Extra Nine: He Xiaoying

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Fell in love with his first year

I never believed in love at first sight, I always felt that falling in love with someone must go through a lot, until I met Lin Zhi for the first time.

It was supposed to be a winter afternoon, and the teacher in the piano room took me to the concert hall in the city to watch a youth piano competition.

Due to the traffic jam that day, when we arrived at the scene, the competition was already over, and the winning contestants were interviewed by major TV stations offstage.

The teacher handed me a bouquet of flowers, then pointed to the boy in a white suit standing in the middle and said, "Shinokage, you can help me give him this bouquet later." ”

I nodded, held the flowers, and walked slowly towards him with the teacher.

I knew that the boy in the white suit was a former protΓ©gΓ© of the teacher, and the teacher often mentioned him in front of us, but I never met him.

But I know that his name is Lin Zhi, who is in the same school as me, and is a senior in the second year of high school.

"Lin Zhi, congratulations." The teacher congratulated him outside the crowd.

When Lin Zhi saw the teacher, he pushed aside the crowd and walked over, "Teacher, you are here." ”

"If you win the first prize, you will have no problem sending the sound to the university." The teacher pointed at me, "I wanted to bring students to study, but I didn't expect to catch up with the traffic jam on the road." ”

Lin Zhi's eyes followed the direction pointed by the teacher towards me, colliding with my eyes staring at him, and I held up the flowers in a panic, "Senior, congratulations on becoming a student of Yin University." ”

Lin Zhi took the flowers, leaned over and patted my head gently, and smiled gently at me, "Junior sister, play the piano well, I will wait for you at Yinda." ”

In the past, when the teacher mentioned Lin Zhi in front of us, I would always fantasize about his appearance, I thought he must be romantic as poetry, light as a song, warm as jade, mottled as a flower, clean as water, and as bright as the moon......

But at this moment, I couldn't find a better word to describe him.

I remember one evening, I was walking down the school road with a girl in my class, and as I passed the playground, she suddenly pulled me to the side of the court to watch her crush play basketball.

"You're only in your first year of junior high school, and you're learning about early love." I laughed and teased her.

"Shinokage, do you believe in love at first sight?" She stared in amazement at a galloping figure on the court.

I shook my head, "I don't believe it, how can there be love that comes so quickly." ”

When I first met Lin Zhi, I didn't think I fell in love with him at first sight, but later, when I recalled our first meeting, I thought that my falling in love with him was just a moment of eyes.

Fell in love with him for the second year

In the second year I fell in love with him, I looked for him everywhere on campus, for fear that I would miss him in the blink of an eye, so I became his shadow.

Lin Zhi is in his third year of high school, and because he still has to look at the results of cultural classes, he often goes to the school library for self-study.

Through quiet observation, I found that Lin Zhi would go to the library every Monday, Wednesday and Friday to study until about ten o'clock.

So I adjusted the time of learning the piano to the teacher in the piano room, and as soon as school ended in the evening of 135, I hurriedly packed my schoolbag and went to the library.

Lin Zhi's favorite place to sit is the window single table in the far corner of the fourth floor, and after he studies for two hours each time, he will go to the bookshelf next to him to find a few piano scores, and then read them while listening to songs.

I had pretended to pass by countless times, deliberately slowing down as I passed his seat, but I did not dare to look at him, as if the whole world would discover my secret by just looking at him.

After I came out of the library, I followed Lin Zhi, always keeping a distance of one person. Sometimes he walked slower, and I walked faster, and the distance between us would be shortened, and under the orange streetlights, our shadows would stretch long, long, and sometimes my shadows would be driven to his side, as if I were walking side by side with him.

But he never suspected that someone was "following" him behind him, so he never looked back.

He Xiaoying's shadow is Lin Zhi's shadow.

Fall in love with him for the sixth year

In the gap of time, I only do two things, one is to be excellent, and the other is to love you.

I'm finally in my third year of high school, and over the years I've been remembering what he said to me when I first met Lin Zhi, and I even wrote it down on sticky notes and pasted it on my desk, reminding myself every day that I must become as good as him.

I practiced tirelessly every day, and finally won a place in the qualifying tournament for the University of Music.

One evening, Lu Li and I were practicing in the piano room, when someone suddenly knocked on the door.

"May I come in?"

Lin Zhi walked in with a glow of light, a gentle smile on his lips, and a bright crystal under his eyes.

I never thought that he would suddenly appear in front of me, so I only looked at him, silently watching him, but did not dare to approach or talk to him, for fear of ruining the beauty of the moment.

Lin Zhi finally noticed me, and he asked me with a smile: "Are you a student who participated in the escort of the University of Music this year?" ”

"Well, yes." I lowered my head, not because I was shy, but because I didn't want Lin Zhi to see the loss in my eyes.

