Epilogue Fragments of Memory
On Sunday, I went back to the martial arts hall and cleaned up inside and out, cleaning up the old things. After so many years of life, the attic is full of miscellaneous items, using old cabinets, dishes and chopsticks, bedding, and old TVs: "Mom, it's time to throw away the things here......" When I felt tired, Ling Jing, who was wearing a hat and dressed as a model worker, shouted outside.
My mother was probably not outside, so she called Jiaming up and carried some things out of the yard to dry, and soon after, Shasha, who was wearing a ponytail and also wearing a worker's denim outfit, also came to help. In the past, I liked this little loft the most, and I had to live for a while every summer, looking out through the small window and listening to the wind chimes. At this time, the whole space, including the small bed, was also occupied by a cabinet or something, and she carried some things and patted the dust: "Taotao, when Yunjie Yunting comes over, maybe she will come to live in the attic, and they like this the most." ”
The large items outside were removed, the cabinets, bedding and the like were taken out, and some of the things inside were also exposed, there was a broken photo frame, I remember that it seemed to be used to hang her first award certificate when she was a child, and there was an old TV set that seemed to be broken, which year I bought it, it seemed to be almost winter, and it was worth a lot of money at that time: "Jiaming, Dad finally bought the new TV set back today, let's come over and watch it together at night." "By the way, at that time, Jiaming seemed to have run away from home and was shot shortly, and after a while, they met Shasha.
"I don't know if it can still be used...... "After Sha Sha came up, she smiled and told the other party about the TV, and then the sisters squatted on the ground and tinkered, plugging the wire into the socket, but it didn't light up, "It's a pity." ”
"Go down and take it apart to dry it, and then see if Jiaming can fix it, the quality of the previous TV is not bad."
Things are gradually emptied, and more and more familiar things appear. Mom was probably back, and there was a faint voice from the yard where Jia Ming was chatting with her: "Ah...... This is the previous ...... "......She cleaned the ground, she hadn't lived in the attic for a long time, the window she used to like to look at seemed so small, and the little wind chimes hanging there were old and rusty, and her fingers were just shaking and no longer ringing." Sitting on the edge of a small bed that has not yet been covered, I am probably used to living in a large house, and the attic is a little narrower than before.
But a few kids definitely like it.
There were still a few boxes in the corner, which were her previous things, and since Jiaming and Shasha hadn't come up yet, she moved out. However, it was too long, and the box was not secure, and when I reached for it, it fell to the ground, and many of the previous things rolled out. A variety of collected trinkets. Rubber bands, beautiful buttons, origami stars, lavender bottles, beautiful * female stickers with only a few sheets, etc.
She smiled, squatted on the ground and put these things into the iron box used to hold moon cakes, and when she raised her head, she fell into another box and found something, and reached out and took it out, it was a small schoolbag, and a few words were sewn with red thread on it: Hongxing Primary School, Ye Lingjing.
Scold......
She took out other things, and was deeply impressed, including her schoolbag, and Jiaming's previous schoolbag, a rustling bat, although she couldn't play, but she also bought a baseball pretend, and some of the boxes were transcripts, homework books, etc., I remember that Jiaming used to copy her homework, and he didn't have to copy it after the junior high school class, and he gloated about it.
There were a few stickers in the broken music box, and she was photographed by Sha Sha and Jia Ming at that time, when they were in junior high school, and the three of them lived in Sha Sha's villa every weekend, just like playing at home. There was an empty wine bottle in a box next to her, she picked it up and thought about it, and couldn't help but laugh in her arms, the wine bottle was found by Sasha from the villa and put it here, if there was no accident on the night of graduating from junior high school, the three of them didn't know what would have become of them later, at that time, the boy-like Shasha still wanted to help herself pursue Jiaming, but she didn't understand that she also liked Jiaming...... Oh, at that time, everyone was still ignorant, and the innocence first met Qiluoxiang, and then they were together like that.
The notice from the Sacred Heart Academy, the three of them rented a house, all kinds of things, but unfortunately the two-story building is not a permanent thing after all, even if it has commemorative value, it can't be committed to letting it stay there, and then the street was developed, and it was demolished. On the day they moved out, they took a picture in front of the house at sunset, which is still in the bedroom. However, looking at the bits and pieces in the box, I also remembered the scene when I first entered the room......
The original key, the keychain she carefully selected when she had just entered junior high school, and the small robot cat pendant on it, are now all three here. Jiaming's Nobita, Shasha's Yijing, she took the robot cat, although Jiaming later said that Shasha should be Nobita, he should be a robot cat, and he should be Yijing. Heh, whatever. I still remember that when the three of them ran to buy a keychain, it was five yuan a piece, and at that time I thought it was really expensive, and I was pitiful and cut the three to ten yuan, at that time they had a lot of plans, and the money was not enough......
