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79.Episode 79
Chapter 79, Still Old
Seventeen-year-old Yuan Rui confessed to Meng Lai three times. The first time was the day before the basketball finals. Meng Lai rejected him. He sadly drank the ten bottles of soda he had saved. The next day, he could not have diarrhea. In the match, Meng Lai, who had lost the battle alone, slapped him with a dark face and slapped him hard. He stretched his stomach and legs all night, and he rolled his eyes and fainted.
When he woke up, he was already in the infirmary, and the sweaty Meng Lai scolded him next to him: "Aren't you stupid? Why don't you ask for leave when you are sick? What kind of sun are you standing by the court!"
After that, Meng Lai seemed as if nothing had happened, and how he treated him before, he still treated him the same way. Yuan Rui thought about it, thinking that it must be that he had not confessed sincerely enough that Meng Lai didn't take his liking for him seriously.
The second confession happened before the summer vacation. Yuan Rui racked his brains and wrote an emotional love letter. He secretly caught it in the notebook on Meng Lai’s desk while doing exercises between classes, and then became shy and nervous. Waiting for Meng Lai’s response, from morning to noon, from noon to afternoon, the last class is the class meeting, Meng Lai holding a pile of freshly copied "Summer Vacation Safety Warning Ten Do Not" and other materials to distribute to Students, on the last day before the holiday, the atmosphere was very lively, and it was a bit lively, and everyone suddenly fell silent.
Yuan Rui was still out of the situation, and the same table pointed to one of the several materials on the table. He glanced strangely and was immediately stunned when he saw the words "Dear Meng Lai" handwritten by him.
Meng Lai, who was standing on the podium preparing for the class meeting, was also confused.
Cicadas roared outside the window, and the classroom was silent.
After the class meeting, the summer vacation was off. Yuan Rui wanted to take care of his sick mother. Some classmates asked him to play, but he declined to go. He secretly called Meng Lai once, but when they answered, he stuttered again. What to say, I had to pretend to ask how to do the homework, and Meng Lai actually gave him a serious topic without mentioning the love letter.
Meng Lai didn't want to mention it, Yuan Rui didn't dare to mention it.
He regretted that wrote love letters, regret not a good look at it is what book, Meng Lai must feel very ashamed very angry, but conservation is good and it did not beat him, and now back to him speak physics problem.
This can be considered a tactful rejection.
Meng Lai is very popular with girls and also likes to play with girls. He should be a straight man.
Yuan Rui just started to like people secretly, and never thought of confessing. It was Suoyue who told him that "there is no straight man". Thinking about it at this time, he is too funny, why should he believe in a primary school student? No matter how smart he was to read, Suoyue was only in fifth grade.
He thought about it for a long time, and decided to continue to like Meng Lai secretly in the future, never say it again, and don't show it. If a classmate asked about the love letter, he said it was a prank, and hoped that Meng Lai would not hate him. .
After the long summer vacation, Meng Lai was still a shining class leader who was surrounded by many people. He was still an introverted and transparent student with medium grades. The second year of high school was tense and there was no basketball game. Their seats were far away, like on both sides of the Milky Way. There is no intersection, no communication.
In a physical education class three weeks after the start of school, the teacher took the warm-up and everyone exercised freely. Some students greeted Yuan Rui to play basketball. He saw from a distance that Meng Lai was already squatting on the edge of the basketball court to tie his shoelaces. refused, and ran to play football with another group of boys. Teammates said he was tall and long in arms, and sent him to be a goalkeeper who didn't want to be a goalkeeper. The goalkeeper on the opposite side was a little one who could not run at 180 pounds. Fat man.
He guarded the goal for a long time, but the football never came. He simply sat cross-legged on the lawn, and after a while began to empty again.
The happiest thing recently is that my mother’s condition has improved. You can go home and rest without staying in the hospital. The exam will be taken in a few days. If you try to do a better test this time, your mother will be happy, and Uncle Suo He will be happy. He is very kind to his mother and takes good care of him. He is a very good person. Would you like to call him father?
