Some roads were ridiculously long when you walked with some people, but when you walked with others, they were so short that people were reluctant to take a step.
The cobblestone road along the river that Lu Mingfei took after school was like this. This road was specially designated as a scenic pedestrian street by the municipal project. It cost a lot of money. On one side was the green and blue river, and on the other side was a cafe, a cinema, a flower shop, and various specialty stores. Although the scenery was good, it had nothing to do with Lu Mingfei because he had always walked alone.
But today was different. He was walking side by side with Chen Wenwen on this road.
"Lu Mingfei, which school do you want to apply to?”Chen Wenwen asked her.
The two of them had just booked a small hall at the cinema and decided to play " Wall-E." Then, he accompanied Chen Wenwen to buy a paper bag of bellflowers. Chen Wenwen said that her mother liked them. Lu Mingfei secretly looked at the price of roses. They were not sewn for the holidays, so they did not seem expensive. He could still scrape together the money to buy ninety-nine flowers. Now, Chen Wenwen was strolling home with him with a paper bag of bellflowers. This was the first time Lu Mingfei knew that Chen Wenwen's house was actually not far from his.
Lu Mingfei turned his head and glanced at Chen Wenwen. Chen Wenwen was wearing a white cotton dress. The setting sun shone on her skin, making it seem transparent.
"I can apply to any school as long as I can get in.”Lu Mingfei said. He didn't tell anyone that he had received an admission letter from an American university.
"Yes, will you go to school here at home?”
Lu Mingfei's heart skipped a beat. He thought that Chen Wenwen was secretly asking him where he would be going.
"It doesn't matter where. A university with many classmates is the best.”Lu Mingfei said.
"Yes, I want to go to Beijing. Zhao Menghua and Su Xiaoqiang are going to Beijing universities.”Chen Wenwen whispered.
"Beijing is good." Lu Mingfei said.
"You like Beijing too?"
"Beijing has a big pot of lamb scorpions!" As Lu Mingfei said this, he wished he could slap himself. What a good opportunity. As long as he was thick-skinned, he could say something affectionate like 'It's good to have you in Beijing'. He thought that he was too listless and did not even do what Nono had instructed him to.
Chen Wenwen smiled silently and replied with a low "hmm".
The sound of their footsteps was exceptionally clear in the silence. Lu Mingfei counted his steps and did not dare to look at Chen Wenwen.
He couldn't keep silent like this. He looked up and was stunned for a moment. The person opposite him was also stunned for a moment. He adjusted the huge sunglasses on his face and pulled the brim of his baseball cap.
Chen Motong, or Nuo Nuo, was also strolling along the street. He was wearing a pair of purple jogging shoes, a pair of tight jeans, a white tank top, and a blue striped short-sleeved shirt. She was stunned for a moment before a malicious smile appeared on her face. She waved her hand at Lu Mingfei." Hey! Hey!"
Lu Mingfei knew why she was so excited about meeting an old friend. It was purely for Chen Wenwen to see. He had experienced the wickedness of this little witch.
"Your friend?" Chen Wenwen was a little embarrassed. She was also affected by the sharp pressure on Nono's body. Nono did not look like she had grown up in this small southern city.
Lu Mingfei stammered, but Nono had already jumped in front of them.
"Hey hey! What a coincidence!" Nuo Nuo turned to Chen Wenwen." This is Chen Wenwen, right?”
"How do you know my name?" Chen Wenwen was a little surprised. She had always been shy in front of strangers.
" Listen to him, he said…" Nono suddenly paused and said," Right, you owe me ice cream, right?”
Blackmail, this was blatant blackmail!
However, as long as Nuo Nuo didn't spout nonsense, Lu Mingfei could even call her sister. Lu Mingfei quickly took out his wallet." I'll buy it for you. What flavor do you want?"”
"Strawberry jam on top." Nono took off his baseball cap and combed his dark red hair.
Lu Mingfei could only spend money to buy three ice-creams. He didn't have much money left in his pocket. He wasn't stingy when he bought it for Chen Wenwen, and he didn't feel bad when he bought it for Nono. As long as this little witch shut up, he was a little reluctant to buy the one for himself. The three of them took a stroll along the river with ice cream in their mouths. The locust tree flowers fell on Chen Wenwen's white cloth circle and Nono's baseball cap. Nono kept complaining, and Chen Wenwen spoke to her in a soft voice. When the two girls were around, Lu Mingfei was like a huge light bulb. He had nothing to do with them. Lu Mingfei couldn't help but give Nono an angry look, but Nono acted as if she didn't see it.