It's broken, a beautiful alarm clock, a small piggy bank, there are coins in it when you shake it, the ticket of the Star Dream, a repeater that has become a part, an English tape, and a yellowed notebook, after opening it, there are stickers, briefings, and some lyrics of old songs, and some stars, flowers, beautiful women, etc., which seem to be used in junior high schools and high schools. There are also two books, which are the family income and expenditure book at that time, and they turn a page at random, which reads: July 3, 98, on holiday, Jiaming and Shasha eat popsicles for two yuan, and Lingjing eats jelly for one yuan, and goes home to eat, no need to buy vegetables...... Concept band performances, revenue ......
There is also a photo below, three masked weirdos on the stage, cucumbers, bananas, eggplants, Jia Ming is too bad...... In fact, Kaoru occasionally makes a cameo, and the mask is a big durian......
There is actually an unopened Barbie doll, which is also well preserved along with the box, which is ...... Birthday present.
Oh, Uncle Liu......
At that time, Liu Zheng didn't have any talent for gift-giving, mainly because he didn't know what to give to a girl, on the birthday of his freshman year of high school, he asked his younger brother to send this beautiful Barbie doll, which must be very expensive, and it is estimated that he asked the younger brother to buy a very expensive and high-end birthday gift that girls like...... Now that I think about it, my nose is sour......
All kinds of things, piles and piles, a lot of things went to the new house, but there are also a lot of things that are still here, the three of them took funny wedding photos in the third year of high school, sometimes they dressed up as a girl, sometimes they and Shasha pretended to be a boy, the photos were in the new home, but the lipstick used to dress up or something still existed here. In the medicine box of the old house before, the scenery postcards collected at that time, the beautiful pebbles, the family Ming said that he broke up, and he went to Guilin alone to buy the "gifts", the ticket to Vienna, the notice...... Slowly take it out, there are so many boxes, I can't finish it, and after a while, the rustle came up, and I squatted next to it, quietly picking ......
The afternoon air was comfortable and leisurely, when Jiaming came up, the two big girls were sitting on the floor of the attic, both wearing the denim clothes they wore when cleaning, Lingjing took off her shoes, her white socks were stained with some dust, Shasha leaned on her shoulder, and she was playing with a Rubik's cube in her hand, while Lingjing was holding a cardboard box, taking out the contents and putting them in the pile of items in front of her. The beautiful cheeks of both were stained with sweat and dust, but now the sweat stains were dry, and some marks remained, as if they had been tired from playing in the attic many afternoons ago, resting in this attic or playing chess together.
In front, large and small, many things have been placed, in the center are two school bags, embroidered with the names of Hongxing Elementary School, embroidered with his and Lingjing's names, a few bats crossed and placed next to them, and then various objects of various sizes, rag dolls, philatelic albums, glass pieces, paper cranes, homework books, music boxes, old photo albums...... The trivial and trivial variety, which cannot be counted, is like a hill......
He looked at the things and understood, then walked over with a smile, squatted down, and looked at them all the way, Lingjing and Shasha gently holding one of his hands. There had been a lot of time in this life, and he had experienced much more before he knew Ling Jing Shasha than now, but his memory did start gradually from the appearance of these things.
Soon after, Jiaming also sat down, leaning against the wall behind him, rustling down on his lap, Ling Jing finished his things, holding an empty cardboard box and leaning on his shoulder, quietly, his eyelashes swaying as if he was asleep. At a certain moment, Jia Ming seemed to have discovered something and stretched out his hand.
"Ah...... So you're still here......"
The small wind chimes in the window rang lightly, and a touch of glow came in obliquely from the small window of the attic**, enveloping this small, quiet world in that eternal atmosphere, and the light was warm yellow, which belonged to the memory and never faded color......
If it's a movie, if there's some theme song or something, it can go off with the wind chimes. I once tried to add the last one to Xu Fei's "That Summer" or Luo Dayou's "Childhood" or Shui Mu Nianhua's "Butterfly Flower" or such and such songs, but in the end I found that they were not perfect, so I won't recommend the songs, if you like them, you can listen to them yourself.
When I finished the hidden kill two years ago, I actually had some ideas in mind, and I promised to give the traditional side a postscript. Therefore, in my heart, there is actually not much feeling that the hidden killing is really over, and even if the article is delivered in March this year, there is not much specific understanding. Now that this sequencal has been published, and it is going to be sent out at the starting point next month, when I turned this draft to read it today, I felt that I wanted to write something that really made the ending, so I wrote these 3,000 words. Then I thought: This is the last scene of Jiaming, Lingjing, and Shasha in front of the reader's eyes. Later...... Maybe I really won't write about them anymore......
For the past two years, the book has been finished, but they are still spinning in my mind, and I see them often, but after this one, at least for this moment, I don't think there is anything more to say. They are still living in the rivers and seas, but as far as I am concerned, I can finally let go of them, and I don't need to carry them more and farther. Thinking of this, I finally felt a little sad, just like Wang Zheng's song "To You", they will have their own lives, and I can't give them more......
It's like a day not long ago when I found a photo album from the past, I haven't seen it in years, a long time ago, my parents, a record of my life, sometimes I feel like I almost forgot about them, but when I open it, I think: Ah, so you're still here......
The things that everyone cherishes, in fact, have always been there, and they must exist somewhere, waiting for you to find her.
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In the afternoon of June 1, 2012
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