(3) Birch forest
The long road was coming to an end, and the girl was already gray-haired, and she often heard him call by the pillow, Come, dear, come to this birch forest, and when she died, she murmured, I am coming, waiting for me in the birch forest......
Because there is still a period of time before graduation, the company also allows Ouyang De and Chen Juan to report in advance if they need to be delayed. So they weren't actually busy during that time, on the contrary, Weiwei and Dawei weren't so lucky, if there was something at school, they had to ask for leave, and they often ran at both ends.
That day, several people finally relaxed and invited them to dinner together. In a small restaurant outside the school, Ouyang De was still used to ordering two bottles of beer, but what he didn't expect was that Chen Juan asked him to add one more bottle. Ouyang didn't ask anything, although it was very strange, but the wine was called, and Ouyang, Dawei and Chen Juan each had a bottle.
"Ouyang, you're about to graduate, are you going home to live?" Chen Juan took a sip of wine and suddenly asked.
"Well, I'll probably rent a house too. After all, the home is too far away from the city, and the most likely is to go back on the weekend. ”
"Me too, no way. I've asked the family and they agree. He interjected slightly.
"What about you?" Ouyang De asked Chen Juan and Dawei.
"What else can I do, it's not renting yet." There was a lot of helplessness in Chen Juan's words.
"Me too," David said the same, but glanced at Chen Juan when he said this.
"Juanzi, shall we rent together?" Weiwei said to Chen Juan.
"It's good, but one of the places where we work is in the city and the other is in the suburbs, so it's not very convenient."
"Ouyang, where are you going to rent it?" Turning his head slightly, he asked Ouyang De.
"I don't want to be too close to the company, I want to have a differentiated distance."
Chen Juan kept drinking and didn't speak.
"Don't drink like this, Juanzi." David couldn't stand it anymore.
"Who told you to call me Juanzi, did I say that you should call me Juanzi? Don't forget that we're just classmates. Chen Juan didn't know why he was angry, which made Dawei embarrassed.
"Okay" Ouyang almost called Juan out, although she knew that Chen Juan wouldn't mind him calling him like that. "Everyone is a classmate, and you also know that Dawei stayed in Chongqing for you, don't treat him like this?"
"I didn't let him follow me." Chen Juan took another sip of wine and drank it.
"Do you want to drink, okay, I'll accompany you." Ouyang De saw that this was not good, so he had to change his way. Then Xiang Wei winked.
"Come, Dawei, I'll accompany you, but I'm tea." Slightly understood what Ouyang De meant.
"Same, same." David smiled awkwardly.
After sitting for a while, David said that he was not feeling well and wanted to go back to rest. Then he ignored them, and walked out of the tavern. Chen Juan didn't pay attention to him, Ouyang looked at Dawei very badly, asked Weiwei to accompany him back, Weiwei hurriedly ate a few bites of food, and said goodbye and went out.
"Ouyang, today is what you said to drink with me, I don't say stop or not, tonight I will not get drunk or not." Chen Juan was actually drunk, and there were faint tears in those eyes.
Ouyang De looked at it and knew that something must have happened, but Chen Juan didn't say that he couldn't ask, after all, he knew Chen Juan's love for him in the past few years in college.
"Juanzi, let's not drink it, okay?" Ouyang looked at Chen Juan's eyes: "Let's go out for a walk"
Chen Juan looked at Ouyang and didn't speak, but the wine glass was put down.
"Boss, check out." Ouyang shouted loudly to the boss.
After settling the account, although Ouyang De didn't eat anything at all, his heart was very heavy.
Walking out of the door, Chen Juan almost fell, and Ouyang hurriedly helped her with his hand.
"Let's go back to school, shall we?"
"No, come with me, okay?" Chen Juan's voice trembled a little, and there was a little bit of longing.
Ouyang De really couldn't bear to refuse.
"Okay!"
Just after taking a few steps, Chen Juan's hand was clasped around Ouyang De's arm. Ouyang was stunned and still didn't push it away, because Chen Juan had already leaned his head on Ouyang De's shoulder again, and Ouyang De, who was originally not tall, had already felt her hair itching in the corners of her eyes when she was leaning on the northern girl's head.
"Ouyang, do you think I should go home?" Chen Juan suddenly asked Ouyang De.
"Why did you suddenly think to ask this?"
"I wonder if you want me to go back!"
"I ......"
"I know you won't say it"
“……”
"Today, my mother called me and told me to go back, they only have me."
"Then you should go back. After all, it is your hometown, and there are your relatives. ”
"But I told them I wasn't going back, and my mother cried. Am I stupid!? ”
"How?" Ouyang really didn't know what to do, so he stretched out his hand and gently patted Chen Juan holding his hand.
This is a strong girl; A girl who stays the course; A girl who makes him feel overwhelmed by emotion. Ouyang fully understood the purpose and reason for her to say these words to him today, and his mother's happy eyes appeared in Ouyang's mind again.
"Take your time, okay? Give me a moment. Ouyang De began to think about the feeling he had been looking for, should there always be something in life that could not be realized in exchange for some feelings of being loved!
"Ouyang, promise me one thing, okay?"
"You can do it, as long as I can do it"
"Shall we rent together when we rent a room?"
"That's not good!" Ouyang felt so sudden.
"What do you think it is" Chen Juan finally smiled: "I just said that we rent together, rent a suite, it is also like a home, and we still have a care for each other." I'm sure you'll accept me, because there's only one reason for me to stay in Chongqing, and I don't want to give the opportunity to someone else. ”
"Well, I'll think about it."
"Don't think about it, what you just said, only you can do it, and this is not for you to die."
