Chapter 58: ? Maggie's Gift

The New Year’s holiday has just passed and the final exam is coming. Even Jiang Baili cleaned up the dormitory table and started reading.
The first subject is Marxist philosophy and basic principles, closed book. Luo Zhi had been reviewing professional courses before, and deliberately saved this one before the test, knowing that anyway, he would forget it too early in the review.
"There are no more copies left. I just checked it out on the computer, and all have been borrowed."
Luo Zhi selects "Belle" in the recipient field of the mobile phone, presses the send button, then logs out from the library computer, picks up his schoolbag and walks out of the computer room. Before going out in the morning, Jiang Baili begged Luo Zhi to go to the library to help borrow a copy of "Ma Yuan" teaching materials. Gobi lost the textbooks, and the surrounding buddies had no extra books. The old books of seniors and sisters were thrown away or given away one after another, and the textbook center was out of stock, and even one was not found at the critical moment.
In the end, he found Belle again.
This is the first time Gobi has contacted her after breaking up. He escaped Ma Yuan for a whole semester, and signed Jiang Baili, who had always taken the same class with him, to do it for him. Therefore, Jiang Baili, who escaped from professional classes, actually took full attendance in Ma Yuan class where everyone was grazing sheep. After all, Gobi was too lazy. When he was about to take the exam, he remembered to review, but he couldn't find a book.
Luo Zhi frowned and stopped talking. She wondered whether Jiang Baili was pretending to be the Virgin to continue the conspiracy at the reception, or... really the Virgin.
Belle quickly replied: "Thank you, it is basically impossible to borrow books at this time. I will find a way."
Luo Zhi was about to walk out of the hall, and then he thought, it's better to study in the library, if you can find a seat.
Except for the first floor of the library, there are several large-scale study rooms on every other floor. Luo Zhi took the elevator directly to the sixth floor, and then went down the stairs one by one to find a space. The heating in the library in winter is very hot, and the windows are not opened for ventilation. This makes Luo Zhi walk into every study room, will smell a little mixed with the body odor of strangers in the stagnant air of Wen Tun.
At first glance, the study room is not crowded, but every seat is occupied by a stack of books, and most of the owners are not present. It looks like everyone went to physical education in high school.
She went down the stairs to the second floor, seeing the last study room with no hope, so she strode away.
"Luo Zhi, Luo Zhi!"
The sound is very small, it is made with breath. Luo Zhi turned his head and saw Zhang Mingrui happily waving to him, and the girl sitting to his left also raised his head and smiled politely at her.
It's Xu Riqing.
Luo Zhi walked over happily, glanced at the book on the desktop, smiled, and whispered: "You also review Ma Yuan? It's really early."
"We came over at seven o'clock to take up the seat. Where are you as confident as you? We only walked slowly at ten thirty." Zhang Mingrui gathered the information on the seat on the right to his table and said, "There is no one in this seat. We use it to put things, sit down."
That was so, Luo Zhi thanked him and sat down.
"Damn, didn't you guys who majored in liberal arts study this kind of stuff all day long in high school?" Zhang Mingrui glumly tapped the textbook in his hand with a ballpoint pen, "what are they talking about upside down? After college, you should use cakes and peaches to serve in the temple. You are all super Saiyans."
Luo Zhi smiled and said softly: "Have you never taken a political exam in high school?"
"We all go through the exams, I copy them all, and never memorize them."
"If you don't recite that life is not complete, let's read a book quickly." Luo Zhi tapped his book with a ballpoint pen.
Xu Riqing silently looked at the two of them, pursed his lips and smiled, lowered his head and continued to read the book. When it was almost twelve o'clock, Zhang Mingrui threw down the pen irritably, and said in a low voice, "I'm so annoying, go to lunch."
Luo Zhi nodded and cast his inquiring gaze on Xu Riqing, who also smiled and agreed. So they simply gathered the books and piled them on the table, each with their mobile phones, wallets and coats, and walked out of the study room together.
As soon as he stepped into the corridor, Zhang Mingrui roared: "Is this something a normal person can memorize?"
