The train departed with a final whistle. Anne found her own berth and settled her luggage, then sat in front of the window in the corridor and let out a long breath. Strangely enough, there was a sense of relief. Ann thought to herself: finally can leave this sad north.
After lunch, Ann was still not sleepy. She looked up and looked out the window at the sunshine, and put her eyes to look at the trees and houses in the distance, and then projected the time when she got on the bus, and estimated in her heart that this is probably to Anhui. An smiled, took out his cell phone and sent a message to Lizhen: How long will it take to get to Beijing? I have arrived in Anhui. Guibao land is a great place, no wonder it can produce such a beautiful you!
Li Zhen is An's roommate, but also An's best friend during college. They have seen the Mongolian steppes together, the cows and horses together, the Qingdao river and the sea together... They've done so many fun things together, and eaten so much delicious food together. They even made a promise to go to the same city after graduation and be each other's best sister for the rest of their lives. But in the end, one chose to go north and the other chose to go south.
Ann can't help but feel a little saddened when she thinks of this, but she also understands that there is no such thing as an unbroken feast under the sky, so she can only wish Li-Zhen a smooth journey and less storms in her future days.
Li Zhen did not reply to Ann's text message, Ann guessed that Li Zhen must be sleeping. Not yet sleepy, Ann was a little bored, so she found a book she had brought with her and sat down by the window to read it quietly.
"I've traveled over many bridges in many places / Seen many clouds many times / Drank many kinds of wine / But only loved one person who was at his best age."
Anne couldn't get any further after these lines, and no matter how hard she tried to read on, the following lines just kept ringing in her head. No matter how hard she tried to continue reading the following article, the words "only ever loved someone at their best age" lingered in her head like a plague that would not go away. After a few more futile attempts, Anne finally put down the book in her hand. Resting her cheeks and looking out the window at the receding scenery, her thoughts drifted back to the time when she first met him two years ago.
? (II)
It was a rainy day in the summer, An and Lijin were walking from the campus with umbrellas and passed by a bridge. Ann had always liked the bridge, which was called "Mingde Bridge", connecting the campus library and the public **** building, which brought a lot of convenience to the students. But An more like is the bridge under the lake, the most favorite is the summer lake blooming lotus, a stand in the middle of the green lotus leaves, the wind came to swaying body dance, in the rain and have another delicate posture, not to mention the lake at the moment smoke, so that An has a kind of in the water vapor dense southern illusion. An stopped and stood on the bridge to look up.
Anne was so absorbed in this wonderful view that she suddenly got poked by Lil' Jean's elbow a couple of times. An feigned annoyance and asked her what she was doing, Lijin pointed her finger not far away and said to An with a smile, "Look at that fool, not holding an umbrella on a rainy day, taking pictures of lotus flowers in the rain." An followed the direction of Lizhen's finger and saw a teenager squatting on the bank on one side of the lake, holding a camera in his hand, earnestly photographing a lotus flower near the bank.
"It's raining so hard, why doesn't he hold an umbrella." An Nan Nandi whispered. "Umbrella also how to shoot the lotus, since you care so much about him, go over to give him an umbrella to block the rain ah." Before An could say anything to refuse, Lizhen had already pulled An towards the teenager.
As with all encounters in the world, his appearance shattered An's peaceful and uneventful life. An's heart is like the lake under the Mingde Bridge on this day, which is stirred up by the rainwater casting ripples after ripples, and the ripples ripple out, all the way to An's face, where a bright and incomparable flower blooms.
This rain is Xu Wenqiang.
? (C)
Li-Jen pulled Ann in one breath and stood behind the boy for a while, patiently waiting for the boy to finish taking a satisfactory picture. During this time, Ann was actually incredibly torn inside. On the one hand, An watched the rain wet the boy's thin back, and wondered if the boy would catch a cold; on the other hand, she was too embarrassed to hold an umbrella for him. Just as An's intestines were about to become knotted, the boy stood up and turned around after taking the picture. Time seemed to be frozen for a moment. This look An realized what is called "a glance of ten thousand years", said An to the boy in front of him ah!
The boy turned around and saw them, his face did not show a surprised expression, apparently the boy had heard their footsteps running over earlier, but just focus on the completion of the picture shooting, did not get up. Anne was still in the "one look for ten thousand years" exclamation when she first saw the boy, her expression was stunned with no other reaction, but the playful Lizhen was the first to break the awkward situation: "Doesn't the lotus flower look better after the rain? Quickly show us the pictures you just took." Lizhen's voice finally pulled Anne back from her drifting thoughts, and thinking about how she had just lost her temper, Anne couldn't help but blush a little.
