early autumn

During the exam week, the two talents began to make appointments for self-study again.

The reason was that Ye Chuyang found his notes in his freshman year, and immediately thought of Gu Ziqiu, but he couldn't remember why he suddenly lost contact. He panicked and dialed the phone.

It took a while for Gu Ziqiu to answer the phone. He was just studying in the library when he saw the call and ran out to answer it.

"I have my calculus notes and papers from last year, do you want them?"

"I want it, I want it." Generally, Gu Ziqiu would not answer the phone when he was studying seriously. The phone is on silent, and whether he can be seen depends on luck. Even if he sees the caller ID, he often pretends not to see it. One phone call was very lucky.

"I'll get it to you when you're free."

"I'm always free, senior, where do you usually study by yourself?"

"Ah—" Ye Chuyang wanted to be a salted fish, "I don't want to study by myself yet, let me play for two more days."

"..."

The sophomore old Xianyu was forcibly dragged out by the freshman Mengxin for self-study, which sounds very miserable.

When it comes to the exam week, the school seems to have people popping out of the ground, and the population of the library and classrooms explodes. A group of college students who stay up late at night and wake up in the morning are wrapped up like ghosts, tied to the stools and reviewing half-dead.

Gu Ziqiu locked his mobile phone in a cabinet, bought himself an elderly mobile phone at the school gate, and could only make calls and send and receive text messages, and finally tossed himself into bed before eleven o'clock every day.

So I can show up at the library on time at seven o'clock the next day.

But Ye Chuyang can't do it. Before going to bed, he has to scroll through Weibo and Moments. It's really fatal when he wakes up the next day. He has to be late for half an hour every day before wandering in with two cups of milk tea.

"I said let's make an appointment later. You see, there are still seats available. I really can't get up."

"There will be no seat together later." Gu Ziqiu took Ye Chuyang's milk tea and glanced at the dark circles on her face, "Why don't you come later and I'll take your seat? Or just change to another place for self-study?"

"It's too heartless to occupy a seat at the end of the term. I'd better get up early. I'll borrow your thigh for a party and call me in half an hour." As he spoke, he slipped under Gu Ziqiu's arm and lay on her lap without thinking about it at all. You can choose another place to study by yourself.

Ye Chuyang stayed in school for a year before he realized that there was still such a fulfilling final period, he could study by himself from seven o'clock until nine o'clock in the evening, and he miraculously persisted.

It's amazing, probably because it feels so good to be with Gu Ziqiu, and it's not that difficult to get up.

As soon as you reach out, you can find someone next to you. If you are sleepy, you can quietly touch her lap and lie on her lap. She will remember to bring you chocolate and wake you up.

What if Gu Ziqiu finds a partner in the future? Ye Chuyang is very worried.

Ye Chuyang, a school scum who relied entirely on his efforts at the end of the semester to avoid failing, unexpectedly achieved soaring grades all the way, and even had the opportunity to win a scholarship.

It feels so good to be a top student, and I will study with her next year.

Ye Chuyang, who was checking his grades under the thick quilt, thought so.

The department groups during the winter vacation kept arguing day and night every day. Everyone seemed to live in different time zones, with a time difference of half a world, but they miraculously connected to the signal.

Even if the signal fluctuates and is not very stable, everyone is still firmly connected with each other. Every day, everything you eat must be sent to the group through layers of filters. Before going to bed, send it again, and kill the enemy once. Ten thousand, self-damaged eight thousand.Don't toss until everyone is hungry enough to eat supper.

"Xiao Qiuqiu, look at the one I just posted, does it look delicious?"

"...It's okay." Gu Ziqiu and her parents were lying in bed, and they didn't seem to plan to get up, so they could only rely on themselves to climb to the kitchen to cook, and said that they took a picture of a dish that they had just cooked, "I think I cooked It's more delicious."

"! Damn, did you do this?" Ye Chuyang even posted a series of shocked emojis, "I'm going to post it in the group to show off."

"do not!!"

It's too late, this is the period when everyone's signal is very stable, Ye Chuyang smashed the picture, and added a sentence, "Look at the dishes made by our family Qiuqiu!"