A boy next to him who was coming downstairs echoed loudly: "Yeah, I think it will become abnormal when I recite it."
After he finished speaking, he suddenly glanced at Luo Zhi and Xu Riqing, who were walking on the left and right of Zhang Mingrui, and grinned at Zhang Mingrui with an expression of "You kid Yanfu is not shallow, don't complain." Two steps down the stairs.
For some reason, Luo Zhi suddenly remembered the of them and Sheng Huainan that Zhang Mingrui had mentioned to him.
Sheng Huainan. Luo Zhi's thinking stagnated for a second, then immediately turned his head and smiled and asked, "Which teacher did you choose the Ma Yuan class?"
"Wait, I want to buy a magazine." On the way to the cafeteria, Xu Riqing ran to the newsstand on the side of the road, glanced down at the dazzling shelf, picked up a 32-open magazine and said, " I want this."
"Eight yuan." The aunt at the magazine stall didn't look up.
"Why don't you always wear gloves?"
Xu Riqing squeezed a corner of the magazine with her index finger and thumb, turned her head back a little shivering and said, "The cafeteria is very close, it's not necessary, I find it troublesome..."
Luo Zhi suddenly looked embarrassed. Because Zhang Mingrui said the question to himself just now, and when Xu Riqing turned back to answer the question, he happened to see the two of them in a dialogue posture face to face.
Zhang Mingrui smiled: "Is there anything that you think is not troublesome? Lazy, isn't you the one who suffers from the cold?"
Luo Zhi's heart moved, Zhang Mingrui turned his gaze very naturally to look at Xu Riqing, a calm and witty sentence resolved the embarrassment of the three people. Xu Riqing recovered from the bewildered expression at the beginning, smiled weirdly, glanced at Luo Zhi embarrassedly like a little daughter-in-law, and whispered back to Zhang Mingrui: "Where is there!"
"Keep your hands warm in your pockets. I will help you get the magazine." Zhang Mingrui reached out and took Xu Riqing's magazine. Xu Riqing put his hand in the pocket of the down jacket and smiled shyly at Luo Zhi again, as if to say: "Let you see a joke, he always does this."
Such Xu Riqing was very different from the aggressively dressed beauty in the cafe that day. Luo Zhi was slightly behind by two steps, looking at the black and red backs in front of him, there was a little happiness in his heart.
Xu Riqing has a domineering side, but also a shy side. Which side of her is the real one? Perhaps it is more real when alone? But at that time she didn't appear in front of anyone, and it didn't make any sense to others.
What kind of interaction will show what kind of self; what kind of object creates what kind of reality is just a different section for different people.
So in front of Sheng Huainan, isn't he too deformed? Even if he falls in love with those things in common, it will only become the beginning of a long acting career.
"Hey, what do you think?"
Luo Zhi came back to his senses, Zhang Mingrui was beckoning to her who was behind, and there was something she couldn't understand in her generous smile.
After the three people took up their seats, they went to dinner. Zhang Mingrui returned to his seat last, carrying three breads.
"You didn't buy bread or cakes today?" He looked at Luo Zhi in surprise.
"There are too many people in line."
"It's been a long time since I saw you in the Third Canteen."
"The three canteen is so big, it is inevitable that you can't touch it."
Xu Riqing interrupted suddenly: "Do you often eat together?"
"Well, for the past month or so, I have always eaten at the third cafeteria, and Zhang Mingrui is also, so I can often meet them." Luo Zhi explained with a smile.
Zhang Mingrui sat down and picked up a toast and put it on her plate: "Want? I have a buddy who just arrived at the window, and I asked him to buy three for me."
"I haven't eaten it, can you give me one?" Xu Riqing asked. Zhang Mingrui stood up and said, "Okay, you can take it yourself, and I will buy it again."
Xu Riqing's chopsticks stretched towards the bread and stopped in the air: "Why?"
"I can't get enough to eat only one."
"Oh," Xu Riqing stared at the plate and counted silently. One is Luozhi and the other is his own... "No need, you, you can eat it, I will buy it myself."
Xu Riqing stood up suddenly, and Zhang Mingrui ran towards the window selling noodles before Zhang Mingrui said her polite words.
