Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen

After Ye Meimei's dance ended, the men and women in the square let go of their holding hands and clapped their hands towards the senior sister. The applause was mixed with cheers. The senior sister turned around in situ as a reply. Although the next dance is a dance in a circle without inviting a partner, I don't feel like dancing anymore. Stepping back to the low wall at the edge of the square, trying to digest the steps and sequence of the Night Rose. "Student." Senior sister's voice suddenly appeared in my ears. I was startled, turned my head, she was already sitting beside me smiling.

"What are you thinking? So engrossed." "I'm remembering Night Rose." "Really?" She brushed her messy hair from the dance, and said, "If you don't go to the dance yourself, It's easy to forget Night Rose. " "Sister. I will never forget Ye Meigui, definitely not." The senior sister smiled and nodded. Senior sister, I didn't lie to you. Even now, I still clearly remember the rose petals you drew under your feet when you were in the center of the square. "Student, do you like Night Rose?" "I like Night Rose very much."

Senior sister glanced at me with a charming smile, obviously very happy. "If you want to dance the night rose next time, will you invite a dance partner?" "Sister," I said almost without thinking, "I will." "Oh?" She seemed surprised. "Really?" "Ok." "You can't break your promise." Senior sister said with a smile. I will not forget this promise, and I have even been waiting for the opportunity to fulfill the promise. When I was a sophomore, people in the club began to call me senior. I know I'll still be a junior and a senior, but no matter how high I rise, a senpai will always be a senpai.

This is a fact that can never be changed. Even though I was a sophomore, my senior would still tell me to come to her and say, "Let's dance together." At most, it would add: "I'm already a senior, and I don't dare to invite a dance partner." Not long after the second semester of my sophomore year started, it was the season when roses were in full bloom. The Turkish Troubled Camels are about to dance in the square. This dance is very special, not in a circle, but in rows Multiple short columns. There are no more than 10 people in each row, and the dancers clasp their hands downward and keep their bodies close to their neighbors.

The most special thing is that there will be a lead dancer in each row, holding a handkerchief in his right hand to direct the dancers. The senior sister sneaked to my left side stealthily, like a child preparing to play a prank. In the dance steps, the knees are bent, the right shoulder is used to drive the body forward to draw a circular arc, and then the knees are straightened, and the feet vibrate secondary action. Senior sister's body is very soft when drawing arcs, and so is the movement of her eyes. As for the movement of straight knees and vibration of her feet, she deliberately made the jump of a zombie.

Troubled camels jump to the end, and people on either side of each column will lean toward the middle. The senior sister leaned to the right with almost all her body weight. I was startled, my body lost my center of gravity, and she almost fell because of it. Fortunately, I reacted quickly enough, kneeling on the left knee, supporting the half-fallen senior with both hands. The senior sister kept laughing and didn't stand up straight, she turned her head and told me: "Student, hold on to me." "Ok." "Student, hold me tight." Senior sister stopped laughing and repeated.

Later, I kept thinking, is there any meaning behind the words of the senior sister, "Student, hold on to me"? "Sister, my hands are so sore." I was still kneeling on my left knee, my hands gradually drooping. "Hehe." The senior laughed twice, then jumped up and stood up straight: "This camel is really troublesome. Bar? " "Yes." I also stood up and smiled. "Please invite a dance partner!" After hearing this sentence, I looked at my senior in embarrassment.The senior sister really said: "Want to hide again? Really. I've become a senior already, still"

When the senior sister was about to start thinking, another sentence from the square interrupted her: "The next dance, Ye Mei Rose. " I waited for this sentence for more than eight months. I don't wear those Dipper pants every day because I have to change. mpanel(1); But I will definitely not throw the Big Dipper pants into the washing machine, I will wash them carefully by hand. Let not a single star fall. If I wasn't wearing Big Dipper pants, Xiaopi would still bite my pants before going to work. But unfortunately, Xiaopi has never been able to bite holes in other pants.

