Let go of the past

The bell for evening self-study class rang through the teaching building, like a lead wire, instantly igniting the brightly lit building. The noise and the sound of walking continued to boil. The energy is wantonly splashed.

Xiao Kaicheng walked around from the other side of the podium with strides, and shouted at Li Ziqing energetically, "Let's go back to the dormitory together?"

"Okay." Li Ziqing tidied up the papers neatly, and the deskmate raised his head and asked casually, "You finished writing? Show me."

Li Ziqing shook his head, "There are still two last big questions that I haven't written yet."

"Ah?" The deskmate said in amazement, "Don't you always finish writing before leaving?"

"Let's write it tomorrow." Li Ziqing stood up: "There is no rush."

He walked out from the front door of the classroom in three steps at a time. Xiao Kaicheng chased after him, yelling, "Why are you walking so fast?"

Li Ziqing turned a deaf ear to it, and rushed downstairs in one go, until he walked outside the door of the dormitory, and then he breathed a sigh of relief, his tense shoulders relaxed, and slowed down to continue towards the dormitory building.

"Li Ziqing!"

A clear call came out of nowhere, with a steady breath, but the tuning was as powerful as a bell striking, and there was a faint sense of gnashing of teeth.

Li Ziqing paused, but did not look back. Xiao Kaicheng, who followed closely behind, turned his head and looked at the visitor with a little surprise: "Ji Bing? What are you doing in the dormitory?"

Ji Bing fixed his eyes on Li Ziqing, his eyes were deep and quiet, he approached slowly, and said unhurriedly: "I have something to do with him."

"Oh," Xiao Kaicheng waved his hands at the two of them as usual, "Then I'll go back first, see you tomorrow."

Ji Bing nodded, and waited for Xiao Kaicheng's figure to disappear at the corner of the stairs in the dormitory before he reached out to grab Li Ziqing's arm and walked out against the crowd.

"Let go." Li Ziqing was led to turn his body in a different direction, but his footsteps were fixed in place as if they were rooted.

"Do you want to quarrel in front of so many people?" Ji Bing turned his back to the crowd, his face was hidden in the dark shadow, his emotions were like a torrent under a glacier, calm on the surface, but his heart was already ups and downs .

Li Ziqing glanced at him, then lifted his arm lightly to get rid of his palm, walked silently, and walked towards the door of the dormitory.

The flower bed in front of the laboratory building has always been deserted, and the tall bushes cut a silence, only the rustling of the wind through the branches and leaves can be heard vaguely. The noise from the direction of the teaching building and the dormitory building is far away and distorted, as if isolated in another a world.

The two stopped behind the statue, Li Ziqing turned to look at Ji Bing, his eyes were blank and flat, as if deliberately covering up his emotions, but he spoke first: "Ji Bing, let's separate for a while first."

Ji Bing stared at Li Ziqing's blurred face in the darkness, but did not respond immediately.

Li Ziqing waited for a while, but the other party still didn't speak for a long time. He didn't want to stay for a long time, so he turned his head and was about to leave.

Ji Bing took a step forward and grabbed his shoulder firmly, his voice was low and slow: "Because of Su Mei?"

"Because Su Mei knew about our relationship." Li Ziqing completed what he hadn't finished.

"That's why you've been avoiding me recently?" Ji Bing laughed angrily: "So what if she knows? I guarantee she won't dare to talk nonsense."

Li Ziqing turned his eyes away, and his voice was erratic: "...but this kind of relationship will not be recognized by others at the moment. The two of us are like this now, which is very dangerous."

"I don't live in this world just to be recognized." Ji Bing said slowly, "I hope you do too."

"People are always controlled by others. Whether they want it or not, and whether they can do it are two different things."

"However, a word or a look from any one person can hold you back and control you. Is it interesting to live so cautiously?"

"It's boring, but now we don't have the strength to contend with it." Li Ziqing looked at him again, "Ji Bing, didn't you say that?"

