Chapter 23 Love Before Dawn
Chen Xiyu was shocked. What was this guy doing? He wasn't even pretending? Did he open up his Ren and Du meridians that day? Was he just going straight for it?
"I...isn't this the time for us to talk about this?" Shen Xiyu evaded him.
Liang Qi looked at the girl's evasive eyes and asked, "Do you mean you will consider it after the college entrance examination?"
"Hmm?" Shen Xiyu swore on her conscience that she really didn't mean that. She didn't know how Liang Qi came to this conclusion.
"What if I pursue you?" Liang Qi didn't let her go.
Shen Xiyu said,
you……
Where is the need to chase?
"Don't... don't, Liang Qi." Chen Xiyu hesitated. "It's good for us to be friends, isn't it?"
Liang Qi didn't respond to her for a long time, which made her feel a little uneasy.
After both of them walked over to a few people, Liang Qi looked deeply at Shen Xiyu in front of everyone and said, "Then let's be good friends."
There was something different about Shen Xiyu. Why was he so different before and after? He was so easy to talk to this time.
The others were a little confused. "Lao Liang, what are you talking about? What good friends?"
"It's just to enhance friendship." Liang Qi sat down on a wooden block with his horse and golden sword, leaned down, and supported his elbows on his knees. The little lamb snuggled into his arms.
Seeing his lamb run over to him, Qin Yiyan put the previous topic out of his mind. "Hey, you heartless little thing, why did you run away? Did he feed you? Look carefully at who your financial sponsor is."
Chen Xiyu watched Liang Qi stretch out his broad palm to rub the back of the lamb's neck, and the lamb gently rubbed its chin in his hand.
She remembered what Chen Ningzhou's mother had told her before: animals can sense the energy of a person's magnetic field and choose which people to get close to.
…
"Do you need some Polaroids?" a pretty girl with twin ponytails approached them. "Fifteen yuan each. We're tourists here too, and we brought too much film to take all the photos."
"Okay, okay. I was just worried that I didn't bring it with me this time." Dai Meng smiled. Chen Xiyu had a Polaroid camera, and they would take a lot of pictures every time they went out. But this time, she forgot to bring it when she packed her things.
They thought that this habit would end with this trip.
The young lady affectionately showed Dai Meng their finished photos. "This one is a mini9, and it's in great condition. We also have a Polaroid, but we're running low on film. I suggest you use that one for your group photo, as it has larger film."
*
"Stand closer together."
"Come here, come to me."
"Your hair is in my way!"
“…”
"Those two handsome guys and beautiful girls in the back, please move closer together. I can't take a complete picture of you two."
Shen Xiyu looked to the side and saw that they were talking about herself and Liang Qi. She was hesitating whether to go over there...
Liang Qi embraced Shen Xiyu and held her in his arms.
"Let's take a picture."
Click.
The camera freezes the next moment, traveling through time and space, wind and rain, and capturing everyone around you at this moment.
Many years later, when Chen Xiyu saw this photo again, he felt that recording it was really an act of looking for a sword by carving a mark on the boat. It turned out that all the entanglements, all the love and hate, all the pressure and confusion, and all the things that troubled them back then would disappear after many years.
Only aftershocks remain in each of their lives.
**
"You're leaving tomorrow, right?" Yu Xie asked them at the dinner table.
"Well, take the high-speed train tomorrow at noon and arrive in the evening." Liang Qi replied to Fu Shengrui's message on the phone without looking up.
The masked woman next to him suddenly poked her head out and said to Liang Qi, "Little brother, do you want to go next door tonight?"
She has been going in and out with Yu Xie these days, but no one has ever seen her take off her mask. Except for Liang Qi, they are not very familiar with her.
"Please don't teach the little kid bad things, okay?" Yu Xie's palm could cover her entire face, and he pushed her back to her seat.
The woman glanced at him sideways, lifted her slender legs and pushed them towards Yu Xie, but he grabbed her calves and placed them on his legs.
Liang Qi nudged Shen Xiyu, "Are you going or not?"
He guessed Shen Xiyu was interested.
