After lunch break, Yunli met He Jiameng in the corridor.
"Teacher Xianyun, do you want to participate in the Halloween event tonight? How about we go together?"
Yun Li told the truth: "I wanted to buy some coffee beans tonight. I saw Fu Shizhe was out of beans in the lounge just now, so I asked him to go with me."
He Jiameng laughed secretly: "Are you really going to buy beans?"
"Really." Yunli tried to make himself more confident, "How about you come too?"
"No, no, I can already see the big lightbulb above my head."
“…”
Just after she took two steps, He Jiameng called her again: "By the way, Teacher Xianyun."
Yunli: "What's wrong?"
"The marketing department asked me to ask you if you can help post a promotional post on E-Station? The advertising fee is the same as last time."
"Any requests?"
He Jiameng thought for a moment and said, "Just try to record some of the equipment in the experience center and make people feel that it's fun."
Unsure whether he could take the photo, Yunli did not agree immediately: "I'll think about it."
In the afternoon, Fang Yuning said that the experience center was short of staff and asked Yunli to go there to help with the decoration. Yunli then carried a large box of decoration materials to the experience center.
After exiting the fire escape, Yunli walked to the entrance of the experience hall and found that there were already quite a few people there.
"Sister Lili!" Yunli looked around.
Fu Zhengchu walked over from the entrance and said, "I heard there was an event tonight, so I came over to take a look. I originally wanted to come here for afternoon tea, but ended up being dragged here to do hard labor."
Yunli replied: "You are so miserable."
Fu Zhengchu muttered, "Yes, and then I brought my uncle with me, and he just sat there and watched me work."
Yunli looked in the direction he pointed. Fu Shi was sitting on a lounge chair in the hall, leaning on the armrest of the chair with one hand, looking over here with his chin in his hand.
"Sister Lili?" Seeing that Yunli didn't reply, Fu Zhengchu called her again.
Yunli came back to his senses: "You have grown up now, it's time to help the elders."
Fu Zhengchu: "I'm going back to work."
"Hey, wait!" Yunli quickly called out to him.
Fu Zhengchu stopped and asked, "What's wrong?"
Yunli covered half of his face: "Fu Zhengchu, I'm sorry."
Fu Zhengchu was even more confused: "What happened?"
"That's right - when we were drinking yesterday," Yun Li wanted to dig a hole and bury himself in it, so he said with a stiff upper lip: "I told your uncle that you seemed to like me..."
Fu Zhengchu: “…”
Yunli explained the whole story to Fu Zhengchu. She knew that her behavior was wrong. After she apologized several times, Fu Zhengchu's focus was not on what Yunli said at the beginning. Instead, he took a breath and said, "Sister Lili, do you like my uncle?"
Yunli: “…”
"No wonder you spoke for my uncle just now."
Yunli: “…”
Yunli: "Can you keep it a secret for me?"
Fu Zhengchu: “Yeah.”
The two of them fell silent at the same time.
Fu Zhengchu suddenly became serious: "Sister Lili, my uncle is not in good health and his stomach is not very good either."
"But my uncle is really nice. I won't say any more. Come on, Sister Lili!"
Yunli felt warm in her heart: "Thank you."
The work of decorating the experience hall is mainly physical work, which is to stick ribbons, light strips and some holiday decorations on the higher walls. Yunli looked around, moved a ladder over, and prepared to get started.
As soon as they climbed up the ladder, Fu Zhengchu brought Fu Shizhe over: "Sister Lili, come down quickly. I called my uncle."
Yunli: “…”
Yunli climbed down the ladder and said in a tepid tone, "Why did you call him over..."
Fu Zhengchu: "I can't let my uncle, a grown man, sit here while a girl like you, Lili, climb up and down here. I'm going to work somewhere else first."
Realizing that Fu Zhengchu was assisting, Yun Li felt a little embarrassed even though Fu Shize had the right to come. She pointed to the chair next to her and said, "Why don't you sit here?"
Fu Shi glanced at her and said, "Sit here and watch you?"
Yunli imagined the scene and felt breathless: "That's not what I meant."
"Give it to me." Fu Shi took the ribbon from her hand.
Yunli: “Ah?”
Fu Shize paused, and said sparingly: "Help."
It was not a good idea to sit there doing nothing, so Yun Li stood beside Fu Shi Ze's ladder with ribbons and pendants in her hands. Every time Fu Shi Ze hung one, she would hand him one.
Yunli thinks this is pretty good?
Immersed in the little joy of handing things to Fu Shizhe, the box gradually became empty.
"Can you wait here for a moment?" Yun Li looked up at Fu Shi Ze.
"Um."
Yunli trotted away with the box in his arms and went to another area to exchange it for a fuller box.
Back at the ladder, Fu Shi looked at her expressionlessly.
Yun Li suddenly felt guilty and handed a pendant to Fu Shi Ze without saying a word.
-
After get off work, Yunli went home to put on new makeup and changed into a white dress.
I met Fu Shizhe at the entrance of the Science and Technology City. He was wearing a long black windbreaker, with his hands in his pockets. He was leaning against the red brick wall at the edge of the Science and Technology City with his head down. The square in the distance was dotted with stars.
