Chapter 591 Love Should Not Be Trapped in the Wind [End of this Volume]
The five people walked out of the dormitory building. Lu Yuanqiu sent a message to Bai Qingxia to confirm that she had also finished packing. The six of them met downstairs of the female dormitory. Lu Yuanqiu saw Bai Qingxia carrying her small white bag and holding a paper bag in her hand, with a hint of red showing in the bag.
"Have you finished bringing everything?"
"Well, I've finished it."
“Ding ding ding!”
The six of them looked down at the group chat messages on their phones.
『Zhuhai University - General Manager of the Municipal Arts Competition』: 12 students from Wanfeng Campus, the bus for the Municipal Arts Competition has stopped at the East Gate.
Lu Yuanqiu and the other six people sent and received messages in the group chat one by one, then quickened their pace and walked towards the east gate. As expected, they saw a blue bus parked at the school gate. The secretary of the Student Union's Arts and Literature Department jumped out of the bus door and waved at them with a smile: "Here! Here!"
"Come on, come on, get in the car, have you had breakfast?"
"have eaten."
Lu Yuanqiu held Bai Qingxia's hand and watched her walk up the stairs one step at a time. They found a double seat side by side and sat down. Lu Yuanqiu pulled the curtains of the car window halfway down, so that the morning light could just reach the tip of Bai Qingxia's nose and turn the hair on her forehead golden.
The other six contestants from Wanfeng Campus also got on the bus one after another. Bai Qingxia looked up at them, then lowered her head to check her small white bag. She opened the zipper and took something out.
Lu Yuanqiu turned his head and saw the silver moon hairpin. There seemed to be other objects in the bag, which were blocked tightly by Bai Qingxia's arm.
"You're going to wear this when you're getting ready for a performance?"
"Yeah." Bai Qingxia nodded and looked at the glowing diamonds on the moon hairpin. She touched her fingers from the first diamond to the last one, then lifted the moon hairpin and placed it in the light coming in from the window. The hairpin suddenly became brighter.
The bus started and drove in the middle of the asphalt road. The light inside the car was cut into pieces by the sycamore leaves outside the window. Lu Yuanqiu saw that the light was getting weaker, so he raised his hand and opened the curtains a little. Suddenly he was stunned and looked out the window.
"Look quickly." Lu Yuanqiu reminded with a smile.
Bai Qingxia turned her head upon hearing this and saw a black car driving side by side with the bus. The people in the car stuck their heads out to the windows and greeted excitedly.
Liu Wangchun was sitting in the driver's seat, Su Miaomiao was sitting in the passenger seat, and Lu Douqing and Luo Wei were sitting in the back seat.
Zheng Yifeng and Zhong Jincheng also noticed this scene and waved to greet the people in the car. Liu Wangchun was about to wave, but Su Miaomiao patted him on the head and he continued driving honestly.
The bus continued to drive to the other three campuses and picked up other contestants from Zhuda. The seats on the bus were soon full. Many people looked at Lu Yuanqiu and Bai Qingxia when they got on the bus. They still remembered the interaction between Lu Yuanqiu and Bai Qingxia in the group chat last night.
Of course, what I remember most are the videos of Yanggu String Orchestra and Bai Qingxia that were circulated on the Internet. Today was the first time I met this "celebrity student" from the same school but different district offline.
At seven in the morning, the bus arrived at the venue of the city arts competition, and stopped at each area like a bus. The contestants of the corresponding area got off one after another. The bus soon arrived at the venue of Area C, which included the dance classification competition. Lu Yuanqiu leaned aside to let Bai Qingxia get out of the window seat. In the aisle, Lu Yuanqiu quickly grabbed her hand, looked into her eyes and encouraged her: "Come on."
Bai Qingxia held his hand in return and nodded vigorously: "Okay."
"Call me."
"Um!"
