Chapter07 Crossing the Plateau by Mistake
She didn't talk to Xu Mengzhou on the phone for a long time. Unlike talking to him face-to-face, his voice is colored unreal by the electrical signals through the earpiece.
"It's okay, I can do the project again tomorrow." His reassuring voice came from the other end of the line, "Where are you now, dorm?" ”
"No, I just had something to eat outside." Lin Yushan deliberately made a sloppy look, she hadn't told Xu Mengzhou that she had the habit of coming out to open an hourly room.
"By the way, I was in a bit of a hurry this morning, and I haven't had time to transfer your living expenses this month. I'll get to you later. ”
She heard the apology in Xu Mengzhou's tone. hurriedly said: "No need, since the beginning of my freshman year, I have deposited every amount of living expenses you transferred to me in the card, and I have never touched it." And I have enough money to spend as a tutor myself. Besides, my dad left me a sum of money. ”
"I understand that you have always been sensible, but you still have to give you the money that should be given." His tone sounded slightly relaxed, and after a few seconds, he shifted the conversation to the previous WeChat message. "I saw your WeChat, did anything happen?"
"It's not...... I just feel like I'm kind of an outlier. Lin Yushan walked to the sofa and sat down. She was very nervous, and she didn't know if it was appropriate to suddenly reveal her heart to Xu Mengzhou now.
Obviously he was still an adult in front of him yesterday, but now he came to seek his enlightenment.
"Oh?" The question on the other end of the line was, "Tell me carefully." ”
"If you ask like that, I don't know where to start." She said mischievously: "Teacher Xu should give full play to the attributes of a good teacher!" ”
When she heard the other end of the phone, Xu Mengzhou chuckled restrainedly.
She grimaced to herself and made a joke with him without paying attention.
I used to be a little more open when I lived in his house, and a light-hearted conversation like this kind of lively atmosphere happened almost every day, but now I feel a little rusty when I say it.
"Ahem...... Is it sudden to call you now? Lin Yushan asked tentatively and in a whisper.
"It's fine. It's just that after you went to college, you barely took the initiative to call me. ”
As he spoke, both of them were a little embarrassed.
After a period of silence, Lin Yushan slowly spoke: "It seems that there is no specific thing happening. She said, staring out the window. I've always felt lonely since I went to college, and it's not like I haven't played with my classmates and friends, but I just feel this way. ”
There was a long silence on the other end of the line.
"Why are you telling me now?"
"I've been moving out for three years, and I don't want you to stand in front of me anymore to help me solve things." Lin Yushan chuckled, stood up and walked to the bed to lie down on his back. "It's just that I still feel that it's still very difficult for me to make friends, and sometimes the truth comes to my lips, but I can't make friends with others."
Xu Mengzhou pondered for a while, "You just think that the other party may not be able to understand, so you choose to keep your heart in mind." Otherwise, you won't feel lonely. Is that so? He paused, and said in a deep voice.
Lin Yushan didn't expect him to see through his emotions so thoroughly, "Teacher Xu, do I need to adjust my state now?" Like what...... Or force yourself to socialize more or something. ”
"If socializing makes you feel tired, don't push yourself. But if a person still feels lonely, he may need to find someone who is on the same frequency as himself. I wonder if you feel a little less lonely in that way. ”
He analyzed it carefully, and his tone was the same as when he had lectured her before.
Anything can be dissected rationally, and both of them believe it.
If she couldn't see it before, then now she is extremely sure that she and Xu Mengzhou are the same kind.
"Do you think we're the same people?" She was a little touched and couldn't help but ask.
"Bang-" There was a sharp cracking sound in the earpiece.
"What's wrong with you?" Lin Yushan sat up from the bed suddenly, and he made the gods say that crazy thing, and he didn't know if he heard it.
"I accidentally broke the cup, it's fine." She heard Xu Mengzhou's voice drifting farther away, as if she was cleaning up the mess. "That's right. I've heard you say that there's no class in the future, and there's something I want to ask you for. ”
The call with Xu Mengzhou made her relax both physically and mentally. Hearing that he actually had something to ask for, Lin Yushan couldn't help but want to tease him: "What is so important, Mr. Xu still needs me, a college student, to help you." ”
"During this time, my proposed research project will be submitted, and the materials have been almost prepared, only the final part of the repair is needed. But today I hurt my hand a little bit, and I couldn't type or hold a pen during this time. ”
"Why did my hand suddenly hurt and my joints couldn't move?" Lin Yushan secretly thought that he must have been injured a lot, otherwise how could he not be able to type and hold a pen, and it is estimated that it was because of the injury just now that he accidentally dropped the cup.
