Chapter 15: The Realization of Pain
The huts of the dry water river gradually fell into silence in the quiet of the quietly departing torrential rain.
I lay on the small earthen bed, surrounded by the scent of black earth, and felt like I gradually became one with this thick and chaotic scent.
The rain outside the house had gradually stopped, and a gust of wind blew through the door, and the hut was a little cool.
Lan Gu breathed heavily, her face was in my ear, and she exhaled like an orchid.
She is physically graceful and full of youthful energy, which fascinates me.......
The summer nights seemed to be very short all of a sudden, and the sky was getting brighter.
The soft sunlight of the morning spilled into the hut and shone on the small earthen bed, Lan Gu curled up lazily, her slender and beautiful thighs exposed outside the quilt were particularly eye-catching, and her straight and wide buttocks outlined a charming curve. I half-sat up and looked at her graceful back, stunned.
"Are you awake?" She noticed me getting up, turned her head, looked up at me, and whispered.
I didn't make a sound, I turned around and hugged her beautiful ketone body, feeling her body hot again like a rekindled fire......
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I don't know how long it took for us to gradually wake up from our deep lust.
The swelling waters of the dry water rivers are gradually receding.
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The sun had risen, and there was a hot spot in the hut.
"Great country, you go home." Lan Gu got up, sat beside me, looked at me lovingly, gently stroked my back with both hands, and said softly, "The river has receded, and now you can cross the river." I guess your family is still worried about you! ”
I sat on the earthen bed of the hut, seemingly reluctant. "I'm not going back, I'll stay with you." , I was stunned for a moment, and said a little stupidly.
"Go back, forget me." Lan Gu's eyes were a little moist.
"When can we meet again?" "I'm fine at home in the summer, can I come to you?"
"No, I'm going to the county seat the day after tomorrow to run errands, and I may go to each other's homes with the matchmaker to visit each other first and discuss getting married at the end of the year."
"Can't you marry him, you don't know him."
"If I don't marry, will you support me? You can't even feed yourself, fool! ”
"I can support you, wait until I graduate from college."
"Fool, I'll wait for you, will you wait for me?" "Go ahead, study hard."
I fell silent.
Yes, even if Aunt Lan agrees, what will I use to support her? In my current situation, even if I graduated from college, I would still be penniless. She waits for me, will I keep her waiting? Besides, what do I know about her? Putting aside the uncontrollable passion of youth, how long will such mutual affection last?
Thinking of this, I can't help but feel sad, I am a poor student who often has no food and clothing, and it can be said that I have nothing, what reason and qualification do I have to ask Lan Gu?
Lan Gu's words made me understand that if a man is not strong enough and has no resources available, he will lose all the right to pursue beauty.
"Let's go." Lan Gu said to me again.
Even though I was reluctant to give up, I still had to go.
Wading through the dry water river, the hut on the opposite bank became farther and farther away, gradually disappearing from view, drowning in the endless green gauze tent.
Everything seems to be in a dream.
"I've had many dreams in my life, some of them have always haunted me, they changed me, and these dreams kept stirring in my mind, like wine dripping into water, adding color to my life." A passage from Catherine, the protagonist of Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights", best describes my adventure in my dry-water riverside cottage, and meeting Lan Gu is a real dream of mine, however, this dream-like situation has accelerated my youthful growth and made me feel the wonder and magic of emotions.
I walked along the country road by the green gauze tent, listening to the rustle of grass leaves in the wind, and I was in a happy mood, and my hearing seemed to be drunk.
"Big country, go home." As I got closer and closer to home, I heard my mother shouting to me on the other side of the green gauze tent in the distance. It is the echo that reverberates between the green mountains and green waters of my hometown, it is so familiar, how many years have passed, it has always echoed in my ears, and has been deep into the deepest part of my soul.
As the start of the university year approached, Dagang and I made an appointment to return to the county seat to buy some clothes and necessities. The main consideration is that if all the things go to the provincial capital to purchase, the cost may be relatively expensive for us, in addition, Dagang is the same as me, usually unkempt, this time after all, it is to change to a new environment, and it is a university, it is still necessary to prepare a new set of business.
Unexpectedly, in addition to shopping, we also had unexpected gains.
The two of us met Na and Tietou again in the mall in the county seat.
The iron head wrapped his arms around Na's waist, and he saw me and Da Gang from a distance, and greeted him loudly.
We heard the sound and walked over, Tietou and Na carried large bags and small bags, the two seemed to be large-scale purchases, at that time, they were dressed in foreign style and mature, half a month has not been seen, they have all faded away from the youth of their student days, and there is no difference between the couple A and B who walked by in the bustling crowd in the mall.
