Xin Zhai

Although Tong Yan gave him affirmation in the end, Ye Li still couldn't calm down.He couldn't stay in the laboratory, and his face was still hot when he returned to the dormitory.A few other people were playing games, Ye Li borrowed Shi Jingchen's notebook, and revised the paper according to Tong Yan's intention.

I handed it in the next day, and Tong Yan took it over to read again.It just so happened that Mr. Yue, who was in charge of reviewing papers in the department, came in.

"Tong Yan, you're going to hand in a copy of the selection of excellent papers for this year's undergraduate graduation, Lin Li, right?"

"Yes." Tong Yan looked at Ye Li's thesis in his hand and said, "Report one more."

"You still have senior students?"

"It's not a final thesis, but it's also an undergraduate."

"If it's not Bi She, what name should I give?"

Tong Yan put down the things in his hands and asked, "I didn't say that the outstanding undergraduate thesis every year must be completed."

This year's selection of excellent thesis does not expressly stipulate that it must be a graduation project.It's just that undergraduates basically don't do big projects before, except for the last project in their senior year, so naturally they won't participate in the election.

"I am an excellent student. The results of this project can be applied to other projects and have practical application value. Many senior students do not do as well as him." Tong Yan stood up and said seriously.

Ye Li was very surprised.Tong Yan's criticism yesterday made him feel a strong sense of frustration, today's praise made him surprised and a little bit unbelievable.Is it really?Or is it just praise from outsiders?Can this project really participate in the selection of excellent papers?

"But, we don't have such a precedent." Teacher Yue said with a smile, "How old is he?"

Ye Li hurriedly replied: "Freshman."

"You're only a freshman, so you're going to participate in the selection of Bi She?"

"There is no precedent, we are the precedent." Tong Yan said, grabbing a registration form from Mr. Yue and handing it to Ye Li, "Here, take it."

Ye Li stood by, staring at the "Application Form for Undergraduate Excellent Thesis".As soon as Teacher Yue left, he asked in a low voice, "Is what you just said true?"

"What's not true?"

"It's just... what you said to me."

"Of course it's true." Tong Yan laughed, and then the smile remained on his face, his eyes narrowed slightly, staring at Ye Li.

"Oh." Ye Li suddenly didn't dare to look at him, lowered his head, clutching the application form. The words "Project Introduction" had already been creased twice by him.

Seeing him standing there stupidly, Tong Yan smiled and said, "Hurry up, fill out the form, you still have to answer."

Chen Shan is about to have a midterm exam.Cheng Luoyi asked Yeli to teach her a little longer on Saturday.Ye Li quit his job in the supermarket after taking classes at her home steadily.He arrived at his house early this morning, and the class started at 9 o'clock. He helped her sort out the main points of the first half of the mathematics semester, and after a few questions, it was almost 12 o'clock.There are only Cheng Luoyi, Chen Shan and an aunt who cooks at home.Cheng Luoyi warmly invited Ye Li to have lunch at home, but Ye Li shied away for a while, seeing that she insisted on staying by himself, so he agreed.

Most women of Cheng Luoyi's age can perm their heads and keep their hair short and medium.Cheng Luoyi is different, her hair is very long.Ye Li saw that most of her hair was tied behind her head and stuck up with a hairpin.Of course, Ye Li didn't know how a hairpin managed to fix so many hairs neatly there.But today, Cheng Luoyi braided a traditional braid. The braid hangs behind her back. It is black and thick, and hangs down to her waist. At the bottom of the braid, she tied it with a handkerchief.Ye Li rarely sees women dressed like this, and thinks she is delicate and generous, and looks ten years younger.

"Auntie's hair is really nice," Ye Li said while eating, "The handkerchief is also pretty."

Cheng Luoyi pulled the braids from behind to the front of her body, picked up the handkerchief at the end, and said with a smile, "Shanshan's father bought it for me."

"Really? Uncle must like your hair very much."

Before Cheng Luoyi could speak, Chen Shan answered, "That's why mom doesn't let me cut my hair either."

Indeed, Chen Shan's hair is very similar to her mother's, and it is also black and waist-length.

Chen Shan said again: "In our house, this kind of colorful handkerchief is a disaster. Do you want it? I can take a few to give to your girlfriend."

"How can I do that, no matter how many things my uncle gave me, my aunt would never be too much."

Cheng Luoyi didn't speak, just smiled and threw her braids behind her, unexpectedly showing a little girlish shyness.

After dinner, Chen Shan went to the room to read Chinese and English.Cheng Luoyi called Ye Li to the living room on the third floor, and the two sat down at the coffee table.

This living room on the third floor has an open and transparent floor-to-ceiling window.Outside the window is the blue sea of ​​Y City.In this sea area, there are no busy ports and unsightly artificial berms.There are some rocks and gravel on the beach and almost no people.As far as the eye can see, there is only a layer of low green plants and an endless coastline.

