The noodles finally cooled down a bit. Yunli rolled one into the spoon, put it to his mouth and just ate it.
Fu Zhengchu suddenly slammed his chopsticks on the table. The sound scared Yunli so much that the vermicelli almost got stuck in his throat. Yunli coughed twice and patted his chest.
"Sister Lili, do you know how abnormal my uncle is?" he said angrily, "I refused to go to school at that time, and he lied to me that we were in the same school, so I agreed to go. The day before, he patted his chest and told me that we would go to school together in the future, but-"
He snatched the rice ball that Fu Shize had put near his mouth and ate it in one gulp. Fu Zhengchu continued, "He only persisted for two days and he skipped a grade!!"
Yunli: “…”
Fu Zhengchu: "And he jumped directly to the junior high school department!" After saying that, he looked at Yun Li, and her round eyes showed that she had to say something.
Fu Shize didn't even raise his eyelids, and his face was straight as if he didn't understand what he was saying.
Facing Fu Zhengchu's gaze, Yun Li hesitated for a long time before speaking: "It seems that he is not lying. It seems that he is in the same school as you?"
The three of them fell silent.
Seeing Fu Zhengchu calm down and seem to have listened to what he said, Yun Li continued to persuade him: "Besides, he has no choice. After all, it's not his fault that he was born smart."
Fu Zhengchu looked stunned and a little weird. Yun Li didn't know if he had said something wrong, so he asked to confirm: "You said, is that right?"
Although the cafeteria was very noisy, Yun Li felt that the moment she finished speaking, the three of them fell completely silent.
Just wanting to escape from this vicious circle, she picked at her vermicelli and took a bite.
Seeing this, Fu Shi also silently took a rice ball, and seeing that Fu Zhengchu didn't move, he slowly moved it towards himself.
"But," Fu Zhengchu suddenly snatched Fu Shize's rice ball again, "Uncle, you have left a psychological shadow on me since I was a child. Everyone compares us."
Yunli almost choked.
"I didn't expect that after so many years, I'm still living under the shadow of my uncle." Fu Zhengchu sighed pretending to be sad.
Fu Shi put down his chopsticks and stared at Fu Zhengchu coldly.
Who knew that Fu Zhengchu was not afraid at all, and said boldly, "Uncle, you are still mean to me!!"
Fu Shize: "..."
Fu Shizhe was in a dead fish state during the second half of the meal. Perhaps he felt that struggling was futile. No matter how Fu Zhengchu "provoked" him, he endured it silently.
Fu Zhengchu started the conversation and couldn't control himself, talking a lot about Fu Shizhe's childhood.
The most important event was the chain reaction caused by Fu Shizhe's skipping grades, which led to Fu Zhengchu's mother believing for more than a decade that her son and daughter might also have genius genes and were potential geniuses.
Fu Zhengchu also had to attend various cram schools because of this, and his mother always felt that she was burying him.
The most outrageous thing is that after entering junior high school, Fu Shi was already in high school. He thought he could take a break, but then another student, Sang Chi, showed up in the same class.
Doing the exercises is like counting.
He talked on and on for a long time, and the other two people just hummed at regular intervals, just like the audience.
"Later, even my mother admitted that her son's IQ really couldn't be compared with her cousin's." Fu Zhengchu said as a matter of course: "How can they be the same when they are of different generations?"
Even though Yunli had a good temper, she couldn't stand Fu Zhengchu's chattering. After she finished the last bite of noodles, she wiped her mouth with a handkerchief.
He said softly, "Don't be sad."
Fu Zhengchu's eyes were filled with tears. He felt that he had finally managed to pull Yun Li to his side and was waiting for her next words of comfort.
Yunli pursed her lips and said, "We are all ordinary people. We should know ourselves."
Fu Shi, who had been silent for a long time, finally agreed: "It's not scary to accept yourself."
“…”
When going downstairs, Yunli noticed that there were several dessert stalls in the middle of the square, specializing in selling the biscuits and bread snacks that he had just seen in the cafeteria.
"Hey, it's on sale today." Fu Zhengchu was a little surprised.
Changing to a new environment, he forgot what happened just now and turned his head to ask Fu Shizhe in a pretentious manner, "Uncle, do you want to eat?"
Fu Shize didn't appreciate it and directly exposed it: "If you want to eat it, go buy it."
After saying that, he glanced at Yunli and said, "You too."
Yunli was about to refuse, but Fu Zhengchu didn't give her any chance and pushed her into the team.
The two of them took sealing bags and clips. Whenever Fu Zhengchu came to a new biscuit cabinet, he would analyze its advantages and disadvantages. If he found one he liked, he would help Yunli pick up two pieces.