He doesn't remember me, and he certainly doesn't remember the promise he made to a girl many years ago.

Then, he chatted with Lu Li's classmate Zhen Zhen in the corridor. I was absentmindedly playing the piano, but the corner of my eye was occasionally focused on the two people who were talking intimately outside the window.

I suddenly envied Zhen Zhen, envious that she could be so generous in front of Lin Zhi.

The next evening, I saw Lin Zhi again downstairs at Lu Li's house. He seems to have just finished dinner with Zhen Zhen and sent her home.

Before passing us, he greeted us and told us that he was going to hear back tomorrow.

"Little girl, play the piano well," I waited expectantly for him to say the second half of his sentence, but, "I am optimistic about you." ”

"Thank you, Senior Lin Zhi."

I waved to him and silently added a sentence in my heart: "We have a big voice." ”

Fall in love with his tenth year

What is the concept of ten years. Eason Chan's "Ten Years" sang: "Ten years ago, I didn't know you, you didn't belong to me, we were still the same, accompanied by a stranger, walking through the streets that gradually became familiar; Ten years later, we are friends and can still greet each other, but it is that gentleness that we can no longer find a reason to hug. ”

A year ago, I was sent to the University of Music as I wished, but on the day of the graduation ceremony, I learned that he was going back to teach at Yangfan. As if fate had played a great joke on me, I chased him all the way, thinking that I was about to catch up, only to find that we were standing at opposite ends of the crossing line, going farther and farther away.

It has been two years since the piano department of Laiyin, and although Lin Zhi has graduated for two years, the legend about him is still circulating on campus.

In the past two years, I have been to his piano room, stroking the piano he once played, sitting in his former position, closing my eyes, thinking about his sound, his smile, his appearance, and the way he said goodbye.

"What's wrong?" When I came back from self-study one night, I saw my roommate sitting in front of the computer crying, so I put down my schoolbag and walked over.

"It's quite intimate to see a boy I like walking with a tall girl after school in the evening." A roommate explained to me in a whisper.

"I like him very much, but he likes tall, big-eyed girls, and I'm not." The roommate closed the laptop and wiped his tears, but he fell even more fiercely, and his sad cry, like the explosion of a balloon, hurt his heart. I hurriedly stepped forward to comfort her, while another roommate gently stroked her shoulder.

"It's a crush, how does he know." The roommate turned the computer back on, and this time the tears did not fall. I smiled at her and turned to tidy up my desk.

Oh, yes! What about the crush, how would you know.

I don't know who said it, if you miss someone, you can secretly tell the moon god, as long as you gently put your right hand on your heart, stand where the moonlight can bathe, and sincerely express your thoughts to the moon god, then no matter where that person is, as long as he sees the moon, he can feel your thoughts.

So on every moonlit night, do you hear, I miss your voice.

Fourteenth year in love with him

I am twenty-eight years old, and I have loved Lin Zhi for fourteen years, which is exactly half of my life. I think it's time for me to stop loving him and try to forget about him for a long time to come.

In all these years, I have never seen Lin Zhi again. But I always tried my best to learn about his recent situation from various channels, and used my connections to collect many precious piano scores for him, so that Zhen Zhen could pass them on to Lin Zhi in her name.

In the first semester of my second year of graduate school, I went to the Royal Academy of Music as an exchange student, and saw many rare scores in the library there, but unfortunately these books could not be borrowed, so I spent a whole week in the library to copy the sheet music by hand. During my visit, my professional skills were recognized by the college, and they offered me an invitation to continue my studies, which I did not hesitate to decline. When you have a person in your heart, you are destined to fly not far, and Lin Zhi is the rope that binds me.

I remember that day my tutor and I were sitting on the train to Haicheng to study, and the news of Lin Zhi's marriage jumped out so without warning when I was browsing the circle of friends. Looking at the girl Lin Zhi liked in the photo smiling like a flower next to him, at that moment, I heard the sound of the flower of love that had been carefully guarded for fourteen years withering.

After much hesitation, I still went to Lin Zhi's wedding, I wanted to see his happy appearance.

This is a wedding that I have fantasized about countless times, and I said to Vera, "If I had been brave enough to tell him that I liked him when he graduated that year, would it be us standing up there today and being blessed by everyone?" ”

It's a pity that there are no ifs in life.

In the end, I handed over the piano score that I had copied abroad to Zhen Zhen, and asked her to help me transfer it to Lin Zhi, which was counted as a wedding gift for him.

Before leaving, I took one last deep look at the guy I had liked for more than ten years, and I knew that I would never meet someone like him again for a long time to come. And he will never know that there is a girl who has loved him silently for so many years.

If life is only as it first sees, it is very short, and you, as long as you have met it, it is good.

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