Secret Love · Orange Raw Huainan

Chapter 87 Overture
"The price of papaya in the supermarket is on sale. I bought three. Do you want it? I've already cut half of it. Take the half on the table yourself!"

Just as Luo Zhi opened the door and entered the dormitory, she heard Jiang Baili yelling loudly.She looked up and saw that Belle had already changed into a three-quarter-sleeve shirt in early summer, but she was wearing a down jacket outside, and she was sitting on the upper bunk holding half a papaya and digging it with a small spoon.

Luo Zhi frowned, threw her cell phone and keys on the table, and squinted at her: "Are papayas delicious this season?"

Jiang Baili was stunned: "You don't care if it tastes good or not, breast enlargement."

Luo Zhi laughed out loud, Jiang Baili's frankness always made people feel bright.

"I don't need it." She sat back on the chair, rested her chin lightly on the back of the chair, picked up a copy of "Selected Poems of Brecht", and flipped through them randomly.

"Don't you need breast augmentation anymore?"

Luo Zhi made a sharp look and stared at Jiang Baili's chest with a sneer, "Hehe, talking is better than nothing."

When Luo Zhi read the fourth song, Jiang Baili's phone vibrated.Luo Zhi once tried to persuade her to give up those horrific and gorgeous ringtones but failed. In the new semester, she changed to a new mobile phone, but she never set any ringtones, which made Luo Zhi extremely surprised.

It was later learned that it was Gu Zhiye's credit.Luo Zhi nagged for a year, but Gu Zhiye just laughed when Jiang Baili's cell phone rang, which made her tune it to vibrate in a guilty conscience.

Luo Zhi could clearly feel that Jiang Baili was changing.Her mood and smile gradually returned to the way they were when they first met in the freshman year, but her behavior became more and more calm, and she no longer skipped classes and was no longer sloppy—at least she was trying to keep it clean.

Of course, these changes were more reflected in front of people, and did not benefit Luo Zhi much.

"It's really beneficial to fall in love with an old man." When Jiang Baili finally hung up the phone with Gu Zhiye, Luo Zhi sighed while reading a book.

"We're not in love!" Belle cried again as she spoke.

The phone call was indeed less sticky than when she was in love with Gobi. Belle's voice was happy, but her tone and wording kept a distance, more like an ambiguous friend.

At the end of every phone call, Belle said: "Then you are busy."

That you're busy.

If you love me, you should immediately smile and say, I'm not busy.

"Are you feeling better from your cold? It still sounds nasal."

Belle shrugged: "I guess it will take a week to recover, but I don't have a fever."

"Porridge and side dishes can indeed cool down." She turned a page gently without looking up.

Jiang Baili blushed, and couldn't say a word for a long time.

Luo Zhi received the call at 11:30 yesterday, Gobi said that she was downstairs in the dormitory at the moment, and asked her to go down and bring something to Belle.

Pork liver and spinach porridge, baby cabbage in clear soup, pan-fried bean curd, a box of Enrique, and a box of Contac.

Luo Zhi stared blankly at the table, remembering how haggard the Gobi downstairs was, and for the first time felt a little admiration for Jiang Baili's methods.

Jiang Baili's eyes were bright, staring at the familiar pork liver and spinach porridge, her face was flushed, not sure if it was because of a fever or something else.

It was Luo Zhi who asked her first: "Did Chen Mohan trouble you again later?"

Jiang Baili shook her head.

"It's strange, it's impossible for her not to notice that Gobi's mind is in a hurry. How can a girl like her swallow this breath?"

"Didn't I also run several times for him in the middle of the night, and it was evened out." Belle's voice trembled a little, and she climbed onto the bed without moving a word.

"It's really embarrassing."

"I was wronged."

"Come on," Luo Zhi smiled, "At the beginning, you were clearly willing, but why do you say it now as if you are trying to compromise?"

Jiang Baili covered her head in the quilt and did not speak for a long time.Luo Zhi then turned off the light, and threw the fragrant food into the dark night.

Luo Zhi thought about last night's episode, and the words on the paper in front of her eyes began to spin.

"Actually, Gu Zhiye told me that people who are easily emotional are actually the most ruthless." Jiang Baili recalled what happened last night, sitting on the upper bunk and said quietly.

"Of course." Luo Zhi nodded, "Because of forgetfulness."

"However, I think Gobi is really not a cruel person."

"Well," Luo Zhi took out his diary and began to copy verses, "Then tell Gobi to break up with Chen Mohan."

