three feet away

The sound of cicadas chirping in midsummer, Xu Nuo lying on the single bed and blowing the wind, the mat was hot and sticky to the skin, at the end of September, just a week after the military training, the heat in Chengdu had not completely receded.Wrapped in a tight camouflage uniform for half a month of military training, she developed many prickly heat rashes under her neck.When the pillow is hot, it is itchy and uncomfortable.She had just taken a cold shower and returned to bed and lay on the bed for less than 5 minutes before the heat came back, and the itching on the back of her neck, which could not be scratched, began to slowly recover.

"Break the promise, someone is looking for it."

The door of the dormitory was pushed wide open from the outside, and the door slammed open, with a gust of warm wind blowing Xu Xu's hair, the ends of which fell on his face, a little itchy.

Xu Nuo turned over and sat up, watching Zhang Qingti, a classmate on the lower berth, walk in with a watermelon the size of a small plastic bucket. Arm, after going out for a trip, she was so hot that her face was covered with sweat, and she grinned and blew on the brows, trying to blow off the sweat hanging from the corners of her eyes.

"What are you looking for? Tell you someone is looking for you." Zhang Qing squinted at Xu Nuo, kicked the two slippers at the foot of the bed, and carried the watermelon barefoot to the sink.

Xu Nuo smiled and leaned over to look at the door. He didn't see the person Zhang Qing said, and asked strangely, "Where is the person?"

"It's rough outside, could it be on my back?"

Zhang Qing stood in the sink with his back to her and went to put water in the washbasin, ready to cool down the hot watermelon.

Xu Nuo turned sideways and got out of bed with her back facing the bed ladder. Taking advantage of her height of 172, she landed easily and accurately. She walked out the door while pulling on her slippers and asked Zhang Qing in a relaxed tone:

"I think I didn't provoke you today. Also, speaking Mandarin at school, did you forget the house rules?"

"I just don't like you," Zhang Qing turned back and cast a sideways glance at Xu Xu, and continued to turn his head to let the water go, and continued in a nonchalant tone:

"Also, you are the only one in the dormitory now, and you are all from Sichuan. Why are you pretending to be weird? I just want to speak Sichuan dialect. Do you want to hit me?"

Xu Nuo shrugged helplessly, speechless.He shook his head and stepped out the door.

When I went out, I instinctively looked towards the corridor on the right, but before I could see if there was anyone in the corridor, someone had already hung her body heavily by the neck.

"Aw..." Xu Nuo struggled suddenly, bent his legs, instinctively stretched out his right hand to support the wall to stand firm, and let out a muffled grunt as he held the slender waist of the person hanging on his body like a koala with his left hand.

Taking advantage of the posture of hanging on Xu Nuo's neck higher than Xu Nuo, Zhou Qingming lowered his head and kissed Xu Nuo quickly and accurately, squinting his eyes and smiling brilliantly:

"miss you."

Xu Nuo slightly bent the corners of his lips, supported Zhou Qingming to put her on the ground, and asked her, "Why didn't you call in advance?"

"Originally, there were still professional classes this afternoon, but the tutor had something to do and missed you, so I came to see you. I haven't seen you for a week. I thought I remembered it wrong, but I didn't expect to find your dormitory. Your school really big."

"Yeah." Xu Nuo nodded, reached out to take off the backpack on Zhou Qingming's shoulder, and raised his hand to help her wipe the sweat from her forehead: "Is it hot? My roommate bought watermelon, come in to blow the air, and eat together later .”

Zhou Qingming followed Xu Nuo into the dormitory, Xu Nuo reached out and took down the small fan on the upper bunk, put it on the desk, plugged it in, and signaled her to sit down.

"Your dormitory is much better than our school's. Yesterday I saw a mouse at the door of the dormitory. It was so big."

Pinching his hands to make a gesture, Zhou Qingming stared, with a serious and lovely expression on his face.

Xu Nuo sat beside her, with his hands resting on the stool in front of him, watching her movements with a smile without speaking.

