Chapter 6 Metamorphosis
As for the relationship with Li Fan, Yang Yi definitely couldn't mention half a word. Just when he was thinking of making up a lie to cover it up, Xiao Ran elbowed the little fat man, and then cautiously said to Yang Yi: "Then your driver's license..."
"Oh, the driver's license has been revoked."
Xiao Ran immediately looked very guilty, and then she whispered: "I'm sorry, I'll give you the money, little fat boy, lend me ten thousand yuan, no, lend me thirty thousand yuan."
The little fat man said in surprise: "Damn it! You hit my car and borrowed money from me?"
Xiao Ran turned her head away, lowered her voice, and said through gritted teeth: "It's not that I won't pay you back! Be quick! Transfer money by mobile phone, and give the money to others!"
Yang Yi smiled and waved his hands, and said: "Forget it, I don't want the ten thousand yuan, and you don't need to borrow money."
Xiao Ran looked at Yang Yi, and said with a surprised face: "Why not? I have to compensate you for losing your driver's license, so I'll give you 30,000 yuan, how much would you say?"
Yang Yi smiled and said: "Forget it, I was short of money a while ago, but now I am not short of money. As for the driver's license, I won't need it anyway. It doesn't matter if I have a copy."
The little fat man immediately gave a thumbs up, and said with a happy face: "Brother, you are so proud!"
Xiao Ran glared dissatisfiedly at the little fat man next to her, then looked at Yang Yi and said, "Why don't you need a driver's license anymore?"
"I want to go abroad, the domestic driver's license is no longer needed, just go out and take the test again."
"Going abroad, which country?"
"It should be England."
"I'm studying in the UK. Well, as you can see just now, I'm at Trinity College, but I'm about to graduate and return to the US."
"Oh, really? Hehe, that's really unfortunate."
Yang Yi smiled sincerely, although he already knew about Xiao Ran's situation, this kind of thing is not something to show off.
Xiao Ran took out her mobile phone and said, "Leave a phone number, and I will definitely give you the money, whatever is agreed."
Now, Yang Yi is really not short of money, because since he wants to go abroad, the car must be sold, and his car is worth a few dollars, it costs about one million when it lands, and he throws in another half a million before and after the modification.
Money doesn't matter, but people do. Beauty is a scarce resource at any time. Isn't Yang Yi waiting until now just to ask for a phone call?
They happily exchanged contact information, and the anxious little fat man who was waiting aside said: "Okay, let's hurry up, I have to go to the parking lot to pick up my car, or you two go to have a meal or something, and I can pick up the car by myself?"
Xiao Ran said impatiently: "What are you in a hurry for? How can I go back after you leave?"
The little fat man said with a bitter face: "Miss Xiao, do you think this guy is handsome? I think he is handsome even if I am a man! Is he a good character? Very good! You said that you are so big and have no girlfriend, and you are so fucking scumbag after finding someone. Anyway, you two are destined, why don't you try to get along with each other? Hey, buddy, you don't have a girlfriend?"
Yang Yi immediately shook his head and said, "No, this is not what I'm looking for."
The little fat man clapped his hands, and said to Xiao Ran, "Damn! God-sent, why don't you go and have a meal first, and I'll leave now!"
Xiao Ran said angrily: "Stop! Don't mention today's matter to your mother, let alone to my mother. Also, didn't you still chase me? What's the matter, have you changed your mind? You have the same virtue as that bastard inside, it's not a good thing."
The little fat man said with a look of disdain: "Come on, you are three years older than me. So it was because I was young and ignorant that I fell in love with you secretly. Now, what kind of beauty am I..."
Xiao Ran raised her hand and was about to hit him, but the little fat man turned his head and walked away, and said loudly as he walked, "Don't touch my car again! You can't even sit in it!"
The little fat man left just like that. Xiao Ran turned to look at Yang Yi, and said very embarrassedly and gently: "This is a friend of mine. My father and his father have a very good relationship. It turned out that they were neighbors. The car belonged to him. I drove his car out and didn't tell his family. This car is like his heart. When he saw the car was gone, he immediately called the police. Otherwise, I wouldn't have dragged you into it. I'm really sorry."
Yang Yi smiled and said: "It's okay, where are you going now? I have to drive my car too, if you go back to the place where you took the taxi, we can go back together."
After tossing around all afternoon, it was already dark, and it was indeed time for dinner. Xiao Ran looked around, and then said: "Why don't you go back after eating first, I treat guests, and there is still money for dinner."
