Chapter 1: The Golden Age
It was an exceptionally sunny afternoon.
In early summer, the trees are lush and lush, and the sun shines through the dense green leaves to the ground, inadvertently, it becomes a lemon color, without the tension of midsummer, but like a girl's smile, brisk, smart, and even with a fragrance that is absent.
The sky was blue, there were no clouds, not a single thing, and the pure blue made the sky look so clear, like a look that had been silently waiting there for many years, and that look was silently growing like a vine of sorrow in a calm and tranquil place.
Li He lay on the roof of the old school building, his hands resting on his head, just stunned to look at the pure sky like water, just like that, motionless from the morning school to the sunny afternoon. He looked at the sky, but what he saw was a life that kept flashing before his eyes like a slide.
The old school building was located on the highest dirt slope of the school, and the creeper was like a monster with teeth and claws, not only devouring the entire school building, but also seemed to be preparing to make the boy lying on the roof of the building today's dinner.
That boy was Li He, but Li He wasn't sure if he was a teenager or not.
He remembered that he was obviously watching the live broadcast in a snail house, and he had been following the little anchor who was said to be a post-00s for a long time, and the first thing he did after work every day was to go to the little anchor's room, chat with her, listen to her sweet and glutinous voice, and that watery smile...... But because he had never swiped even 10 yuan for the little anchor, in the end, the little anchor laughed at him fiercely and blocked him.
Li He was angry because he had been talking to the little anchor for a long time...... At least for a month, it's dark, it's really ...... But in other words, he has never refused to brush money, and the little anchor has endured him for more than a month, which is also benevolent and righteous.
After that, Li He was in a bad mood, not just because he was in a bad mood because he was blocked, he was in a bad mood for a long time...... Then rummaged through the cabinet and found a bottle of inferior two-pot head to get himself drunk, and hit his head on the washbasin, and I don't know if it was the forehead or the back of the head, just when he fell asleep in pain, he vaguely seemed to hear someone saying some strange things in his ear, as if he didn't deserve to die, take the wrong list, alter the memory and other messy things, and when he woke up, it was like that.
It just means that when he opens his eyes, he finds himself reborn.
For a while, Li He only felt that the sky was thundering, and there were 10,000 mud horses galloping past in his heart.
Li He had already pinched his thighs and was blue, making sure that he was not dreaming, he remembered that Xiao Li said in "Inception" that people also have pain in dreams, and to determine whether they were dreaming, they could also try to fall.
Li He stood on the balcony of the old teaching building for a while, he wanted to see if he would wake up from jumping from the building, but in the end he still didn't jump, in case he jumped like this, and he was overpowered in less than a day before and after being reborn, then he felt that he was too sorry for this incredible thing.
After taking a deep breath, Li He sorted out his situation again:
First of all, he was really reborn, and it was June 11, 1998, and his 16th birthday was still 10 days away, when he was a sophomore in high school, studying in the second (7th) class of the seventh high school in his hometown of Faith City.
No. 7 Middle School is not the best middle school in Faith City, it can barely be regarded as one of the first-class middle schools in Faith City, of course, Li He remembers that he was in such a middle school, and a year later, in 99, he was also admitted to university. However, he only remembered that he was admitted to the university, but he didn't remember which university he was admitted to and what major he studied, so by the way, he didn't remember what kind of job he got after graduating from college, he only remembered that he stayed in the provincial capital after graduating from college, which is said to be good, after all, it is a provincial city, and many people have sharpened their heads after graduating from college or have not stayed in the provincial capital.
But Li He really remembers it very clearly, that is, although he stayed in the provincial capital after graduating from college, his life is still bleak, to put it mildly, it is dull, and to put it ugly, it is a mess, a waste of firewood.
Well, Li He still remembers that he was married, but later divorced.
He doesn't remember who his ex-wife was in his previous life, what she looked like, or even what her name was, but he remembered that he got married because the two of them were not young, and everyone looked at each other and wanted to get married anyway, so he got married, and he didn't remember many details, but he clearly remembered that when he got divorced and came out of the Civil Affairs Bureau, his ex-wife said to him: "You know? I divorced you not because you had nothing, but because I couldn't see any hope of life change with you." ”
Li He remembered that his heart was still very painful at that time.
But the pain is also painful, and Li He's life has not changed much...... Xing Ye said that people don't have dreams, what's the difference between them and salted fish? But he is 35 years old, and whether he has dreams or not, there is no difference between him and salted fish.
Well, Li He is a divorced man who was once 35 years old and has no children.
