Twenty-Five Degrees Part 1

Content Summary: The Nineteenth

However, those words were more effective than anything else, and the person on the bed immediately got up. Putting on her clothes, her speed was very fast, and you could even hang a soy sauce bottle from her mouth¹[1] This is a way of saying that the indicated party is angry. Their lips are so pouted that you could hang a soy sauce bottle from their mouth..

After autumn, there was a big temperature difference between day and night in the capital. And in a few days, they could start turning the heater on.

Shi Yun didn’t like the winter in the capital, it was too long.

The front desk receptionist in the downstairs of the hotel had changed shifts. Shi Yun held Wei Congying’s arm when she went downstairs. There were no high-rise buildings around, and the night wind blew straight, picking up the fallen leaves on the ground, revealing its path.

Wei Zongying pulled up the zipper of his coat and looked at her hoodless coat. The coat had no collar, and the long sleeves underneath also had no collar. He raised his hand and put his arm around her shoulders: “Is it cold?”

It wasn’t too bad.

The two of them had something to eat nearby. There weren’t many restaurants open at this time, but Wei Zongying said there was a very good noodle shop around this area.

The store’s mutton noodles were its signature.

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The glare at him didn’t seem to have any harmful effect on him.

Shi Yun added a spoonful of chili pepper to the noodles and sprinkled some coriander: “Oh, that’s right, you have to send me back tomorrow morning.”

“Okay.” After Wei Cong agreed, he took out his phone from his pocket, checked the driving distance displayed on the map, estimated the time, and set an alarm.

After setting the alarm, Wei Zongying stirred the noodles: “Are you still busy lately?”

“I’m busy now, but our tutor said he could give us a holiday during the New Year. I don’t know if he’s just giving us false hope.” She sighed. She always felt as if she hadn’t rested long enough. From a senior female first-year grad student’s opinion, they said that after the new school year starts next year, whether it be writing papers or staying in the laboratory all day, it would not be any easier than it was at the moment.

Wei Zongying recalled that she stayed at school during the summer vacation and asked, “Are you going home during the New Year²[2] Chinese New Year to be exact.?”

Shi Yun didn’t answer immediately because she wasn’t sure. Chewing on the mutton and noodles in her mouth, she waited until she finished swallowed them before replying, “Maybe I will go back for a day or two to see my grandparents.”

After eating the mutton noodles, Shi Yun felt warm.

The noodle shop looked simple and unpretentious, but the food tasted really good. She took out a tissue and wiped her mouth, and let out a burp before leaving the noodle shop.

The plastic heat-insulating curtain was lowered, and the noise in the store behind them was suddenly cut off from the quiet street.

Much of the illumination from the street lights were blocked by the trees lining the street, and the surrounding area was empty. The wind blew through the huge wasteland behind, bringing with it a monster-like howling.

However, beneath the sound of the wind, she heard the roar of car engines and the screeching sound of tires.

She turned and looked around, as if looking for the racing track.

Wei Zongying felt a little warm after eating the noodles. He lowered the zipper of his coat and looked at her shaking her head: “What’s wrong?”

Shi Yun habitually put her arm into his arm: “Is there a racing track here?”

“Yes.” Wei Congying raised her chin towards the west, thinking of what she had said before about her mother, “Do you want to go and have a look?”

–

This was Shiyun’s first time at the racing track.

The racing track was quite close to the hotel where he was staying. Not long after walking westward, they saw a building that was different from a stadium. The outside was surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and half of the tallest building towering in the nightscape was spectator seats.

The one checking tickets at the door stood up upon seeing people walking over. When he came closer and saw clearly that it was Wei Songying, he sat down again and nodded to him. He seemed to be familiar with him: “You came a little later than usual today.”

Wei Congying threw a cigarette to him: “What is it today?”

“It’s the usual performance.” The man caught the cigarette and put it behind his ears. He saw Shi Yun behind Wei Congying and smiled, “The performance is quite good.”

But Wei Zongying’s expression didn’t have much joy in it.

Shi Yun followed Wei Zongying and walked in with him.

Shi Yun asked in a low voice: “Don’t we need to buy tickets?”

Wei Zongying held her hand: “Your boyfriend’s face are the tickets.”

The audience was buzzing with people. In order to let the other party hear what they said clearly, the two people stuck a little closer.

He stopped on the last step, put away his joking expression, and became a little serious: “Just hold out and see, maybe you can overcome it.”

These words aroused Shiyun’s curiosity.

Going up the steps, Shi Yun first saw the excited people in the auditorium. Wei Zongying took her hand and led her to the place with the best view.

Turning to look down the field, three cars were speeding on the black track at a fast speed. The harsh sound of drifting, accompanied by the roar of engines, and the white smoke under the tires stimulated the audience’s hearing, smell, and vision.

Extreme parallel racing, extreme turns, one moving forward and the other driving in reverse.

Now she finally knew what Wei Zongying meant by what he said on the steps.

The blood in Shiyun’s body did not boil, but rather, cooled in an instant. Unlike those who shouted and hooted, she only felt fear.

The hairs all over her body stood up, and her toes in her shoes curled.

She couldn’t accept it.

On that day there was also the sound of screeching brakes, and she couldn’t open her eyes because of the dazzling car lights.

Her head spun and she felt dizzy. In her ears was her mother’s voice calling her. After only seeing red, she slowly recovered her vision. But what she saw was a steel bar had passed through the windshield and her mother’s body that was penetrated by that steel bar.

It took a long time for Shi Yun to conquer her fear of cars and vehicles, but the fear would still creep up on her whenever she took the express and her palms would dampen with sweat.

Perhaps it was because it was a painful memory, or perhaps it was the guilt she had from insisting on going out despite her mother’s opposition, causing her mother to get into a car accident while picking her up at night.

Notes:

[1] This is a way of saying that the indicated party is angry. Their lips are so pouted that you could hang a soy sauce bottle from their mouth.

[2] Chinese New Year to be exact.