It was raining, and college students holding umbrellas were coming and going in front of the gate of H University. The rain splashed on the ground. In front of the computer accessories store, Jiang Tu was leaning against the wall with a black backpack on his shoulder, holding a cigarette to his lips. He took a light puff and looked at the rain with a cold look, waiting for it to stop.
There is a fast food restaurant next to the computer accessories store, and the girls passing by would subconsciously look at him.
Jiang Tu's phone rang. He took it out and took a look. It was a text message from his dorm head Yuan Yang. Yuan Yang said, "Jiang Tu, when you come back later, please bring us some food at the school gate. Anything will do. It's hard to order takeout on rainy days."
Jiang Tu lowered his head and replied: "Okay."
He put his phone in his trouser pocket. A girl walked up to him holding an umbrella. She blushed and asked cautiously, "Classmate, don't you have an umbrella? We can walk together. I'll take you to the dormitory building."
Jiang Tu glanced at her and said indifferently: "No, thank you."
Both his tone and expression were too cold. It took a lot of courage for him to come up and talk to her. The girl bit her lip and walked away disappointed.
After a while, the rain stopped.
Jiang Tu walked into the fast food restaurant and bought three meals. He walked out of the store and headed towards the school. He pushed open the dormitory door. The three people who were huddled in front of the computer turned their heads to look at him. Yuan Yang stood up and smiled: "Hey, you're back! Thank you."
"No need." Jiang Tu put the food on the table.
There was a receipt on each lunch box, and Yuan Yang gave him their meal money.
Jiang Tu took it and put it on the table, then turned around, got some clean clothes and went into the bathroom to take a shower. As soon as he entered, his roommate Du Yunfei lowered his voice and said to Yuan Yang, "You said you wanted someone to bring food, so you asked Jiang Tu. We've lived together for a month, and I still haven't gotten used to living in the same dormitory with such a cold person."
Yuan Yang is the dormitory head and also the class monitor.
He broke off the chopsticks and smiled: "Although Jiang Tu looks cold, he is still easy to get along with. If you ask him for help, he will basically help if he can."
Du Yunfei sighed: "Even though he's cold, there are still a lot of girls who like him. Look at our dormitory, eight out of ten calls are for him."
Unfortunately, Jiang Tu usually doesn't answer such calls.
The more this happens, the more girls will chase after him.
College is different from high school. There are no teachers chasing after students who fall in love too early, and no parents ordering them not to fall in love too early. Therefore, many people start dating quickly as soon as they enter college, like wild horses running wild.
Jiang Tu's first impression is that he is cold and hard, and it seems that he is not easy to get along with. However, he is good-looking and has a calm and cold temperament, which still attracts girls. When Lin Jiayu was sorting photos, her roommate's eyes lit up when she saw Jiang Tu, "Wow, who is this?"
The photo was taken at a barbecue restaurant on Jiang Tu's 18th birthday. When she opened it on the computer, it was a photo of her and him. Jiang Tu was wearing a black jacket and looking at the camera with a cold expression. He was very photogenic, but he looked better in person.
Before the college entrance examination, Lin Jiayu said she wanted to apply to Beijing Normal University. She performed well in the exam and finally went to Zhongshan, Guangdong. She has not contacted Jiang Tu for more than half a month. It was Jiang Tu who stopped contacting her unilaterally. She sighed and said, "We are childhood sweethearts."
Roommate: “Wow, boyfriend?”
Lin Jiayu hurriedly shook her head: "No, no, he doesn't like me, and I don't like him either..."
"You don't like someone so handsome?"
Lin Jiayu smiled and said, "He has someone he likes."
My roommate asked, “Is it pretty?”
Lin Jiayu said: "She is prettier than the beauty in our school."
The roommate asked again: "Ah, are they boyfriend and girlfriend?"
Lin Jiayu said: "No..."
Zhu Xingyao didn’t even know that Jiang Tu liked her.
When Jiang Tu had an accident during the college entrance examination, everyone thought it was a car accident. Only Lin Jiayu knew the truth, but Jiang Tu didn't allow her to tell it.
