Chapter 11 Chapter Ten The Magi's Gift

Just after the New Year's holiday, the final exams are approaching. Even Jiang Baili cleaned up the tables in the dormitory and started reading. The first subject is to test the philosophy and basic principles of Marxism, which is closed-book.Luo Zhi had been reviewing professional courses before, and deliberately reserved this one for a surprise attack before the exam, knowing that anyway, if she reviewed it early, she would definitely forget it all. "There is no one left. I just checked it on the computer, and all of them have been borrowed." Luo Zhi selects "Belle" in the recipient column of the mobile phone, presses the send button, then logs out from the computer in the library, then picks up her schoolbag and walks out of the computer room.Before going out in the morning, Jiang Baili begged Luo Zhi to go to the library to borrow a textbook from Ma Yuan.Gobi lost the textbooks, and none of the buddies around had any extra books, and the old books of the seniors and sisters were thrown away or given away one after another, and the textbook center had no stock, and at the critical moment, they couldn't even find a single one.

Finally, he found Belle again. This is the first time Gobi has contacted her since they broke up.He skipped Ma Yuan for a whole semester, and Jiang Baili, who had taken the same class as him, did the check-in all the time, so Jiang Baili, who had skipped professional courses upside down, actually got a full attendance in Ma Yuan, where everyone was grazing sheep.After all, Gobi was too lazy. He only thought of reviewing before the exam, but he couldn't find the book. Luo Zhi frowned and hesitated to speak.She doubted whether Jiang Baili was pretending to be the Virgin to continue the conspiracy at the reception, or... the real Virgin.

Belle quickly replied: "Thank you, it is almost impossible to borrow books at this time, I will find a way by myself." Luo Zhi was about to walk out of the hall, when she thought about it, she might as well study in the library by herself, if she could find a seat. Except for the first floor of the library, there are several large-scale study rooms on every other floor.Luo Zhi took the elevator directly to the 6th floor, and then went down the stairs one after another to find a vacant seat.In winter, the library is fully heated, and the windows are not opened for ventilation. This makes Luo Zhi walk into every study room and smell a little stranger mixed in the warm and stagnant air.

The study room doesn't look crowded at first glance, but every seat is occupied by stacks of books, and most of the owners are absent. It looks like everyone went to gym class in high school. She went down the stairs all the way to the second floor, and saw that there was no hope for the last study room, so she strode away. "Luo Zhi, Luo Zhi!" The voice is very small, and it is made with breath.Luo Zhi turned her head and saw Zhang Mingrui happily waving at her, and the girl sitting on his left raised her head and smiled politely at her. It was Xu Riqing. Luo Zhi happily walked over, glanced at the books on the table, smiled, and said in a low voice, "You guys also review Ma Yuan? It's really early."

"We came here at seven o'clock to occupy a seat. How could you be as confident as you? We came here for a leisurely stroll at half past ten." Zhang Mingrui gathered the materials on the seat on the right to his desk and said, "There is no one on this seat. , we use it to put things, you sit down." So that was the case, Luo Zhi thanked her and sat down. "Damn, didn't you liberal arts students learn this kind of thing all the time in high school?" Zhang Mingrui tapped the Ma Yuan textbook in his hand with a ballpoint pen depressedly, "what are you talking about all these upside down, the liberal arts students are not crazy If you are admitted to university, you should offer cakes and birthday peaches to the temple, you are all Super Saiyans."

Luo Zhi held back her laughter and said softly, "Did you pass the politics exam in high school?" "We are going through the motions in the exam. I copied them all, and never memorized them." "Life is incomplete if you don't memorize it, hurry up and read the book." Luo Zhi tapped his book with a ballpoint pen. Xu Riqing looked at the two of them silently, pursed his lips and gave a small smile, then lowered his head and continued to study.When it was almost twelve o'clock, Zhang Mingrui threw down his pen irritably, and said in a low voice, I'm so bored, let's go have lunch.

