Rebirth 2010, the best

Chapter 14 Childhood Sweethearts
"Hey, hey, hey."

"?"

Lu Yao, who was still holding a half-bottle of mineral water in his hand, turned his head and looked at Fatty Zhang with strange eyes:
"What's wrong? Just laugh if you want to, why are you sighing?"

Hearing this, Fatty Zhang shook his head slightly in a nostalgic tone:

"I remember when I was little. I remember you told me that you would definitely marry her in the future..."

"...???"

Lu Yao was a little confused:
"Who?"

"Sun Qian."

"...Who will marry Sun Qian?"

"You."

"????"

Looking at Lu Yao's face that said "you drank fake wine", Zhang Siyuan sneered:
"Don't deny it. When you gave her a bookmark in elementary school, I asked you if you liked Sun Qian, and you nodded and said you did, and you said you would definitely marry her in the future."

"My hair?"

Lu Yao was even more confused.

Is there such a thing?

How come I have no impression of it at all?

"Did I tell you that myself?"

"Of course not... Never mind, I'm too lazy to expose you. But you have to understand, they've gone to America, and it's not realistic for you two to be so far apart."

"..."

For a moment, Lu Yao was speechless.

Is Sun Qian pretty?

Frankly, it's beautiful.

But this kind of beauty is not the present, but the childhood sweetheart who lives in his memory, "she" is very beautiful.

When he was in elementary school, he did have a crush on Sun Qian. But how many years ago was that? Now this fat guy is nagging about it and looking at him with a look that says "Don't be so delusional". Lu Yao suddenly has the urge to give him a slap in the face.

He shook his head helplessly, and said nothing. He raised his head and drank the mineral water in the bottle and then said:

"I'm going home to take a shower, will you come with me?"

"Walk."

……

Zhang Siyuan often came to Lu Yao's house, so it was not surprising that he said it was his own home.

When Lu Yao came out of the shower, he saw him slumped on the sofa like Ge You, fiddling with a guitar covered in stickers and traces of time.

"Come, search, search... search, suck, come and search..."

As Fatty Zhang muttered, he plucked the strings of the guitar with his fingers, playing out a melody in a somewhat awkward manner.

Lu Yao rolled his eyes after hearing this, walked to his side, grabbed the guitar, without even putting on the shoulder strap, clamped it between his arms, and as he strummed the guitar with his fingers, a melody began to play.

It’s Jay Chou’s “Sunny Day”.

After playing, he strummed the strings twice.

"You two eat fruit."

Chen Aihua brought out a fruit plate from the kitchen. Seeing his son playing guitar shirtless and in shorts, he was not surprised. Instead, he looked at Zhang Siyuan:

"Xiaoyuan, you almost forgot how to play the guitar, right?"

"correct."

Zhang Siyuan nodded, snatched the guitar from Lu Yao's arms, and continued to fiddle with it:

"I just remember Do-Re-Mi and some simple songs, but I have forgotten how to play the rest."

"Then you should review with Yaoyao. When you two were studying together, you played better than Yaoyao. Boys who can play guitar are very popular in college. You can stand under the girls' dormitory with your guitar and play a song for the girl you like. How romantic and cool~"

"..."

"..."

As soon as Ms. Chen finished speaking, she saw the two children looking at her with "constipated" eyes.

Lu Yao said speechlessly:
"Mom, what era is this? Who still uses such a tacky method to woo a girl? It's so tacky and vulgar."

As he spoke, Zhang Siyuan nodded, obviously agreeing with him.

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Ms. Chen not only did not reflect on herself, but shook her head with a regretful tone:
"Really?... What a pity, girls nowadays really don't understand romance."

"Aunt, if Uncle Lu were to pursue you in the same way now, you would definitely avoid him. It's so embarrassing..."

"Nonsense, when your Uncle Lu was playing guitar at the entrance of our company, do you know how many ladies in the vehicle management office liked him?"

Seeing the two of them starting to argue, Lu Yao really couldn't stand it anymore and hurried back to the house to change clothes.

