Chapter 72(1/2)
As I talked about "years" every year, I felt that this was a particularly distant thing, but when it came to the moment, the time of the process was always in a hurry.
Su Hao checked in with Xu Lie on the weekend of her adult birthday. She went to New York for two days to play wildly, and in the blink of an eye, she had to come back and devote herself to the heavy schoolwork.
Their majors are not easy in themselves, and they don’t plan to live a life of playing around the world. They want to gain a place in the field of experts, and they can’t spend less energy. Compared to the pediatrics in high school, college homework has become a bottomless pit, and as long as they are willing to work hard, it will never end.
After entering the state, the number of formal dates between the two becomes less frequent, and instead they spend time together in the library or studio.
The weather gets colder day by day because she only spends spring and summer with Xu Lie, and has not yet spent autumn and winter. Even if the autumn and winter in this city are always rainy, Su Hao is happy. She likes to stay in the apartment on weekends, listen to the sound of rain outside the window, listen to the regular sound of Xu Lie flipping and writing and typing on the keyboard, and then she sits in front of the easel, leisurely drops one stroke after another, sits on his lap for a midnight snack when he is hungry, and holds him to sleep when he is sleepy.
With the arrival of the wet and cold winter, sleeping with Xu Lie has become Su Hao's hobby. There are two things to do. Since spending the night together with adults, Su Hao has been staying at school on a daily basis. Every weekend, he will stay at Xu Lie if he has not gone out for practical activities.
Compared to air conditioners, she prefers Xu Lie's body temperature. Even if she takes a nap, she has to force her boyfriend who has no nap habit to bed.
But she was sleeping comfortably, and Xu Lie couldn't see it and eat it because she was suffering. After waking up, Su Hao often saw the bed empty. Xu Lie either closed his eyes and rested on the sofa, or turned off the fire in the bathroom.
While Su Hao couldn't bear to let her boyfriend go to his own strength, he felt that he was not taking her girlfriend's help, and he didn't take her seriously. After having several passive experiences, he was not ashamed. He would go into the bathroom at this time and insisted on proving her "hand skills" with Xu Lie.
The young body is always slapped. Sometimes Xu Lie finally calms down, but when she touches her lightly and hardly, the fire starts to get angry again. I don’t know who this is trying to trouble.
In December of the middle of winter, the final exam is approaching, and Su Hao has rarely stayed in Xu Lie’s apartment. After all, Xu Lie is applying for a final scholarship, and she is worried that such energy-consuming things will affect her boyfriend’s “money prospects”.
Su Hao's major does not have a scholarship quota, but it is also a hurdle at the end of the period. Not only does it evaluate oil painting, but it also requires many theoretical subjects that make her passionate and have turned her eyes apart.
It was his turn to prepare for other exams, and Su Hao became a little weak. He often read books and saw hibernation. Finally, he was dragged up by Xu Lie and carried him to the desk to review.
She occasionally had an illusion that she felt like she was back in the days when she was dominated by Teacher Xu in Nanzhong.
Fortunately, the fall semester in the United States is short and the end cycle is not long. Once you close your eyes and make your heart aside, you will grit your teeth and pass.
After the final exam, the three-week winter vacation was over. The two were discussing a trip to the United States in the first week and returning to China in the second week. Unexpectedly, when they were planning their itinerary, Su Hao received an unexpected invitation.
Xu Zhili came to Su Hao's contact information from somewhere and said that her movie was premiered in Nancheng on Christmas Eve. She had extra tickets there and asked Su Hao if she would go.
The last time Su Hao and Xu Zhili met was in Nanzhong in June last year. At that time, Xu Zhili came to say goodbye to her and said that she was going abroad to make a movie.
Su Hao wished Xu Zhili would never have expected that when she left, she even left abroad.
However, as soon as she arrived in the United States, she was in a cage, while Xu Zhili traveled around the world to shoot, and the two foreign tourists had no connection.
I heard that Xu Zhili's movie will be released soon, and I think this is a crucial moment in her life. After discussing with Xu Lie, Su Hao and Xu Lie decided to postpone their trip and return to China first week.