Yunli no longer had the energy to respond. This Fu Zhengchu was too talkative. It would be fine if he could talk, but he would ask her a question every once in a while, and he would not give up unless she responded.
Taking advantage of the break in the conversation, Yun Li asked, "Fu Zhengchu, did you often chat with your uncle like this before?"
"It seems so." Fu Zhengchu raised his head and thought for a while, "But my uncle used to talk more, not like now."
Hearing this, Yun Li was a little curious: "What does he usually say to you?"
"Ask me if I have two mouths."
Yunli looked outside.
Fu Shi stood outside the crowd, in the beautiful sunset, as aloof and cold as a building, with his head down, playing with his mobile phone.
Unlike what I imagined, although Fu Shize ignored Fu Zhengchu most of the time, he could almost be described as "doting" on him. He was like a ball of seaweed, gradually expanding as his emotions fluctuated, but he would never get angry.
If Yunye was like this, Yunli would have probably gone berserk long ago.
After they packed their biscuits and went to pay, they discovered that the line had already formed a long queue.
"Let's go forward, Sister Lili, my uncle is in the front." Noticing Yunli's surprised look, he added, "In the past, when we went out to play, my uncle would always go to queue up. He is a professional at queuing up."
Sure enough, Fu Shizhe was seen at the front of the team.
Yunli's pace slowed down. She had already troubled him with many things today. She looked at their bags hesitantly and asked, "Should we give him some too?"
At first, I didn't expect him to be in the front of the queue. Now it feels like sacrificing Fu Shi Ze and letting the two of them enjoy themselves alone. After all, other people can choose what they like, but those who are willing to queue up have given up this right.
Fu Zhengchu didn't care at all: "It's okay, Sister Lili. After our training, your uncle can become a contributing talent."
After saying that, without caring about Yunli's reaction, he handed the two bags to Fu Shi Ze.
Fu Shi took it and switched his phone to the payment code. Seeing this, Yun Li quickly took out the campus card from his pocket.
Fu Zhengchu was his nephew, but she was not, so it would be unfair for him to pay for her.
Yunli: "Well... you can just pay with my campus card."
Fu Shi did not answer and remained silent.
After waiting for a long time, my hands started to feel numb, but I didn't get the expected reaction.
Yunli looked up and found that Fu Shizhe and Fu Zhengchu were both looking at the photo on her campus card. Fu Zhengchu was almost sticking his face onto the campus card.
Yunli: “?”
Yunli felt that she might be too cautious. Her focus was that Fu Shizhe should not pay for her. She was obviously not on the same wavelength as the other two people.
Fu Zhengchu: "Sister Lili, this photo is quite nice. Is it from when you were an undergraduate?"
Yunli hesitated for a moment and said, "When I was in high school."
Fu Zhengchu didn't pay attention to the period of the photo, but just gave a heartfelt compliment: "Sister Lili, I think your long hair looks much better than my sister's."
He looked at his accomplice in a sense - Fu Shi, who was looking for resonance: "Uncle, what you said is right?"
Fu Shi didn't respond and looked away.
Yunli felt a little embarrassed for a moment and turned over his campus card.
When she was collecting her undergraduate graduation photos, she happened to be at home for something, so the information system directly used her high school graduation photos. At that time, Yunli still had waist-length hair, but later she cut it into shoulder-length short hair.
At that time, Yunye, who was in junior high school, cried because he couldn't accept it.
"Then I'll transfer the money to..." Yunli said the last two words with difficulty, "Uncle..."
Fu Zhengchu said as a matter of course: "It's okay, Sister Lili, we are the younger generation, and my uncle won't let us pay."
Yunli was honest and felt unworthy of the honor. As a peer of Fu Shize, it was difficult for him to adapt to the identity of a "younger generation".
"I think your uncle is a good person. I think you should stop bullying him." In order to make herself sound less deliberate, she added, "He paid for us."
Fu Zhengchu: "Sister Lili, this is not bullying. My uncle doesn't have a girlfriend anyway, so just spend the money on the younger generation."
"Hey, didn't he say last time that many people wanted his phone number..."
"I gave a few at the beginning." He paused, "But my uncle didn't reply to anyone."
Yunli was silent for a while, "Will he give his number to others?" Realizing that his tone was not right, Yunli immediately added, "I mean, it seems that he won't give it to others. Wasn't it the same when we had dinner last time?"
"What are you thinking about?" Fu Zhengchu said proudly, "It must be given by us."
"Why?"
"Find an aunt to take care of him."
