Birds don't sing

7. Bai Yu is the mirror image of Lu Chen, or to be honest, Lu Chen is the mirror image of Bai Yu.

Lu Chen once wanted to find out the difference in appearance between Qing Baifeng and Lu Chen, but in the end he could only come to a conclusion that three-quarters of them were the most similar. He couldn't tell why.

Not to mention that no one can truly reproduce someone else's appearance out of thin air, even if you can, how do you describe the corners of that person's eyes and brows?

He was Bai Yu's deskmate for one month and back desk for ten months, and for the remaining sixteen months, they were as far apart as the gravel mixed into the sea, so that in these three years, they never said anything at all. a few words.

If the "I dropped my pen to you" kind of counts.

When I introduced myself in the first year of high school, Bai Yu turned his back on the podium and took a chalk to write his name. Lips opened and closed, indifferently, as if talking about other people's affairs, "The word francium is from gold, from square, and three tones. It refers to wine vessels in ancient times. It is also a rare radioactive and active metal in nature. My parents used this word. On the one hand, it’s because my mother’s surname is Fang; on the other hand, my father’s graduation thesis is related to francium, and at the same time, he also placed his hope of ‘adapting to the environment’.”

It was early summer at that time, and there was a rare light rain at noon. At this time, the rain was over and the sky was clear. The warm sun came out from behind the trees, and the light touched the soil in the school.

At first, Lu Chen just thought that Bai Peng was too quiet.

At this time, they were still at the same table. At the beginning of the first year of high school, the teacher was more or less too lazy to care too much, and played as much as he could before the greatest pressure came. The taste of being drunk today.Lu Chen mixed in there, but he was just the most common member. During various breaks, he went to the supermarket and the field with his friends in the same class in junior high school, and finally came back sweaty after pressing the class bell. .

The good-looking classmate usually just stays in his seat between classes, and hardly leaves except for fetching water and going to the toilet. Occasionally he does leave, and he also goes to the classroom office for various reasons—his parents are both Faculty and staff.

Out of good intentions, Lu Chen once invited him to play golf, but he just raised his head slightly and said he was surprised, but in the end he just declined lightly, "No, I have something else to do, thank you."

With a slight alienation.

The girls in the class occasionally discuss the boys from the same school, and the most mentioned one in my class is of course francium, a high-cold class grass carved out of the mold of a male god. The only shortcoming is that it is rigid and serious. It moves like a wooden stake. Compared with the boys, the evaluation is even worse. In their view, Bai Yu is simply wasting his youth.

And Lu Chen didn't participate in these discussions, but every time he listened to it, he had to observe the white francium who had become his front desk more or less when he returned to his seat, so slowly, the more he looked, the more out of control he became.

Sometimes Lu Chen would also think, is Bai Fang a weak person, it doesn’t seem to be so, and when it’s over, he thinks, is Bai Franc a lonely person, it doesn’t seem to be, this young man who has a subtle sense of disconnection from the group, no matter what he does There is a kind of harmonious and gentle rhythm. Lu Chen has personally seen the vivid villain he drew on the corner of the book, and bumped into Bai Yu who came out of the office building during lunch break and squatted at the entrance of the cafeteria to feed the cat. When the flag was raised, he looked up at Bai Yu Francium stood on the podium with clear enunciation and a straight spine.

Like a clear light.

Bai Yu failed the 1000-meter physical education test. After school, Lu Chen was playing ball with his friends at school. After passing by the playground, he saw Bai Yu running slowly under the setting sun. The speed was not fast, but it was very rhythmic. The long time made the boy's forehead and back covered with beads of sweat, and there were large water stains on the back of his white shirt. As the sun was setting, he was running there, as if he was chasing something, but he was too indomitable to move forward.

"That's francium, right..." The person with Lu Chen asked uncertainly while holding the ball, Lu Chen nodded, and finally remembered that no one else could hear him, so he opened his mouth again and said yes.

He never thought that it would be so difficult to make this sound, as if he wanted to hold out the beating heart in his chest.