"Alas" I looked at the intact pants, couldn't help frowning, and sighed. "Why are you sighing so early in the morning?" Ye Meigui asked me in the living room. "My pants are not torn." "You are sick, are your pants fine?" "But" I checked the trousers carefully again: "Oh" "You can sigh a little louder." Ye Meigui stood up. "I'm leaving. Young people should not sigh, but go forward." "etc." "Ok?" Ye Meigui took out the multivitamin pill that always made me shake my head, and a glass of water.

"Maybe" before she finished speaking, she stuffed the pill directly into my mouth. "You're tired these days, take care of your health." She handed me the water again. "Then you have to give Xiaopi one too, to see if its teeth will be stronger." "If you really want your pants to be ripped, then I'll get the scissors." "I'm leaving, see you in the evening." I ran out the door. Today, the company temporarily wants to have a meeting with Shu Hongdao and me in Taichung, and we will go back and forth within the same day. I thought I would go back to Taipei in the evening, but I still called Ye Meigui and told her that I will be in Taiwan today.

In, may go back later. After hanging up the phone, Shu Hongdao asked me, "Call your girlfriend?" "No. She's my roommate." "Then why do you have to tell her such a thing?" "Because because" I thought about it for a long time, but I didn't know how to answer, so I scratched my head violently. In fact, the answer is very simple, I don't want to let the light on the balcony wait too long. Not to save on electricity bills, I'm not that stingy. I just don't want Ye Meigui to listen to the sound of my door opening when she is watching TV or reading a book in the living room. I have tasted that kind of taste, it is very uncomfortable. So after the meeting, I was eager to hire a taxi to take a ride back to Taipei at Taichung Railway Station. "Xiao Ke, it's rare to come to Taichung, why are you in a hurry to go back?" Shu Hongdao grabbed my sleeve. I was terrified of being pulled by him and unable to get away.Immediately took out the pen from his coat pocket and asked him, "Do you think this pen looks like a pen?" what? " Shu Hongdao looked at it and said with admiration, "The body of this pen is actually made of wood, with patterns on it. What a fine pen. " I brought the pen close to his nose, let him smell it, then suddenly threw it ten meters away, and said, "Go! Get it back. " He let go of the hand holding my sleeve, and quickly moved a few steps to the side. When he realized something was wrong and turned around again, I had already stopped a taxi and headed straight to Taichung Railway Station. I didn't expect that the game I often played with Xiaopi could come in handy now, I am very proud. It's just a pity that I lost a pen. After buying a train ticket and waiting on the platform for 10 minutes, the train came. After getting in the car, I glanced at the scenery outside the window, felt a little tired, and fell asleep. It was about ten o'clock in the evening when we got back to 7C. Open the door, the light on the balcony is still on. "You're back." Ye Meigui sat on the sofa and watched TV. "Yeah." I walked into the living room, turned off the balcony light, and sat on the sofa. "Have you eaten yet?" "Eat?" I was surprised. "Why that expression? Have you eaten yet?" "Oh my god, I forgot to eat." "Did you not eat on purpose?" "I didn't do it on purpose. I just rushed back and forgot to eat first." "It's late now, and there's nothing in the refrigerator. Hmm, what should I do?" "I don't mind eating instant noodles." "Oh." She stood up, went to the kitchen, and turned on the gas stove to boil water.Then go back to the couch. "Is Taichung fun?" She asked after a while. "I'm going to a meeting, not to play." "Oh. I haven't been to Taichung yet." "I'll take you to play next time." "OK." "The water is boiling." "Oh." She stood up again and went to the kitchen, poured boiling water into the bowl, and covered the bowl again. "You can't break your promise." She sat back on the sofa and said with a smile. I was shocked, the tone of this sentence was so familiar. This is the tone in which my senior sister answered me when I told her in the square that I would invite a dance partner in the future. How could I be pulled back to the square in this simple conversation? "Hello!" Ye Meigui yelled, and I woke up. "Do you want to be stupid again?" Her voice rose. "No, don't worry." Fortunately, I returned to the living room. "Are you a little tired?" "fine." "I'm tired of talking." "Yeah. It's three minutes." "Oh." She stood up for the third time, took two steps towards the kitchen, stopped