Lovely Allergen - Chap 38

Le Zhishi’s serious words were met with Song Yu’s large hand covering his face and blurring his vision.

“What are you doing?” He raised his hand to remove his brother’s troublesome hand, but he heard Song Yu say, “Your ability to read people’s expressions still needs to be improved.”

“Huh?” Le Zhishi grabbed Song Yu’s wrist with both hands and was a little surprised.

“They are all very supportive of me.” Song Yu did not show any expression and tilted his head. “Same as you.”

After saying that, he patted Le Zhishi’s face gently twice and turned to open the door. “Let’s go.”

Le Zhishi felt that he had made a fool of himself again, but when he thought about how everyone supported Song Yu, he felt that it was not a big deal. Everyone was happy. Of course, he had applied for his university. On the day that the admission notice was sent, the whole family was especially happy. Their eldest son had been admitted to university, so it was reasonable for them to treat their relatives to a meal.

At the dinner table, Eldest Uncle expressed his dissatisfaction with Song Yu’s choice of university several times.

“Useless. Those who did well have to go to Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. What’s the point of staying here? It’s such an unpopular major. Young people nowadays are all studying high-tech things like IT. It’s so easy to make money. ”

Le Zhishi was very angry at this kind of paternalistic criticism, but he was in no position to argue back. He could only pick up some beef with his chopsticks and give it to Song Yu.

“I don’t lack money.” Song Yu said very calmly. “The major you mentioned is very good, but I’m not interested.”

Eldest Aunt smiled as if to smooth things over. “Yu, your uncle is thinking for you. Yes, interest is the most important, but surveying and mapping is too unpopular. Many people have not even heard of it. It’s not easy to find a job.”

“Besides, W University is not bad, but with your grades, you can get into T University. What a pity. You can go to T University, which is a slightly more ordinary major. You’re still too young. When you go out and look for a job in the future, no matter what your major is, as long as you’re from T University, you’ll have a lot of face and people will look up to you. ”

Lin Rong couldn’t hold back her anger. “If that’s the case, why don’t you work in the cafeteria of T University? Why do you stay in the local school? If you don’t make steamed buns, you’ll have a lot of face in T University’s canteen. ”

Eldest Aunt was rendered speechless by her rebuke. Le Zhishi was also having a hard time holding back her laughter. She was so happy that she even started shaking her legs. Only when Song Yu held her down under the table did she stop.

The atmosphere was not very good. Song Jin said a few words, “Yu’s grades are indeed good enough for him to go to those schools. However, we have weighed the pros and cons. If he goes to T University to study a major that he doesn’t like and then comes out to find a job that he doesn’t like, he will be pushed around for the rest of his life. We don’t want him to do that. Since he already had a life plan and wanted to engage in surveying and mapping research, he naturally had to choose the best school in this field. Of course, “he looked at Song Yu,” Uncle and Auntie’s words are based on their experiences. You have to listen to them. ”

Le Zhishi thought that they didn’t even go to university, so they couldn’t be considered experienced people. They just found an opportunity to point out this matter.

Eldest Aunt sighed again. “That’s right. For people like Yu, no matter if he chooses something that he doesn’t like and regrets it in the future, or if he chooses something that he likes and regrets it, he still has a way out. If he really can’t do it, he can still inherit your father’s company. Your father works so hard in his business because of you. Let’s use a popular saying among young people. If you have your father, you are already a winner in life. In fact, you don’t have to work so hard. ”

On the surface, she was smiling, but her words were full of sarcasm. Song Yu was too lazy to respond. He calmly drank his soup and completely ignored everything that the people at the table said.

However, Song Jin, who had always been gentle, had a serious expression on his face. “Sister-in-law.”

When Eldest Aunt saw that he had stopped smiling, she was more or less terrified. Before she could say anything, she heard Song Jin say, “Don’t worry.

“I worked so hard not to let him win at the starting line, but to let my son have the right to choose freely.”

