Cover the sky - Chapter 5

Chapter 5 Li Xiaoman

Compared with the past, the alma mater has not changed much. What has changed is the people who come and go, and the four years of youth have left an unforgettable memory.

Under the shade of trees and beside the grass, some younger students are reading quietly, which is very harmonious and peaceful. Ye Fan and others feel like they have returned to the past, away from the impetuousness and noise they have experienced in the past three years.

After graduation, everyone is busy for life and ideals. Many people have moved away from this city. Except for a few people like Ye Fan, almost everyone else has returned to their alma mater for the first time.

The small lake not far away is rippling with ripples, and the scenery remains the same. I still clearly remember the scene of those figures who were either depressed and decadent or energetic holding guitars and singing campus folk songs by the lake.

Even after many years, whenever the melody sounds, it always reminds people of the carefree and innocent years. The faint sadness makes people sad and sweet, which can easily touch people’s hearts.

The precipitation of years will always leave a little sour taste.

I just don’t know if those people can still pick up the guitar and sing now. It is difficult to find their whereabouts after graduation.

“I vaguely heard from a friend that the melancholy guitarist was a resident singer in a bar in another city. He has become very old after a few years.”

“Do you remember the versatile long-legged sister in the school band? She was a very beautiful and pure lead singer. It is said that she is now a bartender in a nightclub.”

Everyone could only sigh.

After graduation, many people have encountered the impact of ideals and realizations. Sometimes life is really helpless, making people feel frustrated and confused.

After a short silence, everyone continued to move forward.

At this time, Lin Jia came to Ye Fan’s side.

She was wearing a blue and white chiffon dress, which hem reached her thighs, making her two slender legs look even whiter and more attractive. She tied a black belt to make her waist more graceful, her long hair was scattered on her chest, and her figure was charming. With

a beautiful face, snow-white skin, and phoenix eyes with a strange style that were slightly tilted upwards, Lin Jia had a special temperament.

“You obviously have a car, why didn’t you tell me yesterday?”

“How could I have the chance to tell you?”

“Aren’t you going to invite me to ride in your car today?”

“I’d be happy to. Here I solemnly invite Miss Lin Jia.” At

this point, both of them laughed.

Lin Jia suddenly mentioned what happened yesterday, but then she lightly avoided it. She didn’t say anything more about what happened yesterday, and she didn’t deliberately lower her posture to get closer.

After saying this, she smiled and turned away. Lin Jia is a smart woman. She knows that being too deliberate is not good. It will only appear fake, and it is far better to be direct and natural.

This subtle change naturally happened to some other classmates.

It was almost noon when they left their alma mater. Everyone came to the food street and climbed up to the restaurant building.

Wang Ziwen privately invited Ye Fan to sit at their table. Ye Fan just smiled and went over to toast a few glasses of wine, and still sat with those people from yesterday.

“Ye Fan, I was drunk yesterday, please don’t mind. I’ll toast you a glass, drink first…” The male classmate who said his fiancee was the niece of a bank executive, was preaching to Ye Fan yesterday, but today he tried to explain yesterday’s events in a humble manner.

The female classmate who said her husband had been promoted to vice president of the company also changed her attitude from yesterday and was polite to Ye Fan.

“Come on, everyone, raise your glasses.”

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Compared to yesterday, Ye Fan’s table was very lively today. People kept clinking glasses, and people from other tables came to toast from time to time. Ye Fan naturally couldn’t refuse, and he kept clinking glasses with people, and even drank a glass with everyone who came from Wang Ziwen’s table.

Liu Yunzhi was very calm. Although he was very embarrassed yesterday, he was calm today, and there was no abnormal expression, as if nothing had happened.

“Everyone, I received a call from the other side of the ocean last night…”

The speaker was Zhou Yi, a very elegant young man. It was rumored that his family background was deep, which was no longer a secret among his classmates. Yesterday, the person Wang Ziwen was waiting for outside the Mingyue City on the Sea was him.

Everyone stopped and looked at Zhou Yi. Whether in school or now, he was very easy-going and never made people feel arrogant.

Zhou Yi said a piece of news that three classmates who studied abroad on the other side of the ocean had already left for China, which immediately caused a heated discussion among the classmates present.

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“After graduation, we are all in different places, and everyone has their own different life trajectories. It is very difficult to get together. When we meet again, perhaps we will all be fathers and mothers, and we don’t know how many years will have passed by then. The three classmates who studied abroad are going to return to China. I have a suggestion to extend this gathering a little bit…”

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Ye Fan drove back home, brewed a cup of light green tea, and quietly looked at the sycamore tree outside the window. He remembered some past events.

The missed person, the departing footsteps, the road that is gradually going away, are like the sycamore leaves gently falling in front of us.

Li Xiaoman, this name has faded from Ye Fan’s memory for a long time.

When Li Xiaoman graduated from college, she went to study abroad on the other side of the ocean. In the first few months, the two were still in close contact, but as time went by, the emails and phone calls gradually became less and less, and finally they were completely disconnected.

Rather than looking at each other across the sea, it is better to say that they are forgotten across the sea. A love that was not favored by friends came to an end as expected.

Today, I learned from Zhou Yi that Li Xiaoman is about to return to China. When Ye Fan first heard this name, he even felt a little strange. Looking back, more than two years have passed.

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The time of the party was extended, and they would go to visit Mount Tai. All the expenses were paid by Wang Ziwen, Zhou Yi and others. For ordinary people, this may be a considerable expense, but for them, it is nothing.

Three days later, Ye Fan saw the familiar figure again at the foot of Mount Tai. Three years have passed, and Li Xiaoman is still graceful and beautiful, and has not changed much.

She was about 170 cm tall, wearing a pair of sunglasses, with long black hair fluttering in the wind, standing there gracefully. Her clothes were simple, casual and cool, with shorts that reached above the knees, and her beautiful legs were white, slender and attractive, and a T-shirt with cartoon patterns on the upper body.

Li Xiaoman was undoubtedly very beautiful, with white and tender skin, big eyes, and long eyelashes, which made her look very spiritual. She was not ostentatious but very confident.

She talked calmly with the classmates around her, and obviously became a central figure, but she could make people feel friendly.

There was a tall young man next to Li Xiaoman, who was introduced as her American classmate. Compared with the soft and smooth faces of Oriental people, he had a typical Western face, very three-dimensional, with a high nose bridge, slightly sunken blue eyes, and slightly curly blonde hair. He was very handsome in the eyes of Westerners.

“Hello, I’m Cade. I yearn for Mount Tai… and finally I can… see it.” Although the American youth named Cade’s words were not very fluent, they were enough to express his meaning clearly.

The other two students who had returned from studying abroad were also surrounded by enthusiasm and were being asked about their life and study on the other side of the ocean.

After three years, Ye Fan saw Li Xiaoman again, and there was a feeling of space change and time flow.

Both of them were calm and politely greeted each other. There was no joy after a long separation, but only a plain feeling, even a little bit of cloud and wind. There

were no extra words, just passing by lightly. Some things do not need to be said, and silence is a result.