Whether happy or helpless, the giant wheel of life will roll forward.

The small long vacation is coming to an end, and on the last day of the intensive training, the school is kind and gives us a half-day vacation, and all the students are excited.

People are like this, the more they lack something, the more they care about something, in the past, when they could take a double holiday, this half-day vacation basically couldn't get into our eyes, and many people basically slept in the past, but now, this only half a day, no one is willing to take it to sleep.

The students from the other schools left in their commuter buses, and the deafening noise of each car could be heard as the cars drove away. The students of our school pondered how to spend the afternoon.

The weather was beautiful and the weather was very good. Spring is strong, and there is no summer heat, and after being closed on campus for a long time, Xu Zhekai and I want to go outside for a walk. But I couldn't go too far for half a day, so I finally decided to go to Beihai Park in the afternoon and go to Houhai in the evening.

When I was very young, Beihai Park was a scene in the TV series "Little Dragon Man", when I was in elementary school, Beihai Park was just an illustration in a music book, just a place where "the sea reflects the beautiful white tower", after coming to Beijing, the first time I went, I liked it there.

It is different from the royal style and heavenly bearing of the Forbidden City, and it is also different from the exquisite carving, elegance and nobility of Prince Gong's Mansion, and it is also different from the heavy and solemn organs of the Temple of Heaven Park. Green trees and red flowers, blue waves and white towers, tourists in twos and threes, boats in the rippling water, everything is so leisurely, full of the warmth of ordinary life, but there is a sense of alienation away from the hustle and bustle of the world. The comfort in the middle is particularly good.

In another time and space, the first time I went to Beihai Park was after my freshman year, and I went with my parents. I remember when I was boating in Beihai, my father also sang "Let's Swing the Sculls", although my father's singing level is really difficult to compliment, but that picture has been fixed in my memory, since then, Beihai Park has changed from a picture, a video to a concrete symbol of happiness. It's about parents, it's about warm memories.

At that time and space, when I was with Xu Zhekai, we also went there several times together, and every time I walked around the "sea" on the shore path of the green willows, I would feel very relieved to see those grandparents singing and dancing in the pavilion, and watching the children running around on the brick and stone road. Later, after separating from Xu Zhekai, except for going there with the department for team building after work, I never went there alone, I was afraid of touching the scene and ruining all the good memories.

Therefore, on this afternoon in this time and space, when Xu Zhekai proposed to go to Beihai Park, I hesitated a little, but I still happily went, and I also hope that this time, I can get back the happiness I once had.

Our school is not far from Beihai Park, and it was a quick bus ride to get there. After getting off the bus, we walked through a long alley and we arrived at our destination.

It's the last day of the long vacation, and there aren't many people in the park, so it didn't spoil the peaceful impression of it in my mind.

Once in the park, we still went straight to the pier, not wanting to pedal that kind of human-powered boat, so we bought tickets for the electric boat. It didn't take long for the boat to be empty, and after getting on the boat, I volunteered to start the boat first, the speed of the boat was limited, of course, not as exciting as driving a speedboat at sea, but it was enough to clear my mind a lot after a few days of boring English.

Xu Zhekai sat on the side and watched me drive the boat, watching me cheer, and laughing happily. When we were tired, we let the boat float on the water, and sometimes the passing boats would accidentally bump into it, and the people on the two boats also exclaimed with smiles on their faces, and they didn't complain at all, and everyone was relaxed here.

Boating on the "sea", blowing the wind, looking at the white pagoda in the distance and the surrounding green trees, it is very pleasant. Not far away, an uncle rowed a boat by himself and sang "Let's Swing the Sculls", which was quite good, much higher than my father's level.

Xu Zhekai said to me with a smile, "I find that every time I come here to row, I will meet people who sing this song, and it is really fun." ”

I said, "Don't talk about anyone else, every time I come here, I don't consciously want to sing this song." ”

Xu Zhekai said that when he was a child, all the children in his primary school in Beijing would be brought here by the school several times a year, and it was very fresh at first, but then he felt a little bored. But when I grow up and don't come here often, I miss the carefree days of the past.

In this way, while slowly sailing the boat, we chatted about our childhood, and there were many childhood moments that we thought we had forgotten, and we all remembered them in the chat. The sun is just right, the breeze is not dry, and the people in the eyes are also the people you like, how good.

For a moment, I really wanted to keep talking, I really wanted to stop in such a spring afternoon.

Still have to get off the ship. Xu Zhekai went down first, and then turned around to take my hand and help me get off the boat, I was so bold that I jumped down and got down, but I startled him and said, "If you want to fall, I have to catch you." ”

I suddenly remembered that I went to the park with a few classmates on a weekend in junior high school, and I was also rowing, and when I went ashore, a boy accidentally fell into the water, and he kept splashing in the water.