"No, you have to go back to eat. My car is still thrown away. It will be troublesome for me to tow it away."
The next thing was logical, the two took a taxi and returned to the place where they met. As expected, Yang Yi's car was posted, but luckily it was not towed away, so the two of them drove into Yang Yi's car again and started looking for a place to eat.
Holding the steering wheel, Yang Yi, who thought he would never have any psychological fluctuations, felt reluctance.
Although Yang Yi will never change his mind, let alone he can't leave now if he wants to, but suddenly he is going to leave the home where he has lived for more than ten years, and he will leave forever, how can he not have any worries about parting.
What Yang Yi is most reluctant to part with is his car. It hasn't been half a year since he bought this car. For the past six months, what Yang Yi has been thinking about every day is how to modify the car. He has just refitted and tuned it to its best condition. The steering wheel is about to be sold before it is warmed up. How can he not feel distressed.
Seeing that Yang Yi suddenly seemed to be a different person after getting into the car, his mouth was no longer poor, he stopped smiling, and kept sighing while holding the steering wheel, Xiao Ran couldn't help but asked curiously: "What's the matter? It looks like parting from life and death."
Xiao Ran was quite accurate, Yang Yi smiled wryly and said: "Yes, I just want to say goodbye. My car has cost me a lot of hard work. I really can't bear to sell it now."
"Why sell it? Oh, you are going abroad, so you don't have to sell it. Keep it. It's not like you won't drive when you come back. Let your family watch it. It's fine to drive occasionally."
Yang Yi said like a ghost: "I have no family, and I can't come back either."
As soon as the words came out, Yang Yi immediately woke up.
What's the matter with him, chatting with a beautiful woman who is destined to never see again soon, trying to see if something can happen before he leaves, but how can he not control his emotions and say some big truths.
Xiao Ran looked shocked, and then she said cautiously: "No...family?"
"Well, my parents are dead and I have no relatives, so I'm alone."
"Sorry, sorry."
"It's okay."
Xiao Ran said cautiously: "Then you are going to apply for immigration? Or are you going to go back as a foreigner?"
Yang Yi was stunned for a moment, because he was originally a Chinese citizen, but he became a British citizen before he was one year old. After his parents died, they restored his Chinese nationality when he returned to China, but after leaving this time, it is really uncertain what nationality he will be.
It is possible that Yang Yi will be stateless in the future, and it is also possible that he will have the nationality of many countries, but even if he has a nationality, the biggest possibility is that it is a fake.
"I'm a Chinese citizen, an immigrant, well, maybe."
Yang Yi vaguely answered Xiao Ran's question, and Xiao Ran said indifferently, "Do you want to immigrate to the UK? I'm an American citizen. In fact, I don't want to immigrate, but it doesn't matter, it's just a nationality."
It's just a nationality, it's really simple and easy to hear from Xiao Ran, because it's really just a passport issue for her.
But for Yang Yi, nationality is not just a passport, but a sense of belonging and something more important.
Yang Yi hasn't gone abroad yet, but he feels that he has lost his roots.
So Yang Yi became even more sad, and at this moment, he saw a restaurant.
It was a noodle shop, quite small, but Yang Yi used to go to eat often, and accidentally saw a familiar restaurant, which made his psychology even more complicated.
How do you feel sad about everything?
Even a restaurant that I thought the taste was not very good, but I just like to eat fast and often eats it feels kind and reluctant to part with it.
Yang Yi felt a little angry and disgusted with his own psychology, because the life he must live in the future, this kind of strong reluctance and nostalgia is an emotion that must never be had.
He secretly hated himself for not being as strong and decisive as he imagined, but Yang Yi still stepped on the brakes, and said in an unquestionable tone: "Let's eat noodles here!"
"Okay, is there a parking space?"
What Xiao Ran cares about is obviously not on the same frequency as Yang Yi.
Yang Yi ordered two bowls of noodles. Although he couldn't finish them, he wanted to eat both flavors. Although there was still a month to go, he began to have a very strong sense of urgency.
It's like I can't eat it anymore after today.
Because his mood was a little unstable, Yang Yi lost most of his attention to the beautiful woman in front of him, while Xiao Ran casually ate his noodles, and suddenly said: "I'm leaving too, tomorrow."
"Um."
"I planned not to leave when I came back this time, at least to stay for a long time, but..."
