Secret Love · Orange Raw Huainan

Chapter 108 Extra Story 2: Unknown Flowers Are Blooming in the Yard ([-])
"I seldom drink alone, but I drink with my elders every time I go home. The elders in my family are all good at drinking, and my cousins ​​are also good at drinking. Compared with me, a nerd, my grandparents are more I like them because they are smart and courteous. Later, I refused to admit defeat and started to drink with them during the holidays, and I gradually practiced it." He raised the wine cup to his mouth, thought for a while and then put it down , laughed, "Actually, there is no comparison. But I just like to compare myself with others, and I can't compare with others, so I will accept my fate. So in the three years after I was admitted to Zhenhua, I gradually accepted my fate. Heh, Do you think I am too competitive?"

Luo Zhi shook her head: "Adults' partiality is too obvious, and it's difficult for children to maintain a balanced mentality. Who doesn't want to be the most lovable one, and no one likes to stare blankly."

Qin Shuning lowered his eyes and thought for a while, and the smile on the corner of his mouth deepened.He raised his glass again to pay tribute to Luo Zhi: "I respect you for this."

Luo Zhi hurriedly stopped: "If you drink like this by yourself, I will be very embarrassed."

He was taken aback for a moment, but he was a little at a loss. He put down the glass and rubbed his hands together embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, then I won't drink."

The atmosphere was a little deserted for a while.Looking at his cautious look, Luo Zhi couldn't help but blame herself.

Impulsively, she poured herself a cup of wine, raised her hand slightly and said, "Sorry, let me have a drink with you, don't mind."

She looked up at Qin Shuning's surprised eyes. The alcohol content was not high, but she drank too much and still choked on it. She finally held back and covered her mouth with a wet towel and coughed lightly. Twice.

"I'm sure now that I've loved you for so many years, it's worth it."

What Qin Shuning said suddenly made Luo Zhi cough violently.

"Actually, I've met you since freshman year of high school." He thoughtfully ignored Luo Zhi's embarrassment, turned his head to look at the dim lights by the lake outside the window, and spoke slowly in a weak voice alone.

"One noon in the autumn of the first year of high school, our class was playing ball on the playground. I saw a girl walking across the playground from the cafeteria to the teaching building with a stack of books. She was quiet, with fair skin and bright eyes. I also I don’t know how I noticed you at a glance, and I can’t forget it. It’s very strange. Later, I told my friends in college, and they all said that it might be puberty,” he laughed, “Really, I I still can’t figure it out.”

Under the dim light, Luo Zhi could only see Qin Shuning's eyes under the reflection of the candlestick on the table, like two hazy lanterns.

"I was playing guard at the time. When I saw you approaching, I suddenly wanted to show off. I was short and I couldn't play the ball well. I used to pass the first ball at the beginning of each game in the halfcourt. After that Almost nothing happened to me. But that day, I actually dribbled the ball, commanded our team’s big and small forwards to move, and shouted very loudly, 'Keep an eye on Chen Yongle' and 'Keep an eye on Sheng Huainan'..."

Luo Zhi blinked.

She remembers that day.It was once forgotten, but because of Qin Shuning's words, it came to the fore clearly.At that time, I held my breath and wanted to take the first place in the exam, and wanted to let Sheng Huainan know how good I was, and tried my best to avoid all possible opportunities to know Sheng Huainan—so I heard a very loud sentence After "Focus on Sheng Huainan"...

"I didn't expect that I was screaming so hard, why should you look at me sideways? I didn't expect that you turned your head and strode away. I don't even know why you seem to be angry."

Luo Zhi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and didn't explain.

"After all, we were far away, so I didn't see your appearance very clearly. After a while, when I was about to forget you, I suddenly discovered that you would come to the playground for a walk every night before self-study. Our class every day In the evening, I play in the seat near the flag-raising platform on the basketball court, so I can always see you. I think you are a strange girl. Others are sisters in twos and threes, but you are alone, and you seem to be looking for someone every day But I have been observing for many days, but I can't see who you are looking for.

"But after a long time, it still made me see a little bit. Every time you walk near our class, you will be a little unnatural. I will play hard there, and risk being laughed at by everyone. Soul character, but you never looked at me. At that time, I suddenly began to think, is it possible that she came to find me?"

Luo Zhi lowered her head slightly and saw Qin Shuning smile wryly out of the corner of her eye.

