Chasing Summer - Chapter 81

After Chi Yao said that, he opened his arms and asked her if she wanted to hug her.

Lin Zhexia’s eye sockets were a little hot for some reason.

Obviously “collision” topic selection is just a small matter.

This summer’s hug is long and warm. The evening wind of summer blows slowly.

She went back to sleep at night and had no dreams all night. The next day, they had morning classes for their majors, and early in the morning, they received another message from Chi Yao.

– not up.

Lin Zhexia was not surprised, because Chi Yao would ask her to go to the cafeteria for breakfast almost every day, and sometimes she stayed up late at night and couldn’t get up in the morning, so he would buy her breakfast and send it over.

At first she felt incredible: “How do you know that I don’t have time to go to the cafeteria to eat today?”

Chi Yao slid open the phone and opened the chat history of the two last night.

Tap your finger on the time of her last message: 2:30.

“You sleep late,” Chi Yao said, “You don’t even need to think about it to know you won’t wake up.”

“…”

So she thought that Chi Yao sent her this “Are you up yet” because he wanted to have breakfast with her.

She guessed right, the two of them did have breakfast in the cafeteria as usual.

Just according to the past, after breakfast, the two should go to class separately.

Lin Zhexia was walking towards the lecture theater, halfway there, she found that Chi Yao, who was supposed to turn the corner, was still following her.

“Aren’t you going to class?” Lin Zhexia was a little puzzled, “You went the wrong way, your classroom is on the other side.”

Chi Yao: “I’ll go later.”

Lin Zhexia: “Then where are you going now?”

Chi Yao said casually: “Recently I’m very interested in languages, so I’ll go to your classroom for a lesson.”

“?”

“What about your own professional class?” she asked.

“I’m tired of studying, skip class.”

Lin Zhexia couldn’t help thinking, this person must be mentally ill.

She thought that Chi Yao was just joking, but he really followed her all the way into the teaching building, and then at the door of the lecture hall, he stood behind her and raised his hand and pulled her collar, pulling her back as a signal she stops.

Then he raised his chin slightly and asked, “Which one, point to it.”

Lin Zhexia didn’t realize it: “What.”

“people.”

When Chi Yao spoke, he seemed to be jumping out word by word, with no expression on his face, “The one that changed the topic.”

There are already quite a few people in the lecture theater.

Chi Yao looks like the kind of person who is usually superior and doesn’t like to talk to anyone, but will lead others to find fault at critical moments. He is indeed like this now, wearing a black T-shirt, ripped jeans, standing there, looking very unfriendly.

“You’re not going to… beat her.”

Lin Zhexia had a complex expression, “I think it might not be good to hit someone.”

She glanced at the people sitting in the classroom, and said, “And she hasn’t come yet.”

After a few minutes.

Lin Zhexia was carried from the classroom door to the stairs by him.

Lin Zhexia stood at the stairs, a little dazed: “What are we doing here?”

Chi Yao leaned against the wall and spit out two words: “Block people.”

“…”

Before Chi Yao carried her to block people at the top of the stairs, Lin Zhexia planned to turn over the matter of hitting the topic. Firstly, I was too lazy to talk about it, and secondly, I was also a classmate after all, and I usually see him when I look up and down, so it would be embarrassing to ask questions.

The most important thing is that she subconsciously believes that adults should behave in this way.

Should be more “sensible”.

To grow up a little.

The thoughtless recklessness and impulsiveness of childhood seems to be not allowed to exist in the twenty-year-old world.

Even if she planned to say something to Zhou Tong, it shouldn’t be in such a shocking way.

But when Chi Yao said “blocking people”, he said it too confidently.

She dispelled a lot of worries for a while. Under the influence of Chi Yao, Lin Zhexia, who was about to turn 20, did something completely unsuitable for a college student at the stairway between classes. Zhou Tong.

Zhou Tong didn’t expect that he would be caught at the stairs when he was about to enter the class.

The girl said “Hello” to her in a cold voice.

She raised her eyes and saw Lin Zhexia, who was always weak and weak in her class, was standing at the corner, and there was a person standing behind her. The person behind her was like a “big brother” who came to cover her specially, with a juvenile jawline Very li, with indifferent eyes, leaned against the wall and glanced at her.

Lin Zhexia shouted “Hello” very imposingly.