Luo Zhi nodded, and cast her inquiring eyes on Xu Riqing, who also smiled and agreed, so they simply gathered the books and stacked them on the table, each took their mobile phone wallets and put on their coats, and walked out of the study room together. As soon as he stepped into the corridor, Zhang Mingrui yelled, Ma Yuan, go to hell, can normal people memorize this? ! A boy who was going downstairs next to him echoed loudly, that's right, I might become a pervert when I memorize it. After he finished speaking, he suddenly cast a sneaky glance at Luo Zhi and Xu Riqing who were walking on Zhang Mingrui's left and right, and grinned at Zhang Mingrui with an expression of "Your boy is very beautiful, so don't complain", and made three steps in parallel. Two steps down the stairs.

For some reason, Luo Zhi suddenly remembered that Zhang Mingrui had mentioned to herself the threesome between the two of them and Sheng Huainan. Sheng Huainan.Luo Zhi's thinking froze for a second, and then she immediately turned her head and asked with a smile, "Which teacher did you choose Ma Yuan?" "Wait, I want to buy a magazine." On the way to the cafeteria, Xu Riqing ran to the newsstand by the side of the road, glanced down at the dazzling shelves, and picked up a 32-format slightly thick magazine. Say, I want this. "Eight yuan." The aunt at the magazine stand didn't even look up.

"Why don't you always wear gloves?" Xu Riqing pinched a corner of the magazine with his index finger and thumb, turned his head and said tremblingly: "The cafeteria is quite close, there is no need, I find it troublesome..." Luo Zhi suddenly looked embarrassed.Because Zhang Mingrui's question just now was addressed to himself, and when Xu Riqing turned around to answer the question, he happened to see the two of them facing each other in a dialogue pose. Zhang Mingrui chuckled: "Is there anyone who you don't think is troublesome? Lazy, isn't it you who suffer from the cold?"

Luo Zhi's heart moved, Zhang Mingrui turned his eyes to look at Xu Riqing very naturally, and resolved the embarrassment of the three of them with a calm and witty sentence.Xu Riqing recovered from the bewildered expression at the beginning, smiled embarrassingly, glanced at Luo Zhi embarrassedly like a little daughter-in-law, and retorted Zhang Mingrui in a low voice: "No way!" "Put your hands in your pockets to warm them up. I'll help you get the magazines." Zhang Mingrui stretched out his hand and took Xu Riqing's magazines.Xu Riqing put his hands into the pockets of the down jacket, and smiled shyly at Luo Zhi again, as if to say, I made you laugh, he always does this.

