Liang Chen called out to his soul outside Chuanmei's door, and his soul did not return.

During the summer vacation of his first year of high school, Liang Chen went to his uncle's house in Chongqing alone. After Du Ruo had a school business, the ice powder cold cake business that he started in his hometown town after graduating from junior high school was abandoned by him, and Du Ruo, who counted dozens of yuan after closing the stall at night and talked about how to expand and grow in the future, was gone, Du Ruo was a man with the same ambition as Yongze after all.

Liang Chen's visit to Chongqing was semi-voluntary, his father and mother tried their best to persuade Liang Chen to go to play for a week or two, and his aunt also called and said that he wanted to see Liang Chen no matter what, they hadn't seen each other for three or four years, but Liang Chen knew that the real intention of the family was just to persuade his fourth cousin, who was studying in Puzhou Middle School, to persuade him and break his determination to continue to stay in Shihe.

Binjiang Road in Nan'an District, Chongqing is half of Liang Chen's home during the summer vacation of his childhood, and when he reached junior high school, after his father was no longer working in Chongqing, Liang Chen came less! The 365 bus in the zoo is still there, and the fourth cousin called a taxi to wait for Liang Chen, he still can't get rid of the habit of being a child, and when he met, he pinched Liang Chen's earlobe and called his nickname - big ears, Liang Chen, who is only almost 1.7 meters tall, can't stop him.

The summer in Chongqing is too hot, and Liang Chen is already sweating profusely after the short journey of getting on and off the bus. He didn't expect the fourth cousin to ask about his grades directly, and Liang Chen smiled meaningfully: "My dad told you a long time ago!" ”

"The wedge before getting to the point! It's not that you don't understand. The fourth cousin looked at Liang Chen and said, "What do you think, you have to stay in Shihe." ”

"Hey! But that's just a few reasons! Friends, habits, self-confidence. Liang Chen snapped his fingers and counted the reasons for staying in Shihe one by one. Cousin, do you support me in Stone River? ”

Liang Chen's question suddenly took the initiative of this conversation into his own hands, the fourth cousin is a person who knows Liang Chen, he took Liang Chen to watch the NBA, play basketball, and teach him that he must read more books in life, almost half of the books in Liang Chen's house are left to Liang Chen in the past ten years.

"If I was still in high school or a freshman or sophomore, I would definitely respect your thoughts, but Liang Chen! What I want to fulfill now is my responsibility as your brother, now you think that it is nothing for you to study Shihe, you still get a high score in high school and go to a good university, but you will know in the future that a good high school will bring you not only knowledge but also your circle, they will not sneer at your reading, they will not complain in front of you in the future how sad the fourth level is, and the most important thing is that they are extremely easy to make you feel satisfied with standing still. ”

The fourth cousin's vicissitudes of life after experiencing the sinister society made Liang Chen still stay in two years ago, and he was a little caught off guard by his cognition, he really couldn't imagine what kind of cruelty this society had done to the fourth cousin who was originally full of passion and confidence, Liang Chen replied to him with the same two or three sentences.

"I have my way, Shihe has Shihe living methods, the fifth cousin is not the Shihe who reads, and he doesn't regret it. If I had to go to Puzhou, maybe the results would have come down all of a sudden, the country of ten thousand times, the emperor would be the emperor of the ages, the decline of the Han Dynasty was in the front, and the emperor of Sui Yang was greedy for merit. Liang Chen patted his cousin's thigh, pointed to the report card on QQ and said, "Cousin, don't underestimate Shihe, I'm not the first." ”

The fourth cousin shook his head and sighed, "Hey! You play in Chongqing for two days first, think about it, I also have an explanation from your aunt, and don't think that these few words will prevaricate me, I really think you should go to Puzhou. ”

"There are pearls in the sea, and all good students can't be occupied by Puzhou!"

"Forget it, let's not talk about this, let's play ball at night." The fourth cousin ended the topic of this controversy, and it was only the first day.

"Okay! Is the fat guy next door to my house still there? Liang Chen asked.

"I used to be very attached to you, and you often told him ghost stories to deceive people's remote-controlled cars." The fourth cousin replied with a beating eyebrow.

"Is he still there? I don't see him for a few years, and I miss him. Liang Chen leaned his back on the saddle, his face full of nostalgia.

"His family made a fortune, and he moved to the Liberation Monument last year."

"It's a pity."

