Secret Love · Orange Raw Huainan

Chapter 79 Two strangers fell in love
(two strangers fall in love)

Luo Zhi was woken up by Jiang Baili's phone ringing at five o'clock in the morning.However, the owner of the mobile phone was still soundly asleep on the upper bunk, turned over, and forcefully smashed the noisy and vibrating "bomb" on Luo Zhi's stomach on the lower bunk through the gap.

Luo Zhi gritted her teeth and got up, and was about to knock on the bed when she suddenly caught a glimpse of the words "Chen Mohan is calling" flashing on the screen.

Luo Zhi thought for two seconds, but decided to wake Jiang Baili up and let her face this fact by herself.However, when climbing the ladder with the mobile phone, her thumb accidentally touched the answer button. The mobile phone was not in the hands-free state of the speaker, but she still heard the almost heartbreaking sentence in it from a long distance: "You tell her yourself , compared with that bitch, I am ashamed of myself!"

"Stop messing around!"

Luo Zhi was dumbfounded as she listened to Jiang Baili's mobile phone conscientiously playing Chen Mohan and Gobi's machine gun-like quarrel through the broken speaker.She hurriedly climbed up two more steps, pushed Jiang Baili's shoulders hard, and called her out in her breath, "Hey, wake up!"

The phone was cut off at this moment.

The last sentence Luo Zhi heard was incomplete: "Jiang Baili, listen to me—"

Chen Mohan's words were cut off in half, she guessed that Gobi dropped the phone.

Jiang Baili sat up sleepily at this moment: "What are you doing?"

Luo Zhi, who was completely sleepy, stuffed the phone into her hand: "Missed call, you..." Before the words finished, Jiang Baili tilted her body, leaned against the wall and fell asleep like this.

She was silent for a while, then gently put the mobile phone into the chest pocket of Jiang Baili's nightdress, then got off the ladder, got into bed, picked up her mobile phone, and dialed Belle's number skillfully.

Another burst of palpitating ringing and vibration pierced the dark air. The difference was that this time it was accompanied by Jiang Baili's palpitating scream.

Luo Zhi's heart finally felt a lot more at ease.

Jiang Baili didn't speak for a long time after Luo Zhi narrated the whole content of the brief phone call just now.

"It seems that the ex-girlfriend's revenge plan is progressing smoothly." Luo Zhi joked.

She was completely awake, the interrupted dream was like a rapidly receding tide, no matter how hard she tried to hold her back, the scene in the dream was already blurred beyond hope.

But she always remembered that she dreamed of the woman in red at the crematorium.

Her facial features are like shells left on the beach when the tide ebbs, and they become clearer in the fading twilight.

Luo Zhi was in a daze when she suddenly heard Jiang Baili's ghost crying and howling.

"Anyway, I'm so bored!" Jiang Baili kept kicking the quilt.

"Pretentious. Come on, I know you're very happy."

Jiang Baili said anxiously: "No, really not...although...but not!"

The upper bunk was quiet for a while, before Jiang Baili said in a low voice, "Actually, I was the one looking for trouble. Gobi must have pity on me, so he took the initiative to find me several times, maybe because he wanted to be friends with me. But I never gave him a nice word. I always stimulated him and satirized him in various ways. I didn't expect that he wouldn't turn against me with his temper like before, no matter what I said. Don't laugh at me, I've never seen him so submissive, I really..."

Luo Zhi stared at the brown MDF above her head, tapped her fingers on the edge of the bed, and said softly: "I think that after a breakup, only the person who is unwilling will always have a sharp edge in his speech."

Jiang Baili stopped sobbing.

"He let you go, maybe because he still loves you. But I think it's just an appearance. He no longer needs to show his superiority through verbal victory and suppression. It's different from when we were in love, He has already won. Appropriate softness can prevent you from causing too much trouble for him, ease the relationship, and even make you love him for a while longer. "

Luo Zhi didn't know whether she should continue, so she said cruelly, "I don't know what effect this kind of love for a while will have for him, but it must be meaningless for you."

"Luo Zhi," Jiang Baili said with a little confidence, "Sometimes, you think too badly about Gobi."

"No," Luo Zhi smiled, "I just have a correct understanding of your charm."

"Get lost!" Jiang Baili poked her head out from the edge of the bed, angrily threw her phone at Luo Zhi like throwing a grenade.At this moment, the gorgeous ringtone of the phone rang again.Jiang Baili's face was pale, and she stared uneasily at Luo Zhi who was looking at the screen in the lower berth, her hair hanging down, like a female ghost.

