Chapter Fifty-Eight: Hot Summer
This hot summer seems to be longer than all the summers that have ever passed, so long that it always makes people feel as if it never ends, and it will go on forever. Now that the summer is finally over, all the dull and depressed trivial matters seem to be slowly blurred from the bottom of my heart.
The sunset in the sky opened its mouth and spat out the last rays of light in a supernatural way.
This long and scorching summer vacation, like scorching on a fire pit, has finally passed away completely.
Sheng Shi rode his bicycle across the streets and alleys, went straight to the train station, and went to see him off before Gu Licheng got on the bus.
Gu Licheng didn't expect Sheng Shi to come, he had already entered the station, and when Sheng Shi called him, Gu Licheng was talking to the girl he met on the same train as him in the station.
Sheng Shi's voice on the phone seemed very urgent, and he said, "Gu Licheng, I'm outside the station, you haven't left yet, right?"
So Gu Licheng glanced at the time on his watch, and felt that it was still too late, so he asked the girl to help him look at his luggage, and ran outside the station to see Sheng Shi for the last time.
"Damn. ”
As soon as Gu Licheng saw Sheng Shi, he couldn't help but spit out this word.
Sheng Shi bumped Gu Licheng's arm with his hand, and the muscles there were strong, like a stone. He looked at the people who were in a hurry at the station, and everyone's face showed the restlessness and infinite sentimentality of parting, so Sheng Shi also became sentimental.
He said: "Gu Licheng, remember to call me when you go to Beijing, and don't forget to miss me." ”
Gu Licheng smiled: "Less disgusting, you know I won't miss you." ”
After speaking, Gu Licheng seemed to remember something, the smile on his face gradually receded, but became serious, he pushed Sheng Shi's arm and said: "Next time, if you really come to Beijing, I don't want to see you still alone, bring Mo Qingyou too, I want to see you together." ”
Sheng Shi saw the sunset sinking behind the tall buildings in the distance, dyeing the clouds in the sky yellow.
"Don't say it, get in there, or you'll miss the train." ”
Sheng Shi urged Gu Licheng, Gu Licheng looked at the watch on his wrist again, and found that the time was indeed a little tight, so he hurriedly said goodbye to Sheng Shi, and trotted into the crowd and went to the station.
Gu Licheng looked tall in the crowd, Sheng Shi didn't remember that Gu Licheng was so tall, he had been half a head shorter than him since elementary school, when did he suddenly grow so tall? Sheng Shi didn't know, he thought he probably hadn't paid attention to it for a long time.
Gu Licheng is a year younger than him, but Gu Licheng seems to be more precocious than Sheng Shi in terms of feelings. He remembered that when he was in junior high school, he was in the same class as Gu Licheng, and Gu Licheng liked to make friends with all kinds of girls, take them to sing K skating, spend a lot of money for them, and always see him change the back seat of his bicycle to one girl after another.
Sheng Shi is the opposite, he mixes in with the boys, he doesn't seem to have much interest in relationships, he has little intersection with girls, and the back seat of his bicycle is always empty.
Maybe it is precisely because of this that Gu Licheng will always be anxious about the affairs of Shengshi and Mo Qingyou.
Now, Gu Licheng is really gone, and Sheng Shi feels that his heart is empty, and a blank space has cracked.
He turned to look at the train station, and the waves of people were pouring in like ocean waves, and Sheng Shi stepped on his bicycle and walked in the direction of home along the way he came.
From afar, Sheng Shi saw Mo Qingyou, she was standing under a chestnut tree in the courtyard at sunset, wearing a plain white chiffon lace skirt, her long black hair naturally hung down behind her shoulders, she saw Sheng Shi coming back, so she smiled shyly, her face flushed.
"Hey, why are you here?"
Sheng Shi asked her faintly uneasily as he pushed his bicycle into the courtyard. He parked his bicycle next to a few spring flowers and walked to Mo Qingyou's side.
"Are you going to see Gu off the city?"
"Yes. ”
Sheng Shi looked at her, Mo Qingyou was still the same as when he was a child, his skin was white and his hair was always black, and he kept it above his waist.
"You're going to school today?"
"yes, you didn't go. ”
Sheng Shi remembered the first day of high school, the first face he met in the class, he looked for Mo Qingyou's familiar face through the faces, but he never found it.
"Well, I didn't report today, and I only found out yesterday that I was in the same class as you. Mo Qingyou pursed her lips, her voice was soft and beautiful, and a pair of white hands were crossed behind her stiffly. "Tomorrow, will you go with me?"
Sheng Shi suddenly felt a little embarrassed, he looked around uneasily, breathing in the green and astringent smell of plants and trees floating in the air, and nodded lightly at her.