The full screen began to ask for a dinner party at the beginning of school, and asked Gu Ziqiu to cook, otherwise all the work for the next semester would be hers.

Gu Ziqiu was aggrieved, she would occasionally dismiss herself with these few dishes, there were thirteen people in a department, if she asked her to cook, half of them would starve to death in the end.

She opened Ye Chuyang's private chat interface again, and typed: "What do you like to eat?"

Normal departments only have dinner after the mid-term or after the end of the semester. This year's sports department cannot be classified as a normal department because of the members. Sai showed unprecedented enthusiasm for a team dinner, and the minister said that if they also had this enthusiasm when doing things, she would wake up happily in her dreams.

Du Chengxi laughed at her: "You are just dreaming."

He was stepped on by the minister nonchalantly, "I found that your deputy department is getting more and more jumpy this term. Is it because I am going to step down this semester and start preparing to usurp the throne?"

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no." The four deputy ministers all laughed hypocritically.

The departure time on the day of the dinner party was 09:30 in the morning. Gu Ziqiu secretly poked at Ye Chuyang: "I brought some special products to everyone in the department, but there was only one sample. It was given by others during the Chinese New Year. Would you like to come earlier and I will give it to you first." you?"

Ye Chuyang laughed and played a series of hahahahahaha that took up the screen.

"……What's wrong?"

"Hahaha I'm also my mother who insisted on bringing me an extra copy. I couldn't tell the difference and finally stuffed it in my suitcase. I was still thinking about whether I should ask you to give it to you earlier tomorrow, but you sent me a message. "

"...Fate, fate."

It is indeed fate, both of them bought an extra copy for each other on purpose.

At noon, everyone bought vegetables and planned to cook together. Although they agreed to have Gu Ziqiu cook at the beginning, they didn't expect Gu Ziqiu to cook alone.

If it wasn't for learning some of Ye Chuyang's favorite dishes before returning to school, the entire department would probably have to order takeaway.

"Qiuqiu, will you marry me? With what kind of man, let me tell you secretly that no man is as good as me." The minister wanted to kidnap someone while eating.

"Xiao Qiuqiu belongs to my family! Don't try to snatch someone!" Ye Chuyang stretched out his chopsticks, and forcibly pulled away the ribs that the minister had already caught.

"Here is a young couple like glue, sister Qiqi, why don't you join in the fun?" Du Chengxi bit his chopsticks and watched the whole process.

Gu Ziqiu suddenly felt a wave of jealousy, more than the vinegar added to the sweet and sour pork ribs just now. Du Chengxi probably liked the minister.

This conjecture was later confirmed.

The second semester did not have as many things as the previous semester, but the freshmen have stepped on the right track step by step, and they have become more and more accustomed to facing things. When the days are dull, the time seems to be dialed forward unconsciously.

I don't know how it slipped until the minister changed.

This is probably the first time in the university to face separation. Some people in the old small team will leave, and new people will come in. The sports department is still called the sports department, and it still does the same thing, but the people will never be the same group.

In the future, there will be a group of people who go to eat supper after finishing the activities and walk on the school path at one or two o'clock to talk about their ideals and the future. The moonlight will still shine on these people without hesitation, and the summer evening breeze will still be cool.

The years go so far, all the good days are taken away only for you to taste a little bit of sweetness, and you want to miss them infinitely but you can't go back anyway.

How did it pass so quickly? In the last meeting, everyone was listless. The minister asked who would like to stay and continue to work as deputy ministers. Everyone looked at each other and then lowered their heads.

It's too uncomfortable, and it has already begun to change. The state of the sports department, where people are always energetic and noisy, their brains hurt but not annoying, and the buff disappears by itself when the time comes.

Gu Ziqiu glanced at Ye Chuyang, staring blankly at the notebook in front of him with a blank expression on his face.

The notebooks were handed out to them when they were directors. Each vice minister would buy a notebook for one of the directors, and record them in it every time they arranged activities, so that they would not be afraid of forgetting things.

The notebooks of the four deputy departments are the same, the notebooks of the eight officers are the same, and the notebooks of the ministers are the same.The last class went on one after another, and even they themselves couldn't remember what their notebooks looked like this year.

