Chasing Summer - Chapter 56

Looking at each other in just a few seconds seemed like a long time.

The guitarist on the stage finished playing, and the whole bar was silent for a moment.

Through this moment of silence, Lin Zhexia finally found her own voice: “…Why are you here?”

next second.

She realized an impossible reason.

“You applied for Lian University?” She asked, “Shouldn’t you go to Beijing University…”

Chi Yao interrupted her with one sentence: “When did I say I was going to Beijing University?”

“…”

He didn’t say it.

When Lin Zhexia thought about it, she didn’t dare to ask at all.

So why did he report Lian Da?

Lin Zhexia wanted to ask him what major he was taking the exam. Obviously, the physics department of Beijing University is the most famous.

But before she had time to ask, a new group of bands joined the stage, and the deafening rock music immediately rang through the bar—

She was shocked by the sudden rock music.

Chi Yao walked up to her, fearing that she might not be able to hear what he was saying, so he bent down, put his chin to the side of her neck when he spoke, and said, “Where is your seat?”

“Behind,” Lin Zhexia pointed, “but I have to go to the bathroom.”

Chi Yao pointed to the toilet sign for her, and she let out an “oh” and walked over like sleepwalking.

A few minutes later, after she washed her hands in front of the mirror, she slowly sorted out the situation just now.

She recalled the phrase “Where have you been” sent to her by Chi Yao in the afternoon.

So at that time, he was also attending freshman registration at Lian University?

…

Lin Zhexia washed her hands and went out, Chi Yao was waiting for her in the corridor.

The young man was leaning against the wall, with a cigarette between his bony fingertips. He lowered his head and took a sip while holding the cigarette, then shook the ashes. The light was too dim just now, so she couldn’t see clearly. In fact, she hasn’t seen him for more than a year, but some changes have taken place in Chi Yao’s body.

The original sharpness that was exposed by the whole person is now a little bit subdued. He still feels very arrogant, but now the arrogance is mixed with a depth that she can’t understand.

As if he didn’t expect her to come out so fast, Chi Yao froze for a moment, then immediately extinguished the cigarette.

Lin Zhexia walked in front of him and smelled the smell of smoke in the air: “When did you start smoking?”

Chi Yao pinched the dry knuckles of his index finger, he rarely had this feeling of being caught in front of Lin Zhexia: “It was half a year ago.”

“Why,” she asked again, “why did you start smoking?”

Chi Yao didn’t hide it from her either, he was silent for a while and said: “Six months ago, my mother’s condition suddenly worsened after the operation, and my father’s matter has not been resolved. Every day after school, I have to go to the hospital to guard her, and she is mentally ill. Things were bad for a while.”

These words, when he was chatting online, he was afraid that she would worry and never told her.

“During that time, I stayed in the ward at night and didn’t sleep very well.”

He only said half of it, and he didn’t say the rest.

What he didn’t say was that he and Lin Zhexia were very busy during that time, and the contact was reduced. When he couldn’t sleep at night, he sat in the corridor of the hospital, clicked on the top, and looked at the chat records of the two with less and less content, trying to find her. Talking, but afraid of disturbing her study.

And speaking of these things has no effect except to make her worry along with her.

Then one day, he went shopping at the convenience store downstairs and bought a pack of cigarettes.

Facing the dawning light, he sat on a bench near the hospital, took his first puff of cigarettes, and inhaled the choking smell of tobacco.

Lin Zhexia didn’t speak for a long time.

She was more distressed and sad than angry.

Before meeting unexpectedly, she thought that the gap between her and Chi Yao this year would bring silence.

After meeting, she found that what was lying in front of the two of them was not silence, but a real experience that the other party could not participate in, and some parts of her and Chi Yao had undergone subtle changes during this experience.

I also know that during that time, it was very difficult.

So Lin Zhexia has no position to accuse him of such behavior.

She finally asked a question that she wanted to ask just now: “Why did you come to Lian University? What major did you apply for? The physics department of Beijing University is obviously better.”

