Chapter 8: His Girlfriend

  Qin Mo said he would come see Yan Lang the next day.

  I have a premonition that if Zhou Yue has another chance to meet Qin Mo in this lifetime, it will only happen tomorrow. My sympathetic heart is acting up, and I plan to lend her a helping hand.

  I said: "Zhou Yueyue, I have some great news to tell you. Qin Mo is coming to visit Yan Lang tomorrow, if you don't have classes, come over too, who knows, we might even get a photo together."

  "Who?"

  I said: "Qin Mo, that architect you admire, who has been on TV and in magazines, Qin Mo the great master."

  Zhou Yue stared at me in astonishment, I thought she must have been shocked by this sudden good news.

  A doctor in a white coat walked past us and was caught by Zhou Yueyue. I thought she was too excited, the next second must not rush into his body.

  Fortunately, Zhou Yue did not pounce on him.

  "Doctor, can you give this girl a B ultrasound?"

  I was thinking that this matter is really a twist and turn, how can I get a B ultrasound? She immediately added: "Can you have a B ultrasound on your forehead here?"

  I kicked her angrily.

  In the dead of night, the anesthetic wore off and Yan Lang woke up in pain. He groaned for a while, and I lay beside him, gently holding him until he fell asleep again in the second half of the night. Throughout this time, he didn't cry; this kid was stronger than I had imagined.

  Although I didn't believe Qin Mo would come to visit Yan Lang, the next morning, Zhou Yue still skipped class and came to our ward. She was so eager that she even put on light makeup, her true intentions were obvious. Unfortunately, she came at the wrong time, the young man on the bed had gone to the bathroom.

  During the time waiting for the young man to return from the toilet, Zhou Yue peeled an apple and threw the peeled apple into the trash can, handing the apple skin to Yan Lang. Yan Lang took the apple skin and looked at it for a long time before silently throwing it into the trash can as well.

  I said: "Zhou Yueyue, don't be nervous, didn't you have a good conversation with someone yesterday?"

  Zhou Yueyue said: "Yesterday, I was just holding the mentality of not hitting on a handsome guy if I didn't see him, so I was more relaxed. But today is different. After going back last night, I lay in bed and thought carefully, the more I think about it, the more I feel that he really looks like my first boyfriend, that black hair..."

  I interrupted and said: "Your first boyfriend was bald."

  Zhou Yueyue said: "Don't interrupt me, my first boyfriend's hair has grown long and he looks exactly like him."

  Because Zhou Yueyue's first love boyfriend actually looks very much like Ge You, so I don't dare to agree with her on this idea.

  "You go ahead, you go ahead."

  She was just about to continue when the door was pushed open.

  A pretty girl poked her head in: "Does Roosevelt live here?"

  "Ah? American?"

  The pretty girl gave her a glance: "Boring." Then she walked out.

  We all didn't know where Zhou Yueyue was bored, and he was reflecting. Suddenly, a shocking scream came from the corridor: "Su Fu! Why is she holding your arm? Who is she?"

  We recognized that this was the voice of that pretty girl, and we thought that if she wasn't studying vocal music, then she must be selling vegetables at a market, because ordinary people really can't have such a wide range and such powerful explosive force.

  Yan Lang asked: "What is private clothing?"

  I was stunned for a moment and said: "Private servers are relative to official servers, they are unauthorized by the copyright owner, illegally obtained server-side installation programs after setting up network servers, essentially belonging to online piracy, and the result of piracy directly diverted the operator's profits..."

  Zhou Yue interrupted me and said: "Come on, it's not that complicated. Si Fu is just a nickname for Roosevelt. Let's go watch the excitement." He then pushed open the door first.

  Outside the door, Roosevelt, a literary young man who was standing straight against the bed, had two young girls behind him fighting. Girl A was crying while hitting and looking at him with tears in her eyes: "Which one do you like after all?"

  Girl B took the opportunity to scratch a mark on Girl A's face with her sharp fingernails. Meanwhile, Girl A asked again, "Have you ever really loved me?"

  "You see, in love, it's always the one who talks the most nonsense that gets hurt the easiest."

  Zhou Yueyue hugged her arms and frowned, standing still and observing silently.

  Roosevelt said, "I loved you before, and I still love you now." When he said this, Girl A showed a happy smile, relaxed her guard, and immediately added two more marks to her face. Roosevelt couldn't bear to look at her and closed his eyes, "I love you, and I also love Sasha. Have you read Zhang Ailing's 'The Red Rose and the White Rose'? To me, one of you is a red rose, and the other is a white rose."

  Zhou Yue could no longer bear it and scolded his mother before turning around and returning to the ward.