Luo Zhi raised her head and sneered at her, then directly answered the phone.

"Sorry, the person you dialed is throwing a tantrum."

Jiang Baili almost fell down.After listening to a few words, Luo Zhi said to the other end of the phone: "I'll tell her." Then she hung up.

"Who?"

"Your Uncle Gu. He said he hoped he didn't disturb you. He is in Paris now. At midnight, he had just finished eating with a client. The Eiffel Tower was outside the window. He suddenly remembered that you like Paris very much, so he called you without consideration. But I didn’t expect that I would pick it up, tell me not to disturb you, just tell him what he said, take care.”

Jiang Baili was a little stunned, and quickly retracted her head, wondering if she was blushing.

"It's so romantic." Luo Zhi squinted her eyes, staring angrily at Jiang Baili's cell phone covered with Hello Kitty stickers and rhinestones, thinking that the psychopath who called at five o'clock in the morning had an affair with her upper bunk .

"We have nothing to do," Jiang Baili confessed, "Gu Zhiye never said anything."

Luo Zhi reacted for a long time before she understood the meaning of "never said anything".

She thought that he and Jiang Baili had a hot fight, and she also saw his care and concern for Belle, but in the final analysis, it was still just the right care, [-]% easy to handle.

Just ambiguous, gently blowing the wind in the ears.

"Oh, old man." Jiang Baili laughed dryly.

"In your thirties, the family business named Saobao is just a little rich." Luo Zhi turned over, "I lived ten years longer than you, so I have a higher rank. Isn't this the mature type you particularly liked a while ago?"

"Actually, I'm not that strong," Belle's voice was as gentle as water, "but I don't think I can understand him. He's right in front of me, but I don't know how to get close. I'm also worried that I'm being self-indulgent, so it's all because of him. leading."

"Do you think that the rich girls in novels are all vegetarians?" Luo Zhi was amused by her, "I just remember that thieves eat meat, but I don't see thieves being beaten."

Jiang Baili screamed, she had no mobile phone to throw away, so she threw down the blindfold.

"However," Jiang Baili fell silent after a while, "I admit that I like him a little bit, but I don't like him that much. It may be that the conditions are too good. I never thought that this kind of temptation would come to me."

However, her heartbeat in this life, the heartbeat of being crushed by overwhelming love, will always be connected with the smiling young man leaning on the car under the street lamp.

It's not that I won't meet love again.It's just that I've grown up and learned a lot, and I will never meet love in that way again.

Luo Zhi thought of Sheng Huainan.

"Did you know? Gobi told me that he was not as happy as he imagined when he was with Chen Mohan. Instead, he didn't have the... feeling of being with me."

"That's not easy, what's the point, let him break up with Chen Mohan! It doesn't matter if he's a man or not."

Jiang Baili hung her hair down again: "Did you eat explosives?"

Luo Zhi was stunned for a moment, and she also found that she was extremely excited, the reason why she couldn't sleep early in the morning might not be entirely the fault of the phone.

"Actually, I also think he's lying," Jiang Baili said softly, "You know what? Gu Zhiye told me that when you think a man might be lying, he must be lying. I said, he doesn't know Gobi , I don’t know him well. He said, it’s not wrong to know him or not.”

Why don't you know.Luo Zhi frowned, but had to admit that Gu Zhiye's words were very interesting.

"why?"

"He said it was because he was Gobi."

Luo Zhi's heart skipped a beat, and she didn't know what she was worried about.Obviously, it was just a reasonable and well-intentioned warning.While she was thinking, she heard Jiang Baili's heartless laughter from the upper bunk.

"But Luo Zhi, I feel very happy now. I have passed the exam, and the most difficult early stage of breaking up has passed. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and Gu... Anyway, I think I should be happier. In fact, life is pretty good. Wonderful, lacking nothing."

Luo Zhi rolled her eyes: "Anyone who can think that way must at least be short-sighted."

Even the pillows were thrown down this time.

When Luo Zhi walked into the legal exam classroom, she found that the last row, which usually only sat a few people, was already full, and even the last three rows had been divided up. Book.

At this moment, she saw a "black man" in the middle of the auditorium waving his arms exaggeratedly at her.

"I've got a seat for you!"

Zhang Mingrui occupied a whole row of seats, Luo Zhi realized that he had so many acquaintances in this class.

