north bird south

The ginkgo tree in front of No. [-] classroom of Ming University is a piece of paper, and the past is written here in the alternation of four seasons.

It was October when the pen was written, the cool breeze crossed the autumn, and the leaves were plated at dusk. It was a good time to meet each other, so Xu Zhiyuan met a person he wanted to take care of under this tree according to God's will.

The pen will be in February of the next year, which is a good year for snow, and the snow covered the twigs. It should be suitable for precipitation and thick accumulation.Xu Zhiyuan's "Yellow Calendar" miscalculated the time of day, but the season of sentimentality came several months before spring.

Xu Zhiyuan wrapped Yu Yao's scarf and squatted outside the classroom to suffer from the cold.Yu Yao forgot the scarf on the back of the chair in the office again, and Xu Zhiyuan used it to wrap it around. Yu Yao's violin case was brought out together with the scarf.

Xu Zhiyuan sang a mournful and resentful elegy, in which the melancholy filled the entire road in front of the classroom. The young men and women who passed by saw it, took a closer look, and probably sighed in their hearts, this is another college student who was defeated by love .

This era seems to be constantly compromised.Righteousness gives way to power, and people bow to confusion.

——The free youth sitting in front of the classroom steps and playing the violin is depressed because of a broken love.

Xu Zhiyuan sneezed and woke up from the cold.

In fact, passers-by's evaluation was only half right. Xu Zhiyuan lost something, but it was not "love", but "face".

If his little uncle saw that "Mr. Xu Mingzhi" in the auditorium today, he could dig a hole here on the spot and bury his head in like an ostrich.

The air was damp and cold, and he couldn't bend his hands, so he had to suspend his wild thoughts while playing, and went to the house to keep warm.

"Far away."

Hearing someone calling him, Xu Zhiyuan turned his head and saw that it was Fu Shubai, he asked, "What are you doing here, aren't you in class?"

Fu Shubai's complexion was not good. Compared with Xu Zhiyuan, he looked more like a person who had been outside for an hour in the cold. He dragged Xu Zhiyuan into the classroom, seeing that there was no one around, he angrily patted a piece of letter paper into his arms.

Xu Zhiyuan frowned: "What's wrong with you, did you choke your throat from taking gunpowder?"

When he was unfolding these letter papers, Fu Shubai said, "Did you teach her to do this?"

Xu Zhiyuan flipped through the paper in his hand, and found that it was full of Wu Tongqiu's experience. Only then did he know that Wu Tongqiu not only believed his words, but also devoted himself to writing such an article overnight.

Xu Zhiyuan said calmly: "Yes."

"Why are you making trouble with her!" Fu Shubai said angrily, "Those people are watching her closely enough now! You know what kind of dangerous situation it will put her... if this article is published in Xihua Daily ?"

"Fu Shubai, do you think I didn't consider these consequences when I proposed to her?" Xu Zhiyuan said unconvinced, "Are you teaching me now?"

"I just can't figure it out..." Fu Shubai pinched his waist and kept looking around, without looking directly into Xu Zhiyuan's eyes. He said, "You are unusual and don't like to meddle in other people's business. What are you doing here?"

"I take your business as a business, you say I'm nosy?"

"..."

"... about me? You... because of me?" Fu Shubai choked, and after a long time, his tone calmed down a lot, and he explained, "No... Yuan'er, you are wrong, this has nothing to do with me .You stop meddling, it's not good for you or her..."

"I can't figure it out either." Xu Zhiyuan didn't listen to his persuasion at all, but interrupted him, saying, "Since you want to help Wu Tongqiu, why do you keep your head back and stop her from resisting? Do you think this is helping her?"

"Resistance..." Fu Shubai laughed self-deprecatingly. He sat on the classroom chair with his head down, making an overwhelmed creaking sound, which was especially harsh in the empty classroom.The sun laid out a boundary line, I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, it happened to be between the two, Fu Shubai sat in the shade and said, "We are just students, we have no money or guns, and the coalition government is like a fence. The sheep in the house. They allow the students to jump and scold the street, and do whatever they want, but once the sheep want to bite the fence or confront the shepherd, they may sharpen their knives at any time." He pointed to the peaceful scene outside the window, saying : "Talking about these things in Huai City is like licking blood with the tip of a knife. Yuaner, I don't want to cause trouble. I just want to graduate well and find a livelihood to support myself. The rest... I don't want to get involved at all."

