Chapter 10 If it's too late
Shan Shan said that in the past, I always thought that there was no so-called "too late" in this world. There will be a playback of the TV that I didn't have time to watch today.,The homework that you can't finish today can be made up tomorrow.,If you don't have time to say it today, you can talk about it again next time we meet.。 Life is actually like writing a novel, and all the unfinished can be continued until it is finished.
So I had a crush on someone for years, but it never occurred to me to tell him, I wanted to wait until I became better.
I firmly believe that the coming day is long, and it doesn't matter if it's late, it's always in time.
(1)
Sometimes, I especially wish that life could be like a videotape, where I could pause, rewind quickly, and even delete and reshoot what I am not satisfied with.
For example, on the afternoon of the physics test, I wanted to press pause the moment Shan Shan knocked me down.
Step back a little faster, and I can take the initiative to talk to Yu Qiuyun when he wants to talk and stops.
A little further along, I was able to take the time to brush up on the main points before the physics test began.
If we can keep going, all of us can send Shao Qing to the hospital immediately the moment he says he is not feeling well.
The memories of that afternoon are the same for each of us. The white ambulance, the piercing whistle, the crowd gathered in the corridor, and Shao Qing lying motionless on the gurney.
After lunch that day, Shao Qing was lying on the table, his face was not very good at that time, and the teachers and classmates only said that he was not very comfortable. He didn't take part in the test, and the teacher allowed him to rest on his stomach.
He was the captain of the varsity basketball team and often wore short sleeves to play on the playground during the winter. Everyone was relieved of his body, including himself.
He didn't even have time to get to the hospital. No one knew exactly when he was out of breath, and they all thought he was just asleep.
"I called him a lot, but he didn't answer. I shook him a lot, and he didn't move. ”
Shan Shan's eyes were swollen, and that was the only thing she had said to us these days.
When she said this, her eyes stared straight at the empty seat, and the whole person seemed to have lost her emotions, there was no sadness on her face, and there was no sadness on her face, only the tears that kept flowing from her empty eyes.
(2)
In those days, Shan Shan was like a spirit animal that had been robbed of his spirit, eating, attending classes, studying, and reading as usual. It's just that the whole person has become lifeless, doesn't talk to others, and she doesn't keep silent when she asks her anything.
Shao Qing's departure was like a cold wind in December, and a corner of gray ice formed in everyone's hearts. In this howling north wind, Shan Shan's heart seemed to be blown away together.
Shan Shan's changes puzzled us, but we didn't dare to ask more. I'm worried that if she continues like this, I'm afraid that she will get sick sooner or later.
Until one day, she was gone. She didn't come to school, she didn't go home, and no one knew where she went.
She is a good child with excellent character and learning, and she has never been late for so many years, so where did she have the courage to skip class now! Parents have called relatives and searched all the Internet cafes in the county, but they still have not found half of her.
It wasn't until the end of school in the afternoon that she appeared at the door of the classroom, followed by a tall, thin boy.
"Where have you been!" Qi Li and I hurriedly rushed over, Qi Li poked his head out and glanced at the corridor, and when he saw that no teacher was coming, he lowered his voice and said to Shan Shan: "The old class informed your parents, they are looking for you crazy! Where have you been?"
"I'm fine," Shan Shan patted Qi Li's hand lightly and smiled as if reassuring us. I looked at her, and I always felt that there was something different about her, although her eyes were still red and swollen as before, and her face was full of tiredness, but the thick fog that had been around her these days seemed to have finally dissipated.
"Let's go see off Shao Qing. She looked out the window, a big smile on her lips.
(3)
The boy standing behind Shan Shan is called Jian Ming, and he took Shan Shan to skip class.
To put it simply, today is Shao Qing's funeral, according to the customs of their hometown, there are children in the family who died early, and it is taboo to do a big job. Therefore, Shao Qing's parents only informed some confidants, relatives and neighbors who knew each other well, including the Jian Ming family. He and Shao Qing are both fellow villagers and young people, and when they were young, they often made an appointment to go back to their hometown together for winter and summer vacations, go up to the tree to dig birds' eggs, and go down to the river to touch Wang Ba, and they did all these things together. Although it is not a relationship of wearing a pair of trouser legs, there is also a friendship of wearing the same pair of pants.
