"Tolerance" chapter 90

In the middle of summer, Huangzhen is very hot. During the day, the sun scorched the streets, roads, and concrete buildings, and people hid in their houses and did not go out. There is very little movement on the streets at noon and afternoon. It is only when the sun goes down that people start moving around. At 9 or 10 o'clock in the evening, people who have had a beer or dinner gather in front of a store that is still open to chat, or sit on their balconies or platforms behind their houses to cool off.

Twenty years ago, when Zhu Yushen was a child, there were still very few people with buildings here on the edge of the Yangtze River Delta. The streets of the surrounding towns are also relatively small. Men, women and children who have been busy all day often lie on the bamboo bed in front of their old houses in summer evenings, enjoying the cool until midnight. When the temperature comes down, go back to the house and sleep until dawn.

Nowadays, there are more buildings in and around the town, and the weather is getting hotter. After enjoying the cool outside until midnight, it is still too hot to sleep when you go back to the house, and you have to use an electric fan or air conditioner to cool down. Some people's air conditioners are turned on 24 hours a day, and the fans outside will disperse the hot air into the air for people who do not have air conditioning to absorb.

Because Huangzhen Middle School is some distance from the town, and is surrounded by farmland and woods, it is the season when the green yarn tent is raised in summer, and the surrounding area is a vigorous dark green, so the night is still relatively cool. The little animals in the fields, in the fields, and in the woods were all active, making all kinds of cries and songs, and the sound of leaves staggering with each other in the wind.

Zhu Yushen was lying on the small bamboo bed he bought between the teaching building and the dormitory, looking at the starry sky and listening to these sounds, feeling that his body had become one with nature. The starry sky was like a huge shroud that enveloped him in the center. He himself seemed incomparably small and lonely. A cool breeze blew. His body couldn't help but tremble. A hint of fear came over me.

He quickly sat up. The single dormitory on the opposite side was pitch black, with only a few windows in the faculty dormitory building letting in the green glow of the TV screen. There were lights blinking at the bottom of the mountain in the distance, but the outlines of the buildings below the mountain could no longer be seen. The mountain seems to have become a huge home for those who are lit up.

When the green glow was extinguished, the night would be late and the temperature would cool down. Zhu Yushen returned to the dormitory and only needed to turn on the breeze of the electric fan to fall asleep. At this time, he was lying flat on the bamboo bed, but he remembered the scene when he stepped into the water on a summer night a few years ago.

It was a summer evening. He always went to bathe in the reservoir around his residence. It was delayed that day, and by the time he went to take a bath, it was already dark and the moon was already hanging in the sky. The moonlight illuminated the sky around it, and the sky was a brilliant scene of bright yellow broken clouds dotted with the moon. He didn't pay attention to the starry sky at that time, he just thought about taking a shower early. When he ran to the ridge of the reservoir, he took off his clothes and jumped into the water.

When his body was tilted and could not be contained, he saw the starry sky reflected on the water surface like an abyss, and his body jumped down as if he had fallen into a situation from which he could never recover! The moment you enter the water. He was terrified. So after entering the water, he hurriedly swam to the shore. After a few flutters, he went ashore. Looking at the starry sky in the water that was shattered by himself, he had palpitations and hurried back to his residence. He hadn't been there to bathe for a long time after that.

During the summer vacation, the quiet scene of Huangzhen Middle School was the same as during the winter vacation. After Xie Wumei left Zhu Yushen, he felt unaccompanied. Although there is no shortage of people in the circle of life, such as colleagues, friends, etc., there are no relatives or people to whom they can be taken as relatives. He has no sense of belonging with everyone. In the summer, people don't move around much more to escape the heat.

At the beginning of a period of time, Zhu Yushen was busy decorating the second floor of the house in the town, dragging his tired body at night, and he could fall asleep quickly after taking a shower. When the simple renovation of the house was completed, he looked at the pink and white walls and felt a little dizzy. In this two-story house, he only put a bed and some daily utensils, and the house seemed relatively empty.

