Chapter 2: Guo Jing I

  "Yang Kang Yang Kang" Guo Jing knocks on the bed board of the lower bunk "Get up get up Old Qiu's materialization class."

  Yang Kang in the College of Life Sciences under the Department of Biotechnology is taking chemistry courses.

  "Damn it!" Yang Kang cursed drowsily. He had rented a copy of "The Legend of the Condor Hero" last night and read it under the emergency light until deep into the night, now he could fall asleep anywhere with just a pillow.

  "Guo Jing helped me answer," Yang Kang said "I'll treat you to a chicken leg with five flavors."

  "But... " Guo Jing hesitated, "Maybe today's little test is what Old Qiu mentioned last time."

  Affected by Yang Kang, Guo Jing also started calling Qiu Chuji "Old Qiu".

  "Why don't you just help me write it?" Yang Kang waved his hand, "Besides, Old Qiu likes to scare people, don't listen to him teasing you."

  "Good." Guo Jing was no longer wearing his Mongolian robes and hastily put on a black jacket, rushing out in a flurry.

  "Hey" Yang Kang shouted from the upper bunk "Tell them that you alone can help me write a note, don't bother four or five of them, Yang Kang and Old Qiu are not fools."

  Yang Kang's interpersonal relationship is not bad. In a small test before, there were six or seven people who pretended to be Yang Kang and wrote a note for him. Qiu Chuji took a look at the six or seven different handwriting of Yang Kang in front of him, and that night he called Wanyan Honglie. Yang Kang was scolded by his father all weekend.

  It's time to introduce the members of Yang Kang and Guo Jing's dormitory. Dormitory number 202 has three double-decker beds, one bookshelf, one wardrobe, one large table, and six living people.

  The boss is Guo Jing, so seven days a week, Guo Jing has to do two days of cleaning and sanitation inspections. Guo Jing is the main force in sweeping, even Yang Kang's socks are sometimes picked up by Guo Jing - Yang Kang always forgets to pick them up. When Guo Jing plays games, his socks are swept back and forth above his head.

  Lao Er is Linghu Chong. Because Yang Kang broke the rules to help two girls get their numbers at the boys' dormitory window, Huang Rong and Mu Nianci were eventually squeezed into a vacant bed in the girls' dormitory, while Linghu Chong, who came later to get his number, was filled into Guo Jing's room.

  The Third Brother is Ouyang Ke and the Fourth Brother is Yang Kang.

  Lao Wu is Duan Yu. Duan Yu, a history buff from Yunnan, has been following Guo Jing and diligently sweeping the floor. His weakness or characteristic is that he's a bit of a ladies' man, often returning from the cafeteria with a big smile on his face, saying things like "I saw another beautiful girl at the soy sauce beef stall, she's the same one I met at the library last time".

  Lao Xiao and Lin Ping were both from Fujian and were also in the chemistry department. He had already gone out for a run to exercise early in the morning. "Lin Ping is too hardworking!" Yang Kang commented on Lin Ping. Apart from Ouyang Ke, Yang Kang also looked down on Lin Ping.

  Early in the morning, except for Lin Ping, who had already left the house, Guo Jing shot like a cannonball towards the classroom of the old chemistry building. The remaining four were still lazy in bed.

  Linghu Cong is reading Reference News.

  "Depend on——" Linghu Chong dragged out a long tail of sound "Have you guys read the newspaper? The government is like this!"

  "Damn it!" Yang Kang cursed viciously. "Life is hard, don't blame the government for being unlucky, and don't complain about society. The thickness of a baozi has nothing to do with the government. Don't talk about national affairs when you're still sleepy in the morning." Linghu Chong, who grew up in Guangdong, always mispronounced "newspaper" as "baozi".

  "Why should we pay compensation to the Golden Nation? If we're going to fight, let's just fight and not be afraid of being destroyed by them several times. Does he think our Great Song Dynasty is weak?... But looking at how the government is handling this, it really is ***weak! Hmph!" Linghu Chong muttered to himself "Get up!"

