Chapter 1 The Past Is Like the Wind
Eucalyptus blue is a girl whose age is impossible to guess at a glance. Blown-out skin, pure and clear pupils, such an appearance makes people who see her for the first time always mistakenly think that she is only seventeen or eighteen years old, but she is so decent, people who communicate with her can't help but suspect that this is a forty-year-old mature woman, just because the maintenance is too good and unpredictable.
She is glad that she lives in such a big era, has not encountered the lack of materials, has not experienced the war of artillery fire, and is at the turn of the industrial and Internet eras, the future belongs to their generation of dreamers.
She is still in her old age, and she can still survive independently; Willing to enjoy solitude and sociable; understands the sophistication of the world, and does not tell right and wrong; I have tasted luxury, but I still love Qinghuan alone.
After several years of hard work and polishing, Eucalyptus has become a well-known illustrator in Y City. She often wanders alone in a studio full of greenery, quietly listening to the rustle of the tip of the brush. On the road of chasing her dreams, she will definitely trek further. The world is a journey for her; She is an enigma to the world......
In the vague memory of eucalyptus, the sunlight of childhood is old, splashing on the mottled concrete walls. It was the midsummer of the early 90s, and the tram jingled through the newly paved asphalt road, and Teresa Teng's song was playing one after another in the streets and alleys, "Sweet honey, you smile sweetly, like flowers blooming in the spring breeze, blooming in the spring breeze." Where and where I saw you, your smile was so familiar, I can't remember it for a while. Ah, in a dream......"
This song Lan Eucalyptus can always hum word for word, as long as she starts with a sweet voice in front of her neighbors, a chorus of Hong Kong and Taiwan pop songs will sound in the yard. It's not that these kids are fashionable, it's just that a new dance hall has opened on the corner of the neighborhood a while ago, and every night when it falls, the place will start singing and dancing as usual.
Children will not understand the complexity of the adult world. Looking at the people coming and going in front of the neon gate, Lan Eucalyptus occasionally pestered the adults to follow up and play together, not really to get in, but because the adults had to buy her popsicles to eat in order to send her away, and this method was always tried.
On this day, several neighbors each took their children to enjoy the cool and chat under the big tree in the yard, Lan Eucalyptus saw the boy on the opposite floor chicly playing Gameboy while digging ice cream and eating it, secretly swallowed her saliva, her eyes rolled drippingly, trotted to the adult in three steps and two steps, grabbed her mother's sleeve and shook it: "I'll go to the dance hall with you later!" The adults laughed, and Lan Eucalyptus's mother thought to herself that she was just taking her in for a drink, anyway, so many friends were there, so it was good not to let Eucalyptus run away, so she agreed. Lan Eucalyptus was a little disappointed when she got permission, so she had to follow the adult and pout.
Before they knew it, they had entered a dimly lit hall, where several eye-catching lights swirled around, and the blue eucalyptus sat down with the crowd in a window position, and the lights outside the window were bright and bright. Suddenly, a silver sedan stopped on the side of the road, the door opened leisurely, and a fashionably dressed modern girl stepped down and stepped into the door of the ballroom with a model step on a ten-centimeter-long hat. She was dressed in a glittering dress, with a few feathers stuck in her round hat, and a black veil hanging down to cover her delicate melon seed face, and Lan Eucalyptus heard someone at the next table whispering: "It's her here, butterfly fan." Several men with beer bellies looked at her with admiration.
Butterfly fans can dance any dance music, with skillful steps and dancing postures, and several men wearing toad glasses compete to come up and invite her to dance. The reflective toad glasses are also labeled with conspicuous English labels, as if they are afraid that others will not know that they are smuggled goods.
