Chapter 612: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 612: Struck Deep in the Heart

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Li Jianjia arrived.

She wore that school uniform she had worn during the college entrance exam.

That high school uniform covered with names, full of youthful memories.

"Xiao Hua!"

Li Jianjia appeared on the road across the intersection.

It was currently a red light.

She stood there across the road, separated by the street, waving at Wang Xiaohua.

Wang Xiaohua looked up, saw the radiant smile on her face, and was stunned, somewhat dazed.

At that moment, deep within Wang Xiaohua's heart, it seemed struck by a bullet.

Memories instantly pulled back to that summer, Li Jianjia pointing at her own chest:

"Classmate Xiao Hua, sign here, this spot was specially saved for you!"

Wang Xiaohua's brain short-circuited for a moment, a sheet of unreal blankness filling his mind.

By the time he came back to his senses, the light had already turned green, and Li Jianjia came running over.

"Sorry, I kept you waiting."

Li Jianjia's voice entered his ears, and Wang Xiaohua hurriedly said:

"It's fine, I actually didn't wait long... By the way, why are you wearing a school uniform out?"

"What? Is this school uniform not good-looking? Your name is written on it! I wore it specially to see you!" Li Jianjia pointed at the name on her chest.

That school uniform had many names signed on it, looking dirty, but in Li Jianjia's heart, it held special meaning.

"No, it looks good, it's just that so many names are written on it, others might think it's strange." Wang Xiaohua said tactfully.

His heart was both moved and resistant.

He feared he would directly fall.

And in fact, he had already fallen.

All the lines he had rehearsed so many times in his heart before, at this moment he could not say a single one.

"Afraid of what? How others see it is their business, I don't care about others' gazes, do you?"

Li Jianjia appeared very radiant and very generous on the surface.

But in reality, she was also somewhat nervous, somewhat uneasy inside.

She feared Wang Xiaohua would say he cared about others' gazes, feared Wang Xiaohua would dislike her wearing this dirty-looking school uniform.

"I don't care, I've long been used to others' unfriendly gazes, I'm afraid you care."

Wang Xiaohua looked at Li Jianjia.

Li Jianjia also looked at Wang Xiaohua:

"I don't care either."

Wang Xiaohua didn't know what to say.

He panicked.

Even at the crucial moment of the college entrance exam before, he hadn't panicked.

But now he panicked terribly.

"Come, let's go eat, I'll treat!"

Li Jianjia took the initiative to grab Wang Xiaohua's hand at this moment, walking toward the pedestrian street ahead.

"Let me treat, where is there a reason for a girl to treat?"

Wang Xiaohua felt the warmth of Li Jianjia's palm, his heartbeat quickened, feeling everything was unreal, like a dream.

"I was late, I must treat, don't be polite with me, when winter vacation comes and I have time, I'll go to Beijing to find you and play, then you can treat me back!"

Li Jianjia said this.

She acted very proactive, very generous and open-handed.

Controlling the situation.

But in reality she wasn't like this; in front of others she was quite cold and reserved.

"Okay."

Wang Xiaohua replied with just this one word.

He couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Wasn't it supposed to be a final farewell?

How could he not even have this bit of self-control?

"What do you want to eat?"

The smile on Li Jianjia's face became even more radiant.

"Eating anything is fine."

"Then shall we go eat beef offal? There's a place with good beef offal; when I used to pass by here after school I often ate it, and I've long wanted to bring you to try their beef offal, just never had the chance."

"Okay, then let's eat beef offal."

"By the way, does Beijing have any specialty foods?"

"This... I'm not too sure. Don't laugh at me, but during my time at Tsinghua University, I haven't gone out much, and I've always eaten at the cafeteria..."

"What's there to laugh about? University cafeterias aren't bad, and they're cheap. Just take our Guangwai's cafeteria—for eight or nine yuan you can get a pretty good meal. Your Tsinghua cafeteria must be even more affordable, right!"

Li Jianjia attended Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, a first-tier university with a very strong foreign language program.

She was an English major, so there were even fewer boys; her class had over fifty students, with fewer than ten boys.

Wang Xiao Hu's chemical engineering major was the opposite—more boys than girls; his class had only seven girls.

"It is indeed quite affordable, and the prices are about the same as your cafeteria."

Wang Xiao Hu answered like this.

Li Jianjia then said:

"If I get the chance later, I'll take you to try every cafeteria in our University Town. Our University Town has ten universities, and the meal cards are interconnected, so you can use them at other schools' cafeterias."

Back then, Guangzhou University Town was still very open—not only were the schools completely open to each other, but even the canteens, libraries, and classrooms were mutually open.

All students on the University Town island could freely enter and exit every university and every classroom.

Unlike now, where everything is so closed off, with fences built everywhere to keep outsiders out.

And now, university management has actually regressed to being like high school.

The greatness of a university lies in freedom, in openness, in tolerance.

But ever since nineteen years passed, all of that is gone.

"Sure, if I get the chance, I'll visit your school too."

Wang Xiao Hu said like this.

By this time, he had already given up his inner struggle and completely let himself go.

"When are you returning to Beijing?" Li Jianjia asked.

Wang Xiao Hu said honestly:

"I bought a ticket for tomorrow noon."

"Then you have to leave for the airport tomorrow morning."

"Yeah, leaving tomorrow morning."

"I was thinking that if you left later, I could take you to University Town tomorrow. I'm also returning to school tomorrow, it's just a pity that University Town is too far from the airport—one is in Panyu District, the other in Baiyun District."

"No rush, there should be other opportunities in the future."

The two walked along the Pedestrian Street while talking.

The bustling pedestrians on the Pedestrian Street indeed drew many curious glances that people couldn't help but cast.

Li Jianjia was half a head taller than Wang Xiao Hu; the sight of them together looked strange to people.

Adding to Li Jianjia's beauty and Wang Xiao Hu's ugliness made it even stranger.

However, Li Jianjia didn't mind this at all.

It was she who took the initiative to hold Wang Xiao Hu's hand.

The two arrived at the beef offal shop.

They ordered two bowls of beef offal, sat at a small table by the side of the road, and ate while chatting.

After finishing the beef offal, the two went to eat luosifen, then went to browse the bookstore.

"Xiao Hua, what are your plans for the future?"

While browsing the bookstore, Li Jianjia suddenly asked Wang Xiao Hu such a question.

"I'm not too sure about the long term, but I'll probably take the postgraduate entrance examination. For my major, if I don't take the exam, I won't learn any real skills."

Wang Xiao Hu spoke his heart's words.

Chemical engineering is a basic major; indeed, without taking the exam, one cannot learn the most cutting-edge things.

"Which school do you plan to take the exam for?"

"Ideally, I'd get recommended admission to continue at Tsinghua University; if not, I'll have to take the exam for another university."

Wang Xiao Hu wasn't too clear about his school's postgraduate entrance examination situation, so he wasn't that optimistic.

Li Jianjia then said:

"Then I'll take the postgraduate entrance examination too, with the goal of getting into your school!"

Wang Xiao Hu smiled:

"Then you go for it, I believe you can definitely do it."