Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Have you seen me somewhere before?
2013/6/28
I met him again.
——Xu Renren's Diary
It will take half a month for the high school entrance examination results to come out. A few days ago, Xu Sui’s grandmother also accidentally caught the flu. Both of them are old, and Xu Sui has been to the hospital frequently.
Today is the day grandma is discharged from the hospital.
Xu Sui got up early and cleaned up the house, intending to pick up the old lady from the hospital at noon.
She was the only one at home. The sunlight at seven o'clock in the morning shone through the green old-fashioned windowsill onto the ground, with fleeting light and shadows and floating dust in the air.
Xu Sui is preparing to go to the vegetable market. Today, he will use a pressure cooker to stew some pork rib soup for his grandmother.
She is very capable of taking care of herself. In the past, when Xu's father and mother quarreled, they would hardly spare the time to take care of her. When she was younger, she only ate instant noodles. Later, when she grew up a little, she could fry eggs and stir-fry vegetables by herself.
So cooking a meal is actually very simple for Xu Sui.
The vegetable market is in Yubei District, about three kilometers away from Xu Sui's home, and bus No. 3 can go there directly.
Before entering the gate of the vegetable market, Xu Sui noticed that there seemed to be a bookstore a few hundred meters away.
It must be newly opened because she didn’t see it when she came three months ago.
Nankai Middle School is just across the street. During the days after Xu Sui’s high school entrance exam, he learned about the major high schools in Chongqing.
How to say it.
The location of this bookstore is both reasonable and unreasonable. It meets the market demand requirements, but it is close to the vegetable market, which makes Xu Sui feel weird.
Because its decoration is very literary, even a bit European and American, it feels very out of place here, so Xu Sui decided to go and take a look first.
There were not many people in the bookstore, probably because it was not yet time for school to end, so there were not many people at the moment. The owner was a beautiful lady with big brown curly hair.
"Just pick any one you want." She said to her with a smile when Xu Sui walked in. Xu Sui felt a little uncomfortable with her enthusiasm, and nodded with a faint smile. Turning around, she saw a boy sitting at the cashier counter, sleeping on the counter. His white short-sleeved shirt was slightly protruding at his shoulder blade because of his sleeping posture, and his right hand was around his neck and resting on his left ear, with his wrist bone protruding.
The boss noticed her gaze and said quickly, "Just come to me if you need anything later."
The boy moved a little, perhaps because he heard voices or something. Xu Sui quickly looked away and responded in a low voice.
The moment she turned around, she heard the beautiful sister's voice: "Did I disturb you?"
Then there was the rustling sound of clothes rubbing against each other, and the voice was faint, with the hoarseness of just waking up: "No."
"Then get up and get to work. A new batch of books arrived this morning. Put them on the bookshelf." Song Shiya squinted her beautiful fox eyes and looked at her brother with cunning. How could she let go of the free cattle and horses during the holiday? It's more than two months away.
Song Shiyang sat there looking at Song Shiya for a few seconds before curling his lips. "Shh." A chair was pulled away. "Which part do you want to patch?"
The bookstore doesn't look big from the outside, but it's a different world inside. Rows of wooden bookshelves are neatly arranged, and the books are new and neatly arranged.
"There are some empty spaces on those bookshelves at the back."
Song Shiyang nodded and walked away.
Xu Sui was standing on one side of the aisle browsing books, but her ears were listening to the movement over there. After hearing their conversation, Xu Sui quickly withdrew and stood on tiptoe to get the book. She could feel the wind brought by Song Shiyang when he passed by her. After a while, Xu Sui slowly turned her head to look, but the bookshelf blocked her view and the books covered her up, so Xu Sui could not see anything.
Xu Sui concentrated her mind and looked at the book in her hand, a foreign classic she had never seen before. She lowered her head and thought about it, and decided to take it back.
Xu Sui was surprised to find that there were many books that interested her here, the variety was beyond her imagination, including European and American literature, Latin American literature, and various translated versions.
The whirring sound of the air conditioner was in her ears, and her fingers stroked the white paper. She felt that even if it was not for him, but simply for these books, this place was a place worth coming to.
Xu Sui picked up a few books and sat there for a while. He looked down at the watch on his wrist. It was half past eight.
Just another half hour and then leave, she thought.
Suddenly, there was a loud noise at the door, followed by the sound of the bookstore door being pushed open. A loud male voice rang out in the silence: "Brother Yang, do you want to play basketball?"
Immediately afterwards, a female voice interrupted him: "Keep your voice down, this is in Sister Yaya's bookstore." Although the voice was low, Xu Sui's position was close to the counter and the door, so he couldn't hear it clearly but it was almost the same.
She turned her head inadvertently.
There were four people in the group, three men and one woman, with different clothing styles. Some looked very gentle, some looked like street thugs, and a few people did not come in with them. They stood outside the door, staring eagerly at what was inside.
"Oh, I'm sorry, Brother Yang." The man said in a low voice. He was the boy who had just howled, and he was dressed most like a student among the four people.
He looks to be about the same age as Xu Sui.
Song Shiyang raised his eyebrows slightly and looked to the side, with a light tone: "Go and talk to Song Shiya."
