Red beans are born in the south, and a few branches are sent in spring. May you pick more, this thing is the most lovely.

Qian Aishu hasn't seen Li Hongdou for fifteen years.

In the evening, he was riding a train. Suddenly, the phone rang. He pulled out the phone, a number he didn't know.

"Hello?"

There was no answer on the other end of the phone, only the noise of the car horn.

"Hello?" Still no one agreed. He thought it was a wrong call and was about to hang up.

"It's me." It was a voice he would never forget. He froze.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

"I'm getting married tomorrow." She said.

……

"I want you to tell me in person, have you ever loved me?" She asked.

……

"Do you have any news of Li Hongdou?" She asked.

...... "no ......"

"I wish you happiness!"

The phone hung up. She was married, and it was too late for him to say a word of blessing to her.

The phone rang "tuk tuk ......". The sound wave came like a tidal wave, but he didn't want to dodge, so he let it drown out.

The window of the train was dark, like his world. Occasionally, there was a faint light or two, like fragments of memory streaked through his mind, like meteors, but they would not disappear - they would explode in the darkness, mixing the dark undertones with light, giving hope......

After graduating from high school, Qian Aishu failed the college entrance examination. It was one of the darkest stages of his life. Once faith collapses, so does the body. Unable to withstand the sudden blow, he fell seriously ill. He lay in bed for two whole months, and finally got rid of his serious illness, but since then he has been suffering from a stubborn headache.

Qian Aishu was trapped in shame and despair, and decided to exile himself, and before leaving, he first had to go to say goodbye to Li Hongdou.

That year, Li Hongdou just graduated from secondary school. When Qian Aishu was still waiting for the news of admission at home, Li Hongdou came to his house once.

Li Hongdou's arrival made Qian Aishu panic. His family's already extremely dim adobe house was as dark as a freshly dug coal well because of the smoke of firewood all year round.

Li Hongdou stood at the gate of his house and shouted inside: "Qian loves books, Qian loves books, are you at home?" ”

Qian Aishu's family was having lunch in the house. He could tell it was Li Hongdou. He was shocked in his heart, he never expected Li Hongdou to suddenly appear at the gate of his house.

"Cub, what did you call you?" Daddy Qian pushed him down his back, and then shouted out the door, "Here, girl, come in and sit." ”

He hurriedly put on the gown he had just taken off from sweating and ran out in his slippers. "Why are you here?" He asked, scratching his head.

"If you are allowed to go to my house, you will not be allowed to come to your house?" Li Hongdou pouted mischievously. Usually when Li Hongdou pouts, Qian Aishu's face will be as red as a ripe persimmon. He smirked "hehe".

"Girl, come in and sit." Daddy Qian stood at the door, reading Qian Aishu for a while, and Li Hongdou for a while.

"Come in and sit." In the end, Qian Aishu said to Li Hongdou.

Aunt Qian sat at the head of the bed with her back against her back, looking at Li Hongdou in a daze. Recently, her eye disease has become more and more serious.

Li Hongdou found that Aunt Qian was looking at her, so she walked over and called out, "Auntie." Then he sat on the edge of Aunt Qian's bed.

Aunt Qian grabbed the back of Li Hongdou's hand and trembled. "This is my daughter-in-law?" Aunt Qian's eyelids were red and swollen, and she couldn't open them very much. Li Hongdou turned his head and looked at Qian Aishu.

Half an hour later, Li Hongdou said he was leaving. And repeatedly stated to Qian Aishu that she came to see and leave this time, so let Qian Aishu not keep her.

Qian Aishu didn't say a word to leave her. Aunt Qian didn't let Li Hongdou leave so quickly, saying that she would at least stay for one night before leaving. Qian Aishu said to Aunt Qian, "People still have a lot of things to do." Li Hongdou went on to say, yes, yes, some things about graduation assignments.

Aunt Qian had to say, I often come to the house to sit in the future, what a bad treat for you, Miss Li.