"Yuan Rui!"
He turned his head when someone called him.
Standing on the runway, Meng Lai waved at him and asked him, "Drink soda?"
His heart beats a bit fast, and he paused for a few seconds before saying, "Don't drink, thank you."
Meng Lai stood there without moving.
Yuan Rui thought he hadn't heard clearly, and said louder, "I don't drink."
Meng Lai strode towards him.
Yuan Rui didn't even think about it. He stood up quickly and waved his hand again and again: "No drink or no drink, really."
Meng Lai approached him, put his shoulders on him, and said, "Come with me."
Yuan Rui took a few steps to react, grabbed the goal post, and said, "I still want to guard the goal!"
Meng Lai put his hand on his shoulder and said impatiently: "They played so badly that they couldn't score at all. They don't have to defend. Don't hold the goal and let go."
In the past, when they were playing together, Meng Lai went to the canteen to buy soda for everyone to drink. He often pulled Yuan Rui as an attendant to help carry bags, and Yuan Rui was very happy every time. But now he didn't want to go with Meng anymore, saying: "I really don't want to drink soda, otherwise I will invite you to drink, but I can only invite you, I only have five yuan."
Meng Lai's brows stretched out, with a smile, and said, "Okay, you invite me, go, and buy together."
Yuan Rui still grabbed the door frame post, took out five yuan from the pocket of the school uniform with his other hand, and handed it over, "Hey, you can buy it yourself, and I have to guard the door."
Meng Lai: "..."
Yuan Rui was hurt by the neck of Meng Lai's arm, and was dragged away while struggling with "I won't go, I will keep the goal."
Behind him, a football flew from a distance, hit the goal post with a "boom" and was bounced off, really unable to enter.
When buying soda at the canteen, Yuan Rui gave the money to the boss and said, "A bottle of soda."
"Don't be so stingy," Meng Lai said, "I invite you to drink."
Yuan Rui neatly folded the remaining two bucks and put them back in his pockets, and whispered: "It's not stingy, I have had enough."
Meng Lai glanced at him, disappointed in his eyes.
After coming out of the commissary, Yuan Rui said, "I'm going back to guard the gate. You can go back after drinking, otherwise they will be jealous and you have to invite them again."
Meng Lai's tone was not very good and replied: "I am willing to ask, they have not had enough."
Yuan Rui: "..."
He realized that he had said something wrong, and hurriedly explained: "I didn't mean that. I just drank too much at once. I really drank enough. It wasn't that I drank enough. I was not saying that you were bad. No, it doesn’t matter whether you are good or not, you are very good, nor is it, anyway, I can’t drink this soda now because you bought me too much...not that you buy too much, but I drink too much too much."
Meng Lai: "...what are you talking about?"
Yuan Rui: "..."
He was about to cry, and he didn't know what he was talking about.
Meng Lai looked at him, didn’t know what he was thinking, changed the bottle of soda and held it in the other hand, and said, “I’ll go back after drinking it. You are not allowed to leave... They all saw you come with me, but We have to go back together."
Yuan Rui thought, what logic? !
Meng Lai said: "Go to the small garden, there is no one there, otherwise the teacher will see us and think we are absent from class."
Yuan Rui thought again, it was originally absenteeism, and absenteeism is not absenteeism?
But his legs didn't listen to his brain at all, and he couldn't help but follow Meng Lai.
It was autumn when the wisteria flowers bloomed just right, hanging down from the gaps of the shelves, like strings of purple wind chimes.
Yuan Rui looked up for a long time, and Meng Lai asked him, "Do you like flowers?"
He said: "My mother likes it."
Meng Lai stood beside him, and looked up at the flowers.
can vaguely hear which class in the teaching building is reading English text.
The two thin school uniforms were a little bulged by the wind, and a few flowers fell on the flower stand. The green life swayed by the wind blowing grass was soft and full.
