288. Snow
On the last day of November, it rained heavily in Chicago.
This is not the first snow of the year, if Gu Bei remembers correctly, the first snow in Chicago had already fallen on the fifteenth.
The snow was heavier that day than it was today, three fingers thick, and it is said that the student council and the Lionheart organized a friendly exchange - a snowball fight.
As for how the scene was turned on his back, Gu Bei didn't know, he was rubbing the fireplace in Ange's office at the time.
Although Gu Bei is not invaded by the cold and summer, it should not be said that it is indeed comfortable to wrap a blanket in the snowy weather and squint on the recliner by the fireplace for a while.
It's not about the cold and the warmth, it's about the atmosphere.
However, when it came to the Lionheart, Gu Bei always felt as if he had forgotten something...... What's going on?
Forget it, don't think about it, it shouldn't be an important thing, otherwise Gu Bei won't forget it.
Gu Bei, who had a big heart, turned his head and threw these troubles aside, turned over and sat up from the bed.
Norma's weather forecast is still quite accurate, saying that sleet will rain and sleet, the slightest drizzle mixed with pieces of snowflakes, coupled with the cold wind of late autumn and early winter, like a knife piercing the bone marrow, so that the new students who have just entered Kassel this year have experienced what is called refreshing cold.
Although the latitude is about the same as that of Beijing, the temperature in Zhicheng is much colder than that in Beijing, and at this time, the temperature in Beijing hovers between minus 5 degrees and minus 5 degrees, while Chicago is no longer above zero, all below zero.
Chicago's cold and terrain are inextricably linked.
Nestled between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains, Chicago is bounded by the wide Lake Michigan to the north, with an open terrain in the middle, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and the high-latitude polar center to the north, creating a narrow corridor of cold air.
Whenever a cold spell erupts, northerly winds sweep across Lake Michigan and carry a large amount of wet and cold water vapor towards Chicago.
This caused the wind chill to rage in Chicago and the snow to fall.
This is equivalent to being in the polar northeast and the south of the Yangtze River at the same time, not only the temperature is low, but also humid, which is equivalent to experiencing both physical and magical attacks at the same time.
People in China are fighting over whether it is cold in the south or cold in the north in the winter, and they have not considered the feelings of Chicago at all.
Shibajo: "I'm cold, but I won't say it. ”
Of course, Kassel is a very humanitarian college, not a prisoner of war camp, so despite the cold weather outside, the students are in good condition, and the heating of the dormitories is very timely, so that some tropical students will not freeze to death.
Gu Bei turned his head to look at the other bed.
Very good, the senior brother is not there as always.
It's so self-disciplined, even this kind of weather can't stop the senior brother's heart to pursue strength, it's really spicy!
It's a pity that Gu Bei can't do it, he is a lazy person, in the face of this kind of weather, he just wants to shrink in the dormitory, at most he just sits on the rocking chair on the balcony, looks at the white scenery outside, and hums two lyrics that I don't know if anyone has heard.
"On such a cold day, I want to smoke an e-cigarette, but Ruike has no electric ......"
It's rare to have such a leisure time, there are no classes, no experiments, no banquets, and nothing to solve for him......
Long live peace!
Gu Bei just lay on the rocking chair, thinking about nothing, doing nothing, shaking and feeling the hard-won daily life.
I don't know how long it took, there was a soft knock on the door, Gu Bei turned around, and saw the door open, and Chu Zihang walked in from outside.
"Welcome back...... wtf!? Can you answer me, what the hell would it take for me to have a morning exercise to make your tracksuit look like this? ”
It's no wonder that Gu Bei is rare and weird, it's really Chu Zihang's current appearance is really ...... Too cool.
When he first entered the door, Chu Zihang was still wearing a wide windbreaker, and he couldn't see anything, but when Chu Zihang hung the windbreaker on the hanger on the side, he exposed the sportswear that had become a strip of cloth underneath, and he could vaguely see the eight-pack abs through the gap in the sportswear.
Chu Zihang's lips moved: "Morning exercise with you?" ”
Hearing this answer, Gu Bei suddenly didn't know what to say, after all, Chu Zihang was telling the truth, every time the two brothers and sisters were fighting, Gu Bei would cut Chu Zihang's clothes into noodles, and once emptied Chu Zihang's wardrobe.
Over time, every time Chu Zihang and Gu Bei learned kendo, the first thing he did was to take off his shirt.
But in this situation now, it is obvious that Chu Zihang is joking.
