Chapter 8 See you again
If two people have been separated for a long time, will they slowly forget. Bai Chuan doesn't know, Xiao Ting doesn't know, the two always think of each other intentionally or unintentionally, Bai Chuan thinks of Xiao Ting's "domineering", and Xiao Ting thinks of Bai Chuan's "stupidity".
Xiao Ting really doesn't have much to spare, the teacher's "task" is completed, and there are endless "tasks" at home - Huanggang test questions, English words, Xiao Ting has to write every day until her head is confused. My parents did better and better in the city, and it didn't take long for them to buy a small house in the city, and when Xiao Ting was admitted to the city high school, the family would be able to reunite safely. With the expectations of her parents, Xiao Ting also worked extra hard, and finally entered the best "No. 1 Middle School" in the county with excellent results in the high school entrance examination.
Shirakawa is much more difficult, after being transferred to the "top students" in the class, the whole classroom is full of "laziness". Students are too lazy to listen to lectures, and teachers seem to be too lazy to "lecture", and school has become a fixed pattern. Bai Chuan also became more and more silent, and the readjusted seat was Liu Xingming's boy at the same table, who was not very tall, but he was indeed the most mischievous one in the class. Everyone in the class called him "Belt". When he first started at the same table, he always knocked Bai Chuan's head with a book, Bai Chuan endured it, and it didn't take long for Bai Chuan, who couldn't bear it, to break his head directly with his iron pencil case, and the blood flowed.
In this way, Shirakawa's parents were called to school for the first time, which should be a very shameful thing, and when he came home at night, his mother took a branch from the fruit tree in her own orchard, and hit Shirakawa all over the ground.
And so began the rebellious character. Shirakawa first learned to skip class and go to a hawthorn forest at the back of the campus to read martial arts novels, and escape for a whole day. Later, there was an Internet café in the town.,And then soaked in the Internet café all day long.,Playing the CS gunfight game that was popular at that time.,I prefer to only have a "chat room" at that time to chat all day.,Shirakawa, who was originally shy.,It seems that he has also found an outlet to vent.,Sometimes while the adults are asleep.,Will sneak out over the wall.,Play until the early hours of the morning and then sneak home.。
Don't fight and don't know each other, since the belt was broken by Shirakawa's head, the two have become best friends, and the belt family is the first group of people to do business after the reform and opening up. The family is very rich, and the two always skip classes together and surf the Internet, of course, the Internet fees are "invited".
Naturally, Shirakawa, who took the high school entrance examination, was "regrettably" brushed off. There is a lot of opinion at home about whether to review or not, the mother wants the child to be promising, and wants Bai Chuan to review for another year to give it a try, and the father looked at Bai Chuan's grades that are still five points away from entering the worst high school in the county, and shook his head.
In the end, Shirakawa did not return to school, and helped take care of the family's orchard at home.
Xiao Ting heard that Bai Chuan had dropped out of school at home, and she really couldn't think of any reason to see Bai Chuan when she moved to the city, but she missed him very much. Of course, she was also angry, angry that Shirakawa was not admitted to high school, even if it was the worst high school, at least then the two would be closer. But in an era when the progression rate was less than 3 to 4 percent, dropping out of school seemed to be a normal thing.
Shirakawa's orchard, on a hill to the east of the village, far from home, is almost impossible for anyone to go anywhere, and is surrounded by a circle of vines called "tribulus terrestris", which is the size of several acres, a red brick hut, a clutter of tools, and a simple bed covered by a yellowed mosquito net. A small table. It can be regarded as punishment and exercise, Bai Chuan was forcibly sent to the orchard by his parents and took care of him, and he was the only one.
Shirakawa is very afraid of the dark, or the darkness of the wilderness, a few bulging graves in the distance, and the sound of the wind blowing the leaves, will scare Shirakawa half to death. On the first night, Shirakawa couldn't remember how he survived, but he remembered that the flashlight had not been turned off, a pack of six candles had all been used up, and the mosquitoes in the mosquito net were so supported by Shirakawa's blood that they couldn't fly, so they could only climb. And then there's her he's been thinking about all night.
Xiao Ting decided to write to Bai Chuan, the post office was in front of the school, Xiao Ting bought beautiful stationery, beautiful envelopes, and beautiful stamps. Wrote a beautiful letter that she felt she could mail to Shirakawa. Of course, she didn't dare to write anything in the first letter, only some greetings as a "friend", because she wasn't sure if the first person to receive the letter would be Shirakawa, and if Shirakawa's parents received it, would it be opened and read.
After finishing at noon, Shirakawa's mother took out a letter from a plastic belt containing lunch and handed it to Shirakawa, "For you, it seems that Tingting wrote it for you, alas...... You look at people, and then you look at your ......". The mother didn't continue, just sighed and shook her head, full of disappointment for Shirakawa.
