Chapter 4: Ripples of Memory

The excitement and curiosity that I had imagined tens of thousands of times did not last long, and it only lasted a few minutes when I thought about it. Is this what college life is?

On the pedestrian street outside the school, Xie Yulin and his roommates scanned the shops on both sides of the street with their eyes recklessly (of course, looking at the beauties on the street is the real intention of a few decrepit men), and talked unscrupulously about the beauties they saw along the street. When the beauties discover their bad intentions, several sneaky decrepit men panic into the roadside store, pretending to choose daily necessities for themselves. After satisfying the desire to peep, a few decrepit men walked towards the school with a few simple daily necessities and a smile.

Xie Yulin and a few other roommates returned to the dormitory and felt a burst of collapse, threw the daily necessities on the side of the bed, and lay down to slowly relieve the tiredness of the whole body. Xie Yulin felt the joy of independence. The independence here does not mean that he can be independent of the family, but that there are no parents to work for him now, and everything has to be done by himself.

The knock on the door made everyone's nerves tense, and next to the door, Wang Xiaoming reluctantly turned over and jumped out of bed to open the dormitory door, and saw an angelic beauty standing at the door.

"Beauty, who are you looking for?"

"I'm looking for Xie Yulin."

"Sister!" Xie Yulin screamed and jumped out of bed and walked to his sister's side to hug her with her arms, and her roommates were envious, jealous and hateful.

"Let it go!"

"Hug again."

"What a stinky boy who hasn't tasted love."

"Just say this to you, I'll change a girlfriend every day this semester."

"Yes, if you let me know that I have wasted my time, I will break your legs." Xie Xue is like an elder teaching her younger brother.

"Okay, read well." Xie Yulin realized that his roommates were looking at him blankly, "By the way, these three handsome guys are my roommates." Xie Yulin introduced his roommate to his sister.

"Hello, I'm Yulin's sister." Xie Xue stretched out her hand and shook hands with the three handsome men respectively, "I hope the three handsome guys will take care of my uneasy brother in the future." ”

"We will." A few handsome guys smiled.

"I'll go to the supermarket and buy some drinks." Xie Yulin walked out of the dormitory.

Xie Xue saw that the dormitory was in a mess, so she started to clean it up.

"We'll do it ourselves." A few boys scrambled to clean it up. Xie Xue had no choice but to sit aside.

"These three layers of cabinets are equipped with daily necessities, books on the middle floor, and small bonsai on the lower floor."

Xie Xue noticed her brother's suitcase, and she slowly opened the suitcase and took out a few books lying in the suitcase. "I'll do it." Wang Xiaoming took the book in Xie Xue's hand. There was a delicate bag lying at the bottom of the suitcase, Xie Xue opened the bag and took out a fine tablecloth to spread it on the table.

"What are you doing here?" Xie Yulin walked in and threw the drink on the bed, snatched the canvas from his sister's hand, rolled it up, held it in the palm of his hand and walked out of the dormitory. Sister Xie Xue was overwhelmed by her brother Xie Yulin's sudden mood swings, and her dumbfounded brother watched his figure disappear into the corridor. Xie Xue sat on the edge of the bed, unscrewed a bottle of drink and drank it.

"Yulin, is he okay?" Tian Jie asked with concern.

"It's okay, stinky boy has a small heart. Didn't he just touch something given by his little girlfriend? ”

"Everyone has a little secret in their hearts, and it is my beautiful expectations and fantasies. If I were me, I would never allow anyone to probe in. ”

"Xiaoming is right, people should respect each other."

In the dormitory, Xie Xue told the juniors about college life as a passer-by. In the corridor of the dormitory, Xie Yulin held on to the guardrail and looked into the distance. After a long time, Xie Yulin retracted his gaze, slowly opened the tablecloth in his hand, and at the same time unfolded a story in his memory: in his junior year of high school, he was busy with his homework and couldn't go home to eat and take a nap...... When you are tired, lie down on the table and fall asleep. One day his tablemate warmly handed him a roll, "Guess what?"

"I guess it's the Northland's Linhai Snow Field; It is the mandarin ducks playing in the water in the south; It is the bright moon born in the sea in the east; It's the lonely smoke of the desert in the Western Regions......" "Don't guess the big fool, just open it and see it!" Xie Yulin carefully opened the outer layer of brown paper, unfolded it and looked at a tablecloth full of elves.

"It's so cute, thank you for the gift," he said, giving Warm a big hug.

"I really hope that every day you have these elves waiting for you to daydream during your nap, and not be stolen by the air."

"Hah, then what do I give you in return, a kiss? A promise? A convention ......"

"Humph! When did it become oily and slippery? ”

"When love hits my little heart."

"After the college entrance examination, I officially promised you to be your girlfriend."

"Wow, I have a girlfriend!" Xie Yulin danced and shouted in the classroom, and the angry eyes of the whole class shot at him like machine guns. The result of Xie Yulin's anger can be imagined, calling the parents, and being reprimanded by his father Xie Guoqiang. Then, the high school teachers did the same, reading the pledge from the podium.

