Chapter 44: Reminiscences of the Past (Part II)
Xia De motioned for me to sit down, I sat on the sofa on the left, he sat on the right side, the tea set in the middle, he handed me a cup of tea, a mellow fragrance wafted in, the tip of the tongue was slightly sweet, a tea fragrance slowly from the nose to the throat, the limbs were indescribably relieved.
People in the south love to drink tea, especially in the coastal city of D, after leaving the city of D for so many years, I have long lost the habit of drinking tea, and now I can feel a sense of belonging, it turns out that I still drink tea.
Now I'm a businessman, and I'm talking to another businessman, and even though we're just doing home, it's going to be a strange feeling.
"You have to go home often, and you can't forget where your roots are!" Xia De said this last meaningfully, and then the roar of the car's engine was heard.
I finally know why Xia Zichen is forced, and this sentence also penetrates the depths of my soul, my roots!
At this time, Xia Zichen happened to come back, and said to me as soon as he entered the door
"Let's see if you still recognize them" and then clapped my hands, and two people appeared in front of me, and they stood in front of me with Xia Zichen with their hands folded.
At this moment, I couldn't sit still, I stood up tremblingly, my eyes moistened, "Chen Zelin, you, you are Huang Bingtong"! Plus Xia Zichen, my three best friends, now stand in front of me together, this is the real picture, I can hear their breathing, the former immature primary school students, one day after six years, finally appeared in a picture again, but the primary school students have grown up.
Going back in time, I saw the four elementary school students running in the sun.
We all became good friends because of one thing, and that was fighting.
The four of us have known each other for a long time, and later we went to the same elementary school together.
At that time, in addition to classes, we were fighting, and we were in our own class, with the lower grades, with the upper grades, and even with other schools.
Every time we were beaten and bruised, we could still laugh out loud and spend a few dollars to buy a few bottles of soda to toast together. Whoever is in a bad mood will gather around him until they are sure that you are all right. At that time, we were very satisfied, we could eat very happily for a dime, we could also share a dime, whoever likes whom, we will help him send love letters, come up with all kinds of bad ideas, who fell out of love, we will accompany him to blow the cold wind on the beach, at that time, we didn't know any big truth, only knew that there were these people, very happy.
We also set up a gang called the Yanlong Gang, because we all like to watch armored warriors, we drink blood wine, we worship the boss, the boss, Huang Bingtong is the second, I am the third, Chen Zelin is the fourth, and I am the hottest among the four of us, Xia Zichen and Huang Bingtong are not afraid of the sky, and they are also militants.
The deepest memory of the time, that happened on a weekend, I walked under the dim street lamp, inexplicably beaten by a group of people, just at this time Xia Zichen and Chen Zelin passed by here, they rushed over desperately, the result can be imagined, how can we beat more than ten people. In the end, the two of them were beaten worse than me, and they could have turned a blind eye, but they didn't, but chose to save me! They also smiled and asked me if I was okay. These two silly forks, at that moment, I felt that this was a real friend, a real friendship. These long-lost images slowly came to my mind.
"Long time no see, are you all okay" I cried like a at the moment.
At this time, Chen Zelin walked towards me, came up and gave me a punch, and beat me up, before I could speak, Chen Zelin preemptively said, "You are so fucking not interesting, when you left, why did you lie to us" After speaking, Huang Bingtong came up and gave me another punch, which woke me up.
I already knew that my mother would take me out of the city after my last semester in fifth grade, and I told them the news, and they were very reluctant to see me off on the day I left. But I couldn't accept this image, and I lied to them that I would leave the morning after tomorrow, when in fact I would leave the city tomorrow.
"I lied to you and I have a hard time, I really don't want to say goodbye to you, this scene is too sad, I will feel better if I go quietly alone"!
After listening to my words, Chen Zelin finally let go of me, "You are relieved, you are comfortable, then have you taken into account our feelings, we were going to see you off that day, and when we arrived at your house, your father told us that you had left yesterday, do you know how we felt at that time, can you feel it?" After Chen Zelin finished speaking, he punched me again.
Xia Zichen had been watching with his hands clenched into fists on the side, but after listening to Chen Zelin's words, he also said, "This matter, what you do is not authentic, this is different from the feeling of losing a pen." As he spoke, he stretched out his leg and stomped on me a few times.
When is this coming, give me a high push.
Really, the three of them beat me up, although it was quite painful, but I was happy from the bottom of my heart, they really cared about me and treated me as a brother. "I haven't seen my brother for many years, and his skills have not diminished."
Maybe they were also tired of beating, and one by one they finally stopped beating me.
"Forget it, I'll leave you a small life this time, and you won't be able to lie to us in the future, no matter what the purpose, if you still treat us as brothers."
"I promise to listen to a few big brothers, in order to show my sincerity, I will invite you big brothers to dinner tonight, I don't know what the old ones think." It's really time to eat, and I'm already hungry.
"This kid is very dragged now, he wants the most expensive food tonight, eat him poorly", Xia Zichen said loudly to everyone.
After that, our group left the villa, now it is dark, everywhere is bright, the flowers are red and willow green, although there are not a few stars in the sky, but the fireworks are very good to replace him, it is so lively, as if to welcome me home, then I really have to be flattered.
I asked everyone's opinions, I plan to go to the beach to eat skewers, facing the sea breeze, eating skewers, drinking beer, a few brothers, cheering homely, bragging, it's really amazing, it's so exciting to think about.
In order to get to the beach quickly, we decided to take a small path, and as soon as we walked into a small alley, we could vaguely see a group of elementary school students, yes, elementary school students, wearing school uniforms, under the dim street lamp. "If you fucking apologize now, we'll spare you, or we'll kill you" "Apologize? I say to your mother". As he spoke, the two sides tore and fought, and when we saw this picture, none of us spoke, but watched quietly. I know that we are not watching the excitement, nor are we looking at how naïve they are, what we see is our childhood with each other, our memories with each other!
"They're like a bunch of Sabis" "Yes, they're so naïve" Not only are they naïve, they're just rubbish, and the fight is too bad" "Yes, they're far from us" "This group of Sabbi". "We are also a group of Sabby," Xia Zichen finally said slowly.
We all looked at Xia Zichen, and then we all laughed, "That's right, we're also Sabi, hahahaha" The laughter kept echoing in the alley.
When we came to the beach, it was crowded with people, and finally we found a slightly quieter corner, set up a fireplace, and brought in two dozen beers. I know it's going to be a drunken night.
Then we each told the story of these years, sometimes silent, sometimes cheering, "Cheers, come, drink".
I don't drink well, but this time I don't drink less than anyone else, this kind of opportunity, next time, I don't know when, will there be a chance? I do not know.