When he saw Yunli, he raised his eyes, which stayed on her face for a moment, and then moved away.
This gaze made Yunli's breathing slow down by a beat.
"I want to shoot some footage tonight for a Halloween special. I haven't updated for a long time."
Fu Shize was awake at this moment. Yun Li took a deep breath and asked nervously, "Do you think it looks good?"
As if he had not expected her to ask this question at all, Fu Shi remained silent.
Yunli, who had put all her efforts into makeup today, couldn't believe it: "Isn't it pretty..."
After a while.
Yunli said to himself: "It should look better than usual?"
Fu Shize: "..."
Similar to the children's market last time, stalls of all sizes filled the entire square, and the trees and walls were hung with Halloween-themed decorations.
Yunli could smell the rich aroma of coffee beans even when he was still some distance away from the coffee bean stall. There were quite a few people gathered around, dozens of ochre-red pottery jars were neatly placed on the table, and several piles of coffee beans in cowhide bags were piled up in the back.
The stall owner asked Fu Shi Ze what flavor he wanted, then scooped a few beans into his hand, and he smelled them.
Yunli: "How is it?"
Fu Shize: "Very good."
Yunli: "Can I smell it?"
Fu Shi nodded.
Seeing that he didn't give her the beans, Yunli hesitated for a moment, then moved closer to his hand. In addition to the aroma of roasted beans, there was also a hint of chocolate flavor.
"Why does it smell so good?" Yun Li sighed and looked up, only to find Fu Shi staring at her with no discernible expression.
After thinking about it carefully, Yunli's face became hot again: "I'm talking about beans..."
“…”
Yunli had no experience in drinking coffee, so she asked the boss to recommend a coffee to her: "I picked a flavor I like, why don't you try it too."
Fu Shi took some beans and smelled them: "Very good."
Yunli: "Then I'll give you a pack."
Fu Shize: “No need.”
Being rejected was also expected. Yunli thought about it and continued, "I want to give you a pack."
“…”
Yunli restrained himself a little: "You have paid for me many times before. I feel like I owe you money."
"If that's the reason." Fu Shi stared at the stall owner filling the beans, not looking at her, "Then I'll owe you."
Yunli looked up at the other stalls. In the corner there was a slightly shabby sugar figurine stall, a small stall that he could occasionally see near school when he was a child.
Yunli: “Can I buy that?”
Fu Shize: “Yeah.”
Yunli: "Then wait for me, I'll go buy it."
After Yunli finished speaking, he ran over.
Holding a small copper pot, the old man scooped some with a copper spoon and dripped it onto the steel plate to outline a pattern.
While waiting for the sugar man to take shape, Yunli remembered that when she was smelling the beans just now, Fu Shizhe's palm was two centimeters away from her, and he touched her hot cheek with the back of his hand.
She couldn't remember the last time she felt this way.
My heart was pounding, and the image of another person lingered in my mind. Even the smells I smelled, the sounds I heard, and the things I saw had his feel.
He shouldn't be disgusted with her...
This thought seemed to embolden Yunli. Normally, she was not a proactive person. She always interacted with others passively and was forced to talk to others.
The moon in the human world is always far away.
But now, the moon came before her.
Yunli raised the corners of his lips.
Yes, she was so lucky that the moon was right in front of her.
After the sugar figure was shaped, it was attached with bamboo sticks and handed to Yunli.
In the shape of a pumpkin, with a big open mouth.
Quite cute.
She handed one of them to Fu Shi Ze.
"For me?"
Fu Shi stared at the sugar figure in his hand. The surface had a brown luster. It was hard to imagine that such an exquisite shape could be made in just two or three minutes.
But how do you eat this thing?
He looked at Yunli. The pumpkin-shaped candy figure was bigger than her petite face. She had just come back from a jog, and her creamy cheeks were stained with red. She first admired the candy figure in her hand, then slowly moved it to her lips.
Then, licked it.
…
Couldn't he lick it too?
Yunli continued to lick her lips. When she took a small bite, she noticed Fu Shize's gaze and was a little surprised: "Are you... peeking at me?"
Fu Shi looked away and lied, "No."
It was very cold at night, but he suddenly felt a little hot all over.
The neon lights became even more dazzling, and when he came to his senses, the pumpkin-shaped candy man in his hand had been bitten into pieces by him.
“…”
-
"Hey, Yunli?"
While the two were still wandering around the various stalls, Yunli was suddenly patted on the shoulder and she instinctively shrank back.
When she looked up, she saw someone she thought she would never meet again in this life.
Qu Mingxin walked up to her and greeted her affectionately, "How many years have we not seen each other? I didn't expect to meet you here."
"Why aren't you talking? Do you remember me? I was in high school--"
Yunli interrupted her: "Remember."
"Is this your boyfriend? He's quite handsome." Qu Mingxin didn't notice Yun Li's distance and continued talking to herself.
Yunli: "No, this is my colleague."