"Did Lu Mingfei say a lot of bad things about me?”Chen Wenwen asked.
" No," Nono answered casually." He said he liked literature very much, so he joined the literature club.”
"Oh, I like reading too." Chen Wenwen said," Are you two middle school classmates?”
"No, we were classmates in elementary school. But I've been studying in the United States and only came back recently.”Nuo Nuo turned to Lu Mingfei." Do you remember the creeper on the wall of our school building? When I went back that day to take a look, I had already climbed to the top of the building!”
Lu Mingfei nodded vigorously, thinking that the ice cream was worth it. Nono was a trustworthy businessman, and her words were vivid. However, he suddenly had an illusion that what Nono said seemed to be true. He clearly did not remember Nono being his classmate in primary school, but he remembered the Boston ivy. He was a little slow and had a bad memory. He had basically forgotten all his classmates in primary school. He only remembered the light shining through the green leaves of the Boston ivy on the wall. For a moment, he almost could not tell if Nono's words were true or if his own memories were true.
"Did your family immigrate?" Chen Wenwen asked. Many people in their school were talking about their family migrating.
"No, I have a Chinese passport. I'm just going to school. I'm a freshman at Kassel College.”
"Did you skip a grade? Lu Mingfei is only in his third year of high school."
"Oh, we're not classmates. I'm his senior sister.”Nuo Nuo quickly covered up her lie." Lu Mingfei, right?”
"Oh, Senior Sister." Lu Mingfei knew the reason behind Nono's question.
Nono smiled like a blooming flower.
In the end, they parted ways at the fork in the road. Lu Mingfei and Chen Wenwen continued to walk forward and Nuo Nuo went to the other side. Lu Mingfei looked at Nono's back as she skipped away. Once again, he felt that she would disappear just like that, along with another possibility in his life.
His uncle and aunt had been treating Lu Mingfei much better these past two days. After all, his aunt wanted Lu Mingfei to talk to his parents, whom he would never meet, and get Lu Mingze to study in America. Lu Mingze was very resistant to this. At the dining table, he pulled a long face and said that even if he wanted to go abroad, he had to rely on his grades and not his connections. Lu Mingfei knew that his younger brother was still brooding over his dumb luck. Moreover, Lu Mingze had been very unhappy these past few days because Sunset's Mark was always offline. It made him anxious as if he was scratching his heart and liver. Therefore, he hogged the old-fashioned laptop even more, not giving Lu Mingfei a chance.
As the aunt nagged at Lu Mingze for not being able to go online all the time and for him to learn more in order to be successful, she instructed Lu Mingfei to buy breakfast milk for tomorrow. Lu Mingfei walked out of the door and heard Lu Mingze suddenly become anxious and quarrel with his aunt.
His heart was in a mess, so he didn't go downstairs. Instead, he walked up the stairs. There was no elevator in this building, and the highest floor was only seven floors. The rooftop was filled with air-conditioning units and pipes. The property management had set up an iron gate in the corridor with the words "rooftop closed" written on it. In fact, no one would run up there if it wasn't closed. The stairs leading to the top floor felt like a horror movie. It was filled with cardboard boxes, two broken engines, and some broken sofas and wooden coffee tables that were abandoned by the seventh-floor residents. Everything was covered in dust, and the gap was too small to fit.
Lu Mingfei jumped through the gaps like a light kangaroo. He clearly remembered every landing spot, such as the two bricks in the cardboard box, the solid base of the broken motor, and the only leg of the wooden coffee table that was not broken. These landing spots were like a series of islands that helped him cross the ocean of trash. Opposite him was the iron gate. Outside the iron gate, there was a shadow and thousands of miles of starlight.
Lu Mingfei crawled out through the biggest gap in the iron door. He stood under the starlight and took a deep breath, looking at the city under the night sky.
Now that he was free, every time he arrived here, he felt like lying on the ground and enjoying the wind on the top floor, the sunlight, and the different smells of the city. Sometimes it was locust flowers, sometimes it was leaves, and sometimes it was the sweet fragrance of pineapples sold on the street below.
He sat on the edge of the concrete platform and carefully stretched his legs out so that the ground was dozens of meters away from his feet. He felt dangerous and light, like a bird flying high in the wind.
This was his secret territory. For the past few years, he would stay here for a while every afternoon and then tell his aunt that he was doing his homework at the long table outside the post office.