Lu Yuanqiu looked out the window and saw Bai Qingxia, who had just got off the bus, reuniting with Liu Wangchun and the other three who had parked the car. Liu Wangchun and the other three knew that Bai Qingxia would compete first, so they parked the car here.
Zheng Yifeng in the back row murmured, "Now it all depends on the result of the on-site draw."
Arriving at the venue in Zone D, Lu Yuanqiu and the others got off the car. The first thing that caught their eyes was a large performance stage built in an open-air venue. Directly in front of the venue was a row of judges' seats, and behind the judges' seats were the audience seats.
Lu Yuanqiu glanced at the big screen on the stage. At this time, the secretary of the Student Union's Arts and Literature Department held up a "Zhuhai University" sign and shouted in front: "Follow me closely!"
"Let's go draw lots first!"
Arriving at the spacious indoor venue, Lu Yuanqiu saw many students in bright clothes sitting in their respective school seats waiting for the draw.
The art department officer at the front explained: "The first to compete are the campus singers, so they draw lots first, and after the campus singers finish their competition, it will be our campus band's turn."
Lu Yuanqiu walked up and asked, "Can I use that big screen?"
Art and Literature Secretary: "It's usually used to play lyrics. What's wrong with that?"
Lu Yuanqiu took out a USB drive from his pocket and said with a smile, "The video in here has lyrics."
"That should be no problem. Just hand it over to the staff before the game."
Lu Yuanqiu nodded and put the USB drive back into his pocket.
In order to prevent their clothes from getting dirty, the five people did not sit on the ground, but just stood and waited. After about ten minutes, the campus singers here had finished drawing lots. Lu Yuanqiu was about to walk towards the lottery box with the secretary of the Art Department when the phone rang. It was Bai Qingxia.
Lu Yuanqiu answered the call.
Bai Qingxia's voice trembled a little on the phone: "The draw is over, Lu Yuanqiu, I'm the last one to go, I..."
Lu Yuanqiu's face changed slightly, and he blinked quickly, comforting her: "Okay, okay, don't worry, and don't hang up the phone yet. I'm going to draw lots now, wait for me."
He exhaled, quickened his pace, and repeated to himself many times, "Don't be the first one."
Standing in front of the lottery box, Lu Yuanqiu reached in, touched the ping-pong ball in the box, closed his eyes and quickly took one out. He slowly opened his five fingers and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. The number 2 was written on it.
Lu Yuanqiu: "I'm the second one. Fortunately, you should make it in time, but I can't go to see you. We need to go to the waiting area in advance to wait."
"It doesn't matter! As long as I can see you!"
Listening to the girl's hurried voice on the phone, Lu Yuanqiu suddenly laughed. He held the phone, squatted on the ground and laughed. Students from other schools turned their heads to look at him. Lu Yuanqiu ignored their gazes and nodded: "Okay, I'll wait for you."
Bai Qingxia: "I won't change my clothes. I will just go over in my red dance costume."
Lu Yuanqiu smiled and nodded again: "Okay, I will definitely be able to spot you in the crowd at a glance."
"Lu Yuanqiu..." Bai Qingxia seemed to be hesitant to speak on the phone.
"What's wrong?"
"fine……"
"Today is my 19th birthday, you should remember, right?" Bai Qingxia asked again.
"Of course I remember. I racked my brains to write a song for you."
"Lu Yuanqiu..."
Lu Yuanqiu smiled and stretched out his voice: "What's the matter again?"
He held the phone and looked up at his four teammates. Zheng Yifeng also looked at him with his hands in his pockets. Bai Qingxia's voice rang in his ears on the phone:
"Let's stay together."
Lu Yuanqiu's eyes lost focus for a moment.
After a long while, he slowly lowered his head to look at the palm of his right hand, then raised his right hand and instinctively placed his palm against his left chest.
My heartbeat, which had been running at a high speed since last night, seemed to reach its peak at this moment.
The reason for the heartbeat was found. It turned out that the story the uncle told would happen to him in another template.
