Chapter 5 Chapter 4 Migratory birds, can we meet again after parting?

When Pei Shangxuan and Han Yichen spoke alone for the first time, he heard the sound of his heart beating like a drum.The beating heart seemed eager to rush out of the throat. The girl smiled, as if the spring breeze waking up the earth was warm and moving.Han Yichen tilted his head to listen to the hustle and bustle outside the campus, and said slowly, "It's such a noisy world." Pei Shangxuan remained silent, looking cool.If Li Li had been present, he would surely have laughed that he was pretending to hide his bewilderment.Fortunately, Han Yichen didn't know him that well, he just thought he was a boy with a great personality.

"Pei Shangxuan, I like you." The girl confessed openly and generously, unlike ordinary girls who coddle for a long time when handing him a birthday card. He was so happy that he almost fainted, his lips moved, but he couldn't utter any decent sentences.After being stunned for a long time, Pei Shangxuan said in a rough voice: "Boys should speak first about this kind of thing." Han Yichen smiled before saying anything, fluttering his long eyelashes, "Then, do you like me?" He looked at the black and white eyes in a daze, and leaned over to kiss her cheek like he did in the TV series.In the quiet playground after school, the kiss as soft as a feather is as beautiful as a fairy tale.

"Do you like me?" she asked. The boy under the age of fifteen suddenly grabbed the girl's slender shoulders and pulled her into his immature embrace.He grabbed her lips hard and sucked wantonly. "Tell me, do I like you?" Pei Shangxuan asked aggressively. Han Yichen wiped his lips with the back of his hand, blinked and said softly, "Pei Shangxuan, I want to hear from you." This is the confidence of a beautiful girl who knows her strengths and uses them well.He raised his pretty face, looked at the flagpole at the top of the teaching building and said quickly, "I like you, Han Yichen."

She smiled brightly, her face was like a flower.Pei Shangxuan and Han Yichen started dating. One early morning in April, mist curled around the quiet campus, and the early birds sang happily after eating the bugs.Pei Shangxuan patted Li Li's shoulder and said to her, "I hope you and Han Yichen can be friends." She stared deeply at the handsome young man with a serious face, and sighed deeply in her heart.Li Li guessed the beginning of some things, and also predicted the ending.Sure enough, he has someone he likes, and she is very beautiful. The dew from last night has not yet evaporated, rolling glisteningly on the newly emerging green grass leaves, this is a fresh morning that does not feel cruel.

Li Li once complained to her little uncle: "How do I know who can't like me?" She really didn't understand at the time, but now she vaguely understands a truth: it's impossible to like herself, this fact is heartbreaking. She nodded, and responded lightly: "Okay." Li Li became Han Yichen's friend.Because of her intervention and Pei Shangxuan's appeal, the balance of power between the two camps in the class has changed significantly.The girls who were originally neutral or dragged by Wu Lina and the others to target Han Yichen turned against each other, and Han Yichen's circle of friends suddenly expanded a lot.

After leaving the school gate, Li Li often saw Pei Shangxuan holding Han Yichen's hand, this pair was very conspicuous in the bustling crowd.She was a few steps away, walking home unhurriedly. Those joyful times of frolicking and going home together are gradually stained with the dust of the years.Nostalgic, but gone with the wind. Pei Shangxuan quit the school chorus team. On the one hand, he was about to graduate in one year, and on the other hand, he was in the worst stage of voice change, so he made up his mind to speak less. Li Li was the first to notice his abnormality. The boy who usually talks so much nonsense in class that people want to put tape on his mouth, was praised by Li Fengzhu in the class meeting for his progress in observing discipline, which made the students look down.

After eating, she went to Pei Shangxuan's house on the pretext of taking a walk to help her digestion, and called his name loudly under the window.He poked his head out with the rice bowl in his hand, and pointed to his own bowl to signal her to wait a moment. Li Li waited for five minutes, the stairs light came on, and he opened the door after a while and came out.He lifted his chin towards her, still not speaking. "Hey, it's just changing your voice. Do you need to be so nervous?" Boys' voice-changing period is an embarrassing time. Heartless boys and girls often burst into laughter when they hear strange voices from their companions. Embarrassed people are even more helpless.

He touched her ponytail and said in a rough voice, "It's not for this." His voice was a little weird, as if he had been rubbing and crawling on rough sand. She raised her head, squinted her eyes and smiled cheerfully. He could read the difference from others. "Stupid, when people value what you say more than anything else, no matter what your voice becomes, no one will care." Pei Shangxuan didn't fully understand what she meant, but he understood one thing: Li Li was comforting himself not to care.Strangely enough, his mood improved inexplicably. "Have you ever laughed at me?" He asked worriedly.