She didn't know how many times she said this, and every time she wanted to wake up Belle from the bubble of her old love, she would repeat it again.

Naturally, Jiang Baili would not really talk to Gobi like this.

If you don't try or pursue it, you won't be embarrassed, and you don't need to face reality.

And the reason why she didn't dare to talk about it was the reason for her disillusionment and sobriety.

In the new semester, everything is calm.Luo Zhi didn't mention the news from Aunt Fu to her mother throughout the holiday, nor did she hear Sheng Huainan mention her own affairs, and the inexplicable anxiety in her heart gradually subsided.

Luo Zhi and Sheng Huainan took two of the same public elective courses this semester, one badminton course, and three law double-degree courses taught on Saturdays——Zhang Mingrui’s law tutor failed last semester, and he gave up law since then. pair.

The two of them play badminton together every week, go to self-study, watch movies, play games, and take cars to various prestigious places to eat...

Like all normal couples.

At first, Luo Zhi was ashamed to make phone calls in the dormitory, but then she slowly let go.Because of the couple package, the phone bill is very small. She often sits on the bed with headphones on after taking a shower, chatting with him one after another while flipping through the book.

Occasionally giggle.

Until Jiang Baili suddenly lowered her head from the upper bunk and said sadly, "You're done. You're not cool at all after you fell in love."

With a look of "look at your own virtue now", you are heartbroken.

"Feel sick?" Luo Zhi sneered.

"Very disgusting."

"It's okay to be disgusted. I remember when you disgusted me before. It's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years."

Jiang Baili wailed and lay back on the upper bunk.

Luo Zhi used to pick up her phone in a daze when she woke up every morning, and read the text messages from the previous night before going to bed to confirm that the current happiness is not a dream.After a long time, I no longer feel frightened.

The wind at the end of April has been extraordinarily gentle, the sky is getting late, and the lavender clouds spread loosely in the blue sky.Luo Zhi detoured from the path behind the cafeteria to the basketball court to find Sheng Huainan, thinking about things while walking.When he raised his head suddenly, he noticed that not far in front of him, a couple was parked in the middle of the path.The boy is riding on the bicycle, turning his head to look at his lover, while the girl jumped off the back seat of the bicycle, standing on tiptoe to sniff the lilacs on the side of the road.

"Pick a branch and put it in a vase and put it on the table." The boy suggested.

"What are you going to do? They drive well, can you bear it?"

The girl turned out to be Xu Riqing.

The two laughed and quarreled for a while, Xu Riqing sat on the car seat again, the boy confirmed that she was seated firmly, then slowly started, and slowly disappeared at the end of the path.Luo Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, walked to the place where they stopped just now, and turned her head to smell the melancholy fragrance of cloves.

The girl who had a lilac-like sorrow at the beginning has gradually drifted away.

When she walked to the edge of the basketball court, the game had already ended, and only a few boys in ball uniforms were still sitting under the basketball hoop, drinking water and chatting.Seeing her walking past, they all gave ghostly smiles, picked up their bags knowingly and left.

Sheng Huainan was shooting a basketball, leaped into the air, saw her the moment he raised his wrist lightly, so he laughed, the ball hit the edge of the hoop and bounced to Luo Zhi's side.

Luo Zhi always felt that the sound of a basketball hitting the ground was like the heartbeats of two people.

Sheng Huainan shot one after another, Luo Zhi threw down his schoolbag and ran to the court, picking up the ball and passing it to him again and again.

When watching boys play basketball, you should be closer. Watching from a distance makes you feel very flat and light, but when you are close, you can hear the sound of clothes rubbing, panting, and footsteps, which makes you feel the heart of the viewer. They all jumped violently.

Luo Zhi's heart was beating with its vitality right now.The orange street lamps held up a gentle umbrella for the two of them under the dark blue sky.She watched him dribble and jump with a smile, and when she heard the sound of Hollow entering the basket, she suddenly felt an unspeakable joy in her heart.

She finally didn't have to wander around on the playground absent-mindedly, and finally didn't have to deliberately turn her face away at such a time.

So many people loved him.Only she has come this far.

This kind of happiness is naturally cruel to those who can't get it, but she can't force the corners of her mouth not to rise because of this.

Thinking of it this way, I no longer feel overly afraid of the secret that I dare not reveal in my heart.

Luo Zhi, come on.

she said to herself silently.

"My brother, Luoyang, is going back to his hometown for a wedding on the 5th of next month. I need to go back. I wanted to ask you to go with me, but aren't you about to take the 6G test? I think you should stay in school and study hard. Bar."

