This small gathering of four people felt completely different from the last small gathering of three people. Peng Zige stopped talking about why Rong Sizai didn't come back every three sentences. Li Erqin wouldn't suddenly get distracted just because he thought of Rong Si.
The four of them ate at a newly opened restaurant, and the rhythm of the meal returned to the original track - Peng Zige's self-answering speech.
Because Li Erqin was in a good mood, he was interested in listening to everything. After I was full, I held the hot cocoa and listened with a smile, and suddenly felt that the side of my leg was lightly touched.
She turned to look at Rong Si who was sitting beside her.
Rong Si held his chin and watched Peng Zige talking freely, the corners of his eyes slightly curved with obvious tiredness.
It's a bit reluctant to come out with everyone the next day after coming back, right
As for the feeling of being touched...
Li Erqin put his hand under the table.
Maybe it was his own delusion, but after that, he always felt a little itchy, maybe it was because Rong Si was sitting next to him
The fingertips are about to touch the side of the leg.
The palm of my hand was suddenly stuffed into a cold object.
Rong Si's hand, which was slightly cooler than his own, was placed on the back of his hand, and his slender fingers went around the back of his hand and stuffed the object into her palm.
Unlike the cold touch, Li Erji's heart was hot and hot, beating violently.
She turned to look at Rong Si again.
Rong Si slightly tilted his head and winked at her.
After a meal, Li Erqin finally regained his sanity, and suddenly became chaotic again.
—Wait wait, what does Rong Si mean
"Li Erqin," Peng Zige interrupted the ongoing conversation and asked her suddenly, "Why are you blushing?"
Li Erqin looked at Peng Zige, his eyes were still cold: "Is it red?"
Peng Zige nodded: "Red."
Li Erqin pointed to the light above his head and signaled to Peng Zige to watch.
Peng Zige followed the direction she pointed and saw the warm red light: "So you tell me, is this the reason for the light?"
"right."
"Do you think I'm stupid?"
Su Zi burst out laughing: "Silly!"
The topic was diverted, and Peng Zige and Su Zi were chatting opposite each other.
Only then did Li Erqin secretly look at the object that he was holding tightly in his palm.
It was too hard, and after the palm of the hand was spread out, there was still a light white mark on it.
It is a crystal music box, each structure is clearly visible under the transparent casing.
Li Erqin wanted to look again curiously when the mobile phone on the desktop suddenly vibrated.
She opened the screen, and it was Rong Si's message: [Gift from you, I'll read it when I get home. ]
I can't describe how I feel at the moment. Li Erqin has never felt so eager to tell the world about his joy. This happiness is already a single happiness that she can't bear.
This time even Su Zi felt strange: "Er Qin, what's the matter with you?"
Li Erqin: "Huh?"
"Why do you feel like your whole body is bubbling with red hearts?"
Li Erqin was surprised.
Peng Zige shouted: "Look! Your face is red again!"
Rong Si couldn't help laughing, took out a few packaged gifts from his backpack and put them on the table: "The gifts I brought back for you."
Peng Zige's attention was immediately drawn away: "Which one is mine?"
"The biggest one."
Peng Zige's excitement was beyond words: "What is what?"
Rong Si smiled helplessly: "See for yourself."
As he said that, he handed another pink-wrapped gift to Su Zi.
Su Zi's face turned redder than Li Erqin: "Thank you."
"You're welcome."
There was one last gift left on the table, light blue wrapping paper with a few cute dolphins printed on it.
Li Erqin looked at Rong Si puzzled.
Rong Si smiled.
and also
Li Erqin couldn't believe it.
Rong Si tapped the gift box with his finger: "Why don't you take it?"
Sure enough, it's for yourself? Li Erqin asked hesitantly, "Can you take it apart now?"
Rong Si nodded: "Of course."
Peng Zige on the other side has already unpacked in a "wild school" style, revealing a corner of the gift. It was just a corner, and he screamed excitedly: "Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh! Ah Si!!!!!!"
