Chapter 470: Wild Lilies Have No Spring (Subscribe for monthly tickets)
The wind and dew are dancing, it is Mid-Autumn Festival.
The 213 dormitory social event was held grandly on this day.
This was the first annual event of Dormitory 213 that Ma Rulong had been looking forward to since the beginning of the school year. It was supposed to be held last weekend, but because of Zhang Yunqi's incident, it was postponed to the Mid-Autumn Festival.
This actually makes it seem more meaningful.
All the leaders attending the meeting were female, including five girls from dormitory 313 on the floor above them: Li Yusheng, Wang Xuan, Zhao Wenxuan, Liu Ying and Yu Xiaoyu.
Zhang Yunqi had no idea that Song Junxian's distant cousin Li Yusheng lived upstairs, but he estimated that among the girls who were flirting with Ma Rulong and others every day, Li Yusheng would not be one of them. This girl was so beautiful, it was impossible for her to lack men to bootlick her. She was usually very reserved when they met her, so how could she lower herself to flirt with the male man in heat downstairs?
Based on the discussions and arguments at the dormitory chats held every night by the people in dormitory 213, they soon came to the following conclusion: Li Yusheng was undoubtedly the golden phoenix among the pile of chicken feed in dormitory 313, Wang Xuan and Zhao Wenxuan were both slightly pretty, and the remaining two, Yu Xiaoyu and Liu Ying, were just average.
After Ma Rulong and others came to the conclusion in unity, they instantly became wary and potentially hostile, just like a few dogs facing two bones worth chewing, and they couldn't help but become a little thoughtful.
Zhang Yunqi also participated in this social event.
He took Ji Ling with him, but after the dormitory social activities, he had to return to Hedong tonight to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival at Ji Ling's home. He didn't want to go at first, but Ji Zhong called him, and he only had this one relative in Lijin, who was related by blood and who was separated by many generations, so it would be inappropriate not to go.
The venue for this gathering is Wangcheng Moon Island.
Moon Island was formerly known as Yaobuzhou. Because a family surnamed Xu cultivated this land in the Ming Dynasty and gradually formed a clan dominated by the Xu family, it was also called Xujiazhou. And because of its crescent shape, it gradually got the charming nickname of Moon Island.
Yueliang Island is very large, facing Exang Mountain to the east and Gu Mountain to the west. It is 4980 meters long and about 400 meters wide on average, with a total area of more than 3300 acres. It is divided into three natural villages in Yueliangdao Street, Wangcheng District, with more than 1300 villagers.
The barbecue location for this social event was on one of the Moon Islands, called Jiangxinzhou.
At ten o'clock in the morning, Zhang Yunqi went to Huahelou to pick up Ji Ling.
Halfway through the journey, he called Ji Ling. It took him a long time before the call was connected. Ji Ling was humming on the phone. It was a rare day off, and she was still sleeping in bed.
Zhang Yunqi drove the car to the downstairs of Huahe Building, lit a cigarette and waited for Ji Ling boredly. But while waiting, he saw his roommate Song Junxian.
Song Junxian came over from another corridor of Huahe Building. There was a girl next to him. The two of them were talking and laughing, and they looked particularly sweet. The girl was probably about 1.7 meters tall, wearing a white T-shirt and tight navy blue jeans. Her long legs made people drool.
Zhang Yunqi was quite surprised.
He had seen this girl at the entrance of Huahe Building when he was sending Li Yufei back to the dormitory. He didn't expect that she had a close relationship with Song Junxian.
Zhang Yunqi rolled down the car window and called Song Junxian.
Song Junxian heard the voice and looked up to see Zhang Yunqi. Lin Lin, who was beside him, was stunned when she saw the Mercedes-Benz, and when she saw Zhang Yunqi getting out of the car, her rosy lips slightly opened.
Zhang Yunqi said happily: "Would you like to introduce yourself?"
Song Junxian took out a Xiongshi and handed it to Zhang Yunqi: "My girlfriend, Lin Lin."
Zhang Yunqi nodded to Lin Lin, then said, "Take your girlfriend to participate in today's dormitory activities?"
Song Junxian took a puff of cigarette: "Yeah, what about you?"
Zhang Yunqi opened the car door and got in: "I'm waiting for a friend too, want to join us?"
Song Junxian nodded and agreed.
