Chapter 130

Both students’ freshman semester ended at the end of December.

After the freshness of entering college wore off, everything started to fall into place.

After the final exams, Shuangshuang and Chenchen had a meal together. They met several times afterwards and seemed to have slowly regained the closeness they had as children.

"Brother Chenchen, you don't know, our teacher is so talkative. Even when the class is over, he can still talk some more... nonsense. He can talk for five minutes."

When they were both complaining about the teacher, they looked around. After all, they were outside the school and they might bump into each other.

Her almond-shaped eyes moved left and right like a cunning little deer.

Wu Xiangchen listened to her talking about the interesting things in college, and then thought about his own life. It seemed that his daily life was very monotonous. Apart from training, he was on missions and on standby at all times, with a high level of concentration. Only when he met Shuangshuang and listened to her chattering did he have a rare chance to relax.

In this respect, she has not changed at all since she was a child.

"Also, you know what? This time I followed my senior to interview a retired teacher, and he was amazing! He was a former top scorer in the college entrance examination and has participated in many national scientific research projects." Shuangshuang looked adoring. "I was quite nervous when I first went there. I couldn't even speak clearly, haha."

Thinking of her own frightened look, she pursed her lips and smiled, as if she was amused by herself.

It was snowing heavily in the capital at the end of December. The ground was covered with white snow, which piled up to a height of several centimeters. When you stepped on it, it felt soft under your feet.

Shuangshuang was delighted as she walked out after dinner. She was from the south and had only returned to her hometown in the north with her parents a few times. The last time she saw snow was quite a long time ago.

"Ha~ha~" He blew out hot air from his mouth and hopped his feet in the snow, feeling the joy of stepping on the snow. "It doesn't snow where we are. It would be great if it snowed~"

She raised her hands into the air, smiling sweetly and squinting her eyes, and caught a snowflake. She took a closer look and it was really beautiful.

"Oh, oh, oh!" Shuangshuang suddenly remembered something and tugged Wu Xiangchen's arm to remind him, "Brother Chenchen, do you remember? One year, you gave me a glass jar and asked me to bring snow back for you guys?"

When Shuangshuang saw the heavy snow, he suddenly remembered the first time he went back to his hometown in the north with his family when he was a child. At that time, he packed snow and brought it back to his friends.

Wu Xiangchen looked at Shuangshuang who was excited to recall the past and smiled, "Yes, the snow you brought back melted, and Aunt Lulu painted snowflakes on it."

"That's about right~" She rubbed her hands in her cotton-padded jacket pockets and hid half of her face in her red scarf, her words coming out from the gaps in the scarf. "I was so sad at the time, wondering how the snow I was going to bring you would melt. I was so worried. You must be very disappointed. Come on, I'll give you one now!"

Shuangshuang was in a playful mood. He looked up at the goose-feather-like snowflakes falling. He reached out to catch two more snowflakes. His woolen gloves were stained with two snowflakes with distinct petals. "Brother Chenchen, hurry up and take them away. If you wait any longer, they will melt again. I'm giving this to you to make up for the snow I failed to give you when we were kids."

At Wu Xiangchen's age, it is not the time for him to play in the snow. Usually in the military area, the new recruits get so excited when they see it snowing that they go out to play in the snow with their arms around each other's shoulders. When he sees this, he can only say that it is childish.

Now, looking at the little girl wrapped in a red scarf, with only half of her fair and tender face and a pair of bright almond eyes showing, staring at him motionlessly, he stretched out his fingers and carefully picked up a snowflake from her palms, then lowered his eyes and saw that the girl was smiling even more brilliantly.

"Hahaha, I made it up! I don't owe you anything." After paying off the "debt" from childhood, Shuangshuang suddenly wondered, "By the way, where is the glass jar now?"

She tilted her head and tried to think, because it was more than ten years ago and she couldn't remember it at all. "Is it in my house? I'll go back and look for it."

Wu Xiangchen curled the corners of his lips but said nothing.

After sending Shuangshuang back to school, Wu Xiangchen took the bus back to the military district. The military district was also much quieter. It was too cold today, so all outdoor training was cancelled, giving the soldiers a holiday in disguise.

"Brother Chen, where have you been?"

"Go outside for a moment."

When Deputy Company Commander Lu Fengnian saw Wu Xiangchen coming back from outside, he felt that something was wrong with him recently. "You used to not like to go out alone, and you always stayed in the army. You kid, are you secretly dating someone behind your brothers' backs?"