"It's better to be a new school. The only advantage of the old campus is that it's in the urban area, with many trees...it's cool..." Zhou Qingming stared at Xu Nuo's eyes, and there was always a smile in those deep eyes, which looked very affectionate and pampering. Drowning always makes her unconsciously get lost in the deep eyes.She likes the way Xu Nuo looks at her smiling, although she seldom takes the initiative to say anything to her, most of the time she just listens to her, but this not only does not make her love for Xu Nuo less, but also makes her like watching her more Eyes, just look at them for a little longer, or promise to smile, and she will feel embarrassed, and her cheeks can't help getting hot.

"Yo, is it really your classmate? It's not easy for you to have such a good-looking classmate."

After soaking the watermelon, Zhang Qing walked back to his bed barefoot and asked while wearing slippers.

Zhou Qingming was embarrassed by Xu Nuo's look, Zhang Qing came in from the balcony, and she just took the opportunity to turn her head to look at her: "Hello, I'm Zhou Qingming, Xu Nuo's good friend."

"En." Zhang Qing nodded, sat down on the mat, raised his hand and straightened his short hair casually: "My name is Zhang Qing."

"But..." Before Zhou Qingming could speak again, Zhang Qing squinted his eyes and examined Zhou Qingming from head to toe. Sichuan dialect asked: "Isn't this from our school? I didn't realize that our school has such a beautiful and delicate little Meilu."

"I'm from Jincheng Conservatory of Music."

When Zhou Qingming heard this, he laughed even more embarrassedly, and hurriedly explained.

"Hmm..." Zhang Qing nodded, glanced at Xu Nuo, turned around and said to Zhou Qingming with a smile: "Your temperament is not from our school. I have watched the military training, and there are not many good-looking ones. She’s like this, it’s the best.”

"She's always pretty." Zhou Qingming looked at Xu Nuo and smiled with his eyes bent.

"That face, it's really okay, it's this figure... tsk..." He glanced at Xu Xu again: "I don't know if you have seen the thumb-thick bamboo pole used to grow green beans in the country, she is very similar to that. "

"Hehe..." Zhou Qingming smiled awkwardly at Zhang Qing, stared at Xu Nuo and stopped talking.

Xu Nuo sat next to him and listened to Zhang Qing making himself worthless in the chat, and he didn't care at all. When Zhou Qingming turned to look at him, he opened his mouth and asked her softly, "Do you want some water?"

"..."

"hiss…"

Before Zhou Qingming could speak, Zhang Qing was already leaning against the bed ladder with a disgusted expression and asked Zhou Qingming, "I think my back is numb, how about you?"

Zhou Qingming opened her mouth, she was not used to Zhang Qing's way of speaking.

Xu Nuo gave Zhang Qing a gouged look: "If you don't speak, no one will think you are dumb." After speaking, he got up and went to get the mineral water placed in the corner.

Before he got there, he heard Zhang Qing yelling behind him in pretentious mandarin: "I want it too, I betray my trust~"

Xu Nuo picked up a bottle of mineral water and threw it at her. She stretched out her hand and continued. Before Xu Nuo said anything, she was lying on the bed with a smile:

"Mom, I can't take it anymore...I can't take it anymore...Look at my hands are covered with goosebumps..."

Xu Nuo ignored her, unscrewed the remaining bottle of mineral water and handed it to Zhou Qingming.

"Thank you." Zhou Qingming looked down at Xu Nuo's slender fingers holding the bottle, and whispered.

"By the way, you art colleges should be full of beauties and handsome men, right?"

Zhang Qing laughed enough, sat up, straightened his t-shirt, and put on a serious look.

"Fortunately."

"You don't have to be modest, I understand, like girls and boys in art schools, most of them don't care about jeans like us all the time, you all know how to dress up, look at me and betrayal, I didn't wear a skirt. Where is it like you, dressed like a little fairy, and still smells good."

"Why do you always tell her to break the promise?" Zhou Qingming was a little concerned when Zhang Qing called Xu Nuo all the time, she hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help asking her.

"Because I think the word promise is too fake, and breaking promises is more realistic. Besides, she is not angry, is she breaking promises?"

Xu Nuo shrugged, and had no intention of opposing Zhang Qing.

"…but…"

"It's just a code name." Zhou Qingming still wanted to speak, and Xu Nuo opened his mouth slowly. She reached out and patted the back of Zhou Qingming's hand, signaling her not to care.

