Secret Love · Orange Raw Huainan

Chapter 61 Maggie's Gift

Just after the New Year's holiday, the final exams are approaching. Even Jiang Baili cleaned up the tables in the dormitory and started reading.

The first subject is to test the philosophy and basic principles of Marxism, which is closed-book.Luo Zhi had been reviewing professional courses before, and deliberately reserved this one for a surprise attack before the exam, knowing that anyway, if she reviewed it early, she would definitely forget it all.

"There is no one left. I just checked it on the computer, and all of them have been borrowed."

Luo Zhi selects "Belle" in the recipient column of the mobile phone, presses the send button, then logs out from the computer in the library, picks up her schoolbag and walks out of the computer room.Before going out in the morning, Jiang Baili begged Luo Zhi to go to the library to help borrow a textbook of "Ma Yuan".Gobi lost the textbooks, and none of the buddies around had any extra books, and the old books of the seniors and sisters were thrown away or given away one after another, and the textbook center had no stock, and at the critical moment, they couldn't even find a single one.

Finally, he found Belle again.

This is the first time Gobi has contacted her since they broke up.He ran away from Ma Yuan for a whole semester, and Jiang Baili, who had taken the same class as him, did the check-in all the time, so Jiang Baili, who had escaped the professional class upside down, actually got full attendance in Ma Yuan's class where everyone was grazing sheep.After all, Gobi was too lazy. He only thought of reviewing before the exam, but he couldn't find the book.

Luo Zhi frowned and hesitated to speak.She doubted whether Jiang Baili was pretending to be the Virgin to continue the conspiracy at the reception, or... really the Virgin.

Belle replied quickly: "Thank you, it is almost impossible to borrow books at this time, I will find a way by myself."

Luo Zhi was about to walk out of the hall, when she thought about it, she might as well study in the library by herself, if she could find a seat.

Except for the first floor of the library, there are several large-scale study rooms on every other floor.Luo Zhi took the elevator directly to the sixth floor, and then went down the stairs one by one to find a vacant seat.The library is fully heated in winter, and the windows are not opened for ventilation. This makes Luo Zhi walk into every study room, and will smell a little stranger's body odor mixed in the warm and stagnant air.

The study room doesn't look crowded at first glance, but every seat is occupied by stacks of books, and most of the owners are absent. It looks like everyone went to gym class in high school.

She went down the stairs all the way to the second floor, and saw that there was no hope for the last study room, so she strode away.

"Luo Zhi, Luo Zhi!"

The voice is very small, and it is made with breath.Luo Zhi turned her head and saw Zhang Mingrui happily waving at her, and the girl sitting on his left raised her head and smiled politely at her.

It was Xu Riqing.

Luo Zhi happily walked over, glanced at the books on the table, smiled, and said in a low voice, "You guys also review Ma Yuan? It's really early."

"We came here at seven o'clock to occupy a seat. How can you be as confident as you are? We only walked here at 10:30." Zhang Mingrui gathered the information on the seat on the right to his desk and said, "There is no one in this seat. It is for us to put things, you sit down."

So that was the case, Luo Zhi thanked her and sat down.

"Damn, didn't you liberal arts students learn this kind of thing all the time in high school?" Zhang Mingrui tapped the textbook in his hand with a ballpoint pen depressedly, "What are you talking about all these upside down, liberal arts students are not crazy and still pass the exam?" Now that you are in college, you should use cakes and birthday peaches to be offered to the temple, you are all Super Saiyans."

Luo Zhi held back her laughter and said softly, "Did you pass the politics exam in high school?"

"We are going through the motions in the exam. I copied them all, and never memorized them."

"Life is incomplete if you don't memorize it, hurry up and read the book." Luo Zhi tapped his book with a ballpoint pen.

Xu Riqing looked at the two of them silently, pursed his lips and gave a small smile, lowered his head and continued to study.When it was almost twelve o'clock, Zhang Mingrui threw down his pen irritably, and said in a low voice, "I'm so bored, let's go have lunch."

Luo Zhi nodded, and cast her inquiring eyes on Xu Riqing, who also smiled and agreed.So they simply gathered the books and piled them on the table, each took their mobile phones, wallets, put on their coats, and walked out of the study room together.

