Jing Ming's house is in a high-end villa area, with flowing water, rockery and shade trees.
The car passed through the light and shadow of the magnolia street lamps, and stopped in front of a white three-story European-style building. Upstairs and downstairs are full of lights, like a glittering jewelry box.
Jing Ming turned off the fire.
Du Ruo opened the door and was about to get out of the car, but her chest was pulled by the seat belt. She turned around and unbuttoned the seat belt and got out of the car.
A man in his thirties walked out quickly from the house: "Do you have any luggage?"
Du Ruo didn't know him, and he hadn't figured out how to greet him, so Jing Ming walked up to him and said, "Uncle Chen, bring the suitcase in the trunk."
"Eh, okay."
Uncle Chen smiled at Du Ruo, she smiled back, quickly followed him to the side of the car, and apologized: "The box is a bit heavy, let me help you."
"no, I'm fine."
"It's really a bit heavy." Du Ruo was embarrassed and helped him carry the box.
Jing Ming looked back a few meters away, didn't bother to answer, and entered the room first.
After Du Ruo entered the door, he realized that it was really a jewelry box.
In the large and empty living room, the crystal chandeliers are extremely bright, like a dream. Huge curtains fall vertically from the ceiling like a waterfall; outside the floor-to-ceiling windows is the boundless garden lawn. The living room is larger than the classroom, with a European-style couch, a blue wood coffee table, and a spiral pattern carved on the spiral staircase.
There are even a few tall trees planted around the home.
Everything is beautiful and far away.
But the smiles of the Jing family couple—Jing Yuanshan and Ming Yi—are close and familiar.
"Why is the train so late?" Mom Mingyi asked with a smile.
"I don't know either. It seems to be to make way for the train." Du Ruo said, taking a peek at Jingming. The teenager was lying on the single sofa and texting, with his long legs resting on the armrest of the sofa, with no posture at all, like a rag.
"Did Ruochun grow taller?" Dad Jing Yuanshan said, "It's taller than when I went there the year before last."
"But it's still so skinny." Mingyi said, "I usually eat more and gain weight."
The Jing family couple were too enthusiastic, and Du Ruo had no room to intervene, so he sat on the sofa in an orderly manner with his legs together.
"Didn't eat anything tonight? Are you hungry? Mama Chen made a whole table of dishes, but I didn't expect the train to be late, so let's reheat it now."
"I... ate instant noodles on the train." Du Ruo felt a little apologetic, and couldn't help but glance at Jing Ming again, who was still slumped on the sofa sending messages without any shame.
"It's fine, if you get hungry later, we can have a late-night snack." Ming Yi said.
Jing Yuanshan sighed: "Ruochun is very sensible, and worked hard, and was admitted to such a good university."
Jing Ming was fiddling with his mobile phone, as if he had never heard of it.
Seeing that the Jing family and his wife were focusing on him, Du Ruo was afraid of slighting Jing Ming, so he said slowly, "Jing Ming is also very good, he is in the same school as me."
However, Jingming acted as if he didn't hear her, and ignored her request for love.
Jing Yuanshan was also obviously dissatisfied, frowned, and said: "He, brat, to make him study is to force a cow to drink water, how many tutors have been hired for him, all of them are famous teachers. After this, I have to specialize Ask someone to watch him go to and from class, and run away and ask people to arrest him. Fortunately, he caught up with the special enrollment quota. This carefree brat is no better than you. The conditions are so difficult, but he can study and study consciously .”
Du Ruoru sat on pins and needles, smiled awkwardly, and dared not look at Jingming. The sound of his fingers typing on the screen didn't stop for a moment.
Jing Yuanshan hadn't trained enough yet, so he turned to look at Jing Ming: "Have no bones grown?! Did you sit or sit?"
Jing Ming put his legs down, sat up, and leaned into the sofa.
"You learn more from Ruochun in the future!"
Jing Ming let out a chuckle, "Don't call me Ruo Chun Ruo Chun, I changed my name to Du Ruo. The Du Ruo in 'Cai Fang Zhou Xi Du Ruo' is very artistic."
Du Ruo's cheeks were hot, and she lowered her head and grabbed her fingers.
The Jing family couple were taken aback for a moment, and quickly said, "It's fine to change it. The name sounds nice."
