When He Smiles - Chapter 22

From eighteen to twenty-two, one thousand four hundred and sixty days. Obviously such a long time, but fleeting. Many times, Meng Shengnan closed his eyes and opened them again. It seemed to be back on the afternoon of September 17, 2006. She was standing at the gate of Zhongnan with her suitcase and schoolbag on her back, facing the sun above her head, and then walked in.

In the six months before graduation, I was busy with my feet on the ground.

During that time, she followed the newspaper seniors every day on location. It is basically curfew when I come back at night, and then I have to prepare the manuscript for the next day and stay up until two or three in the morning. Li Tao had a harder life than her. The interns had to look at their expressions every day, worried that they could not turn around and could not gain a foothold in Changsha.

In mid-May, Meng Shengnan’s internship ended.

“How’s it written?”

Li Tao just hurried back from the outside and slumped in a chair tired. She was typing on the keyboard, and her hands were crackling.

“It’s far from being qualified,” she said.

Li Tao hey, “Every ten or twenty times is not called a graduation thesis.”

Meng Shengnan smiled, staring at Microsoftword and wondering how to state the next sentence. Except for her and Li Tao, everyone in the dormitory joined the postgraduate entrance examination team. Now this time is definitely immersed in the study room of the library.

“By the way, what is your subject matter?” Li Tao asked.

“The prevalence and decline of paper media.”

Li Tao said again, “I said, you really don’t wait for Changsha to graduate?”

“Ok.”

Meng Shengnan typed a line and stopped, then turned his head and said, “Go back to our Jiangcheng.”

“Aren’t you shocked because Lu Sibei left the country?”

Li Tao actually regretted the question, and Meng Shengnan glanced at her and shook his head slowly. Since Lu Sibei left at the beginning of the year, she actually had very little time to think about it. It is a good thing for boys to study abroad as exchange students. As a girlfriend, you can’t be a hindrance. After a serious calculation, the two have been better for a year and a half. Now two places are separated, the work and rest time is very different, and there is little contact, and occasionally there are text messages, which are also very common greetings.

“I just want to go back to us, nothing else.”

Li Tao said, “Then now you two–“

“do not know.”

He didn’t mention breaking up, and so did she.

Li Tao didn’t ask any more, Meng Shengnan continued to write his own thesis. I was thinking like a stream just now, but now I can’t write a word. She looked at the computer in a daze, remembering that it snowed last Christmas. The boy said to her that night: “I want to hear your opinion about studying abroad.”

She smiled at the time and said, “Of course I support it.”

Now that I think about it, it seemed that they were already being separated slowly at that time. Meng Shengnan sighed and closed the document, and found an interesting dress-up game to relieve the irritability in his heart. She couldn’t raise her interest after playing for a while, she looked up at the **** the upper bunk.

“Li Tao, what do you think about going abroad?”

The girl lay flat and looked at the ceiling: “There is a future, go for a walk and get a diploma and come back. You will have a lot of face.”

“If there is a chance, would you go?”

One year after Zhou Ningzhi left, Zhang Yiyan also followed. They all ran to stroke the wool of capitalism, and would not come back for a long time. Later, Lu Sibei also went, and many people around her went another way. Only she stayed where she was.

“Forget it, I have no money, no family background, no backstage, it would be nice to be able to mix in Changsha.” Li Tao said and laughed suddenly, “The first goal of my life now is to buy money.”

Meng Shengnan: “…”

“However, I listened to a postgraduate entrance examination lecture last year, and the teacher said that the chance of sugar daddy payment is lower than that of the postgraduate entrance examination.”

Meng Shengnan: “…”

Li Tao seems to be muttering to himself: “Who is it to scare me, I will have to try it next to me in the rest of my life.”

Meng Shengnan: “…”

She chatted with Li Tao for a while, and her heart opened up a lot. It was dark outside, so she turned her head to look. A few years ago, Qi Qiao asked her what her dream was. At that time, she had all her studies in her mind. She remembered answering Qi Qiao at the time: “Dual degrees, best sellers, free travellers, enough money to spend and what she likes to do.