…
After a while, Fu Shi came back with two bags of biscuits. Yun Li put on the half-moon canvas bag that he had "hardly" obtained, and put the small bag and biscuits he had brought with him into it.
Perhaps she was too satisfied, she stood on tiptoe and looked down at the canvas bag.
Seeing that Yunli liked the EAW prize, Fu Zhengchu was curious if there was anything special about it: "Sister Lili, how does it feel to carry it on your back?"
Yunli looked down at the bag and smiled shyly, "It's good, but..." She lifted the canvas bag up, "It's a little big."
Feeling embarrassed to pose in front of the two of them, Yunli ran to an open space two meters away from them to take photos.
Fu Zhengchu boredly opened the biscuit package and ate two pieces, then watched Yunli taking pictures from a distance. Perhaps he was too bored, so he looked at the canvas bag she was carrying for a while, and suddenly let out a long "hmm".
"Uncle, isn't this your profile picture?"
In order to support his observation, Fu Zhengchu enlarged Fu Shizhe's WeChat profile picture and placed it in front of Fu Shizhe.
One is sky blue, the other is pure black.
Fu Zhengchu: "Look, the moon above is the same."
Fu Shi looked at him as if he were a mentally retarded person.
Unsatisfied, Fu Zhengchu pushed the issue further, teasing him in a low voice with childish dirty words that only the two of them could hear: "Uncle, just now Sister Lili said you are older."
He was still chewing the biscuit in his mouth, looking like he really wanted a beating.
Fu Shize: "..."
The sky was dark, and the speakers on the campus greenway were broadcasting an evening news report. At this moment, the female host was interviewing a senior who had graduated and was working.
"So, Senior Yin, as a former celebrity at NUST, having won numerous awards, your fans, including me, are very curious. What do you think is the most regrettable thing during your college years?"
The man's voice was as gentle as the wind, and pleasant even under the noise of the speakers. He laughed twice and paused for a while: "So it probably means... not being in a relationship?"
"In recent years, my classmates even have babies."
Fu Zhengchu asked casually: "Sister Lili, do you have this regret in your undergraduate studies?"
Caught off guard, Yunli instantly thought of thousands of responses, no matter which one, it was an embarrassing self-disclosure.
Did Fu Zhengchu do this on purpose?
Yunli doesn't like to pry into other people's private affairs, mainly because she is afraid of being questioned by others. The fact that she has never been single is also evidence of her being unsocial in people's eyes.
Suddenly the evening breeze was a little chilly. She wiped her elbows with her palms and admitted with difficulty: "I... have never been in love."
He hurriedly changed the subject: "What about you guys?"
"Ah~" Fu Zhengchu tilted his head and thought for a while, then said confidently but not too concerned: "We talked about it four or five times, but each time it didn't last long."
"Then..." The focus of the topic shifted to Fu Shizhe.
Worried that he would have similar thoughts and regard never having been in love as a shortcoming, Yunli thought again and again, pretending to be confused and asked, "Four or five times too?"
Fu Shi tilted his head back slightly, his neck was white, and blood vessels were distributed like thin branches. Just as he passed by an incandescent lamp, a candle flame lit up in his eyes.
He turned his head to look at her: "You really think highly of me."
"Sister Lili, what my uncle meant is..." Fu Zhengchu was responsible for interpreting, "The fact that he was asked this question is already an overestimation of him."
He pretended to be serious: "After all, in our eyes, he is an asexual."
Yunli: “…”
Fu Shize: "..."
The female host continued to ask the man: "So, Senior Yin, do you have any advice for the new students?"
The man hid his laughter and said, "Then I hope everyone will study hard and don't forget to enjoy a wonderful campus romance in your spare time."
The interview ended with a song called "Wonderland", which has been very popular abroad recently, and the volume gradually increased with the prelude.
Fu Zhengchu kept commenting: "They shouldn't have invited this guy as a guest."
Yunli: “?”
Fu Zhengchu: "I think it is very likely that by the time the kids of my uncle's classmates are in elementary school, he will still not have a girlfriend."
He concluded: "My uncle obviously has more say."
……
The three of them walked slowly along the living area.
Before I knew it, I was near West Street, which is a row of shops built along the outside of the living area. Most of them are cafes for students to entertain and study.
A few stray cats were lazily lying on the side of the road, not afraid of passers-by. When they saw food, they would stand up and take a bite, being too lazy to make any extra movements.
The street lights stretched the figures into elongated shapes, and from this angle Yun Li and Fu Shi just happened to overlap.
West Street was equivalent to being outside the school. Fu Zhengchu looked at the time and asked her, "Sister Lili, we are going to watch a football game tonight at the Nanwu Stadium. Are you going?"
