Chapter 4 Cai Yan and Xia Lu
The feelings of the student days are the most sincere and the most enthusiastic, because they are simple and without any impurities, because of the ridiculous and inexplicable impulse, as long as they fall in love, they are all aiming for a lifetime, and they do not consider money, houses, cars, and all other things that have nothing to do with feelings, in their eyes there is only love and no love.
Because they are still young, they are very flamboyant to think that as long as they finish their studies, they will definitely have those "cheap" things on their own. However, when they enter the society, they find out how cruel the reality is, once thought that precious things can be bought at the cheapest, as if entering another world, with the treasures of the previous world to come here and find that what they have is worthless, some people think that this is growth, so growth is a cruel metamorphosis.
At the beginning of the summer vacation, Chen Xin and the three of them devoted themselves to intense study, starting tutoring at 8 o'clock in the morning every day, ending at half past 11 o'clock at noon, repeating all kinds of topics every day, and then explaining, boring and boring, if it is only one person It is difficult to persevere, fortunately there is someone to accompany him.
The noon break is also a kind of enjoyment, find a milk tea shop to order a cup, order a french fries, and listen to the soothing music in the store to relieve this mental exhaustion. Cai Yan likes to go to the "favorite time" milk tea shop, because by chance, he met a waiter named Xia Lu, the same as her name Xia Lu, looks very cool, and wears cooler, anyway, Cai Yan likes this coolness very much, Xia Lu is about 20 years old, his hometown is YN, and it is said that he came to this city to work after graduating from junior high school. After going back and forth, Xia Lu and Cai Yan gradually got acquainted, and even Cai Yan asked for her QQ number, and often chatted with her when she was fine.
Suddenly, one day, Cai Yan ran over to Chen Xin with a smile and said, Xia Luken is my girlfriend. This made Chen Xin feel a little incredible, and Xiao Zhe felt that this was incredible, although he always felt that Cai Yan and Xia Lu were not too suitable, after all, Xia Lu had been baptized in society for several years, no matter whether it was as simple as them at that time, but after all, it was different, more mature than them. It's just that Cai Yan is very happy, Chen Xin is also happy, and Xiao Zhe is the same.
Xia Lu's milk tea shop is downstairs in the training center, Cai Yan will always run there after class, Chen Xin and Xiao Zhe naturally don't want to be this follower, after class at half past 4 in the afternoon, Cai Yan will always wait downstairs for Xia Lu to get off work at 5 o'clock, Cai Yan is the only one among them who has experienced the feeling of being in love, even if Chen has been in love with the goddess Lin for 2 years, he has not asked for the fate of being single. So in a sense, Cai Yan is a lucky person who can meet someone he likes earlier than everyone else and be together. Sometimes Chen Xin thought about whether it would be because he had never expressed anything to Lin Yuhong that caused the relationship between the two to not go further, but after careful consideration, Chen Xin nipped that kind of impatience in the bud, because Lin Yuhong is not Xia Lu, the environment in which the two are located is too different, Xia Lu can accept Cai Yan without any worries, she has no restraints, no dogma, but Lin Yuhong can't, she is used to this model, used to the rules that students can't fall in love, if someone says to Lin Yuhong one day together, It is estimated that he will not accept it no matter what, Chen Xin is also very satisfied with the current state, at least he can be regarded as a friend with Lin Yuhong, so he doesn't want to risk pursuing such a meaningless "boyfriend" identity for Chen Xin now.
Halfway through the holiday, on August 1st, Lin Yuhong called, because the scheduled installment date of the two is the first day of each month, even if it is a holiday, Lin Yuhong will not be overdue, this is Chen Xin's first contact with Lin Yuhong this summer, "Chen Xin, what are you doing?" Lin Yuhong is not as angry with Chen Xin as she was when she first met, and took the initiative to care about Chen Xin's "private life". "I signed up for a cram school, and I just got out of class." In fact, Chen Xin was still in class, but he just felt the mobile phone vibrate, saw Lin Yuhong's remarks, and asked the teacher to go to the toilet and slipped out without saying a word. "It's the 1st today, it's time for me to pay you back, when I'm free, I'll go find you." Of course, Chen Xin wanted to see Lin Yuhong, but he was still polite: "It's all on vacation, anyway, I'm not short of money recently, you can wait for the start of school to give it." Lin Yuhong directly interrupted on the other end of the phone and said, "No, I don't want to change the things I have agreed on." Lin Yuhong really lived up to Chen Xin's expectations, and insisted on seeing Chen Xin to pay him back.
