Chapter 21: The Spring of Nineteen

Yuan Yuxiao has always liked to smell the fragrance of books, especially the strong smell of books gathered together by thousands of books in the library.

Today, he didn't go to the literary books he liked more in the past, but looked through the bibliographic cards in the small drawer of art and music, and he brought a notebook and a pen, ready to copy a few Taiwanese campus songs for Yu Xiaolu.

Yu Xiaolu has a few notebooks for copying songs, as well as some small poems, aphorisms, etc., and pasting some celebrity photos cut from movies and magazines. A few years ago, as soon as the TV newspaper appeared, she subscribed to it, eight cents a month - exactly the price of a cup of sour plum soup, although her family didn't actually have a TV set at that time, but she cut out and pasted several copies of the weekly song published in each issue.

After flipping through for a long time, I barely turned to a "Selected Radio Songs", it was two years ago, whether there was a song worth copying, it was doubtful, but I couldn't find a newer book than this, so I had to fill out a list and go to the counter.

Just as he put the book list on the counter, it seemed that it would be a very dull afternoon, but suddenly there was a beautiful wave.

At that time, he unintentionally looked down and found that the watch had stopped, so he turned his head to look at the clock in the hall, and while proofreading his time, suddenly a fragrance hit his extraordinary nose, and he turned his head in shock, only to see a back with long hair fluttering.

The fragrance flew from the long-haired female librarian who was holding his list, and he knew immediately that this librarian must be new here, because he had never smelled it before. As a regular visitor to the library, he is familiar with the smell of every librarian here.

And he searched from his memory repository almost synchronously, and it resembled the fragrance of the jaw flower. There are few people with floral scents, and those with gardenia incense ...... He's only met one before!

This is the second person with the scent of a jaw flower? Still is...... The one he once knew?

Yuan Yuxiao was eagerly looking forward to the female librarian coming out soon, and for a while she wanted to have more time for memories and imagination. He is the kind of person who is reluctant to turn over the best things at once, and he likes to enjoy the long stream, such as the more a book that attracts him to read in one sitting, the more he will slow down his reading.

He needed time to remember, to remember the only girl in his life who had ever worn this fragrance.

It was a classmate at his table when he first entered elementary school more than ten years ago, named Milan. His memories of his school days began with the scent of his new textbooks and the scent of Milan at the same table, so he has always – and probably will remain – unforgettable.

He hadn't seen a gardenia yet, so he couldn't classify and name Milan exactly, but Milan's name was the same as the pot of flowers he raised, which made him a little uncomfortable for a while. Her name is Milan, but she doesn't carry Milan's incense, which is like a little game he plays with Milan that causes brief confusion at the beginning. The game was played by Milan, and she had a red and blue pencil, and she wrote a "blue" word with one end of the red core, and a "red" word with the end of the blue core, so that he could read it very quickly, and he always mispronounced the blue "red" as "blue" and vice versa......

They had only been at the same table for only one semester, and Milan had transferred to another school, and they had never seen each other again. Her image faded in his memory, but the scent of the flower remained—she held the place of a flower in his heart.

Two years later, in the summer vacation, he met Gardenia in his rural hometown, and he learned that Gardenia was actually a dish, a dish he particularly liked. And later memories of Milan always come after smelling gardenias.

He often remembered the word "red" written in the blue pen and the word "blue" written in the red pen, so he had some strange thoughts, for example, he thought, her name is Milan but she has the fragrance of gardenia flowers, if there is another person in the world named Gardenia but with the fragrance of Milan flowers, they stand together, will they also be confused......

Although his thoughts were racing at the moment, the sentinel of smell did not slack off in the slightest. When the fragrance approached again, he raised his eyes and saw the long-haired woman coming out of the stack, this time facing him and approaching.

He blinked his eyelashes a dozen times, and was actually a little flustered, yes, it was the person in his memory...... Milan – as if he had stepped out of the depths of his memory, was getting closer.

