Chapter 2: Shallow Memories
Seaside ...... when I was 10 years old
It was drizzling, and the villa was full of the same quarrels that Mom and Dad couldn't understand at all. Xia Xu sat alone on the beach and couldn't stop crying.
Suddenly, an umbrella as colorful as a rainbow appeared in the sky above him, as if a warm embrace kept the coldness of the raindrops out of his world.
She stopped crying, turned around in surprise, and saw his face as cute and childish as herself, and the sentence "Aren't you cold?" ”
That was the first time she knew what it was like to be warm.
Later, when the sky cleared unconsciously, he put away the colorful umbrella and smiled at her in the sun.
He whispered to her that he and his brother had gone to a strange man's house here, and that no one was playing with him, so he had secretly run out by himself, and before he knew it, he had come to the seaside, and at a glance he saw her squatting here.
He said he hoped to one day own a big house of his own, and when he opened a door, he was greeted by an endless stretch of beach and sea, just like here. Then you can see the bluest sea and feel the coolest wind every day.
When he said this, he would squint his eyes and tilt his head, and his smile would be bright, and he would smell like the warmth of the sun......
Then he was found by his family, and when he was taken away from this beach, he liked to jump back and shout to her as he walked: "Tomorrow, will I come here to play with you?"
Morning light, sunset, seaside, beach, for the first time she has a companion with whom she can play, and the little boy is really as he says every time he leaves, I will come to play with you tomorrow. Then, the next day, he would literally show up at the beach and smile at her.
Although the quarrels of the parents still came out of the huge villa every now and then. But his appearance made her originally cloudy sky suddenly have a warm light, although faint, it was enough to fill her lonely and fearful heart.
On that day, the sea fog was relatively large, hazy like Xia Xu's heart that was about to die at that time, and ahead, he was confused and couldn't see anything clearly.
"What's wrong with you?" he looked at her strangely, looking at the villa behind him with a desperate expression, bursting with shattering things and screams of women.
There was a hint of innocence in her voice, and tears slipped down her eyes as she spoke. "My mom and dad always quarrel...... I heard...... They ...... "Her words were like white paper soaked in rain, faint and helpless until they whimpered."
"They said they didn't want me anymore!" she cried, looking at him helplessly and fearfully with a tear-stained face.
When he heard this, he was stunned, and then thought about it carefully, "It's okay, then you can come to my house in the future." My house is also very large, and I have a lot of houses. After that, we can play together every day. He replied sincerely and innocently.
Then they laughed and went crazy again on the beach
Days passed, and in the blink of an eye, a month later, they were already good friends who talked about everything.
It's just that these were completely ignored by the parents of the childhood summer floc. The daily busyness and quarrels made them completely unaware that such a little boy appeared in Xia Xu's world.
Time is always too beautiful when you are not alone, and when you think it will get better and better, it changes again so quickly.
Memories slowly slid over Xia Su's face at the moment with rolling teardrops from the corners of his eyes. Leaving deep and shallow tear stains. It's like the traces of being branded on the bottom of my heart, all of which come to my face.
"Purple Sun......" Xia Xu whispered the pen name of the author of the poem. Is that the man him? Purple Sun?
Xia Xu hugged the magazine and slowly sat back on the bed.
Looking at the rows of neatly printed poems, he still kept them? Xia Su couldn't help but ask himself.
That's right, the poem that won the first place was not written by someone else, it was written in the brown notebook when Xia Xu was 11 years old. Although she can't guarantee that she can remember every word clearly, she still has a deep impression of what she wrote as a whole.
Just thinking about it, at this time, the voice of the nanny Aunt Yang cooking a meal came from downstairs, and Xia Xu's thoughts were pulled back from her memories.
Only then did I feel that my stomach was already rumbling with hunger.
She took her attention and slowly went downstairs with the magazine.
I saw that Aunt Yang, the nanny she hired from the housekeeping network when she was a freshman in high school, had already brought the prepared meal out of the kitchen and placed it on the table. Knowing that Sen Sen and Sun Zuo would not come back for dinner tonight, Aunt Yang deliberately cooked Xia Su's favorite meals on weekdays.
Aunt Yang skillfully unbuttoned her apron, and after saying hello to Xia Su, she left to pick up her grandson from the tutoring class.
Xia Xu put the magazine on the side of the table and ate it in a big gulp.
Although all these years, she put all the memories she could think of him into this cardboard box, and never opened it again. I didn't mention to anyone about the year that made her feel warm and full of sorrow.
Why do you want to submit this poem you wrote here for publication? For the sake of manuscript fees? Or is there another purpose? Xia Xu thought uneasily and strangely.
