Chapter 3: Old Friends Come Sometimes

Matter is the carrier of spirit, and the body is naturally the carrier of soul. In other words, the soul affects the body, and the body reacts to the soul-Lu Li didn’t know whether he had returned to the age of 16 or the 16-year-old self had gained the memory of the future. He is more passionate, more straightforward, and more resolute than his real self. This is the spirit of a young man, a rare commodity that should disappear in the polishing of society with time.

He does not dislike this change.

After returning to the low-rent apartment, Zou Yameng made simple tomato and eggs, stir-fried meat and braised eggplant, and the two of them chewed quietly around the small wooden table.

Lu Li likes the food made by Sister Yameng very much. It has a homely flavor, warm and tranquil. His favorite thing when he was a teenager was to sit in a quiet room in the sound of the drizzling rain and taste the sweet and sour pork ribs made by his sister. He likes it a little sour. Unfortunately, since Sister Yameng committed suicide in his previous life, he has no chance to enjoy it.

As he was thinking about something randomly in his mind, his chopsticks touched Zou Yameng’s chopsticks, and their eyes met. Zou Yameng felt that Lu Li was a little different today. He was more confident than before, and it also made her feel more dangerous. She felt that it was time to take on the responsibility of educating her as a sister.

“Don’t fall in love too early.” After holding it in for a long time, she finally said this.

“Ah?”

“You are still young, you can’t fall in love too early.” She forced herself to look at Lu Li, “Don’t say that kind of words to girls in the future, understand? Boys should also respect themselves and love themselves, don’t learn from scumbags, always coaxing people, understand?”

But those words were Lu Li’s heartfelt words. He was stunned for a moment, then nodded slightly. He was actually used to listening to Zou Yameng. Sister Yameng respected him very much. Since he went to high school, she rarely spoke in a commanding or teaching tone. He wondered if his performance made her feel insecure?

It was Lu Li who washed the dishes. In fact, he could cook. When he was a child, the government assigned him a guardian, a snobbish aunt, who received government subsidies but rarely took care of him. Little Lu Li had to learn to cook by himself and tinker with kitchen utensils with Zou Yameng, but he still got a big yellow dumpling when he was frying.

He still remembered that Zou Yameng was much calmer than her peers at that time. She took him to walk and stop on the unfamiliar streets, comforting him and asking for directions, and finally found the community clinic. Later, from one day, Sister Yameng suddenly said that she could cook and asked him to eat her cooking in the future. He suddenly realized why she was always wearing long sleeves in the hot weather.

Zou Yameng returned to her room next door after dinner. She used to like staying in her brother’s room, but one day she found that Lu Li, a junior high school student, looked at her wearing a small suspender with a shy and shy look, and there were some desires that she couldn’t understand, so she rarely stayed at Lu Li’s house.

Lu Li took a nap, then went out to the milk tea shop where he worked. The kind-hearted store manager gave him an extra 500 yuan salary, and told him to study hard, and he could continue to work next time he had a holiday. He was a little entangled with the “huge sum” of 2,500 yuan in his hand.

He knew that he was going to college. All the universities in Shenzhou were private universities, and the tuition was terribly expensive. If you want to go to college, it is not enough to have good grades. A poor boy like him had to go through the special plan of the country and get a targeted employment if he wanted to continue studying. But he didn’t like that kind of work, so he had to save up the tuition for the first year of college. The 2,500 yuan should be kept in his small treasury.

But he remembered the words of the squad leader and sister Zou Yameng, and walked to the mobile phone store for some reason.

Zou Yameng had a second-hand mobile phone. Because the team often needed to contact each other, she gritted her teeth and bought a second-hand one that a wealthy female classmate didn’t want. The second-hand phone was in very bad condition. It was obvious that the previous owner did not take good care of it. The system was also very slow, which often drove Sister Yameng crazy.

He chose a previous generation flagship phone for 2,399 yuan and asked the clerk to pack it, intending to give his sister a surprise. Suddenly, he felt someone looking at him from behind. He turned around and saw a girl who was unexpected but not unexpected. An Baili.

It was not unexpected because An Baili originally lived near this street, and it was normal to meet her here.

It was unexpected because An Baili, who should have been like an ugly duckling in memory, was simply dressed up at this time - she lifted her thick bangs and untied her braids, and just showed her plain face and gave people a stunning feeling. I have to sigh that An Baili was really beautiful when she was a girl.

He always thought that An Baili was a good girl, but the two of them might not be suitable. Two people who lack love together will only be endless running-in and torture. And now Lu Li is a little afraid of Xiao An. He is afraid of An Baili’s attitude of indifference to life. An Baili, who had always been weak, actually dragged him to the grave after he decided to divorce.

Lu Li’s panic only lasted for a short moment, and he soon realized that An Baili should not recognize him now. He pretended to look around unintentionally, his eyes passed over An Baili, but his heart was beating:

Why is she different from what I remember? And why is she looking at me? Please, don’t look at me, don’t look at me, treat me as if I don’t exist.

Murphy’s Law says that the more you don’t want to happen, the more likely it will happen. An Baili walked towards him with an irrepressible smile on her lips, and didn’t notice Lu Li’s twitching eyebrows at all.

“Classmate, are you picking a mobile phone?” Her voice was very nice, but for Lu Li, it was the voice he least wanted to hear.

“Ah.” He was a little perfunctory, pretending to be shy and introverted like a teenager.

An Baili didn’t say anything else. Lu Li curiously glanced at her with his peripheral vision, but saw the girl staring at her with burning eyes. The emotion in her eyes made him extremely familiar, and it also made him creepy at this time. An absurd possibility came to his mind.

Could An Baili also be reborn? Otherwise, how could she appear here? Otherwise, how could she dress up?

Playing dumb has always been Lu Li’s strong point. He pretended not to see the burning gazes of the people around him, took the package handed by the clerk, and walked out with his head down. An Baili followed him calmly. If it weren’t for the memory of his previous life, he would never have thought that An Baili behind him was following him.

Although An Baili was stupid most of the time, her sense of smell in male and female affairs was particularly sharp, like a special version of Sherlock Holmes. As early as when she was studying, An Baili would secretly throw away the love letters he received, and would always appear when he was alone with other girls. Lu Li thought An Baili was helping him at the beginning, but now he thinks that it was just a reflection of this woman’s morbid emotions.