Yunli didn't react at once. Football?
She is someone who doesn't even have an idea of how many players there are on a football field.
Yunli: "I'm still not going."
Fu Zhengchu: "Why?"
Yunli: "Well, I don't understand this, I'm afraid I'll spoil your fun."
Fu Zhengchu said seriously: "Sister Lili, we are going to watch the game, not to play football."
Seeing her hesitation, Fu Zhengchu made the decision and pointed to the convenience store across the street: "Let's go buy some more food and eat while watching the game later."
The chain convenience store sells a wide variety of items, including snacks, drinks, and fast food. Yunli was picking out milk from an open refrigerator when she overheard their conversation from the other side.
"But uncle, aren't you going back to school?"
He hasn't graduated yet.
Yunli, who usually has a slow brain, seemed to be enlightened at this moment and instantly retrieved the information that Fu Shizhe was still studying for a doctorate.
She slowly looked at the expiration date on the milk carton. The densely packed black characters were in low resolution at the moment, but her ears were exceptionally clear and alert to the conversation over there.
After a while, Fu Shi said calmly: "No reply."
"Can I still graduate?" Fu Zhengchu asked in surprise, "My boss said that if I dare to take a week off, I will have to delay my graduation."
Fu Shi didn't answer and walked straight to the cashier. Yun Li quickly retracted his gaze and pretended to be still choosing milk seriously.
"Classmate—" a clear male voice suddenly sounded. Yunli looked up and saw a curly-haired boy standing next to him. "It took you so long to pick a bottle of milk?"
Yun Li was a little embarrassed, afraid that Fu Shi Ze and the others would hear him: "I didn't choose for long, I just looked for a while."
The boy chuckled twice and leaned forward a little closer: "But I saw you took a long time to choose. You first took the Guangming milk box, then changed to Yili, and then changed to Mengniu. I know there is a Yimingzhen nearby..."
Yunli took a step back and frowned: "Do we know each other?"
"I don't know him, but..."
"Why don't I know you?" Yunli paused, holding the milk in his arms and continued to retreat, "Do you want to stare at me when I choose milk?"
After saying that, without waiting for his answer, Yun Li turned around and walked quickly to Fu Shi Ze and Fu Zheng Chu. The boy was frustrated and had to swallow the words that came to his throat.
Fu Zhengchu looked at the person next to the freezer: "Sister Lili, is this your classmate?"
Yunli shook his head: "I don't know him."
Fu Zhengchu: "So you were chatting just now?"
Yunli was turning the barcode of the item she bought upwards and handing it to Fu Shizhe. After hearing this, she hesitated for a moment and whispered, "No, he kept looking at me, and I felt a little..."
Not sure if this description was appropriate, Yunli lowered his voice a little: "Pervert."
Upon hearing this, Fu Zhengchu glanced at the freezer again.
Fu Shi took the things Yunli handed him, scanned the barcodes one by one at the inspection port, and put them in the bag beside him. When he received the fresh milk, his original inertial movements stopped, and the red light of the self-service checkout machine's barcode scanning port was printed on the outer packaging of the milk carton.
Thinking that he had taken too much milk, Yunli explained, "I took three boxes, thinking that you could drink some later."
Fu Shi continued to scan the barcode and asked, "Chocolate flavor?"
Yunli: "Oh, I couldn't find it when I first looked for it. If you want to drink it, I'll go to the supermarket next door to look for it."
"Sister Lili, there will be one later for you!" Fu Zhengchu reminded her.
Sure enough, Yunli turned around and found the chocolate milk placed near the cashier. Because it was room temperature milk, it was not placed with the ones in the freezer. She picked up the boxes of milk and said, "Then I'll go to the cashier to change them."
Fu Shi took the two boxes from her and put them back into the bag: "You can exchange them for yours."
……
After paying the bill, they walked towards the parking lot. Yunye called and Yunli hung up. He immediately sent a message: [Are you feeling better? ]
Although the two of them usually ridicule each other, the younger brother is still more reliable at critical moments.
Yunli was originally in a good mood, but now he was even more in high spirits: [Not bad, I spent a day outside, now I'm going to the next one. ]
Yunye: [……]
Yunye: [Stop lying, it's only been two months, can you make friends? ]
Yun Li frowned and typed faster: [Don’t be envious, don’t worry, your sister is doing well! ! ! ]
Yunye: [Yes, yes.]
After a while.
Yunye: [Male?]
Why would this kid ask this question?
Although nothing happened, I don’t know if it’s because Yunli is guilty, but he always feels that a true answer means something has happened.
Glancing at Fu Shizhe, she replied unconfidently: [Female.]