"Xiao Ruo." Ming Yi read it again and laughed.
He also said, "Are you tired from the train ride, why don't you go upstairs to rest earlier?"
Du Ruo hurriedly stood up: "Uncle and aunt, I brought you some special products."
She opened the box and took out a large smoked ham and a bunch of dried sausages, and said, "My mother made them all, and she is very good at it."
Ming Yi smiled and said: "Great, I just wanted to eat ham a few days ago, so you brought special products over here."
Mama Chen put the things into the kitchen.
Jing Yuanshan said: "These things are very heavy to pull over. Thank you for your hard work. The journey must be very strenuous."
Du Ruo smiled: "It's okay."
Jingming nestled on the sofa playing with his mobile phone, glanced lazily at her, and snorted: "The clothes are crowded with ham and bacon, can you still wear them?"
With a look of disgust on his face, he stood up, stuffed his phone in his pocket, and was about to walk away.
Ming Yi said: "That's right. Jing Ming, you will report to the school with Xiao Ruo tomorrow, and take her to buy some clothes by the way."
Jing Ming was a little irritable right away, with "Why me again?" He was about to say something, but seeing his father's expression, he didn't bother to refute, and went upstairs with a straight face.
Du Ruo slept in the spacious guest room that night and felt uncomfortable. Sure enough, her clothes smelled like smoked ham, smelling it, she just ate a bowl of instant noodles and her stomach growled.
She didn't go downstairs to eat supper, for fear of causing trouble.
In the middle of the night, she heard Jingming go downstairs to find something to eat, but she didn't follow.
The next day, Du Ruo received an iphone6s, which was an old phone replaced by a member of their family. It looked like a brand new one, and it also had a new local calling card.
Jing Ming drove the car opposite the school gate, stopped, and realized a serious problem, he drove a red sports car today, very ostentatious.
no problem.
But there was Du Ruo sitting in the car. What's the matter.
Du Ruo was so sensitive, he guessed his scruples and said, "Why don't we just say that our parents are friends?"
Jing Ming turned to look at her, the handsome face under the sunglasses was expressionless: "Does it look like it?"
Du Ruo: "..."
"It's okay to talk about distant relatives."
The corner of his mouth twitched: "My relatives go far beyond the solar system, and they are not as far away as you..."
He didn't finish speaking, but she nodded consciously: "Well, I'm not as poor as I am."
He didn't feel guilty at all, he was just annoyed, and took out a card from his pocket and handed it to her: "My mother said that your living expenses are in the card, and the password is your birthday. For the money to buy clothes, I will put it on your card." It's gone." Pause for a moment, then turned to look at her, seemingly jokingly, "You don't need me to accompany you, do you?"
She shook her head: "No need." She was about to open the door and get out of the car.
"stop!"
She turned around and said softly, "Is there anything else?"
"If you met me at school, just pretend you don't know me." His tone was almost commanding, "Did you hear that?"
Du Ruo lightly opened the car door with her finger, nodded: "I heard that."
She took her luggage and got out of the car.
Jingming's red sports car sped away.
"You think I want to know you." Du Ruo muttered in a low voice, which was a useless resistance.
She didn't let him affect her mood, she looked at the wide school gate across the street, and took a long breath. She carried her luggage onto the overpass, and happened to see his red sports car turn around on the road, pass under the bridge, and drive into the campus, attracting many people's attention.
When she got off the overpass and walked into the campus, her heart suddenly became joyful again.
Long straight tree-lined roads, trees covering the sky and dappled sunlight, this is what a university should look like.
Red banners were drawn on the treetops - "Welcome New Classmates".
Continuing to walk in, recruiting new clubs one after another, the seniors and sisters laughed and distributed leaflets to the new students.
Du Ruo collected a bunch of leaflets and went to the dormitory first.
There are fewer girls in engineering schools, and even fewer in engineering majors.
There are four girls in the dormitory, three different majors.
Du Ruo studies sensing and control, two Beijing roommates, Qiu Yuchen and Xia Nan, study information engineering, and Chongqing girl He Huanhuan majors in mechanical automation.
The four of them were very excited when they first arrived, and they quickly became one.
