(xxii)

Before entering the infirmary, a burst of laughter drifted into Liu Zhixi's ears, and it turned out to be Instructor Xin and Instructor Fu, who came to visit Luo Tang. The two of them stood in front of the hospital bed, like a barrier to protect Luo Tang, Luo Tang was surrounded by them, his face was slightly red, and the red sun outside the window spread light and heat energy, which seemed to inject vitality and energy into this girl who was still tired just now.

Xin Chenxi asked Luo Tang's physical condition with concern, and when she saw Liu Zhixi coming in, she smiled and nodded, Fu Hongtao glanced at Liu Zhixi, did not speak, but her expression was not as stiff and stern as in the morning. "Zhixi, great, there is a durian mille-feuille!" Luo Tang rubbed his belly, ate with relish, and expressed his earnest gratitude to Liu Zhixi.

"Don't thank me!" Liu Zhixi narrated the cake shop to Luo Tang, and Luo Tang smiled happily, "Yes, I really want to thank him." Do you want his contact information? "You're stupid, just let a piece of cake and ask for someone's contact information, do you still want to repay someone?" Liu Zhixi pretended to be angry and patted Luo Tang's head, Luo Cheng dodged to the side, dodging Liu Zhixi's hand, she smiled brightly, it seemed that her body was fine.

"Zhixi, I fell in love with someone." Before going to bed at night, Luo Cheng whispered to Liu Zhixi, but she didn't ask, answered, and wore headphones to practice English listening. Luo Tang was still talking to herself softly, and Liu Zhixi fell asleep in the crazy English reading voice of Teacher Li Yang.

The freshman talent show is about to be held, and Qin Yuanyuan, who graduated from the same school as Liu Zhixi, successfully ran for the deputy director of the school's recreation department, and she is naturally indispensable to this glamorous stage. Luo Cheng saw the propaganda poster posted downstairs in the dormitory, and excitedly pulled Liu Zhixi, "Zhixi, she is so beautiful." Liu Zhixi glanced back, Qin Yuanyuan was wearing heavy makeup on the poster, and the photo P was a little different from her, but the charm of all kinds of charms made people clearly identify at a glance.

"Oh, she's my high school alumnus," Liu Zhixi said lightly. "That, Zhixi, I heard them say that she is Wei Jianxu's girlfriend." Luo Cheng lowered his head, crossed his hands together, and then released them again, a gesture repeated several times. "Who is Wei Jianxu?" Liu Zhixi sensed the unnaturalness of Luo Tangerine. "Wei Jianxu, you don't know?" Luo Cheng raised his head suddenly, his tone was surprised, but there was a kind of smug shyness, like a girl in the boudoir to be married talking about her fiancé with her best friend, "He's the grass of the medical school!" "Oh." Liu Zhixi looked at Luo Tang thoughtfully, "The person you said that night is him, right?" Luo Tang was so shy that he buried his head, his eyes dodged, but he clearly revealed sweetness.

During the 11th National Day holiday, Liu Zhixi booked a high-speed rail ticket home on her mobile phone, Su Qian and Wenli took Shiyue to Hainan for a vacation, Liu Zhixi was supposed to go, but she had more important things to deal with. Lao Lei left, and the night before he left, Zeng Xiao sent a message to tell Liu Zhixi the bad news. Liu Zhixi was watching TV at the time, and the show happened to broadcast a sensational idol drama, and Wenli wiped her tears on the side, like a little girl who didn't know anything about the world.

Liu Zhixi was a little tired of Wenli, and excused herself that she was too tired, so she went back to the room to call Zeng Xiao, they chatted about the past, and sighed that they were "English Three Musketeers", just dawn every day in the first year of high school, they rushed to the school playground, and practiced spoken English loudly while exercising, thinking about the enthusiasm and enthusiasm at that time, they all felt admiration for themselves. Looking back on the past, they are very nostalgic for those green years, but fate is a manipulator, always playing cards out of common sense. The former "Three Musketeers", only the "two people turned", and the strong old Lei also said goodbye to the world, Liu Zhixi couldn't help but feel very sad.