Yunye also estimated that she would not be able to find a boyfriend in such a short time: [Okay, where are you going so late? ]
Yunli: [Watching football.]
Yunye: [When did you girls also make plans to watch football? ? ]
Yunli didn't notice that he was walking faster and faster while sending text messages.
Gradually, he distanced himself from the other two by two meters.
Fu Zhengchu vaguely saw Yunli open the chat, and there were several exclamation marks, thinking that Yunli was complaining to others about what happened just now. He also remembered that he asked her for her WeChat ID at the airport, and felt that Yunli was not very open-minded in this regard.
Then he leaned closer to Fu Shize and whispered, "Sister Lili, can't you see that guy wants to chat her up? She seems to have mistaken him for a pervert who's peeping at her?"
The cans of chips and drinks in the bag clinked.
Fu Shi asked, "What else?"
Fu Zhengchu could vaguely hear the disapproval in Fu Shize's words, but he didn't think much about it. Perhaps because he had had similar experiences, he defended himself with empathy: "It was just a pure flirtation!" He sighed: "Right, Sister Lili is so beautiful, I didn't expect her to be so inexperienced in this area."
"I don't have experience either." Fu Shi said with his head tilted, "I can't compare to you who have talked four or five times."
“……”
When they arrived at the Nanwu Stadium, they realized that they had wasted their money on drinks. The stadium was noisy and the atmosphere was lively. Several security guards at the door stopped the crowd who brought their own drinks. A huge wooden sign was placed in front of them saying "No Bringing Your Own Alcohol".
Seeing this, Fu Shi put his things back in the car. Yun Li and Fu Zhengchu entered the door and waited there, and found that most of the audience were wearing white or black clothes.
These are the colors of the two teams, an obvious inference.
“Do you have a team to support?”
"Yes!" Fu Zhengchu picked up his clothes and shook them, "Am I not wearing black clothes?"
"But……"
She and Fu Shi were both wearing white coats.
Fu Zhengchu looked as if he understood everything and said calmly, "It's okay, just follow me!"
The spectators in the stadium were separated by an aisle, with people in black and white sitting on both sides.
Yunli and the other two walked to the black-dress area under everyone's gaze. Almost every time a new person came over, they would ask if they were sitting in the wrong place.
After a while, Fu Zhengchu couldn't bear it anymore.
"Uncle, Sister Lili, you should go to the opposite side."
Yunli picked up her bag awkwardly and found a seat in the white clothing area, while Fu Shi sat down next to her.
The space was not wide, and occasionally their knees would touch each other, and Yunli would shrink back as if he had been electrocuted.
Yunli broke the silence first: "Do you support the White Team?"
Fu Shize: “No.”
"So do you usually watch the games?"
“No.”
"So are you here with Fu Zhengchu today?"
Fu Shi turned around and looked at her: "Aren't you the same?"
This awkward conversation made Yunli want to find a hole to crawl into.
Fortunately, the game started soon and the atmosphere became heated, so Yun Li didn't have to worry too much about solving the communication problem with Fu Shi Ze.
This was Yunli’s first time watching a football game live.
In the past, she had also watched many commentary videos by up-loaders. Fei Shui, whom she met during her last store visit, was well-known for his commentary on football matches.
The experience is completely different as a spectator and as a participant in person.
Yunli felt this warmth at this moment.
In order to enhance the entertainment effect, Nanwu Gymnasium also provided live commentary. The passionate tone and rhythm were consistent with the noisy screams on the scene, pushing the atmosphere in the stadium to a climax.
When Yunli entered the door, two clapping machines were stuffed into his hands. Now he was inspired to clap at the right time.
Unconsciously, Yunli's emotions were also affected by the people around her. When the white team scored the first goal, she kept shooting wildly.
Fu Shize: "..."
He originally wanted to say something, but seeing Yunli’s smiling face, he closed his mouth again.
Just pretend you didn't hear that voice.
There was low pressure nearby, which Yunli could not ignore.
After thinking for a moment, she placed one of the clappers in front of him: "I think you can also participate more. It's quite fun."
Fu Shi didn't answer.
A few seconds passed.
Yunli pinched her white clothes and pulled them up: "Aren't we from the White Team?"
It was obvious that the two of them didn't want to watch the game at first, but now Yunli has completely changed sides.
Fu Shi even saw a hint of accusation in the corners of her slightly pursed lips.
“…”
The two people looked at each other, silently in the scorching background. Yunli was a little nervous, but stubbornly insisted on keeping his gaze.
After a while.
“Dad, dad, dad!”
Obediently, Fu Shi took the clapper and waved it without saying a word.
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