Chapter 7: Her eyes were filled with Liang Yuan throughout the summer...
September 5, 2017, sunny weather
If I had to have a wish in life, before I was sixteen my wish was to be healthy and safe, and after I was sixteen my wish was to see you.
Dear Y, I wish you happiness forever, freedom forever, and high spirits forever. And I will always secretly look at you with the secret that I like you.
——Excerpt from Tao Shuran’s Diary
*
A sudden rainstorm seemed like a fierce farewell to this midsummer.
The frenzied atmosphere on the playground could not be stopped, and all the emotions suppressed by hard study were released, ringing out along with the boiling thunder.
The head teacher, holding an umbrella, drove the crowd back to the classroom for self-study. On the podium, the head teacher of Flight Class 1 raised his foot and lightly kicked Liang Yuanjing in the back.
"You kid, you're causing me trouble again, aren't you?"
Liang Yuanjing laughed softly: "Are you blaming me for the rain?"
"It's your fault that you have a face that attracts romance."
The homeroom teacher said, "It just happened to rain heavily, and your instructor has notified you to have an extra training session in the rain. Please prepare yourself and train when the playground is clear."
Liang Yuanjing responded "Okay", stood on the high podium, leaned his hands on the railing, and looked down lazily.
Out of habit, his eyes subconsciously fell on Class 1 of the Arts Department in the middle.
I didn't see Fu Changpei, but I saw two girls standing stupidly in the rain.
…
A rainstorm came suddenly, and Tao Shuran and Fang Qingyi were a little panicked at first.
The scene was in chaos, with students crowded together everywhere, without even a gap to hide from the rain.
At this time, Tao Shuran decisively took off his coat and covered the heads of the two of them with it.
Fang Qingyi's eyes flashed, and she suddenly took out the Polaroid photo she had just secretly taken from her school uniform pocket.
Every frame that flashed by was a picture of Fu Changpei standing on the podium and giving a speech.
Tao Shuran's eyes widened slightly: "Doesn't Teacher Zhou forbid electronic products from entering the school? How did you bring them in?"
How dare you take so many photos in public?
"I brought it in secretly inside my school uniform jacket. Hey, tell me, do you think I made Fu Changpei look handsome?"
Fang Qingyi didn't hide her thoughts at all and stuffed more than a dozen photos into her hands.
Tao Shuran was slightly surprised: "Xiaoyi, what are you doing..."
"Yes, I like Fu Changpei."
Fang Qingyi simply said, "You're my good friend, so I won't hide it from you. I've liked him since freshman year of high school. From the first day he walked into Class 1, freshman year, he's been my ideal type."
"Do you understand that subtle feeling of love at first sight?"
Tao Shuran was stunned for a moment and nodded slightly.
Of course she understood the feeling of falling in love at first sight, that hazy feeling of being hit by hormones in an instant. Maybe at that time there were only some emotions flowing through her heart, but the throbbing of love would entangle her every minute and every second in the years to come.
It is sweet and melancholy, two incompatible emotions that throw people up high and then fall down, and emotions are on a high-speed roller coaster at every moment.
Fang Qingyi was overwhelmed by the sweetness at this moment. Even if she didn't talk to the person she liked, she would feel happy just by seeing his photo.
She shared with Tao Shuran her thoughts when taking these photos one by one, and Tao Shuran listened to her quietly.
Suddenly she exclaimed, "Why is this picture blurry?"
"Why is there someone else in the frame? Ahhhh, what a waste of photo paper."
Tao Shuran followed the voice and saw that this was the last photo, which should have been taken when Fu Changpei stepped down from the stage, followed closely by Liang Yuanjing.
Fang Qingyi captured this photo very cleverly. The figure of Fu Changpei who was leaving the stage was blurred, while Liang Yuanjing who was standing behind him had a straight figure with a clear profile, and looked forward a little lazily.
Tao Shuran's mind moved slightly.
She whispered, "Xiaoyi, can you give me this photo?"
"Hmm? Do you want this one?"
"Um."
Tao Shuran's heartbeat quickened slightly, and her ears turned red instantly because of the lie. She raised her hand to tidy up the hair that was stuck to her face as a cover-up.
"I haven't used a Polaroid before, and I'd like to take a closer look. I can give you money for the film."
"Talking about money hurts our feelings. I wasn't planning on keeping this photo anyway." Fang Qingyi stuffed it into her pocket without hesitation. "Here you go. When we have the holidays, let's go out together and I'll take a photo of you."