After she finished speaking, she really started to get a little angry about this matter, and she thought about the fact that Chi Yao didn’t go to No. 1 Middle School. At that time, she guessed that Chi Yao didn’t want to leave home too far, and she couldn’t find it this time Looking at other reasons, it can only be attributed to the fact that he probably does not want to stay in Beijing: “Even if you feel that you have lived in Lianyun for so long and are not used to the environment in Beijing, and you want to come back, you should think about it. Volunteering is very important.” Yes, it’s much more important than the environment. When I was in school, the teachers emphasized the impact of volunteering on the future, and don’t you like physics very much, you-“

Lin Zhexia “you” come here, you don’t go down.

She is not good at arguing, so she finally choked out a sentence: “You are like this, didn’t your uncles and aunts stop you?”

“I’m taking the exam for the top major in the country.” Chi Yao looked at her, and because of her anger just now, his mood became a little better. He said with a slight twitch of his mouth, “Why did they stop me?”

“…what?”

“What’s in your head.”

Chi Yao raised his hand, and pressed it lightly on the top of her head as before, “Do you think there are only those kinds of physics? I don’t want to go in the direction of research. Lian University’s system engineering and science majors are no worse than Beijing University. The content direction Be flexible.”

Interest is interest.

When it comes to majors, the issues to consider are no longer so simple.

What’s more, he watched Chi Hanshan running around this year, and realized in advance that he was also carrying a burden on his shoulders.

He discussed it with Chi Hanshan.

Chi Hanshan said to him at the time: “You don’t have to think so much, just sign up for the one you like.”

Chi Yao said: “There is nothing I don’t like about this major.”

After a while, he said again, “And…a very important friend is also in Lianyun.”

The relationship between father and son is always not good at words. Chi Hanshan finally asked the head teacher and said: “It’s good if you like it, it’s good if you like it. I also asked your class teacher, and he said that the major of Lian University is quite good, and there are A very famous professor teaches in that major, and you stayed in Lianyun City since you were a child, so you are indeed more comfortable there, and your mother and I don’t have to tie you to Beijing City, you can choose.”

“…”

Lin Zhexia was dumbfounded.

She is a person who works hard to the end, and in the best university in Lianyun City like Lianda, who actually doesn’t have much choice of majors, she never thought about this situation today.

It turned out that she had been on the edge of her own horn for no reason before, because the distance between the two of them was getting farther and farther, and she didn’t dare to ask, so she acquiesced that Chi Yao would be admitted to Beijing University.

Thinking about it now, at that time she was only concerned about being sad, and didn’t pay much attention to Wei Ping’s words of comfort: Lian University has many majors that are better than Beijing University.

“So,” she just grasped a certain sense of reality when she met Chi Yao again at this time, and the joy bloomed in her heart little by little, “I called you at that time, and you told me to ask me to repay you, yes Because you also want to repay Lian Da?”

“if not.”

“…”

The rock music on the stage outside stopped again for a brief intermission.

Lin Zhexia: “If it’s you, it’s very likely that you want to ridicule and humiliate me and tell me not to climb up to Beijing University.”

Like before, Chi Yao gave a cool “oh” and said, “It’s not without this reason.”

“…”

She had just met him, why did she want to beat him up again?

But it is undeniable that the familiar feeling has returned a little bit.

Lin Zhexia: “I don’t want to talk to you for now.”

Chi Yao didn’t mind either: “Let’s go, I’ll go there with you.”

Lin Zhexia took him back to the roommate’s table.

When crossing the crowd surrounding the stage, Chi Yao was afraid that she would be scattered by the crowd, so he put his hand on her shoulder.

Then, while walking back to the table, she heard Chi Yao’s voice mixed with other chaotic voices, saying to her: “Coward, you did a good job this year.”

Lin Zhexia paused.

She knew that Chi Yao was talking about how her academic performance had improved a lot this year.

Her efforts to catch up to him were not in vain.

Before Lin Zhexia had time to raise his tail, he added a sentence behind him: “At first, I thought that I was at Lian University, and you would be at Lian University Technical College next door.”

“…”

Lin Zhexia couldn’t raise her tail: “You insult me, Lian University Technical College, I can pass the exam even with my eyes closed. If you have to belittle me, at least you can choose He Yang’s school.”

Chi Yao didn’t speak.

He looked at her against the colorful lights, and the girl in front of him seemed to be taller than in high school, and her hair was also longer, not **** like in high school, but draped.

When he looked at her, he thought, what he said just now was not only about the third year of high school, but also the third year of junior high school.

