The two of them walked along, catching up on old times.
"You've really changed. How did you get so handsome?" Zhu Shaoqiang said.
Chen Shouyi smiled. "You've gotten a lot darker!"
"Can't help it. That's what happens when you're in the army. You get rained on and baked in the sun every day. You'd turn dark whether you wanted to or not." Zhu Shaoqiang said, "I used to be pretty handsome too, you know. Do you remember Chen Fang?"
"Chen Fang? Sure. She was a great dancer," Chen Shouyi said.
"She even wrote me a love letter once. But her chest was too small, so I turned her down. I regret it so much now. If I'd known, I would've made sure to lose my virginity back then!" Zhu Shaoqiang lamented again and again.
Chen Shouyi: ...
He was much better-looking than Zhu Shaoqiang, and he was still a virgin.
"I haven't been back to Dongning in almost two years. Chen Shouyi, do you know how the rest of our classmates are doing?" Zhu Shaoqiang continued.
The other classmates might all be dead by now.
It was obvious that Zhu Shaoqiang still hadn't heard that Dongning was gone.
Chen Shouyi fell silent for a moment, then shook his head. "I'm not sure. I dropped out during the first half of our senior year and went to Hedong."
Zhu Shaoqiang didn't ask what he had been doing in Hedong.
Chen Shouyi didn't say.
Just then, a captain came running over. "Chief Chen, the car's ready."
Chen Shouyi nodded, then turned to Zhu Shaoqiang, who wore a look of utter shock. "I'll get going, then!"
After a moment's thought, he looked at the captain. "Do you have paper and a pen?"
"Yes, yes!" The captain hurriedly pulled a notebook and pen from