As soon as he stepped into the corridor, Zhang Mingrui yelled, "Is this fucking something a normal person can recite?"

A boy who was going downstairs next to him echoed loudly: "That's right, I'll probably become a pervert when I memorize it."

After he finished speaking, he suddenly cast a sneaky glance at Luo Zhi and Xu Riqing who were walking on Zhang Mingrui's left and right, and grinned at Zhang Mingrui with an expression of "Your boy is very beautiful, so don't complain", and made three steps simultaneously. Two steps down the stairs.

For some reason, Luo Zhi suddenly remembered the threesome between the two of them and Sheng Huainan that Zhang Mingrui had mentioned to him back then.

Sheng Huainan.Luo Zhi's thinking froze for a second, and then she immediately turned her head and asked with a smile, "Which teacher did you choose Ma Yuan?"

"Wait, I want to buy a magazine." On the way to the cafeteria, Xu Riqing ran to the newsstand by the side of the road, glanced down at the dazzling shelves, picked up a 32-magazine that was slightly thick, and said, " I want this."

"Eight yuan." The aunt at the magazine stand didn't even look up.

"Why don't you always wear gloves?"

Xu Riqing pinched a corner of the magazine with his index finger and thumb, turned his head and said tremblingly: "The cafeteria is quite close, there is no need, I find it troublesome..."

Luo Zhi suddenly looked embarrassed.Because Zhang Mingrui's question just now was addressed to himself, and when Xu Riqing turned around to answer the question, he happened to see the two of them in a dialogue pose facing each other.

Zhang Mingrui chuckled: "Is there anyone who you don't think is troublesome? Lazy, isn't it you who suffer from the cold?"

Luo Zhi's heart moved, Zhang Mingrui turned his eyes to look at Xu Riqing very naturally, and resolved the embarrassment of the three of them with a calm and witty sentence.Xu Riqing recovered from the bewildered expression at the beginning, smiled embarrassingly, glanced at Luo Zhi embarrassedly like a little daughter-in-law, and retorted Zhang Mingrui in a low voice: "Where is that!"

"Put your hands in your pockets to warm them up. I'll get the magazine for you." Zhang Mingrui stretched out his hand and took Xu Riqing's magazine.Xu Riqing put his hands into the pockets of the down jacket, and smiled shyly at Luo Zhi again, as if to say, "I'm telling you a joke, he always does this."

This kind of Xu Riqing was completely different from the aggressive and well-dressed beauty in the coffee shop that day.Luo Zhi took two steps behind slightly, looking at the two backs in front of her, one black and one red, feeling a little happy in her heart.

Xu Riqing has a domineering side, but also a shy side.Which side is the real her?Maybe it's more real when you're alone?But at that time, she didn't appear in front of anyone, and it didn't mean anything to others.

What kind of interaction there is, what kind of self will be shown; what kind of object creates what kind of reality, just presenting different sections to different people.

So in front of Sheng Huainan, is he too out of shape?Even falling in love with him based on those commonalities will only be the beginning of a long acting career.

"Hey, what are you thinking?"

When Luo Zhi came back to her senses, Zhang Mingrui was waving at her who was lagging behind, and there was something she couldn't understand in his gentle smile.

After the three people occupied their seats, they went to cook separately.Zhang Mingrui was the last to return to his seat, holding three bread cakes.

"You didn't buy any bread today?" He looked at Luo Zhi in surprise.

"There are too many people in line."

"It's been a long time since I saw you in the third canteen."

"The third canteen is so big, it's inevitable that we won't be able to touch it."

Xu Riqing interrupted suddenly: "Do you often eat together?"

"Well, in the past month or so, I always eat in the third canteen, and so does Zhang Mingrui, so we often meet." Luo Zhi explained with a smile.

Zhang Mingrui sat down and picked up a bread cake and put it on her plate: "Do you want it? I have a buddy who just lined up at the window, so I asked him to buy three for me."

"I haven't eaten it, can you give me one?" Xu Riqing asked.Zhang Mingrui stood up and said, "Okay, take it yourself, I'll go buy it later."

Xu Riqing's chopsticks reaching for the bread stopped in the air: "Why?"

"I can't get enough to eat just one."

"Oh," Xu Riqing stared at the plate and counted silently, one is Luo Zhi's, two are his own... "That's no need, you, you can eat, I'll go buy it myself."

