As for whether Lu Zhen finally told Lu Yan the truth, Liang Ting didn't know.
The father and daughter seemed to have made an appointment, they were tight-lipped and never mentioned this matter.
If they didn't mention it, Liang Ting naturally wouldn't ask too much. He has always been a very measured boy.
In the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus in the city in September, Liang Ting and Lu Zhen entered the Q University together and became freshmen in the 02 class.
This year, they also ushered in the first freshman military training.
The beautiful and passionate college life... It seems that it is not as good as imagined.
During the day, the military training was exposed to the sun, and was frantically "tortured" by the instructors who were leading the students for the first time. At night, wearing flip flops, I went out to eat supper and drink beer with a few brothers... Everything was calm.
Shen Kuo and Lu Zhen no longer confront each other like they did in high school. After college, the two boys seem to have grown up a lot.
Yes, we are all grown-ups, so we can still act like children, hit me once, and I will kick you...
The days also began to become dull and boring.
But Liang Ting knew that Shen Kuo's life must not be plain.
Excellent people are quite eye-catching no matter where they are. The title of provincial champion in Beicheng made Shen Kuo dazzling as soon as he entered the school.
During the military training, his class happened to be at the entrance of the playground. He stood at the head of the row, wearing a camouflage shirt, which showed his tall and straight hanger figure, his back was tall and straight, and his facial features were handsome.
It's simply not too eye-catching.
Every time girls pass by him, they can't help cutting their hair, or looking at him more shyly.
His dark eyes were hidden under the shadow of a camouflage peaked cap, he looked straight ahead, and the words "Don't get close to strangers" were written all over his body.
This taciturn and high-cold style, on the contrary, aroused the girls' desire to conquer.
Girls confessed to him in an endless stream, and he always received love letters from girls after they broke up every day, or when they gathered for singing at night.
This made Lu Zhen very upset, so there was no need for Shen Kuo to refuse by himself, Lu Zhen would run over excitedly and fend off the peach blossoms for him—
"Go away! This guy is a liar! He is a scumbag, don't be fooled by his hypocritical appearance!"
"Don't look at him as a dog now, he's really bad inside, he's the one who's talking about him!"
"Why don't you believe me, little sister! Oh, you haven't seen a tall man, have you? I know a lot of handsome guys. If I want to fall in love, I will introduce you. This man is no good, no no! How is Qi, my brother, let me introduce you?"
Over time, the girls began to spread rumors about Lu Zhen and Shen Kuo's affair...
Sometimes Liang Ting looked at Lu Zhen's excitement, and began to suspect that this guy didn't really hate Shen Kuo and wanted to ruin his good deeds. He was...
Helping his daughter protect food.
In the hot afternoon, Lu Yan came out of the senior three teaching building and stood under the camphor tree, holding a letter from Liang Ting from the university in her hand.
The paper is very thin, placed in front of my eyes, shining through the sun—
"Your dad is really helping you pick the stars."
Lu Zhen is trying her best to keep everything she can't forget.
Lu Yan and Liang Ting became pen pals, which is amazing.
Such a gentle and considerate uncle has become Lu Yan's confidant in the process of growing up.
Many times, when Lu Yan was not good at talking to Lu Zhen, she would write letters to Liang Ting, especially during the third year of high school, when they communicated frequently.
In fact, she can send text messages to Liang Ting, but the feeling of text messages and letters is completely different. Letters are such an ancient form, which can bring a sense of tranquility and solemnity of time.
She touched the letter paper that traveled from the south to the north, and sniffed it lightly, as if she could smell the warm sun, the breeze and the fragrance of flowers in the south...
And the one she can't forget.
Liang Ting also understood the little girl's thoughts very well, he would always occasionally write a message or two about Shen Kuo on the side of his pen, understating it without leaving a trace...
It seems to be inadvertent, and it seems to be intentional.
"He chose the first flag bearer for the military training, and he looked very energetic."
"He works very hard and spends time in the library whenever he has time."
"I don't know if it's an illusion, but he seems to have grown taller again. He's so old, why is he still growing!"
"I heard that the basketball team invited him to join, and Lu Zhen also wanted to join, but was rejected."
…
Most of the time, Lu Yan just avoided or ignored these few words, but in winter, she received the last letter of this semester from Liang Ting, which said—
"Everyone gathered in the playground for a party. It was rare that Shen Kuo actually sang a song."
When Lu Yan saw this sentence, she responded to Liang Ting's kindness for the first time, and she called him.