Ji Bing looked at him with burning eyes, but smiled at the next moment, "It's ok, I learned to draw inferences from one example." He took a deep breath, as if he had made up his mind, and asked, "How long will it take?"

Li Ziqing couldn't understand for a moment, "What?"

"I asked how long you've been apart?" Ji Bing's tone was finally a little excited and anxious, "There must be a deadline, right?"

"The midterm exam is one month away," Li Ziqing said softly, "after the exam is over."

"One month?" Ji Bing laughed again after hearing that. He shook his head with a smile, then looked down at the ground, raised it up again after a while, and replied briskly, "Okay, I'll listen to you."

Li Ziqing avoided his gaze subconsciously, there was too much sadness and loss in it, although Ji Bing tried his best to cover it up, he still felt it, he was afraid that if he stayed for a second longer, he would never Shake without hesitation.

"Then I'll go back first." He said quickly, turned around and ran out of the flower bed as if fleeing.

Ji Bing watched his figure disappear into the end of his field of vision, and then walked slowly to the position where the other party was standing just now, leaning his back against the statue and stayed quietly for a long time. empty.

The noisy campus gradually fell silent. Ji Bing swayed through the teaching building and walked towards the bicycle shed. From a distance, he saw a man and a woman standing under the street lamp. He heard footsteps and looked over at the same time. The man pressed the button. After ringing the car bell, he anxiously urged: "Why are you going so slowly?"

Ji Bing stopped in front of the two, glanced at Xie Jiaqi, and said coldly, "Why are you waiting for me?"

"Jiaqi wants to wait for you, so I can't keep watch?" Li Rumao said irritably, "Let's go quickly, or I will spend the night at school."

"Ji Bing," Xie Jiaqi took a step closer, looked at Ji Bing's dull and indifferent expression, and smiled sweetly: "My parents returned to China last week, and plan to visit your house this weekend."

"Why go to Ji Bing's house?" Li Ru asked suspiciously.

Xie Jiaqi looked shy, looked down at the ground, wringed her hands and said hesitantly: "...I guess we need to discuss about our engagement."

"Fuck!" Li Ru almost fell off the mountain bike in shock, "Are you two still young?"

Xie Jiaqi glared at Li Ru coquettishly, "Engagement is not marriage, besides," she turned and continued to look at Ji Bing, with a slight blush on her cheeks: "Isn't Ji Bing going to go abroad soon? If you settle down earlier, you'll be fine." Well, it’s all about the worries of both parents.”

Li Ru giggled, gloated at Ji Bing and said, "Oh, from now on, will I change my name to brother-in-law?"

Ji Bing stared at Xie Jiaqi's shy and coy posture, suddenly sneered, and asked her: "Who is engaged to whom?"

The expression on Xie Jiaqi's face froze for an instant, and the next moment her eye circles turned red, and she asked nonchalantly, "Did I make you unhappy?"

Li Ru looked at the strange interaction atmosphere between the two of them in astonishment, jumped out of the car in a hurry, walked up to the two of them, turned his gaze to Ji Bing first, and said without knowing it: "Of course you are engaged to Jiaqi. "

"Why don't I know about my engagement?"

Xie Jiaqi suddenly covered her mouth, bent down and squatted down, buried her head on her knees and began to sob softly.

"No." Li Ru was completely confused. He didn't dare to question Ji Bing, but he had to take care of Xie Jiaqi's mood. He was confused and anxious, and his eyes swept back and forth between the two: "What the hell?" What's the matter?"

"Help her up first." Ji Bing lifted her chin, signaling Li Ru, and the other party obeyed, Xie Jiaqi was pulled up by him, and asked tremblingly while choking: "...Ji Bing, are you... Don't like me anymore..."

Li Ru suddenly felt dizzy. The trend of this topic was obviously not something he could continue to listen to. Moreover, Jiaqi had always been familiar with the general situation. What happened today?

