between clouds and mud

Chapter 23
Zhou Song is studying at the School of Geography and Science.

There are too many monks in this profession, and so few girls.

Therefore, there is not much competitiveness, and Zhou Song, who is not bad in appearance, can be regarded as a well-known beauty in the academy.

Her facial features are delicate, not thick eyebrows, more like the girl next door.

With fair skin and a small face, she has a slender and exquisite figure, and her body reveals the charm of Jiangnan beauties.

The degree of freedom in the university is very high, and the class teacher will not be too strict. Most of the social interactions are for the purpose of communication, and the relationship in the university is relatively pure.

But the well-behaved Zhou Song is an exception. He has dated two boyfriends in half a year, so his reputation is not very good, and he is secretly dubbed a scumbag.

At first, many male classmates would confess their love to her, but later they all stayed away.

Ye Ting's extracurricular activities are usually on the basketball court, he likes to play.

Because of his handsome looks, girls often come to bring him water, but he usually declines after thanking him.

This time he looked at it for a moment, then declined as usual.

This girl in front of me, Ye Ting has met before, met once, strictly counted twice.

After she left, a few buddies around him who often played together laughed and joked in his ear: "You can't judge by appearance, this girl looks quite serious."

After Ye Ting listened, she asked who she was.

"Zhou Song from the School of Geography."

It turns out that she is the flower of the Department of Geography, who is very good at studying and has a lot of love - Zhou Song.

The first time I saw her, she was giving a speech in the school auditorium as a freshman representative. The girl wore a ponytail and her voice was sonorous and forceful.

Her Mandarin is not perfect, but it is as refreshing as gurgling water.

At that time, there were dozens of rows of seats between them, and they could only see from a distance.

At first, he sat down and played with his mobile phone, but he didn't hear her name clearly.

I actually met her on the subway. There were not many people that day, and the carriage was quite empty.

He went to the gymnasium to play a game, glanced at the passers-by without a trace, and then paused for a moment.

There are four girls sitting in a row on the left, and she is there too.

Ye Ting didn't sit down, he stood aside holding the handle with one hand.

Most of the content of their chats was about clothes or cosmetics, but she never participated in the chat and just sat quietly.

In fact, Ye Ting wanted to hear her voice.

After arriving at the station, he got out of the car with his friends.

He walked almost to the gymnasium, and a few laughing friends around him pointed behind him secretly, saying that someone was following.

Ye Ting stood outside the gymnasium and did not go any further.

He turned around and saw a figure following him not far away.

The girl didn't hide, she looked at him frankly.

The emotions in her eyes were very complicated, and she couldn't explain the unexplainable tenderness.

Ye Ting nodded to her as a greeting.

Then followed in the footsteps of friends into the gym.

If there is love at first sight, he is earlier than her.

But he knew clearly that the emotion in her eyes had nothing to do with Ye Ting.

Every time Ye Ting finished playing, Zhou Song would come over to deliver water.

Ye Ting counted in her mind, once, twice, three times. The sixth time she didn't come again, and she didn't show up again after that.

Ye Ting finished playing, went back to the dormitory to take a shower, and then rode a bicycle to the library.

He glanced around in the library, Zhou Song was sitting on the steps quietly reading a book, the cover was not about geography, but about design.

Ye Fei walked over and sat down beside her.

The stone on the stairs was cold to the touch, but the two of them were so close that they could feel the slight warmth emanating from her body.

Zhou Song closed the pages of the book and looked up at him with surprise in her eyes. The reflection in her pupils was Ye Ting.

Ye Ting felt that this was enough, and he handed over the water in his hand, which was the brand she bought every time.

On the way back to the dormitory at night, his heart seemed to be blown by the night wind. In the sultry night, he tried his best to conceal the violent beating in his heart, and he couldn't help opening his mouth.

"Student Zhou Song, are you willing to associate with me?"

Zhou Song didn't speak, she nodded.

For the rest of the journey, he boldly held her hand, but at first she wanted to take it away.

But Ye Fei wrapped her palm with a little force, and the girl stopped resisting, and occasionally caressed the callus on his hand inadvertently, provoking his heart.

Zhou Song didn't know that Ye Ting rode a bicycle to search all three libraries of the school that day.

Without her, he just rode his bicycle to the next place.

