Chapter 23: Whose Umbrella Do You Choose?
In the days when Lu Yunzheng was about to leave, it was raining lightly in the sky, and I didn't like rainy days very much, so I kept lying on the desk in the classroom and sullen.
Gu Zhou has been looking for me in the past few days, but I have avoided him every time. I pack my things in advance every time I get out of school, but today Gu Zhou was waiting in the corner before I got out of class.
I was the first to rush out of the classroom, and was grabbed by the collar by Gu Zhou, who was guarding the corner in advance.
"Jiang Lanyue, how long are you going to hide?" When he saw Gu Zhou again, there was lingering sorrow and sadness between his eyebrows, as if I was a very important person to him.
I glanced at him holding my fingers, still beautiful knuckles, but I couldn't remember the joy and joy I had in my head now.
There are too many people who can share happiness, but there are very few people who can share suffering.
"I didn't hide, I just ...... I've been busy studying lately. "I looked down at my newly bought shoes and didn't even blink an eye when I lied.
"Then you can give me a moment and I'll explain it to you, okay?" Gu Zhou grabbed my finger a little harder, and I was a little hurt by him.
"Explain what?" Lin Weiwei hadn't heard of it for a long time, and it seemed that there was a problem with the Lin family's capital chain not long after that incident, so Lin Weiwei also transferred to another school with the Lin family.
I don't know if Li Tinglan arranged it behind this, if it was, then it would be better, the wicked should be punished.
"Explain that love letter you wrote me."
Gu Zhou's eyes were wet, and his eyes were full of pleading when he looked at me, like a dog that had been abandoned on the side of the road.
I finally relented, looked at his wet hair and nodded slightly.
"It's not convenient to have a lot of people here, so let's go to the café we used to go to before, okay?" Gu Zhou saw that I agreed, and smiled a little flatteringly.
That café was a frequent visit to Gu Zhou and I before, and high school students didn't have much money, so they could only spend milk tea and coffee money to rub the net in the store.
I was still thinking about whether to go, Gu Zhou saw that I had a calm face and thought that I was going to refuse, so he hurriedly took out the love letter I wrote to him before from his bag and explained: "That love letter is here, and it can't be explained clearly in a few words, so we might as well find a place to have a good chat."
What Gu Zhou said makes sense, such a big matter can't be explained in one or two sentences, at least I have to figure out how Lin Weiwei got this letter and forged it.
"Well, let's go, let's go and get back quickly." I don't want to waste too much time, the exam is coming soon, but I still want to spend a little more time on revision.
The two of us walked to the door of the main building only to find that it was already raining heavily just now, I gritted my teeth and held my schoolbag above my head, trying to resist the heavy rain, but Gu Zhou grabbed my arm.
"Wait, I brought an umbrella." Gu Zhou carefully put the love letter into his bag and took out an umbrella, although it was a little small, it was better than nothing.
The two of us opened our umbrellas and were about to go down the stairs when a familiar figure appeared in the heavy rain.
The man was slender, dressed in a well-cut trench coat, and was holding a black umbrella and walking towards us unhurriedly.
It's Lu Yunzheng!
I was surprised and delighted by his appearance, I must have come to find me on purpose, right?
At this time, Gu Zhou also found Lu Yunzheng, he turned his head and frowned and asked, "Is Senior Lu here to find you?"
"Probably so." I pretended to answer lightly, but unconsciously grasped the strap of my bag.
Lu Yunzheng walked over step by step, through the whole downpour, and slowly came to my side.
The rain was so heavy that I couldn't make out his face, and it wasn't until he approached that I saw that his face was as gloomy as the weather outside.
"Brother, why are you here?" I looked at him in surprise and delight, and then asked.
"I'm leaving tomorrow." Lu Yunzheng's fingers clenched the long handle of the umbrella, and his thin lips gently spit out these words.
His voice was cold, like the pouring rain on a rainy day, as if it was about to penetrate the chill into my bone marrow.
Tomorrow? I was stunned, countless happy images of us together flashed in my mind, those memories were so surging, there were too many complicated feelings rushing out of my chest, I had too many words to say, but in the end I still didn't say it, turned into a restrained and polite smile.
