three feet away

When Xu Nuo went to Zhou Qingming's school for the first time, he happened to meet Zhou Qingming doing club activities on the tree-lined path near the inner lake of the school.

She watched from a distance a few graceful and tall boys and girls dancing on the lawn. Zhou Qingming sat beside her, slightly hooking her head, as if talking to the girl sitting in front of the easel.

Before coming here, Xu promised not to tell Zhou Qingming that she was coming to see her. She only confirmed her itinerary for the day the day before. In the morning, she and Zhang Qing finished French history. Strolling around the campus, they took her with them. After lunch, the group said they were going to play on Chunxi Road, but she politely refused and came here alone.

The weather was fine, and the afternoon sun radiated warmth that made one want to sleep. She stood aside and watched Zhou Qingming sitting motionless, and understood that she should be acting as a living model for the person in front of her.

After waiting for a while, just as she was about to go forward, the phone in her pocket rang. She took out the phone, looked down at the caller ID on the screen, and connected with a calm expression: "Hello, Qi Ming."

"Nono, where are you?"

Zhang Qiming asked her on the phone, his voice was much calmer than before.

"What's going on in the city?"

Xu Nuo answered him truthfully. After graduation, she met Zhang Qiming once. At Zhang Qiming's school entrance banquet, at that time, she had already restrained her scorching and repulsive edge, and no longer looked at others coldly. She began to learn Be an adult, put on an appearance that an adult should have, and politely say some blessings to Zhang Qiming.And the high school's intentional or unintentional targeting of her lonely past seems to have gone with the wind with the issuance of the graduation certificate.

Zhang Qiming once felt a little uncomfortable because of her change. During the banquet, she said many times that Nuo Nuo seemed to have grown up and became more cheerful. She only laughed and didn't speak.

Later Zhang Qiming tactfully asked her if she still had contact with Yan Ruyi, and after getting a negative answer, he narrowed his eyes with an undisguised smile, and kept saying, that's good, that's good.

"Oh, it's nothing." Zhang Qiming suppressed his voice, and he could hear his disappointment: "Today our class and a freshman class in your school are having a sorority party. I originally planned to visit you."

"That's not a coincidence," Xu Nuoyun replied calmly, "Next time."

"Okay." Zhang Qiming on the other side of the phone smiled, pretending to be relaxed and asked: "Someone is chasing you, Nuonuo? You are so beautiful, there must be many people who like you."

Xu Nuo raised his eyes and looked in Zhou Qingming's direction, noncommittal to Zhang Qiming's question.

"You can come to our school if you have time. The rice noodles in our second cafeteria are really unique. Last time Zhu Yuan came over to eat, and kept saying that he would come again. I really want to take you to try it."

"Okay." Xu Nuo agreed, and someone called Zhang Qiming came through the receiver, and after hearing some greetings from him, he hung up the phone and walked forward.

Less than five meters away from Zhou Qingming, Xu Nuo stopped and called her in a low voice: "Qingming."

Zhou Qingming's originally motionless posture twitched her shoulders after Xu Nuo called out her name. She looked towards Xu Nuo stiffly, and after seeing clearly that it was Xu Nuo, she excitedly jumped up from the stone bench, wishing she could use her hands and feet together. Rushing towards the promise.

"Promise!!"

Xu Nuo stretched out his hands to wrap around her waist, and bent his legs slightly down habitually, in order to prepare to bear the weight of Zhou Qingming's entire body.

"Why didn't you tell me you were coming?" Zhou Qingming hugged her and smiled affectionately, then jumped off her body in embarrassment, holding her face in both hands and only looked at Xu Nuo from the gap between her index finger and middle finger. Said: "I didn't know you were coming, no makeup today..."

"Tsk tut." Before Xu Nuo could speak, the long-haired girl who was sitting in front of the easel asked first, "Zhou Qingming, are you curvy or not?"

Xu Nuo turned his head and glanced at the girl who was speaking. She was very clean and tall. Like himself, she belonged to the more outstanding category of girls. She had long hands and feet, and she was dressed neatly. Her hair reached her shoulders and was loosely loose: " Hello, I'm Qingming's friend. Promise."

The girl waved her hand, and said nonchalantly, "I know, girlfriend." She bit the word female a little hard, and when she spoke, she did not forget to squint at Zhou Qingming with a smile that was not a smile.

"Some people talk about it every day. I can hear the cocoon in my ears. I finally saw the real person today. If you don't come to see her again, I guess I won't be able to hear your self-introduction after a while. Cocoon can be thick Plug your ears and eyes."

