Chapter 5 Plastic Triangle

After breakfast, He Leqin called and asked Bai Yang if he wanted to go to celebrate Yan Zhihan’s birthday, today is September 7th.

He Leqin is Bai Yang's best friend. They were classmates in elementary school, junior high school, and high school. Three generations of his family have lived in Nanjing and they own six houses locally. He is a typical second-generation family member, and owns only houses.

Bai Yang said that the second generation of real estate owners is a newly emerging second-generation group. As the saying goes, if you have a house, you will have no worries. He Leqin has lived the life of a retired old man at a young age. He loves to go to the park to walk his bird on weekends - the kind that wears pants. This guy said that his decadent Eight Banners lifestyle was learned from his great uncle, who went out for a stroll with a bird cage every week and led the young He Leqin astray.

Since junior high school, He Leqin's regular shopping places every week are Xinjiekou and Golden Eagle in Hexi. Bai Yang has never even stepped into that magnificent and extravagant building, but to He Leqin it is the vegetable market at his doorstep. He often posts high-end and classy posts on his Moments, but the caption is "This French food with an average price of 2,000 yuan per person actually tastes worse than that of a roadside stall."

Corruption, so corrupt!

Bai Yang was heartbroken.

If you think it doesn’t taste good, you can bring it back for me to eat!

"Whose birthday is it?" Dad asked. "What's the name?"

"Yan Zhihan." Bai Yang replied.

Dad searched his small hippocampus and barely found the name, then associated it with a little girl with long, soft hair and fair skin, and said "Oh", it turned out to be her.

Bai Yang: Do you know her?

Dad: I don’t know.

Bai Yang: Then how do you know she is a little girl with long, soft hair and fair skin?

Dad: Now the streets are full of little girls with long, soft hair and fair skin.

Yan Zhihan is the famous flower of the school, grade, class and group of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Affiliated High School. Yes, the flower of the group. There are eight people in Bai Yang's group, seven boys and one girl, commonly known as seven leaves and one flower.

Among them, Bai Yang, He Leqin and Yan Zhihan have the closest relationship, commonly known as the Plastic Iron Triangle.

He Leqin, a rich young man, has a philanthropic spirit of helping the world. He will give gifts to any girl in the class on her birthday, let alone his close friend Brother Yan. As a class representative, Yan Zhihan always gives the green light to He Leqin when handing in homework, and has saved He Leqin from danger several times. A drop of kindness should be repaid with a spring of gratitude. The eighteenth birthday is of great importance, and the ceremony of adulthood should not be treated lightly.

So He Leqin called Bai Yang for advice and asked what to send.

"Aries! Little Aries! What do you think is a suitable gift?"

"Master, you are so rich, why don't you give me a Lamborghini?" Bai Yang said slowly, "Or a Bentley, Ferrari, or Aston Martin will also work. Brother Yan likes cars, right?"

"Get lost, I'm talking to you seriously."

"Why don't you build a statue of her at the entrance of Xinjiekou subway station?" Bai Yang said, "Have her pose shaped like Kamehameha or Specium rays. Anyway, the big turntable under Xinjiekou subway station was built by your family, so it would be easy to erect a statue, right?"

"Then Brother Yan will kill you first, and then rape and kill me."

"Why was I killed directly, and you were raped and killed?"

"Because I'm handsome, ah, understand?" He Leqin said on the other end of the phone, "If I die and lie there, others will feel that they are at a disadvantage if they don't desecrate my body. Okay, okay, come over quickly, don't talk nonsense, I'll treat you to lunch at noon, I'll wait for you at Xinjiekou subway station."

"Where are we going to eat?"

"Ke Xiang."

Bai Yang hung up the phone, changed his shoes and went out.

"Xiao Yang, will you come back for lunch at noon?" Mom asked as she poked her head out of the room.

"I'm not coming back!"

"Then come back early this afternoon! You still have two sets of papers to finish!"

"I know, I know!"

Bai Yang opened the door and went downstairs, and the sound of footsteps faded away.

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To get from Meihua Villa to Xinjiekou, you need to take Line 2, get on at Alfalfa Garden Station, and get off at Xinjiekou Station. Baiyang walked out of the community gate and walked along Alfalfa Garden Street towards the subway station. There were camphor trees as thick as bowls on both sides of the road.

It is said that Nanjing is full of plane trees, but here in Meihua Villa there are only camphor trees, which are short and thin. Walking one kilometer along the sidewalk of Alfalfa Garden Street, when you reach Zhongshanmen Road, you will see many plane trees that are so thick that a person can hug them. The plane trees in the green belts are lush and leafy, and they are all decades old. Compared with the poplars, they are grandfathers.

Nanjing was still very hot in September. Bai Yang was wearing a white T-shirt and a pair of beige cropped casual pants. He was already sweating all over when he turned into Zhongshanmen Street. Pedestrians were coming and going on the road. Today was the weekend and there was no school, but there were still students in school uniforms riding bicycles in groups of three or four. Grandpas and women in short sleeves were carrying cloth bags or vegetable baskets distributed by the supermarket, with eggs and green onions in the bags. There were also young girls who had changed into short skirts and hot pants, revealing their long, dazzlingly white legs.

When Bai Yang walked among the crowd, he felt that this was a young city with beautiful long legs everywhere on the streets.

But when he saw the white, rough bark of the plane tree, he was well aware of its antiquity.

The phone buzzed. Bai Yang took it out and took a look. He Leqin was urging him again on WeChat:

Have you arrived yet? I've been waiting for you until the flowers withered.

Bai Yang lowered his head and replied to him:

Coming Soon!

For Bai Yang, as long as he leaves home, he will be there immediately no matter where he is.

He Leqin: Hurry up, I just saw a Pansy who is so beautiful!

Bai Yang: Here I come.

He turned off the phone screen and put it in his pocket.

Arriving at the entrance of Alfalfa Garden subway station, Bai Yang squeezed into the downward escalator and soon disappeared in the vast crowd. Line 2 is one of the busiest subway lines in Nanjing and is the city's main traffic artery. Crowds of people flow in the arteries like blood. They are the source of vitality for the city, and Bai Yang is one of these millions of blood cells.

Nanjing is a huge heart.

(End of this chapter)