Chapter 28 Chapter 27 Red Roses and White Roses

Luo Zhi and Jiang Baili moved the huge box to the door of the dormitory building, and helped her swipe the card to open the electronic door. "Bon trip!" She waved her hand. "Happy early years!" Belle smiled and waved, her thin figure dragging a red suitcase hidden in the thin morning mist.Gu Zhiye sent her to the train station, so he drove the car into the school early in the morning, parked at a crossroad not far away, stood at the rear of the car smoking, and nodded to Luo Zhi from afar. Luo Zhi did not book student tickets uniformly at the college, she would go to the ticket booking point near the school a week before going home every time, because only in this way could she buy a sleeper berth.However, the Spring Festival travel situation this time was even more tense than in previous years, and all ticket booking points were sold out. Luo Zhi also had to rush to the Beijing Railway Station early in the morning to try her luck after seeing off Belle.

The moment she walked out of the subway entrance, she was in a daze again.Every time she came to Beijing Railway Station, she would feel an unknown feeling in her chest, beating along with her heart.The dark crowd in the square in front of the station seemed to be the ink that God accidentally poured down. Everyone's faces were blurred, but a cloud of anxiety and panic intertwined steamed up over the square. Luo Zhi's eyes glanced at the rural women sitting in groups of three or four tightly hugging the big and small bags under the lamppost, their headscarves and weather-beaten eyes and mouths were knotted, and they quickly turned away.

She took a deep breath and walked towards the ticket hall.The hall is fairly orderly. There are more than a dozen windows under the ticket information screen, and there are rows of queues behind it.Luo Zhi studied the information screen, and suddenly found that all kinds of sleeper tickets to City R have been sold out in recent days. Try your luck, she thought, and picked the shortest line and stood at the end.The music in the walkman greatly relieved her boredom, and the gloomy ticket hall seemed to be colored by the melody, as if through the filter of the camera, she also became a part of the movie-the soundtrack always followed her, with the emotional ups and downs of the song , expressing all kinds of joys and sorrows in his heart.

Luo Zhi waited for a while before realizing that the team was not moving at all.She took a few steps to the side and looked ahead, only to see four or five people blocked by the window, and some people swayed over from time to time trying to block it.Soon there was restlessness in the team. Rules are the most easily broken things, non-compliance will bring additional benefits, uneven benefits will lead to resentment due to unfairness, the pursuit of fairness will just break the balance, and eventually be stepped on the ground What is rubbish is the rules that are useless. Like now.The corners of her mouth turned up, and she watched with a sarcasm the belated staff mediating in the team, and four or five people had already quarreled.

"Luo Zhi?" She was awakened from watching the excitement, and when she turned around, she saw Sheng Huainan's face. A tall and straight boy in a white down jacket, with short hair and a refreshing smile on his face.It seems to be the blank space left by God when he splashed ink. In the crowded ticket hall, there is an unreal brilliance. In her eyes, he is always covered with tulle. Luo Zhi was stunned: "Why are you here?" "I just went to send the youngest son of Mr. Lu from the Youth League Committee to the train. He couldn't get away from the Youth League Committee's activities today, and he was worried about letting the child ride the train by himself, so I asked him to see him off. I wanted to go directly to the subway to make up for it. I felt that I just came to the train station, why not go to the ticket hall to visit the Spring Festival festival, and I actually ran into you."

He took a breath, and then looked at her with helpless eyes: "Why didn't you tell me that you have to come early in the morning to buy tickets? Can't I come with you?" Since the attack on the Old Summer Palace that night, she hadn't seen him except for the legal exam, and only contacted him by phone or text message.Sheng Huainan's text messages were no longer answered quickly and slowly, erratically, but Luo Zhi was worried about disturbing his GRE class, and rarely chatted with him endlessly. "I'm your boyfriend, you should call me." The middle-aged woman at the front of the line turned her head, wearing a flesh-colored pullover and embroidered jeans, which made her look dark and fat.She bared her teeth and picked them with her nails while laughing.

Luo Zhi was taken aback for a moment, but Sheng Huainan pulled her out of the line in the next second, and the aunt who was behind her was not polite, and quickly stepped forward to take her place. Thanks to her, the team that hadn't moved for a long time finally moved forward. Luo Zhi looked back at the line regretfully: "I finally waited in line for a long time..." She blurted out, and when she turned back, she saw Sheng Huainan's drooping eyebrows, with an expression of hatred for iron. "What's the row? The display screen says there are no tickets." "What if someone refunds the ticket when I arrive?"