"You put a trap on me!"
"'Cause I want to lasso you"
"Okay, let's let Weiwei and Dawei live with us, which will save a little bit."
"Ouyang, I don't object to Weiwei, but I don't want Dawei to be with me anymore. I know he stayed in Chongqing because of me, but I really feel like a classmate to him. ”
"Alright then, let's go back to school, shall we? You've drunk a lot. ”
"Yes." This time, Chen Juan did not refuse again.
Chen Juan kept carrying Ouyang back to school and back to the door of the girls' dormitory.
The next day, Ouyang De told Weiwei, and Weiwei was very happy. Because she has been such a classmate for many years, and Ouyang De is indeed a very good person, she not only trusts him, but in fact, she feels in her heart that Ouyang has almost been a part of her life over the years.
A few people in a hurry were looking for a house in those days, and Ouyang didn't dare to tell Dawei directly that this was what Chen Juan meant, but only told him that because they worked together, they might rent a house and rent together. Dawei nodded and didn't say anything, just asked if it was just the two of them, but his face changed slightly, and when Ouyang told him that there was still a slight way, Dawei returned to normal.
In the end, I finally found a house in the middle of Ouyang De and Weiwei's work, although it was a two-bedroom apartment, but fortunately, Weiwei and Chen Juan didn't mind living in one. Although Ouyang said that he would simply live in the hall, in the end, the two girls must not agree, and in the end Ouyang also insisted on paying half of the rent, and the two girls also insisted on paying utilities such as water and electricity. After settling down, they all went to ask for leave before getting off work, originally they didn't let Ouyang ask for leave, saying that it was a girl's business, but Ouyang said that there were still a lot of things that were very heavy, and men should do it, so all three of them asked for leave.
The night before moving, Ouyang De packed up his things and walked to the woods of the school, which is a forest with all kinds of trees, and there is a small artificial lake in the woods. But he likes it here, not only because it's quiet, but most importantly because he likes the feeling of being in the middle of the water and the sky, the feeling of lightness.
Many times he would find a place to sit by the lake at the edge of the woods, thinking about his own thoughts or singing his favorite songs. Today he came again, the woods have not changed, but he is already changing, since Chen Juan's words said that night, he has been thinking, thinking about his own pursuits and dreams and things in front of him. The feeling that he had been thinking about all these years was shaken that night, whether he should insist on it anymore or not, whether he insisted on it was very illusory. And when he really lived in front of him, did he let go of a lot.
Quiet thinking has always been effective for him, but these days have been useless, and contradictory thinking is struggling fiercely.
I don't know where the tune of his favorite song sounded nearby, it was a woman's voice, but the voice felt so euphemistic and sad. He sang to that tune, and though it wasn't very loud, it was evident in the quiet woods......
"The quiet village was covered with white snow, and under the gloomy sky pigeons flew, and the birch trees were engraved with those two names, and they swore to love each other for the rest of their lives. One day the war burned to his hometown, and the young man picked up a gun and ran to the frontier, sweetheart, don't worry about me, wait for me to come back in that birch forest. The sky is still cloudy, there are still pigeons flying, who will prove the love and life without the wooden monument, the snow is still below, the village is still peaceful, the young people disappear into the birch forest......"
The man who had been humming the tune stopped humming as if listening to his singing. Because he didn't hear the footsteps of stepping on the fallen leaves, he continued to sing......
The bad news came that afternoon, her sweetheart stood dead on the battlefield in the distance, and she silently came to the birch forest, and watched there every day. She said that he was just lost in the distance, that he would come, to this birch forest, where the sky was still overcast, and there were still pigeons flying, who would prove the love and life of those who did not have a wooden monument, the snow was still below, the village was still peaceful, and the young people disappeared into the birch forest.
The long road was coming to an end, and the girl was already gray-haired, and she often heard him call by the pillow, Come, my dear, come to this birch forest, and when she died, she murmured, I am coming, waiting for me in the birch forest. “
Ouyang's heart was also affected by this song and his own singing, and he let out a long breath, but then a long sigh came from his ears.
"Hey~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"
"Who?" Why is it so sad, he is really curious!
"Who are you?" It was a beautiful voice, a female voice indeed.
"My name is Ouyang De."
"Hello, you sing well."
"Thank you, because I love this song."
The woman never came out, but Ouyang De could feel that she was behind a tree not far away, because the trees were really dense, and some were also very large, plus it was night, he couldn't know where it was, just judging from the sound, it was not far away.
"You studied vocal music?"
"No, business management"
"What grade are you?"
"I'll graduate next month"
Ouyang De didn't know why she answered when she asked, and he didn't think about why she answered. It's just a gut feeling that makes him answer without even thinking about it.
"You come here a lot?"
"Yes, but maybe not again."
"Why?"
"Because I graduated."
"Aren't you from Chongqing?"
"Yes, but if I have to work, I won't have the opportunity to come often, maybe one day I will come, but I don't know when." Ouyang De didn't know why he wanted to explain it so clearly, in fact, he didn't think that he would come back one day, but at this moment, he suddenly really wanted to come back.
"I don't come here very often, I used to be a student at this school, and I've been graduating for several years."
"That's Senior Sister."
"Sort of"
"Can I see you? Right now! ”
"Forget it. If it's fate, I'll hear your singing again. ”
"I will definitely come back often"
"Little brother, you're so cute! But I'm leaving. ”
"If you don't want to see me, it's okay, I'll always be here to talk to you."
"Huh"
Ouyang De heard her laughter, which was very good.
"No, it's late. Thank you for your singing. ”
Ouyang De heard a series of very slow footsteps slowly moving away.