Zhu Yushen felt that such a small house was big enough, and he couldn't live in it at all. I spent all my savings to buy it, and then I saved money to renovate it, and now that everything is finished, I don't know who I'm busy for. He locked the door that day and fled back to the school's residence. This single dormitory divided into two small rooms is compact and practical.

During the day, he still reads books, writes, and occasionally goes to town to buy groceries. It was only at night, especially when he was alone at the door to cool off, that the feeling of loss and loneliness suddenly hit him and made him overwhelmed. In the silence, he thought of Xie Wumei, the only woman who could be called his girlfriend in a short period of time.

He thought that if her parents had promised them, or if she had followed him against their will, it would have been possible to have her by her side in the quiet of the night, and his world would have been different. Together, they will talk about the past, look forward to the future, and his world will be much bigger, much bigger. Now, she will never return, and this lonely life may only get better when the school year starts.

After the beginning of autumn, the sunlight is significantly weaker. Especially in the morning and evening, the earth is empty. Over time, it gradually makes people feel cool and happy.

When the autumn wind blows through the green woods, a new semester begins. When the school starts in the fall, the school will welcome a new group of students to the first floor of the teaching building. The three-storey building was originally designed, with each of the three grades of the junior high school occupying one floor.

When the new classmates arrived, the original grade was moved up one level. The faces of the students who went up to the first floor showed smug expressions, and the main teacher also followed the class. But an assistant teacher like Zhu Yushen depends on the unified arrangement of the school, and he is still teaching the second grade of junior high school this semester.

One day at noon, Zhu Yushen came out of the dormitory, and when he walked to the playground, he saw a slender and thin girl walking on the opposite side. Zhu Yushen stopped, because he found that she was Li Tingting, who had just recovered from a serious illness. She had heart surgery at the end of last year and her body has been in the maintenance stage. I didn't go to school much in the first half of the year, but I still made it to the third grade of junior high school.

Li Tingting also saw Zhu Yushen, she still took small steps and walked towards him. After she approached, she called Teacher Zhu hello, and then looked at Zhu Yushen with a slight smile. Zhu Yushen knew that it had only been more than half a year since she recovered from her serious illness, so he looked at her face with pity. It was found that her face had taken on a ruddy color, and she was in good spirits.

When he made eye contact with her, Li Tingting lowered her head with a smug smile. Zhu Yushen read a girl's shyness and budding spring heart from her eyes. He remembered Li Lulu's previous words that he lent money to Tingting for treatment, whether he would marry him when she repaid her kindness when she became an adult.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yushen couldn't help but gasp. Is it true that the love you give is harboring evil? Li Tingting is more than ten years younger than herself, even if she can't find a wife in her life, she can't beat her idea.

Zhu Yushen was secretly thinking to herself, and Li Tingting said: "My body is better, but my sister's body is getting worse and worse now." After the start of school, she said that she wanted to see you, I wonder when you will be free to see her? ”

Zhu Yushen's mind immediately appeared with the image of the beautiful woman who had lost her footing, and he said: "I am free to see her every day now, you can tell her to come whenever you want." At this time, several male and female students came over, and stopped to watch them closely. Li Tingting's face suddenly turned red, and she turned around and left.

Zhu Yushen stood quietly in place, and it took him a long time before he returned to the dormitory. He thought that Li Tingting would talk to his sister Li Lulu about him when he went back that night, so he hurriedly tidied up the room. It's been a long time since I've had a guest here. After cleaning up, he remembered the scene when Li Lulu came last year. He had to admit that he was high in his bones. Because of the slightly provocative actions made by Li Lulu, a beautiful woman, in his dormitory, he was always indifferent, and even had a trace of disgust.

And later, after the arrival of the not beautiful Xie Wumei, he thought about making some small moves. This is nothing more than disliking Li Lulu for being a woman who has stumbled, and he has an instinctive rejection of her. Later, I learned about her tragic experience and was full of sympathy for her. Now that he thinks about it, if he can treat Li Lulu like he treats Xie Wumei, it will be a great comfort to her. (To be continued......)

PS: There are many scoundrels in life, and there are always some people and things that make them unsatisfactory, and the most important thing is to have a tolerant heart.