"Hey, there is no banquet in the world that lasts forever. I haven't graduated yet. I'm still in school so we can play together."

But I graduated in only one year, this year passed so fast, what about next year?

There has never been such a dull meeting, and no one wants to be sent back to the dormitory in broad daylight. After the meeting, everyone will go their own way and go back to their respective homes.

When Gu Ziqiu walked out of the activity room, he was stopped by Du Chengxi who was chasing up from behind.

"That... Ziqiu, can you play the piano?"

Gu Ziqiu nodded.

"That's right. There will be a party in the courtyard to send off ministers. Last year, Chuyang attended. This year, you may be the one to attend. It seems that this year, you will be the only one with special skills. Do you think it will work?"

... Gu Ziqiu wanted to refuse, there was no reason to practice the piano, and she practiced with everyone who practiced musical instruments. She didn't like it or dislike it, but she had never been on stage for so many years.

She couldn't organize her refusal, and she changed her expression as soon as she opened her mouth. She said, "Let me try."

Du Chengxi's face turned red visible to the naked eye, and the following words seemed a bit difficult to say. Gu Ziqiu didn't realize that some boys still had the skill of shyness, so he raised his mood a little, and waited for Du Chengxi to finish without saying a word.

"I want to take this opportunity to express my love to Sister Qiqi, can we discuss the song and some details."

...Finally, Gu Ziqiu felt as if his 30-year-old son had finally found a partner, and he was very relieved: "Okay, I feel like senior, you have liked Miss Qiqi for a long time, but I didn't expect it to be true."

"Didn't the department not allow internal dating before? Now it's a new term, so I have to try it. It's too stupid not to say it after two years of liking. What if she accepts it."

It is really rare to have a clean and bright liking in college, and I always have to give myself an explanation in such a beautiful age.

After the repertoire was set, Du Chengxi took Gu Ziqiu to the piano room to practice the piano every day, for fear that something might go wrong on the day of the party.

Mistake still happened, just a little earlier than the party

Du Chengxi followed Gu Ziqiu into the piano room again, holding up his half-drinked drink bottle and pretending to be a bouquet of flowers to simulate his confession. He simulated it a thousand or eight hundred times without deciding what to say.

"Stop, stop, stop." Du Chengxi suddenly called to stop, "Can you tell me that it's okay for me to rush up to confess my love at this point? Should I kneel on one knee? Doesn't it look weird like this?"

Du Chengxi knelt down on one knee towards Gu Ziqiu, and raised the drink bottle towards her.

It was almost stupid, Gu Ziqiu didn't see it, the IQ of the man in love is zero, and the IQ of the man who is not in love is afraid that his IQ has dropped to negative.

Su Qika pushed the door open at this time and came in, "Qiuqiu, are you going to play this time, are you ready to play anything?"

The scene was very embarrassing for a while, and Du Chengxi knelt on the ground on one knee.

"...You two, you didn't even tell the organization, it's too much." Su Qi was dumbfounded, and felt that he should make a joke at this embarrassing moment.

I can't express it, and I feel uncomfortable. Su Qi, who can usually do stand-up comedy with his mouth, was at a loss for words. He kept thinking why he didn't find out that Du Chengxi liked Gu Ziqiu before.

The situation was a bit urgent, Gu Ziqiu immediately betrayed Du Chengxi, "Senior is thinking about how to confess his love to you, he has already thought of hundreds of ways, do you want to accept his gesture?"

Du Chengxi was still kneeling on one knee without IQ, and didn't have time to react.

"..." Du Chengxi, who was sold, was too caught off guard, so I'd better wait for the confession now, choose that sentence, will this pose work, it's useless now!

"Ah..." Su Qi only uttered one syllable, and then fell silent.

It seems to be true, Du Chengxi likes me, should I agree?How can I agree?

Du Chengxi stared at her, his mind was spinning fast, but nothing came out.

Su Qi hesitated for a long time and finally gave him a light poke in the face, but there was no response.

Su Qi was pretending that he was calm, but his ears were actually red, "Then Qiuqiu, you continue to practice, I won't bother you anymore."

He also closed the door when he left.