Unlike her, a guy with no perseverance.

Jiang Lele studied in England for a year, but her English is still very bad.

The circle of friends around me is still Chinese, and everyone speaks Chinese.

Because of this, Zhou Song often laughed at him.

Many times, the topic of messages between Jiang Lele and Zhou Song revolves around Chi Ye.

When he was studying in Changsha, Jiang Lele looked down on Chi Ye, saying that he was too diligent in changing girlfriends and lacked a sense of responsibility.

But now that they are in a foreign country, the two of them actually have a bit of sympathy for each other.

That day Jiang Lele received a letter from BJ, and Chi Ye sat next to her uncharacteristically, mocking: "It's so old, you still write letters."

Jiang Lele asked him why he didn't go to accompany his girlfriend, and Chi Ye sighed, "It's so boring."

After that, I never saw him have any messy girlfriends.

On the contrary, when a group of people play, they don't forget to call Jiang Lele, including the European tour.

They are not short of money in this circle, and they travel to several surrounding cities when they have nothing to do.

Everywhere she goes, Jiang Lele will definitely send a postcard to BJ.

When I was in Switzerland, the weather was not very good, with long rainy days.

A group of people just stayed in the hotel and played games, too lazy to go out.

Until the day when he was about to leave, someone knocked on Jiang Lele's door early in the morning.

Outside the door, Chi Yi took out a postcard in his hand. The card was printed with alpine meadows and majestic snow-capped mountains. The texture was embossed, which showed that it was carefully selected.

"Nuo, I see you buy it every time." Chi Ye's expression was casual as usual, he gave her the card and left.

Jiang Lele was stunned for a long time, then laughed.

From then on, she felt that Chi Yi was different, he was special to her.

But between the two of them, he didn't take the initiative, and Jiang Lele, as a girl, was too embarrassed to say so, so she kept flirting with each other not far or near.

Jiang Lele felt that it was quite exhausting.

Chi Ye is a person who treats his feelings very casually. Every time he gets a girlfriend, he doesn't just put on his pants and leave.

This also shows that he respects her enough, at least both of them are carefully examining this relationship.

On the other end of the phone, Zhou Song's attitude was a little casual, Jiang Lele asked her what she was doing?
"I'm packing my bags."

"Where?"

"Guangdong."

Jiang Lele paused for a moment: "Are you looking for him?"

Zhou Song shook his head. The school has a research project in cooperation with Sun Yat-sen University, which lasts for two months and is located in Guangzhou.

She filled out the registration form, packed her things a few days in advance and planned to go there.

For this matter, Zhou Song and Ye Ting had conflicts for the first time.

Ye Ting felt that she was too independent in doing things, and she would inform him directly of any decision, even if she informed him before the decision, it would not be so awkward.

In addition, the relationship between the two is always lukewarm.

We have been together for a year, and there is no other substantive progress other than holding hands.

Despite being angry, Ye Ting sent her to the train station, and they didn't speak all the way.

When it was finally time to part, Zhou Song just left with his suitcase.

Ye Ting stretched out his hand to give her a hand, and hugged his girlfriend into his arms.

After a long time, he watched her get into the car.

It took about two hours to arrive by plane. Zhou Song still liked the train. Although the smell in the carriage was not very pleasant, it was wobbly and familiar to her like going home.

Zhou Song turned his head from the window and was stunned for a while.

Touching her shoulder, it was empty, and no one put a dress on her silently.

Guangzhou is very close to Shenzhen.

Sun Yat-sen University's research activities are not very busy, and there are not many courses.

Zhou Song also learns from Jiang Lele when he is free, such as a trip to Guangdong.

On weekends, she carried her schoolbag and booked a train ticket according to her mood. Every time she saw Shenzhen Station, she watched it on the electronic screen at the station for a long time.Still. Let's go next time.

This time, Zhou Song decided on Maoming, she likes fruit, let's pick lychees.

Guangdong Linhai, the sun is very hot.

She got out of the car wearing a straw hat, first found a boutique, and picked out two postcards at random.

After thinking about it for a long time, I didn't know how to write, and finally wrote down - eat three hundred lychees a day, and always be a Lingnan native.

After filling in the address and date, hand it over to the boss.

One was sent to London, England, and the other was sent to Changsha, China.