Qiu Yuchen is even more powerful, she is lively and generous, she visits everywhere, after a while, she even figured out the situation in the dormitory next door, and now she returns to the dormitory to report to the sisters:
"The dormitories on the west belong to the Faculty of Arts. There are many girls, and they all belong to the same class; the dormitories on the east have two mechatronics and two mechatronics engineering."
After she finished speaking, she grinned at Du Ruo, "Congratulations, you are the only girl in your class."
Du Ruo didn't react: "Why?"
"You idiot." He Huanhuan even spit out the dialect, and said with a smile, "The dormitory is arranged according to the major, and there is no one in the next dormitory with the same major as you, so you are the only girl?"
"... huh?" Du Ruo had one head and two big ones, with an embarrassed expression on his face.
Xia Nan trimmed her eyebrows in the vanity mirror, and said slowly: "It's not good to be a girl, all the boys in the class dote on you."
Du Ruo was very melancholy, and said, "I still want a girl to be my companion." She longed to live with Huanhuan, "If only Huanhuan had the same major as me. If I knew someone, I would apply for mechanical automation."
He Huanhuan hugged her: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, we will be together after class."
Xia Nan looked left and right at the shape of her eyebrows in the mirror, and said, "The class schedule is different." Turning the mirror, she looked at Du Ruo in the mirror, "I see you, you don't know the blessings when you are in the blessings."
"Who knows if it's a blessing?" Qiu Yuchen sat on a chair, put a pair of long legs on the desk, and said, "I walked around the school today, but I didn't see a few handsome seniors. Where are you hiding?" No, I won’t come out to meet my junior sister on the report day.”
He Huanhuan said: "I didn't see many handsome guys among the freshmen, and they were all disgraced."
Du Ruo thought of Jing Ming inexplicably, but she didn't make a sound.
The next second, Qiu Yuchen suddenly retracted his legs, turned around and lay on the back of the chair, and said, "There is one!"
He Huanhuan pointed at her and said in unison with her: "It drives a red Ferrari. Fuck, it's so fucking arrogant." The second half of the sentence was said by Qiu Yuchen.
Du Ruo sat silently on the spot.
Oh, everyone saw it.
Xia Nan: "Who is it?"
"I don't know, I guess he's a rich second generation." Qiu Yuchen joked, "The most annoying kind of talented and rich people are really handsome."
Xia Nan was not interested. After all, he hadn't seen a real person, so there was nothing to discuss.
But that night, when the four of them went to the cafeteria for dinner, Du Ruo saw Jing Ming.
At that time, four people sat around a table, and each ordered a different dish to share with each other. A girl at the next table whispered: "Hey, isn't that the one?"
"That red Ferrari."
"Hey, where did you say he parked his car?"
"Ghost knows."
"Our school is really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
Du Ruo looked up and saw Jing Ming and a few boys from their dormitory walking over with dinner plates. Jing Ming saw her, and looked away without stopping, as if he didn't know her.
She bowed her head and continued to eat.
Those boys passed by Du Ruo's table, and Jing Ming followed.
Xia Nan said, "Hello, Jingming!"
The boy stopped, Du Ruo lowered his head, and saw the hem of his white shirt next to her cheek. He changed into a shirt today, and there was a black embroidered fine cloud pattern from top to bottom on the right side of his body.
His voice was lazy, falling from the top of her head: "Yo, did you pass the exam?"
"Go to hell with you." Xia Nan scolded with a smile, with a familiar tone, "It's you, who came to report so early? I thought you would delay until the last day."
"Staying at home is boring." He was not interested in staying, "Let's go."
The shadow covering Du Ruo's head moved away, and her shoulders relaxed, as if a mountain had been removed.
He Huanhuan saw Jingming walking away, and said, "This is the man Yuchen and I saw. Xia Nan, do you know him?"
"My high school classmate, in the same class. At that time, he was the grassroots of our school. When I was in the first year of high school, there were senior sisters from the third year who came to our classroom to see him."
Qiu Yuchen raised his eyebrows, and grabbed the Dutch beans on Du Ruo's plate: "Then why don't you chase after them, it's close to the water."
Xia Nan clamped the eggplant on Qiu Yuchen's plate, and said, "What are you chasing after, he and our school belle are a couple."