Xu Nuo laughed, turned to look at Zhou Qingming and rubbed her face with his hand.

Zhou Qingming glanced at her in embarrassment, then turned her head and turned her back to Xu Nuo and said harshly to her friend: "Huang Siying, you are enough, if you talk too much, I will put a seal on you."

The girl named Huang Siying shrugged, pointed to the easel behind her, and spread her hands full of oil paint to him: "How can you say, you didn't sit until the end today. Tomorrow, you will have three meals in the club plus milk tea. Your treat. "

Zhou Qingming pursed her lips, wanting to say something in a fit of anger, rolled her eyes, turned around and looked at Xu Nuo with a bright smile on her face: "Please, please, although there is a reason for this, I am happy and willing!"

Huang Siying waved her hand, and while tidying up the easel, she sighed and murmured: "The girl is not allowed to stay. This child is too old to be a mother. He wants to run out every day. The taste of love is sweeter than milk tea." .”

Seeing the interaction between the two, Xu Nuo couldn't help laughing. He lowered his head and whispered into Zhou Qingming's ear, "Qingming, do you think that your classmate's temperament is a bit like a person?"

"who?"

"My roommate, Zhang Qing."

Zhou Qingming frowned and stared at Huang Siying for two seconds, then nodded repeatedly at Xu Nuo: "Yeah, if they get together, they can talk from the North Pole to the South Pole, and from the South Pole to the equator. And it's nonsensical."

Huang Siying rejected Zhou Qingming's invitation to go out for a drink together on the grounds that she was not a good light bulb. This was exactly what Zhou Qingming wanted. With her back to the promise, she blinked at her roommate several times in a row, holding her He left with a promise.

"Look, isn't it much smaller than yours?"

The school is not big, and in less than half an hour, Zhou Qingming had already walked around with the promise. The two found a bench in the grove facing the student dormitory and sat down. Zhou Qingming turned his head, naturally Leaning his face on Xu Nuo's shoulder, he slightly raised his head to look at Xu Nuo's profile.

"No, is anyone chasing you at your school?"

Xu Nuo glanced at Zhou Qingming with lowered eyebrows, squinted his eyes and asked her, "Why are you asking this all of a sudden?"

"Because you look so good-looking." Reaching out and grabbing a strand of long hair on Xu Nuo's shoulder and twirling it with her fingertips, Zhou Qingming murmured, "I don't know why, we've been together for three months, promise, but I always I feel like my heart can't sink..."

"It's that... uneasy feeling, always feeling that you will leave me soon."

Xu Nuo stared at Zhou Qingming's eyes. She rarely saw such melancholy eyes on Zhou Qingming's cheerful and smiling face. When the light in those eyes that had always hidden the Milky Way suddenly dimmed, she suddenly felt a kind of A sense of powerlessness.

"When I first returned to Chengdu, I didn't know anyone. The names I heard the most in class were you and Yan Ruyi..."

When Yan Ruyi said three words, Zhou Qingming paused deliberately, she raised her head, looked into Xu Nuo's eyes seriously to see the color in her eyes, but Xu Nuo lowered her eyebrows at the same time, and kissed her gently. In the corner of her eye.She closed her eyes, clenched her fingers tightly around Xu Nuo's soft hair, pulled the corners of her lips, and continued:

"At that time, I was very curious about what kind of girl could attract my teacher so much, and dare to start a relationship with her. At that time, it was too easy to find you in the crowd. No matter when, You are all alone, they say that you are so withdrawn that you can not talk to anyone for a week, and they also say that maybe geniuses have character flaws, that’s why they dare to do those outrageous things, and that’s why they will never fit in with the crowd.”

"I started to pay attention to you. You like to be the last one in the queue during gymnastics time every day, performing like a puppet with music. Although your limbs are moving, your eyes are so empty. Maybe you are too tired from class, so at that time, you Fugue, right?"

Xu Nuo frowned. She thought about the scene in Zhou Qingming's words seriously, but she couldn't remember what she was doing at that time. At that time, she liked to let herself go and think about nothing when she had a little spare time. That was her The only way to rest your brain.Thinking about nothing, doing nothing, just standing, sitting, and exercising.

She pressed the corners of her lips, and did not give Zhou Qingming an affirmative answer, she just raised her head and rested her head on the back of the bench, looked at the dense shade of trees above her head, and replied flatly: "It's been too long, I forgot. "

Zhou Qingming didn't ask any further questions, but leaned closer to Xu Nuo, holding Xu Nuo's long and slender fingers tightly.