Chen Xin could only put on a helpless tone, and made an appointment to meet in KFC next to the training center at noon, and by the way, he asked Lin Yuhong to have a lunch, the relationship between the two is already friends, and it is not so abrupt to invite a meal of KFC, Lin Yuhong naturally agreed.
According to the usual practice, Cai Yan went to stick to Xia Lu again at noon, but Chen Xin did not accompany Xiao Zhe as usual, and left him very unjustly and went to KFC, Xiao Zhe was very lonely, eating fast food alone in the restaurant, and at the same time looking for female compatriots around him, hoping to find a partner, but he always felt that he couldn't wipe off this face.
Today's Lin Yuhong is not as formal as what she wears in school, wearing a white dress, wearing a small pink flower umbrella, walking on the road like a little fairy, which makes Chen Xin, who is waiting at the door of KFC, also have bright eyes, and seems to have discovered another beauty of Lin Yuhong, Lin Yuhong in the school belongs to the temperament type, and now it gives people a fairy feeling. 、
"Chen Xin, are you going to invite me to eat KFC rhythm?" Lin Yuhong stopped at the door and didn't go in, which made Chen Xin a little embarrassed, and said that girls like to eat, so they didn't pick it. But he forgot how a slender goddess like Lin Yuhong could eat junk food. "Well, if you want to eat something, I haven't even figured out what to eat." Lin Yuhong looked around, pointed to a soup dumpling shop on the side and said, "Then eat soup dumplings, it feels pretty good." Of course Chen Xin doesn't matter, as long as Lin Yuhong likes to let him eat three catties of chili peppers.
Because it was noon, the business of the soup dumpling shop was obviously a little deserted, and the boss saw Lin Yuhong coming to patronize, and he was also very warmly welcomed, pouring tea and wiping the stool for Lin Yuhong with paper towels, completely ignoring Chen Xin.
The two ordered five soup dumplings plus two bowls of soy milk and two bowls of small wontons, which could completely match Lin Yuhong's body type, but it failed Chen Xin's stomach.
"Chen Xin, I haven't seen you for a month, why are you so tanned?" Lin Yuhong looked at Chen Xin's black arms and was a little curious, how to tan the fair-skinned Chen Xin into a black African? Chen Xin is an active person, even in the face of the scorching sun, he can't stop Chen Xin's crazy steps, and Chen Xin thinks that going out to play an umbrella in summer is a girl's patent, and a big man always feels that playing an umbrella is an immoral thing. Looking at Lin Yuhong's white forearms and looking at his dark skin, he almost drilled his head into the teacup.
But Chen Xin later learned that white cannot be the criterion for judging a high-quality boy, boys care about girls is "white, rich, and beautiful", and girls care about boys not "white, rich, handsome" but "tall, rich, handsome", so it doesn't matter to girls whether boys are white or not.
"Chen Xin, the college entrance examination is coming up in another year, have you thought about what university you want to go to?" Lin Yuhong really cared about Chen Xin, but Chen Xin hadn't found out about it at that time. What university to rely on is something that the top students think, because they have good grades and can choose, for people with mediocre grades, they all choose schools based on their scores, and they can go wherever they can press the score line of any school.
However, Chen Xin's grades have gone up and he has become one of the few who are qualified to dream of the future university. "Didn't think about it, what about you?" Chen Xin really didn't think about it, his principle was to get closer and closer to Lin Yuhong. Lin Yuhong said: "I want to go to N University, which is close to home and can go home often." "N is good, but the score is also high, just because Chen Xin's ranking in No. 1 Middle School in this exam has just been crossed.
Chen Xin was a little apprehensive, after all, Lin Yuhong had already flown too far, and he still had a long way to go if he wanted to chase now. Chen Xin has never been a person who accepts his fate, even if the gap is too big, he still said to Lin Yuhong: "N big, I also like it a lot, I hope to be admitted." Hearing Chen Xin say that, Lin Yuhong was obviously a little happy, but she didn't say anything, she continued to eat the soup dumplings elegantly, and the meal took more than 1 hour before it ended, and sent Lin Yuhong away, Chen Xin returned to the cram school to start classes.
