north bird south

The author has something to say: It's spring.

Yu Yao left and didn't come back until the next morning.

Xu Zhiyuan was in the living room, fiddling with those photos that Yu Yao had just washed, when he saw him back, he asked him what he did yesterday.Yu Yao only said that the school arranged some tasks, went upstairs to the room to get some things, and told Xu Zhiyuan to put the photos away after reading them.

He didn't even take off the scarf, Xu Zhiyuan followed him up and down the stairs, and asked, "Are you going out again?"

"It's not over yet."

Xu Zhiyuan rubbed a corner of the photo, hesitant to say anything, Yu Yao thought he wanted to ask something, and was about to prevaricate.Xu Zhiyuan said, "Come back for lunch."

Yu Yao opened his mouth, but the wording was useless, and he simply said: "...I will try my best."

"If you want to eat... come back early." Xu Zhiyuan didn't look back at Yu Yao, leaving only the back of his head alone in the middle of the sofa, still crooked.

"My mother will only cook when you come back." Xu Zhiyuan said.

Yu Yao looked at that head.

Although the Xu family is big, it is only big in the house, not in popularity.Mrs. Xu is different from other "housewives" in that she has no time to take care of her husband, teach her children, or clean up the house. Xu Zhiyuan has to take advantage of the holidays or other important events worth celebrating at home, even his birthday. Can't even rank.Master Xu can only see each other for a few months.

Xu Zhiyuan would rather hug the lady in the nightclub and listen to them gossip and chat about the trivial matters of rouge price increase than flipping through books alone in this big house.But since Yu Yao came, Xu Zhiyuan suddenly spent much less time hanging out.

It was the first time for Xu Zhiyuan to gather together as a family like yesterday, and talk amicably about old sesame seed and rotten millet.

Unfortunately, there was no Yu Yao at the dinner.When he was sleeping last night, he was scratching his head and thinking about the second time.

He heard Yu Yao humming, and then he opened the door and walked away.

...I don't know where there is a tender itch in my heart.

He heard Fu Shubai tell the story of a poor student counting ivy leaves on his sickbed.The last piece of green painted on the wall is hope...then what just sprouted in his heart is probably also hope.

……

Xu Zhiyuan went to chat with Fu Shubai to relieve boredom, and met Wu Xiaofeng on the way.

He probably has been idle for too long, and his family found him a job pulling carts.He was wearing a white handkerchief around his neck, chatting with other coachmen, when he saw Xu Zhiyuan, his face was as green as a sour plum, and he ran away without saying a word.

But Xu Zhiyuan only shouted: "Come back." It tremblingly retreated back to its original place.

"Master Xu..."

Xu Zhiyuan didn't find fault with him, but handed him the money, saying to go to Ming University.The crow pulled him up, and was as bored as a gourd along the way. After walking halfway, he dared to speak up and said, "Master, are you going to find Fu Shubai, or...Mr. Yu."

Xu Zhiyuan supported his head and said, "Look for Fu Shubai."

Mentioning that Yu Yao was just probing, Crow glanced at him and he was relieved, it seems that this young master is magnanimous and has already covered the matter.He said: "I'm afraid that won't work. Today, the superiors are investigating the students, and they happen to be from Fu Shubai's courtyard. They will not be released until the afternoon."

"What's the matter?" Xu Zhiyuan frowned and asked.

Crow was well informed, as if his eyes and ears were hidden in the cracks in the stones of Huai City.He said: "Yesterday, someone wrote with red paint on the wall of the teaching building, and they all scolded the higher-ups for being a waste of passive resistance to the enemy. The police station found out about this, and said that some students were influenced by reactionary ideas." Toxic, I have to check it out."

Xu Zhiyuan frowned, thinking in his heart, maybe it was because of this that Yu Yao went back to school.

He asked: "Teacher also check?"

"No, the words were written the night before yesterday. At that time, there was no one in the teacher's dormitory. The only two old professors had alibi."

Xu Zhiyuan put a stone down in his heart, and teased with his chin: "It's true, the group of rats in Huai City just want to make peace with the land, and they are not as bloody as some students."