Immediately, I regained the feeling of fighting everywhere on Nanxiang Street.

But after “hello”, she encountered another difficulty: “Then, what should I say?”

The person behind told her in a low voice: “You can say whatever you want, don’t you have something to say to her?”

There are words.

Lin Zhexia looked at Zhou Tong, imitated what she remembered and saw on TV, and tried to pose as a big sister: “Zhou Tong, right?”

“…I know you changed the topic later. I didn’t tell the teacher that day because I was too lazy to argue with you. I hope you don’t do such things in the future.”

She felt that what she said might not be cruel enough, so she paused and said, “I’ll let you off this time, and next time, things won’t be so simple.”

At this age, it is “childish” to do such a thing.

But at the moment when these words came out, she felt an unprecedented feeling.

Before this day, she felt that the adult world should be very different.

But on this day.

She suddenly realized that it didn’t seem to be the case.

Coincidentally, the speech contest was the day before Chi Yao’s birthday.

Lin Zhexia’s new topic was almost ready. After refining it, she read it to him several times at his home. After Chi Yao said “Don’t be nervous”, she held the speech and gathered with the other members of the group to go to school. Auditorium competition.

The people watching the game are all language majors. There are too many majors in the university, and it is impossible for students from every major to come to watch the game, so the majors are specially delineated.

But before she went on stage, she received a photo from Chi Yao.

Boyfriend: [image]

She took the time to open it before the game, and the photo was obviously taken from the perspective of the auditorium, all the way from the auditorium to the stage.

Lin Zhexia put away her mobile phone, and when she stood on the stage, she put her hand on the microphone and looked down the stage. It was still the same as before. She delineated the approximate area according to the shooting angle of the photo, and saw someone in the audience at a glance.

Time and space are turning around at this moment.

There were no accidents in the speech. After she successfully finished her speech and left the stage, she returned to the backstage. Chi Yao gave her a bouquet of flowers.

A bouquet of roses.

Wrapped in white and pink decorative paper.

She took it, and Chi Yao gently rubbed her head and said, “You did well, girlfriend.”

On the day of my twentieth birthday.

It happened to be the weekend, and the two of them didn’t go out to celebrate their birthdays.

Chi Yao’s home was chosen for her birthday.

“Just buy a cake,” Lin Zhexia reminded him, “It doesn’t need to be so troublesome, I will be very happy if I spend my birthday with you this year.”

As a result, that day, she went to Chi Yao’s apartment, opened the door with the key, and saw candles all over the room.

The lights were off throughout the house, and the blackout curtains blocked the light from outside.

Only bits and pieces of candlelight remained.

The weak candlelight extends all the way from the hallway to the living room, and then to the coffee table and shelves, like another artificial “firefly”.

The cake was quietly placed on the dining table, with a gift box tied with a ribbon beside it.

Lin Zhexia stood at the door for a long time: “…When did you arrange it?”

Chi Yao said, “Last night.”

“It’s beautiful,” she wanted to take a picture with her phone, “it just doesn’t look like something you would do.”

After all, candles all over the room are usually only liked by girls.

Guys can have a hard time finding romance.

“I searched it online.”

Chi Yao glanced at the candles all over the room, “I really don’t understand it, but it’s fine if you like it.”

After finishing speaking, Chi Yao asked her again: “Cut the cake first or unwrap the present first.”

Lin Zhexia said without hesitation: “Open the present.”

The two sat down around the dining table and exchanged gifts.

Then she found out…the gifts they exchanged this year were a bit corny.

There are really too many things that have been sent to each other, and the range of choices is getting less and less.

Lin Zhexia opened the gift and found a box of eternal flowers inside.

Chi Yao sat across from her, and the two opened the gift box almost at the same time. The gift in his hand was even more outrageous, it was another piece of stainless steel: “…”

A small palm-sized piece of stainless steel glowed metallically.

His and Lin Zexia’s names were engraved on it, with a big heart in the middle.

“…” Chi Yao raised his hand, pressed the brow bone, and asked her, “Is there anything you want to tell me, for example, explain this gift.”

Lin Zhexia laughed awkwardly: “This piece of stainless steel is different from the previous stainless steel. It used to be the stainless steel representing friendship. This year it was upgraded.” She pointed to him enthusiastically, “Look, this time it is the stainless steel representing friendship.” The stainless steel of our love!”