Li Hongdou nodded and whispered to Qian Aishu, "Then I'll go." ”

Li Hongdou walked out of the door with her head down, and Aunt Qian whispered to Qian Aishu: "Cub, go and send off Miss Li." ”

When he walked to the gate, Qian Aishu touched Li Hongdou's arm and said, "I'll send you." Li Hongdou didn't speak, and kept walking forward, with Qian Aishu following behind. He and she had been like that all along. Because of her, and because of him.

was speechless all the way, and when he was about to leave the mountain, Li Hongdou suddenly stopped and said to Qian Aishu: "I'm tired." ”

Qian Aishu looked around, and there was a path diagonally on the side of the road. The weeds on the side of the road stretched out to the middle, covering most of the road, and only a thin one could be seen. Along this road, there is a small hut not far away. It was a place where the villagers went up the mountain to cut down trees to rest, and took refuge in the heavy rain. He pointed to the hut and said, "Go up there and rest." ”

He walked first to the path. The long grass on both sides of the road was draped by a strand of it, and some of it was torn off when it was put together, and the stems and leaves were so thick that they were even uprooted. After walking a section, he stood in the middle of the road and turned around: "Hey, it's okay, come here." ”

Li Hongdou wore white sandals and a long skirt with blue and white dots. It's a long skirt, but the instep can't cover it. Li Hongdou looked at his white sandals and white instep. pouted and said to Qian Aishu, "I don't wear socks again." ”

He stared at her feet for a moment. Then he walked back with a clatter. "It's not going to stop. I'll carry you away. He crouched on the side of the road.

"Can you carry me?" Li Hongdou said.

"I'll carry the 150-pound fat pig and leave."

"Looking for death!" Li Hongdou rushed over angrily and kicked Qian Aishu's ass with a "snap". He grabbed her feet with his backhand. Li Hongdou couldn't stand and leaned over on his back. In a panic, she wrapped her arms around his neck. Before she could react, he stood up.

She's really heavy. He was out of breath and walked heavier and heavier. Her head rested on his right shoulder, "Your back is all wet, sweaty, and my face is wet." ”

"Then why are you sticking so tightly?"

"It's comfortable."

"Stick it."

"My clothes are wet too."

"Yes."

"Wet with the sweat on your back."

"Then you're still so tight."

"In this way, it is comfortable ......"

"Stick it."

"Are you uncomfortable?"

"Hot."

"I'm going to stick it." Li Hongdou was full of tears and tied Qian Aishu tightly. It made him feel even more out of breath. Her body slid against his back. The clothes of the two were stuck in the middle and crumpled together, pimples, and they were stubbornly sandwiched in the middle.

He looked up and saw that the mountain road was almost finished, and it would not be long before he was outside the mountain.

"Do you say it's better in the mountains, or is it better outside the mountains?" After a while, she asked him.

"Outside the mountains, it's too bitter in the mountains." He said.

"You don't have to go back to the mountains when you get into college." Her mouth almost hit his ear.

"Hmm." He looked at the road ahead, "It's almost there, it's outside the mountain." He said.

When the sun was only as high as a tree, he carried her on his back and finally walked to the road. Both legs were peeled and cramped, and the pain was general.

Not long after, a truck drove quickly towards this side, and Qian Aishu hurriedly ran to the middle of the road and stopped the truck.

Li Hongdou shook her head at Qian Aishu.

After the truck left, Qian Aishu asked Li Hongdou what was wrong.

"The driver's eyes are narrow." Li Hongdou said in a low voice. He knew it was her excuse.

"Then we'll wait for the next one."

The next car was stopped by Qian Aishu, and the driver was a woman, so Li Hongdou had no excuse.

Li Hongdou sat in the cab and waved goodbye to Qian Aishu. The glow of the setting sun fell through the window on the other side of the cab and fell on her face. Her bangs were wet with sweat and stuck to her forehead one by one. Some are crooked, some are straight to the bottom, and even the ends of the hair are straight. The golden light on the tips of the hair was like a small drop of dew hanging on the tips of the grass leaves when the sun first came out in the morning.