Xu Riqing stood up suddenly, and before Zhang Mingrui could say any polite words, she ran towards the pasta window.

Zhang Mingrui stared blankly at her running away, shrugged and smiled, and sat back in his seat.

"By the way, Luo Zhi, are you... with Sheng Huainan?"

She choked up after listening to it, and coughed several times before recovering: "Can you prepare a few words before asking such an explosive question?"

"Are you together?"

Zhang Mingrui's voice was relaxed and casual, but the smile on his face was a little fake.

Luo Zhi shook her head: "No."

"But he... I think he's acting weird recently. Well, he won't tell us anyway if we ask him, so we can only ask you."

"Did I tell you that I like Sheng Huainan?"

Zhang Mingrui lowered his head and used his chopsticks to pull the green pepper fried potato shreds on the plate. After a while, he asked, "Isn't it?"

Luo Zhi heaved a long sigh: "I call for logic, logic."

"No need to call. How dare you say you don't like it? Don't lie."

Luo Zhi wanted to laugh inexplicably.Her own carefully kept secrets are like ripples in the center of a lake where stones have been thrown, spreading round and round.This cover, which was once thought to be unbreakable, now seems so obvious.

Zheng Wenrui, Ye Zhanyan, Ding Shuijing, Jiang Baili, Zhang Mingrui... and Sheng Huainan himself, they all asked her: "Do you like Sheng Huainan?" Luo Zhi, who was in high school, would probably pass out if she knew about it.

"Let's talk about Xu Riqing." She smiled and changed the subject.

"Xu Riqing—" Zhang Mingrui dragged out the ending, hesitating.

"You—" Luo Zhi said at the same time as him.

"Don't get me wrong!" Zhang Mingrui shouted.

"What did I misunderstand?" Luo Zhi laughed even harder, "I haven't said anything yet, I think you really hope that I misunderstood."

"Actually..." Zhang Mingrui hurriedly waved his hands, and the rice grains on the chopsticks were thrown out, drawing a beautiful arc in the air, and gently landed on the sleeve of a figure beside the table.

The man flicked the rice grains away and sighed.

"What a coincidence!"

They looked up and saw Sheng Huainan's flawless smiling face.

"Hey, are you coming to eat too?" Zhang Mingrui was stunned for a few seconds before saying this.

Sheng Huainan cast a disdainful look at Zhang Mingrui: "Your insight has seen through all of this."

He sat down next to Luo Zhi by himself, and put the dinner plate on the empty seat: "I recite the book so much that I want to scold others, the life of a liberal arts student is not human."

"When you encouraged me to choose French Double Degree, didn't you say that your 'ex-girlfriend' always said that liberal arts is difficult, so you want to experience the life of liberal arts students? It's unreasonable to close the book." Zhang Mingrui had a bitter face, and he still looked innocent when he uttered the words "ex-girlfriend".

Luo Zhi glanced at Zhang Mingrui thoughtfully.

Sheng Huainan's face was calm: "Yeah, I didn't understand how their liberal arts students memorized their books to death in high school. It's just a few books, and they have to memorize them all over again before each exam. It took me a long time to write a paper full of answers, but the scores of the essay synthesis are generally so much lower than the science synthesis, I really don’t understand.”

"By the way, aren't you a liberal arts student?" Zhang Mingrui looked at Luo Zhi who was facing him and said, "Did you memorize history and politics many times at that time? You memorized it for two full years, why are so many people still memorizing it?" won't come down?"

Luo Zhi was drinking corn porridge with her head down, and didn't answer.

"Hey, let me ask you, aren't you a liberal arts major? Do you all rush to memorize before the exam?" Zhang Mingrui tapped the table with the end of his chopsticks.

"Huh?" She looked up, tilted her head to the left, and smiled. "I can't remember. Maybe."

Sheng Huainan remained silent, and gently poked holes in the flat rice in the bowl with his chopsticks.

Luo Zhi recalled that she had been angry before, that time when Sheng Huainan bought potato chips in the law class, she accepted them as much as she wanted, but she deliberately didn't look at him when she was talking, playing a little awkward - at that time, even Luo Zhi herself couldn't help it. I believe she still has such a willful side.

At that time, the other party beckons, and it can be saved immediately.

