Chapter 138: Past.now. Future - 2
" Luo Lin, shall we buy a Christmas tree?"
December 22.
On a snowy night in the sky, Yuan Meng ran happily on the crowded road like a bird that had just been released from the cage. Even though Liu Ziyang pulled hard, and even her clothes were pulled open on the tree branch, she still had no intention of stopping.
The cobalt blue sky is half covered by the moon like a black fog, moving slowly.
Like a lonely elf hiding in the clouds, he tore up pieces of paper, tearing up white paper full of his loneliness and spread it to the world to encourage him.
"I don't want it. If you like to ask Liu Ziyang to cut one and take it home for you." I said to Yuan Meng, who was already happy.
"Good idea!"
Originally, I joked, but Yuan Meng really took Liu Ziyang's hand and entered the gift shop beside him and began to pick around the bare and undecorated Christmas trees inside.
Liu Ziyang cast a sad look at me through the light frosty glass window. It seems to be saying, "You talk too much."
"Will you come to the Christmas party?"
I was smiling and looking at Liu Ziyang, who was forced to buy things by Yuan Meng, and Situ Lei, who had been silent like air behind him, suddenly asked.
"No, I will go home first after class."
"Okay, I'll come back early, too."
Words are like the wind, close to nature. Without a little strangeness and indifference, there will be more warmth and closeness between people.
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Minghui is a Libra that gathers many pompous filters in the world, puts aside everyone's different family and social backgrounds in the school, and maintains a Libra situation where everyone shares wealth equally. This makes me have to admit Situ Bohan's personal ability.
I have seen the energy and effort spent by the school on major festivals as early as Minghan, and this is no exception.
The previous school festival has been extravagant, and this time it is even more popular to build several bonfires around the school playground to create an atmosphere.
I sat aside, holding the baked sweet potatoes that Yuan Meng had just bought from passing vendors, and watched them busy and running around.
The heat of sweet potatoes slowly floated from the palm of his hand to the air, and Liu Ziyang didn't know when he sat quietly beside me: "Is it boring?"
"For good, everyone is busy now, and the student union is the first to be hit. Don't you want to help?" I took a bite of the sweet potato and gasped a few times.
"You know, I'm just a life committee member. It's okay to manage your daily life. I can't do manual work." With that, he leaned his body back lazily, leaning his hands behind his head, and looked at the sky leisurely.
"I didn't expect that Liu Ziyang would learn to pretend one day."
I took out a sweet potato from the bag next to him and threw it to him. He was unprepared, and the hot sweet potato that had just been baked fell on his thigh. He stood up with excitement. He stared at me angrily before sitting back in embarrassment.
"I've always been me, but you have been constantly changing your mind since I came back."
"Really?" I turned my head and looked at him.
"At first, when you came back, you always faced A Lei with indifference and hatred. Then he and Ye Yichen inexplicably got together and became the default couple in the school. Now let's not talk about how A Lei got you into the student union. Looking at your current relationship, it has long been more close than ordinary friends should have.
Liu Ziyang looked at me as if he were looking at the thick fog rising in a mountain stream, which was elusive.
"It was you who saved me that day. Do I need to say more about the changes?"
"Is it really that simple? How did you abandon A Lei for money at that time? Even if he forgets it, I will always remember it.
Liu Ziyang's eyes suddenly became arrogant and stared at me, trying to see through what secrets were hidden in my heart and what purpose I had around Situ Lei.
I didn't seem to hear anything. I still looked at the busy people busy building bonfires in the distance, and slowly eating the baked sweet potatoes on my hands.
There was half a silence. It was not until I finally finished eating the sweet potatoes in my hand that I turned my head to Liu Ziyang leisurely: "Let it go if the mountain rain wants to go, and the breeze will blow on my face. I don't care what you remember. I just need to remember what I can't forget.
Actually, in the face of questions such as Liu Ziyang, I have been struggling for a long time to answer. I don't know what the reason for this series is.
Maybe you can only do what you say, the breeze blows against the wind.
"Until now, I dare not pat my conscience and say that I forgive you for what you have done before. It's just that no matter what you want to do, treat him sincerely for your own purposes. I just hope you don't do anything to hurt him.
With that, Liu Ziyang patted the charcoal ash on his hand and stood up.
"What about you? How long are you going to pretend like this?" I shouted at Liu Ziyang's back as he was about to leave.
"Have I ever disguised anything?" He turned his head and slightly turned the corners of his mouth.
"Do you like to be a bird protected by Yuan Meng so much?"
"If so, she feels proud and happy. What's wrong with being her forever 'yang doll'? A cynical smile appeared on his face. Then disappeared in the cold wind.
Yes, as long as the pendulum does not stop shaking, the flow of time will not stop.
No one knows how deep a person's feelings for another person can be, and no one knows how time can polish a person, or even be buckled to a basin of fresh hot wax.
