senior [rebirth]

The Xinli Library is not located in the city center. Although there is a busy city nearby, the theater facilities are relatively old, and the time and quantity of films shown are far less dense than those in the city center.

Jiang Lili managed to find a movie that met Lin Xi's time requirements under such circumstances, and the content of the movie is naturally not guaranteed.

As soon as they left the movie theater, the girls couldn't bear it anymore and started discussing with each other.

"Hey, that acting just now was really embarrassing, the lines seemed to be read." Jiang Lili was the first to complain with a wrinkled face.

Another girl also nodded and said, "But I think the most frightening thing is the screenwriter, right? Didn't the main character die from a terminal illness, and then somehow come back to life in the end, without giving a reason."

"Yeah, yeah, it's inexplicable. The hero and heroine looked at each other affectionately, so I almost burst out laughing," someone answered with a smile, and then said, "Oh, yes, Bauhinia, it's almost time, my mother said to be there Wait for me at the intersection, I'll go first."

"Oh yes, me too, I'm with Nini, we both take the bus."

"We are also us, goodbye, see you at school next week."

The girls who were still together turned and left one by one, and when they got outside the mall, there were only Yao Zijing and Jiang Lili left.

Yao Zijing didn't like this movie too much, but it was watched for her birthday anyway, so compared to the bad movie itself, she actually didn't like the feeling that all her classmates left after the movie ended.

The day was really over like this. Yao Zijing was carrying her bag, walking on the road with Jiang Lili, looked up at the moonless night sky, then leaned on Jiang Lili, and whispered: "Hey, I think I will not hold a birthday party in the future."

Jiang Lili was holding a cup of milk tea, when she heard this, she turned her head and said, "Huh?"

"Banquets and banquets, it's fun to gather together, but it's too uncomfortable when they are separated." Yao Zijing frowned and said, "This is only the first year of high school. After the second and third year of high school, the time will be longer, and it will definitely be more sad... oh , we may not stay together in the second year of high school."

Jiang Lili put down the milk tea, stretched out her hand to pinch Yao Zijing's face, and said with a playful smile, "What's the matter, why is our birthday star suddenly feeling sad?"

"I hate it." Yao Zijing slapped Jiang Lili's hand off, pouted and said, "I just think it's not fun to end the meeting."

"It's good to live in the moment." Jiang Lili hugged the milk tea, jumped up and down for two steps, and said cheerfully: "You just want to be happy now, why worry about the future."

Yao Zijing gave a muffled hum.

In fact, she is not very happy now, but how to say this?For her birthday party, everyone came to support her and stayed with her for a day. Li Tengfei finally rushed over when he was in trouble.

Yao Zijing has no dissatisfaction with them, but she still feels more and more that this really ordinary birthday makes people unhappy, as if it indicates that their second year of high school will completely cover the first year of high school sooner or later, and the same will be true in their lives in the future , Layer upon layer, this group of them is destined not to stay in each other's memory for too long.

The more Yao Zijing thought about it, the more uncomfortable she became, and she followed Jiang Lili silently for a long time, until she was taken by Jiang Lili to the bus back to No. [-] Middle School, and then she suddenly came back to her senses and said, "...Huh? Lily, we are going back to the No. Home, didn’t you go back to No. [-] Middle School, how did you get in this car?”

Jiang Lili smiled at her and said, "Going back to No. [-] Middle School, I left something in the bookstore."

Yao Zijing was stunned, she didn't frequent that bookstore very much, and she didn't know its operating hours, so she hesitated and said, "Oh, oh."

In fact, most of the students who were studying in No. [-] Middle School at this time did not pay much attention to the situation in the old residential area near the bookstore at the back door of No. [-] Middle School.

The same is true for Lin Xi. If he hadn’t had the experience of opening a pet cafe and listening to the old neighbors, he probably would not have known that as early as this time when he was in school, the Manchurian government had already begun to draw blueprints for the future commercial streets, and planned ahead. The residential area behind the organized bookstore has been relocated.

The area of ​​the residential area in this area is very large, and Lin Xi’s high school was not very clean when he moved in. Therefore, based on his later understanding of this area, Lin Xi himself asked around for a long time before he found that such a building had been vacated. The abandoned residential building, and set the location on a small parcel of open space in front of the abandoned building.

This location is quite special, in front of it is the only stone gate that can be accessed, and after entering, it is a residential building that is completely wrapped around.You can imagine how many people lived here before, even if they moved away, there are still traces of those lives around.A lot of clothes drying poles were placed in the corners, and moss was floating on some of the uneven stone roads.