Li Li smiled slyly, waved her hands and turned around: "It's time for my walk, I'm home, bye." "Hey, girl, you haven't answered my question yet." Pei Shangxuan called out, completely ignoring whether the weird voice would embarrass others. She turned her head and smiled brightly. "Don't laugh at you, am I at a loss?" The teenager stood there stamping and complaining, accusing her friend of going too far.He forgot to inquire, why did Li Li walk out of the shadows with only one sentence? After entering the third grade, Pei Shangxuan was going to apply to Li Fengzhu for a seat change.In the past summer vacation, he and Han Yichen often went swimming, and their relationship developed by leaps and bounds like glue.

Before going to the office to find the head teacher, Pei Shangxuan asked Li Li for advice.After all, they are good friends, and she always spares no effort to help tide over the embarrassing occasion when she misses in class and is caught by the teacher to answer questions. She had a strange sense of being abandoned, which was comical.Li Li smiled indifferently, pretending not to care and said: "Thank God, I can finally get rid of you, idiot!" The youthful boy bent down and ruffled her short hair.During the summer vacation, she cut off the long hair she had kept for a long time, and cut a refreshing child's flower head. This hairstyle is more beautiful than her slender ponytail in the past.When he returned to school, he made a fuss and turned her head around to study for a long time. It was strange that Li Li, who had refused to change her hairstyle in the past, would cut off her long hair cruelly.She laughed and said nothing, Pei Shangxuan would never understand her intention of cutting her hair.