Zhang Mingrui watched her run away in a daze, shrugged and smiled, then sat back in her seat.
"By the way, Luo Zhi, are you...with Sheng Huainan?"
She choked after hearing it, and coughed a few times before relieving: "Can you prepare a few words before asking such a hot question?"
"Are you together?"
Zhang Mingrui's voice is relaxed and casual, but the smile on his face is a bit fake.
Luo Zhi shook his head: "No."
"But he...I think he is weird lately. Alas, he won't tell us anyway, he can only ask you."
"Have I told you that I like Sheng Huainan?"
Zhang Mingrui lowered his head and used chopsticks to grab the green pepper and fried potato shreds on the plate. After a while, he asked, "Isn't it?"
Luo Zhi sighed: "Call logic, logic."
"No need to call. Then dare you say you don't like it? Don't lie."
Luo Zhi wanted to laugh inexplicably. The secrets she has carefully kept are like ripples in the heart of a lake thrown into rocks, spreading in circles. This concealment, once thought to be unbreakable, now seems so obvious.
Zheng Wenrui, Ye Zhanyan, Ding Shuijing, Jiang Baili, Zhang Mingrui... and Sheng Huainan himself, they all asked her, "Do you like Sheng Huainan?" If Luo Zhi in high school knew it, he might pass out.
"Let's talk about Xu Riqing." She smiled and changed the subject.
"Xu Riqing--" Zhang Mingrui dragged the ending sound very long, hesitating.
"You--" Luo Zhi said simultaneously with him.
"Don't get me wrong!" Zhang Mingrui shouted.
"What did I misunderstand?" Luo Zhi smiled more thiefly, "I haven't said anything yet. I think you hope I misunderstood."
"Actually..." Zhang Mingrui hurriedly waved his hand, the rice grains on the chopsticks were thrown out, and a beautiful arc was drawn in the air, and it gently landed on the sleeve of a figure beside the table.
The man bounced the grains of rice away and sighed.
"What a coincidence!"
They looked up and saw Sheng Huainan's perfect smiling face.
"Oh, are you coming to eat too?" Zhang Mingrui was stunned for a few seconds before he said something like this.
Sheng Huai threw a contemptuous look at Zhang Mingrui in the south: "This is all seen through by your eyes."
He sat next to Luo Zhi and put the dinner plate in the empty seat: "The endorsement is so memorable that you want to curse, the life of liberal arts students is not for people."
"When you urged me to choose French double degree, it was not that your'ex-girlfriend' always shouted that it was difficult for liberal arts students, so do you want to experience the life of liberal arts students? After the professional course exams, the double degree exams are also required. I have to close the book too, it's irrational." Zhang Mingrui had a bitter face, and still looked innocent when he uttered the words "ex-girlfriend".
Luo Zhi gave Zhang Mingrui a thoughtful look.
Sheng Huainan’s face was calm:
Yes, I didn’t understand it when I saw them memorizing letters from liberal arts students in high school. There are just a few books, and I have to memorize them again before each exam. It took a long time to write a book of densely packed answers. The scores of comprehensive texts are still so much lower than those of rational comprehensives. I really don't understand."
"By the way, aren't you a liberal arts student?" Zhang Mingrui looked at Luo Zhi on the opposite side and said, "Did you need to repeat history and politics many times at that time? You have memorized it for two years, so why are so many people still doing it? Not coming down?"
Luo Zhi was drinking polenta with his head down, and did not answer.
"Hey, what about you, aren't you in a liberal arts? Do you all endorse in such a surprise before the exam?" Zhang Mingrui tapped the end of the chopsticks on the table.
"Eh?" She raised her head, tilted to the left, and smiled, "I can't remember. Maybe it is."
Sheng Huainan was silent, using his chopsticks to gently poke the flat rice in the bowl, poke holes one by one.
Luo Zhi remembered that she had been angry. That time when Sheng Huainan bought potato chips in the law instruction class, she accepted it as usual, but when she spoke, she deliberately ignored him and played a little awkward—even Luo Zhi himself could not Believe that she still has such a wayward side.
