Chapter 10: Once upon a time by hand
Three days off on the eve of the college entrance examination. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
Gu Bei read a book every day, recalled the knowledge points from the beginning to consolidate, after dinner, took advantage of the fact that it was not dark to go downstairs to relax, and when he was reborn, he devoted himself to the college entrance examination, and he didn't pay much attention to this staff community that spent his childhood.
I have the impression that this staff community is almost 15 years old, due to the lack of maintenance and the serious pollution of this industrial city, the walls of the building have been mottled and blackened, ivy vines grow wantonly on it, and the thick twilight is dyed with a layer of blood red on it, giving people a feeling of twilight.
The tobacco factory was established when the state carried out second-line construction, and has a glorious history of about 30 years, but with the popularity of the market economy and the corruption and incompetence of the leaders of the tobacco factory, it gradually declined.
Of course, after entering the new century, the tobacco system was reformed on a large scale, constantly merging and optimizing the structure, eliminating backward production capacity, and closing inefficient factories, reshaping the glory of the past, and this cigarette factory was merged by the Guirong Tobacco Factory, one of China's eight major cigarette bases, in 2003. Pinch your fingers and calculate, there are less than two years before the cigarette factory closes down, and there will definitely be a lot of mourning all over the field, a large number of workers roll up and roll calves, and their own mothers are also among them, but at present, most of the workers are still lying in the former glory of the tobacco factory to live a relaxed and poor life.
In this summer of Shilin City, air conditioning has not yet been fully popularized, which is a rare thing for ordinary workers, about one or two out of ten families, so at night, in the alley, in the dam, in the open space in front of the unit building, there are people sitting everywhere who have eaten dinner and enjoying the coolness, pulling the homely routine and pulling the leisure.
At that time, the cigarette factory was jealous and jealous, but everyone was an employee of a state-owned unit, an iron rice bowl, a dead salary, except for the leader, no one was necessarily stronger than whom, so the comparison was whose children were more promising, just two days later was the college entrance examination, and there were many children in the unit who wanted to take the college entrance examination.
Gu Bei really likes this kind of short picture of the parents, full of the smell of fireworks in the world, and at this time, there was a singing sound from the dam not far away, which attracted Gu Bei's attention.
A group of sixteen or seventeen-year-old boys and girls sat in the grass of the dam, similar in age to Gu Bei, many of them were children of unit leaders and technical backbones, commonly known as the second generation of the factory, and they were dressed more fashionably than Gu Bei, many of them wore Nike and Adi, which was a luxury item of that era.
The singing is a white fat boy, playing and singing Ping Pushu's "Those Flowers" with a guitar on his back, but his voice is a little flat, and he can't sing Pu Shu's plain and affectionate feeling at all, and his expression is very intoxicated, as if he has knocked ****.
Gu Bei remembered that this guy's name was Xue Mingming, the son of Xue Jianliang, the technical backbone of the tobacco factory, when he was young, Gu Bei also played with Xue Mingming and a group of people, but he was the object of play, there are many reasons for this, such as the family conditions are not as good as theirs, and he doesn't look down on Gu Bei, and Xue Mingming has a special personality and often teases him.
Originally, Gu Bei wanted to go over and join in the fun when he heard the singing, but after seeing that it was this group of people, he lost interest, and it was not good to affect other people's singing, so he turned around and left halfway through.
"Yohe, who is this, Gu Bei. Xue Mingming had just finished singing, and when he opened his half-squinted eyes, he saw the scene where Gu Bei turned to leave, and his white and fat face seemed to be smiling, and he shouted loudly: "Come and play, what are you afraid of!" Tian Tian is here." ”
"What nonsense are you talking about. ”
A girl's voice rang out.
Gu Bei looked over, and his heart skipped a beat inexplicably.
There were several girls sitting on the lawn, the most eye-catching was one of them wearing a pale pink tight vest, she had long clear hair, and a pink hello-kitty hairpin fell from the end of her hair, just facing the sunset in front of her, and biting a drink straw in her mouth, smiling and looking beautiful and lovely, but after hearing Xue Mingming's words, her delicate little face suddenly became a little unhappy.
Looking at this girl, Gu Bei was stunned for a long time, and finally a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he actually met Tian Tian, who had been playing since he was a child.