The vacant seat on the side was Cai Yan's, and after waiting for an afternoon, he didn't see anyone else, Xiao Zhe said: "Maybe go out to play with his Xia Lu, I didn't see Xia Lu people downstairs today." Chen Xin said to the vacant seat: "Brother, take care of your body." ”
After the tutoring, Chen Xin called Cai Yan, and the other end had been turned off, which seemed to confirm the previous speculation, could it be that the two had developed to that point? Helping Cai Yan pack his schoolbag, Xiao Zhe and Chen Xin also went downstairs together, and happened to see Xia Lu and a man wearing a white sunhat holding hands across the street, walking to the front of the store, and kissing the man on the mouth. However, the man with the white sunhat was not Cai Yan.
Chen Xin and Xiao Zhe glanced at each other, obviously seeing the confusion in each other's eyes, and subconsciously thought that something had happened to Cai Yan. After sending the man away, Xia Lu was about to enter the store, Chen Xin ran up and asked, "Xia Lu, have you seen Cai Yan?" Xia Lu's eyes didn't seem to be as friendly as before when he looked at Chen Xin, and said lightly: "Where did Cai Yan go, how would I know?" With Chen Xin's intuition, Cai Yan was sure that he had fallen out of love, but he still didn't believe it, and asked tentatively: "Aren't you his girlfriend?" Didn't he contact you? ”
"Who is his girlfriend, it's all his wishful thinking, we are just ordinary friends, and I already have a boyfriend, I have already made it clear to him, and, please don't always come to me, if you want to know where he is, go to White Deer Square to see, I saw him there in the afternoon." After Xia Lu finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards the store. Not only Chen Xin was stunned, but Xiao Zhe was also stunned.
Chen Xin made a lot of calls to Cai Yan, but it was always turned off, and the two searched all the way, and finally according to the clues provided by Xia Lu, they said that they were Cai Yan who was last seen in Bailu Park. Sure enough, Cai Yan was still over there, squatting on the stone steps, holding his head with both hands, Chen Xin walked over and patted him, Cai Yan was a little dazed in his eyes, and when he saw the two of them, he smiled and didn't speak, and it could be seen that the smile was also squeezed out. "Young man, I'm looking for you to eat barbecue, why did you come here to see the girl." Chen Xin said, Cai Yan nodded without explaining anything, and said, "Let's go, drink some." Xiao Zhe threw the schoolbag to Cai Yan and said, "Sink to death, you carry the broken bag yourself." The three of them walked shoulder to shoulder and left.
Cai Yan drank a lot this night, and said a lot, most of which were bragging, and did not mention the name Xia Lu at all, it is said that getting drunk relieves a thousand sorrows, but I don't know why, the more Cai Yan drank, the more uncomfortable he felt, maybe it was uncomfortable in his heart, Chen Xin and Xiao Zhe didn't ask anything, just accompanied him to drink and blow, until ten o'clock, the two dragged Cai Yan to the door of the house.
Since that night, Cai Yan has no Xia Lu in his life, and he can't see the greasy scene of the two in the milk tea shop, but Cai Yan seems to have a new hobby, that is, doing problems, when he has nothing to do, he is always seen lying on the desk alone, solving all kinds of problems, it seems that only in this way can he distract himself and forget some bad past.
Many years later, when Xiao Zhe talked about Xia Lu again, Cai Yan's eyes were not shocked, and he just said lightly: "Some people are really not worth it, although my heart really hurt at that time, but later I found out that it was really ridiculous, it was not that I fell in love with Xia Lu, but in that afternoon, the place chose the girl to find the freshness of trying to fall in love, so it was just a misunderstanding, it was me who misunderstood that it was love, Xia Lu's departure was more of an unwillingness, unwilling time is too beautiful but too short, What you can't get is actually what others have already got. ”
It's just that Cai Yan didn't tell anyone, on the last night of the cram school, he came to the roller shutter door of Xia Lu's milk tea shop with self-spray paint, and wrote: "Xia Lu, well".