After being in contact with Xu Shiyue for such a long time, Lu Shizhen rarely saw her smile.
Just as the original text described, her face was always expressionless, as calm as a pool of water. Her long black hair was pinned behind her ears, revealing her clean little face in the slanting sunlight. Her eyebrows were slightly curved, and her thin lips were slightly curled, which instantly diluted her usual coldness and made her look particularly gentle. If it weren't for her next sentence.
Lu Shizhen couldn't help but feel a palpitation, and asked dully: "You... heard it?"
"When I went downstairs, I happened to meet Mr. Lu who introduced you to new female friends." Xu Shiyue said, and added: "They are all excellent."
The wind pushed through the thick clouds and blocked out half of the sun. As soon as the words fell, the room darkened.
Xu Shiyue's voice was as cold as ever, calmly recounting what had just happened. Lu Shizhen's heart skipped a beat. Well, it wasn't just what she heard, she heard everything.
She wouldn't think of herself as a playboy who flirts with girls everywhere, right
Lu Shizhen just looked at Xu Shiyue who was standing opposite him, and couldn't help but feel that the silence around him was a little scary.
She seemed to see the points on Xu Shiyue's head slowly rolling down, her brain started to work quickly, and she hurriedly imitated the original owner's tone, asking in a somewhat arrogant and narcissistic way, "Do I have to make friends with all the outstanding people?"
Upon hearing this, Xu Shiyue paused.
Then she heard Lu Shizhen continue, "My brother is just worried that I have always been alone and have few friends, so he suggested that I expand my circle of friends and interact more with people of my age so that I won't be out of touch.
At this point, Lu Shizhen looked up at Xu Shiyue, and seeing that she did not doubt her explanation, or show any disgust, she continued, "But I just want to study now, and I really have no interest in making friends like blind dates."
Lu Shizhen gave these two explanations very smoothly, and it didn't sound like he was lying at all.
Upon hearing this, Xu Shiyue nodded thoughtfully and said softly, "So that's how it is." "Yes." Lu Shizhen nodded and answered with certainty.
She didn't want Xu Shiyue to know that she was not welcome in this family, so she wanted to cover it up with these explanations.
But Lu Shizhen didn't know that after Aunt Sun called her downstairs to meet Lu Shize, she knocked on Xu Shiyue's door.
Xu Shiyue heard clearly what Lu Shize said to her in the living room.
Xu Shiyue knew that Lu Shizhen held a very important position in Lu Shize's heart, and she was the one who would threaten her safety.
Lu Shize did this just to make Lu Shizhen focus less energy on him, and it would be best if he could find a substitute to replace her.
So now she knew that Lu Shizhen's previous explanations were all lies.
She just looked at the girl standing in front of her with a clear conscience, her eyes were filled with obscurity. Was she trying to cover up the fact that Lu Shize introduced her to a new girlfriend, or was she... trying to protect herself. Protecting herself who was isolated and helpless at the moment. So that she could live here peacefully.
"I have already rejected my brother and gave him all the information and asked him to take it away." Just as he was thinking this, Lu Shizhen's voice rang in Xu Shiyue's ears again.
Her voice was just as confident as before, and she assured me word by word: "Don't worry, having you as my teacher is enough for me. I won't look for anyone else to be my teacher. What do I need so many teachers for?" As she spoke, Lu Shizhen looked at Xu Shiyue again.
She felt that her promise was perfect. It not only maintained the original owner's dandy personality, but also appeared very sincere. It could be included in the system's teaching examples.
Presumably, Xu Shiyue would not have any doubts about himself.
As expected, after the words fell, Lu Shizhen heard Xu Shiyue say in a calm voice: "Got it."
But before she could raise her lips in joy, Xu Shiyue's voice rang out again: "However, whether Miss Lu wants to make friends with others or not has nothing to do with me, so you don't need to explain it to me."
The voice was calm and indifferent, as if it didn't matter.
Lu Shizhen was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt that his previous series of nervous and narcissistic explanations seemed to be all due to his guilty conscience and self-conceit.
After that, Xu Shiyue had nothing more to say to Lu Shizhen. She just gently held Yuanzi's handrail and went back upstairs past Lu Shizhen. The clouds blocking the sun were blown away by the wind and soon dissipated in the air, and the sunlight filled the room again.
Lu Shizhen didn't notice that the next second after Xu Shiyue passed by her, the corner of her lips on her calm face curled up.
After lunch, Lu Shizhen and Xu Shiyue took a bus to the provincial library.
It was not summer or winter vacation yet, it was the off-season for the library and there were not many people. The wind blew the fallen leaves across the huge square in front of the library, and the silence gave off a desolate feeling.
This was the first time in Lu Shizhen's life that he came to such a place.
She looked up at the building that was too big for her eyes to see, and couldn't help but exclaim in her heart. Perhaps to facilitate special groups, the Braille Library was set up on the first floor of the library.
