I still remember that alley, the stone road is long and secluded. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoJiangnan is smoky and rainy, I will accompany you to see the rainbow after the rain. It's just that we didn't understand it at that time, there are only memories in the world, and there is no eternity.

Time flies in a blink of an eye, and when I return to that alley, the past has long been empty. The cold wind of early winter swept across our faces. I only hope that if you close your eyes, it will be a good dream.

When Xiao and I proposed to break up, although I had already expected the ending, I was still heartbroken. I pretended not to care, and I kept it in my mouth, and finally turned into a good sentence.

I watched her turn around and disappear into the middle of nowhere. I knew I had finally lost her.

I opened QQ and flipped through the pages of our old chats. The tenderness she gave is still all in the record. So many sweet words, so many heartfelt exchanges, have now become even more hurtful swords, mercilessly slashing through my broken heart.

I knew her gray avatar wouldn't jump again, even if it was just a simple greeting. The sound of the evening breeze has taken away what she once was. I remembered what she said about accompanying me to the end, but even if we go back in time, what can we catch?

Perhaps, there are only memories in this world, and there is no eternity.

She took away my thoughts, but didn't say sorry. On a one-man night, I often wept silently. I tried my best to dodge, but my thoughts still couldn't escape the shattered memories all over the ground. I miss every expression, every figure of her. I don't want to forget her eyes, even if I keep all the pain in my heart.

Whenever I think of her, I always feel a cold, hopelessly cold in my heart. This casual thought is so painful that the memory is so painful that I dare not touch it at all.

Forget about her. Forget about her, I often say that to myself.

The days are like flowing water, and I, as usual, squeeze the subway to work and get off work every day, running between two o'clock and one line, but without someone's company. I worked hard both in the hope of getting promoted sooner rather than later, but also in order to forget about someone. Life is so busy that it feels empty: a day goes by, a week goes by, a month goes by.

That night, I dragged my tired body home. After opening QQ, I was surprised to find that there was a verification message flashing. I clicked on it and took a look, nicknamed "Shallow Memories", female, 24 years old, in the same city as me. The attached message reads:

"I'm Sissi. Brother Tiantian, do you remember me? ”

Sissi?

Also, how does she know my nickname?

I was stunned, looking at the photo as my avatar in confusion. The girl in the photo looks very sunny, with beautiful long hair and a smiling face. In an instant, the past flooded into my heart.

The alley in my memory is narrow and long. The blue tiles, the gray walls, and the bluestone paved with stone slabs that are square have long been smoothed by the footsteps coming and going. The corners of the walls are covered with mottled moss, and some courtyard walls are covered with creepers, which look quaint and old. But it's a children's paradise for play, and there are plenty of snacks that make my mouth water: fried tofu for three cents, three monk popsicles for a dime, fragrant popcorn from an old-fashioned popcorn machine, and roasted potatoes that were golden in winter.

In the alleys, we used to play hide and seek, kick shuttlecocks, jump rope, throw sandbags, hopscotch, and play all day long. Screams, laughter, shouts, filled the entire alley. At that time, there was a little girl in my little friend who lived next door to my house, a year younger than me, and her name was Sissi, and she was my little heel. I still remember every time I played Zhu Bajie's back daughter-in-law, I was always her "Zhu Bajie", and she was always my "little daughter-in-law", even though I wasn't fat. Later, the alley was demolished, and we both moved, and we have never been in touch since.

Could it be her?

I remembered one summer when I accidentally broke a vase at home. My father twisted my ears and dragged me to the gate of the yard for me to be punished. Standing barefoot on the scorching bluestone slab in the scorching sun, it felt like teppanyaki. When Sissi saw me, she asked me what I was doing, and asked me if it was hot or not, and if I wanted to drink water, which embarrassed me so much that I felt very shameless, and I wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into. When she finally understood that I was in the penalty station, she actually cried "wow", and I had to comfort her in turn.

I couldn't help but grin at the thought of this. Maybe it's the first time I've laughed in these days. I clicked yes.

"We're already friends, let's start talking."

"Sissi, is it really you?" I was a little excited, and I typed a line and sent it over.

quickly replied to the convenience: "Brother Tiantian, it's me." "She also sent a picture of us when we were kids. In the photo, the two of us are standing by the bridge, I am wearing a small white shirt and beige pants, and Sissi is wearing a white dress, and there is a bright smile on her young face.

I was excited and chatted with Sissi. It turned out that she had met my uncle at a wedding yesterday and had contacted me. I didn't expect that after more than ten years, we would be able to talk again, even though we were separated by more than half a city.

I forgot the sadness, the passage of time, and was immersed in the excitement and joy of chatting with Sissi. It was almost twelve o'clock, and we said goodnight to each other. I lay in bed and quickly fell asleep.

The next day was Saturday, and I slept until 10 o'clock before I got up to brush my teeth and wash my face. That's when the phone suddenly rang.

"Hello?"

"Brother Tiantian, I'm downstairs at your house, can you open the door?"

I was caught off guard and opened the door with some nervousness. What appeared in front of me was a beautiful girl, carrying a small bag, with long flowing hair and a smile on her face. More than ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the little sister next door who loved to cry back then has now grown into a beautiful big girl.

