A torrential downpour fell for nearly an hour before gradually letting up.
Liu Yuanzhou stood in the doorway, looking outside. Xing Youqing and Luo An were squeezed onto the bed by the window, casually bragging away. The other roommates had gathered together as well, chatting about something.
Luo An got up and sidled over to Liu Yuanzhou. Through the wide-open door, he looked up at the gloomy sky and laughed. "This rain will probably keep coming. We can rest for a day. I brought Mahjong tiles—after breakfast, we'll call Xiaoliu over and play a few rounds." The Xiaoliu he meant was Wang Xiaoliu from the same dormitory.
Liu Yuanzhou shot him a glance and ignored him. He did not need to use his brain to know that the academy would never allow them to play tiles in the dormitory.
Ignored, Luo An found it dull and turned to pester Xiaoliu instead.
With the rain suddenly stopped, Liu Yuanzhou began to miss home. He had been away for nearly two months—was everything all right at home? His parents were probably busy hoeing the fields these days. Had all his elder brother's fruit trees taken root and survived? And his sister-in-law was carrying his little nephew; nothing must happen to her.
After letting his thoughts run wild for a while, he buried his longing deep in his heart only when Ma Dong came up to call everyone to breakfast.
As the old saying went, June weather was like a child's face—it changed whenever it pleased. The same saying suited May just as well.
When they got up, rain had still poured down in sheets. Yet after breakfast, the clouds had scattered, the rain had stopped, and the sky stretched clear for miles.
Only puddles lay scattered across the ground, while droplets occasionally