On the phone, she sensibly greeted all the uncles in his dormitory one by one, and finally asked him casually: "Can he still sing, what can he sing?"
Liang Ting smiled slightly and walked to the balcony.
The green leaves outside the balcony were rustling by the cold wind. Liang Ting turned on the hands-free phone and said, "Listen."
"Listen to what?"
"The sound of wind blowing leaves."
In winter in the south, the green leaves are always fresh and will not wither and fall away.
"I heard, you said that Shen Kuo sang a song, what is it?"
Liang Ting had eaten enough of the little girl's appetite, and then slowly said: "She who is far away seems to be talking to me through the wind."
He sang softly.
Lu Yan sat by the bay window with her knees in her arms, watching the snowflakes like goose feathers fluttering outside the window.
"She is far away, she can't go home again, but I always only have her in my dream."
Lu Yan covered her mouth, tears streaming down her fingers...
The feelings that have been buried in the bottom of my heart poured out like a tide.
Liang Ting was very considerate, he didn't speak any more, he heard the little girl on the other end of the phone breathing disorderly.
"Good night."
"Um."
He hung up the phone and stood alone by the balcony, looking at the hazy night outside the window, took a deep breath, and calmed down the sour emotions in his heart.
He has a secret that has never been revealed.
He looked up at the dark blue night sky...
The moon tonight should know what is on his mind.
At the end of 2002, a terrible SARS virus swept across mainland China. The first case was discovered in the south, and then spread to the whole country and even the whole of Southeast Asia.
During that time, people were panicked regardless of whether they were in the south or the north, and everyone wore masks when they went out.
Lu Jian also asked her aunt to thoroughly disinfect the inside and outside of the house with disinfectant water, and the goji berries and red dates in Lu Yan's thermos were also replaced with Radix Radix.
So far, twelve confirmed SARS patients have been found in Beicheng, and three have died, and the number is still rising.
Unfortunately, as the temperature dropped, Lu Yan seemed to fall ill and began to have symptoms of fever and cough.
When she went to the school hospital to get medicine, she was found to have a fever. At that time, the nurse immediately contacted the People's Hospital in Beicheng.
So Lu Yan didn't even have time to contact Lu Jian before she was stuffed into a car by panicked doctors and nurses and taken away for isolation.
Lu Zhen, who was far away at the school in Nancheng, received a call from her father, saying that Lu Yan had a fever and was quarantined, and she used all her connections to refuse to see her.
Now Lu Jian is also anxious like an ant on a hot pot, and she almost broke into the isolation building.
His precious daughter was locked up in that kind of place, locked up with a bunch of suspected patients. Thinking of this, he was going crazy.
Although the doctor explained to him again and again that there would be no cross-infection and they would be isolated separately, Lu Jian was still worried, and then said directly to the doctor: "How much money do you need to release my daughter! I will give you whatever amount. you!"
Doctors are about to call the police.
In this situation, Lu Jian, who was always used to the situation, couldn't keep calm.
There are only a handful of people who can come out alive after being imprisoned.
Meng Zhining, on the other hand, was much calmer. He dragged Lu Jian out of the doctor's office, told him not to mess around, and went back to find relationships. He found all the relationships he could find, and don't be vague about the money that should be spent. The most important thing is...
Now we must find a way to meet Lu Yan.
So when Lu Zhen received the call, he was in a daze. He put down the phone. He didn't even have time to pack his luggage. He ran out of school, planning to go directly to the airport to buy a ticket and take the nearest flight home.
But at the school gate, he was stopped by security guards.
"Student, the school is closed, stay in the school for a few days, don't go out."
"I'm in a hurry!"
"Nothing is allowed. Two people just died yesterday, and they are in our city hospital. The school is temporarily closed. We will not allow idlers to enter and leave the campus for the past few days. Please understand."
"I really have something urgent at home, I have to go back!"
The security guard didn't let him go: "Then...it's really urgent, go to your counselor to approve the leave note, and we can release him only when we get the leave note."
"I really don't have time! Our counselor is a bitch, he won't give me a leave slip!"
"Wow, you student, how do you talk?"
Seeing that they really didn't intend to let him go, Lu Zhen saw that he couldn't be soft, so he had to be hard.
He took two steps back and made a sprint, ready to climb out of the iron gate.
He rattled the iron gate, and he hung on it like a koala.
Seeing that he was really about to break in, the security guard hurried over with his baton and warned Lu Zhen, "Don't act recklessly! We will not be polite to special treatment during special times."
"I also have to go home for a special event. If it is too late, it will be too late!"
