The night is fine. The wind in early summer caressed the camphor trees in the community garden. The moonlight is bright, the street lamps are dim, and the aunt of the square dance has retired. It was quiet all around, only the shadows of trees showed their dancing posture in the dim light.
Jun stubbed out the cigarette end that had burned to the filter tip, got up and left some cool marble benches, and threw his numb body into the dark shadow. He wants to walk in the street through the Woods in the community garden.
Streets and communities are completely different. The flashing neon lights are competing to show off their charming eyes, or pedestrians in a hurry, or old couples walking hand in hand, or intimate couples, all have their own worries, and no one notices Ah Jun's existence.
Jun stopped on the overpass, and the speeding traffic passed under his feet, with dazzling yellow on the left and dazzling red on the right. Ah Jun took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it. The red cigarette end flashed in the river of lights, and the light blue smoke was misty.
"At that time, we had an unpolluted morning and a ticking second hand, but we couldn't keep a dusk …", a wandering singer playing guitar.
Fuck! Who the fuck sings this song? Ah Jun cursed in his heart, but his body didn't follow the song.
At the southern end of the overpass, a young man in his twenties was wearing a white T-shirt and jeans and holding an acoustic guitar. Under his curly hair, his closed eyes showed an intoxicated look. Ah Jun stopped three meters away from the young man and looked at him intoxicated.
I know what nostalgia is at an early age, and I sing so affectionately! June looked down on the young man's age, but he couldn't resist the influence of hoarse singing.
For Jun, this song is poison.
Tonight, it's twenty years since the reunion. Ah Jun was in high spirits, but he hesitated when he heard that Fang, who was far away in the south, also came to the party.
Fang, who has been buried in my heart for twenty years, never forgets her name. It was June's youth, beautiful and some sour memories. ...
two
"Spring! Someone is looking for it! What a beauty! " When Jun and Fang were called to look for him, Jun was coming down from the stage of the campus singer contest.
"Who's that? What's the fuss about beauty? Look at the flowers in my hand. It's all from beautiful women. Does my voice still need beauty? " Jun didn't care, so he threw a bunch of flowers in his hand in the corner of the background.
"Ah Jun!"
"Why are you? Aren't you in c city? Why did you come to my school? " Ah Fang's arrival surprised Ah Jun, although they were the best classmates in high school.
"What, you can't come?" A Fang stood in front of Ah Jun, wearing a white down jacket and a playful smile on her round face.
"Come on ... can ... why not?" Because of an accident, Jun is a little inarticulate. He really didn't expect Fang to come to school to find her. It's hundreds of kilometers from city C to city X.
"Say, you come to C city to see maple leaves in autumn. It's winter now. You didn't come to see me, so I'm not allowed to come to see you? "
Yes, A Fang once told A Jun in her letter that the maple leaves in C City are particularly beautiful in autumn and are everywhere.
"I ... alas ... I'm not good. Aren't you busy? I am busy arranging the program of the school campus singer contest? " In fact, A Jun also wants to see the maple leaf, but C City is far away. For a child from a worker's family like Jun, traveling around the university can only be a luxury. Jun knew he was indefensible, so he had to prevaricate with what was in front of him
"hypocrisy! One autumn, so long, are you all arranging programs? "
"Oh ... schedule ... alas ... you dream. there are too many people here. Let's go for a walk on campus! " Jun knew that he couldn't beat Fang, so he changed the subject.
"Listen to you, what can I do when I get to you?"
At night, the campus is very quiet, only faint music and cheers come from the distant open-air theater, and most students go to see the campus singer contest.
The small restaurant on campus is still open and the barbecue stall is still smoking, but Ah Jun doesn't want to give the bosses half a month's living expenses.
Jun and Fang walked round and round on the cinder track of the campus playground. The moonlight was clear, and the white moonlight sprinkled on the playground, which covered the barren loess football field and the brown cinder runway with a thin layer of frost.
"You sing very well, so many girls send you flowers. You must be beautiful in your heart? " Fang looked at a pair of shadows elongated by moonlight and said simply.
"No, those girls, alas! I only know how to scream. How do I know what I'm singing? " I kicked a stone when I was walking in June.
"Hum! Smelly! Hypocrisy! "
"no! I really don't care about those girls! "
"That you are so happy when you sing. When girls send you flowers, do you still hug others? "
"Hug ... isn't that what stage performances need? Don't they offer flowers, and I just throw them on the ground to show my disgust? "
"That's not necessary, but your intoxicated expression shows your inner satisfaction!"