"You're already working. I heard from other classmates that you didn't get into graduate school and are preparing for the entrance exam—" Qu Mingxin still looked careless, "I came to work in Nanwu after graduating from university. My friend is doing graduate school at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, and I came to visit her today."
“…”
Seeing the other party's enthusiasm, Yunli couldn't help but feel a little confused, so he could only respond blankly: "I'm also studying for a master's degree here."
"Leave."
Fu Shi, who was standing nearby, suddenly spoke, and then walked straight forward.
Yunli reacted and quickly said to Qu Mingxin: "We'll leave first."
Qu Mingxin smiled and said, "Okay! Let's make an appointment to have dinner together some other day! We haven't seen each other for such a long time." Then he waved his hand and turned back to look for his friends.
Yunli followed Fu Shizhe and thought of Qu Mingxin again.
Why do you look so familiar?
Didn't you say that yourself?
Hate people like me.
When he was in the first year of high school, Yunli had a cheerful personality. Soon after the start of the school year, he became familiar with the people in the dormitory, and among them, he had the best relationship with Deng Chuqi.
Deng Chuqi has a cheerful personality, and the two of them often perform duets together. They are both popular in the class.
After the division into arts and sciences in the second year of high school, Yunli went to the science class and there was almost no one he knew in the new class.
She was Qu Mingxin whom I met at this time.
Qu Mingxin is very enthusiastic towards everyone, including Yunli.
She would greet Yunli when she saw her on the road, her eyes narrowed into slits as she smiled.
She is very good at livening up the class atmosphere and is an excellent host in the school, always standing in the most conspicuous place. All the classmates like Qu Mingxin's liveliness, and Yunli is no exception.
Yunli liked this new class very much at first. Although her good classmates were not here, she was willing to cultivate new relationships with others and shyly made the acquaintance of new classmates.
But strangely, no matter how hard she tried, her classmates would keep a certain distance from her.
The lunch break is two hours long. They usually go back to the dormitory to take a nap, but some people go back to the classroom to do homework or chat and play games.
Yunli was not too sleepy at noon that day. She knew that Qu Mingxin and several classmates usually stayed in the classroom during lunch break, so she came to join in the fun.
Before I entered the classroom, I could hear the sound of chatting.
"How about calling Yunli to play Three Kingdoms Kill on the weekend? She said she knew how to play it during the break." Yunli could tell from the voice that it was the girl who stood behind him during the break.
Another female voice said, "She can play, too? I think she's quiet and cute, I thought she can't."
Qu Mingxin hesitated and said, "I don't want to call her that. I don't like her very much."
The girl just now replied: "Why? Isn't she cute?"
Qu Mingxin said: "She looks like she is just pretending to be good. Her former roommate told me that she had a very good relationship with the boys in her previous class. She looked like a green tea girl."
“No way…”
"I really hate this kind of green tea. If you want to call her, don't call me."
Yunli suddenly felt like he couldn't understand others.
She knew that there were many kinds of people in this world, including a barbecue uncle with tattoos all over his body but a smile on his face, and a handsome but cold-blooded executioner.
But she thought that these were far away from her. The only thing she understood as hypocrisy was that every time Yun Ye ran away from home, he would secretly ask her parents if they were looking for him, or that every morning Deng Chuqi would borrow homework to copy, and after the messenger notified him that the teacher was coming, he would read seriously with a book in his hand...
Just now when she was buying drinks at the store, Qu Mingxin saw the orange juice in her hand and said with a smile that she wanted to buy the same one as hers.
Yunli really wanted to rush into the class and tell them that she was not what Qu Mingxin said.
She yearns for a lively atmosphere and likes the harmonious atmosphere when everyone is together.
But she found that she couldn't move her feet.
No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't take a step.
If only I could be a little braver.
Let’s go back to the dormitory.
Yunli actually didn’t understand why she was so easily hit. It was not like she had never seen people secretly talking bad about others behind their backs.
She suddenly felt that it might be because she originally liked her quite a bit.
Maybe I can't stand the contrast.
-
Yunli was lost in thought about high school and didn't notice two pumpkin-headed humanoid dolls walking towards her. Their chubby bellies bumped into her.
When she came to her senses, the doll, which was twice her size, opened its arms to hug her.
???
Yunli froze in place, not knowing how to react.
A cold hand grabbed her wrist and pulled her back. Yun Li only felt a gust of wind passing by, and she was behind Fu Shi Ze.
Yun Li was dazed for a moment and looked over in the direction where she felt the warmth of his hand. His hand was still holding her wrist.
Fu Shizhe himself had not yet come to his senses. He just saw Yunli about to be swallowed by the doll, and subconsciously pulled her behind him.
The doll seemed to be stunned and stayed where it was for two seconds.
Then she continued with her previous action and hugged him.
“…”
By the way, I picked a rabbit balloon from the tail and handed it to him.
“…”
Seeing that he didn't take it, the doll pushed it in his direction again with persistence.
Fu Shi had no choice but to take it stiffly.
The balloon was filled with air, and the two rabbit ears bulged up. Fu Shi felt uncomfortable holding this thing. He turned around and put it in front of Yun Li.
"for you."
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