"Warm, I love you, no matter when and where you will be in a year, I will be by your side......" The guarantee was read out as Xie Yulin's love confession, and the head teacher was so angry that his eyes were about to pop out. Stop, stop, ......" the head teacher shouted, "Xie Yulin, I appreciate your courage, I admire you for always being able to occupy a position in the top ten of the school's performance list, and I also envy you for having a billionaire father, but the mission of every student in the 88th class of high school is to quietly review and meet the college entrance examination." ”

Or the head teacher's order, or the power of love, since that confession, Xie Yulin has devoted himself more attentively to learning. It's a pity that that arrogant confession has long been thrown out of the clouds, falling into the Pacific Ocean and feeding into the belly of the great white shark. Promises are good, and it doesn't matter if they can be fulfilled or not. Because that promise means: in the course of life, there is a moment, there is a person who cares about himself; Therefore, we must be kind to every promise we encounter in life, and we should not pursue the results of our fulfillment. Maybe ten years from now, when we look back on that beautiful and ignorant high school years, we will be a little excited in our hearts, and we will thank ourselves at that time - dare to think, dare to speak, dare to do. After all, with the passage of time, every word we think about is no longer neat.

Xie Yulin tasted the fragments of his memory alone, feeling that his taste buds were bitter, and he couldn't tell what kind of taste it was. Xie Yulin couldn't help patting his head, and at this moment he remembered that the promise he had made had already been pushed off the cliff of time like a murderer by the pre-test papers, and he was shattered. Thinking about it, his nose was sour, and he said to himself: I don't know which city Wen Wen lives in now, what kind of person accompanies her, or a shivering autumn? Will she still remember me? Which convention will be remembered? Perhaps, the promise in return has long been lost in her memory.

Xie Yulin pressed the tablecloth to his chest and asked the elves to soothe his thoughts...... Looking back on that story, it feels so clumsy, so vague, so frivolous. With this vague feeling, Xie Yulin walked into the autumn breeze on campus, and the white T-shirt on his body shook in the wind. Walking through patches of freshly watered meadows, I sat on them without caring about the dampness, and sat quietly.

In a strange city thousands of miles away from Xincheng, a girl in a sky-blue dress sat on the grass at sunset, holding a photo in her hand, tears slowly sliding down her cheeks from the corners of her eyes, and finally falling on the photo. The girl's slender fingers trembled, wiping away tears from the photo.

"Warm...... What are you doing? A girl walked into the warmth, "What kind of handsome guy, your boyfriend?" ”

"What are you talking nonsense!" Warmly stuff the photos into your bag.

"Let's have dinner together?"

"Go ahead, I have no appetite."

"Go... Go—" The girl shook her warm arms.

"I really don't have an appetite."

"Okay." The girl looked very lost. Wen Wen watched his friend leave and took out the photo from his bag again.

"Yulin, how are you? Remember me? Are you thinking about me at the moment? Do you remember your promise to me? ......" warmly looked at the photo, muttered to himself a hundred "heavenly questions", and finally stuffed the photo into the bag again.

It is often said that there are two kinds of tormenting things in the world, one is dreams and the other is memory. At this moment, in the same rays of sunset, two people who are far away from thousands of mountains and rivers have stayed together and experienced a lot of happy things together. Now pulled away by the giant of time, I can only carefully recall the stars of yesterday in mourning, silently miss each other, and silently look forward to the next reunion.

The evening breeze blew greedily, and time passed by the side second by second, leaving ticking codes. The curtain of the night was draped over Xie Yulin's body, but he never had a sense of thickness, he was always very cold. Xie Xue sat in a daze for more than ten minutes, and she went through everything about her brother in her mind like a movie. She couldn't believe why her sunny and cheerful brother had become sentimental. Xie Xue kept asking herself why? Whether he didn't know his brother thoroughly enough, or his brother had changed, or maybe he really touched the secret realm that his brother was most reluctant to disclose.

When Xie Yulin returned to the dormitory, he glanced at his sister and put the tablecloth in his hand back into the suitcase. Xie Xue found that her brother's eyes were not so thorough at this moment, and there was an indescribable message in the wetness.

"I'm sorry."

"It's me who is not good."

"Let's go eat something outside the school and buy you a few small bonsai by the way."

"Brothers, let's go together."

"No, let's clean it up again." Several handsome guys have not yet come out of Xie Yulin's mood swings, so they have to refuse to accept on the grounds of packing their luggage.

Xie Xue walked on the campus of Zijin University with her brother's arm, and the pedestrians on the side of the road cast strange glances at the two sisters and brothers.

"I heard there was a fight yesterday?" Xie Xue broke the silence and asked.

"Can you let go of your hand before I answer your question, the eyes of the people around me are about to strip me naked."

"You're beautiful!" Xie Xue let go of her brother's arm, "Can you say it?" ”

"I met a stupid hanger yesterday, and I just can't be civilized when I talk to him well."

"It looks like a girl."

"It's about girls," Xie Yulin paused, "Sister, you don't think I'm rough with a girl, do you?" ”

"There is no man in the world who is not rough!"

"Sister, what you said is too profound, my brain is not enough to understand this philosophical question."

"Let me warn you, stay away from that girl."

"Cut, I don't know what her name is, so why stay away from her?"

"Intuition! A woman's intuition, okay? ”

"A woman's intuition is so sensitive, why would she hit an electric pole."

"Stinky boy looking for a pump!"

"What a murderer! Can you be a family quietly? ”

The two siblings came to the gate of Zijin University noisily.