Chapter 73 Chapter 21 Laughter is for others to see

"Why are you so happy?" Luo Zhi was putting spinach in the spicy pot, when she heard the question, she raised her head, and accidentally all the vegetables in the bamboo basket in her hand fell into the pot, splashing her face. "Are you okay?" Belle hurriedly passed the sterilized towel over from the table, Luo Zhi took it and pressed it lightly on her face a few times, "It's okay, just splash a few drops." After tidying up, I remembered to ask Gu Zhiye who was opposite, "What? Why are you happy?" "I'm talking about you. You look much better than when I first saw you, and you seem to be in a good mood."

Luo Zhi recalled that chaotic New Year reception, and her smile was a little complicated. At that time, many images flooded into her mind, the broken glass, the overturned table, the inexplicably accosted Gu Zhiye, the distraught Jiang Baili, The domineering Sheng Huainan, and that lie that was so absurd that she couldn't get angry. All the pictures are silent, as if forcibly muted. Against the background of the noisy hot pot restaurant, the fragmentation seems like a world away. She used her chopsticks to put the excess vegetables in the spicy pot into the milky white bone broth pot, and said with a smile, "Maybe it's because the exam is over, of course I'm in a good mood."

The meal is a bit boring, and the only conversations are often just, "The cabbage is delicious", "Put the rest of the hand-cut mutton in it", "Fill out the green bamboo shoots quickly, otherwise it will not be crispy"... Even if The corners of Luo Zhi's mouth were unconsciously smiling, because she really wanted to tease the slightly nervous Belle, but in the end she kept silent.After all, she never knew how to be a standard best friend who is willing to gossip and gossip to adjust the atmosphere, and even if Belle would agree to let Gu Zhiye appear at the dinner table, Luo Zhi was not sure how familiar they were.Sometimes a thief-like question with a smile may bring great embarrassment and trouble to the other party.

The most important thing is that Luo Zhi is not sure whether Gu Zhiye is really "a good person". The meal was a bit dull, but fortunately the noisy background sound made the silence not so embarrassing. The act of eating hot pot itself was full of participation. Facing the steaming water, the three of them were very happy. Gu Zhiye hardly ate much, and was busy helping them put various dishes into the hot pot.Belle remembered to ask the other party halfway through eating, "Didn't you say you didn't eat, why didn't you eat?" "Not very hungry." "Then why do you..." Why do you have to come over?In the middle of her speech, she stopped, "Let's eat something, I'll be hungry in the afternoon."

"Also." Belle fished out a lot of vegetables from the bone soup pot, noticed Luo Zhi's smiling eyes, and said to Gu Zhiye embarrassedly, "Well, I remember you said you don't eat spicy food, right?" "Well, you still remember." Luo Zhi lowered her head and smiled even brighter, feeling Belle kicking herself under the table, she quickly stood up and said, "I'm going to the bathroom." When she was smiling with twelve white teeth facing the mirror in the bathroom, a figure jumped out from behind and strangled her neck fiercely. "You want to die, don't you? Tired of living, right? If you're willing to die, I'll be willing to bury you, believe it or not?"

Through the mirror, Luo Zhi saw the embarrassing half-smiling expression on Jiang Baili's face behind her, and her smile deepened, "It doesn't matter whether I die or not, anyway, I know you will not want to die." Belle let her go, leaned in front of the mirror and sighed, "It's not what you think." Luo Zhi also stopped laughing, "I didn't think about anything. I just thought it was funny that you were nervous." Belle lowered her head in embarrassment, and put the broken hair behind her ears, "Actually, I don't know what it looks like. But, Luo Zhi, if it was Jay Chou who was eating with us now, I would blush too. It doesn't matter if you like it or not, I mean..."

Jiang Baili was still struggling with her words, but Luo Zhi smiled clearly, patted her head, and said, "Uncle Gu is more handsome than Jay Chou, yes." Belle immediately raised her head and bared her teeth. Luo Zhi thought that she wanted to seek justice for Jay Chou, but she didn't expect her to yell, "What Uncle Gu? How can he be so old?!" Luo Zhi smiled slightly.Like is far from love.But, from the looks of it, at least I like it a little bit. The waiter in the bathroom who was in charge of delivering paper towels to the customers kept bowing her head and pursing her lips. When Belle shouted to the top, she realized that she had become a scene in the bathroom, and hurriedly dragged Luo Zhi out the door.

