Chapter 11: Su Haoyang
But even as I sat under the tent, I was shivering from the cold wind that swept by. Because I had to use a pen and gloves constantly, I felt like my fingers were going numb after a while. I was born cold, and when I'm not cold, I wear a little more than others, and now the weather is even more unbearable. But everyone is braving the cold, and I really don't want to be too pretentious.
The attentive Haoyang may have noticed my red fingers, and suddenly stretched out his hand, covering my hand warmly. I smiled at him, his eyes were bright and warm, as if the stars of the world had accidentally fallen into his eyes. There were a lot of pedestrians coming and going, our clasped hands secretly hidden under the table, and the two pairs of eyes looked at each other from time to time, I looked like a girl who was just beginning to fall in love.
Soon it was noon, we put away the tent, and after seeing that the results were not bad, Shen Nuo suggested that everyone go to eat hot pot to warm up. Hearing this, Li Shuangshuang was not happy, and spat at Shen Nuo, "Stupid, just that little bit of interest?" In her opinion, with a rich friend like Su Haoyang, everything must be extremely extravagant. Haoyang is also very generous, every time we go out to play, he always rushes to pay for it.
Because of Li Shuangshuang's extreme opposition, Shen Nuo immediately wilted. The students in the whole department know that Shen Nuo, who has always been invincible, also has a dead end, and his dead end is Li Shuangshuang. In Li Shuangshuang's view, Shen Nuo is her "minister under the skirt". But in the eyes of us onlookers, the reasons for this are self-evident.
There is a self-service hot pot restaurant near the school, the owner of this shop is particularly conscientious, 30 yuan per person, serving meat and vegetables, pastries and ice cream drinks. For our poor students, every time we eat buffet, we will always go hungry for a whole day, and then we will eat it with interest.
The business of the hot pot restaurant is very good, Haoyang is an old customer, and we sat in the private seat by the window with the favor of the person. The place where the hot pot is eaten should be very noisy, the more people there are, the more lively it is, but the people here are very quiet, each bowing their heads and rummaging in their own pots, and they speak softly. It's supposed to be meal time, but the store is deserted.
Of course, such a quiet environment is very unpleasant, she is a person who does not like to be inhibited, and this is why she does not like to come to this store. Because every time she raised her glass and shouted for us to drink, it would attract the surprised and dissatisfied eyes of the people at the other table, and we didn't want to be "the target of the public", so when she was in high spirits, we would press her and not let her get up.
"Lin Xing, try the white radish." Haoyang thoughtfully sandwiched a radish for me.
Looking at the white radish in the bowl, I was slightly stunned. I remember when I was a child, when I ate hot pot at home, my father always liked to put a lot of white radish in the pot, but I didn't like to eat it, I thought it was tasteless. Dad always kept clipping me and tricked me into eating it with a phrase "winter radish ginseng", and my brother would always complain that Dad was biased...... I remembered everything I had done when I was younger, and my eyes began to redden.
I often have this kind of sudden loss of mind, and every time I can't escape the eyes of Haoyang. He would always give me a smile and a handshake when I was vulnerable. Just like now, he looked at me with that irresistible glow in his eyes. Sometimes I was afraid that I would lose myself in his smile, so whenever he tried to get closer, I always pushed him away without a trace.
He doesn't understand what I'm going to do, and I can't really open my heart to him.
After eating, he found that the snow outside was already so heavy, because he had to go to the backstreet park to do activities in the afternoon, Haoyang proposed that we go back to the dormitory to rest for a while, and he drove to pick us up in the afternoon. Because I threw my scarf at the tent when I came out, I was shivering from the cold, Haoyang took off his scarf and put it around me without saying a word, and Shen Nuo next to me was joking again, which made my face red.
When we returned to the dormitory, none of the other classmates had come back, and we were already very tired, and we fell asleep as soon as we hit the pillow. I don't know how long it took for the phone to ring, take it to see that it was a spam text message sent on the information desk, I was very dissatisfied with being disturbed while sleeping, and I didn't feel sleepy all of a sudden, I looked at the watch at 2:40, ready to get up and clean up, but the pair of beds opposite were still snoring, and the body was placed in a "big" shape. I thought that Haoyang hadn't called yet, so I couldn't bear to wake her up, so I found a book and lay on the bed to flip it.
After a while, they both got up, and when she went to the bathroom, she saw the vast car outside the window, and she said that she was late. The two of us hurriedly packed up our things and went downstairs, Haoyang's car was already covered with a thick layer of snow, I was a little embarrassed, and said, "You've been waiting for a long time, right?" Why not make a call? ”
He just smiled softly, "I know you're going to be tired, so sleep as much as you can." ”
We drove to Backstreet Park, where the snow had slowly stopped, because this is a busy area in the city center, and there are always a lot of pedestrians on the street. We persevered and stayed busy until about 8 o'clock in the evening, and after packing up our things, we had a casual barbecue at a roadside stall. Shuangshuang said that she wanted to go back to the school because she would have to submit the investigation report tomorrow, and she asked me if I was going back to the dormitory or going home.
In the eyes of my friends, my "home" is my brother's house. They didn't know that I had been away from the dormitory for the past three months had been with Xie Chen, and I always tried every excuse not to go back, so when they both asked me, I reflexively said to go back to the dormitory to accompany her.
After a busy day, we were all exhausted, and sitting in the warm car, Shuangshuang and I began to nap...... In a daze, I heard the sound of mobile phone messages, took it out and looked at it, and the screen showed "Sister Xu".
I was very sober all of a sudden, and when I opened it, it was written:
Where are you? We're home. He's in a bad mood.
I didn't feel sleepy anymore, my hand holding the phone trembled slightly, and my heart was also up and down for a while. Since he's in a bad mood, didn't I go back to ask for trouble? So I thought about it and carefully edited:
I'm sorry, we were doing an activity at school today, we just finished it, and now I'm very tired, so I won't go back, you can rest early!
After looking at it, I thought it was inappropriate, so I deleted it and changed it to:
We were doing an activity at school today, which had just ended, and it was difficult to take a taxi now. You have a good rest, I'll go back tomorrow morning. All right?
After editing, I opened the phone book and found "Xie ×", and pressed the "send" button nervously. After the message was successfully sent, I held my phone tightly as if a humble condemned prisoner was waiting for his sentence to be announced.
It didn't take long for a reply.
"Good!"
He has always spoken like this on weekdays, and he cherishes words like gold, but looking at this simple word, I breathe a sigh of relief as if I have been pardoned.