In the third year of junior high school, although he wanted to stay in Cheng’an District, get closer to her, and apply for Cheng’an No. 2 Middle School, he never thought that Lin Zhexia would perform supernormally and enter the No. 2 Middle School. He originally thought that there was a high probability that she would be with her Like He Yang, he went to other nearby schools.

At that time, his plan was that even if she went to a nearby school, it would be fine, and he could still accompany her to and from school every day.

…

But unexpectedly, Lin Zhexia was very competitive and got into No. 2 Middle School.

When Lin Zhexia took Chi Yao back, she was still thinking about how to introduce him to her group of roommates she just met.

That’s right, let me introduce to everyone, this is my good brother for many years?

She walked to the table, and before the introduction started, Lan Xiaoxue and the others gathered together to look at their mobile phones, talking loudly: “-what did I say, this face can be captured like this in a snapshot, I can’t-“

Lan Xiaoxue’s words stopped abruptly.

Because she raised her head unexpectedly and saw Lin Zhexia and the person behind her.

Lan Xiaoxue: “…”

After a long while, Lan Xiaoxue asked Lin Zhexia, “Surname Chi?”

Lin Zhexia: “Huh?”

Lan Xiaoxue pointed behind her, and continued to ask: “Chi Yao?”

Lin Zhexia: “Ah.”

“The one in our school that has such a high threshold that ordinary people can’t get in, Chi Yao?”

As Lan Xiaoxue said, she had already confirmed it, and she finished what she had just interrupted, “—I am indeed more exaggerated than the photos.”

Lin Zhexia didn’t understand the situation: “Do you know him?”

Lan Xiaoxue: “We should ask you this.” She put down her phone, and the eyes of five people looked at the two of them like a spotlight.

Lin Zhexia reacted a little slower, and before she figured out what happened, Chi Yao took a step ahead of her and introduced: “I am her…”

When Chi Yao said this, the ending was a little longer, and he paused for a while.

During this half beat, several names flashed through Lin Zhexia’s mind.

Brothers.

Fat small.

People who grew up together.

…

After half a beat, Chi Yao faintly uttered two words: “…brother.”

“…???”

Lin Zhexia’s eyes widened.

This person, do you want to lose face?

These two people obviously don’t have the same surname, but they say they are “brothers” in this somewhat “ambiguous” way.

Lan Xiaoxue and the other roommates also let out a long “Oh”: “I understand.”

“No,” Lin Zhexia hastily explained, “He’s not my brother, he’s my childhood friend, we know each other…”

We have known each other for many years.

But no one listened to her anymore.

The person who was popular all over the school at the beginning of school suddenly appeared in front of him, satisfying the strong desire to gossip of these roommates.

Not to mention that the way this person appeared was very impactful. When they gathered around to read the post, they suddenly looked up and saw the real person.

Lan Xiaoxue gave up her seat: “Please sit down, you can sit next to Zhexia, I’ll sit on the opposite side.”

After taking their seats, everyone was speechless for a moment facing Chi Yao’s face that was too dazzling under the light of the bar.

After a while, Lan Xiaoxue asked like an interview: “I heard that many people are asking for your contact information today. Is it true? You added a few friends today.”

Chi Yao said: “The verification is not turned on, so I don’t know.”

Lan Xiaoxue: “…the world of the strong.”

In the second half, Lin Zhexia seemed to be the one who was brought over by Chi Yao. She sat next to Chi Yao and listened to their chats. Moreover, Chi Yao was really like her “brother”. When she was eager to drink, she scanned the She glanced.

Afterwards, he went to settle the bill early, and when he came back, he added her roommate’s contact information for the first time. Before he left, he said in a rare manner: “Please take care of her in the future.”

After the end, Lan Xiaoxue and the others still wanted to go around the school, so they left first.

After they left, only Lin Zhexia and Chi Yao were left.

Lan Xiaoxue sent her a few messages after she left.

– i never thought that the person i gossip about would suddenly appear today

-Create a two-person world for you and your brother

– no thanks

Lin Zhexia wanted to say: It’s not what you think.

But in the end it was not sent out.

She felt that there was a high probability that she couldn’t explain it clearly.

After the two came out of the bar, they walked towards the girls’ dormitory along the road hung with light strips.

Chi Yao asked her, “Have you been drinking?”