What she usually does when she sees a girl in a TV series after she loses her love is to cut her hair. It seems that under the dexterous cutting of the hair stylist, not only the three thousand troubles, but also the sadness, all leave her. Li Li is not broken in love, but her nostalgia has become broken soap bubbles.It used to be colorful, but in the end it couldn't escape the fate of cracking. Pei Shangxuan yelled indiscriminately about Li Li's bad mouth, she looked up at him with deep and sad eyes.Eyes can't lie, they give away secrets, she couldn't bear to be without him by her side.Startled slightly, he subconsciously let go of the hand that tore her short hair.Weird emotions slipped through his heart, catching the young man off guard. "If there is no Han Yichen, do you want to change seats?" Li Li twisted his clothes with his fingers, feeling uneasy. Pei Shangxuan shook his head, if Han Yichen hadn't acted coquettishly and said that he wanted to get closer to him, he would never have thought about it.He is used to waking up from a doze in every class and leaning on his arm to watch her seriously copying notes. After a long time, Li Li wears glasses and he no longer finds it ugly; he is used to being called "stupid" by her ear, Being criticized by her for eating, drinking, having fun all day long and not seeking to make progress, he understood that Li Li's mean mouth was actually caring about him; he was used to her inscrutable words, although he was limited by his comprehension, he still didn't understand. "If you go, the chances of success will not be very high. The whole school is spreading rumors about your relationship with Han Yichen. Do you think Mr. Li will let you develop publicly? If you say you are stupid, you really don't use your brain." Li Li returned to normal, without any hesitation. Tease relentlessly. "I'll tell you for you, let you owe me a favor." "I don't want it!" Pei Shangxuan was dissatisfied with Li Li's attitude of controlling everything, "I can handle it myself." He stopped in front of the office door, and suddenly felt unspeakable pain in his heart, like the pain of separation.After hesitating for two minutes, he resolutely turned and left.Back in the classroom, Pei Shangxuan walked up to Han Yichen and lied calmly: "Ms. Li refused, I'm sorry." Han Yichen couldn't hide his disappointment, and he asked unwillingly, "How did you say that to Teacher Li? Also, why did the teacher disagree?" He rolled his eyes impatiently, sat down on Han Yichen's desk with his hands in his trouser pockets, and bent down to her. "Why do you ask so many questions? If you don't agree, you don't agree. Anyway, Teacher Li has long disliked me." "Then, let Li Li talk about it? If you say that you affect her in class, Teacher Li will definitely agree." With her beautiful face up, she shook his sleeves with both hands, "Shang Xuan, I think You sit near me." He turned his head and looked around Li Li who had just returned to the classroom. "It's better for us to keep a low profile." The class bell rang, and he walked to his seat. "Hey, Li Li, it seems that you can't get rid of me as an idiot." Pei Shangxuan smiled lightly and grabbed her physics textbook. "I didn't bring the physics book, so you can borrow it from me." The thankless physics teacher walked into the classroom, and it was inconvenient for Li Li to stage a book fight with him, so she gave Pei Shangxuan a hard look.Although she has a fierce look, the soft light in her eyes hints at the happiness in her heart. That's great, Pei Shangxuan won't leave. The TV station introduced a Japanese cartoon "Saint Seiya", and there was a whirlwind of Saint Seiya in the whole school.Li Li is as addicted to it as everyone else. Whenever she has free time, she either reads comics or carves holy clothes on the table. Before the 800-meter test in physical education class, she also shouts "burn, little universe". Li Li is not good at manual work. Even if she worked as hard as everyone else, she still couldn't finish carving a complete golden saint's holy cloth.It is rare for Pei Shangxuan to find a place where he can completely surpass Li Li, and every time he finishes engraving a piece, he will proudly show the result to her.He bought a set of engraving paper for the golden holy garment, and planned to give it to Han Yichen as a gift after engraving. Li Li likes Kamiao, the Saint Seiya of Aquarius. Even though several copies are broken, she still fights repeatedly and vows to succeed.Pei Shangxuan laughed at her for being clumsy, but one day when Li Li opened his notebook, he found a carefully carved golden holy cloth of Aquarius. She tore off a blank piece of paper, wrote "Did you send it?" on it, and pushed it to him at the same table. He quickly pushed the blank paper back to her and wrote a big "No" under her question.Li Li laughed secretly in her heart, she didn't say what she gave at all, Pei Shangxuan's answer was equivalent to three hundred taels of silver here. She was very happy all day, and the good mood lasted until the evening when she went to her stepfather's house for dinner and met Liu Qianren.Since Li Meiqing and Liu Zhixian got married in February, the chances for her and Liu Qianren to meet each other are few and far between.I don't know if it's the timing of her choice or Liu Qianren didn't want to see her deliberately avoiding her, every time Li Li went to Liu's house to visit Qian Ren was always absent, either to hang out with classmates, or to go to his mother's place. He said he hated her, and passed on his dislike of Li Meiqing to Li Li.She remembered the hatred she saw in his eyes that day, strong and deep. Li Li still didn't understand where Liu Qianren's resistance came from. The remarriage of his parents was their own business. It's really rare for a son and daughter who are hostile like him.A few years ago, Li Guoqiang became interested in psychology, and there was a copy of Freud at home, which was an old book he brought Li Li from the Confucian Temple on Sunday.He turned a few pages and threw them aside, but she saw the bottom from the beginning.She guessed that Liu Qianren might have an Oedipus complex, but she only dared to think about it in private, and never had the guts to ask him for proof. Before dinner, Li Li was sitting on the floor of the living room, lying on the coffee