Chapter 75 Chapter 23 Tomorrow is a Brand New Day

The subway car was surprisingly empty, and they found a place near the door to sit down. The intermittent conversation along the way just now could not be found if they were not careful.The two sat side by side in the empty subway, the sickly pale energy-saving lights hit their faces, and the closed carriage gave people the illusion that time had stopped here. Luo Zhi never rejects silence, let alone imagine it as embarrassment, indifference or confrontation full of various meanings.It's just that Xu Riqing is not good at getting along in silence. From the glass opposite, Luo Zhi can see that she is a little embarrassed and keeps touching the black bangs in front of her eyes, like a broken beaded curtain, pushing aside and closing. On, then open, then close...

"There are so few people today." Xu Riqing finally spoke. "Yes." Luo Zhi nodded. The train started again, and the sound of wind blowing on both sides of the corridor poured in between them, and they had no more words to each other. Ditan Park disappointed Luo Zhi, the bustling crowds, the large pink and green banners stretched among the trees on the sidewalk, the small stall owners sitting on small stools with indifferent faces, and the women selling grilled squid, grilled biscuits and herbal tea Wrapped in a colorful triangular scarf... Luo Zhi stepped on the yellow plastic bag on the ground and didn't know what to say for a while.

She may have come here because of the fame, but she didn't catch up with the desolation described by Shi Tiesheng. There is no snow on the fence, no sun in the sky, and the harmony is great, which is really not suitable for nostalgia. She wasn't having the best of times.No matter what, she will always be slow and miss the best time. At least Shi Tiesheng caught up, she thought, that's enough. The experience of yesterday and today made Luo Zhi realize that in the future, when she meets people she doesn't know well, she must choose a lively place, so that the heat around her can cover up her desertedness, which is good for both herself and others.They crowded back and forth in the crowd, in order to prevent them from getting separated, Xu Riqing naturally held Luo Zhi's hand, neither of them wore gloves, and her hand was no warmer than Luo Zhi's.

"I keep forgetting my gloves. Do you too?" She turned her head and smiled at Luo Zhi. Just as Luo Zhi was about to reply, she suddenly saw Xu Riqing restrain her smile, lower her head and turn away. Luo Zhi was amazed for a long time, and followed her after stumbling against the flow of people for a long time before remembering the oolong conversation between Zhang Mingrui and the two of them about gloves in front of the newsstand that day. Even though Zhang Mingrui resolved the momentary embarrassment naturally, which girl is not as careful as a hair?How could Xu Riqing not understand.

The two cold hands are tightly held together, until the mountains and the sky meet, I'm afraid they won't be able to warm up. Xu Riqing bought a bunch of extracurricular reading materials for law majors, packed them into a schoolbag, and had a heavy plastic bag in his hand.Luo Zhi wandered around for a long time, but only bought a copy of "Quotations from Chairman Mao". "What are you buying this for?" Xu Riqing put the plastic bag on the ground, rubbed his right hand with the red mark on it, and leaned over to take a look. "I don't know," Luo Zhi flipped through the pages lightly, fearing that she might tear the yellowed old book apart with too much force, "Maybe it's because it's old enough."

It is indeed an old enough book, the outermost cover has been worn away, leaving only the titles on the inner pages.Every page has the owner's notes, red pencil or blue pencil, as serious as a primary school student, only the word "Lin Biao" has been heavily crossed with a black pen. "I thought you would buy a lot of books. I heard you like reading books." "Well," Luo Zhi nodded, "but I'm still used to buying books in a few bookstores near the school, mainly because they are relatively close." She looked at Xu Riqing's huge schoolbag and plastic bag with a smile, and opened the bag she had put in advance. "Come on, put half of your books here and I'll hold them for you."

Xu Riqing smiled embarrassedly and said, "Okay." When I finally walked out of the park, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon.They didn't eat anything at noon, turned around, and finally stood blankly on the street with heavy bags. "Hungry." Luo Zhi rubbed her stomach. "Go back to school to eat, or look around?" While Xu Riqing was talking, he suddenly clapped his hands in surprise, "By the way, I suddenly remembered that there should be a Sanyuan Meiyuan shop nearby, right? I want to eat almond tofu." Luo Zhi nodded and said, "Okay, show me the way."

The sky is getting late, and the top of the head is blue and purple. The bleak Beijing winter always reminds Luo Zhi of the time when she was a child running around with her mother to make a living. Every time the sun completely set, she would feel a chill in her heart. A feeling of wanting to cry but not out of sadness filled her whole body. Even though she was very young, even today she still couldn't understand this kind of yearning and fear for dusk. "What?" Xu Riqing stopped, looking at Luo Zhi who was a little out of control. "It's nothing." Luo Zhi smiled, followed her and continued to walk forward.