The boy smiled and handed over the camera. The two girls looked very seriously, the boy's shooting skills are also very good, the rain in the lotus posture and the beauty of the show to the fullest. An's favorite is the boy shot a budding lotus, the tip of the flower pointing straight up to the sky, let An feel a life of impulse and power. What pleased An even more about this photo was the image of the splash of rainwater on the surface of the flower, just as if it were a lotus flower spitting rainwater into the sky. An thought in her heart that the boy must have squatted for so long to capture this moment, and couldn't help but be moved by the boy's seriousness, adding a few more moments to her favorable impression of him.
The boy saw them staring at this photo for so long, his face was a bit of God. He asked them, "This is the most satisfactory photo I took today, and I haven't named it yet, do you have any good ideas?"
Lijin scratched her head and seriously began to think about it, and after thinking for a long time did not come up with a good name, and was about to tell the boy that they really can not do anything about it, when suddenly heard the side of the always silent Ann opened his mouth:
"Splash."
The boy turned his head to look at her...
? (d)
That's how Ann met Hsu Wenqiang.
Xu Wenqiang asked An's name, and at that time, Lijin quickly made up a name for An: An Cheng Cheng. An Cheng Cheng and Xu Wenqiang, how like two people with a story.
But An didn't know that An Cheng Cheng is not Feng Cheng Cheng, Xu Wenqiang is not really Xu Wenqiang, and where do they come from so much love, hate, hatred and enmity.
An thought of this can not help but chest some tightness, it turned out that all the end in the encounter at that moment has been written, only then the two people are still in the bureau, by the feelings of the blindfolded, did not see through the ending, mistakenly thought that the end is not in. But if the two people really do not have a little fate, why did they meet again in this life? The fact is that the fate of the world is indeed a tricky one.
An heart some frustration. At this time, I heard the cell phone vibrate twice, the original is Li Zhen to Ann text message back: "I have arrived in Beijing, there are friends reception, are quite good. You should pay attention to your own safety ah, patiently wait for me to break in Beijing for a few years, then will be the love of the princess back to live in the palace."
A stream of warmth gushed out from the bottom of An's heart. A warm current comes out from the bottom of An's heart, slightly soothing An's despondent mood.
An looked up and looked out the window, the buildings and trees outside the window were very different from what she had seen before, the trees here were greener, and most of the houses were taller, stacked one on top of the other, which was quite a land saver. Ann smiled, getting farther and farther away from home yet.
"Getting farther away from you too." Ann thought to herself.
? (V)
An's heart was always filled with an ineffable sweetness when she and Xu Wenqiang were together, but she carefully hid it from others, as if she was a child who had stolen the candy jam afraid of being scolded from her parents. For a long time, Xu Wenqiang was the deepest secret in Ann's heart.
Li Zhen always told Ann that she was too secretive, and that if she liked him, she should be brave enough to tell him. But Anne was afraid in her heart. She was afraid that he did not like her, and afraid that he liked her but did not tell her. So An would rather spend these two years with him in the name of good friends to minimize the risk of losing him.
Thinking that this way she can stay by his side forever.
The weather in June is already very hot, and going out is already something that requires courage and perseverance to accomplish. The June people find it difficult to get through much more than this, they will soon be graduated. The future to face a lot of unknown, all the worry and anxiety in this June quietly climbed up their hearts, as a ghostly hand let them in June night always sleep uneasily.
Ann can hardly believe that these four years have passed in a trance. Ann always remembers the night when she first came to the city four years ago, sitting alone in the playground, looking up at the stars, trying to find the direction of her hometown in that sky. It wasn't until Li-Jin appeared in Ann's life that Ann never looked up at night again.
What about Xu Wenqiang? Probably his appearance, Ann never looked up in the night again.
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Ann and Li-Jin's graduation photos were taken by Xu Wenqiang. They were confident in Xu Wenqiang's photography skills. So no matter what kind of pose Xu Wenqiang asked them to strike, they tried their best to cooperate. They believed that Xu Wenqiang would be able to capture their best side.
The shoot went smoothly. After the shoot, Lijin couldn't wait to grab Xu Wenqiang's camera and look at it. An looked at her smiling face unfolding for the camera and had an inexplicable warmth, as if she could see him standing outside the camera through her camera self. Every time Xu Wenqiang asked them to look at the camera Ann looked at Xu Wenqiang. It's so nice, just looking at you like this, with all eyes and all distance.