Su Zi covered her ears: "Please, don't make any noise in public."
Peng Zige worked hard to lower his tone, changed his previous attitude, and carefully took out the model from the inside: "Is this the genuine one?"
"Um."
"Did you make a special trip to buy it?"
Rong Si said lightly, "Yes."
Peng Zige carefully took out the model, looked at it carefully with a solemn expression, and put it back solemnly: "A Si, shall I marry you?"
Rong Si: "..."
Li Erqin and Su Zi expressed contempt for him at the same time, and they didn't even bother to roll their eyes to him.
Su Zi's gift was a delicate little cake with tiny water droplets on the surface. There is also a small box of small silver forks in the packaging box of the pastry. The tail of the fork is intricately carved and is a group of flower patterns. The cakes are so beautiful that Su Zi is reluctant to eat them, but after thinking for a moment, she should share it with others: "Let's eat together!"
Peng Zige glanced at her gift: "Are you willing?"
Su Zi glared at him: "I don't have your share!"
Peng Zige refused to accept: "I have a grudge against you?"
"Then you can thank you and start eating. What nonsense is it?" Su Zi pouted, she was reluctant to bear it, but there were still people who insisted on asking more.
Li Erqin nodded to agree with Su Zi's words, opened his present and found that it was a candy in a tin box. Illustration of Central European style on the surface of the dark red rectangle tin box. The printing of the illustrations is very fine, and even the details are down to the direction of every grass and every tree. Open the candy box, which is filled with colorful fruit candies, and the transparent candy paper reflects brightly under the light.
Li Erqin turned to look at Rong Si.
Rong Si touched his nose: "I bought it at a historic candy store. It's a very unique candy. Erqin, you can share it with everyone."
Li Erqin obediently distributed the candy.
Peng Zige and Su Zi, who was biting a small fork, looked at each other, and the meaning of the other party was clearly written in his eyes - Li Erqin will always behave like a little sheep only in front of Rong Si.
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After dinner, a few people decided to go to the escape room to play, but the number of people was not enough, so they called two boys from the same class who lived nearby to play.
A few people came to a newly opened room escape game venue. It cost a lot of money to build. Before it opened, it was full of advertising gimmicks and it covers a large area.
The theme Li Erqin and the others chose was called "Return to Crowhurst Manor". This game is based on and imitated a great puzzle solving by bigfish, and then the real restoration of the scene is carried out.
After following the staff into the venue, what caught the eye was an old and rusted iron gate of the manor. The iron gate was overgrown with weeds, and spider webs and garbage could be seen everywhere, telling that this was an abandoned manor.
After the staff briefly introduced the rules of the game, they left.
Each of them carries a watch with communication function, and there is a small red button on the side of the dial, which can exchange information and clues with their companions in different scenes. And everyone has one and only one chance to seek clues from the main station.
Facing the silent and realistic scene for a moment without any clue, Rong Si said, "Look for any clues."
Several people split up and scrambled around.
Li Erqin always felt that the decoration in the lower right corner of the iron gate was a bit deliberate, so there was a sign saying "There is no silver 300 taels here". Thinking like this, she walked over there and took two steps to see Rong Si following behind her.
She turned around: "You think it's here too."
Rong Si smiled: "Well. I'll go check it out."
Touching it for the second time, Rong Si felt something, and when he took it out, it was a wrench.
Li Erqin was overjoyed and shouted, "I found it!"
The rest of the people gathered around to watch.
"Wrench? What's the use?" one of the boys asked.
"Pry open the iron door?" Peng Zige guessed.
Rong Si: "...It shouldn't be."
After looking for it separately, Su Zi noticed that the sign on the left side of the gate seemed to be a sequence of clues, and said softly: "8, 16, 18, 36, 38, the red hearts that were circled, and then 78. "She looked back at them: "Is it calculated according to the law?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Rong Si whispered, "76."
