EXTRA 3 This extra is directly translated from Chinese, so the text is likely to contain some
translation deviations.
Xie Yu remembers that he only told Ms. Gu about him and He Zhao after the college entrance
exam.
They have a different way of getting along compared to other parents and children. During the
entire third year of middle school, Ms. Gu was more like a type of candidate who is “preparing
for the exam,” her nerves kept tense throughout the day. Xie Yu did not dare to influence her,
until the entrance exam was done.
“Don't do a review so late, just relax, ah, don't think too much, you can do the exam as you
usually do.” As Gu Xuelan said this, she put vegetables on her plate: “…eat more.” And Xie Yu,
who is accused of doing “reviews so late” looked into Mrs. Gu’s eyes, he wanted to tell her that
he basically goes to bed at ten o’clock every night and lives without pressure…
After Xie Yu finished eating the dish with her chopsticks, she calmly changed the topic: “There is
someone in the next class. “I called the parents last week.”
Gu Xuelan is not the kind of rigid parent, even a little girl still has the thoughts of a little girl in
her heart. She takes the topic of “puppy love” very broadly and usually asks her child: Is there
anyone you like? and have you secretly fallen in love? It is not incomprehensible that every age
group has its unique and precious characteristics.
Dark, immature, warm and public.
“Youth,” Gu Xuelan sighed, “Hey, it’s good to be young.”
After the college entrance examination, Gu Xuelan, who said that "being young is so good",
suffered the most unspeakable shock in more than a decade.
Xie Yu didn't have time to change her school uniform. She planned to go to Heishui Street right
after the exam, and by the way invited Gu Xuelan: "Mom, shall we go together?" Gu Xuelan
didn't care about the second half of the sentence. She rarely returned to Heishui Street. She
also knew that Aunt Mei had spent a lot of effort this year. They were busy exchanging a few
sets of clothes and brought some gifts before leaving. The table for carrying out the meal was
very lively.
There was a set of people arranged at the table in the courtyard, enjoying the coolness
outdoors.
Even though Gu Xuelan has dressed casually, she still can't resist Lei Ma's large fashionable
men's pants: "..." "These beach pants belong to Leizi's father," Lei Ma raised her leg and smiled,
"They are so cool."
Xu Yanmei took the beer bottle directly, lifted the bottle cap with her bare hands, and the cap
rolled onto the concrete floor. She habitually passed the wine forward to the person in front of
her, and only halfway through did she remember that Gu Xuelan didn't drink beer: "Look at you,
come here, why are you bringing so many things."
Gu Xuelan usually doesn't drink much, but this time she picked up the wine bottle and poured
some into the glass.
"How are you?" Xie Yu raised his hand and clinked glasses with Zhou Dalei.
"VP club, substitute," Zhou Dalei said, "in half a year, I will show you another participation."
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh." "That's your brother, I'm a thief."
Three rounds of wine.
The topic moved from the college entrance examination to the end, and finally talked about
playing mahjong. Before making a game with a card player, Xie Yu, who was sitting quietly and
eating silently, was heard to suddenly get up and walk towards them: "Mom, Aunt Mei, I have
something to say."
Xie Yu drank half a bottle of wine, his ears were a little red, and then he stood up and looked at
the people in front of him, except for Gu Xuelan, the people from Heishui Street who were not
related by blood but were like relatives. She looked as usual, but her fingers on the edge of the
table tightened unconsciously:
“I have someone. Since the second year of middle school and it’s not just for fun, it’s serious, so
serious… it’s just going to be him for the rest of my life.” “His name is He Zhao.”
Xie Yu didn’t have any special thoughts. You don’t have to explain to anyone, or you can ignore
the eyes of the world, but they were different.
The expressions of the people at the dinner table were different and most of them were
shocked.
Xu Yanmei: “The He Zhao who was here last time?” Zhou Dalei: “Fuck me, that He Zhao?” Gu
Xuelan opened her mouth, almost unable to find her own voice: “…He Zhao?” On the way back,
Gu Xuelan didn’t speak for a long time. When the car entered the garage, she didn’t even react
to the ground.
To be fair, He Zhao, this kid, likes her very much.
But she never thought about this.
Even if she realized that every time she called, it was always that boy who was calling, Xie Yu
was different from usual.
Inexplicable changes, thinking about it carefully... There were actually early signs.
Gu Xuelan's first reaction was that she was unable to accept it.
However, everything she wanted to say stopped abruptly when she met Xie Yu's eyes.
In those eyes, there was trust and expectation.
She thought of the sentence he wrote to her back then: No matter what choice you make.
——I just hope that you are safe and happy.