Xiao Ran couldn't continue talking suddenly, she choked up, and said in a low voice: "My first love, it's fine if my first love is online, or it's long-distance. In the end, the person I love is still fucking extramarital."
Yang Yi said casually: "Satisfied, it's already good that you didn't climb into other people's bed, uh, you just said first love?"
Xiao Ran glared at Yang Yi angrily, and said, "Did you listen to what I said? What happened to my first love?"
Yang Yi shook his head and said: "It's nothing, I'm just curious that you are so beautiful, it shouldn't be like this."
"There are a lot of people who like me, but I don't like it. Hmph, the most annoying are those men who think they are handsome but are actually sissy."
"Then I have to say something. In the end, you fell in love with that guy? This shows that there is something wrong with your vision. You must be more careful when you look at people in the future."
"I said, can you chat? Are you sad when you don't see anyone?"
Xiao Ran seemed very annoyed, Yang Yi sighed, and said: "Don't be sad, you have to think this way, you had a good time chatting with that person this year, right? Even though you couldn't see him, you felt very happy, right? You didn't suffer much, and you also blew his nose and let him... Anyway, it's miserable, um, anyway, I don't think you need to be angry, you should be happy and lucky."
Xiao Ran tilted her head and stirred the bowl with her chopsticks. After thinking for a long time, she suddenly smiled and said, "What you said makes sense."
Although Yang Yi was full of sorrow, but seeing Xiao Ran smile, he still felt a spring breeze blowing on his face.
Xiao Ran exhaled, wiped her eyes, and said softly, "Change the subject, what are you going to do in England? Study abroad?"
"Work, I'm going to find a job."
"You don't go to school anymore?"
"graduated."
"It's so early, how old are you?"
"twenty two."
"Graduated at 22? What university? Sorry, I'm not interrogating you, I'm just curious, you don't have to answer."
"Qingbei University, majoring in International Relations, I graduated a little earlier."
Yang Yi said in his heart that I still have a double bachelor's degree in International Relations and International Relations History, although there is not much difference between the two departments.
Xiao Ran said with a look of admiration: "I'm 21, a sophomore. I told you that I'm at Trinity College, Cambridge. You can come to England to play with me. Believe me, my driving skills are actually really good. I've driven to 280 on the track."
"The track and the road are two different things."
Xiao Ran curled her lips and said, "It was just an accident, I just got used to driving in England and couldn't get used to it here for a while."
Yang Yi thought he couldn't finish the two bowls of noodles, but he ate them all. He took a napkin and wiped his mouth. Then he ignored Xiao Ran's words and smiled and said, "I'm so tired today, go back early, I can see you off."
Xiao Ran looked at Yang Yi, and said in a little girl's reproachful tone: "I thought you would invite me to play something."
"Forget it, don't you go to the United States tomorrow, it's very tiring to fly."
"Well, I thought about it. Actually, I don't have to leave. Anyway, I came back from this vacation to... I can go back as planned. Anyway, the air ticket is booked."
Yang Yi smiled, and then he said apologetically: "But I'm leaving tomorrow, I have to go back and have a good night's rest, so I'm sorry."
Xiao Ran breathed a sigh of relief, her face also paled, and then she said softly: "Alright, you take me back, I'll give you the money, whether you want the money or not, I have to give it to you, I don't like to owe others."
"Let's talk about it later, isn't there a phone call?"
Of course, Yang Yi could see that Xiao Ran had a good impression of him. If they continued to contact him, maybe something would happen. However, it is doomed that there will be no results, and they will only be together for a month at most, so it is better not to continue to develop.
If you don't know what your future is, you can still be willful. If you know what you will do next, but still harm others and yourself, then you are an asshole, and Yang Yi is not an asshole.
Just time to eat a bowl of noodles.
No, after eating two bowls of noodles, Yang Yi completed his transformation.
In the afternoon, Yang Yi was still a fresh graduate, at an age where he only wanted to play, but in the evening, he was ready to face a life that might not be bright but would definitely be exciting in the future.
That is the time for two bowls of noodles, nostalgia, reluctance, regret, and many emotions have been suppressed in the deepest part of my heart by Yang Yi.
A lot of emotions won't just disappear, that's impossible, but they probably won't pop up easily.
It should be difficult for normal people, but for Yang Yi, who spent his childhood in despairing loneliness, he has already accumulated all the elements needed to complete the transformation, so the transformation is as simple as that.