The more he thought about it, the more possible it was. The burly man suddenly became excited, "Okay, you are so disloyal!"

I am still a lonely person. If my brothers have a partner, I will seem even more miserable.

"What nonsense are you talking about? How can I find a partner?" Wu Xiangchen thought that this man was really crazy. He was obviously going to meet Shuangshuang, so what kind of partner was he going to find?

After closing the door and getting rid of the nagging Lu Fengnian, Wu Xiangchen returned to his single dormitory. The warmth in the room instantly made him feel a little uncomfortable after walking back from the wind and snow outside.

After taking off his military coat and hanging his clothes on the back of a chair, Wu Xiangchen pulled out a wooden chair and sat down.

The single dormitory was simple and tidy, with a single wooden bed with a quilt folded into a tofu block on it. Next to the bed was a desk and a wooden chair. Behind the door were a thermos and a ceramic basin. There was a towel hanging on the wall with nails.

Wu Xiangchen put his hands on the table, preparing to report for home visit leave. He would go home to visit his relatives in January. He hadn't been home for several years, so he had to see Old Wu. He felt lonely being alone.

He took out the report paper, removed the cap from his pen, and quickly wrote the report. He then put the report on the family visit away and prepared to hand it in tomorrow.

His eyes wandered around the table, and Wu Xiangchen saw a glass jar on the table, about the height of a finger, filled with seven or eight colorful marbles, most of which were worn out. These were the marbles he played with his friends on the island when he was a child. He took out the cork, poured out the marbles, and played with them for a while, then used his slender fingers to pinch the glass jar and turn it over.

More than ten years ago, the snowflakes painted by Aunt Lulu have gradually disappeared, leaving only some residual traces.

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"Mom, do you remember the first time I went back home I brought a glass jar of snow?"

Shuangshuang had been back home for half a month after the winter vacation. One day, she suddenly remembered that she needed to find the glass jar, but she couldn't find it after searching through all the drawers in her bedroom.

"That was so many years ago?" Jian Lu ate beef jerky and thought that the girl was imaginative and presumptuous. "Even if it's at home, I don't think it's easy to find. Look at your house. If it's not there, it really isn't there."

"Oh, I really can't find it." Shuangshuang pouted, "Forget it, I guess I lost it accidentally, I won't look for it anymore!"

After returning home, Shuangshuang enjoyed the highest level of treatment. Her grandmother felt sorry for her granddaughter living alone outside, so she prepared all kinds of delicious food for her as soon as she got home, and fed her granddaughter until she gained two or three pounds.

"Eat more and keep your body healthy." Aunt Wang looked at her granddaughter lovingly, worried that she wouldn't have enough to eat or wear warmly when she was away from home.

"Grandma, don't worry, I'm living a good life." He pinched his cheek flesh with two fingers, and instantly pinched out a ball, "Look, there is a lot of flesh on my face."

Aunt Wang was amused by her granddaughter, "You are a child who only reports good news and not worries."

"That's because I really have no worries~"

"My dear girl, why don't you stay home?" Cheng Zheng looked at his girl who had been in college for a semester and finally came back!

"Yes, there's nothing better than home." Shuangshuang ate the beef jerky sent by her uncle with great enthusiasm.

Seeing that his daughter was enjoying the beef jerky, Cheng Zheng smiled and rubbed her head, "Then stay at home for a while and go back later."

Shuangshuang raised her eyelids and looked up. "It's a few days ago. I made an appointment with my roommate to climb the Great Wall."

Cheng Zheng: "..."

The injured old father turned around and went to find his wife, "Lulu, your daughter has to leave early for winter vacation, look!"

"It's normal for children to be more social now that they're older." Jian Lu is not the type to restrict children. "Look how well behaved your daughter is. She hasn't been out for a few days since she got home. She stays with us at home every day. When you came back from the army, wasn't your daughter at home? She even cooked noodles for you last night."

"That's right. Girls are so nice and considerate!" The old father was satisfied again.

The loving couple spent the New Year of 1990 at home. On New Year's Eve, they sat in front of the TV with their family to watch the Spring Festival Gala and listen to the beautiful song "The red safflower is blooming, so red~①"

A week before school started, she said goodbye to her family one by one and left on the green train again.

After clanging along the way, we returned to school and went to climb the Great Wall with our roommates the next day.

After Lu Qing went abroad for an internship for a year, he came back and finally met Shuang Shuang who came to the capital to study.

The two of them found a southwestern hot pot restaurant to eat at, and the hot hot pot made her hiss constantly.