The dance music changed one song after another, and Lan Eucalyptus's mother raised her hand to look at the electronic watch, grabbed Lan Eucalyptus's little hand and said, "We should go back," Lan Eucalyptus put down the unfinished drink, and followed her mother with small and hurried steps meekly, the floor of the dance hall was so smooth that it would make people slippery, and she carefully tiptoed her heels, lest she stain the newly purchased corduroy bell bottoms. The BB machines of several of the men in the audience kept ringing, and they continued to immerse themselves in the intoxicating dance as if they hadn't heard it.
After returning home to freshen up, the blue eucalyptus rubbed some incense with clam oil, and listened to the music channel in the three-purpose machine singing endlessly, everything was like a dream, and the blue eucalyptus lay on the bed and fell asleep groggy.
The forest farm near her home appeared vaguely in front of her, this is a dense rainbow eucalyptus forest, several white doves hovering over the forest from time to time, and at the same time making a "purring ......" sound, a fat pigeon landed on her shoulder, and the blue eucalyptus just wanted to reach out and grab it and woke up. What a bizarre dream.
It was already bright outside the window, and Lan Eucalyptus rubbed her sleepy eyes, and she couldn't help but remember that whenever her mother talked about the origin of her name, she would tease the child, and repeated: "I had a strange dream that night I was pregnant with Eucalyptus." In my dream, there was a very beautiful white pigeon, with a wreath made of blue eucalyptus branches in his mouth and flew into my arms, and it happened that Mr. was surnamed Lan, so he decided to give the child this name...... "At that time, the blue eucalyptus will be suspicious, how can there be such a coincidence?" A lot of adults like to make up lies to tease children, as if we children are stupid. And now that she thinks about it, it was a coincidence?
Lan Eucalyptus has been very quiet since she was a child, adults always say that she is three years old to see the old, she has not lived up to expectations, since elementary school has been the neighbor's mouth of other people's children, the most popular thing for those parents is that her Chinese, mathematics, English 3 never lower than 95 points, but she herself never cared.
After winning a few Olympiad awards, she looked around proudly and found that she only had one chess opponent left - Yu Shengming. Sheng Ming is a member of the study committee in the class, thin and tall, with a pair of gold-wire glasses on the bridge of his nose, and he is a white and pure scholar. Before the fourth grade of elementary school, Lan Yu had never spoken to Sheng Ming, and the two dazzling stars twinkled in their respective circles, without intersecting and interfering with each other, and this state lasted until the group experiment in the first semester of the fourth grade, which was suddenly broken.
At the beginning of the fourth grade, the teacher decided to take an experimental class in a nearby park when he advocated quality education. As soon as the activity was arranged, a few good students began to discuss how to group groups, and the classroom suddenly exploded, as if they were going to a spring outing. The natural teacher is a woman who has passed the age of confusion, the burly body is propped up from the edge of the podium, and the palm stained with chalk ash is slapped heavily on the table: "Ann-quiet-" The hoarse voice immediately frightened those obedient students, and the dust that was originally scattered on the table slowly rose from the bottom of the teacher's five fingers mountain like smoke, rendering the active volcano that had just erupted in front of him very appropriately, and the classroom was silent for a moment.
"This experiment is grouped by number!" After the "active volcano" finished speaking, he twisted and walked away with a stack of lesson plans, leaving clusters of students who were originally full of anticipation sighing.
The blue eucalyptus did not say a word the whole time. Fortunately for her, Qin Yi's number was next to her, and their inseparable sisters must be in the same group. Perhaps every young girl has a few sisters and sisters who are known to be sworn friends when they are students, and no matter what the reason for coming together, most of the sisterhood will gradually fade due to the passage of time, and even if there are one or two true friends left, it is an extremely rare karmic coincidence. When they grow up, they will clearly realize that their sisters only know your habits at that time, not the real you. If there is any dispute between the sisters, the more they know, the more harm it will cause. And the wars between girls, most of the time because of men.
