Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Burning of July

"Tan Lige, in fact, you are much luckier than me, even if your relationship with your parents is not good, you can still see them when you want to see them, and I am different from you.........

I regret now that I didn't treat her better while she was still alive. So, I don't want you to alienate them because of this, and in the future, you will have the same regrets as me, you know? ”

His heartfelt words of comfort did not ease the sadness in my heart a little, and I understood why Zhang Huaixu chose to return to live with his father, because he did not want to repeat the mistakes of the past.

"By the way, why are you here? Still wearing a school uniform?" After all, family ugliness should not be publicized, and any more talk would add to the trouble, so I chose to change the topic.

"Me? It's nothing, I just want to take the college entrance examination with you. However, I handed in a blank paper for Chinese, hehe. ”

The young man in front of me smiled ruffianly, as if some long-planned conspiracy had finally succeeded, with a little frivolous charm.

"You say that the language thing, memorize so many texts and may not be able to exactly test the sentences you memorize, as for reading comprehension or something, who is not Chinese every day, no, there is no progress, to sum up, learning Chinese, will take up a lot of learning time, is not conducive to the comprehensive development of learning........."

When I used to memorize texts for him, he always used these words to prevaricate me.

"Congratulations, I've finally fulfilled my dream for a long time." I wiped my tears, pretended to be relaxed, and smiled and pushed him in the chest.

I always felt that when he came back this time, it became different from before, but I can't say what was different, maybe it was because he cut his slightly long black hair almost into inches, left a thin layer of bangs, and leaned against the wall to watch the sunset, I felt that he had faded that layer of cold and arrogant temperament, and had more frivolity that only belonged to young people.

However, this teenager is the same kind of person as me, we are good at hiding our sadness, and we can even leave no trace, so that others think that we don't care anymore, but only we can understand how thin our hearts are.

When he saw me looking at him, he lowered his head and smiled at me, and I was afraid to look him in the eye. I set my eyes on him, his blue and white school uniform was very old (after all, he had been wearing it for three years), and there were faint prints of pen and ink on the cuffs.

It looks like a pattern.........

"Zhang Huaixu, haven't your sleeves been washed?" I reached out to dust off the ink on my head, but he jumped aside as if he were hiding from the plague, protecting his cuffs.

What is it, mysterious......... But since he didn't want to show it, I was too embarrassed to ask.

On that day, my life became a roller coaster, from the big up, to the big down, after a night of emotional precipitation, as if back to a stable track.

Maybe it's because in the past two years, I've received too much care that I've never had before, and I can't even solve this little thing by myself.......... Fortunately, I'm a heartless pessimist. All living beings are suffering, but my suffering came earlier and more than ordinary people, and there is nothing worth pressing on my heart.........

I didn't even have time to reminisce about each question, I didn't have time to regret the wrong question, and I didn't have time to feel glad that I got the question right.

"Ah, liberated! We are liberated! For a while, there was a long howl in the teaching building, and some people even ran to the playground, tore up the test papers that were full of writing, threw them into the air, happily took off their school uniform jackets and began to whistle and carnival.

"Which class are those people on the playground! Get out of here for me! ”

Hey, I guess this was the first time they had run so wildly to the teaching office and hugged the usually fierce watering can.

"You little bunnies, it's heartbreaking. As for me, I hope that even if you have gone through all the vicissitudes of life, your heart will still be like a teenager, you will still remember your original dreams, remember your adherence to beautiful values, remember those things that have brought tears to your eyes, always pursue the truth, and care for the common people........."

I stood at the door of the teaching office, wiped my tears with a watering can, and half-jokingly taught them.

"Take it, it's all your names on this deduction sheet, today this teacher has granted permission, let you cross out your name, Zhang Shao, you come, you came to my office to steal this thing before, but I locked it in the office overnight and peed under my desk......."

"Squirt........ Didn't we say that we wouldn't mention it, Director! ”

The boys who were giggling gathered around, pointing to each other at the deduction points on the deduction list, laughing at each other, and comparing whose record was more brilliant.

I don't know who it was, but as he spoke, he choked his throat first.