"I wish you a nice trip." I stood not far from Lu Yunzheng with a smile, and the unfamiliar emotions in my heart made me a little strange, and I could only endure these emotions and pretend that nothing happened.
How do you say that? I never knew that I loved deeply until the moment of parting.
Although the relationship between me and Lu Yunzheng has not yet reached the point of love, this kind of affection that seems to be between brother and sister and lover is almost torturing people crazy!
In order not to completely trap myself in, I can only desperately refrain from it.
Lu Yunzheng looked at my pretended cold eyebrows, and the haze in his eyes became a little worse. He glanced sideways at Gu Zhou, and asked in a cold tone of a few degrees, "He's here to find you?"
"Hmm." This time, Gu Zhou and I answered in unison, and I saw that Lu Yunzheng's fingers holding the handle of the umbrella in front of me were tightened, and the force was so strong that the joints turned white.
"Senior Lu, I wish you success in your studies! I'm going to go to the coffee shop at the door with Jiang Lanyue for a drink in a while, will you go? Gu Zhou smiled and took the initiative to talk, he didn't know how to observe Lu Yunzheng's face at all.
The corners of Lu Yunzheng's mouth hooked, the smile did not reach the bottom of his eyes, he lowered his head slightly and said with a condescending attitude: "Who do you choose these two umbrellas?"
I frowned, is he forcing me to choose between him and Gu Zhou? What is this comparable to? He is the brother who helped me, and Gu Zhou is a friend who plays with me, and I don't want to choose anyone if I can.
But I must solve Lin Weiwei's matter today, I haven't figured out this doubt, so today I plan to figure it out completely.
"Brother, Gu Zhou and I still have something to say." My words were not so straightforward, but only hinted at letting Lu Yunzheng go first.
Lu Yunzheng probably didn't expect me to refuse him, his deep eyes shrank, and he opened his mouth to confirm it in disbelief: "Are you sure?"
"Hmm." I nodded, this is not just to find out the truth, but also to free myself from the strangeness of Lu Yunzheng. Since there is no result in the end, it is better to keep your distance from now on without illusions.
"Senior Lu, don't worry, after drinking coffee, I will send Jiang Lanyue home safely." Gu Zhou, this stupid boy, didn't know that the undercurrent was surging between the two of us, and he was still adding fuel and vinegar to the side.
As soon as this sentence came out, the air pressure next to Lu Yunzheng was lower, and I was so cold that I had goosebumps in this summer.
"Come home with me." Lu Yunzheng had obviously lost patience with me, and he reached out with a hand in the pocket of his trench coat to grab my arm.
Today's Lu Yunzheng is very abnormal, the clammy and cold breath on his body came to my face, I subconsciously took a step back slightly to avoid his pull, but Gu Zhou on the side stretched out his hand and grabbed my other arm.
Now the situation is that the two handsome men are holding on to one of my arms, and each of them is pulling me in his direction.
Lu Yunzheng's expression was grim, his dark eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked at Gu Zhou very unhappily.
Gu Zhou was not to be outdone, like a newborn calf not afraid of a tiger, he straightened his chest and stared back at the past.
My body was pulled by the two of them a little painfully, neither of them would let go, and the three of us just confronted each other with no one giving in.
"It hurts!" I can't stand being pulled, I don't know what the hell these two people are doing, what are the two of them doing if they don't deal with me? How can my little body withstand them doing this!
"Can you let me go?" I stomped my foot and yelled angrily.
In the end, it was Lu Yunzheng who loosened the shackles of my fingers first.
The moment he let go of me, a very non-mainstream sentence suddenly popped into my mind, and in this case, the person who let go first would love him more, because he was reluctant to hurt his beloved.
"Okay, Jiang Lanyue, it's very good." It can be seen that Lu Yunzheng is really angry this time, maybe he didn't expect that I would choose Gu Zhou between Gu Zhou and him.
Lu Yunzheng didn't laugh angrily, his slender legs took a few steps back, and he looked at me and Gu Zhou with a cold and contemptuous smile for the last time, and then turned around and left without delay.
I watched Lu Yunzheng's figure disappear from my sight little by little, and it was good not to disturb each other like this.
"Let's go." Gu Zhou looked uncertain, and opened the umbrella again with some helplessness and said softly.