suddenly, and turned around: "Why Is it all me walking around? ' She gave me a glare. I quickly stood up, walked quickly to the kitchen, and brought the bowl of noodles to the living room. He lifted the lid of the bowl, picked up the chopsticks, and lowered his head to eat fiercely. "Eat slowly, I have something to tell you." "Hmm." I replied vaguely. "Be my boyfriend for a day." "Wow!" I burned my tongue. "What did you say?" I ignored my burning tongue, stood up and asked her. "I want you to be my boyfriend for a day." She looked up at me slightly. "why?" "Are you willing?" "It's not a matter of willingness or not. Lincoln is also Ken, and KFC is also Ken. The point is why you want me to do this." Do this. " "Are you willing or not?" "You tell me the reason first, and then I will answer whether you will or not." "Forget it." She turned her gaze back to the TV. "Okay, I will." After she was silent for a minute, I said helplessly. "Which kind of Ken are you? Lincoln's Ken? or KFC's Ken?" "I'm the willing kind of Ken, okay." "That's about the same." "Can you tell me why?" "Yeah. My dad is going back to Canada in a few days, and he wants to have dinner with me before he leaves." She turned off the TV, exhaled, and turned to look at me. "That has nothing to do with me." "It was originally irrelevant. But my father said that I am already 27, and I should think about life-long events." "Wait." I interrupted her, bowed my head and calculated: "This year is 2001, and you are 1973 just like me. Annual.So you are 28 right. " "That's not the point." "Why isn't that the point? There's a big difference between a 27-year-old girl and a 28-year-old girl, one year older!" "So?" She glared at me with a sword in her eyes. "So your dad is bad at math. Well, that's the point." I was wary. "Anyway, he means that I am not young, so I should." "Your father is very pertinent in this point, you are indeed not young." I laughed twice: "It is also pertinent Ken. " "Do you like to interrupt?" "Oh. I'm sorry." After saying that, I immediately shut my mouth. "Anyway, he always hoped that I would find someone quickly." "Is this bothering you?" "I don't. I just don't like it when he keeps whispering these things in my ear." "Oh." "So I want you to pretend to be my boyfriend and we'll have dinner with him. Got it?" "Is that so?" I leaned on the sofa. "Tomorrow at eight o'clock, don't forget." "But I usually don't get off work until 7:30, will this be too rushed?" "The restaurant is near your company, I will drive you to get off work tomorrow." "Oh." "Okay." Ye Meigui sat up straight: "Come and practice." "Practice what?" "Practice to be my boyfriend." "How to practice?" "First of all, you have to call me Rose." "Is it plums? Or roses?" "Rose of roses. That's what my parents call me." "Your father is really inexplicable. If you want to be called Rose, you should be named Rose. Why are you called Mei? What about Gui?After I named you Meigui, I wanted to call you Rose again. I really knew it was so, why bother at the beginning? This move is superfluous. " "Have you said enough?" "Sorry." I closed my mouth again. "Okay. You try calling me a rose." "Mei Mei Mei." My voice trembled a little. "Why are you trembling? This is the sound of seeing a ghost." I took a deep breath, calmed my voice, and called out again: "Rose." "No. It's too emotionless. It's like reciting three hundred Tang poems. The voice needs to be more emotional." I swallowed, coughed lightly, and softened and cleared my voice: "Rose." "It's the sound of teasing children, it seems to be cute. Take it easy, take it easy." "Hi, Rose." I relaxed my body, leaned on the sofa, and waved to her with my right hand. "That's the sound of calling Miss in the lounge." "Rose!" I was a little impatient, so I stood up and raised my voice. "Do you want to fight?" "Hey, why do you practice like this, no matter what you call it, aren't they all roses?" "If you are my boyfriend and you like me very much, then your name is Rose, and someone else's name is Rose, It won't be the same. " "What's the difference?" "It was a very natural sound. It came from the heart, not the mouth." "This is too difficult." "Forget it." Ye Meigui shrugged: "You can call it whatever you want tomorrow, maybe my father won't be able to tell the difference." "Oh." I sat down. Ye Meigui picked up the remote control and turned on the TV.Resting his chin on his left hand, he watched quietly. I watched it for a while, and it was another show I didn't like. Stretch, lean on the sofa, and close your eyes. "Go to bed when you're tired." "I have to sort out the information I brought back today, and I