There are not many classes on Monday, and there are only two public classes in the afternoon.
Bai Ziren was taking notes, and Zhu Mingwen next to him poked her arm with a pen and whispered, "You were secretly photographed."
"What do you mean?" Bai Ziren asked back.
"The second-to-last row, the man in the gray Adidas sportswear by the window, used his mobile phone to secretly take pictures of you in the last few public classes."
Bai Ziren asked the reason seriously: "Why did he shoot me?"
"It is said that he fell in love with you at first sight, and even came to ask the female students in our class if you are a local."
Hearing the words, Bai Ziren turned his head and looked directly over, his eyes just locked on the boy in the gray sportswear. The latter didn't expect that she would suddenly look at him, so he quickly put down his phone and pretended he was fine.
"He looks decent, but he has poor taste in dressing. He only wears two sets of gray and white sportswear in a season, and he also wears bright red socks from time to time."
Bai Ziren made no comment.
Zhu Mingwen summed it up: "From your expression, I bet he has no hope at all."
Seeing that Bai Ziren still didn't respond, Zhu Mingwen curled his lips and gave up boringly.
After class, Bai Ziren bought a box of biscuits at the campus supermarket, and when he was queuing up to pay, a voice came from behind him.
"You also like the flavor of lemon sandwich?"
Bai Ziren looked back, he had a straight face with Chinese characters.
"Sorry to disturb you during class." Adi Nan smiled innocently, "My name is Fang Zheng, from Class Three."
Bai Ziren responded a little slowly: "Hello."
"I noticed you on the first day of school, but I haven't had the luck to talk to you yet." Fangzheng tentatively said, "You seem to be alone all the time."
"Uh-huh."
"But you're smart, and I appreciate that."
Bai Ziren was taken aback, and wanted to say thank you, but the words stopped when he reached his mouth. In a small silence, it was her turn to pay the bill, and she quickly paid the money and walked out. After a few steps, Fangzheng had already He followed her, waved his arms behind her, and asked, "Are you going to the cafeteria now?"
"No." Bai Ziren said truthfully, "I'm going to the tutor's office."
"Then I won't bother you, we will talk next time when I have time."
After Fangzheng left, Bai Ziren went to see his mentor Fu He, helped sort out the materials, did a lot of chores, and finally took a bunch of questions back to the dormitory to do.
When I took off my coat, I accidentally found a piece of paper in my pocket, and when I took it out, it turned out to be a piece of letter paper.
"Student Bai, you must have heard something from idle people. That's right, I really like you. Please forgive me for being difficult to explain. There are some things I can't say in person, so I have to express them to you in this way. I don't bother with gorgeous rhetoric. , what I want to say is very simple. I had a very different feeling when I met you on the first day of school. After these days of deliberation, I have confirmed that I fell in love with you at first sight. I look forward to seeing you every day, and I want to be with you even more Let's chat up close, if you want, we can start with friends, below is my phone number, waiting for your reply, and finally please believe that I am a good person."
Bai Ziren read it twice, confirmed that it was written for her, and was a little speechless.
She had never received such a letter before, and she didn't know how to reply, so she wanted to throw it away, but when she thought that it was a sincerity from a big boy, she folded it and put it on the dictionary on the shelf as a show of respect.
Then she opened the test paper arranged by Teacher Fu, took out a pen, took off the cap of the pen, and lowered her head to do the question. After doing it for a while, she was a little distracted, and the tip of the pen unknowingly slanted out of the answer box. Finally, she realized that the four words she had written were: "Love at first sight."
A strand of hair hung down and brushed her face, she gently brushed it away, feeling a little annoyed.
Inexplicably, it feels like this Monday is particularly long.
It was the same in the next few days. I don't know if it was because the weather was getting colder, the blood flow slowed down, the thoughts became stagnant, and even the concentration was hard to concentrate.
until Friday.
Bai Ziren sat quietly on the second floor of the cafe in the lighthouse, flipping through the book in hand alone, except for the faint music coming from downstairs, the surrounding atmosphere is very quiet. To be honest, this cafe is very particular about the layout of the details. It is very clean, the glass is polished very well, there is no oil stain on the wooden table, except for an old-fashioned green-covered glass lamp, there are no extra things like dried flowers, candles, lucky lottery, etc. on the table, and there are no cats running out to show off.
Especially the space on the second floor is spacious and clean, which is very suitable for reading.
After more than half an hour, there was a slight movement in the ear.
Bai Ziren raised his head and looked in the direction of the stairs. A person descended from the third floor. As he got closer, she stared at him intently. It was indeed the man she ran into last week.
The temperature outside was twelve degrees today. He only wore a dark vertical stripe shirt and slacks, and with a book in his hand, he walked down casually and looked towards the second floor.
When he saw a desk lamp alone in the living room, only a girl in a black sweater was sitting next to the light source, with a book and a glass of water in her hand, very clean and simple, he was a little surprised, just the girl raised her eyes to meet him Looking around, he had the illusion for an instant, as if across a sea, a lonely island appeared in his sight.
He stopped, then came to the side of the wall, and helped her turn on the two lights above her head. Just as he was about to leave, he heard her ask, "Excuse me, are you also here to participate in the reading exchange meeting on Friday?"
He turned around and answered her, "No."
"Really? But I see you have a book in your hand."
"Well, this is a textbook." He explained.
"Oh, I made a mistake, I'm sorry." She felt that she was too late to strike up a conversation hastily, and looked away hastily.
Unexpectedly, after she struck up a conversation, he came over naturally, came to her side, kept a distance politely, and looked at the book in her hand, quietly resting his eyes on the blue book. On the white and white book cover, it seemed to be looking at something that had been dusty for a long time. The light silently illuminated his extremely beautiful profile. In such an elegant and quiet corner, a slender silhouette was fixed on the wall, a kind of The gentle breath quietly and docilely on her clothes.