"This is the liberal arts student sister, hurry up and pray!"

Hearing the words, a few tall and rough boys next to her hurriedly acted like a panda burning incense, and bowed to her chanting words.Luo Zhi put down her schoolbag dumbfounded, turned around to look at Zhang Mingrui and said, "How's your review going?"

Zhang Mingrui shrugged: "If he dares to hang on to me, I will abolish the double degree and stop studying. Didn't you see it?"

He said, pointing to his chin, and opened his eyes wide: "I have lost weight twice after reviewing, look, look, melon-seeded face!"

"...Is the tip of the melon seeds facing up or down?"

When a group of burly men pounded the table and laughed wildly at the distorted Zhang Mingrui, Luo Zhi felt a hand resting on her shoulder.She turned her head, and Sheng Huainan was standing on a step higher than her, holding her schoolbag in one hand like in high school, looking at her with a smile.

"Did you study well?"

Luo Zhi stared fixedly at his hand holding the schoolbag, and blurted out: "I've written it many times."

His habits, in the diary.

"what?"

She recovered, smiled and shook her head.Sheng Huainan didn't ask any further questions. He rubbed her hair, walked down and put the schoolbag next to hers.Several other boys booed one after another: "So it's your girl, that's great, can you borrow us to copy it..."

your girl.

Luo Zhi saw Zhang Mingrui grinning, closing it and opening it again.She turned her head to avoid his bewilderment, put down the folding chair and sat down.Sheng Huainan sat on her left, Zhang Mingrui was originally sitting on her right, but at this moment he suddenly stood up, holding his schoolbag, and brought a gust of wind.

Then sit down again.

He fumbled to open the zipper of his schoolbag, and took out a bag of colorful Lay's Potato Chips.Seeing Luo Zhi staring at him, she smiled and said, "I didn't eat in the morning. I came here on purpose to occupy a seat. You must be reliable."

Luo Zhi silently nodded, took a deep breath, bit her lip and said nothing.

It took Zhang Mingrui a long time to open it. After taking two bites, he suddenly laughed silently without warning.

"why?"

"Ok?"

Zhang Mingrui looked at Luo Zhi seriously, and slowly said: "Why, every time I open the cucumber-flavored potato chips, I suddenly want to eat tomato-flavored potato chips."

Luo Zhi nodded and said, "Yes."

Me too.

The exam ended without any surprises, and Luo Zhi, a liberal arts student who was coaxed to shoulder a big responsibility, did not help at all in the end.Six subjective questions, full of blanks in the paper, everyone is writing hard, and the questions that they can't answer are also long-winded.

But halfway through the exam, the back door was suddenly pushed open, and two 50-year-old female teachers with red armbands drove straight in, walking straight to a curly-haired boy sitting in the fourth-to-last row on the outermost side, with neat movements He took out a book from the hole in his table and dropped it on the table.

The boy's papers were left on the table, I packed my schoolbag with my head down, and left the classroom with the two serious female teachers.

"He's finished," Sheng Huainan looked at the podium and said in a very soft voice, with some regret in his tone, "According to the regulations, as long as you do it once, you won't have a diploma."

The thrilling episode was quickly forgotten by everyone.Luo Zhi was a little flustered, and became more behaved, and her hands were sore when she wrote.

The front door of the examination room was locked. After the exam, Luo Zhi walked to the back door with the mighty crowd. She lowered her head and concentrated on buttoning her coat. When she raised her eyes, she saw Zheng Wenrui's swollen white face in front of her. .Zheng Wenrui turned his head the moment she looked over and walked solemnly.

Stepping up one step at a time, one step at a time, Zheng Wenrui's body dangled in front of her eyes amidst the noisy voices, as if she would bump into it if she raised her nose.

At this moment, Sheng Huainan pulled out a joke from his mobile phone, and held it out in front of her eyes for her to read: "I received it when I just turned it on, look!"

She rolled her eyes, but he showed his white teeth in a smile, and said, "After visual inspection, there are still seven steps left to finish."

Luo Zhi understood, and also turned to smile at him.

In the afternoon, when Sheng Huainan went to GRE class, Luo Zhi took Jiang Baili to do the last big cleaning before she left school, and swept out many small dusty objects from under her desk, which she usually yelled and searched for everywhere. less than.

Luo Zhi held a box of Marlboro that hadn't been unpacked and asked her, "You don't smoke, it's harmful to your health, so throw it away for you."