This kind of Xu Riqing was completely different from the aggressive and well-dressed beauty in the cafe that day.Luo Zhi took two steps behind slightly, looking at the two backs in front of her, one black and one red, feeling a little happy in her heart. Xu Riqing has a domineering side, but also a shy side.Which side is the real her?Maybe it's more real when you're alone?But at that time, she didn't appear in front of anyone, and it didn't mean anything to others. What kind of interaction there is, what kind of self will be shown.What kind of object creates what kind of reality is just to present different sections to different people—the person you care about. So in front of Sheng Huainan, is he too out of shape?Even if you fall in love with him relying on those commonalities, it will only be the beginning of a long acting career. "Hey, what are you thinking?" When Luo Zhi came back to her senses, Zhang Mingrui was waving at her who was lagging behind, and there was something she couldn't understand in his gentle smile. After the three of them took their seats, they went to cook separately.Zhang Mingrui was the last to return to his seat, holding three bread cakes. "You didn't buy any bread today?" He looked at Luo Zhi in surprise. "There are too many people in line." "I haven't seen you in the third canteen for a long time." "The third canteen is so big, it's inevitable that we won't be able to touch it." Xu Riqing interrupted suddenly: "Do you often eat together?" "Well, in the past month or so, I always eat in the third canteen, and so does Zhang Mingrui, so we often meet." Luo Zhi explained with a smile. Zhang Mingrui sat down and picked up a bread pancake and put it on her plate: "Do you want it? I have a buddy who just lined up at the window, so I asked him to buy three for me." "I haven't eaten it, can you give me one?" Xu Riqing asked.Zhang Mingrui stood up and said, "Okay, take it yourself, I'll buy two more." "how?" "I can't get enough to eat just one." "Oh," Xu Riqing stared at the plate and counted silently, one is Luo Zhi's, two are his own... "That's no need, you, you can eat, I'll go buy it myself." Xu Riqing stood up suddenly, and before Zhang Mingrui could say any polite words, she ran towards the pasta window. Zhang Mingrui stared blankly at her running away, shrugged and smiled, and sat back in his seat. "By the way, Luo Zhi, are you... with Sheng Huainan?" She choked up after listening to it, and coughed several times before recovering: "Can you prepare a few words before asking such an explosive question?" "Are you together?" Zhang Mingrui's voice was relaxed and casual, but the smile on his face was a bit fake. Luo Zhi shook her head: "No." "But he... I think he's acting weird recently. Well, he won't tell us anyway if we ask him, so we can only ask you." "Did I tell you that I like Sheng Huainan?" Zhang Mingrui lowered his head and used his chopsticks to pull the stir-fried potato shreds with green peppers on the plate. After a while, he asked, "Isn't it?" Luo Zhi heaved a long sigh: "I call for logic, logic." "No need to call. How dare you say you don't like it? Don't lie." Luo Zhi wanted to laugh inexplicably.Her own carefully kept secrets are like ripples in the center of a lake where stones have been thrown, spreading round and round.This cover, which was once thought to be unbreakable, now seems to be so obvious. Everyone asked her if she liked Sheng Huainan.If Luo Zhi, who was in high school, knew about it, she might pass out. "Why don't we talk about Xu Riqing." She smiled. "Xu Riqing—" Zhang Mingrui dragged out the ending, hesitating. "You—" Luo Zhi said at the same time as him. "I did not mean!" "What did I misunderstand?" Luo Zhi laughed even harder, "I haven't said anything yet, I think you really hope that I misunderstood." "Actually..." Zhang Mingrui hurriedly waved his hands, and the rice grains on the chopsticks were thrown out, drawing a beautiful arc in the air, and gently landed on the sleeve of a figure beside the table. The man flicked the rice grains away and sighed. "What a coincidence!" They looked up and saw Sheng Huainan's flawless smiling face. "Hey, are you coming to eat too?" Zhang Mingrui was stunned for a few seconds before saying this. Sheng Huainan cast a disdainful look at Zhang Mingrui: "Your insight has seen through all of this." He sat down next to Luo Zhi by himself, and put the dinner plate on the empty seat: "I recite the book so much that I want to scold others, the life of a liberal arts student is not human." "Didn't you say that your ex-girlfriend always said that the liberal arts is difficult when you encouraged me to choose the double major, so you want to experience the life of a liberal arts student? After the professional courses are over, the double degree exam is also required, and the French tutor has to close the book , It's unreasonable." Zhang Mingrui had a bitter face, and he still looked innocent when he spit out the words "ex-girlfriend". Sheng Huainan's face was calm: "Yeah, in high school, I saw their liberal arts students memorize their books to death. I still don't understand. Just a few books, they have to memorize them all before each exam, and they memorize them to death. It took me a long time to write a paper full of answers, but the scores of the essay synthesis are generally so much lower than the science synthesis, I really don’t understand.” "By the way, aren't you a liberal arts student?" Zhang Mingrui looked at Luo Zhi who was opposite and