Chapter 32: It's Another Year
Late August.
The curtain has come to an end on the nation's celebration of the Olympic Games, and the worrying disaster-stricken areas have begun to rebuild their homes.
That particular summer is over.
He Dongfan went to Yuhe by himself to handle the university report.
By the time he checked into dormitory 202, he had already reached two roommates before him.
is a small one, called Li Baizi.
One wears glasses and has a gentle temperament, called Jiang Xin.
The three of them simply packed their luggage, then went to lunch outside the school together, and returned to the dormitory to clean up together.
The floor was finally bright, the tables were clean, and I was sweating.
Although the balcony was still full of sewage, they pulled chairs and sat under the fan to rest.
The topics we talked about earlier, where they came from, whether they have girlfriends, etc.
Let's talk about it now, and it is inevitable that the topic will be more in-depth.
Li Baizi opened a bag of hometown specialties for them to share. He Dongfan was curious: "You are from the northern capital, why did you come here?" ”
This really makes people curious, if you can get the score of the computer science department of Yuhe University, there will be a better choice in the north.
He Dongfan didn't mean to hide it at all, and there was a smile on his face: "I have someone I want to see, she may be in Yuhe." ”
The breath of gossip came all of a sudden, and even Jiang Xin raised his eyes, lifted the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and wrote 'You continue' all over his face.
But He Dongfan's topic ended here, reaching out and twisting a twist flower, tasting it.
Because it was delicious, he raised his eyebrows.
Li Baizi was excited: "Damn! Didn't you say you didn't have a girlfriend? ”
He Dongfan shrugged his shoulders: "I didn't say I was a girlfriend, just a friend, no?" ”
He Dongfan was still chattering in his heart, he and Ning Xin should be regarded as friends.
Li Baizi directly stabbed He Dongfan in the heart: "It can't be a secret crush, right?" ”
Without waiting for He Dongfan to respond, Li Baizi gave him a thumbs up: "Dude, it's okay!" ”
He Dongfan slapped Li Baizi's hand away.
Jiang Xin lifted his glasses and analyzed: "You said she might be here..."
He added the word 'maybe'.
Then he picked up the second half of the sentence: "So, you're actually not sure if she's here?" ”
He Dongfan was silent for a second and nodded slightly.
Li Baizi's thumbs up again when he was patted down, and his tone was sincere and admiring: "Cow! It's a 'possibility', come here. ”
His hand was slapped down by He Dongfan again.
This time, the strength is great, and there is a 'snap'.
He Dongfan was also suddenly depressed by the word 'maybe'.
I remember that it was still quite hot at that time, and Ning Xin didn't pack up his things immediately after giving him class, and tilted his head to ask him if he had been to Huaiwu.
He Dongfan said that he had been there, and that it was a famous historical and cultural city, and it was worth traveling.
At that time, Ning Xin propped her head and looked at him, smiling, but regretfully said that she had never been anywhere.
She said that coming to Beidu to study was her first time away from home, and she had never been to other cities.
Before that, the farthest she had been to was Yuhe, the provincial capital of her hometown.
Speaking of Yuhe City, she lowered her elbow and asked him if he had ever been to Yuhe City with bright eyes.
He Dongfan said no.
As a result, Ning Xin was as good as a few treasures and the city.
She also said that she lived in Yuhe City with her parents for three years when she was a child, and she liked Yuhe City, a city with a slow pace of life.
After the earthquake, she couldn't stay in WC County...
Thinking about this, He Dongfan was depressed, he felt that she must be in Yuhe City.
The three of them were chatting when the door to the dorm room was pushed open.
A man walked in, thin but straight, with white skin and slender eyes.
He Dongfan's first reaction in his heart: There are still men who look like this?
He speculated that this person was the last member of 202.
Li Baizi straightened his neck and was enthusiastic: "Hey, classmate, what do you call it?" ”
The man carried two large bags in his hand, bent down and put them on the ground, without even glancing in their direction, and spat out two words: "Xu Jing." ”
"My name is Li Baizi." Li Baizi's enthusiasm was undiminished, "Are you coming here to blow the wind?" ”
Xu Jing: "No. ”
Li Baizi: "By the way, are you a local?" ”
Xu Jing: "Yes." ”
Jiang Xin threw out the topic: "My name is Jiang Xin, and the three of us are all outsiders. ”
Xu Jing didn't answer, sorting out her things.
He Dongfan half-turned around, leaned back leisurely, and his legs were wide open: "He Dongfan." ”
Xu Jing didn't respond.
The dormitory, which was obviously lively just now, is full of embarrassment at the moment.
Jiang Xin coughed lightly and threw the topic again: "Xu Jing, we plan to go to the panda base to see the panda on the weekend, I don't know the way, can you bring it?" ”
"I'm sorry." Xu Jing raised her eyes, looked at them with slender eyes, and had a cold attitude, "I'm not available." ”
It's even more embarrassing.
