A love story from 1991

Author: Ye Qingcheng

That summer, the simple sunshine was simply sunny; just like him and me, the ordinary relationship between the ordinary and the ordinary acquaintance.

I worked in the same ABC office for almost a year, and I ran out of words. He's good, I know; he's good to me, and I know it, and there's warmth and concern in the feeling, but it's all like my own family. What about the rest? He didn't say that, I didn't ask.

The news that he was going to study in Huangzhou was suddenly known. The morning meeting announced that when I returned from lunch, he and the other cadets were ready to go. All the colleagues stood at the entrance of the station, taking turns shaking hands, hugging, and earnestly exhorting, and it was the farewell that was in full swing, only he, who had been looking east and west, saw me, and his eyes lit up, as if to signal me to pass. But the scene was so lively that I was embarrassed, and I bowed my head, didn't say hello to him, and went in.

Stepping from the harsh midday sun into the dark business hall, I couldn't help but feel a trance, and my heart was full of braking time, and the thought that had expanded many times was that he was leaving.

I stood sheepishly by the door and heard the urgent footsteps behind me—and sure enough, it was him. For a long time we didn't speak, the people outside were boiling, but the house was so silent that they could hear each other's heartbeats and breathing. Halfway through, he said, "I'll go for a week." I said, "Hmm. "And speechless. After a long time, he heard the car honking its horn, and he ran two steps to the door, and then stopped: "I, call you." I nodded vigorously.

I kept his words in mind. Every time the phone rang, my heart beat wildly, it was someone else's business or business, and my heart secretly fell back to the same place. In just one morning, my heart went up and down, like the stock market under the manipulation of big investors. But his voice never sounded at that end.

Later, I learned that in fact, he did not renege on his word. It's just that the school is far away in the suburbs, it is inconvenient to play long distances, and every time it can only be in time for the class to finish school. The first day I called, it was almost time to leave work, I washed my hands in the back, they shouted a few times that they didn't see me respond, they told him, I'm gone. The next day I called, it was just after work, I had not yet arrived, and someone forgot to tell me that he had called.

But naturally I wouldn't have known at the time. At noon, my colleagues went to dinner, but I kept the phone undeterred. The phone was completely quiet, and I gradually became anxious, and many ominous thoughts swept by, but I did not dare to think deeply, for fear of becoming a slur. Gradually, I was a little sleepy, and suddenly the bell rang, and I jumped up, and I hurt my leg in the corner of the table, but the end was full of Cantonese, and it was a mistake.

I slowly lowered the microphone, heard the thunder faintly coming, looked up, the sky was rapidly darkening, dark clouds were rushing, and a torrential rain was preparing to start. I suddenly thought of him: he was in such a hurry, did he remember to bring an umbrella, or did he always not care? What a careless boy. I suddenly stood up, took my raincoat, and said to the director, "I take half a day off." "I didn't tell him that I was going to Huangzhou, and of course I didn't ask him where he was in Huangzhou."

The rain came more rapidly than I had imagined, and the raindrops poured into the raincoat in large pieces, and my whole body was quickly soaked. Cars sped past me, mud splashing all over my skirt. And I stood on the side of the road, waving at every passing car.

I have never been out of Wuhan, I don't know the southeast, southwest, and northwest, and I don't know where Huangzhou is in Wuhan. Anyway, as long as it is a long-distance bus, whether it is coming from the south or going north, I will always run over and ask hopefully: "To Huangzhou?" ”

A car bound for Puchun was stopped by me. "Huangzhou? The salesman, who was the same age as his father, looked up at the rainy sky, and then looked at the hem of my wet skirt that was clinging to my calf, hesitated, and the kindness of the elder flowed from his eyes: "You come up, we will stop you in Huangzhou." "I went down with great gratitude.

There were a lot of people in the car, and I was squeezed next to a pig's coop, and when the car was slightly bumpy, the pig howled in protest. The roof of the car was leaking rain, no matter how I flashed, I simply let it drip on my shoulder. I stood for a long time, my legs were soft, and the outside of the window was an increasingly unfamiliar field, but I was in a calm mood, and even gently hummed a song, feeling hungry, touching my pocket and a bag of plums, and taking it out to eat.

I didn't think I was going to a distant unknown place, and I didn't think I could find him, he was there, so I went, it was as simple as that, as simple as taking a ride to work every morning, knowing that I would see him as soon as I got off the bus, so confident and reassuring.

