If it were just a wild pig trying to grab cabbage, then the butler would probably have a knife-wielding hand without shaking.
But now the pig has a name, and the housekeeper recognizes the pig's... great-great-grandfather.
It’s difficult to do anyway.
Some things have actually gradually disappeared into the dust of history, and the housekeeper is unwilling to dig them out again.
When the dead come back to life, it will cause a lot of trouble.
"Forget it, let's take it one step at a time..." the butler thought to himself, "They are all good children... and I... am just a butler."
…
In the classroom, Lu Mingfei was wiping the blackboard, and it happened to be his turn to be on duty today.
In fact, there should have been a few people on duty originally, but those people were very discerning, finished their work carelessly and left... despite being overflowing with curiosity.
Besides Lu Mingfei, there was another person in the classroom.
Chen Wenwen.
Lu Mingfei wiped the blackboard as if he was not focused on anything else. The only sound in the classroom was the rustle of wiping the blackboard.
The girl's voice hummed.
Lu Mingfei's whole body froze, as if he had been hit by a immobilizing spell.
Time seemed to have frozen.
"Time flies so fast." After humming for a while, the girl said softly, "It seems like everything was just yesterday."
Lu Mingfei turned around and saw Chen Wenwen sitting in her seat, looking at her.
In a daze, Lu Mingfei seemed to have really traveled through time and returned to the past, as if that incident really happened yesterday.
"Have you forgotten?" Chen Wenwen said softly, "That day, I invited you to join the literary club."
Lu Mingfei was silent.
He didn't forget.
How could I forget?
He still remembers that afternoon. He and Chen Wenwen were the only two people in the classroom like today. He was wiping the blackboard. Chen Wenwen was wearing a white cotton skirt, sneakers, and white socks. She was sitting on the podium and humming a song in a low voice at the sunset. The slanting light shone on the newly replaced desks, and the wall-creeper outside the window hung down. The evening between spring and summer was particularly quiet. Chen Wenwen suddenly turned around and asked Lu Mingfei, would you like to join our literary club?
Lu Mingfei still remembered the feeling at that time. At that time, he felt as if he was petrified, with only his heart beating. The flowers and plants outside the window were growing wildly, the sun was setting, and the chirping of cicadas seemed to speed up a hundred times. Time slipped away, time changed, but the gaze between him and Chen Wenwen seemed to be eternal.
Just like now.
"Of course I remember." Lu Mingfei said, "That day you invited me to join the literary club."
There was a hint of joy in Chen Wenwen's eyes, and Lu Mingfei was a little dazed... Did I ever see such a feeling in Chen Wenwen's eyes before?
I don't think so... because Lu Mingfei didn't dare to look at Chen Wenwen for too long. He would move away after just one glance, for fear of being discovered by others.
Although it is of no use, it seems that the whole grade and the whole school know about it.
"You now……"
"yesterday……"
They both spoke at the same time and stopped at the same time.
"The confession I made on QQ yesterday," Lu Mingfei finally took the initiative to speak, "is actually true."
"...I know." Chen Wenwen replied.
"Always known?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"...Yes." Chen Wenwen was a little flustered subconsciously. For some reason, she felt that things seemed to be out of her control. In her expectation, Lu Mingfei would listen to what she said and then say yes, okay, okay, okay. It's the same as before...but now everything seems to have changed.
The appearance of that poor kid has changed, and then... it seems that the inside has also changed.
"...But you have already rejected it anyway, right?" Lu Mingfei was silent for a while and asked.
Chen Wenwen, who was a little flustered, did not hear the hint of hope hidden in Lu Mingfei's tone when he said this.
"Actually..." Chen Wenwen considered her words, "I just think high school is more suitable for studying."
The last glimmer of light in Lu Mingfei's eyes flickered and was shattered.
Then there's the fire that reignites beneath the ashes of the former wilted child.
As if——
Rise from the ashes.
"Actually, I have always felt that you are different from others." Lu Mingfei scratched his head and said.
Chen Wenwen looked at Lu Mingfei, and suddenly felt that Lu Mingfei's whole person... began to exude a different temperament.
easy.
It was as if something that had been haunting him had finally left, and the heavy objects that were weighing him down and suffocating him disappeared.
Inexplicably, Chen Wenwen was a little flustered.
"What's the difference? The difference lies in the temperament, which gives people the feeling of... a very literary atmosphere, that kind of artistic conception," Lu Mingfei scratched his head, "I'm sorry, I have been in the literary club for so long. I didn’t learn any useful sentences. My purpose in the beginning was not to read books or love literature or anything like that... It just... I just felt like you were like a person in the book, which gave people an unreal feeling. If I have to use a metaphor...a fairy in the sky? Unstained by the dust of the world?"
Lu Mingfei smiled, with a hint of bitterness in his smile: "I made a bet with someone, and now I lost, which means I have to fulfill the bet, but I suddenly understood why he made this bet with me. The reason...even if the bet wasn't this, I would still do it, he just gave me an excuse for the bet."
"What... bet?" Chen Wenwen couldn't help but ask.
"It's nothing, it's just to see if you are also a good-looking person." Lu Mingfei smiled. At this moment, from his perspective, the halo that enveloped Chen Wenwen in the past seemed to be broken one by one.
Only the truth remains.
"..." Chen Wenwen was silent, not knowing what to say.
"I liked you before, and I was serious about it." Lu Mingfei looked at Chen Wenwen. The gaze between them seemed to have returned to that evening at the turn of spring and summer. But this time, Lu Mingfei understood that in the world, Nothing lasts forever.
Time will always flow forward without stopping, bringing everything, taking away everything, and everything will change accordingly.
Including, so-called likes.
"but now……"
he said softly.
"I do not like you anymore."
…
"...Is it Su Xiaoqiang?"
When Lu Mingfei put down his eraser and picked up his schoolbag to leave, Chen Wenwen suddenly said.
"What?" Lu Mingfei stopped and turned around, with a look of astonishment on his face.
"It's her, right?" Chen Wenwen saw Lu Mingfei's expression and became more and more convinced, "What did she say to you?"
"No, it's not her..." A trace of disappointment flashed in Lu Mingfei's eyes, "Sure enough, is this the real you?"
After saying that, Lu Mingfei turned around and prepared to leave. He had been shocked enough today.
"But isn't she the same?" Chen Wenwen asked.
"...It's actually different."
Lu Mingfei stopped and just turned his head. The setting sun carved his back and profile, with a slight smile on his gentle face.
"She's prettier than you."
After speaking, Lu Mingfei waved his hands, as if saying goodbye to the past.
"Goodbye, classmate Chen Wenwen."
