Take Line 3 of the subway station to the terminal station, get out of the subway, and then take the bus.
Lu Mingfei remembered the scene when Lin Nian showed him the way to his house for the first time. Lin Xian and Lin Nian, the brother and sister, had lived in the inland suburb of this coastal city since they left the orphanage. A housing exchange community where there is no community property system.
The so-called housing exchange community is that after the residents who have been demolished due to urban construction planning receive compensation, they can use the issued construction project planning permit and state-owned land use certificate on the divided land according to the urban construction planning draft. Rebuild a self-built house.
Originally this was still a wasteland, but now there are rows of old houses standing together. The tallest ones are seven or eight stories, and the short ones are four or five stories. While they serve as residential buildings, most of the shops on the ground floor are also rented out. It has become a breakfast shop or a hot pot restaurant, and the street is full of life and fireworks.
Lu Mingfei's goal is very clear. He has been to this community countless times. Every piece of land has been trampled to the point of being worn out. Which restaurant sells buns earlier and has thin skin and thick meat? Which fried dough sticks never use gutter oil is definitely a good one. Qing, including now that he was standing in front of the pizza stall at the corner of the street in a daze. The lady making the pizza was still wearing the same decent white chef's hat as he remembered. She was skilled in her craftsmanship and the aroma of the pizza was fragrant, but the stall no longer There is the iron basin that collects change and changes are made by yourself, and some are just a simple QR code.
Lu Mingfei pinched the bridge of his nose and felt dizzy. Seeing that he had been standing there for a while, the lady at the pizza stall asked him kindly if he wanted to buy some. After he declined, he casually asked if Lin Nian had come to buy anything recently. The result should have been right. The aunt, who was very impressed by Lin Nian, had a puzzled look on her face, Lin Nian? Whose baby is she from? I don’t know her, I don’t know.
He walked into the streets with a heavy heart, surrounded by scenery and layouts he was familiar with. The only difference was that the decoration of the store had become much more refined due to the progress of the times, but generally the things that should not have changed remained the same, and ...The Malatang restaurant where Lu Mingfei stood at the end was downstairs. The signboard was "Good Brothers Malatang", which seemed to indicate the beginning of the friendship between Lu Mingfei and Lin Nian. They had eaten Malatang here many times. The boss often gave discounts, and because Lin Xian had worked part-time here before, the two of them were even exempted once or twice for the sake of old friends and neighbors.
They were all familiar memories. Lu Mingfei walked through the Malatang store and walked into the stairs leading upstairs. He climbed all the way to the fourth floor and stopped in front of the familiar anti-theft iron door. He looked at the stickers on it. The word "Fu" felt a little inexplicably nervous in my heart.
He knocked on the iron door, and from time to time there were footsteps in front of him, and then there was a "click" sound of the iron door lock being unlocked, and the door was pushed open. Lu Mingfei subconsciously took a step back, and then... saw a The bald old man was wearing slippers, scratching his head and looking outside, "Pull me over (who?)."
"I'm sorry, is this Lin Nian's family?" Lu Mingfei's heart had sunk to the bottom.
"Lin Nian? Where did you go? I can't admit it, are you looking for the wrong one?" The bald man spoke authentic Sichuan dialect and looked at the boy at the door strangely, "We have always lived here, my dear. I must have looked in the wrong place. After asking for details, come back to Jirimon, early in the morning..."
The security door was closed. Lu Mingfei stood at the door for a long time. The light from outside the corridor made some white reflections on his jeans. He slowly squatted down, held his head in his hands and stayed there for a long time, and then suddenly He stood up again, turned around and ran downstairs, rushed out of the Malatang shop and ran towards the subway station.
Take Metro Line 3 to Guanyin Temple and then transfer to Line 2. After getting off, take bus No. 12 at three stops and get off at City Children's Palace Station.
Lu Mingfei didn't take a breath, and ran directly into the Children's Palace and went straight to the Kendo Hall. The guard at the guard booth who was posting a short video looked up.
After a while, the guard saw Lu Mingfei running out the same way.
He got on the subway, changed stations, got off and ran all the way. This time, Lu Mingfei stood in front of Shilan Middle School, his alma mater. There were no classes today so the door was closed. He walked around in a big circle and came to the place where he used to meet Lin. Outside the low fence where I sneaked out to study for self-study in the first year to surf the Internet, I sprinted and jumped over with one hand. After landing, I turned my head and glanced at the broken surveillance camera on the inside of the fence, and ran towards the teaching building without looking back. .
go upstairs,
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Entering the classroom office, I found my homeroom teacher's workstation. I took out the test paper from the drawer, which was either the third model or the second model. I quickly flipped through it. Su Xiaoqiang, Chen Wenwen, Liu Miaomiao, Xu Miaomiao, Liang Wenwen... all the familiar names. As he turned over the paper, Lu Mingfei's expression became darker the faster he turned over it. When the last paper was finished, he slammed the paper on the table, "No...he has already left school at this time." Already..."