Lao Lei's mourning hall was located in the open space of the family area of Tachichirai, and many of his students came to pay their respects. The funeral was simple and low-key, Lao Lei devoted all his thoughts and energy to the cause of education all his life, but he had no relatives and friends, and no one wore linen and filial piety, which was very desolate. It was drizzling, and Liu Zhixi was wearing a black coat with a white flower tied to her arm, strict and solemn. She offered a bouquet of golden chrysanthemums in front of Lao Lei's tomb and stood silently in the rain for a few minutes. The rain curtain was suddenly cut off from the top of her head, and Zeng Xiao wore a long black trench coat and held up an umbrella for her.

"Zeng Xiao, why is human life so fragile?" Her big smart eyes, full of tears at this time, were about to burst the embankment. "Zhixi, life is like this, nothing is indestructible, nothing is unbreakable." Zeng Xiao had a smile on the corner of her mouth, but her tone was sad.

A figure flashed by, the back seemed familiar, Liu Zhixi's heart moved, she didn't care about talking to Zeng Xiao, and hurriedly chased forward, but only saw that in the barren cemetery, there was a dead silence and depression.

Liu Zhixi stayed alone in the villa, she ordered a takeaway, considering that the nanny and aunt at home worked hard, she asked the aunt to go home to reunite with her family, she usually almost always took the bus, and simply let the driver's uncle also take a holiday. She lives alone in an empty villa, and she misses Wenli and them for the first time, although she rarely communicates with them, but with them, she feels less lonely and cold, and her home is lively and popular. She made soup in the kitchen, but she had to pour it out because she couldn't finish it, she turned on the TV series, and the heroine in Wenli's favorite idol drama cried so much that she felt like crying.

went out to get takeaway, Liu Zhixi unexpectedly ran into Lin Sujin, who deliberately took a plane back to Chencheng, she hadn't seen her for three months, she became more and more beautiful, and her temperament was incomparable to that of ordinary girls in a small city, and that smile was even more deceitful. The cold rain was falling, Leng Jiang held an umbrella for her, and the two walked intimately in the rain, not noticing Liu Zhixi at all. She smiled bitterly, and suddenly wanted to rush to her grandmother's grave, crying heartily, wanting to go back to the summer of her freshman year of high school, when she didn't know Leng Jiang, when Su Huai was still by her side, and her world was still intact.

Liu Zhixi stood silently in the garden in front of the villa for a while, the newly opened moon season was delicate, hungry and thirsty to suck the rain, she didn't remember the last time she took care of these flowers, but it could be seen that the gardener was very responsible and dedicated, and the trees in the garden were scattered and vivid.

The cold rain is like a thin veil, covering Liu Zhixi's head, in the rain and mist, her face is a little blurred, and her thin figure has a different kind of beauty, she looks at the garden gloomily, and then walks into the house alone and sadly, she doesn't notice that Leng Jiang is in the villa opposite, looking at her, her eyes are full of affection. Lin Sujin stood quietly behind him, his hands around his waist, and he immediately restrained his expression and held her warm hand hard.

The full campus stadium was full of people, applause and cheers came and went, and Qin Yuanyuan's song "Courage" by Liang Jingru won full applause. This song, which accompanies most of the post-90s generations, is familiar to most of the post-90s, and under Qin Yuanyuan's slightly hoarse voice, it is deeply touching, and the students in the audience wave their hands together to sing together, and the scene is very spectacular.

"Love really needs courage to face gossip, as long as you look at it for sure, my love is meaningful......" Luo Cheng listened to it fascinated, humming the melody, Liu Zhixi sat beside her, and her performance was not as fierce as other classmates, perhaps because, in the competition for love, she is always the one who is loved, it is they who jump over obstacles, cross obstacles, and come to her, from this point of view, she is the lucky one in the hearts of many people.

"Little orange, you sing very well." She touched the broken hair on Luo Tang's forehead, the light in Luo Tang's eyes instantly lit up, and she grabbed her arm, "Zhixi, look, Wei Jianxu has come to power!" Sure enough, a tall boy wearing a handsome tuxedo, with a masculine but gentle facial contour, stood next to Qin Yuanyuan, and the audience was suddenly boiling.

"Let me love you, and then forget me, I just need to go, not the purpose", Wei Jianxu's magnetic voice is very suitable for this song, and the feelings are also used just right, full and not pretentious. Luo Cheng held her hand tightly, and beads of sweat oozed from that hand, and she sighed in her heart: "Infatuated silly girl." This sigh reminded her of another person, Yao Yao, and she remembered the scenes of their last meeting, all of which she remembered.