After greeting each other, everyone realized that after graduation, the opportunity to meet again is estimated to be less and less, and for a while, we were all a little sad, silent, and the atmosphere was a little dull.
"You two are about to go to the provincial capital, right?" Na broke the calm and asked me and Dagang.
"I heard you all did well in the exam."
Da Gang scratched his head, just came back to his senses, and responded, "Yes." Oh, yes. I'm about to leave with the big country, no, come to the city to buy some necessities, hey, you have bought a lot! He looked at the happy couple with some envy.
"Yes, today is centralized procurement." Na smiled.
"We're getting married." As soon as the iron-headed urn finished speaking angrily, Na blushed, stood beside him, and stabbed him.
"Oh, you're not ashamed, you can say it to anyone."
"It's okay, it's okay, Da Dao and Da Gang are my brothers, and it's nothing to talk about." Tietou was stunned for a moment, and then smiled
"By the way, Na, why didn't you take the college entrance examination, with your strength, it should be no problem to focus on the exam." Da Gang seemed to remember something and asked Na.
"I don't want to go to college anymore, I can only be with us if I don't go to school." Na replied crisply.
"You also know that the iron head is not the material for reading, as far as his elm head is concerned, he will definitely not be able to pass the exam, if I go to college, I will never see him again." After saying that, she snuggled up to the iron head and smiled happily.
"Yes, yes, because of the college entrance examination, she quarreled with her parents." Iron Head added,
"With me, I didn't expect her to take the college entrance examination, for Na, I tried my best to take the college entrance examination, and I only scored more than 100 points" He shook his head embarrassedly, "It seems that I am really not the material for reading." ”
After saying that, Iron Head took Na's hand tightly, as if she would be taken away by someone else immediately.
I really envy them and envy their courage and determination.
"It's good for you guys to do this, not going to college is equivalent to early employment." I echo in,
"When we come back to work after college, you may already be the elite of the industry."
"It doesn't matter if the elite is elite or not, as long as you can live with the people you like." Na looked at the iron head again, and her face was happy.
Yes, Na gave up the college entrance examination in order to be with Tietou, and Da Gang gave up the opportunity to go to a key university in order to be with Lily. In order to be closer to Daliang, Lily gave up the school she had been admitted to and chose to repeat her studies; What kind of emotion is this?! What about me? I like Ding Ling, but I don't even have the courage to confess, even if there are all kinds of possibilities after confession, what can I do for her? I am cowardly and selfish, and like Dalduver, the protagonist of Molière's "The Hypocrite", I once disguised myself for my own selfish interests, and felt inferior to myself because of my own background and family, what a shallow and narrow-minded mind.
There was a brief silence again.
The Iron Head looked at me and suddenly stopped talking, as if trying to read my thoughts.
He suddenly said as if he remembered something: "Big country, I don't know if I should tell you if I have news?" ”
I laughed, "When did you kid learn to start selling guanzi?" If you have something to say, say it quickly. ”
Iron Head glanced at Na, as if asking for her consent, and then turned to face me, "This news is about one of our junior high school classmates. ”
"I also just heard someone else in our town say the day before yesterday that Ding Ling's college entrance examination was not ideal, and she went to join the army in other provinces through the relationship."
Tietou said the first half of the sentence, the prompt message was about our junior high school classmates in the Yellow Building, and I realized who he might mention later, however, even though I had already been mentally prepared, when he really said that name, I was still shocked as if I had been hit by a fixed spell, and I couldn't say a word.
Ding Ling finally left, like a person who had nothing to do with me, without leaving half a word, and I finally got information about her, or from the mouth of the iron head, what kind of sadness this is.
What kind of place am I in her heart? Or, I have never entered her heart and her sight, and she and I, like passers-by on the road, will not have any intersection at all, and will not have any intersection in the future?
If we stopped pestering each other, or if I wasn't pestering her, maybe she would just be gone, right? Maybe that's it, right?
But this is not the case. If I had given up sooner, maybe I would have suffered a lot less, right?
However, I really did not give up the courage to pursue Ding Ling, on the contrary, she gradually became an irreplaceable beautiful image in my heart, which is a kind of deformed crush-style sadness, and I seem to hear a distant sigh of the heart: "Save me, Lord." Yes, even though I know that this is a meaningless inner struggle, I don't want anyone to know about this pain, however, I like Ding Ling, as if this is no longer a secret in my small circle of friends, everyone is very concerned, but its impact is minimal.
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"The old days are like drunk, I'm afraid to chase after you again, but I want to see you, why do I think about the past, why don't you remember it at all."
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In the mall, a melody of "I like you" quietly sounded in my ears, and my thoughts seemed to be stagnant, as the artistic conception of the lyrics was taken away, out of my body, slowly rising, dispersing, and gradually disappearing into the bustling crowd.