Chapter 29 "Brother Liang Qi."...
Liang Qi followed Shen Xiyu's gaze and looked out the window.
The trees outside were shaking in the wind, and the wind was blowing hard. The snowflakes were flying in the air like torn cotton, drifting everywhere without a destination.
Liang Qi looked at the snowflakes and also at Chen Xiyu.
This year, both of them were confused about the unknown, and in the constant tug of war with each other, they faced the world with the courage of a newborn calf that is not afraid of a tiger.
"Yeah, it's snowing." He seemed to be muttering to himself.
The students next to me also noticed the snow falling outside and stuck their heads outside excitedly, completely oblivious to the class.
The English teacher, a young woman who had recently graduated, slammed her desk upon seeing this. "Everyone, get your heads together and start memorizing. If everyone gets the dictation right after class, I'll play Iwai Shunji's 'Love Letter' for you tonight during evening study. But you have to read the English version."
A classmate jokingly chimed in, "Teacher! Have you ever had a premature love affair?"
The class was instantly filled with laughter.
The English teacher neither admitted nor denied it, but instead scolded him with a smile, "You bastards, if you keep yelling, I won't watch you anymore."
The class immediately erupted in the sound of noisy recitations, the momentum was even more powerful than when shouting slogans during physical exercise.
Shen Xiyu has a good memory and he memorized those words as early as the first time he learned them.
At this moment, she was staring out the window in a daze, not knowing whether she was looking at the snow or simply letting her mind wander.
Liang Qi didn't call her, waiting for her to come out of her own world.
"Will you be able to take the college entrance examination?" Shen Xiyu suddenly asked Liang Qi without any context.
Liang Qi didn't know why she asked this, but what made him feel uncomfortable was that he himself couldn't answer this question.
He had no idea, truly no idea. Lately, the project had been difficult, with companies looking to acquire them both overtly and covertly hindering them. The DECA finals were approaching, and he was completely consumed by the workload. Liang Qi had no idea what he would ultimately accomplish, and he couldn't give Shen Xiyu a definitive answer.
Seeing that he remained silent for a long time, Shen Xiyu gave both of them a way out and said, "It's okay, just asking casually."
There are too many practical problems standing between them. Liang Qi cannot give her the assurance that he will not leave, and she cannot give Liang Qi unwavering waiting and trust.
But Shen Xiyu had to admit that in her interactions with Liang Qi, she had gradually learned to handle interpersonal emotional ties more gently and calmly. This was something no one had taught her in more than a decade.
Companionship is not a bubble, but change is the only constant.
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The temptation of watching movies during class time was too great, and Class 17 achieved a rare success in which all students got all the answers correct.
During the evening self-study class, the English teacher moved his chair to the back row early and asked the class monitor to show a movie.
Everyone close the curtains and lights.
The movie started in a vast expanse of white snow, and no one in the class spoke anymore.
"Maybe you have some romantic fantasies." Fujii Itsuki on the screen said to Hiroko.
Shen Xiyu had seen this movie a long time ago, but the circumstances were not so appropriate at the time. She watched it alone on a hot summer evening.
At this moment, she was actually secretly looking at Liang Qi.
"But the reality is much more cruel."
Liang Qi has lost weight.
The boy was watching very seriously, his face clearly illuminated by the white light from the screen. Shen Xiyu silently described his eyebrows and eyes in his heart.
At the end of the movie, the season is no longer covered in snow. Hiroko opens the book "Remembrance of Things Past" in the breeze.
For no reason, a tear fell from Shen Xiyu's eyes in the dark. Liang Qi suddenly turned his head to look at her. Shen Xiyu avoided his gaze expressionlessly. Liang Qi said nothing in the end. He gently pinched her fingers on the table. It was a very subtle action, but Shen Xiyu knew that he was comforting himself.
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Liang Qi stayed in school for a whole day today, which was rare.
In the evening, after school, the two of them sat in a convenience store to have dinner. Chen Xiyu bought a vegetable salad and the store's winter special mung bean porridge.
Maybe it was too cold, there were not many people in the store, and the snow was still falling intermittently outside, and it looked like there would be a tendency for snow to accumulate by tomorrow morning.
The steaming instant noodles in front of Liang Qi created a large amount of steam on the glass in front of him.
"Will you be full with just that little?" Liang Qi looked at the bland vegetable salad in front of Shen Xiyu.
Shen Xiyu had no appetite these past two days. If Chen Ningzhou and the others hadn't called for dinner, she wouldn't have had much of a dinner.
"Sure." Shen Xiyu stuffed his mouth with grass and made Liang Qi laugh.
He stood up and took two rice balls with salted egg yolk flavor from the shelf. After heating them up at the front desk, he handed the torn one to Shen Xiyu.
Shen Xiyu took the rice ball and knew it was her favorite salted egg yolk flavor as soon as she smelled it.
After finishing their dinner slowly, the snow outside showed no sign of stopping, so the two of them simply took out the real test questions and started practicing.
"Multiple choice questions, half an hour, let's compare the accuracy rate, wanna compete?" Shen Xiyu raised his eyebrows at Liang Qi provocatively.
Liang Qi became interested, "You can't compare to mine."
"Try it." Shen Xiyu used his cell phone to count thirty minutes.
