'Over there!' Huang Jingping pointed at the person in front of the hair salon at the exit of the residential area.
Feng Yiping looked over and saw that it was indeed Xiao Zhijie, whom he hadn't seen in the past six months. He was holding a mobile phone, twisting his head from side to side, looking carefully at the cars coming and going.
Feng Yiping flashed his lights, lowered the glass and smiled at him. This guy, he still looked the same, a young fat guy who seemed very easy-going and secure.
Xiao Zhijie came running over, smiling, and exchanged a few jokes with Huang Jingping. 'Why are you so busy as soon as you get back?'
'You know it's the end of the year and there's a lot going on. I haven't been back for most of the year, and I haven't done anything except hang out,' he said, carefully turning the car around in front of the block before following up with, "Why, is there someone hiding at home? You won't even let us go up and take a look.'
'I'd love to hide, but I don't have anyone. It's mainly just me living here, so what's there to see? I had instant noodles for lunch and I'm hungry now, so let's go to dinner early," he said, still a foodie.
'Why didn't you and Changning spend the holiday together?'
'Him? Forget it, he's a heartless guy,' Xiao Zhijie looked depressed. "I couldn't stand it for long. I stayed at their house for less than half a day. At first, we had a chat, but after a while, the two of them were like Siamese twins, always whispering. When I said I wanted to leave, that guy Wang Changning didn't even get up to see me off.'
'Why do I feel that you're jealous?" Huang Jingping laughed.
You're right, she's quite descriptive. Xiao Zhijie just now looked exactly like a complaining wife. He didn't even get up to see them off. Do they have to be so formal with each other?
'Jealous? Don't be ridiculous, I don't even put vinegar in my noodles. Don't you believe me, you'll see for yourself in a bit if it's like I say.'
'Don't always think about what they're like, I reckon if Qiu Ling were here, you'd be wagging your tail around her all the time,' Feng Yiping said with a smile, knowing Xiao Zhijie's character.
'It's definitely not going to be like them anyway!' Xiao Zhijie, of course, would never admit it.
Wang Changning was also waiting at the entrance to the residential compound. This kid, his personality is a bit more outwardly expressed than before. As soon as they met, he gave Feng Yiping a firm hug. 'Why do I feel like you've grown taller again?' He looked at Feng Yiping's height and realised that they were about the same, but now Feng Yiping seemed to be slightly taller.
'Of course, I still have a few years to go! Besides, I work out every day without fail. Look at my hot biceps,' Feng Yiping made a movement often done by bodybuilding men.
They can still grow for a few years. Wang Changning and Xiao Zhijie are both a year older than Feng Yiping, which means they are almost 22 years old and can still grow for another two or three years.
'Just park downstairs. Let's go to your place and hang out,'
'What's there to hang out about? I'm starving. Let's go eat. Hey, by the way, where is your girlfriend? Why isn't she with you?'
Wang Changning pushed the reluctant Xiao Zhijie upstairs behind him, 'You haven't had an appetite since noon, so you've been waiting for this evening meal,'
'Well, what can I do, no one cooks for me!'
Huang Jingping, who was walking in front of them, laughed out loud, "Puff," Xiao Zhijie's words were full of bitterness.
Like Feng Zhenchang and the others, Wang Changning's parents had also chosen the eighth floor, the highest floor. Yu Lian, wearing only a sweater and no jacket, and wearing cotton slippers, was standing at the entrance to the building, waiting for them with a smile on her face. 'Jingping, you're looking better and better,' said Huang Jingping, taking her hand and shaking it with a smile. 'Aren't you the same?'
Feng Yiping felt as if the two girls were hinting at something.
'Yiping, come inside quickly, we've been waiting since noon!'
As soon as they entered the room, they could see that the renovation must have been done by Yiping's uncle and his team, and the furniture was obviously from their own furniture factory.
'What do you think? Not bad, right? Your uncle said that this renovation plan is even better than the first house you had,'
'It's not bad,' he followed behind him and took a look around the room, and noticed that many of the details were more delicate and exquisite than the first plan.
'Please sit down,' after the tour, Yu Lian invited everyone to sit down in the living room and brought a plate of assorted biscuits to Xiao Zhijie, "I heard you were hungry, have some to tide you over!'
'No, give them to your family,'
this kind of joking remark was probably not the first time he had said it, Yu Lian laughed and took them back, "Really, I don't want them, I'll put them away!'
'No,' Xiao Zhijie stopped her, 'get me a bag,'
'What do you need a bag for?'
'So I can pack it up when we leave.'
Haha, this guy, he's just so cute.
'You guys sit down, I'll go check if the water's boiled.' At this time, drinking fountains and mineral water were not yet commonplace in people's homes, and many people still boiled water.
'You'll do fine in the exams,' Feng Yiping picked up an optimised biscuit and after a long afternoon of work, he was a little hungry.
'I'll definitely do better than just pass,' Xiao Zhijie, who said he wasn't going to eat, was now shovelling the animal-shaped biscuits into his mouth.
'I'm still weak in English, especially speaking, but the rest is okay,' says Wang Changning.
So it's all okay, and no one has relaxed since starting university.
'Speaking is also my weak point,' says Xiao Zhijie.
'My personal opinion is that the worse your speaking skills are, the more you need to speak. Go to an English corner where there are lots of international students, and don't care if you speak well or not, or if the other person can understand you, just speak up,' Feng Yiping lowers his voice, 'and by the way, I hear there are lots of pretty girls at English corners!'
'Then you must have been there a lot, so you have a lot of experience,' Xiao Zhijie said. "Changning and I went to the best normal university, the provincial university, and the university of science and technology, which are said to be the best English corners, but they were all not very good. There were only girls around the foreigners. But seriously," he lowered his voice too, 'there weren't many good-looking ones.'
'Haha,' Wang Changning laughed a little embarrassedly. They really did have such thoughts at the time.
'If that doesn't work, then pay someone to practice with you. Go to the discussion groups on various university forums and post, and' Feng Yiping whispered again, 'you can also specify that you only want blonde foreign girls. There are quite a few pretty girls among the international students,'
Xiao Zhijie glanced at Huang Jingping next to him, 'Look at your husband Yiping, we were corrupted by him like this,'
'Why do I feel like you're the one who's leading him astray?' Huang Jingping asked with a smile, "Qiu Ling and I talk on the phone all the time!'
Xiao Zhijie quickly handed her an apple from the fruit bowl, "Girls should eat this, an apple a day keeps the doctor away,' he added, 'We go to the English corner to really improve our spoken English.'
'You guys sit down first,' Wang Changning laughed as he stood up and went to help in the kitchen.
Xiao Zhijie nudged his head towards the kitchen, and sure enough, Wang Changning and Yu Lian were standing side by side inside, one of them hot-pressing a teacup while the other poured water with tea leaves. The two of them were laughing and whispering to each other, and Yu Lian even gave Wang Changning a gentle tap in an intimate manner. One had to say that the affection between the two was really the rhythm of torture for single people.
They walked out, each carrying two cups of tea, and saw the three people sitting staring at them. 'What's wrong?' Yu Lian asked. 'Is there something on my face?'
Well, these people in love often only have eyes for each other and really don't notice the existence of others.
'Nothing, it's quite hot, put it down quickly!' Huang Jingping took a cup of tea and placed it in front of Feng Yiping.
Wang Changning placed a cup in front of Xiao Zhijie, and he lifted it up and took a sip, 'Yiping, try it, why do I feel that this tea is so sweet?'
'I don't know if the tea is sweet or not, I just feel that your words are so sour,'