"Just now! Just now! Just now!" Du Chengxi covered his face, and the arc of reflex was so long that Gu Ziqiu wanted to hit someone, but finally realized that he couldn't even speak clearly.

"Catch up!" Gu Ziqiu hit someone when he wanted to, and almost kicked Du Chengxi who was still kneeling.

As soon as Du Chengxi threw the bottle, he jumped out, as expected of the sports department.

A man in love, Gu Ziqiu sighed.

Although the confession was successful one step earlier, the flowers were already ordered. Du Chengxi completely forgot about planning when to send the flowers, and just remembered to have fun secretly.

On the last day of the party, Su Qi came in with flowers in his arms, because Du Chengxi was downstairs waiting for someone to go to the party together, and he held the flowers in his hands. When Su Qi got downstairs, he saw the bunch of flowers with straight men in color, Du Chengxi There is no way to hide it and wait for the piano to play before delivering it.

"Sister Qiqiu, did you prepare flowers for Xiao Qiuqiu? Ah, I completely forgot about this one. Is there still time for me to buy it at the school gate?" Ye Chuyang felt a little embarrassed when he saw Su Qi coming in holding flowers. , she knew that Gu Ziqiu was coming today, but she didn't remember to buy flowers for her Xiao Qiuqiu.

In the end, Su Qi stuffed the flowers into her arms, "Go and give them, they are all the same."

"...Sister Qiqi, this is the first time I send you flowers." Du Chengxi was aggrieved.

Everyone suddenly reacted, and a row of faces turned around in panic.

"You two?!"

"Well, we're together, why?"

Ye Chuyang quickly took the flowers back with his hand, "I didn't even treat us to candy, so I will accept the flowers without guilt."

Gu Ziqiu did not expect that Ye Chuyang would come up to deliver flowers in the end. The point of the card was the same as the point where Du Chengxi decided to send flowers to Su Qi. With a tuck in his arms, the music just stopped, and he found a rhythm and ran down again.

A confession is missing.

Gu Ziqiu took the curtain call with flowers, which was one less part than the rehearsal, and his heart was empty.

After it was over, everyone sent the minister back to the dormitory. Du Cheng Xifei wanted to hold Su Qi's hand, while Gu Ziqiu held flowers and Ye Chuyang fell behind.

Ye Chuyang muttered in a low voice: "I also want to fall in love, Xiao Qiuqiu I will give you flowers, do you want to fall in love with me?"

After thinking about this sentence all night, Gu Ziqiu did not hesitate: "Okay."

"Ah..." Ye Chuyang turned his head fiercely, "What did you say?"

"I agree." Gu Ziqiu looked at her, "What's wrong?"

"No... why are we two together?"

"Why can't we be together? At worst, we will break up after graduation." Gu Ziqiu lowered his voice for the last sentence, but Ye Chuyang heard it.

It's actually quite good.

Even if it is not a same-sex relationship, there are so many couples who broke up after graduation. Everyone knows that the road to being together in college is difficult, but there is still so much to go, and I may not even remember myself in the grave with this love.

How beautiful the love at this time is, how can I not see the light of day.

Falling in love seems to have given the two people an extra layer of shame. The previous natural movements have added a lot of awkwardness after confirming the relationship.

Just like it was natural to ask to go to the amusement park together before, but after changing the name to a date, it is impossible to make an appointment.

The two of them wobbled at the entrance of the playground, as if the entire playground was a haunted house, and they had to muster up their courage to enter.

Gu Ziqiu couldn't take it anymore, grabbed Ye Chuyang's hand, and dragged her into the entrance pretending to be calm.

How many times have I held hands before, why did I blush when I did this time.

Why did I go straight to the roller coaster when I went in before, but at this time, I went to the Ferris wheel tacitly.

But face skin has always been a short-lived thing, and the days of blushing while holding hands lasted for a few days. Ye Chuyang has already been able to get into Gu Ziqiu's arms and act like a spoiled child, and he can skillfully hold Gu Ziqiu in his arms to act like a spoiled child.

It's too sweet, how can this person live such a sweet life.

Ye Chuyang planted himself on Gu Ziqiu's body, turning himself into a potted plant, which would die when pulled up.

