At this point in the story, I paused, and because my mouth was dry, I took a sip of iced tea from my cup.

Adin couldn't wait to ask, "Sister Zhenzhen, did you listen to the tape Lu Li gave you when you returned home later?" What's inside? ”

Through Adin's curious eyes, I seemed to see myself who kept asking what Lu Li's tape was on the bus.

"The A side of the tape records the Mayday song played by Lu Li on the piano, and the B side of the tape ......" I burst out laughing at the thought of this.

"What's on the back of the tape?" Adin asked.

"It is the word reading aloud in the third unit of English compulsory 1."

Ah Ding held his chin with both hands, his eyes shining, and said in an extremely envious tone: "Sister Zhenzhen, I envy your story so much. In contrast, my youth was like being gnawed away by a dog. ”

"Everyone's experience is different, that's why I think other people's stories are more exciting. I'm sure your story will be different, too. ”

"Sister Zhenzhen, do you still have that tape?"

"Still." All the things about Lu Li have been collected by me.

Adin grabbed my hand, a little embarrassed, "Sister Zhenzhen, I still have a request." ”

"Say it."

"I need to take some photos with the school as the background as material, can I please bring some old high school things, take a few photos at the school, and take a picture of your back without showing your face."

I thought about it for a moment and nodded, "No problem, I'll go back and look for it in the evening, and I'll see you at the school and high school teaching building around four o'clock tomorrow afternoon." ”

Seeing that I agreed, Adin clenched my hand excitedly.

When I got home and washed up, I couldn't sleep in bed, so I simply got up and took the storage box out of the closet.

There are old high school items in the storage box, including student IDs, MP3s, graduation photos, maple leaves, birthday gifts received in the past three years, and the tape that Lu Li gave me was pressed at the bottom. I carefully took it out and wiped the dust off it.

I found the repeater that I used in high school, inserted the tape A face forward, but luckily the repeater still worked, and when I pressed play, the familiar piano melody sounded. I closed my eyes, and the image of Lu Li sitting at the piano and playing seriously came to mind.

Before I knew it, the five songs were over, and I rewound them again, lying on my desk and listening to them again. The piano music is soothing and gentle, and sleepiness gradually sets in. Before I could get unconscious, I vaguely heard two people talking, one of them whose voice sounded like land.

I immediately woke up and looked around the room, thinking it was a dream, only to find that the voice was coming from the repeater.

Since the time Lu Li gave me the tape, I have listened to this tape over and over again no less than 100 times, and I always thought that Lu Li had only recorded five songs, but I didn't expect it...... As if I was about to discover a big secret, I pressed the rewind button with a trembling hand.

The fifth song ended, and about a minute later, the dialogue from the English book sounded, and after another thirty seconds or so, the piano sounded again. It turned out that Lu Li had recorded more than five songs, and I always thought that the songs would end when I heard the English conversation.

Lu Li's sixth song is Mayday's "Contentment", and when he was halfway through playing, there was a sudden sound of footsteps, the piano stopped abruptly, and then a man's voice sounded, and his tone was very stern.

"What's the matter with you? Your homeroom teacher said you changed the subject list without authorization? This voice is Lu Li's father.

Lu Li replied coldly: "I never said that I wanted to study science, it was your own wishful thinking. ”

"You have such good grades in science, what can you do in liberal arts?"

"I'm going to play the piano."

"You're not doing your job, you shouldn't have let you touch the piano in the first place."

"You will always only have yourself in your eyes, whether you agree with it or not, I have made an agreement with others to fulfill my childhood dream and become a world-famous pianist."

"Okay, even if you want to play the piano, you can go to science, why do you have to read literature?"

"Because, there are people out there who really care about me."

"Anyway, I don't agree with you going to study liberal arts."

"My grandmother has agreed to the liberal arts. Grandma hasn't been in good health lately, so you'd better let her worry less. ”

Lu Li's father didn't speak again, he slammed the door and left, Lu Li closed the lid with a "snap", obviously forgetting that he was still recording.

I sat back in my chair in a daze, digesting the conversation I had just had.

The phone on the table vibrated for a while before I noticed.

As soon as the phone was answered, Gu Zijin's deafening voice almost penetrated my eardrums, "Zhen Zhen, I heard that the elementary school girl from the Yangfan School Newspaper is interviewing you." ”

"You'll know so quickly, if you've got an eyeliner on me."

You don't need to ask to know that this eyeliner is Chen Fei, Chen Fei has been interested in Gu Zijin since high school, and now although Gu Zijin has a home, Chen Fei still loves Gu Zijin.

"You have to say it well," Gu Zijin deliberately said the word oh, "It's best to be able to report the vigorous love between me and Chen Yao as a model of campus love." ”

On the other end of the phone, she must now use her hand to pick up the broken hair around her ear, which has become her signature action.

"Don't teach bad students," I refused in line with the principle of a teacher, and suddenly remembered the tape again, and decided to tell Gu Zijin, "By the way, do you remember the tape that Lu Li gave me when I was in high school?" ”

"Remember, you have to turn it out and listen to it 180 times a year, and you won't take it out again tonight." Gu Zijin exclaimed on the phone, I chuckled, and Zijin also knew me.