"Hey, young master, don't talk nonsense." Crow ran and poked his head around, and said, "Master Xu is also an important member of the coalition government, aren't you scolding him too?"

"My father is different from those wine bags and rice bags." Xu Zhiyuan became angry, "If the gun is in my father's hands, the thief will never even think about staying in Huai City for a moment."

As the topic intensified, the crow quickly extinguished the fire and said, "Master Xu is courageous and resourceful, he must be different from those short-sighted people... Speaking of which, Master Xu came home recently, young master, why don't you stay with me more at home."

Xu Zhiyuan just didn't want others to say that Xu Zhenping was not good, and he was not interested in those complicated state affairs.Although Mrs. Xu worried about it all the time, she never shared her worries with her son.Usually, when chatting with Fu Shubai, he just listened to it. If he asked Xu Zhiyuan's opinion, he would just say "don't care about me".

He went down the steps given by the crow, and said, "He's a busy man and doesn't need his son to accompany him."

The crow laughed dryly.Xu Zhiyuan told him to turn around, and the destination was changed from Siming University to Yangzhi Bookstore.

This is a private bookstore. According to Fu Shubai's introduction, the name was taken from "a high mountain stands upright, and a scene travels only".But the purpose of Xu Zhiyuan's coming here is behind him - there are many beautiful female students who patronize here.

He walked in, took a breath of the sunny and scholarly fragrance, and felt that he could bring this fresh "cultural spirit" back to show off to Yu Yao.Xu Zhiyuan casually picked up a book and went to sit by the window. The people in the bookstore were just right. Sure enough, there were many female students with simple and elegant clothes. Xu Zhiyuan used to like this kind of fresh girl the most, but now he just stays for a while.

Although there is still a bit of youthful beauty on those faces that can be admired, Xu Zhiyuan only feels that he is lacking in interest.He didn't know what went wrong. To put it in a nice way, it was probably because the sea was once too difficult.

Once the sea was too difficult for water... to die.

This "Cang Hai" must be his little uncle.

Xu Zhiyuan held his forehead, and was secretly scolding himself for not being up to date. When he raised his head, his eyes caught a piece of skirt, and the owner of the skirt called out in a low voice: "Is it Master Xu Zhiyuan?"

Xu Zhiyuan's smile is ready for ladies and beauties at any time, and there is no gap between the expressions. He put down the book and said politely: "It's me, the girl is..." Xu Zhiyuan saw her face clearly, and felt that the short-haired woman looked familiar, thinking After a while, he said, "Have we met in Zhiming University before?"

Yue Jianliu said: "Yes."

She pointed to the empty seat next to her, and Xu Zhiyuan smiled and said, "No one, please sit down."

"Thank you."

Yue Jianliu also told him his own name politely, Xu Zhiyuan raised his eyebrows and said, "The name of the girl Jianliu is like spring."

The conversation between the two was quite satisfactory, Xu Zhiyuan found that Yue Jianliu was not extroverted, and often chatted to death, all relying on him to pick topics to support.Xu Zhiyuan glanced at the book in her hand, the complicated terms on the cover dissuaded him from looking for topics from the book.Xu Zhiyuan was curious, since this girl is not keen on socializing, why did she take the initiative to strike up a conversation.

In a few words, she mentioned Teacher Yu again.Xu Zhiyuan saw that her fingers curled up while grasping the book, and thought that this was probably his uncle's admirer.

Yue Jianliu is not Yu Yao's direct student, she was forcibly dragged by her friends to give lectures to the new "beautiful" professor in the School of Physics.Expected to be drowsy for a class in jargon that I didn't understand.But I didn't expect that when Yu Yao was studying physics and materialist dialectics, he had a small gap in the middle and told them some other things, but she was deeply attracted.

She suddenly looked like a child introducing something she loves to others, with faint anticipation in her eyes, she carefully handed the book to Xu Zhiyuan, and said, "... Teacher Yu is talking about this."

Xu Zhiyuan's head hurt from hearing this, he took the book, flipped through a few pages, pretending to understand it very well: "Oh, my little uncle told me about it, it's very attractive."

