When he was a freshman in high school, Yonghang No. 1 Middle School had weekends off. Lu Zhengkang would take the rail car after school every Friday to go to a beverage shop called "Nandou House" outside the south gate of the National Art High School.

He is waiting for Su Xiangli here.

The beverage shop is run by a young couple, but they are often missing. The ones who really run the Nandou House are the intelligent robots "T Brother" and "Hongyuan Girl". One is painted in sea blue and the other is painted in pink.

The characters are very cheerful, and the owner has designed a lot of scene dialogues, so he can chat with customers about many stories about the shop owner and his couple.

Su Xiangli got out of school late. After professional dance classes, she had to make up for cultural classes and was often dragged out of class. After entering high school, she was not satisfied with her school life and left many of her complaints to Lu Zhengkang.

Lu Zhengkang was not tired of hearing her complain. Su Xiangli had a very expressive expression when speaking. When she complained about someone, she always started with "I'm telling you." At this time, if she didn't like that person, she would lower her voice.

, this meant saying bad things behind his back, and she felt embarrassed, so she looked a little guilty and smiled shyly, but if the bad words touched her, she would be happy again.

Because he is a frequent visitor to Nandou Hut, as soon as Lu Zhengkang enters the door, Brother T and Hongyuanmei will happily shout: "Welcome!" Then Hongyuanmei asks him: "Is it still the same today?" Lu Zhengkang

Nodding, Hongyuanmei placed a large colorful electronic firework on her head display, then she held her heart in both hands and said to Brother T in the kitchen: "A cup of red bean matcha with ice, and a cup of hot potato puree and pumpkin drink!"

It was winter at that time. Lu Zhengkang drinks cold drinks all year round, but Su Xiangli must be inseparable from hot drinks in winter.

While waiting for a drink, Lu Zhengkang observed the streets of Zhenjiang District from the floor-to-ceiling windows. There were often private floating cars coming and going outside the south gate of the High School Affiliated to the National Arts School, picking up children from wealthy families. The city lights were flowing on the brown glass, as if they were several people.

Hundreds of sparkling lakes all flowed into the sky in an instant. There are many small shops selling art stationery in this area, and most of the shop owners are young and artistic people. Regardless of the signboards or facade decoration, they all have unique styles and temperaments that are very different from other places.

Rare.

In winter, ivy withers. At this time of year, the exterior walls of Zhijing Building near the south gate of Guoyi High School are covered with withered yellow and dark brown vines. This building is filled with music classrooms. Around four o'clock in the afternoon, you can still hear the school's symphony band practicing.

, but every time Lu Zhengkang comes here

It was almost six o'clock in the afternoon when I was a child, and there were only scattered sounds of musical instruments played by the boarding students who were left to practice. Occasionally, a few vocal students sang a few verses. In this dense urban forest of steel and iron where no birds could stop, this sound was also heard.

It's like the cry of a bird.

Su Xiangli's father has a hover car, but she still chooses the two-legged Lu Zhengkang to pick her up.

One of the reasons why Lu Zhengkang likes Nandou Hut is that the intelligent robot T is very quick and never makes customers wait. Usually during this time, when students leave school, the passenger flow increases, and there are sufficient orders, Lu Zhengkang can only

You need to wait two minutes. And these two minutes

Hours later, it was almost the time when Su Xiangli took the campus light rail from the east campus to the south gate. When she quickly ran into the store, Lu Zhengkang was picking up the meal at the counter and turned around to hand it to her. A coincidence in time can always help

It was secretly refreshing, and this was another reason why he liked Nandou House.

"No." Lu Zhengkang handed her the straw and the hot drink, and he had already started drinking.

"You didn't wait for me!" Su Xiangli always snorted, then grabbed Lu Zhengkang's wrist and took him out of Nandou Hut.

"Come again next time!" Brother T and Sister Hongyuan said a warm farewell behind them.