A boy asked, "What?"
Rong Si explained: "The red star is 76."
Some people refused to accept it, walked over to study the sequence, and said, "Sure enough, it is 76."
Peng Zige laughed: "Are you questioning our academic bully?"
Su Zi also laughed.
The boy was a little embarrassed and was about to say something when a "bang" sound came from behind him.
Looking back, he saw that Li Erqin was holding a wrench in his hand, and he had removed the panel of the walkie-talkie under the brand, exposing the wire board, and the four disconnected wires were hanging in the air.
Peng Zige was speechless for a while: "Er Qin, you..."
Rong Si pondered silently, walked over and connected the thread back to its original position, then pressed the red button below. A small partition on the panel rose slowly to reveal a rusted key.
Li Erqin couldn't help but admire his feelings: "Rong Si, you are amazing."
Rong Si was very helpful.
After entering the manor, it is also a dilapidated scene, with several small houses scattered in different places. It should be possible to save different clues. At the beginning, several people gathered together to look for it, and then they separated after finding it. Occasionally, I can hear people from different rooms calling for everyone to come and see the newly found clues.
Li Erqin was so focused on playing that he didn't know when he got separated from everyone. I stayed in an abandoned warehouse, there were too many things, and it was a bit tiring to find. She rested against the prop cart and scanned the space casually with her eyes.
As soon as I sat down, thousands of thoughts flew through my mind in an instant.
- Who is going to be exhausted by making such a big scene
- Obviously it's a game that can't be cleared all afternoon. Why didn't the staff come in with lunch and drinks to sell
—I’m so thirsty, I’d love to have a glass of watermelon juice…
"Li Erqin?" Rong Si's voice suddenly came from behind.
Li Erqin turned around, not knowing why when he saw Rong Si today, he felt numb and his heart beat faster.
☆, 36. Chapter 36
The light here is dim, and the sky outside the warehouse is a cloudy sky effect created by projection. There are only a few dim oil lamps in the warehouse, so the viewing conditions are not that good.
When Rong Si came in, he left his coat in the locker. At this moment, he was only wearing a black oversized sweater, with his thin collarbone exposed at the junction of the neck and the sweater.
Li Erqin didn't look up.
dare not.
Rong Si smiled: "Are you resting?"
Li Erqin nodded: "A little tired."
He sat down beside her. Li Erqin immediately smelled a fresh smell. Under the pungent smell of decoration and props, this smell became Li Erqin's savior.
Li Erqin turned his head and asked, "It's so fragrant, have you sprayed perfume?"
Rong Si was stopped by her question again: "... No."
She leaned over and twitched the tip of her nose: "But it smells so good."
Rong Si was unnatural: "Probably the smell of washing powder."
"Hmm." Li Erqin, who insisted that what Rong Si said was the truth, immediately believed it.
After a while, Rong Si looked at his watch and said, "There's still half an hour left."
Li Erqin responded indifferently: "Yes."
"We may not be able to pass the customs."
Li Erqin agreed: "There must be no way." Rong Si: "I thought you would really want to pass the customs."
Li Erqin wrinkled his nose cutely: "I'm here to play anyway, just have fun."
Rong Si whispered: "That's right."
There were footsteps from far to near, and then Su Zi's face appeared behind the door. The heating in the room was not that strong, but Su Zi was sweaty. Seeing Li Erqin and Rong Si sitting side by side, he didn't think much about it: "Have you found any clues?"
Li Erqin: "I'm trying to find it."
Su Zi nodded: "Come on! There's only half an hour left."
Li Erqin: "Okay!"
Su Zi smiled at them, and walked away with words in her mouth: "I don't believe in this broken place, I still can't pass the level."
Not long after Su Zi left, Peng Zige ran in panting and sat down in front of Rong Si: "I'm exhausted."
Li Erqin: "Do you want to drink water?"
Peng Zige's eyes turned green with excitement: "You hid water?"
