Chapter 95 The eighteen-year-old sister that year (please subscribe)
The season of early summer has arrived, and the lotus pond under the Jinyu Bridge near the school has also sprouted green.
When midsummer arrives, the entire area will be filled with lotus flowers.
This is the only way for Lin Lu to take the bus every day when he goes home from school. It is also the only way for Li Xingruo to go home from work every time from February to now. Ever since the lotus pond started to turn green, the bus has passed here every time.
When the time comes, both siblings will look out the window to see when the first lotus will bloom.
When they went home before, Lin Lu and Li Xingruo tried their luck to see if they could get on the same bus.
It's different now. The two of them would make an appointment on WeChat after school and get off work at 5:30. When Li Xingruo got on the bus, she would report the news to Lin Lu, and then Lin Lu would come up when her car stopped at the school bus stop.
, the two of them take another three bus stops to get home or go to the market to buy groceries.
In the weather at the end of April, the highest daily temperature in southern Jiangsu has reached 28 degrees.
Last month, Lin Lu basically wore short-sleeved school uniforms, and Li Xingruo's daily attire also changed drastically from two months ago.
The little girl now mainly wears short-sleeved shirts every day. Today she is wearing a loose off-white round-neck T-shirt with a sky blue printed skirt. The length of the skirt is very conservative, reaching past the knee and reaching less than half of the calf.
position, revealing a fair and slender calf, which makes her look particularly tall. The canvas handbag she had at the beginning was also changed into a small shoulder bag commonly used by girls in the workplace. Her feet are still the same pair of clean white shoes.
, the shawl hair is as long as the waist, looking fresh and sweet.
Ever since Li Xingruo put on short sleeves, Lin Lu liked to stick to her arms even more.
Now on the bus, he half-wrapped her in front of him as usual. When their arms occasionally touched each other's skin, Lin Lu always felt a surge in his heart.
"Sister Xingruo, why is your arm so cold when you touch it?"
"It's your own hands that are warm, okay?"
Without the separation of clothes, the charming and ambiguous feeling brought about by such skin contact is particularly strong. Li Xingruo was embarrassed to stick to him all the time, so every time she accidentally touched his hot arm, she would always tighten her grip reservedly.
They moved away, but as the bus swayed, they bumped into each other again soon.
Gradually, the two seemed to have reached a certain tacit understanding, and they understood each other tacitly about such occasional touches.
"Sister Xingruo, do you want to listen to the song?"
"How do you hear it?"
"Headphones."
Lin Lu dug in his pocket, took out his Bluetooth headphones, and put one of them on her ears.
His movements were so fast that Li Xingruo didn't have time to react. He pinched the earphones with his index finger, middle finger and thumb, stretched out his little tail finger and ring finger, and pushed her hair back, revealing the girl's soft and tender ears, and then gently
He put the headphones on her.
Inevitably, his fingertips touched her ears. In just a moment, the white little ears turned a little pink.
"Oh, I can just wear it myself..."
Although he had already put them on, Li Xingruo raised his hand to pretend to hold the earphones, and put his hair back to cover his slightly red ears.
The prelude of Qilixiang sounded in the headphones, and the little girl relaxed, stood with him on the bus, and listened to the same song with him.
I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but their headphones are obviously the same brand and model, but the songs in his headphones sound better.
"Are you sure you have two days off?" Li Xingruo asked him.
"Yes, Sister Xingruo must be cheating. She agreed to go painting with me tomorrow!" Lin Lu said warily.
"Uh-huh, I've already bought a ticket for tomorrow morning! Goodbye!" Li Xingruo said with a bad smile.
"Then there's no other way. I have to follow Sister Xingruo to Liangxi. What time is the ticket? I'll buy it too!"
"..."
Li Xingruo was startled. Seeing that he was serious, it didn't seem like a joke. Last time he went home alone, he brought a boy home in less than a month. His parents were still scared to death.
"I'm just lying to you. I haven't even bought my ticket yet. You're so stupid for being fooled so easily. Sooner or later, you'll be deceived by girls and lose your money and money!"
