Chapter 14 Unspoken Love
After half of the barbecue skewers were knocked over, everyone ate in small bites and felt hungry all afternoon.
In order to make amends, the task of purchasing food was given to Xi Min and Jiang Yanyu, who had been doing nothing for a long time.
Luo Qinglin luckily escaped the disaster and was chosen to accompany the three ladies to visit the park.
However, this trip was not really for fun, but for Luo Qinglin to act as a photography tool and take street photos of everyone in the summer park.
Before Jiang Yanyu left, Luo Qinglin asked with a bitter face: "If I don't go, what if you can't tell the difference between coriander and mint, and between garlic sprouts and shallots?"
"It's okay, we can buy whatever we want and you can cook whatever you want," Jiang Yanyu said indifferently, "If all else fails, we can go out and find food after we finish filming tonight."
As the only one among the six who can cook, Luo Qinglin has an important responsibility.
But now he was ordered to stay in the park and could only give Jiang Yanyu a shopping list and let them buy based on their feelings.
"If there's anything you don't understand, just give me a call and ask me, don't buy the wrong thing." Luo Qinglin warned worriedly.
Jiang Yanyu waved goodbye and said, "Okay, have fun here, I'll pick you up later."
The tour bus that was supposed to carry six people now only had two guests and a cameraman, and it was on the road empty.
The four people who stayed in the park traveled together and headed towards the animal farm on the other hill.
The journey is not far, and you can reach your destination in just ten minutes on foot.
Along the way, Jiang Linxu was in high spirits and took Luo Qinglin around to take pictures, treating him as her own little sister.
"Look over there, there's an alpaca," Jiang Linxu smiled, quickly ran towards the alpaca in the fence, and waved to the remaining three people, "Come here quickly!"
As soon as He Yihan heard that there were alpacas in the zoo, she immediately let go of Xuan Chu's hand, followed Jiang Linxu into the fence, and gently stroked the soft fur on the alpaca.
My arms lost their warmth and fragrance, and immediately felt cold and empty.
Xuan Chu looked at the figure in the fence, the corners of his mouth curved reluctantly, "In her eyes, my charm is not even as great as that of an alpaca."
"The alpaca can be replaced, but you are irreplaceable in her heart," said Luo Qinglin.
Xuan Chu looked up and saw Luo Qinglin holding a camera, taking pictures of two people who were waving at them. The wind made his shirt sway and wrinkle, and the fluttering cloth looked like a dancing plain butterfly.
"Come in quickly, she wants you to feel her happiness." Luo Qinglin said with a slight smile on his face.
"You're not going in?" Xuan Chu asked.
Luo Qinglin shook his head and refused: "I'll stay here and help you take pictures."
Xuan Chu walked to the fence and stepped over it. After her feet landed on the ground, before she walked in, she stopped, turned around and said, "Luo Ge, I just said something wrong."
"What?" Luo Qinglin was a little confused.
"Brother Jiang doesn't need to be more honest. It's you who needs to be more honest."
After saying that, Xuan Chu walked briskly to He Yihan, put his arm around her shoulders and smiled at the camera.
Luo Qinglin stopped where he was, with the tip of his index finger hovering over the shutter button. He was stunned for a long time before pressing it again.
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In the afternoon, the three ladies wandered around and climbed over several hills.
The camera's battery was almost exhausted, so Luo Qinglin had to take out his cell phone to help take pictures.
As the sun was setting and the cell phone battery was about to run out, Jiang Yanyu finally rushed back with a car full of food.
After a day of wandering, Luo Qinglin drooped his shoulders tiredly when he thought about having to go back to the villa to cook, and leaned his head against the glass window as soon as he got in the car.
Not long after, a hand touched his neck and with a gentle pull, Luo Qinglin moved away from the cold and hard glass window and moved to the soft and broad shoulders.
Jiang Yanyu raised his hand and gently touched Luo Qinglin's sunburned cheek, frowning and saying, "I'll ask Yu Qin to cancel the cooking task later, and you go back and have a good rest."
"No need," Luo Qinglin shook his head and said, "Since it is a scheduled task, it must be completed on time."
"Tsk... forget it, let's get some sleep first. I'll call you when we get there." Jiang Yanyu sighed and patted Luo Qinglin's back lightly with very little force.
Luo Qinglin yawned, lowered his eyes, and fell asleep with the familiar and soothing mint scent.
Fatigue made people fall asleep quickly, and the dream was as colorful as a kaleidoscope, dragging Luo Qinglin into the beautiful sea of dreams.
