Chapter 32: First love is a rain suspension bridge effect?
"Teacher Gu, do you know what day it is today?" Zheng Haonan asked in a rough voice with his newly changed duck voice.
"I don't know." Gu Zhi put down the English novel in his hand.
Just deny this kid's rhetorical question first.
"It's Valentine's Day! Hehe, no wonder you didn't know." Like all the male classmates who found a partner early on, Zheng Haonan's greatest pleasure is to discourage single people.
"If my mother asks, just say that you, me, and Lulu went out to see a movie, how about that?" Zheng Haonan said casually.
Although they live across the street, the relationship between Zheng Haonan and Liu Feilu's parents has always been tense.
This involves a series of disputes such as professional title evaluation, teacher housing allocation, and balcony reconstruction.
The two have always regarded themselves as Romeo and Juliet.
If premature love is discovered, the consequences will be very serious. At least one of Zheng Haonan's legs will be broken.
Gu Zhi sighed. It was a rare day off and he had originally wanted to stay at home and read.
"Which movie?" Even though he was very reluctant, he was still prepared to align his testimony with his childhood friend.
“Which…which one?” The big fool Zheng Haonan didn’t think that far.
"Go to a nearby cinema and choose any movie title. Oh, and you can also watch a movie. I'll pay for it." He said lazily.
"Where are you going, kid?" When Gu Zhi went downstairs, Gu Weizhen, who was correcting students' midterm papers, poked his head out from the study.
"Watch a movie." Gu Zhi took the bicycle key from the hook in the entrance.
"Wow, who are you going to see a movie with on Valentine's Day?" Li Aomei poked her head out from the study for the second time.
"Zheng Haonan, Liu Feilu." Gu Zhi provided proof of presence as planned.
"Oh... I thought he was going out alone with some girl." Li Aomei said with regret.
Gu Zhi has never lacked people who like him since he was a child, and when he was in high school, he received love letters and confessions every now and then.
But my son never seems to get it...or maybe he's too smart.
Untainted by any stain in the peach blossom forest filled with the fragrance of flowers.
Gu Zhi rode for a while and found himself getting farther and farther away from the cinema.
The residential building where Jiang Ziyi lives is right in front of us.
It was a low, dark grey building, standing abruptly at the back of a bustling neighbourhood, emitting years of dampness brought by old sewer pipes.
The wire window frames next to each other look like a row of dark eyes.
Jiang Ziyi is the most hardworking child actor Gu Zhi has ever seen.
She moves between different film crews every month, and often works as a model and shoots commercials.
Li Aomei roughly estimated that the money Lin Shuyao and her agency earned from Jiang Ziyi was enough to earn from a relatively well-known film and television star.
But Jiang Ziyi's family still lives in poverty.
Gu Zhi counted to the left from the window on the third floor and found that the light in the fifth room was on.
This was a habit he developed after Jiang Ziyi fell into the river.
No matter what happens, he always comes here to check, just in case.
Jiang Ziyi is about to take the high school entrance exam, and she is probably reviewing at her desk right now, so Gu Zhi cannot disturb her.
But when he turned the corner, Gu Zhi found a slender figure sitting on the steps at the back door of the restaurant.
Jiang Ziyi stared blankly at the cement wall not far away that was covered with small advertisements.
I had nothing in my hands, not even a cell phone.
The 15-year-old Jiang Ziyi has grown taller. In order to make makeup easier, she keeps her hair long with messy bangs covering her eyes.
From Gu Zhi's perspective, he could only see a small and pale jaw.
He took two steps forward, blocking out the already thin sunlight in the afternoon.
Jiang Ziyi turned around slowly.
She had a very good bone structure, but unfortunately she was still too thin, with sunken eye sockets and dull lips, which gave her a creepy beauty.
"Why are you still outside in such a cold day?" Gu Zhi handed her his scarf.
Jiang Ziyi pulled his hand back, but still caught it.
"I'm waiting for Lin Shuyao to come home." She wrapped the scarf around her neck in circles, like a bandage that was too long.
There was someone at home and she didn't take anything, so she could only have been kicked out. Gu Zhi quickly deduced the truth behind the lie.
"I think it's still early, how about getting in the car and going out with me?"
Oddly enough, every time he encountered her, it was in a situation where he couldn't just leave her alone.
When Jiang Ziyi silently climbed onto the back seat of the bicycle, Gu Zhi realized that this was his first time riding a bicycle with someone else.
When he chose the car, he did take the passengers into consideration.
But Liu Feilu and Zheng Haonan soon got together, and they rode the same car wherever they went, so Gu Zhi only had to ride his own.
The alley was full of debris. Gu Zhi turned left and right along the way, but still bumped violently on the bumpy brick surface.
Jiang Ziyi grabbed the spring of his seat with his hands, but there was no reaction at all.
She was very light, so Gu Zhi didn't have to put much effort into pedaling.
"Do you know what day it is today?" he asked for the sake of conversation.
"I don't know." The familiar building passed quickly before Jiang Ziyi's eyes.
"Today is love..." Gu Zhi suddenly stopped talking. It always felt weird to mention this to Jiang Ziyi.
Maybe it's because he always regarded her as his sister.