"It is in human beings, like bamboo arrows have yun, and pines and cypresses have hearts, so they will pass through the four seasons without changing Ke Yiye." The Chinese teacher shook his head and talked about ancient prose outside of class. Lu Chen peeked at the window from his seat He wrote with his head half down in the warm sunlight, his eyelashes cast a shadow on his cheek.

The days were heavy and the shadows were dim, Lu Chen had a sudden whim and felt that Bai Yu was probably the one who was as tall as bamboo and pine and cypress, but this was not enough, how could pine and bamboo be as light as Bai Yu?Then add the clouds and the south wind, add all the nobility and elegance, and skim off all the rain, snow, wind and frost.

The mountains and rivers are beautiful, but the vegetation is not deep.

Before entering the third year of high school, there was a heavy rain in the city, which was said to be once in a hundred years, but it happened to be in the evening when it rained. At that time, the people in the school were almost gone, and the last self-study class was called by the teacher to help improve As soon as Lu Chenfu returned to the classroom, before finishing his schoolbag, he saw the torrential rain pouring down outside.

"This is too bad," he murmured, and re-examined the bag on the side of the schoolbag unwillingly, "I just didn't bring an umbrella today... I don't know when the rain will stop."

"Will it stop in a while? The weather forecast says it's not going to be a shower." A cold voice came from behind suddenly, Lu Chen's heart trembled, and he subconsciously turned around, and he saw Bai Yu sitting on the seat, looking upright and helpless picky.

"...Are you still going home?" After a while, Lu Chen finally found his voice.

"Well, I'm on duty today." Bai Feng said, took out an umbrella from his bag and walked towards him, "If you don't mind." He said, and handed the umbrella over naturally.

"Ah, but you yourself..."

"I'll go find my parents in a while, and I'm going to go back together after they get off work." Bai Feng said without moving his eyelids.

"That's it..." Lu Chen struggled, and finally just took the umbrella. For some reason, he felt a little ashamed, and even wanted to bow his head, "Then, thank you." He said.

"Yes," Bai Feng nodded, "You're welcome."

He had turned back to his seat.

Lu Chen was left holding the umbrella, with his back to the glass window, watching that figure from behind again.

The rain still didn't stop the next day, but Lu Chen brought his own umbrella, and Bai Cheng's naturally returned it.It's quite funny that the exchange of more than a dozen sentences between him and Bai Yu in the whole high school, this time alone accounted for a quarter.

So then, there is no more.

There is always a distance between him and Bai francium, as if their seats will always be moved away when they go around. Bai Yu never knew about his insomnia tossing and turning at night, even if Bai Yu knew, so what?

It is better not to know.

One night he had a long dream. In the dream, he was still trapped in the classroom on that rainy day. There was no white franc around him, only the lonely umbrella he lent, so Lu Chen walked into the rain alone with the umbrella , he didn't know where he was going, and he didn't know who to look for, he just wandered around aimlessly like this.In the dream, the rain fell more and more heavily, until there were only pieces of white water curtains left in the distance. He was in it without distinguishing things, but when he was in a panic, he found that the umbrella was becoming transparent.

He was at a loss, and desperately dragged the umbrella towards his arms, but the umbrella refused to listen to it, just stood there stubbornly, became transparent, continued to be transparent, and finally disappeared in the more terrifying rain curtain.

When the rain hit him, it didn't hurt, but it was bone-chillingly cold.

He sat up in shock from the dream, covered in cold sweat and gasping for breath, and then he realized vaguely that the overwhelming feeling in the dream was probably called despair.

On the day when the admission notice came out, they returned to school for the last time. The verdant boulevard was full of chattering graduates. On the day when they were finally going to wear school uniforms, everyone was more or less happy. Friends gathered together, After talking, we will meet again when we go back and forth.

In fact, Lu Chen knew long before this day that Bai Yu got a very high score in the test, and finally chose the northernmost one among the universities in the country, specializing in science and engineering, while he did not get a high score. The not-so-low score crossed the line and went to a school in the south, majoring in finance, which was barely worthless.

The world is far and wide, and we will never meet again.

