When He Smiles - Chapter 17

For Meng Shengnan, if one color is used to describe the whole year of high school, the answer should be gray and black.

The endless exams, the constantly skyrocketing pimples, and more and more insomnia, the body seems to fall as the wind blows. There was always low air pressure in the classroom, and Fu Song didn’t necessarily say a word a day. Nie Jing transferred to the four groups and separated from them. The new deskmate has a shy personality, and he and Fu Song went to a prestigious school, except for Xue Lin and her occasionally joking and making trouble.

If she had to say something that made her happier, it should have been an accidental and long-awaited announcement by the long-awaited Deep Sea Youth.

In January of the same year, she participated in the seventh quarter-finals, and her article “Mr. Germany and Mr. Race” was worthy of her heart.

On the first day of 2006, Qi Qiao and her went roller skating to celebrate winning the essay competition. There were already many people in the roller skating rink at that time, and both of them rented roller skates for four rounds. Qi Qiao put it on first, and said, “I took a look, and everyone here has two wheels. Will this be a little bit—”

Meng Shengnan was bending over to tie his shoelaces without lifting his head: “Why don’t you replace them with two.”

“If you fall, you will count.”

“I didn’t plan to do that.”

Qi Qiao said ‘cut’, “Is it a best friend? My son will call you a godmother from now on.”

Meng Shengnan stood up crookedly, smiled, and said, “What does that have to do with you?”

“I go.”

“Where are you going?”

Qi Qiao is dizzy.

Meng Shengnan moved two steps: “The balance is not bad.”

The two have been here once or twice before, and they are not newbies. But it’s not how proficient, the stability of the four rounds is good and the balance is high, and you can barely play cool, and it is difficult for two rounds. Fortunately, both of them are self-aware.

In the center of the venue, there are smiling faces of men and women with hippie faces, both boys and girls aged 17 or 18.

Qi Qiao played first, followed by Meng Shengnan.

There are a lot of people, and she slides on the edge of the railing. As soon as she got along, she heard someone calling her behind her, but she was yelling through the noise and she had to stop. Looking back, I saw a strange and familiar smiling face.

“Don’t recognize it?”

The boy laughed, the sun was shining brightly.

Meng Shengnan was stunned for a moment before reacting: “Li Wei?”

“I thought you had forgotten me when you went to the liberal arts class. I rarely saw you.”

Meng Shengnan was a little embarrassed to be said.

Li Wei raised his eyebrows and glanced at her: “There is heating here, is it cold? You still wear a scarf, and I almost can’t recognize it when I cover half of my face.”

Meng Shengnan smiled, and calmly shrank his chin into the scarf.

“How about reviewing recently?”

Meng Shengnan said: “Generally, how about you?”

“Me? You also know that my English is terribly poor. It would be nice to have a diploma.”

Meng Shengnan thought of Chi Zheng, and so did he, whose English was extremely poor.

“Have you thought about where to take the test?” Li Wei asked.

“not yet.”

The two were chatting, Li Wei suddenly raised his head and shouted behind her back: “Hi, Chi Zheng.”

Meng Shengnan’s body was shocked.

Li Wei smiled and said: “My junior high school classmates, come here to play together, let me introduce you.”

“what?”

Li Wei joked: “Don’t worry, get to know, I have a girlfriend.”

Meng Shengnan shrank his chin deeper and turned around slowly while suppressing his nervous heartbeat.

The boy has walked over.

She didn’t remember when she met him last time, and she seemed to be still yesterday, lively and upright. The boy is wearing a black shirt and jeans, with black down on the outside and an open zipper. He put his hands in the pockets of his clothes, approached, glanced lightly at Meng Shengnan, and landed on Li Wei.

“Come so early?”

Li Wei smiled: “It’s rare to have fun, but you can’t keep your mind. Why is it tonight?”

The boy licked his back alveolar with his tongue: “Something is wrong.”

Meng Shengnan lowered his head slightly, half of his face buried in the scarf.

She was wondering how to make an excuse to walk away, and Li Wei had already spoken: “I’ll introduce you to me, I’ll be at the table with Meng Shengnan.”

The boy just looked over, Meng Shengnan raised his eyes and nodded slightly. He didn’t say his name, he nodded slightly and then moved away. Li Wei may be dissatisfied with his reaction. With his thumb turned to Meng Shengnan, his voice rose by an octave: “Don’t look down on it. The English test is not lower than 13○.”

Meng Shengnan was really ashamed.

The boy smiled again and said, “How dare you.”

He should have a bit of an impression of her, even if it is not deep, he might remember the girl who popped up from a fight with the monitor that night. At least there should be some impression, or perhaps forgotten, Meng Shengnan thought. Under the scarf, she bit her mouth lightly, and the pimples on her chin hurt again.

“Well, let’s talk, I have to leave beforehand.” She looked at Li Wei and said.

Li Wei frowned: “What’s the hurry, I finally see it once.”

Meng Shengnan smiled slightly: “Next time, something is really going on.”

Regardless of Li Wei’s various obstacles, he finally got out. She backed off her skates and walked out of it. The sun is good outside, and the wind will blow into your neck and it will still make you shiver.

In the venue, Li Wei sighed: “I still want to buy her a meal.”

Chi Zheng glanced at him, lit a cigarette, and said, “Fancy it?”

Li Wei: “You think I am too impure in your mind.”

Chi Zheng smiled.