At that time, the other party beckoned, and it could be restored immediately.
Until this moment, Luo Zhi finally understood that Sheng Huainan might have felt her good feelings for him since the first meeting. How obvious.
No matter how treacherous her heart is, in fact she just likes him, and she hasn't changed since the beginning. As long as this is caught, no matter what happens, no matter what her attitude on the surface, she is the loser. But he can smile at the table at any time, pop the rice grains, and say, what a coincidence.
What a coincidence, you like me.
That's enough. she thinks.
"Xu Riqing?" Sheng Huainan saw Xu Riqing standing not far away holding a plate, nodded to her, and then asked Zhang Mingrui who was diagonally opposite, "Did you study together in the morning? You three?"
"Yes, we three." Zhang Mingrui turned around to greet Xu Riqing.
Xu Riqing walked over slowly with a nervous expression. He hadn't thought about the countermeasures yet, and his acting skills barely passed. Sheng Huainan's expression was a bit embarrassing and guilty, as if he had known that Xu Riqing was also there, he would not have come here to embarrass the family.
Then why came to embarrass me on purpose? Luo Zhi frowned, put down his fork, and began to tear the bread.
"You come to eat too." Xu Riqing smiled stiffly.
Sheng Huainan was asked the question of coming to dinner for the second time, tilted his head and smiled bitterly: "Yes, I'm bored and want to take a break. The only valid reason is to have lunch."
"Oh... where did you study in the morning?" She asked, tearing the bread pie like Luo Zhi. Xu Riqing had beautiful hands, but in front of Sheng Huainan, his movements were too weak, and the cake could not be torn apart after a long time.
Sheng Huainan paused: "Yijiao." After finishing speaking, he glanced to the left unconsciously, but the man on the left grabbed the bread and biscuits. He moved skillfully and was not shy. He heard his words and did not respond. .
"Yijiao?"
"Yes, quiet, few people."
"Why don't you go to the library? The teacher is so cold, the heating is not burning well, what should I do if it freezes out?"
Sheng Huainan was taken aback for a moment, and the sudden silence made Xu Riqing realize that his words were too intimate, and a meaningful smile slowly appeared on Zhang Mingrui's face.
Suddenly, Luo Zhi found the New World with surprise and said: "Xu Riqing, you bought a spicy duck neck? Can I have a piece?"
This interruption was very bad, but Xu Riqing was in a daze, and immediately grabbed a straw to discuss with Luo Zhi.
"Hey, you are from Chengdu, what do you think, right?"
When they talked about Sichuan snacks, Xu Riqing suddenly turned his face to ask Zhang Mingrui, his expression was a bit of a positive sign—Luo Zhi's heart was clear.
Just now Xu Riqing was in a panic and said something close to Sheng Huainan. At this moment, he was afraid that Zhang Mingrui was jealous for this, so he smiled so pleased.
Zhang Mingrui was in a daze, so he didn't answer, so that the scene that had been alleviated by the duck neck suddenly went cold.
They continued to eat their own meals, and in the noisy dining hall, it seemed that a soundproof barrier had enveloped the four-person table.
The rice in the Shenghuainan bowl did not move, still showing a "well", as if it had been cold.
A silent meal was finally finished. When delivering the plate, Zhang Mingrui said to Sheng Huainan, "Are you still going to the first class? Do you want to go to the library to study with us?"
Sheng Huainan glanced at Luo Zhi, then suddenly laughed happily: "Luo Zhi, are you studying in the library?"
Luo Zhi raised his eyes to look at him, his eyes were calm, and he said nothing.
"I remember there was a text in high school called "The Maggie's Gift"." He said to himself.
"Yeah, what's the matter?" Xu Riqing was the last one to stack the plate on the remnant table and asked enthusiastically, but accidentally met Zhang Mingrui's somber gaze.
Xu Riqing was a little flustered. He didn't know what to say, but his mouth couldn't help but he wanted to quickly reverse the weird atmosphere: "Shall we go to the library for self-study? The library is warmer, and there is an empty seat next to it."
Zhang Mingrui smiled and glanced at her again, and said to Sheng Huainan, "Yes, come to the library."