Blue Eucalyptus is at a carefree age, and everything is going too smoothly, even if she is so young and intellectually superior, naturally she has not yet understood this. On the day of the experimental class, she got up early in the morning, and the sun lay drowsy in the sky, knowing that her thirsty throat was calling in unison: "Hot—hot—" Lan Eucalyptus finished her breakfast unhurriedly, hesitantly glanced at the umbrella on the shelf, and went out in a hurry.
When she arrived at the gate of the park, Lan Yu opened the electronic watch on her wrist and saw that it was half an hour early, and Qin Yi had not yet come, so Lan Yu had to wander around the park with nothing to do. inadvertently glanced at the big tree not far away, there was a figure in a blue sweatshirt that was quite familiar, and then looked at it, heh, isn't this Yu Shengming in the same class? I've never spoken to him, should I go over and say hi? Forget it, let's pretend you didn't see it.
Lan Eucalyptus walked straight forward, she was about to walk past the tree next to him, Sheng Ming suddenly beckoned, Lan Eucalyptus looked surprised, pointed to herself and asked, "Are you calling me?" ”
Sheng Ming laughed, "Who don't you call?" Usually in the class, I didn't expect you to be quite shy......"
"Oh...... Is it? Lan Eucalyptus rarely speaks to boys, although she is a dominant student in the class, her face can't help but turn red as she approaches puberty.
"I'm in a team with you in this experiment." Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of the smile in Sheng Ming's eyes, faintly peeking out from behind the gold-wire frames that glittered in the sunlight. The breeze gently brushed through her long hair, and Lan Eucalyptus lowered her head, letting the strands of hair cover the corners of her eyes, forgetting to answer. When Lan Eucalyptus raised his head again, he found that Sheng Ming had already walked to the gate of the park, and a dozen familiar faces were shaking, and soon a long line of twists and turns soon formed. "Eucalyptus blue—assemble—" Qin Yi called out in the ranks. Blue Eucalyptus replied as he dragged small steps to the team.
Almost everyone came together and started working in groups. The blue eucalyptus is responsible for collecting leaves of various shapes, and Qin Yi holds a plastic bag to pack the leaves in one go. The sun gradually lost its edge and hid behind the clouds. "Eucalyptus, I'm going to the toilet, are you going?" Blue Eucalyptus shook her head as she looked at the leaves in her hands. Qin Yi put the bag with the leaves on the lawn and walked away.
There was no word for a while, and only the rustle of Sheng Ming recorded on the paper was left on this lawn. Suddenly, a drop of rain hit the treetops coldly, "Click-" "Ouch! Blue Eucalyptus brushed the water droplets from her head, "Is it raining?" Sheng Ming closed the notebook and poked his head out from behind the tree, Lan Eucalyptus was stunned for a moment, and before he could react, raindrops the size of beans poured down from the sky. Sheng Ming quickly stretched out the umbrella and blocked the blue eucalyptus head very gentlemanly. "The free activity is over, let's go home first!" The shouts of several classmates could be heard in the distance.
"Didn't you bring an umbrella? I'll send you back. Lan Yu helplessly wiped her wet hair that was still dripping with a tissue, so she had to drag her cloth shoes that were wet with muddy water, and respectfully obeyed her fate and walked out of the park with Sheng Ming. This scene happened to be seen by Qin Yi, who had just come out of the toilet, and her jealous gaze burned faintly in a pair of coffee-colored pupils.
The next day of class, Lan Yu sensitively noticed that the attitude of her classmates had become a little strange, as if someone was always pointing fingers at her and Shengming behind her back, and she covered her mouth with a smile and turned her head to ear. What surprised her even more was that Qin Yi seemed to be a different person, and turned her head away without saying a few words. Lan Yu was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that it was raining yesterday, and she forgot Qin Yi in the park in a hurry, so she shouldn't be angry, right? The innocent blue eucalyptus pulled Qin Yi's arm and wanted to apologize to her, Qin Yi showed a disgusted face, and just wanted to shake off her arm, her eyes suddenly softened.