The staff on the shore were two uncles, and they forced a smile and said, "Don't flutter, stand up, the water is not deep!" "My classmate got up from the water, and the water was only under his chest. Everyone who went with them was stunned for a moment, and then they all laughed like crazy. That incident is also a classic joke that we mentioned in junior high school, every time the narrator retells it, it is said with relish, and even if the listener has heard it countless times, he still can't help laughing every time.

Today, when I thought of this incident again, I happily told Xu Zhekai about it, and unsurprisingly watched him laugh and turn his back on his breath.

We talked and laughed, holding hands and walking around the embankment, and when we were tired of walking, we sat down on the stone benches on the shore and quietly watched the boats come and go on the water, and watched the relaxed smiling faces of everyone on board.

We will also follow the stone path to the rockery in the middle of the park, which is not very high, as long as we are surrounded by the right people, it doesn't matter where we go.

When we were about to leave the park, we went to the Nine Dragon Wall. I've been here many times, but every time I've had to go here to see it, it's complete.

There are still a lot of people taking pictures next to the Nine Dragon Wall, and there are tour guides who tell the story behind each dragon, telling tourists which dragon to take pictures next to them will be easier to get good luck, but the interesting thing is that different tour guides often tell different legends, and even the dragon that can bring the most luck is not the same one.

I told Xu Zhekai about my discovery, and Xu Zhekai thought for a while, then said with a smile: "Maybe these nine dragons also have to be on duty." "This is the most plausible I've ever heard!

Coming out of Beihai Park, we walked all the way to Houhai. The moment you walk out of the park gate, the hustle and bustle of the outside world returns, and the busy city of Beijing appears in front of you again. A wall can easily separate two completely different worlds. I've had this feeling at school as well. Especially in another time and space, after work, every time I go home from work and walk out of the school gate, I feel like I am in a paradise during the whole day, and I return to the peach orchard after work.

Before I reached Houhai, I was hungry. Xu Zhekai led me to a boiled restaurant in the alley. He said that this is a restaurant that he often came to eat with his classmates when he was in middle school, and it has been open for more than ten years, and few tourists know about it, but nearby residents often come to eat.

In terms of food, I felt that I might have been destined to stay in the city in the future. I especially like to eat Beijing snacks such as stewed, fried enema, and belly, and even the bean juice that many Beijingers are not used to drinking, I didn't resist when I drank it for the first time, but drank a whole bowl. Maybe I lived here in my last life, and maybe I was Xu Zhekai's neighbor.

We each asked for a portion of stew, and we also added a portion of small intestines. Xu Zhekai pointed out a few more characteristics of old Beijing. We had a hearty meal in this humble but quaint little shop. When eating, I will also unconsciously think of the past, when I fell in love with another Xu Zhekai, maybe because of my student status, the most we ate together was the cafeteria, and outside the school it was hot pot and stew, and there seemed to be very few candlelight dinners, at that time Xu Zhekai always said that he would go to work in the future, and he would have to have a candlelight dinner every anniversary when he was financially independent, but before he graduated, we were separated, and now that I think about it, it really saved him a lot of money, thinking of this, I can't help but sigh for my own peculiar brain circuit.

In another time and place, since I was in graduate school, others have invited me to a candlelit dinner, but I have rejected them one by one. After so many years, it's not that I haven't had the opportunity to start a relationship again, and it's not that there are no suitable candidates, but I've been blocked from my heart. In my heart, I always feel that the first candlelight dinner related to love must start with Xu Zhekai, God knows how ridiculous my idea is, where can I find Xu Zhekai, and how can I sit down peacefully with him and start again. This almost stupid stubbornness has continued, as if if I have been stubborn, God will helplessly play a round and send Xu Zhekai back to me.

After eating and drinking, we walked all the way to Houhai, the sky gradually darkened, and the lights of various bars and restaurants in Houhai were lit up one after another. Houhai in 2008 is not as commercial as it was ten years later, and there are still some good musicians singing heartfelt songs.

We didn't go into any bar, we just held hands and walked slowly around the small water, chatting with each other, and occasionally passing by a bar and hearing a few shallow chantings, we would naturally look at each other and smile.

This feeling of long-lost feeling made me both familiar and melancholy. I'm thinking, even if, in the future, I return to that time and space, even if, I meet Xu Zhekai in that time and space again, even if. We can still hold hands and walk the same way we used to be, but how can we have the right sky, just the right music, and the good youth back then.

At dusk, we set off for the school and walked to the bus stop to pass through the hutongs, and when we looked at the people coming and going in and out of the old, low-slung buildings, we would have the illusion that we had traveled back to the old city of Beijing seventy or eighty years ago, or even more.

By the time I got downstairs to the dormitory, it was already completely dark. This afternoon seemed to be extraordinarily long, as if it had spanned decades, so much so that when we came back, Xu Zhekai and I were in a trance. Hug, kiss, say goodbye downstairs in the dormitory, and go back to bed.

May is roaring and unstoppable.