table doing homework.The third grade of junior high school is facing the entrance examination, and the teachers of various subjects have accelerated the teaching progress since the beginning of the semester, in order to spare time for the second half of the semester to give students a comprehensive review, so she has a lot of homework to do every day. Liu Zhixian passed by her with the dishes from the kitchen, sorry that the dining table was too small for her to do her homework comfortably, and at the same time suggested that she might as well go to brother Qianren's room to do it. She was taken aback, and quickly said that this would be fine.For Li Li, the scariest thing is being alone with Liu Qianren.Except for Pei Shangxuan, no one knew Qian Ren's dislike for their mother and daughter. Everyone just felt that this beautiful young man was too indifferent and didn't like wasting words. Liu Qianren came out of his room and went to the tea table to pour water.Seeing this, Li Li moved the book a little away to avoid splashing the homework book when he poured water. He smiled maliciously, and with a twist of his wrist, the water glass tilted slightly, and a jet of water poured down from the mouth of the glass and wet her notebook, and the water stains immediately took up a large piece of the topic she had just finished. "Childish." Li Li looked up at the beautiful boy calmly. Liu Qianren shrugged his shoulders indifferently, "I'm sorry sister, I missed it for a while." With a critical and harsh smile, he continued to comment with disdain: "You look ugly with glasses." "It's nothing to do with you whether it looks good or bad." Li Li shook off the water on the homework book, and started to tidy up the textbooks on the coffee table.Liu Qianren's eyes flickered, she sat down on the sofa with a glass of water in her hand, and opened her notebook casually. "Saint Cloth of Aquarius, huh?" His slender and fair fingers picked up the paper-cut, and he looked at Li Li with raised eyebrows, "Do you like it?" She was in a dilemma, and according to her guess, Liu Qianren's question was definitely a trap.If the answer is "like", he will definitely tear it up without hesitation; if the answer is "don't like it", he will also say "if you don't like it, just tear it up" and put it into action.In short, this boy will not let himself have a good time. Li Li stretched out her arms, and simply skipped his question and asked him to let go: "Give it back to me, this is my thing." A cruel smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, Liu Qianren suddenly closed his palms, and crumpled the red paper-cut into a ball amidst Li Li's exclamation.She was so angry that she trembled all over, and she didn't want to slap his handsome face with a slap. "Li Li, what are you doing!" Li Meiqing, who walked out of the kitchen with bowls and chopsticks, happened to witness this scene, and sternly reprimanded her daughter for her bold behavior. Liu Qianren held his burning and painful cheeks, and fixed his cold eyes on the angry girl in front of him.Li Meiqing rushed over and poked Li Li's forehead to ask her to apologize quickly, but she stubbornly pursed her lips and said nothing. A feeling of irritability and anxiety suddenly rushed to his heart. He was shocked when he was slapped by her just now, and he still couldn't believe that she would hit someone.It seems that this weightless engraved paper means a lot to her. Liu Qianren lowered his head halfway, and the soft hair beside his cheeks covered his expression. The relationship between him and her was doomed at the beginning of their intersection—appearing in her life as a demon. Li Li ignored her mother's nagging, packed her schoolbag without saying a word, stood up and said goodbye.Liu Zhixian went in without knowing it, looked at his silent son at a loss, and then at Li Li who was determined, and had no choice but to remind her to be careful on the way back. She ran down the stairs in one breath, and the tears she desperately endured fell. Li Li squatted down and sat on the stairs leaning against the wall and wept sadly. That was Camiao's golden holy garment, a gift from Pei Shangxuan to him!The more she thought about it, the more uncomfortable she was, and she buried her head in her arms and refused to lift it up. The sound of footsteps coming down from the stairs stopped next to her, Li Li moved to the side to let the other person pass by, but this person's target was obviously her, and he stopped beside her without moving. Li Li raised her head, and the gloomy boy who appeared in her field of vision shocked her greatly.She quickly picked up her schoolbag and got up from the ground, stepping on the stairs and rushing down quickly. Liu Qianren quickly caught up with her and stopped in front of Li Li.She took a step to the left, and he also moved to the left; she tried to go around to the right, but he blocked in front again, making it clear that he did not intend to let her pass. "Aren't you convinced?" Seeing that he couldn't hide, Li Li went all out, puffed out his chest and raised his chin and said loudly, "I'll let you slap me back." The street lamp dragged his shadow very long, and Liu Qianren stood in front of her silently.Li Li didn't wear glasses, so he couldn't see his expression clearly against the backlight. "Beating a woman is something barbarians do." He took a step forward and narrowed the distance between him and her. "Do you want to know why I hate your mother?" Li Li paused in her steps to retreat, and waited for the next sentence.Seeing that his words had successfully caught her attention, Liu Qianren smiled slightly with the corners of his mouth curled up.His beauty is already leaning towards femininity, and his weird smile makes people feel that he is coquettish and not like ordinary people. She somehow thinks of the fox fairy and ghost in "Liaozhai", and keeps silent. "My parents divorced because of your mother, and that's the reason." He spoke the truth calmly, with deep-seated hatred buried under his seemingly plain voice. Li Li was obviously shocked by this fact. She always thought that Liu Zhixian only met Li Meiqing after her divorce, but she never expected that it was her mother who intervened to destroy other people's family.She looked at the beautiful boy and was deeply sorry. "I'm sorry, I..." Li