(1)

December in the north is a piece of frozen tofu that has been in the refrigerator for a long time, and it is stiff from the inside out. The half-frozen river is stiff, the withered branches are stiff, the frosted cabbage sold at the stalls is stiff, and even the faces of people are stiff.

Yu Qiuyun and I sat down against the thick poplar trees on the banks of the Ash River, which were all flourishing not long ago, but now they are only a month's work, but they are all "bald" in the north wind.

This is the place where Yu Qiuyun didn't have time to take me after the parent-teacher conference, and he said that this is his base. When he was in elementary school, he was naughty, and he gathered a group of boys from his own school to fight with students from other schools, and was beaten hard by his father on the floor with the plug of a rice cooker. He didn't admit his mistake, ran out of the house, roamed around with his red and swollen buttocks, and found this place as he swayed.

"Since then, I've come here when I'm in a bad mood, and I've come here when I'm very happy. My mom always likes to think too much, and my dad is always denying me, so I don't want to tell them a lot of things. He looked around at what he saw, and the reflection of the ice-covered river became sparkling in his eyes. "I come here when no one has anyone to talk to, and I talk to these Yang Shu, they can't speak, but they are very good at listening. ”

I gently tightened the hand he was holding in the palm of his hand, "You can tell me later, I can talk and listen." ”

He turned his head to look into my eyes, smiling.

"Look at these aspens," he said, pointing to the withered branches above his head, "now they are lifeless, but when the spring breeze comes next year, they will not only produce new leaves, but also bloom with inflorescences." At that time, they will struggle to reach the sky, so that the two branches that were otherwise unrelated will intertwine with each other. ”

"Just like us. I whispered.

He nodded, took out his lighter, lit a handful of dead grass at his feet, and when they burned half a palm's width, he hurriedly stepped on them. He looked down at the pile of black ashes, and next to them another pile was ignited, trampled on it, and ignited it again......

"I think we are still young, and the future is full of unknowns and uncertainties. I'm afraid I'm going to change involuntarily, and I'm afraid you're going to go away before I know it, so I tell myself to wait a little longer, until I'm mature, when you're older, when love is no longer a thing for us that needs to be kept a secret. He sighed and took my hand tighter, "But getting closer is also an involuntary thing, and I overestimate myself." ”

The sunlight through the woods dappled his face, and I stared at him with a golden layer of eyelashes: "Have you always been so sentimental?"

"Not really. He smiled and pulled out two small wishing bottles from his coat pockets, "I'll be thinking ahead." This one is for you, mine has been written, you have written yours, let's bury it here. If we stay together in the future, let them be buried. In case we are separated......"

"No!" I snatched the bottle and jumped up, "You'll never get a chance to know my wishes!"

He stood up and laughed at my puffed out.

My face burned like charcoal from his laughter, as if I could hear the cold air around me sizzle as it fell on my face. I panicked and tried to use the coldness in my hands to extinguish the two charcoal fires on my face, but before I could reach out, my cheeks were covered with two other coldnesses.

"Silly girl. A muffled voice, mixed with the rustle of the north wind as it swept through the dead wood, rested gently on the tip of the nose of the fawn that was smashing around my mind.

I heard it sneeze, and my heart skipped a beat.

The light in front of me was getting dimmer and dimmer, and I didn't dare to raise my eyes.

After a while, the north wind finally held its breath and made no sound, and the warm yellow in front of him finally faded into darkness.

I closed my eyes, and a warm butterfly fell from my lips.

(2)

When we were students, we always had countless expectations every day facing the rising sun, looking forward to grabbing a breakfast that was always sold out at the speed of light, looking forward to the Fan Wen meeting that was circulated in today's composition class as our own work, looking forward to having a table tennis case on the playground that no one was fighting for, and looking forward to meeting the smiling face that always appeared in my dreams a few more times today.

In the anticipation of getting up and sleeping day and night, we walked round and round on the clock, crossing out the boxes on the calendar. With our own secrets and joys, we exchanged hello and goodbye day after day, and finally bid farewell to this tearful and laughing 2008 in the afterglow of the last sunset in December.

And in the bell of the final exam, we ushered in the first brief parting with each other.

On the way back to the classroom, I hurried and couldn't wait to share with them the excitement and eagerness for the freedom that was coming, and by the way, how we could let ourselves go together and play the world in the past few days.

When I rushed back to the classroom, only Yu Qiuyun and Shan Shan were slowly and leisurely packing up the books, but the positions of Qi Li, Fang Chaomu and Tang Jibei had been empty, and I glanced at their drawers - the books were still there, and they should not have left yet.

Half an hour later, I was listening to the single "Sunny Day" in MP3 with Yu Qiuyun on a pair of headphones, when Fang Chaomu passed by me and stopped.

"Puppy love is a violation of discipline. He knocked on my desk, followed by a dejected Tang Jibei.

"You really say it every day. I glared at him, "Like the dean." Why are you two alone? Aren't you in the same examination room? Why didn't you come back together?"

He didn't answer, and returned to his seat with an indifferent face, silently collecting his things.

Forget it, it's more real than a piece of wood. I sighed and turned my head to look at Tang Jibei, who had an elongated face on the side: "What about Qili?"

"Caught. ”

"Huh?" Except for Fang Chaomu, the other three of us were all confused by this inexplicable answer.

"She's cheating, she's been caught, and she's in the teaching department. Tang Jibei kicked my table, "Damn! She's sicker than me!"

"She's cheating?" Shan Shan slammed the textbook in her hand on the table, "The invigilator is blind, right! The top 5 people in the top 20 classes need to cheat?"

"To be exact, she assists others in cheating. Lin Suhao sat behind her, and I heard it when he secretly asked Qi Li for an answer. ”

"I heard it too. Fang Chaomu said without raising his head.

"That shouldn't be a big problem," Yu Qiuyun comforted on the side, "Our school has always only punished students who cheat heavily, and those who assist in cheating will generally be criticized and educated." ”

We breathe a sigh of relief.

"It's not a big bullshit problem!" Tang Jibei slapped the table, "They were caught by the teacher when they were handing over the answers." The teacher asked who wrote the note, Lin Suhao's grandson didn't speak, the teacher said that if no one admitted it, they would both be treated as cheating, and the stupid woman in Qi Li stood up and said that the answer was what she asked Lin Suhao for!"

"Then why don't you stand up and speak for her!" I stomped my foot in frustration.

"Damn! buddy is the head of the rivers and lakes, of course I said it!" Tang Jibei spat at the mouth, and said angrily: "As a result, she was scolded by her, and before she finished speaking, she pointed her nose and scolded her as a-stirring stick! I said a long time ago, that grandson is not a man at all, and he didn't even dare to let out a fart in the whole process, and let a woman carry the black pot for her!"

"Damn! There is no such reason!" Shan Shan "Teng" stood up, two flames of anger jumped in his eyes, and he kicked over the stool next to him, "Let's go!"