"Did you think about it?" Xie Yu said, "I have good thoughts from this."
Gu Xuelan slowly closed her eyes, opened them again, and finally whispered, "You are willing to
tell me, Mom is very happy. Ask her to come out to eat someday to get together."
Xie Yu took a shower and lay down on the bed. At first he thought he would be very calm,
because he was just confessing, but when he saw the reaction on the others' faces, Aunt Mei's,
Da Lei's...
He watched and suddenly buried his face in the pillow.
When He Zhao received the call, he didn't know that he had been "indirectly" introduced to the
other's relatives, but he felt Xie Yu's voice was dull: "What's wrong?" "Next time you call, don't
call her Aunt Gu."
He Zhao didn't react: "Is it because your mother is not happy to be called Aunt because it makes
her sound older? So how should I call her, should I call her sister next time?" Xie Yu said: "Fool,
call her mother."
At the same time he said this to He Zhao, Xie Yu almost hung up, and when he was about to
press "hang up", he heard him ask again: "Is it what I'm thinking?" "Could it be right for you to
call her elder sister? Seniority really counts."
"You……" He Zhao dragged out the "you" for a long time, and finally laughed: "Then you can
add Lao He to WeChat. He begged me for almost two years, I was afraid of scaring you, so I
never gave it to him."
Xie Yu: "..." Two years?
"I told him from the first day I fell in love. I told him that I found someone I really liked. That the
boy was very cute."
He Zhao's father is a god.
Since He Zhao expressed his feelings by creative video, Lao He realized that this gift was very
tasteful, and after successfully adding Xie Yu as a friend, he immediately went to the online
shopping platform to customize one.
In the morning, Xie Yu just woke up and turned on his mobile phone to check the time. In the
morning, he saw a group of African children holding a whiteboard and showing crazy dances.
“He Zhao, He Zhao!” “Xie Yu, Xie Yu!” “A hundred years is good!”…
So for Xie Yu, the biggest bad news of the year is probably: his birthday is coming soon.
Birthdays are hard to hide.
He worked very hard, but he still couldn’t convince himself: don’t worry about the people of the
He family. During the second semester he was busy almost all the time with schoolwork, and
after taking a moment to accompany He Zhao to class, he was busy again. He had forgotten
about his birthday, but Professor Yang was inadvertently reminded: “You won’t be coming next
week.
Hand over the data to Brother Wang and let him follow up.”
“What?” Professor Yang smiled: “Did you forget your birthday? I don’t want to be told that I have
squeezed you to the point where you can’t even get through your birthday.”
Xie Yu said that it was better to be squeezed out.
There was a small amount of homework that day, and Xie Yu left the laboratory, and there was
still half an hour before leaving class.
She thought for a moment, planning to wait for her boyfriend to finish his class. The classroom
is very quiet, with only the voice of the finance teacher: “Let f be the preference relation defined
on the consumption set X, if for any x, y, xfy in X if and only if u(x) ≥ u(y)…” Xie Yu did not come
in, nor did he show his face out of the window, leaning against the wall and waiting for a while.
He Zhao came out of class and saw someone: “Why are you here?” “Waiting for you,” Xie Yu
lowered his head and finished replying on WeChat. Then he looked at him, “Your dad said he
wants to give me a big gift. Please persuade him not to send it. I will thank you.”
“I think so too, just leave it… what is he joining in the fun?” He Zhao ridiculed Lao He, and heard
Xie Yu say again: “Don’t give me anything. You two not giving me anything is your greatest
blessing to me.”
“…” As a result, He Zhao really calmed down for several days and only sent him two messages
on his birthday. - [Location]- Come.
The location is a restaurant.
A certain Kuo Shao surnamed He also booked the program.
The place is small, but elegantly decorated, with a stage for singing in the front. Xie Yu sat and
waited for a long time without waiting for anyone, all kinds of wonderful gifts in his mind ran
around and he was upset.
Just about to send a text message to ask, the lights in the entire restaurant went out for a few
seconds without warning.
Then Xie Yu heard a capella, and with this a capella, the lights in the bar also turned on.
“What are you doing?” He Zhao just didn’t make a sound at first, stopped and coughed, raised
his index finger and made a “hush” gesture at him.
Without accompaniment, He Zhao sang in the most direct manner for four minutes.
It was on the second year of middle school tour in the fall, the song he sang on the bus.
After He Zhao finished singing the last paragraph, he didn't say happy birthday. He held the
microphone and asked, "This year I plan to give a ring, which for the rest of our lives we will
wear on our fingers and never take off. I wonder if my little friend will accept it."
