Chapter 21: Acquaintance
The first time I met Su Haoyang was in the late summer heat.
It was the summer vacation after the college entrance examination, and everything went according to the original plan from filling in the application to admission, and I chose my favorite major as I wished. I used to constantly imagine and frame my college life. In order to adapt to university life as soon as possible, I read a lot of books on this topic that summer. My brother also gave me a sum of money to travel for a few days, and at the end of August, I started packing my bags.
But when I got to school, I found that everything was not as simple as I imagined. I didn't complete the transformation from high school to college, from books to society, everything around me was new and exciting for me. Coupled with the loss of my childhood, I lacked protection and security, and since elementary school, I have always longed for companionship and feared loneliness.
On the first day of registration, I was very unfortunate to welcome my aunt, and I woke up early in the morning with back pain, but in order to be able to get a better bed, I still endured the discomfort and went to check in for accommodation.
The registered aunt stuffed me with a big bag of things very unkindly, and I almost fainted when I saw it! This is a one-time handling, and the quilts in winter and thin quilts in summer are all sent out. There's no way I'm going to move all these things in one go, and my dorm has to go around half of the campus, so my head is big!
I didn't know anyone, but luckily the aunt seemed to notice my pale face, and as a woman, she still knew my troubles. So she was very kind and asked me to move to the dormitory little by little, and the rest of the things could be left with her first. Even though I knew that such a "grace" would not ease my burden at all, I kept saying thank you to her. I started the relocation ceremony with a big thick quilt in my arms, and the school was full of people like me, but all of them were strong boys. The campus is so large that I thought it was a good thing, but now it seems to be a problem.
Cold sweat broke out on my head, and I was already floating in my feet after only a few steps with the quilt in my arms. After looking at the surrounding landscape, I realized that if I could cross the garden, I could save a lot of effort. But the bigger confusion lay in front of me – even the kindergarten students knew not to trample on the lawn, let alone me, a person about to enter higher education.
It was only when I was about to abandon this unworkable plan that I was pleasantly surprised to find a figure behind a large pine tree in the middle of the garden, which turned out to be a skinny boy drawing there. I didn't see his face, but from the back he should have been a beautiful boy. He wears a sky-blue plaid shirt and washed jeans that are somewhat whitish.
I immediately became curious about him. Because in this hot season, it is rare for someone to calm down and engage in art. But my curiosity soon dissipated, and then a very coaxed thought followed: since he could all sit on the lawn and draw, why couldn't I borrow a way?
So I swaggered over the guardrail. Thinking about it this way, my feet on the grass seemed to be much lighter, and I looked like I had succeeded in my treacherous plan. I was holding a large quilt that happened to cover most of my face, revealing only my two eyes. When I walked in the boy, he seemed startled by the footsteps and looked back at me.
Actually, I wanted to take a closer look at what he looked like, but as I passed by, I caught a glimpse of him lowering his head again, depicting something on a piece of white paper. I didn't stop there, but hurried over.
In this way, I went back and forth three times, and of course each time it was a shortcut. In the past three trips, I have met with him a total of six times. But each time he just stared at my shoes, and when I walked by, he looked down and painted.
It wasn't until I passed by him one last time with two washbasins in my arms that he finally stopped me, "Hey! ”
His voice is so good, I can't help but think of Lin Zhiying, who was once popular all over Asia. I knew he was calling me, but I turned around and asked, "Are you calling me?" What's up? ”
He carefully closed the drawing board and stood up and smiled at me. Only then did I see his appearance clearly, he was so good-looking, with a pair of warm and charming eyes on his white face, especially when he smiled, and the two dimples were particularly cute. Actually, I hate boys with dimples, and I always feel that it is not a little manly, but the boy in front of me has subverted my aesthetic all along.
"Classmate, don't you know that you can't trample on the lawn?" He said half-jokingly.
I was looking at him in a daze, and when he asked him this, my face immediately turned red. However, he didn't seem to be very serious, so I quickly calmed down, "Aren't you also trampling the lawn?" Why can't I just walk by? ”
He shrugged his shoulders innocently, "I didn't say you wouldn't let you pass by, but why didn't you leave the road and pick a place with grass to walk?" ”
I'm a slow person, although I'm also good at making friends, but I'm still a little shy in front of strangers, and I am even more at a loss when there is such a beautiful boy in front of me, so I desperately make excuses for myself, "The road is so far...... Didn't I just want to make it convenient? Besides, I've only walked twice, and I don't necessarily have to die of the tenacious grass! ”
Probably amused by my words, he laughed out loud, pointed not far away, and said, "Is this still far away?" ”
I looked in the direction he was pointing, and miraculously found a narrow gravel path. It's just that the grass on both sides is too tall to see clearly for a while. I was so embarrassed that I bit my lip and didn't know what to say.
"Don't be nervous, I'm not from the student union, just kidding!" He smiled kindly, and then said, "But as you just said, the vitality of the grass is indeed very tenacious, but you have traveled more than twice!" ”
I didn't understand what he said, but I saw him take out a piece of rice paper from his sketchpad and shake it in front of me, "I've drawn your shoes, and you said you've only been on two trips?" Overestimating my memory, right? ”
Looking down, I saw that my canvas shoes, which had been washed countless times, had appeared gorgeously on his paper, and even the double star logo on them was so conspicuous. Feeling teased, I shoved the paper back into his hand and blushed and said, "You mean." "I've heard a lot of gentlemen in this school, but I didn't expect to be bumped into by me on the first day.
He didn't mind my words in the slightest, and held out his right hand at me. His hand is so slender and long, and there is a trace of black pencil sharpening on the tip of his index finger, "My name is Su Haoyang, make a friend!" ”