"Today the students were fighting, and I helped one of them block it and was accidentally injured, so it's okay."
"What!" Lin Yushan sat up, "Is it serious?" Did you go to the hospital to deal with it? Is the wound large enough to require stitches? ”
She knew that Xu Mengzhou's character had always been like this, and she was not surprised that she could do such a thing in order to protect her students.
"Taken care of." There are no superfluous explanations, and he only picks and answers the key points every time, which is his usual style.
What a natural idiot with few words......
Lin Yushan gave him another glaring glance in his heart.
I didn't see him, and I didn't know what his injuries were. She had to sigh exaggeratedly and say loudly into the mobile phone recorder: "Teacher Xu is honorably injured, well done!" It's you, a passionate teacher. ”
Xu Mengzhou was stunned by her sudden words for a long time. After hearing the words "hot-blooded teacher", I couldn't help but laugh out loud by her naughty words.
Lin Yushan heard him being amused by himself on the other end of the phone, as if the cells in his whole body were alive. The two people who had their own hearts and minds before felt unprecedented at this moment.
Realizing that he had been laughing for a long time, Lin Yushan stopped at the right time and coughed lightly.
She raised her doubts: "That...... After all, it's your research, and although it only needs to be repaired, I'm still only a college student, so how can I help you? ”
"I'll send you the documents and materials tomorrow, and I'll call you when I get home from work in the next two days, and just write as I say." Hearing her childish speech, Xu Mengzhou couldn't help but chuckle again.
At this moment, Lin Yushan can only sketch the appearance of him laughing in his mind, but the impression of him being cheerful and talkative was many years ago.
God, why are you testing me so much!
There was a silent cry in her head, but her body couldn't help but start to jump, she put her head under the quilt, and rolled around the bed excitedly.
Does that mean you'll be talking to him for the next few days? She was both skeptical and expectant.
"You never told me anything about my mind before." Xu Mengzhou continued.
"Well, I rarely talk to you when I go to college, and I habitually hold it in my heart." Lin Yushan's face was slightly red.
His voice was gentle and solemn. "I thought you would have your own social circle when you went to college, so I didn't deliberately contact you. If I hadn't heard from you today, I would have thought you had really grown up. If you will...... If you have anything to say to me, you don't have to be alone in your heart. ”
"Good......" she couldn't say anything superfluous. I can only rejoice that the two of them are across the phone, because her face is going to be red behind her ears.
"Geologist of the future, keep it up." Xu Mengzhou said in a deep voice, "I still have something to do, hang up first." ”
Lin Yushan let out a "hmm". Taking the phone away from her ear, she waited for him to hang up first, still reluctant to take her eyes off the phone screen.
An abrupt landline ringing in the room, and a call from the front desk forcibly interrupted Lin Yushan's thoughts. By this time it was completely dark, a cold wind was blowing, and it was time to check out.
Lin Yushan went downstairs and returned the room card to the front desk. While she was checking out, she stumbled upon an upscale hotel diagonally across the road.
A delicate and beautiful woman slowly walked out of the door of the hotel, and her signature manicure stood out. Walking side by side with her was a strange man, but she was blocking him, and he couldn't see his appearance and clothes clearly.
This figure is too familiar, it's Huang Ying!
Could this man be her cheating partner?
Lin Yushan's first reaction was to look for his mobile phone.
Her heart jumped to her throat, her hands trembled a little, she rummaged through her pockets anxiously, and the things she was holding fell to the ground, and she hurriedly stuffed the contents of the bag back. When she found her phone and stood up to take a photo, the two had already disappeared into the crowd, capturing only a blurred back.
She carefully examined the photograph and found that when she took it, she shook it because her hand was not steady, and the photo was very blurry and unconvincing.
Photos can't be erased, and the opening record can't be erased. Lin Yushan put the things at the front desk, and before the two of them came back, he went to the high-end hotel opposite to check the opening records. But the front desk rejected her on the grounds that she couldn't disclose her privacy.
She left the hotel and chased a few more steps. But Huang Ying and the strange man have already gone away, and they don't know when they will come back, or that they may have checked out and won't come back. Lin Yushan saw that he couldn't catch up, and his powerless emotions spread, and he only felt empty in his heart.
Lin Yushan felt that his ability to endure had reached a critical point, and he could no longer turn a blind eye to this matter.