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The temperature in Lincheng is not high in early June, with the highest temperature being only 25 degrees. The climate is pleasant, making it a veritable summer resort.
With only one week left before the college entrance examination, Luo Qinglin was not nervous, but rather felt a little lost.
He had made every effort in the past three years, and his scores in several mock exams had remained stable at around 640 points, so in the last few days he only planned to look over the wrong questions and memorize some knowledge points.
At 5:30 in the afternoon, the classroom of Class 12 of Grade 3 was extremely silent. Everyone was immersed in self-study, preparing for the final battle.
Luo Qinglin's class 12 is a regular class located on the fourth floor. After he finished reviewing and put away his schoolbag, he tiptoed out of the classroom and headed towards the dormitory.
When he passed by the second floor, he saw that the students in the experimental class had already finished school. The classroom was empty, with no one left. The atmosphere was relaxed, completely different from that of an ordinary class.
If only he were a little smarter, he wouldn't have studied hard for three years and still be destined to fail the entrance exam to Peking University or Tsinghua University.
Luo Qinglin shook his head to dispel the depressed thoughts that were rising in his mind, and the red school uniform on his body also moved.
Each grade in Lincheng No. 1 Middle School occupies a group building. Each group has three buildings connected by crossbeam passages.
The back building is the biochemistry laboratory, the middle building is the classroom for odd-numbered classes, and the front building is the classroom for even-numbered classes.
After walking down the stairs of the front building to the flat ground, Luo Qinglin raised his head and looked towards Class 9 of Senior 3 where Jiang Yanyu was.
Normally at this time of year, Jiang Yanyu would stand in the corridor of the middle building to admire the sunset, but for several days in a row, he hadn't seen Jiang Yanyu.
Luo Qinglin was a little disappointed and walked out of the senior group with his head down.
Walking along the two-hundred-meter-long school road, passing through the gymnasium and the wide track and field field, Luo Qinglin walked slowly and entered the dormitory after twenty minutes.
The dormitory is for four people in a room, with a bed above and a desk below.
Luo Qinglin pulled out a chair and sat down, taking out a letter from the drawer. There was a sunflower printed on the surface of the envelope, and inside was Luo Qinglin's subtle love and a bag of sunflower seeds.
This letter had been written a month ago. It was not a straightforward love letter, but a self-introduction.
Luo Qinglin attached his personal information, including his social account and phone number, and wrote at the end, "Student Jiang Yanyu, I want to be friends with you."
The reason why I chose the sunflower envelope is because Jiang Yanyu posts a photo of sunflowers on Weibo every month, with the text [Silent first crush] (unspoken first love).
Putting the letter back into the drawer, Luo Qinglin covered his pounding heart and lay on the table thinking that he must give the letter to Jiang Yanyu before graduation!
A week is so short, and in the blink of an eye it’s the day of college entrance examination.
During the two days of the college entrance examination, the entrance to No. 1 Middle School was filled with parents, cordons were set up everywhere, and the number of security guards and police increased sharply, all of whom were there to maintain safety at the scene.
Among the people waiting outside the door would not be Luo Qinglin's long-deceased parents, nor would they be his uncle who hated him.
But he did not envy others, because he had long been accustomed to being alone.
For two days, he carefully wrote down the answers to each question. He checked the answers to the questions he was sure of to ensure they were correct. For the questions he was not sure of, he wrote down the relevant formulas in order to get points.
When the bell rang to signal the end of the English exam, Luo Qinglin put down his pen and waited for the invigilator to collect the papers.
All around me were sighs from students in other classes, their voices expressing relief and regret that their youth was about to end.
But Luo Qinglin was not nostalgic for his youth. He only cared about the "friendship letter" in his schoolbag that had not been sent out yet. He just wanted the teacher to collect the papers quickly so that he could run to Class 9 of Grade 3 to deliver the letter.
Before the college entrance examination, he went to Class 9, but Jiang Yanyu was not there at that time. The students in Class 9 did not know the reason for his absence. They only said that Jiang Yanyu might come to school during the college entrance examination.
During the college entrance examination, students had to leave school as soon as they finished the exam. Only after the English class was over were they allowed to return to their classes.
After waiting for a long time for the teacher to collect the papers, Luo Qinglin grabbed his schoolbag and ran to the senior class.
Along the way, Luo Qinglin ran through the crowd who were checking their answers, ran through the students who were shouting to the sky, panted heavily, crossed three flights of stairs in one step, and quickly ran up to Class 9 on the third floor.
