In the library, the lights are bright.
Du Ruo fell asleep on the table. She had a dream. She dreamed that she had fallen into a remote mountain.
There was not a single car on the road, she was in a hurry, and when she was about to cry, He Huanhuan's voice came from the sky: "Xiao Ruo, Xiao Ruo!"
Du Ruo woke up startled, raised her head, and saw that the students were packing up their books.
"The library is closing, let's go back."
"Why didn't you wake me up earlier?" she said ruefully.
I haven't finished the book yet.
"You only slept for ten minutes." Huanhuan said, "I think you seem very tired."
The two carried their books and walked towards the dormitory.
Xia Nan and Qiu Yuchen were not there. The National Day holiday started tomorrow, and they both went home.
He Huanhuan asked: "Do you want to go out with me on National Day? I will go to Tianjin with a few high school classmates."
Du Ruo was shy and said, "I'm too lazy to run, I want to sleep in the dormitory for a few days."
Huanhuan didn't force her: "That's fine too. If you're bored and want to watch dramas, use my computer with a password of six zeros."
"Um."
Early the next morning, He Huanhuan left.
When Du Ruo woke up, she was alone in the dormitory. She went to the playground to read English, and there were very few people who read in the morning. She lost her spirits and called off work early.
Shuttle in the campus, the number of students coming and going is less, and they all leave school for vacation. There are only one straight and clean tree-lined road after another, and the wind blows the leaves of the poplar trees.
The library and teaching buildings are empty, and the windows of the cafeteria are more than half closed.
The corridors of the dormitory were also exceptionally quiet.
Du Ruo wandered through these fixed places lonely, still studying, but not very motivated.
She inexplicably fell into a period of emotional depression, struggling for a while to get out, but in vain, her mood continued to be depressed.
One morning, the tense clockwork finally broke, and she accidentally slept until eleven o'clock.
She sat on the balcony of the dormitory, watching the dark green canopy downstairs swaying in the wind.
The wind is so strong.
She sat by the glass window, listening to the wind quietly and in isolation, watching the sunlight jumping on the leaves, feeling like time was stolen by barrenness in vain.
Before she went to college, she never felt humble even no matter how poor she was. there has never been. She even has proud grades.
And now...
She studied hard and kept up with her peers. But even though they seem to be on the same starting line, they have already easily led for several laps.
She is so busy with her studies that she doesn't even have time to work part-time to support herself. But she still hopes to live a life, to enjoy beautiful dresses like Xia Nan, leisurely entertainment like Qiu Yuchen, gluttonous food like He Huanhuan, and even experience that strange and wonderful love affair like Min Enzhu—I feel suffocated for a while. Boring and sour.
She got up suddenly and walked towards the door of the dormitory.
As early as the beginning of school, Xia Nan bought a full-length mirror and stuck it behind the door panel.
The girl in the mirror has short hair at the ears, a dark yellow complexion, thin cheeks, thin gray eyebrows, colorless lips, and no sense of beauty anywhere; her body is thin and thin, like a stunted bean sprout.
She looked at it for a while, as if seeing Jing Ming's slightly raised eyebrows when he first saw her, she was immediately ashamed and turned her head away.
On the afternoon of the third day of the holiday, Mingyi called and asked her to go play at home.
When Du Ruo was hesitating, Ming Yi said that there was no one at home, so she agreed.
She packed herself up and took the subway for fifty minutes.
It was the first time in my life to ride, and I thought it was very interesting at first, until I was almost squeezed by the crowds at a certain transfer station.
Du Ruo: Oh!
She was back in the jewel-box-like villa among the woods and meadows.
During dinner time, the restaurant was brightly lit, and Jing Yuanshan and Jing Ming were not there.
"Uncle isn't home?"
"He's on a business trip to Shenzhen."
"Do you not rest on National Day?"
Mingyi smiled and shook his head.
Du Ruo didn't continue to ask Jing Ming, but Ming Yi went on to say, "Where is Jing Ming, he took his younger siblings to Seychelles a long time ago."
Du Ruo didn't know where Seychelles was, whether it was a country or a city, so he didn't answer.
"Have you met Jingming at school?"
She deliberately reduced the number of times: "I met once or twice."
"Have you met his girlfriend?"
This question is strange, Du Ruo thinks about it, and thinks there is no problem in answering the truth: "I have seen it."
"How do you feel?" Mingyi smiled.