  After finishing speaking, he flipped over and got up, holding a basin and heading towards the water house.

  Duan Yu went to bed early last night and turned on Yang Kang's emergency lamp to read Zhang Ailing, but soon felt sleepy, turned over and fell asleep again.

  Ouyang Ke got up early and sat on the bed, talking to a girl in a soft voice: "Tomorrow is not okay, let's take our English level 4 mock exam on the weekend. On the weekend, I'll see if I can find a car and we can go to Wangwu Mountain, it seems like they just opened a new scenic spot... Ah, don't be angry, I really have something going on... Okay, okay, how about I accompany you to KFC tonight?" Luckily Ouyang Ke used his own mobile phone and never touched the dormitory's phone, otherwise Yang Kang would definitely be suffocated by his facial cream smell.

  Yang Kang was woken up by the noise and couldn't fall asleep again, muttering his catchphrase "annoying" as he got out of bed to brush his teeth.

  Guo Jing was riding his old and worn-out donkey to class. This donkey had been ridden by Qiu Chuji when he was young, but after he couldn't ride it anymore, he gave it to Guo Jing. Under Guo Jing's care, the old donkey regained its vitality, such as carrying Duan Yu in front and Yang Kang and Linghu Chong at the back, which were all high-difficulty actions that Guo Jing had accomplished. However, once when Yang Kang's sports car broke down, he borrowed Guo Jing's donkey to go home, but halfway through, Yang Kang got off and pushed the donkey home.

  "It's better for it to ride me home than for me to ride it home!" Yang Kang later said viciously to Guo Jing, "I'm exhausted."

  However, in the energetic Guo Jing's hands, the old nag still ran with sound and color... The color was a bit duller, but the sound was loud and clear, something that everyone had heard before.

  That day, the autumn rain was drizzling and icy raindrops were hitting the tree clusters behind the Bian River. On both sides were ancient buildings with carved eaves and painted rafters, where clear water droplets fell one by one. The entire road was covered with tiny yellow flowers. Everything seemed hazy and unreal in the boundless rain.

  In the whistling cold wind, Guo Jing suddenly broke into a majestic and agile posture on horseback, just like a Mongolian cavalry.

  As the destined heroine of this story, Huang Rong had not seen Guo Jing for more than half a year. Fortunately, she and Mu Nianci lived in the same house, so news about Guo Jing still occasionally reached her ears.

  Guo Jing, a lively and energetic person, has never lacked girls to help him spread the word at his bedside. Guo Jing is the head of the class, letting him help carry books, he goes to drink with the boys, gets drunk, and helps carry them back, he also organizes outings, collects money, and calculates accounts for him, in school, dealing with big and small activities, it's all his.

  The days passed and Huang Rong thought that Guo Jing was like a strong sailor who only needed spinach to have infinite energy, a cartoon character from the Western Regions. However, Huang Rong was not Olive Oyl, nor had she ever considered him her ideal boyfriend. (Author's note: Popeye is a cartoon character who gains temporary superhuman strength after eating a can of spinach. The author's university classmate once joked that he hid anabolic steroids in his spinach cans... Olive Oyl is Popeye's girlfriend.) A girl like Huang Rong, who had studied flute, calligraphy, and martial arts, should have met a handsome and sensitive poet who rode a white horse into her life; only then would they be well-matched. As for Guo Jing, if he hadn't met that foolish giant from Mongolia, Huang Rong wouldn't mind if the story ended there.

  But at that time, Huang Rong was 16 years old and didn't understand love, she had only seen such so-called handsome guys in comics.

  Huang Rong is one of the eight beauties in the Physics Department. One important reason for this reputation is that there were only eight female students in the Physics Department at that time. In fact, even in a place like Fudan University where beautiful women are everywhere, Huang Rong would still stand out easily. However, now she can only be one of the "Eight Golden Flowers" of the Physics Department and has to deal with a bunch of senior male students who have good feelings towards her. But they are not romantic or poetic, which makes Huang Rong very disappointed.

