Secret Love · Orange Raw Huainan

Chapter 31 Awakening from a Big Dream
"Skipped class today, and turned down Tiffany's meeting with Jake. If you have nothing to do tomorrow night, can you go and see Jake? He misses you very much."

"Okay." Sheng Huainan laughed.

When he walked under the streetlight of the dormitory building, he stopped suddenly and pulled out a large paper bag from the schoolbag behind him.

"I bought it when I passed by the bookstore that day. I wanted to give it to you another day, but when I went out this morning, I was so excited that I recited it. This journey has exhausted me."

Luo Zhi stared wide-eyed and took the heavy paper bag—a total of six volumes, the complete works of Gibran.

He memorized it for a day?Are you out of your mind? — But, didn’t he say that when he liked Ye Zhanyan, his friends always said that he had intermittent epilepsy?
She was thinking wildly, her brain was flustered, and she didn't know whether to put on an angry expression or a happy expression.

"I... I especially like Gibran... I like "Sand and Foam"... Does your back hurt?"

Luo Zhi's stammering seemed to make Sheng Huainan very happy, he stroked her hair affectionately, regardless of whether this action would make Luo Zhi more shy.

"nice! You love it."

Suddenly there was a clattering sound behind him.Luo Zhi turned her head and saw a girl in a purple wool coat kicking a bicycle.

The girl raised her head to reveal her face, it was Zheng Wenrui.

Luo Zhi was a little embarrassed, and asked in a low voice: "The car broke down?"

"The chain fell off." Zheng Wenrui didn't look at her, and still kicked the rear wheel of the bicycle fiercely, making crackling noises.

"It's the first time I've seen someone kick up a fallen chain." Sheng Huainan was still smiling, but his eyes narrowed slightly.For the first time, Luo Zhi discovered that when his demeanor turned cold, he was really a bit scary.Hearing these words, Zheng Wenrui took a deep breath and raised his head. The moment his eyes crossed with Luo Zhi's, Sheng Huainan grabbed Luo Zhi's shoulder and took her away, turned around the intersection and went straight to the door of the dormitory building.

Luo Zhi stood on the steps at the entrance of the building, not far away, Zheng Wenrui was still kicking the bicycle vigorously, as if he had kicked the bicycle for her.Saying goodbye became awkward, she looked away from Zheng Wenrui, and saw Sheng Huainan's concerned expression.

"Don't be afraid," he said.

His warmth cheered her up all of a sudden, nodded, and hugged the paper bag in her arms tightly. The sharp corner of the book poked her stomach, and she didn't feel any pain. She smiled and said, "Really, thank you very much." .”

He stood idly with his hands in his pockets: "It's me who should thank you. I haven't been this happy for a long time. Go and play with Jake tomorrow afternoon, right? You're quite tired today, go back and rest."

The door of the dormitory was automatically locked with a click, but he didn't leave, and nunuzui asked Luo Zhi to go first.She turned her hands back, lowered her head and smiled like a little daughter-in-law, then raised her eyes and nodded at him, turned around and strode away.

However, when she turned the corner and rushed into the corridor, the noise of clattering still haunted her behind her without giving up.

She closed her eyes and told herself that there was nothing wrong with you.

At noon the next day, when he was about to send a text message to Sheng Huainan to tell him the meeting time in the afternoon, he sent a text message first.

"I have something to do, I can't go, sorry."

Obtrusive and concise, Luo Zhi held the phone in a daze for a long time, feeling a little tricky.First I replied "It's okay, you are busy with your work", and then I started to worry. If Jake's pigeons were released again this time, the two children might drag her into their small warehouse and close the door and let the dogs kill her.

She made a call and Zhu Yan went to Shanghai. Jya told her that she was just about to contact her. The two children had a fever and had already been accompanied by the nanny to see a doctor. She didn't have to go there in the afternoon.

Being released by the two parties together, although things are much easier to handle, she still feels empty in her heart.After walking around the dormitory five or six times, I finally calmed down, took off the clothes I went out, put on a casual plaid shirt and sports trousers, sat in front of the desk and opened the vocabulary book, and watched a few episodes of British dramas during the break .At about [-]:[-], she put on her woolen coat and rushed to the hot bread in the third canteen.

When she was sitting down with a plate, she saw Zhang Mingrui approaching from a distance. With food stuffed in her mouth, she could only wave her hand and point to the seat in front of her.Zhang Mingrui opened his mouth into an O shape when he saw her order: "You really... eat bread every night?"

"I just think it's delicious, and I eat it several times a week. But I don't know when I will get bored."

He smiled.

"Whenever you feel bored, you must remember to tell me."

"why?"

"No reason." Zhang Mingrui lowered his head and drank the porridge seriously.

"By the way, why did you and Sheng Huainan skip class yesterday? Did you go on a date?"