"After meeting you, I became curious about the other person in the rumors. On the day she returned to school, you ran to the teaching and research building with a joy that I had never seen before. I followed behind you. I wanted to take a good look at that person, but I couldn't, but I knew that she must have a temperament like a rainbow, and I looked at it from a distance, because among the three people, I recognized who she was at a glance, and she drove away later, which also confirmed that Got my thoughts... I saw you chasing after her, you called her name... I heard you crying... I secretly followed you for months, although you always looked gloomy, you never came back like that day I was so sad in the music classroom. Your red eyes made it impossible for me to refuse you to ask me to play the piano, and I couldn’t stop you from holding my hand. I like you. I don’t know when it started. I probably discovered that you like to take a lunch break in the laboratory building. And I decided to start playing the piano for you every day..."

Xu Nuo let out a dull breath, Huili shook her hand, stood up: "I should go back."

"It's still early." Zhou Qingming hurriedly got up after her, "You've only been here for less than an hour..."

While speaking, she didn't control her emotions well, so her eyes were so red.

Xu Nuo looked into her reddish eyes, stretched out his hand to hook her petite body and pulled her into his arms: "Don't cry."

Sniffing, Zhou Qingming lowered his head and leaned against Xu Nuo's heart, listening to her steady heartbeat: "Here, have you messed up the rhythm for me?"

Xu Nuo raised his hand and touched the back of her head, lowered his eyebrows and kissed her hair comfortingly: "I like you."

"Like, can it beat love?"

"..." Xu Nuo was silent, she had never really thought about this question, what is the difference between like and love?It was a difficult problem, too difficult for her to figure it out.But Zhou Qingming asked, she had to answer, she didn't have an answer, so she said something according to her heart:

"Don't mention the past."

Zhou Qingming was already breathing calmly after being hugged by her, but after hearing her answer, she broke down instantly, tears burst into tears, she tightly grasped the corner of Xu Nuo's clothes, and sobbed tremblingly.

Later that matter was left alone, and no one mentioned it again. When sending Xu Nuo to the station, Zhou Qingming suddenly reached out and took out her cigarette case from her pocket.

Xu Nuo was surprised at how she found out that there were cigarettes in her bag, and she stared at her with questioning eyes from sideways.

Zhou Qingming let go of her hand, walked quickly to the trash can on the street, and threw the cigarette pack in. When she returned to Xu Nuo, she pursed her mouth and looked at Xu Nuo with a particularly aggrieved expression: "The past I won't mention the matter again, and you are not allowed to smoke any more cigarettes."

Xu Nuo looked at the moistness in her eyes that hadn't faded for several hours, and felt a dull pain in her heart. She reached out and touched the corners of her eyes, and she tapped the corners of Zhou Qingming's lips with her fingertips: "Just smile, and I will agree." you."

After Zhou Qingming heard her words, she really grinned at the corners of her lips, her still watery eyes narrowed into a slit, and a drop of water squeezed out from the corner of her eyes. She wiped it off with her hands in a panic, and continued to smile at Xu Nuo with her head up: " Is this okay?"

Xu Nuo pursed his lips, turned his head, looked at the slowly parked bus, turned his head and nodded heavily towards Zhou Qingming, and the next second, he jumped into the bus without looking back, got into the back of the bus and sat down in the corner .

She didn't turn her head to look at Zhou Qingming, because the way Zhou Qingming was smiling and crying just now made her feel uncontrollable, and her tears fainted. She took a deep breath, took out her mobile phone from her pocket, and skillfully broadcast a serial number, after hearing the expected shutdown reminder, she tightened her knuckles. She curled up and pressed her hands to her heart. When she almost stopped breathing due to heartache, she bit her lip and pressed The voice let out a sneer: "...Yan Ruyi..."

When the bus stopped at the gate of the school, it was already dark, and the lights were just on, and the school gate on the road was crowded with people, and it was very lively.

Xu Nuo took a breath, blinked, put his hand into his pocket and touched it, remembering what he promised Zhou Qingming just now, looked back at the small supermarket next to him, sighed, looked down at his toes and waited for the red light.

When the green light came on, the people staying beside her began to move forward. She crossed the road with the crowd and glanced at the road from the corner of her eye. However, when she reached the light on the opposite street, she was suddenly blocked by someone. At the beginning, Zhou Qingming stood in front of him with a somewhat embarrassed and aggrieved expression on his face:

"As soon as you left, I started to miss you. There is no class tomorrow morning, so tonight, can I sleep here with you..."

Xu Nuo took a deep look at her, pulled her into his arms and hugged her tightly, and kissed the root of her ear forcefully, "Okay..."