Gu Zhiye drove them back to school, but they stopped at Xizhimen without accident. "The bridge at Xizhimen..." Gu Zhiye laughed helplessly after speaking halfway. "I heard that there is no one who doesn't complain about this bridge. Why on earth is it even more congested after the bridge is built than without it?" Belle leaned over on Luo Zhi's body. "I heard it's because the design of this bridge looks like a Chinese knot when viewed from the air." Luo Zhi said. Belle imagined the complicated Chinese knots in her heart, laughed, and poked Luo Zhi, "Hey, was this bridge invested by China Unicom back then?"

Gu Zhiye laughed, and Luo Zhi saw the warmth in the corners of the man's eyes and brows through the mirror directly in front of him. It was the bearing and charm that boys like Shenghuainan Gobi and the others could not yet possess, and there was an indescribable steadfastness and kindness. Anxiety, intertwined together, stretched into the perfect arc of his mouth at the moment. He insisted on sending Luo Zhi and Belle to the dormitory.When passing by the supermarket, Belle secretly underestimated with Luo Zhi that the sanitary napkins were used up and ran in hastily, leaving Gu Zhiye who was confused and Luo Zhi who was slow to react.

"What did she do?" "Uh...it seems to be a very important matter." Luo Zhi's mouth twitched. "Belle is really interesting." Luo Zhi paused, and said slowly, "Yes. Very good girl." She misses the hot pot restaurant a little bit, because the silence at the moment is too harsh.Gu Zhiye took out his mobile phone and glanced at it. The sound of buttons was heard next to his ears. The winter sun felt warm for the first time. After standing there for a while, it began to warm up from the bottom of his heart. Luo Zhi yawned, and turned his head to the side that turned away from Gu Zhiye side.

She saw Sheng Huainan, walking towards the school hospital not far away with her hands in her pockets, approaching the supermarket door step by step, and then inadvertently caught a glimpse of herself and Gu Zhiye standing here side by side.Luo Zhi watched him approaching all the way, and suddenly remembered that this place was the first time she mustered up the courage to rush to help him get out of the entanglement with Xu Riqing.As soon as he was distracted, he lowered his head and smiled wryly. Surprise was written in Sheng Huainan's eyes. He stood still for a second, then restored his smile, walked over gracefully, nodded and said, "Mr. Gu." Then he turned around and asked, "Why are you here?" The sound is intimate and natural.Luo Zhi has long been familiar with Sheng Huainan's embarrassing falling out or cold war, and every time he meets again, the other party can pretend to be peaceful. In fact, I am not the same.Even if the corners of the mouth are sour and drooping, if you try your best, it will rise to the maximum arc, you can close the door and grit your teeth, you can hide and gnash your teeth, and you can only laugh in front of others. There is a kind of person who only laughs for others to see. Shouldn't he be glad that he and himself have always been the same kind.It's just that Luo Zhi admits that Sheng Huainan is far more relaxed than herself—at least in the past. "Wait." Luo Zhi also smiled politely, and then stopped talking. Sheng Huainan stood for half a minute. The silence of the three was far more difficult than that of the two. When he spoke again, his voice was slightly hoarse, "Then I'll go first." "Goodbye." Luo Zhi nodded goodbye. "It's not the same when I first met you." Luo Zhi recalled the domineering and childish Sheng Huainan who warned her not to become a female college student in a compensatory relationship that day, sighed, turned her head to see the inscrutable smile on Gu Zhiye's face, then turned her face and continued to stare blankly at the supermarket man People go to the door. "Maybe I was thinner then." She said lightly. Gu Zhiye was silent for a while, "It's so cold." Jiang Baili still didn't come out for a long time, Gu Zhiye lowered his head and lit a cigarette, and said vaguely, "You seem to be wary of me." "The two of us don't make friends, so why bother?" "Belle's best friend should naturally be my friend." Such a posture and position complicated Luo Zhi's mood. She lowered her head and tidied up the pockets of her coat, and said solemnly, "Although I know this is nonsense, I still have to say, please treat her well, even if you don't want to chase her." "What if I were?" "Then you have to be more sincere to her. I hope you are a good person." "Speaking as if you don't believe I'm a good guy at all." "Probably because I really don't believe it." "Intuition?" Luo Zhi raised her head and looked at him calmly, "Just the way I was when we first met you and flirted with me."