The closer you get to the moment of success, the more impatient you become.

In the last class of the 11th holiday, Liang Chen repeatedly wrote this sentence in the Chinese textbook to suppress his extreme desire to go home, and outside the classroom, Du Ruo, who was lying on the balcony, was leisurely playing with his mobile phone, swiping Weibo that had nothing to do with him, passing the time.

Liang Chen was fifteen years old, and Du Ruo had been with him for fifteen years.

When Liang Chen was one year old, his mother took him to the temple in the village to participate in the temple fair, and he met Du Ruo for the first time in front of the Guanyin Bodhisattva who reshaped the golden body. The two children who had just learned to walk formed an alliance in front of the Buddha in an instant, and with the negligence of the two adults, they slipped away.

The two children, relying on their own twisting and kneading steps, slipped into the rice field outside the temple as soon as they walked and climbed. In the autumn of September, the rice in the field has already been harvested, leaving only the bare rice stalks and pestles in the field.

The two one-year-old children didn't think about it, they slid down the ridge to the field, and waited for the two adults to come back to their senses, Liang Chen and Du Ruo's bodies were already covered with mud, this was the beginning of them.

Eight or nine-year-old Liang Chen and Du Ruo follow a group of gangsters who have just entered the fifth or sixth grade in the village every day······ A nickname that sounded extremely childish when he grew up, but the people who were deeply poisoned by "Crazy Boy" at that time were proud of it. Occupying the abandoned hut in the village compound, the people saved money to make a few small stools from waste wood, and pasted crooked and twisted calligraphy on the wall - Yi Bo Yuntian, they turned this place into a so-called secret base. When several people met each other, they were all called by the social titles of eldest brother, second brother, third brother, and brothers. I don't know who watched people light up the fire in the movie, and a group of people also held back to do such a thing. Three stinkers, better than Zhuge Liang. More than a dozen children with elementary school culture got together, with an idea in the east and an idea in the west, but they had a plan. More than a dozen people, taking advantage of the weekend, ran to the high slope of the village, found an abandoned sweet potato cellar, stuffed it with dry firewood and grass and some bamboo, and lit it with matches. When the firelight reflected the entire cellar in red, the leading eldest brother followed the appearance of Song Jiang on TV and led everyone to kowtow, and then everyone took out the wine glasses they had stolen at home, poured inferior liquor, and drank it all. More than a dozen children who had not finished their years, full of enthusiasm and innocence, fell drunk on the grass with gusts of mountain wind. A few years later, except for Liang Chen and Du Ruo, who were still fulfilling the oath they had made with the sky, the others were scattered as birds and beasts.

Liang Chen, who was thirteen or fourteen years old, sometimes fantasized about how good Du Ruo should be as a girl, what a beautiful love story of "Lang riding a bamboo horse and going around the bed to make green plums", and how many good deeds he had to do in his previous life to cultivate such a fate. Every time Du Ruo introduced Liang Chen to his girlfriend who he thought was "true love", this little secret became his opening statement. Liang Chen sometimes feels that the reason why he is still single is because of Du Ruo's rumors, which makes those girls who like him think that he is a. Du Ruo laughed at him many times, this idea is like some high school students think that they can get a girlfriend when they go to college, but the reason why they didn't fall in love in high school is just because they are not allowed.

Liang Chen said that if he was a girl, he would definitely marry Du Ruo, and if Du Ruo was a girl, he might just know him, just like the front and back of the mountain, back to back, unable to turn around and see each other.

Du Ruo's first girlfriend was found by Liang Chen, and after graduating from junior high school, Du Ruo was on his fifteenth birthday.

"God, you're really invited." Du Ruo's face was full of surprises and said.

"You tell her directly, and she'll come too." Liang Chen said.