If I continue listening, I’m not sure whether I existed “in the beginning” or not.

After changing into casual clothes and saying hello to his mother, the two of them went out together.

After walking out of the unit door, Zhang Siyuan went straight to the electric car shed.

Seeing this, Lu Yao had no intention of taking out the X6 key and just followed.

After all, it's not his own car. Xu Ruochu might not mind using the public car for personal purposes, but it's always not good.

So, the fat man was in front and he was behind, and the two of them rode a small turtle bike straight to the hotel.

It’s no wonder that since graduating from junior high school, Lu Yao has rarely been to the small stir-fry restaurants in front of the school.

But the taste of the seven-yuan bowl of fish-flavored shredded pork rice began to roll in my memory after I saw the shadow of the school gate.

"Tsk."

After parking the car temporarily, Zhang Siyuan looked at the row of shops in front of the junior high school, with some emotion on his face:
“I feel like nothing has changed.”

"Ah."

Lu Yao nodded slightly, looked around, and pointed in the direction of the "back street" that was a little distance away from the school gate and was called "back street" by the students:
"Why don't we just go to those small stir-fry restaurants?"

"Well, let's go to that clay pot rice restaurant. I remember Sun Qian likes to eat there."

"it is good."

The two of them rode their electric bikes towards the back street again.

There is a clay pot rice restaurant here, and everyone loved to eat here.

When they arrived at the place, Lu Yao had just sent a text message of the location to Sun Qian when Zhang Siyuan patted Lu Yao on the shoulder:

"Let's go buy a lottery ticket."

"..."

Lu Yao's mouth twitched, looking at the lottery station that was 200 meters away from the school, he said speechlessly:
"You don't really believe that you can win five million with two dollars?"

"From a probability perspective, it's possible. Let's give it a try..."

Fatty Zhang patted his turtle as he spoke:

"The bicycle turns into a motorcycle!"

"..."

Lu Yao was speechless. After all, his memories of lottery in his previous life were full of regrets.

But... just two pieces, not much.

Moreover, Zhang Pangzi's buying lottery tickets is an "occupational disease". In his previous life, he basically bought some every now and then. Usually, when he reached into his pocket, there would always be a lottery ticket in it. The two of them entered the lottery station, and Zhang Pangzi took out ten yuan:
"Five random bets."

While the boss was punching the ticket, he turned around and saw that Lu Yao hadn't moved, so he urged:
"Hurry up."

"..."

Lu Yao shook his head speechlessly:

"I don't buy it."

"Hurry up... Boss, place five more bets based on my five bets. Pay up!"

"..."

Looking at the hand that Fatty Zhang stretched out and the boss's quick hand movement as if he was afraid that the two men would go back on their word, Lu Yao had no choice but to take out ten yuan from his pocket and hand it over.

After coming out of the lottery station, Fatty Zhang held the lottery ticket in his hand and said:
"I have a feeling that we will definitely win five million this time! Look how good I am to you. I even helped you when I got rich!"

But in his heart, Lu Yao felt sorry for the ten dollars he lost in unclear circumstances.

As for winning the prize?

Don't be ridiculous.

Some things, even without being said, everyone understands.

As soon as I came out, I heard a shout:
"Lu Yao? Zhang Siyuan?"

The two turned their heads and saw a girl wearing a black T-shirt with a diamond skull, tight jeans, white sneakers, a ponytail, and holding a lady's bag in her hand, smiling at them.

The color of the single ponytail hair is red.

It is this touch of red, coupled with the girl's smile, that makes the whole world seem to be burning with warmth.

"Ouch! Xiaoqian!"

Fatty Zhang let out a strange cry, and looked exactly like an enlarged Ning Caichen.

When Lu Yao saw the "very beautiful" face as his mother described it, he couldn't help but smile with joy at meeting a friend again.

Sun Qian has indeed become very beautiful now.

But no matter how beautiful she is, she is still as beautiful as in childhood.

The same.

"I was saying that I thought you two looked like me just now, but when I saw you two entered the lottery shop, I didn't recognize you... Long time no see!"