said, "Did you have to repeat history and politics many times at that time? You have memorized it for two full years, why are so many people still memorizing it?" won't come down?" Luo Zhi was drinking corn porridge with her head down, and didn't answer. "Hey, let me ask you, aren't you a liberal arts major? Do you all rush to memorize before the exam?" Zhang Mingrui tapped the table with the end of his chopsticks. "Huh?" She looked up, tilted her head to the left, and smiled. "I can't remember. Maybe." Sheng Huainan remained silent, and gently poked holes in the flat rice in the bowl with his chopsticks. Luo Zhi recalled that she had been angry before, that time when she asked Zhang Mingrui to buy potato chips in the law tutorial class, she deliberately didn't look at him when she was talking, and played a little awkwardly - at that time, even she couldn't believe that he still had such a willful side . At that time, the other party beckons, and it can be saved immediately. Until now, Luo Zhi finally understood that the other party might have felt her affection from the first time they met.How obvious. No matter how treacherous her heart is, in fact, she just likes him, and it hasn't changed since the beginning.As long as this point is grasped, no matter what happens, no matter what her attitude is on the surface, she will be the loser.But he can appear at the table at any time with a smile, bounce off the rice grains, and say, what a coincidence. What a coincidence, you like me. Enough is enough.she thinks. "Oh, Xu Riqing?" Sheng Huainan smiled and nodded to Xu Riqing who was standing stupidly not far from the table with a plate, and then asked Zhang Mingrui who was diagonally opposite, "You two studied together in the morning? The three of you?" "Yes, the three of us." Zhang Mingrui turned to greet Xu Riqing.She walked over slowly and said to Sheng Huainan, "You come to eat too." Xu Riqing's tone was false, his expression was tense, he hadn't figured out how to deal with it, and his acting skills barely passed.Sheng Huainan was very enthusiastic, with a guilty expression on his face, as if if he had known that Xu Riqing was there, he would not have come here to embarrass him. Then why deliberately come to embarrass her?Luo Zhi put down the fork and began to tear the bread. The second time Sheng Huainan was asked about coming to eat, he tilted his head and smiled wryly: "Yeah, I'm bored studying and want to take a break. The only legitimate reason is to have lunch." "Oh... where did you study by yourself in the morning?" She asked as she tore the bread into pieces like Luo Zhi. Xu Riqing had a pair of beautiful hands, but in front of Sheng Huainan, his movements were too weak, and the cake was torn. I can't understand it for a long time. Sheng Huainan paused: "One teaching." After finishing speaking, he unconsciously glanced to the left, but the person on the left grabbed the bread by himself, skillfully and without shyness, and did not respond to his words. "Teach?" "Yes, it's clean and there are very few people." "Why don't you go to the library? It's so cold, and the heater doesn't work well. What if it freezes?" Sheng Huainan froze for a moment, the sudden silence of the scene made Xu Riqing realize that his words were too intimate, and a meaningful smile slowly appeared on Zhang Mingrui's face. Suddenly, Luo Zhi said pleasantly as if discovering a new world: "Xu Riqing, you bought a spicy duck neck? Can I have a piece?" This interruption was bad, but Xu Riqing shook his head, and immediately grabbed a straw to discuss the duck neck with Luo Zhi enthusiastically. "Hey, you are from Chengdu, what do you say, right?" When they were talking about Sichuan snacks, Xu Riqing suddenly turned his face to ask Zhang Mingrui, with a slightly friendly expression on his face—Luo Zhi's heart was pure. Just now Xu Riqing was in a panic and said some kind words to Sheng Huainan, but now he was probably suspicious of Zhang Mingrui's taste because of this, so he smiled so flatteringly. Zhang Mingrui was in a daze at the moment, so he didn't answer, which suddenly calmed down the scene that had been eased by the duck's neck just now. They continued to eat their own meals. In the noisy cafeteria, there seemed to be a soundproof barrier covering the table for four. The rice in Sheng Huainan's bowl did not move, it still showed a well, as if it was cold. The silent meal was finally finished. Zhang Mingrui said to Sheng Huainan when delivering the tray, "Do you still want to stay in the first teaching? Do you want to go to the library with us for self-study?" Sheng Huainan glanced at Luo Zhi, and suddenly laughed happily: "Luo Zhi, are you studying in the library?" Luo Zhi raised her eyes to look at him, her eyes were calm and unwavering, she didn't say anything. "I remember a text in high school called "The Gift of the Magi." He said to himself. She went to the library, he went to a church. "That's right, what's the matter?" Xu Riqing was the last one to stack the plates on the remnant food table, and turned around to ask enthusiastically, but accidentally met Zhang Mingrui's gloomy gaze. Xu Riqing was a little flustered, he didn't know what to say, but he couldn't control his mouth and wanted to quickly reverse the weird atmosphere: "Come to the library with us for self-study? The library is warmer, and there is an empty seat next to it." Zhang Mingrui glanced at her again with a slight smile, and said to Sheng Huainan, "Yes, come to the library."