Chapter 41 I’m asking about you…
After returning to the dormitory, Xu Ji lay exhausted on the bed, logged into QQ which he hadn't used for a long time, stared at Tao Siyun's gray avatar for a long time, and then clicked into her space for the umpteenth time.
He didn't go anywhere for the whole afternoon, just wanting to waste all his free time on things related to her.
Tao Siyun rarely posted updates before, and she didn’t even have many posts. Her space only contained some interesting blog posts that she reposted.
Some of them are test questions that were very popular on QQ Space in those years. You choose your answer from four options based on the question, and then the test will show you which small animal is suitable for your personality.
She said in the comment section that she obviously liked Pomeranian, but the test result showed that it was Alaskan. Although it was a little big, it was also very cute when it was young.
Those naive test questions, which now seem like they were just for fun, she reposted several of them. The questions were pretty much the same, but the answers were all over the place...
Sometimes it's about which small animal is suitable to raise, sometimes it's about which country is suitable to travel to, and sometimes it's about which language is suitable to learn...
Maybe because he felt bored but didn't want to do anything else, Xu Ji tested it for the first time, but he didn't expect that the result was also Alaska.
He hesitated for a long time looking at the identical answer, and finally deleted the visit record, quietly erasing all traces of his visit, just like he had done every time before.
***
The next day, after sobering up, Xu Ji and Chen Feng played tennis together in the afternoon. After a vigorous exercise, both of them were sweating.
"Who are you competing with? You haven't let me down at all today. You're a professional, but you're treating me, an amateur, as a sparring partner?" Chen Feng was so tired that he groaned. He threw down his racket and sat down on the ground, gasping for breath. As if remembering something, he nudged him with his shoulder and asked excitedly, "Hey, who is Dorothy?"
“…”
Xu Ji was drinking water when he heard his words. He was suddenly stunned, like a wooden man, motionless. He stood still for several seconds and looked at him with great reservation.
Something is wrong. Something is very wrong.
Chen Feng realized something belatedly...
Could it be that I just hit his aorta by asking this question?
What bad luck...
Xu Ji clenched the plastic bottle in his hand expressionlessly. The empty mineral water bottle made a continuous squeaking sound under his hands, which was distorted to the extreme.
Chen Feng felt very uncomfortable after hearing this. His smile froze and he spread his hands innocently. "Okay, okay, I'm wrong, okay? Don't look at me like that, it's scary. I'm just asking casually. Who doesn't have curiosity?"
Xu Ji silently tightened the bottle cap, threw the flattened plastic bottle aside, leaned back, and lay down.
The sun slowly sank and the sky gradually darkened, but the man on the ground did not move at all. It was unclear whether he was asleep or simply did not want to pay attention to him.
The huge tennis court was incredibly quiet; soon, we'd be able to see the stars...
Chen Feng looked up at the sky and sighed countless times in his heart. Just when he was about to sigh for the N+1th time, the person who had been silent for a long time finally spoke.
Xu Ji said calmly: "Don't you have a childhood?"
"ah?"
Xu Ji opened his eyes and glanced at his face with a look that was almost contemptuous. Then he quietly withdrew his gaze and said nonchalantly, "Have you never seen The Legend of the Demon Soldier?"
"...I've seen it!" Chen Feng leaned back with his hands. When he realized what was happening, he almost laughed at his father's excuse. "Tsk, don't interrupt me. Am I asking about Dorothy from 'The Legend of the Magic Soldier'? I'm clearly asking about your 'Dorothy', okay? What are you talking about? Hey, are you Ginta or Alvis?"
Xu Ji rested his head on his arms and ignored him.
After browsing my phone for a while, I saw that Mengmeng’s previous owner posted a few photos of its mother on WeChat Moments.
It was a black cross Alaskan with beautiful fur, and it was simply an enlarged version of Meng Meng.
Xu Ji's mind went blank, his eyes fixed on the photo and he was thinking about other things.
On the afternoon when he got the same answer as Tao Siyun, he accidentally saw a message forwarded by a friend about helping Alaska find its owner.
Xu Ji suddenly felt that this "coincidence" was another deliberate act of God after he mistook someone for someone else on the subway that morning.
Although it sounds ridiculous and is quite far-fetched as a reason for adoption.
But none of that matters.
That night, Xu Ji bought a plane ticket to Nanze.
***
Tao Siyun rested at home for a few days and didn't even leave the house.
In her own words: After spraining my ankle, I feel like I am half disabled and it is inconvenient for me to walk anywhere.
"Oh, time flies! Counting on my fingers, Teacher Li's child should be in elementary school soon. I remember seeing her wedding photos back then. The following year, she gave birth to her baby in a heartbeat. I went to the hospital to see her with the blessings of my entire class. It feels like it was just yesterday."
"So you really aren't going this time?"
"It's finals week, how can I find the time? I don't know how they picked the time, it's so inconsiderate."
Tao Siyun was a little disappointed, "Okay..."
"If you really can't think of anything else, just wait until the school open day. It won't be long anyway, so why rush?"
"That's okay too."
Li Huan grabbed a handful of hair and wailed, "You have no idea how I felt when I woke up this morning and saw Betty, Christina, Diana... and Jennifer, the Hair Queen, all gone from my pillow. It must be from all the late nights I've been working lately; I even have a pimple on my face. At this rate of metabolism, I'll have enough hair for a wig by next winter, and the extra hair can be made into wig pieces." Li Huan, with WeChat video on her phone, chatted bitterly with Tao Siyun about her short-lived Hair Queen while writing furiously. Suddenly, she bit the pen, looked at the camera seriously, blinked, and changed the subject: "Did they really go to the movies arm in arm that day?"