Looking forward to getting a response, Yue Jianliu laughed in a rare way, and said: "Teacher Yu once told me that he has a talented nephew, and I only found out later that it was you, Master Zhiyuan... and I thought that your thoughts must be different from those of his nephew." Teacher Yu and I have something in common." She breathed a sigh of relief and said, "As expected."

Xu Zhiyuan's smile froze on his face, he thought there was something wrong with his ears, and asked suspiciously: "He said that I...is talented?"

"Ah."

"When did he say that, and why... said that." Xu Zhiyuan didn't realize that his flawless smile showed some panic.

"When Mr. Yu first came to Jiming, many students liked to ask him questions in classroom No. [-] after class. At that time, there were a few lively male students with me. Mr. Yu said that they reminded him of you." Yue Yue Jianliu said, "I thought you had a good relationship with Mr. Yu, because he spoke highly of you, which impressed me deeply."

Ginkgo trees are planted in front of classroom No. [-]. It used to be the gathering place for their elegant music salon, and it was also the place where he met his little uncle.

Xu Zhiyuan's thoughts flew to nowhere, and after chatting for a while, he found a reason to bid farewell to Yue Jianliu. Yue Jianliu seemed to have something to say to him, but was ignored by Xu Zhiyuan who was temporarily happy .With a pounding heart, he went out and patted the waiting crow squatting on the stone steps.Said: "Let's go."

The crow was surprised: "Why did the young master come out so early?"

"Go home, go home." Xu Zhiyuan said happily.

He chewed over and over again what Yue Jianliu said.

Yu Yao actually said that he was talented and intelligent, and it was the first time someone said he was intelligent since he was a child.

The compliments he heard from his elders were nothing more than "healthy", "tall", "tiger-tempered"-either his size or his temper.Yu Yao was the first to praise his head so sincerely.

Xu Zhiyuan was thinking wildly while being happy, recalling his previous performance.

Was he an asshole in front of his little uncle at that time?

... There should be no need to guess this, he seems to be an asshole in front of Yu Yao all the time.

So... did the incident of tying him up halfway happen?

Gao Xing stumbled halfway, which made Xu Zhiyuan calm down.He frowned, resting his chin on the bumpy car, and remembered the indifference of his little uncle who rejected him in the hospital, and his heart began to congest with "extreme joy begets sorrow".If I was so stupid, no matter whether this happened before or after the evaluation, it would definitely leave an indelible bad impression on Yu Yao.

The guilt that has been hidden for a long time is like overturning a teacup on the desk, and the water slowly seeps through the paper.Xu Zhiyuan felt uncomfortable, so he yelled to the crow, who stopped by the roadside and said, "Hey, master, what are you doing?"

"Come to my house tomorrow morning."

Crow rubbed his hands, and said with an apologetic smile: "This... I have to solicit customers, I'm afraid I don't have time to visit the young master's house."

"What's the big deal, I'll give you the money."

"This...thank you, young master." Being able to visit Xu's big house and earn money while lying down, Crow happily caught the big pie that fell from the sky, and said with a smile, "What does young master want me to do."

Xu Zhiyuan's eyes are very affectionate, when he smiles, "the rain of apricot blossoms wets his clothes", most girls can't see through the drizzle, they only see the flowers in the mist and feel that the young master is romantic.But only those who are familiar with him know that he doesn't have any Yuyu Qionglou in his chest, and he can only hide two or three things in his mind, no more.

So my intuition told the crow that this smile "doesn't blow the willow wind on my face".

"Apologize to my little uncle for blocking the way and tying Yu Yao up... I'll figure out the wording for you." Xu Zhiyuan stepped over his shoulder and said.

Wu Xiaofeng: "..."

He was very clear in his heart, and the unspoken meaning of the translation of this sentence was "Before blocking the road and tying Yu Yao, you go and give me a bag."

"Master, don't say that, I am responsible for it," he looked at Xu Zhiyuan's resounding wallet, slapped his thigh, gritted his teeth and used the new idiom that he had treasured for a long time, and said, "Of course it is... obligatory of."