Bai Qingxia's voice continued to tremble: "I can't wait until the end of the game. If it's not formal enough, I will say it again in front of you later."
"I..." Bai Qingxia let out a trembling breath, as if every breath was pouring out all her emotions. She then said in a firm tone: "I like you, let's be together."
Lu Yuanqiu smiled and licked his lips. With moist eyes, he looked up at the golden light projected from above the venue. He nodded slowly: "I thought I really had to wait a hundred years for this sentence to come true."
"sorry."
"Silly boy, there's no need to say sorry. I personally saved this girl, and I understand her better than anyone else."
Lu Yuanqiu took a deep breath and raised his hand to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes: "Okay, calm down and participate in the competition well."
"Hmm..." There was silence on the other end of the phone for a few seconds, and then suddenly Bai Qingxia's choked voice came again: "But I want to see you, I want to see you now."
Lu Yuanqiu smiled and tears came out again. He wiped the corners of his eyes with his fingers: "Didn't we just separate for a few minutes?"
Bai Qingxia began to cry uncontrollably: "But I have liked you since junior high school... I am very stupid, very stupid, very stupid, stupid to the core. I need to go through so much trouble to say such a simple sentence."
Lu Yuanqiu propped his cheek with his hand and nodded continuously: "So the love spoken by Xia Xia is so precious."
Bai Qingxia burst into tears on the phone, and Lu Yuanqiu could even guess that she was hiding in a corner at the moment.
Lu Yuanqiu frowned, raised his head, and said in a serious voice: "Alright! Stop crying. How can you participate in the competition beautifully if your eyes are swollen?"
"Okay, I'll listen to you." Bai Qingxia seemed to nod.
The phone call was hung up.
Lu Yuanqiu put his phone into his pocket, stood still and calmed himself down. He closed his eyes, took a long, deep breath, and then walked towards his teammates.
"What's wrong with you?" Liang Jingfeng asked in surprise.
"Nothing, just thought of something happy."
Zhong Jincheng sounded surprised: "Happy to the point of crying?"
Zheng Yifeng smiled and asked, "How happy are you?"
Lu Yuanqiu bit his lip, crossed his arms and murmured, "It's probably about three or four stories high."
"All I want is for you to be by my side~"
When the last line of the lyrics of "Maple" came to an end, the judges on the scene smiled and clapped, exchanging admiring glances with the people next to them. As the girl in the gradient red dress on the stage finished her dance, the dance competition finally came to an end.
Amidst the applause, the host walked onto the stage with a smile, and was just about to pull the girl in the red dress to her side for her final closing speech. However, the girl bypassed her and jumped off the stage by grabbing the hem of her skirt.
The host stared at the scene in a daze.
Bai Qingxia walked towards the audience seats and took something thrown to her by Liu Wangchun. She held the thing in her arms and calmed her breathing. She didn't run, but walked very fast. The dazzling red color was extremely eye-catching on the roadside. The sunlight passed over the moon hairpin on her head, and it seemed to make a "ding" sound when every diamond shone.
Walking to the traffic light, Bai Qingxia watched the green light in front of the zebra crossing count down to "1". She was about to step out with her right foot and rush over, but as if she thought of something, she paused for a moment and retracted her right foot.
The speeding cars passed by her, blowing the girl's hair to one side.
The red numbers began to count down from "99 seconds".
The girl lowered her head, holding the object in her arms tightly while waiting for the traffic light, and a cold voice sounded in her mind.
"Bai Qingxia, I will confess my love to Lu Yuanqiu tonight. I know that I will end up in failure, but I still plan to do it."
"I am a timid person. I know what the consequences will be, so I have never dared to do it."
"What about you? Why didn't you take this step?"
"I used to think you were hypocritical, but today when I saw you rushing to the finish line at the risk of your life, I knew you probably had your own reasons."