Li sincerely apologized for being a disgraceful "third party" to her mother.No wonder Liu Qianren hated their mother and daughter so much, and she wouldn't give others a good look when she was in another place. Li Meiqing is Li Meiqing, what she does has nothing to do with Li Li, Liu Qianren knows this very well.He didn't want to vent his anger on Li Li, but the obedience and joy shown by this girl when they met for the first time made him furious, and he was unwilling to bear the torture alone. He stretched out his hand and pulled the girl who was unprepared and focused on apologizing to him. "Li Li, you will pay back what your mother owes me." He declared resentfully, and at the same time put his hand into the hem of her shirt. Li Li instantly froze, and a strange high fever ignited where the boy's palm passed. When his hand covered the slightly protruding female symbol on her chest, a sense of shame enveloped the girl's whole body.She pushed Liu Qianren away with all her strength, clutched the clothes on her chest tightly with one hand, and her face was flushed. Liu Qianren's face was cloudy and uncertain. His original intention was a bad joke, but the soft body touched by his palm made him want to stop.She is a young girl who has just developed, any girl in the class can compare Li Li to jumping the Huangpu River, but it is this undeveloped body that makes his lower abdomen feel hot. "I'm warning you, don't appear in front of my eyes." Putting down the sinister threat, Liu Qianren turned and walked towards the building where he lived. Li Li ran away as if she had received an amnesty.She didn't see him turn around, staring at her back with complicated eyes. When the autumn wind blows, geese fly from the north to the south, and Shanghai has become a transit place for migratory birds once a year.Pei Shangxuan is obsessed with watching birds, and he sighs to Li Li that migration is the most wonderful living habit of birds. "Flying thousands of kilometers, how do they find where they want to go?" He put on the awning and looked up at the flock of birds flying over the city, "Look, Li Li, look, the herringbone-shaped geese group." Li Li hastily looked up at the sky, and sure enough, she saw wild geese flying across the sky in the "herringbone shape" that she had read in elementary school books. Pei Shangxuan still couldn't get enough of it, and looked back at Li Li: "We went to Nanhui on Sunday, and I heard that there are many migratory birds in the wetland there." "I'm not going to be the light bulb for you and Han Yichen." She flatly refused, inexplicably depressed. "Yichen doesn't like birds. She said that things with long feathers and sharp beaks are scary. When we passed by the vegetable market, she would scream when she saw old hens." Pei Shangxuan complained, "You are much braver than her." Too bad you don't like it brave girl.Li Li snorted contemptuously in her heart.Pei Shangxuan may never have the chance to understand that her bravery comes from him, and he asked for it on her fourteenth birthday.What he said seemed to have installed a phonograph in her heart, and it would not grow old with the passage of time. Pei Shangxuan rubbed her short hair habitually, and the stern boy took off his cool guy mask in front of her, even if he was called a "stupid" by her, he would not get angry.After his voice changed into a magnetic baritone, Li Li often teased him for being able to fascinate a lot of girls with his voice alone.Now he is using this deceptive voice to beg her to accompany him to Nanhui to visit the migratory birds passing by Shanghai, he said: "You don't want to see it, maybe we can see you next year, or maybe we will never see each other again in our lifetime." Why do I have nothing to say goodbye to a bird?Li Li felt that Pei Shangxuan was a bit mad, and was just about to mock him for "sorry about writing new words", but suddenly thought that one day he and he would inevitably face separation, just like a migratory bird leaving its habitat and starting a long journey During the journey, no one knows whether they will be able to return as scheduled. "Okay, I'll take it as an autumn outing with you idiot." In the end, the words that came out of her mouth became like this. On Sunday, autumn was crisp and sunny, Li Li and Pei Shangxuan took a bus to People's Square to change the bus to Nanhui.The traffic was slow, and there was a severe traffic jam on the Bund. Pei Shangxuan fell asleep with his pillow on Li Li's shoulder. She enjoyed the rare physical contact with him, the handsome boy was her best friend in fifteen years of life, but it was impossible for him to like her. The car drove on the cable-stayed Nanpu Bridge, and the decision to develop Pudong brought the land on the other side of the Huangpu River into the focus of the world.The original barren farmland was refurbished into a wide avenue, and the low-rise bungalows became high-rise buildings. The Nanpu Bridge across the Huangpu River was completed and opened to traffic in November last year. Driven to pass quickly. She woke Pei Shangxuan up and asked him seriously for the first time what his plans were after graduating from junior high school. "Are you ready for high school?" Pei Shangxuan yawned, looking at the misty Huangpu River in the distance through the car window, he smiled knowingly: "Li Li, my grades will definitely not make it into high school." "I'll tutor you, you, Pei Shangxuan, are not really stupid." Hearing that he was determined to give up further studies, Li Li felt sad for a while. He stared at her for a while, with unusually serious eyes. "Li Li, I'm not interested in studying for university entrance exams, don't waste your own time helping me." He said slowly, vaguely nostalgic, "In the future you will get used to another person being your deskmate. " Li Li saw the reality, Pei Shangxuan and her are not in the same world. It's like migratory birds transiting the country, only staying for a short time. After a half-day car transfer in Nanhui, they finally came to the legendary wetland tidal flat, and got their wish to see a large group of migratory birds flying and landing.Pei Shangxuan looked at the flock of birds soaring in front of him full of emotion, while Li Li looked at him. He is a migratory bird, the one she looks forward to seeing again after parting!