Xu Riqing's sense of direction was shockingly poor.Panting and circling in vain like migrant workers dragging cement bags, they finally saw a red and yellow plaque at a busy intersection. "You see, the red and yellow one, right?" Xu Riqing pointed forward excitedly. "McDonald's?" Xu Riqing tightly framed Luo Zhi's neck with his free right elbow, "Let me tell you, China's national industry was driven to a dead end by you people!" Luo Zhi was serious, nodding like a pigeon looking for food in the square. Xu Riqing ate half a bowl and put it down.

"What?" Luo Zhi raised her head and asked. "It's not as delicious as I expected. I won't eat it." She pouted slightly, like a proud and beautiful young lady in an idol drama.Luo Zhi suddenly and sincerely regretted that she was actually a woman. Is there anything worse in the world than this? Luo Zhi also nodded, "The Earth Altar is not as good as I imagined..." She thought for a long time, but couldn't find a suitable word to describe it. "It's not that good." In the end, I had to use the most simple and versatile word "good".

Xu Riqing was surprised, "Then what do you think the altar should look like?" Luo Zhi didn't know what to say, she lowered her head and smiled silently. "Why are you like this?" Luo Zhi was confused, and the girl in front of her was looking at her with her chin resting on her face, with the same inquiring and puzzled expression on her face. "What kind of person am I?" "It was so different from the first time we met." "When we met for the first time..." Luo Zhi recalled that time when Zhang Mingrui entrusted her to act as a combination of a villainous woman and a close sister. However, the memory of how hard she tried is still a little fuzzy. What's more, the meeting full of purpose made her Her behavior was unavoidably deformed, and she was not sure what kind of impression she would leave on Xu Riqing. "Actually, when I was studying with Zhang Mingrui that day, I felt that you were different from my impression. When I saw it again today, I found that it was even more different." Luo Zhi scratched her head, "Really." She didn't know what to say in response to Xu Riqing, and the scene became deserted again.Luo Zhi felt a little sad suddenly. The girl in front of her was probably trying to say something honest. It wasn't that she didn't want to cater to her, it was just that she suddenly didn't know what to do.Along the way, you can also laugh and joke, and when you talk about a certain book, you will discuss it excitedly, but for some reason, the topic is like a string of broken beads, jumping around on the ground, occasionally picking up a book. One, shining brightly, but only solitary. They lack emotion and empathy, but there are two boys who are trying to pretend to be invisible to each other. The cold silence and silence at that time are not without reason. But Xu Riqing still worked hard to find a thread to connect each other.Luo Zhi really likes this bright girl, she has such a clear heart from the first time she met, she cries when she wants to, laughs when she wants to, loves when she loves, doesn't love when she doesn't love, even if she looks back, she never twitches. how nice.It's a pity that no one knows how to cherish her. What's more, I have no right to feel sorry for her. "I have something, please pass it on to Zhang Mingrui." Xu Riqing took out all the books from his schoolbag and stacked them on the table, and finally pulled out a Nike bag from the bottom of the schoolbag. "When I got stuck in a corner and couldn't get out, I was scolded by him. Later, he was so stubborn that I left early. Before he left, he was afraid that I would catch a cold, so he put his clothes on me. Later, the relationship with him eased. I became good friends again, and I always wanted to return the clothes to him, but every time I wanted to mention this dress, I was afraid to remember the embarrassing days when I had a falling out with them, so I just dragged it , until now, still haven’t paid back.” Luo Zhi took the bag, squeezed it lightly to make a clattering sound, "I see." Xu Riqing laughed, "It's so easy to be with you, you hate talking nonsense, right? I remember that you were quite able to talk the first time in the coffee shop, and you were very logical, but when we saw each other later, you talked less many." Luo Zhi smiled, "Actually, I really don't like talking very much. When I first met you, it might have happened that I was not emotionally stable and talked a lot." Xu Riqing looked at the blue-black ink-like night with his cheeks in his hand, and said softly, "I've never been emotionally stable." "It's good to feel happy." "But I'm not happy either." "Few people live happily, and you haven't suffered much." Xu Riqing laughed brightly when he heard the sound, Luo Zhi admired it sincerely, who wouldn't enjoy seeing such a smile? "Look, here we go again. In fact, you are quite sharp-tongued." "I don't mind if you replace sharp teeth with sharp teeth." Luo Zhi smiled helplessly. "I don't mind." Xu Riqing raised his eyebrows slyly