anymore, I'm not so good."

Li Youbin could hear the choking in her tone.

"If there are any difficulties, we will fight together, and they will always pass, won't they?" He grabbed Lu Chaoling's shoulder, looked at her face and said very warmly.

"I'm sorry."

Lu Chaoling broke free of Li Youbin's hand, took off the necklace from his neck and stuffed it into Li Youbin's hand, turned around and left quickly.

The wind blew her long skirt, setting off her like a woman who had experienced the vicissitudes of life, coming from the red dust and returning to the red dust.

Li Youbin stayed in place, tears gradually moistening the corners of his eyes.

"Ahh

He yelled at the Yellow River and threw the token that should have been around Lu Chaoling's neck into the river with all his might.

The necklace only splashed a little bit by the river, and did not cause any trouble.

He sat down slowly and dejectedly against the railing.

He didn't know that tears filled her cheeks the moment Lu Chaoling turned around, and he didn't know that in Lu Chaoling's heart, the necklace would never be a token between the two of them.