  Later, Huang Rong was seventeen years old and skipped school every day to eat ice cream, skate and bounce. Then she returned alone from outside, living a listless life belonging to a bad kid.

  Guo Jing's broken donkey let out a loud bray and struggled to stop in front of Huang Rong.

  At this time, Huang Rong had just skipped class and was walking back from eating steamed buns outside of school. She suddenly saw a nameless flower by the side of the road that had been battered by the rain and looked disheveled. Huang Rong stood in the rain, staring at the flower, her sentimental emotions suddenly becoming uncontrollable. Seventeen-year-old Huang Rong felt like she didn't fit in with the people around her, and that bad old man was still very much like a tyrant, so for three weeks straight, when Huang Yao Shi sent a driver to pick her up, she refused to go home. Most importantly, at seventeen years old, was she still just a single girl? How sad!

  Huang Rong felt her own future was as bleak as this small flower that was withering alone in the wind and rain.

  At this time, Guo Jing rushed into Huang Rong's life like a black donkey prince. His old broken donkey finally didn't stop in the rain and knocked Huang Rong down with her four feet in the air.

  The phrase "four feet in the air" actually affected the atmosphere at that time and that scene was actually romantic and magnificent.

  Imagine a white-clad girl quietly admiring flowers in front of the flowerbed, her clear and sorrowful eyes. The surroundings are lush green, with autumn rain casting a layer of mystery. The eaves and pavilions of the carved building, the forest path is softly echoing with fine rain threads.

  Suddenly, a Mongolian man in a black jacket came galloping on horseback.

  Donkey brays!

  Figures intersect!

  Quiet!

  "Classmate, classmate!" Guo Jing was so frightened that his hands and feet went numb "Are you okay?"

  As Mu Nianci mentioned Guo Jing, Huang Rong occasionally wondered if she would ever see Guo Jing again. However, she never expected that the reunion of the hero and beauty after all these years would be in such a manner - Guo Jing not only got himself into such a sorry state but also opened his mouth wide to spit out starlight directly onto his own face.

  If it weren't for her ankle hurting too much, Huang Rong really wanted to hit someone...

  Huang Rong was wearing a white waist-length dress, elegantly sitting on the wet ground with her legs crossed, her black hair mixed with a few strands of golden hair hanging down. Because she hadn't reacted yet, she still quietly faced Guo Jing's eyes that didn't understand aesthetics at all. Originally, this scene would have made people like Ouyang Ke see their heart as if it had been heavily hit and love emerge like a spring. However, Guo Jing was only worried that his food expenses for the month would be completely wasted because he saw Huang Rong covering her ankle and knew she had sprained it.

  Slowly Huang Rong started crying because her ankle hurt a lot.

  We said that Huang Rong is actually just a spoiled little girl, so although she's very smart and has a bit of a rebellious streak, it's normal for her to cry when she's hurt. And she can't bear to hit Guo Jing's very honest face, if crying isn't even allowed, then Huang Rong really has no choice but to commit suicide.

  But for Guo Jing, he would rather have Huang Rong slap his face hard, anyway, he thought Huang Rong's small fists couldn't hurt him.

  Guo Jing hastily helped Huang Rong sit down behind his old donkey and carefully pushed the cart towards the school hospital.

  But to go to the school hospital, they had to pass through the most bustling Sanjiaodi. Huang Rong sat sideways on the back of a broken donkey, with Guo Jing pushing the cart in front. This scene easily made people think of a rural man leading a donkey to send his wife back to her parents' home. Countless curious eyes gathered around, and even Yang Kang, who had just bought gum at the store, stood frozen in the doorway watching the commotion.

  Guo Jing stood somewhat nervously in the middle of the intersection, facing the flickering gazes surrounding him.

  "Left." Huang Rong lowered her voice and said behind his back.

  "Oh."

  "Really stupid." Huang Rong cursed quietly.