Luo Zhi looked up and was considering whether to tell the truth when the phone rang suddenly.She almost wants to write a hymn to China Unicom. Every time she is in distress, her mobile phone will call with empathy. Isn't this the people-oriented technology?
It's mom.While biting the warm pancake, Luo Zhi was seriously arguing with her mother on the other end of the phone.By the time the phone hung up, Zhang Mingrui had already finished eating.

"You eat so fast?" Luo Zhi couldn't believe it.

"It's because you called too slowly, okay?"

She was a little embarrassed. After all, it was not very polite to call someone on the sidelines after calling for a long time. She quickly took a few bites of bread and stuffed a few bites of spinach in her mouth to show her sincerity.Zhang Mingrui frowned at her, reached out and pressed her chopsticks: "Come on, don't choke."

Luo Zhi ate slowly for a while, and the person in front of her leaned leisurely on the back of the chair, with her hands behind her head, staring at her intently, which made her a little puzzled.

"Are you... not full?"

"Boom me away, don't you?" He glared at her angrily.

"No, no..." When she waved her hand, Zhang Mingrui had already put the plates and chopsticks into the dinner plate and stood up.

"Okay, okay, let me go, I have to deliver food to our dorm boss and Sheng Huainan, these two pigs."

Luo Zhi stretched out her hand to stop him and stopped in mid-air.

"Why doesn't he come out to eat by himself?" She said slowly.

"Who knows, it's not right since I woke up this morning. I stayed in the dormitory and played World of Warcraft all day, and I'm not afraid of being dazzled. Our boss is even more fierce. He watched "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" in bed all day, and I gave him pancakes for lunch. Fruit. Let me tell you, this is the disadvantage of a long-distance relationship. Without a girlfriend to pester you every day, you all become homeboys..."

Luo Zhi couldn't listen to what Zhang Mingrui was still saying, she numbly bit the bread and said goodbye to Zhang Mingrui numbly.

Didn't he say he has something to do?
There is a feeling of fullness in the chest, a dull pain, but it is not particularly sad, hanging half dead in the air.She put away the dishes indiscriminately and went back to the dormitory, put on her earphones and continued to watch the British drama, and it took a lot of effort to watch it.

Before going to bed, Sheng Huainan did not send a text message saying good night.She really wanted to ask what was wrong, but after thinking about it, she finally turned off the phone.

Classes started normally on Monday morning, and Sheng Huainan slowly disappeared again in her world.She wanted to reach out and grab something, but it was in vain.All she could hold was text messages, but she couldn't find a suitable way to start after thinking about it—she thought they were already very close, but she had to admit that he wanted to get close to her, and he could easily walk over and get her She greeted with a smile, but it was so difficult for her to catch up with him and turn his back - she hadn't had the courage to do it for so many years, and she still does.

The distance lay in front of her, and after dispelling the dense sweet smoke a few days ago, she clearly saw that he was still far away, with only a back.

Luo Zhi was able to meet Zhang Mingrui in the third canteen at night for three days in a row, and he also waited in line for bread just like himself.Luo Zhi never mentioned Sheng Huainan. She was worried about him, but she was also a little angry, and even more frustrated that she was still led by him, even though she had been like this since a long time ago.

"By the way, Sheng Huainan has caught a cold. I don't know what's wrong these two days. He doesn't talk, ignore people, and doesn't eat properly. He's very sick...Well, you two...Actually, I didn't know, Are you really...but..."

Zhang Mingrui on the opposite side struggled with his words, but Luo Zhi slowly turned his gaze to the long queue at the Shaguoju window in the distance.

Does he have a cold...

An idea was planted and suppressed by her, but it resurfaced when she was sitting and teaching homework.She felt very uneasy. The densely packed characters on the original English book seemed to be garbled characters, and she couldn't read them at all.She simply closed the book, cleaned up the table, picked up her schoolbag and rushed out the door.

When standing at the door of Jiahe Yipin, she suddenly understood Jiang Baili, whom she once despised in every possible way.Even though Jiang Baili is too stupid in her eyes, even if Gobi treats her badly, and even if she is ridiculed for her sacrifices, but at that time, she stood here so late holding the steaming hot dog she bought for her sick boyfriend. Takeaway must be happiness.

She just understands now.As happy and tragic as she is at this moment.

Preserved egg porridge with lean meat, sweet corn cakes, and stir-fried kale, people with a cold should eat lightly—Luo Zhi hugged the plastic bag to her chest happily, ran a few steps in a hurry, and suddenly leaned forward. The bag flew out.

A tile on the road was missing, and she fell right into it.The knee suddenly knelt on the ground and hit it hard. At first, there was no reaction, but a slight numbness. After a few seconds, the bone-piercing pain spread along the knee and spread to the whole body.She lowered her head and endured it for a long time, tears still dripped down and wet the floor tiles.

You won't be so lucky... Disabled, right?
She couldn't move, and even her back was stiff, but her legs were soft. She wanted to sit, but couldn't sit down, so she could only kneel straight, barely supporting the ground with her hands.He looked up and saw the white bag lying limply on the ground not far in front of him. The porridge box had rolled out, the lid fell off, and the porridge spilled all over the floor. It was steaming mockingly at the moment.