"My husband, every place he goes on a business trip will bring me a handkerchief." Cheng Luoyi turned her back to the sea, facing Ye Li, and said slowly, "So I have saved a lot, and I am not willing to throw it away."

"Of course you can't throw it away." Ye Li smiled, "You love uncle very much."

The few times Ye Li saw Chen Shan's parents, he felt a feeling he had never felt before.In my impression, his parents never had any intimate behavior.The father spoke with an orderly tone, and the mother spent all day long.He felt that the word "love" should not be used, even such things as the joy of life were regarded as useless and illusory in his family.In foreign movies he watches, foreigners will say I love you many times a day and kiss each other.He felt incredible.He has been trying to find a way for Chinese people to express love. Today, he finally knows how to reflect on him if there is a person hidden in his heart.That's what Cheng Luoyi looks like.

He felt that Cheng Luoyi was too happy, and Chen Shan was too happy.All the happy things that Ye Li can think of are in this room.

Cheng Luoyi smiled again and said nothing, as a kind of tacit consent, she reached out and pushed the fruit on the table to Ye Li.

There are two plates of fruit on the coffee table.Round shape, long handle, one plate is light reddish yellow color, the other plate is dark red.Ye Li had never eaten this kind of fruit, but he knew it was a cherry.

The two chatted for a while, Cheng Luoyi saw that she was not moving, so she grabbed a few and put them in his hands.

Ye Li held these cherries with his hands for a while, and finally picked one up, put it in his mouth and took a bite.

The sweet and sour juice of the cherries poured into his mouth and squirted on his taste buds.

Ye Li felt that this was a very rich taste, which could not be described as sweet or sour.How to describe it?He was at a loss for words, so he could only use the most uninspired "the most delicious fruit" to describe it.

"My parents, originally from City Y, went to Province P to jump in the queue when they were young, stayed there, and gave birth to me. My husband is from Province P. His family is a farmer, and my family is a so-called scholarly family. So at that time I My parents are very opposed to the two being together." Cheng Luoyi took a sip of tea and said slowly.

"At that time, we both started working in a state-owned enterprise in province P. The salary was stable but the salary was very low. Later, my husband proposed to start a business, and I quit my job. I also used my father's relationship to try to start from a small construction project. , It can be regarded as the first pot of gold."

"Auntie, you are amazing." Ye Li watched her speak, with the clear sky and blue sea outside the floor-to-ceiling windows as the background, and felt very comfortable.So he changed his posture, leaned against the back of the sofa, and continued to listen to her.

"Later, the business got bigger and my husband resigned. He started running business all over the country and made a lot of money. My parents didn't dare to underestimate him anymore."

"Hehe, you have a good eye."

Ye Li doesn't know if "sight" is a part of fate, but it does affect a person's life direction to a great extent.Like the woman in front of me, I don't know how many times better than my mother's life.The original family is unusual, and the man she finds is also a dragon and phoenix.

"Later, because my family still had some connections in City Y, my husband wanted me to continue to do business here. Now City Y and Province P are the two places where the company's business is doing best. City Y has opened a few A hotel, my husband has built a lot of office buildings and commercial housing in Province P."

"That business has done a lot."

"Well, but my husband and I have to be in two places like this."

Cheng Luoyi detailed a lot of things about him and Chen Shan's father when they were young. After the last sentence, Ye Li raised his head, and the setting sun was floating at the place where the sea and sky meet, and seagulls were flying against the wind in the distance.The lights were not turned on in the living room, and the whole room was dyed golden by the setting sun.

"Yeah, I've been chatting all afternoon. I'm sorry to waste your time."

"It's okay, it was a pleasure chatting with you."

Cheng Luoyi stood up and said: "The main thing is that I don't usually say these things out, but after seeing you these few months, I think it's easy to chat, so I talked too much at once."

"I like to listen." Ye Li said.

Ye Li took his schoolbag and walked towards the door, Cheng Luoyi said "wait for me".

After a while, she came out of the kitchen, took a transparent plastic box in her hand, and handed it to Ye Li.

"Take it back and eat."

Ye Li saw that it was a large box full of cherries, weighing two or three catties.

"I don't take it anymore, I ate a lot."

"Take it, we can't eat it, it's easy to break."

Ye Li finally took the box of cherries and walked back to school.He didn't have a plastic bag, and he was afraid of being crowded in his schoolbag, so he walked back with the box of cherries carefully.

After entering the school, he went directly to the department hall.It was already past 7 o'clock in the evening.Tong Yan should have had dinner and should be in the office now.He climbed the high steps at the entrance of the department hall in three steps at a time, went up to the fourth floor, and walked to the familiar place.

Sure enough, the door of Tong Yan's office was ajar, and the light shone through the crack of the door.

As soon as he pushed the door open, he walked up to Tong Yan and put the box of cherries on his desk.

"For you to eat."

Tong Yan raised his head with a surprised expression.

Ye Li walked in a bit of a hurry, and said slightly panting: "It's very delicious."