Chapter Seventy-Five: The Rope of Fate
Leaving the examination room, Lin Ming put his hand on the pergola and looked at the scorching sun in the sky.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, it was the hottest time of the day.
His entire summer vacation was devoted to studying. After consulting Li Yi with Lin Ming, the entrance examination of the No. 1 Middle School in the city, he had a certain understanding, and only tested three languages. Among them, foreign languages are very important, if the other two subjects are not qualified, and the foreign language score is super high, the first middle school may also be admitted.
Because there is an international class in the No. 1 Middle School of the city, it is the only class in the entire Hunan Province that trains students to study abroad. At the point of No. 1 Middle School, it is meaningless to talk about how many capital Mizuki are tested each year. How many students from the world's top universities are cultivated each year is the capital that can be obtained.
Although Lin Ming may not only take the international class, in case other subjects fail, it is also an option to get to the first middle school first, and then find a way to change classes. A school like City No. 1 Middle School, in fact, is much more relaxed, and it is already a relatively elite teaching model, and cultivating students' interests and hobbies is also one of the targeted teaching methods.
Take a taxi all the way to the family home, and at the door, Lin Ming saw a few little children in the courtyard playing hide and seek, and the mahjong room not far away crackled mahjong. The security guard at the gate dutifully guarded the communication room, and a large bird flew over the cloud city in 2002 in the distance.
In this summer, Lin Ming walked in this quiet alley. Maybe it's supposed to be written in the script, spend a few years here, wait for my father to quit his job to do business, make a fortune, buy a few houses and cars, and the plan for his life, that's it.
Lin Ming was not in a hurry to go home, he enjoyed such a peaceful afternoon. Sitting on a stone chair in the shade of a tree in the courtyard, he was a little distracted in a trance, and saw the appearance of his childhood friends in the figures of those little children.
Zhou Yunkai went to the imperial capital and didn't know what he was doing now. An Ye is destined to be not in the same world as them, and in the future, he will go to the world's top universities and embark on a different life.
Mortals are mortals after all, and they can never be compared with geniuses like them, the only thing that can be compared, maybe when they were children, they were as playful and ignorant as mortals like themselves. Lin Ming calmed down, thinking of his partners at that time, but he was dumbfounded and wanted to laugh. Will they come back here in the future and laugh like he does now? It's just that Lin Ming has gone through the traces of time from nearly 30 years ago, and has come to the present like this. And they certainly don't have that mentality and thinking, at least for now. Some people always say that young people are old, but life experience is not something that wisdom can make up for, it takes time to precipitate.
After this precipitation, Lin Ming naturally came to this day. He sometimes wonders what he's going to do next. Whether to follow the times, or to lead the times forward. God asked him to come back, and he always had some arrangements. But now that I think about it, it was just his wishful thinking after all.
God told him.
How you want to do it is your business. I've never pushed anyone, I'm not going to do anything to anyone, only life will force you forward.
Then step by step, Lin Ming felt that some things were destined to have no direction, but the arrangement of fate was sometimes like this. You think you're holding fate by the throat, but it's just a little joke that fate is playing on you. On the road of life, there are still too many things waiting for you.
He sat on the stone chair in a daze, just looking ahead. The yard has not yet been cleaned, the ground is full of camphor trees, and the summer cicadas are chirping, and the sound is like a certain magic sound that can make people sleep, which makes people dizzy, as if they are about to fall asleep.
A pair of gentle hands covered his eyes, Lin Ming was stunned for a moment, but a smile appeared on his face again.
In this life, if you have a confidant, you will not complain.
"What are you thinking?"
An Ran tilted his head sideways and stared at him with a pair of big watery eyes.
Lin Ming said, "I'm looking at you." ”
"Liar."
An Ran pursed his lips: "I wasn't there just now." ”
Lin Ming looked at her affectionately: "But, why are my eyes full of you, why is it that when I open my eyes, the whole world is your figure?" ”
An Ran rolled her eyes, if it was a month or two ago, she would have blushed with shame by such words, but now that she has been baptized by Lin Ming's too many routines, she has long known that Lin Ming's mouth is as sweet as honey. Some people say that it is better to believe that there are ghosts in this world than to believe in the mouths of men.
Enron felt that this was indeed true. At least now, she will no longer be shaken by any of Lin Ming's routines.
"School is almost starting soon." Lin Ming looked at her, "Did you have a good time during the summer vacation?" ”
"Okay."
An Ran thought about it, this summer, because she had to learn dance, she actually didn't have much time to really play. And for girls, it's not much fun. Unlike Fan Lei, Huang Anwen, and Zhao Hao, they are scumbags, who spend all day in Internet cafes and game halls, and have a lot of fun.
Lin Ming stood up, patted his buttocks, and said to An Ran, "Let's go, let's go for a walk." ”
No one in this world can say a word to An Ran to go, let's go for a walk, and An Ran will follow him. Because no one in this world lives in Enron's heart, and no one lives in Enron's heart.
Life is very short, and we are always longing to find a happiness that belongs to our other half in this short life.