Sheng Huainan's expression of "Are you an idiot" made Luo Zhi's ears feel hot, Luo Zhi lowered her head resignedly: "Okay, then I can only take the plane." "Leave it to me when you go back." Sheng Huainan pressed his hands on her shoulders, "Tell me first, why didn't you tell me that you were coming early this morning?" Luo Zhi was driven into disbelief by his straightforward eyes close at hand, her gaze gradually moved down to the corner of his mouth, and she recalled the experience of climbing over the wall like a dream, the kiss in the first ray of morning light, and her wanton behavior under the influence of alcohol. When I laughed, my heart beat violently.

She had never been so close to him soberly. After a long time, he finally decided to tell the truth. "I'm used to being alone. I don't want to bother you." "But I'm your man..." "I'm not used to this!" She shouted in a hurry, causing many people around to look sideways. Sheng Huainan looked at her fixedly, the expression on his face was neither confusion nor anger, she couldn't understand it, so she could only use a soft tone, and continued to tell the truth: "Indeed, I have never thought about what will happen after we are together. "

Girls' Generation, who lives with the diary, sometimes uses the second person to talk to the imaginary Sheng Huainan. While despising this behavior in her heart, she blushes uncontrollably and her heart beats uncontrollably, like a lonely satellite traveling in space, day after day. The sun and the earth transmit the signal from the earthlings to the aliens who don't know where. But gradually got used to it and calmed down. However, even though she had been "talking" to him in high school, even though she had felt that she had a certain destiny, even if she heard the firm "we will be together in the end" in her heart at a certain moment-she never thought about being together. After that, what should be, and what will happen.