"Oh, fortunately, I also deceived Sister Xingruo. How could I go back with you? Sister Xingruo is fooled so easily. Sooner or later, she will be deceived by boys and lose her life and wealth."
Lin Lu also looked down at her and smiled evilly.
Li Xingruo pinched him angrily.
Taking the bus with Lin Lu is a very comfortable thing. The bus is obviously very crowded during peak hours, but Li Xingruo feels more spacious. After all, Lin Lu is the only one next to her, which makes her feel at ease.
There was still food in the refrigerator, so there was no need to buy food tonight. The siblings got out of the car and walked into the community side by side.
At this time of spring and summer, several redbuds in the community are also in full bloom, blooming beautifully.
The location of these redbud trees happened to be the only way for the two of them to pass by. On the day when the flowers were in bloom, Lin Lu and Li Xingruo stopped to enjoy the flowers together.
"Did you take graduation photos today?"
"Yes, the photo was taken in the last class of our class. Does Sister Xingruo still have her graduation photos from her previous high school?"
"Yes! It's stored in my space!"
"Quickly, let me see!"
Li Xingruo generously took out her mobile phone, opened QQ space, flipped through the photo album signed by her high school, and showed him her graduation photos taken that year.
"Can you find where I am?"
"I saw it at a glance. This is you!"
Lin Lu had sharp eyes and immediately spotted Li Xingruo, one of the girls in the second row, among the class of sixty or seventy people.
When she was eighteen years old, she looked completely different from what she looks like now. She was wearing a white short-sleeved school uniform, her hair was just as long as her shoulders, she had a delicate face, and she looked particularly well-behaved and young.
Before, I was not completely sure that Li Xingruo was the sister back then, until I saw her eighteen-year-old appearance, she completely matched the one in Lin Lu's memory.
He swiped the screen of his phone left and right and saw different graduation photos. The one just now was a serious version, while this one was a freely posed photo, just like his graduation photo today.
However, when Li Xingruo's top class was posing freely, the movements were not as varied as Lin Lu's art class. The classmates in her class were more restrained, and Li Xingruo simply made a scissors hand gesture next to her face.
"Sister Xingruo! You are so tender!"
Lin Lu looked at her old photos attentively and couldn't help but smile. Although he couldn't experience this with her at the same age, it was still a great thing to see the past years of the person he liked!
"Of course sister is tender~"
Seeing Lin Lu's fascinated look, the old sister couldn't help but fold her arms and said proudly: "You think you are the only one who is eighteen years old? Sister, I was also the class star back then!"
"Really or not?"
"Well, do you think there are other girls who are prettier than me?"
"No! Sister Xingruo's looks are good enough to withstand a fight! If you let her go to our school, she will be at the level of a school beauty!"
Li Xingruo laughed happily after hearing Lin Lu's flattery.
Sometimes I feel that I am a bit old at the age of twenty-two, but sometimes I feel that I am still very young.
Maybe she has such different feelings because of getting along with different people. For example, in the company, she is almost the youngest now. Even her master, Yu Cheng, is thirty-six years old.
But when she was getting along with Lin Lu, she felt inexplicably that she was so old. Compared with his eighteen years old, twenty-two was simply cruel...
While Li Xingruo was in a daze, Lin Lu took her mobile phone and frantically flipped through her photo album. In the photo album called High School, in addition to these two graduation photos, there were many photos of her and several girls, including those in her dormitory.
environment, roommates secretly took ugly photos of her, etc.
After seeing Lin Lu concentrating on zooming in on the screen and looking at an ugly photo of her lying on the bed holding a quilt and sleeping soundly, with the angle of the photo showing that her face had some baby fat, Li Xingruo finally came to his senses and screamed strangely.
He rushed over and snatched the mobile phone from his hand.
"You, why are you rummaging around!"
"Sister Xingruo, that little quilt looks so familiar! Is it the one you usually use? I've been using it since high school!"
"Yes, yes, what's wrong?"
Li Xingruo snorted, not embarrassed to tell him that she had been using the quilt since she was little.
"I haven't added Sister Xingruo to QQ yet, please add one quickly!" Lin Lu took out his mobile phone.