He tore off the "noodles" on his body and threw them into the trash: "I met Caesar at the kendo hall, I don't know why, he seems to be a little irritable today." ”
OK, that makes sense.
Caesar, as the boss of the student union, bumped into Chu Zihang, the acting boss of the Lionheart Club, it would inevitably be a battle of dragons and tigers.
Although he really admires Chu Zihang, he can't be a subordinate, and it's not bad as an opponent.
As for the question of being grumpy......
Gu Bei strongly suspected that it had something to do with Nuo Nuo's escape from the banquet last night.
When he got up this morning, Gu Bei also took a look at the night watchman forum, and found that there are still many people talking about what happened last night, and there are still many student union accounts washing the floor.
Gu Bei didn't get involved in this matter.
He couldn't jump out and say, "Your president's wife didn't attend the banquet last night because she was soaking her feet on the top of the mountain with me and counting the stars, right?"
Isn't this pure and pure?
However, as soon as he talked about last night's incident, Gu Bei remembered what Nuo Nuo said: "Caesar is very suitable for me, not just because of the family's affairs. Isn't it good for a guy to think I'm good, so he likes me, and I think I'm really good, and I deserve him to like me, and I think he's good and doesn't make me uncomfortable. ”
This sentence sounds like an animal in Gu Bei, it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and cries like a duck, then it is a duck.
reveals the helplessness of fate, and faintly carries the meaning of resistance.
But even Gu Bei didn't know how to resist fate.
Caesar is not only the second in middle school, but also quite stubborn, as long as he pays, he hopes that others will recognize him as good.
He had put so much effort into it last night, but he was released halfway through the pigeon, if Nono couldn't coax him. I'm afraid this irritable state will continue for the afternoon.
Gu Bei sighed, and suddenly asked Chu Zihang, "Did you win or lose?" ”
Chu Zihang pointed to the strip of cloth in the trash can: "He's the same as me." ”
Didn't lose or win, it was a draw.
However, Chu Zihang should only use the way of the sword, although this guy can't easily use Qi, but his Yuan Qi and Yan Ling are combined, and the discipline field of the academy can't suppress him at all, if he is allowed to use Yan Ling, Caesar is estimated to be unbearable.
Although Caesar is now also practicing Qi, he is not too much of Chu Zihang's opponent.
However, Gu Bei felt that he should also mention this matter to the night watchman, after all, most of the students in the academy now have mastered the basic Qi cultivation method, although not everyone is like Chu Zihang and Percy Gattuso, but it is estimated that sooner or later they will be able to develop a move that blends words and spirits, and then the precept field of the academy is estimated to be useless.
Until then, it's better to take precautions.
However, after thinking about it carefully, Gu Bei felt that he was a little worried, maybe it would be good to let the students of Kassel have more space for freedom, the existence of the precept field is like a big net, wrapping the entire academy, and the students are the fish in the net.
Ban a group of young people destined to slay dragons from using the Spirit of Speech...... To be honest, it's as unreliable as Hogwarts banning the use of magic.
Well...... Let's take one step at a time, who knows what the future holds.
Gu Bei hasn't had this kind of mentality for a long time, he has always taken one step at a time to see ten steps, and he must grasp every day and every possibility in his hands, so that he can put his mind down and move forward, but he will inevitably exhaust himself.
But now this mentality that there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain has made him relax.
Chu Zihang took a hot shower and walked out of the bathroom while wiping his hair.
He doesn't have a class today, and usually he has to go to the library to read a book or go to the Amber Pavilion to deal with the affairs of the Lionheart.
In short, it's very busy.
In fact, Chu Zihang can not be so busy, he deliberately keeps himself busy, and only when he is busy can he forget some things, such as Odin, such as rainy nights, such as ...... A certain Miss Sue.
Recently, Susie's offensive has intensified again, and Gu Bei even saw Chu Zihang returning to the dormitory with a pink lunch box of unknown origin a few times.
Is the source unknown?
Whether Gu Bei believes it or not, that's what Chu Zihang said anyway, and he didn't move a bite of the food inside, and sent it back the next day.
One thing to say, Susie is the most daring girl Gu Bei has ever seen who dares to love and hate, and the only one who can fight with her is Su Xiaoqiao.
Maybe Su Xiaoyan is too.
Xia Mi and Nuo Nuo are not particularly afraid to love and hate, Xia Mi is because she has lived too long and has seen it thoroughly, so she will not love easily, while Nuo Nuo is afraid of feelings and can only passively accept it.