Jiang Baili was squatting on the ground, reading with great interest a dirty romance magazine that had just been swept out, and she agreed with a "huh huh" without raising her head. After a while, she yelled and took the cigarette from the trash can Picked it up.

"I finally worked up the courage to buy it. Although I haven't smoked much, don't throw it away. What a waste."

"The way you smoke is a waste."

"As far as you know."

"Originally," Luo Zhi put down the broom, "Those who really know how to smoke inhale into their lungs, and then blow out smoke rings through their nose and mouth. You just pass it through your mouth once."

"Have you smoked?"

"I watched a movie."

When Luo Zhi said this, what she thought of was Luoyang.In the summer vacation half a year ago, she finished her first-year university life, and Luoyang had just settled down in Beijing.It was Luoyang who sent her to the platform to see her off on the train back home. When the train started slowly, she saw Luoyang light a cigarette with his head down, take a deep breath, and spit it out, which was pulled into a white line by the wind.

That was the first time she saw Luoyang smoking, and it was also the first time she saw waves in his eyes.He didn't look at her, but stared at the end of the railroad tracks with his smoke, wondering what he was thinking.

Chen Jing didn't know that Luoyang smoked.Luo Zhi never saw Luo Yang smoking in front of them again, and never even smelled smoke.

But he bowed his head to light the cigarette, proficiently and naturally, as if cigarettes were already his old friends who would never leave.

At 05:30, Luo Zhi went out to the third canteen on time, bypassing the crowds queuing up to buy barbecue at the door, and stopped a few meters away from the window selling bread and cakes.

Zhang Mingrui was wearing the coat she had handed over to him on Xu Riqing's behalf last week, only a section of his dark neck was exposed.

She remembered that on the day of DQ, they saw the fourteen-month-old baby held by the couple at the next table.Zhang Mingrui exclaimed that he was cute, and said boldly that he would definitely have such a loving son in the future.

Luo Zhi was digging the blizzard with a small spoon, smiling wickedly.

"Don't look for a girl who is too white."

"Why?" He asked in a daze.

"There will be zebras." Before she could finish, she started laughing.

Luo Zhi recalled the scenes, with mixed emotions in her heart.She didn't know what Sheng Huainan's mood was when he faced an unrequited love.

Maybe it won't be as soft-hearted and bitter as she is now.

That's why many people do stupid things because of this soft-heartedness, such as "being friends" with a broken heart - giving each other hopeless and useless comfort, and seeing the short-term relief, they will also alleviate the guilt in their hearts, right?
Of course she knew that Zhang Mingrui didn't need her sympathy, just like she refused to accept Sheng Huainan's sympathy.

Think about yourself, think about yourself, it's nothing, she kept saying silently in her heart.

Luo Zhi flashed behind the pillar the moment Zhang Mingrui swiped his meal card and picked up the plate.

She wanted to wait for Zhang Mingrui to find a good place to sit down and eat, and then find a way to leave along the direction of his blind spot.

However, Zhang Mingrui kept walking around with the plates.At that time, there were not many people in the cafeteria, and there were empty seats everywhere, but he stretched his neck to look around, but he couldn't seem to find a seat that was pleasing to the eye——Luo Zhi peeked at it for a long time in confusion, and suddenly his heart became clear.

"In the future, when you don't want to eat the pancakes from the Three Canteens, please remember to tell me."

Zhang Mingrui said it many times.

He's not looking for a seat.He is looking for her.

Luo Zhi closed her eyes, letting her eyelids and the darkness block the scalding tears together, but she really endured it forcefully.

The boy was already a little tired from searching, with a look of disappointment on his face, but his eyes did not give up searching.Luo Zhi couldn't guess how long it would take for him to sit down and eat resignedly when she didn't come to the third canteen.

Zhang Mingrui looked in the direction of the gate, and suddenly smiled. The boy still had a stubborn expression on his upright face, but the corners of his mouth were curled up reluctantly.That self-deprecating expression lasted only a second, before he lowered his head, poured the bread and cakes on the plate into the leftover table next to him, and strode away.

Maybe he never liked bread, Luo Zhi thought.

She remembered the last two sentences of the last entry in her high school diary.

That's an excerpt I can't remember the source of.

Two strangers fell in love.
Only one knows it wasn't by chance.
It is no coincidence that two strangers fall in love and only one of them knows love.

No boy would appear in front of her "accidentally" with bread and bread and say, "What a coincidence."

She will also no longer appear in the line at the bread window.

(End of this chapter)