Meet you, grow old slowly

I was going to see Fanxing the next day, so I couldn’t fall asleep. My mind was full of thoughts about what Fanxing was doing, what I had for dinner, what the body wash smelled like in the shower, and whether I had dried my hair in time... In short, one night, So I thought about all kinds of stars, and finally, it was dawn!

"Yes, hurry up and get ready, Dad has already gone to pick up the stars!" Yu Meiren had already dressed up early.

"So early?!" So he jumped up from the bed.

"Last night Xing called and said he would come back early today, he didn't ask me to tell you because he was afraid that it would be too late to wake you up"

"At that moment, Dad will take him home or go there"

"Go there directly, I have already explained that your father will leave as soon as he delivers it, and you wait for him there first"

"Mom, Yingming! Zhouquan!"

"That must! Go quickly! The clothes have been matched for you!"

So I am very grateful to my mother, but it is still important to get down to business.

I didn't even eat breakfast, so I arrived early and waited for the stars on the balcony on the second floor, where I could see people on the road.

The stars are here, in the morning, there is no one in the alleys of Dongxi Lane, only him, and Shi.

"Star, here!" Then attached to the balcony.

Fan Xing walked a few steps forward, and came to the place directly facing down from the balcony where Yu was - a coffee shop.

"Fanxing", this is the name of the store.On the lower right side of "Fanxing", there is a relatively smaller word: "Meet you, grow old slowly".

"Fanxing, happy birthday, do you like this gift?"

……

"Ok!"

"Come to your arms!"

Fan Xing has never run so fast before, he can't wait to step directly from the door to the balcony in one step!

"thanks, thanks!"

"What's the use of thanking you, you have to promise with your body!"

"Haven't I promised myself yet?"

"you promise!"

"Guaranteed what?"

"You, Zhou Fanxing, have been doing it all your life!" So he squeezed Fanxing's waist hard, he was ticklish.

"Okay, okay, let me say... I, Zhou Fanxing, have been doing this all my life."

"How about it, isn't it good here?"

"Well, it's not easy"

"It's okay, the store was found by my father. I told him what I thought, and he rented it in the East and West Lane business district. My mother is busy with other business licenses, store operations, etc., but , the most important thing is that I designed and furnished it myself!"

"only you?"

"Actually... there are Fu Xiaran and the others."

"Then the money from this store..."

"I've spent all my studio money here!"

"This is enough?"

"...and my parents also contributed part of it"

"Part of it?"

"...Most of them" then honestly confessed.

"Thank them for me"

"Thank you a long time ago, besides, this...you have to thank yourself yourself!"

"Okay, how can you thank me!"

"My parents' is mine, you... just thank me"

"I know what's going on in your mind. I'm a little tired these days...you...be patient"

"Well... anyway, you are mine for the rest of your life!"

"Take me on a tour"

"Row!"

This is an exquisite and special coffee house with a small area and a two-story business area.The East and West Alleys belong to the retro style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties with blue bricks, white tiles and stone slabs. All the shops in all the alleys are not allowed to modify the facades without permission. The shopkeepers can only freely decorate and design the interior of the shop.So I liked this simple and simple feeling at first, and I didn't think about changing it. I just added the name of the store, but the interior design took a lot of effort. The store is a huge "Van Gogh's painting" "Starry sky", from the ground to the wall to the tables, chairs, bar counter and the stairs leading to the second floor, all of these are connected into a huge "starry sky" by Shi Shi's painting, starting from the first step into the room, It's like entering a "star world", feeling like you are in the starry sky painted by Van Gogh.So it took three months to complete the painting. During these three months, I had to run back and forth between the school and the urban area every day. I couldn't let Fanxing know, so I had to sacrifice the afternoon and evening art classes.So I struggled with the design of the store for a long time, and finally chose this "Van Gogh's Starry Sky".In response to the name "Fanxing", I took a homophonic word "Vatican" in "Van Gogh's Starry Sky" and added the word "Star", so that "Vanxing" is "Fanxing". The "Vanxing" at the door, When I meet you, I will grow old slowly" is Shi Shi's confession to Fan Xing.