In fact, from a certain point of view, Chen Wenwen is also daring to love and hate, but her love and hate are not comparable to a stable enough future.
Eri also dares to love and hate, provided that she knows what love is.
But in fact, Gu Bei himself doesn't understand love.
Chu Zihang didn't understand either.
He sat on another recliner on the balcony, and the two of them sat on the balcony one on the left and one right, looking out at the rain and snow outside, and the students coming and going on campus.
Gu Bei was a little surprised: "You won't go to the Lionheart Club today?" ”
"There's Susie over there."
"Where's the library?"
"I brought it back."
Speaking of which, Chu Zihang also lit up the third-level magic machine in his hand...... This thing is a junior year's course, right!?
Gu Bei was a little speechless, and lay back in his chair.
The students on the campus were in a hurry, Gu Bei looked at them, and Chu Zihang looked at the book in his hand.
Suddenly, Chu Zihang asked, "Are you going home for the New Year this year?" ”
Oh, and Kassel is about to go on vacation, too.
There are two holidays in Kassel every year, the winter break is from Christmas to after the Lantern Festival, which lasts for two months; The summer vacation is from July to September, which is also two months.
"Come back, probably."
Gu Bei thought for a while and added: "I'm not going back to China with you, I'm going to celebrate a little girl's birthday at Christmas." ”
Chu Zihang nodded: "Okay." ”
Gu Bei and Chu Zihang have always gotten along so peacefully, the relationship between the two is too close, they both know what kind of person each other is, and they are used to what to say.
If you change to two friends with an average relationship, if you sit together like these two, I'm afraid you will only be crazy to find a topic, otherwise it will be embarrassing, but even if these two people sit together all day without talking, they won't feel anything.
Time is as calm as water, only the sound of rain and snow hitting the window outside, and the sound of Chu Zihang flipping through the book.
"Jingle Bell ......"
"But the snow ......"
Well, and the ringtone.
And it's two.
Gu Bei and Chu Zihang picked up the phone at the same time.
"Come to the lab, there's a big discovery!
! ”
Akadulla on the other end of the phone was like a monkey in heat, and Gu Bei, who didn't know that he had ruined his good mood, now just wanted to kick his ass hard with his boots.
Gu Bei hung up the phone, and Chu Zihang on the other side also just hung up: "Laboratory? ”
"Hmm...... Lionheart? ”
"Hmm."
"Let's go."
The two got dressed and went out together.
The weather in Chicago was indeed as cold as hell, and the moment Gu Bei walked out of the bedroom, he felt the temperature around him plummet, and he suddenly remembered the sable he had collected in Changbai Mountain that year......
Don't know how well sable fur keeps you warm?
Brother Mink, who is far away in Changbai Mountain: "Ah! Half-breeds get colds too? This damn Changbai Mountain is really cold......"
The two of them walked on the road, and Gu Bei had nothing to say: "What is the Lionheart Club looking for you over there?" Can't Susie solve it? ”
"It was the president who came to me, as if he wanted to discuss matters related to taking over in the second half of the school year."
Gu Bei pursed his lips: "This still needs to be discussed?" Who doesn't know that the next president of the Lionheart Club has already decided to be you? ”
Chu Zihang was full of black lines: "There is no need to discuss the succession candidate, what we want to discuss is the succession ceremony." ”
"What's there to discuss, isn't it just that if he abdicates, won't you succeed to the throne? I didn't have that much trouble when I handed everything over to Sister Hua, could it be that they could still give you the entire enthronement ceremony? If you want me to say, who will you grow......"
"Fendy Francis."
"Yes, this guy is too boring, he likes to engage in formalism, and I suspect that he will use a line to arrange the water bottles neatly in meetings......"
Speaking of this, Gu Bei was suddenly stunned.
He seemed to remember that he had forgotten something.
"Say, what's the name of your president?"
"Fendy Francis."
"Francis...... Francis ......"
Gu Bei finally remembered, he didn't think of such an important thing until now!
The Francis Family!
Entangled with Odin, the Francis family suspected of some conspiracy!
Because this time was a dream crossing the Black Swan Harbor, and it was a matter of Yuanqi Technology, he almost forgot about it!
"Let's go!"
Gu Bei grabbed Chu Zihang's arm.
Chu Zihang was stunned: "Where are you going?" ”
"Go to the Lionhearts."
"Where's the lab?"
"It doesn't matter over there!"