"Okay, I'll look for you tomorrow. ”
Mo Qing smiled leisurely, she hesitated for a while, as if she wanted to say something more, but she hesitated for a long time before she spit out a few words: "Then see you tomorrow." ”
"Well, see you tomorrow. ”
Sheng Shi piled up a warm smile, looked at Mo Qingyou's back, trotting down the slope, her skirt swinging one after another, like a wave stirred up by hitting a reef.
"Shengshi, are you back?"
His mother's voice came out of the hall, and Sheng Shi saw Mo Qingyou's thin back disappear around the corner, he slowly retracted his gaze, pushed the bicycle into the carport, and walked into the house. He took off a pair of dirty sneakers on his feet and replaced them with flip-flops that were laid out in the door.
The hall was cold, very different from the stuffy heat outside, like a box sunk in a glacier. Sheng Shi put the shopping bag on the coffee table on the sofa, and his mother poked her head out of the kitchen while tying her apron and asked him, "Who were you talking to just now?"
Sheng Shi glanced up at her, "It's Mo Qingyou, she asked me to go to school with her the day after tomorrow to report to the school." ”
"Oh, that's right. The mother frowned slightly, she had already fastened her apron, and her hands gently patted the dust that adhered to the surface. "Anyway, last night, Mo Qingyou's father quarreled with her again, right? The night is noisy like thunder, it's hard not to let people hear, this child looks like her mother, but also Peugeot is likable, and the personality doesn't know who it looks like, which always makes people feel uncomfortable. ”
"Did you quarrel last night?"
Sheng Shi didn't know, he remembered that he had gone to bed early at night, and falling asleep made him ignore all the movements around him, but he thought that even his mother said so, so it shouldn't be wrong. He suddenly remembered Mo Qingyou's gentle face, although she was usually silent and seemed docile, but she was indeed very rebellious in her bones, who was she like?
Sheng Shi really didn't know, but when she was about the third grade of junior high school, Mo Qingyou once ran away from home, packed all her luggage, and took away a sum of her father's money, but two days later, her father finally found her in Wuhan. Despite this, Mo Qingyou continued to run away from home later, and was found back by his father one after another.
Sheng Shi was immersed in his own thoughts, and his mother's voice came out of the kitchen again: "Sheng Shi, you go to Dr. Su to buy a bag of banlangen and come back, and give your father a drink in the evening, you can see that there is still change in that shopping bag, right?"
Sheng Shi rummaged through the shopping bag on the coffee table, a few twenty yuan were crumpled by a dozen eggs, and he took two and put them in his jeans pocket.
"I've found the money, I'm going to buy it, do I need to bring anything else?"
"No, you can go quickly. ”
After his mother finished speaking, Sheng Shi walked out of the house lazily, he passed by the white house of Mo Qingyou's house, and couldn't help but look into the hollow iron gate, the yard was empty.
Dr. Su is Mo Qingyou's uncle, he opened a private clinic on the street, he is very humorous and generous, the neighbors in the neighborhood like to come here to see a doctor, and people who are bored also come here to pass the time, Dr. Su has a twelve-year-old son, who is a mischievous guy, he is Mo Qingyou's cousin.
There weren't many people in the clinic, and it was probably dinner time, so everyone went home.
"Shengshi, school is about to start, right?"
When Dr. Su saw Sheng Shi coming, he asked him about him, he was very tall, medium to thin, and his hair was getting thinner and thinner with age.
"Yes, school will start the day after tomorrow, please give me a bag of banlan roots. ”
After speaking, Dr. Su opened the glass cabinet in front of him, and neatly took out a packet of medicine from it, Sheng Shichong smiled faintly at him, paid the money, and walked into the hall of their house.
The hall was a bit stuffy, with fans whirring and spinning on the ceiling overhead, and a large green rice paddy field visible from the half-open glass windows.
Su Bao was burying his head in writing homework at the dinner table, Sheng Shi crossed his hands behind him, tiptoed towards him, and waited behind him, Sheng Shi pinched his tender little face, Su Bao was startled, and almost jumped up.
"It's you, but it scared the hell out of me. ”
He looked back in horror at the prosperous world.
Sheng Shi sat down on the chair opposite Su Bao, he casually looked at the whole room, the room was very clean, the furniture was shining at dusk, and there was a strong smell of Chinese medicine everywhere.
"Your cousin, she was scolded yesterday, didn't she?"
After Sheng Shi finished speaking, Su Bao raised his head and looked directly at him.
"Isn't it?"
Sheng Shi asked him again.
Su Bao looked around, he leaned his face closer to Shengshi, lowered his voice and said, "It seems that yes, my uncle wants to have a son with his new aunt, and my sister doesn't seem to allow it." ”
After speaking, Su Bao picked up the pen again and pretended to write his homework seriously.
Sheng Shi didn't ask him again, and walked out of the clinic with the bag of medicine in his hand, and he walked across the street and along the slope in the direction of home.