The coffee shop opened on the second day after Fanxing came back. Yu Meiren invited three beautiful young ladies to help in the store, so Fanxing learned to manage the shop with the help of Yumeiren. Dad would come over from time to time to have a drink. Two cups of coffee, enjoying a lazy leisure time with Yu Meiren on the balcony, this place has also become a fixed place for several people to meet and chat, whenever there is anything, they will "negotiate" here.

"So, see you at the old place today." Fu Xiaran made an appointment as soon as the studio lecture was over.

"So happy, what's the matter?!"

"Take you to meet someone"

"girlfriend?"

"Correct!"

"It's so soon again!" Luo Yang just came back from washing his hands, packing up his precious paintbrushes.

"In short, the old place, the details will be discussed later"

"Okay, you have the final say!"

In the evening, Fu Xiaran arrived as promised, accompanied by a beautiful young lady.

"Let me introduce, my girlfriend, Su Ke!"

The young lady nodded slightly to everyone.

"It sounds good, it's the same surname as Su Jue!" Luo Yang felt that as long as everything related to Su Jue was fine.

"Isn't this Sister Su Ke?! I am so, we learned painting together at that time!"

"Remember, I also remember Luoyang!"

"How did you two get together?! Fu Xiaran, good boy! You actually chased after Sister Su Ke, you have to talk about it!"

"I said, I said! I kept in touch with Ke'er after the painting class ended, and later found out that we went to the same high school. Didn't Ke'er take the college entrance examination last semester? I treated her to a meal. Rice, to express my heart"

"As a result, Ye Ye is still arguing with you over this matter!"

"Luoyang, don't talk too much!" So I knew that I shouldn't mention Ye Ye at this time.

"It's okay, I don't mind, Xia Ran told me everything"

"That's right, I've always been honest!"

"Go on"

"Didn't I chat with you one time later, and I felt that what you said was right, you have to feel sympathetic with her when you like someone. Later, I suddenly found out that I have this feeling for Ke'er. We were very close a long time ago. Good friends, the relationship was not the same not long ago.”

"Why is it different?" Luo Yang joked.

"I think this relationship is between a friend and a lover. It's not ambiguous... It's just thinking about her and the two of us."

"And then?" Luo Yang asked.

"Then...then you understand!"

"Actually, it's really a very simple thing for us to be together. It's not as complicated as you think. I like it. Sometimes it's just an ordinary thing. If it feels right, I don't want to miss it." Ke'er's speech and behavior are very elegant , with a completely different style from Ye Ye.

"By the way, I heard from Xia Ran that there are two more of you."

"Oh, yes, both Fan Xing and Su Jue are absent today"

At this time, Su Jue came in with a bad expression.

"Su Jue, why are you alone, Fanxing?" So he thought that Fanxing was behind, and looked back sideways.

"He's not coming"

"What happened?!"

"He never comes again"

"No, you speak clearly, what's going on?!" So he got a little angry, and he felt that something was wrong.

"Okay, let me make it clear, you two are over, everything is impossible!" When Su Jue said this, his tone was calm, but his eyes... were full of despair.

"Impossible, he has to tell me personally if it's over, I don't need you!"

"No chance"

"What do you mean?!" So he grabbed Su Jue by the collar.

"The meaning is in the words." After saying this, Su Jue left without paying attention to anyone, even Luoyang.

So I was overwhelmed by Su Jue's last sentence "The meaning is all in the words", "The meaning is all in the words", recalling every sentence just now, it means that he and Fan Xing "are over". "Why why why..." So I kept asking myself in my heart, everything was too sudden, without any warning.So I searched all possible places, but the stars seemed to have evaporated from the world.In the next few days, Shi Yu kept having a fever, and Shi Shi, who had been strong since childhood, had a fever for the second time in his life, because of the stars and the "why" he couldn't figure out.

Su Jue has always had that attitude, he didn't say anything, even if Luoyang asked him, the same result would be the same.

"Luoyang, I have something to do with my mother. I have to go back to France." Su Jue told Luoyang on the phone that it was the middle of summer vacation.