"very beautiful."
Mingyi continued to smile: "Well, pretty is beautiful."
Du Ruo faintly noticed that Ming Yi didn't like Min Enzhu.
Indeed, Mingyi didn't like that girl.
However, Jingming's injustice was too rebellious in adolescence, and his rebellious psychology was heavy. Originally, both of them had bad tempers, so it stands to reason that they couldn't get along. But the more they opposed them, the more vigorous they became, and the result is that they are still mixed up to this day.
Headache.
Mingyi said: "You've only met him once or twice, and you've seen his girlfriend. It seems that she often goes to him."
Du Ruo: "……………………"
It's over, shouldn't it cause trouble
Amitabha, Auntie, don't talk about this with Jing Ming. She really didn't want to mess with him.
Ming Yi didn't have a deep chat on this issue, and said, "If you encounter any difficulties at school, you can ask Jing Ming for help."
"… good."
"Eat more vegetables, come, add some fish."
"I'm eating."
"Beef is also good. By the way, have you called your mother?"
"Twice a week."
"Diligent child. Is she all right?"
"That's fine. She's saying hello to you, too."
"Thank you then. How about school life, are you getting used to it?"
The meal ended in small talk, and Du Ruo stayed at Jing's house that night.
Ming Yi said that there was no one at home, and asked Du Ruo to spend a few more days with her during the holidays. As a result, the next day, the company had an urgent matter, and she went to deal with it, but didn't return all day.
Du Ruo stayed at home, helping Mrs. Chen cook and clean the house, and helping Uncle Chen water the flowers and cut the grass. It was not boring. Going back to school would leave her breathless, and a few days of relaxation would be nice.
Mingyi felt sorry after returning home, so he took her out to play the next day.
Go shopping and eat snacks, buy clothes and shoes, and be as close as a mother and daughter. But no salesperson in the mall would mistake them for mother and daughter. Ming Yi is beautiful, with elegant manners and bright clothes; Du Ruo is plain and simple, with a trace of curiosity and freshness about the surrounding environment.
No matter how you look at it, they are not a family, and the distant relatives in the small town are unknown.
Fortunately, Du Ruo is no longer cautious and timid in front of Ming Yi, and Ming Yi usually meets either his subordinates' work partners or women of the same age, and he is also happy to chat with daughter-like young people, trying to be relaxed and casual.
The two sat together in the shopping mall eating ice cream, occasionally looking at the passing crowd.
Du Ruo said: "I haven't been out of school since I came to Beijing, except this time. I study on weekends, too busy."
Mingyi said: "I haven't come out to hang out for a long time."
"Auntie is busy with work?"
"No one is with you. Let's not talk about your uncle's work. Jingming, a son is not as careful as a daughter." Mingyi said, "When I was young, I kissed, but when I grew up, I annoyed my mother. That boy, when he was young, he could still be coaxed." He goes shopping, and now he can’t pull out ten cows. He was cute when he was a child, but he is disobedient when he grows up, and his temper is good, and he loses his temper at every turn. I am afraid of him.... Maybe I should have a daughter back then?"
Du Ruo was amused by her.
Ming Yi changed his mind and said: "It's all the same, the children nowadays are spoiled and spoiled, and they have a bad temper."
Passing by the lingerie store, Ming Yi took Du Ruo to buy lingerie, she was embarrassed, and the price was ridiculously expensive.
Ming Yi said: "Underwear is the most close-fitting thing and cannot be ambiguous. It is also the thing that best reflects a girl's sophistication. No matter how expensive the coat is, if the underwear is not well worn, it is like unpacking a delicate package to reveal a cheap one. Plastic box. Choose underwear carefully, that's right, this is a gift for the girls themselves." Said Du Ruo into the dressing room.
When Du Ruo took off his clothes, he recalled what Ming Yi said, this must be a kind of "living well".
After returning home with a full load, Ming Yi bought several sets of skin care products for Du Ruo, and said, "Xiao Ruo, girls must pay attention to skin care, you know? Pursue beauty, even if it's not to please others, just to make yourself happy."
Du Ruo nodded with a vague understanding.
After returning home, she counted today's harvest in detail. The expenses were not small, and it was a drop in the bucket for Ming Yi, but she still silently wrote it down in the notebook.
Add another sentence: "Live well and be happy."
In the remaining days of the holiday, the two got along very harmoniously, sometimes chatting with each other, and sometimes doing their own things.
