Fleeting Midsummer Chapter 17 (2/2)
Everyone looked at me, and after a few seconds pa.s.sed, the death glares had reduced because the eyes of the ladies had all turned towards Fang Yu Ke.
I forgot to mention that my friends, especially the female ones were all students who achieved super high grades at the school of appearances. Choosing their lover over their friends was part of their nature. All their friends were only good for stabbing in the back. For the sake of Fang Yu Ke, I expected that everyone would stab me twice. It added up to a grand total of fifteen knives thrust into me. Why was it an odd number? Because Yao Zi was bloodthirsty. She would definitely have to stab one time more than others before she would be satisfied.
Fang Yu Ke didn’t look at me, he walked straight towards Shan Shan and gave him a big loving hug. In light of Shan Shan’s bloated physique, everyone believed that this hug was the limit of Fang Yu Ke’s capacity.
Shan Shan picked up a microphone and said : “I want to introduce a friend to everyone. Have you ever heard of Fang Yu Ke? He’s one of the top students, scoring well into Peking University. Whether or not he’s single is a private matter and has nothing to do with school, this reporter will refuse to answer any question. Will everyone please respect this and remain professional-” before he could finish speaking, an empty can of beer flew across with a jeer, smas.h.i.+ng on Shan Shan’s chubby belly and magically stuck into the folds of his flesh.
After laughing heartily, these playgirls started to flirt, they began to ask him about everything under the sun.
I was bored so I began to sing “My Father’s Name” again. With some difficulty, I began to appreciate my own singing. However, these playgirls all began to bombard me: “If you want to sing then go outside and sing. Your singing is too loud, we can’t hear properly.”
Fang Yu Ke laughed and walked past them to come to my side, saying loudly: “Nice to meet you”
I stared blankly at him, what do you mean lucky. Of course I could not say this out loud, or else there would be more than just 15 knives in my back. I nodded my head; this should be considered a greeting.
However, Fang Yu Ke purposely wanted to make life difficult for me and said loudly once again; “The first thing I said to you in university was also ‘nice to meet you’.”
Ugh, forget it. This time, these ladies had already stabbed me so many times that I resembled a hedgehog.
I lowered the music volume and explained to these ladies; “However you girls decide to slaughter me, remember that I’m just a student in Peking university. Now that this handsome brother has come, you’ve forgotten that I’m also a student there too? We are just school friends.”
After Yao Zi received a satisfactory reply, she enchantingly smiled at Fang Yu Ke.
However, this Fang Yu Ke of a thousand knives said: “Right, we’re school friends. We were cla.s.smates for 3 years in High school.”
I was super angry. Big bro, you can eat whaatever you want, but you cannot say whatever you want. Who was your cla.s.smate? People like you lived in the crystal palace while people like me lived in a broken temple. You could build an entire playground in the area between the two school buildings.
I said irritably: “We were in the same cla.s.s but he was a science student, I was an arts student. There was not much opportunity for us to interact during high school, we only knew each other during university. Also, he has a regular girlfriend. She even asked me to take good care of him and make sure he wouldn’t be tempted by you wolves.”
At this point, Shan Shan laughed: “What are you saying, how could you have known each other only recently. The photo of me and you that was in my house has already been taken away by him. The one where I had mud on my face, that photo.”
I opened my mouth impossibly wide.
Shan Shan hurried to add: “Don’t you remember that photo? The photo where you dropped your front tooth, and grinned stupidly when you saw the photo on my face…”
d.a.m.n, I had really been brutally struck by lightning. I couldn’t help but dig out that picture from some nook and cranny of my brain, as well as ask myself why this dear friend of mind would want to take away such an interesting picture.
Yao Zi immediately gave a satisfactory answer: “This hot bro’s hobby is really unique. He likes to collect these kinds of photos with so much personality. Anyways, when Lin Lin was young she took a countless number of photos. The photo just now can be counted as totally representative of her character. If you want some more, I can show you a few more of her wearing those open-b.u.t.t pants looking like a worm, with snot dripping from her nose holding on to a machine-gun-like-”
I hurriedly cut off Yao Zi’s sentence: “Alright, alright, Yao Zi, is there anyone who hurts me like you do? Have I offended you or played any tricks on you?”
Yao Zi smacked me, laughed and said: “Friends are for selling. You should just let me sell you and I will have no worries.”
I replied sarcastically: “can’t you find another topic? You can let your talkative mouth run you into a wall and die.”
Yao Zi didn’t say a word, increased the music volume, and affectionately asked Yu Ke: “Mister Fang, can you give me face and sing “Hiros.h.i.+ma, My Love” with me?” I almost spit out the drink in my mouth. I have to say, Yao Zi was as brave as Detective Conan, it was the kind of arrogance where no matter where she went, people would die.
Fang Yu Ke looked at me, shook his head and said: “I don’t know how to sing. Listening is enough for me.”
Yao Zi definitely wasn’t someone who would die by running into the south wall and immediately say: “do you not know how to sing, or do you not want to sing or do you not want to sing with me? **Come on baby!”
**she says this in english
I felt that this was the limit of Yao Zi’s english abilities. But I also understood Fang Yu Ke. Once he had made up his mind, he would stay firm to the end.
I didn’t want the atmosphere to become stiff, so I hurriedly said: “How about this, I will rap for you all. After that, dear friend Fang can give me face and sing one too. Don’t be afraid of not knowing how to sing, you should only be afraid of not daring to sing.”
Even though I didn’t know whether or not my face would be determined by the quality of Fang Yu Ke’s singing voice, but I could feel that everyone’s mouth had dropped open such that it could fit a chicken egg inside.
It was only then that I realized I had rapped before “Love in Hiros.h.i.+ma” had began to play…….
As if he had found something fun to do, Fang Yu Ke complied: “In that case, I will be a gentleman.”
When the music started, the playgirl stuffed the microphone into my hand. If I remember correctly “Hiros.h.i.+ma, My Love” had 20 seconds of music that played before the song began so I decided to go all out.
“You have a husband, I have a wife. Loving for a day and a night, should we enjoy such an affair. Getting lost in our love, remembering how we abandoned it, let us be together, crying for the good times we had in those days. Did I ever love you? Do I still love you?”
When the subt.i.tles for the guy’s part appeared on screen, I gently put the microphone down. Fang Yu Ke didn’t sing in the end, he just started at me blankly. I thought that he was playing around and said angrily: “I already gave it my all, you should sing! Ugh!”
This was good, for the time being, no one listened to Fang Yu Ke’s singing. Shan Shan began: “That’s good ah, Lin Lin, no wonder you entered Peking University, you’re really talented.” Yao Zi took the microphone and shouted : “Lin Lin, you are my idol!!! Do you practice this everyday?” My female friends all began to clap for me.
If this continued, I would begin to admire myself. Why did my mind suddenly go blank? So original, I was so original.
Fang Yu Ke, who was uncharacteristically in a trance, said: “Could it be that you’ve once been a married woman?”
Pei!** Nothing good could ever come out from his mouth. However, this lady was extremely happy today, I wouldn’t quarrel with you. I raised my drink and said loudly: “This lady has opened the Ren and Du meridians***. I have obtained enlightenment!”
Pei- Spitting sound made in condescension.
***Many people ask about the “Ren Du Er mai” 任督二脈 (in Cantonese, Yum Duk Yi Muck). This is the two channels of energy flow that is in your body, the two main energy channel or paths. People stress about mastering and making the two flow and connects all the time. Commonly heard in chi gung and meditation practice. (community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/27477029/Ren_Du_Er_Mai_in_Taoism_and_Chi_Gong)