The two got on the back seat of the Mercedes-Benz. Song Junxian was not a talkative person. The three of them were silent for a while. Lin Lin touched the cushion and was about to ask Zhang Yunqi if he was waiting for her roommate Li Yufei. But at this moment, a girl suddenly lay on the front window, stretched out her hand and grabbed Zhang Yunqi's hair, and said in a straightforward voice: "Are you tired of waiting?"
Lin Lin looked at them curiously. The girl was wearing a blue shirt, a black wool cardigan with white spots on it, and a black baseball cap turned upside down. She had delicate features and fair skin. She smiled and squinted her eyes as she greeted them, "Hello."
Zhang Yunqi turned to Song Junxian and Lin Lin and said, "My friend who grew up with me, Ji Ling, is an art student at the Normal University."
After a brief introduction, Ji Ling sat in the passenger seat and handed a cup of coffee to Zhang Yunqi. Ji Ling bought two cups. Zhang Yunqi handed the coffee to Song Junxian, who handed it to Lin Lin. Zhang Yunqi started the engine and left Huahelou.
Lin Lin held a cup of coffee in her hand and looked at Zhang Yunqi who was driving. She thought the world was really strange. Her roommate Li Yufei's hard connection turned out to be her boyfriend's roommate.
Yesterday in the dormitory, they were still asking Li Yufei about filming a commercial with Jackie Chan. They heard that the commercial would be broadcast on CCTV's prime time! Li Yufei's fame was already a foreseeable thing, at least she would not be short of resources.
As an art student majoring in vocal performance and also her roommate, Lin Lin, a girl, couldn't help but feel inexplicably confused and upset at this moment. She felt a little depressed, a little jealous, and even a little eager for something she didn't know what it was.
She tightened her fingers around the coffee!
The wheels of the Mercedes-Benz also turned very fast.
After leaving the university town, we headed north along Xiaoxiang Middle Road, speeding all the way under the warm autumn sunshine, crossing Yinshan Road, and arrived at the Yueliang Island Jiangxinzhou Ferry in less than half an hour.
At that time, Jiangxinzhou was still a newly developed pristine island, and it was inconvenient to buy food. Before landing on the island, you needed to prepare enough food and water in advance.
Ma Rulong, Jin Shengze, Zhou Dingchuan and He Linge, a few single guys, went to the vegetable market early in the morning to buy a lot of ingredients.
When Zhang Yunqi drove there, he saw his brothers carrying large and small bags of food standing in front of the riverside ferry waiting for the ferry. Li Yusheng and five other girls from dormitory 313 were also there. Jiangxinzhou was surrounded by rivers on all sides. At that time, there was no bridge, so you had to take a ferry to get across.
When Zhang Yunqi parked his car on the roadside, he found that there were many small cars parked around. It seems that the rich people in Lijin in the 90s also liked to come to Yueliang Island for leisure and vacation. Zhang Yunqi is very familiar with Yueliang Island. In his impression, this land began to be planned as a resort in the 80s. Now it has begun to take shape. Although it is relatively simple, it has a forest park, an amusement park and a resort hotel, etc., where you can relax and enjoy the pastoral scenery. It is really not bad.
The cheap squad leader Zhou Dingchuan had sharp eyes. He spotted the Mercedes that Zhang Yunqi had been riding in at the gate of Erliban Police Station last time, and shouted directly, "Here!"
Zhang Yunqi waved in response, parked the car, and walked over with Ji Ling, Song Junxian, and Lin Lin.
The five girls in dormitory 313 were all from their department. Zhang Yunqi knew them and greeted them, but everyone's attention was on Ji Ling and Lin Lin.
The people in dormitory 213 originally thought that Song Junxian was not interested in women and never participated in the evening chats about girls. Unexpectedly, he had already bought a high-end girl with big breasts, long legs, fair skin and beautiful looks from the Art Department of Normal University. The single guys suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.
As for Ji Ling, everyone had seen her at the Erliban Police Station. She had short hair, delicate features, bright and clear black and white eyes, a drawing board on her back, and a cup of coffee in her hand. There seemed to be an aura about this girl that came and went, and she had a very clean smile on her face, but she always gave people a feeling of keeping away from strangers.
In fact, this was the first time Zhang Yunqi had met his brothers since he had sent Yuan Ye, the deputy secretary of the school's Youth League Committee, to the hospital. They had naturally categorized Zhang Yunqi and Jin Shengze as the same type of people, the sons of wealthy families.
Only Ma Rulong doesn't feel like it.