"Hmm..." Shen Xiyu really wanted to go, she really wanted to go, but she still felt awkward going alone with Liang Qi.
"Are you going?" Shen Xiyu asked Qin Yiyan and the others.
All four of them refused, saying that when they were playing with the lamb today, they had agreed to go to the night market. They had assumed that the two of them would go together, so they forgot to tell them in advance.
Shen Xiyu suddenly felt heartbroken, feeling deeply stabbed in the back by this group of people.
"Then I will..."
"There are resident singers, and the atmosphere is very good." Liang Qi seemed to be persuading everyone.
Shen Xiyu felt his phone vibrate, and when he opened it, it was Liang Qi.
——L: Afraid of embarrassment? We agreed to be friends. I'm really sad to see you do this, deskmate.
Shen Xiyu was a little dazed, feeling like she was back in school. She had to admit that she and Liang Qi were indeed very comfortable together. They had a tacit understanding, a kind of exchange of ideas and resonance.
——Magrim: No.
**
Twenty minutes later, Shen Xiyu, Liang Qi and the other three sat in a corner of the "I'll Think of You When We Cheers" restaurant.
"Old White! A Cuba Libre!" the woman shouted to the bartender at the bar.
"Lower the alcohol content for her, and get her a gin and tonic and two alcohol-free special drinks." Yu Xie added helplessly and dotingly.
Liang Qi seemed to be quite familiar with this place, fiddling with the dice on the table out of boredom.
This shop is a quiet bar with only a few people sitting there. The lighting arrangement in the shop is very similar to that in the inn, but it is dimmer than the inn. Shen Xiyu can't even make out Liang Qi's features.
There was a movie playing on the big screen, showing a blonde and a handsome man in a black leather jacket walking on the streets of Vienna at night.
"What kind of movie is this?" Liang Qi whispered to Shen Xiyu's ear.
The faint breeze gave Shen Xiyu goose bumps all over his body.
"Sit still." Shen Xiyu pulled his ear to make him stand up straight and answered his question, "Richard's 'Before Sunrise'"
"Sister, you have good taste. We have a loyal audience for this movie here." She touched the arm of the person next to her teasingly, "Isn't it?"
Yu Xie smiled without saying anything, pinched her face and pulled her aside.
The woman slapped his hand away and took off her mask. "It's so uncomfortable."
The photo hanging in Yu Xie's movie projection room flashed through Shen Xiyu's mind.
It’s Wu Mengfei.
She looked at Liang Qi with a questioning look, but he didn't answer Shen Xiyu's confusion. "Do you want any snacks? I'll buy them for you."
Wu Mengfei supported her head with her hands and smiled slyly, "Sister wants to eat it too. Brother won't just buy it for his girlfriend, will he?"
Liang Qi glanced at the two people opposite him and said, "Let Brother Xie buy it for you." Then he glanced at Chen Xiyu and said, "Not a girlfriend."
"Not a girlfriend yet... not a girlfriend yet."
Yu Xie couldn't bear to watch it any longer. "Don't tease the kid. Liang Qi and I are going to buy some. Wait for me to come back. Don't run around."
*
After the two people left, only Shen Xiyu and Wu Mengfei were left at the table.
"Sister, would you consider entering the entertainment industry?" Wu Mengfei's eyes were filled with uncontrollable admiration.
Shen Xiyu leaned against the wall. The place was very dim, and since they were in the corner, everything made her feel very relaxed.
"No, I don't have that intention."
Normally, Shen Xiyu would have been smiling and praising Wu Mengfei's beauty, but she was so tired these past few days, both physically and mentally, that she became quiet instead. This inadvertently revealed her underlying personality—calm and slightly melancholic.
"Yeah, I heard from Liang Qi that you guys all have good grades." Wu Mengfei was just asking casually. She had mentioned it to Liang Qi when she first met him, but he refused.
The main thing is that these two kids look so tough, which really makes people's eyes shine.
"Are you in a bad mood?" Wu Mengfei handed her a glass of dark red crushed ice drink.
Shen Xiyu took it, but was cautious and didn't drink it immediately.