  I guess she's disillusioned with her own vision of people. I was right after all.

  Zhou Yueyue said: "This world, how even handsome guys have started to be perverted?"

  I said: "This has nothing to do with the world, don't wrong the world. Many handsome guys are very lewd, Nie Zhen still sneaks a bite, Chen Guanxi still has a nude photo scandal."

  She nodded: "That's what they say, but this is too shameless. Being tall and handsome isn't enough, you can't eat it for rice."

  I really want to tell Zhou Yue, with the progress of science and technology and social development, Oriental Satellite TV's "Leka Wo Xiu" and "Come on! Good Man" mark that our country has also entered the era of male beauty. Following the success of *** comrades in leading us to achieve the transformation of scientific and technological forces into productive forces in the late 1970s, our media have successfully led the handsome guys to achieve the transformation of reproductive power into value-added power. Nowadays, being handsome can not only make a living but also drive domestic demand and promote national economic growth. However, we cannot be proud, compared to Japan, which has developed the gigolo industry into a national culture, our country is still far behind, and there is still much room for improvement in the development of handsome guys, and we need to continue to work hard to catch up.

  However, looking at Zhou Yue's increasingly sorrowful profile, I also felt a pang of sadness. Once sad, nothing could be said. For the 32nd time, Zhou Yue had lost love without ever having been in love. It wasn't that she didn't want to fall in love, but this society truly lacked a sense of security, and there were no conditions that would allow people to fall in love with peace of mind.

  Outside the window is a vast fog, this winter is a bit cold.

  Yan Lang kept an eye on the movement outside the door, and the soundproofing effect of the door was not very good. The literary youth Roosevelt said: "I'm just one person, you love me, you love me, you all love me, but don't plan to give up, what can I do? It seems that only competition for the position is possible..."

  This reality is too unrealistic, it's like Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude", a magical realism that's truly magical.

  The commotion outside the door finally subsided. The two roses, red and white, finally reached a consensus and decided to engage in fair competition. It seems they had both read the bestseller "Entrepreneurship: How to Trade a Pin for a BMW" because they jointly decided that whoever could earn 50,000 yuan from an initial investment of 5,000 yuan within six months would win Roosevelt's hand in marriage.

  "I sighed and said: 'Five hundred yuan can make fifty thousand yuan, it seems they can only go into selling AV.'"

  Zhou Yueyue said: "Why bother reselling AV? You might as well resell yourself. With a capital of 500 yuan, you can buy condoms. One hundred yuan each time, ten times a day is one thousand yuan, thirty days a month is three thousand yuan."

  I said: "You can't let others work on holidays, this is too inhumane."

  Zhou Yueyue nodded in agreement: "That's right, take a break during your period and rest for five days. This month you'll still earn 25,000 yuan, and after two months you'll have made it."

  I said: "Two months at sea and then ashore, this is also too little industry loyalty, at least half a year, by that time the dowry will be earned."

  Zhou Yue fell silent for a moment, then sighed and said: "Why are those two girls so cheap? Is it worth it for a despicable man? I'm really worried about their mothers, it's better to give birth to two pieces of char siu than to give birth to them."

  I said: "You don't understand this, they are pursuing true love, don't discriminate against them."

  Time flies, and it's already noon. Yan Lang just had surgery and needs to fast for a day. But Zhou Yueyue and I both need to eat. Just as I took the money to buy two boxed lunches, the door was pushed open again.

  What surprised both Zhou Yue and me was that Lin Qiao's current girlfriend, Han Meimei, was standing at the door.

  It turns out that Han Meimei was also in the same high school as me for three years, but I didn't really understand her. I only remembered that she was a serious and determined girl. Four years later, she relied on her extraordinary determination to overcome all obstacles and finally succeeded in digging away Su Qi's foundation, it is true that heaven rewards those who work hard, and those who are determined will succeed.

  But we all ignored her. As I walked past her, she pulled me back. She frowned and said: "Yan Song, don't appear in front of Lin Qiao again, let everyone have a good time, even if Lin Qiao owed you an apology before, but he has suffered enough for so many years, what should be returned has been returned, why can't you let him go?"

  "I said, 'Classmate, I'm really innocent. My relationship with your man is actually quite simple, it's like the relationship between a murderer and his victim. Except for the reborn female lead, no victim would want to actively get close to the murderer again after being reborn. I'm just an ordinary victim, my mentality is also very ordinary, I don't have any intentions towards your man, nor do I bother him much. You see, if you have time, can you please take care of your man and tell him not to appear in front of me on his own initiative?'"