Song Yu’s hand also paused.

“What I can give him is the confidence to persist in being himself.”

Le Zhishi suddenly felt very moved. He had been to many dinners like this since he was young. When he was young, he didn’t understand and thought that everyone was harmonious. Since the last time he visited his grandfather, he realized that his aunt’s family was different from what he had imagined. However, every time they met, they would not tear apart the superficial harmony.

Especially Uncle Song. He had never seen him lose his temper. He was always the one with a smile on his face and the one who eased the atmosphere.

But this time, he stood up very seriously and stood in front of Song Yu to protect his choice.

Le Zhishi felt happy for Song Yu, but also a little envious.

After being humiliated, Eldest Aunt naturally changed the topic. After all, she still didn’t know if her son would be able to get into a university. It would be embarrassing for her to be too conflicted about his choice of university. Although the meal was awkward, the wonderful thing about China -style family dinners was that no matter how complicated or dramatic the process was, the end result could be a standard family reunion, regardless of whether it was true or not.

During the few remaining days of summer vacation, Le Zhishi also went to the library with Song Yu. The two of them rode to the provincial capital and bought a cup of milk tea and a glass of lemonade on the way. They could stay in the library for the whole day.

There was indeed no girl in the library like he had imagined. The only one who sat across from Song Yu and watched him quietly reading and studying was Le Zhishi himself.

The person he had seen as a benchmark since he was young was moving towards his goal step by step, becoming an increasingly outstanding adult.

Peiya High School was about to start. Finally, Le Zhishi didn’t follow Song Yu to the library. Instead, he locked himself in his room and stayed there for a week. Song Yu thought that he wanted to play for a while before school started. After all, he was about to go to high school and participate in military training. However, he didn’t expect that Le Zhishi, who was cooped up in his room, didn’t play for the past few days.

High school started earlier than university. The day before Le Zhishi started school, he sent a WeChat message to Song Yu, who was still in the provincial capital.

[Le Zhishi: I want to eat barbecue. Let’s go for barbecue tonight. Aunt Rong and Uncle Song aren’t coming home today.]

Song Yu naturally agreed.

They agreed to meet at a small restaurant. Delicious barbecue restaurants were usually very old and hidden in an old neighborhood. There were many small tables set up at the entrance for food stalls at night. Song Yu parked the car. As soon as he entered, he saw Le Zhishi sitting by the window, looking down at the menu.

Le Zhishi had indeed grown up. His limbs were long and slender, and his skin was fair. He could be seen in a crowd at a glance. Apart from his appearance, there was also an undeniable, pure and clean youthful vibe.

Song Yu walked over and sat across from him. Le Zhishi immediately looked up, his light-colored eyes shining. “You’re here. I’ve already ordered some. Do you want anything else?” He then covered his face with the menu and whispered to Song Yu, “The table next door ordered crab noodles. It looks delicious.”

“You can’t eat it,” Song Yu replied heartlessly and took the menu from his hand.

Le Zhishi was very upset. He poured himself a glass of iced sour plum soup. “Okay.” When he poured another glass for Song Yu, he suddenly realized that Song Yu had ticked the crab noodles.

“Didn’t you say I can’t eat it?”

“You can eat the crab claws.” Song Yu’s lips curled up slightly. He raised his hand to call the waiter over and asked, “Can the hot dry noodles in the crab noodles be replaced with wide noodles?”

“Yes, you can. Wide noodles are easier to break.”

Le Zhishi was already very satisfied. “It’s okay. Wide noodles are fine too.”

Song Yu checked the food he ordered again. There were no major problems, so he passed the ticked menu to the waiter. He took a sip of the sour plum soup Le Zhishi handed him and frowned.

“Is it very sour?” Le Zhishi laughed. “I just took a sip. It’s sour too.” His hair was still soft and dark brown. He hadn’t cut it for too long during the holidays and had started to curl it. It looked very easy to rub.

“You have to get a haircut before school starts,” Song Yu reminded him.