"Let's go to the movies. My friend will treat us." Gu Zhi crossed out the itinerary plans that flashed through his mind one by one.
If he had known that he would meet Jiang Ziyi, he would have made preparations a few days in advance.
Jiang Ziyi responded softly and let him arrange it.
Because of the holiday season, cinemas were extremely busy and most of the movie tickets were sold out. The only show where I could get a seat was showing a domestic thriller called "Midnight Return".
"If you don't want to watch this, let's go to the cafe next door, okay?" Gu Zhi noticed that Jiang Ziyi's exposed fingers were already red from the cold.
"It's okay, I can watch." Jiang Ziyi rarely expressed his wishes clearly.
"Aren't you afraid of ghosts?" Gu Zhi remembered that the girls in the class were very afraid of watching this kind of movie. Even the carefree Liu Feilu would scream and run into Zheng Haonan's arms.
"There's nothing to be afraid of," Jiang Ziyi paused and found that Gu Zhi was still patiently waiting for her to continue. "There are two kinds of ghosts in this world:"
"A ghost with principles will only harm those who have a grudge against them. As long as you don't provoke them, you'll be fine."
"What about the ghosts that harm people indiscriminately?" Gu Zhi asked inquiringly.
"It's a dead end anyway, so it doesn't matter." Jiang Ziyi has a kind of self-abandoning beauty at a young age.
Halfway through the film, Gu Zhi discovered that he was the one who was afraid.
Unlike most Chinese horror movies on the market, "Midnight Returns" contains many bloody scenes of broken arms and legs.
...I really don't know how it passed the review.
Gu Zhi secretly covered his eyes when the heroine was surrounded by zombies crawling out of the mass grave.
Jiang Ziyi on his right leaned forward and stared at the screen without blinking.
His eyes were shining like a cat waiting at the entrance of a cave.
Gu Zhi was amused by the metaphor he came up with unintentionally.
But his next thought was -
——She looks so beautiful when she is concentrating.
The heroine had already shot all the zombies with her machine gun, but Gu Zhi's chest was still pounding.
"Why are you looking at me?" Jiang Ziyi asked, turning around.
The corners of her slightly upturned eyes swept across his heart like a hook.
Gu Zhi secretly cursed himself for being a piece of shit.
"I'm thinking about something." He looked away stiffly.
Most men who choose horror movies on Valentine's Day have only one purpose.
In the semicircle with Gu Zhi and Jiang Ziyi as the center, at least four pairs of young couples were hugging each other and kissing each other.
Gu Zhi felt very uncomfortable listening to the sound of water, half of him felt embarrassed and half of him felt guilty.
The man and woman in front of Jiang Ziyi started kissing each other.
"Hey! You're blocking my view of the subtitles!" She poked the two men's backs with a drink bottle.
Gu Zhi reached out and touched the corner of his mouth, surprised at why he was grinning like that.
If his biological mother Li Aomei saw this, she would probably sprinkle some glutinous rice on him.
"So this is what movie theaters are like." Jiang Ziyi was obviously in a much better mood when he walked out of the screening room.
"Is this your first time watching a movie in the cinema?" Gu Zhi regretted what he said as soon as he said it.
"…Yeah, I watched it on TV before," Jiang Ziyi nodded, "My mom knows how to find free movies."
"That's great. The first time you watched a movie was with me." Gu Zhi said without thinking.
You stupid fool, why don't you say one more word? He pinched himself secretly.
"Lin Shuyao can let you go back at this time... Has your mother arrived home at this time?"
"Well, I should go." Jiang Ziyi's eyes were soon covered with a layer of dust again.
Perhaps because she was sleepy, she slowly leaned her head on Gu Zhi on the way to send Jiang Ziyi home by bike.
Gu Zhi shook the handlebars and almost caused both of them to fall into the ditch.
"What happened?" Jiang Ziyi asked in a daze.
"Let's get off the car and take a walk." Gu Zhi felt that his current mental state was not suitable for taking his feet off the ground.
"Hmm." Jiang Ziyi jumped from the back seat obediently. The sky gradually darkened and the clouds in the distance piled up together.
A cold wind blew, and Jiang Ziyi buried his head in his scarf.
Such an ordinary action made Gu Zhi's ears feel hot.
…She looked like she was kissing the fabric he had worn.
A drop of cold rain fell on Gu Zhi's head, and he shuddered as if waking up from a dream.
The raindrops formed into lines and fell heavier and heavier.
Gu Zhi hurriedly took Jiang Ziyi away from the road.
The row of residential buildings had no eaves. The two turned the corner and found a small fruit stall with a roof less than one meter wide.
Gu Zhi stood silently beside Jiang Ziyi, shoulder to shoulder.
Jiang Ziyi must be very cold. At such a close distance, he couldn't even feel her body temperature.
At a time like this, there was only one way to warm up... Gu Zhi pinched himself again in annoyance.
"What day is today?" Jiang Ziyi was seriously curious.
"Yes... yes..." When she came closer, Gu Zhi even stopped breathing for a few seconds.
"Valentine's Day." These three words sound ambiguous no matter how you pronounce them.
"Then I have a question for you." Jiang Ziyi took a small step towards Gu Zhi.
She has a faint fragrance.
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