That day, he was a bit pretentious and took a classmate book. When distributing it, he had a good relationship with him and yelled that he couldn't see it. When he handed it to Bai Yu, he still couldn't stop his heart from trembling, and made a low trembling sound.

Bai Fang looked at him, took the paper, took out a fountain pen and filled it out, the handwriting was as delicate and beautiful as ever, with faint connections between the two, name, phone number, mobile phone, QQ, all kinds of things. In the message, he chose to fill in only three, while others such as address, zodiac sign, and birthday were all blank. At the end of the farewell message on the back, Lu Chen watched him think for a while, and changed the pen that he seldom used on weekdays. Drop four words.

Everything went well.

Nothing else.

Attached is a thank you for returning the paper.

Lu Chen took the large piece of blank paper and walked back to his seat step by step. He couldn't help but imagine how it was crumpled in his palm, but he still didn't do it in the end.

That was all Bai Qi gave him.

8. When Lu Chen went home during the summer vacation, he called Cen Xin as usual when he booked the plane ticket. The other party was a famous and talented student in the law department. It stands to reason that he shouldn't be with Lu Chen, who is half-hearted, but they are from the same hometown. , I live close to each other, and after getting acquainted with each other in the group of fellow villagers, they accidentally got together, so when I went home, I naturally got together as a companion.

Cen Xinsheng was good-looking and tall. If there was anything wrong with him, it would be a bad mouth. It's just that Lu Chen was somewhat slow in this regard, so he never cared about it.

Lu Chen had just settled his luggage, and Cen Xin had already put on a hot compress blindfold and started to take a nap. It would take half an hour to get to the airport. Lu Chen stared out the window for a while, then silently took out his phone.

The first message was Lu Chen's game invitation.

The train suddenly jolted.

The signal on the high-speed rail is not good. Lu Chen guessed that if he was online, he would only piss off Lu Chen. After thinking about it, he pressed it, but the other party was as persistent as before. After trying twice to fail, he simply changed to another game and invited again.

Lu Chen didn't know whether to laugh or cry, the difference between Lu Chen and Bai Yu would be very obvious at such times, like a random decision in the dark, he had to show the difference between the two, but he couldn't tell the difference.

He cut off the QQ interface to reply to Lu Chen, and typed every word slowly, saying that I am on the high-speed rail and the signal is not working, you should find someone else to play with.

The news from Lu Chen came back quickly. I don't know how the exam week can be so busy. The senior is already on the high-speed rail. Are you going home so early?

Well, Lu Chen simply put down the manuscript he was going to write and concentrated on returning to him. After the exam, he went back. It's boring to stay in school.

Like this... Originally, I wanted to wait until the exam was over and call the senior to lick it, but it seems that it won't work.

It’s okay if you fail, I remember that the sophomore exam ended late, so it’s better to review more if you have this time, and don’t fail the subject again.

Oh, what's the shame of a liberal arts student with a high math score? The school is not kind. What about mathematics in business?

These words finally made Lu Chen laugh. It’s good to talk to Lu Chen. As he talked, he couldn’t help feeling that the sky was sunny and the sun was shining brightly today. If you don't study, if you are so envious, why didn't you just go to the Academy of Arts?

Because I hate endorsement, alas, I knew that I had to deal with mathematics when I entered the business school. Back then, I, I, was finished, and I didn’t know how to choose between endorsement and mathematics...

"Pop—" Lu Chen couldn't hold back this time, and laughed cleanly. Lu Chen also attached a cute crying emoji, full of the atmosphere of carrying the joke to the end.

"What are you looking at, are you smiling?" Cen Xin's voice suddenly came from the side. He was rather curious about his mobile phone screen.Seems to be really happy.

"Chat with a junior." Lu Chen suppressed his smile and sat up again. "Speaking of which, you may still know him. I remember that he is also from the drama club."

"Oh, it's from the drama club, please report your name." Cen Xin also sat back, pulled down the blindfold again and lay half-lying. His eyes are not good, and I don't know if it is because he really recited too many books.