The topic of breaking up after graduation seems to have been forgotten, and no one brought it up again, but Ye Chuyang is a senior, and the reality is already in front of him, so he can no longer pretend not to realize it.

"Chu Chu," Gu Ziqiu turned his pen, unable to write a word of his homework, "Are you planning to take the postgraduate entrance examination to your home?"

Ye Chuyang was peeling apples, he paused his hand with the knife, and replied casually: "Yeah...do you want to go with me, every time I said I would take you to eat the noodles at the gate of our high school?" Didn't go."

"……talk later."

That's the end of the topic.

It's not that Gu Ziqiu never thought about being together for the rest of his life. Every time she went home during the winter and summer vacations, her mother would be very excited and ask her if she was in a relationship.

"What kind of love is it? It's so tiring to be with boys. We don't understand each other. It's better to find a girl to live with."

"Then what should I do in the future? I can't spend my whole life with girls."

"Then live a lifetime." It would be great to spend a lifetime with Ye Chuyang.

When Gu Ziqiu blurted out this sentence for the first time, even he believed it a little bit, maybe one day they really will end up walking like this for the rest of their lives.

But I can only dare to believe a little bit.

Gu Ziqiu's mother didn't care about such an answer once or twice, but as time passed, she realized that Gu Ziqiu really didn't like boys.

"Mom is still waiting for you to give me a grandson. It's not like no one likes you. Why don't you even find a boyfriend now?"

"You're just a college student, why are you so anxious, you want your grandson to find my dad and give birth to you."

Her mother is really anxious. There are a few colleagues whose daughters are in their 30s and are unwilling to find a partner. Every time they sit together playing mahjong, they start to sigh and sigh.

It started again during the meal: "Ziqiu, when will you bring a boyfriend back to have a look?"

Her father was silent, and he would ask her mother to say a few words before. Not only was it useless, but she would also be talked about together, so her father simply pretended not to hear.

"I've already said that I don't like boys. How old am I? What are you in a hurry for?"

"You don't like boys, what do you like? Could it be that you still like girls?"

"What's wrong with liking girls? Are girls not attractive?"

Her father slammed the bowl, "Is homosexuality perverted?"

Her mother also followed, "Then what will you do in the future, why do you have children, you are all arguing not to have children now, you are waiting for human extinction!"

Human extinction...?

She kind of admired her mother's unconstrained ideas, and even if it really became extinct, it has nothing to do with her.

Gu Ziqiu didn't refute that her parents might really be convinced by her one day, but there are so many people who think the same around her, she doesn't have the ability to force them all, and she also has the ability to turn a blind eye.

Ye Chuyang finally succeeded in being admitted to the graduate student of the university where he wanted to go, and the four sub-departments also made up their minds about where they would go. When they were about to graduate, Su Qi even ran back to have a dinner with them.

At this time, Su Qi and Du Chengxi had already broken up. There was no conflict and it was not because they didn't like each other. Everyone had to have their own way out in the future, and no one wanted to drag the other down. In the end, they broke up and broke up peacefully.

They probably still like each other, so in the end they didn't even dare to talk much, for fear that they would want to be together again as soon as they opened their mouths.

He didn't even dare to make eye contact, and he couldn't hide the love he wanted to express inside.

Ye Chuyang was sent by Gu Ziqiu when he was leaving. In fact, her parents had come to pick it up once before, and most of the things had been moved back. This time, she carried a small bag and dragged a small box to pack it. The last thing left was the same as when Gu Ziqiu sent her to the station in the past.

Then, after a month or two, her Ye Chuyang would reappear in front of her eyes with such a standard configuration.

It's just that there will never be a next time.

"If you meet a boy you like, you can tell me about it, and if you break up, try to continue to be friends."

Ye Chuyang desperately suppressed his crying, and tried to keep his tone as calm as possible, "You haven't graduated yet, so can't you live another year?"

"Never mind." Gu Ziqiu seemed to be coaxing a child again, "It doesn't make sense to be so far away this year. Besides, it's easier for freshmen to find a partner. What if there was a very suitable boy in the past."

Ye Chuyang wanted to say so much that he couldn't hold back a single sentence.