It was strange that he found that his memories seemed to be very messy, he remembered many things that had nothing to do with him, and some things loomed, and even some things that didn't seem to be his memory were embedded in his mind, but some very important things about himself couldn't remember and couldn't see clearly. It's as if someone deliberately smeared his memory so that he wouldn't benefit from it, but he didn't know that the things that were erased seemed to be important to him, but in fact they were useless, just like the cheat sheet that he brought during the exam was accepted by the teacher, but in fact, the things in the cheat sheet were not in the exam content at all.
Now he finds himself back 19 years ago, back to his 16-year-old self, and that's really true. But, so what? Li He couldn't think of it for a while, even if he was reborn, what would he do? Could a poor man become rich and handsome all of a sudden just because he was reborn? Come on, he is a 35-year-old divorced man, and the word "miracle" is no longer in his dictionary, although the matter of rebirth seems to be explained only by miracles.
Li He wanted to jump from the upper floor, because he felt so tired at the thought that he would have to live for so many more years like in the past, maybe this was just a dream, jumping down and waking up everything was still like that, it was better to end it quickly before this dream became unrealistic.
Standing on the rooftop and thinking about it for a long time, he still didn't jump in the end because he didn't dare to try.
What if, what if it's not a dream...... And according to his feelings, there is a 99.99% chance that it is not a dream.
He is afraid of death, pain, and even more afraid that if he does not die and becomes disabled, then this rebirth will be too pitiful.
In the end, Li He pinched his nose and walked downstairs, he had a sour, wet eyes, rebirth, hehe, rebirth, 16 years old. Even if he is unbearable, this is 16 years old, a golden age, how many golden ages can a person have? Even if there is no golden age in his memory, but this is 16 years old after all.
Li He walked downstairs down the staircase with some mottled paint, which was the old school building of Faith No. 7.
The old school building is in the southwest corner of the school, and the school building is surrounded by poplar trees. These poplar trees are many years old, and the tallest ones grow to the top of the school building, and when the wind blows, all the poplar trees are rattling. A small stream runs through the southwest corner of the school, dividing the old school building into two parts, the old one is now the teaching area for the third grade of high school, and the new one is the teaching area for the first and second grades of high school and the third grade of junior high school...... Faith No. 7 Middle School is a complete middle school.
Li He walked down from the roof of the old teaching building in a daze, although he was not a student in the third year of high school, but the mature energy in his eyebrows and eyes was much more sophisticated than that of the third year of high school. A teacher met him on the stairs, looked at him a few times with some confusion, and finally let him go without asking anything.
Li He paused when he walked to the corner between the first and second floors of the teaching building, because there was a large mirror here, which almost covered a wall, and on the mirror was written the words "Graduation Anniversary of the Class of 1997 of Faith No. 7 Middle School", which was a souvenir given to the school by the batch of graduates who left the school last year. Li He walked to the mirror and saw his reborn self, at this time Li He no longer thought about the truth of things, but saw something in the mirror that was not quite the same as his memory.
In Li He's memory, he was relatively tall when he was 16 years old, but he was thin, because he was tall and thin, he was nicknamed "Bamboo Pole" by Zhao Yong and others, and over time, his nickname was "Bamboo Pole".
And now, how to say it? Li He in the mirror is still tall at this age, but he is not thin, and the self in front of him is very fleshy, not fat, but compared with himself in his memory, he looks very strong and well-proportioned. The face is still the same rectangular face, but in his memory, because he is too thin, Li He always feels that his face looks a little girly, and he seems to have high cheekbones, and a college roommate also said that his face is blessed at a glance, which makes him very depressed, and then he really didn't have any good luck in his life.
And now the overall outline of this face is still the same as in my memory, but it looks very full, and it is angular, with his originally not prominent facial features, it looks a little handsome, and the cyan fluff on the cheeks still faintly carries a fierceness and wildness that has not yet grown.
In the past, Li He's face was very dark, and almost all people called him "Lao Hei" for a reason, one is the name given to him by Li He's father, I think the original intention is good, and the "He" person is also prominent, although Li He's life in the previous life is neither obvious nor reachable, but his father's hope is good.
However, Li He's father was taught by a physics teacher, and he only knew how to look through the dictionary to find a great word, but he ignored the similarity of the pronunciation of "He" and "Hei" in the dialect of their faith city, so everyone used to call Li He Xiao Hei, Heizi, and Lao Hei, and secondly, Li He also looked black, and every time he saw his black and thin face similar to that of a Somali pirate in front of the mirror, Li He couldn't help but feel sad......
And now he found that his face was not black, but had a wheat-colored color, which looked ...... Healthy, sunny, yes, sunny. It can be said that although the face shape is still the same face shape, and the facial features are still those facial features, the whole person looks very different from the self in memory.
Suddenly, Li He felt as if something was wrong, as if something was not right, he couldn't tell what was wrong, but it was just wrong.
But Li He stared at himself in the mirror tightly, he liked the way he was now.