Le Zhishi nodded. While waiting for their food, he took out a gift box from his bag and handed it to Song Yu across the table.

“What is this?” Song Yu asked.

“Open it when you get back. You can’t look at it now.” Before Song Yu took the box, Le Zhishi retracted his hand. He waited until Song Yu nodded before he let go and handed it to him. “I wanted to buy it, but I don’t think the ones I bought are very good.”

Le Zhishi retracted his arm and held the plastic cup with his hand. “I saw on the Internet the other day that it’s best if a boy doesn’t give a gift by hand. It has no value. Generally speaking, the person who receives it won’t like it very much.” His fingers clenched so tightly that the cup became deformed. The sour plum soup inside almost spilled out. “And the people in the comments seem to agree with this point of view.”

“But it’s a little late. I saw it on Weibo last night. It’s already done.” Le Zhishi tried his best to hide his depressed expression, but it was still very obvious. “So you can look at it when you get back. No, take this to school and open it. Don’t open it at home. I don’t want to see your unhappy expression when you receive it.”

Song Yu’s expression changed, but this guy didn’t give him a chance to speak.

Le Zhishi looked up at him. “If you really don’t like it, you can tell me. If you told me about it earlier, I wouldn’t have been making so many useless handicrafts.”

With that, he tilted his head back and took a sip of the sour plum soup. He looked like he was drinking to drown his sorrows.

In Song Yu’s eyes, Le Zhishi’s self-reproachful look was a little cute and a little pitiful. So he asked, “Then when should I have told you? Kindergarten?”

Le Zhishi thought about it. It was true. The first time he gave him a gift was kindergarten. The teacher taught him to fold the love.

“Yeah,” Le Zhishi said very seriously. “This is called cutting losses in time.”

“It’s not like I haven’t rejected it before.” Song Yu raised his eyebrows.

That’s true. Le Zhishi said again, “That means you didn’t reject it firmly enough.”

Song Yu chuckled. “Have you seen me accept other people’s gifts before?”

Le Zhishi shook his head. “No. But you accepted it. Because you had no choice. After all, I’m your younger brother. ”

Song Yu tapped his fingers on the table gently. “If you want to think that way, I can’t help it.”

“Here it comes.” Le Zhishi rested his cheek on his hand. “I saw this sentence on the Internet. Many people complained about it.”

Song Yu didn’t understand what he was talking about and frowned.

“Girls hate what their boyfriends say the most. This is one of them.” He even pretended to be very perfunctory. “If you want to think that way, I can’t help it. Anyway, that’s how I am.” Le Zhishi was talking enthusiastically. He didn’t realize that he was using the relationship between a boyfriend and a girlfriend as an analogy. He also didn’t realize that Song Yu wasn’t being perfunctory when he said that sentence. He was helpless.

“Sorry to disturb you. Here are your baked potato slices, meat tendons, green peppers, and crispy bones.” The waiter served the skewers and interrupted their conversation. Le Zhishi thanked him. He seemed to have forgotten the content of their conversation.

After the waiter left, Song Yu said, “Don’t surf the Internet so much.”

Le Zhishi pursed his lips and didn’t refute. He picked up a skewer of baked potato slices and ate it.

Crab foot noodles without noodles were quickly served. The original crab foot noodles were very similar to braised crayfish, but the ingredients were changed to crab claws. The braised crab claws were spicy and fragrant, and the sauce was rich. Hot and dry noodles were placed inside to be braised for a while, allowing the noodles to fully absorb the sauce. It was a delicacy that the locals liked very much for supper.

Unfortunately, Le Zhishi couldn’t eat noodles. The staple food was changed to noodles. Although it wasn’t as flavorful as noodles, it was softer and more refreshing. It tasted good.

Le Zhishi was a very open-minded person. If he couldn’t eat something, he wouldn’t be disappointed at all. Many things in life were the same. If you were destined to not get something, you wouldn’t think too much about it.

