Age of Legends

Chapter 80 Keeping an Appointment
The eighth day of the lunar month.

"Zhang Chen, Gu Zhiyu and the others have asked me out again. Miss Yan has a good impression of you and asked them to invite you to come along. Do you want to come?" Wang Shuowei called Zhang Chen on the phone.

"I won't go. I have something else to do at home today."

After hanging up the phone with Wang Shuowei, Zhang Chen put on a hooded sweatshirt, put on his schoolbag, closed the door and walked out.

This is the time after lunch.

The whole neighborhood was filled with the atmosphere of the New Year, but it was cold and deserted, with only the fireworks and firecrackers that had been set off swept into a pile on the road.

In the somewhat cool atmosphere, Xinhua Bookstore appeared in front.

This Xinhua Bookstore located at the intersection of Lifu Road is quite up-to-date at this time. Through the large floor-to-ceiling glass windows, you can see people reading books in the bookshelves from afar. The ginkgo trees planted on the road outside the window are a backdrop, which really makes people want to come in for a cup of tea and read books in the afternoon.

In addition, there are now private seats selling drinks.

This is the first day of the bookstore’s business on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year.

Even in the afternoon, there were few people.

Zhang Chen found a table and sat down, spreading out the books in his bag and looking at the door from time to time.

Behind the door was a street block. The ginkgo trees were lonely on the street, and new buds began to appear on the bare branches. When Zhang Chen was reading here alone in his later life, he would occasionally look over here. He couldn't say what he was expecting, but he would always look over here.

But in the following lives, Zhang Chen was never able to meet the person he wanted to meet here.

In the trance before my eyes.

Shen Nuoyi, a tall girl with a hairpin in her hair and a small bag on her back, appeared at the door.

I don’t know if she dressed up specially today, or if she was just naturally beautiful. Maybe she just took a bath, but she has an otherworldly aura and temperament.

She wore a short jacket with a thick T-shirt, wide-leg casual pants and sneakers, and carried a pink backpack. Her face was as white as fresh snow, and her eyebrows were high, distant and quiet.

This was the appointment that Zhang Chen avoided Wang Shuowei to keep.

Although Shen Nuo looked alone, he had actually just gotten rid of his clingy cousin.

Her cousin would always hang around her during holidays and often stay with her at their house. However, this time, Shen Nuoyi found an excuse to go back to school for inspection and turned down her cousin's invitation to go shopping.

As soon as Shen Nuo entered the bookstore, her eyes wandered around, and finally landed on Zhang Chen, and she walked over. This was a square table with four chairs in four directions, provided for customers to read and study. She sat opposite Zhang Chen, and followed Zhang Chen's example, putting her bag on an empty chair on the right.

"What would you like to drink?" Zhang Chen handed her the menu.

Shen Nuo leaned over to take a look and said, "Lemonade, please."

As he said this, he took out his wallet, took out a five-dollar bill and put it on the table.

"It's my treat." Zhang Chen said.

"No need." Shen Nuo shook his head, "We will split the bill...after all, we still have to be out for so many days."

Zhang Chen looked at Shen Nuoyi's serious face, nodded, and took the money. With this girl's personality, if she treated herself, she would treat him back next time. This was actually more unfamiliar. The AA system was indeed more suitable for them, and it would not cause Shen Nuoyi any psychological burden, and it was more sustainable.

Zhang Chen didn't force it. He got up and went to the bar to order drinks. He ordered a cup of jasmine tea for himself, and Shen Nuoyi's lemonade was purely for the tea fee, a total of thirteen yuan.

Although Shen Nuoyi had just come in to put down her backpack and order food, everything went smoothly, but when she took out her wallet, her hands were a little clumsy and trembling, which she would never normally do. So in front of him, she was also a little nervous, but she just tried to act like everything was normal?
However, after the two responded to each other under the overpass, they should now be in a stage where they are more than friends but less than lovers.

That’s about it. Zhang Chen didn’t think about taking things a step further at this time. In fact, it’s better this way. The two of them have a tacit understanding and mutual understanding.

It really is better than all the words of 90% of the men and women in this world.

The waiter brought the tea.

Zhang Chen felt uncomfortable sitting face to face with Shen Nuoyi, so he stood up, took his bag from the seat next to her, put it on the other side, and sat closer to Shen Nuoyi. Shen Nuoyi glanced at him, his body stiffened, and his ears felt hot for some reason.

