Thursday, December 23rd.
As the millennium approaches, everyone is counting the days.
Since tomorrow is Christmas Eve, individual apples wrapped in fancy plastic wrap have become popular in schools.
Apples have also been given the new title of "Peace Fruit", and the cheapest ones are sold for two or three yuan.
Many boys in school buy them as gifts for girls, and they make it look like they are particularly fashionable.
Xu Yiyang is very uninterested in this kind of junk culture that mixes Chinese and Western things, and even despises it in his heart. However, he can't resist the fact that this thing has a strong herd effect, so its sales are very prosperous.
Because Zhang Junnan was in love, he bought a dozen of them at once, saying that he wanted Wang Ying to eat them for two thousand years.
At the same time, Zhang Junnan also tried his best to arrange for everyone to go out together on Friday to spend Christmas Eve, but others were not very interested in this.
Xu Yiyang is not interested because he is not a Christian, so Christmas Eve and Christmas Day naturally have no practical significance to him. Others are not interested because they don't have a girlfriend.
If you have a girlfriend, you can celebrate any festival, including Qingming Festival, as Valentine’s Day;
If you don't have a girlfriend, you won't be interested in any festival.
In the afternoon, Xu Yiyang received a call from the Civil Affairs Bureau, officially announcing that he had been selected as one of the top ten outstanding youths of the year in Zhonghai City. The official results will be published and broadcast in tomorrow's newspapers and news. The award ceremony will be on January 7th after New Year's Day. , held at China Overseas Grand Theater.
The title of one of the top ten outstanding youths of the year in Zhonghai City is an elusive honor for college students.
Because the average age of those who can get this title is basically in their thirties, and many of them are high-end talents who have worked in various positions for more than ten years and made extraordinary achievements.
Before this, no college student had ever received this honor.
Anyone else might have been so excited that he could not speak coherently, but after Xu Yiyang answered the phone, he just said a faint thank you, without any disturbance in his heart, and did not tell anyone about it.
He has already invested in two companies with hundreds of billions of dollars, so what does it mean to be named one of the top ten outstanding youths
In the evening, everyone had dinner together at an off-campus restaurant.
Although it was proposed to avoid the holiday, dinner gatherings have become a regular program for everyone every night.
Recently, the unbeatable group of seven has become eight people. Wang Ying is basically the same as Shen Lele, staying with the people in dormitory 309 every day.
While eating, Xu Yiyang found that Shen Lele was in a daze. After asking several times, she said she was fine, which made Xu Yiyang a little suspicious.
After dinner, Zhang Junnan and Wang Ying went to the barber shop hand in hand, saying that Wang Ying planned to get a perm.
Several others thought it was too cold and insisted on going to the club to take a bath.
As people's consumption levels have increased, clubs have become a good place to stay warm and avoid the cold in winter.
After becoming a member, the ticket only costs 20 yuan per person. You can take a shower, rest, eat at the buffet, and play cards. The most important thing is that you are warm. The shorts and short sleeves provided by the club are just right underneath, which is better than staying in a cold dormitory. Ten thousand times stronger.
Moreover, this level of consumption is not really a luxury for the people in dormitory 309, it can even be said to be very down-to-earth.
Shen Lele didn't want to go, so she asked Xu Yiyang, "Can you accompany me for a walk on the Bund?"
Shen Lele rarely made any requests to Xu Yiyang, so he agreed almost without hesitation and said to the other four: "You go take a bath, and we will go to the Bund for a stroll."
Zhao Xin nodded and said, "Then let's go first. If you feel cold and tired, come and find us."
Xu Yiyang hummed and joked: "You guys should take a shower and rest, but don't make any mistakes."
Chen Meng waved his hand: "Brother Xu, look what you said, even if I, Chen Meng, can't find a partner in four years of college, I will never embark on that path!"
Xu Yiyang smiled and said: "I just want to remind you that you are all fire-fighting heroes, brave individuals in the city, and outstanding young people in the school. You should know it well."
Everyone waved goodbye at the door of the hotel, and Xu Yiyang asked Shen Lele: "How do we get to the Bund? Do we need to drive?"
Shen Lele smiled slightly, shook his head, put his arm around Xu Yiyang's arm, stuffed his hand into his cotton coat pocket, and said, "Take the bus. There will be no one there at night. There are seats."
"good."
Xu Yiyang naturally put his hand into his pocket and wrapped it around Shen Lele's hand. Feeling the warmth of Shen Lele's hand, he said in surprise: "Why is it so hot today?"
Shen Lele said shyly: "I put the warm baby you gave me on my belly. It's very warm."
Xu Yiyang nodded and asked her: "You seem to be in a bad mood today. Is there something wrong?"
Shen Lele said, "I'll tell you when I get to the Bund."
"good."
The two maintained this natural intimacy and took a bus from a nearby bus station to the Bund.
It's getting colder, and there aren't as many people on the Bund as usual.
Walking on the Bund, Shen Lele suddenly stopped in front of an empty railing and looked into Xu Yiyang's big eyes, reflecting the colorful lights of the freighters on the river.