Liang Chen and his fourth cousin began to recall the years they spent on Binjiang Road in the past, the group of five, six, seven, eighty or ninety years old children had grown up, and the riverside food boats that they had imagined in the past had also gone away due to environmental improvement, and the once familiar Chongqing City was only left with place names in Liang Chen's mind.

In the evening, my aunt took Liang Chen out to eat hot pot, and the intimacy that she hadn't seen for three or four years made her love Liang Chen very much, and at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, Liang Chen was pulled up and had a supper. Liang Chen lived the most desirable life in the summer in the next two days, air conditioning, WiFi and watermelon, his fourth cousin and aunt still had to go to work, and he lived a leisurely life at home alone.

In the group of high school classmates, Liang Chen basked in his leisurely days in Chongqing, several girls in the class coaxed Liang Chen to come out to play, and he also wanted to go out for a walk after staying at home for two days, Liang Chen was not a quiet person by nature.

On the day of the party, it was a rare cool and good weather in Chongqing, and in the Xinhua Library on Yangjiaping Pedestrian Street, Liang Chen, Tang Ying, and Xue Jiao stared at Tan Yangui and the other two girls in the group.

"Tan Yangui is the happiest, why didn't she come." Liang Chen asked Tang Yingdao that she was Tan Yangui's friend, and in Chongqing, the two were not far apart.

"You ask me who I ask, and I ask her to go." Tang Ying's momentum overwhelmed Liang Chen, and he muttered bad words about Tan Yangui in his mouth, "This guy who is heavy on sex and light on friends, he doesn't take me with him when he goes to play in the capital." ”

"Heavy color and light friends." Liang Chen suddenly got to the point in Tang Ying's sentence.

"There's a situation!" Xue Ji also said with a smile.

"It's her future boyfriend in Puzhou, although not now." Tang Ying unceremoniously betrayed Tan Yangui.

"That's understandable, we ······" Before Liang Chen finished speaking, Tang Ying retorted angrily: "Wrong, it is unforgivable." ”

"Okay, okay, it's unforgivable, why didn't Sister Jiang Zhiyun come!" Liang Chen affectionately called Jiang Zhiyun's name like Jia Baoyu called Lin Daiyu.

"Don't be delusional, the toad wants to eat swan meat every day." Tang Ying's anger towards Tan Yangui was all sprinkled on Liang Chen, and she hadn't said a good word today.

"Me." Liang Chen looked at Xue Jiao and said, "Xue Jiao, you say something fair, what did I do!" ”

"You shouldn't fall in love with the same girl as your good brother Zhou Jun." Xue Ji covered his mouth and smiled, completely facing Tang Ying, after all, he was both representatives of the English Department and comrades on the same front. "Xiao Xiaopu can't come until the afternoon, and she has a cram school in the morning."

"So what are we going to do in the morning?" Liang Chen asked.

"Whatever." Tang Ying replied.

Liang Chen looked at Xue Ji and said, "How can Little Master Xue arrange it!" ”

"Yangjiaping is the closest to Foreigner Street, why don't you go to Foreigner Street to play." Xue Ji asked the two of them with her eyes.

"I'll do it casually." Tang Ying replied weakly.

"Let's go! Two big guys. ”

Liang Chen, Xue Jiao and Tang Ying stayed in the foreigner street for less than an hour before returning to the original point, a trip to the haunted house, Liang Chen added more than a dozen red marks on his left and right arms, before entering the haunted house, Xue Ji and Tang Ying can be said to be full of interest, Liang Chen repeatedly persuaded at the door of the ticket sale to no avail. After entering the haunted house, Liang Chen's arm was tightly clasped by the two of them, and the slightest wind and grass made Liang Chen's pain nerves highly alert. Out of the haunted house, Tang Ying retched outside the door for a long time, the owner of the ticket seller stared at Liang Chen and the three of them with a mocking smile, Xue Ji and Tang Ying pulled Liang Chen out of here as if they had escaped, as if this place had become a ghost town.

The three of them at the door of KFC, eating ice cream, Tang Ying raised his left hand and swore that he would never go to a haunted house again in his life, Liang Chen even suspected that she had a shadow on the foreigner street, Xue Ji compared to Tang Ying is also a turtle to Wang Ba and a half catty to eight taels, and when he walked out of the foreigner street, he still looked calm, and Liang Chen just inadvertently patted her back lightly on the road, she was like a kitten with a fried hair, and her whole body was tense, and a scream of "ah" frightened Liang Chen and Tang Ying.