In the past, Tian Tian and he were neighbors to the door, and kindergarten, primary and junior high schools were in the same class, the two were tired of being together every day, and they could be regarded as childhood sweethearts, but Tian Tian was a beautiful embryo when she was a child, and there were countless people who liked her, Gu Bei estimated that he was not in the ranks, and after Tian Tian's father Tian Jianjun became the deputy director of the cigarette factory, the Tian family also moved out of the ordinary workers' residential area and lived in a cadre building with better conditions and a more beautiful environment, and Gu's father lost all his family property in real estate, and he was also burdened with hundreds of thousands of debts, becoming the poorest and most difficult dilapidated household in the compound。
The increase in the status gap led to the alienation of the relationship, Gu Bei went to the seventh middle school in high school, Tian Tian was in the first middle school in the city, the two did not have much contact, Gu Bei heard that Tian Tian was quite popular in the first middle school, and later Tian Tian and he both went to Qingchuan City to study in college, but Tian Tian studied a key undergraduate, and then it seemed that Tian Tian participated in a singing competition and won the third place, and made his debut as a star, but it belongs to the kind that is not very famous.
At this time, Tian Tian saw Gu Bei staring at her vigorously, and everyone else had a narrow smile on their faces, Tian Tian was not annoyed, but said: "Xiaobei, come over and chat, don't take Xue Mingming's words to heart!"
Xue Mingming shrank his head, just now he just teased Gu Bei casually, because Gu Bei used to be Tian Tian's follower, and he had nothing to do with Tian Tian all day long, but now that he has grown up, every time they mention this, Gu Bei will turn into a monkey's butt with red ears and red ears, which is not funny, but he doesn't dare to make Tian Tian angry, Tian Tian is the little goddess in the hearts of the boys in the city's No. 1 Middle School, and these black histories will affect Tian Tian's perfect image to some extent, so it's better to mention it less.
Thinking like this, Xue Mingming turned his head to look at Gu Bei, but he didn't expect Gu Bei's kid to come over like no one else, which made Xue Mingming a little surprised, and pretended to be generous: "Xiao Tian, you think too much, we guys like Gu Bei won't take it to heart, right, Gu Bei, come and listen to me sing." ”
"Okay, but you're not good at singing. Gu Bei listened to Xue Mingming mocking himself vigorously, but he was not angry, but he was not the little kid who was bullied by Xue Mingming before and would only hide and secretly wipe his tears.
"You haven't been learning guitar for long, right?" Gu Bei smiled: "The chords are pushed too slowly, sometimes I can't find the position of the neck, and the rhythm is a bit messy." Hey, the pickle girl hasn't succeeded yet, and comrades still need to work hard!"
This sentence made the girls giggle and blossom.
Xue Mingming came to sing on the dam with a guitar, of course, to please them, and they were also happy to join in the fun, and Xue Mingming also invited guests to drink the fashionable Taiwanese bubble milk tea, what made them really surprised was that how did the mouth of the stuffy gourd Gu Bei suddenly become so neat?
Tian Tian paid attention to Gu Bei intentionally or unintentionally, this was not the introverted guy in her impression, she hadn't seen him for a few days, she felt that he had changed a lot, and he didn't have the taste of being a bully, and his eyes that were used to dodging were calm at the moment.
Xue Mingming's face couldn't hold back, although what Gu Bei said was completely correct, he did not learn the guitar for a long time, and he always made the novice mistake of pushing the strings too slowly, but he felt that Gu Bei was just a blind cat running into a dead mouse, and raised his head and asked contemptuously: "Can you play the guitar?"
Gu Bei nodded: "I will." ”
"Ahem...... Xue Mingming almost choked to death, he didn't expect Gu Bei to answer so neatly, the boy with a guitar on his back in that era was still a rare outlier, and he was very popular with girls, but how could a boy with poor conditions have the opportunity to learn guitar with the conditions, let alone Gu Bei!
Everyone grew up in the same yard, they know the roots, Xue Mingming knows everything about the Gu Bei family, and the poor can't uncover the bottom of the pot, how can they have the money to play music for him? It must be to fight for face in front of Tian Tian and fool people, hehe...... Sure enough, in front of the girl he likes, a pug can also turn into a wild wolf.
