June is our farewell song

Chapter 17 "I Have a Promise with Meteor"

After the afternoon classes were over, Gu Yuan, who worked hard to get the key back from the dormitory aunt in the International Office, walked exhaustedly on the stele corridor of Nanhua High School.

Leaning on the wooden bench by the Shulan Pond, Gu Yuan looked at the koi carp huddled up on the bank like little birds waiting to be fed. While tearing the bread in his hand, he thought about the relationship with Chi Yu this morning. Invitation, what time should I go tomorrow morning?

Although the dormitory's morning music started to play at 45 o'clock, the cafeteria seemed to be open at [-]:[-], so it would definitely not be good for Chi Yu to wait for him.

After crumbling the remaining bread and throwing it into the water, Gu Yuan started to walk towards the teaching building.he
Decided to get up early tomorrow morning and go to the second floor of the cafeteria at [-]:[-] to wait for the door to open.

As soon as he walked out of the stele corridor, Gu Yuan met Qi Yu who was in high spirits under the teaching building.

"Hey! Dumb."

"Hey."

Gu Yuan is no stranger to Qi Yu's nickname, which he changes all the time.He raised his hand and clapped Qi Yu, and Gu Yuan's attention immediately shifted to the poster on the bulletin board in front of her.

"I have a promise with Meteor... The Taurid Meteor Shower Observation Program is currently registering. Those who are interested can register at the school's observatory between 2:[-] and [-]:[-] p.m. on Wednesday...The number of places is limited, first come, first served. The person in charge of the event: Tianwen Society Li Qiuran, Class [-] ([-]) of Changgao. Hmm..."

Gu Yuan held his arm and gently rubbed his chin with the knuckle of his index finger, his eyes kept moving back and forth between Qi Yu and the poster, looking thoughtful.

"Why are you looking at me like that, coveting my beauty?"

"Tch, stop being sentimental." Gu Yuan curled his lips, "Are you interested in this?"

"Yes what's the matter?"

"Those who haven't finished reading Trinity One for two whole weeks will be interested in meteor showers?"

"Why... can't you? I like meteor showers, are you in the way?"

"No, no, I just feel a little strange." Gu Yuan said meaningfully, "Compared with the distant starry sky, you seem to be more interested in the real world."

"Hey, it's every girl's wish to watch a grand meteor shower, right?"

"You? A girl?" Gu Yuan looked Qi Yu from head to toe, "Well, I was negligent."

"whispering sound--"

"But I want to remind you that the observation conditions of meteor showers are not as good as you imagined. They are all with the naked eye. In this late summer mosquito-infested weather, observing meteor showers outdoors is like turning into a moving pool of blood."

"You control me. Hmph."

Qi Yu snorted softly, and then walked up the stairs.

"This guy……"

Looking at her disappearing back, Gu Yuan lowered his eyelids slightly, and then turned his gaze back to the poster posted by the Astronomical Society. To be honest, he was really moved by this event.

As we all know, the Taurus meteor shower comes from Comet Encke, and the proportion of fireballs in the meteor shower produced by comets is generally not too large, because comet activities tend to emit small and light particles, but Taurus is a beautiful exception. The proportion of shooting stars is quite high.

The generation time of the Taurid meteor shower is very old, about 2 to 3 years ago. Due to its ancient age, the perturbation of the large planets makes the meteor cloud have an obvious resonance structure. Simply put, some places are dense and some places are empty.In the "intensive" years, the flow of the Taurus meteor shower will increase three times, the zenith flow will reach 12-17 per hour, and the proportion of bolides will also increase by 3-5 times.A fireball can be seen almost every hour.

This year's observation conditions are the best since 1988. The distance from the earth to the resonance point is only 7 degrees. The next time such excellent conditions appear again will have to wait until 2032. At that time, Gu Yuan doesn't know if he still has Leisurely watching the meteor shower.

On Wednesday afternoon, that is, the day after tomorrow, the literature club has no activities this week, so it is time to sign up.

"Meteor shower?! Qi Yu and Feng Ziqiu are going to watch the meteor shower?!"

Yin Tian, ​​Tao Yishi and Cheng Xin exclaimed in unison.

"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh."

Gu Yuan looked at the three guys in front of him with a dark face, who seemed to have exploded because of a little disturbance. Since the incident in the morning, these three people have been inseparable. This guy took the initiative to lean over, and he didn't plan to tell them about it right away.

"Hey, Brother Yuan, is the information reliable—"

Yin Tiantian asked in a very light voice.

"I told you to keep your voice down, I didn't ask you to be thieves. You are sneaky, you are afraid that others will not see that there is a problem, right?" Gu Yuan felt that his blood pressure was soaring, and soon approached the warning line of the human body , "Not necessarily, I just saw that Qi Yu is interested in this event, and besides, this event does not require a man and a woman to sign up at the same time."