will use it tomorrow." "Oh, then you take a rest first, I won't disturb you." "No. I just sit and it's a kind of rest." "Ok." "Watch TV, I'm going back to my room first." I pulled myself together, stood up, and picked up my briefcase. "Don't forget about dinner tomorrow night." "No." I went to my room, turned to her and said, "Good night, Rose." "OK, good night." The right hand was about to turn the doorknob, but when the door was opened, the movement stopped suddenly, and the briefcase slipped from the left hand. I turned my head again and looked at Ye Meigui in the living room. She was still resting her chin on her left hand and watching TV, the temperature in her eyes was like water at room temperature. But after a few seconds, the left hand resting on his chin dropped, his body straightened, and his gaze shifted from the TV to me. The temperature in the eyes is like newly heated water. Because I just naturally called her, Rose. "If you like, you can call me Rose from now on." "it is good." "carry on." "Ok." I walked back to the room and sat on the desk when I remembered that the briefcase had fallen outside the door. Before leaving for work the next morning, I had already put on the Big Dipper pants, but I was afraid that Ye Meigui's father would If you see the stars, you will think that I am the kind of naughty boy. So he took off the Big Dipper pants and put on another pair of light gray trousers. However, what if the pair of trousers are so immortal that they are bitten out by Xiaopi today? What would Ye Meigui's father think when he saw the hole? "Rose, this kid must be very poor. You see, the pants are all torn." Would her dad say that? Well, maybe not.Maybe he will say instead: "Rose, look, this kid even wears ripped trousers. He must be a good boy who is diligent and hardworking. " I just sat on the bed like this, thinking about it, hesitating. "What are you doing hiding in the room? You're going to be late soon." Ye Meigui's voice sounded in the living room. "Oh." I responded and continued to think. "Hello!" After a while, she called out again. I had to walk out the door and tell her, "I don't know which pair of pants to wear." "You are sick, just wear whatever you want." "But" "Would you like me to lend you a dress?" "Don't dare." I hurried back to the room and picked up the briefcase. When I was about to walk to the balcony, I suddenly had a quick wit, squatted down, and rolled up my trousers to my knees. When Xiaopi approached me, he paused for a moment, then looked up at me, his eyes were bewildered. "Hahaha" I am very proud: "There is no unparalleled road!" "Why are you rolling up your trousers?" Ye Meigui handed me a multivitamin pill and a glass of water. "I want my calves to breathe," I said after swallowing the pill. "boring." "I'm leaving, see you tonight." I walked out the door downstairs and felt the cool wind blowing through my calves, so I put down my trousers. When I got to the office, I asked Shu Hongdao for the pen, but he refused to give it to me. He also said that I was not mean enough, that I was not loyal, etc., and read it for half an hour. As usual, I pretended to be dead and ignored him. If I were to compare, I would feel more nervous today than the day I was going to have dinner with Ye Meigui. The bathroom mirror must have gotten really impatient with me. If the mirror in the bathroom was a magic mirror, I might ask it, "Mirror, mirror, am I a A good young man who is earnestly motivated and has a bright future? " Around 7:30, the phone rang. "Hi, I'm downstairs in your company. Come down." Ye Meigui said. "it is good." I was carrying my briefcase and was about to run downstairs. But after looking at the briefcase, I thought it was over. Because at this glance, it is clear that it is the kind of briefcase carried by a small employee with no future. This briefcase is very old and I bought it at a night market in Tainan. When I was about to buy it, the boss said, "This is genuine leather." "Real leather?" I wondered, "Then why is it so cheap?" "It's really plastic skin, referred to as real leather." The boss laughed. I saw that the boss still had some sense of humor, and it was cheap, so I bought it. I've had it for several years and some of the skin has peeled off and it looks like a mottled wall. How to do it?Today I have to use it to bring some materials back for sorting out, so I have to carry it. I was again in a dilemma. Until the phone rang again, Ye Meigui's voice came: "I'll count to ten, if I haven't seen you yet" "I'll go down right away." Before she could finish speaking, I hung up the phone, picked up my briefcase, and rushed downstairs.