Chapter 005 - Li Xiaoman

　　The alma mater has not changed much compared to before, what has changed is only the people who have come and gone, to four years of youth to carve an unforgettable memory. 　　Under the green shade, beside the grass, some schoolmates were quietly reading books, very harmonious and peaceful, Ye Fan and others felt like going back to the past, far away from the fickleness and hustle and bustle that they had experienced in the past three years. 　　After graduation, everyone was busy for life and ideals, many people far away from the city, except for Ye Fan and a limited number of other people, almost everyone else is the first time to return to the alma mater. 　　Not far away from the small lake rippled lightly, the scenery remains the same, still clearly remember those years or melancholy decadent, or glowing figures in the lake holding the guitar playing and singing campus ballads scene. 　　Even after many years have passed, whenever the melody plays, it will always remind people of the innocent age of the carefree, that light sadness makes people sad and sweet, it is very easy to impress the human heart. 　　The precipitation of the years will always leave a little sour flavor. 　　I just don't know if those people can still pick up their guitars and sing today, and it's hard to find them again after graduation. 　　"I vaguely heard my friend say, that year the melancholy guitar master in another city in a bar resident singing, a few years down is very vicissitudes." 　　"Do you still remember that multi-talented long-legged sister of the school band back then, the very pretty and innocent lead singer, who is rumored to be accompanying a drink in a nightclub nowadays." 　　The crowd could only let out a sigh. 　　After graduation, many people had suffered the impact of their ideals and realizations. Sometimes life was really helpless, leaving people doubly frustrated and confused. 　　After a short silence, the crowd continued to walk forward. 　　At this time, Lin Jia came to Ye Fan's side. 　　She was wearing a blue and white chiffon dress with the hemline of the dress reaching her thighs, making her two slender legs even whiter and more attractive. She tied a black belt, making her waist more supple, her long hair was spread out in front of her chest, and her figure was curvaceous. 　　With a pretty face, snow-white skin, and danfeng eyes with an exotic flavor that slanted slightly upwards, Lin Jia's entire person had a special temperament. 　　"Obviously there is a car, why didn't you say it to me yesterday?" 　　"Where did I have the chance to say." 　　"Won't you invite me to go in your car today?" 　　"Very gladly, and here I solemnly invite Ms. Lin Jia." 　　At this both men laughed. 　　Lin Jia very abruptly pointed to yesterday's incident, but then lightly skirted around it, not saying anything more because of yesterday's incident, and even less deliberately lowering her stance to draw closer because of it. 　　After saying this, she smiled and turned to leave. Lin Jia was a smart woman, she knew that it was not good to be too deliberate, that would only appear false, far better to be direct and natural. 　　This subtle change naturally happened to some of the other students as well. 　　It was nearly noon when they left their alma mater, and the crowd came to the food street and boarded the Food House. 　　Prince Wen privately invited Ye Fan to sit at their table, Ye Fan just smiled and went over to toast a few glasses of wine, still sitting with those people from yesterday. 　　"Ye Fan, I was drunk yesterday, don't mind. I'll toast you, first of all......." The male student who said that his fiancée was the niece of a bank executive, and who had been preaching to Ye Fan yesterday, today was trying his best to explain yesterday's events with a low profile. 　　The female classmate who said her husband had been promoted to vice president of the company also changed her posture from yesterday and was polite to Ye Fan. 　　"Come on, come on, let's all raise our glasses together." 　　...... 　　Compared to yesterday, today Ye Fan and their table seemed very lively, the crowd kept clinking their glasses, and from time to time, people from other tables came over to toast. And naturally, Ye Fan couldn't shrug it off, clinking glasses with people again and again, and even drank one by one with the people who came over from Prince Wen's table. 　　Liu Yunzhi was very calm, even though he was embarrassed yesterday, today he was ancient and couldn't see any unusual look, like nothing had happened. 　　"Gentlemen, last night I received a call from across the ocean ......" 　　The one who spoke was Zhou Yi, a very elegant youth, rumored to have a deep background at home, which was no longer a secret amongst his classmates. Yesterday, the person that Prince Wen had specifically waited to greet him outside the Sea Moon City was him. 　　Everyone stopped and looked at Zhou Yi, whether it was during school or now, he had always acted very easygoing and had never made anyone feel arrogant. 　　Zhou Yi spoke of the news that three of his classmates who had been studying across the ocean had already left to return to their home country, which instantly caused a buzz amongst the students present. 　　...... 　　"After graduation, we are on different sides of the world, everyone has their own different life trajectories, and it's not easy to get together. When we meet again, perhaps we have all become fathers and mothers, and we don't know how many years will have passed by then. Three of my classmates who are studying abroad are going back to their home countries, and I have a proposal to slightly extend this gathering ......" 　　...... 　　Ye Fan drove back home, brewed a cup of light green tea, quietly looked at the sycamore trees outside the window, he remembered some past events. 　　That missed person, that departing footsteps, that gradually traveling away from the road, just like the sycamore leaves in front of him gently drifting down. 　　Li Xiaoman, this name has faded out of Ye Fan's memory for a long time. 　　When she graduated from university, Li Xiaoman went to study across the ocean, the first few months of contact between the two is still very close, but as time goes by, the exchange of emails and phone calls gradually become less and less, and ultimately completely interrupted the contact. 　　Instead of seeing each other across the sea, they forgot each other across the sea. A love affair that was not favored by friends came to an end as expected. 　　Today from the mouth of Zhou Yi learned that Li Xiaoman is about to return to China, Ye Fan first heard the name even some strange feeling, suddenly looked back, has been over two years. 　　...... 　　The time of the party was prolonged, will go to visit Mount Tai, all the expenses all by Prince Wen and Zhou Yi and other people out, for ordinary people this may be a lot of expenses, but for them this is nothing. 　　Three days later, Ye Fan saw that familiar figure again at the foot of Mount Tai. Three years had passed, Li Xiaoman was still graceful and upright, and hadn't changed much. 　　She could be one hundred and seventy centimeters tall, wearing a pair of sunglasses, her long black hair fluttering in the wind, standing there in a pavilion. Her dress was simple and casual versus cool, her lower body was a pair of shorts that came to just above the knee, her legs were fair and long, while her upper body was a body shirt with a cartoon pattern printed on it. 　　Li Xiaoman was undoubtedly very beautiful, her skin was snow-white and tender, her eyes were large and her eyelashes were very long, she appeared to be very spiritual, and her whole person was not ostentatious but very confident. 　　She was calmly talking with the students around her, obviously becoming a central figure, but could make people feel intimate. 　　Beside Li Xiaoman there was a tall young man, introduced as her American classmate, compared to the soft and smooth Oriental face, he had a typical Western face, very three-dimensional, with a high nose, turquoise blue eyes slightly sunken, blonde hair a little curly, and very handsome in terms of Western aesthetics. 　　"Hello guys, I am Cade, yearning for Tarzan ...... and finally can ...... see it." This American youth named Cade although the words are not very fluent, but enough to be able to express the meaning of the words clearly. 　　The other two students who had returned home after studying abroad in front of him had also long been enthusiastically surrounded, and were being asked about their lives and studies on the other side of the ocean. 　　After three years, Ye Fan saw Li Xiaoman again, and had a feeling of space change and time flow. 　　Both of them were unperturbed, politely greeted each other, there was no joy after a long goodbye, there was just plain as water, even some cloudy flavor. 　　Without too many words, gently rubbing shoulders, some things do not need to say more, speechless is a result.