"I'll be the first to tell you if there's news!" Diesel engines rumble. Li Hongdou stuck her head out of the window and shouted to Qian Aishu. The car drove far away, and she poked her head out again, "I'm coming to me if I have no news, remember!" Or I'll hate you for the rest of my life. ”

"Got it!" Qian Aishu agreed. Then he turned around and walked back to the mountain. It was getting dark. He thought about hurrying away, but his feet couldn't get up. Li Hongdou's body was missing on his back, but the burden was heavy, which made his head and feet incommensurate. He kicked a rock, ran a few steps, and rested. Stop-and-go, the more I don't want to move. There is a flat green meadow on the side of the road, as if someone has carefully tidied it up.

He sat down, feeling that his whole body was still not smooth, so he simply lay on his back and fell to the ground. It's already dark. A dark canopy with a few small stars. It was as if a black pot had accidentally knocked a few small holes, leaking a few rays of light.

The sky is more stuffy at night than during the day. The wind that blew over him wrapped around him like a spider's web—stronger than a spider's web, and he couldn't pull it, and he couldn't tear it open. Just as he was in despair, he heard someone hurrying towards him. Running and shouting -

"Money loves books, money loves books, wait for me."

When I was a child, Qian Aishu heard Aunt Qian say that when you walk alone on the mountain road at night, if you hear someone calling your name behind your back and telling you to wait, don't agree. That's a mountain ghost. Qian Aishu's heart tightened, thinking that this time the game was over. I was already so frightened that my mouth was welded. The black shadow gradually got closer, and the sentence of "Qian loves books...... can be heard clearly. He finally understood that it was Li Hongdou. He sat up and shouted to her, "Why are you back again?" Li Hongdou saw Qian Aishu, walked over slowly, and sat next to him,

"You send me out, I should send you back again."

"You're a bastard?!" Qian Aishu is on fire, "And then I'll send you out?" ”

Li Hongdou didn't speak, he sat there with his hands on his knees and his back hunched. Qian Aishu stopped talking, looking at the dark night and was stunned. The trees on the side of the mountain had a faint shadow in the darkness. "Puff puff puff...... a small black figure sprang out from the top of the tree, flapping its wings - "Fall quickly!" Pour it out! ......" turned out to be a fast-falling bird. The fast-falling bird is the owl, and the people of Qianjiaao believe that when they hear the owl crying "fast-falling", something bad will happen. Qian Aishu's mood became even more irritable.

For a long time, Qian Aishu heard the sound of snorting. He turned his head sideways and saw Li Hongdou's hunched body twitching one by one. He knew, she was crying. He felt guilty for a while, moved his buttocks, and sat down on the shoulders of Li Hongdou, leg to leg. Li Hongdou didn't make any movements, except for the constant low sobbing, the shoulders twitched faster and faster, and sometimes, there was a muffled sound in his throat. Qian Aishu felt uncomfortable when she saw it, and hugged Li Hongdou's shoulders so that she could lean on him. Li Hongdou did not answer, nor did he resist.

"Don't cry." He said.

"I haven't seen you in half a year."

Qian Aishu felt more and more uncomfortable. He knew he shouldn't have said a word to keep her before. "Don't cry." He said, "You know all about me." ”

"No, I don't know." Li Hongdou's nose was stuffed, and he said angrily, "I'm so scared, so scared!" I don't know anything about you. ”

"How so? We've known each other for six years. Qian Aishu hugged Li Hongdou tightly, her body trembling.

"A self-proclaimed ...... We, it's been six years, but we don't remember ......" Li Hongdou couldn't cry.

"I remember, I remember, it's your birthday." Qian Aishu gently caressed Li Hongdou's smooth two small braids.

"How do you remember? Rido ...... Ignore me, woo woo woo ......" Li Hongdou cried and hiccuped, and the whole person fell on Qian Aishu's shoulder.

Qian loves books and his heart is like a knife. He couldn't control himself. "You see it all...... I, I can...... What do you dare to do? Li Hongdou lay on his shoulder and cried, crying constantly, and the tears almost drowned his heart.

After a while, Li Hongdou cried less and less, she looked up at him, in fact, it was so dark, she couldn't see his face clearly. "Kiss me." Li Hongdou asked him. He leaned over and kissed her briefly. It wasn't the first time he had kissed her. He felt her lips tremble involuntarily.