Chapter 43: The Past (I)
After wandering outside for another day but finding nothing, as soon as Gu Cheng pushed open the door, he heard Gu's mother shouting: "Where have you gone all day? Weiwei has come to see you!"
Gu Cheng's heart moved.
Immediately after, he saw a girl named Qiao Weiwei.
The girl is 16 years old this year, with two tight ponytails, her white and thin melon seed face exudes a warm luster, and her face is hung with a pair of huge, black-framed glasses that do not match her face, making the girl look like a doll in the window, and the whole person exudes a cute brilliance like Lori.
Although she was a guest, she was dressed very casually, a close-fitting black sweatshirt with a low neckline, revealing a charming collarbone that was completely inconsistent with the whole temperament, and also highlighted the two slightly undulating bulges on the chest, releasing the invincible youthful charm of a developing girl.
"Wow, why haven't you seen you in months, you've grown so much taller?"
Familiar people saw Gu Cheng, this was the most basic reaction.
Qiao Weiwei jumped in front of him, face to face, without any evasion, the bulge was already attached to him, and she measured the difference in height between the two with her hands.
"I used to be able to reach your nose, but now I can't even reach your shoulder! You can't be on stilts, are you?"
Gu Cheng didn't answer such a boring question, he just narrowed his eyes, this familiar person, this familiar feeling, made him a little nostalgic and sad, and a little happy and moved.
"Xiaocheng, go and clean up your room, Weiwei lives in your room today, and you sleep on the sofa!"
Gu Mu gave the order with a smile on her face.
Every time Qiao Weiwei came, it was this kind of arrangement, and the two of them were accustomed to it, so they walked into Gu Cheng's room together and closed the door.
Gu's mother would not suspect what would happen between the two, and ran to the kitchen to cook by herself.
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"I heard that your grades have improved a lot, and you can pass the average score? In this case, can we apply for the same university?"
"It's a bit hard. ”
"Huh, is there moisture in what Auntie said?"
"Not really. I mean, when I take the college entrance examination, my score should be about 200 points higher than yours, and it is a bit difficult to apply for the same university!"
"Gu Cheng, you go to die!"
After a few jokes, the two got to the point.
Qiao Weiwei took out a stack of materials from her school bag.
"This is what I've been collecting over the past few months, you see. ”
Gu Cheng solemnly took it and began to look through it seriously, that kind of focused look was a little more than when he was reading and studying.
Qiao Weiwei sat quietly beside him, looking at him generously, from head to toe, from skin to hair, not letting go of any detail.
Strong, handsome, and confident, these are the three biggest changes in Gu Cheng during this period of time.
Her eyelashes blinked quickly at first, then slower and slower, and her expression almost froze, as if she had become infatuated.
It wasn't until Gu Cheng finished reading it, got up, opened the bookcase, moved a large stack of books, hid the paper in the innermost, and put the books back that she came to her senses.
"Is it going well? There is no danger, right?"
Gu Cheng knew very well how much of a crisis Qiao Weiwei would bring to her if she was found to collect these materials.
"Do you remember a reporter named Jiao Dong, and he gave me a lot of information. He lost contact, a month ago, I don't know if it was because of this incident. ”
Gu Cheng was silent for a long time before he said, "It's too dangerous, don't do it again." We want to use this method to bring them down and take revenge, which is wishful thinking and not much hope. I'd like to try something else. ”
"Don't be impulsive!"
Qiao Weiwei bounced straight out of bed.
"Don't worry, I'll think about it for myself and my parents!"
Gu Cheng habitually rubbed her hair, just like it was common more than two years ago, with his brother's doting on his sister, and Lan Yan's casualness towards Hongyan.
Early the next morning, the two finished freshening up early, said goodbye to Gu's father and mother, and walked out of the house.
Gu's father and mother knew where they were going, and they didn't stop them, but they were a little uneasy.
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It was almost noon, and Gu Cheng and Qiao Weiwei had already arrived at their destination.
The two took out the sacrifices that had been prepared for a long time, including flowers, fruits, paper money, and her favorite popular science books during her lifetime.
This is a quiet park, in the middle of the park is a lake of tens of thousands of square meters, sparsely populated in winter, and now it is more bleak and desolate.
After setting up the offerings, Gu Cheng stared at the dark blue lake, gradually blending in with the environment, shrouded in a mournful atmosphere.
He used a hat and scarf to cover his head and face tightly, revealing only a pair of gray eyes, even in the depths of winter, this dress was still strange enough.
But it can't be helped, this is Zhonghai. Two years ago, when the family was forced to leave, they were warned that if they dared to return here, it would be a dead end.
After that, Gu Cheng returned here four times, all to worship his old friends, and he didn't dare to see people with his true face.
He had vowed to return to Zhonghai, but certainly not in this way.
More than two years ago, it was here that tragic incident happened, and since then, Gu Cheng and Yi Luoran, the pair of childhood sweethearts, have been separated forever.
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Gu Cheng and Yi Luoran are neighbors and have a very close relationship. The two grew up together since childhood, Xu is due to fate, from kindergarten to elementary school, and then to junior high school and high school, the two have always been in the same class, and they have been at the same table for a few years.
After years of getting along, the relationship between the two has not gone further, but they are also used to slightly intimate actions and nothing to say to each other. Yi Luoran is lively and active, Gu Cheng is young and old, among the two, Yi Luoran is the leader, she always wraps around Gu Cheng's arm, or pulls Gu Cheng's fingers, and Gu Cheng is also used to it, and does not feel that there is anything wrong.
Qiao Weiwei is their junior high school and high school classmates, and in Qiao Weiwei's own words, she is a third person, strongly inserting between them. The three of them have similar temperaments, so Yi Luoran has an extra best friend, and Gu Cheng also has an extra red face.
The turning point happened more than two years ago after school, Gu Cheng and Yi Luoran went home together and walked through this park as usual, but they didn't expect the direction of their lives to change from then on.
It was four young men, in their early twenties, passing by, dressed in expensive clothes they didn't know at all, attracted by Eloran's delicate and immaculate face and youthful body, and came over to make a joke, and then to do something.
Gu Cheng was in the way, and the thin man fainted after being hit in the back of the head during the pulling, and what happened after that, he saw it from the surveillance video.
Iloran was desperate and had no choice but to jump into the lake to avoid trouble. She can swim, but in the icy water, wearing heavy and clumsy clothes after absorbing water, she does not have to do well in the water, and her physical strength is a little exhausted.
The desire to survive made her want to go back to the shore, but the four of them picked up a wooden stick and drove her away, while talking and flirting with her.
"Little beauty, don't you know, after getting wet, you are even more tempted!"
"Promise us, play with us at night, and we'll pull you up immediately!"
How could the stubborn and unyielding girl agree to such conditions, she gritted her teeth and swam to the other side, thinking that these people would not be so bored as to go around in a big circle and follow them to the other side of the lake. But after swimming dozens of meters, she was physically exhausted, her feet cramped, and she gradually sank.