As Sun Qian spoke, she suddenly opened her arms and walked towards the two of them.

With a passion different from that of the Chinese people, he first gave Zhang Siyuan a big hug, and then hugged Lu Yao in the same way.

Lu Yao smelled a very fragrant scent on the girl.

But not important.

The important thing is... his eyes were like a revolving lantern, with all kinds of memories that once belonged to everyone surfacing.

The Demon City is a steel jungle.

Its childhood is destined not to be as colorful as that of the countryside.

Although they didn't catch any fish or shrimp, they left behind some of the little ones' tender yet innocent footprints in the neighborhood, in the corridor, in the park, and even in the vegetable market.

Those footprints are like starlight, and the starlight gathers into a river of childhood belonging to childhood sweethearts.

It accompanies the childhood, flowing quietly, and then when we meet again after a long separation, it surges in and drowns people.

Lu Yao also hugged Sun Qian and patted the girl's back hard with his hands.

But when countless thoughts about their partners came to their lips, they only turned into four words:
"Welcome home, welcome home."

"Uh……"

After Sun Qian, who was released by Lu Yao, heard this, she was stunned at first, then looked at Lu Yao twice, and suddenly laughed again:
"Hehe...I was afraid you would think I was an outsider!"

Zhang Siyuan was somewhat puzzled:

"What do you mean? How come I'm an outsider?"

"Because I changed my nationality."

"what?"

Zhang Siyuan's eyes widened:
“Did you get your green card?”

Lu Yao was also stunned and subconsciously observed the expression on the girl's face.

Frankly speaking, he had seen many people's expressions after getting green cards in his previous life. After all... in terms of scientific research treatment, the treatment in Western countries is much higher than that in China, so there are many people who choose the path of science without borders.

And the expressions on these people's faces...when they talked about this, they all had a "happy" expression to some extent.

Lu Yao had seen a lot, so it was not surprising.

However, it is an indisputable fact that a wall will be erected in one’s heart.

But there was no joy or excitement on the girl's face. Instead, she looked like she was talking about a trivial matter, which seemed very normal.

For a moment, Lu Yao couldn't tell whether she, the "child", didn't realize what this meant.

Sun Qian shook her head:

"It's not a green card, it's Canadian citizenship. I'm a naturalized citizen."

"Fuck, so awesome?"

"..."

Fatty Zhang’s exclamation made Lu Yao’s mouth twitch again.

This time I didn’t feel anything else, but I thought of this fat guy in his “previous life”. Whenever everyone talked about the world’s affairs after drinking, he was always the one who cursed the most fiercely.

Curse the Americans, curse Canada... curse the pigs.

Sometimes Lu Yao even felt that if this fat guy traveled back to World War II, he would probably be even more bearded than the guy with a mustache.

Who could have thought that Director Zhang, the hawkish leader of the Counter-Terrorism Bureau, would say such a thing at the age of 18?

After hearing this, Sun Qian took out a pink digital camera from her bag and shook her head:
"Forget it, I'm so embarrassed. When they were naturalized, they still had to take an oath of allegiance to the Queen... It's crazy."

Lu Yao thought for a moment and asked:

"So you are in Cao's camp but your heart is with Han?"

"Yes, wherever I go I feel like I'm from China, but I have no choice. My mom and uncle made me join... Hey, let's take a photo together."

As she spoke, she raised her camera and pointed it at Lu Yao to take a selfie.

"Come closer, OK, LET'S... SAY CHEESE~~~"

As she counted down, with a click, three smiling faces were captured in this beautiful moment.

"OK, perfect."

Sun Qian checked it and nodded happily:
"What a pity, I can't use Facebook in China, I can only upload it when I get there... Hey, what shall we eat? I want to eat this clay pot rice..."

"Hahaha, I knew you wanted to eat. Let's go, the others should be here soon..."

Fatty Zhang took the lead and walked into the restaurant chatting and laughing.

And just then...

"Jingle Bell."

Lu Yao's phone rang.

He took it out and took a look.

Caller: Xu Ruochu.

(End of this chapter)