Especially when they were admitted to the same school in high school and joined the school basketball team together, they were almost inseparable all day long. has been mixed together for a long time, and many things about Shao Qing are concise and even clearer than Shao Qing himself.
Therefore, Jian Ming still discovered Shan Shan's secret first.
Shan Shan likes Shao Qing. Not a general like.
At first, Jian Ming just noticed that since she first entered the school in her first year of high school, this girl would hold a thick > , sit on the steps on the side of the court, and memorize words as if no one is around. Sometimes when she raised her neck to rest, her eyes would inadvertently glance over the court, but she found that every "inadvertent" look she had fell on Shao Qing.
Jian Ming pointed her out to Shao Qing, and Shao Qing sighed, saying that this girl was originally a top student in their school, and she always memorized words on the side of the court when she was in junior high school.
In this way, they played ball for a year, and she memorized words for a year next to her.
Then one day, the two of them sat on the steps to rest, and Shan Shan was not far away, with her head down and concentrating on memorizing words. The girls of the track and field team are training, they are wearing tight sports vests and loose shorts, throwing off their tight and smooth legs, rushing in front of them, and the two round and full bunnies on their chests are still uncontrollably jumping up and down even though they are tightly wrapped in vests.
Shao Qing looked fascinated and muttered to Jian Ming, it's so beautiful, he likes this kind of girl with tight muscles and neat short hair.
Within a few days, Jian Ming saw Shan Shan standing in the women's team of the track and field team with short ear-length hair.
That day, her dictionary was left on the side of the court along with her school bag, and the ball that Jane threw off the side knocked over the water bottle next to her, drenching Shan Shan's dictionary. He hurriedly scooped up the dictionary from the puddle of water, and tried to shake off the water, but something came out of the page.
It was a palm-sized, air-dried sycamore leaf, still retaining its tender yellow color, and there was a line of light blue ballpoint pen writing on the leaf.
"Shao Qing Presents Shan Shan 2005.10.21"
(4)
Shan Shan had fallen in love with Shao Qing for a long time, and she couldn't remember when it was.
Her likes are humble and sensitive, she only dares to wait and see from afar, and she feels that she is presumptuous when she gets close to half a minute. She was afraid that her teachers would find out, that her classmates would talk about it, that her parents would know, and that her courageous confession would only be exchanged for a word of dislike.
Even if she is already so good, even if she is optimistic and cheerful, but in the face of this secret, she is always cowardly and inferior like that hairless ugly duckling.
So every basketball team has a training day, she will hold that dictionary and come to school early. There were many morning readers on the playground, which gave her peace of mind - so that she could hide in the inconspicuous crowd and sneak in on the figure galloping on the field.
At first, she didn't dare to get too close, and like everyone else, she was either on the grass or on the side of the horizontal bar. Every day she moves a few steps closer, from the horizontal bar to the table tennis case, from the table tennis case to the side of the stage. This process of slowly approaching made her full of anticipation and joy, as if when she could sit on the edge of the court, she would have enough courage to hold Shao Qing's hand openly.
After a semester, she finally got her wish and sat on the sidelines, but she still couldn't muster up the courage. However, at the end of the training that day, a leaf fell from the plane tree outside the wall, and was blown by the wind and fell on Shao Qing's sweaty shoulder. It stayed for a few seconds, and then slipped down again.
When Shao Qing and his party walked away, she quickly picked up the leaves on the ground and secretly put them in the dictionary.
It was her birthday, and she felt that it must be a gift from Shao Qing arranged by fate. So I picked out a gardenia-scented ballpoint pen and carefully wrote the line on the leaves.
At that time, she only knew that according to legend, this sycamore tree is male and tung is female, symbolizing the unswerving love of life and death.
So she and Shao Qing must be destined. Since she is destined, she is willing to wait, and when she becomes a better version of herself, she will be able to stand in front of Shao Qing and say the "I like you" that has been hidden for a long time.
At that time, she didn't know that the tree language of the sycamore tree was not only love, but also sorrowful parting. In the fate of her and Shao Qing, in addition to meeting and parting.