A melodious, soft and ethereal tune echoes in a small alley in Ningchuan Town, lingering in the ears and intoxicating. When passers-by close their eyes and listen, they seem to dissipate their worries and feel relaxed.

The song "Pipa Language" is played over and over again, and the hazy smoke and rain outside the window always carries a trace of poignant, which makes people want to see the person who plays the kite.

"Alright, Xiaoxiao, don't play anymore." An old voice sounded from the piano room, a little tired.

"Grandma Lin, I'll play it again." The girl's voice was crisp, but a little flat.

"Xiaoxiao, since you and I learned the guzheng, I told you that the kite player has to enter this artistic conception in order to really play a beautiful tune, and the sound must be immersive. It's just that you're never in the song, and no matter how good the fingering is, you don't have that unique feeling. The old man looked at the girl who was silent and let out a sigh. This kid is talented, he studied with her for 5 years, and even played "Yunshang Sue" well, but unfortunately he couldn't do the unity of the music and the environment when playing the kite.

The girl's hand on the guzheng was slender and slender, white and shiny, and the blue veins on the back of the hand were particularly obvious. After stroking the zither, she took off her prosthetic armor and said to the old man: "I know, during this time, I won't come first, and I will take the college entrance examination soon."

"Okay, study is important, contact me when you come."

"Well, goodbye Grandma Lin" Shu Jin bowed to the old man, and was about to open the door to leave, when she heard the old man say again, "The college entrance examination went well", she turned around, and what greeted her was the old man with kind eyebrows.

"It's not easy, kid."

The old man looked at the slender back of the window holding a lattice umbrella and gradually moving away, shook his head, and sighed again.

......

Jiangnan Town, Ningchuan Town is a small town below Linnan City, located on the coast, with a lot of seafood and monsoon climate, at this time May is the rainy season, wet and rainy, when Shu Jin returned home, the trouser legs were already a little wet.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, the grandmother in the kitchen walked out wearing an apron and said to Shu Jin with a smile: "Xiaoxiao is back, go wash your hands, you can eat." ”

She looked at her grandmother and nodded, put on her slippers, washed her hands, and helped her grandmother bring the food over.

"Xiaoxiao, you won't be able to go home for the next two weeks, you eat more." The septuagenarian looked at his granddaughter's overly slender wrist leaking out from under her sleeve, and her eyes were full of pity. She took a piece of sweet and sour pork ribs and put it in the girl's bowl.

The girl looked at the tender pork ribs in the bowl and was stunned, sandwiched a nine-section shrimp, peeled the shell and put it in the old man's bowl, pursed her lips, looked at her grandmother and said, "Grandma, you should also eat more, it's too thin, shrimp supplement protein." ”

Shu Jin's eyes are beautiful, the eyelids are less wrinkled, they are very shallow double eyelids, the outer canthal angle is blunt and round, there are not so narrow and long tails, the big black eyeballs are embedded in the eye sockets and occupy a large part, the pupils are pitch black with some light brown, clean and clear, and a smile is even more wonderful, but unfortunately she doesn't like to laugh.

"Okay, good granddaughter," the grandmother smiled lovingly, and the folds crept up the corners of her eyes, which were the traces of the erosion of time.

She smiled and picked up the shrimp from the bowl and put it in her mouth, helping her granddaughter pin the hanging hair.

"Xiaoxiao, don't be stressed during this time, just do your best, grandma doesn't want you to be tired. The body is the capital of the revolution, and nothing can compare with it. The old man babbled, his cloudy old eyes full of concern.

"Grandma, I know, don't worry about me." Shu Jin swallowed the food in his mouth before whispering.

"It's good that you know, I'm not by your side, you have to eat well at school, eat nutritious, spend what you should spend, don't save, don't wronged yourself."

"Okay, grandma, you have to take care of yourself too."

The time of the meal was spent in the whispered conversation between the grandparents and grandchildren, Shu Jin was about to wash the dishes, but was stopped by her grandmother, saying that she studied hard, just a few bowls, and washed herself quickly.

"Grandma, let me wash, I want to relax, you go for a walk." Shu Jin pursed her lips and spoke slowly after a while.

The old man couldn't resist his granddaughter's stubbornness, and said a few more words before leaving the door.

Shu Jin lowered her eyes and slowly brushed the bowl, watching the water flow through her fingers and into the pool, as if all these years were passing in a hurry, and it had been seventeen years.

......

One afternoon in mid-June 1997, when the crying echoed throughout the operating room, the young mother asked the nurse in an unsteady breath: "Is the child a boy or a girl?" ”

"Congratulations, it's a daughter." The nurse held the child in front of the mother's eyes and looked at the child with a smile, not seeing the gloom and disappointment in the eyes of the first-time mother.