Although the body is mature and the face has faded from the cute baby fat, the delicate facial features are still hidden from the way they were back then. Danfeng eyes, long eyelashes, and raised corners of the eyes, it looks flamboyant, and there is a sharp charm.

For nearly a minute, he was killed by her charm and froze, not moving, not breathing, not thinking.

Until she woke him up with a book, "This is the book you want, right?" ”

One of his "yes" words turned around twice in his throat and went down, but he looked at her blankly, until she looked at her with a trace of gloomy eyebrows, and then felt rude, and quickly raised her wrist to look at her watch, she raised her wrist to look at her watch inexplicably as if she was infected, and suddenly felt a little redundant, blushed inexplicably, threw the book on the counter in front of him, and turned to leave.

She apparently didn't recognize him. This is also normal, if he didn't have the guidance of the gardenia, he might not be able to recognize her, at least, it is impossible to recognize her at a glance.

Yuan Yuxiao didn't know whether to recognize this old classmate for a while, everything came too quickly, and he didn't seem to be ready at all.

After a while, this person is here anyway, whether he recognizes it or not, when he recognizes it, isn't it very free, why rush at this time.

When I think about it like this, I feel infinitely calm, and even have a little bit of pride that others are in the open and in the dark. I easily chose a seat with a good angle, opened the book and looked at it, but my eyes glanced over the book from time to time.

As a child, he had never discovered the beauty of Milan as much as he did today, when her beauty had not yet bloomed and his youth had not awakened. His memory of her was only held by a wisp of flowers......

This afternoon, he took the book and flipped through it, originally wanting to copy the song, but he didn't copy a single song.

He didn't go to return the book until the library was about to close, and waited until there were not many people and she stepped forward when she was free, he still hoped that she would recognize him and say hello first. He couldn't change his habit of not taking the initiative, but passively receiving.

But she took the book and didn't even look at him, but looked at her watch carefully, and it was clear that the time off work attracted her attention more.

It's only a matter of time.

There comes a day, that time, and she recognizes me—or I make her recognize me, and then what happens to us......

Thinking of this, he naturally looked over, and the fierce beauty of Milan in the counter, although it was a little distance, also enveloped him.

She's so pretty! Compare...... Yu Xiaolu is much more beautiful......

Suddenly woke up in a dream and trembled, why did Yu Xiaolu jump out at this time...... Which way did you want to go?

No, no, turn back!

However, Yu Xiaolu and herself are just friends......

No, isn't it......

She is guarding a very special position, a husband is in charge, and when other women pass by, they will always bump into her. When Qin Qing amazed him, he was also compared with Yu Xiaolu, and when Milan amazed him, he was compared with Yu Xiaolu...... Yu Xiaolu is a lock, and unknowingly, locked him......

What did she rely on? Nothing!

Whether or not she herself would be willing to occupy a place in his heart, he had no way of knowing.

It's just Mo Qing's private wishful intentions, a demonic entrustment.

It's really not about Xiaolu!

But she was like a pagoda, suppressing him, a river demon who was not a river demon......

Be all abroad!

He simply stopped thinking about it, stood on the side of the road, stretched a long lazy waist, and wasted an afternoon in cranky thoughts, such an afternoon without the efficiency of reading, if it was not allowed in the student days, but now it doesn't matter, stable work and life, it's good!

When the comfortable lazy waist stretched to 80 percent, his left waist was suddenly lightly poked by something, his body shrank, and he didn't feel that he swallowed a long breath of Haoran that was about to be exhaled, and he was a little annoyed, and when he looked back, it turned out to be Li Zhuo, who braked behind him and pressed his left waist with the handlebar.

"Pretty chic, what are you doing standing alone on the side of the road?" Li Zhuo asked with a smile.

"I just came out of the library, what about you?"

"I just came out of the bureau, alas, I was supposed to go to the bureau, I forgot my wallet in the desk drawer, and I had to go out to play at night, so I had to come and get it."

"No one asks about us, does you?"

