After more than ten days of getting along with each other, the classmates in the class have basically become familiar with each other, and no longer have the restraint and reserve that they had when they first met.
In the dormitory, Zhang Jian hugged his guitar and sat on Li Chengzai's bed in the lower bunk. Several girls sat or stood around him, listening to him play the music "Dedicated to Alice".
On Wang Jiahe's bed, there were several girls sitting next to each other. He and Li Chengzai were sitting on chairs chatting and joking with the girls.
After Liu Gen entered the house, he didn't say anything, climbed up onto the upper bunk where he slept, leaned against the wall and flipped through the new textbooks that still smelled of ink, but couldn't dispel Ouyang Xue's tears of pity in his heart.
In more than ten years, Liu Gen's self-esteem has never been so hurt. His family is poor. It is caused by the geographical environment and not the fault of people. He has never doubted the ability of his parents. Even, in his heart, his father and
My mother is the strongest and most capable person in the world. Liu Gen, who grew up listening to her mother's family motto, "We can't be poor if we are poor," has indeed never been poor in his heart. From the day he entered elementary school, his heart has never been poor.
In his heart, there was only one thought: to let his father and mother live a good life in the future. During the long road to school, he always worked tirelessly for this goal he had set up when he was young. No matter where he went, his grades were always good.
Being the best has won self-esteem for his family and himself.
But now, in front of Ouyang Xue, Liu Gen's self-esteem suffered a heavy blow. From Ouyang Xue's tears, he saw the gap between himself and her. This bloody and insurmountable gap made his heart slowly get closer.
Her heart was blocked, making him realize that he and Ouyang Xue were two parallel lines that would never intersect.
When Liu Gen entered the room, Cai Hua noticed that his expression was different from when he went out. She stood beside the bed, grabbed the guardrail with both hands, and shook it: "Hey...Brother Gen, what's wrong? Ouyang, she..."
"She's back." Liu Gen looked up and saw half of Cai Hua's head popping up from the bed. Before she could finish her words, she replied lukewarmly.
"You two..." Cai Hua blinked her eyelids twice: "Are you at odds?"
"No." Liu Gen replied without raising his head.
"Then what did you..." Before he could finish his words, he heard two knocks on the door, followed by a voice:
"Excuse me, does Liu Gen live here?"
Cai Hua looked back and saw a girl with a student's head, a bag slung across her body, her left hand grabbing the bag strap on her chest, her right hand just hanging down after knocking on the door, a pair of beautiful big eyes with a warm smile like the sun, standing at the door.
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"Brother Gen, I'm looking for you." Cai Hua said to Liu Gen on the bed.
Everyone in the dormitory moved their heads towards the door. The beautiful guitar sound seemed to be interrupted by the knock on the door and stopped abruptly. For that second, the room was eerily quiet.
"Xia Yang..." Liu Gen saw that the person standing at the door was Xia Yang, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face: "Why are you here? Come in quickly." He quickly got off the bed.
"Is she from our school?" Cai Hua asked in a low voice when Liu Gen got out of bed.
Liu Gen ignored Cai Hua's question, walked to his desk, slapped Wang Jiahe on the shoulder: "Get up."
Wang Jiahe stood up from his chair with straight eyes, still looking at Xia Yang in a daze.
Xia Yang walked in, with a sunny smile on his face, and nodded to everyone in the room: "Hello!"
Zhang Jian put his guitar on the bed, walked forward, looked Xia Yang up and down, and suddenly said: "So pretty!" Then he looked back at Liu Gen and said jokingly: "Brother Gen, how come every pretty girl I see is so handsome?"
, seems to have made an appointment with you in advance."
Xia Yang was amused by Zhang Jian's accent and expression, which made him smile.
"Xia Yang, sit down quickly, they are all classmates in our class." Liu Gen held the back of the chair and asked Xia Yang to sit down.