Thinking of something, he opened the drawer and rummaged through to find a class photo. He made sure that the timestamp in the lower right corner was the photo when he was enrolled in school. He then looked through the sunny smiling faces in the photo one by one, and finally punched the table in anger. On top, the entire table was overwhelmed and collapsed with a "squeaking" sound!
Lu Mingfei stood in front of the ruins of his desk, looking at the photo of himself alone on the ground. He sat back on the ergonomic chair he bought at the second-hand market, put his forehead on his face and took a deep breath.
The clock on the wall of the office sounded "ticking, ticking". Lu Mingfei sat motionless on his chair. He didn't know how long it took before he suddenly stood up and left.
When he walked out of the teaching building, the sun was already setting outside.
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"It must be a liar! And it's an acquaintance in the community! Only acquaintances know about our family's situation!" Auntie slapped the letter with her palm, her tone unquestionable.
"Isn't that Chu Zihang studying abroad? That means that this kind of fellowship academy recruits foreign students." said the uncle.
"It must be a lie! Last year our school's genius Chu Zihang went abroad and went to a fellowship college at the University of Chicago. Fellowship colleges in prestigious universities are similar to the Ivy League, and it is difficult for Americans to get in!" Lu Ming It was rare for Ze to be so concerned about his brother's future.
A rare serious family meeting was held at the aunt's house to discuss the authenticity of the interview notice that Lu Mingfei brought back. Lu Mingfei sat aside without saying a word, silently watching the family of three salivating. The look of spittle flying around.
Aunt, uncle and Lu Mingze, the three relatives Lu Mingfei was most familiar with, were all the same as in his memory, almost unchanged. He tried to find some flaws in these three people, like program loopholes or bugs.
, but unfortunately, his intuition told him that these three people were real and not just hallucinations.
This scene is not unfamiliar to Lu Mingfei, except for some details. For example, when the family meeting discussed the interview, there was almost no dispute about the authenticity, because it was Lin Nian who brought the notice. As a member of Kassel College,
As a first-year student, Lin Nian made almost no effort to convince Lu Mingfei's family of the existence of Chicago Union University.
Now that Lin Nian seems to have "evaporated" from this world, naturally, the issue of whether Kassel College exists and the authenticity of the interview notice has become the biggest controversy.
Lu Mingfei had a feeling that if everything about Lin Nian evaporated from the world, according to the influence of the butterfly effect, everything he encountered would really happen in an orderly manner according to the scenes in front of him - without the pearl.
Tower incident, there is no leech potion incident, naturally he will not contact Su Xiaoqiang in advance about the messy things there, he will honestly wait at home for letters from rejected American universities, until this one looks like Hogwarts
The admission letter and interview letter came in the mail, but the letter was delivered not by owl, but by FedEx.
Lu Mingfei stood up and left the table. He didn't care what the final conclusion of the family meeting was. He would go to the interview anyway because the person he wanted to meet would also appear in the interview.
There are still some things to confirm.
I quietly left the living room, opened the door and didn't go downstairs. Instead, I walked up the quiet corridor. The more I went up, the louder the "whining" sound of the air conditioning unit became. Old furniture was piled up on both sides.
He continued to climb on those pieces of furniture until he came to the door of the rooftop. He opened a gap and crawled through. What came face to face was thousands of stars and the brightly lit city under the night sky.
Lu Mingfei raised his hand to block the wind from the rooftop, walked to the edge of the cliff, stepped on it and turned to look at the corner of the rooftop. It was empty, and the roads below were like bright streams of light extending to
In the lush steel forest, every bit of light flowing through is like a lost firefly, looking for its own exit in this forest.
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Lu Mingfei lowered his head and glanced at the palm of his hand. The front and back sides were turned over once. In the shadow of the city, the sword-shield-shaped fuzz surged like magnetic fluid on his palm, and finally fell silent under the skin.
The golden eyes under the frown are full of confusion, irritability and dullness.
After standing for a while, the wind blew enough and the person he wanted to wait for was not found, so he left.
Going downstairs, the discussion in the living room not only did not stop, but intensified, but even their protagonist was not on the table. Lu Mingfei went straight back to his room, and opened the familiar second-hand laptop on the table.
, touched the patina on the keyboard, and connected to QQ to search for traces of Lin Nian for the last time, but instead he saw the profile picture of the girl in the baseball cap beating.
I clicked on the chat bar and saw a simple line of text:
"Go! See you the day after tomorrow."
The day after tomorrow, Lu Mingfei naturally knew when the day after tomorrow would be, but it was obvious that he was not thinking about such trivial matters now. The emotion of embarrassment had to be picked at a certain time before it could appear.
"Cut a plate?" In the "StarCraft" group, a big-faced cat avatar suddenly initiated a private chat with him, and the chat box vibrated and popped up to the top of the computer page. The other party's ID was displayed as "Nono".