"Meteor shower! That's a meteor shower! Let's go and watch~Meteor shower~"

Cheng Xin's eyes sparkled, and Gu Yuan guessed without thinking that there must already be a sweet idol drama going on in this girl's mind, but then again, is it true that meteor showers can kill girls? Is it really that big? Even Cheng Xin, who keeps her ears off the window and only reads sage books, yearns for it to such an extent?

As an astronomy enthusiast who has actually observed meteor showers, whether it was last year's Perseid meteor shower or the year before last's Geminid meteor shower, the memories left on Gu Yuan can't be called good.

Especially on that icy and snowy night when observing the Geminid meteor shower, the wet and cold north wind in December left a far deeper impression on Gu Yuan, who was still in junior high school, than the two meteor showers per minute.It was also the memory of that night that made him forever engrave an idiom into his mind-"Feng Liu Tong Li (suave)".

"Cheng Xin, is meteor shower really that attractive to girls?" Gu Yuan asked.

"Of course, you think, the dark blue sky is full of bright stars, suddenly, a shooting star dragged its long tail, and fell silently in the open field, and then many shooting stars flew from the front of the eyes. Sliding across, it blooms like summer flowers on the sapphire blue sky, and is as misty as fireworks."

Cheng Xin crossed her fingers in front of her chest, looking like a devout believer.

"And shooting stars, can't you make a wish? With so many shooting stars, you must be able to make many, many wishes. Wow, just imagining it makes people feel impatient."

Seeing Cheng Xin's appearance, Gu Yuan didn't have the heart to tell her that the meteor shower captured by time-lapse photography is a spectacular scene that human beings can't observe with the naked eye in a lifetime. Such a gorgeous scene can only exist in the photos and will never appear. above the real night sky.

"The meteor shower observed with the naked eye will not form a sky full of star trails like the one in the photo. Even the Perseid meteor shower, which is known as the first of the three major meteor showers in the northern hemisphere, has the highest peak recorded in history. Only [-] meteors per hour. 'The daily average flow is only about [-] to [-], which is far less spectacular than the photos."

"Ah——" Cheng Xin, who suddenly accepted the cruel facts, immediately showed a disappointed expression of shattered dreams.

"Sister Zifeng? Why are you here?"

"Huh? What? Don't you think that if you are as beautiful as me, you don't need cannibalism?" Jiang Zifeng took a bottle of soda and sat down opposite Gu Yuan, and said a few witty words, "However, I really seldom eat dinner, I just happened to see you and wanted to ask you something."

"Ask me? What's the matter?"

"How is the preparation for the column I told you about last time?"

"Uh... Well, we are already preparing, and everything is proceeding in an orderly manner."

Gu Yuan quickly adjusted his calm posture and replied.

"Oh? Really?" Jiang Zifeng looked into Gu Yuan's eyes with meaningful eyes, "Then I'll start looking forward to the two manuscripts you give me next week."

"Next week?! Didn't you say that we will hand in the papers together before December? Why do we have to hand in two papers next week?"

Gu Yuan felt that his blood pressure had finally broken through the warning line at this moment, and he seemed to be able to hear the sound of blood rushing in his brain arteries.

"December is the time for the cover issue to be printed. In the early stage, drafts need to be reviewed and revised, and regular deadlines will help improve the efficiency of your task completion. Maintaining a proper sense of urgency at all times is what allows a person to keep moving forward Power source."

"Ah, this..." Gu Yuan felt that he was one head and two big.

"Well—didn't you just say that everything is proceeding in an orderly manner?"

"Ah." Gu Yuan was speechless.

"By the way, just to remind you, the monthly exam is going to be next week."

"Ah?! So fast?" Gu Yuan was so startled that his whole body was deformed, and he fell limply on the cold stainless steel long table.

"Well... counting when you started school, it's almost a month. Isn't it normal to have a monthly exam?"

"That's it...it's September 23rd now...the monthly exam is already coming..." An invisible little ghost floated out of Gu Yuan's mouth, "It's over...I haven't had time to review anything... ..."

"Review? Sister Zifeng? What are you talking about?"

Feng Ziqiu walked over with a bottle of sugar-free Coke, Gu Yuan and Jiang Zifeng were the only ones left at the table, and Gu Yuan's brain seemed to be in a state of complete shutdown, and had stopped functioning.

"When it comes to the monthly exam, he's just like this." Jiang Zifeng shrugged slightly, "It seems that it's because he hasn't reviewed yet."

"Review? No way, does anyone else need to review before the exam?"

"I don't know either. Anyway, since I was in middle school, I have never had to worry about exams."

Gu Yuan slowly circled his head with his hands, now he just wanted to separate himself from these two irritating guys.

(End of this chapter)