Xue Ji and Tang Ying calmed down on the bench on the side of the road, while Liang Chen condemned Tan Yangui and the others in the group for not believing their words.

"Hey! Where do we go next. Xue Ji shook Liang Chen's arm and said.

"Let's go to Huangjiaoping! Take a look at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts and feel the atmosphere of the university in advance. Liang Chen looked at the travel guide on his phone and said.

"It is said that there is a lot of graffiti in Huangjiaoping, and I wanted to go to Chongqing last time I came to Chongqing during the winter vacation." Tang Ying's eyes were shining, and she seemed to be looking forward to it.

"Then should we wait for Xiao Xiaopu to come in the afternoon!" Xue Ji asked Tang Yingdao.

"We can go shopping in the afternoon! How interesting it is for three girls to go shopping. Tang Ying raised his voice and said.

"Do you have any money?" Liang Chen glanced at Tang Ying.

"Do you have any money?" Tang Ying asked rhetorically.

Liang Chen seemed to scoff at this question, raised his tone and said the opposite, "I don't have any money." ”

"That's it, if you have money, you can do it!"

"I'm talking literally." Liang Chen smiled awkwardly.

The bus had just entered Huangjiaoping, and Liang Chen and the others seemed to have entered a colorful kingdom, where all the fantasy monsters they had imagined when they were children were here. Liang Chen was surprised when he got out of the car, "wow", which was the amazement of Liang Chen walking into the world of modern art, and the magic pen of the East, Ma Liang, met the pony of the West.

The graffiti of Huangjiaoping is like a wonderful cloud, so imaginative and creative. Street walls, facades of residential buildings, bulletin boards, and substation kiosks were not spared. Liang Chen wanted to come here when he was a child! Bring your own watercolor pen, be imaginative, paint whatever you want, no longer a dead thing like the art teacher planned, Liang Chen's art world comes alive, and the ugly swan sketched on the gate of the old house when he was a child looms in his mind.

This place seems to be a place of disintegration, the streets and alleys of Liang Chen and the three of them shuttle back and forth, and the stairs up and down are all art that can be touched, and this is suitable for another small dragon club to start broadcasting.

In one morning, Xue Jiao and Tang Ying's mobile phones were full of photos, and they had to leave more than a dozen photos for every wonderful place they saw. In the Hu Ji Hoof Flower Soup shop, Liang Chen cleaned up dozens of photos of Tang Ying and Xue Ji left in his mobile phone, while the two girls opposite were discussing the beautiful photos of themselves on the mobile phone.

"Hey! How's that going on with your transfer school? Tang Ying finally remembered Liang Chen, a lonely person.

"Hey! You really can't open a pot and mention which pot, and you've been worrying about this for the past two days. Liang Chen said sadly, with some bitterness in his mouth.

"You haven't made up your mind yet." Xue Ji asked.

Liang Chen spread his hands, with a little helplessness, lying on the somewhat slippery cypress table, and said: "I have already decided, but my parents hope that their son will not die!" ”

"Aren't you just short of the catastrophe of English from Jackie Chan! Puzhou and Shihe are not the same. Tang Ying said.

"But my parents don't think so, a relative of mine teaches math in Puzhou, and with the better learning atmosphere in Puzhou, my English and math grades are guaranteed." Liang Chen fiddled with the small bowl in front of him, lowered his head and said.

"You can sign up for an English cram school in the summer! Maybe your parents will be able to compromise that way. Xue Ji said.

"Oh my God! It's better to kill me, I've been devastated by Lao Zeng at school, and I haven't recovered some vitality during the summer vacation, and I may not be able to survive for a week after school starts. Liang Chen said with wide eyes.

"I have a solution." Tang Ying said with flashing eyes.

"The plan will be settled."

"You are forced to die at the bridgehead of the Yangtze River." Tang Ying joked.

Liang Chen rewarded Tang Ying with a brain melon, and pushed the hoof flower soup served to Tang Ying who was rubbing his head, looking at the tempting bowl of hoof flower soup in front of him, Liang Chen sighed in his heart: His own affairs will eventually make him sad.

When leaving Huangjiaoping, Liang Chen yelled inside like a fool at the door of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, and then rushed to the taxi.

It was already two o'clock in the afternoon when Jiang Zhiyun came, and she was wearing a white dress, which looked particularly fairy. When she approached, Liang Chen shook his right hand as if he had seen him for the first time, and his actions attracted fierce contempt from Xue Ji and Tang Ying.