Li Baizi laughed: "It's okay, we can wait for you to be free, and we didn't say that we would go this weekend, which is a team building activity in our dormitory." ”
Xu Jing didn't look up, packing up her things: "I'm not available." ”
This said...
This attitude...
The three of them looked at each other and were silent.
You don't have to let him lead the way, after all, it's just a taxi to a panda base, isn't it a gesture of friendship?
Even if he doesn't like to socialize, it's a relationship where he doesn't look up and doesn't look down, so he doesn't have to be so stabbed.
He Dongfan thought this person was funny.
He got up, snuggled up to the bed frame, and wrapped his arms around his chest: "Dude, everyone has a bedroom, don't you have to do this?" ”
At this time, a man in his forties and fifties appeared at the door of the dormitory, with yellow skin and a very thin figure.
He gave people a strange feeling, probably on such a hot day, and wearing a peaked cap.
The man greeted warmly: "Classmates! Hello! I am Xu Jing's father, and in the future, we Xu Jing will ask you to take care of it more. ”
This attitude is very different, is it two fathers and sons?
He Dongfan reacted for half a second, stood up straight, lowered his arm, and put away his look to greet him: "Hello uncle." ”
Li Baizi and Jiang Xin also stood up: "Hello uncle." ”
"Hello, hello." Xu Jing's father greeted and looked at Xu Jing again, "Xu Jing, you can take your classmates home for dinner on the weekend." ”
As he spoke, he warmly invited: "When the time comes, my uncle will make you Sichuan food to taste." ”
In unison, they said, "Thank you, uncle." ”
He Dongfan held the chair with one hand and stepped forward: "You sit, blow the wind." ”
"No, no, you sit." Xu Jing's father politely refused, and looked up at He Dongfan slightly, "The young man is so tall, a northerner, right?" ”
He Dongfan nodded: "From the Northern Capital." ”
After chatting awkwardly for a while, Xu Jing packed up his things and sent his father away.
Once again, there were only three people in the dormitory.
Li Baizi's decrypted tone: "He is Xu Jing." ”
"Who?" He Dongfan was puzzled.
"Champion! Not only the top score, but also the highest score in our school's history! ”
"Then how did he come to our school?" Jiang Xin asked.
"Who knows?" Li Baizi smacked his lips.
In the next second, he looked at He Dongfan, who was eating twist flowers, and said in a mocking tone: "Isn't it that he also has someone he wants to meet......
Before he finished teasing, He Dongfan kicked the leg of Li Baizi's chair, Li Baizi was not forced, and he instantly leaned back, and was held by He Dongfan on his back.
Li Baizi ignored He Dongfan's 'kindness', waved his hand away, and diverted the topic: "Do you say that Xu Jing will really take us to his house for dinner?" ”
He Dongfan snorted lightly: "Are you dreaming here?" ”
Jiang Xin echoed: "Daydreaming." ”
Li Baizi sighed: "He is a grade cow B, and he looks like a cow B, and the buff is stacked." ”
So, the eyes are also on the top of the head.
People don't make friends with me, and I don't stick a hot face to a cold ass.
This is the case with the three of them and Xu Jing.
Xu Jing usually doesn't talk in the dormitory, doesn't sit with them during class, doesn't go to the cafeteria together, and never goes to the dormitory on weekends.
is not as good as the supernumerary staff of 202: Ding Tianxiang in the bedroom next door.
This pattern of getting along lasted for half a semester.
Things changed late one night, Xu Jing's mobile phone rang suddenly, she got out of bed in a panic, turned on the flashlight, opened the wardrobe, and there was a ring.
He Dongfan was woken up, and his voice was sleepy and hoarse: "What are you doing?" ”
Xu Jing didn't respond, but the sound was a little quieter.
He Dongfan was just about to fall asleep when he heard the sound of the door opening, and then the sound of the door closing.
Li Baizi also woke up, stood up, and asked sleepily, "Why did he go?" ”
He Dongfan was impatient: "Who knows him!" ”
And where can I go?
The dormitories are locked.
After a while, the bedroom door creaked open again.
At this time, everyone woke up, sat up unhappily, and it was not good to scold directly, and looked at him soullessly.
Xu Jing walked to the window.
He pushed open half of the window, looked out, and stepped on the sink.
He Dongfan's thoughts hadn't fully woken up, so he naturally reacted and jumped off the bed.
The bed was quite high, and there was a pain in his right leg after he landed on the ground, but he ignored it and rushed over to tear the person off: "What's the situation with you!" ”
He Dongfan pressed Xu Jing's shoulder, pushed him back vigorously, and was emotional: "Do you know how much someone wants to live?" What do you have to get by? ”
Xu Jing leaned her back against the cold wall and raised her eyes.
He said that he was going out, but he told the dormitory manager to open the door, not suicide.
He Dongfan came back to his senses, this is the second floor, just four or five meters high.
He wasn't trying to kill himself.
It's also a slept mess.