Rows and rows of bookshelves are densely packed in the huge reading room. The tiled floor reflects the light from the ceiling, and it seems like a sin to take heavy steps.
In fact, she didn't mind helping Xu Shiyue do this kind of thing. After all, who would refuse something that could improve her favor? Thinking of this, Lu Shizhen took the first book that Xu Shiyue handed to her.
The girl was searching slowly according to the index in front, and Lu Shizhen followed behind her, as attentive as a little tail. But after a while, this tail stopped wagging.
I don’t know if it’s because Braille is more complicated than normal writing, or because economics books are obscure and difficult to understand, but several of the books Xu Shiyue borrowed were particularly heavy. With four or five books stacked up, Lu Shizhen’s arms gradually felt the pressure.
When they reached the end of the row, Lu Shizhen saw Xu Shiyue, who was walking in front of him, pick up another book. He couldn't help but rearrange the books in his hand, and then asked inconspicuously, "Which one is the last one?"
Xu Shiyue stroked the cover words on the second page of the book and turned around when he heard the sound.
She just stared at the blurry shadow in front of her, carefully identifying the name of the book with her fingers, and after a moment she gave an answer that made Lu Shizhen breathe a sigh of relief: "The last one.
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"Then we can go back to our seats."
Lu Shizhen couldn't hide her emotions, her voice was a little happy, and she waited for Xu Shiyue to put the book in her hand. But she didn't expect Xu Shiyue to put the book on the pile of books she was holding.
The girl's movements were very natural. She raised her hand and took half of the book in Lu Shizhen's hand and held it in her arms. She calmly said, "Lead the way."
The smell that Lu Shizhen had smelled in the room suddenly passed by, and then the heavy weight on her arm was reduced by half. Lu Shizhen looked at the books in Xu Shiyue's arms with some surprise. She never thought that she would be willing to take the initiative to share with her. Lu Shizhen suddenly felt that happiness seemed to have many kinds.
Just like the joy that made her heart skip a beat at this moment, it was completely different from the joy that made her feel relieved just now. Stunned, Lu Shizhen nodded &t;Okay. &t;
After saying that, he took Xu Shiyue to the seat they had just reserved.
The only sound in the quiet reading room was the turning of pages. Lu Shizhen couldn't help but write more slowly. She was working on a physics problem, and finally took a break after finding the correct answer.
The late autumn afternoon sunlight, with a kind of late-afternoon gentleness, shines golden through the windows into the room.
Lu Shizhen raised his head and looked at the desks arranged by the window. Without the obstruction of the square walls, the quiet light exuded a sense of freedom.
Lu Shizhen liked this feeling very much and could not help but lean back against the chair. Then a straight and thin figure blocked a small part of the light in her sight. Xu Shiyue sat upright in the chair, reading the book she borrowed.
The slender fingers moved steadily and quickly on the pages, not impatient, but careful and serious. The sunlight poured down, giving her a light golden hue.
The fine eyelashes are slightly drooping, which gives her a sense of the tranquility and serenity described in ancient paintings.
Lu Shizhen felt that Xu Shiyue had a very special aura. Whenever light fell on her, she became steady and calm. No matter how gentle the light was, it could not melt the coldness and loneliness in her. It only added a touch of special favor to her, making the picture come alive.
As Lu Shizhen watched, her eyes involuntarily fell on the book between them. Thinking that Xu Shiyue was reading so intently, she curiously took a book and read it.
In order to understand Xu Shiyue's situation, Lu Shizhen watched some popular science videos about the blind. She also learned about the composition of Braille and felt that it was not difficult to interpret.
But it turned out that she was wrong.
Amid the quiet and silent reading, Lu Shizhen stumbled like an alien.
She found that her fingers were simply unable to distinguish which of the small dots printed on the fingertips were initial consonants and which were finals. She even had a hard time distinguishing which were a group and which were not.
Just when Lu Shizhen was worrying about how to tell the difference, Xu Shiyue's voice came to her ears: "Interested." The voice was plain and not distant.
Lu Shizhen was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Yeah." "Do you understand?" Xu Shiyue asked again.
"I don't understand." Lu Shizhen admitted in a low voice, describing it with some frustration, "All I feel on my hands are small dots, one after another, and I have no idea which ones are initials and which ones are finals."
Hearing Lu Shizhen say this, Xu Shiyue narrowed his eyes slightly.
It was a little unexpected for her that this person had actually studied this thing before, rather than just taking it for fun on a whim.
Looking at the book that Xu Shiyue had just turned the page of, Lu Shizhen thought it would be better for him not to distract her and cause trouble.
Just when she was about to decide to return the book to Xu Shiyue, Xu Shiyue's voice interrupted her: "I'll teach you." As soon as the words fell, the sound of a chair being moved was heard in the quiet reading room.
A shadow fell on Lu Shizhen's shoulder, and a slightly cool hand grasped her hand that was spread on the page of the book. "You shouldn't touch like this, do it like this."
(End of this chapter)