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"You said you can't beat me." Liang Qi showed a childish smile after checking the answer.
Shen Xiyu was not discouraged. It was just a spur-of-the-moment competition, and she knew that she had a high probability of not beating Liang Qi.
"I'm just giving in to you." She patted Liang Qi's shoulder earnestly. "Do you understand the ways of the world, brother?"
"How old are you? You still call me brother, Chen Xiyu." Liang Qi patted her head.
Shen Xiyu remembered that when he had dinner with Fu Shengrui for the first time, Liang Qi said that he was born very young.
"Didn't you say you were born very young?"
Liang Qi didn't expect that she still remembered this, "What if she is older than you?" He was trying to find out when Shen Xiyu's birthday was.
Chen Xiyu shrugged, "What month are you? Tell me."
"Guess."
Shen Xiyu didn't refute him, and followed his words like coaxing a child, "December?"
Liang Qi shook his head.
"November?"
Shake your head.
"Is Xiaoqi's birthday in October?" Shen Xiyu deliberately said it in a soft voice.
Liang Qi realized that the girl was just teasing him.
He smiled against his cheeks and said, "I'll go."
When Shen Xiyu heard Liang Qi use the catchphrase for the first time, he looked at him with some curiosity.
Without letting the girl ask again, Liang Qi took the initiative to say, "Don't guess, I'm in August."
"Oh, you're so old. I was born in September." Shen Xiyu smiled.
"So, since you're older, you can be called sister. Since I'm older, I'm old."
Shen Xiyu snorted lightly and gave Liang Qi an affirmative answer.
"What day in September is it?"
"Guess." Shen Xiyu imitated him.
"Is Xi Yu's birthday on the 1st?" Liang Qi pinched his throat very thinly.
Shen Xiyu should have known that he would use this trick against him, but after hearing him say it, he couldn't help but push his head aside, "You're disgusting."
"Then is Xi Yu number two..."
Before he could finish his words, Shen Xiyu couldn't stand it and slapped him, "September 3rd, stop guessing."
Liang Qi was satisfied with the answer and didn't care about the slap he had just received.
"So you asked me to call you sister when you were so young."
"You were the one who said that your birth month must be small, and you insisted on calling me sister." Shen Xiyu was shocked by his blaming her.
Liang Qi was unconvinced, "You told me to scream."
"Just call me when I tell you to. You have no principles, Liang Qi." Shen Xiyu put the blame on Liang Qi with peace of mind.
Liang Qi propped up his head, half of his body lying on the table, "Then call me brother, let me hear it."
"Brother Liang Qi." Xi Yu was not afraid of him. Without any hesitation, he turned his head and stared at him.
Liang Qi never thought that Shen Xiyu would shout, and the heat instantly climbed up his face and rushed straight to his forehead.
He avoided Shen Xiyu's sight and cursed silently. He was really troubled tonight.
"You're not happy after I called you." Shen Xiyu looked at Liang Qi's bloodshot ears and laughed. In the past, he always teased him, and today he finally got back at him.
"Let's go." Shen Xiyu pulled Liang Qi's sleeve, trying to wake up the boy who was like a quail egg.
The snow is light now, but it seems that we won’t be able to wait for it to stop completely. If we don’t walk for a while, it might start to snow heavily again.
The cold wind outside the door blew away all the thoughts and enthusiasm in Liang Qi's heart. He came early this morning, wearing only a thin long-sleeved shirt under his black cotton coat. It was fine when he sat in the classroom during the day, but now that it was dark, the night wind penetrated his clothes and made him feel cold.
Chen Xiyu looked at the boy who was shivering with cold and sneered mercilessly, "You are told to wear so little, you will get cold legs when you get old."
"You seem to be wearing too much." Liang Qi saw that Shen Xiyu was wearing only thin winter clothes.
"I'm wearing five layers." Shen Xiyu stretched out five fingers. She didn't know when she put on the gloves.
She is a typical person who cannot tolerate cold or heat. She has to wear three layers of clothes in winter, and she would like to run naked in summer.
"Yes." Shen Xiyu took off his gloves, "I'll put them on you."
"Take care of it yourself. You're as short as a potato. If you get frozen again, you won't grow and will turn into a frozen potato." Liang Qi made himself laugh after saying this.
Shen Xiyu found that Liang Qi was particularly mean and childish tonight.
"It's up to you whether you want to wear it or not." Shen Xiyu didn't put it back on her hand. To be honest, she still felt a little hot.
"It's not that I don't want to wear it, but your fingers are too short for me to wear it."
There was an awkward and strange silence in the air, and Liang Qi realized that it would be better if he had not said anything.
Liang Qi realized later why he was so cold tonight that he felt like a fool and spoke so stupidly.
"Next time, if you have nothing to say, you can just keep silent." The girl's tone was filled with unconcealed resentment and speechlessness.
Liang Qi smiled instead. Such an ordinary day made him feel inexplicably happy.
"Come on, let's run a bit and we won't feel cold anymore." He pulled Shen Xiyu's sleeve without saying anything.
Shen Xiyu was dragged by him to run behind Liang Qi, whimpering as he ran, "Liang Qi, you are crazy, I am not cold in the first place."
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