Tao Shuran said "hmm".
The two of them walked slowly back along the corridor. Along the way, Tao Shuran's eyes gently fell on the thin 3-inch photo paper in her hand, and every frame of the speech just now flashed through her mind.
She thought that there was a protagonist living in everyone's eyes.
Fang Qingyi's camera captured every moment of Fu Changpei, and her eyes were a unique camera, filled with Liang Yuanjing throughout the summer.
*
When I returned to the classroom, everyone was not there yet.
Tao Shuran wrung the water out of her coat and when she came out of the bathroom she heard several girls in the class gathered together and discussing loudly.
"Do you know which book Liang Yuanjing's words came from?"
A bunch of girls gathered in front of her. Fang Qingyi felt it was getting a bit noisy, so she absentmindedly replied, "Maybe he just copied it randomly from the internet. What's the point of knowing it?"
"I think this sentence is very good and can be used in an essay."
Wen Fangfang asked quietly, "Who of you has a cell phone? I'll search online."
"That was his own composition for the high school entrance exam. The theme was 'A Dream,' and it didn't matter if it was a real dream or a fictional one."
Tao Shuran sat down in his seat and spread his coat on the table to dry it.
Unexpectedly, the casual words she said aroused the interest of Wen Fangfang and the others, and they turned around and came over to ask her.
"Then do you know what this essay is about?"
"What is Liang Yuanjing's dream?"
Tao Shuran was about to speak when her rationality returned and she shook her head.
"……I have no idea."
A group of girls turned back in disappointment, leaving Tao Shuran sitting there in a daze.
She lied again about Liang Yuanjing.
In fact, she had read every one of his essays, and naturally knew what he wanted in his heart and was working hard to achieve it.
His dream is to soar into the sky.
*
After school, Tao Shuran followed the instructions of her class teacher to go to the warehouse to pick up her new school uniform.
Her school uniform was ordered together with that of the freshmen class. The school dismissal time for senior year students was later, so there were not many people in the warehouse when she went there.
But fortunately, the people distributing school uniforms are still there.
Tao Shuran stood there hesitating slightly. She didn't expect that the people who would help distribute the school uniforms would be from the flight class.
Liang Yuanjing stood in front of a pile of school uniforms and asked her without looking up, "What size do you want?"
Today, the students who came to collect school uniforms were divided into two groups, boys and girls. The girls were distributed early and went to the cafeteria to eat. Liang Yuanjing and the others had overtime training, so they were pulled in to temporarily take over the job.
I didn’t expect that the first order I received would be from a girl.
The boy next to him laughed and joked, "Brother, isn't that a bit too direct to flirt with me?"
Liang Yuanjing's face turned cold, he raised his shoulders, shook off the hand that was on his shoulder, and threw a clothes hanger at him without any courtesy.
"If you're a jerk, get out of here."
The boy was not happy, but he still walked away. The room suddenly became quiet. Tao Shuran bit her lower lip, not knowing how to be alone with him.
She whispered her height: "165, please get me a size 170."
Liang Yuanjing glanced at it and said, "Winter school uniforms are very loose, and the sleeves will be much longer if you wear them at 170cm."
"You're too thin."
Tao Shuran changed to size 165. Because she transferred schools temporarily, she did not order summer school uniforms. Even so, the spring, autumn and winter school uniforms still made up four sets.
Liang Yuanjing pointed in a direction, and she turned around and looked for the right size among the pile of clothes.
At this time, the flight crew members came in after their break, and no one noticed her rummaging through clothes in the corner.
The sound of zippers undressing was heard, and by the time Tao Shuran realized what was going on, he had already turned around and saw the flight team members changing into their training uniforms.
They had just taken off half of their clothes, revealing their upper bodies with obvious training lines.
Tao Shuran widened her eyes, hesitating between looking for clothes and running away, when Liang Yuanjing slowly stood in front of her.
He turned his straight back towards her, with an aloof and cold attitude, and chatted idly with the person in front of him.
The boy who was changing clothes said, "Liang Yuanjing, why are you so perverted today? You're watching me change clothes face to face."
Liang Yuanjing said casually: "I like you."
The boy shuddered, goose bumps all over his body, and jokingly said, "I didn't realize you have such a strong taste."
"Why, you don't even like the love letter Fang Shiyue gave you?"
Catching the key words, Tao Shuran paused in holding the clothes.
At the same time, Liang Yuanjing answered without hesitation.
"dislike."