Xu Zhiyuan looked at him, remained silent for a long time, and said, "If you really just want to be safe, you shouldn't have interfered with Wu Tongqiu's affairs in the first place. You are contradicting yourself."

Fu Shubai propped his elbows on his knees, sitting sluggishly, holding his hair with one hand, while the other was hanging down, not speaking.

"I knew it..." Xu Zhiyuan pinched his waist and matched it with this outfit, exuding a feudal old father's aura of hating his son, he said, "I knew you fell into it."

Fu Shubai grabbed her hair with both hands. He said, "I... just want to persuade her to come back. If there is no such trouble, we can all spend the rest of the school year in peace."

Xu Zhiyuan didn't know when the two met, it was probably when he was fighting wits with his little uncle and ignoring him for a few months.

The person in front of me who used to promote singleism and platonic love in an "uninhibited way" has now become a free young man who has been defeated by love.

Xu Zhiyuan disliked him for not being up to date, and he would never have imagined that when he was playing the violin in front of the classroom a few minutes ago, he was also disliked by passers-by like this.

"If the weather in the fence is calm, but a sheep suddenly develops rebellious thoughts, you can persuade her to turn around, and she will not blame you, because it is human nature to be afraid of risks and death, and there is nothing wrong with it." Xu Zhiyuan sat next to him Exit, and said, "But now, the butcher unreasonably took her relatives away, life and death are uncertain. So she went to rush into the fence to attract the attention of all other animals, but you still persuaded her not to do it. Fu Shubai, this will only It would be chilling."

Xu Zhiyuan added another sentence: "If it were me, not only would I not listen to you, but I would even slap you twice. I don't want such a stinky man."

Fu Shubai: "..."

He stared blankly, wondering what to think, and said after a long time: "Then what do you say, those things she did, writing big characters, drawing horizontal stripes, which one worked? And which one made other animals notice?" Is it her?"

"Those things before were indeed inappropriate and had little effect," Xu Zhiyuan held up the article in his hand and said, "However, this is okay."

Fu Shubai looked up at him.Xu Zhiyuan confidently promised: "Even if you don't believe me, you still have to believe my parents."

Fu Shubai finally compromised with him, smiled wryly, and relaxed a little from his fear.

He looked at Xu Zhiyuan for a long time, and said slowly: "Xu Zhiyuan...you..."

Xu Zhiyuan: "?"

Fu Shubai stretched out his hand, lifted the hem of his long gown limply, and said, "...I wanted to ask just now, what kind of clothes are you wearing today? You look like a big fool in a landlord's house who doesn't have two catties of fat in his head."

"Hiss..." Seeing him yelling lively again, Xu Zhiyuan slapped him on the back, pulled back the corner of his clothes, and his tongue returned to its usual poison, and said, "Your father's attire!"

There is no one in the classroom, and there is no fire. It will still be cold after a long time. Fortunately, they are located by the window, and the morning sun shines through the window, which can temporarily warm them up.

……

After time was enough, Xu Zhiyuan went to the auditorium to pick up Yue Jianliu and went home. He searched furtively in the crowd after the show, but he didn't see Yu Yao, so he asked Yue Jianliu if he had seen him.

After listening to the lecture, Yue Jianliu seemed to be in a very bad mood, but hurriedly said that he didn't pay much attention to whether Teacher Yu was present.

Xu Zhiyuan asked her what happened.

"I came here specially to listen to that Miss Dongyang's speech." The cover of the notebook was almost about to be pinched five holes by Yue Jianliu.She said, "I thought there would be some insight, but I didn't expect it to be just arrogance disguised as academic and urbane."

Xu Zhiyuan circled around the students who were chatting and laughing, and it was rare to see someone so indignant as she asked, "But they..."