After the shoot that day Ann and Li-Jin invited Xu Wenqiang to dinner together. Xu Wenqiang said he was going to bring a friend over. He was really handsome when he showed up that night and his female companion standing beside him was really beautiful.
Ann looked out the window at the moon slowly climbing up, and finally realized that from now on there is no way to see him again, even in that secretive way. She was saddened.
An was unable to determine the exact location of the train in the night, and only vaguely remembered that the train had reported that it had arrived at Hangzhou station not long ago. Hangzhou is Xu Wenqiang's hometown. A few lines of a song came to mind: "I came to your city/walked the way you came/imagined the days without me/how lonely you are".
But the train had already passed his hometown in a flash, past her last encounter with him.
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Ann remembers going back that day and forcing Li-Jin to drink a lot of wine with her. It was as if the only way to make up for the emptiness in her heart was to fill her stomach with drink after drink. It was as if the only way to make up for the emptiness in her heart was to fill her stomach with drink after drink.
Anne realized that there is a big bad root in herself. I always think it's hard to guess what others are thinking, and it's hard to tell if everyone is harboring goodwill towards them. So An always hides all her feelings in the most secretive way, savoring both the pain and the sweetness alone. On the other hand, this kind of inferiority does not exist in Li-Jin's body, for her, anyone around her is harmless and trustworthy. Lijin is always able to easily gain the desired friendship in the crowd.
Liljen could see how upset Ann was, and she gently patted Ann's shoulder, which was shaking up and down from sobbing, and gently told her, "If you can't let go of it, at least give these two years to yourself before you leave here."
Perhaps due to the effect of alcohol, or perhaps because of natural paranoia, that day Ann in the company of Li Zhen down to Xu Wenqiang's dormitory floor, poured out his whole body to that window and shouted: Xu Wenqiang, I like you. I like you," she said.
All around a silence.
An felt smooth through the body. Like a torch in the hot sun under the persistent irradiation finally gathered enough heat, toward the sky burst out with a loud bang after the bear burned.
And then, I don't know how long the silence lasted, the shadow of a teenager appeared in front of that window. Ann watched as he slowly opened the window, poked his head out, looked in Ann's direction, and said to Ann in a firm, undoubted tone of voice: Xu Wenqiang is not there.
As if struck by lightning, and attracted a pouring rain, the burning torch doused, together with the residual ash also washed into the deep gutter.
? (viii)
Ann decided to leave the scarred north. Go south. Keep going south keep going south enough for the sun to shine in your heart.
While waiting for the train at the train station Ann received a call from Xu Wenqiang. The first time I saw him, I knew that he had to be the one who told me about it. The caller knows that Li Zhen must have told Xu Wenqiang, and Li Zhen had already left for Beijing the day before An.
On the phone, Xu Wenqiang's voice was calm and warm, just like before. He asked her, "The other day my roommate told me that you were looking for me downstairs, saying you had something very important to tell me."
This Liu XVIII. An smiled. In his heart, he was grateful that he didn't tell Xu Wenqiang about that day.
"This is not soon to leave, I think we also know so long, you still do not know my name, more or less a little bit of a pity, just think not to prevent before leaving to tell you. Who knows you weren't there that day." Ann was the best at feigning relief.
Xu Wenqiang on the other end of the phone laughed out loud at An's words, and then she heard him ask her, "What's your name?"
The exact same question as two years ago. But this time there is no Lijin's flirting, and the person "An Cheng Cheng" has long been buried by An along with the broken heart.
An handed the train ticket to the ticket inspector, and then looked back at the city where she had stayed for four years. I don't know whether it was to the past or to her youth, but An softly spit out a few words: "My name is An Xinrong." Then An hung up the phone and stepped on this train to the south.
"Dear passengers, the terminal will be reached soon ahead, please prepare your luggage in advance..." Anne looked up at the window, it was dawn she hadn't even realized. She also looked at the distance, it was raining lightly. As I had heard, the summer weather in the south was changeable.
An with a suitcase stood in the exit, looking at the big city for a moment do not know where to go from here. The first time she met Xu Wenqiang, she remembered that it was also a rainy day, and she smiled from time to time.
Anne's heart crossed two lines of poetry: rain is the fault of a lifetime / rain is the sadness and happiness.
Ann took a long breath, pulled up her luggage and walked into the rain without any hesitation...