Chapter 7: Wait for me to come back and marry you
The familiar route, different from the scenery in his memory, revived the vague memory that had been sleeping in Fang Mumu's mind for a long time: two small figures also held hands, running this road, running towards their secret hiding place.
Fang Mumu had forgotten how long it had been since she and Yuan Chengle had been to their secret base, starting from junior high school? Or do you start in high school? She was hard to find.
"Ahhh~" With a sound, Fang Mumu fell to the ground, originally her legs and feet were just neat, and it was already very good to be able to run two steps, but now with Yuan Chengle running such a long way, it was inevitable to fall.
"What's wrong?" Yuan Chengle quickly turned around when he heard the sound, squatted down to support Fang Mumu, and asked worriedly.
Fang Mumu smiled, the injuries on her legs and feet were faintly painful, and she desperately wanted to cover it up with laughter. She didn't want Yuan Chengle to worry, and she didn't want Yuan Chengle to blame himself for falling.
"My legs and feet say they want my brother's back." Fang Mumu was very naughty when she spoke, and she couldn't see the slightest pain in her like that.
"Are you really okay?" Although he saw Fang Mumu sitting on the ground like a normal person, lifting his legs and feet and shaking them twice in front of him, Yuan Chengle was still a little worried, after all, Fang Mumu was so neat, and he was also careless, so he didn't let her take two steps before going out, and patronized him to go out in a hurry.
"It's really fine." Saying that, Fang Mumu was about to stand up with her feet on the ground, she didn't plan to really let Yuan Chengle carry her.
"Come up." Yuan Chengle stood up before Fang Mumu, squatted in front of her, and turned his back to Fang Mumu.
"No, no, I'm just talking." Fang Mumu said while shaking his hand, even though Yuan Chengle couldn't see that she was shaking her hand at all.
"Obedient, hurry up." Yuan Chengle turned around and grabbed Fang Mumu's two hands over his shoulders, letting her hold her neck with both hands, "If you grind again, it will be dark." ”
"It's hard work, brother." Seeing his position, Fang Mumu was really stubborn against Yuan Chengle, and immediately lay on Yuan Chengle's back.
"Let's go." Yuan Chengle picked up Fang Mumu on his back and continued to walk in stride, when he felt that Fang Mumu behind him did not have much weight, Yuan Chengle was a little distressed, "Mumu, you should grow meat." ”
"Brother, it's time for you to grow meat." Fang Mumu learned from Yuan Chengle's appearance and said in Yuan Chengle's ear, "You see that the bones on your two shoulders are about to burst out of the skin." ”
Fang Mumu's ridiculous tone was mixed with distress. When she was a child, she and Yuan Chengle were very thin, so she thought that all the children were thin. When she grew up, she grew some flesh and didn't look too thin, but Yuan Chengle seemed to be thinner than when he was a child, and his fast-growing height made his thinness even more distressing. And Fang Mumu, who was lying on Yuan Chengle's back, looked at Yuan Chengle's almost bloodless side face, feeling that his body under his loose clothes was full of jagged bones, and she was even worried that Yuan Chengle would not hide that she was sick.
"Okay, then let's grow flesh together, fat into lightning, and cut through the sky together." Yuan Chengle trotted two steps as he spoke, and then changed to a big stride again, he was afraid that he would be able to trot so much and easily turn Fang Mumu upside down, which would make Fang Mumu uncomfortable.
Fang Mumu, who was originally distressed, was amused by Yuan Chengle and laughed, "If you want to be lightning, you do it, I don't want to be fat like that, I will frighten others." ”
Yuan Chengle and Fang Mumu walked towards their secret with a smile.
This journey took them some time, and when they were about to reach the secret base, Fang Mumu got down from Yuan Chengle's back on the grounds that he needed to walk to the secret base again in order to commemorate coming to the secret base again after coming to adulthood.
"Slow down." Yuan Chengle helped Fang Mumu to walk slowly.
In September, there is no spring, no summer style, a state of depression, and some emotions are hidden in it.
"Is that the hole?" Fang Mumu pointed to the entrance of the cave not far in front of him, and asked Yuan Chengle beside him in surprise.
"What do you say?" Yuan Chengle smiled, but those bright eyes seemed to say: It's so gloomy, do you still need to ask?
Fang Mumu was a little embarrassed by Yuan Chengle, unconsciously withdrew his fingers, and smiled to cover up his embarrassment.
Fang Mumu left Yuan Chengle's support and walked towards the entrance of the cave step by step.
Slowly approaching, letting Fang Mumu's sleeping memories in his mind slowly revive, the branches and leaves at the entrance of the cave seemed to be more prosperous than when she and Yuan Chengle came when they were children, as if there was some magic power at the entrance of the cave that attracted them, absorbing them one by one, one by one, layer by layer, the entrance of the cave that had been covered in the first place, so it was blocked more tightly.
On the way closer, the memories revived in Fang Mumu's mind as if they had just happened yesterday, scenes of the past were repeated on the screen of thoughts, and those pictures made Fang Mumu's eyes dye warm red, and he couldn't help but sigh: Time flies so fast!
Yuan Chengle followed closely behind Fang Mumu, and the little thing that followed him in his memory suddenly grew to such a big size in front of him.
Fang Mumu stood at the entrance of the cave, and after a while, she reached out and pushed those branches and leaves up and down, left and right, looking at the slowly enlarging hole in front of her, she unconsciously stretched out her feet and crawled inside.
After a while, Fang Mumu climbed into the cave, the darkness in the cave overlapped with the memory, she squatted down, followed the direction of the memory, and began to touch the kerosene lamp that could illuminate this secret base at the entrance of the cave.