Zhang Jian poked Wang Jiahe in the back: "Wang Jiahe, when you see the beautiful girl, has your myopia dropped by a hundred degrees? Why don't you go get a glass of water for our beautiful guest?"
"Oh..." Wang Jiahe finally came to his senses, raised his hand to lift the frame of the mirror, and quickly went to pour water in embarrassment.
"My name is Zhang Jian, and I am Brother Gen's roommate." Zhang Jian extended his hand and introduced himself.
Xia Yang generously stretched out her hand for him to shake: "My name is Xia Yang, and I belong to brother Liu Gen..." She glanced at Liu Gen.
"Fellow fellow." Liu Gen quickly replied: "We are fellow villagers, haha..."
Cai Hua and several other girls all left one after another. It seemed that Xia Yang's arrival had made them eclipsed in front of the boys, and they seemed to be running away from Xia Yang's golden beam.
Li Chengzai seemed very calm. After sending away the chattering girls in his class, he stepped forward and introduced himself to Xia Yang.
Wang Jiahe brought a glass of water and placed it carefully on the table: "Brother Gen has never mentioned it to us, so, haha... we are all surprised, haha... please drink water." Wang Jiahe looked very reserved.
"Thank you." Xia Yang thanked him, thinking that Liu Gen's classmates were very interesting.
"Which class are you in? How old are you?" Zhang Jian asked.
"I am from Nanhai University, and like you, I am also a freshman." Xia Yang replied with a smile.
"Brother Gen, today a bright flower from Nanhai University fell in our dormitory. Shouldn't we celebrate? I'll be the host and let's go to Daxue Road to find a small restaurant for a meal!" Zhang Jian suggested.
Li Chengzai and Wang Jiahe echoed, and also clamored to invite Xia Yang to eat outside.
Liu Gen was about to refuse, but Xia Yang spoke first:
"Brother Liu Gen, I want you to accompany me to meet someone. We agreed to meet at six-thirty, but it's now past five." Xia Yang smiled and politely declined Zhang Jian's kindness: "Thank you for your kindness. I'm really sorry.
, next time, anyway, I will come here often to see Brother Liu Gen, and I will inevitably disturb you." After saying that, he stood up.
Liu Genzheng was eager to do so. He didn't want to always take advantage of other people's food. It would be bad if he didn't invite others over time. But if he went back to invite others to eat and drink, he would have to spend money. When he thought about what he had to do at home,
With a bedridden father and a tired mother all day long, how could he be willing to spend that kind of money?
"Okay, let's go now." Liu Gen said, immediately wanting to follow Xia Yang, but he suddenly thought of something: "Oh, by the way, I have something to give you, Xia Yang, please wait a moment."
Zhang Jian sighed and joked: "Xia Yang, you shout Brother Liu Gen every time, which makes my bones go numb. If you also call me Brother Zhang Jian, I will treat you to dinner every time you come to Brother Gen."
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Xia Yang pursed his lips and chuckled, and Li Chengzai gave Zhang Jian a slap in the face: "You want good things!"
Liu Gen took out the bag of food given by Xia Yang from the cabinet: "Xia Yang, take this back."
"Brother Liu Gen..." Xia Yang was surprised to see a large bag of untouched things. He looked at Liu Gen and said, "You didn't eat sorghum pancakes for two days on the train?"
"Haha...if you don't finish eating those pancakes, they will taste bad." Liu Gen replied with a simple smile.
"Then why did you return these things to me? Keep them for later as a midnight snack." Xia Yang said angrily.
"I know you must have spent a lot of money buying these things..." Liu Gen wanted to persuade Xia Yang to take the things in the plastic bags back.
Xia Yang didn't let Liu Gen continue talking, grabbed the plastic bag in his hand, opened the cabinet door, put it back in the cabinet, then grabbed Liu Gen's hand and walked out the door without saying anything.
Zhang Jian hummed mischievously: "Sister holds brother's hand and walks out the door step by step..."