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When I came to the café, I didn't get a drop of rain on my body, but Gu Zhou got half of his shoulder wet because the umbrella was a little small.
"Are you alright?" I raised the water stains on Gu Zhou's broad shoulders, frowned and went to get a tissue to wipe him.
"It's okay, it's just a little rain, it's out of the way." Gu Zhou watched my movements, and an embarrassed and happy expression appeared on Jun's face.
The two of us sat facing each other at a table in the far corner of the café, and before I could sit on my ass, I hurriedly pulled the love letter out of my bag and handed it to me.
I reached out and took it and looked at it carefully, this envelope was indeed mine, because I bought a hundred of them for a few dollars at the small supermarket in front of the old school, and I still haven't used it up and put it on my bedside table.
Then I opened the envelope and looked at the letters inside, and the non-mainstream brainless love words on it hit my Tianling cover, and I was scorched on the outside and tender on the inside.
"Did you find a problem with this letter?" Gu Zhou picked up the coffee on the table and took a sip, pursing his lips and asked.
"Hmm...... It seems like something is missing. "I carefully checked inside and out under Gu Zhou's reminder, and found that the seal of an envelope was missing.
"Missing the seal?" At that time, when I sent it out, I was afraid that this letter would be taken by other classmates to peek, and there would often be gossipy people who snatched other people's love letters to read in public, so I deliberately used a beautiful girl sticker to seal the letter, and now I see that the sticker is gone.
"Yes, when I received this letter, I only opened it and read it once and put it back on, I thought your earthy love words were very interesting, so I didn't throw it away." Gu Zhou rubbed his fingers on the warm coffee cup and continued to explain: "I put this letter in the study."
"Huh?" It turned out that this love letter was not shown to Lin Weiwei by Gu Zhou.
"How do you ...... that?"
"She peeked at it herself." Gu Zhou frowned, his tone full of resentment.
"She once went to my house to borrow something from me, and I went to the toilet with a bad stomach, but she didn't expect this letter to be peeked at by her, and she tore off the sticker on it."
Gu Zhou secretly observed my face while explaining, and after he finished speaking, he showed that pitiful puppy expression to win sympathy, I really didn't have any way to look at this well-behaved and handsome face.
"Then don't be angry, okay?"
Gu Zhou got up from his seat and walked around to me, stretched out his hands and took one of my arms and shook it gently.
His slender body was half-crouched in front of me, and his beautiful eyes were blinking at me from time to time.
The face is in the country. As long as Gu Zhou's face can continue to be so handsome, I may not be soft-hearted.
Gu Zhou's move made everyone else in the café look at us, and even a few passers-by who didn't know the truth had begun to coax.
"Promise him! Promise him! Promise him! ”
Do they think that Gu Zhou is courting me?
"Hey, get up, they think...... I thought you would let me be your girlfriend! I was a little embarrassed to hold out my free hand to block half of my face and the gossip of the group.
"Would you like to, then?" Gu Zhou suddenly jumped out and scared me a lot, I was young and ignorant when I wrote love letters to him since I was a child, and now I know that there is no other possibility between me and Gu Zhou except friends.
"What do you say?" I reached out and knocked on the head of Gu Zhou, who was kneeling in front of me, and scolded with a smile: "Lin Weiwei is gone, you will attack me, right?"
Gu Zhou is joking, even if he sees Lin Weiwei's personality clearly, he won't like my type, he likes the gentle and lovely little white flower.
The moment my fingers hit Gu Zhou's head, Gu Zhou's slightly serious expression flashed a trace of injury, and soon he turned into that hangy appearance again.
"Have you forgiven me?" He cautiously spoke tentatively.
"No, it depends on your performance." I smiled and pretended to roll my eyes at Gu Zhou.
"My aunt, can I have all your snacks and milk tea for the next year?"
"No, I still want snail noodles!"
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When I went home in the evening, I paused when I passed by Lu Yunzheng's room, as if I had been bewitched by some kind of bewitchment, and I gently pushed open his door, only to find that there was nothing inside.
Lu Yunzheng is really gone, and the last meeting between us was so unpleasant.
I ran to the window and looked at the gray sky, silently saying goodbye to my youth and Lu Yunzheng.