"You can't eat spicy food, but you insist on eating hot pot?" Lu Qing poured her a glass of water and handed it to her.

"Sister Qingqing, you don't understand. This is called a brave attempt. It's been 90 years. Can I still be the same person I was before?"

As time approaches the 90s, everything seems to be different.

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Lu Qing works at the People's Hospital, which is some distance away from Shuangshuang's school. It takes about 40 minutes by bus. The two occasionally make appointments to meet, go shopping in the Capital Mall together, and step into the door of a new-style barber shop for the first time.

The two of them were together, chatting and laughing, pointing at the photos of actresses on movie posters, and clamoring to have the same hair cut.

In recent years, curly hair has been particularly fashionable. Many lesbians on the street have permed their hair. Even those who are short of money will use the hot iron at home to perm their hair and curl it.

There are no requirements for students' hairstyles in universities, and many students have also followed the trend.

When they came out again, Lu Qing's long hair was curled into big waves, while Shuang Shuang had her hair cut to shoulder length and curled, making them look about 60% like the actress on the poster, youthful and playful.

When spring came and flowers bloomed, Shuangshuang was thinking about giving brother Chenchen a birthday present, so she specially found brother Dunzi to confirm the time of brother Chenchen's birthday, and then she quietly found the military region to give him a surprise.

Today is Wu Xiangchen's day off, and Shuangshuang had already made inquiries about it.

"Oh my god, why is there such a pretty girl at the gate of our military area? Could she be a female soldier from the art troupe?"

Lu Fengnian and several soldiers were going out together and saw Shuangshuang standing near the back door of the military area.

"No way, the female soldiers in our military art troupe are not that pretty, how can you say that, she looks like an actress!"

"Yes, yes, yes!!! Doesn't she look like the heroine in that popular movie recently, the one from Hong Kong? She's so pretty."

"Don't tell me!!! She really looks like her! What's her name? Qin Fang?"

"That's her. She acted in such a beautiful movie!"

A few people were whispering all the way, but when they really came up to the person, they suddenly became shy again.

They have hardly talked to lesbians, they are shy.

Lu Fengnian calculated that he was already 25 and would soon become a bachelor in the army. If he didn't take action now, it would be too late. He immediately straightened his collar, cleared his throat, and spoke in a pretended deep voice, "Is this female comrade here to visit relatives?"

Shuangshuang looked at the soldiers who suddenly appeared in front of him. Although he didn't know them, he nodded and said, "I'm waiting for others."

"Oh, what a coincidence, we are waiting for someone too!" Lu Fengnian took a close look at the girl. She was so beautiful. Her shoulder-length wavy hair showed her agility and playfulness, and her oval face looked even more petite. Most importantly, her voice was very nice, with a clear and pleasant sound.

Lu Fengnian was thinking quickly in his mind how he could appear graceful and at the same time get to know the other people. The other two warriors naturally saw what he was thinking and helped him to exaggerate.

"This is our company's deputy commander. He's very capable and can even win awards in military competitions."

"Let's not talk about these past honors. I'm actually planning to win first place in five events in this year's competition."

Two warriors: "..."

Just blow it slowly!

"Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Lu Fengnian. I'm from Province J. I'm currently serving in the military. I wonder where you're studying or working? ...Hey hey hey."

Lu Fengnian was actively trying to get to know lesbians and was hoping to have his first romantic encounter, but then he was grabbed by the scruff of the neck.

"Who is it? How dare you attack me..." He turned around and saw that the person who attacked him was very familiar, "Brother Chen?"

Lu Fengnian is actually older than Wu Xiangchen, but the two made a bet before participating in the military competition last year. Because he lost to Wu Xiangchen, he could only call him "brother" all the time afterwards.

Wu Xiangchen just walked over and saw Lu Fengnian showing off to Shuangshuang. Looking at his attitude, don’t you think you can’t tell what he is trying to do?

Pulling Wu Xiangchen aside, Lu Fengnian lowered his voice and said, "Brother Chen, my dear brother, please don't ruin my good fortune. It's not rare to meet a beautiful lesbian, and I want to show my strength..."

"What are you talking about?" Wu Xiangchen directly smothered his thoughts and said coldly, "I don't agree."

Lu Fengnian: “…?”

"No, why don't you agree?" Lu Fengnian was surprised. After a few seconds, he suddenly reacted and winked at him, "You should have said it earlier! You and her... Got it, okay, brother will not do such a thing to steal someone's love, I generously bless you."