"No, I'm just too tired." Chen Xiyu's eyes fell on Wu Mengfei's face and smiled, "I was so tired that I thought I recognized the wrong person just now."
Wu Mengfei smacked her lips in feigned anger, "Why are you calling me that? You've already told me you're old. Just follow Liang Qi and call me sister."
"We call Yu Xie brother, but we should really call you sister." Shen Xiyu put his hands on the table and teased Wu Mengfei.
Wu Mengfei didn't buy her tricks, and the smile on her gorgeous face became even wider. "Then you have to keep this a secret for us, understand?"
*
"What are you talking about?" Before he could say a few words, Yu Xie and Liang Qi came back.
Shen Xiyu looked at Liang Qi who was sitting next to her and asked, "What did you buy?"
"Cheese pizza, didn't you say it was delicious before?" Liang Qi naturally put the pizza on the table in front of her.
Shen Xiyu himself had forgotten when he said this.
"What are you doing, brother? Just let your sister eat." Wu Mengfei leaned on Yu Xie's shoulder like a seductive fairy.
"Since you don't like it, I bought you a baked milk tart."
"It's fun to tease the kid." Wu Mengfei straightened up. "If I don't eat, it's high in calories. I'll weigh over 90 pounds when I go back. My agent wants me to work out."
"Just drink less." Yu Xie shared the egg tarts with Liang Qi and Shen Xiyu.
"How many calories are in wine?"
“…”
Chen Xiyu watched the two people bickering and leaned close to Liang Qi's ear, "Did you know this a long time ago?"
Liang Qi also leaned towards her, their hair touching, "It's not that early."
Shen Xiyu shrugged, expressing doubt about his words.
The four of them drank and chatted leisurely. In fact, it was mainly Wu Mengfei who was drinking. Chen Xiyu found that Yu Xiequan was right. She was really an alcoholic, and the more she drank, the more she talked.
"Brother, why don't you go sing a song?" Wu Mengfei pointed at an underground band performing on the stage.
"They are almost done singing this original song, why don't you go on?" She leaned forward.
"You can sing too?" Shen Xiyu raised his eyebrows.
Before Liang Qi could answer, Wu Mengfei opened her eyes wide and said, "You've never sung for anyone?! I'm telling you, chasing someone..."
Yu Xie covered her mouth and brought her back, "She's drunk again and talking nonsense, don't take it to heart." As he said that, he rubbed the girl's head in his arms.
"I want to listen too." Shen Xiyu looked at him.
"good."
*
Liang Qi sat on a high stool, and as the accompaniment sounded, he sang along.
"Last night the love monk disturbed my dream
Who can understand the scarlet dots
Whispers and nonsense follow the wind
Hidden in the bustling city
You said holding hands and watching the sunset
"The moon ripples the pavilions"
Shen Xiyu immediately recognized that it was the song he had been playing on repeat on his phone some time ago.
Shi Yan's "Record of a Love-sick Monk"
The brightest light in the bar shone on the boy, who looked like the protagonist of a stage play. He lowered his eyes, his black hair obscured his expression, and his slender fingers rested on the microphone stand.
There were girls in the audience taking pictures with their cell phones.
Chen Xiyu looked at the stage and felt that he was drunk, having fallen asleep in this night that was not one of intoxicating spring breeze.
“At that time
You under the moon
How beautiful!
Look around and be graceful
In the most beautiful time
bloom
"Flowers of Wind and Bone"
The passionate second half of the song was changed by Liang Qi into a gentle whisper, and the magnetic and low voice reached Shen Xiyu's ears.
Liang Qi looked up to find her eyes, and Shen Xiyu was waiting for him. Neither of them hid, and they looked at each other through the crowd and the noise.
On the big screen behind Liang Qi, "Before Sunrise" was still playing silently, but the movie was almost coming to an end.
Young lovers whisper to each other,
The midnight wind penetrates the two tightly embraced bodies,
Dawn is about to appear in the sky above Vienna.
"If tonight were the last night of my life, I'd be grateful to spend it with you."
…
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The author has something to say: "The Story of a Love Monk" was the song that happened to be playing in my headphones at the time
Very nice
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