After being discharged from the hospital, Su Qingzhou waited for me at the school gate to go home together. He had two popsicles in his hand and handed them over as soon as he saw me.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome, I'll accompany you home." Su Qingzhou said.

"Hmm."

Walking to the stone bridge of the Zhan River, he suddenly lay on the guardrail of the stone bridge and watched the sunset.

"Jiang Jingmu, why did you help me at that time?"

"I don't know, I'm probably afraid you'll die."

"I wasn't scared when I was punched and kicked by them, but when I saw you leading a stick to stop them... I was scared. ”

"Huh? ……”

"I'm afraid you'll get hurt."

As the breeze blew, his hair stuck to the gauze in the corners of his eyes.

After a pause, I said, "They were all punished, and some of them were dissuaded from the service." There are also gangsters outside the school, who have been detained by the police. ”

"Well, do you think that today's sunset is different from usual?"

Looking at his line of sight, the sunset is still the same, no different. But I just knew that he was talking about the sunset that day...

With lessons and pain...

Su Qingzhou said: "Tomorrow Saturday, can you get up at five o'clock?" ”

"It's a little reluctant."

"Get up at five o'clock, I'll wait for you downstairs at your house."

"What are you doing?"

"Ask so much what to do."

When the allotted time came, I struggled for a long time to get out of bed. Wash up quickly and sneak downstairs.

As soon as I got downstairs, I saw Su Qingzhou riding a car waiting for me downstairs. When he saw me come out, he waved his hand high.

"Here you go, the preparation is in a hurry, there is no time to bring anything else." He handed me a bag of breakfast milk and a sandwich.

I jumped on his bike and held the back seat stiffly, but he grabbed my arm around his waist.

"I'm very floating, and what you just did was dangerous. You put your arms around me so you don't fall out of the car, hold on. ”

He rode very fast, not as floating as he said, and very steady. It was still not too bright at five o'clock, but there were already many pedestrians on the road.

We always think that we get up early, but we don't know that there are many people who get up earlier than ourselves.

In other words, there are always people in this world who are one step ahead of you, or work harder than you.

He took me to the department store in the city center, eleven years ago there weren't too many cars on the road. The department stores in the city center can easily climb to the top floor.

Sitting on the roof of the building, he lay flat on the few idle chairs and looked at the gradually brightening sky, glowing with fish belly white:

"Look, the last time you walked with me through the sunset, this time I accompanied you to watch the sunrise."

I watched the sunrise rise in amazement, and there was a shocking beauty. Shocked by the skilled craftsmen of nature, this world is so amazing.

Since then, I've fallen in love with this world that has no end.

"Like it? This sunrise sends you off. ”

"Haha, you're stupid, aren't you? Can you send me at sunrise? ”

"What's the matter, or you still want the moon?"

I didn't notice when he sat down on my side, beside me. With a smile in his eyes, he drew closer and closer to me. Suddenly, I felt a heat on my lips, and his lips touched mine and quickly left.

The hand grasped the corner of the clothes, this was the first kiss.

After a brief touch, he quickly left. Both of them had red cheeks, and he coughed extremely unnaturally:

"Jiang Jingmu, just take this as a reward for me."

What in return? But I was nervous and couldn't speak, so I didn't ask.

After calming down for a while, I forgot to even watch the sunrise. When he looked back at him, his cheeks were no longer red.

"Su Qingzhou... You'll be in the future... Don't be so flamboyant, it's not good. ”

"What do you mean? You want to control me? Su Qingzhou said proudly.

"No, I'm just saying that you can be low-key, and you can be tactful when you reject people who like you."

He was very angry that the eldest sister who confessed to him was the only failure in his seventeen-year-old life.

Seventeen-year-old Su Qingzhou kissed sixteen-year-old Jiang Jingmu.

And his life is gradually moving towards a better trajectory.

These things from many years ago are really like the wind and water, sliding through the running line of time. From the beginning to the end, we have graduated and the story has ended.

And the people who have been with them, the people they have liked, and some of them have already married or become parents. There are still a few people who have exchanged a glass of beer for memories of this confused life.

All in the form of... Very little, very little.

Perhaps, in those years, we were also the surprise that someone was looking forward to.

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At the end of the party, I didn't see Su Qingzhou either. The squad leader looked at his phone over and over again, and the position next to me that was originally prepared for Su Qingzhou had been occupied by Lin Mingzhu.

I was waiting for the bus at the door, Lin Mingzhu was with me, and she handed me a business card.

Looking down, he was suddenly embarrassed - Su Qingzhou's name, and his contact information.

"Why did you give me this..."

Lin Mingzhu flicked his hair and shook it: "I don't know, I might want to tell you that he is still single." ”

"Why are you telling me this?"

"Oh, what else? Jiang Jingmu, I'm not with him, understand? He went abroad, and I went to school in Beijing. And why? He knew that you liked others, and then you hurt him so ruthlessly, he ran away! And why? Scold. ”

The business card in my hand was so hot that I couldn't help myself think back to the past.

In the third year of high school, Su Qingzhou and I were no longer at the same table, he sat in the front position than me, and I was an art student in the back.

He is no longer a sports student who was transferred from the seventh middle school with a smile from the teacher.

He said he wanted to take the same city as me, so during that time, he worked hard. He also gave up his specialty students and devoted himself to cultural classes.

I'm an art student, and I'm going to take classes outside in the first half of my junior year of high school. The day before leaving, I said goodbye to him, and he told me not to leave with tears in his eyes.