"Zhixi, come out and meet, okay?" The mobile phone vibrated in the bag, and Liu Zhixi slashed the interface and saw Yao Yao's message.

In the café, Liu Zhixi and Yao Yao sat opposite each other, Yao Yao cut her hair short, her eyes were empty and indifferent, as if she didn't care about everything around her, and it seemed that she cared too much, so she chose a disguise of self-protection. Her chin was pointed, her collarbones were pronounced, and her face was tired and slightly haggard, as if she were a weathered woman, and she could not imagine that she was only in her early twenties.

"Yaoyao, are you okay?" Liu Zhixi hadn't called her so affectionately before, it wasn't that they had a bad relationship, but before, Liu Zhixi didn't feel the need for this, and now, she did her best to give this poor girl more care and affection. "Zhixi, I'm divorced." Yao Yao picked up the coffee in front of her, the temperature was no longer hot, but she still blew repeatedly and did not eat. "Oh." Liu Zhixi replied softly, not knowing how to comfort her.

"Don't you think it's strange?" Yao Yao raised her head suddenly, and then lowered her head again, "Or do you think that people like me should end up like this?" Yao Yao's voice trembled so much that she couldn't finish her words. Yaoyao, it's not like this, don't think about it. Liu Zhixi hurriedly explained, thinking about whether to tell the truth.

"Look, you call me 'Yaoyao', when did you call me that before, now you just sympathize with me." Yao Yao looked at Liu Zhixi and smiled miserably. Liu Zhixi's heart ached, this innocent girl became a victim of jealousy and a substitute for hatred. She buried her head, she also had hatred in her heart, she hated Leng Jiang, but she loved him, and now, what she could do to Leng Jiang was not to love him, nor to hate him, but to protect him.

She doesn't know if she's right or wrong, but the world isn't black and white, and who of them isn't walking in a gray area? Even though she had uncertain illusions about it, and she secretly hoped that what she knew was an illusion, but this doubt gave her courage, perhaps as the song sings—as long as you look at you for sure, my love has meaning.

"Zhixi, I'm really desperate, he said that he didn't care about my past, and he was very good to me at first, but later, there were more rumors in his ears, and he began to abuse me. At first, he apologized to me guiltily, but later, he abused me more and more often, and the punishment became more and more severe. I couldn't take it anymore and finally escaped from that hellish home. From the corners of Yao Yao's eyes, two lines of clear tears flowed.

"Yaoyao, what are you going to do in the future?" Liu Zhixi couldn't bear to look at her, and wiped away her tears with a tissue. "I don't know, I don't want to go back there again, and I don't have a lot of good friends, so I can only come to you." Yao Yao looked at Liu Zhixi with solicitation. Liu Zhixi clenched her hand, looked at her worriedly, and nodded heavily.

"Will he like me?" Luo Ju stood in front of the narrow dressing mirror in the bedroom, looking left and right, fiddling with the newly bought short skirt. Her dress is the recent fashionable "missing underwear", a long white shirt with a black suspender shirt inside, and a skirt short to the root of the thighs, revealing her smooth legs, although it is not the long legs of Taiwanese supermodel Lin Chiling, but it is eye-catching enough. She straightened her long hair, which had been curly before, and her flowing hair was obediently draped over her shoulders, her makeup was very light, but if you looked closely, you could still find that she had put in a lot of effort, touching the pink lip gloss, the lips were full of color, the rouge on the cheeks was very natural, the eyelashes were slender, and the dark eyebrows were carefully trimmed. She repeatedly looked at herself in the mirror, and tried to appear in front of Wei Jianxu with the most beautiful image, the sentence written in Xi Murong's poem - "How to let you meet me, when I am the most beautiful", is probably a portrayal of Luo Tang at the moment.

Luo Cheng skipped the night of self-study last night and went to wander downstairs in the medical school all night, she asked for Wei Jianxu's contact information through a friend, but she couldn't muster up the courage to call him. Liu Zhixi returned to the dormitory, and saw that Luo Cheng looked like she was out of mind, so she gave her a small idea.

The two of them went to the medical school cafeteria early in the morning to squat, Luo Cheng was holding a cup of red soybean milk in his hand, and saw Wei Jianxu from a distance, Luo Tang and Liu Zhixi pretended to talk, and when they passed by Wei Jianxu, they accidentally splashed soy milk on his coat. Luo Tang kept saying sorry, and offered to help him clean his coat, he frowned, excused himself and said no, but Luo Tang insisted on refusing, he looked at the watch in his hand, and had to agree. Luo Tang held the coat with his slight body temperature, and there seemed to be countless little rabbits jumping around in her heart, which made her both frightened and happy.