"That... Jiaqi," Li Ru bit the bullet and coaxed embarrassingly: "I think the two of you must have misunderstood, why don't you calm down first, it's the middle of the night, what's the matter, wait until you wake up tomorrow to talk about it. Yes Right, Ji Bing?"

Li Ru frantically winked at Ji Bing.

The answer Ji Bing gave was to bypass the two of them and walk straight to the end of the carport.

Xie Jiaqi finally started to cry loudly, her whole body was shaking like chaff, and she wanted to sit on the ground again as if she couldn't support herself.

Mom...

Li Ru is completely lost. At this time, Li Ru, the straight man of steel, still has negative experience points for dealing with girls, let alone his cousin.

The clear and crisp sound of the car came from far to near, and Ji Bing came back on a mountain bike and parked firmly beside the two of them.

"What should I do?" Li Ru hurriedly asked for help.

Ji Bing turned his gaze to Xie Jiaqi, and asked her slowly: "A few days ago, did you ask Su Mei to deliver the letter for you?"

Xie Jiaqi's body froze suddenly, and the crying stopped abruptly, as if a holding spell had been cast on her, and her whole body was completely petrified.

Day, what kind of show operation is this?

Li Ru was dumbfounded.

Also, why do I become more and more confused as I listen to their conversations?

Ji Bing turned to Li Ru, who was in a mess in the wind, and said calmly, "I'm leaving first, you can take her home."

After the morning class the next day, it was the turn of Li Ziqing's group to be on duty. He sat in his seat for a while, and waited until the students in the class were almost gone, then got up and went to the tool storage area behind the classroom to get a broom, and then Turning around, Ji Bing's motionless figure appeared on the table in his field of vision, his back slightly undulating, as if he had fallen asleep at his desk.

"Li Ziqing, we are in charge of the middle row, so you can sweep from the back row to the front." The classmates in the same group in the front row shouted at him, saying, "I'll sweep from the front."

Li Ziqing: "..."

He moved his eyes to the clover series white sneakers on Ji Bing's feet, sighed inwardly, walked over helplessly, stretched out his hand and pushed the other's shoulder.

"Get up and sweep the floor."

Ji Bing raised his head from the crook of his arms, and when he saw Li Ziqing's face in a sleepy state, his consciousness hadn't recovered at all, but a smile rippling in his eyes reflexively, and he spoke a hoarse, magnetic voice, sticky like a lover whispering : "You are on duty today..."

Li Ziqing looked straight at him with such sincere and deep eyes, his heart skipped a beat uncontrollably, he hurriedly turned his face away, and said in a blunt tone: "Yes, you can go to sleep after I finish scanning."

And in just a few seconds, Ji Bing had come to his senses completely, hiding all emotions in his eyes, pulled away the stool and stood up, and said indifferently, "Thank you."

Li Ziqing bent down and began to sweep forward from the back row. When he reached the second-to-last row, he suddenly noticed that Ji Bing was still standing next to his seat and did not leave. He felt uncomfortable, because he could almost be sure that the other party's eyes were [-]% locked on him.

After cleaning the penultimate row, Li Zi cast his gaze in Ji Bing's direction intentionally and seemingly unintentionally when he straightened up, and met his gaze as expected. The two of them were stunned at the same time. Looking down, he lowered his head and continued to sweep the floor, tacitly pretending that nothing happened.

Li Ziqing was standing on the other side, sweeping the broom towards Ji Bing bit by bit, the distance between the two gradually shortened, and suddenly Ji Bing called his name: "Li Ziqing."

Without raising his head, he hummed vaguely, but the movements of his hands slowed down involuntarily.

So, Ji Bing asked softly in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Can I still talk to you?"

Li Ziqing stopped, then slowly straightened up, the eyes of the two met for the second time, but they didn't avoid it tacitly.

"Li Ziqing!" The students in the front row urged: "Hurry up, we are waiting for watering after sweeping."

"Immediately." Li Ziqing replied, turned to look at Ji Bing, his eyes were clear and serious: "Yes."