Chapter 16: Goodbye Fang Chaomu
(1)
After being called a "silly girl" by Yu Qiuyun, I seem to have really become a little stupid.
When I left from Tang Jibei's house, if it wasn't for Qi Li's reminder, I almost left my backpack there; I was in a daze and only threw seven coins in the car when there were eight people in the car; from the bus station to my house, I should have been facing north, but I went straight south and crossed two more streets.
It wasn't until Yu Qiuyun felt that something was wrong - she heard Tang Jibei say that her family seemed to live in the north of the city. The last time she was given an umbrella, she also walked in the direction of the north of the city.
He stopped me, who was still staring at me in a daze, and asked me with a smile why I was so stunned.
I came back to my senses and rubbed my earlobes in embarrassment. Isn't it just a hand, why is it so useless! It's embarrassing and humiliating. In my heart, it was as if I had knocked over the honey pot, as if I could see the sweet fermented bubbles.
For a while before, I was like an IQ160 spy, always able to quietly collect a lot of information about Yu Qiuyun. And the moment he turned around and held me, my IQ was like a thermometer soaked in ice water, and it fell to the bottom of my foot on a zero scale in an instant.
Thinking like this, my face became hotter and hotter. I was afraid that the twilight that had just sunk would not be able to hide my embarrassment, so I hurriedly turned around to leave.
"Wait a minute!" Yu Qiuyun grabbed the strap of my schoolbag, "My house is not far ahead, you wait for me, I will take the car and send you back." Without my consent or refusal, I turned around and rushed into the dim light of the streetlights.
After a while, he slowly stopped beside me across the car, supported the front of the car with his right hand, and patted the back seat with his left hand: "My little blue can't carry people without the back seat, this car belongs to my mother." ”
"You just got home and rode out of her bike, didn't your mother interrogate you?" I was a little worried.
"No," he grinned, "the boy's parents have big hearts!"
I sat down with confidence.
"You're pretty weighty!" he teased me. I don't know if he really can't ride or if he is pretending to be tired, but the car walks slowly and leisurely for a long time, and it is only a distance from just one street.
I'm a little chubby, and I weigh more than I look. In Qi Li's words, this is called "hiding meat". Usually I am always tired of being with Shan Shan, and I am already very ashamed of myself when I compare with her, but now I was teased by Yu Qiuyun, and I felt more and more like Mount Tai pressing on the top, and I wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into.
"Then you don't want to drive me, I'll go by myself. I was about to jump out of the car, but Yu Qiuyun was taken by me, the wheels of the car skidd, and the whole car went out crookedly.
"Hey, hey, sit down!" he used some force to straighten the car, "I'll tease you, with your body, I can carry you up the mountain!"
"Cowhide is worthless, you can blow it hard!" I sighed at him, but I couldn't hide the smile that rose at the corner of my mouth.
"It's a cross to the vegetable market in front, there are many cars coming and going, you hold on to me. He instructed.
"Hmm. I let go of my grip on the edge of the back seat and gently pinched the hem of his clothes. Occasionally, a reckless pedestrian crossed the street, and he braked the car sharply, and I was carried forward by inertia, and hit his warm back, where there was a faint smell of laundry detergent, which smelled very good.
He carried me, I carried the deer that was running around in my heart, and the warm orange streetlights lit up on the side of the road, and two long figures fell behind us. We walked leisurely through the chess stalls on the street, through the sycamores with gently swaying branches, through the leisurely pedestrians, and through the floating dust that danced gently in the light and shadow...... It's like, it's going to go through a long and scorching youth together.
(2)
On the first day after the National Day holiday, Fang Yan came to bid us farewell.
In fact, I already knew that she was going to transfer to the first year of high school - the cram school that Yu Qiuyun and I signed up for together was ordered to close down because it was reported that there were teachers working part-time in it, and it closed after refunding the tuition fee. My mother firmly believed that "fate does not favor idlers", and after some deliberation, she rejected my plan to "fill the gap with learning to paint", forcibly stuffed me with a guitar, and hurriedly sent me to an instrument training class opened by an acquaintance.
Coincidentally, Fang Yan also worshipped under this teacher, she had just obtained the piano grade 10 certificate, and was preparing to learn another drum kit.
During the free practice, we made small talk. When she talked about changing her age after the holiday, I was sorry but not surprised.
The secrets that had been revealed to people in a rough and ill-intentioned manner were the feelings she had carefully treasured for several days and nights. At that moment, along with these feelings, the self-esteem of a seventeen-year-old proud girl was destroyed.
Especially the person who had broken into her dreams several times, her embarrassment and humiliation finally turned into a trace of indifference in his eyes. It was as if her tears were more disturbing to his mind than those lifeless numbers.
Although she is to blame, her scars are inextricably linked to him after all.
But he was unmoved, and even didn't bother to look at it coldly.
She could see his secrets clearly, but he was not interested in her secrets.
Fang Yan packed her things and came to say goodbye to me and Yu Qiuyun.
"It's still in the same school, but it's not in the same building, and we can still play together in the future!" I reassured her when I saw that she was a little gloomy. Although I clearly know that her disgrace is not because of these.
"yes, you can come back when you have time. Yu Qiuyun also agreed.
She smiled and nodded, but her eyes kept falling on the person next to me.
Fang Chaomu didn't seem to hear our conversation at all, and still lowered his head and wrote and drew without saying a word. I nudged him, and he looked up from the dazzling pile of formulas and looked at me inexplicably.
I bowed my chin in Fang Yan's direction: "Fang Yan is going to the first year of high school, come and say goodbye to us." ”
He turned his head to look at Fang Yan who was standing quietly beside him, I couldn't see his expression, but I noticed that a glimmer of light flashed in Fang Yan's eyes, just for a moment, and then it returned to a polite and calm gloom.
"Goodbye. Fang Chaomu's tone was always cold, as if there was a person in front of him who had only one side and had nothing to do with it.
I looked for some inconsequential words, and scolded Fang Chaomu fiercely in my heart.
"Goodbye. "Fang Yan is much calmer than me, but I can't tell clearly, I always feel that in this calm and soft voice, there is sadness that we can't see, huge as a dome, turbulent like waves.
At the end, as if she was about to complete a ritual, after saying this "goodbye", she gently called Fang Chaomu's name.
"Goodbye. Fang Chaomu. ”