He held her hand and walked into the old school building. After strolling around in the school building, they finally sat down on the steps outside the building.
The school's bulletin board was behind them.
"In the past, your photo was always posted here, all kinds of announcements of you participating in this and that competition, getting this and that prize, and such." Qiao Jing Jing looked at him. "Do you still remember, last time I told you at Big Sister Ling's home, I had felt that you would become a very amazing aerospace scientist in the future, and then as your classmate I would also bask in your glory."
"I remember."
"Actually, that's not what I really thought."
"Hmm?"
"Not as your classmate." Qiao Jing Jing blinked at him.
Yu Tu's heart felt like a feather had stroked it, and knowingly he asked, "Then as what?"
Qiao Jing Jing planned to ignore him.
But after thinking about it, she still answered him.
She propped her chin on her hand. "Back then, I would have some strange fantasies. You're not allowed to laugh after hearing them. For example, I would fantasize that, at a school anniversary many, many years later, you are a very amazing aerospace scientist whom the school invited and then I would accompany you there."
Yu Tu never knew that the tender emotions in his heart could overflow like this.
"Therefore, Teacher Yu, you have to work hard. I have expectations of you."
Therefore, at least don't struggle, or hesitate, or dare not accept me simply because of income or stuff like that. You have more important, far-reaching goals. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?
How could Yu Tu not understand?
Sometimes he was also surprised. They really had not truly been in contact for very long at all, yet their minds were still in sync to this degree. Sometimes merely an expression in the eyes or a few words were enough for them to clearly understand what the other party wanted to express.
Thus, at this very moment, as he sat on the steps of their high school building, he was able to understand what his past self, because of pride and indifference, had actually let slip by him.
"Jing Jing, sometimes I think you look at me with blind admiration."
"I used to, in this high school, pride myself on being intelligent. It was only after I left school that I realized I knew that the world is vast, whereas I'm tiny. I am not as talented, much a genius as I thought, and my IQ is far from the first echelon…"
"Wait a minute." Qiao Jing Jing said, "Who's in your first echelon?"
Yu Tu was interrupted by her. "… Qian Xuesen, Korolev, Von Karman."
Qiao Jing Jing, who had just been given a brief history of world aerospace science, said, "Oh. You can continue…"
Yu Tu was unable to continue now. He smiled, "But I will work hard."
He said, "I think I can."
Qiao Jing Jing had a glimmer in her eyes when looking at him. "Yes."
The two just sat quietly in the cold wind for a while.
Suddenly Yu Tu said: "Jing Jing, I found that you're trending towards becoming a BDS."
Qiao Jing Jing stared blankly. "What is BDS?"
Yu Tu said, "Search in Baidu yourself."
"Wow! You still dare to say words like that to me!"
Late midwinter night, on this deserted campus, a woman's sharp, clear protest was heard, accompanied by a man's low laughter.
The uncle shouted from a distance, "The doors need to be locked up."
They walked out of the school together.
Outside the school gate was a wide and straight road.
Qiao Jing Jing was humming a song he had never heard before. Holding her hand, Yu Tu suddenly felt that everything was settled.
The road ahead seemed clearer, and his life seemed also to have become simple.
Merely that…
He would be with her.
And then, he would become her glory.