The unchanging face is permanently sealed by wax.
The relationship between Yuan Meng and Liu Ziyang is well known throughout the school. But whenever they quarrel, Liu Ziyang has never prevailed. The whole school said that Liu Ziyang was a strict wife. There is not even the appearance of a man, and he can't help but be so weak that Yuan Meng has to take the lead in everything.
But after witnessing Liu Ziyang's vigorous body, the muscles that will still bulge when he clenched his fist hard, he did not show mercy to the National People's Congress, and then erased the blood from the wound. He has just been pretending to be himself.
I don't know when he has the power to protect important people, but he is silently willing to be a 'little man' around her.
I don't know when he took this kind of concealment as the best spoiling for Yuan Meng.
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Christmas Eve
The school gives us an apple, and then lets the clubs and students with performance tasks arrange their own time.
Because the Christmas party is mainly held at night, many activities and booth projects have been restricted. Only the choir and several music clubs have performance tasks.
I accompanied Yuan Meng in the auditorium while eating and watching the chant of the choir that was almost asleep. It was not until Liu Ziyang finished his backstage work and had time to accompany her that I pushed Yuan Meng into his arms like a mission.
"A Lei asked me to tell you that the driver is waiting for you at the door." Before leaving, Liu Ziyang turned around and said to me.
"Hmm." I waved to Yuan Meng.
Every time I want to go home alone, Situ Lei will call the car to wait at the school gate in advance. If he doesn't see me get on the bus within ten minutes, the driver will call him, and he will block all the exits of the school as soon as possible and then call the police.
After that incident, he was like a frightened bird and dared not let me leave his side for half a step.
After getting on the car, you can still see the faint light in the auditorium from afar. Then he gradually drove away, all covered by the towering walls.
The car is dim and dull, faintly sprinkled with a faint fragrance of jasmine-flower, and you will feel drowsy after smelling it for a long time. I opened the window, and the cold wind seemed to have finally crossed the obstacle and roared in from the outside.
I poked my head out and sobered my sleeping brain. But when the wind hit my face, I felt like a golden bird raised in a bird cage by Situ Lei for a moment, and I was at a loss.
"Miss Xia, you will catch a cold like this." The driver looked at me sideways and said.
"It's okay."
In my sleep, I seemed to hear twelve thick bells hovering from the distant air. I vaguely remember that there are no ancient buildings such as bell towers near the community. Is it a dream?
My consciousness was slightly blurred, and I seemed to hear the sound of the door opening when I was half asleep. The footsteps gradually approached and finally stopped after entering my room.
"Happy birthday, Luo Lin..."
I felt a whisper floating in my ear, and my hand was gently raised and put in the quilt.
Situ Lei rushed straight to the tip of my nose with the cool air that had not faded back from the outside, slightly raised the hair curtain on his forehead, dropped a kiss, and left the room.
In the morning, the house is warm and comfortable, and the wind is cold outside. The glass was frozen by this cold and hot airflow and kept making a rattling sound. I was woken up by such noise, and then I couldn't sleep anymore.
In fact, this sound is the same every year, and it will be awakened by such noise almost all winter mornings. I just know in my heart that there is one less person in this family, and I feel empty and insecure.
I got up and changed my clothes, and posted a note left by Situ Lei on the refrigerator when he left. As he wrote above, I took out the food he had prepared in advance from the refrigerator and heated it in the pot.
When I was ready to go out, a note floated from the pocket of my coat.
[Xia Luolin, please check the gift in the cabinet at the bottom of your room.]
I came to the room with doubts along the abbreviation on the paper, thinking about when Situ Lei had become so childish. Still playing this childish trick.
I opened the cabinet as written above, and there was indeed a huge gift box in it. After I curiously opened this huge cardboard box, I found that it contained many exquisitely packaged small things.
I opened it one by one according to the code written above, and gradually upgraded from curiosity to surprise and emotion.
Each gift has a small label that marks their meaning:
One-year-old gift: bottle.
Two-year-old gift: bib.
Three-year-old gift: small cotton shoes.
Four-year-old gift: fluffy trousers.
Five-year-old gift: hand-woven hat.
A six-year-old gift: small schoolbag.
A seven-year-old gift: lace hairband.
Eight-year-old gift: princess dress.
......
16-year-old gift: little frog puzzle.
17-year-old gift: plush doll.
18-year-old gift: starfish pendant.
19-year-old gift: mobile phone.
Twenty-year-old gift: hardcover books.
21-year-old gift: scarf.
22-year-old gift: a key and a handmade glass house.
[Before we met each other, our lives will go wrong like this. Although they live in the same city, they have made mistakes in each other's lives. I have vacancies for you all these years, and now I have made up for them one by one.
Finally, I will give you this key, and I promise you here that I will give you a new home...
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Situ Lei】