Even if he couldn’t pry open the crab claws, he would directly give up and choose the next one to eat.

Le Zhishi always felt that he was probably the kind of person who wouldn’t force himself to do something.

After eating their fill, they returned home. Cotton Candy wanted to go downstairs, but Le Zhishi went to walk the dog alone.

Song Yu returned to his room and sat at his desk to observe Le Zhishi’s gift. In the past, Le Zhishi’s packaging was also handmade, with some cartoon embellishments. However, this time, he seemed to have been provoked and used a finished packaging box from somewhere. It was very beautiful and looked very presentable.

However, Song Yu still liked the old packaging. He had never thrown away a single gift box since he was young.

Le Zhishi told him not to open it, so Song Yu did as he was told. He put the box directly into the suitcase he was going to take to university, closed it, and pushed it to the corner of the room.

After staying in the corner for less than four days, the small suitcase accompanied Song Yu to W University. The university was on the other side of the river, not too close to home. Song Yu insisted on going alone, but Song Jin and Lin Rong felt that this was a major event in their son’s life, so they had to send him no matter what.

The university was near a mountain and a lake. The classical architecture and western style blended together with layers of greenery. It was very beautiful. The volunteers in charge of welcoming the new students were also very enthusiastic. They did their best to help the new students. They drove in. The university was bigger than they had imagined. Lin Rong wanted to follow Song Yu into the dormitory, but Song Yu directly refused.

Song Jin tried to smooth things over. “Your Yu is already so big. If you go up and make trouble, you’ll be laughed at by your roommates.”

Lin Rong didn’t care. “If it were Le, he would definitely be happy to let me go up.”

“So you still have one more chance. Don’t regret it,” Song Yu said.

Under Song Yu’s repeated refusal, the two parents only wandered around for a bit before going home. After all, they were very busy with work, and the university was in the same city. They could come whenever they wanted.

After sending his parents off, Song Yu dragged his suitcase to the designated reporting location. It was the square in front of the Arts and Science Library’s main library. The major he had chosen was very unpopular. The number of people reporting was much lower than that of the university. It was very efficient, and the line ended not long after.

After reporting, Song Yu took the accommodation form and map and prepared to go to the dormitory. It indicated that he could take the campus bus, so he dragged his suitcase and found a stop.

After standing alone for a while, Song Yu looked down at the watch on his wrist. When he looked up again, another person was approaching from not too far away, dragging his suitcase. He looked very pale and tired.

There were many coincidences in life.

A few months ago, Song Yu hadn’t been able to send a greeting because he didn’t have a way to contact him. Now, it was hovering in his mind.

However, even when Xu Qichen was less than three meters away from him, he still couldn’t speak first.

After realizing that there was another person, Xu Qichen, who was staring at the map in his hand, looked up and met Song Yu’s eyes. There was a flash of surprise in his eyes, but it quickly returned to indifference.

He had lost a lot of weight. His originally thin body looked even thinner now. He was wearing a half-new white T-shirt, light-colored jeans, and glasses. His eyes didn’t look very lively.

In the end, Song Yu took the initiative to speak. “What a coincidence. I didn’t expect us to be schoolmates.”

Xu Qichen pursed his lips. He didn’t seem to want to talk. In the end, he just nodded. Song Yu wasn’t sure if he agreed with what he said or if he was just saying hello.

The campus bus didn’t come for a long time. Xu Qichen seemed to want to leave. Song Yu saw that he had a lot of things and a big suitcase. He was a little moved. He wasn’t a helpful person at all. However, when he thought of Xia Zhixu and Le Zhishi, he knew that no matter who was there, they wouldn’t leave Xu Qichen alone.

Therefore, he walked forward and helped Xu Qichen carry a suitcase.

“If you don’t have to take the bus, the dorm should be nearby.” Song Yu glanced at the dorm schedule in his hand. “I’ll take you there.”

