Chapter Ninety-Six: Never Leave You to Love You
When it comes to otaku, I deservedly be right, because I am an otaku in my family life in later generations. After two weeks of summer vacation, I went out once to visit my parents.
The excuse I told my mother was that I had opened a small bookstore with my classmate, which was invested by my classmate, and the bookstore had been busy recently, and it was far away from my house, so I lived directly with him, by the way, it was a male classmate.
My parents are also quite open-minded, and when I think that my son is also older, there will always be a person who lives independently, so there is no objection. My mom was just worried that I wouldn't be able to eat well.
I said don't worry, my classmate's cooking skills are first-class, and his cooking level is not only too far from your old man's.
At the beginning of the long and boring summer vacation, Li Yun and I first finished the account inventory of Wenxin Bookstore. Inventory is the thing I hate the most, according to Li Yun, I am a person who has no concept of numbers, and I open a bookstore not so much to make money, but in fact it is more like a boring joke.
But after all, we still made money, and after a painstaking settlement, we found that the Wenxin Bookstore, which had been open for more than a year, generated a net profit of more than 9,800 yuan, which was the real net profit, all on one of my savings cards.
I had to mention again that nearly 10,000 yuan in 1992 was already a large amount, so we immediately held a celebration banquet and called the Chen Jing sisters downstairs again, this time eating sea bass, but instead of using lemon juice, but changing to tomato sauce at my suggestion.
Over the next few days, we bought televisions and absolutely advanced VCRs at the time, knowing that the popularity of VCRs was very low at that time, and the only problem was that there were no videotapes to buy. I even bought a record player, then went to a bookstore and bought two of Lionel's records, and when I came home, I happily put the high-quality vinyl records on the record player. Amidst the melodious singing of "hello", sit in front of the window in a chair, drink a lychee juice drink (I found it popular in this era), and watch the pond downstairs and watch the sunset or afternoon sun shine on the surface of the pond.
This moment is perhaps the calmest moment of my life. However, I found that these quiet moments did not seem to have anything to do with Li Yun. In other words, if Li Yun is not by my side and does not appear in this room, I can still enjoy this pure and completely undisturbed life, and even more so without being disturbed.
Am I taking revenge?
Li Yun quickly became obsessed with watching TV series, almost any series, whether it was Hong Kong and Taiwan or domestic, she liked it, and she couldn't control it anymore as soon as she looked at it. Sometimes at one o'clock in the middle of the night, I still watch dramas on certain channels while eating melon seeds.
Because the antenna effect is not very good, Li Yun even purged me to buy an antenna bracket in the market, and then hung it in the air outside the window, like a cross of atonement.
In the month before this summer, I faced this quiet pond and wrote hundreds of poems on a piece of paper, which is more than the number of poems I wrote in my first two years of college.
Occasionally, when a bird perches in the trees by the pond and chirps in the evening breeze, I marvel at how beautiful life can be, and why I have no idea that nineteen years later, the nineties I have experienced will have such romance and tranquility.
Every week I would call my mother's unit to say hello to her and ask if the family had received any letters from me. My mother always said no, and asked me to go home when I was free, and I said that I would also like to go home and eat my mother's cooking, but I am really busy now, and I will definitely go home after a while.
Every time I hang up, I'm disappointed, maybe because I didn't hear from Paulina. Without her letter, it means that I can't go to Shengzhou either.
When the summer vacation entered the second month, I went home, but I didn't take Li Yun with me, maybe because I was afraid that my mother would suddenly see the flaw that I didn't go home for a long time.
On the day I returned home, a letter happened to arrive, and it was from Bao Lina, which was a surprising coincidence.
Bao Lina's letter is not long, only one page, and the first sentence at the beginning is: "Zhou Xu, I miss you, there is no way not to miss you." ”
She went on to write:
"Your shadow is everywhere, lingering in front of me, no matter what I do. I started living in my sister's house in Hangzhou for a week, and I couldn't take it anymore, and I would go crazy staying in this familiar city, so I went back to my hometown. But it didn't work to go home, and it was useless to go back to my parents. When I read a book, I always think of the way you rode my bicycle with me, when I was eating, I always remembered the way you looked when you drank with me, whether I slept or got up, I would always think of everything that happened in my sister's house in Hangzhou, and the endless bickering between us.
I've been stupidly trying to get you out of my heart, and I've tried a lot of things. Really, I went hiking, went swimming, watched movies alone and walked around the streets alone, so tired that I couldn't speak, but I still remember you laughing and saying that you are going to write a poem for me, called Bloodstained Style.
Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and suddenly remember that you said to me, you are from the future world, you have a wife and children, you have everything very peaceful, and you don't want to live in our current era. I wonder why I remember even the nonsense you said when you were drunk. When we came back from the hospital, you told me you were going to cook me something to eat, and you said you were going to cook noodles for me, and I didn't like them, but I was happy. I don't regret falling in love with you, and I can tolerate eating the noodles you cooked, I think the noodles you cook must be much better than the noodles sold on the street. However, I can't bear to be a person who robs or steals other people's love, I am not a robber of love or a thief of love, I know that the person you love is Li Yun, I can't ignore this. So I really wanted to end that day, so I scolded you and yelled at you like a madman, telling you to leave me.
I want to end, but I can't end it, even if this Bao Lina has ended her love for you, then the other Bao Lina, the other Bao Lina hidden in my heart, will still love you until death.
I've said so many stupid things, you won't be angry, will you? I'm sorry, you said sorry to me more than ten times in the school hospital, and I'll only say it to you once now.
I want to go and see Du Qing, after all, he is the dear senior brother of both of us, and our most respected senior. I will return to Hangzhou on August 14, and then at 9 a.m. on August 15, we will meet in front of the dormitory building, and then we will go to Shengzhou together. By the way, I have already called Du Qing, and he will come to pick us up when the time comes.
I wanted to make this letter longer, but now I find that it can't be long, really, that's it.
Sincerely
Bao Lina"