[The Wandering Earth] Short Story Collection: The Age of Roses

University campus AU, Liu Qi's perspective

The first part of Wang Lei's Perspective: Lei Qi's "Northern Kingdom"

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Su Shi's poem "Nanxiangzi" says: Dongwu looks at Yuhang.The sea of ​​clouds and the horizon are far away.This is what Liu Qi recited when he was very young.The literal meaning is that Dongwu and Yuhang are far away from each other, but there is a vast sea of ​​clouds across the sky.The inner meaning is that the poet misses his old friends and wonders when he can return to his hometown.

Whether it was Tang poems or the three hundred Song poems, Han Ziang forced him to memorize them by heart. This caused Liu Qi to think that before he was 16 years old, he would spend his whole life in liberal arts.The best one out of thousands of possibilities is probably nothing more than persisting in further studies, staying in school to teach after graduating from a Ph.

He really thought so before he chose science and got DPU by mistake.

There is never a lack of what-ifs in life. The reason why a wrong choice was considered a mistake at the time was because the person concerned did not see the countless possibilities hidden behind the choice.It includes but is not limited to the things you are about to experience, the people you are about to meet, and the suffering and suffering you are about to swallow or even fully accept.

Dormitory B1 is next to the University Student Activity Center. Liu Qi lives on the shady side of the sixth floor, just across a small hill from Dahuo.Usually, he can occasionally hear the untuned piano sound coming from there.The summer night is clear, the breeze dissipates the heat, and the noise and birdsong are sent from afar. A train passes through the mountains, and the light on both sides of the carriage passes through the woods, casting mottled shadows on the walls of the bedroom.

Li Yiyi said, "They graduated today."

He was sitting in front of the desk, facing the window, with a materialization study guide spread out on the desk.Liu Qi saw that half of the characters and shadows were densely painted with a pencil on the draft paper in his hand.Li Yiyi used declarative sentences, but the ending sound was slightly raised.

"Yes." Liu Qi opened the screen window and poked his head out of the window. On the road downstairs in B1, boys and girls walked by talking and laughing loudly. The white cultural shirts reflected light at night, and everyone was in high spirits.

"They graduated with undergraduate degrees," he said.

Before he finished speaking, he heard Li Yiyi sigh. The latter turned over a page of the book and twirled the pencil twice on his fingertips.He looked a little irritable, but his actions revealed a kind of forcibly suppressed calm. "They have graduated, but we still have to stay here to study physical chemistry." Li Yiyi tapped the pages of the book with the eraser attached to the pencil, "Lao Shizi's law of thermodynamics."

"I thought these things couldn't help you."

"Being good at exams doesn't mean loving exams." His roommate sighed long.He closed the materialization guide, buried his head in his schoolbag, and read the book on analytical chemistry: "Recently, I often feel that I should drop out of school and repeat my studies, take a major in computer science, and become a code farmer in the future."

"—and then lose all your hair?" Liu Qi answered subconsciously.

No matter how you look at it, Li Yiyi is the proud son of heaven.Since the beginning of enrollment, he has won the special scholarship, and he has not failed to compete with other No.1 teams for corporate scholarships and 56K talents.But to a lesser extent, pharmacy students are in the same order of magnitude as medicine. In the last two months of each semester, they rely on reciting books to vomit and earning 80 points by sitting in the front row during the semester. Li Yiyi has already relied on many 95+ topped the list. Tim would occasionally complain to Liu Qi that his roommate was too good to make him look like a rookie. Liu Qi despised him, but from the bottom of his heart, he was not envious.

You're running, trying to outshine geniuses, and geniuses are thinking, and they want an alternative.

People are walking up, tiredly, but firmly.

Li Yiyi said: "Wang Lei—the one who took our materialization experiment class—do you know him?"

He hesitated to speak, and looked back at Liu Qi.

Liu Qi thought for a while, "I know," he said, "The one who looks serious but takes the experiment seriously, Tim smashed the Ubbelohde viscometer and he helped cover it up, so the teacher didn't scold him."

"It's him—he defended yesterday, and two teachers tried to make things difficult for him—you know?"

Liu Qi frowned.

"I don't know," he said.

Li Yiyi said: "My senior sister told me."

Wang Lei is a master's student in the laboratory next door to his senior sister, and he got the first defense. It stands to reason that no one will deliberately make things difficult or find fault in this position.However, two of the five teachers in the defense group asked extremely tricky questions, extending the question-and-answer time from 10 minutes to 10 minutes, which was as difficult as a doctoral defense.

"Has he passed?"

"Passed," Li Yiyi said, "Excellent. —— My senior sister said that everyone in the lecture hall was afraid to show their anger at that time, and she was almost sweating in the back row. Senior brother Wang Lei's own mentor was not there— —I heard that one of the two people who made things difficult for him had a relationship with a girl in his lab," he made an ambiguous gesture, "this relationship."