She opened the dialog box between WeChat and Xu Mengzhou and selected the photo. Staring at the blue send button on the screen, he hesitated.
Before she could send it, she was slapped on the shoulder coldly, and an unfamiliar voice came from behind her.
"Are you Lin Yushan?"
Lin Yushan was so frightened by this sudden slap that he took a breath of cool air, and turned around reflexively. Behind him stood a boy in a black jacket.
Although the cap he wore slightly blocked his facial features. She could still tell from the person's appearance and dress that the person was her age.
"Hello, my name is Gao Yuan."
The man lifted the brim of his hat up, revealing a cynical handsome eyebrow.
The air around him froze instantly.
Lin Yushan subconsciously took a step back, and the action of patting her shoulder just now made her very uncomfortable. She doesn't like people who don't have a sense of proportion, especially strangers who don't have a sense of proportion.
He noticed her guarded look and suddenly laughed.
The stranger in front of her laughed inexplicably, almost angering her. Lin Yushan endured it and didn't have an immediate seizure, but waited for the man to say what he meant.
Seeing that she was still looking at herself coldly but didn't speak, the man's smile gradually subsided, he cleared his throat and stretched out his hand to Lin Yushan.
"My name is Gao Yuan, and I am a junior at Jingzhou University just like you." What he said when he gathered his expression was not so suspicious. "Don't be nervous. I'm from the design department, so it's normal that you haven't seen me. ”
Lin Yushan just lowered his eyes and looked at his hand hanging in the air, hesitated for a while, and did not reach out to shake it back.
"I'm not Lin Yushan, and I'm not a student at Jingzhou University." She still didn't let her guard down. "You may have misidentified someone."
Gao Yuan's face was blue and white, as if he didn't expect her to answer like this, causing his brain to shut down. He had no choice but to snort haha: "Lin Yushan, I'm really from the same school as you, oh, I don't believe you." ”
He took out a card from his jacket pocket and handed it to Lin Yushan.
She took a fixed look, it was the campus card of Jingzhou University, and it was written: The third class of the design department is plateau. After glancing at the photo on the campus card again, and after carefully comparing it with the person in front of him, the doubts in my heart were dispelled.
Seeing that the defensive look on her face subsided a little, Gao Yuan put away the campus card, folded his arms and looked at her for a long time.
"Classmate, I'm sorry just now...... But you should be able to understand it. Lin Yushan tugged at the corner of his clothes to relieve the embarrassment, "How did you know my name, and then, do you have anything to do with me?" ”
"Nothing special, just wanted to get to know you." Gao Yuan's face was again with a smile she couldn't understand. He took two steps closer to her and whispered, "So you're really the same as those rumors!" ”
This time it was Lin Yushan's turn to shut down.
Hearsay?
What rumors?
Before she could understand the meaning of the other party's words, Gao Yuan pulled her mind back.
"By the way, I was just walking down the road and happened to see you. Don't think of me as a bad person. Takahara turned his head and raised his chin behind him. Hey, isn't your boyfriend with you? ”
"What are you talking about, what boyfriend?" Lin Yushan was dazed by his question. Not only did he not understand what he was trying to say, but he also vaguely felt that he was offended by this irrelevant stranger.
Listening to her words, it seemed that she denied the existence of her boyfriend, and Gao Yuan's tone was a little excited: "Can you make friends with me?" ”
She could hear what Takahara was saying, but she didn't want to waste her time pestering this stranger who had been playing dumb riddles for the first time.
"Don't be embarrassed, classmate, I'm in a hurry to go back to school in advance." Lin Yushan squeezed out a standard smirk at him, and took a step to leave.
"I'm going back to school too, and we're together." The plateau soon followed.
After walking some distance, Lin Yushan suddenly stopped. Due to the high speed, Gao Yuan couldn't stop and staggered forward several steps. Seeing that she stood still, he had to stand still in front of her.
"Classmate, I really have something, and I want to go alone. If you like to walk this way, then I'll go across the road. Lin Yushan's face was completely cold, and he said in a deep voice. She stared straight into his eyes, as if conveying her attitude. Not wanting to say a word to him, he immediately turned around and walked towards the zebra crossing.
The green light on the sidewalk suddenly jumps to a blinding red, as if to convey some kind of danger signal.
Gao Yuan was helpless, so he had to stand still and watch her back disappear from view from afar. He lowered the brim of his hat a little more, and a playful smile tugged at the corners of his mouth.