Suddenly the Penguin was ticking.

She regained her consciousness and started to watch, and the group chat in the group of Gao Chinese (4) class was enthusiastic.

Meng Shengnan didn’t have the habit of flipping, and was about to turn it off, his eyes suddenly stopped. How long has she heard of the name “Fu Song” hasn’t been seen before, and there is no news of that parting in high school. His Penguin seems to be just a decoration, and he has never seen it flash. She quietly scrolled down the record, and someone came out from below and said two or three things about boys. The effect is that he went to a junior college and got a promotion last year.

“Do you know that Nie Jing is married?” someone asked.

“What?”

No one was clear about the specific situation. Meng Shengnan stopped browsing and left the group. In just a few years, they have all changed and become almost unknown to you. Some have a good life, and some have a bad life. In the past four years, she seldom attended class reunions, and she went to people who were not familiar with her, and then she smirked from her hair to the end.

That night, she lost sleep.

For the next month, she had been revising the paper.

On the day Jiang Jin called, Meng Shengnan went to the teaching office to hand in the manuscript and walked to the dormitory. It was hot at the time, and there were basically no people on the campus road. She walked very slowly, just after crossing the football field, the phone rang in her pocket.

“What are you up to?”

Jiang Jin also changed, as if Zhang Yiyan was no longer as cheerful as before. Wandering in the outside world year after year, the school diploma is not a big deal to him. He is now a complete wanderer, walking beyond the distant waters and thousands of mountains.

Meng Shengnan said: “Baking in the sun.”

“It’s in a good mood to listen,” he said.

“Where are you?”

“Back to school, just arrived.” Jiang Jin said, “I didn’t buy a magazine at the post office at the door, and saw your new work again.”

Meng Shengnan laughed silently.

“The progress is great, and so is the ideology.”

“I’m twenty-two big brother.”

Jiang Jin laughed, “Well, the eldest girl is a girl.”

“No, I graduated.”

“graduated.”

Jiang Jin slowly finished this sentence, without talking any more, Meng Shengnan hung up the phone. She still walked along that road, the sun shining on her body, dispelling all the darkness. In the afternoon in Beijing in 2010, the boys also walked back along Xueyuan Road.

To some extent, the two of them are one kind of people.

When Jiang Jin returned to the dormitory, Lu Huai was there, talking industry jargon with Chi Zheng. As soon as he opened the door, the two of them were stunned. Chi Zheng stopped pressing the keyboard and raised his eyes. Lu Huai had stood up, stammering in one sentence.

“You–you, shit, why don’t you say hello when you come back?”

Jiang Jin put down his backpack, opened his hands, “hold one.”

Lu Huai and Chi Zheng looked at each other, and they both looked at the boy who was opening his lips and opening his chest together, and smirked. Before he could react, he swarmed and pressed the boy to the ground, which was a violent beating. After the noise, the body and mind are relaxed.

The three lay on the ground and laughed.

“Where have you been in the past six months?” Lu Huai asked.

“Wandering everywhere.”

Chi Zheng smiled unsharply: “Can you survive it?”

Jiang Jin asked: “What?”

“Lonely.” Lu Huai added.

Jiang Jin screamed, and asked Lu Huai, “I said, are you still alone?”

“Isn’t Chi Zheng alone, why don’t you ask?”

The mentioned boy laughed and snorted.

Jiang Jin raised his eyebrows and smiled: “In the past few years, I can’t count the girls he has made with both hands. You are different. You have no first love, right?”

The dormitory was quiet for a while.

Lu Huai slowly said, “Do you know why I don’t talk about it?”

Jiang Jin: “Why?”

Lu Huai let out a ‘ah’, and said solemnly: “Sooner or later you will score, isn’t that for someone else’s daughter-in-law?”

Both of them were startled for a second, and then laughed. After a few words, Chi Zheng was addicted to cigarettes and got up to find a cigarette. He half leaned against the bed, biting his cigarette, and slammed his chin toward Lu Huai, and said to Jiang Jin: “Actually, he has chased after one, just like your godfather, who studies journalism.