Lin Jiayu knew at that moment that Jiang Tu might give up Zhu Xingyao. The Jiang family's house was mortgaged, and the high-interest loan owed by Jiang Jinhui had increased to two million yuan in interest. The Jiang family did not receive a penny of the relocation compensation, but that was not the most important thing. The most important thing was that Chen Yi forced Jiang Tu to almost miss the exam.
Zhu Xingyao, who was far away in Berlin, Germany, opened QQ and found that people in the senior class (1) group occasionally talked about Jiang Tu. They said that he had a car accident when he was taking the English test and almost missed the test. The injury affected his grades, otherwise he would definitely have been admitted to Tsinghua University. Some people said: "Even if he didn't go to Tsinghua University, H University is not bad. It's just a pity."
Zhu Xingyao felt uncomfortable every time she thought of Jiang Tu. She didn’t know why the accident happened during the college entrance examination. The last time she saw Jiang Tu was in September. He, Li Xixi, Lu Ji and others sent her to the airport.
They hugged each of them, and Jiang Tu hugged her very tightly.
Zhu Xingyao opened Jiang Tu’s dialog box.
Yaoyao Tianshangxing: "Brother Tu, are you doing well in your new school?"
Jiang Tu: “Very good.”
Yaoyao Tianshangxing: "Brother Tu, is the food in your school delicious?"
Jiang Tu: “Very good.”
Their conversations were always simple like this. Due to the time difference, he always took a long time to reply, and each time it was just one or two words, which made people feel frustrated, wronged and sad.
Half a month ago, Zhu Xingyao sent him another message.
Yaoyao Tianshangxing: "Brother Tu, you haven't told me your phone number yet."
Jiang Tu never replied to her.
Zhu Xingyao was alone in a foreign country, sitting in front of the computer and staring at the dialog box. She suddenly wanted to cry until Lu Ji called her.
Jiang Tu seemed to have lost contact with everyone. Except for Lin Jiayu who could contact him occasionally, no one else could contact him. He was busy with classes, working part-time to make money, and rejecting girls who pursued him.
He didn't understand why girls liked him. What did they like about him? He had nothing.
"Jiang Tu, our school beauty called again."
Jiang Tu walked into the dormitory against the cold wind. Yuan Yang pointed at the landline phone by the window and said, "The receiver was placed next to it and the call was still connected." He frowned, walked over and hung up the phone. Yuan Yang and Du Yunfei were stunned.
Yuan Yang coughed and said, "The school beauty is very pretty. She is pursuing you so passionately, why don't you consider it?"
Jiang Tu asked back: "Is it beautiful?"
Du Yunfei said: "Isn't this beautiful?"
Jiang Tu was silent for a while and did not discuss the matter anymore.
The school beauty is a bold and enthusiastic girl. She doesn't mind Jiang Tu's coldness at all and is quite persistent.
On Jiang Tu's birthday, the school beauty once again blocked him downstairs with a gift. Jiang Tu refused her gift and walked around her to the dormitory door. She ran up to him and stopped him, saying the same thing: "You don't have a girlfriend, why can't you try with me?"
Jiang Tu was very annoyed. He suddenly curled his lips, but the smile did not reach his eyes: "You basically have no dates with me, and I will not accompany you to go shopping, eat, drink and have fun. I guess I don't even have a decent gift. Even if I go out to get a room, I probably ask you to pay."
The beauty was stunned, her face stiff.
This conversation was heard by passers-by and spread somehow. Everyone knew that Jiang Tu was a poor student who couldn't be poorer. They looked at Jiang Tu with shock on their faces and exclaimed: "Are you going to become a monk? I bet you will be single for four years in college."
Jiang Tu didn't care: "Well, I bet you win."
Sometimes rumors can spread very quickly. From the beginning, when the rumor "Jiang Tu is so poor that he doesn't even have money to check into a hotel with his girlfriend" reached the ears of his high school classmates, it had already become "Jiang Tu is so poor that even his girlfriend had to pay for the hotel room he checked into."
Zhu Xingyao heard the rumor from Li Xixi.
Li Xixi: "Did you know? Brother Tu has a girlfriend."
Li Xixi: "You definitely didn't expect that he would not only fall in love but also quickly reach third base. It turns out that men are animals who think with their lower body. The most important thing is that the rent is paid by the girl!!!"