"I'm intoxicated? Maybe, I was drunk. It was when I was singing, and I remembered that rainy afternoon. I remembered the rustling of rain on the leaves outside the classroom. That's when I think of your blushing face when the lyrics you passed me were discovered by mathematics, and ... "
I remember in June that when he was in high school, both he and Fang liked singing. Together, they collected many stickers of Hong Kong and Taiwan singers and copied the lyrics of many Hong Kong and Taiwan songs in their notebooks. Later, they also tried to write some lyrics themselves. Today, Jun sang the songs they wrote at that time.
"Well, you don't say ..."
"Why, didn't we write the song Youth in Rainy Season that I sang today?" Jun stopped and grabbed Fang's hand, feeling a little excited.
"Let go!" Fang tried to break free, but June clung to it.
"I came all the way to see you, and you are still so hard. You want to hurt me! " Fang lightly chastising way.
"Oh, no, no! Sorry! " Ah Jun quickly released his hand and said, "You are tired, too. Let's not go. Let's go and sit on the stage for a while! " "
"I'm tired for a long time, now say it. What an idiot! " Fang turned and walked quickly to the stands.
"You wait for me to say that I am tired and walk so fast!" Ah Jun ran after Ah Fang, muttering.
The stands in the playground are very deserted, and there are no people around.
"Jun, I'm a little cold!" Fang tightened her down jacket.
"Come on, put on my cotton-padded jacket!" Jun took off his cotton-padded jacket and put it on Fang.
"What about you? Aren't you cold? "
"I, I thick-skinned, also not afraid of the cold. You are a big lady, I can't freeze you! "
"Otherwise, let's go together!" Fang turned his body to Ah Jun, put half of his cotton-padded jacket on Ah Jun, and leaned against Ah Jun tightly.
Turn his body outward in June.
Fang hugged Jun and leaned her face on Jun's shoulder.
Ah Jun tried to avoid it, but Ah Fang held it tighter. Jun stared at Zhang Yuanyuan's face in the moonlight, and his heart was pounding.
……
three
Jiangnan entered the rainy season in June, and there seemed to be a hole in the sky, and the rain kept dripping.
After coming back from school, Ah Jun has been sitting by the window looking at the banana leaves washed bright by the rain. For several days, it was a gray day, with bright white rain and green banana leaves. Time seems to have stopped in the rain
A Jun doesn't regret choosing to go back to his hometown, L City, because this is his home and there are his parents here. As the only child in the family, his parents scrimped and saved for his college education and suffered a lot. Now that he has graduated, he feels it is right to go back to his parents. He found a relatively stable job, which he felt very good, although many students went to S city in the south.
"Jun, Fang is here!"
June heard his mother crying outside the door, jumped up from his chair and rushed to the door. A Fang in a flowered skirt stood at his door.
"Jun, the rain outside has stopped. You and Fang should go outside for a walk! " Mother knows Ah Fang very well and knows Ah Jun's mind.
"Jun, let's go for a walk!" A Fang also thinks that in Ah Jun's home and in front of Ah Jun's mother, some words may be hard to say.
……
The street was clean after the rain, and the black asphalt road was shining, reflecting the gray sky and Afang's flowered skirt.
"Jun, aren't you going to the south?"
"I'm not going, the south is too far away, I'm afraid no one is in charge at home!" Jun dare not look up at Fang's face. He knows that Fang has found a copywriting job in a multinational company in the south and will leave tomorrow.
"What shall I do if you don't go?" Fang's voice is a little sad.
"You go, your dad finally asked someone to find you this good job, don't let him down!" There is some bitterness and resentment in your words.
"Then I'll ask my dad to find you a job in the south, and we'll be together!" Fang stopped and grabbed Jun's hand.
A Jun broke free from A Fang and said angrily, "No, that's your dad, I don't need it!" " "
"But ..."
"No buts! You are a big boss, you have business in the south, you have many friends and a wide road, but that's your father and my parents are ordinary workers. I'd better stay in my hometown! " Jun doesn't want to hear Fang mention their feelings again. Although he cherishes this relationship, he knows that he can't catch it with his current ability.
"But there is no future at home. Although the job you are looking for is still stable, you may be poor for life with such a small salary! "
"If you are poor, be poor. I am a poor man. Unlike you, we are different! " Poverty is the last topic Jun wants to talk about. Growing up, he never squandered money. He knows that every penny in the family is earned by the blood and sweat of his parents. Although he also envies those rich classmates, he knows that envy can't change anything. His parents have studied for him all their lives, and he will never leave them for money.
"You ... how did this happen?" Ah Fang didn't expect Ah Jun to really say this sentence, and her eyes shed crystal tears.
"I am like this, you go, let's break up, I won't go to the south!" Jun didn't dare to look at Fang's face and turned his head and shouted.
I don't know when it began to rain again. The drizzle wet Fang's face and June's heart.
Before Fang could say anything, he left quickly, leaving Fang alone in the rain. ?