under the filth

After introducing themselves to each other, Lu Sheng took the initiative to exchange email addresses with Tang Cen, as well as some social accounts commonly used by Chinese students studying abroad.Tang Cen didn't reject him, and the two became friends with each other.

After passing the application verification, Lu Sheng put away his phone contentedly, with a warm smile on his face.He turned his head and said, "I'll go first, my friend is still waiting for me."

Tang Cen nodded, but did not hold him back.

Looking at the back of Lu Sheng leaving, Andy let go of Lily's hand: "Tang, what do you mean by Chinese?"

"It's just a self-introduction. There are many words with the same pronunciation in Chinese. We will use some people's names or poems with the same word to...well, explain which word it is." Tang Cen looked down at the phone and added the friend he just added. The word "Lu Sheng" was added to the note.

Lily hit Andy on the back of the hand twice in displeasure, then gave him a hard look, then turned to Tang Cen and asked, "How do you memorize so many words? When I read Chinese for the first time, I couldn't remember I thought it was a heavenly book!"

"Just memorize it if you use it too much." Tang Cen was amused by Lili's words. He put down his phone and said nonchalantly, "It's hard to memorize ancient prose."

"Hey Lily! Don't hit me." Andy rubbed the back of his hand, his dark skin couldn't see the marks of being beaten, but Tang Cen could tell from his expression that it must be in pain.

Tang Cen didn't know how Andy provoked Lily, but the girl looked very angry: "I hate it!"

Andy hugged her violently, restricting her movements.Lily struggled in his arms for a while, and found that she couldn't break free and stopped moving, but her face was very bad, and she was obviously still angry.

Tang Cen looked at Andy, then at Lily.He didn't understand why the young couple who were still flirting just now suddenly started arguing. He was busy exchanging accounts with Lu Sheng just now, so he didn't notice what happened here.

Sensing Tang Cen's gaze, Andy quickly changed the topic to Chinese: "Did Lu just say an ancient poem? Or a proverb? His pronunciation is so strange, I didn't understand it at all."

"It's an ancient poem. Both my name and his name have the same characters as Chinese poets." Tang Cen took a sip of black tea and added, "It's just that they are not poets of the same era."

"Oh, that's really destined." Andy frowned and nodded, and calmly grabbed Lily's hand pinching his waist.

Tang Cen gave a noncommittal "hmm" and didn't continue.

There was a brief and strange silence between the three of them. Tang Cen was thinking about Lu Sheng, while Lily and Andy were silently competing.

"Don, I wanted to tell you just now, did you stay up late last night?" Lily leaned on Andy's arms and suddenly said this, her hands were still pressed against Andy when she said this. Di's face, "Look, you even have dark circles under your eyes."

Andy hugged Lily and leaned over to have a look, and sure enough, he saw the faint blackness under Tang Cen's eyes, and he sighed helplessly: "I told you before I left that you should not stay up late when you are well. Some sleep?"

"I slept too much during the day, so I can't sleep at night." Tang Cen pursed his lips, the lips moistened by the tea were glowing faintly.

However, once Andy talked about it, even his girlfriend Lily couldn't bear it, so he couldn't help preaching a few more words: "Even if you get well, don't make such a fuss, according to the frequency of your current illness, sooner or later you will have to go to the hospital. "

"Got it, old lady Andy." Tang Cen grabbed a small biscuit and stuffed it directly into Andy's lecturing mouth, while Lily smiled from ear to ear.

After finishing their afternoon tea, the three of them went to the supermarket to buy some things together.It wasn't until after dinner that Tang Cen returned to the dormitory with a few bags of things.

After packing up the things he bought, Tang Cen sat on a chair, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and checked. There were no new messages or incoming calls.

Lu Sheng... Lu Sheng... Tang Cen couldn't help but repeat the name silently several times in his heart. He had a little impression of the name, but he couldn't remember where he had heard or seen it.Maybe they had a class together, or maybe the professor or someone else called his name.

Forget it, after getting along for a long time, he will naturally know, maybe one day he will suddenly remember it by himself.Putting his doubts behind him, Tang Cen got up and went into the bathroom.

The moment his foot stepped in, the screen of the mobile phone on the table suddenly lit up, and the word "Lu Sheng" was displayed on the message bar.

Tang Cen didn't see the message from Lu Sheng until he came out of the bathroom after taking a shower.He was surprised to find that the message from Lu Sheng turned out to be long-lost Chinese characters.But when he clicked on the content of the message, Tang Cen's fingers were hanging in the air, staring blankly at the Chinese characters on it.

Lu Sheng's message was very simple, just ask him: Have you had dinner yet?

Tang Cen propped his chin and thought for a while, and finally typed three words and sent them: I have eaten.

Tang Cen felt that Lu Sheng was... a bit strange.Whether in China or in the UK, the people Lu Sheng and Tang Cen have known over the years are different, but they can't say exactly what the difference is, but unexpectedly, he can't hate them.