“No need.” This was the first sentence Xu Qichen said. He didn’t seem to be in the right state. It was as if he would fall down if the wind blew.

Song Yu frowned and asked a question that even he thought was ridiculous. “Are you okay?”

“Yeah.” Xu Qichen didn’t look at him. “I’m fine.”

“That doesn’t seem to be the case.” Song Yu directly exposed him.

Xu Qichen finally raised his head and looked at Song Yu. “Why would I lie?”

Song Yu paused. He couldn’t answer for a moment. After all, he wasn’t Xu Qichen’s friend. At best, he was a friend of a friend.

“I heard about what happened before. When he heard that you had an accident, Xia Zhixu was very worried. ”

What he said was the truth. In fact, it was all nonsense. Xu Qichen knew all this. So when he finished speaking, Xu Qichen was expressionless. The sun was very hot. The two of them stood in an open place and faced each other.

“Thank you for telling me.” Xu Qichen looked at the shadows on the ground.

Song Yu didn’t want him to have such an attitude. He tried to salvage something for Xia Zhixu. “Xu Qichen …”

“Do you think it’s a pity?” Xu Qichen suddenly raised his head and looked directly at Song Yu.

Song Yu was stunned.

“What’s there to pity?” Xu Qichen smiled. “What’s wrong with the way things are now?”

Rumors could destroy a person the most. Song Yu knew this, especially for a sensitive person like Xu Qichen. But he still felt that the two of them shouldn’t have ended up like this. But at this moment, looking at Xu Qichen’s appearance, a trace of doubt arose in his heart.

“You left so decisively. Don’t you regret it at all?”

Xu Qichen laughed again. The sound of cicadas drowned out his chuckle. “If I have to regret, there are a lot of things I should regret. I should regret begging my parents to take me on a trip after the middle school exams. I should regret that I was the only one who survived the accident. I should regret taking the bus on the first day of high school and meeting Xia Zhixu. ”

His voice trembled. He paused for a few seconds and recovered slightly. “No, the thing I shouldn’t regret the most is meeting him. After all, he’s the one who pulled me back up.”

A few girls who were chatting and laughing came over. They were probably new students as well. Their words were full of expectation and hope.

On this day where everything could be redone, who wouldn’t be full of hope for the future?

Xu Qichen took his luggage from his hands. He looked up at Song Yu and said, “But if I had to do it all over again, I’d rather not have met him.”

With that, he politely smiled at Song Yu as if they were meeting for the first time. He expressed his gratitude. “If you really want me to live well, pretend that you don’t know me in school. After all, we don’t have much contact between the two schools. ”

“When I see you, I keep thinking of him. I don’t want to do that anymore.”

The bus arrived. The group of happy girls got on the bus. Xu Qichen left by himself.

Song Yu fell into an indescribable mood. He got on the bus. The space in the bus was so cramped that it made it hard for him to breathe. On the first day of school, he met a familiar face in his new school. He couldn’t be considered an old friend, but he was no longer the same person.

The dormitory he was assigned to was a row of relatively new buildings. It was a four-person dormitory. He was the first to arrive. The dormitory wasn’t even as big as his bedroom. Song Yu opened the window and felt empty. He didn’t want to stop and rest, so he started to make his bed. He laid out the mattress and sheets, cleaned up, and finally, opened his only suitcase.

The things he brought were pitifully few. The left half of the suitcase was filled with his basic clothes. The right half was filled with an empty gift box and a photo album.

Song Yu took out the photo album and flipped through it. It was filled with children who looked like dolls.

According to Le Zhishi’s instructions, Song Yu took out the gift he received many days ago. He sat on the chair and silently opened the package.

In fact, he had imagined many possibilities as to what kind of ridiculous gift he would receive this time. However, the final gift was far from what he had imagined.

Le Zhishi had given him a globe.

The base and frame were hand-carved from wood. The polishing was exquisite, and it was even painted with imitation copper. The earth, the rivers, the land, the mountains, the seven oceans, the five continents, the latitude and longitude lines, and every small detail and mark were all drawn by Le Zhishi himself, imitating a real globe.