When Fang Mumu's hand touched the kerosene lamp, she could feel a thick layer of dust falling from the years on the kerosene lamp, she picked up the kerosene lamp, took it to the place where there was light in front of her, looked at the kerosene lamp covered with dust in front of her, she blew lightly, and the dust left the kerosene lamp and flew everywhere.
"Brother, do you have matches?" Fang Mumu, who had cleaned most of the dust off the kerosene lamp, asked.
Yuan Chengle, who bent down to look at the entrance of the cave, touched his pocket after hearing Fang Mumu's question, then pouted and shook his head helplessly, "I didn't bring it." ”
When he saw the disappointment that flashed on Fang Mumu's face, Yuan Chengle had a mysterious smile on his face, which made Fang Mumu very puzzled.
"Brother, what are you snickering at?" Fang Mumu asked puzzledly, didn't he just ask him if he had brought matches.
"Guess!" Yuan Chengle looked at Fang Mumu's puzzled appearance, and smiled even deeper.
"I'm afraid it's a little difficult." Fang Mumu frowned, he really didn't know what Yuan Chengle was selling, so he had to give up and go into the cave to take a look, holding a kerosene lamp, ready to climb out of the hole.
"Hey, hey~ don't worry." Yuan Chengle said, holding down Fang Mumu's body that wanted to drill out of the cave with one hand, and took out something from his pants pocket with the other hand, and shook it in front of Fang Mumu's eyes, "What do you think this is?" ”
Fang Mumu originally wanted to tell Yuan Chengle what he wanted to show her, and it was not too late to wait for her to come out and see it. When she saw the flashlight that appeared in front of her, she maintained the posture of climbing out, and said excitedly, "Flashlight! ”
After that, Fang Mumu took the small flashlight in Yuan Chengle's hand, and the whole person retreated into the cave, half-bent over, and looked at Yuan Chengle, who was also half-bent outside, "Brother, when did you prepare?" Why didn't you say it sooner? So much so that I kept looking for kerosene lamps. ”
Fang Mumu's series of words made Yuan Chengle a little crying and laughing, "My good Mumu, before I can say it, you drill into the hole without saying a word, I haven't opened my mouth yet, you are carrying a kerosene lamp and asking me if I have matches, when will you let me say it?" In the end, Yuan Chengle spread his hands and put on a helpless and aggrieved expression.
"It's me who's in a hurry." Fang Mumu smiled embarrassedly after speaking, and then beckoned to Yuan Chengle, "Brother, can you come in and have a look?" ”
Yuan Chengle used his hand to compare the gap between his height and the size of the cave, and said helplessly, "I'm afraid that I will get stuck at the entrance of the cave and eventually become a cave god." ”
"Okay, I'll go in and have a look, my brother will be a door god here." After Fang Mumu finished laughing, he straightened up and turned on the small flashlight in his hand and walked towards the cave.
"Mumu, look at the road, don't fall." Yuan Chengle watched the figure of Fang Mumu disappear in front of him, and hurriedly shouted at the entrance of the cave.
Yuan Chengle's voice echoed in the cave, Fang Mumu didn't look back, and responded as he walked, "I know~"
Although the light source of the small flashlight did not illuminate the entire cave, you can clearly see the traces left by Fang Mumu and Yuan Chengle: small benches, tables stacked with stones, small fences, and the mound-like homes they once piled up...
Those places that are prone to dust are covered with dust, telling that they have been forgotten in the long river of time.
Looking at everything in front of her, Fang Mumu could feel the warm tears leaving a long mark on her cheek one after another. The corners of her mouth raised slightly, just because these memories were all beautiful in the past, she and Yuan Chengle had never blushed because of quarrels, but they both blushed because they felt sorry for each other.
No matter how good the memories are, there will always be a time to turn the page, Fang Mumu reluctantly left the place where she and Yuan Chengle had stolen out of time in the years.
When he was about to reach the door, Fang Mumu took several deep breaths, so that he didn't look embarrassed by the memories.
"Why did you come out so quickly?" Yuan Chengle said as he helped Fang Mumu out of the hole.
"Because time flies too fast." After Fang Mumu stood up, he said mischievously that the pain in her legs and feet had eased a lot at this time, and she and Yuan Chengle pulled the branches at the entrance of the cave back to their original positions again, so that the entrance to the cave was still hidden behind the branches.
The two of them walked slowly towards the top of the mountain, watching the sun that had sunk to the west, and they sat on the hillside illuminated by the setting sun.
"Mumu~" Yuan Chengle looked into the distance.
"Huh?" Fang Mumu looked at Yuan Chengle's somewhat pale side face, she was waiting for what Yuan Chengle was going to say, those things she knew she would have to say sooner or later.
"I'm going to school the day after tomorrow." Yuan Chengle said very slowly, he wished that he was not talking about me, but about us.
"I know." Fang Mumu smiled and turned his head to look into the distance, there was no banquet in the world, this parting words, it was finally their turn to speak.
Fang Mumu, who sat on the hillside, looked at the crockpot village at the foot of the mountain, and there were thousands of roads outside the crockpot village, and those roads were the roads when people came and the roads when people went.
After being silent for a long time, Yuan Chengle retracted his gaze, put away his sad heart, straightened Fang Mumu's body, and looked at Fang Mumu in front of him.
"Mumu, wait for me to come back and marry you!" Yuan Chengle has thousands of parting words in his heart, but this is the one he wants to say the most.
"Good!" The smile on the corner of Fang Mumu's mouth was infinitely big, so big that it contained all her youth in the past eighteen years.