That night, Li Baizi and Jiang Xin were lying on the windowsill, holding the flash of their mobile phones to illuminate Xu Jing, and He Dongfan connected two sheets together and wrapped one end around his arm to facilitate Xu Jing to climb down from the window.
It was also that night that the three of them learned that Xu Jing's father was a leukemia patient and was in critical condition in the hospital that night.
How so?
Anyway, since that night, the three of them have had more 'love' for Xu Jing.
He Dongfan never expected that he would meet an old acquaintance, Jiang Yun, at Yuhe University.
Jiang Yun's grandmother's house and He Dongfan's grandmother's family are neighbors, when Jiang Yun was a child, she lived in her grandmother's house, and she moved away in the second year of junior high school, plus the two are still classmates in elementary school and junior high school, so it is not an exaggeration to say that they grew up together.
It's just that later the two were not in the same high school, so they became 'dead people' lying in each other's QQ contacts.
The process of reuniting Jiang Yun is also a bit absurd.
Jiang Yun is from the Academy of Fine Arts of the same grade, and she came to the computer room to find Xu Jing.
Xu Jing has always ignored the girls who came to him.
In this regard, Li Baizi once joked that although Xu Jing has a face with a hundred girlfriends, the reality is the same as them, a single person.
At that time, He Dongfan and the others just began to 'love' Xu Jing, pulled him together after class, and occupied a seat for him.
That's how it happened.
The chocolate in Jiang Yun's hand is the most humiliating evidence, she looked at He Dongfan with the chocolate in her arms, and she looked incredulous in the clouds.
She looked at it for a long time, and at the same time, her face turned red to the naked eye.
She has lost a lot of weight, and in He Dongfan's impression, she has always been round, and now she is like a wind that can blow away, so this caused He Dongfan to not dare to confirm whether this was Jiang Yun for a while, or under her abnormal reaction, she confirmed it.
It is a joy to meet an old friend in a foreign country.
He Dongfan licked his lips and smiled, revealing his tiger teeth.
He Dongfan clasped his hands in front of his chest, approached Jiang Yun, looked straight ahead, and tilted his head slightly: "I haven't seen you for a few years, it's impressive." ”
Jiang Yun realized that he was ridiculing himself, and he didn't bear the psychological pressure for a while, and wanted to cry without tears. She slapped the chocolate on He Dongfan's chest and ran away.
He Dongfan caught the chocolate, picked it up and looked at it, it was still heart-shaped.
He tore off the outermost film, pulled open the lid, and greeted him like a host: "Come, eat chocolate." ”
Everyone politely declined.
In fact, the reunion with Jiang Yun made He Dongfan happy from the bottom of his heart.
Because this proves that the world is so big, it is still easy to reunite with old people when you go around and around.
In class that day, He Dongfan opened the chocolate wrapper, stuffed it into his mouth, sipped the dense chocolate, and smiled unconsciously.
Li Baizi and Jiang Xin glanced at each other, their hearts were clear, and then they were worried.
They felt that what He Dongfan said on the first day of school was about 'possibility' and 'the person he wanted to see' was Jiang Yun.
They told Xu Jing about this, and made a serious suggestion: "Everyone has a dormitory, and they have been together for half a semester, and you know Lao He's personality." Hey~ If you really don't like that girl, just refuse it clearly, and by the way, say a few words for Lao He Mei. ”
Xu Jing did it honestly.
The follow-up was that Jiang Yun found He Dongfan and said that he was indeed handsome, sunny, easy to get along with, and understood each other, but these were useless, she liked handsome boys, and asked him if he knew about the handsome type.
He Dongfan didn't understand her twists and turns, and was impatient: "You have something to say." ”
Jiang Yun was silent for a few seconds, and said resolutely: "Don't like me, it's fruitless." ”
He Dongfan was speechless and scolded her for being sick.
Later, He Dongfan understood everything and scolded the participants in all aspects of this matter for being sick.
However, this oolong further brings the relationship between the 202 members closer.
College life is busy and lively, and the days slip away in the blink of an eye, making it impossible to catch them.
At the end of the first semester of the junior year, the professor reminded that the next semester will be relatively relaxed, but it is not to be slack.
At that time, it was the end of 2010.
That Spring Festival, I obviously felt that there was less flavor of the New Year, probably because fireworks and firecrackers were banned in the northern metropolitan area.
Aunt Qin bought a lot of palm-sized lanterns from nowhere, and all the branches in the courtyard were spared, including those few peach trees.
He Dongfan helped to hang it, the sky was completely dark, and the snowflakes were gently floating.
Aunt Qin packed up the remaining red rope and was very satisfied: "Okay, it's lively to watch like this." ”
She walked to the back room: "Xiaofan, it's snowing." ”
He Dongfan didn't enter the house immediately.
He stood beside the peach tree, his hands in his trouser pockets, his head slightly tilted, and the silhouette of his face was sharp and clear.
Snowflakes fluttered in the courtyard lights and landed on small red paper lanterns.
It's another year.