It took Chi Yao a long time to force a smile, but that smile was closer to a sneer: “Thank you, I like it very much.”

Lin Zhexia put away the eternal life flowers and said, “Although your gift is not very good, I like it very much.”

The two faced each other and looked at each other silently.

Then Lin Zhexia took the initiative to say: “Why don’t we make a wish.”

Chi Yao nodded slightly in agreement.

While Chi Yao was busy inserting candles, Lin Zhexia suddenly remembered the situation when they celebrated their first birthday: “Do you still remember our first birthday?”

Chi Yao: “Remember, you told me one month in advance that you really want a set of comic books recently.”

“…” Lin Zhexia was embarrassed, “Anyway, you have to give me a gift, I’m afraid I don’t like what you choose.”

“And it’s obvious that an honest person like me is easier to get along with. Who is like you, who wouldn’t tell me when his birthday is,” Lin Zhexia complained, “I’ve been chasing you for a long time.”

Chi Yao’s memory followed what she said, back to her childhood.

He is used to being alone at home, and spends all holidays and birthdays at home alone.

At that time, the childish self-esteem made him gradually begin to reject and resist these dates.

From not having it, to I don’t need it.

—I don’t need these holidays, and I don’t need birthdays.

So when Lin Zhexia talked about “birthday” with him for the first time, he kept a cold face and didn’t answer her.

“My birthday is coming up, when is your birthday?”

“why do not you talk.”

“…”

At that time, Lin Zhexia pestered him and said a lot of words, the last sentence was: “You tell me, I can celebrate your birthday when the time comes.”

He suppressed his desire to drive her out, and asked slowly, “Why are you celebrating my birthday?”

“Because we’re friends.”

From that day on, there was another person in those festivals that were originally spent alone.

That person will carefully prepare gifts for him, and earnestly write down all kinds of birthday wishes for him: Happy birthday, I hope you won’t need to take medicine next year.

wishing you good health.

Last year’s wish may not be heard by God, and I will make it again this year, hoping that you will not go to the hospital again.

…

There is also the sentence when I was eighteen: I wish you all your wishes come true and be happy every day. I hope you will have endless courage in doing anything in the future.

In the end, Lin Zhexia pulled him out of his memory with one sentence: “Okay, let’s make a wish together and close our eyes.”

As she said, she couldn’t wait to close her eyes and put her hands together.

But this year’s wish is a bit difficult to make, probably because Chi Yao is by her side, so she doesn’t seem to have any other wishes.

She was racking her brains to make a wish, and in these few seconds, she was caught off guard by a warm and familiar touch on her lips. She opened her eyes slowly and saw Chi Yao’s face close at hand. .

With one hand propped on the table, the teenager leaned over to her, crossed the table, and kissed her in the few seconds of candlelight and wishing.

Heartbeat suddenly accelerated.

In the chaos of her thoughts, she grasped the last gleam of clarity and made a wish: No matter how long the road ahead is, I hope they can walk side by side forever.

After a few seconds, Chi Yao let go of her and reminded: “Blow out the candles.”

Before blowing out the candles, Lin Zhexia asked casually, “What wish did you just make?”

She thought that Chi Yao would pretend to be mysterious and refused to answer her question.

However, facing the faint candlelight, Chi Yao said:

“You don’t have to grow up.”

“…what?”

“Beside me, you don’t have to grow up, you don’t have to become an ‘adult’ who needs to digest by yourself if you have a problem, and you don’t need to follow the rules of an adult,” his voice was still cold and tired, with a lonely voice that only she could hear. Belonging to her tenderness, “Whether you are twenty or thirty, you can always be that Lin Zexia who never grows up.”

“That’s my wish for this year.”

Lin Zhexia saw herself in Chi Yao’s pupils, as well as flickering candlelight like starlight falling in the world.

Obviously this year is their twentieth birthday.

Obviously, she should become more mature.

She thought of the day Chi Yao took her to block people.

She remembered that at the end of that day, Zhou Tong apologized to her at a loss that day.

As she grew up, she would have countless moments of losing her courage.

But it seems that Chi Yao will help her find it every time.

As long as she is by his side, she can be that Lin Zhexia who doesn’t grow up in this world that is constantly urging people to grow up.