As soon as he arrived at home, the coolness came to his face, Sheng Shi still felt very hot, he threw the medicine in the corner of the dining table, pressed the switch of the ceiling fan in the hall, and sat on the rocking chair on his feet.
In the final analysis, Mo Qingyou and himself can really be regarded as childhood sweethearts.
Sheng Shi often thinks so. The two of them live close to each other, watching each other grow up, and the elementary school and junior high school days of the prosperous era are all in the same school as Mo Qingyou, but due to the shyness of the two personalities, their friendship with each other is limited to ordinary neighbors.
Sheng Shi sometimes wondered, when he was a child, why did he never find out that Mo Qingyou was such a beautiful and elegant girl? As he grew up, Sheng Shi noticed Mo Qingyou's beauty, and the two began to have a distance. Mo Qingyou is so close to the prosperous world, but in essence, the prosperous world often feels unattainable.
This is also the reason why he has never blurted out his feelings to Mo Qingyou.
Sheng Shi looked at the ceiling, and the three green fan blades were running "whirring", which was dazzling to see.
Early in the morning, Sheng Shi pushed her bicycle and stopped in front of the two big iron doors of Mo Qingyou's house, Mo Qingyou came out on time, she changed into a brand new school uniform, her hair was still casually draped on her shoulders, and she looked very energetic. Mo Qingyou pushed out his white bicycle, and then gently closed the big iron door.
"Let's go. ”
After Mo Qingyou finished speaking, he stepped on the bicycle, followed behind Sheng Shi, and went to school.
Along the way, the two didn't talk much, and the relationship was not close on weekdays, so Sheng Shi couldn't find a topic to talk about, so he could only talk to her about the situation in the class.
Sheng Shi remembered a boy in the same class as him in junior high school in the class, named Song Jinang. So he said to Mo Qingyou: "I met a friend who used to be in the same class as me in the class yesterday. ”
"That's a good thing to meet people you know. ”
Mo Qingyou said enviously as she pulled a few strands of hair on her cheeks behind her ears.
The two didn't say anything more, until they arrived at the bicycle shed, Sheng Shi locked himself and Mo Qingyou's bicycles, and led Mo Qingyou into the teaching building.
There weren't many students in the classroom, and a few girls were talking about a certain Korean group around them, and Mo Qingyou followed behind Sheng Shi, looking a little uneasy.
The girls saw an unfamiliar face, and naturally cast a somewhat surprised look at her.
"I think you'd better sit with me first, can you?"
"Of course, I don't know anyone here except you. ”
Mo Qingyou smiled slightly at Sheng Shi, she sat down on the seat next to Sheng Shi as if she was obedient, and then removed the schoolbag on her shoulder. Mo Qingyou took out two cartons of milk from his schoolbag.
"Drink it too. ”
Mo Qingyou put one of the cartons of milk on Sheng Shi's table, and Sheng Shi accepted it a little embarrassed: "Okay, thank you." ”
As the time for class approached, there were more and more students in the classroom, and finally the whole classroom was packed. Song Jinang also came, he wore a black tracksuit suit, and he was very tall. He walked into the classroom with sleepy eyes, threw the crossbody bag on his shoulder on the desk casually, and then turned around to look at Sheng Shi, Song Jinang's eyes glanced at Mo Qingyou beside Sheng Shi, so he opened his eyes wide in surprise and asked, "Sheng Shi, who is this?"
"Yes, her name is Mo Qingyou, she is my neighbor, and she is the one who didn't report yesterday. ”
Sheng Shi glanced at Mo Qingyou, she was looking at Song Jinang who was sitting in front of her.
Song Jinang laughed, he scratched the back of his head embarrassedly: "That's it, Mo Qingyou, hello, my name is Song Jinang, and we will be classmates in the future." ”
Mo Qingyou smiled enthusiastically at him.
"You and Sheng Shi are neighbors?"
Mo Qingyou nodded.
"So, it's a childhood sweetheart. ”
Song Jinang teased. Sheng Shi saw that Mo Qingyou's face was shy, so he patted Song Jinang's back with his hand and said, "Don't talk nonsense, you, Song Jinang." ”
Sheng Shi remembers that when he was in junior high school, Song Jinang often mixed with Gu Licheng, at that time, the two of them were inseparable, and even their personalities became more and more similar, especially about talking to girls, Song Jinang also often took girls out to play, so that later Gu Licheng and Song Jinang caught up with the same girl at the same time, and the relationship between the two broke down, although they later shook hands and made peace, but no matter what the occasion, when it comes to each other, both of them have something to worry about.
This hot summer seems to be longer than all the summers that have ever passed, so long that it always makes people feel as if it never ends, and it will go on forever. Now that the summer is finally over, all the dull and depressed trivial matters seem to be slowly blurred from the bottom of my heart.
The sunset in the sky opened its mouth and spat out the last rays of light in a supernatural way.
This long and scorching summer vacation, like scorching on a fire pit, has finally passed away completely.