*
Christmas Eve was a Friday. On the morning of that day, Su Hao and Xu Lie landed at Nancheng Airport on time.
The winter in Nancheng is warm and pleasant. In terms of temperature alone, it is probably like the late autumn in New Jersey. Xu Lie pushed out of the airport with two huge suitcases. Su Hao freed up his hand to take off his scarf and hat. In the end, he only had a thin sweater and a thin tweed coat on his body.
She put her scarf, hat, and put her luggage into the box, and yawned a long time.
I didn't sleep well on the plane, and it was late in New Jersey again, and Su Hao's eyelids had already started fighting.
Xu Lie put his shoulders on her and said to her, "Get some lunch in the hotel before going out."
Su Hao nodded and leaned listlessly against Xu Lie waiting for the car.
Xu Lie's trip to Nancheng was not a necessary trip. He had only been with this city for half a year, and his only connection was Su Hao. He should have landed in Beicheng when he returned to China.
But because they didn't have a good date at the end of December, the two of them didn't want to fall into another place on Christmas Eve and Christmas, so Xu Lie accompanied Su Hao to this trip.
As a result, Su Hao couldn't bear to let him stay in a hotel alone, so he greeted his uncle and aunt, saying that she had been having a party with classmates outside these two days and would not go home to sleep.
The two got into the car and went to the booked hotel. Su Hao was awakened by a shock of his cell phone when he leaned against Xu Lie in the back seat.
It was Lin Lan who called and asked if she had arrived.
Su Hao cheered up and cleared his throat and said, "I'm here, I've left the airport."
"As soon as you land, you have to go to play with your classmates? Have you eaten? What should I do if I have luggage? I really don't need my aunt to ask the driver to come and pick you up?" Lin Lan was worried on the other end of the phone.
"I just had a plane meal for lunch. Don't pick me up. I made an appointment with my classmates and I'll go out for fun. I'll store my luggage."
"Then where do you want to stay if you don't go home at night? Is it safe?"
Su Hao said without changing her face and her heart was still beating: "Didn't you tell you that my classmate made a movie and was a big shot. He stayed in a five-star hotel when he went out. It was very safe for me to sleep with her."
Lin Lan nagged for a few more words and finally hung up the phone.
Su Hao breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Xu Lie next to him.
He smiled gloating with his elbow on the car window.
I don’t know who she was talking about for the train. Su Hao wanted to scold him, but because she was sleepy, she couldn’t get excited. Finally, she rolled her eyes at him, hooked her hands at him, and asked him to hand it over to her shoulders.
Xu Lie smiled and leaned over, lending her shoulder to doze off.
*
All the way to the hotel, Su Hao was sleepy like a walking corpse. After taking a shower, he changed into his comfortable pajamas, reminding Xu Lie to make a sound alarm clock and lay on the bed without hesitation.
I slept very heavily this time, but Su Hao was not woken up by the alarm clock.
In her sleep, she was lying in a sea of purple flowers. The breeze blew slowly, shaking the branches of lavender. The flowers and leaves on the branches gently brushed across her cheeks, her neck, and her collarbone swept on her soft edge, lingering.
She was so numb that her feet were itchy. She opened her eyes in a daze and discovered the true face of lavender.
Su Hao lowered his eyes in confusion and saw a head arching her.
The master of his head seemed to notice that she had woken up. But instead of restraining, he seemed to be in the mood of "I finally woke up, or I was always worried about waking up", and he moved even more without hesitation.
"..." Su Hao suddenly pushed him away, "Xu Lie, be a person! If you don't come openly, why do you have to steal the cat!"
After saying that, she spat again, who is a chicken and a dog!
Xu Lie sighed.
If he hadn't been a personal person, he wouldn't have been just trying on the edge of her lapel until now. She wouldn't have seen him all, but he hadn't even been able to untie her underwear once.
Xu Lie looked up at her: "Well, that's the truth?"
Because of the end of the semester, the two have not been together for a long time. Su Hao understands his restlessness today.
But this day is not a suitable time.