It started to rain as soon as we arrived in Maoming. Zhou Song was sitting on the bus, and the rain stopped when the bus arrived.

The sky in Guangdong is really cloudy and sunny, the rain is heavy and urgent, and it stops as soon as it is said.

The bushes on the side of the road were beaten wet, and the sky was blue.

Zhou Song led a basket at the entrance, and the lethality of mosquitoes here cannot be underestimated, which was a miscalculation.Zhou Song was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, and his arms were all bitten by small bags, which turned red when he scratched.

Standing under the lychee tree, she looked down and saw a snail crawling out of the grass, which was about the size of a fist.

"Outsiders, this thing is poisonous." A middle-aged man with a fat head and ears kindly reminded him, his voice was a bit rude.

Zhou Song withdrew his hand and looked back at him. The man was dressed in dusty clothes and a yellow hat, like a construction worker.

Zhou Song stood up and thanked him.

The middle-aged man sized her up without a trace, then smiled and said, "Student girl, you can't even pick lychees."

The man turned his basket twice to signal: "Choose something like this. It's cinnamon flavor. What you cut is concubine's smile, and the aftertaste is a bit harsh."

Zhou Song didn't understand these things, but listening to that sentence, the student girl felt a little disrespectful.

She nodded to express her gratitude, took the scissors and changed the tree, and continued to cut according to the species the man said.

There were a few scattered people not far from the bushes, and they vaguely heard them say hello: "Old Gu."

The middle-aged man did not forget to say goodbye to her, and trotted over with a basket in his hand.

Zhou Song caught a glimpse of that direction from the corner of his eye, and a familiar figure walked past behind the tree, and disappeared under the lychee tree in a blink of an eye.

Her heart trembled, and she unknowingly followed.

At the corner of the bushes, I saw Lao Gu and two construction workers in the same clothes peeling the fruit, with a piece of red lychee shell under their feet.

Several people gathered together, joking about old Gu and flirting with young girls.

Old Gu explained with a lychee in his mouth: "I'm not worrying about my little Zhang. There are no women who read books."

Zhou Song took the initiative to ask: "Did someone pass by just now?"

Old Gu was chewing on the lychee, and when he heard the little girl's question, his expression immediately became happy.

The colleague next to him answered first: "No one passed by, but our Zhang Gong just left."

His name is Zhang Gong.
not him.

Old Gu spat out the core of his mouth, and the words in his mouth were rambling: "Little girl, I said you have good eyesight. When I saw you just now, I thought this girl is good and suitable for our Xiao Zhang."

"Why don't we leave a contact information, and I'll match you up."

Zhou Song blushed a little when he heard such explicit words, and couldn't help shaking his head: "No need, I'm from out of town."

Lao Gu threw the lychee in his hand into the basket of the colleague next to him, and waved his hand to show that it was nothing serious.

"Guangdong is such a big place, and our little Zhang is taking his driver's license test, so it will not be a problem to meet in a car."

"No need, I'm not from Guangdong." Zhou Song blushed even more as she spoke. She had never dealt with such a straightforward person before, so she said don't leave in a hurry.

She originally planned to return to Guangzhou on the same day, but she stayed an extra day.

When she went to the litchi garden the next day, she put on long sleeves ahead of time, cut a basket full, and never saw those people from yesterday again.

Come on, she brought two baskets of lychees back to school, and all four of them in a dormitory got angry.

In those few days of class, she had a sore throat and could not speak.

At night, Jiang Lele called her, Zhou Song was hoarse.

Jiang Lele laughed at her: "You are fierce in everything, but you are timid about one thing."

Hearing this, Zhou Song did not forget to reply hoarsely: "Why don't you dare?"

There was the sound of flipping cards over the phone, and Jiang Lele counted them one by one.

"Qingyuan, Yunfu, Zhanjiang. Do you dare to go to Shenzhen? Shrink your head like a turtle."

Zhou Song sighed: "I'll be back to BJ next week."

When eating at noon, Zhou Song sat in the classroom for a while before going to the cafeteria.

She deliberately avoided the rush hour, but ran into an acquaintance in the cafeteria, who probably saw her too, but ignored her.

Zhou Song chose the dishes, sat next to the man, and took the initiative to say hello.

As if he didn't expect her to come, Lao Gu's expression was a little astonished, this time he was dressed much neater, and he didn't wear a yellow engineering cap on his head.