That afternoon, Ming Yi was drinking tea and reading on the sofa, when Du Ruo saw a box of newly bought books next to the bookshelf and couldn't put them on the bookshelf, so he went to help tidy them up.
Ming Yi saw it, and said, "Xiao Ruo, help me find a book to make all living beings sleep peacefully. It's in a cardboard box."
Du Ruo flipped a page: "No."
Ming Yi recalled: "It should be in Jingming's study, the first room upstairs, you can find it."
"… oh."
"By the way," Ming Yi looked up from the book, "don't touch anything in his study, not even a piece of paper." She shrugged and smiled dotingly, "That kid will be angry."
Du Ruo nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, feeling a little nervous.
Go up to the third floor and open the first door.
The gray and white textured log floor, the long white desk, and the entire dark blue wall. There are many drawings on the wall, including robot design drawings and integrated circuit diagrams.
Various robot control boards, servo motors, and a pile of scattered drawings are scattered on the desk, most of which are sketches with scribbled and drawn drawings.
A few crumpled paper balls fell on the ground, and they were gathered next to the trash can. Someone must have sat on a chair and crumpled the paper balls and thrown them into the trash can. Some won the bid, and some bounced off.
Du Ruofa was stunned for a while, then remembered what he was here for, looking for books.
Looking back, there is a black bookshelf on the entire wall behind him, filled with books and figurines.
The room was full of scholars, she was speechless.
On the other side of the bookshelf, near the balcony, stood seven or eight robots of various sizes and shapes, which were extremely cool, and there were even humanoid ones.
She wanted to go over there and have a look, but she didn't. It was clear that there was no one else, but she didn't dare to move a step.
At this moment, she suddenly returned to the original point, the scene when she first saw Jing Ming at the train station.
He is high and untouchable; she is embarrassed and has nothing.
A cardboard box with a pile of new books is at his feet. At a glance, she saw Ming Yi's wish for all sentient beings to sleep peacefully.
Suddenly there were footsteps in the corridor, the boy's footsteps approaching the study.
Du Ruo was horrified, picked up the book and left, just in time to run into Jing Ming who opened the door and came in.
Jing Ming didn't expect her to be here, he was stunned for a few seconds, and his eyebrows frowned instantly: "Who allowed you to come in!"
Du Ruo couldn't help trembling: "Your mother asked me to get her a book." She quickly picked up the book to prove her innocence.
Jing Ming looked coldly over her head, and scanned the room. He opened the door, turned sideways, and said:
"go out!"
Du Ruo escaped from him, and just as he entered the corridor, the door slammed shut behind him.
…
Jing Ming didn't go downstairs until dinner time.
Jing Yuanshan also came back, asked Du Ruo about his study and life at the dinner table, and said, "If you encounter any problems in school, you can ask Jingming for help."
Du Ruo could only nod.
Jing Ming ate lazily, as if he didn't hear.
Jing Yuanshan frowned: "Jing Ming."
Jingming answered casually, "Huh?"
"Did you hear your dad?"
"Your son is very busy. She is not a primary school student, so she needs someone to take care of her? I still need someone to take care of her."
Jing Yuanshan glared at him, but didn't blame him, and said, "What are you busy with all day long? You won't come back home even if you're told. You're so busy just after school starts? Don't let me catch you fooling around outside."
As he spoke, he glanced at Du Ruo.
Du Ruo bit the bullet and said, "Uncle, these majors of ours have a lot of courses, and the learning content is complicated, so... really busy."
Jingming didn't accept her love.
Jing Yuanshan paused: "If he's studying well, I'm afraid he only thinks about not being controlled by his parents and playing outside all day long. Hey, it would be great if he was half as self-conscious about studying as you are."
Du Ruo was extremely embarrassed, and glanced at Jing Ming, who didn't care at all. He doesn't care at all.
After a while, he asked, "Dad, did you get me that car that I saw last time?"
"It was shipped by sea from abroad. I spent a lot of effort to get it, so you can do something for me."
"I'll report it to you after tearing it down." Jing Ming said.
He finished eating, put down his chopsticks, got up and left.
He was slumped on the sofa playing with his mobile phone, chatting with someone happy, and a smile gradually appeared on his face. After a while, he said, "I'll go out."
Mingyi: "Where are you going?"
"Play with friends."
Ming Yi: "That's right, take Xiao Ruo with you."
Jingming:? ?