After the stars disappeared, Luoyang was worried about So, and also worried about himself, because Su Jue had become different from before. Luoyang was worried that he would be the next So, but Su Jue wanted to return to China, and he did not stop him. Su Jue agreed. He calls every week.

The original small group of five people suddenly lost two, and went back to the time when no one met anyone, only Shi, Luoyang and Fu Xiaran.The two brothers are in the period of disappointment, and Fu Xiaran doesn't think much about falling in love anymore.

So during the few days of illness, he refused to see everyone, including Fu Xiaran and Luoyang.The training class in the studio has already started, and only Fu Xiaran is taking care of it. Luoyang has also been in poor health recently, probably because of Su Jue.

In the past few days, there has been a rain every afternoon, and the sky is suddenly dark and then sunny.Fu Xiaran was preparing materials for class in the studio, and the students had already arrived.

"How's the progress these few days?" I don't know when So Yu had already stood behind Fu Xiaran.

"So?! Why are you here? Aren't you sick? Rest well at home."

"I'm fine." With a blank expression on his face, he began to set up his drawing board next to Fu Xiaran, "Where's Luoyang?"

"Oh, Su Jue has returned to France, he is also in a bad mood recently"

"Back to France? Why?!"

"It's because mom has something to do and needs to go back"

"Did you say when to come back?"

"I don't know...you still want to ask him..."

"Well, at least you have to know why"

"I said so! Why don't you give up? Objectively speaking, Fan Xing is not bad, he looks good and has a good personality, but...he doesn't care about you enough!"

"How to say?"

"Think about it, if he cares about you, why didn't he mention you to his family and show your relationship?! Look, you brought him home, and your parents are still so kind to him. What about him, he Have you met his family with you, maybe his family didn’t even know there was such a person!”

...then silence.

"I'm sorry, brother, I'm being serious, but it's also for your own good. I hope you will come out soon."

"You can see a lot of things clearly"

"I... a bystander knows"

"Did you want to say these words a long time ago?"

"I don't have that. Before...you are so nice, I never thought that you would...be like this now"

"I see, let's go to class"

During the two-hour class, he didn't say a word other than the lecture content. At noon, when Fu Xiaran asked him where to eat, he just shook his head. I am not in the mood to eat.

"Yes! You... you better go back first, I can do the afternoon class by myself"

"No, you go back, I want to stay here alone for a while"

"...What about the class in the afternoon?"

"You call to cancel"

One afternoon, so I was in the studio, always, always painting, painting portraits of stars.

"Yes, what's the matter, how did you get drenched like this?!" Yu's mother looked at her body soaked, and her heart ached terribly.

"Why didn't you ask me to pick you up when it was raining so heavily?" Father Yu came down from the stairs when he heard the sound.

"I'm fine." So he held the painting in the afternoon in his arms.

"Okay, give me the things, go take a shower." Yu's mother tried to get the painting in Yu's arms.

"Let go! I'll do it myself!" Then he roared suddenly.

So the sudden anger startled Yu's mother and Yu's father.

So he went upstairs alone, and Yu's mother ignored him. She knew that he needed someone, and no one could help him at this time, unless...but this was impossible.

So I went back to the room, spread out the rain-soaked paintings one by one, and hung them in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, before I knew it, I fell asleep.

After drenching in the rain, I slept by the window for another night. On the second day, I had a high fever again. It was the third time in my life that I had a fever. It was still because of the stars, and because he was "paintable but unattainable".

It's been almost a week since Su Jue left, and finally received a call from him in Luoyang at noon on the sixth day.After talking on the phone for more than an hour, Luo Yang felt more at ease, but he always felt that Su Jue had something else to say.

So the illness lasted for half a month. After more than ten days, everyone lost a lot of weight. Mother Yu looked distressed, but there was no way to untie the bell.

This afternoon, Fu Xiaran Luoyang came to see Shi at home.

"I said no, I will go to the studio tomorrow"

"Let's rest for a few more days, anyway, there is nothing to be busy now."

"No, it's been too long." So he took a sip of tea, "How is Su Jue?"