Du Ruo touched his head and said, "Aren't I a little shy!" ”

Liang Chen looked at the girl with a ponytail and a plain white dress at the door and said to Du Ruo: "Aren't you going to greet people?" ”

"Liangzi, when you celebrate your birthday, I will invite you to dinner." Du Ruo nodded his index finger at Liang Chen, with a lewd smile on his face, and after speaking, he walked towards the door with small steps.

Liang Chen crossed his arms, looked at Du Ruo who was walking away, grinned and thought about his little plan, and felt a little Zhang Liang in his heart.

"Damn, I never celebrate birthdays"

The girl Du Ruo likes is called Dai Xiao, and she is his classmate in junior high school. The little girl who was thirteen or fourteen years old in junior high school really couldn't see how beautiful she was, but Dai Xiao had a charm that she couldn't say at that time, and when she grew up, Du Ruo said that it was mature. She is not introverted and cold, nor does she belong to the cheerful category, but she is modest, like most people, socializing with a fixed number of boys and girls, and it is extremely difficult for others to enter her world. Du Ruo can be regarded as one of his small worlds, and Liang Chen relied on the fate of participating in the essay competition with her in elementary school, and squeezed into half of his body.

A few days before his birthday, Liang Chen conspired with Dai Xiao's best friend Mi Wang Jiajia on QQ, and the two also figured out an action code name - Yuelao Plan.

"When you and Wen Yan asked her out and walked towards the bridge, I pretended to meet you there, understand?"

"Uh-huh, and then!"

"Then I'll take the opportunity to tell you about Du Ruo's birthday, you have to pretend that you want to go very much, I'll ask Dai Xiao if you want to go, you can help say a few words if you want to go."

"Uh-huh, and then!"

"And then there was no more!"

"Liangzi, this is also a plan! Pull it down. ”

"Trust me! In fact, there is only a little bit of guidance between Dai Xiao and Du Ruo, take a look at Bao Qingtian and clear the grievances, and improve your observation and reasoning skills, but it is really not good for Detective Conan. ”

"Huh! As long as you can, the scum who failed math, if you don't succeed, I'll write a long article to laugh at you. ”

"If it doesn't work, I'll call you grandma! Primary school pinyin is the scum of my teaching. ”

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The next morning, Liang Chen got up early and pedaled the mountain bike he had long wanted to retire to the town. In the rural areas of Sichuan and Chongqing, due to the underdeveloped economy, people conventionally set a certain day as the time to catch the market, such as the 1st, 3rd, and 5th, which means "rushing to the market" in Sichuan dialect.

The river of the town divides the market into the upper street and the lower street, before the reform and opening up, only the upper street, so the upper street is also called the old street, and later with the development of the town step by step, the lower street is slowly formed, and it is called the new street in people's mouths, and Dai Xiao lives in the lower street.

Liang Chen locked the car at the door of the middle school, took out his mobile phone from his bag, and sent a message to Wang Jiajia - the operation began.

At Dai Xiao's home, Wang Jiajia, who was sitting on the sofa, kept urging Dai Xiao to go out. He had already received Liang Chen's message an hour ago, and Dai Xiao and Wen Yan spent an hour coming and going at home, just to wash their hair.

"Okay, no!" Wang Jiajia asked with her head bowed.

"No, change your clothes! You don't have to let me go out in my pajamas! Dai Xiao replied.

"Can the two young ladies go out with the slave?" After a few minutes, Wang Jiajia was outside the door learning the tone of the little maid in the late Qing Dynasty.

"You maid is in a hurry, Miss Ben can leave whenever she wants." Wen Yan opened the door and said with a smile.

"Can Miss Nawen go?" Wang Jiajia made a blessing and said with his head down.

Wen Yan followed the pole, waved her hand, and said, "Follow this princess out of the palace." ”

Wang Jiajia slapped Wen Yan's ass and said, "Little girl, it's a monkey!" Climb along the pole. ”

Wen Yan pursed her lips and pointed at Wang Jiajia and scolded: "Stinky hooligan, stained with Du Ruo's hooligan breath." ”

"Swallow, Du Ruona is not a hooligan, that is a 2B youth. Jiajia was degraded from a young lady to a maid because of her long-term relationship with Du Ruo. Dai Xiao said.