"Goodbye." Gu Ziqiu carefully pressed his lips to her forehead, and saw that she was staring with red eyes and pretending to be strong.

Gu Ziqiu was also holding back her tears desperately, and managed to squeeze out a little smile. She would collapse in less than two seconds, so she quickly lowered her head, and did not leave or look at her.

I don't know how long I kept my head down, and when I looked up again, there were still people coming and going at the station, but Ye Chuyang had already left.

The days to come will be blank. The time with Ye Chuyang before was so wonderful, but no matter how you live it, it will be dull. If there is such a little bit of happiness, the person who first reacted and wanted to share it is no longer there.

Gu Ziqiu didn't think about the future anymore. There will be no Ye Chuyang in the future, but why will there be no Ye Chuyang in the future?

There is still her in this world, why is Ye Chuyang willing to just leave like this?

Gu Ziqiu didn't know how he ended up in City H. Ye Chuyang was the one who ran out excitedly without making any plans, how could it be her.

It was raining in City H, so I bought a ticket without checking the weather forecast before I came here, so I had to buy an umbrella near the station.

But after buying an umbrella, I don't know where to go.

She was standing in a completely strange city, and all her understanding of it came from the description of one person.

But her description was intermittent. She knew that there was a small pond with fish in Ye Chuyang’s junior high school campus. The campus store sold fish food for two yuan a pack. There were super delicious noodles and rice balls at the entrance of her high school. There is a cat that is very afraid of people, and it will often yelp and scream...

This is not only a city, it is Ye Chuyang's home, without this person, this city will always be empty.

That person said that he would take her all over the city, take her to eat all the delicious food she had eaten, and eat with her what she wanted to eat that she hadn't eaten yet, and wanted to go shopping with her in the supermarket in the evening, The next day we came together and saw her for the first time.

That person is not there.

Gu Ziqiu stood on the side of the road in a daze, and some taxis passed by, honked their horns, pulled down the windows and asked where she was going.

"The high school of No. [-] Middle School." Gu Ziqiu said without thinking.

"Hey, I thought you were a foreigner." The taxi driver was very talkative, and started to talk when he got up, "Are you going back to see the teacher?"

"No, I just go to the school gate to eat a bowl of noodles."

"I know, I know, that restaurant has been open for more than 20 years, right? I sometimes go there to eat. I went back to my mother's house with my wife for more than a month and missed it several times."

Gu Ziqiu smiled, Ye Chuyang was also thinking about it every day at that time.

More than 20 years?This store might be bigger than myself.

It was class time, and when I walked into the noodle shop, there were no customers, and the boss and his wife were playing games online with a mobile phone.

"What do you want to eat?" The proprietress asked with a smile when someone came.

"I... want a standard bowl." Gu Ziqiu remembered Ye Chuyang's tone when he took her to dinner, and wanted to make himself look less like a foreigner.

"It's still standard. There was a girl who was studying in No. [-] Middle School who liked to say that. That girl still likes the rice balls next door, but it's a pity that it's closed."

"closed?"

"Yeah, the young couple had a quarrel and got divorced, and they transferred the store out. What a pity. The business was pretty good before."

Gu Ziqiu bowed his head and remained silent, even Ye Chuyang's intermittent descriptions changed.

The noodles were still steaming when they were served, and they were indeed delicious, but I don't quite remember what kind of taste Ye Chuyang took her to eat at school, and there is no way to compare which one is more delicious.

Since Ye Chuyang said this is delicious, then this is delicious.

The phone rang suddenly, and I found out that it was her mother calling, asking when she plans to go home?

Gu Ziqiu was silent for a long time, and her mother started to worry, only then did she hear her voice: "...I'm not going back."

"You're not coming back, so how many days are you going to stay?"

"Maybe I'll stay like this forever...Mom, the noodles here are delicious. I missed them so many times in the past few years. I want to make up for her."

Where can I make up for it? The old days are gone.

After hanging up the phone, the mobile phone wallpaper came out showing her and Ye Chuyang just together. When the ferris wheel reached the top, they clicked head to head. With the huge sunlight behind them, Ye Chuyang's eyes were bent, and he looked like The daylight is brighter.

Why do I still like you so much, Gu Ziqiu thought.