"Oh, he'll be back tomorrow"

"He goes to school in the city high school?"

"Well...you don't want to..."

"No, just asking"

"That's right, you should forget about it"

"Yeah," so he stopped talking.

So I actually went to the studio the next day, and everything seemed to be back to normal.Su Jue came back from France and went to the studio to find Luoyang, so he didn't ask any more questions.

The third year of high school arrived as scheduled, and on the first day of school, he was a little excited. Although he didn't say it himself, everyone knew what he was thinking.

In the first class meeting at the beginning of school, the first thing the teacher said was "This semester, Zhou Fanxing from our class has transferred away. It's a pity that we couldn't hold a farewell party for him, this kid Fanxing..."

The latter, so I can’t listen to it anymore. I was still fantasizing about the start of school and maybe the stars will appear again. Now, this fantasy is shattered, but fantasies are meant to be shattered, otherwise how can it be called "fantasy".

The air was so hot that it was suffocating. It seemed that there would be another heavy rain in a while.

The class meeting was halfway through, so I ran out suddenly.

"So, where are you going?!" Fu Xiaran wanted to grab him, but was stopped by Luoyang, "Let him go, if you hold it back, then don't let it out and you'll be broken."

"So where are the students going? This meeting is only halfway through!" Although the class teacher looked weak, he was not easy to provoke.

"Oh, that, the teacher has diarrhea" This is a common reason in Luoyang.

"Okay, let's continue..." The head teacher didn't care too much about this matter.

So as soon as I ran to the playground, it rained cats and dogs, so I kept running, running, lap after lap...

Fu Xiaran vaguely felt that something was wrong, she hadn't come back after so long, and it was raining harder and harder outside.

"Luoyang, we should go and have a look, otherwise, what should we do if something happens!"

It happened to be recess at this time, and Fu Xiaran and Luo Yang were dispatched. As soon as they left the classroom, they saw many people standing on the balcony corridor, as if they were looking at something.

"Yes, so!" Fu Xiaran recognized him at a glance when he looked in the general direction of everyone's eyes.

"It's still running under such heavy rain! Don't die!" Luo Yang shouted.

Luo Yang and Fu Xiaran rushed to the playground, and they had already collapsed when they arrived.The two dragged their heavy loads to the school doctor's office. The school doctor's diagnosis was: physical and mental exhaustion.

Luo Yang and Fu Xiaran didn't dare to take half a step away, fearing that they would make some more moves in the next step.

Yu's mother rushed to school and took Yu back home after hearing the news. In the next semester, Yu's mother helped Yu apply for the "self-study unified examination", so she studied at home and took the college entrance examination.In the second semester of the third year of high school, he finally recovered. He went to a certain beauty in Beijing with Fu Xiaran and Luoyang to take the art test. His grades were not bad, and he should be able to enter without any accidents.The college entrance examination in June was spent in a tense atmosphere. No matter how hard I tried, no matter what the result was, I was satisfied.

In July, all three of them received admission notices from a certain beauty in Beijing, and they were still in the same class.

The studio will be closed in two months, so the last batch of students was recruited. Luoyang and Fu Xiaran also put their best efforts in teaching, after all, it was also the last class here.

"Yes, do we still have classes after we go to university?" Luo Yang asked at the end of the last class in the studio.

"No way, the competition is too strong in places where there are all masters, and besides, there are not many students nearby."

"Then let's concentrate on painting, and then walk around, sketch from life, travel and so on."

"Yes, then you can go to Beiwai to find Su Jue!"

"Can you not think about him every day! Where did you put us brothers!"

"Relax!"

"What about Jue Su!"

"He... runs in my blood"

"Can you be more sour, bro!"

"Only you can't think of it, without me I can't be sour!"

"Okay, you two, hey Xia Ran, sister Ke'er is also in the same department as us?" So he asked.

"Yes, when the time comes, we will have someone to take care of us!" Fu Xiaran said.

"Why didn't I see her this summer?" Luo Yang asked.

"Sketch from Yunnan"

"Good day!" Luo Yang looked envious.

"We will do the same in the future!" So he said while tidying up his brushes.