"Yo, I didn't expect it! Xue Mingming made up his mind to disgrace Gu Bei, and pushed the guitar towards Gu Bei like a prank.
"Okay. Gu Bei reached out and picked up the guitar.
A hint of surprise flashed in the eyes of several girls, but it seemed that the taste of watching the joke was stronger.
Tian Tian frowned slightly, she had never seen Gu Bei play the guitar before, and the impression of Gu Bei was very resistant to singing, Gu Bei was very introverted and afraid of losing face, so Tian Tian didn't quite understand why Gu Bei did this, and made it clear that Xue Ming wanted to embarrass him.
It is true that at this age when youth is at the beginning of love, the Prince Charming that every girl fantasizes about is a white-clothed young man with a guitar on his back and the smell of grass, and the arrogant Tian Tian is also inevitable, but if it is because of this that Gu Bei wants to compete with Xue Mingming and be jealous, it will only make her feel frivolous and unbearing.
Tian Tian suddenly felt bored, and his expression was indifferent.
How did Gu Bei know that Tian Tian would think so much, he was not interested in having a temper with Xue Mingming, but Xue Mingming stretched his face over, he was a little sorry for this group of little girls who joined in the fun, just holding Xue Mingming's rounded Muji, he couldn't help but think of playing music many years ago.
Learning guitar is in college, because of his girlfriend Xia Nuo in his previous life, Xia Nuo is an art student in the Fine Arts Department of Harukawa University, if you don't count the youthful crush in high school, Xia Nuo should be his first love, Xia Nuo is a very special girl, simple, stubborn, like to listen to him sing, but this relationship eventually ended in a breakup, there are many reasons, it's not that I don't love anymore, there are too many examples in this world that obviously love each other but have to separate.
Since then, Gu Bei has never touched a guitar.
Because every time Gu Bei holds the guitar, he thinks of Xia Nuo, the picture of Xia Nuo leaning on his shoulder and listening to him sing, and the days and nights when he and Xia Nuo are tired.
Until the summer of 2014, he met Xia Nuo again in Qingchuan City, Xia Nuo is still single, or the only one in his heart, but he is not as good as he should be, he no longer has the courage to say that we are back together, he borrowed an off-road vehicle and took Xia Nuo to Xizan, who had said he must go but never went, with Jay Chou's "Handwritten Once Upon a Time" in the car , galloping on the big highway in Xizan, sitting beside Gu Bei who hoped that she would not marry at the age of thirty and hoped that she could marry out, scattered in the desert frontier, snowy plateau, watching the sunrise and moonset, life was prosperous and lonely.
Thinking about it, a sad emotion pierced into the depths of Gu Bei's memory like a sharp blade, his fingers plucked the strings, and the song sounded slowly:
This wind chime is very close to the heartbeat
The letter is still nostalgic for travel
The love that passes by is too young
You are the scenery I want to go back again
……
Compared with Jay Chou's unclear voice, Gu Bei's voice was clearer and cleaner, and when it fell into the ears of the girls, they felt an unpretentious sentimentality.
A hint of surprise flashed in Tian Tian's eyes, because she was familiar with Gu Bei before, and at this moment, Gu Bei's singing voice shocked her much more strongly than others.
How is this possible?
Tian Tian remembered that the last time Gu Bei sang was Zhou Huajian's "True Hero" sung on KTV after graduating from junior high school, it was lame and ugly, and her junior high school classmates were all amused, at that time she had a good relationship with him, and they were inseparable from school together, so she didn't feel good in her heart, so that she still remembered it, so it was difficult for her to understand that Gu Bei was singing such a beautiful song at this moment, but soon, Tian Tian put aside her doubts, immersed in the beautiful singing like other girls, and quietly listened to Gu Bei sing softly:
I relive the afternoon sun and slung my guitar over my shoulder
As many years ago, we sang softly and went anywhere
I look at your face and brush the chords
First love is the whole time, handwritten from the past
I still remember that autumn and said goodbye
When the love affair is far away, I will bury you deep in my heart
……
After the song ended, the surroundings were quiet.
Everyone seemed reluctant to spoil the nostalgic and sentimental atmosphere brought by the singing, Tian Tian looked at Gu Bei quietly, at that time the twilight was already thick, and the warm luster sprinkled on his side face and white shirt was surprisingly good-looking.
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