Sixty-Nine, Name Misspelled (1)

  Time is like a rabbit in the wild, it just hops up and down a few times and then disappears without a trace.

  Gu Xue Lin has been in school for more than a week now.

  I slowly returned to a regular and organized schedule.

  Get up at 9 o'clock every morning, eat something simple to fill the stomach, go to the school cafeteria with Gu Xue Lin at noon, and buy some food from a small stall on the road in the afternoon. Then return to the rental house, either play private clothes with Ma Dai and Lan Qi or watch a movie.

  It's been more than a month and I haven't written a single word of script.

  Often I think of Ouyang Xiaoxiao.

  I want to call her and meet with her.

  But I don't know how to tell her.

  I don't know if she's the same as me, many times, flipping through phone numbers in my phonebook, hesitating for a moment, and finally putting down the phone.

  That afternoon, I was leaning on the sofa, staring blankly into space with nothing to do.

  Gu Xue Lin came back excitedly, carrying two portions of food in her hands.

  I got a second-class scholarship of 2,000 yuan from our school, and the money will be issued next week.

  "Wow, is this for real?"

  "Our dormitory Xiaolan told me that the list is posted on the bulletin board in the east campus of our school. Just now when I went to the cafeteria for dinner, I saw many people gathered there, crowded like a flood, after we finish eating, let's go and take a look together."

  "Alright, let's hurry up and eat then."

  As I spoke, I took over the fast food box handed over by Gu Xue Lin, and then began to prepare for dinner.

  "Our school's first prize scholarship is 3,000 yuan, with two quotas per class. The second prize has three quotas per class, with a reward of 2,000 yuan. The third prize has five quotas, with a reward of 1,000 yuan."

  "I remember in early March this year, you got a third-class scholarship award, it was only 500 yuan, right?"

  "That is our department's, this is the whole school's. Our department, first prize scholarship is one thousand, second prize scholarship is eight hundred, third prize scholarship is five hundred."

  "The first prize in this institute is the same as the third prize in school."

  "That's right, departments belong to schools, let's hurry up and eat, after finishing eating, go take a look at the bulletin board."

  We finished eating soon.

  I took another gulp of mineral water.

  Then I wiped my mouth.

  "Let's go," I stood up.

  "Okay," said Gao Xuelin, putting the leftover food back into the plastic bag. Then, carrying it, we went downstairs.

  It took us just over ten minutes to walk to the bulletin board at the west gate of Xing Shi East Campus.

  There were still many people gathered there.

  I pulled Gu Xue Lin's hand, parted the crowd and squeezed inside.

  "Chinese Department, Law Department, Civil Engineering Department, Architecture Department..." I looked at each one.

  Suddenly, a name popped into my mind.

  "Foreign Languages Department, Class 1 of Foreign Languages, First Prize Scholarship, Ouyang Xiaoxiao."

  Ouyang Xiao? I was stunned.

  At this time, Gu Xue Lin pulled my clothes and said "We are waiting for you here."

  I quickly came back to myself and looked in the direction where Gǔ Xuělín was pointing.

  All I saw was four large characters written above - Department of Computer Science.

  "Hey, hey, hey, my name is here," said Gǔ Xuělíng, pulling me and pointing with her hand.

  "Second Prize Scholarship, Network Engineering Class 2, Gu Xuelin," I read aloud.

  "Yes, yes," Gu Xue Lin nodded repeatedly.

  "Hey, I think you got your name wrong. You should be Ling who is full of beauty, not Lin from the forest," I said.

  "Did I hit it wrong?" Gu Xue Lin was stunned for a moment.