"It's fun to say, his name is pronounced the same as mine, Lu Chen."

"Oh, he, the one in my team, just saw me and wanted to complain about you, but I forgot about it later. He's quite lively, not much like you."

"It's a big difference. I didn't expect to be familiar with him at first."

"It doesn't look like the type you can communicate with. How did you meet?"

"Let's go to class together, and then there will be some things like this and that. It's like this once you come and go. Don't tell me, do all the freshmen now have this style of painting? I think the new class recruited this year is more lively than him."

"Functional has to be blunt to the point. Lu Chen's kind of cleverness, freshman this year, is stupid."

"...You are too poisonous." Lu Chen thought for a while and couldn't help but say, Cen Xin has always spoken without restraint, if Lu Chen is more familiar with him, he will definitely be curious about how he is safe and sound until now.

"But is Lu Chen smart? Why do I think he's quite naive?"

"Really, tell me."

"I didn't intend to have a deep friendship with him at first, although I couldn't help but help out when I saw him in trouble, but I don't usually see him come to me to ask for information, spy on teachers, and so on. Come and play with me."

"game?"

"There are also people who go out, maybe more often, but I have something to do most of the time, and then he probably released my shift schedule, but he doesn't bother me during working hours. He basically asks me when I am outside working hours. I can’t finish the snacks, the people I’ve met don’t go to the movies temporarily, and I’m too stressed to drink away my worries, and I don’t get drunk. I have everything. I guess I have the highest intimacy index on QQ now. I'm afraid it's him." Lu Chen recalled a little bit, and suddenly realized that Lu Chen came to him many times, which was a bit scary. He didn't think of it normally, but now that he reacted, he realized that although Lu Chen's news these days, although I don't know the time, but I always send it on time every day, and the content is not repeated, but I always let him keep sending it. After coming and going, the two of them have changed from "we are not familiar with each other" to "friends".Obviously it's only a semester.

Lu Chen suddenly remembered Lu Chen's face at those times. The young man was smiling as always, with the sincerity of a hare and a young deer jumping in his eyes, or pulling him to play ball, or bringing the rumored high-end chocolate back from Germany. , or find out which street has a restaurant that is particularly delicious. In order to thank the seniors for the teaching materials presented by them, the seniors are invited to gather together.

Every word and every word, why didn't he feel at all, Lu Chen, in fact, there was a little bit of ulterior motives.

Who would treat a stranger like this for no reason?

Should not be.

He was suddenly stunned.

Cen Xin was still sitting lazily by the side, and opened his mouth to make up for him, "If I didn't know Lu Chen, I'm afraid nine times out of ten, I would think she is a girl who likes you."

Like it.

He was suddenly a little dazed again.

"Cen Xin."

"Ok?"

"What kind of person do you like?"

"Me," Cen Xin raised the corners of his mouth, "I like people with slender eyes. They smile like cats, and they want to fuck." He answered very quickly, as if he really liked someone , but Lu Chen was so immersed in his emotions at the moment that he didn't notice it.

"It's not about this, I mean, the reason."

"The reason..." Cen Xin was silent this time, and it took him a while to give an ambiguous answer. His voice sounded dry, and he didn't know what he was thinking of. "Probably for company, who knows."

"That's it." Lu Chen was silent. He looked at his mobile phone, and the chat records were still on the emoticons sent by Lu Chen earlier. The crying ones, the cute ones, made people smile subconsciously.

Can't laugh.

"This way, it's too unfair." Lu Chen murmured, he began to feel that knowing Lu Chen itself was a weird mistake, layers of overlapping cyclical cause and effect, he was unable to break free in it, but how to judge whether it was fair or not ?Is it fair for him to like Bai franc, and is it fair for Lu Chen to like him? On the one hand, he subconsciously avoids the intersection with Lu Chen and Bai franc because he can't perfectly distinguish between them, but also because he can't perfectly distinguish between them, he always treats Lu Chen Is it fair to be compassionate?

Where is fairness?

He slowly, slowly closed his eyes.

The high-speed rail arrived abruptly.