However, he didn't quickly reveal the answer to the mystery that each other knew well, but changed the subject and continued the story.

"But we met, do you remember?"

Facing Qin Shuning's expectant eyes, Luo Zhi frowned slightly, she nodded subconsciously, but couldn't think of the specific kind of meeting.

"The first semester of junior high school is coming to an end, and I was about to go out when class was over. When I stood up and turned around, I saw you passing by the door of our class, looking in my direction, and seeing that I was also looking at you, you immediately I turned my eyes away. I know you are pretending. I was very happy at the time, thinking, now let me find the evidence. "

There is always a damp and salty smell in the air of seaside cities, which makes people's hearts soft and warm.Under the dark blue sky, the gorgeous lights in the distance are also smudged by the humid air, turning sharp into clusters of halos with rough edges.

The whole world is in a trance, falling into memory.

"I inquired about you a lot. Every time our Chinese teacher brought excellent sample essays from previous exams, I would open them as soon as they were sent to me, just to find out if your name was there. Later, I also started to study carefully. Writing Chinese papers, I hope to appear in the excellent composition with you. Don’t tell me, there was one time, in the mock exam of the third year, our compositions were next to each other, you were in front and I was behind. But I think you should be Never noticed it?"

Luo Zhi lied 12 times sincerely: "I remember. Although I don't remember what article you wrote, I remember this matter."

Qin Shuning's eyes lit up.

She had always hoped that Sheng Huainan could tell her such a lie.Now it can only be returned to others.

He smiled gratefully.

"Thank you, really thank you. I'm very happy."

She shook her head: "Nothing, I just..."

He laughed heartily: "Don't worry, I won't misunderstand, you just saw it by the way."

Just by the way, nothing special.Qin Shuning's magnanimity made Luo Zhi feel ashamed.

"You are as clean as a piece of white paper. You have no particularly good friends, and you have never gonessip with any boy. But I just believe that you are not a simple nerd. I will always remember your bright eyes, your expression There is a story in it, but I haven't had a chance to know it.

"Actually, to be honest, don't be angry. You were not as good-looking in high school as you are now. In high school, I also tentatively mentioned you to a few friends around me. Of course, it was in the form of casual chatting. I dare not reveal that I am interested in you. Everyone Almost everyone has heard of you, No.1 in the liberal arts class. But they also said that they think you are quite ordinary, and they also said that there are no beauties among those who have studied well.

"But I think you are very good-looking, and you can be noticed at a glance in the crowd. They can't see it because they are blind."

Luo Zhi couldn't laugh or cry.

She interrupted him, raised her glass, and toasted with a smile: "Thank you."

Qin Shuning didn't ask her what this thank you meant, but just drank it silently.

He didn't mention the word "like" again.She didn't try to avoid it either.

Luo Zhi knew that this was not a belated confession.Those loves in the youth that were so secretive that they might die of shame and anger after revealing a little bit will eventually find a chance to tell the truth after many years, as they grow up.

Some wishes are finally realized, and some wishes are only a story in the end.

He just needs to tell the story.

A meal is quiet but not dull.

They each think about the past, sometimes they may even think of the same thing, but they have different faces.On the noisy basketball court, too many teenagers have too many things on their minds, and their gazes cast in the same direction arouse different heartbeats.

When paying the bill, Qin Shuning suddenly asked, can I use Jia Luo Zhi's WeChat.

Luo Zhi nodded and said, "Tell me your WeChat ID, and I'll add you."

Qin Shuning glanced at her and said solemnly: "Conan 2005."

"Should C be capitalized? What, you like Conan?" She typed intently.

There was no one on the other side of the table talking for a while, Luo Zhi raised her eyes and saw Qin Shuning's lost and relieved look.

"You really don't remember? You called me Conan."

Conan.

She looked at the boy in an out-of-season dark blue thin down vest in front of her.

In the winter of the third year of high school, she walked out of the cafeteria alone and went back to the classroom for evening self-study.In winter nights in the north, it gets dark very early, as if the time has been stolen without paying attention.

When Luo Zhi saw Sheng Huainan walking not far ahead with his schoolbag and earphones alone, he felt a little joy in his heart.During the boring review time for the college entrance examination, meeting Sheng Huainan was one of her few joys.I wouldn't be too excited, at best it's the feeling of walking on the street and picking up 100 yuan.She would not do anything, but followed him firmly, looked up at his back, listened to those happy or sad secrets coming up, and took the good mood along the way as a gift to herself. award.