The rules of the game clearly stipulate that no drinks or food can be brought into the game venue.
Li Erqin shook his head.
"Then you asked me if I wanted to drink? It made me happy."
Li Erqin explained: "Don't you think it's unscientific that there are no automatic or mobile vending machines?"
Peng Zige was dragged up and down by Su Zi just now, and he was crawling up and down to search everywhere, and his body seemed to be falling apart because of exhaustion. Now that there is Li Erqin, he will be tired.
Peng Zige rolled his eyes: "I think you are the most unscientific existence."
"Oh."
Li Erqin shut up.
In the end, of course, it failed. After all, six people went in, and all three were lazy. When Su Zi came out, she was so tired that she didn't want to say a word, and the most frustrating news for her was that the staff told her that their progress was only 30% of the total progress.
"Thirty percent!" Su Zi sat in the dessert shop, glaring angrily at the three fingers he stretched out: "Our bones are about to fall apart, and it turns out that I only played thirty percent? Who can? Done? What's the point of making this game?"
Rong Si and Li Erqin drank their drinks and looked at the ceiling.
The other two boys were stunned.
In my mind, the perfect first love, Su Zi, is gentle and cute. She must be a soft girl.
It must not be her who just stepped on their shoulders and climbed the beam of the roof.
It must not be her who is now angered by righteous indignation on the opposite side.
After the dessert shop was finished resting, a group of people parted ways and went home. Everyone could see that Rong Si was already trying to talk to everyone, so when Li Erqin proposed to go home, no one had any objection.
Li Erqin arrived home before dinner, and Li Zhengwen, who was reading the newspaper in the living room, was surprised: "You're back so soon?"
Li Erqin took off his shoes, put the gift that Rong Si gave him on the table, and then went to wash his hands.
When he came back, he found that his father was stealing his own candy.
"..." Li Erqin: "Dad."
Li Zhengwen was caught and smiled cheekily: "I saw the wrapping paper and thought it was a gift from your father."
Li Erqin looked at him without speaking.
Li Zhengwen smiled: "I don't believe it either."
Li Erqin walked over to open the package and took out a purple one: "Blueberry flavor, this is the flavor you like."
Li Zhengwen proudly patted the back of her head.
Li Erqin covered the place he had photographed: "I heard that photographing your brain will make you stupid."
Li Zhengwen denied: "Nonsense! Who did you listen to?"
Li Erqin: "Your colleague, Aunt Hu."
Li Zhengwen was heartbroken: "You Aunt Hu, you will confuse people all day long."
Li Erqin suddenly smiled: "I will speak to Aunt Hu for you."
Xu Yunshu went to the kitchen to cut fruit when Li Erqin came back. At this moment, she came out with a fruit plate, and saw her husband's helpless face again, and warned: "Er Qin, don't bully your father."
Li Zhengwen: "..."
Glancing at the fruit candy on the table, Xu Yunshu poked an orange with a fruit stick and handed it to Li Erqin: "Who gave you a gift?"
"Thank you." Li Erqin shoved the orange into his mouth: "Classmate."
Xu Yunshu glanced at the box again: "Which classmate?"
Li Erqin finds it strange that neither Xu Yunshu nor Li Zhengwen cares much about their own personal affairs. At this moment, both of them are secretly investigating the "enemy situation" with her, which makes her wonder: "What's wrong with this box of candy?"
Li Zhengwen and Xu Yunshu looked at each other, Li Zhengwen smiled: "It tastes good."
Li Erqin continued to eat the fruit, his mouth bulging: "It was given to me by the classmate who taught me physics. He went on a trip some time ago." After a while, he added: "I am not the only one who has the gifts, but other friends who play with me. There are."
Li Zhengwen and Xu Yunshu pretended to look around the scenery: "Oh, it's great to have such a good time with your classmates!"
Li Erqin smiled: "Is there anything else to ask?"
Li Zhengwen: "Can Dad have a few more candies?"
