The whole class thinks we're a bit tricky

Chapter 50 Commemoration

Since that day, Li Na has never seen Ji Li again.

At the beginning, he didn't think too much, he just guessed that Ji Li suddenly changed schools, there must be a process of adaptation, and he might not have time to find himself.

Later, the food club recruited newcomers and built teams as in previous years. When it was holding activities, Li Na found that Ji Li didn't come once, and he didn't join the club group, so he felt a little strange.

He also thought that Ji Li passed the exam, and then confessed his love to the senior he likes. It is normal not to come to him and not to participate in club activities.

Only occasionally when eating, chatting with others, or at other moments, Li Na would think of Ji Li.

He's a little unaccustomed to it.

Ji Li's sudden disappearance.

Later, Li Na began to hear all kinds of things about Ji Li from other people - participated in the top ten campus singers and won the championship, started a band to perform everywhere, participated in academic competitions and won awards, entered the school basketball team, received many love letters, was Rated as the campus male god...

It became more and more radiant.

He thought, there is really no need for Ji Li to come to him again.

An increasingly mediocre self.

—

Another year later, at the beginning of his junior year, Li Na met Tang Shenyun, who he hadn't seen for a long time, and the two had dinner together to reminisce about the old days.

"Didn't you graduate, senior? Are you going back to school today?" Li Na asked.

"I haven't figured out what I want to do yet, and I'm reluctant to leave this school, so I continue to study as a graduate student." Tang Shenyun was curious, "What about you? You're in your junior year, have you made a plan? Do you plan to graduate directly and find a job, or continue your studies?" ?”

Li Na didn't think about the long-term. After hesitating for a while, he replied: "I might graduate directly, and then go back to help my mother manage the clothing store."

This year, the business of the clothing store jointly opened by Mama Li and Aunt Xia was getting better and better. The two gradually became overwhelmed, so they began to recruit other people, but they couldn't find satisfactory ones.

Li Na couldn't do anything else at school, so he could only act as the customer service of the online store in his spare time. Li's mother also paid him a salary, which was added up with the inexhaustible living expenses, and he saved a lot of money.

"It turns out that there is a family business that can be inherited." Tang Shenyun showed envious eyes, "That's good, it will save 20 years of struggle in life."

"It's just a small shop, so don't make fun of me. I just don't want my mother to work so hard when I go back." Li Na suddenly remembered someone, "Speaking of which, Ji Li is the one who really has the family business to inherit." .”

Tang Shenyun: "Ji Li? Isn't he going abroad?"

Li Na: "Go abroad?"

Tang Shenyun was surprised that he didn't know Ji Li's current situation: "You don't know? Their junior majors have the opportunity to go abroad for exchange. Ji Li signed up at the end of last semester and passed the interview. It is estimated that he will fly abroad after completing the procedures in two days. And nine out of ten will continue to study abroad.”

Li Na: "That's it."

He originally wanted to be in the same school, and maybe meet Ji Li, and then have dinner together like meeting seniors today to catch up.

Now it is completely impossible.

He suddenly had an urge to meet Ji Li.

"Didn't you stick together when you were freshmen?" Tang Shenyun asked again, "Why did you become alumni and stop dating?"

"It's not as exaggerated as you said, it's just studying together occasionally." Li Na restrained this inexplicable impulse, but the question was still about Ji Li, "Do you know which dormitory building Ji Li lives in?"

Tang Shenyun: "He didn't live in the dormitory, he rented a house outside."

Li Na thought: It is indeed inconvenient to live in a dormitory after having a girlfriend.

Tang Shenyun: "I sent you the address."

Li Na: "I didn't—"

"Don't deceive yourself, you are about to cry with this expression." Tang Shenyun kindly persuaded, "Is there any misunderstanding between you two, explain it clearly in person before he goes abroad, and don't make it look like you don't communicate with each other forever."

Li Na: "There is no misunderstanding."

"The duck's mouth is stubborn, anyway, I'll give you the address." After eating, Tang Shenyun picked up the plate and waved goodbye. "I left beforehand. It's like you didn't eat the meal. Sit down and eat two more bites."

Li Na sat there in a daze for a while, and finally went outside the school.

—

The address Tang Shenyun sent was very close to the school, and Li Na arrived there within 10 minutes on foot.

Standing at the door, the courage he had just accumulated receded like a tide.

What should we say when we meet?

It's been a year since we saw each other.

But he might not be there now.

Just when Li Na was about to return the same way, the door in front of him opened.

He saw a man he hadn't seen for a year, carrying a garbage bag in his hand, wearing loose home clothes and slippers, looking very homely.

"Let me help you throw it."

"Why did you come here?"

The two spoke in unison.

Then there is silence.

Li Na thought to himself: I really shouldn't have come.

"How can there be any reason to ask customers to throw garbage? Come in quickly." Ji Li threw the garbage bag to the side of the door, then moved away sideways, "I happen to be making food, let's eat some together."

"I've eaten." Li Na still wanted to leave, "I won't go in, I will disturb you."

"Why bother me when I'm already up?" Ji Li still stepped aside.

"And yours..." Li Na turned his face away and tried not to look inside the door, "Girlfriend."

"How can I have a girlfriend? I live alone." Ji Li continued to persuade, "Speaking of which, I haven't thanked you for helping me prepare for the transfer student exam. Today's meal is a 'teacher appreciation banquet', is it okay?"