He understood! He understood too well! It was obvious that Wu Xiangchen had already taken a fancy to her, he just arrived a step late, alas.

"What are you daydreaming about?" Wu Xiangchen glanced at Shuangshuang not far away. Seeing her new hairstyle, a flash of surprise flashed in his eyes, "That's my sister."

"ah?"

Lu Fengnian and the other two warriors were stunned. They had never heard that Wu Xiangchen had a biological sister, and she didn't look like her.

But, never mind, it’s not like I can’t recognize this brother-in-law?!

"She's not my relative, she's from my neighbor's family." Wu Xiangchen glared at him, "You're useless, I don't like you, don't mess with her."

"Hey! Who are you insulting? How can I, a good young man with a good family background, not be worthy of your sister?!" The injured Lu Fengnian cursed a few times, which was really infuriating!

Of course, he could only swear a few words, after all, he couldn't beat Wu Xiangchen.

Wu Xiangchen, who had just taken two steps, turned around and glanced at him, "You don't pay attention to hygiene, the food you cook is not tasty, and you are careless on weekdays. Can I trust you to take care of Shuangshuang?"

After speaking calmly, he turned around and left.

Lu Fengnian looked at the man's back as he left. He was stunned for a few seconds before he reacted. He swore at the two comrades beside him, "Listen, this Wu Xiangchen actually insulted me like that. Oh, I'm going to break off our friendship! I'm going to break off my friendship with him!"

Two comrades: "..."

This is the 180th chapter in which Lu Fengnian breaks off his friendship with Wu Xiangchen.

"Brother Chenchen, is that your comrade-in-arms?" Shuangshuang and Wu Xiangchen walked side by side to the hotel outside the military area.

"Yes, we are from the same company." Wu Xiangchen looked at Shuangshuang's fair little faces with a slightly innocent look, "Don't bother with them."

Each one of them is like a jackal, a tiger or a leopard. If he were crazy, he would watch the sheep fall into the tiger's mouth.

Today Shuangshuang mysteriously took Wu Xiangchen to a roast duck restaurant. She is a wealthy woman and she generously said that she would treat Brother Chenchen to roast duck to celebrate his birthday.

Wu Xiangchen, whose birthday was in three days, was stunned as he poured water. "You came here just to celebrate my birthday?"

"Yes." Shuangshuang ordered roast duck and said righteously, "Didn't you give me a gift last time? We should reciprocate."

After that, he handed over a small box.

Wu Xiangchen hesitated for a moment. He didn't want to accept a gift from a student, but he didn't want to be thrifty and buy him a gift and treat him to roast duck. Roast duck was expensive and even the high-paid workers couldn't afford to eat it.

“Do you have enough money to live on?”

Shuangshuang didn't know why Brother Chenchen asked this, "Enough, don't forget, I have money."

Speaking of money, she winked at Brother Chenchen and said, "I have saved up all the money I used to get as New Year's gifts when I was a kid."

Seeing her playful smile, Wu Xiangchen stopped being shy and opened the small box with a little anticipation. He saw a glass jar inside, and the body of the jar actually had a snowflake pattern on it.

"How is it? Isn't it very beautiful?!" Shuangshuang was very proud of her gift. She went shopping at a newly opened department store in the capital and unexpectedly saw a glass jar with snowflake patterns. Wasn't this tailor-made for her?

"This way, the snowflakes will stay on the glass jar forever."

Shuangshuang blinked and stared at Brother Chenchen, "Do you like it?"

Wu Xiangchen didn't expect that she was still thinking about this. He held the small glass jar in his hand, the muscles on the back of his hand bulged, and looked at Shuangshuang, saying seriously, "I like it very much."

When dinner was served, both of them were busy eating the delicious roast duck, and then telling brother Chenchen about what had happened in the past few months. She made every interesting, boring, happy, or angry story fascinating.

Wu Xiangchen was originally eating while listening, agreeing from time to time, and as he listened, he began to help Shuangshuang roll the roast duck.

One roll, passed to another, one ate it, very tacit understanding.

When Shuangshuang had eaten and drunk their fill and were about to pay the bill, they found out that Chenchen's brother had already paid.

"Ah, didn't I treat you to dinner?"

"There's no reason for me to ask you to pay." Wu Xiangchen's monthly salary plus allowances was quite considerable. In addition, he had almost no place to spend money in the military area and basically saved it all, so he could still afford to eat an expensive roast duck.

"Okay, next time, next time I must treat you." Shuangshuang was still thinking about this.