Lu Zhen was so hot-blooded, he didn't care if they were polite, he climbed up the iron gate.
At this moment, someone grabbed his collar suddenly, and a huge force pulled him off the iron gate.
Lu Zhen almost lost her balance and fell down. When she turned around, someone grabbed her by the collar from the front, and her whole body was pressed heavily against the iron gate.
He saw Shen Kuo's cold face.
He seemed to have a bad feeling, and asked hurriedly, "It's... who's wrong?"
"My daughter... no, my sister, she, she was quarantined."
Lu Zhen's eyes were red with anxiety: "I've been quarantined! It's suspected of SARS, and now our whole family can't see her."
Shen Kuo's hand clenched into a fist suddenly.
Lu Zhen still had to climb the school gate, and the security guard even had to hold a baton: "Student, if you are doing such a dangerous move, we... are really welcome!"
Shen Kuo paused, grabbed Lu Zhen's collar, and said in a deep voice, "Come with me."
He was so strong that Lu Zhen couldn't break free at all, so he could only let him pull him to the wall of the lake behind the school.
The walls here are a bit shorter, about two meters high, and the red walls have peeled and faded due to disrepair.
Shen Kuo squatted on one knee by the wall, turned to Lu Zhen and said, "Come up."
"Where are you going?"
"Step on my shoulder and climb up."
Lu Zhen hesitated for a moment, thinking about her daughter's situation, finally settled down, and stepped on Shen Kuo's shoulders.
His foot was very stable. After Lu Zhen stepped on it, he stood up and directly supported him to climb up the wall.
After Lu Zhen climbed up, she sat on the wall with her legs apart, turned her head and stretched out her hand to him: "Come up, I'll pull you."
"No need." Shen Kuo stood up, stepped back five or six meters, and then swooped down. With the help of inertia, he climbed up to the top of the wall. Finally, with the strength of his arms, he supported himself with both hands and climbed up.
Looking at his bulging arm muscles, Lu Zhen's eyes changed a little.
This man... is fucking good.
After the two climbed out of the school wall, they stopped a taxi on the street and went straight to Nancheng Airport.
The airport had a lot of security checks, and many doctors in white coats were doing basic disinfection for passengers, which made Lu Zhen even more nervous, and her back was wet in the winter.
He and Shen Kuo went directly to the ticket office at the airport, and the price of a temporary ticket was much more expensive. Coupled with the tight flights during the special period, the price doubled even more.
"Go to Beicheng, usually at ten o'clock in the evening, 900, or wait for the one at six o'clock tomorrow morning, it's cheaper."
Lu Zhen didn't care at all, now he was full of Lu Yan, and said without hesitation: "900 is 900, buy buy buy, hurry up!"
The conductor immediately issued a ticket for him, and then looked at Shen Kuo who was beside him: "Sir, do you want to buy one too? I have arranged for you to share the same seat."
"Buy one." His voice was low and hoarse, and he had already handed out his ID card.
Lu Zhen suddenly pressed his ID card and said, "You don't need to go back, it's useless if you go back, my parents can't see anyone now."
Shen Kuo glanced at him: "Otherwise, what do you think I'm doing at the airport, to see you off?"
"Didn't you come to see me off?"
"..."
Shen Kuo said stubbornly, "Open one for me."
"Hey, 900 tickets, are you crazy, where did you get so much money?"
Lu Zhen knew that Shen Kuo's tuition fees were all offset by scholarships.
"Don't worry about me." He had already pulled out his wallet.
Lu Zhen still felt sorry in his heart, and said, "I'll go back to see the situation first, and then I'll call you. It won't help if you go back now. Now that you're quarantined, no one can see anyone."
Shen Kuo got impatient and kicked him, kicking him away: "Get lost."
After being kicked for a jio, Lu Zhen finally stopped stopping him. Seeing Shen Kuo carefully fold up the ticket and put it in his breast pocket, he snorted coldly and said, "You were the one who wanted to break up at the beginning, now you are just worrying about it." The person who is also you... ”
Shen Kuo stood by the french windows of the airport, sometimes looking at the slanting sunset outside the window, sometimes looking at the clock in the airport hall, full of worries, and had no intention of paying attention to him.
Lu Zhen walked over with her arms folded, stood beside him, and murmured, "You've done it yourself."
"I did it on my own."
He replied with a hoarse voice, and there was nothing else to say...
Thinking of the girl suspected of having such a terrible disease, being isolated in the cold hospital, facing darkness and death alone...
His heart was about to break.