On the street outside the south gate, the winter has darkened at six o'clock, and the street lights gradually light up. Although the lonely city night is not cold, it still makes people feel a biting chill. Su Xiangli is not a person who is afraid of the dark, but

She was afraid of being alone. Sitting in the warm back seat of a hovercar was far better than measuring the way home with Lu Zhengkang.

It was not even December yet, and Su Xiangli began to pay close attention to the announcements from the National Climate and Weather Control System. Lu Zhengkang knew that she was looking forward to snow. In previous years, snowfall dates in Zhenhai District were scheduled from December to March, so

It is all scattered, with only one or two inches of snow at most, which does not affect production and life.

The winters in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are pretty much the same. Every year when it snows, Su Xiangli takes Lu Zhengkang around to see the scenery. She especially likes snowy winter nights, and sometimes she even tiptoes around in the quiet streets.

, building a miniature snowman on the fence of someone else’s yard, and building a miniature snowman on the empty window.

Togami wrote. This kind of thing gradually became rare as she grew older, but she still liked the sight of snow falling for no reason in the dark night. The snow shrouded in street lamps was very bright, and the wind blowing through the streets

, causing the snowflakes to whistle in the light, like a silver bright banner that is hunting.

"Wow, the snow will fall two days earlier this year!" Su Xiangli raised his head and took a deep breath of the early winter air, as if he had already stood in December and welcomed the snowflakes with his face.

"Huh? Why early?"

"The announcement says that water vapor is accumulating in the Pacific Ocean, so there will be more precipitation scheduled for this winter."

"Oh, cumulonimbus also has to take a break. How pitiful." Lu Zhengkang smiled.

"If there is a lot of snowfall, you will be obliged to sweep the snow, right? When the community is sweeping the snow, you have to remember to come to me, got it?"

Schools and residential communities will arrange some voluntary labor. As a social activity in this era, the real heavy physical labor is left to intelligent robots. They will be responsible for cleaning the main roads in the city, while humans only need to clean some insignificant paths and side roads.

.These tasks are basically left to young people. In the third grade of high school, the person responsible for clearing snow is the first year of high school. When they were in Ninghu Junior High School, Lu Zhengkang and Su Xiangli could still clear snow together. Now I think

To relive the old days, we can only wait for community events.

They have walked eastward from the green screen street outside the south gate to the one mile to the sky rail station many times. This road passes through a large shopping plaza that was recently built. During the first days of school, they can see

Smart robots carrying construction waste and garbage trucks parked on the roadside. It’s winter now

, there are also a few young construction workers sitting on the scaffolding outside the shop, painting the facade. In the winter night, they sit at the end of the laser isolation zone and take a nap, their Bluetooth headsets light up with colorful lights, and they each talk to their mobile phones.

, the expression on his face was mostly a happy smile, but also a bit dull and shy.

"Who are they chatting with?" Su Xiangli squeaked the straw, and the remaining drink at the bottom of the cup could not be wasted.

"I think they are a couple." Lu Zhengkang was familiar with the smiles on the faces of these construction workers.

"There are six of them, it's impossible for each of them to chat with someone."

Lu Zhengkang squinted his eyes and observed carefully, then shook his head, "Yes, just chatting with lovers."

"Is the love rate so high now?"

"Who knows."

The young construction workers who were off duty carried paint buckets and walked towards the construction trucks. On this quiet, snowless winter night, the gentle electronic sound in their ears was like a flame, beating around countless lonely hearts in this city, this country, and this world.

The passenger flow on the night shift sky rail is sparse, and there are often only two or three people in the entire carriage.

After Su Xiangli drank the hot drink, his expression cheered up and he talked about what he had seen today. Lu Zhengkang recalled his student days and even his entire two lives. The most nostalgic memory was the sunset after school, talking to his mother about his experiences in school. From then on

From kindergarten to junior high school, Lu Zhengkang and Su Xiangli were in the same school. They knew each other well and had nothing to talk about in their daily lives at school. After they separated in high school, they talked more when they met.