with the corners of his mouth raised. He kept using a small spoon to ravage the crumbled almond tofu in the bowl with his left hand. After a moment of silence, he said, "Zhang Mingrui is a very good boy." Luo Zhi nodded. "I think I have lived up to his teachings. When Sheng Huainan rejected me, I was very hard to extricate myself. But Zhang Mingrui also rejected me during the final exam. I learned my lesson, and this time I pulled out quite simply." Refreshing declarative sentence.Luo Zhi appreciated it in her heart, but she just lowered her head and smiled. "So I'm definitely not a person with a short memory." When the lights came on, Xu Riqing was like a lonely monologue in a literary film, he didn't need Luo Zhi's feedback at all, and only cared about talking to himself. "I'm not sure if you already know about my falling out with Zhang Mingrui." "You see that you don't ask anything, as if you know everything. I feel guilty when I read it, but in fact, maybe you don't know anything at all." "Hehe, anyway, I hit the south wall twice in a row this year, and it's only three things. If I hit the south wall again, I will write it backwards!" "I've always thought I'm pretty good. Everyone thinks I'm pretty good. Why do I like two people, and each one can't be more wrong?" "Do you know, back then I liked Sheng Huainan, and I was angry with Zhang Mingrui, and I told him that I love bumping into the south wall, and it has nothing to do with him, so I told him to stay away from me quickly." "At that time, he didn't give in, and said, of course, it had nothing to do with him, and he went around by himself after being stunned!" "In the end, I didn't expect it to be true. It was indeed my own fault. Zhang Mingrui fell in love with someone so quickly." "At that time, I thought that those supporting actors in the story who have been waiting for the heroine to remain infatuated are all deceitful. They are just deceiving idiots like me who eat the bowl and look at the pot, bravely Go for the pot, even if you fail, at least you still have a bowl of porridge in your hand to satisfy your hunger." "Actually, it's all because I'm too good at it." Xu Riqing's eyes were shining brightly, facing the orange street lights outside the window and the neon signs on the plaque, shining brightly. Luo Zhi stretched out her hand silently, covering the back of her cold hand. "Zhang Mingrui likes you, Luo Zhi." Luo Zhi looked at her calmly, without nodding or shaking her head, without surprise or understanding, there was no wave in the ancient well. They looked at each other for a long time, Xu Riqing turned his head away first. No more words after that. When the pale and sickly lights of the subway car were shaking overhead, Luo Zhi heard a sigh.Xu Riqing next to him was so tired that he fell asleep, leaning on his shoulder, his peaceful pink cheeks were so beautiful, too beautiful to sigh. At the door of Xu Riqing's dormitory, she took out her book of Chairman Mao's speeches in a plastic bag, and handed the whole bag to Xu Riqing. "Then goodbye." "Yep." When Luo Zhi left, she heard Xu Riqing clearly asking behind her back, "Luo Zhi, do you think you and I will become good friends?" She turned around, smiled, and asked, "Do you have many friends?" Xu Riqing nodded affirmatively, and gave an affirmative answer that matched her cheerful smile, "Of course." So it's not bad for me.Luo Zhi nodded reassuringly and said, "I think it will be difficult for us to be friends. Even though I like you very much." Xu Riqing was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that the other party didn't respond with the same enthusiasm as many people around him and said, "Of course, we are already friends now, blablabla...". She was a little unwilling, or rather, a pity. "It's good that you like me. At least someone else likes me." She still laughed the most. Luo Zhi was walking back to the dormitory alone, and swallowed a sentence at the last moment. If we can be nicer to those who love us, stay away from those who hate us, and never try to please and explain, will there be peace in the world? The phone vibrated, a text message from Xu Riqing. "Don't be like me, it's too late to look back. It's either sooner or never." Luo Zhi didn't know what to reply.Facing Xu Riqing, she always saw a blank space. "Have a good rest, silly girl, let's talk about tomorrow's business tomorrow." It took a long time to get a reply. "You're right. Tomorrow is a brand new day. Please don't worry about me." The last little clause is a little self-indulgent, but undeniably confident and endearing.It's hard for Luo Zhi not to like Xu Riqing like this, but she has to admit that she never worried about Xu Riqing at all. A girl with such a dazzling and beautiful smile fell down, cried and made a fuss, and many people coaxed her to love her. She still has a lot of tomorrow. Luo Zhi raised her head, the night sky was a bit gloomy, dark red, low, suppressing an inexplicable pain. tomorrow. Every day of Luo Zhi's life is indistinguishable from the day before and the day after.