He added another sentence: "It's just that there are no ingredients at home, so it's a little crude."

Hearing this, Li Na had no choice but to walk in.

The kitchen of this house is open, and Li Na sits next to the console and watches Ji Li cook for himself.

Ji Li was making French toast. He first cut a small piece of butter and put it in a frying pan to heat it up. Then he put the toast soaked in milk and egg liquid into it and fried it until both sides were beautiful amber, and then put it on a plate.

Then he put a few blueberries and raspberries on top of the toast, drizzled some maple syrup, and picked two mint sprouts from the potted plants on the balcony to decorate the middle.

"Your girlfriend..." Li Na wanted to ask why she wasn't there, but was too embarrassed to ask.

He wondered why he cared so much about this issue.

"Girlfriend? Never had a girlfriend." Ji Li took out a hand-cranked grinder and began to grind coffee beans, "I forgot to ask, do you want coffee or something else?"

"Plain water is fine." Li Na recalled that no one mentioned Ji Li had a girlfriend in the past year. He always thought that Ji Li was so popular that he was afraid that his girlfriend would be jealous, so he protected her tightly.

He turned the question around again: "So you were so unhappy that day, is it because you failed to confess?"

Ji Li finished grinding the coffee beans, poured the powder into a paper funnel, and began to filter: "When?"

Li Na wanted to say "a year ago", but it seemed too long ago, so he changed it to: "When we met last time."

"That day," Ji Li smiled strangely, "It was indeed a failure that day."

"Feel sorry……"

"It's actually not interesting to fall in love. It's much more interesting to specialize in studies, are you right?" Ji Li asked.

"You can't say that." Looking at Ji Li's expression, Li Na always felt that he hadn't let go, so he continued to persuade, "The most important thing in a relationship is to be happy with each other. You will always meet the right person in the future."

"Where to eat?" Ji Li didn't answer Li Na's words, but picked up the plate and looked around, "Why don't you go to the bay window, the sun is better."

"Okay." Li Na picked up the coffee and water on the console, and followed behind Ji Li.

The two sat cross-legged, eating French toast facing each other.

There is only a small round table with a diameter of about forty centimeters on the bay window, so the distance between the two people is very close, and if they move a little, they will touch their knees.

Every time he touched it, Li Na shrank back a little.

"Speaking of which, I still owe you an apology." Ji Li stopped moving forward, and said while eating, "During the first year of high school, I was young and ignorant, and kept bullying you."

"It's nothing, I was just frightened when you took your pants off to take a photo." Li Na continued, "You helped me so much later, so let's take it as a counterbalance."

Much more than that.

Ji Li thought: I didn't know how many times I picked you up in my dream, and I didn't dare to let you know.

"Actually, it didn't last long," Li Na recalled that time, and continued, "I was hiding in the rockery, and when I heard your call, I knew the school director was helping me, so I didn't have to be afraid, and I secretly cursed you, It all came true."

"I didn't expect you to have this special ability," Ji Li smiled, "Then can you read people's hearts?"

Li Na shook his head.

"I'm done eating, I'll make another gift for you as a souvenir." After finishing speaking, Ji Li stood up and continued to go to the kitchen.

Li Na also quickly finished the toast, and followed him to the kitchen: "What are you going to do?"

"Do you remember the first time we went out to play together?" Ji Li took out a milk pan, poured coral sugar into it and started heating it.

Li Na: "You mean Yuancheng?"

"No, it's the floating city." Ji Li said, "During the National Day holiday in the first year of high school, we watched shooting stars together that time."

"Ah, I remembered." Li Na didn't regard that trip as a play, but an escape.

"At that time, I knew you liked the starry sky, and I said I would take you to look at the stars with the school's astronomical telescope, but I couldn't do it. Now I will make some starry sky lollipops and give them to you. Don't be disgusted." Ji Li looked at coral candy Once everything has melted and reached the desired temperature, the sugar is poured into the molds.

Li Na: "I don't dislike it at all, it's just too troublesome, and you are very busy these two days, you have to go through various procedures to go abroad."

"No trouble, just wait for the sugar to solidify." Ji Li took a pair of scissors and began to cut the pattern of the starry sky, "Do you have a class in the afternoon? If there is a class, I will let someone else bring it to you after I finish it."

Li Na, who obviously had class in the afternoon, shook his head without hesitation.

In this way, Li Na kept watching how Ji Li took the lollipop out of the mold, put it into a beautiful box, and handed it to him.

"This box of starry sky lollipops is for you. May your future life be like this starry sky lollipop, bright and..." Ji Li paused, then continued, "Sweet."

He thought to himself: I used to think that you and I were like two railroad tracks, and we could move forward together after they intersected at a certain point, but in fact, I was being sentimental. We are just a pair of parallel lines on different planes. Over intersection.

Li Na held the candy and asked, "Do you know where you can skydive in China?"

"Skydiving?" Ji Li asked, "Why do you ask this?"

"I want to dance once before graduation."

"Recently, there is one in Floating City. If you want a better view, go to..." In the following time, Ji Li explained to Li Na the pros and cons of various skydiving bases in China for nearly an hour.

When leaving Ji Li's house, Li Na kept repeating this sentence in his heart: You really forgot, you agreed to take me to fly.