After finishing everything, Lin Xi specially ran to the big balcony on the third floor to take a look down. He felt that the effect was good, and finally heaved a sigh of relief. He stood on the balcony on the third floor and blew for a while. The hard work had already made him sweat profusely.

He blew for a while, and then heard voices coming from outside. He looked out of the balcony and saw that it was Jiang Lili and the others, who had already walked to the bookstore.Lin Xi, who was still relaxed and blowing the wind, suddenly became tense, jumped off the balcony and ran towards the corridor.

"Jiang Lili sent me a message saying they're here!" As soon as they went downstairs, they bumped into Guo Yu who was running in a hurry.

"I heard." Lin Xi nodded, and immediately ran to the corner they had just discussed.

Guo Yu lowered his head and adjusted a few things, then wrinkled his face and said: "No, Lin Xi, I still think that everything else is fine, but should this arrangement be changed again? Most of the surprises are your thoughts, I Being in the most conspicuous position with Senior Liu...isn't that good?"

"No, it's the same." Lin Xi reached out and picked up the fabric that was put aside with a smile, and said, "Isn't everyone giving this surprise to her together? Everyone has contributed, I'm just better at arranging these things." , so I do a little more in this area, but you and Liu Xuechang are better at enlivening the atmosphere, so of course you are here."

"But..." Guo Yu wanted to say something else.

Lin Xi stretched out his hand and made a "shh" gesture to him, then ran to the corner with the fabric in his arms, and hung one of them on the device they had prepared in advance.

The distance between the two of them was already far away, Guo Yu couldn't shout any more, so he had to give up and stand in the most conspicuous position with Liu Hao according to Lin Xi's plan.

Lin Xi, who ran to the small stone gate before entering the open space and hung up the cloth, took a step back and leaned against the wall on the other side.

There was another person beside him, Xu Hanlai had been waiting there from the beginning, holding the bottle of mineral water that Lin Xi drank before in one hand, and the other in his pocket.

All the preparations are coming to the final moment, Lin Xi looked at the scene in front of him while pulling the fabric, then squinted his eyes, looked back at the senior and said, "Does it look good?"

From Lin Xi's perspective, the radiant light in the center of the open space was softly and gently shining on the senior's face.He seemed to take a look at Guo Yu and Liu Hao who were starting to get a little nervous in this atmosphere, then turned to look at Lin Xi with a smile, and said, "Didn't you answer it last time?"

very nice.

Lin Xi shook his head lightly and said, "No, I mean."

Then, he looked at this little surprise that had been prepared for a long time, and said, "Is it good-looking that people... can remember for a long time?"

Lin Xi still doesn't know what happened to his rebirth during this period. He has consulted many materials, but obviously none of them can explain his such a case.So Lin Xi didn't know if it would end at any time, or if it would become a dream.

If there are too many such thoughts, it is inevitable to panic.

So he stopped letting himself think about it all the time, and directly cherished every minute and every second in the present moment as a changeable past, and then tried his best to make it the best, no matter what the facts were, how much he could change Just change as much as you can, and leave as many traces as you can.

The 27-year-old Lin Xi’s life can see the end at a glance, which is already very boring, so if what he does can plant some new seeds of surprise in many other people’s lives, make them shine, let this group of students maybe I can think of such a warm surprise in the future, so why not do it?

Xu Hanlai didn't answer Lin Xi's question immediately, he just looked at the light in front of him, and didn't know what he was thinking.

"Hey Lily, isn't this a bookstore? How did we get here?"

"It's a bookstore. You can go to the back door of the bookstore from here."

"...Then, that bookstore actually has a back door?"

Until the conversation between Jiang Lili and Yao Zijing gradually came from the quiet alley, Lin Xi did not get an answer.

However, under the sign of Liu Hao and Guo Yu's crazy eyes in the distance, Lin Xi didn't lose his mind to entangle with this matter for the time being. He listened to the footsteps of Yao Zijing and Jiang Lili outside with bated breath, and then heard Jiang Lili explain.

"Wow, why is this place so dark?"

After the agreed signal, he pulled the cloth on his hand vigorously--"Tearing" sounded, Lin Xi was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly looked up, and saw that there was something wrong with the device they made on the other side of the stone gate. It actually hooked the cloth directly, so that he couldn't pull it off smoothly just now.

Hearing the footsteps outside were getting closer, Lin Xi hurriedly put in more effort, but it still didn't come off.