We both froze, not knowing what to say for a moment. After many years of separation, we have been moving forward on our respective paths in life, and finally meet again at this point and this moment. It's just that the years have passed, and we have grown from a child to a teenager, and then to a young man who is new to the world. The time that has passed will never come back, and we will never be able to go back to the way it was before.

Or did she react first, and said with a smile: "I finally found it, why are you still standing stupidly?" ”

I was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly said, "Please, please come in." ”

We sat opposite each other, looking at each other, and for a moment our thoughts were in flux, as if we had 10,000 words to say, but we couldn't say a word.

"The older you get, the prettier you get." I said crampedly, not knowing what I was talking about.

She smiled happily, almost exactly as she did when she was a child: "Really? ”

"Of course it's true, but I seem to be getting uglier and uglier as I get older." I laughed to myself.

"Why!" Sissi laughed as she pulled out a beautiful little box from her bag. I thought it was cosmetics or something, but when I opened it, I was surprised to find that the box contained two pieces of candy wrappers that had faded a little.

"It's ......"

Sissi blushed slightly, raised her head and looked at me: "Brother Tiantian, do you remember the agreement back then?" ”

"Agreed?" I was stunned. The memories that had been sealed for many years were opened like that box, and gradually became clear, as if everything was just yesterday.

It was the rainy season in Gangnam. After a heavy rain, as soon as the sky cleared, we couldn't wait to run out to play. Sissi accidentally fell, and her new dress was stained with muddy water, and she immediately burst into tears. I comforted her at a loss, and I kept saying that it didn't matter, but she cried even louder. I reluctantly took out two white rabbit toffee from my pocket and gave them to her in distress.

She finally burst into tears and laughed. I looked up and saw a bright rainbow hanging in the sky, and I exclaimed in surprise: "Sissi, look! Rainbow! ”

"The rainbow is out! The rainbow is out! She jumped and jumped for joy. Suddenly, she looked at me with a look of hope: "Brother Tiantian, when I grow up, I will marry you, okay?" ”

"Okay!" I nodded happily in agreement.

"Let's pull the hook!" She squinted and laughed happily, her little face smiling like a little flower.

"Pull the hook!"

"Hang yourself on a hook, you can't change for a hundred years, it's a puppy to deceive people!"

Sissi and I were like when we were children, she was on the left, I was on the right, holding hands, walking down the street in the afternoon. The "Autumn Tiger" was raging, the temperature was still very high, and we each held a cute one in each hand, licking and walking. We would never have imagined that a catastrophe was approaching.

Hearing only a loud "boom", I subconsciously turned around. A black sedan suddenly lost control and crashed into a moving electric car on the side of the road, and without slowing down, it crashed into several barriers in succession and crashed into us.

My eyes widened and I only had time to shout, "Be careful! ”

The world is spinning.

When I reacted, I felt pain all over my body, my bones seemed to fall apart, and my right arm hurt even more. I struggled to get up. The sedan crashed into a telephone pole and finally stopped, already unrecognizable. Sissi fell unconscious, and two ice creams fell to the ground and had begun to melt.

"Sissi!"

I screamed.

Police cars and ambulances roared and we were rushed to the hospital. I had multiple abrasions all over my body, a broken right arm, and a cast on my face. Sissi suffered severe trauma to her left leg and had to have it amputated. The owner of the electric car who was hit and flew died after rescue. The driver was criminally detained for drunk driving.

Grief-stricken, I couldn't accept the fact that Sissi was losing her left leg, but I could only watch her parents sign in tears.

Two days later, Sissi finally woke up from her coma. I had to tell her the harsh reality that she had been amputated. Her eyes dimmed for a moment.

I stretched out my still movable left hand, stroked her pale cheek, and solemnly told her, "When you are discharged from the hospital, let's get married." ”

One cold afternoon, I carefully pushed the wheelchair, and Sissi sat in the wheelchair, laughing all the way to the location where the alley was.

More than a decade later, the place has changed dramatically. What was once a quaint and deep alley has been transformed into a bustling business district. High-rise buildings rise from the ground, and forests are as dense as forests. We can't help but feel that the world is impermanent, and in a blink of an eye, it is already a sea of vicissitudes.

We talked softly as we reminisced about scenes from our childhood. Here, there, may have left our footprints. The past is like smoke, long since drifted away with the wind. Only the distant memories remain in our hearts.

It was early winter, and on both sides of the wide avenue, the plane trees had long since withered, and only a few yellow leaves were still shivering in the wind. The cold wind swept across our faces and stirred our coats. Sissi and I watched the traffic on the street and didn't speak for a long time.

Twilight is four, and the lights are on. Neon lights and LED lights flicker with brilliant colors, decorating the city's night sky. The whole street is full of brilliance, golden and brilliant, and a prosperous scene of bright lights and wine.

I took Sissi's hand tightly and kissed her on her smooth forehead. The wedding rings on our ring fingers sparkle brightly. We looked up and saw the stars shining in the sky.

Tonight, the stars are shining.

September 7, 2014

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