Li Erqin: "Of course."
Xu Yunshu: "No."
Li Zhengwen failed to eat the third candy in the end. Considering his health, Xu Yunshu seldom gave him food with a high sugar content.
When Li Erqin returned to the room with the gift, Li Zhengwen suddenly stopped her.
"What's wrong?"
Li Zhengwen quoted a name, and then added: "The point of this gift is not candy, but a box containing candy. After returning to the room, you can search for information about this candy company."
Li Erqin looked bewildered.
Li Zhengwen smiled: "I'm afraid you don't care and miss important information, so I remind you. Your classmate, give gifts very carefully."
Li Erqin lowered his head and touched the tin box in the bag: "Thank you Dad."
"Go." Li Zhengwen picked up the newspaper and read it again: "Don't forget to thank your classmates."
"I know."
Li Erqin returned to the room and took out the small music box hidden in the bag. The transparent crystal is smaller than the palm of your hand, and every edge and corner shimmers with fluorescence under the light.
Open the transparent box cover, and the structure inside becomes clearer.
From the music box came a stream of jumping music, and Li Erqin only heard three syllables to know what song it was.
It was the song they sang at the New Year's Day celebration.
The small silver rollers slowly rotate in the transparent box, and the tiny protrusions emit different notes as they pass each slender steel sheet, forming a complete tune.
Li Erqin's heart was unbelievably soft.
Pulling out her phone, she sent a text message to Rong Si. She wanted to say too many things. What she wanted to ask the most was: I am in your heart, is it just like you are in mine, a different existence from others
But since she thinks her face is as thick as her, there is no way to ask such a thing.
Rong Si was so aloof, so perfect that he seemed to be at the textbook level.
And he was just an ordinary person who barely passed the physics. How could he get Rong Si's love
And the gift that Rong Si prepared for him might just be... a return for his phone bills
If Rong Si likes her, she must become a better version of herself. In this way, he can stand beside him with his head held high and walk on the same horizontal line as him.
So first of all, she has to get the physics score over 70.
After blowing himself up, Li Erqin finally calmed down and typed into the phone: [Thank you for the gift, I like it very much! ]
After a short pause, she added: [I am very happy to see you. ]
Click Send and send it.
Li Erqin did not wait for Rong Si's text message.
I can't even remember the first time I fell asleep holding my phone.
Li Erqin blocked the sunlight coming in from the window with the back of his hand, then squinted to look at the phone, there was actually a text message from Rong Si.
Quietly five words.
[I'm glad too. ]
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Li Erqin went to the bookstore to buy some books and came back to read. She has always seriously believed what Li Zhengwen said to her: "Reading will never suffer."
When she didn't go out to play, she read in the house. If there is anything else that I like, it is probably that Su Zi called one day and strongly made an ancient costume TV series. After several days of waiting in front of the TV, Li Zhengwen also joined the ranks of watching the drama.
On the night of New Year's Eve, she and her parents watched the Spring Festival Gala at home to welcome the New Year. The four of them started a chat group, and they complained while watching the show. The conversations in the chat box refreshed one by one, which was very lively.
In the last 10 seconds of the countdown from zero, they said Happy New Year to each other in the group. Peng Zige also showed off the red envelopes he just received from his parents in the group.
Li Erqin smiled unconsciously at the phone, the smile on the corner of his mouth was more moving than the bright fireworks outside the window.
For some unknown reason, I suddenly wanted to send a separate Happy New Year to Rong Si.
On the TV, the host of the show counted down with force and excitement: "Five!"
Fingers open the dialog box with Rong Si.
"Four!"
Quickly enter four words: Happy New Year!
"three!"
Press the send key.
"two!"
The moment the text message was sent to the dialog box, Rong Si's avatar appeared on the screen, followed by the same four words: Happy New Year!
"one!"
At the same time, there was a deafening sound of fireworks outside the window, one after another exploded in the dark night sky.