Let go of the past

In the morning of the next day, the heavy snow stopped, and God was very cooperative in giving a sunny day, but the temperature remained at a few degrees below zero. The snow on the road was rolled into criss-cross ruts by vehicles tied with snow chains, pedestrians Walking with his head buried on both sides of the road, his back was covered with a thin layer of sweat, but the soles of his feet were still soaked in freezing cold.

When Li Ziqing came out of the examination room, he was in a daze, struggling with the steps to solve the last two major problems in his mind. Yu Bo chased after him and shouted his name loudly, but he ignored it and instinctively followed the figure in front of him. Turn left at the corner.

"Returning to the soul." The arm was suddenly grabbed by someone, and the footsteps were cut off halfway. Li Ziqing regained consciousness, and Ji Bing looked at him dumbfounded and asked, "Where are you going?"

Only then did Li Ziqing feel that something was wrong, and when he looked up, the placard above his head was clearly written with four large characters - women's restroom.

The girl who was followed by him turned her head and stared at him inexplicably, Li Ziqing hastily withdrew her steps, and walked back to the corridor very quickly in embarrassment.

Yu Bo caught up and said in a loud voice, fearing that the world would not be chaotic: "Fuck, what are you doing in the women's toilet?"

Li Ziqing covered his face, wishing he could find a crack in the ground and sneak in: "Keep your voice down, I didn't pay attention to the road just now..."

Yu Bo shrugged, turned to Ji Bing and asked, "How did you answer the question?"

"So-so." Ji Bing observed Li Ziqing's expression, and said to the two, "Let's go, don't even think about it after the exam."

"That's right," Yu Boshen agreed, "otherwise it will affect tomorrow's experimental performance."

When the group returned to the car, Ji Bing took another look at the silent Li Ziqing, then sat up straight, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

After a long while, Li Ziqing sighed in frustration and said, "The final questions are really difficult, and I don't have a clue in my mind right now."

Ji Bing opened his eyes, turned his head to look at him, and comforted him: "What are you afraid of? Before the results come out, everyone has no idea."

"I think, looking around, you are the most calm."

Ji Bing's eyes were slightly bent, and he simply turned to his side, and said calmly, "Because my goal has been achieved."

Li Ziqing: "?"

"Let's take a break," Ji Bing changed the subject, "I have to visit the university campus in the afternoon."

"Not sleepy." Li Ziqing shook his head, "And when you close your eyes, your mind is full of the questions you just did."

"Then let's chat."

"What are you talking about?"

"Imagine the future."

Li Ziqing moved his body, adjusted a comfortable sitting posture, rested his head on the back of the chair and said slowly: "Ten years or 20 years is too long, let's say it is relatively recent, I will stay in S City to go to university."

"En." Ji Bing responded, "It's pretty good."

Li Ziqing turned his head and looked at him, "What about you?" He asked lightly: "If you want to go abroad, you should start preparing now? What about the school? Have you chosen it?"

Ji Bing looked at him steadfastly, and after a while, he opened his mouth and announced the name of a well-known American university. Li Ziqing paused, and said with a smile, "It is indeed the place you should go."

"There's nothing I should or shouldn't do," but I heard Ji Bing say, "I just want to think about it or not."

"Then let's work hard together." Li Ziqing suddenly took the initiative to hold Ji Bing's hand. His palm was warm and dry. He looked at him with clear and serious eyes, and said to him firmly: "Even if it is a domestic university, if you don't work harder, They will also be turned away.”

Ji Bing raised the corners of his mouth, turned his palms over, and tightly clenched his hands. In the narrow seating space, he leaned closer, his lips almost touching Li Ziqing's ears, and said in a low voice, "No, my Li Ziqing is very powerful."

The experimental exam on the third day needs to be conducted in groups. Ji Bing, Li Ziqing and Yu Bo were each divided into three different groups. Fortunately, the three of them were not in the first two groups, so they avoided the fate of getting up early and stayed in the hotel. After sleeping until they woke up naturally, they took the bus together towards the branch campus of a well-known university in City B.

Yu Bo had been sluggish since he got in the car, and he yawned one after another. Li Ziqing turned around and asked with concern, "Did you take a break?"

"Alas," Yu Bo said regretfully, "Last night I wanted to play games to distract my attention, but the more I played, the more excited I became, and I didn't go to bed until two or three in the morning." Come over and ask Li Ziqing: "What time did you go to bed?"

"It's past ten o'clock." Li Ziqing recalled, "After taking a shower and watching TV, I fell asleep."

"Ten fifty." Ji Bing interrupted suddenly, and said calmly, "I slept with my hair on before drying, and still laying my head on the remote control. Is your head connected to the circuit board? You're not afraid of leakage."

Li Ziqing: "???"

Yu Bo looked at them in astonishment, "You two... sleep in the same bed?"

"How is it possible!" Li Ziqing quickly denied it.

Ji Bing said calmly: "I saw it when I helped him cover the quilt."

Li Ziqing: "..."

Yu Bo was dumbfounded, "Is it because I can't keep up with the times? Are the current students so close?"

"Where is the intimacy?" Li Ziqing retorted reflexively.

"Helping to cover the quilt isn't intimacy?" Yu Bo argued, "I don't even know how to cover my girlfriend with the quilt."

"You still have a girlfriend?"