While talking, Luo Zhi put the dinner plate on the empty table beside the bed, and sat down.

Sheng Huainan sat across from her and nodded, "Alright then."

He stirred the preserved egg and lean meat porridge in the bowl with a small spoon, and suddenly asked: "Last semester, when I was sick, the girl who brought me the porridge was you, right?"

Luo Zhi managed to pick up a piece of noodles with chopsticks, and when she heard the sound, she raised her head, and all of the noodles slid back into the bowl again.

"Oh, it was me when you disappeared suddenly." She raised her eyebrows.

Sheng Huainan smiled embarrassingly.

"However, how do you know?" She was curious.

"It should be the night of Christmas. I dragged your suitcase back to the dormitory and talked to the boss. He suddenly asked me who was the girl who delivered the hot porridge when I was sick last time. Why did she disappear suddenly?"

During his illness, Sheng Huainan coughed very badly, and stayed in the dormitory all day with a gloomy expression, playing games frantically.In the afternoon, Zhang Mingrui brought him instant noodles and pancakes, which made his stomach burn.At around ten o'clock in the evening, the boss answered a dormitory phone call and ran down, and then brought up a bag-preserved egg and lean meat porridge, corn cakes and vegetables.Ashamed to say, he really couldn't guess who sent it. The cold came so quickly that no one knew except the buddies in the dormitory—maybe it was a girl in the courtyard who saw that he didn't go to class?But the boss shouldn't say he doesn't know him.

Luo Zhi also thought of that slightly wretched but warm-hearted boy back then, and smiled.

"I asked the boss what the girl looked like, and the boss described it as a beauty."

Luo Zhi proudly scratched her nose.

"This description is like farting." Sheng Huainan continued to speak expressionlessly, ignoring Luo Zhi kicking his leg under the table.

"But the boss said, that girl is really fun. The boss teased her and told her not to have too much hope..." Sheng Huainan suddenly stopped talking, as if thinking of something embarrassing.

"Let me help you continue. Your boss said that all the beauties chasing you can be numbered to draw the Mark Six lottery. The girl just asked him to give her a number, right?"

At that time, Luo Zhi was still able to make up for lost ground with jokes when she lost her armor and armor; now, she seems to be gradually receding that layer of sharpness and pride, and she may not be able to say the same thing if she plays it again.

She was in a daze, but Sheng Huainan tapped her head with the other end of the chopsticks: "What are you thinking about? I just want to thank you for asking you this."

The only thing that hasn't changed is that she is still not good at responding to his earnest thanks and apologies, so she quickly took out a tissue and handed it to him, saying, "Wipe off your sweat."

"You wipe it for me." The boy opposite was holding the porridge without looking up.

Luo Zhi sighed, and resignedly stretched out her hand to wipe his forehead.

I don't know if she is thinking too much, Sheng Huainan seems to be much quieter recently.He still treated her very well, but it seemed that he was being weighed down by something in his heart, and it became more and more heavy.

"How are you? I think you've been unhappy lately."

Sheng Huainan didn't answer, he stopped suddenly, stared at the chopsticks and said, "You have also practiced eating with three chopsticks before?"

Luo Zhi was stunned.She hasn't confessed to him the things she lied to him: three chopsticks, pieces of fat meat, and even... the little queen.She can only nod.

"Let's try again, shall we?"

Seeing his happy look, Luo Zhi also felt a little more comfortable, so she stood up and took another pair of chopsticks, handed one to him, and kept the other in her hand.

She bit the bullet and went into battle, the noodles swayed on her chopsticks, and the noodle soup was thrown all over her face.

They laughed together, Sheng Huainan picked up a tissue and wiped it gently on the tip of her nose.

"It's just that my grandfather's condition is not very good recently," he said softly as he wiped her face, "he is a very interesting old man who lives in the country. I would like to take you to see him when I have a chance When he was young, he used to cross some kind of river, raised a lot of small animals, and he was the first to invent three chopsticks to eat. I watched it for many years, and I suddenly wanted to learn how to do it when I was in high school."

Luo Zhi was silent.

"Grandpa, too, has suffered a myocardial infarction and has entered the intensive care unit. I don't know what's going on recently. My parents are arguing every day. Oh, I always feel that something is going to happen. I don't know. I really don't know." Sheng Huainan looked sideways at the heavy night outside the window.

Luo Zhi wanted to say something, but she was afraid that her voice would tremble, so she could only hold his hand gently, gently.

(End of this chapter)