After eating roast duck, Shuangshuang was interested when passing by a cinema. She saw a poster of a beautiful actress on the wall, with fiery red lips and shoulder-length curly hair. She walked to the poster excitedly, fixed her hair and asked Wu Xiangchen who was sitting opposite her.

"Brother Chenchen, do we look alike?" She pointed upwards with both hands. "My classmates all say that Qin Fang and I look alike. Is that true? I can't really tell."

Wu Xiangchen looked at Shuangshuang, then at the actress on the poster. They did look a bit alike, "Yes, they do look a bit alike."

However, Shuangshuang is obviously much more agile than the actress.

"Come on, let's go watch the movie I starred in." Shuangshuang didn't care when being told that she had talked too much and simply started talking about the movie she starred in.

The most popular actress in Hong Kong today is Qin Fang. With her sweet looks, she has captured the hearts of countless people and has become famous all the way from Hong Kong to the mainland.

The movie "The Flame of Love" that is being released today is a screen couple work she collaborated with Chu Han, the most popular male actor in Hong Kong at the moment, and it set a record for the annual box office in Hong Kong.

After the movie was introduced to the mainland, it was also widely sought after. Now that it is the end of the movie's release period, it is much easier to buy tickets.

"I wanted to watch this movie over a month ago, but couldn't buy any tickets. Unexpectedly, I got lucky today and there are still a few tickets available!" Shuangshuang took her seat excitedly, and before the movie started, she tilted her head and whispered to Wu Xiangchen.

Wu Xiangchen smiled and listened to Shuangshuang mumbling a few words. He could already feel her happiness.

People gradually entered the theater, making a lot of noise. Wu Xiangchen leaned over slightly and approached her to talk. "The last time I watched a movie was in the military area. It was a group movie, The Taking of Tiger Mountain."

"Oh my!" Shuangshuang's eyes widened and she tilted her head to look at the people around her. "Brother Chenchen, don't you watch movies with romance themes? I haven't watched movies with revolutionary themes for a long time! Now everyone watches this kind of movies!"

In a hurry, Shuangshuang really wanted to recommend this movie to brother Chenchen. "I heard that this movie is very good. A classmate in our grade watched it half a month ago and told us about the plot. He said it was full of gunfights, and the hero rode a motorcycle and took the heroine in a wedding dress to escape. The scene was very beautiful!"

Wu Xiangchen didn't quite understand what was so beautiful about this. "If the bad guy shot from behind, wouldn't the heroine be shot?"

Shuangshuang: "..."

"No, the director won't agree!" Shuangshuang said righteously.

The lights in the theater went out, and darkness instantly fell. The once noisy room gradually became silent, and everyone stared at the screen, waiting for the movie to start.

The whole movie is, as Shuangshuang expected, a typical Hong Kong movie style of the 1990s, interweaving violence, gunfights, love, and friendship.

At the end of the movie, when the beautiful music sounded, the handsome male protagonist wearing a leather jacket and with blood on his face, and the beautiful female protagonist in a wedding dress sitting in the back seat appeared on the screen. Everyone in the cinema was intoxicated, as if they were all intoxicated by a stunning and beautiful love story.

The hero and heroine fled in the night, and finally arrived at the pier after a narrow escape, boarding the ship to leave the port. The two stood on the deck, gazing at each other affectionately, and accompanied by the melodious song of the movie theme song, they slowly approached and kissed passionately...

There were gasps in the theater.

Shuangshuang didn't expect such a scene to appear at the end of the movie. She was immersed in the emotion in the last second, and her face was hot in the next second, blushing on her cheeks, her eyelashes trembling, and suddenly she didn't know where to look.

But I have to say, everything is very beautiful, handsome men and beautiful women, kissing on the boat in the sea breeze...

Gradually noticing the fun, her eyes widened. Suddenly, darkness came in front of her, blocking her vision.

"You are still a student, don't look at this."

His large hand loomed before her eyes, but in the darkness, it accidentally touched her eyebrows, and he immediately stepped back.

Wu Xiangchen blocked both of them with one hand, staring at the back of the front seat with his eyes wide open. Under his palm, he felt a breath, the exhaled air passing by as lightly as orchid.

Suddenly, she felt a gentle and delicate touch. She held his palms with both hands, pulled them down slightly, lowered her voice and looked at him, "Brother Chenchen, I'm almost twenty! What can't I see?"

My palm felt a little hot in her hand.

Wu Xiangchen turned his head and saw a pair of clear almond-shaped eyes in the darkness. They were so bright and clean that one could drown in them.