Chapter 3: The Berlin Wall
Early the next morning, Su Licheng went to the company. The telephone at home had not yet been connected, and Su Can was among the first to wake up. By this time, Xiangcheng's gas network had more or less covered the entire city within the second-and-a-half ring road. Su Can's new home had a direct gas supply, which gave Zeng He, who was still somewhat unaccustomed to the new place, something to be pleased about. Things would be much more convenient now.
Xiahai had no gas network like a major city. Households generally used large iron gas cylinders; earlier still, they had used stoves that burned honeycomb coal briquettes. For showers, they could only use solar water heaters, and even then, the weather had to be particularly good that day. Still, that was hardly a concern. Xiahai City had always enjoyed an excellent climate, with sunshine everywhere for most of the year, even in winter.
Sitting at the dining table in the new living room, looking through the sliding window at the landscaped grounds of the residential complex and even the headquarters grounds connected to it, Su Can felt an indescribable sense of unreality.
His life had now departed from its course in Xiahai City and taken another path. He wondered whether, after his departure, Xue Yiyang would still be as popular in class, surrounded by girls and chatting and laughing with ease.
And would those two still go up to the rooftop? Would Liu Rui gaze at that girl thirty meters away on the opposite side, the one he only dared admire from afar, never daring to confess his feelings?
They had been busy until almost the early hours the night before. Guo Xiaozhong had school the next day and really could not stay