"Uncle." Zhou Song sat next to him and shouted politely.

Old Gu was stunned for a moment, but he couldn't hold back and asked her: "Don't you say you are not from Guangdong?"

Zhou Song nodded and took a sip of food: "I'm leaving next week. There is an academic research here for two months."

"Why are you here?" Zhou Song asked, the world is really small.

"We do projects across the country, and the GD province receives the most projects." As he said, Lao Gu shook his head: "It's a pity that our little Zhang went to the first construction test, otherwise we could have a meal together."

As he said that, Lao Gu began to sigh with emotion: "How can such a handsome young man be a monk?"

While talking, the two chatted about a nearby jade exhibition, and Lao Gu said that he went to look around, but unfortunately he didn't know anything about it.

Zhou Song glanced at the time, it was almost two o'clock, she was curious: "Don't you have to go to work?"

"Fishing." Old Gu said it as a matter of course, and he answered a phone call while speaking.

I called from home, and it sounds like I'm planning to pick a safety button for my daughter.

The tone of the phone call was very gentle, not out of tune at all.

Zhou Song has no class in the afternoon: "Let me take a look with you."

Old Gu looked at her suspiciously, apparently not believing what the little girl knew.

"I major in geology, and I took a gemology course." Zhou Song added: "It's simple and you won't be mistaken."

Hearing this, he looked very powerful, and Lao Gu couldn't help but ask, "Which university are you from?"

Zhou Song thought for a while: "Yuanmingyuan Vocational and Technical College."

"Oh, BJ's." Old Gu said to himself, Vocational Technical College.

Lao Gu's aesthetics are the same as his own personality, and he likes vulgar things.

Zhou Song rolled his eyes at a piece of emerald green dyed quartz rock jade that he was looking at like a treasure, and couldn't bear to be beaten: "Aren't you an engineer?"

Um?What's wrong?Lao Gu looked up at her with puzzled eyes.

"It has the same structure as the sand on your construction site." Zhou Song pointed to the paving stones under his feet, and taught him according to his aptitude: "This is also quartzite."

"I'll be good." Lao Gu put down his things. This thing is just like a woman, the more beautiful it is, the more deceptive it is.

Lao Gu couldn't help pointing to a large brightly colored rock, and asked, "What about this one?"

"Dushan Jade." Zhou Song was afraid that he would not understand: "Heshibi is probably made of this material."

"Isn't that very valuable?"

Who in China doesn't know He's Bi?

Old Gu thought about it, and asked the boss for a price.

The boss glanced at him, took out the calculator and handed it over.

Old Gu counted the odds, and couldn't help but gasp: "80, it's really expensive."

Zhou Song silently moved away from him, so as not to let others see that the two knew each other.

After choosing for a long time, under Zhou Song's suggestion, Lao Gu finally reluctantly chose a similar one.

The boss quoted 8000 yuan, and Zhou Song directly bargained for 500 yuan.

In the eyes of the boss who wanted to hit someone, Zhou Song took a lot of troubles unhurriedly, and finally the boss convinced him: "Expert, if I don't make money, take it away."

"Little girls don't need to wear expensive ones, natural emeralds, as long as they feel good." Zhou Song didn't forget to explain to him after coming out.

In the evening, Lao Gu specially invited her to a meal, and joked at the dinner table: "I thought you looked down on us."

"How come, my father is also a carpenter." Zhou Song did not forget to ask him while eating, "Uncle, what kind of work do you do?"

With the chopsticks in his hands, Lao Gu said casually, "I'm in charge of them, and I'll take care of everything."

When Zhou Song left, Lao Gu went to the station to see her off and helped her carry the suitcase along the way.

Zhou Song was embarrassed: "You don't have to be so polite."

Old Gu smiled and said: "You really think I'll see you off, I just happened to meet someone at the station, or you have no fate with us Xiao Zhang, he will come as soon as you leave."

Zhou Song often heard him mention this young man, so he asked, "Xiao Zhang. Is that your apprentice?"

"Hey!" Lao Gu waved his hand: "School student, I don't have the skills to call him master."

After a short pause, he continued to sigh: "This young man is like when I was young."

"It looks similar too, alas, time is really a butcher's knife." Lao Gu touched his old face and said without humility.