"Jiang Jingmu, don't go, please."

"No..."

"Please, don't go..."

I remember that my action at that time was to take a step back, without saying a word, just holding the book and turning away.

There was no turning back, and he walked very firmly. He didn't chase me, probably knowing that season was the season of separation, and no matter how forced he was, he could only give up.

After all, it was going to disperse, and I just broke away from the group in advance.

No one was retained, no one was blessed, everything was abrupt, panicked, and mixed with the unpredictability of the world.

On the third day after school, I came to school to clean up what I had left. In the drawer was an album of my photos. From the first year of high school when we met, to the day I said I was leaving.

The last line is handwritten:

-- Everyone wants to go, but I dare not stay. Someone will take your place, but don't say goodbye to me?

- Su Qingzhou

Su Qingzhou that year, he really worked hard, and he could be admitted to Beijing.

When I was outside in class, I heard Qu Zhi'an tell me.

"It turns out that you Banlin Mingzhu have liked Su Qingzhou since childhood, no wonder you often look at you with resentment in your eyes."

"What are you talking about? What resentment? ”

“… Speechless. I said that Lin Mingzhu confessed to Su Qingzhou at the commendation meeting for the midterm examination. Qu Zhian said

I can't believe that such an excellent Lin Mingzhu has always had a crush on Su Qingzhou, but when he came from the seventh middle school, I didn't see them talking.

Qu Zhian said: "That's because Lin Mingzhu is with someone else, and he is jealous." and pretended not to know. ”

"Really?"

"Fake, I guess."

What the truth looks like, we don't know. It's just speculation that both of them went home to reflect after being punished.

When Su Qingzhou came to look for me, I had just finished school and was pushing my bicycle to go home.

He wore short sleeves, stood in my way on a sultry night, and said to me:

"Jiang Jingmu, I have something to say to you."

"If I am admitted to Zhejiang, can you stay with me?"

At that time, there was only Nian Jun in my world, and I was immersed in the sadness when Nian Jun went to school somewhere else. I don't have the slightest mood to deal with anyone, I don't have the appetite to eat, I don't have the mood to laugh, and even when I walk on the way out of school together with Nianjun when I was in junior high school, I will cry out sadly.

When I paint in the studio, I can't help but cry.

So I didn't hesitate to reject him:

"I have someone I like, and I've liked that person for years."

"I don't believe it! You haven't been close to any other boy except for me! ”

"It's true, he's not from our school, he's my bamboo horse, he's already in college. I've liked him since I was a child, and it's only in the past few years that I have recognized my heart. ”

"And what am I?" Su Qingzhou asked me.

"I don't know, I haven't thought about it, I treat you as a good friend."

"Good friends? Haven't thought about it? Then why didn't you resist when I kissed you when I was a freshman in high school? We have been at the same table for two years, why don't you say that we are just friends!! ”

"You said it was a freshman year of high school, and I didn't understand anything at that time. I don't take you seriously, why are you embarrassed to mention it now? ”

He was very angry, his eyes were very red, and he reached out and wiped his face fiercely:

"Okay, Jiang Jingmu! I know, I, Su Qingzhou, am a passerby in your Jiang Jingmu's life. You don't have to worry about it, do you? Good, good, good!! You have someone you like! Good! Don't you think I'll bless you with him! ”

Even though I felt his anger, I really didn't have the mood to pay attention to how he was doing.

As a result, it was only a few days before Lin Mingzhu came to me and said that Su Qingzhou had gone abroad.

She scolded me severely, saying that I was a wolf.

I can't argue with that.

She was right, I hurt Su Qingzhou, she said:

"Jiang Jingmu! Let me ask you, Su Qingzhou has been kind to you for so many years! Why are you hurting him so much! ”

"He likes you, who doesn't know! Be! I love him! I'm just unwilling, which of you is better than me! You're not as good at drawing as I am! Studying is not as good as mine! It's not as beautiful as me! Not as tall as me! What do you say? ”

"Jiang Jingmu! I've never seen a person who can enjoy another person's good, and I see it as a very honorable thing to hurt others. Why, are you so vain? ”

"You said that what you like is someone else, what a childhood sweetheart! That's a piece of? Without Su Qingzhou, you are nothing! You're just a normal person! ”

"You're embarrassed to refuse him, saying that you've liked someone else for many years and can't fit him. Hehe, you're really tall. ”

I can tolerate other people's sneering words, but I can't accept someone to mock my love.

"Why do you say me! Why should I give up the love I chased for him! ”

The one I hate the most is:

"If you let me fulfill his love, then who will fulfill my love? Why should I force myself to be with someone I don't like? ”

That Lin Mingzhu kept saying that Su Qingzhou, who went abroad, listened to all our conversations behind me.

He heard it clearly,

He is my dislike, because I don't like it, so I don't want to.

When I found him, he was already crying. He didn't look at me anymore, turned around and ran like crazy.

I thought, it's over. Jiang Jingmu, you hurt your good friend.

I have always thought that Su Qingzhou and I are the purest friendship.

Unfortunately, when the quantitative change reaches a certain point, it will cause the qualitative change.

That was the last time I saw him, even though I knew that Lin Mingzhu was coming to me that day. What she said was just for Su Qingzhou, whom she had attracted, to hear and misunderstand. I didn't call him once, nor did I apologize for being so late.

I don't know where I saw a sentence:

"In fact, there is no Changting Ancient Road for the real farewell, and there is no persuasion to drink a glass of wine, that is, on the same morning as usual, some people stay yesterday."