Zhou Qingming stayed in Xu Nuo's dormitory for an afternoon, and listened to Zhang Qing chattering all afternoon, but Xu Nuo rarely spoke.She glanced at Xu Nuo from time to time, but she didn't have to let her talk, she felt a sense of satisfaction as long as she was by her side.

When it was time for dinner, he promised to ask Zhang Qing to call the other two roommates, and after getting a reply that the two departments had something to do and couldn't have dinner together, he got up and asked Zhang Qing to go out for dinner.

The three of them had a simple dry pot outside the school. After the meal, Zhang Qing met a fellow villager in the snack street. He was standing on the side of the road chatting. She waved to Zhang Qing sideways, and pulled Zhou Qingming away first.

The two walked side by side from the snack street to the main road at the school gate, and walked towards the bus stop.

Zhou Qingming hummed softly, promising to remember the melody, she glanced sideways at Zhou Qingming, and asked her, "Do you like this song so much?"

"I like it." Zhou Qingming raised his head and smiled at her: "Do you still remember its name?"

"A Maiden's Prayer?"

"Correct."

"Pray for what?"

Stopping, Zhou Qingming stretched out his hand to take Xu Nuo's hand, and looked into her deep eyes seriously:

"Pray that you see me, pray that you like me, pray that you belong to me."

After Zhou Qingming finished speaking, Xu Nuo hooked the corners of her lips, smiled easily, and reached out to touch Zhou Qingming's face. She raised her head and stopped looking into her eyes, and pulled her forward.

Zhou Qingming followed her, lowered his eyebrows and glanced at his hand held by Xu Nuo, raised his eyebrows and asked her with a bright smile: "Xu Nuo, do you like me?"

"like."

"Then, is it love?"

Xu Nuo stopped, looked sideways at Zhou Qingming seriously, thought for a moment, and said slowly: "Qingming, love is too heavy, we are still young."

Zhou Qingming blinked, and a second before the smile on his face subconsciously faded away, he suddenly smiled brighter at Xu Nuo: "True love knows no age, and it's not heavy. Xu Nuo, I think I'm very happy." Happiness, because I love you."

Xu Nuo looked at Zhou Qingming in silence for a long time, looked at her smile that was more beautiful than the setting sun, looked at her youthful eyes, and lowered his head to kiss the corner of her lips: "I am also very happy."

Zhou Qingming blushed abruptly, clenched her fingers tightly, raised her head and closed her eyes slightly.

On the bus that sent Zhou Qingming to another bus, Xu Nuo leaned against the window without saying a word and leaned against the buildings that slid past the window. The setting sun was projected on the window from the gaps between the tall buildings, and the rays of light fell on the corners of her eyes. She sat motionless, in neither a good nor a bad mood.

Zhou Qingming fell asleep leaning on her right shoulder, her long hair fell on her chest, as the bumps of the bus gently brushed her arm held by Zhou Qingming again and again, itching a little.

She didn't tell Zhou Qingming, for some reason, she always felt that the nickname Zhang Qing gave her was quite good, and the word promise was indeed too pretentious and too heavy.On the contrary, breaking the promise, no matter how you think, is more suitable for her...

"I don't want to go."

While waiting for the train at the transfer platform, Zhou Qingming's mood sank, the sun had completely set, and the street lights on the street were playing a somewhat redundant role in the not-so-dark space.

"I miss you."

Xu Nuo smiled and raised his hand to touch her face, bowed slightly and whispered in her ear, "Go back and take a picture of the class schedule for me. If you are free, I will visit you at your school in two days."

"Really?" Zhou Qingming raised his head, and his eyes were instantly filled with a bright light.

Xu Nuo looked at Zhou Qingming with a smile, and replied seriously: "Really."

After Zhou Qingming was picked up by the bus bound for the city, Xu Nuo turned around and left the platform, took out a crushed cigarette case from the pocket of his slacks, poured out the last cigarette, lit it, and smoked it between his lips. After taking a sip, she found a trash can and threw the empty cigarette case into it. After that, she didn't take the car anymore, but followed the direction she came, and walked into the night alone.