Until now, Luo Zhi finally understood that Sheng Huainan might have felt her affection for him from the first time they met.How obvious.

No matter how treacherous her heart is, in fact, she just likes him, and it hasn't changed since the beginning.As long as this point is grasped, no matter what happens, no matter what her attitude is on the surface, she will be the loser.But he can appear at the table anytime with a smile, flick off the rice grains, and say, what a coincidence.

What a coincidence, you like me.

Enough is enough.she thinks.

"Xu Riqing?" Sheng Huainan saw Xu Riqing who was standing stupidly not far away with a plate, nodded to her, and then asked Zhang Mingrui who was diagonally opposite, "Did you study together in the morning? The three of you?"

"Yes, the three of us." Zhang Mingrui turned to greet Xu Riqing.

Xu Riqing walked over slowly, with a tense expression, he hadn't figured out how to deal with it, and his acting skills barely passed.Sheng Huainan's expression was a little embarrassed and guilty, as if if he had known that Xu Riqing was there, he would not have come here to embarrass him.

Then why did you come here to embarrass me on purpose?Luo Zhi frowned, put down the fork, and began to tear the bread.

"You come to eat too." Xu Riqing smiled stiffly.

The second time Sheng Huainan was asked about coming to eat, he tilted his head and smiled wryly: "Yeah, I'm bored studying and want to take a break. The only valid reason is to have lunch."

"Oh... where did you study by yourself in the morning?" She asked as she tore apart the bread like Luo Zhi.Xu Riqing had a pair of beautiful hands, but in front of Sheng Huainan, his movements were too weak, and he couldn't tear the cake for a long time.

Sheng Huainan paused: "Teach me." After he finished speaking, he unconsciously glanced to the left, but the person on the left was grabbing the bread by himself, skillfully and without shyness, and did not respond to his words .

"One teachings?"

"Yes, quiet, few people."

"Why don't you go to the library? It's so cold, and the heater doesn't work well. What if it freezes?"

Sheng Huainan froze for a moment, the sudden silence made Xu Riqing realize that his words were too intimate, a meaningful smile slowly appeared on Zhang Mingrui's face.

Suddenly, Luo Zhi said pleasantly as if discovering a new world: "Xu Riqing, you bought a spicy duck neck? Can I have a piece?"

The interruption was poor, but Xu Riqing was in a daze for a moment, and immediately grabbed hold of straws to discuss duck necks with Luo Zhi enthusiastically.

"Hey, you are from Chengdu, what do you say, right?"

When they were talking about Sichuan snacks, Xu Riqing suddenly turned his face to Zhang Mingrui and asked Zhang Mingrui, with a slightly friendly expression on his face - Luo Zhi's heart was pure.

Just now Xu Riqing was in a panic and said some kind words to Sheng Huainan. Now he was probably suspicious that Zhang Mingrui was jealous because of this, so he smiled so flatteringly.

Zhang Mingrui was in a daze, so he didn't answer, which made the scene that was calmed down because of the duck neck suddenly calm down again.

They continued to eat their own meals. In the noisy cafeteria, it seemed that there was a soundproof barrier covering the table for four.

The rice in Sheng Huainan's bowl did not move, and the word "well" was still displayed, as if it was already cold.

The silent meal was finally finished, and when delivering the tray, Zhang Mingrui said to Sheng Huainan, "Do you still want to stay in Yijiao? Do you want to go to the library with us for self-study?"

Sheng Huainan glanced at Luo Zhi, and suddenly laughed happily: "Luo Zhi, are you studying in the library?"

Luo Zhi looked up at him, her eyes were calm and unwavering, she didn't say anything.

"I remember a text in high school called "The Gift of the Magi." He said to himself.

"Yeah, what's the matter?" Xu Riqing was the last one to stack the plates on the remnant food table, turned around and asked enthusiastically, but accidentally met Zhang Mingrui's gloomy gaze.

Xu Riqing was a little flustered, he didn't know what to say, but he couldn't control his mouth and wanted to quickly reverse the weird atmosphere: "Will you go to the library with us for self-study? The library is warmer, and there is an empty seat next to it."

Zhang Mingrui glanced at her again with a slight smile, and said to Sheng Huainan, "Yes, come to the library."

(End of this chapter)