Unlike her deliberate and fully armed approach, now they are really close, without any pretense. "I don't know what it's like to be in a relationship. You can easily say that you are my...boyfriend, but I really don't know what to do with a girlfriend. Do you have to do everything together, right? Things that can be solved by yourself have to torment you, don't you..." Sheng Huainan suddenly laughed out loud in the overcrowded hall, his eyes narrowed into a line. He pulled Luo Zhi into his arms, and she also resonated with his chest.Luo Zhi was blinded all of a sudden, and the gaze of the people next to her made her close her eyes quickly, and buried her head deeply in his arms, into the fragrance of washing powder that she had always liked, but which he said was unclean. "It's okay if you've never been in love. I've talked about it, and I'll teach you." His voice was full of smiles, firm and gentle. Luo Zhi was taken aback for a moment, first she smiled shyly, but when she realized it, she stomped on him fiercely. She stared at him: "Isn't it amazing to have been in love?" Sheng Huainan smiled even more happily: "Jealous? That's right, congratulations on entering the role." They left the ticket hall, sat in the KFC next to them, and managed to snatch a table for two after the passengers with large and small packages left. Sheng Huainan pressed Luo Zhi on the seat, then stood up and said, "Have you had breakfast yet? If you don't want anything in particular, I'll make the decision." "Okay." She nodded. Sheng Huainan firmly disagreed with her going to buy a station ticket, saying that she would die if she stood on the overcrowded train for more than ten hours.Luo Zhi thought about it and felt that it was a problem, so she simply didn't insist. "Don't drink coke, I'll give you some hot cocoa, it's really cold today." He sat across from him, and the rustling sound of the cloth rubbing against each other was exceptionally clear amidst the noisy voices. "I'd better ask Luoyang to ask their company's ticket agent for me, then I can only go by plane." "Luoyang?" Luo Zhi explained with a smile: "Oh, my brother. A child of my uncle's family." "Why does the child of my uncle's family have the same surname as yours?" Luo Zhi laughed: "No one has ever asked me this question. Science students are really strict. I take my grandma's surname. My whole generation takes my grandma's surname." Luo Zhi saw that Sheng Huainan mouthed the word "why", but still swallowed it, and she didn't take the initiative to answer his questions in a considerate manner. Perhaps there is no way to get to such an intimate situation all of a sudden. But he said he would teach her, anyway, take his time. "Then this time, can you not ask your brother to help?" She was tearing open the sweet and sour sauce package of Colonel's chicken nuggets, and when she heard this question, she tilted her head to look at him: "Then what should I do?" "Give me some time, and I'll ask my parents' friends in Beijing to see if I can think of a way. Many cars with the prefixes D, Z, and T are reserved as internal tickets. Find a way to get one and let me try it. If it doesn’t work, give me your ID card, and I’ll help you ask your brother who works in Air China, and when my GRE course is over, you can go home with me.” Luo Zhi looked up at him: "Why?" "What why?" Sheng Huainan's voice reminded Luo Zhi of the rogue boy who refused to return her suitcase on the phone that day, "I'm your boyfriend, so naturally I have to settle these matters. And I want to go with you, you Ask me why?" Luo Zhi quickly explained that Sheng Huainan swallowed a piece of hamburger indignantly, pretending to ignore her. Embarrassed, Luo Zhi took out her ID card and slapped it on the table: "Here, we will fly back together." Only then did Sheng Huainan take it with a smile on his face, and after taking a look, the expression on his face became very strange. "Miss, may I ask if this is really your ID card?" He pointed to the photo like a pig's head and asked, "How can I tell my brother that this is my girlfriend? When he sees you in person, he will think that I am cheating." Luo Zhi flew up and kicked his calf. They didn't go back to school directly, the mist cleared and the weather was fine, so they took the subway and transferred to Wangfujing to visit the Book Building. When I entered the door, I saw another version of Zhang Ailing's work, and the poster was pasted in a bright place next to the escalator. Sheng Huainan also saw it, although Luo Zhi's expected confusion was on his face.She remembered the matter of filling in the blanks in ancient poems. "She wrote it, right? The one with rice grains and mosquito blood." "Yo, you know." Luo Zhi suppressed a smile, but thought of Luo Yang in the next second. She has never dared to test her conjecture.Luo Yang must also know what she found.If the same thing happened to others, she must feel sorry for Chen Jing.But now she knew that she didn't understand Luoyang, Chen Jing, or feelings. But he instinctively defends and understands his elder brother. Sheng Huainan flicked on her forehead, awakening her wild thoughts: "I should know some literature, okay? Besides this, I also know eight other characters. ——'The world is stable, the years are quiet'." His brows are full of "come and praise me" complacency. Luo Zhi was stunned, she had never seen Sheng Huainan like this, even when they got to know each other well when they went to Houhai, he used to show his childish and intimate side in such a relaxed way, but at that time she didn't dare to reciprocate, she was always depressed Yes, like carrying something. He is also good-looking.She suddenly wanted to go over and kiss him. Luo Zhi was startled by this thought, and lowered her head in panic. Is this feeling love? She liked him once, but she would not be hit by such a sudden thought. "what happened to you?" She quickly changed the subject: "She didn't say these eight words." "Who is that? They all said it was Eileen Chang." Luo Zhi smiled: "Who are they? Ye Zhanyan told you, right?" Those eight words once made her high school classmates so heartbroken and melancholy.The one who took the lead was Ye Zhanyan, they were passionately in love at that time, but for the high school students who couldn't be sure of anything except the schedule, these eight words could only be an untouchable fantasy. Sheng Huainan's expression was a little embarrassed and self-deprecating, but not sad.Luo Zhi saw it in her eyes, and her agitated heart also calmed down. "You won't be angry if I tell you about my ex-girlfriend?" Luo Zhi smiled: "You said you want to teach me how to fall in love, so naturally you want you to tell me whether I should be angry or not." "...Don't be angry this time." "Okay." She had a sly smile on her face. That was the parent meeting for the first monthly exam in the third year of high school. Lin Yang, a sophomore of his, called him in a panic and said, "Brother, don't scold me, I don't know how my mother knows, maybe because she always eavesdrops on my phone calls." Well, anyway, today we also have a parent meeting. My mother met your mother, and she told your mother about you and Ye Xuejie. I can’t say anything when the adults talk. Your mother