Chapter 16: The Last Line
Later, whether at school or at home, Shen Yun and I had no contact. I've always been annoyed by Shen Yun, a fart worm, and I wanted to get rid of it for a long time, but I didn't expect it to be this way.
The nasty baggage is finally gone, and the treasure to be pursued is still far away.
In school, the only thing that gave me the opportunity to be with Yan Jinfeng without being disturbed by You Fu was when I was on duty at the school gate. The class leaders of each class in the senior class take turns to take turns to be on duty for the whole school.
When school goes to school in the morning and afternoon, standing at the school gate to monitor the wearing of red scarves and the tardiness of students is one of the contents of the duty, and each class is assigned to carry out the work of three boys and three girls.
So some days, I would stand upright at the school gate with two other boys, with a duty book in my hand, and from time to time I would glance at the three girls who were echoing us. Among the three girls, there happened to be Yan Jinfeng, she and her other two good friends were chatting enthusiastically every time, easily mixing the time, and leaving the heavy work to the boys anyway.
With the presence of Yan Jinfeng, I don't feel that this job is heavy work. This is a rare opportunity for me to look at her quietly through the endless flow of people, admiring her beautiful face and charming youthful atmosphere that has been moving for many years, with happiness and joy.
One day, after the duty was completed, the children went back to the classroom together as usual.
"What you brought today is so interesting, can you borrow it from me?" Yan Jinfeng asked a girl who was traveling with her.
"Okay, here you go" The girl handed the things in her hand to Yan Jinfeng.
They found a place against the wall together, and Yan Jinfeng threw the things in his hand against the wall.
The three of us boys followed curiously, poking our heads out to look.
It turned out to be a small purple rubber hand, and after shaking the "slap" out with the wrist, the slap would "click" and stick to any object it touched. On the wall, it looks like a flattened piece of meat, which is very joyful.
"If it's a small object, you can use the elasticity of the rubber to slip it into your hand." The girls explained to us.
Yan Jinfeng repeatedly pasted it on the wall, and then took it back, so happy that he couldn't stop.
"It's fun, can you play with me too?" I couldn't contain the excitement in my heart and said.
Yan Jinfeng also played almost enough, spread it in the palm of his hand and stretched it out in front of me.
I was about to pick it up when suddenly a girl shouted, "Eh! Men and women don't kiss! Then he smiled mysteriously.
I hesitated for a moment, thinking that she said this, and smiled so weirdly, maybe she still remembered the delicate relationship between me and Yan Jinfeng, in a period when most people had already regarded us as ordinary classmates, this was undoubtedly a flickering light of hope, although faint, but warm enough.
I laughed a little in response, but still reached for it.
Yan Jinfeng maintained that posture without any hesitation or dodge.
So I easily got the toy out of her palm. I had been careful to avoid contact with Yan Jinfeng's palm, but my ring finger and little finger still lightly touched her palm, and at that moment I felt a chill piercing my skin.
Yan Jinfeng and the others have been bare their hands in the cold wind, and their hands are naturally cold, but the penetrating force is more like an electric shock, even if the fingers have been gone for a long time, I still feel a ball of energy lingering on the fingertips, sour and comfortable.
Yan Jinfeng still didn't have any uneasy reaction in this process, it was very natural, and there was no resistance. Maybe that's a good sign, maybe she doesn't hate me as much as I thought, maybe we can go on with each other.
I was thinking too much about it, and instead of worrying about something, I should really take more action to understand and pursue what I wanted. Where, for example, is her home? Is it possible that I can walk with her for a while?
For as long as I can remember, my understanding of this small city is limited to the distance between my home and school, Yan Jinfeng has never appeared on this road, her home should not be on this road, not even in the direction that this road leads.
For me, Yan Jinfeng's home is like a point hidden in the shadows of the map in the game, I don't know where it is, I don't know how to get there, I don't know what it looks like, but I really want to uncover its mystery.
One afternoon, after the whole cleaning, school was dismissed early.
"Will you come to my house and play another game later?" Zhang Hong said to me.
"No, I'm going to my grandmother's house today, so I'm not going with you."
"Well, then I won't wait for you." After Zhang Hong finished speaking, he left excitedly.
I glanced at the classroom, where Yan Jinfeng was still talking and laughing with her classmates.
I hurriedly packed my schoolbag, rushed out of the classroom, and got into a stationery store at the school gate, waiting for Yan Jinfeng to come out of the school, where I knew she would pass by.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for Yan Jinfeng to appear.
I hurriedly pretended to pick out the goods in the store, and from time to time turned my head sideways to closely watch Yan Jinfeng's movements, feeling like a senior detective on TV.
Yan Jinfeng was accompanied by a few classmates. They walked across the zebra crossing and went across the road.
I moved under a tree close to the road without a hurry, ready to cross the road at the right time. Normally I don't have to cross that road when I go home, which means we can't walk on the same road as soon as we get out of school. And now, I'm starting to walk down a strange path.
Yan Jinfeng and his entourage crossed the road and walked a distance south.
Seeing that I was no longer in the range of vision that my target could turn his head to see, I crossed the street with peace of mind and walked cautiously along the side of the shop.
At the entrance of an alley, several classmates said goodbye to Yan Jinfeng and continued to walk forward, while Yan Jinfeng and the rest of the people turned into the alley to the east.
I was afraid of being discovered by my classmates who were walking straight, and I was worried that I would lose my target in the alley, so I had to tiptoe forward while keeping a safe distance, silently praying in my heart that I would still see the target when I turned into the alley.
Hey—it's not easy! Why do I have to carry my bag home like I normally would? If I didn't have a school bag, I would have turned into a cat and followed behind.
