1. The past
Staring at the computer screen in front of him, Zeng Fan was bored again—he thought of Liu Yue again. Just a few days ago, he just chatted with Liu Yue on QQ, chatting about which classmates got married, which ones had children, and which ones committed suicide because of emotional matters.
It was Yao Jinlan who was lying on the rails. In fact, Zeng Fan's relationship with her is not too good, and it can even be said that she is not familiar, so that Zeng Fan can't even remember her appearance clearly, only a vague shadow is left - in short, she is a girl with a boy's personality.
Yao Jinlan went to university in Lanzhou, Zeng Fan knew. I heard that she had a boyfriend in college, and her family tricked her into going home with the news that her mother was critically ill, and she didn't know that she had been promised to be married to someone else after she went back.
In her hometown, this kind of thing doesn't need her consent in the first place. What makes Yao Jinlan helpless is that if she doesn't marry, her brother will not be able to get married, because this is a family exchange.
The elder brother wants to marry someone else's daughter and can't afford the bride price, so the parents want to marry Yao Jinlan to the daughter's brother, so that both families save the bride price and kiss each other.
In the eyes of both parents, the best of both worlds was strongly opposed by one of the parties.
Yao Jinlan's parents put Yao Jinlan under house arrest and refused to let her go back to school if she did not agree to the marriage. She calls her boyfriend and asks him to figure it out; Where has my boyfriend experienced this kind of thing, he was naturally at a loss for a short time, so he just told her to wait first.
Her boyfriend's reply disappointed her, and she agreed to the marriage, on the premise that she wanted to go out for a walk alone before getting married.
Parents didn't think too much, although Lan Lan has been stubborn since she was a child, she is still obedient after all, and it's good to figure out this kind of thing.
It was the first time she had been out of the house since she returned home, and the sky was very blue, and the sun was surprisingly good, even a little dazzling.
Lanzhou does not have such dazzling sunlight, only pungent car exhaust. That day, she looked at the blue sky for a long time, as if she wanted to see enough at once.
Lying between the cold train tracks, she thought of her boyfriend, who used to lie on the lawn of the stadium together and watch the blue sky, watch the murky river roar on the Yellow River Bridge, and swim together in Wuquanshan Park...... As far as Zeng Fan knew, Yao Jinlan was already the second life swallowed by the railroad tracks - of course, it was not responsible for it - as early as when he was in elementary school, the younger brother of a classmate also died here.
Because he talked about the death of his classmate, this chat also revealed a trace of sadness, and in the end, both of them were a little uncomfortable, and the chat ended.
But to Zeng Fan's surprise, the chat with Liu Yue didn't look like he hadn't seen each other for several years and hadn't said a word.
This is probably because she has long forgotten everything before. But Zeng Fan remembered that including the apricot grove on the hill behind the school, the apricot blossoms that were flying and falling began to be active in his mind.
But it must have been 5 years, no, it should have been 6 years.