Then he slowly put the textbooks in his hands on the table, sat down on the seat opposite her, behaved properly, and said politely: "Actually, I didn't expect that the recent study sessions would be so deserted. In the end, there was only one person. Anyway, Thank you for coming."
Bai Ziren thought for a while and said, "I think the environment here is very good, the distance is also convenient, and it's very close to my school."
"Do you study around here?"
"Yes, I'm a graduate student at a technical university."
He smiled, but he didn't have any interest in further inquiring into her privacy, but pulled back the topic: "What kind of books do you usually like to read?"
"Actually, I don't read very much." Bai Ziren picked up the only book on hand, "Except for this one, but I bought it a long time ago, and I'm revisiting it recently."
He looked at the title of the book under the light and said, "It can be seen that there is some history."
"It's my fault for not taking good care of it." Bai Ziren put down the book and glanced at the textbook he was carrying, which was wrapped in kraft paper. He couldn't guess what the content was, but it could be known that he was a person who cherished books.
"You said you don't read at all, so you found this place by chance?"
Bai Ziren was silent. Under the gaze of his black pupils, a change unexpectedly occurred in his heart that had never happened before.
"I found it on the Internet. You might find it strange to say it. In fact, the purpose of my coming here is to find someone to communicate with."
His quiet expression showed that he was listening to her patiently, and he didn't think she was so different: "It's normal, some things are easier to say to strangers."
"Really? So you feel the same way?"
"Yes, I guess most people have some."
Bai Ziren looked at his face, then at the mysterious textbook on the table, and asked slowly, "What's in this book?"
"Oh, it's a philosophy textbook."
"Huh?" She didn't expect it.
He reached out to pick up the somewhat thick textbook, and said frankly, "It's actually related to my work."
"Your job?"
"I'm a schoolteacher, and the course I teach is philosophy." He said, "I usually work part-time here."
"Philosophy." She sighed softly, thinking that her understanding of philosophy was limited to the most basic definitions in class, and she didn't know anything else, so she tried to recall, "It's the study of the origin of the world, it's a world view." Unification with methodology, if memory serves me right?"
He is not interested in correcting mistakes outside of class. After thinking for a while, he said gently and straightforwardly: "The word philosophy comes from Greek, and its etymology means love of wisdom. Simply put, it is a subject that can make people smart. It’s also a way of thinking in everyday life.”
"Is that my memory wrong?"
"No, there is no unified definition of philosophy," he said. "You're right."
Bai Ziren folded his hands on his book, pondered: "Hmm... it sounds interesting, but unfortunately I have read too little and my knowledge is shallow."
"Everyone's interest is different." He said and looked at the book in her hand, his gaze was like a vast and peaceful star, "It's like what you like, and I may not know anything about it."
Following his lowered gaze, Bai Ziren generously pushed "The Momo River" to the center of the table, and briefly introduced: "I read this book when I was a freshman in high school. It is a youth literature. It is about a girl who dropped out of school. After traveling around the story."
He reached out to pick up her book, staring down at the cover in detail.
It just made her see his hand on the book clearly. It was slender and clean, with strong joints, and looked very comfortable. The important point was that he held the book in a calm and elegant manner, so good that people couldn't take their eyes off it.
He only looked at it for a while, but didn't open it, but asked her: "Do you think it looks good?"
"Well, there are many descriptions of scenery, such as the sea in Qingdao, the desert in the northwest, Bamei Village and Peacock Lake."
He nodded slowly, and gave a serious "hmm" in response.
"There is also love, friendship and family affection inside." Bai Ziren pondered over various words, "How to describe it? I think it is very real, whether it is happy or sad, it seems to happen to me when I read it, from the beginning to the end. They are all affected by the emotions of the characters.”
He kept listening, but never opened it. He just looked at the book cover, wandering his fingers over the title, and politely handed it back to her after a while.
Seeing that he didn't have much interest in it, Bai Ziren was not disappointed, after all, he didn't look like someone who could read such books.
Bai Ziren put away his books and found a topic: "Can you recommend me a book? The one you read recently is fine."
"I recently read a book called Random Thoughts. Are you interested in reading this type of book?"
Bai Ziren nodded, quickly took out his notepad, and carefully wrote down the title of the book he said next, while taking a peek at him, he found that he was looking down at what she wrote, thinking of his teacher's identity, The way she holds the pen is dignified.
After writing the title of the book, she wrote her own name on it, and slowly tore it off and handed it to him, mustering up the greatest courage in her life: "This is my name."
"Bai Ziren." He read it once, then raised his eyes to look at her, "I remember this smell in the traditional Chinese medicine I took before."
"Yes, that's the one. Many people think it's strange that my name is just the name of a medicine, but it's easier to remember."
Before she could ask, he had already taken her pen naturally, dropped it generously on the paper, and wrote his name under her name.
"This is mine." He finished writing and handed it to her. "It's a pleasure meeting you here."
She looked down at the three soothing words on the paper, and said silently in her heart: "Cheng Jingbo."
If she said that she didn't care much about the fact that people live up to their names before, she felt quite mysterious at this moment. After she had seen too many names, only his name was the most consistent with himself.
"You work here as a part-timer every day?" she tried.
"Not necessarily. If there are no other urgent matters, I will come here on Friday night."
"Where do you usually teach?"
He didn't answer this question right away, as if he was hesitating whether it was necessary to tell her the real personal situation.
She waited for a long time, guessing that there was no answer, before she heard him say: "The University of Finance and Economics is exactly one south and one north of the university district here."
For a moment, a different emotion flooded her heart.