Chapter Eighty-Eight: Distant Memory
In the next few classes, I was also weak and couldn't listen to anything at all, and I kept thinking about Li Yaowen's affairs in my heart. To be honest, I've only seen the old man once, but I do like her very much. She gave me a very familiar feeling, like my favorite grandma, so kind, so kind......
It wasn't until after the school bell rang that I looked at the box with vegetables in a daze. I just remembered that I brought so many dishes this morning because I wanted Li Yaowen to eat with me. Yesterday I only brought one person's portion, but two people were eating. And Li Yaowen said that it was delicious, so I thought about bringing more today. But who would have thought of today......
I don't know how long I stayed in the classroom, until I realized that I was the only one left in the class. I turned my head to stare at Li Yaowen's position in a daze, I don't know when I started to care so much about him.
Is he different? Why should I care so much about him? Yes, he is different from others, he has better grades than everyone else, better than me...... I don't know him, but I seem to know him...... What I have never understood is that he has such good grades, how can he repeat a grade? The teacher said that he skipped class and did not go to school for half a year, but he came so early every day......
I've seen his awards, and there are three of them in the third grade. That is to say, he had always had good grades in the first half of the year when he skipped class, so why did he suddenly skip class and didn't want to miss it? Is there something going on here? I don't understand, I really don't...... He obviously didn't look like that kind of person, and those things didn't look like he could do......
When I came home from school in the afternoon, I saw my dad delivering food, and I stopped the car and went out to help him. It's just that I froze when I used to bend down to get the board......
I don't know where the wind blew, with bursts of sad singing......
I know that kind of singing, it's a kind of mourning, I've heard it more than once...... It came from far away, and I was familiar with that direction......
"Daddy......," I asked, looking back at the old man who was getting food, "do you know who died?" I don't know the meaning of my question, as if it was just to answer the question in my mind. And what I hope is that my dad and I will have different answers......
"Isn't it the kid in your class surnamed Li, whose grandmother is dead?" I heard my dad say, "I heard that I fell down the stairs when I was going downstairs, and no one was home, so I found it late...... I didn't care when I was sent to the hospital......"
"I have a stomachache, go to the toilet when I go home, and come back immediately!" I said, throwing down the plank and running to the back of the house. I don't know if it was because it was empty behind the house, or because the wind was strong, but the mournful music suddenly became clearer, as if it was right in my ears...... When I found out, a tear slipped through the corner of my eye......
It turns out that human life is really fragile, and even a fall will kill you...... In fact, we all know that life is going to disappear...... Whether young or old...... will all leave someday...... Although this is the result of déjà vu, we are still desperately alive because we already have something important, so even if we are desperate, we don't want to leave so quickly......
I don't know if I was thinking too much, or if I had too many things hidden in my heart, but I couldn't sleep that night. I turned over and over again, and the scenes of the summer vacation in fourth grade resurfaced before my eyes. I fell asleep in front of the ground, and when I woke up, I found Li Yaowen by my side, and he invited me to his house...... I still remember the first time I met his grandmother...... Pale hair, kind face, a smile...... Let Li Yaowen bring me this, let me Li Yaowen bring me that...... When I returned, she stood at the door of the house to see me off, and the dusk shrouded her slender figure. At that moment, it made me feel extremely warm and familiar, as if my grandmother was still there......
But what's even stranger is that it was the first time we met, but I thought it was someone I had known for a long time......