"Today I heard something I hadn't heard before......"

I repeated the conversation between Lu Li's father and son in the tape to Gu Zijin.

Gu Zijin thought for a while and spoke, "What Lu Li said about the agreement with someone, is it what you said to Lu Li at the New Year's Eve concert in the first year of high school?" ”

"I'm not sure if it'......"

Is it because of my unilateral agreement that Lu Li will choose to continue playing the piano and choose to leave us to study abroad.

"Zhen Zhen, do you remember that we went to the beach to play together before the class, and Lu Li's behavior was a little weird all day?"

Of course I remember every detail about Lu Li that day, Lu Li was indeed a little strange that day, always between me and Gu Zipei-

The first time was playing in the water at the beach, Gu Zipei came to talk to me, but was ruthlessly interrupted by Lu Li, and asked me to go with him to find crabs.

The second time was when I was eating dim sum, Gu Zipei and I went to wash the fruit together, but when we were halfway there, Lu Li caught Gu Zipei back and laid the dinner cloth.

The third time was when we sat on the beach and watched the sunset, obviously Gu Zipei was about to sit down next to me first, but Lu Li squeezed him away unreasonably.

The fourth time was when I was leaving, Gu Zipei wanted to talk to me, but Lu Li dragged me away without saying anything.

"I remember that he didn't want to go, but then he went again inexplicably, but he seemed to deliberately not let Gu Zipei get close to me all day."

"Do you know why?" Gu Zijin smiled slyly, "Because the day before departure, I lied to Lu Li that Gu Zipei wanted to confess to you on your birthday." ”

"So," I still don't understand, "Gu Zipei wants to confess to me, what does it have to do with Lu Li's willingness to play with us?" ”

"Ye Zhenzhen, are you really stupid or fake stupid, Lu Li likes you, so you don't want other boys who like you to get close to you."

Lu Li liked me, so he disobeyed his father's words because of my words and insisted on his piano dream.

Lu Li likes me, so he was worried that Gu Zipei would confess to me, so he made a series of strange and childish behaviors.

Lu Li liked me, so he played the songs I liked with his heart and gave them to me as a birthday present.

"Perhaps, I used to think he liked me, but if he really liked me, why did he say goodbye in the first place, and there has been no news of him yet!"

Gu Zijin sighed deeply: "Zhen Zhen, Lu Li is already in the past. Didn't you also say that you were going to try to accept Pei Xuan? Pei Xuan will be back after a while, and when the interview is over, you should completely seal everything about Lu Li, so that it will be fair to Pei Xuan. ”

What Gu Zijin said is not unreasonable, Lu Li is just an unreal memory living in his mind, and now it is Pei Xuan who is really with me.

I nodded, "I see, I'll sort it out." ”

The two of us were talking about some work matters, and then we hung up the phone because we were too sleepy.

The next afternoon, I arrived at the agreed place early. Because it was a weekend, the school building was empty.

I came to the first (3) class of high school by my impression, but I didn't expect the classroom door to open and there were several students and a teacher discussing something excitedly.

Because of my sudden interruption, the people in the classroom stopped talking and looked at me in unison.

The teacher, who was surrounded by the students in the center, stood up, and I was pleasantly surprised to call out: "Teacher Zhang Long! ”

Zhang Long walked over from the students, frowned and thought for a while, and then smiled: "Zhenzhen? You're Vera Ye, right? ”

I nodded, "Teacher Zhang, long time no see." ”

Zhang Long and I were chatting outside the hallway.

"I heard that you came to the junior high school to be a Chinese teacher, why don't you come back to meet the high school teacher, did you forget about us!"

It's not so much that I don't want to see my high school teacher, but that I'm afraid of any memories related to Lu Li, so I apologized embarrassedly: "Teacher Zhang, I'm sorry, I've been a homeroom teacher this year, and I'm too busy." ”

Zhang Longhan smiled, "I'm kidding." It is gratifying to see that all of you have a bright future ahead of you. ”

"Teacher Zhang, do you still come to class on the weekend?"

"I'm going to divide classes next semester, and a few students are very worried about class placement, so I'm here to enlighten them. I think of your class, and you all went to study literature. You are very good at liberal arts, but for a while, somehow, I wanted to study science, and I was arrested for doing physics papers in geography class. Gu Zijin, when she was a freshman in high school, she couldn't memorize classical Chinese clearly, and she even swore to study literature, but she didn't expect that she was finally admitted to the law department. and Lu Li, who ranked first in science that year, his father helped him fill out the placement sheet, but one day he came to me and told me that he wanted to study liberal arts, and begged me to be assigned to a class with you. Luckily, you all made the right choice. Zhang Long said, showing a pleased smile.

I chatted with Zhang Long for a while, because the date time with Adin had come, and I reluctantly said goodbye to Zhang Long.

After meeting Adin, she took a few footage and we sat on the playground and chatted.

Adin put away the camera, turned his head and asked me, "Sister Zhenzhen, did Senior Lu Li really go to science later?" ”

I looked into the distance and told the rest of the story.