After eating, Xia Xu carried the magazine, walked slowly upstairs absentmindedly, returned to the room and sighed, put down the magazine, and sat in front of the computer and tapped the keyboard with a "ping pong".
Because tomorrow is the review period for the first draft of the novel, my grandfather's company has a strict requirement that he must first review the first draft of guò before he can continue to create. Xia Xu had no choice but to put aside the advance of the poem. Hard-working code.
I don't know how long I wrote it, but in my sleepiness, I fell asleep directly on the table in a daze. I don't even know when Sun Zuo and Sen Sen will come back.
At noon the next day, the bright sunshine is always warm and makes people sleepy. Xia Xu was sitting alone on an oily wooden chair under a row of hibiscus trees at the back of the classroom, dozing.
Sun Zuo, who came out of the teaching building with Sen Sen, just wanted to go over and wake her up. But he was stopped by Sen Sen, Sun Zuo turned his head and saw Sen Sen's "...... shhhh
dragged Sun Zuo cautiously behind Xia Su, patted her on the shoulder, and quickly squatted down. Sun Zuo looked helplessly but lovingly at her always childish naughty and cute. I had no choice but to squat down with my side.
Being harassed by this sudden little harassment, Xia Xu opened his eyes that were almost asleep in a daze, and squinted behind him with a sleepy-eyed face slightly, wondering if he was really asleep and dreaming just now, did he dream that someone patted himself?
At this moment, there was a sound behind him of Sen Sen's prank succeeding and he couldn't help laughing......
Sun Zuo was still as mature as an adult, looking at Sen Sen, and smiled helplessly at Xia Su.
"It turned out to be you little villain, I wonder how I can't find anyone?" Xia Xu rubbed his sleepy eyes.
"Hee-hee, no, and Sazo. After Sen Sen finished speaking, he didn't forget to naughtily wink at Sun Zuo on the side, and his big smiling eyes.
"Hey, I'm forced to commit a crime. Sun Zuo shook his head helplessly.
Sen Sen pretended to be angry and stuck his tongue out at him. He continued to turn back to Xia Xu and said, "People thought you were in the classroom, but I didn't expect to doze off here." Hehe, say, what kind of dreams are you having?" said as he hugged Xia Xu with a smile from behind.
"Well, I dreamed that our Sen Sen made me something to eat, haha. Xia Xu joked and took the opportunity to pinch Sen Sen's cute little face.
"Wow, you're dreaming of people again? Can't you be so direct, you'll be embarrassed. As he spoke, he made a shy gesture and covered his face with his hands.
Sun Zuo on the side coughed vigorously when he heard it, "Come on, don't stink." "As he spoke, he vomited.
It didn't matter if he vomited, he was pinched several times by Sen Sen.
I thought that it would be over if I dodged the first few flower fist embroidered legs, but when I was not expected, I was grabbed by the arm, and now, a few "marks" that are not light or heavy are inevitable......
"If you dare to be presumptuous in front of this princess, I will let you have a few more 'marks'!" Sen Sen snorted.
"I don't dare, I really don't dare. The princess is angry, angry. Sun Zuo hurriedly apologized while kneading the "injured" part of his arm.
"Alas, it's really helpless for the two of you. It's been so hip-hop all day long. Xia Xu sighed with a smile, a look of helplessness.
"Hehe, who makes Zozo always so annoying. You say yes, Zuo Zuo?" Sen Sen pouted angrily and glared at Sun Zuo, who was checking the "injury" behind him.
"By the way, Sun Zuo, can you help me secretly check the true identity of the 'Purple Sun' in the list of winners? Xia Xu turned around and pleaded with Sun Zuo behind him.
After listening to Xia Su's words, Sun Zuo seemed to have expected it for a long time and happily agreed. "Okay. I'll ask someone from my grandfather's company to take a look. However, Xiao Su, you are going to ......" halfway through the words, and stopped talking.
"Ah, I'm a little curious about the author, it's nothing, writing is supposed to learn from more talented people. Since they are all anonymous submissions, it's hard to say what kind of big names they are, but I'd love to see his other works. Xia Xu didn't tell them the truth, and found such a reason casually and implicitly.
Maybe one day I'll see you as you grown
"Yes, understood. I'll figure it out. Sun Zuo replied.
"Xiao Su, just rest assured to leave it to Zuo Zuo, Zuo Zuo can do one thing reliably, right? Sen Sen mischievously patted Sun Zuo on the shoulder. Pretending to be an adult.
The bell rang at the end of the lunch break, Xia Xu stood up and walked towards the direction of the classroom with Sen Sen and Sun Zuo.
Behind him, the slightly abrupt branches of the hibiscus tree have a different kind of beauty under the bath of the winter sun. The figures of the three people slowly disappeared at the entrance of the school building.