But in fact, if you think about it seriously, Tang Cen really never hated anyone since he was a child. Everyone is the same existence to him, but he himself has never noticed it.During these years in the UK, he has been keeping in touch with Chinese students, but Lu Sheng is the only one who gives him this feeling.

Tang Cen felt that his mind had not been clear-headed during this time, and he didn't know whether it was the sequelae of taking medicine due to illness or the reason for staying up late.He stroked the small piece of skin under his eyes with his fingers, knowing that there was still a faint black circle there, which was left by his insomnia last night.

Bath's early spring night was still a bit chilly, Tang Cen sat barefoot on the bed, the wind coming in from the window made his feet cold.He stood up and closed the window tightly. When he closed it, the wind hit him in the face: "Ha chirp!"

Yesterday was a good time for a cold, so it shouldn't recur so quickly... Tang Cen rubbed his nose and sat back on the bed, just as Lu Sheng also sent a new message: There are a lot of people suffering from pollen allergies these days, and boots are for sale Medicine, you can buy some if you need it.

hay fever?He had been living in London before, and Tang Cen had only been in Bath for more than half a year now.He caught a bad cold the first time he experienced the spring here, but he had never heard of the pollen allergy epidemic here.

But Tang Cen thought about it carefully. He spent most of his time in the dormitory these days, but he did feel a little uncomfortable in his eyes during the short time he went out.At first he thought it was a cold, but what Lu Sheng said made him worry if he was allergic to pollen.

I hope boots sells eye drops.Tang Cen thought so, and directly replied to Lu Sheng.

In the next second, the mobile phone received a message from Lu Sheng: in the hayfever area on the second floor.

Tang Cen had never been to Boots, and he didn't know where the Hayfever area was, but he quickly replied with two words: Thank you.

After a long time, when the other party didn't reply to the message again, Tang Cen put down his phone, sat down at the desk and opened the book to preview the content of next week's lecture.

After reading only two lines, Tang Cen clicked twice on the page.He suddenly remembered that the next week's class seemed to be with people from the Department of Business Administration?I don't know if Lu Sheng is from that department.

However, since they are all schools of management, there will be overlapping courses in the future, and it may not be certain that they will encounter them at that time.Putting aside distracting thoughts, Tang Cen lowered his head and looked at the contents of the book again, focusing as usual.

At noon the next day, Tang Cen, who had overslept again, changed his clothes and went out.He was wearing a mask, covering most of his face.A cold was not considered a serious illness, but it was enough for Tang Cen to oversleep for several days due to spring sleepiness.

A lot of flowers had bloomed in the school, and Tang Cen felt a little uncomfortable through the mask.On the way to Boots, he saw many people whose eyes were red from rubbing, and others who kept sneezing.

What Lu Sheng said wasn't alarmist, Tang Cen could already feel the horror of Bath's spring just by looking at the various poses of the passers-by on the road. The scene on the street could even be called a disaster.Neither Andy nor Lily mentioned this matter to him. I am afraid that none of the students in their class have experienced it. He did not go to the club these days because of illness. Even if the senior reminded him of this matter, Tang Cen was not there .

Fortunately, he told himself specifically last night, where he could buy medicine, otherwise, depending on his current physique, he might be sick until the end of his life.

When he arrived at Boots, Tang Cen went straight to the second floor. After looking around blankly, he found the eye drops on the shelf in the hayfever area.When the clerk asked him how many bottles he needed, Tang Cen pondered for a while, and finally stretched out three fingers.

Later, when he went down to the first floor, Tang Cen went to buy the same number of allergy medicines.

While twisting the medicine, Tang Cen took out the phone from his pocket with his free hand.He opened the address book and dialed the first number.

The person on the other end of the phone didn't know what he was busy with, and it took him a while to connect: "Tang?"

Tang Cen held his phone with his head tilted, and pulled off his mask: "Andy, where are you now?"

"Dining with Lily, what's the matter?" Andy sounded a little confused, apparently not understanding why Tang Cen came looking for him suddenly.

After getting out of the boots, Tang Cen chose a random direction and walked aimlessly.Hearing that Andy was eating, he hesitated: "I have something for you and Lily, is it convenient now?"

Although Andy didn't know why, he immediately reported the name of the restaurant.

When Tang Cen heard the name of the restaurant, he happened to walk to a fork in the road. He paused in his forward steps, then turned around and walked in the opposite direction: "I'll go there right away."

After walking under the tree for a while, Tang Cen's nose and eyes began to itch.He pulled up the mask to cover his entire nose, and rubbed his eyes again.The irritated lacrimal gland secreted a large amount of transparent liquid, which wet the finger he used to rub his eyes.

Tang Cen shook it a few times before shaking off the tears from his hands.

I hope his two enthusiastic and big-hearted American friends can spend this spring safely.