Ma Rulong felt that Zhang Yunqi's behavior in life was not like that. But one thing was certain, this was a golden thigh thicker than an elephant's leg. He ran over first in the team, his head leaning towards Zhang Yunqi, but his eyes were looking at Ji Ling: "Mrs. Zhang?"
Ji Ling turned to look at Zhang Yunqi: "What is Mrs. Zhang?"
Everyone looked at Zhang Yunqi, and Ma Rulong shouted exaggeratedly: "Hey! What's going on? Why does it smell wrong to me?"
Zhang Yunqi pushed Ma Rulong's head away and said with a smile, "This is Ji Ling, an art student from the Normal University, and a good friend of mine who grew up with me. Please take good care of me in the future."
After a few casual words, the ferry that Ma Rulong and others had been waiting for for half a day finally arrived. A group of 13 people got on the boat, and in less than five minutes, they reached Jiangxinzhou on the other side of the river.
Jiangxinzhou is flat and open, making it a great place for barbecues, picnics, bonfire parties and camping. There are also villagers on the island who specialize in selling barbecue tools and tables and chairs, and the business is very hot, with many young men and women visiting and wealthy people on vacation.
Zhang Yunqi and his group found a shady space under a big tree by the river and rented a set of barbecue tools. They then moved the table, set up the barbecue grill, burned charcoal, washed vegetables, skewered the skewers, and grilled the skewers... Of course, most of these hard work belonged to the boys. For the girls, it was hard enough to just come out to eat, drink and play with the girls. Fortunately, there were no smartphones with built-in cameras and beauty apps at that time, otherwise the animals with many practical functions would have to lie on the ground to take pictures of their two-meter-long chopstick legs for the girls.
Of course, it cannot be generalized.
Yu Xiaoyu, who looks like an ugly duckling, is very diligent and is the main force in washing vegetables and grilling skewers. Although this girl is small in stature, she has a quiet personality and is quick and agile. She is the most suitable wife, but the boys almost ignore her. It can be seen that there is no spring for wild lilies.
Li Yusheng sat with Ji Ling. She was somewhat curious about this cool, pretty, and fashionable girl: "Ji Ling, are you studying fine arts?"
Ji Ling nodded: "Yeah."
Li Yusheng held her fair chin in her hand and said in a small voice: "I just want to learn painting, but my mother won't let me."
Ji Ling said, "I'll teach you later."
Li Yusheng smiled: "That's great."
After a pause, she continued, "You grew up with Zhang Yunqi from our department?"
Ji Ling took a sip of coffee and said, "According to the relationship, he should be my distant cousin, from my mother's hometown. I liked playing there since I was a child, and we also went to the same high school."
"It's the same as me and my cousin."
"Which cousin?"
"That's Song Junxian, the boy who came here in your car. I also went to my mother's hometown to play when I was a child, but I didn't study with my cousin."
"He's handsome, and you're pretty, too."
"No one is as pretty as you. I feel like you have a free and easy temperament." Li Yusheng said with a red face: "But your cousin seems to be more fierce."
Ji Ling glanced at Zhang Yunqi who was quietly skewering skewers not far away and smiled: "Is he fierce?"
Ji Ling finished her coffee and said directly without waiting for Li Yusheng to reply, "Maybe you just met him and you don't know him well."
Li Yusheng was stunned and suddenly felt as if he had said something wrong.
Zhang Yunqi didn't hear the conversation between the two girls. He strung two strings of dried orchids that Ji Ling liked to eat. He drank a little too much water in the morning and suddenly felt like peeing, so he got up and went to the public toilet not far away.
The public toilets on the island were still very primitive. Zhang Yunqi looked at the urine splashing on the shit in the pit and smelled the sour smell. He was in a very unhappy mood. He couldn't understand why the supporting infrastructure nearby was so poor when there was a resort hotel and an amusement park not far away.
After using the toilet, Zhang Yunqi zipped up his pants and was about to go out to wash his hands, but at this moment he suddenly heard a voice outside the door: "Beautiful girl Lei Hou, Lei Hou."
He leaned over and took a quick look. He saw Lin Lin coming out of the women's restroom on the side. A middle-aged man with a big belly and a Rolex watch said to her in Cantonese: "Does Lei have paper?"
Lin Lin didn't see Zhang Yunqi standing to the side. She was just stunned for a moment, then she took out a pack of tissues from her bag, took out two and handed them to the middle-aged man. The middle-aged man took the tissues, wiped his wet hands, and said very gentlemanly, "Thank you."
Lin Lin smiled and said, "It's okay."
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(End of this chapter)