packed up the rental room, and Xia Zhi and Pan Rui returned to Nanshi.

When it wasn't busy, there was a seat on the bus, and the two of them sat next to each other, and Xia Zhi leaned on Pan Rui's shoulder and fell asleep bumpily.

The car drove in the shadows of the tall buildings on the road, and she felt the sun shining on her body one after another, and her body was cold and hot, and she reached out in a daze and scratched the itch on the tip of her nose.

She didn't entangle with Pan Rui on the topic of induction cooker, and the two didn't talk about salary and work anymore, they talked and laughed like no one else, and went back to the dormitory.

Cao Limei returned to the dormitory an hour earlier than her, and was discussing with Xiao Yiqing and Liang Lu where to go for dinner in the evening, and smiled when she walked into the dormitory: "How is it, have you found a house?" ”

"Found it." Xia Zhi stood at the door and changed his slippers, hooked the shoes to the shoe rack with his toes, and briefly told the three of them about the situation of the house.

Xiao Yiqing sat cross-legged on the bed and opened her mouth: "Such a small single room costs five hundred and five, so expensive." ”

"It's already very cheap, okay, and the location is okay." Xia Solstice looked up at her and said to her.

"Well, I don't want to rent a house." Xiao Yiqing has not received the notice of registration from No. 6 Middle School, and her family is going to drive over on July 1 to help her pull her luggage home first.

Liang Lu leaned on the bed ladder and said, "You definitely don't need to rent a house, there should be accommodation arrangements in No. 6 Middle School." ”

Xia Zhi asked Liang Lu: "What about you?" Was the application for deferred relocation approved? ”

"I asked Ms. Wang, and she said that the graduate building would arrange a dormitory for me in advance, and it would be a few days late, and I would move there again."

Originally, if there was no way to postpone, Liang Lu planned to temporarily store her luggage in the dormitory of her familiar sister, and then leave the school early to travel.

In this way, Cao Limei will be the first to leave the school in their dormitory, Xia Zhi and Xiao Yiqing will leave by the deadline, and Liang Lu will stay until the end.

Their dormitory is very good, three of the four people are still in Nanzhou, and some people are really separated after stepping out of the school gate, and the chance of seeing each other after that is slim.

For example, Cao Limei, her hometown is in Yancheng, a five-hour drive from Nanzhou. Xia Zhi thought that she might never see this gentle girl again in the future, and her heart was slightly sour.

She clapped her hands, letting herself ignore the discomfort in her heart, and said, "Have we discussed where we will go to dinner at night?" ”

Cao Limei has a pair of good-looking crescent eyebrows, almost no need to repair, natural, eyes like round apricots, when talking to people, she will always squint slightly and bend upward, very affinity. If it weren't for the effects of myopia, these eyebrows would be more attractive.

She held the glasses on the bridge of her nose at this moment and said, "You are the head of the house, we will wait for you to come back and make a decision!" We think it's better to go to the West Gate, don't you think? ”

"Yes!"

Two blocks not far from the west gate of the school, there is a whole row of small restaurants, all of which are food stalls, decorated with a large white wall with menu posters, two fluorescent lamps and ceiling fans on the top, and a few large round folding tables in the store, the price is fair, the taste is acceptable, and it specializes in student business.

Although there is also a restaurant in the third school, there is basically no choice for people to drink in this kind of on-campus restaurant.

The west gate is different, they often roam the world at the wine table, dreaming of changing the world, and then take crooked steps, stepping on the starry sky and the moon to go back to the dormitory.

Liang Lu looked at Xia Zhi's excitement, locked his eyebrows and said, "Xia Zhi, let's drink some casually, don't get drunk, we won't carry you back." ”

Xia Zhi waved his hand and said, "Can you still get drunk after drinking with you?" Besides, I've quit drinking. ”

In my sophomore and junior years, because club activities had to run relationships, Xia Zhi often went to the West Gate for dinner.

Drinking beer is notoriously fierce, two bottles of belly to talk a lot, a person who works weekdays, writes and compiles manuscripts, dares to say anything after drinking, and dares to scold anything, and boys who are familiar with the literary club and other clubs like to take her to drink.

Later, she fell in love with Pan Rui, and Pan Rui didn't like her to drink with a group of boys all the time, so she went less. She is called "abstinence from alcohol".

Xiao Yiqing hugged a big plush doll in her arms, and said with a smile: "You are just a wine jar, and you still quit drinking." ”

Cao Limei took it and said, "Okay, then settle down, I'll pack something first." ”

She bought a few cardboard boxes at the convenience store downstairs, glued one by this time, and stacked the books locally. Things that are not needed for the time being should be sealed and towed to the express station tomorrow when there is time to take the logistics, and the personal luggage will be taken away directly after the graduation ceremony on Monday.

A person's four years, an indelible memory, and a life imprint, have been sealed in this way.

In that hot summer, Xia Zhi thought that she stayed in Nanzhou, where she wanted to settle down, she had enough time to reminisce about every section of the road she had walked, until she recalled it much later, she knew that time slipped away, some goodbyes you can no longer pick up the intimacy you once had, and some goodbyes are actually never seen.

It was four days before the summer solstice in 2006, four days before the 22nd birthday of the girl called the summer solstice, two days before their graduation, and two weeks before they left school to become adults.

In 2008, due to the expansion of the subway, the row of food stalls outside the west gate of Nanshi was blocked by a wall, and later closed down one by one.

Summer Solstice in 2006 was also one of those unscrupulous children.

Every year in the graduation season, the food stalls at the west gate are always overcrowded, the wine table is scattered one table after another, a few bites of small dishes cushion the stomach, and they begin to clink glasses, for the years they have gone through together, for the future that is about to go, and for the parting full of sorrow.

They talked about the bits and pieces of the past four years, and they didn't drink much, but the wine was not drunk, and everyone was drunk, and after a while, they leaned crookedly to the side. No one was crying, they weren't so pretentious, they just felt tired.

I'm tired of eating, I'm tired of drinking, I'm tired of talking, I'm tired of laughing.

Xia Zhi raised her head slightly, looking at the lamp directly above their table, she didn't know if her vision had become clearer, or if the whole world had slowed down, she could see the alternation of light and dark in the light tube.

None of them could remember what they had said, except that the meal seemed like a century long, like the night would never end. In the end, it was Cao Limei who stood up first.

She walked to the counter to check out unusually consciously, and Xia Zhi propped herself up on the table and followed. In the dormitory, she and Cao Limei now have income, and she feels that it is a tacit understanding between her and Cao Limei that they will settle the bill.

But Cao Limei pushed away the hundred yuan she handed over: "The school has a teacher's dormitory, and it doesn't cost me to live there, and there is a canteen for dinner." You need to save more money for self-defense. Life in Nanzhou is too stressful. ”

The two pushed and shoved twice, ending with Cao Limei snatching the money in Xia Zhi's hand and stuffing it back into her backpack, Cao Limei said: "Don't take it out again, when I go back to Nanzhou in the future, you have to eat and live." ”

"You have to come at any time, I will be the escort, eat and drink together." Xia Solstice felt his tongue knot as he spoke.

Cao Limei smiled, opened her arms and hugged Xia Zhi: "It's good to have you." ”

"I'm going to hug too!" Xiao Yiqing screamed and pounced.

"I'll do it too!" Liang Lu tripped over the footstool when she stood up, and the four of them hugged each other in front of the food stall counter, laughing.

The boss stood behind the counter, looking at the hug of the four people and smiling like a kind old monk, he grabbed a few pieces of change to get back to Cao Limei, and sent it several times without giving it out.