As expected, Song Shiya, who was in the back storage room, was also startled by the boy's howling. She hurried over in an apron, her brown hair stained with gray, and her usually smiling eyes took on a sharp edge. "Playing basketball? Xie Zhuoyuan, if you dare, try to kidnap me."
"It's Xie Zhuoyuan and Sister Yaya." He pursed his lips and resisted softly, a little regretting that he had just made too loud a noise due to excitement. He should have secretly kidnapped Brother Yang and taken the initiative, so that Sister Yaya would not be able to do anything to them.
"I don't care what your name is, kidnapping is not allowed." She said with a smile.
Song Shiyang just stood there watching them bickering, his body leaning against the wall, white headphones in his ears, his face expressionless, his fingers tapping the screen from time to time, it seemed that his attention was completely not on the group of people in front of him.
Xu Sui felt that he should get up and leave at this moment.
She stood up with the book in her arms and prepared to go check out, but she felt uncomfortable being blocked by a group of people. Interrupting their conversation would make Xu Sui feel impolite, so she opened and closed her mouth. The key point was that no one noticed her arrival at this moment.
The talk was too speculative, Xu Sui thought.
She closed her eyes, took a breath, and was about to speak, but a voice spoke before her and saved her.
"Everyone, and the boss lady."
"My guests are about to pay, can you please make some room?" There was a perfunctory tone in his voice, which did not alert them but instead startled Xu Sui. He stared at Song Shiyang with wide eyes and accidentally saw a series of English words displayed on Song Shiyang's mobile phone screen.
He took off his headphones, and the phone screen went off at some point. Song Shiya turned around and realized Xu Sui's presence. She glared at Song Shiyang, then smiled and said to Xu Sui: "Sorry, sorry, I was too busy to pay attention to you just now. It's my fault."
Xu Sui, who witnessed everything: "?"
Song Shiyang, who was standing there, paused while scanning books for Xu Sui when he heard this. He slowly raised his eyes to look at his sister who was talking nonsense. Xu Sui felt that if she was not mistaken, the person in front of her should have smiled.
It's very beautiful. The smile is very shallow and disappears quickly, but Xu Sui can still catch it. It's really strange.
"A total of one hundred and five yuan." Song Shiyang said to her.
Xu Sui took out some money from his pocket, took out two fifty-dollar notes and a five-dollar note, folded them, and handed them to Song Shiyang. He stretched out his hand to take it, but Xu Sui's hand was shaking and he accidentally touched the tip of his index finger, and he quickly pulled his hand back.
It seems like I can't avoid it.
The boy named Xie Zhuoyuan kept looking down at her. Xu Sui frowned and looked back at him. He smiled apologetically and touched his head.
She clenched the handle of the bag containing books in her hand and walked away quickly without looking back.
"Why are you always staring at girls?" asked the girl who had reminded him to speak more quietly at the beginning. The girl looked arrogant and cold in a white dress, and asked him with her arms crossed.
"Nothing, just taking a look." Xie Zhuoyuan was vague. Song Shiya finally let him go, but asked him not to stay out too late, and at least come back before sunset.
Song Shiyang didn't care. After all, playing basketball was just a daily pastime and he could play it or not. So a group of people came and went in a hurry, shoulder to shoulder, and rushed towards the north playground.
"Hey, Brother Yang, don't you think that girl looks familiar?" Xie Zhuoyuan walked between Song Shiyang and Jiang Song, separating them, and asked.
After hearing what he said, Song Shiyang thought for a few seconds and said as he walked: "I don't think so."
Jiang Song was the guy Xu Sui thought looked like a gangster, but he didn't look like one. He had strong facial features, sharp edges on his face, and a pair of wild and cold eyes. He looked quite handsome, but he had a buzz cut, wore ragged jeans, and a black short-sleeved shirt with a big skull pattern, which made him look very strange.
"If you like it, just say it." After saying that, he turned his head and lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth. The smoke choked Xie Zhuoyuan and made him cough a few times.
"No, ahem, Brother Yang and I met her at the Nanfu examination hall before, and Brother Yang even lent her a black jacket." That was the first time Song Shiyang took the initiative to talk to a girl, otherwise he wouldn't have paid much attention to her.
She looked like an ordinary girl in the exam room that day, but after taking a closer look today, I found she was quite cute, petite with an oval face.
The facial features are also delicate.
It’s just that the outfit is a bit plain.
Hearing this, Jiang Song stopped and looked at Song Shiyang, then asked, "Is it true?"
Song Shiyang was reminded of this by Xie Zhuoyuan, but he never remembered other people's appearances very well. After thinking about it carefully, he nodded lightly and said, "Really."
"So kind?" Jiang Song's voice was full of mischief and he flicked the ash from his fingertips.
Song Shiyang froze, staring at Jiang Song with his light brown eyes for a moment before saying, "I'm so bored."
"What are you three talking about? Hurry up and catch up." Bai Ruoxing glanced back inadvertently while talking to her sisters, and found that the three boys behind her were standing still, and shouted at them from a distance.
The North Playground refers to one of the playgrounds on the main campus of the South Affiliated School. The school gate is just across the street, and the school allows students of the South Affiliated School to enter.
"Sister Xing, we're coming." Xie Zhuoyuan waved at Bai Ruoxing without thinking too much. He said to them, "Hurry up. Why bother with so much? We won't see each other again anyway."
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