Meng Lai licked his lower lip and said, "I think..."
"Hurry up and drink soda," Yuan Rui urged, "Everyone is waiting for me to go back to guard the gate."
Meng Lai had a meal, and exhaled somewhat discouragedly, and said, "Do you want to be alone with me?"
Yuan Rui thought to himself, how could not think about it, really missed it!
Meng Lai said, "Why haven't you spoken to me for so long since school started?"
Yuan Rui's heart was shocked and he stammered: "My seat is too far away from you."
Meng Lai said: "Last semester you sat like this, you always came around from the back of the classroom to find me, why not this semester?"
Yuan Rui stammered even more, saying: "Because, because of studying, studying is too stressful, and there is no time to take such a long journey."
Meng Lai: "..."
He suddenly said: "Not because of that love letter? I thought it was because of that."
Yuan Rui pretended to be foolish here, "What love letter? I never wrote a love letter."
Meng Lai tut and said, "I also said that I would always dream of me, but now I said I haven't written about it."
Yuan Rui blushed instantly and argued: "I didn't dream it yet! I just wrote it for fun."
Meng Lai: "...is it fun?"
Yuan Rui was scared. Meng Lai was a little serious. He had never been so serious. He must still mind that the whole class read the love letter last time. Speaking of which, he was just silently guilty reviewing, and he was not well. Apologized to Meng Lai.
"I'm sorry," he felt that he should still take responsibility for his own fault, and he simply stopped concealing his ears, and said sincerely, "I was so panicked that I didn't see clearly the materials used by the class in that book, which made you in front of everyone. It's all my fault to be ashamed, I'm sorry."
He lowered his head and dared not look at Meng Lai. He only heard Meng say, "Don’t apologize to me, I just want to ask you, is it not responsible after writing a love letter? During the two months of summer vacation, he made a phone call. Still ask me the physics question, do you think it’s really okay if you pretend to be okay?"
Yuan Rui pursed her lips and whispered, "Then how can you forgive me?"
Meng Lai asked, "How are you going to make me forgive you?"
Yuan Rui was a little embarrassed and said for a while: "I won't bother you anymore, I won't write love letters to you, I won't call you, I won't ask you physics questions, I won't tell others that I like you, absolutely I won’t humiliate you again, I promise."
Meng Lai curled his eyebrows and said, "Does it mean to like it in the past? Don't like me now?"
Yuan Rui looked up at him, lowered his head, looked up again, lowered his head again, repeated several times, and the circles under his eyes were a little red.
Meng Lai: "...Don't watch or talk."
Yuan Rui lowered his head and whispered, "Can't you like you secretly? I really won't tell anyone."
Meng Lai opened his mouth and closed it again. After a while, he said, "Don't you tell me?"
Yuan Rui raised her head in surprise, her black eyes watery.
Meng Lai looked at him with a smile and said, "Don't tell others, but tell me, otherwise you won't like it."
Yuan Rui: "..."
Meng Lai unscrewed the lid of the soda bottle, took a few sips, and threw the bottle behind him.
Yuan Rui's gaze followed the parabola of the bottle up and down, and said, "I will throw it into the trash can."
Meng Lai ignored him and stared straight at him, perhaps because he drank soda too quickly, or for other reasons, his chest was ups and downs a bit violently.
Yuan Rui noticed that it seemed a little different, but he didn't know what was different.
Meng Lai walked closer to him.
Too close! He was busy shrinking back.
Meng Lai's right hand stretched over quickly and wrapped it around his waist to prevent him from retreating.
This intimate and ambiguous behavior made the two teenagers a little stunned.
Yuan Rui asked in a daze, "What are you doing?"
Meng Lai laughed quickly and said, "Didn't you always dream of me in your love letter? What did you dream of?"
Yuan Rui: "..."
Meng Lai leaned closer again and said softly, "Is it like this?"
Yuan Rui suddenly opened his eyes.
Meng Lai's lips pressed against his lips.