In fact, their self-study is just like this. The next step is to read books or do exercises on their own, which they are very familiar with.

But at this time Shen Nuoyi remembered something, opened his bag, and took out several bags of snacks.

Plums, figs, dried sweet potatoes...it was like I had a Doraemon dimensional bag and I took out these things.

She tore open the bag of plums along the gap, took one and put it in her mouth, then slit the bag open and handed it to Zhang Chen, still holding something in her mouth, and raised her eyes to signal, "Hmm?"

Zhang Chen looked at Shen Nuoyi's things and thought, no, you clearly said AA, which seemed like sustainable development. But you took out a bunch of snacks in the blink of an eye. Are you planning to make me owe you?
Maybe other people would pay attention to their image in front of Shen Nuoyi. Zhang Chen had heard about the science genius who liked Shen Nuoyi. One time before evening self-study, he was eating a roujiamo while walking, and when he saw Shen Nuoyi, he threw the roujiamo behind him and into the collar of a student behind him.

Zhang Chen reached out, took a plum and put it in his mouth.

This is something I haven't eaten for many years. Now a sour and sweet taste spreads in my mouth.

He saw Shen Nuoyi covering the lower half of her face with toilet paper and catching the spitted out nucleus. This unladylike and even somewhat private look was fully displayed in front of Zhang Chen. Noticing that Zhang Chen was looking at her, she smiled faintly with her back straight, looking like she was trying hard to appear natural but was not very natural after all.

Zhang Chen felt that the taste of the plum in his mouth was just like at this moment.

Then Shen Nuoyi simply opened the bag of plums wider, placed it in front of the two of them, and said, "Take some if you want." He looked very generous.

Zhang Chen was just reading a book and eating dried fruits, just as if he was a Daji next to him, who was just a little bit away from being fed. This was simply the life of King Zhou.

Just as Zhang Chen subconsciously reached out to take the dried plums, the back of his fingers touched something cool and greasy.

Suddenly I realized that this was Shen Nuoyi's hand that was also not paying attention when he reached out to take the snacks.

Touched together.

Then both of them withdrew their hands.

I haven’t touched the plums in front of me for a long time.

……

Li Jiajun had a very happy Spring Festival. What made him happiest was the time he spent with Shen Nuoyi in the afternoon when they were building the cultural wall.

He had been planning this for a long time. Ever since Shen Nuoyi, the arts committee member, announced the holiday cultural bulletin board matters at the class meeting, he had already thought about how to proceed with Shen Nuoyi, so he put some work into it and finally joined the bulletin board duty team of the week.

The trouble is that there will be several people on the weekly duty team, and his wish to be alone with Shen Nuoyi cannot be satisfied. Who knows that Zhang Chen will come out by accident, and the key is that Zhang Chen also comes to assist. Maybe he is a dark horse and can't get off, so he shamelessly sells his labor to Shen Nuoyi to help with tutoring.

This was simply a god-given assist. He originally didn't know how to get along with Shen Nuoyi alone, but this turned out to be a godsend opportunity. So Li Jiajun took a further step and joined their afternoon cram school.

When Shen Nuoyi was explaining the questions to him, her face was serious yet beautiful. She explained things patiently and attentively. She was really beautiful both in person and in heart. Feeling his grades improve and his relationship with Shen Nuoyi getting closer, Li Jiajun decided to take a further step after school started. He relied on tutoring and explaining the questions more often to get closer to her. Eventually, he and Shen Nuoyi developed feelings for each other in their daily interactions. Then, he unexpectedly won over this goddess of education, and they ended up living together. They amazed a large number of people during their student career and left behind a legend.

While thinking this, Li Jiajun and a group of friends were walking on the street, preparing to go to the newly opened entertainment venue to go shopping, grab dolls and play video games, but they passed by the intersection. After a while, Li Jiajun walked back alone. He stood under a tree, looking at a couple at the other end of the coffee table through the floor-to-ceiling glass window of the bookstore.

He stood there for a moment and saw two people reaching into their plum pockets at the same time and then retracting their hands at the same time.

Li Jiajun, who originally wanted to go in and say hello, did not walk through the door in the end.

He hesitated, and finally turned around and walked into the street lined with bare-branched ginkgo trees on both sides.

It turns out that the ginkgo leaves had fallen a long time ago.

He thought so sadly.

My youth has also come to an end.

(End of this chapter)