It's like when you buy shoes, you always have to try to see if they fit.
Some people felt it was inappropriate and broke up.
Some people think it's not bad, so they naturally spend this life together. Enron is proud because she is beautiful and has good grades. Whether in the courtyard or at school, people who have a crush and like her can go from Jiuyi Avenue to the Jinfu District City Government.
But Lin Ming said to go with him, and An Ran went with him.
They strolled down the tree-lined paths and passed a kindergarten fenced with iron mesh. Inside is a rose bush, and the devil knows why the kindergarten will plant a rose bush, and he is not afraid of pricking the children's hands when they bloom. There was also a banana tree next to it, and there were green bananas growing on it, and a small one was not ripe.
Lin Ming saw a small flower coming out of the iron net next to him, and wanted to pick one. He remembered that when he was a child, he and Yuan Wenwen's girls were playing in the grass outside the yard, and he picked up some small wildflowers on the ground, made a wreath and put it on Yuan Wenwen's head, saying that he wanted to marry her.
At that time, Yuan Wenwen was the eldest sister in their group, and she took them to play with everything. Poke a hornet's nest, go for a wild swim by the river, go picnic on a nearby barren mountain, she dares to do anything.
is different from the timid Enron at that time, Yuan Wenwen was the object of their longing at that time.
Then after Lin Ming said this, Yuan Wenwen smashed him on his head with a garland. Now that I think about it, the innocence and beauty at that time are indeed a very nostalgic thing.
"Eh, what are you doing?"
As soon as Lin Ming stretched out his evil hand and wanted to take off the rose, an aunt's head popped up in the kindergarten's guard room, pointing at him and saying, "Don't steal flowers, don't hear it." ”
Lin Ming stuck out his tongue, lowered his head and blushed and left quickly. Rao is no matter how thick-skinned he is, it is also very embarrassing to be treated as a flower thief.
An Ran giggled and laughed like a little hen, laughing and teasing: "Flower thief." ”
Anyway, it's not once or twice to make a fool of himself in front of An Ran, and Lin Ming is used to it.
He shrugged indifferently: "Actually, that flower must be willing to be picked by me, you see it stubbornly through the shackles of the iron net, just want to go to another vast world." The ancients said that a branch of red apricot came out of the wall, why did the red apricot come out of the wall, it was not that if the lonely fang appreciated himself, then his own world would be too small. ”
An Ran glanced at him: "It's just that you are crooked." ”
The two of them walked through the streets of Cloud City in the afternoon, walking plainly like the days of every day in the future. Through the midsummer of time, walk in the shadows full of mottled years. The road is lined with greenery, old houses, made of bricks and tiles, and crawling with creepers.
Unfortunately, with the completion of the reconstruction of the cloud city center, it slowly extends to the periphery. The old street of Xiangchun Road is too close to the city center, and when the pace of urbanization sweeps like a torrent, any old and old, only innovation remains.
Most of the old buildings on both sides of the road are written and demolished, and there are no people inside, leaving ruins and broken tiles, and they look so depressed in the road that covers the sky and the sun, and in the sea of green trees.
Only the creeper is still lush.
I still remember that year when I was studying in a nearby elementary school, there was a text in the book about the tenacity of creepers. Now it seems that no matter how tough things are, they can't withstand the washing and baptism of time after all. Even if that's not what they intended, isn't human influence part of nature?
Lin Ming took An Ran's hand, and they walked through the streets and alleys, and through the bustling downtown area. The two of them are like two children, crazy and crazy, chasing after this busy world with a childlike heart. Big hands hold small hands, giggling and leisurely spending this summer.
Coming unconsciously. They walked through many streets that were to be torn down and rebuilt, and many buildings that were about to disappear. Just walking like this, Lin Ming found out in a trance that they had actually walked to the gate of the city's No. 1 Middle School.
Lin Ming raised his head and stared blankly at the golden vertical plaque representing the No. 1 High School in Cloud City, unable to return to his senses for a long time. On the opposite side of this sign is a wide old street.
He glanced back at the flat land behind the old alleyway, and the flat ground went up the steps to a billiard room with a shed.
It's like a world away, but it's like the road of life, just in front of you.
The billiard room in August 2002 was no different from that in April 2003. But Lin Ming knew that eight months later, a group of thugs who had been entrenched in the New Concept Internet Café near the No. 1 Middle School in the city all the year round would be waiting for them here. Then the two sides disagreed and fought.
The memory at that time was an unforgettable memory for Lin Ming in his life, he saw An Ran fall into his arms with his own eyes, and watched her stop breathing. Even though there was a soft heat in the palm of his hand, it still made him feel palpitations.
Fate is like a rope to be put on your head, locking your collarbone and wrapping it around your neck. When you are at your most critical moment, a pair of hands will push you against the cliff in front of you.
So.
A person's life has come to a perfect end here.
It should come, and it will always come.
Lin Ming didn't expect anything to change in his life, he didn't want anything, and he didn't care about anything.
But only Enron is the one who is willing to fight everything for him and wants to get it back.
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