"Hello!"

"Are we meeting for the first time?" Jiang Zhiyun looked at Liang Chen's strange greetings and asked a little embarrassed.

Tang Ying went over and pulled Jiang Zhiyun's arm and said, "Don't worry about him, he is the wild cat in March and April!" ”

Xue Ji and Tang Ying pulled Jiang Zhiyun away, leaving Liang Chen alone, and he was still carrying the small snacks he had just bought. Liang Chen accompanied the three of them for a long time, they picked out goods in Chongbai Mall that did not match the reality in their pockets at all, and the interesting thing was that when Tang Ying fell in love with a certain dress, Xue Ji always sang the opposite tune on the side, persuading that this dress was not suitable for her at all, and Tang Ying had to ask three times "Is it true", Liang Chen saw such a "cute" woman for the first time.

When the sun was sinking, the four of them only had a few more trinkets in their hands and a blue Stitch doll that Liang Chen had caught, and Liang Chen already felt that his legs were free in the air, and his steps were frivolous.

As a punishment for Liang Chen's consumption of Xue Jiao's three-person game currency when he caught the doll, he invited tonight's hot pot. The bright red soup was boiling in the pot, and the tempting fragrance drifted into the noses of the four with wisps of rising white smoke, and the tight troubles in Liang Chen's mind were unlocked by the food, and the fresh hairy belly was scalded in the boiling red pot and absorbed the spicy and fresh fragrance of the hot pot base, and then through the dipping sauce in the celadon small bowl next to Liang Chen, he only put sesame oil, garlic paste, coriander, and green onion in the dipping sauce, and the scalded hairy belly cooled slightly in the dipping sauce, and was sent to Liang Chen's mouth after being contaminated with the fragrance of coriander, which was chewy and flavorful, the fragrance in the pot spread in Liang Chen's mouth, how delicious it was.

During the intermission after halfway through eating, Jiang Zhiyun inadvertently caught Liang Chen's troubles again.

"Squad leader, how is your transfer?" Jiang Zhiyun asked.

"Hey! I would have turned my heart to the bright moon, but the bright moon shone on the ditch. Liang Chen put down his chopsticks and sighed.

"You haven't convinced your parents yet!"

"How do you know?" Liang Chen was a little puzzled, he remembered that he had never mentioned this matter to Jiang Zhiyun, his eyes swept over Tang Ying beside him and Xue Jiao who was sitting opposite, and both of them shook their heads.

"Oh! What Zhou Jun said, is this matter very confidential? Jiang Zhiyun asked embarrassedly like a child who could hear some secrets that he shouldn't know.

"Not really." Liang Chen said with a grin, "You can use your witty brain and help me find a way!" ”

Jiang Zhiyun hurriedly waved his hand and said, "I can't do it, theory is your forte!" ”

"I can't reason with adults." Liang Chen replied a little helplessly. "After the saliva was dry, they still meant it - you have to listen to me."

"Then you have to die to force you." Jiang Zhiyun joked.

"Heroes see the same thing." After Jiang Zhiyun finished speaking, Tang Ying quickly stretched out his hand and held her hands tightly.

Liang Chen gave Tang Ying a roll of his eyes, "Are you reluctant to let me go." ”

"Cut, you don't call Liang Weiwei, what am I reluctant to do." Tang Ying stretched his neck and said stiffly.

"A little! If you leave, I will only have Ye Xin as an opponent. Jiang Zhiyun had a lonely feeling of being invincible and heroic, and shocked Liang Chen and the others.

After dinner, Chongqing's nightlife has just begun, Liang Chen sent the three girls home one by one, he walked alone on Binjiang Road, he was not worried about how to convince his parents, he was just thinking about how to face a group of family members who cared about him, all of them were not easy, all of them were paying for themselves, all of them were pushing themselves to take a better road, they had no reason to refuse, but they had thousands of excuses that had nothing to do with their future, Liang Chen volunteered to stride forward on the thorny road, Even if it is covered in bruises, it is best to have no regrets after all.

Liang Chen smiled bitterly at the words he thought in his heart, this should be Teacher Mu's words, he was actually contaminated with her shadow.

Liang Chen raised his head and walked towards the thirteenth floor, humming the words of "The Peony Pavilion" in his mouth: People are easy to get old, there are many things, and dreams are difficult to grow. A little affectionate, three points of shallow soil, half of the wall of the sun.