Liu Qi rolled up the draft paper and tapped his head. "What are you talking about? Learn quickly."

"Really! I tell you..."

Li Yiyi rolled his eyes, he felt that Liu Qishensi did not belong.

There was no class the next morning, so they went to the library together.They went down the long stairs at lunch time, and at the end of the stairs they saw blue-collared black academic uniforms.

"Ah—Senior Brother Wang Lei!"

His footsteps paused slightly and Li Yiyi had already rushed out, Curly jumped and rushed down the steps, he hurriedly followed.

The crew cut man turned around, and he saw a pair of black eyes.

"Yo, Liu Qi."

Wang Lei called out his name first, which made him smile a little awkwardly.The man in the bachelor's uniform stared at Li Yiyi for a while, and he stepped back slightly as if trying to identify it, and said, "This is Li Yiyi?"

"Yes," Li Yiyi said, "Brother, congratulations on your graduation!"

"Same joy, same joy." Wang Lei said.

For some reason, Liu Qi felt that it was not a formality, but that he was genuinely happy that he was about to leave this place.Wang Lei's dark eyes are like the sea. He can see every wrong operation and data they are trying to modify in their experimental class, and he will not miss every look that wants to learn and gain something.Whenever they wanted to ask him something in the experimental class, he always knew everything and said everything.Those eyes are as deep as the ocean, they reflect the shadow of the entire sky, and embrace everything with a mind that no one can imagine.What Liu Qi and Li Yiyi peeped at, and Li Yiyi's senior sister's description was just the tip of the iceberg that Wang Lei had endured.There is more torment and suffering in the underwater burial where the sun does not shine.

However, there was no resentment or vicissitudes worn down by life in Wang Lei's eyes.He has probably experienced a lot, but there is still light in those eyes.The light in the eyes of a young man is like a prairie fire, but he is a little warm yellow on the skyline at night.

After fighting against life and reconciling, Nuan Huang saw from there that he would continue to fight.

"Brother, happy graduation." Liu Qi said.

Wang Lei smiled, a relieved smile.

"Happy graduation," he said.

There were no clouds in the sky that day, and the sun shone unscrupulously from the [-]-mile clear sky. The sky was so clear and clear that it was the unique color of June in the north.The bell tower on the hillside struck twelve, and colorful umbrellas came out of the teaching building.

"Do you still have classes in the afternoon?" Wang Lei said.

Li Yiyi said, "Yes."

But Liu Qi didn't want to leave yet, he stood there and looked at Wang Lei, the crowd was bustling like a slowly unfolding floating world scene.The wind blows past his ears, and the trees shake like the sound of his heart.

Hurry up, that voice urged, you have to say what you have never said, and you have to say everything you want to ask him.

Wang Lei looked into his eyes gently and calmly.Liu Qi's hand trembled, and then let it go again.

"Hukou?" Li asked one by one.

He still didn't dare.Liu Qi bit his lower lip.

"Would you like a hug?"

He raised his head suddenly.

Seeing his movements, the smile on Wang Lei's face deepened.He shook the sleeves of his bachelor's uniform, and opened his hands to Liu Qi.

"Would you like to give me a hug?"

The body took action before the brain reacted, and he rushed out like an arrow from the string.Wang Lei's embrace was as warm as he imagined—even warmer, and he felt Wang Lei put his arms around his back.

"Happy graduation, brother." He murmured.

"Junior brother," Wang Lei leaned against his ear, his voice was very soft, "Martial luck is prosperous."

The hug only lasted two seconds.He let him go, his eyes sincere and gentle.

"I know you can do it."

Dongwu looks at Yuhang.The sea of ​​clouds and the horizon are far away.When will he become famous and return to his hometown.Drunk and laughed with the public [-] games.

Don't complain about Lishang.Swigs never have a gut.Tonight send back to the cold lights, Hetang.The Duke of Sheep with Tears is surnamed Yang.

【End】

The author has something to say:

Both "Nanxiang" and "Northern Country" were written during the most difficult period in my life, and they are also the two most closely related to my three-dimensionality so far.Since it is related three times, the two protagonists inevitably have my projections. The spiritual core they show makes me long to have, and also encourages and spurs me to have.

I especially like the power in "North" and "South" where they are in a desperate situation but put to death and survive.Due to the strength of my writing, I can't express some content so clearly, but I don't want to write analysis and interpretation like "The Age of Roses".I believe that some people should understand. If this is the case, then I will not be too happy.

Note: The words in the article are Su Shi's "Nanxiangzi He Yang Element Time Shifts and Guards Mizhou"