"Okay, okay, okay, I'm willing to fall, okay, I'm not here to serve the two young ladies? Let's go! Wang Jiajia pushed the two out of the door.

Liang Chen at the head of the bridge walked back and forth on the bridge several times with an empty gift box, and the aunt who was familiar with the noodle restaurant on the street greeted him a few times and asked him what he was doing! Liang Chen had to say that he was waiting for someone.

An hour later, Liang Chen finally saw the figures of Dai Xiao and the others, raised his hand, took a deep breath, lowered his head and pretended to look at his mobile phone and walked towards the three of them.

Liang Chen was already a little nervous in his heart, this was the first time he had done this kind of thing, and Dai Xiao was originally a girl who was extremely sensitive to details, Liang Chen went astray as he walked, and bumped into Wang Jiajia.

Liang Chen didn't have time to look up, Wang Jiajia opened his mouth first: "When I grow up, I will make a proposal to the National People's Congress, and I was hit by a car while walking and playing with my mobile phone, and the driver is not legally responsible." ”

Liang Chen could hear that it was Wang Jiajia's voice and deliberately lowered his head and said, "Why can't you go to heaven if you're so powerful!" After speaking, he suddenly raised his head and glared at Wang Jiajia, his eyes revealing five words with evil anger - why don't you call me.

Wang Jiajia was ashamed that she had dragged on in Dai Xiao's house for an hour before, and suddenly avoided Liang Chen's eyes, and her words were less reasonable than just now, and said, "You keep your head down, I don't know it's you." ”

"Our six-year-old classmates! There is still a year at the same table, could it be that in the past three years, you have been to Xiaoxiang and I have been to Qin? I suddenly felt a sadness in my heart that tomorrow would be separated by mountains and the world would be boundless. Liang Chen pretended to quarrel with Wang Jiajia, and the other hand of the empty gift box he was carrying covered his chest, reminding her that it was time to mention Du Ruo's birthday.

Wang Jiajia didn't turn her mind for a while, muttered, and whispered: "Hmph! We don't know each other. ”

Liang Chen shook the empty gift box in his hand from time to time, and kept regretting in his heart, how did he find this girl from the second secondary school as a partner.

"Okay, you two, you have to quarrel after graduating from junior high school, Liang Chen, you are too, usually a humble gentleman, only to Jiajia like this, you shouldn't like her!" Dai Xiao pointed at Liang Chen, and then pointed at Wang Jiajia and said.

"Naduruo and you ······" Liang Chen said to Dai Xiao in a long voice, his original intention was not to ridicule Dai Xiao, but just hoped that Wang Jiajia, a second-class teammate, could remember the plan of the two of them.

Several people's eyes focused on Dai Xiao, no matter when and where the flame of gossip was, it only needed a small spark to burn. And at this moment, Dai Xiao, under a little sun's glow, her originally fair smiling face was covered with a little bit of redness, pursed her lips, and was silent.

Liang Chen, who was on the side, took advantage of this moment and winked at Wang Jiajia, hinting to hurry up and start acting.

Wang Jiajia suddenly remembered what was going on, pretended to relieve the embarrassment, pointed to the empty gift box that Liang Chen was holding in his hand and said, "Yo! What a gift for whom! ”

Wang Jiajia's words suddenly broke the embarrassment of everyone just now, and Dai Xiao and Wen Yan noticed what he was carrying. Dai Xiao was a little cautious in her heart, and she didn't dare to touch Liang Chen's hornet's nest again, but Wen Yan next to her looked very interested.

"Whew! To that whom. Liang Chen pretended to have a story, inducing them to continue asking.