  Zhou Yue couldn't help it and burst out laughing twice.

  Han Meimei glanced at the 10 yuan in my hand and said lightly, "You've been together for so many years, I've also seen it with my own eyes. Lin Qiao doesn't love you, but he's always felt guilty. He wants to make it up to you, but doesn't know how." After finishing speaking, she took out an envelope from her bag, "This is 20,000 yuan, take it first."

  "Two thousand yen?"

  She smiled and said, "RMB. No other meaning, since Lin Qiao is my boyfriend, his affairs are also mine. He's too embarrassed to give you money directly, so I'll give it to you. I know what you need most now is money, after all, being a single mother isn't easy." She paused and then said, "But actually, I have some personal motives too. For everyone's good, can you not stay in C city when you graduate and find work?"

  Zhou Yueyue said: "Song Song, you're only worth 200,000 yuan."

  "I said, 'No way, female college students are valuable, but female graduate students aren't that valuable. What's up, do you want egg fried rice or something? Do you also want to add bok choy? Right, classmate, hand, can you put it down for a bit?'"

  "Mom, I want to eat cha siu fan, can we buy another cha siu fan?"

  I turned my head to glare at him, trying to dispel his obsession with cha siu fan with a single glance, but saw Zhou Yueyue's pupils suddenly enlarge, and at this time, a low male voice sounded from behind: "You just had surgery, what are you eating cha siu fan for."

  The voice was so familiar that I turned my head to look, and the classic handsome man in a light gray high-neck sweater and black cashmere coat was standing at the door, holding a thermos with his left hand and hugging two large boxes in his arms.

  I shouted "Teacher Qin" and hastily took two steps forward to take the things from his hand, and upon closer inspection, they were an Ultraman and an SD doll.

  Zhou Yu's words were unclear, and Qin had been thinking for a long time without coming up with a reason.

  Yan Lang then shouted out the two words "Qin Mo" with utmost clarity after a moment of shock. I quickly rushed over to cover his mouth, barely preventing him from saying something even more outrageous. I could already imagine what Yan Lang was going to say next. He must have been about to ask: "Qin Mo, did you really make a move on the pure and innocent Zheng Mingming?"

  I whispered in Yan Lang's ear, "Kid, behave yourself. This is the person who saved your life. If it wasn't for them driving you to the hospital last night, you'd be a goner by now."

  Yan Lang was stunned by me and didn't say anything else, turning his head to one side.

  I looked at the box in my hand and said: "Teacher Qin, what are these?"

  He sat down on a chair beside him: "I said I wanted to come see Lang Lang, the secretary must have let me bring it. It's an SD doll..."

  Yan Lang immediately said: "I don't play with SD dolls, those are for girls."

  I think this is really a case of "enemies meeting and eyes turning red", Yan Lang is really too disrespectful to Qin Mo.

  Qin Mute was taken aback for a moment and said: "This was originally not given to you to play with, it was given to your mother to play with. And there's another Ultraman..."

  Yan Lang immediately said with a clear conscience: "I don't like playing Ultraman either." This sentence and Qin Mo's serious "It was also given to your mother to play" sounded at the same time.

  Yan Lang suddenly felt embarrassed and could only say: "My mom doesn't like SD dolls either, she also doesn't like Ultraman."

  Qin Mo raised his head and looked at me, with a hint of smile in his dark eyes: "Is that so?"

  I think I shouldn't let Qin Mo down, but I also can't obviously betray Yan Lang. After thinking for half a day, I hesitated and said: "Automan is concerned about the universe, and I'm also very concerned about the universe. We're fellow travelers, and I really admire him..."

  "Mom!" Yan Lang said discontentedly at once.

  "I continued: 'As for that SD doll, it's really too expensive.' Yan Lang nodded in satisfaction."

  Qin Mo smiled: "If you don't like it, give it to your classmate."

  I was about to make another excuse when Han Meimei, who had been standing aside like a pillar, suddenly said: "I'll go back first."

  "Yeah, come back and play again sometime."

  Zhou Yueyue finally rebooted from her dead machine: "Are you going to return those 200,000 yuan or not?"

  Han Meimei's face turned bright red and she ran away.

  "What's with the 20,000 yuan?" Qin Mo slightly furrowed his brow and asked.

  Zhou Yueyue was alone in the room for half a day, and when she realized who was talking to her, she immediately became excited: "Teacher Qin, are you really Teacher Qin? Can I get your autograph? Ah ah ah, forgot to bring pen and paper, wait a minute, I'll go borrow one." She rushed out of the ward like a whirlwind.

  Yan Lang rolled his eyes: "Really pathetic."