Li Xingruo didn't mind, so he exchanged QQ messages with him.
Nowadays, most of her work and life are based on WeChat, and her own QQ is just used as a photo storage tool. The company has QQ for her work, which she uses to contact the author to answer signing questions, but she never posts anything on it.
personal information.
By the way, when will she be able to sign an author contract on her own... I guess she will have to wait until the internship period is over and pass the assessment to become a full-time editor.
Editors also have their own aliases. Li Xingruo’s editor alias is ‘Xiaohe’, which she chose herself.
Li Xingruo's current work mainly focuses on discovering high-quality works, recommending contracts, summarizing and combing information about the works in the library, and analyzing feedback and recommendation data. However, after two or three months of study, she has made great progress, and now recommends it to her master
Almost 100% of the works that Yu Cheng went to sign were approved, which also shows that she has the most core appreciation in editing work.
She still remembers that when she first recommended works for contract signing, at least five out of ten books would be rejected by Yu Cheng. Now she has gradually understood what the market needs. Looking at the books she once wrote from her current perspective, she has deviated from them.
There are so many markets, no wonder I can’t sign even one copy.
After a while, Lin Lu, who had added her private QQ, started shouting: "Sister Xingruo, please give me the space permission!"
"What a beautiful thought~!"
Li Xingruo didn't give him any space. If he saw his former second grade self, wouldn't it destroy his sister's image?
"It seems that high school graduation photos are the same all over the world. When we took them in the afternoon, one was serious and the other was free," Lin Lu said.
"Then what moves did you make?"
"Little rabbit." Lin Lu stretched out two scissor hands and gestured to his head.
Li Xingruo couldn't help laughing: "You can actually pose in such a cute pose!"
"That's what they said!"
Looking back now, Lin Lu felt a little regretful. He would have known better not to make such outrageous gestures with them. It would be extremely embarrassing for the boys, but Ying Yingjie and the others said they were so cute.
While Li Xingruo fantasized about Lin Lu posing like a little rabbit, he happily raised his two scissor hands to imitate the little rabbit: "Little rabbit~little rabbit~~is that like this?"
She put her hands on her head and made bunny ears grow out. She also bent her fingers a few times and tilted her head slightly.
Well, Lin Lu admitted that he was so cute by her at this moment that he couldn't help but reach out and pinch her cheek.
After squeezing it, I exclaimed that it felt really good, and then I realized that something seemed wrong. When I looked at her, the face of the girl who was still 'little rabbit~little rabbit~' just now had two blushes on her face...
Lin Lu reacted very quickly. He immediately took a step back and took out his mobile phone: "Sister Xingruo is so cute! Let me take a picture of you!"
"..."
"Hurry up, come on, right next to this redbud flower, is Sister Xingruo doing the bunny pose?"
"...I don't want it!"
"Then Sister Xingruo, please pose yourself!"
Li Xingruo was still thinking about the time when he reached out and pinched her cheek affectionately. Seeing that he didn't mention it, she didn't know what to say.
At this moment, I had no choice but to listen to his words and stand in front of these blooming redbud trees, with my white hands folded gently in front of me, and my legs under the floral skirt also crossed in a ladylike posture.
Lin Lu was wearing a school uniform, carrying a schoolbag, holding a mobile phone, squatting down to find the angle.
Just then, a breeze blew, and the petals swayed with the wind, gently blowing the hem of her skirt and blowing up a few strands of her hair. Under the reflection of the setting sun, the girl's face was stained with red clouds, and she naturally raised her right hand.
Twisting her wind-blown hair around her ears, she looked at his camera quietly and gently——
This picturesque scene also blew into Lin Lu's heart with the wind.
He pressed the shutter and captured the beautiful moment that belonged to her in the last four months.
"Okay! Perfect! Sister Xingruo is really photogenic!"
Lin Lu squatted for a long time, then stood up impatiently, walking in her direction while checking the photos he had just taken.
Just as he was looking at the details of the photo attentively, a white and tender little hand suddenly stretched out. One was not enough for two, and the two little hands grabbed his face, squeezing and kneading like he had just done.