Just as his heart was beating wildly, a hand suddenly appeared behind him, stretched out in front of Lin Xi's fingers, and retracted his knuckle fingers, and then with a sudden force, he pulled the piece of cloth with him. Lin Xi led them into the corner together.

"Yao Bauhinia! Happy 16th birthday!–"

Guo Yu and Liu Hao sounded two loud decibels on time, and at the same time, a small open space that was originally covered by the black cloth was fully displayed in front of Yao Zijing, who was brought in by Jiang Lili.

Right in the middle of this open space, there was an old table that was moved from nowhere, on which was placed a cream cake made by Sailor Moon, surrounded by sixteen thick candles, and along the If you look to the side of this center, you can see that there are several simple light bulbs wrapped around the clothes poles around it.

Originally, there were only sixteen candles glowing in this open space. It wasn't until Lin Xi's black cloth was torn off that Guo Yu turned on the switch, allowing those simple bulbs of various shapes to light up in an instant. The night sky also clearly illuminates all the kitten balloons flying around the cake.

There are many balloons and different types. Some float high, and some fall directly on the ground. They seem to be decorations like candle light bulbs, but only when you look carefully, you can find the one near the center of the cake. Under the ten balloons, there are actually two other ropes connected outside.One is lowly wrapped with stones, while the other is directly below the balloon, with exquisitely wrapped gifts hanging steadily.

While Liu Hao and Guo Yu were blowing out huge ribbons manually, Lin Xi heard the senior's voice coming from behind him.

With a bit of a sigh: "Yes."

Even in the future, you may forget how many candles are placed inside, forget whether Sailor Moon's shape has transformed or not, forget the shape of those messy light bulbs, and forget Lin Xi's mistake that made Liu Hao and Guo Yu both dumbfounded just now , and will definitely remember the cheerful atmosphere that keeps circling upwards at this moment.

I will remember the special night when they were in the freshman year of high school that was so carefully presented by someone.

From the moment she saw the Sailor Moon cake inside, Yao Zijing couldn't hold back anymore. She felt that the shining scene in front of her was like a silver needle, which gently pierced all the unhappiness she had in the movie all afternoon. , and pour something warm into it.

She bit her lip, her eyes were sore and couldn't help saying: "You guys, you guys are too annoying!"

"Wow, you can't talk nonsense!" Guo Yu said with an exaggerated expression: "Do you know how long I have been studying the circuit of this light bulb? It took me a long time to meet the requirements. Let me tell you that I didn't even go to the physics competition." After so much trouble, my hands are so electric——"

"And this Sailor Moon, oh Bauhinia, you don't know, the owner of the cake shop can't draw Sailor Moon on the cake at all, so I had to dismantle your Sailor Moon figure, but it doesn't matter, just go back and wash it Lah, take a quick look, it's your favorite transformation pose, isn't it pretty?"

"Oh, and this balloon is basically tied by Lin Xi. Wow, his effect is really amazing. I don't know how to hang the box so firmly. The bottom is all your gifts. There are more than a dozen of them. "Liu Hao also said beside him, and then shook his eyebrows at Yao Zijing: "Primary school girl, are you very unhappy that you didn't receive the gift this afternoon?"

Before Yao Zijing had time to reply to Liu Hao's words, she heard voices coming from the alley behind her and Jiang Lili.

"Are you sure it's here?" Yuxi's team organized it, so stay tuned.

"I remember the squad leader said yes, wow, why is it so biased, we seem to have walked for a long time, could it be that we went wrong?"

"Hey, yes, yes, there is light! It must be here!"

The voice at the beginning was still a bit vague, but it became clearer and clearer, and it also contained the voices of the girls who had left after watching the movie. Yao Zijing immediately turned her head and saw behind her that she had only seen it in the afternoon. She already thought they were all gone. All the classmates walked in one by one.

Yao Zijing couldn't hold back anymore: "Xiao Xiao, Nini, what are you doing—"

Before she finished speaking, Jiang Lili jumped on top of her and said, "Hey, hey, birthday stars are not allowed to cry. If you cry, our preparations for the past few days will be in vain! Hurry up and hold back!"

When Yao Zijing heard this, she really held back what Jiang Lili said, and the expression on her cheeks was uglier than crying.

The emotions in her chest were churning, and she heard the students who came in whisper one by one: "Wow, this is so beautiful."

"This candle is so beautifully arranged, and Sailor Moon - whoa! Is that cat, that cat with glasses hanging under the balloon my gift?"

