Chapter 23 Poetry and Prose.4

The bouquet of roses has withered, and the green handkerchiefs are still squatting side by side.Beyond that was a letter that had been torn open, lying on the left side in embarrassment and frustration, as if it had never received any kind of welcome. There was no one in the room.The sun comes in from the west window, dancing alone on the flower mattress. Suddenly the door opened gently.Youth B came in with his head held high, quite proud of himself.He just came from a friend, and he was so happy for a long time.My friend is an old classmate, and now, at the time when "a fur horse is light on fat", he said a lot of words of "borrowing" to young man C.When it comes to talents in the world, young man C does his part; now he stands at attention in the coat mirror, nods his head and smiles slightly at the person in the mirror, just like Feng Yuner's posture of swaying and waving his hands and eyes.Looking at the straight chest of the person in the mirror, he thought of the diagonal belt on his friend.He turned his body and looked left and right for a while, and he couldn't help the smug smile on his brows.

However, his brows were suddenly wrinkled.He saw the shadowy face of the slender woman reappear in the mirror.She, she's nailing it again!Youth B turned around angrily, squinted his eyes, and imitated his friend's expression when looking at the orderly. "Love, why bother to be angry? There's no need to be angry!" The unexpectedly cute and gentle tone made the skin on his face relax a little.Although at this time he was supported by his old friend's words of "borrowing from his talents", so he was surprisingly calm, but the habitual fear of being caught again had spread like a mist. It's coming.

"I'm here to apologize. I figured it out today. Master Bing, I didn't understand it until today!" Followed by a very charming smile.Youth B looked at her in a daze. "What did I say yesterday? Am I really crazy? Those words are not what I should have said. Now I understand. I am a widow, and I have no living happiness to say; but, Master Bing, you have given me a month's worth of happiness. This is probably too much. If you are not satisfied, if you want to pin you down, it is too much. Today I understand. " Now Youth C's facial lines are completely flattened.A trace of shame swayed up from the depths of his heart, and gradually reached the meninges, but before he could express it on his cheeks, he was blocked by his old friend's "excuse me", and was slowly suppressed.

"Oh, oh; that—" He could only answer vaguely; looking at Gui's round, pink face and pretty eyes, he felt even more confused, unable to answer.At the same time, the mixed emotions of surprise and amnesty indeed suppressed his tongue. "So today I'm here to apologize. Today is the last time I'll be in this room. Today, let me call you C for the last time; in the future - it will still be Master B. I also hope to hear you call me Gui for the last time." The sound is simply mesmerizing.The most precious time in the past suddenly revived in the heart of young man C.He saw golden bubbles tumbling and flying out of Gui's body again, and he felt that all the cells in his body were beating again.He suddenly wrapped his arms around Gui's slender waist, and put his mouth close to hers.

"No, no; it can't be done anymore. It's too much!" Gui turned his head to speak, while pulling away Bing's arm from his waist. "Is this the last time too?" Youth C asked in a trembling voice, still wrapping his hands around the familiar waist.The feelings in his heart were very complicated, but none of them surfaced in his consciousness, so he simply followed the impulse of blood. "Of course not!" "Can't it be more than one time?" "When it's already too much, even half a time is not enough! Besides, if you think about whose roses are on the table, you know that half times and half times can't be had again. You see, the roses have already Burnt; you shouldn't have let them wither!"

Quickly breaking away from C's entanglement, Gui leaned against the lintel, resting his right hand on his chin.Her breasts fluctuated slightly, her eyes were a little red, but her small lips turned white.Youth C didn't notice all this.His eyes followed Gui's words to the corner of the desk, and then the envelope lying pitifully came into his eyes.He recognized at once that it was a letter from his cousin!When he grabbed it, he saw that the seal was broken, so he unconsciously raised his eyes to look at Gui Yi. "Master Bing, goodbye." Gui smiled strangely, and exited the room like a shadow, closing the door behind him.

A thought flickered in Bing's heart.He suddenly understood the reason for Gui's change of attitude today; he concluded that it was Gui who opened his letter first, and he also concluded that it was the news in the letter that forced Gui to give up his obsessive delusion.For Gui's departure, he was somewhat reluctant, but he didn't feel refreshed as if he had been relieved of a heavy load.He took out the letter paper with a smile, read two lines, and suddenly his face changed.The letter is very brief: Cousin: Tomorrow I will go to Peiping with my father.I was in a hurry and couldn't apologize face to face.Please don't have to come and deliver.Because from now on, there are many things to do, and there are still a few places to say goodbye.

The letter paper fell on the ground, and Young B sat on the bed blankly, staring at the big mirror. The mirror reflected that the door of the room was slowly opening a crack, and Gui's malicious but charming smiling face was right in the middle of the crack, looking at the bed.Youth C jumped up like an electric shock, and jumped to the door with one step, trying to catch that charming smile.But the door is closed.Only the giggling laughter was locked in the room.This laughter was like a soft leather whip, hitting young man C's heart one after another.He couldn't support anymore, his feet fell, and the desk pressed against his back.

The door opened unexpectedly and quickly.At the same time, the lights in the room came on.Gui stood solemnly in the door frame, and the electric light fell on her hair and lips, shining brightly. "When are you going to Peiping too, Master Bing?" The answer was to rush to the door and hug her.This time, she didn't refuse, but just stood there, with no expression on her face.Youth C dropped his hands unconsciously. "Shouldn't prose be something you don't care about anymore? I don't want to be a buffoon in comedy either!" With this cold voice, Gui drifted away.

Youth C covered his face with his hands in frustration.He didn't know what to do, he felt the floor shake under his feet.Then, a new ideal hit his heart.He walked slowly to the overcoat mirror, stood at attention, looked forward quickly, then raised his hand to his forehead in a grand manner, and gave a military salute.He seemed to be the judge of the third party, smiled at himself in the mirror, and nodded "satisfied".At the same time, the following words flowed out from the corner of his mouth: "It's better to go to the old classmate and 'help' him;--that's the life of 'Epic'!"

December 15, 1928