Bai Chuan didn't expect Xiao Ting to write a letter to himself, since the class placement to the end of the high school entrance examination for a whole year, he almost never saw Xiao Ting, only occasionally heard some news about her. For example, she was admitted to the best high school and moved into the city to be a "city person".
After receiving the letter that seemed to have been opened, Shirakawa was a little angry, but he didn't dare to be angry with his mother, so he could only angrily stuff the letter under the mat of the small bed. It's not that Shirakawa doesn't want to see it, but he doesn't dare to see it. Both of them seem to be Xiao Ting's initiative to get closer to herself, and she often passively accepts.
Finally staying up until dark, his mother finished her work in the orchard and went home, leaving Shirakawa to light a candle and sit on the edge of the bed and open the letter, so that he could write absent-mindedly for a long time
The expectations are much greater, and when the disappointment comes, it will be much more violent than the disappointment at the beginning. What Xiao Ting said in the letter seems to be a bit procedural, more of a greeting between friends, but too many ellipses are used. It seems that there are a lot of words that are not written.
After a sleepless night, Bai Chuan was no longer so afraid of the night as he was at the beginning, and read Xiao Ting's letter more than a dozen times, for fear of missing something. It wasn't until he could memorize the entire letter that he blew out the lonely candle, lit a cigarette, and lay on the bed in a silent daze. The letter has been refolded and pasted in the place where it is attached.
It is estimated that the letter has already arrived in Bai Chuan's hands, Xiao Ting has more expectations, and there will be some letters in the glass window at the door of the communication room every day, pasted on the glass, waiting for its recipient. It's just that the one belonging to Xiao Ting came a little too late, a full half a year. It even made Xiao Ting confused.
There are still three days left before the winter vacation, and there is no learning atmosphere in the school, and there are more endless homework and instructions from teachers. It was snowing outside the window, and it was beautiful and thick. Xiao Ting took the letter she was looking forward to the most, with complaints and hopes.
Ordinary stamps, ordinary envelopes, ordinary stationery. The most of the traces in the letter are indeed written and altered, and there are vague handwriting that I can still see clearly, "I miss you, I really miss you", "I want to see you", "How good it is to go back to the past". Xiao Ting couldn't suppress herself anymore, and when she returned home, she locked herself in the house and shed tears all night.
Is there too much less dialogue, sixteen or seventeen-year-old boys and girls, the word love is really not enough, it can only be said that it likes it, or it is a habit, it is an indispensable and inseparable person in their lives.
In the biggest snow of winter, Shirakawa still curled up in that small orchard house, there was nothing to do in winter, but my father heard that there are some restaurants in the city that collect fruit trees at high prices, and there is a dish that needs fruit trees to roast to be delicious, so there are so many idle people who pay attention to the fruit trees in the rural orchards, and it is said that the fruit trees in several villages have been cut down and pulled away overnight. So Shirakawa naturally took on this responsibility, but his mother only came to deliver some rice and vegetables, and there were more pots and pans for cooking in the hut, and a stove for heating.
The windows of the hut were made of plastic sheet, which was loose and crumbling, and whenever there was a wind, it would make a ghost-like sound again, and two thick quilts and a military coat were stacked together to wrap the temperature of Shirakawa. It's such a night, Shirakawa listens to songs, smokes cigarettes, no one speaks, no one pays attention to himself, and quietly listens to the wanton wind and snow outside the house.
It's approaching the New Year again, and Xiao Ting's happiest thing is probably that her father decided to go back to her hometown for the New Year this year. She didn't reply to Shirakawa, she decided to surprise him, dressed herself carefully, and looked at herself in the mirror, she felt that she had really grown up.
Shirakawa's father gave him a razor, the kind that uses a blade, and said that he had wronged Shirakawa, after all, it was not so easy to be alone in the wilderness, and he couldn't be as free as other children. Even if you go out to work, it's fine. Shirakawa didn't complain, and when this habit became natural, he had to go with the flow.
As usual, Shirakawa slept for a while, and the sunlight outside the window shone on the unmelted snow. Rub your sagging eyes. When I turned over and wanted to get up, I felt a little too cold in the room. "Alas, the furnace is out again!" Shirakawa complained to himself, but decided to get up and light the stove again. However, when he opened the door of the hut, Shirakawa regretted it a little, although it was sunny outside, it was extremely cold. I found a few dry branches, lit them and put them in the stove, pressed a honeycomb briquette on top of the fire, skillfully and quickly completed this series of actions, turned around and wanted to go back to the house, but was smashed on the face by a flying snowball, and a familiar laugh came.
Xiao Ting didn't care about Bai Chuan who was in a daze, she kept carrying snowballs in her hands and smashed them at Bai Chuan, as if all the laughter she had accumulated in the past year and a half had been left to Bai Chuan.
"Fool, you don't know how to hide!"
Bai Chuan was finally sure that he was not dreaming, there were a little too many snowballs on his body, and a few points had even penetrated through the collar, so Bai Chuan turned back to consciousness and kept twisting his body, wanting to shake it out, Xiao Ting smiled even happier.