Chapter 44: The Road to Salvation
I bought my ticket at eight in the morning, so this morning I got up at six and went out to buy two breakfasts and came back. I stood at the door of Yang Fan's room, wanting to knock on the door several times, but finally put down the hand that was raised in the air.
I put breakfast on the table in the living room, picked up a post-it note and wrote a paragraph: "Last night's incident, brother is sorry for you, but this is the last time, give me a few more days, and when I come back, you will see the best Cheng Ting." In the lower right corner of this paragraph, I wrote the person who left the message: grandson's good brother.
After doing this, I looked at the post-it notes with satisfaction, and then went to clean up the garbage bags in the kitchen and living room bins, and then left the rental house with my backpack on my back.
My first stop was back to City D, and the route was already planned, first to the places in the city where we had memories, then to my alma mater, and finally to leave the city. I like a city because of a person, but also give up a city because of a person, I want to ...... This may be the last time I'll go back to D-City, like a farewell ceremony.
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When I arrived in City D, I followed my own plan, except for the ride from one place to another, the rest of the walking. Every step I took was very slow because I wanted to remember every corner of the city that we remembered, and I even took pictures of the scenery I passed along the way, even though I knew them well......
It wasn't until about ten o'clock that night that I walked to the snack bar near the school and asked for a small octopus ball. I still remember when I first started my business in college, my money was basically used in the studio, and then when I ran out of money, Su Jing gave me all her food expenses, and at that time, I would take her to eat a box of octopus balls every night after I was busy. Although life is very simple, we feel very happy, almost the most beautiful light in our poor time, sweeping away our haze.
I picked up a ball and put it in my mouth, and all I tasted was the taste of memories, and when I recalled the scenes of the past, I laughed like a fool, but I laughed and laughed but shed tears. I tried to dilute the tears in my mind, but the thoughts became stronger.
I miss her, I miss her, I miss her...... If only I could see her again......
I sniffed, finished the last pill, lit another cigarette, and let the nicotine in the tobacco control my emotions and stop thinking. I smoked in silence until I finished a cigarette, then paid for it, and then turned around and went into the school.
On the school road, I still walked aimlessly, taking pictures from time to time, but due to the light at night, the results were not as good as during the day. At the end of the school road, there is a kapok tree that once treasured many of our stories, but at this time there are too many differences in the fond memories of its memory. In my memory, it will always be lush and green, like a memory engraved in my mind, but now it is the depths of winter, and it looks like a dead tree that has no vitality at all, only the branches remain, which makes people feel really cold.
After stopping for a while, I picked up my phone and pointed at the kapok tree, and when I was about to press the shutter, Xu Mengjun called me.
"Hey, Cheng Ting, where are you? I just heard a junior brother say that he seems to have seen you in school, is it true?" On the other end of the phone, I heard the sound of a hair dryer, she should have called me in the dormitory.
I let out an "um" without emotion, but she was too noisy and told me to wait a little longer, until she went to a quiet place and asked me again and again, and then told me to continue.
"That junior brother is right, I'm back. ”
She exclaimed in surprise: "Ah?!You're back in City D, and you're still in our school, why don't you tell me!"
"I'm just coming back temporarily, and I'll be leaving tomorrow. I crouched down, holding my phone in one hand, and picked up a yellowish but well-preserved dead leaf with the other, and looked at it in my hand for a while, and I decided to take it away as a souvenir.
"Where are you, I'll go down to you now. ”
Originally, I wanted to refuse her, but after thinking about it for a while, I finally agreed: "I'm here at the end of the school road, come on." It's a bit windy outside, so you wear something thicker. ”
"Got it, wait for me for a few minutes. She answered, and hung up the phone.
When I was waiting for Xu Mengjun to come over, I put my phone in my pocket, then took out my wallet from my backpack, and carefully put the dead leaf into the mezzanine of my wallet, for fear that it would damage the last perfection of its life.
A few minutes later, I saw a Xu Mengjun wrapping herself like a ball, which was not the same as the image of the female man I remembered, and she waved her hand to me and walked over.
After walking in front of me, Xu Mengjun took off the mask on her face and said with some surprise: "It's really you!"
Under the street lamp, I saw that her face seemed a little haggard, so I ignored her words of emotion to me, and asked rhetorically, "Why is your face so haggard?"
"I had a cold, and if it weren't for my illness, I wouldn't have dressed like this. She looked around and added, "Let's stop standing here, let's talk as we go, or find a place to sit." ”
I nodded, agreeing with what she said. After the two walked side by side for a while, Xu Mengjun still asked as I expected: "You came back to D City this time, basically you won't come back again, right?"
The corners of my mouth moved slightly, and I barely managed to squeeze out a smile, and replied, "It seems that you still understand me, you know this." ”
"I have been best friends with Su Jing for so many years, and we haven't known each other for several years, can my sister still not know you?" she held her mobile phone in her hand, and answered my words while lowering her head and typing to reply to messages.
Xu Mengjun's words made me stop, and she didn't notice it at first, until she took a few steps and found that I was not there, so she turned around and looked at me suspiciously.
She asked, "What's wrong with you, why didn't you leave all of a sudden?" she asked.
"After Su Jing's accident, I have a question in my heart that I have always wanted to ask you, and I held back before, but tonight, I hope you can answer my words truthfully. I looked at her in a low tone and sharp eyes.
Because I was speaking very seriously at this time, Xu Mengjun put the phone in the pocket of her down jacket, and her expression became serious, she looked at me calmly, waiting for what I was going to ask next.
Su Jing said at the time that she had another girlfriend who was going to come to D City to find her, which you should know, but later it was proved that she was lying at all, and there was no such thing. So, as one of the few best friends she has been talking about for many years, did she really not reveal anything to you at all? Also, you live in the same dormitory. "I couldn't see my face, but I knew it was going to be ugly.
The air around us seemed to get colder, and a gust of wind blew in, raising our hair. The flying hair covered half of Xu Mengjun's face, but I seemed to see a momentary struggle on her face, but when she brushed her hair, she took two steps towards me and asked in a cold voice: "Are you stupid with the wind blowing in your brain?" Su Jing is my best friend, and you actually doubt me? Moreover, I have already explained to you at the time, she said the same thing to me as yours, if I know the truth but don't tell you, then what benefit can I get?"
I took a cigarette from the cigarette case in my pocket, lit it with my back to the wind, and after two puffs, said in a low voice, "I know, I'm sorry, I really shouldn't have doubted you...... Because we all know that you are Su Jing's best friend!"
Xu Mengjun took a deep breath and turned her face sideways to avoid my gaze. After a short silence, her tone finally calmed down and said, "I have a cold, I can't blow the wind for too long, go back to rest first, and you should go back early." ”
"Well, I will, you take care to keep warm. ”
Xu Mengjun turned around and walked a few steps, suddenly stopped, suddenly turned to look at me, struggled for a while, and asked softly: "Cheng Ting, if one day you know that Su Jing and she left with bitterness, will you forgive her when she comes back?"
What she said instantly formed in my mind the scene of Su Jing's encounter with me on the day she came back, and after that picture stayed for a while, I took a hard puff of cigarette and replied slowly: "I can let go of everything we had, and I can forgive her for saying goodbye, but the broken mirror will never be reunited." ”
My heart tingled suddenly, but my eyes were fixed on her. Xu Mengjun's expression gradually became lost, and she muttered, "If you know that the ending will be perfect, then why care about that process......