"Xu Yiyang, let me tell you something. Don't worry about it."
Xu Yiyang nodded: "Tell me, what kind of psychological burden can I have?"
Shen Lele said: "My mother called me in the afternoon and said that the Supreme Court's review of Chen Xuesong's death penalty has come down. According to regulations, the verdict will be executed within seven days."
Xu Yiyang was stunned when he heard the news that Chen Xuesong had approved the death penalty.
"Why so fast?"
Shen Lele said: "My mother said that the superiors have positioned and supervised the handling of this case, and the people's voice has been very high, so the process has been much faster since the second trial."
Xu Yiyang nodded slightly.
Frankly speaking, he didn't want Chen Xuesong to die from the beginning. He just wanted Chen Xuesong to spend the rest of his life in jail.
But unexpectedly, Chen Xuesong was full of evil, and as soon as he dug deep into his crimes, his grave was dug out.
Therefore, Xu Yiyang has no sense of guilt. Thinking of the crimes he has committed and the more crimes he will commit against others in the future, ordinary people are lucky that such a person dies.
So, he said: "Today is the 23rd, and you said it will be implemented within seven days. Regardless of today or not, he won't live until 2000, right?"
Shen Lele nodded slightly and said, "It will definitely be next week, and I won't be able to survive this year."
Xu Yiyang let out a breath and said with a smile: "The sinner deserves it, and it is a good arrangement to end his sin before the next thousand years!"
After saying that, Xu Yiyang asked her: "You are in a bad mood today, is it because of the psychological burden of this matter?"
"Maybe." Shen Lele pursed her lips, gently leaned her head on Xu Yiyang's shoulder, and whispered: "Anyway, I called the police and arrested him, and now he is about to be executed, so I... "
Xu Yiyang stretched out his hand, put his arm around her shoulders, put his arms around her chest, and pulled her into his arms.
Hugging her tightly, Xu Yiyang said in her ear: "Don't think nonsense, I designed him to be arrested; the 50,000 yuan for the conviction was taken out by me from the bank that afternoon; so many people reported him later. The case was only brought out bit by bit after this, so it was me who sent him to the guillotine, not you."
As he said that, Xu Yiyang hugged her tighter and continued: "And you didn't call the police to catch him, you just called the police to save me."
Xu Yiyang understands the psychological barriers faced by Shen Lele very well.
He also knew that the reason why Shen Lele felt this way was not because she was fragile, nor because she was pretentious, but because most people would inevitably have such psychological barriers when facing such problems.
When bailiffs shoot people who have committed heinous crimes, they are defending the country's laws and the interests of the people. However, because they have to take away a person's life with their own hands, in most cases, the bailiffs who execute the execution will also have certain psychological barriers.
Not to mention the police, veterinarians who euthanize animals also face huge psychological barriers.
There are even veterinarians who choose to commit suicide due to mental illness.
Shen Lele is not a well-trained bailiff, nor a professionally trained veterinarian. She is just an ordinary nineteen-year-old girl, so it is impossible for her to have no mental disorder at all.
But Xu Yiyang was afraid that she would fall into it, so he hugged her tightly without hesitation and told her that he was the driving force behind all this and had nothing to do with her.
But what really made Shen Lele put down the big stone was not Xu Yiyang's honesty, but Xu Yiyang's last words.
It was these words that made Shen Lele understand that she did all this for Xu Yiyang. As long as he was safe and sound, it was more important than anything else.
If he didn't call the police and Xu Yiyang was hurt or even killed because of it, he would never forgive himself for the rest of his life.
Fortunately, Xu Yiyang is safe and sound now. He is even in front of her, hugging her tightly. His body is particularly warm. Being held by him like this is like lying in a warm bed, which makes people feel a strong sense of security from the bottom of their hearts. feel.
She subconsciously hugged Xu Yiyang tightly and murmured: "Xu Yiyang, I like you so much..."
Xu Yiyang bit his lip hard, asking the same question in his mind.
Shen Lele, I find that I kind of like you, what should I do...
what should I do
what would you do
What about Gu Sijia
He suddenly felt as if he had been swept into the air by a tornado, and he had no control over where the wind would take him.
Looking at the river in front of him, Xu Yiyang fell into a fierce struggle and struggle, and for a while he even forgot to respond to her.
Fortunately, Shen Lele's words were just a murmur to himself, and he didn't want Xu Yiyang to respond at all.
Xu Yiyang hugged Shen Lele by the river for a long time.
All the moments since his rebirth flashed through his mind.
She was the first person she saw when she opened her eyes after rebirth, and she was the first person she offended, but she was the one who helped him the most;
She was the first one to fall in love with him, take the initiative to confess to him, and even take the initiative to kiss him;
He never told her that he was coming to Zhonghai to study at university, so it was her who he hurt and let down. In the end, it was she who gave up on Tsinghua and came to Zhonghai from Yanjing to look for him.
The twists and turns, the twists and turns, seem to have become an unsolvable knot...
(End of chapter)