Li Xixi: "That's not right. Didn't their family get the relocation compensation? They paid off the loan sharks and still have a little left. It shouldn't be like this, right? Could it be that because they were so devastated by failing the college entrance exam, they became decadent and indulged themselves?"
Zhu Xingyao was on a plane at the time, she was returning to China to celebrate the Spring Festival.
After getting off the plane and turning on my phone, more than ten messages from Li Xixi popped up.
The last one is - "Actually, when Jiang Tu beat Zhang Sheng for you, I thought he liked you, but I didn't tell you because I was afraid you would think too much. Anyway, he has a girlfriend now, and you and Lu Ji are doing well, so it's okay to talk about it."
Zhu Xingyao sat in the car, staring at the messages in a daze.
Wasn't it just an illusion? Perhaps she had grown up a little, or perhaps she had left that environment, but her memories suddenly became clearer. Sometimes when she thought back, she felt that he seemed to like her, but that kind of love was so vague and hard to grasp.
She sat up straight and stared out the window as the car passed through familiar street scenes.
Lao Liu said in front: "This is Hexi Lane, it's all razed to the ground, do you still recognize it?"
Zhu Xingyao looked at the large area of razed ruins and suddenly felt very sad. There was no Hexi Lane anymore, and there would never be another Hexi Lane in the future. She had never even taken a good look at it once, and it was gone.
She couldn't get in touch with Jiang Tu either.
Everyone is scattered all over the world, and the contact is gradually decreasing. Even familiar cities have become unfamiliar due to the progress and changes of the times.
In the evening, Lu Ji, who was still in Beijing, called her. Zhu Xingyao was sorting out old things. She squatted in front of the closet and found the more than 80 love letters hidden in the closet. She sat on the carpet and whispered, "Lu Ji, I found the letters you wrote to me before. I never counted them before. I just counted them and there are 87 of them. Actually, I am a little uncomfortable not receiving letters every Friday after graduation."
On the other side, Lu Ji was silent for a few seconds and then laughed.
He smiled a little strangely.
Zhu Xingyao curled her lips: "What are you laughing at?"
Lu Ji's voice was a little vague: "Nothing, I'm just happy that you're back."
…
December 11, 2010.
Jiang Tu returned to the dormitory at night. He turned on his computer and logged into the old QQ that he hadn't used for a long time. He saw the message that Zhu Xingyao had sent him more than ten days ago.
Yaoyao Tianshangxing: "Brother Tu, is that star light you gave me?"
Jiang Tu was stunned. He stared at the computer screen. He didn't know why she asked this suddenly. He typed and deleted on the keyboard several times. Then he closed the dialog box and exited QQ.
June 20, 2011.
Yaoyao Tianshangxing: "Brother Tu, Xixi is participating in the xx female singing competition. If you have time, please vote for her."
She still hadn't received a response.
Jiang Tu leaned back in his chair, thinking back to the time during the summer vacation of his freshman year in high school when he and Li Xixi accidentally entered a male vocal competition. The corners of his mouth curved up. He looked online and checked the voting method, then turned to Yuan Yang and said, "I've sent you a link. Please help my classmate vote."
Yuan Yang opened the link and found it strange. Would Jiang Tu help people canvass for votes
The next day, Jiang Tu said again: "Continue to help vote in the future, and I will treat you to a midnight snack tonight."
Yuan Yang asked: "Do you need help canvassing for votes?"
Jiang Tu paused and said, "It's troublesome."
Jiang Tu has helped everyone a lot in the past two years. He has good professional grades and will patiently explain when asked for advice. He will also help carry things when he works outside. It is rare for him to ask someone for help, so Yuan Yang and Du Yunfei used all their connections to help Li Xixi get a ticket.
Li Xixi made it to the national finals.
In September, on the night of the finals live broadcast, Yuan Yang turned on his computer to connect to the live broadcast. Except for Jiang Tu, the other three gathered together to watch. After all, they were all "fans" who contributed a lot of tickets. They had the barbecue takeout and beer they ordered in front of them, and they ate while watching.