“Where is your Zhao Yourong?”

Chi Zheng raised his eyes: “Ask me?”

“nonsense.”

“do not know.”

Li Wei shrugged, “Yes, for nothing.”

Chi Zheng glanced sideways at the gate of the roller skating rink thoughtfully, arched his right cheek with his tongue, and turned back after a while.

Li Wei said: “Bibi?”

“Sure.”

Chi Zheng took a mouthful of cigarettes and glanced at Li Wei. Li Wei rented two pairs in the past, Chi Zheng bit his cigarette and put on his shoes. Then he stood up, threw the remaining cigarette butts into the trash can at will, pointed his chin at a place and raised it, “How?”

Li Wei said: “I am willing to bet.”

There is another wave of excitement in the venue. Qi Qiao just turned around and looked back for Meng Shengnan, only to find that she had already left. At that moment, the girl was sitting on the bench under the stop sign opposite, stunned.

Qi Qiao walked over, “How come out?”

Meng Shengnan looked up and paused before saying, “Oh, it’s a bit stuffy and breathable.”

“It’s a pity.” Qi Qiao also sat down.

“What a pity?”

Qi Qiao said: “There are people in the game, so hey, like a lunatic. Just the **** and gangster in our ninth middle school.”

“Oh.”

That afternoon when the sun filled the world, the two girls sat on that bench and talked for a long time. One car is gone, and the next one is coming. The green years that belonged to them disappeared little by little, and they could never go back.

After the Spring Festival, summer came unexpectedly.

At that time, the college entrance examination was imminent, and few students in the science and liberal arts on the third floor came out to stroll. Meng Shengnan hadn’t seen him for a long time. Later, it seemed that he was going home from school and passing by Pizza Hut at the school gate and saw him just walking in with a girl.

Later, it was May and June.

That day, Meng Shengnan was doing the real exams for the college entrance examination, and Beijing’s always had some difficulty. She asked Fu Song, the boy told her in detail. Meng Shengnan listened and took notes. When he didn’t understand, he asked, “Why do you want to make auxiliary lines here?”

Fu Song asked: “Seeing that this condition is not there, you have to use it to know?”

“Oh, get it, get it.”

After a while, Fu Song called her name behind.

“what’s happenin?”

“It suddenly occurred to me that another method could be used.”

Meng Shengnan immediately shook his head, “Forget it, I can do just one kind.”

Fu Song laughed, then paused and asked, “Have you thought about where to take the test?”

“not yet.”

Fu Song did not speak, and Meng Shengnan asked, “You are not at the University of Science and Technology of China, are you?”

Slowly, the boy shook his head: “No.”

This time, Meng Shengnan was dumbfounded.

“Then where are you going to take the test?”

Fu Song shook his head: “Let’s watch it then.”

Meng Shengnan didn’t ask any more, turned around and continued to do the question. In a month, they will go their separate ways, and maybe they won’t see each other for many years. Suddenly she felt a particularly sad feeling, no longer see, no longer see.

During that time, the classmates recorded Hengfei.

They were the most active in the area of ​​Xue Lin, who stood on the podium and stopped the class directly after self-study in the evening. From the first person on the left hand side of the first row of a group, the classmates will be distributed to everyone, and they will be retrieved from the starting point tomorrow morning.

She was sitting in the seat and was laughing all the time.

In those few days, my classmates got weak after writing. Meng Shengnan writes the motto of his birthday, birthplace and hobby almost after class. More interestingly, I heard that the boys in a class hugged everyone one by one after one evening of self-study. Qi Qiao smiled and said to her at the time: “Do you believe it or not?”

“what?”

“That boy must have a crush on a girl in his class.”

“how do you know?”

Qi Qiao smiled mysteriously: “Have you never heard a word?”

“Which sentence?”

“When I graduated, I hugged the whole class one by one in order to hug her.”

Meng Shengnan sighed with emotion.

Qi Qiao despised: “You still write a novel at a loss. I don’t know that.”

Meng Shengnan: “…”

Later, I received graduation gifts from my classmates intermittently, and I had everything on the head of a fountain pen with a scarf, and it could hold a small box of yogurt. The graduating class of the school has been completely crazy, and the craze is not going back. Meng Shengnan’s review is also coming to an end. In fact, the early and late exams are not too bad.

That weekend in mid-May, she made an appointment with Qi Qiao to buy a small gift as a return photo with photo stickers.

After shopping and going to the bookstore, Qi Qiao followed her.

“Buy it for you or give it away?”

Meng Shengnan said: “Give it away.”

Qi Qiao thoughtfully: “It’s rare to see you give books to others.”

Meng Shengnan didn’t speak, as he searched for rows of books.

“That boy in your class?” Qi Qiao thought to himself.

“not him.”

“Then who, male and female?”

Meng Shengnan stopped and glanced at her: “I love women.”

After coming down, no matter how Qi Qiao asks her, she will avoid the seriousness. She didn’t find the one she wanted until she went around several bookstores. Qi Qiao leaned in and took a look: “Who is it so profound?”

Meng Shengnan paid the bill and walked out holding the book.

“Say or not?”

Meng Shengnan stopped, thought for a while and said, “A person I don’t know.”

“What do you mean?”

At that time, the afterglow enveloped the earth, the sunset glowed red, and Meng Shengnan’s eyes fell far away, as if seeing a skyline across the sky.

She said to Qi Qiao: “I want him to know when he is lost.”