The late autumn evening breeze was already a little cool, so Liu Zhixi wrapped her coat and buttoned a few buttons. She suddenly remembered that Luo Tang only wore a thin long skirt in order to meet Wei Jianxu today. "How's the progress going, this girl?" She smiled slightly, cheering for Luo Tang in her heart.

"Slut! Don't look at what you look like! Walking to the door of the library, Liu Zhixi saw a group of people gathered in Wuyang, pointing and commenting from time to time. Led by her high school alumnus Qin Yuanyuan, her heart seemed to stop for a second, and her intuition told her that something bad must have happened. She pushed through the crowd and saw that Luo Cheng had her head down, her expression was no longer visible, but her shoulders were twitching and shaking, her long dress was stained, her hair was covered with weeds, and the heels of her newly bought high heels were broken.

Liu Zhixi rushed forward and hugged Luo Tang, Luo Tang's face was full of tears, and there was blood from the scratched wounds. She saw that it was Liu Zhixi, like a little beast besieged by hunters, and when she saw her partner who came to rescue her, she cried and threw herself into Liu Zhixi's arms. In Liu Zhixi's heart, I don't know where the courage came from, maybe it was what Nuan Yang once said, "Because you have nothing, you have nothing to fear", she raised her face and glared at Qin Yuanyuan angrily, her eyes were sharp and resentful, which made Qin Yuanyuan, who was not disrespectful, a little afraid.

Liu Zhixi helped Luo Cheng and slowly walked to the dormitory building step by step. The sunset freezes their backs, making them clothed in a faint halo, and the style of painting changes from messy to beautiful just now, as if they are going to the palace of victory, sacred and not desecrated.

The bar outside the campus is quieter than the one in the city center, with no deafening music and dancing youth. It is a small Qing bar, opened in the alley of Yuhou Street, an inconspicuous sign, a good-natured boss, and only a young folk singer playing the guitar on the stage.

Luo Tang was in a bad mood, Liu Zhixi accompanied her, she didn't say a word along the way, but the beginning and end of the story were written in her eyes, she only needed a climax, a climax that could make up for the sad ending, so that she could relive it repeatedly. Actually, she also expected the failure of the confession, but she at least tried, and with a heart-pounding orgasm, then the rest didn't matter. It's just that she didn't know why she didn't wait for Wei Jianxu, but came to Qin Yuanyuan, who was asking for guilt.

The fence outside the house is filled with potted flowers and plants, mixed with the fragrance of the earth after the rain, wafting towards the pedestrians who come here. Liu Zhixi pushed open the door, and a fresh aroma of wine greeted her, and the owner and bartender were tasting wine and chatting with a guest. Seeing someone come in, the guest in the dark blue suit turned around, "It's you", he smiled slightly, as if he had reunited with an old friend.

"Hello!" Liu Zhixi felt that he was very familiar, and remembered that he was the one who gave her durian mille-feuille in the cake shop. He didn't dress as formally as last time, and only wore a casual suit, which looked sophisticated and stylish. "Little orange, he's the gentleman who made the durian mille-feuille." Liu Zhixi touched Luo Tang's arm, but she retracted her hand sensitively as if she was hurt, and then suddenly woke up from her contemplation, looked at Liu Zhixi and said sorry.

"Hello, my name is Liu Yulin. Working at an internet startup. He glanced at Luo Tang behind Liu Zhixi, and just this glance made his years stir up monstrous waves, and made him intoxicated in this charming sorrow. He felt that the surrounding scenes had lost their color, and only the girl in front of him was the spring of purple and red. Her eyes were full of tears, revealing a soft beauty, and her appearance was not stunning, but it was unforgettable.

"Hello, my name is Liu Zhixi, she is Luo Tang", Liu Zhixi gestured to Luo Tang with her eyes, she came back to her senses and smiled reluctantly, "Thank you last time, I love to eat durian mille-feuille." Liu Zhixi quipped: "It's useless to thank him, it's his girlfriend who loves to eat durian mille-feuille." Liu Yulin showed a sun-like smile, but with a hint of cunning, "Yes, my girlfriend loves to eat." ”