"Alas, the luck is really bad, it was just a turnaround, but somehow I happened to meet Chief Liang, and asked the bazaar group why I didn't see anyone in the afternoon......"

The head of the Liang unit is called Liang Tongsheng, one of the two deputy chiefs of the four units, and the other deputy head is Zhong Yunhe, the two deputy chiefs are in charge of the individual group and the real estate group respectively, while the white unit chief is in charge of the whole and is also responsible for the bazaar group and the violation group.

"He's not in charge of our trade group, what's the matter!"

"That's right, he's also afraid that we won't know that he is the deputy chief, and I don't want to pay attention to him, so I don't know, I don't want to talk to him more, hurry up!"

"This ...... Have you not sinned against him......"

"I have no other way, how can you ask me to answer, if you really offend, offend, the east wind blows, the war drums are beating, who is afraid of whom in the world now!"

"That's right!"

When they returned to the bureau after running the market the next day, the head of the white unit said to a few people, although the head of the Liang unit and the head of the Zhong unit did not directly manage the market and trade group, they were the leaders of the unit after all, and I hope you will also respect them.

As soon as the head of the white unit left, Li Zhuo made a grimace at Yuan Yuxiao. Liu Shucheng said: "Originally, our unified action was quite good, but if we said yes, we didn't come, the first time it was Yuan Yuxiao, and yesterday afternoon it was Li Zhuo, there is always something going on, there is no organization and no discipline!" ”

Li Zhuo had to laugh and smoke with him.

Liu Shucheng took the cigarette, still with a calm face, "Chief Bai asked us to leave at least one person on duty in the bureau every afternoon in the future, we have deducted the taxpayer's belongings, and someone will come to pay the money and receive the goods in the afternoon, and we need to receive them." Let's take turns! ”

"I'll do it first!" Li Zhuo said, "I'm on duty this afternoon!" ”

In the afternoon, Yuan Yuxiao went to the library again. Still like yesterday, copying songs, while secretly watching Milan for fun.

Such regular days continued for a few more days, and in the past few days, Yuan Yuxiao and Li Zhuo Jin Daotong each received tax stamps.

Yuan Yuxiao carried the tax stamps with her, so that at any time and place, as long as she met a vendor, she could collect money.

The nineteenth birthday he had been worried about had finally arrived.

In addition to relatives, among the friends invited by Yuan Yuxiao, Ling Jiamin and Xiao Guiying were the first, and Yu Xiaolu was the last, maybe she didn't want to come too early so as not to attract attention, but because she arrived last, it was particularly conspicuous.

After Ling Jiamin decided to take Xiao Guiying, Yuan Yuxiao couldn't object, his reasons were completely indescribable. He originally wanted Liu Side to come with Yu Xiaolu, but Liu Side was studying secondary school in other places. He had to resign himself to his fate.

The house was lively. Mother made all the dishes she was good at, borrowed some large vegetable bowls, domino stools, and a large round table from her neighbors. Relatives occupied an old-fashioned table of eight immortals in the family and placed it in their parents' room, and Yuan Yuxiao's friends used this borrowed tabletop to be placed in the small courtyard shared with their neighbors.

Yuan Yuxiao used to live in the same house with her parents, and now the small house alone is after middle school, and after discussing with the neighbors in the same yard, the small yard was built on the side of her own house, which can't accommodate a big table at all.

However, only the relatives had wine on the table. "You are all young people, you can't drink wine, that's not a good thing, I don't advocate you to drink, drink as much as you want!" Yuan Yuxiao's father said happily. Everyone said thank you, Uncle Yuan.

Yuan Yuxiao remembered that when she paid her salary for the first time in the finance school, she was drunk in the dormitory, and felt that it was quite a fly in the ointment. But then again, even if there was alcohol, his friends might not be as enjoyable as when his parents weren't there, so that's it. Fortunately, everyone doesn't seem to have the habit of drinking yet.

Yuan Yuxiao's father glanced at Yu Xiaolu very attentively, and saw that Yuan Yuxiao's heart was full of grace.