Luo Qinglin thought as he ran, no matter what, he wanted Jiang Yanyu to know of his existence, so that they could at least have an encounter.
"Is Jiang Yanyu here?" Luo Qinglin asked a male classmate from Class 9.
"Jiang Yanyu?" the male classmate replied in confusion, "He's not taking the college entrance examination, so he hasn't come to school for a long time."
Haven’t come to school for a long time?
Luo Qinglin lowered his hands, and his emotions, which had been surging like waves, suddenly calmed down. The pain of regret penetrated into his heart. He stood there motionless, unable to speak.
"What do you want from Jiang Yanyu?"
Luo Qinglin raised his head. Lin Sangshen walked out from the next class, Class 11, with a choked voice, slightly red eyes and tears in her eyes.
"I, I..."
Seeing Lin Sangsen, all of Luo Qinglin's courage was shattered.
Luo Qinglin felt ashamed and wondered what he had been doing all this time.
Why would he have such wild thoughts about a straight guy who has a girlfriend? Why would he be in his right mind to write such a letter?
"What's wrong with you?" Luo Qinglin put the letter back into his school uniform pocket and asked as if nothing had happened.
"She confessed to me and I rejected her, hahahaha!"
A tall and handsome boy walked out of Class 11. He was obviously an excellent student with high popularity and good grades.
"Get lost!" Lin Sangshen sniffed, "What do you want from Jiang Yanyu?"
Lin Sangshen actually confessed to someone else? Did she break up with Jiang Yanyu?
Luo Qinglin's mood hit rock bottom. His hand holding the envelope trembled a little, and he replied: "I, I have something to give him."
"He returned to London last week. Give the things to me and I will send them to him for you," said Lin Sangshen.
Hearing this, Luo Qinglin's slightly excited mood sank again, as if he was riding a roller coaster, turning up and down, and lingering left and right.
As an unknown admirer, would he really give the love letter to Jiang Yanyu's ex-girlfriend? Luo Qinglin was hesitant and was unable to come up with it.
Noticing Luo Qinglin's hesitation, Lin Sangshen asked, "What's wrong?"
Give it to me! This is his only chance to give the sunflower seeds to Jiang Yanyu!
Luo Qinglin took a deep breath, closed his eyes, took the letter out of his pocket, and handed it to Lin Sangshen, "Please help me give this to him!"
Without waiting for Lin Sangshen to ask, Luo Qinglin said "thank you" loudly and ran away with his schoolbag on his back without looking back.
It was not until he ran back to the dormitory and looked at the small suitcase in the empty dormitory that Luo Qinglin's excitement subsided a little.
Most students moved out of the dormitory before the college entrance examination, but he was the only one who was homeless and still lived in the dormitory on the last day.
Picking up the phone on the table, Luo Qinglin opened Weibo, and sent an electronic version of the "friend message" on Jiang Yanyu's private message interface, and attached a picture of sunflowers at the end.
If Jiang Yanyu didn't see either of their letters, it would mean that he and Jiang Yanyu were not destined to be together.
Luo Qinglin came back to his senses when the dormitory auntie's urging voice sounded.
He dragged his suitcase out of the dormitory, walked out of the school gate, got on a crowded bus, and headed towards his destined busy future.
Throughout the summer, Luo Qinglin did not receive any call from Jiang Yanyu on the other side of the ocean, and the private message on Weibo remained unread.
The last summer of youth has passed.
In September, university starts.
There is a sea of golden sunflowers in Jiangcheng University of Science and Technology.
Every day when passing by the sea of flowers on his way to class, Luo Qinglin would make a wish, hoping that his sunflowers would one day know him, recognize him, understand him, and like him.
I hope that one day, the unspoken crush can turn into love expressed out loud.
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When I opened my eyes again, the car had not yet reached the villa and was driving slowly.
"Not sleeping anymore?" Jiang Yanyu asked.
"Yeah." Luo Qinglin sat up straight and moved his sore neck left and right.
"You just called Lin Sangshen's name in your sleep," Jiang Yanyu's voice was a little cold, "Did you like her before?"
The sunset outside the window was bright, and it looked like a huge pearl adorning the lake, dyeing Ye Yuze and the sky a light crimson.
Luo Qinglin smiled towards the setting sun. He thought of what Xuan Chu had said during the day, so he turned his head and stared into those deep and beautiful eyes that he had not dared to look directly into during his entire senior year of high school.
"I don't like mulberries. I only like sunflowers."
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