Luo Zhi smiled wryly.

Which bitter scene she acted is so good?
The place where I fell down was a relatively secluded side street, which was still somewhat popular during the day, but after nine o'clock in the evening, except for the big sign of the Internet cafe, the lights were still on, and the other shops were already pitch black.Even if she knelt here filially all night, no one would notice her.

I don't know how long it took, Luo Zhi slowly moved the left knee that just fell down, it didn't hurt as much as imagined, it was more sore and limp.She moved little by little in a strange posture, and finally changed from humiliating three kneeling and nine kowtows to sitting on the ground, only to realize that she had been holding up the cold floor tiles in the winter night with her five fingers spread out, and now her hands were already stiff and cold, and her fingers were slightly curled up will feel pain.

After a long time, she took a deep breath, stood up, slowly wiped off the dirt on her body, and walked back to Jiahe Yipin step by step.

The fiery mood of wanting to buy him supper at the beginning has disappeared, and her heart is as bleak as the evening wind. Everything she does now is nothing more than a kind of obsession, a kind of pride to complete the scene even if no one is watching obsession.

The waiter who took the seat was still the one from just now, and was taken aback when he saw her.Luo Zhi smiled wryly at her, and raised her hands: "I fell and spilled everything."

The waiter was a pretty little girl, she smiled considerately when she heard her words, let her go to a table near the door, brought a menu and pencils for her to draw, and after a while, brought a glass of boiled water, Steaming.Luo Zhi took a long time to take a sip, and when the little waiter passed by her side, she took the opportunity to smile and thank her.After re-ordering the dishes, she walked slowly to the bathroom to tidy up. The person in the mirror was not in a mess, and the pants were not torn, as if the piercing pain just now was a dream, and there was no trace of it.

She is always like this, with internal and external injuries, all of which are invisible to people, as if seeing through the world of mortals is invulnerable, making Ding Shuijing and the others wronged in vain.She said that she didn't care, and she didn't want to explain, but the driver's words were not rough. If someone stabbed herself because of the malice caused by these misunderstandings, wouldn't she complain?
Can't figure it out.After falling down, she seemed to be ten years old. She hugged the porridge in her arms again, looked at the ground carefully, and walked more slowly.

When I got to the downstairs of Sheng Huainan's dormitory, I thought of the most important point - how do I send it up?
The gazes of the boys coming and going at the door of the building had already made her scalp tingle.She hurriedly dialed Zhang Mingrui's phone, but no one answered after ringing many times.Damn it, Luo Zhi cursed him hard in her heart, stood there for a few more minutes, still afraid that the porridge would turn cold, took out her cell phone again, and called their dormitory.

The dormitory phone number is naturally obtained from the senior sister.As for why she didn't call Sheng Huainan himself, she didn't know.

An unfamiliar voice answered the phone.She breathed a sigh of relief.

"Which one are you looking for?"

"Is this Sheng Huainan's dormitory?"

"Yes, yes, wait—"

"Don't call him!" Luo Zhi hurriedly yelled, and was overwhelmed by her aura on the other side of the phone, and it took a long time before she asked cautiously: "Woman, what are you doing?"

Luo Zhi laughed angrily at him, but she didn't know what to say, so she took a deep breath, thinking it's better to be straightforward.Hurry up to send the porridge away, her legs are weak and she wants to go back to sleep.

"I'm his admirer. I heard that he had a cold, so I bought hot porridge, but I'm sorry to see him in person. If it's convenient for you, can you go downstairs and bring it up for me? Please."

Luo Zhi's voice was sweet, and the person on the phone probably thought that there would be something lively to watch, so she hurriedly agreed: "Sure, go downstairs immediately!"

Thinking that the other party didn't know her, Luo Zhi relaxed a lot. Seeing the scruffy boy in slippers and pajamas coming out of the glass door, she smiled with eyes wide open, and said hello and sent the plastic bag up.

"Beauty, let me say it first. Our youngest loves flowers when everyone sees them. Admirers can pick them up with a dustpan, and they will draw the Mark Six lottery right away after they are numbered. Your kindness is good. I hope you don't get too excited." High, otherwise it will be difficult to be sad in the end."

The other party's half-joking and half-serious words made Luo Zhi dumbfounded, she nodded and said, "Thank you, I understand, thank you for your hard work."

The boss was a little surprised by her calm appearance, and took a few serious glances at her: "You...what's your name?"

"Why do you ask this? Please give me a number. I'll go back and wait for the lottery draw."

A gust of wind slowly blows head-on, blowing past the belly that was still clinging to the hot porridge takeaway half a minute ago.She shivered, and rubbed her hands on her still warm stomach a few times.

She looked back at the brightly lit boys' dormitory building, and then looked up at the starless night sky in Beijing, and suddenly felt that everything was boring.

(End of this chapter)