"I have my own reasons, and maybe everyone who dares not express their love has their own reasons, so I understand the difficulty you feel in not being able to say those words."
"But love shouldn't be trapped in the wind."
“Ding——” The red light countdown ends and the green light comes on.
Bai Qingxia looked around at the vehicles and stepped onto the zebra crossing.
She quickened her pace and walked forward.
“Love should never be a seed quietly waiting to break through the soil. It should be like a burning sunset glow, tearing through the clouds to dye the whole sky red.”
The fiery and maple-red skirt danced in the wind on the zebra crossing. Bai Qingxia walked very fast, holding something in her arms, with extremely firm steps.
She stared ahead, the contents of the letter with tear-stained handwriting flashing in her mind, while Long Liandong's urgent voice rang in her ears.
"Bai Qingxia, think of love as the power generated when a seed breaks through the soil. Only when it breaks through the soil can it encounter a blooming field of flowers."
"It can grow freely in the sun."
“Only then can you not regret your life.”
"Winter is lonely, summer should be brilliant."
"I'm going to confess, you should do your best too."
Bai Qingxia began to quicken her pace. She raised her hand to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes and rushed towards the meeting place in area D.
Gradually, she slowed down and saw the auditorium and the wide stage coming into view.
Bai Qingxia was breathing heavily when she saw Lu Yuanqiu, Zheng Yifeng, Zhong Jincheng, Song Fenfang, and Liang Jingfeng standing on the stage.
“Xia Xia!”
Liu Wangchun and the other three waited for a traffic light and finally caught up with Bai Qingxia. They stood behind Bai Qingxia and looked up ahead.
Lu Yuanqiu held the microphone and immediately noticed the red color that appeared in his field of vision. He looked at Bai Qingxia and smiled from afar across the audience seats. Bai Qingxia pursed her lips and also smiled at him.
Suddenly, the big screen behind the five members of the band lit up, and a photo of Bai Qingxia's profile appeared on the screen.
The audience cheered.
The background of the photo is a classroom. Bai Qingxia is looking down at the desk. This is obviously a secretly taken photo.
Seeing this, Bai Qingxia raised her hand to cover her mouth, tears rolling down from the corners of her eyes.
At this time, she also took out the thing in her arms, which was the other half of the photo album she had collected. Bai Qingxia lowered her head and opened the first page of the album in her hand.
The photo shows Lu Yuanqiu's profile, and the background is also in the classroom. Lu Yuanqiu in the photo is looking down at the table. This is obviously also a candid photo.
Beautiful music started playing, and Lu Yuanqiu sang the first line of lyrics. On the big screen behind him, photos of Bai Qingxia kept turning pages.
Bai Qingxia looked at the lyrics above the screen and flipped through the photo album in her hand, which was full of photos of Lu Yuanqiu.
Bai Qingxia on the screen was smiling.
Lu Yuanqiu in the photo album raised his eyebrows.
On the screen is a girl sitting on the back of a bicycle.
The photo album shows a young man riding a bicycle in front.
…
lyrics:
The mottled desks grow in the shape of tree rings.
When you put on your scarf on Christmas Day, your heart is filled with snow.
The whole notebook is growing stars and getting hot.
The pencil scratched the direction of the Milky Way.
Halloween neon lights flow like a river in the windows.
Your eyelashes are shining like jack-o'-lanterns.
We danced tango in the reflection of the glass.
The shadow crushed the moonlight dimples all over the ground.
The pink hairpin fell into the September rain alley.
Shattered into stubborn moonlight all over the ground.
You tiptoe and spin like a swan.
Hide the broken starlight between your feet and let it bloom.
You borrowed all my light.
But in the dark, a whole ocean is planted.
When the maple leaves kiss the trembling corners of the mouth.
I heard the tide coming over the church.
The morning frost warmed by body temperature.
The fragments of the moon phases are being reassembled.
Baking the frozen moon in my chest.
Until the sun rises in your pupils.
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