The nurse outside came in and said indignantly: "Who are these people, what's wrong with the girl, what kind of attitude, as for sighing outside!" ”

The child holding the nurse turned around and replied: "Rural people, patriarchal, we know, I took the child to wash it first." Don't be upset, look at this child, how cute and laughing, really like a little angel. ”

The birth of a child who is not expected is destined to be unwelcome, only the grandmother will always treat her like a jewel. When she was young, she held the little girl on her lap and said: "You were born that year, I didn't have much culture, and I couldn't give you any decent name, so I went to Zhaoning Temple to find Master Qi, and he named you 'Shu Hibiscus', saying that you were born in June, which is the season when hibiscus flowers bloom, 'pine trees will eventually decay for a thousand years, He said that from life to death, it is the law of all things, and there is no escape, he hopes that you have a correct attitude towards life, and you should think more about how to make due contributions to the country and the nation in your lifetime. Although I don't fully understand what I mean by that, I do know that I hope you grow up to do more good deeds. Grandma also hopes that you will remember these words and do it in the future. ”

"The pine tree will eventually decay for a thousand years, and the hibiscus flower will be proud of itself for a day", Shu Jin muttered this poem repeatedly, looking at the starry sky wrapped in night outside the window, vast and wide, boundless, and secretly made a determination in his heart.

With a rare relaxation on Saturday, Shu Jin did not choose to review, but picked up his mobile phone and clicked on "Pipa Language". Sitting at the desk in the bedroom, his eyes closed and his fingers tapping on the tabletop, as if trying to feel the meaning of the song. When she was getting better, suddenly her mobile phone began to vibrate, and she opened it to see that it was a voice call from her childhood friend Yang Zhi.

"Yang Zhi," she called out her partner's name after she connected.

"Tiny, what are you doing?" On the other end was the cheerful voice of the girl.

"Listening to a song"

"What song?" The girl sighed softly, "Let me guess, it's pure music."

"Forget it," Shu Jin pursed her lips and touched her short tuft of hair.

"I just finished lunch, have you had dinner?"

"Well, I've eaten, how are you in the UK?"

"I'm good, Xiaoxiao, this is the first time you've cared about me, I'm really flattered!" Yang Zhi smiled softly over there, quite happy.

"Since I went abroad, I came back once last year, and we have seen each other this time in three years, you can't forget me! Otherwise, I'll be sad, and I'll be bothered by you, you..."

Yang Zhi's unfinished words were interrupted by her, she pursed her lips, and replied to her: "I won't forget you." "Yang Zhi is a special meaning to her.

"Hehe, that's good, you're about to take the college entrance examination, have you thought about applying for any university?"

"Linnan University" Shu Jin gently and weightily said the decision he had just made.

"Well, the city's Linda is second to none in the country, especially the science and engineering majors, which is great, but the score line is not low, you have to work hard!" On the other end, Yang Zhi expressed her approval for the lofty goals of her childhood friend. Xiaoxiao, this person, is not close to anyone, she has always been close to her, she has a temperament that she likes inexplicably, always attracts her, even if she is sometimes hit by her coldness, after a while it can stick like kraft candy, anyway, Xiaoxiao doesn't bother her, she is 2 years older than Xiaoxiao, let her what's wrong. After four years with her, her parents took her abroad, and in the next three years, she only returned to China to see her once last year.

Xiaoxiao is still the same, she has grown up, and she is thin and small and has not grown much taller, which also reflects her nickname. That little face is still so delicate and cute, but it's a pity that this character is seriously inconsistent with her face! I haven't seen her for 2 years, and when I see her again, she is still so calm, not like she impulsively went up to hug her, and she doesn't smile like a person who is two years older than her.

She was very distressed when she was a child, and now that she has a new pursuit, she is really happy for her, and she is so happy.

"I will" Yang Zhi was immersed in her thoughts and didn't come back to her senses for a while, when she was interrupted by a light voice.

"Xiaoxiao, I'm so happy, happy for you, take care of yourself, we'll meet again." Yang Zhi said excitedly, as if she could imagine the reunion of the two in the future, and the smile was all over her ears.

"Thank you, Yang Zhi." Shu Jin said softly, although there were no ups and downs, Yang Zhi could feel that these words were from her heart.

"Don't thank me, don't be polite to me, I don't like it." Shu Jin couldn't see it, although she said this with some annoyance, the corners of her eyes were indeed raised, and her ears were slightly red.

Seeing that the other side didn't respond for a long time, she thought that Xiaoxiao was frightened, and hurriedly said, "Tease you, Xiaoxiao, I'm not angry." ”

"Hmm"

"What are you?"

"I'm not polite to you" Shu Jin replied to her, covering her mouth and yawning silently, she was a little sleepy.

......

Shu Jin sometimes admires Yang Zhi very much, she can speak well, every time she makes a voice call, she can talk for more than an hour, from people to things, from birds to dogs, she can talk about it, and at the end, she will always ask her, 'Fun, right?' I'm always afraid that she'll be bored.

How can it be boring? She's a boring person, and she has more to talk about than she does.