The moment I turned into the alley, I found that the alley was relatively narrow and there were not many people. I quickly locked on Yan Jinfeng's back. I'm glad I didn't lose it, and I felt like I was playing a game and I was just as excited as I passed a level.
The alley stretched so deep to the east that there was no end in sight, there was hardly anything to hide on the side of the road, and the distance between me and her was about 200 meters. Occasionally, a stranger on a bicycle passed by, fiddling with the brass bells on the handlebars, making a crisp chime, and the aftermath bounced between the walls on either side, gradually disappearing. In addition to that, there is the sound of sporadic residents on the roadside.
I kept walking at a slightly slower pace than Yan Jinfeng, nervous, but not particularly nervous. I try to act like a normal student coming home from school, happily walking on the usual path, looking around as if nothing happened.
But I am not familiar with this road, I don't know where this road will lead me, I don't know where Yan Jinfeng will guide him. What happens if I am discovered by Yan Jinfeng? What if I end up getting lost? What happens if I am treated as a thief by a roadside resident? What if a real thief suddenly rushes out of the road?
The straight road is longer than it seems, and the classmates around Yan Jinfeng turned into the fork one by one, and every time I had to stop, I would avoid being discovered by my classmates when they turned the corner.
As I passed by the fork in the road, I cautiously poked my head out and looked inside, afraid that I would be discovered by my classmates who suddenly turned around in the alley.
In order to ease my anxiety and make myself look more natural, when I stop, I would enjoy admiring the flowers and trees on the roadside and observing the ants lining up on the ground.
Gradually, only Yan Jinfeng was left in front, and the pink cartoon schoolbag swayed up and down, full of joy and vitality.
The alley is much narrower than the previous one, and can only accommodate two people walking side by side at most. No one else passed by on this road, and the only thing I could hear was footsteps, Yan Jinfeng's or mine.
There was no cover on the road, and I could only follow from a distance, tiptoeing around.
I don't have to worry about being seen by a third person, all my attention is on the target in front of me and my feet.
To avoid the noise, I released the pads under my feet. As a cat, I can really not even hear my own footsteps.
I squatted slightly, and with each step, I gently touched the heel of the flesh pad on my foot, and then let the soles of my feet run over the road in a perfect arc like a wheel, so that I could not make any sound, and my center of gravity was very stable, and I could get out of the normal pace after mastering the rhythm.
I call this kind of stride a "wheel step", and when I become proficient, I have the ability to run without making a sound, the ability to walk up multiple steps without making a sound, and the ability to walk fast with a bowl full of water without spilling the water. Therefore, my favorite thing to watch is the clip of Yu Lingbo Weibu in the middle of "Dragon Babu", which makes me feel very intimate.
In this way, I used my unique skills to walk for a long time in this sheep intestine path that is difficult to hide my body, and I have not been noticed by Yan Jinfeng, I am very happy, but I still have to continue to maintain a high degree of vigilance.
Looking back at the direction I came, I could no longer see the intersection where I had entered, but I could see the end of the road in front of me, and the buildings there were becoming clearer and clearer, and it seemed to be a very familiar outline, and I felt that I had been to that place before.
"Meow-" A cat's meow suddenly sounded in my ear.
I looked around and didn't see any cats nearby. This voice was obvious, and Yan Jinfeng in front shouldn't have heard it, but she really continued to walk normally as if she hadn't noticed anything. What's going on?
"Meow—" The voice sounded again, was it my hallucination? And behind Yan Jinfeng, a little girl in a white dress suddenly appeared, with big eyes and a round face, looking at me curiously.
"Meow-" The corners of her mouth moved, it was her voice! Oh my God, this is my hallucination!
I remembered that the house around here, the look of that little girl looking at me, was exactly what I saw at the door of my grandmother's community when I was three years old!
It's really near grandma's house! In other words, my current location is a short walk to the south, just in time to reach my grandmother's house. What a bonus! Usually, I never walked directly from school to my grandmother's house, and my parents picked me up and dropped me off directly. Today, I unexpectedly explored a way!
I suddenly lost my nervousness, and all the illusions in front of me disappeared, leaving only Yan Jinfeng, Alley, and me. I confidently raised my head, puffed up my chest, and walked with a relaxed and vigorous "wheel step", moving forward firmly and courageously, almost whistled.
Even if Yan Jinfeng finds out, it doesn't matter, I can confidently say that I am going to my grandmother's house, and I just happened to meet here, and I can justifiably point out the address of my grandmother's house to her, and the facts and evidence are conclusive. That's a wonderful reason to be so wonderful when a lie is made of truth, and it can be so true that people can't refute it, and they say the truth in their mouths and do false things in their hearts.
Until the end of the alley, Yan Jinfeng finally didn't notice me, probably she just wanted to go home and watch her favorite TV show as soon as possible. She turned left into the last hut. By the time I came to this corner and looked into the depths, she was gone, like a fairy.
There was a dead end in that corner, and it wasn't very deep, probably Yan Jinfeng went to the nearest room. Although it was only a theoretical deduction and I didn't see it with my own eyes, I was able to complete the task, and I continued to walk forward with satisfaction, and really went to my grandmother's house.
It turned out that Yan Jinfeng's house was so close to my grandmother's house, and I couldn't help but think back to the strange little girl in the white dress, who seemed to have a full forehead and a well-proportioned melon seed face. I was amazed by the girl's beauty.
Could it be that girl is Yan Jinfeng? Could it be that my fate with Yan Jinfeng started very early? Could it be that Yan Jinfeng is really the person I was destined to be?
In that case, then all the misfortunes now are just the heavens testing me. Good guy, then let me show you with perseverance, let you know that I only have Yan Jinfeng in my heart, and I will definitely chase her down!