"These are all students who are preparing to study abroad, and their tutors are all foreigners, and they are used to seeing foreigners with no one in their eyes!" Xu Zhiyuan rarely saw Yue Jianliu's appearance like this, which seemed quite different from her usual gentle temperament, she said, "But I don't like it."

"Hey! Cut willows!"

Yue Jianliu seemed to be angry and didn't care about anything, Xu Zhiyuan didn't call her back, seeing her figure go away, he asked the rickshaw driver he just called to escort her, so he had no choice but to carry the five-page article go home.

Although the ink written on the paper was black, Xu Zhiyuan felt that it was written in human blood.So when I carried it in my arms, I was trembling, as if I was surrounded by eyes.

When I got home, I breathed out and saw someone talking with Mrs. Xu in the living room.

It was a strange man with drooping creases under his eyes, wearing a black round hat with a brim, and a smile that seemed to be permanently engraved on his face, like fake old wine, with a mellow aroma wrapped in a pungent and inferior base.

Xu Zhiyuan frowned. When he came in, the conversation had just ended. The man in the black hat got up, and when he met Xu Zhiyuan, he exchanged a few friendly greetings and went out.

Mrs. Xu sent him away with a smile, but when the sound of the car faded away, her smile disappeared suddenly. Xu Zhiyuan was startled by this change.

"Xu Zhiyuan."

"what."

"In the future, if this person or someone dressed like him comes to you and asks you about me, you don't have to avoid it, just say what you know."

Xu Zhiyuan's heart skipped a beat, and he asked, "What does this person do?"

"It's okay, people in my editorial department." Mrs. Xu patted him on the shoulder, regained her composure, and asked, "Didn't you go on a date with Jianliu? Why did you come back so early?"

"No date, just a meeting." Xu Zhiyuan frowned and said, "Can't I have a few female friends?"

Mrs. Xu looked at him suspiciously.

"Don't talk about that, mom... I have something to do..." Xu Zhiyuan muttered.

In Xu Zhiyuan's hand was the letter paper with lingering warmth, and his mother was right in front of him, but at the end of the matter, there seemed to be a sudden resistance, which silenced all the bold words before, and also pressed his hand that was about to take out the letter .

Not knowing where this resistance came from, Xu Zhiyuan glanced out the window intentionally or unintentionally.Perhaps it was the uneasiness that the strange man had brought to him just now.

"What's wrong?" Li Anrong asked.

"that……"

Suddenly a girl's soft voice came from upstairs, Xu Zhiyuan's eyes were attracted, and he saw Yu Yao who was closing the door, and the little girl who was being held firmly by him, Xu Zhiyuan recognized that it was Pei Zhen's daughter.

What happened at that moment - Xu Zhiyuan didn't know what metaphysics it was, and the uneasiness that had just risen in his chest was swept away.He took a deep breath, scolding his inexplicable heartbeat in his heart.

This seems to be what he said, "When I see my little uncle smiling, my body and mind will be at peace, and there is no big deal in the world."

Xu Zhiyuan rubbed the tip of his nose.

Mrs. Xu asked him what was the matter, Xu Zhiyuan stuffed the letter paper, casually brought up a past incident and muddied it.

He still planned to discuss with Yu Yao first, and then discuss the next step.

"Little uncle, you are back." Xu Zhiyuan walked up the stairs, "I went to school to look for you, but you were not here."

"I went to the exchange meeting, but I came back early without listening to half of it. The school has nothing to do, so I waited for you to come back for dinner with An Rong." Yu Yao put Pei Linwan down and asked her to say hello to Xu Zhiyuan.

Pei Linwan obediently said hello, brother, probably because he was hungry, then turned around and asked cautiously, "Ah Yao, did you just say eat?"

Xu Zhiyuan originally wanted to ask Pei Linwan why he was here, but before he could say anything, he heard Yu Yao laugh first, and then he said to the little girl in a warm voice: "Let's go, brother Mingzhi must be hungry too."

"..." Xu Zhiyuan closed his eyes unrequitedly.