may have to interrogate you when she comes home. , you must be mentally prepared!" Luo Zhi smiled.At that time, many parents of students with good grades often contacted each other, exchanged information, and coordinated monitoring. It was normal for such things to happen. Sheng Huainan was not unprepared for this. Because of Ye Zhanyan's high profile and his frankness, teachers and parents would know about such things sooner or later. However, when his mother came home, she didn't say anything. He knew that his mother was always used to "clearing the way" for him behind his back.He told Ye Zhanyan that if his mother called her, he hoped she would understand, and at the same time ignore everything, just say "I see".No matter what his mother said, he must tell him everything, and he will deal with it. He told her calmly that he would protect her. The intervention of the parents makes all the children who fall in love with each other feel flustered and excited.Ye Zhanyan first said tearfully that she had caused him trouble, and then threw herself into his arms and thanked him for being such a "man" for protecting herself.After a few plays, he regained his high spirits, and sat carelessly on the window sill in the corridor, smiling brightly in the sun. Stripped of all the emotional color of the time and place, that scene looks as boring and childish as a child running a house wine at the moment, whether it is Ye Zhanyan who is teary but reveals excitement, or the calm but emotional expression Say "I'll protect you" to yourself. Sheng Huainan's tone was flat, but Luo Zhi couldn't help but hear the melancholy in it. "But, that's youth." She comforted him. My heart became sour. When Sheng Huainan heard from his classmate that his mother was sitting in the teacher's office, he rushed to knock on the door, and asked his mother expressionlessly why he interfered with his affairs, and hurt his mother's most important face as a mother in front of the head teacher.His mother looked at him with a gloomy face, and finally flew into a rage - she didn't shout or reprimand, but went straight out of the office to find Ye Zhanyan. He blocked her mother in the way. Sheng Huainan still remembers the sweat from his palms.He is not a good baby who likes to be submissive to his parents, but he has never had conflicts with them since he was a child. His mother finally left. Word got out somehow, and he was suddenly a hero.When Ye Zhanyan sees him every day, his smile blooms like a peach blossom in early spring. But what he remembered was what his mother said to him when he came home. "Sheng Huainan," she called his full name, "I didn't make things difficult for you on purpose." "You remember today, what you said and the girl behind you, and all the people who watched the show, whether they applauded you or called you stupid. After a year, you will know why I want you to solve it Get rid of this inappropriate relationship. You have grown up, but you are not yet mature." Luo Zhi sighed speechlessly, like the cold and stern woman in her memory.But from the condescending words, I heard the deep discouragement and powerlessness, wrapped in a tough attitude, maybe it was an illusion. After Sheng Huainan broke up with Ye Zhanyan, he was too embarrassed to face his mother.However, his well-informed mother said lightly after he returned home during the winter vacation: "I signed up for the tour group for you, and you can contact them yourself about the visa." Ten-day trip to Denmark and Norway. "Go and relax," she said. Perhaps, the characters in legends are like this. After creating a feat that future generations will talk about, they fade away to the trivial things that others don't know, and gradually find that their own lives can't escape those boring old ways. Then, Just stop being stupid. He stepped on the quaint small square bricks on the streets of Copenhagen, and was intoxicated for a moment in the fairy tale world where time was still. When he looked up again, a aunt in the tour group who had always been noisy was taking pictures in front of the bakery, posing for thousands of years. V-shaped gesture - he laughed dumbfounded. Only then did he remember that when Ye Zhanyan looked at him like a hero, he had asked him to remember two sentences. The world is stable and the years are quiet. Hard won, we must be happy. She wrote it for him to read, so he read it many times in a daze, and actually remembered it. "Actually, this sentence was said by Hu Lancheng," Luo Zhi said with a smile. "When they got married, they wrote four sentences, 'Hu Lancheng and Zhang Ailing signed a lifelong marriage, and they will be married. May the years be quiet and the world be stable'. The first two The first sentence was written by Eileen Chang, and the second two sentences that are widely circulated were actually thought of by Hu Lancheng." It's just that the later story also backfired. She was still feeling emotionally, when she suddenly heard Sheng Huainan's voice next to her say in a low voice: "Actually, I really don't quite understand what these two sentences mean." But I was forced to recite it many times.He gave up the five-point fill-in-the-blank questions, but he recited them many times because they were not the eight words Zhang Ailing said. Luo Zhi's eyes suddenly softened, and the sourness condensed from jealousy was diluted by the gentle river in her heart. She took the initiative to take a step forward, and stretched out her arms to hug him. He hugged her back, hard. "Do you know how I felt when I saw your back in the crowd in the ticket hall?" Luo Zhi didn't speak. "You don't call me for anything, and you don't take the initiative to contact me. I watched you line up there, and suddenly felt that I was very far away from you." "From when I asked you if you had a crush on me in high school to now, your reaction makes me wonder what to do. You always make me feel that none of this has anything to do with me." "In addition to those eight words, I also know a sentence, which is also said by many people. The furthest distance in the world is when I am by your side, but you don't know that I love you. I don't know if you think so , but I feel that what is more distant is that I know you like me, but I don’t know if it’s me you like.” "So you don't want to cling to me. You don't need me to accompany you. I'm just a dummy you imagined." "Inflatable doll?" She finally interjected, wanting to ease the atmosphere, but she didn't wait for his smile. This guy.She didn't know how to tell him that his worry and panic made her no longer panic.All the joy finally fell down to the bottom of my heart. So she also suppressed the teasing in her eyes, raised her head, and stood on tiptoe. He froze for a moment, then hugged her tighter. In the next second, she bit her lower lip hard.He was in pain, but he didn't let go, instead he retaliated even more fiercely. "After all, we have become the kind of couple I despised the most before, cuddling and hugging in public." After a long while, she breathed a sigh of relief and said with a low smile. "Say it again." "...What the hell are we..." "Just the last two words." Luo Zhi smiled, being hugged too tightly by him, even the laughter was muffled, like coughing. "Couple."