Red Balloon 《紅色氣球》 Hong Se Qi Qiu
Red Balloon, Chapter 2: First encounter
The two met again after a long time. Li Xiang Wan looked at the sweet and lovely Fang Shi Lan and nodded to say hello. "Your wife is very beautiful," he says to Xia Zhi Chen... Then he took out a box of cigarettes and skillfully popped out one. When he was ready to light the fire, Xia Zhi Chen asked, "When did you learn to smoke?"
He remembers that he didn't smoke before and he actually hated it.
After listening to this sentence, Li Xiang Wan put the cigarette from his mouth back into the cigarette box and sneered, "I have learned so much."
Looking at Xia Zhi Chen's playful daughter, he couldn't help asking, "How old is your daughter?"
"Five years old."
"Looks like you."
Xia Zhi Chen looked at Li Xiang Wan carefully. “You haven't changed."
Seeing Xia Zhi Chen smiling at him, Li Xiang Wan also raised a smile on his mouth, "Getting older, how long have we not seen each other? Thirteen years? "
“Thirteen years, five months and six days." Xia Zhi Chen said it exactly. Li Xiang Wan was stunned and nodded.
When he found out that Xia Zhi Chen was married and had a daughter, he felt like he made the worst plan. He thought that Xia Zhi Chen might have forgotten the absurd memory of them from before, but when Xia Zhi Chen himself said the exact time they have been apart, he was satisfied.
Seeing Li Xiang Wan with a familiar old-fashioned camera, Xia Zhi Chen picked up the camera he had seen 17 years ago and asked, "Do you still have this one? I thought today's photographers use digital cameras. "
"I knew you're coming. I wanted to take a picture for you." Li Xiang Wan took the camera from Xia Zhi Chen and aimed the lens at him. Xia Zhi Chen adjusted his suit and sat in a serious position. Compared with 13 years ago, Xia Zhi Chen is more mature and Li Xiang Wan is the same.
But the two people look at each other's eyes, and they felt exactly the same as when they were seventeen years old.
In the morning, the air is very fresh. Xia Zhi Chen always comes to the breakfast shop where he often frequents. He is greeted by the boss's kind smile. It's the same bowl of dry noodles as before, but this time there's an extra plate of green vegetables.
“Thank you," Xia Zhi Chen then pointed to the green dish. "I didn't order this."
“It’s on the house. You've had the same food every time since high school." The landlady clapped her hands and said with a smile, "So many students come and go. I like your class the best, or I wouldn't let you leave a message on the wall of our shop."
Xia Zhi Chen looked at the message wall that has carried many youth memorials for many years, and his thoughts are drawn to his high school.
In the summer of 2003, Xia Zhi Chen regularly sat in a quiet corner after class and read a book. A boy happened to find him. He took a few pictures from far away with his camera, but he didn't seem willing to wait and see. He directly came to Xia Zhi Chen.
"Classmate, do you want to be my model?"
Hearing the voice, Xia Zhi Chen was a little angry at the disturbance, but when he looked up to see Li Xiang Wan's handsome and sunny face, he just kept reading, and he politely replied: "No, thank you."
He thought Li Xiang Wan would give up, but Xia Zhi Chen heard two clicks one after another, and the person next to him said, “That’s a good angle."
Xia Zhi Chen took a deep breath and looked up. "I'm sorry, I don't want to be your model."
"Why are you so callous?" Li Xiang Wan still hasn't stopped pressing the shutter. It seems that he was deliberately teasing Xia Zhi Chen.
Li Xiang Wan thought to himself, "He’s really good-looking and clean. He's so good-looking.
There are a lot of people in the world, some like people with the same interest, some like people dressed who are dressed like them, and some like people with the same gender.
Xia Zhi Chen thinks he has offended the immortal gods who have cursed him. Li Xiang Wan has been following him these days, taking pictures of him with a camera. Although he pretends not to care, he is a little upset. What makes him unbearable is that even when he goes for a run in PE class, Li Xiang Wan runs in front of him and clicks his annoying camera at him. He doesn't know this person yet.
"Hey, classmate, didn't I say I didn't want to be your model?"
He doesn't know why, Xia Zhi Chen can't get angry with the smiling Li Xiang Wan, so he has to give good advice to make the guy leave him alone.
"But I really want to take photos of you." The deep and magnetic voice sounded a bit coquettish. Li Xiang Wan ran back in front of Xia Zhi Chen, who was worried and told him, "Be careful when you run like this."
Xia Zhi Chen was afraid that he would fall.
"It doesn't matter. I'm very skilled..." Li Xiang Wan finished saying that and he actually fell back and his camera fell to the ground.
In the health care room, Li Xiang Wan kept fiddling with his camera, thinking that it was broken, because if it was his father would kill him.
Xia Zhi Chen didn't know what bad luck he had. He went to take a good run in PE class. As a result, he had to carry other guy to the health care room. Seeing Li Xiang Wan's disheveled appearance, he shook his head. “Your hands are hurt like this, and you are in the mood to worry about the camera? Which class are you from?"
"Grade 7, Class 3."
"The class next door to mine? How come I haven't seen you? “Xia Zhi Chen was very surprised and looked at him. Students run around the corridor every day. Everyone in the next class knows each other in the front class.
"I just transferred to school today, of course you haven't seen me." Li Xiang Wan said carelessly.
Xia Zhi Chen was even more puzzled. "Now it's the last semester, how can you transfer now?"
Li Xiang Wan shook the cup in his hand and stayed silent.
After a few seconds, he replied, "I beat my classmates and sent them to a hospital so I was transferred."
“You fought?" Xia Zhi Chen can't imagine that Li Xiang Wan, who looked gentle, thinner than himself, can even fights.
“Xia Zhi Chen...” From a clear female voice, Li Xiang Wan looked back and saw a beautiful girl with shoulder length hair running over. "Xia Zhi Chen, they all said you were in the health care room. I thought you were..." Xu Chu Qing looked at him worried.
"I'm fine, it's him who's hurt," Xia Zhi Chen said awkwardly
"He is?" At this time, Xu Chu Qing found that there was another person in the health care room. Li Xiang Wan introduced himself generously, "Li Xiang Wan, as in Xiang meaning the path to follow into, Wan as in the evening sort of Wan."
Xu Chu Qing nodded to Li Xiang Wan, "Hello, my name is Chu Qing." Then she immediately looked at Xia Zhi Chen, took his arm and said: "Oh, I'm going to move the new handouts. Can you help me?"
Xia Zhi Chen was in a bit of a dilemma. He wanted to escort Li Xiang Wan back to his bedroom. Li Xiang Wan recognized Xia Zhi Chen's idea, "it's OK, I'm ok. The nurse has wrapped me up too much. You can go ahead."
Li Xiang Wan said that, and Xia Zhi Chen was embarrassed to refuse Chu Qing, so he left with her.
Li Xiang Wan immediately saw Xu Chu Qing's quick mind and thought that she was such a lovely girl. Many boys should like her. Would Xia Zhi Chen like her, too?
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