During this trip to Guangdong, Zhou Song visited all the cities, except Shenzhen.

Sitting on the train, she fell asleep in the swaying carriage.

She thought, let's go back to the Wick Bridge in autumn, when the rice should be ripe.

Zhou Song realized later that it had been half a month since she returned to BJ.During this time, Ye Ting did not come to her.

So I collected my books and went to the Physical Education Institute.Zhou Song was not very clear about Ye Ting's class schedule, so he missed it.

She found that she seemed incompetent as a girlfriend, and she didn't even know which dormitory building Ye Ting lived in. Except for the basketball court where he often went, she couldn't find it.

Until the roommate came to their class nervously and grabbed her: "Zhou Song, you are about to be poached."

Zhou Song didn't need to ask, the roommate just finished talking: "The Department of Foreign Languages ​​is chasing after your boyfriend. They are eating together now. It's too much. Are we all dead?"

Zhou Song sat in his seat and continued to read, without any intention of getting up.

"Aren't you angry?" The roommate looked at her in astonishment: "Aren't you tearing those two men and women apart?"

Zhou Song thought for a while, and she probably understood: "Forget it."

"I'm awesome, I'm really hot on shaving my head." The roommate convinced her, and she couldn't swallow this breath even though her back molars were shattered. Why, she pointed at us Zhou Song as a bully.

Then, the cafeteria became lively.If the party does not end, she must uphold justice.

Zhou Song heard about this from Ye Ting.It is said that they overturned the plates of other people's meals.

The next day, Ye Ting finally took the initiative to find Zhou Song, and the two sat down and had a drink.

After hearing Ye Ting's description, she could only say apologetically, "I'm sorry."

The two chatted casually like friends, and Ye Ting asked her, "How is Guangdong?"

"The sun is very big, and there are many bugs." Zhou Song thought for a while: "People are quite interesting."

"Male?" Ye Ting held a water glass, her tone was very calm.

Zhou Song looked at him and smiled, nodded: "Male, over 40."

Hearing this, Ye Ting breathed a sigh of relief, but Zhou Song's next words made him stunned.

"Ye Ting, let's end it."

Ye Ting has been waiting for her, waiting for her to ask herself, maybe it shows that Zhou Song also cares a little about him.But he has waited for so long, just wait for a sentence and let's end.

At this moment, his joints holding the water glass turned white: "I don't accept it."

After a while, he let go of the water glass again.Maybe Zhou Song is losing his temper, she may be angry.Girls have thin skins.

Ye Ting explained: "My roommate came up with the idea, I have nothing with her."

Zhou Song let out a long breath, and his tone was very calm: "Ye Ting, it has nothing to do with others, it is my own problem. We have been together for more than a year, and these days I realized that I care too little about you. Not fair. You deserve better girls."

Ye Ting looked at her, smiled after a long silence, and finally confided the suspicion in her heart: "You have someone you like."

"He should be very similar to me." Ye Ting shook her head mockingly: "Wrong, I resemble him."

Zhou Song's head short-circuited for a moment, and he nodded slowly.All she could say was, "I'm sorry."

"He's in Guangdong?" Ye Ting was still a little unwilling to ask this question.

After a long time, Zhou Song nodded.The two have been sitting, looking at each other silently.

After drinking the drink, Ye Ting sent her downstairs to the dormitory for the last time, and gave her a brief hug.

The couple's only two hugs pointed to parting.

This feeling is indescribable. After breaking up, Zhou Song began to pay special attention to this person.

In the past, I could meet them from time to time, for example, on the way to the cafeteria, maybe at a certain intersection, I could accidentally see Yefing.

His back is so familiar, in the crowd, Zhou Song can recognize it at a glance.

In the past six months, but not once.Zhou Song followed his roommate for a walk on the playground. The two walked about five laps, which was much longer than usual.

The roommate is urging: "Stay away? My legs are going to be useless."

After the fifth lap, Zhou Song didn't insist anymore, and followed his roommate back to the dormitory.Before leaving, the roommate was still sighing: "I haven't bumped into someone recently."

It turns out that there are so many coincidences in this world.

If you don't deliberately, even if it's just a school, it's hard to meet.

There are so many people in this world, and we are so far apart, how can we meet each other?
(End of this chapter)