"Wait until you come back tonight." Su Hao patted his head.
"What are you doing when you come back?" Xu Lie looked at her with a smile.
"Whatever you do." He wanted to tease her, but Su Hao played Tai Chi in a different way, but he knew he couldn't do it anyway.
Although she actually thinks it doesn't matter, and even when she is intimate with him, she will have the impulse to go further with him, but Xu Lie has been worried that the two of them are too close and have the opportunity to meet every day. Once they start, it will be difficult to stop it. This matter is too frequent, so it is not good, so I probably want to endure it until the day when both of them can't stand it, and let it happen naturally.
Su Hao sat up with his elbow, looked at the clock on the bedside table, and quickly got out of bed: "Oh, it's too late, you can solve the problem yourself, I still have to put on some makeup."
*
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Su Hao and Xu Lie were wearing couple's wool coats and arrived at Mingdu Cinema on time.
As soon as he entered the hall, a chubby middle-aged man greeted them with a silly smile: "Are they Miss Su and Mr. Xu?"
Su Hao nodded at him: "Yes."
The man handed me two movie tickets: "I am Xiaoli's agent, my surname is Dong. Xiaoli is still being interviewed at the premiere. I can't get away with it, so I asked me to bring the tickets, saying that I will come to the cinema to find you after the movie is over."
The tickets for the premiere are very limited, and most of them are obtained through special channels. This agent is afraid of neglecting Xu Zhili's friend, so he comes to deliver the tickets in person.
Most of the people attending the premiere were media reporters and industry insiders. Su Hao and Xu Lie did not join in the fun. After thanking him, they went directly to the cinema.
The cinema can accommodate nearly 700 spectators. When the two entered the venue, the venue was almost full.
Fortunately, Xu Zhili is quite good at it. The seats arranged for the two of them are in the best viewing area and the standard golden seats.
The movie started shortly after the two sat down.
Unlike the premiere of ordinary movies, the atmosphere in the cinema was particularly quiet before the movie was screened. After the opening, Su Hao even noticed that people in front, back and left and right seemed to be breathing.
This is a rare film about depression in China. It has gone through many hardships from filming to broadcasting. There are no traffic stars. The starring actors were all amateurs before this.
The movie is called "Hello Tomorrow", which tells the story of four ordinary people with depression striving to live hard. Xu Zhili plays a high school girl who dropped out of school due to depression. It is like what she said to Su Hao at the beginning, she is completely in her true nature.
In the 120-minute period, Xu Zhili in the movie went from being confused and living a so-called "non-mainstream" life at the beginning to becoming popular on the Internet because of a selfie's tears. She was appreciated by a photographer. She left her hometown with this boy. She traveled to more than 20 countries in a year, photographed countless characters and found her self-identity.
At the end of the film, an old friend of Xu Zhili came to the rental house where she had lived before to visit her, but heard from the neighbors that she had been gone long ago.
My friend thought she finally chose to leave the world and cried in front of the house.
At this moment, Xu Zhili walked up the corridor in high heels, laughed at her friend, saying that she had just moved, and scolded her for being idiot.
Only then did my friend realize that he had misunderstood what his neighbor meant, and he felt embarrassed and kicked Xu Zhili in the calf.
At the end of the video is a long shot of two people laughing and fighting, chasing and running away.
Although it was not stated explicitly, the audience knew that the girl could finally say "Hello" to her tomorrow.
The plot is very simple, without any exciting conflicts. The result is that the details are shot very delicately, so many viewers cried from the beginning to the end. When the lights on the theater were on, their eyes were swollen into walnuts.
Su Hao is different from them. She is immersed in the long shot of the last movie and has not recovered for a long time.
Although this scene is definitely not her personal experience, whether it is the character dialogue or the opposing scene between the two girls, it gives her a sense of familiarity.
The audience in the cinema gradually dissipated, and a sound of high heels similar to those in the film approached.
Su Hao raised his head and saw Xu Zhili, who had dyed his black hair back.
"Do you think you look very much like you at the end, idiot?" Xu Zhili walked up.
To be continued...