Yu Bo calmed down and became depressed. He was enlightened by the cold water of reality. He slowly retreated to his seat and said bitterly, "...the teacher won't let puppy love, in the future... there will always be."

At 04:30 in the afternoon, the experimental exam ended, and Li Ziqing followed the members of his team to the outside of the exam room, feeling a sense of illusory trance for a moment.

I actually made it all the way to the finish line. During this process, I hesitated and flinched a lot. Without Ji Bing's persistence and encouragement, he might have died on the starting line from the very beginning.

He was a little excited, and he also had some other feelings that he couldn't describe. The name of that feeling might also be called throbbing.

He walked through the crowd and met Yu Bo on the road. The other person also looked relieved and excited. When he came here, the result may still be important, but at this moment, no matter what the result is, it is worth working hard for the process passionately. applauded himself.

"Have you seen Ji Bing?" The voices were so noisy that Li Ziqing could only raise his voice slightly, his tone was filled with unconcealable excitement and joy.

"No." Yu Bo searched for a while, and pointed to the direction of the bathroom at the end of the corridor, "Go to the toilet over there."

"I'll go find him." Li Ziqing moved against the crowd and moved towards the bathroom with all his strength.

"Just wait on the bus?" Yu Bo asked in surprise, "Why are you looking for him in such a hurry?"

Li Ziqing didn't care about answering him, but said firmly: "No."

Yu Bo watched him go away, and clicked his tongue twice: "...and said that you are not close, it's almost like three autumns apart."

Li Ziqing made his way out of the reverse crowd and headed towards the bathroom, but halfway through, he caught sight of a vague figure standing at the corner of the emergency exit stairs with few people on the way.

He took back his steps and looked over with his head, the man was indeed Ji Bing.

Li Ziqing showed joy, and walked towards the other party quickly, just about to open his mouth to shout out, when the other party suddenly turned around and turned sideways in his direction, holding the mobile phone by his ear, his peripheral vision was blocked, so he didn't notice Li Ziqing approached.

"What I think is never important, is it?" The voice was irritated, cold and emotionless, and the tone was a few decibels higher, with an overt excitement that was rarely seen.

Li Ziqing stopped, stood not far away and looked at him silently.

Should he go away now?Li Ziqing asked herself repeatedly in her heart.

But for some unknown reason, he suddenly felt that the figure standing there with a straight back not far away at this moment, and undisguisedly bursting out with inner emotions, seemed unusually lonely and desperate.

As a result, my feet seemed to be nailed to the ground suddenly, and I didn't know whether to walk, let alone which direction to go.

"Isn't it okay for half a year?" He heard Ji Bing's voice again, and he began to add a bit of pleading for concessions, "I only want another half a year, let me arrange my own affairs, after that," he paused , the tone seemed to lose all strength for a moment, "It's up to you to arrange it."

He didn't know what was said on the other end of the phone. He saw Ji Bing take two steps back weakly, leaning his back against the wall, staring at the ground with his head down. After a while, he said dejectedly: "...OK."

Li Ziqing watched him put away the phone, stepped back in a hurry and walked into the bathroom.

He hid in the toilet cubicle, heard footsteps coming in from outside, stopped at the sink, turned on the faucet to wash his hands, paused for more than a minute, then turned off the faucet and walked out.

Seeing Ji Bing coming up from the car door, Yu Bo asked him in surprise, "Why are you alone? Didn't Li Ziqing go looking for you?"

Ji Bing paused, and frowned: "I didn't see him."

"No way?" Yu Bo stood up from his seat, "I told him to go back to the car and wait, but he insisted on looking for you, why didn't anyone find him, and he disappeared."

Ji Bing turned around and got out of the car in a hurry, "I'll go find him."

Yu Bo watched Ji Bing disappear at the school gate, and complained inexplicably: "These two are acting in idol dramas..."

Turning back to the laboratory building on Ji Bingyuan Road, he saw Li Ziqing walking in his direction from a distance. After seeing him, he stretched out his hand and waved this way, then trotted over and said to him: "I just went to see you."

Ji Bing smiled faintly: "Where did you find me? I'm already back in the car."

"It's the bathroom next to the examination room. Yu Bo said he saw you go in. I yelled a few times, but no one answered."

"I didn't go to that bathroom," Ji Bing said, "There are too many people, and there is another one at the end of the corridor. When I came out, I went directly down the stairs over there."

"Oh, that's why I didn't see you."

Ji Bing put his arms around his shoulders, "Let's go, it's cold outside, get in the car."

Li Ziqing was held in his arms, walked side by side towards the school gate, rubbed his hands together and said, "How did you do the experiment questions?"

"Don't ask after the exam." Ji Bing said quietly: "Talk about something else."

"for example?"

"What's for dinner tonight?"

“Hotel buffet.”

"..." Ji Bing sighed, "Can you change it? I'm going to throw up from the buffet."

"Then why don't we invite Yu Bo tonight and go to the nearby pedestrian street to eat hot pot together."

"Perfect, let him pay the bill."

"Can he agree?"

"At this time, it depends on who runs faster."

"..."

In the end, Li Ziqing paid the bill.

It's not because he can't run fast, but because he has a thinner skin.

Later, in order to make up for it, after returning to S City, Ji Bing invited someone to have a big meal alone, with a per capita consumption of four figures.