Now they no longer confide in their parents, every child does this, and this is also the process of growing up. Su Xiangli told Lu Zhengkang all his inner thoughts, and became taciturn when he got home, and Lu Zhengkang was always worried

Keep it to yourself.

The study life in high school made Su Xiangli feel exhausted. It was a worry to maintain her dance major and cultural classes at the same time. She was ranked among the best in both, but she did not excel in each. Throughout the grade,

There are about a dozen classmates who are better than her. Su Xiangli seems to have to work harder if she wants to be number one in the school, but it seems that this result will never be achieved.

Su Xiangli complained and suddenly changed the subject, "Hey, I remember there was a person in your class who ranked first in the city in the high school entrance examination. What is his name?"

"Jiang Jin."

"Yes, it's a girl, right? Is she good-looking?"

"Don't ask such boring questions."

“That’s so beautiful!”

"Not as good-looking as you."

"I know. I care about you. Compared with you or her, who is more powerful?"

Lu Zhengkang made an indiscriminate gesture, "Half and half. She studies very hard."

"Haha, finally someone can compare with you!" Su Xiangli was happy about this, "Did your parents urge you to compete for the first place?"

"No, they only care about the second and third children now. They don't care whether I live or die." Lu Zhengkang pretended to be pitiful, "If I am homeless, remember to adopt me."

"Tomorrow I will expand the kennel at home. Then you can move in with your bags!" Su Xiangli smiled slyly.

The skytrain stopped at Siming Park Station, and a female high school student walked in with a backpack. She was short and slender, wearing a short black cotton windbreaker, black velvet trousers, and black patent low-cut leather boots.

She has tortoiseshell square-framed eyes, pink cheeks, and almost no blood on her lips. She is dressed in black, but her skin is pale and the contrast is very sharp. She is an impressive quiet girl.

She walked in with her head lowered and sat down in the nearest empty seat. There were three people in this carriage. Lu Zhengkang stared at the female student for a while, then whispered into Su Xiangli's ear: "What a coincidence, that person is

Jiang Jin.”

"Is she going home too?" Su Xiangli quickly put down his legs that were sitting cross-legged, pretending to be a lady.

"I changed my school bag. I guess I went to the library to study on my own."

The background noise of the empty track was like a soothing bee, confusing their whispers into low grunts. However, some people had very good ears and glanced up at Lu Zhengkang and the two, then hesitantly raised his hand, half shyly,

He said hello half reluctantly.

Lu Zhengkang smiled and waved vigorously, and Su Xiangli also waved with a smile.

The empty train at 6:30 had always picked up the three of them since the beginning of the first year of high school, but it was only this time that they happened to run into the same carriage.

In the following weeks, Jiang Jin and the two of them met several times by chance. Lu Zhengkang was in the same class with her, but they never talked about it when they met in school.

When it snowed for the first time in Jiangsu and Zhejiang this year, due to an error in the weather system, which caused excessive short-term snowfall in some areas, schools in Zhenjiang District had a half-day holiday. The midterm exam was originally scheduled for this day, but it was postponed to the second day.

Oh my god, this timely snow was called "auspicious snow" by the ecstatic classmates.

When Lu Zhengkang received the email announcing the school’s suspension of classes, he was still nestled on the bed in his dormitory. After reading the message, he heard the cheers of several roommates next door. They jumped up and down, got dressed, and were excitedly preparing to go out to watch the snow. Lu Zhengkang

Squirmingly rising from the bed,

Let the smart system make the windows transparent, and the bright snow color outside the house rushes in. On the bank of Xingzhi Lake behind the dormitory building, the willows and pines are covered with vegetation. Several students, Juan Wang, who got up early to go to the lake to endorse books, are stepping on the pebbles.

Walking in circles on the trail, leaving a long series of footprints.

Zhang Yingxuan came knocking on the door. Several roommates were already getting ready. Lu Zhengkang would never be forgotten by such a good thing as going out in the cold.
To be continued...