Chapter 4 The Past Is Like the Wind
Sometimes bad news is like a drizzle in the Qingming season, it can't be blocked, it is coming, let us cover our ears and steal the bell again, it will be there, impartial. When I heard the head teacher summon us to gather with Yu Yan and Yu Junbo, I faintly felt a pressure in my heart, and the bad mood suddenly came to my face, sure enough, the head teacher stood at the front, stroked the heavy glasses, swallowed the saliva in my mouth, and said in a heavy tone, "Yu Junbo's mother is sick and died, I go to pay tribute on behalf of the school, you usually get close to their brothers, and now they are about to take the high school entrance examination, the teacher knows that you should not delay everyone's time, but you also know that we are a class collective, Now that they have something to do at home, the teacher hopes that you can give full play to your enthusiasm for mutual help and love, and help him and his brothers more in study and life. ”
Of course, I am obligated to go to see Yu Yan, Zhao Lingxi, Guo Ziqing and others also raised their hands one after another, so we made an appointment to go to the memorial at noon tomorrow.
It takes about 40 minutes to walk from the school to Yu Yan's house, but today there are many people, and it takes 1 hour to walk. At noon on this day, the sky was clear, white clouds, the sky seemed to be laughing at the fragile life of us mortals, none of us spoke along the way, and we couldn't see the expressions on everyone's faces, kind, simple and young We naturally didn't know how to face this change, before leaving home, I specially asked my mother for 200 yuan.
Along the way, I kept thinking about how to comfort Yu Yan, as if nothing I said could reduce his grief. When he arrived at the door of Yu Yan's house, he saw Yu Yan and Yu Junbo standing at the door from a distance and were ushering in the people who came to worship.
I looked at Yu Yan's slightly red eyes, and suddenly I didn't know what to say, if I thought about it along the way, I didn't know how to speak, I looked this teenager up and down, in just a few days, the change was really big, the beard scum was arranged in a mess on the face, dotted on the haggard skin, and I didn't know if it was dirty or black for a while.
The two brothers beckoned us to sit down, and brought tea, the head teacher and Yu Junbo said a few words and was led to see Yu Junbo's father, this is the first time I saw Yu Yan's father, is a yellow-skinned, slightly chubby middle-aged man, he saw our head teacher a little greeting, we got together in advance plus the subsidy given by the school to him, he borrowed the money to thank him, there was no expression on his face, politely beckoned the head teacher to sit together.
Everyone sat around the table and no one spoke, Shu Pengyang, who has always been funny, was like a wilted radish at this time, sitting dumbly without saying a word, the head teacher looked at everyone's heavy expressions and said, "Come, all the way thirsty, everyone drink some water" said that he also picked up the cup and took a big sip, facing the words of the head teacher, we also picked up the cup one after another and sipped the water in the cup.
The head teacher was stunned for a while and said that the school had other things to deal with, so he left in a hurry, and asked us if we wanted to go back together before leaving, and we all wanted to stay with Yu Junbo and Yu Yan, so I asked the head teacher for half a day off.
After dinner, the sky was already dark, I looked at Yu Yan's eyes in front of his mother's coffin, I knew that he must be very, very sad, when I walked behind him, I saw his slightly trembling shoulders, I didn't know what to say, I gently put my hand on his warm shoulder, trying to suppress the trembling frequency, obviously, some sadness is irrepressible, it is like the water of the wilderness, it can't be controlled when the valve is opened, not to mention, this is a loved one, Yu Yan did not look back, nor did he speak, Gently patting my finger with his other hand, I understood that he meant to reassure me that he was okay.
When I left Yu Yan's house, it was already more than 9 o'clock in the evening, Yu Yan gave me a butterfly-shaped fan with a blue cartoon picture painted on it, saying that it was used when he was a child, and when he was a child, their family opened a commissary, and his mother always liked to wholesale some things he and his brother liked to sell, and at that time he would pick out some things he liked and save them, including this fan.
Yu Yan and Yu Junbo sent us to the entrance of his village, gave us two flashlights, and told the other male classmates to send our female compatriots home.
It's been a week since I saw Yu Yan and Yu Junbo again. As soon as the class bell rang, Yu Yan and Yu Junbo walked into the classroom with a little pinch, they lowered their heads, they couldn't see their eyes clearly, there was no expression on their faces, and the classmates in the classroom were silent and didn't speak, they sat down, I secretly glanced back at Yu Yan, he was looking down for a book, his face was still sunny, so good-looking, but I knew that he had changed, and his heart was no longer sunny.
After a class, some students came out of the classroom one after another, Yu Yan and Yu Junbo were immersed in reading, I glanced at Yu Yan again, and it happened that he also looked at me, he tried very hard to squeeze out a smile, but in my opinion, the corners of his mouth twitched. His dark circles are obviously a little heavy, and there is a gloomy feeling in his eyes that can't go away, I know that many things take time to heal, we can't change the world, and we can't let time stay for anyone, what we can do is to make ourselves as sad as possible, I meditated in my heart, Yu Yan, you must get better quickly, we will take the key high school together, go to college together, work together, and be good friends who can't break up for a lifetime.
With this unusual summer, in this kind of time that no one wants to recall and have to face, we live day after day, reviewing, mock exams, marking papers, back and forth life, and the chat between classmates has basically never left these test paper questions, I work hard every day, no longer think about Yu Yan, about his family, I want to wait until the end of the high school entrance examination, and then talk to him.
The night before the exam, it was crackling and raining, and the sound of the rain was particularly clear on the summer night, although I don't like rainy days, but the summer after the rain is really refreshing, so the exam brain should be more awake, I lay on the bed and thought like this, slowly relaxing and letting myself fall asleep as soon as possible.
The weather in the morning was really refreshing and comfortable, so I came to the examination room early with the examination equipment and the mineral water that my mother bought, and waited for the examination room to open and find my seat number as soon as possible. Everything went smoothly, I thought I was playing well, I have been looking for Yu Yan on the way out of the examination room, the exam belongs to the examination room arranged by the whole city, so my classmates have disrupted the distribution of the examination room, I didn't see Yu Yan, thinking that tomorrow after the exam is looking for him, now let's take the exam with peace of mind, everyone is in the best condition, do not affect each other, work hard, just see you at the beginning of the high school.
The next day's exam was similar to the day before, except for politics and English, I didn't know what I thought was okay, my mentality was stable, there was no other situation in the exam process, I just waited for the newspaper answers to come out in a week, and I could estimate the score by myself.
Walking out of the examination room, I breathed a sigh of relief, and felt that the pressure in my heart was slowly relaxed, and now I can find friends to play with peace of mind. In the crowded crowd of students, I kept looking around, trying to find Yu Yan or Zhao Lingxi, but no one saw them. I thought it would be better to go home and have a meal before calling them. Walking out of the school gate, I don't know if there is a hallucination, there is a familiar figure about 5 meters away, it is Yu Yan, he slowly turned his head, smiled at me, did not speak, and continued to walk forward, the gloom in his eyes did not dissipate, I wanted to say something to him, so I quickened my pace, the strange thing is that no matter how I walked, the distance between me and him was always 5 meters, and he did not speed up his pace, but I just couldn't catch up with him......