"It seems to be, ah, you also wear glasses! These glasses are similar to yours! Wow, this cat Nini is you!"

"Look at that, that Garfield! It's Big Fatty, wow, it's similar to Big Fatty, how did you find this kind of balloon--"

"And that, isn't that—"

"Hey, let's not look for this first, first wish our longer and more beautiful 16-year-old Bauhinia a happy birthday, and then let her cut the cake! If you don't cut it, she really can't help crying!"

"Hahaha--"

A dozen students burst into laughter instantly, and Yao Zijing turned around angrily and chased after Jiang Lili to pat her.

The cheerful voices of the boys and girls rose little by little in this open space. They didn't know that the nearby residents had evacuated. When they spoke, they all deliberately lowered their voices. Even if someone occasionally raised their voices, others on the side would remind them.It seems that it is not so loud, not as presumptuous and dazzling as the light bulbs in the open space, but on the contrary, it dyes the scene with a different kind of warm color, wrapped in the candlelight shaking in the wind.

Li Tengfei arrived almost at this time.

He stayed in the library all the time, and when he came out, he ran into Yao Zijing and Jiang Lili by accident. In order not to let this surprise be discovered in advance, Li Tengfei stopped far away, and waited for the two of them to leave. Enter the station and wait for the next bus.

So when he arrived, Yao Zijing and the others had already started cutting the cake.As the protagonist of the birthday, Yao Zijing, who was smiling and blooming, was smeared with several pieces of cream on her cheeks.

Li Tengfei looked at the students laughing and laughing in the light, he was stunned for a while, and then he seemed to be infected by the atmosphere. Hearing a joke from someone in it, he also smiled lightly.

Li Tengfei didn't want to go to the very center. He was not in a good mood today, and he was silent all day. He always felt that standing in would destroy such a cheerful atmosphere.So I randomly found a corner and sat down, listening to their voices from a distance, watching them play.

Just when Li Tengfei's eyes fell on the piece of candlelight, looking at it, almost in a daze, he suddenly felt as if someone had patted him on the shoulder.

He turned his head and saw Lin Xi standing behind him at some point.

He looked a little different from the other students. Lin Xi's hair was wet, and his clothes seemed to be stained with dust. He looked a little dirty, but under the light of the open space, his smile was still dazzling.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time." Lin Xi said while finding a seat beside him.

"Ah?" Li Tengfei was taken aback, a little confused, today is Yao Zijing's birthday, what is Lin Xi waiting for him for?

"Well..." Lin Xi sat down next to Li Tengfei, and turned his head to look at the people who were playing together in the middle of the meeting. Then he lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then turned his head and smiled embarrassedly at Li Tengfei and said, "I The other day, I found something in a trash can that seemed to belong to you."

As Lin Xi spoke, he gently took out a piece of tattered paper from his pocket.

That piece of paper has been torn, crumpled, and thrown, but it was picked up again, and then it was stained evenly.

Lin Xi gently caressed the manuscript paper with his thumb, and then said softly.

"Although it seems not good to look at other people's things like this, but after thinking about it, I think I should ask you for it."

Li Tengfei stared at the piece of paper, dazed for a second, and then soon realized something, his heart beat wildly in his chest.

He just watched Lin Xi gently put the piece of paper into his hands, raised his eyes and smiled at him, and asked him.

"...Are you really going to lose it?"

The noisy sounds around passed by one by one, and the hot summer wind couldn't blow into the stone gate. Li Tengfei looked at the manuscript paper that had fallen into his palm and stood still for a long time before reaching out and gently opening it.

He knows what's in there.

During that time, his mind was very messy, and he kept turning over and over in his mind a sentence that he didn't know where to read it, but he always remembered it, and then he couldn't help writing it when he was in a trance in class.

Throughout the entire piece of manuscript paper, he wrote this sentence over and over many times, but he basically didn't finish it.

Under the large piece of blank paper, his handwriting was scattered in every corner, some only had the word "night", some wrote "wind", and some only had the word "cloud piece". Very broken.

Only in the farthest corner, he once wrote the first half of the sentence very scribbled while being lost in thought.

"The night is getting deeper, the wind is blowing, and the clouds are dragging the veil on the stars."

However, the only sentence that was considered complete was scratched by the tip of his pen irritably, and the handwriting was blurred by the sweat stains in his hands, and with the traces of tearing, it looked completely unsightly.

But I didn't expect that someone would put it together, and clearly wrote the second half of the sentence below with a firm pen.

"The treasure on the breast of a young man shines brightly, and I don't know how to hide it."