Suddenly there was a gust of wind, and petals fell from the flower stand overhead.
Yuan Rui didn't inquire about the first kiss of others. His first kiss only touched his lips. Before he had time, he was caught by the director of the teaching department.
Looking at the director's expression, he was obviously more frightened than him. He only said half of "What are you doing" and then it was like a sunflower acupuncture hand.
Meng Lai pushed Yuan Rui a bit and said, "You run, he may not know you."
Yuan Rui refused, because they had kissed each other, and of course they had to deal with it.
Meng Lai frowned and said, "He also knows my mother, so he won't embarrass me. You go."
Yuan Rui ran from the other side, ran back to the playground and sat under the goal post, only to secretly think, nepotism is so great! Two people kiss why only one needs to escape? what! Kissed! OMG!
After so many years, he can still remember that he was happily rolling in the goal, and the fat goalkeeper on the opposite side just looked at him and was hit by the football head on the street.
It was only after so many years that he realized that it was not completely unaffected when he was caught by the director of the teaching department at that time. Nepotism was really amazing. The director told Meng Lai his mother in a blink of an eye.
At this moment, Meng Lai’s mother told him on the phone: "Meng Lai was sincere to you. He later learned that I lied to him, so he wanted to find you back. He had already recommended a graduate student in this school and gave up. I applied for an Australian school and wanted to find you. After he passed, I asked local Chinese students to find out that you only read a bachelor degree, and then became a model. You may have gone to the United States or Europe. People know where you are."
Yuan Rui: "..." During the years when he went out to study, he was very introverted at first because of the loss of his mother and leaving his hometown. His spoken language was not good and his grades were not good. He was not very gregarious. Later, he became a part-time model and he had no chance when he was busy Socially, after four years in Sydney, I didn't make any friends.
Yang Lu said: "He cut off contact with me at that time. Without financial resources, it is impossible to find you all over the world. He can only come and work while studying, and try to save money to buy cheap air tickets and go where you might be. I'm looking for you."
"Why don't you just go to his house and ask? His father, his sister, there is no one in his house," Zheng Qiuyang snorted and asked without questioning, "I really want to find him, how can I not find him?"
Meng Lai said in a calm tone: "How do you ask? Say hello to uncles and sisters. I was the one who fell in love with Yuan Rui at that time and caused my mother to come to the house and kill Yuan Rui indirectly?"
Zheng Qiuyang: "..."
Meng Lai said: "Actually, when I looked for him, I knew that we couldn't have any more results. I was just not reconciled. I just wanted to ask him face to face..."
He didn't say what he wanted to ask, nor did Zheng Qiuyang ask.
"Four years ago, I got my degree and returned to China. I finally got news from him. He was participating in the Supermodel Contest in North America. I quickly rushed over. When I got there, I was just announcing the ranking. His appearance has not changed at all. The joy, anger, sorrow and joy are on his face. The top twelve entered the final. He took the thirteenth place, and everyone left. He stood there in a daze. I watched him for a long time and thought he was there. Sad and wanted to comfort him, but he suddenly laughed again. He didn't know what he was happy about, so he picked a red rose from the bouquet next to it, pulled it out, and took the flower away." Meng Lai He smiled and said, "I followed him and saw that he gave the flower to an Asian male model who had been eliminated. Later I found out that it was the object of his unrequited love at the time, a straight man."
Zheng Qiuyang asked suddenly: "Is there any smoke?"
Meng Lai took out the cigarette and wanted to throw the whole bag over. Zheng Qiuyang said, "Just one."
Meng Lai drew one and threw it to him, took out one and lit it, and threw the lighter over.
Zheng Qiuyang just lighted it, put the cigarette between his fingers, and said: "You found that he was not waiting for you, and he was still a big carrot, so you gave up on him?"
Meng Lai asked, "Do you think he is bothered?"
Zheng Qiuyang didn't answer, only said: "Unless I die, otherwise he will never change his mind."