Jiang Jin looked at Lu Huai instantly: “Really?”

Lu Huai didn’t speak awkwardly.

Chi Zheng sneered, took a cigarette and said, “One day, he looked for an opportunity to accompany the girl to the hospital. When the doctor registered her name, he asked the girl what her name was. Guess what Lu Huai said?”

“what?”

Chi Zheng licked his front teeth: “He said his name is Yang Si, one, silk, no, hanging silk.”

“Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha……”

Lu Huai had already darkened his face, “How do you know?”

“Everyone had a dinner last week, you said it was too high.” Chi Zheng held back a smile, “forgot?”

Lu Huai has long been petrified.

“Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha……”

Jiang Jin was still laughing when someone knocked on the door suddenly.

“What sound?” Jiang Jin stopped laughing and asked.

Chi Zheng coughed and said, “It’s estimated—”

He was half talking and looked at the ground and bed, making a mess. Jiang Jin understood in an instant, “Check the hygiene?”

The knock on the door came again.

The few people were already ignoring the nonsense, and started to tidy up in a hurry. Male dormitories are generally horrible. The building manager finally criticized him and warned that he would come back at night and cut off the electricity for three days if he didn’t clean it up. For the senior computer students who are about to graduate and live in game codes and essays every day, this is simply life-threatening.

It was almost dark after they cleaned up that day.

Lu Huai didn’t escape and went back to his school, but they were forced to become a guardian of civilization for a long time. He swept out a pile of **** from under the bed, suddenly sharpened his eyes, picked up the only magazine in it, and asked Chi Zheng: “Yours?”

The boy was smoking a cigarette. He heard the sound and took it to see: “What?”

“Swept out under your bed.”

Chi Zheng frowned.

Lu Huai said: “This is a new concept semi-finalist bound book, why, do you also read it?”

Chi Zheng turned a few pages: “It’s not mine.”

“No?”

Chi Zheng thought for a while. In the dormitory, Jiang Jinwu was the least resourceful. He couldn’t think of anyone else who would read magazines. At that time, Jiang Jin answered the phone and went out. He ignored it, and threw the book on the table, cleaning up the last little trash with Lu Huai.

Later, I was so tired that I lay in bed early.

Jiang Jin and Lu Huai were talking about something. Chi Zheng was not too sleepy. He reached out to the table and touched the cigarette. Then he picked up the magazine somehow. He bit his cigarette to turn the page and browsed a few at will, they were all youth stories. He grinned, was about to throw away the book, and was stunned.

I was really stunned.

In the upper left corner of the thirty-ninth page of the twenty-eighth issue of the magazine, a person wrote an article.

‘A story is a story. ’

Author Shu Yuan.

Smoke came up slowly, blurring the name. Chi Zheng couldn’t say clearly. How could he remember this name from the book of meditations after the college entrance examination and up to now. When he was very young, he once asked Chen Si, Dad sent you a meditation record as a token of love, is it because of his mother’s name?

Chen Si laughed and said: “If someone gives you this book in the future, you will know.”

That night, Chi Zheng suffered from insomnia.

Later, a lot of things happened, and he didn’t want to think about it. There are many people in this world who always think that hard work will be rewarded and hard work will be rewarded. This outlook on life was completely refreshed by Chi Zheng, and after the unruly, only Luo Tuo remained.

At that time, Meng Shengnan’s graduation defense had just ended.

She carried her schoolbag and walked outside the teaching building step by step, and Lu Sibei called. It should be late in the night in the United States, and the boys’ voices can’t tell whether they are tired or awake. Lu Sibei asked her: “Did you end your defense?”

“Ok.”

“How?”

“Okay.”

After a simple conversation, both of them were a little speechless. It may be that the signal in the teaching building is not good, and the call will be automatically interrupted after a while. Lu Sibei couldn’t call, so he had to send text messages. He said congratulations to her and happy graduation. She replied thank you. Then one said take care and the other said goodbye.

After sending her last message, she went downstairs and left.

(Secret Love·End of Part)