Under the night sky, the lights of the entire city lit up. The neon lights of the commercial district were pieced together, making it seem illusory. The hard skyline was hidden in the lights. The commercial buildings looked like square cages made of light from afar. In the distance was a wide lake, adjacent to the lake. The busiest elevated road in the city was filled with traffic. The elevated road passed by Lu Mingfei's residential area. From this position, Lu Mingfei felt that the lights formed a stream of light. Every speck of light in the stream was a living firefly. They were bound by the curved, slender elevated road and could only run forward to find an exit.
But there would never be an exit.
This was how the city treated Lu Mingfei in the past. They never had an exit. Now, there were suddenly two of them. One was going to the United States, and the other was Chen Wenwen.
In the afternoon, after he broke up with Nono, Chen Wenwen suddenly said that she wanted to go to the river to take a look, so Lu Mingfei accompanied her all the way to the river. They saw dandelions blooming on the grass and fluffy balls one after another. Chen Wenwen happily picked a lot and put them in a paper bag with the bluebells she bought. Then, she sat by the river with Lu Mingfei and talked. She took off her shoes and soaked her feet in the clear water. Chen Wenwen said that everyone would be separated after going to university. They might only be able to see each other during the summer vacation, and they might not be able to see each other for a long time. Many good friends would slowly forget each other like this.
When she said this, Chen Wenwen's eyes were filled with sadness, even more so than when she read Duras 'Lover when she entered school.
Lu Mingfei sat beside her and looked into her eyes. He watched as the wind blew the dandelions in the paper bag in her arms and scattered them on the water surface like a light snow.
Lu Mingfei couldn't be sure if this was a hint, but there was a little bird jumping in his heart.
At this moment, his phone vibrated. Lu Mingfei was a little surprised because only Professor Guderian knew this number. He had not told anyone yet.
"Lu Mingfei?" Nono's voice came from the phone.
"It's me. Who else could it be?”Lu Mingfei scratched his head.
"I'm just calling to tell you that there's another person on the list, but we'll only be taking in one student from China. Professor Guderian said he's flying to Beijing tomorrow, so he asked me to call you to make a decision tonight.”Nono's tone was calm and emotionless.
Lu Mingfei panicked." Can we wait until tomorrow?" Tomorrow…"
He wanted to say that he was going to do something earth-shattering at their literary club's event tomorrow. Then, he knew if Chen Wenwen was willing to accept his confession. If she accepted, he wanted to stay in China. After all, he would not be able to see his parents in America. If he did not accept, he could bring the memories of his failure to the United States with Professor Guderian and leave a legend in his high school. A legend of a guy with average grades who got lucky and got an admission letter from an American university…
"No, Professor Guderian booked a flight for tomorrow morning.”Nono's tone was resolute.
Lu Mingfei was silent for a long time before he scratched his head." I understand."”
"What do you mean you know?"
"That's right. Then forget it." Lu Mingfei said," I'm not interested in studying abroad anyway…"
"You're ruthless enough. That Chen Wenwen looks just like that.”Nono said," Kassel Academy's door can only be opened once for each person.”
" Just because you're prettier than Chen Wenwen doesn't mean I'll like you…" Lu Mingfei said listlessly.
"Hero! I didn't expect you to be so ruthless!”Nono seemed to be angry." Fine! Goodbye!"
"What did he say?" In the presidential suite of the Regent Hotel, Professor Guderian stared at Nono nervously.
"He said forget it." Nono shrugged." Anyway, Professor, you can fly to Beijing tomorrow as planned.”
" But…" Professor Guderian was really anxious.
"But I'm not Chen Wenwen. If I were Chen Wenwen, I'd take care of him.”Nono frowned." You can't handle it even if you stay, Professor.”
"Who is Chen Wenwen?" Professor Guderian was confused.
"Professor, look at how anxious you are. If I told you that she was a girl who could defeat the entire Kassel Academy, would you use the commando team of the operations department to erase her from the world?”Nono stuck out her tongue.
"I'm afraid that I don't know how to do it, but the principal does!”Professor Guderian's eyes widened.
After the call ended, Lu Mingfei looked at the screen of his phone that was gradually turning off for a long time. Then, he lowered his head listlessly. He looked at the city under the night sky and thought about the farewell party tomorrow. Chen Wenwen had asked him to give a speech. He was going to do the most daring thing in front of the dozens of students from the literature club…
This listless fellow had always been like this in his later extraordinary life. Usually, he was as listless as a dried cucumber, but once he decided to do something, he would be as energetic as a soaked celery.
"I'm a person who occasionally goes crazy.”This is Ricardo? M？It was Lu Hou's catchphrase.
There was only one fate, but there were many choices in life.
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