Unfortunately, as soon as she turned to the path, a boy stepped in, walking between her and Sheng Huainan.

The boy is not tall, but it also covers Luo Zhi's sight.She was a little irritable, and couldn't help seeing him as a dislike.The boy seemed to be excited, and as he walked, he used the index fingers and thumbs of both hands to compare the shape of the camera's viewfinder frame, and "clicked" to "take pictures" of the street lights.

Crazy, she thought angrily.

At this time, there was a clear snow, and under the orange canopy formed by the street lights, the snow flakes curled down, so gentle that it made people want to cry.Luo Zhi forgot to slander the "crazy" boy in front of her, and also raised her head, following his viewfinder frame, looking up.

The snow of the world falls into the lights of the world.

She stood and watched for a long time, and the boy also "photographed" for a long time.

By the time she looked ahead, Sheng Huainan's shadow had long since disappeared at the end of the path, hidden in the night.

But she wasn't disappointed.

Luo Zhi felt a little cold, so she took a few quick steps forward, turned sideways and gently walked around the boy who was still "taking pictures", and left him behind.

She still couldn't help but look at it, it was only half profile, with a dark blue down vest over a white shirt, and a pair of sneakers under her school trousers. She was short and wore a pair of glasses.

She blurted out: "Conan."

Fortunately, the voice was not loud, but the boy seemed to hear it. The moment he turned his head to look over, she hurriedly ran away along the road.

Run into patches of light, run into patches of darkness.

"I remember this dress, you can still wear it."

Qin Shuning laughed happily at himself: "Yeah, that's the best thing if you don't grow taller, and save money."

They looked at each other happily and laughed, and said goodbye happily.

Qin Shuning rejected Luo Zhi's offer to send him off. He walked Luo Zhi to the parking lot, called a driver for her, waved his hand, turned around and left alone.Then he stopped under the streetlight, turned around, raised his hands to show the viewfinder frame, smiled and said to Luo Zhi who was standing there watching, "Crack."

Luo Zhi suddenly felt a sour but sweet emotion, which was wet and soaked her whole heart heavily.

The car drove through a dirt road without even street lights, and finally returned to the village.The car parked in the small empty space of the Cultural Palace, and Luo Zhi walked slowly towards the small courtyard alone.

A full moon overhead, shining brightly all the way.

The phone vibrated, it was a text message from Sheng Huainan.

"We're almost at Ningbo Station. I guess I'll be back before ten o'clock. You make me noodles."

Luo Zhi smiled, and replied: "Okay."

Maybe it was because of being bored on the train, Sheng Huainan replied very quickly to the text message: "After meeting all afternoon, my butt hurts from sitting. What did you have for dinner and what are you doing?"

She looked up at the full moon with some melancholy. It was so round that it made people feel crowded.

After being together for seven years, she almost forgot about the secret love of her girlhood.Everyone said that the current Luo Zhi is peaceful and generous, making everyone around her feel the power of stability.She became happy unknowingly, and the dark stubbornness and arrogance of the past no longer exist, which is a good thing.

But why do you suddenly miss that sharp girl back then?
This kind of melancholy is moaning without illness, it is sweet, and it is destined not to be shared with anyone.Even if Sheng Huainan lives and dies with her now and has a tacit understanding, he will never understand what she expected when she wrote down the composition stroke by stroke.

She couldn't repay Qin Shuning's love.

But that didn't stop her from being moved.

Not to be moved, let alone for him.

It was for herself, for the light in his eyes, reminding her that many, many years ago, her eyes were lit up by others.

She doesn't want to go back to that bitter time, but she can miss it.

She was lying on the stone table in the small courtyard, red petals covered her body.

Some things in this world are like an unknown flower blooming, careless people only smell the fragrance, but some people stop to ask and remember what it looks like.

There is always a time for flowers to bloom.No one will stop by it, but at least someone will remember it.

The text message she sent to Sheng Huainan was also displayed on the lit phone screen beside her.

"What am I doing? I'm missing you."

Luo Zhi sniffed the fragrance of flowers all over the courtyard, and smiled for some reason.

I am missing you and you will be back soon.

I love you.

we will be together forever.

But right now, I just want to miss myself.

(End of this chapter)