He refused too bluntly, and his rational and calm appearance did not match the hormones that should be bursting out at this adolescent age. The boy obviously did not understand. After all, Fang Shiyue was a well-known beauty in the school, so why did she have no sense of existence in front of him?
As far as he knew, several boys in the flight class had a crush on her.
"What do you dislike? The love letter or the person?"
"I don't like any of them. I'm not interested in dating."
The boy was amused and asked him, "So, Master Liang, what are you interested in?"
Liang Yuanjing seemed to be fed up with such boring conversations. Seeing that his clothes were almost changed, he moved impatiently.
He said casually: "Study."
“I’m interested in learning.”
He turned around and the girl who had just been hiding behind him had disappeared without a trace, without even making a sound.
He runs very fast.
Liang Yuanjing sneered.
*
Because of the rain, many students in the class caught a bad cold. Even Tao Shuran was not spared. He couldn't help sneezing several times among the germs.
On Friday, the head teacher was merciful and let them pack up and go home early. Those who needed to take medicine took medicine, and those who needed to get an IV drip went to get one.
After school, Tao Shuran took a hot bath and when she came out, she was warming up Sichuan Fritillary and Pear Soup in the kitchen.
Tao Hongfeng rushed out: "Dad didn't know you got out of school so early tonight. The soup is still simmering. I was planning to send it to school before evening self-study."
"It's okay, Xiaoyi will call me to study together later."
As he was speaking, there was a knock on the door. Tao Shuran said, "She must be here to see me. Dad, I'll go down first."
"The soup is ready." Tao Hongfeng stuffed the thermos into her hand and said, "Take it and drink it with your friends."
He met Fang Qingyi at the door, and the two of them walked towards Fu Changpei's house together.
Catching a glimpse of what she was holding, Tao Shuran smiled and joked, "I was wondering why you were so active in studying this week. Turns out you had other intentions."
Fang Qingyi blushed: "I heard he had a cold, and I didn't know what to buy, so I brought what I had at home. Otherwise, you can help me take a look."
Tao Shuran took a quick look and thought that this girl must have brought the entire medicine box from home, which contained everything from heat-clearing and detoxifying medicines to wind-heat and wind-cold medicines, and even some nutritional powders for brain nourishment.
She sighed: "You are too good to Fu Changpei."
"Really?" Fang Qingyi said somewhat embarrassedly, "Of course, do you think I'm stupid?"
Tao Shuran said with certainty: "No."
“It’s a wonderful feeling to like someone, because of him, I have infinite expectations for the future.”
She turned her head and said, "I understand you, Xiaoyi."
Fang Qingyi looked at her with emotion: "You are so right. I wonder which university Fu Changpei will go to. I want to be in the same city as him."
"What about you? What kind of school do you want?"
Tao Shuran hesitated for a moment, then looked at Fang Qingyi and said slowly, "I want to apply to Qing University."
Fang Qingyi: "That's quite a coincidence. If nothing unexpected happens, Liang Yuanjing will have no problem getting accepted into the joint flight program of Aviation University and Qinghai University with that score."
"Do you think I'm overestimating my abilities?"
Tao Shuran said softly that based on her performance in this baseline test, she would barely get an average score.
Every time someone asked her which school she wanted to apply to, she found it difficult to bring up this goal, but Fang Qingyi was different from others.
Fang Qingyi treated her sincerely, so Tao Shuran also chose to be sincere to her.
"No, you just came to the affiliated high school and are not used to the pace here."
Hand in hand, they walked through the alleyway shaded by time and came to a shady porch.
Fang Qingyi interlocked her fingers and spoke in a remarkably loud voice, "Besides, you have Liang Yuanjing personally tutoring you now. Although he has a bad temper, doesn't like to talk, and doesn't pay much attention to girls, he's at least very good at math, physics, and chemistry."
The door opened.
Liang Yuanjing pushed open the door, raised his head and drank the last can of soda in his hand, then raised his hand and threw a smooth three-pointer.
"Bang" - the Coke bottle fell smoothly into the green trash can opposite at a precise angle.
Tao Shuran's heart was also shaken by the sound of the object falling in a parabola.
Meeting him unexpectedly today was like a whole bottle of summer plum soda being knocked over, bubbling with sweet and sour bubbles, and my heart couldn't stop beating.
Liang Yuanjing leaned against the door frame and made a joking sound in a nonchalant manner.
"Miss Fang, next time when you praise me, could you please not use so many prefixes?"
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