He couldn’t imagine how much time it took.

Song Yu stared at the heavy globe in his hand. All he could think of was Xu Qichen’s words.

People who had lost hope could choose not to see each other as a way to stop their losses. However, he couldn’t cut off this relationship. From that rainy night when he broke in without permission, Song Yu had become an older brother. Whether he wanted to or not, whether he wanted to change or not. Time couldn’t be reversed. Everything they had experienced was a memory and a cage.

Sometimes, Song Yu really wished that they were strangers and had a stranger’s beginning.

However, he couldn’t let go of the memories of growing up together.

In essence, he was the one who was deeply conflicted but couldn’t let go.

In the quiet dormitory, Song Yu placed the globe in his hand on his desk. Outside the window, the sound of new students starting school could be heard. It was noisy and full of youthful vigor. He leaned against the back of the chair and stretched out his arm on the table. He tapped the globe lightly with his fingertips, making it spin gently as if it was being blown by the wind.

The globe stayed quietly on his desk and accompanied him through many nights of staying up late to read.

The first time it rained, Song Yu was outside and always worried that the dormitory’s windows were closed. Later, he didn’t want to worry and simply made a glass cover.

In March, the cherry blossoms bloomed. The petals would occasionally float in, but they were blocked outside the glass and couldn’t fall into any of the ocean currents under Le Zhishi’s pen.

When it snowed, the dormitory was very cold. The glass cover would be covered with a thin layer of white fog from time to time. The small globe inside would also become ethereal and blurry.

Occasionally, he would poke his fingertip and press it against the glass cover, leaving a fingerprint and sometimes even a name. However, it wouldn’t last long and would be quickly erased.

It was as if nothing had happened.

The people hiding in the cover, as well as his globe, were safe.

“Song Yu, this globe has been on the table for three years. It’s like a new one.” His roommate, Chen Fangyuan, ate potato chips and bent over to look at his globe carefully. She was more attentive than going to the geological museum. “It’s so well drawn. This is the first time I’ve looked at it so closely.”

“Don’t move. You’ll be unhappy when you come out of the shower.” Another roommate, Wang Zhicheng, who was also the dormitory leader, packed his things and zipped up his bag. He looked at the gloomy sky outside the window. “It looks like it’s going to rain again. I have to go home quickly. My mom is still waiting for me for lunch.”

“Let’s go.” Chen Fangyuan stood up straight and stretched. “Old Liu is with his girlfriend. You have to go home. Everyone is leaving. I’ll go to my brother’s place to play later. Our handsome Song is the only one left in the room. ”

“He’s a local, but he doesn’t go home. He stays in the lab all day.”

As the two were talking, Song Yu came out of the bathroom and dried his hair. Seeing that Wang Zhicheng was about to leave, he reminded him, “Remember to bring an umbrella.”

“Don’t worry.” Wang Zhicheng carried his bag. “When I come back, I’ll bring you my mom’s braised beef.”

“I’ll go down with you. I’ll share an umbrella.”

“How many umbrellas have you lost this semester? Seriously …”

The dormitory quieted down again. He dried his hair. The sky became even gloomier. It was clearly morning, but it looked like evening. Sitting back at his desk, Song Yu turned on the desk lamp and began to read. His phone vibrated. He ignored it, thinking that it was his roommate.

However, the vibration did not stop. Over and over again, messages popped up. There was only one person with such a style.

Therefore, Song Yu put down his book and turned on his phone.

[Le Zhishi: Brother, I’m on a month’s leave.]

[Le Zhishi: Aunt Rong said she made soup for you, but she can’t come. She asked if I had time. Guess what I said?]

[Le Zhishi: There’s such a good thing?]

[Le Zhishi: That’s the whole story. I’m going to your school to find you. I’ll be there in the afternoon.]

[Le Zhishi: Wait for me, brother.]