Youth is like this, no matter how many mistakes are made, no matter how many regrets you have, the memories after that are full of gratitude and touching. The smell of youth is very good, but unfortunately I can't smell it anymore, and when I graduated, I realized what Sayuri said back then: You are the happiest now, and you will definitely miss this time in the future.

That day, there was no crazy move. Students and teachers sat in their seats and chatted about what had happened in the past three years. Left all the college entrance examinations in the past three days behind.

Originally, we planned that when the college entrance examination was over, we would tear up all the books, give him a rain of papers, and shout: Go to your college entrance examination! That scene will definitely vent all the pressure we have had in the past three years of high school. But in fact, in the end, looking at the heavy textbooks in my hand and looking at the full notes, I suddenly couldn't bear it, put them back in my schoolbag, and said to myself:

Just keep it, just keep it as a souvenir.........

When I got out of school, I didn't feel so much moved and reluctant in my heart, as if this school bell was no different from the previous bell, as if the college entrance examination was just a dream for us, as if tomorrow, we would still come here early with our schoolbags and bury ourselves in the sea of questions, so most of us said goodbye to our friends so plainly.

However, there are still people who regard this bell as a liberation bell towards adult society. I booked a private room for KTV, an Internet café all night, and a tin foil ironing in the barber shop, planning to indulge in a good indulgence.

"Hello? Little pigeons? How's it going? Hagaoka suddenly called. I have the impression that we haven't been in touch since the last time she left a phone number, and their studio is a fully enclosed study, and there is no chance to even have a mobile phone.

What she does, it's all three minutes of heat, only like Mu Xi, she has persisted for so long, no wonder, she will have a cold war with me for half a year. Listening to her tone of voice, as at ease, as before, I thought she might have forgiven me.

As a result, my tone became lighter.

"What else, that's it."

"Oh? Listen to your tone...... I did a good job. ”

"yes, I'm in a good mood." I looked at the sunset, reached out to catch the delicate temperature, and smiled.

Because you finally called me........

"Then let's get back together in two days, I'm going to have a drink with the people in the studio tonight!" She seems to be looking forward to it, but with her personality, she should be able to make good friends anywhere.

"Okay, then you pay attention to safety........"

That was the end of the call.

At this time, Zhang Huaixu carried his schoolbag, stood at the door and looked back, looking at the green ginkgo biloba leaves passing by in the breeze for another year, watching the blue curtains gently brushing the engraved desktop table, and slowly, closing the door, as if saying goodbye to everything in the past.

"Tan Lige, let's go." He turned back to me and said to me. His eyes blinked several times quickly, and he should have been a little reluctant in his heart, but people who didn't know him would definitely not be able to catch his subtle emotional changes.

"Where are we going?"

"I don't know........ But stay with you. ”

"Hey! You two nerds! What are you doing standing here? The college entrance examination is over! Completely liberated! From today on, Lao Tzu must talk about a vigorous love! ”

Hao Jianren suddenly grabbed me and Zhang Huaixu from behind, screaming like monkeys.

He threw away not only the books, but also the schoolbag.

"If you want to fall in love, you might as well think about how to lose this body of fat first." Zhang Huaixu threw him off his back and replied unceremoniously.

"Okay, okay, I'm in a good mood today, don't worry about Zhang Yi, come and go, I'll take you to explore the mysteries of adult society!"

Zhang Huaixu and I glanced at each other.

"Do you want to go?" He winked at me.

I was a little curious about the adult society that Hao Jianren talked about, so I nodded.

"Okay, where are you going?" Zhang Huaixu turned his head and asked Hao Jianren.

"Hey, hey, hey, it's definitely a man's paradise........"

Looking at his lewd expression, I suddenly regretted whether I shouldn't have nodded.

It turns out that my gut never missed........

Hao Jianren led us around the alley to a small, dilapidated barbershop.

It looked like a regular barbershop, but I could see the colorful neon lights behind me through the black blackout curtains.

A woman walked out from behind the curtain when she heard the sound, her face was covered with a heavy layer of makeup, crimson eye shadow, and her red lips were sexy and seductive; Her pair of crisp breasts were exposed in a low-cut black tights, black mesh stockings, red high heels, and a charming gaze with autumn waves.