It turned out that it was Sheng Ming who came over, Lan Yu took a step back, she knew how many pairs of eyes were looking at them in the classroom, she didn't want to cause trouble for no reason. Lan Eucalyptus realizes that she doesn't like Sheng Ming, it's just that she has too little contact with the opposite sex, which will make her unable to let go. However, the classmates in the class obviously misunderstood, but this kind of thing is discussed behind the scenes, how to explain it? However, Qin Yi's reaction was particularly abnormal, Lan Eucalyptus and her have always been like glue and like sisters, although they have tripped up before, they have been reconciled as soon as they turn around, and they have never been like today. Could it be? Lan Yu suddenly came to her senses, and Qin Yi seemed to have a little meaning for Sheng Ming. It's too early, right? It's only the fourth grade of primary school, does she really know what love is? It's about like encountering a cute toy, and if you don't get it, you want it. Lan Yu sighed and shook her head, not to mention that she was not interesting to Sheng Ming, even if she really liked her, she would not approach, after all, she and Sheng Ming were both good children in the eyes of the teacher, and it was too much to do whatever it took to do so, and it was just a few words to talk about, so why care?
The eucalyptus cautiously stepped aside to give them more room to speak. To Lan Yu's loss, she lost a close friend so easily.
The days went forward quietly, and Lan Eucalyptus and Qin Yi each changed to new girlfriends. After a long time, they would nod to each other when they occasionally met on the road, and the strong friendship that used to be still seemed to be there, but in fact it had gradually drifted away.
is about to graduate in a flash, and Lan Eucalyptus and Shengming's grades are still comparable, but since that experimental class, there has been no intersection. Almost everyone sensed that it was Lan Eucalyptus who was deliberately avoiding him. A week before graduation, June suddenly hesitated to tell Lan Eucalyptus that a friend wanted to say goodbye to her in person. Lan Yu couldn't guess who June was talking about for a while, and playfully told her not to sell Guanzi.
I didn't think that it was Sheng Ming who flashed out from behind the door, and said in an unusually calm tone, after graduation, he didn't go to junior high school with his classmates at school, and his parents had already helped him find a private school in Shanghai, paused, and asked Lan Yu if he had anything to say to him.
Lan Yu smiled with a blank expression: "I don't have anything to say...... Did Qin Yi know you were going to Shanghai? ”
Sheng Ming turned her back to Lan Eucalyptus in disappointment: "Qin Yi will know." Lan Eucalyptus nodded, "Have a nice trip." ”
To the surprise of the whole class, Sheng Ming did not come to the graduation dinner. After the mess of cups and plates, Lan Eucalyptus and June walked hand in hand on the streets of midsummer, Lan Eucalyptus thought about what to say so that the goodbye would not be so sad, they would definitely meet after graduation, but I didn't know if they could get along in the same class day and night.
Or June broke the silence first: "You really don't know about Qin Yi being rejected by Sheng Ming in person?" Lan Eucalyptus was stunned, "When is it?" "Several times, Qin Yi wrote him love letters, he felt annoyed and tore them in front of him, he said that he always liked you!" "This ...... How so? Lan Yu stopped painfully, she was not worth it for Qin Yi, she had known that this was the case, she should have made it clear to Sheng Ming first, she really didn't expect things to develop to this point......
The wind crackled and lifted a large branch of the tree, and slashed at the blue eucalyptus, her heart shrinking violently, and the nerves on her face twitched. The sun was setting drowsily, and six years were coming to an abrupt end.
Throughout the summer vacation, Lan Eucalyptus desperately buried herself in the stacks of books, trying to forget the guilt in her heart from extracurricular books. She felt like she was growing up, and she was becoming a little sentimental in her heart. An unknown junior high school era is quietly approaching her.
Maybe everyone has two selves in their bodies, one is sad and happy in the rolling red dust, and the other is enlightened outside the worldly fireworks, and you can never be sure which side it will be in the next second. The most dangerous part of life is the unknown, and the most wonderful part is also the unknown......