The rain stopped, the sun gradually came knocking on our window, and the conductor greeted me: "Huangzhou has arrived, where are you, we will put you down nearby." ”

I said, "I don't know. ”

He said: "You just say the house number or the name of the unit, Huangzhou we are very familiar." ”

I honestly replied to him, "I don't know any of this." Even the driver looked back at me strangely.

I got out of the car just after entering the city, and immediately a three-wheeled driver came over to solicit business. Thinking that it was a training class run by the Agricultural Bank of China, which was obviously related to the economy, I asked, "Do you know where there are schools like finance and trade?" ”

He said, "Ten dollars I'll take you." ”

I counted the money—I didn't expect to come here when I went out, and I only had my usual pocket money with me. I shook my head, "It's too expensive. ”

He pestered me: "Eight, six, all right, five, can't go any lower." "I simply turned my wallet over to show him. He shook his head in disbelief as he said to himself, "I don't even have this little money from a big place in Wuhan." "One side still told me how to go.

After the rainstorm, the sky was even more blue, and the sun was shining like a golden arrow, and in just a few moments, I was sweating like rain. Buying a three-cent glass of iced soy milk on the side of the road to drink, I was optimistic to reassure myself: it will be good when it arrives.

I was really too optimistic, in the Huangzhou City Finance and Trade School did not even ask three people do not know, and finally people are obviously annoyed by my question, "bang" closed the door, standing on the unfamiliar street, there is no familiar face around, just when I was anxious to tears almost fall, I saw the "Agricultural Bank of China" gold signboard, I felt like seeing a loved one in a desperate place.

After shining her work id card, Miss Savings enthusiastically pointed out to me: "The training class you said is in the Agricultural Bank Staff School, I will help you call three rounds, saving him from slaughtering people." ”

I whispered, "You tell me the route, I'll just walk." ”

"Go?" The young lady exclaimed, and kindly reminded me: "That will take at least an hour to cross the whole city of Huangzhou." I had to laugh bitterly.

Obviously, I firmly remembered her guidance, but I was completely confused after only two streets, so I had to ask people in a desperate way: "Where is the nearest savings?" "Fortunately, there are only two or three streets in Huangzhou, and fortunately, the outlets of the Agricultural Bank there are dotted around, and every time I encounter a credit union or a savings office, I go in and ask for directions, and others guide me for a while. In this way, walking hard for a short while under the scorching Sun in June, sweat sliding through the cracked corners of the mouth, it was the pain of tearing, I licked my lips, but I didn't even dare to drink a small cup of ice soy milk: who knows how long it will take. And in such a hard time, I did not feel that I should not have come once. Because I know he will definitely be waiting for me at my destination.

Finally someone raised his hand and pointed to the opposite side: "It's right there." Suddenly, the sunset opened in front of me at the same time.

At the moment when I was about to walk into the dormitory building, I stood still, and I thought for the first time, what am I going to say when I see him? Ask him why he didn't call me? But what if, he just casually talks? We are really just colleagues, and there are hundreds of people in one office. It was only a week of separation, just two days without knowing the news, and I actually came here like this, how would he laugh at my self-made sentimentality? I want to go back right away. However, such a big rain, such a poisonous sun, such a long road, I came for him, and I returned in vain, I was not willing, I really did not want to.

Finally, I finally decided, quietly asked others, how about a few students from Wuhan, if it is okay, it means that he is also safe, and then he can leave, and he does not have to see him.

I thought about how to ask nonchalantly dozens of times, walked into the corridor, and someone looked at me. At a glance, all the courage I had so hard to build up immediately collapsed, and I fled upstairs in panic. On the second floor, I didn't even dare to stop, the third floor, and finally the fourth floor, the top floor, there was no way back.

I finally knocked on the door at the end of the porch. "Students from Wuhan? I don't know, you ask the opposite bar. ”

I walked to the opposite side, my hand just raised and the door opened. Suddenly, it seemed as if the heat wave of the whole summer had rolled over together, and I felt as if I was in a trance like a cloud, was it really him that I saw?

At that moment, I clearly saw the surprise lightning illuminate his face like lightning: "Is it you?" Is it really you? I hear your voice, I think it's impossible. Where are you these two days? Why am I always not there when I call? I was dying, I bought all the tickets and was ready to go back immediately. How did you come? How did you get here? How did you find me? ”

He asked in a loud voice, and I just looked at him deeply, smiled softly, smiled and laughed, and I suddenly cried.

It turns out that liking is like that.

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