"..." Tao Siyun lay on the sofa and sighed softly, "I wonder if you've lost your focus. Haven't you always paid little attention to Xiang Yipeng? Why are you asking about her gossip now?"
"Tsk! I don't have the time to gossip about her. I was just surprised. I didn't expect these two people I've hated for years to actually get together." Li Huan rolled his eyes silently and continued to write. "Why didn't I notice anything at the last class reunion? It seems I've gotten used to it over the years. But I really didn't expect Zhang Qi to be able to pursue Xiang Yipeng. This combination of them...how should I put it, ever since high school, I've felt like Janus and Little Meimei, you know?"
One licks, the other hangs.
The lickspittle licked for many years and finally earned a reputation for himself, and finally achieved the desired result.
It’s not easy, but it’s quite inspiring when you think about it.
This illustrates a problem: persistence is the most important thing for people.
How does the saying go?
People should always have dreams. What if one day they see a ghost?!
These things are unpredictable.
"...It can't be that serious, is it just because Zhang Qi got accepted into Shanghai University? It's been a long time since then. Besides, he was ranked second, so it's perfectly legitimate."
"It's not about the recommendation. Am I that petty? I just don't like his way of doing things. Let me tell you, don't be fooled by his quiet and honest appearance. He actually likes to play tricks behind people's backs. He's a top-notch green tea man and a bitch. He's nicknamed the 'Fighting Class Monitor'. During my three years of high school, because of him, I didn't want to attend the weekly class monitor meetings."
There were few people in the world who could annoy Li Huan to this extent. Tao Siyun couldn't help but become curious about the grievances between them. "So what did he do to irritate you?"
"He loves to tell tales to the teacher. A guy who keeps whining all the time. It makes me angry when I think about it." Li Huan angrily threw down his pen and began to recount the hurt he had suffered that year. "Also, there were so many people in their class who were always so fussy and cliquey. Whenever it was their turn to be on duty, they'd find fault with everything, deduct points everywhere, and always deliberately target other classes for various reasons. And yet, Class Six was constantly getting the red flags. I'll never forget the week after he deducted all our class's hygiene points, and the week our homeroom teacher assigned me to clean the girls' restroom. Those were the darkest, most despairing five days of my life... and that was during the final sprint of my senior year! He, on the other hand, was recommended for admission and didn't have to take the college entrance exam."
"All right."
Tao Siyun expressed her deep sympathy for the squad leader's experience. However, before she could finish her sympathy, Li Huan brought up another matter about her.
"Do you remember when your senior year started? That day, you went back to school to do some errands. Because you didn't have a school uniform, a few arrogant students on duty stopped you from entering the school for a long time. They were from their class."
“…”
At that time, Tao Siyun had already started training. Normally, art students need to go to the school to submit an application for leaving school, and then go through a set of procedures. However, her situation is rather special. Her student status is in Beijing, and after the training, she will go directly back to Beijing to take the exam and will not continue to stay in No. 1 Middle School.
So the process is relatively complicated.
Since the requirements of education bureaus in different places are different, Jingfu notified her to go to the school to complete some relevant procedures.
She went to school in the afternoon and was not allowed in because she was not wearing a school uniform.
That year, the school uniforms of Huxi No. 1 Middle School were changed as soon as they were opened. As a transfer student who was about to leave the school, she had no chance to get a new uniform. Moreover, her old uniform was destroyed beyond recognition by Yan Zhiru after she had a quarrel with Qin Ru when she returned to Beijing during the summer vacation.
After explaining for a long time, the students on duty still stopped her from entering.
Tao Siyun had no choice but to send a message for help to Li Huan who was still on the road.
Unexpectedly, the person she waited for first was Xu Ji.
Without saying a word, Xu Ji took off his school uniform jacket and gave it to her.
Tao Siyun, wearing a school uniform that was ill-fitting and clearly several sizes too large, followed Xu Ji like a little tail and swaggered into the school...
In fact, she was a little nervous because she was wearing a pair of jeans that were in stark contrast to her school pants, and the school badge had his name on it, so it was obvious that she had sneaked in.
Probably because it was to honor Xu Ji, the students on duty didn't say anything this time. They all had a tacit understanding and turned a blind eye and let her in.
…
"Huanhuan, I just can't understand. Do you think Xiang Yipeng is taking the wrong medicine? Why would she add me on WeChat for no reason? We haven't even added each other on QQ before."
"Well, what's so confusing about this? It must be the end of the year and she hasn't finished her work yet, so she's trying to recruit people to boost her business. Then, she'll send you messages about financial management or harass you to apply for a credit card."
I see.
Tao Siyun couldn't help but feel a lot of emotions: As expected, everyone who graduates and enters the society and takes up a job will have all their edges smoothed out by reality. Even the Peacock Princess, who has never gotten along well with her, seems like a different person. She has to bow down for a few pieces of silver and even takes the initiative to show goodwill to her.
"The open day should be before New Year's Day. You can ask Xu Ji if he's free to go with you." Li Huan bit the pen, thought for a few seconds, and said to himself, "Anyway, I think he is."
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