Li Chengzai touched Zhang Jian lightly and whispered: "You can still sing."
Zhang Jianli immediately stopped, and when Liu Gen and Xia Yang disappeared outside the door, he sighed and said: "After listening to the conversation between Xia Yang and Brother Gen just now, I realized that Brother Gen had eaten for two days and two nights on the train to the school.
Sorghum Pancake, I asked you why I kept hearing him farting loudly the night I first arrived at school."
"From now on, please remember that you are not allowed to mention dinner parties in front of Brother Gen." Li Chengzai pointed at Zhang Jian and Wang Jiahe and said.
"Why?" Zhang Jian asked.
"Why? Is there any need to ask? We have to consider Brother Gen's feelings." Wang Jiahe answered for Li Chengzai.
Xia Yang held Liu Gen's hand and didn't let go until he reached the stairs. He said angrily: "Brother Liu Gen, who do you think I am? Are you spitting in my face in front of your classmates? If you don't want to eat,
, you can throw it away! Why are you burying people like that!"
Seeing that Xia Yang was angry, Liu Gen said with a smile: "Is it okay that I was wrong? Don't be angry, it's so ugly, your brows are wrinkled like the wrinkles on my mother's forehead."
"You've killed me!" Xia Yang's pink fist crackled on Liu Gen's arm: "From now on, if Brother Liu Gen does this again, I will ignore you!"
"Haha..." Liu Gen giggled. He felt that he didn't have any pressure when he was with Xia Yang. Although she had lost her mother since she was a child, she was lively and cheerful, and her whole body was full of warm sunshine.
"Xia Yang, who are you going to see? It's not half past six yet. How about we have dinner in the cafeteria." Liu Gen walked beside Xia Yang and said.
"I met my cousin when I came back from military training and called her. She asked me to come over for dinner." Xia Yang answered.
"Then why are you dragging me along? Are you still scared to see your cousin?" Liu Gen stopped, not wanting to leave with Xia Yang.
"Besides eating, I have other things to do. Don't think so much, just come with me." Xia Yang grabbed Liu Gen's strong arm and pulled him forward.
"But how can I go see people in this outfit?"
"What's wrong with this outfit? You have the style of a man from the northwest! Even if people from the South China Sea can wear it, they can't wear it with the style of Brother Liu Gen! Besides, my cousin is also from our area, and she saw you dressed in the northwest.
Maybe the man's outfit has taken his fancy to you." As Xia Yang spoke, he actually let the slip slip. Fortunately, Liu Gen didn't seem to hear it: "Come on, it will take more than half an hour by bus."
After Liu Gen heard Xia Yang's words, for some reason, he thought of Ouyang Xue who just shed tears of pity, and asked himself: If she were her, would she look at her clothes like Xia Yang does?
"Is your cousin also studying in college in Nanhai?" Liu Gen thought that Xia Yang's cousin should be about the same age as her.
"No, my cousin opened an entertainment company in Nanhai. Her name is Wen Hanmei. She is ten years older than me. She never went to college or graduated from high school. She participated in a modeling competition and was spotted by people in the entertainment industry. She has acted in a few movies.
She was a well-known supporting actor in film and television dramas, but later she felt that she had no future in the film industry, so she opened a wine shop. She had been in the film industry before and met several famous actors. Once her wine shop opened, the business was booming, and it took less than two years.
, and opened two more liquor stores. Three years ago, she officially registered and established an entertainment company, which owns a comprehensive entertainment city and more than a dozen liquor stores..." Xia Yang briefly told the history of her cousin Wen Hanmei's fortune.
The two of them squeezed onto the bus, and after more than forty minutes, they arrived at the bustling commercial area near the seaside in Nanhai. Xia Yang asked a few passers-by before he found out where he was looking.
When Liu Gen asked Xia Yang for directions, he heard her say 'Mirage Entertainment City'.