I was born in a small village on the edge of a county town in Luxi, is a post-eighty, introverted, not good at talking, primary school, junior high school for nine years have not made friends, so many classmates are like passers-by in my life, meet a face, say hello, they disperse, no news; to graduate from high school, it happens to be 2003, SARS, the night before leaving school, and a few classmates went to the Internet café to play all night, the next day after dawn, I know that everything has passed, after going to college, the day is different, it is difficult to meet again, I am afraid that I will not have any contact with my classmates in elementary school and junior high school, but during the winter break of this year, one afternoon, a high school classmate suddenly called me and asked if I had come home from vacation. To tell you the truth, I was very excited at the time, and I thought, "There are still high school classmates who remember me."
I said I'm back, at home. He went on to say that I had just returned, and at the station, you would pick me up, stay at your house for one night tonight, and leave again tomorrow.
His family is in the lower township, need to change the shuttle bus at the county station, and I live on the edge of the county seat, three or four miles away from the station, for some reason he thought of me, I don't want to disappoint him, so without hesitation said: You wait, I will arrive immediately.
I originally wanted to ride an electric bicycle to go, and then I thought, no, he must take the suitcase, the electric car has nowhere to put it, and then he rode the electric tricycle to the station, and when the two of them met, he was also very happy, came up and said: I fuck, you actually rode a tricycle, I was worried that you rode a bicycle, my suitcase was not put away.
I said: You don't know, I can pinch and calculate, this little thing can still be difficult for me.
Speaking of which, in fact, there was a small episode during high school, because my father was a Chinese medicine doctor, opened an outpatient clinic at home, the medical skills were very skilled, to what extent, that is, through the diagnosis of the pulse, I could even know which part of the patient's body had scars, and I also cured patients with brain tumors and stomach cancer (we published a book that recorded the local famous doctors in our county, my father recorded in it, these two cases were recorded in the article introducing my father, it was a real thing), and even patients who were critically ill. My father knew the time of the patient's death, and the error was only within three days. So my father is also very famous in the local area, very respected, our principal is uncomfortable and loves to find my father for treatment, probably for this reason, I and the principal's son were assigned to a class, three years of high school has been in a class, and even a few times the table was divided into front and back tables, but our temper did not deal with each other, looked at each other unfavorably, and then almost got into a fight, here is not to mention him. It was in this context that after the college entrance examination, this classmate and I went home to let my father give him a pulse to see if there was any disease, nothing happened, and then this classmate asked a strange question at that time: They all said that you can see feng shui eight characters in Chinese medicine, can you tell me which direction to find in the future?
My father said casually, "Look for your house just south."
My classmate tilted his head and thought about it, and said: South? I don't know anyone on the south side of my house.
At that time, this matter was not resolved, and I think my classmates did not believe it at that time, but when he found a partner after graduating from college, he did find a person directly south of his home. Back to the main topic, let's say that this first year of college winter vacation, half a year of no contact, when the holiday he suddenly thought of me, but also live in my house for one night, for me who is not good at interacting with people do have some accidents, take him back to my home, my parents are also very enlightened people, see my classmates are also very happy, my mother even according to the New Year to entertain guests specially equipped with six appetizers, my father does not drink, but does not object to my drinking, this is also the first time I know what it is like to be with friends, It's really unspeakable feeling, it's comfortable, it's getting stronger; this is also the first time in my life to drink, we both drank a bottle, my father never stopped, thank my father for his wisdom and greatness!
Later, whenever I came home from vacation, this classmate would come to my house to gather. He went to college in Jinan, and then I also went to Jinan, he knew the first time after calling me over, invited me to eat iron pot fish, and then basically every month we both had to get together twice, as if there was no end to the words, said anything, will not feel embarrassed; later when he got married, he also specifically called me to be a groomsman, that is also the highlight of my life, once I spoke in front of familiar people will blush people, that time in front of so many guests but did not shy of the stage, play very happy; now this friend went to Suzhou, With two children, a son and a daughter, I am very happy, and I am invited to visit Suzhou from time to time, but I have not had time.
Some time ago, I saw him send a circle of friends, which means: I have a friend, I haven't been in touch for a long time, but I know that we are still friends, because no matter how long we don't contact, every time we call, there are endless words, unrestrained, I can say whatever I want, every time I hang up the phone, but I don't think about him, because he is not a friend who has been made by drinking wine and eating meat, and there is no need to comfort him with wine and meat, probably this is the taste of friends.
I don't think it's me that this circle of friends will say. But I didn't leave a message for him, I didn't call him, I know, we've been friends for almost twenty years, we've always been like this, some words, don't say so much, we just need to know, we have such a friend is enough.
Friend