After leaving the bar surrounded by noise and darkness, Lin Zhexia stared at the reflections of the two people on the road, and began to feel a little uncomfortable: “As soon as I touch the glass, your eyes will become knives, how can I drink?”

“Before I came.”

“nor.”

“Then what are you doing sitting in the bar?”

“…Eating chicken wings.”

“…”

“By the way,” Lin Zhexia was afraid that the topic would end and the two of them would fall into silence again, so he quickly found a new topic and said, “He Yang is our spiritual alumni again this time, did he tell you? He is in the normal school next door. .”

“I mentioned a word.”

Lin Zhexia said: “I didn’t expect that after we left Nanxiang Street, we could still get so close.”

Lin Zhexia: “By the way, did you come here by yourself today? Why didn’t you tell me in advance?”

Chi Yao: “I want to surprise you.”

As he spoke, he said again in that lukewarm tone, “Isn’t that surprising.”

This sentence seems to have some kind of magic power to travel through time and space.

Lin Zhexia returned to the summer vacation after the high school entrance examination, and she took the key to open the door of Chi Yao’s house.

So she slowly took his words according to the situation at that time: “…your father is back again?”

“…”

While speaking, he was about to reach the door of the girls’ dormitory building.

After Lin Zhexia said “goodbye” to him, she suddenly remembered something.

So she ran back to Chi Yao again, raised her head to look at him, and said seriously: “Don’t smoke in the future, smoking is not good for your health.”

Chi Yao lowered his eyes and looked at her.

“If you can’t sleep,” Lin Zhexia said again, “you can call me or send me a message at night, but don’t smoke anymore.”

After a while, Chi Yao responded from his throat.

Then this person with an arrogant face actually asked “submissively”, “Do you want to confiscate it?”

Lin Zhexia asked back: “…can I confiscate it?”

Chi Yao: “Yes, the cigarettes are in the left pocket, take it yourself.”

Chi Yao didn’t wear a coat today, so the only pockets are…pants pockets.

Lin Zhexia was a little hesitant, but her heart of not wanting him to continue smoking finally overcame that hesitation.

Cautiously, she reached for the cigarette in his pocket.

The pocket was very tight, the more she was afraid of touching it, the more obvious the feeling on her fingertips would be.

Finally, before she wanted to give up, she finally pulled out the pack of cigarettes with red ears.

Chi Yao reminded her: “There is still a lighter.”

“…”

After Lin Zhexia confiscated his cigarettes and lighters, he waved at him in a panic and ran to the girls’ dormitory: “I’m going back to the dormitory.”

When she returned to the dormitory, Lan Xiaoxue and the others hadn’t come back yet.

She was the only one in the empty bedroom.

Leaning against the door panel, she tried her best to calm down the panic just now.

It’s been over a year.

The only constant is his heartbeat.

The author has something to say:

Come on, I didn’t expect that I was ahead of schedule! !

In addition, there is no need to go to reality to find out whether there is a factual basis for the top-level setting of Xiaochi’s school and this major. This is a novel, thank you~

PS, I will post again this chapter of what I said in the previous chapter during the day.

1. Minors should volunteer under the guidance of their teachers and parents. No matter how the protagonist chooses and considers, the behavior of the novel does not have any reference.

2. All the cities and schools in this article are empty. When Beijing first appeared, it was set to go back and forth for two days, which was very, very far away + very suitable for opening a factory. In my original vision, it was a city that was very far away, rich in mining resources, and very industrial. , so it has nothing to do with Beijing, and there is no need to compare it with real schools.

3. In my setting, the two schools are not so powerful and the other is so ordinary. This chapter also said that Lian University has better majors than Beijing University. The male protagonist did not give up his ideals, and I don’t need to let him choose between dreams and love for a sweet article, but there will be a big difference in professional segmentation and employment direction, and Lianhui will have more advantages in this employment direction . It’s just that she doesn’t know this from the perspective of the heroine. The reason why I let her not know is because from the perspective of plot arrangement, the heroine thinks that the two people are going to start their own different lives. This is an important node in the content of my outline. It is impossible for the character I wrote myself to send him to a worse major.

4. As a nonsensical essay that does not involve reality, it is okay for readers who still cannot accept the above. Everyone has the right to have different feelings. I did not write irresponsible essays at will. I can only say that I am sorry and have no choice. Consider everyone. Finally, thank you all