Jiang Tu was leaning against the balcony door with a can of beer in his hand, staring at the starry sky outside the window, a little absent-minded, not knowing what Zhu Xingyao was doing at the moment. Suddenly, Lao Yuan came from behind. They called him Yuan Yang and Lao Yuan. Lao Yuan shouted, "Hey, this guy playing the cello is so beautiful!"
He suddenly turned his head and looked at the computer screen.
The live camera has been taken over and he can't see it.
He walked behind Lao Yuan, staring straight at the computer screen. Li Xixi was singing "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky", which was just released by Escape Plan in April this year. The camera shook and gave another shot to the cellist.
Girl, no, she is already 20 years old, a little older than the high school girl, more elegant and beautiful, perhaps she can be called a young woman.
Li Xixi still had short hair and was thin. She walked around the stage, came to Zhu Xingyao's side, and sang emotionally:
Oh, can you remember the brightest star in the night sky
Traveled with me
The figure disappeared in the wind
I pray to have a transparent heart
And eyes that shed tears
Give me the courage to believe again
Oh, cross the lies to hug you
…
Jiang Tu stared at the computer screen, swallowed hard with his Adam's apple rolling, and when the cigarette burned to the end and burned his hands, he suddenly came to his senses.
Du Yunfei pointed at the computer and said, "Hey, who is this girl? She looks prettier than many celebrities. I'll go to Baidu to see if there is a name. From today on, she is my goddess."
Old Yuan laughed loudly, turned around and asked Jiang Tu: "Is this considered beautiful?"
If the school beauty isn’t pretty enough, then this one must be pretty, right
It was just a joke, and Lao Yuan didn't expect Jiang Tu to answer, but Jiang Tu whispered, "Beautiful."
At that time, Lin Jiayu was also watching the live broadcast. When she saw the song sung by Li Xixi and Zhu Xingyao suddenly appear on the live TV, her eyes suddenly turned red. She didn't know if Jiang Tu had seen it.
How would you feel if you saw it
Jiang Tu did so many things and told Zhu Xingyao so many lies. No one would be able to forget them and would feel unwilling to accept it.
Jiang Tu stood on the balcony, looking up and taking a sip of cold beer. He was already 21 years old, a young man, and his features became even colder and harder. His cell phone rang. It was Lin Jiayu calling. As soon as the call was connected, Lin Jiayu asked in a nasal voice: "I just saw Zhu Xingyao on TV."
The corners of his mouth curved slightly: "Yeah, I saw it too."
Lin Jiayu suddenly didn't know what to say, and she sighed.
A few days later, Lin Jiayu registered a pen name on the Jinjiang Literature City website, and she began to write a true story of secret love on the website intermittently. The title of the book was "Waiting for the Stars". The book was not popular, but some readers came one after another.
The story of "Waiting for the Stars" was serialized until 2013.
Lin Jiayu suddenly received an unexpected news that Zhu Xingyao and Lu Ji broke up when they were sophomores in college, and they separated very low-key and silently.
She told Jiang Tu the news with great excitement.
After a long while, Jiang Tu replied: "Yeah."
Hmm... What does that mean? Lin Jiayu was very distressed.
Finally, she wrote in the story—
In July 2013, Jiang Xing won the Youth Design Award from a certain engineering academy. The academy funded him to study abroad. I know that he has always been a very capable and tenacious person, and he will get better and better.
Jiang Xing's younger brother Jiang Shan didn't finish high school and went off to play some e-sports game. Jiang Xing beat him up before going abroad, but it was no use.
The story ends here for now.
I know you must be asking, what’s the next step for Jiang Xing and his star
More and more people are reading this book, and I’m afraid that I’ll be exposed and Jiang Xing will scold me.
I will lock the article after a few days.
As for the sequel to the story...
If there is a follow-up.
I'll come back and let you know.
Well, hopefully this is a story that continues.
The author has something to say: To be continued...
The next chapter is about the urban volume. Brother Dashitu is growing up. I am so relieved! This may be the feeling of being a mother...
In addition, there is a setting that I haven't figured out yet. I have to check the information tomorrow [Monday] and update it on Tuesday night. I will try to update the urban volume every day. Thank you everyone~