And Dai Xiao seems to smell the breath of counterattack, the little girl's personality is not generous, and she will never miss the opportunity to fight back. But just as she was about to speak, Wang Jiajia hurriedly asked: "Pretending to be a ghost all day long, I hate a man like you if I like to talk about it or not." ”

"Aren't I afraid of embarrassing everyone?" Liang Chen frowned slightly and said.

"Why should we be embarrassed, just say it, if you don't say get out, my aunt doesn't want you to appear in my sight,"

"Then I said it." Liang Chen lowered his voice and asked again.

Wang Jiajia looked impatient and said, "Say it quickly." ”

"Oh well! It's for your family. Liang Chen pointed at Dai Xiao and said with a smile.

Liang Chen, Wang Jiajia and Wen Yan laughed for a while, only Dai Xiao, his face suddenly heated up sharply, as if he was in flames, stomped his feet, stared at his eyes, pointed at Liang Chen and said, "Liang Chen, you ······"

"Okay, okay, just kidding, it's all Wang Jiajia's fault, she asked me to say it." Liang Chen patted his chest and continued: "By the way, Du Ruo, didn't he tell you about his birthday?" ”

"Never!" Dai Xiao rolled her eyes and replied.

"Oh! How about I, as one of his guardians, invite you on his behalf? Liang Chen said.

"No, he never told us on his birthday, and he didn't pay attention to us at all." Dai Xiao replied.

"He didn't have a birthday before, except for me and his grandfather, occasionally his father can come back for a meal every year, isn't this year junior high school graduation want to be lively!" Liang Chen explained.

Wang Jiajia interjected: "You don't seem to have ever told us about your birthday!" ”

"Hai, I'm because my mother and my grandmother are superstitious, saying that I was born on the fifteenth day of July and can't have a birthday, and I'm afraid that Lord Yama will send me back as a smuggler, so I haven't had a birthday." Liang Chen touched his head and said, "How is it, are you coming!" It's like celebrating my fifteenth birthday together! ”

"Then you can go."

"No, no."

Wang Jiajia and Dai Xiao "spoke in unison", and the two looked at each other. Dai Xiao said: "If you don't go, you will spread rumors even more." ”

"If we don't go, we're going to spread rumors!" Liang Chen said with a smile.

"I think go for it! I graduated from junior high school, and when we are in Puzhou in the future, we will have no chance to get together, after all, we are friends. Wen Yan, who hadn't spoken for a long time, spoke.

"Go ahead! Go ahead! Du Ruo doesn't eat people, and this summer vacation is too boring. Wang Jiajia said.

"Alright, let's go! Two young ladies. But Liang Chen, I warn you, if you dare to chew the root of your tongue on Du Ruo's birthday, I will ······ I just. ”

"Alright, I'll help you get his head out of the fire." Wang Jiajia said with some understatement.

"Hey! Only women and villains are difficult to raise. After speaking, Liang Chen ran away without looking back.

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Liang Chen didn't know how Du Ruo got Dai Xiao! It's just that when Dai Xiao was leaving, Liang Chen asked Du Ruo to send her off, and went home alone, and when they met again, in an orchard in Puzhou, Du Ruo held her hand and held her head high, while Dai Xiao wore a white baseball cap with her head down and smiled. At that moment, Liang Chen really thought that the two of them could share a white head.

But time can change everything, don't you believe it? And time will tell. The sadness is left behind, the road is still long, at least Liang Chen and Du Ruo are still moving forward, moving forward on the road full of disasters built by time.

Liang Chen especially likes the beginning of Lu Yao's "Ordinary World", "In February and March 1975, on an ordinary day, the fine rain and a little bit of snowflakes were falling to the earth one after another. The season is almost stinging, and of course the snow will never remain, and often disappear without a trace before it can hit the ground. The cold and long winter on the Loess Plateau seems to be coming to an end, but the warm spring is far from coming."

Oh, yes! When will warm spring come.