Chapter 107 Goodbye, old times (finale)

Yu Zhouzhou didn't know until a long time later that when Benben was no longer Benben, but he was not Murong Shenzhang either, his real name was Ji Xijie, which should be the name of the alcoholic adoptive father.When Benben used his fists as Ji Xijie to fight in that chaotic elementary school, Mi Qiao, who had the best grade in the class, was his best buddy. He returned to his biological parents, he continued to be a bad boy, he came to Zhenhua, and he made many girlfriends. What Yu Zhouzhou grasped was the meager memories of his childhood. However, like Yu Zhouzhou, there are too many trajectories in Benben's life that belong to others.

Yu Zhouzhou feels that Ben Ben will always be Ben Ben, while Mi Qiao firmly believes that Ji Xijie will always be Ji Xijie. That's an area that leaves too much blank space.Yu Zhouzhou didn't want to ask Mi Qiao, nor did he want to ask Ben Ben. That's fine. --------------------------------------- Like the third year of junior high school, Yu Zhouzhou once again lost his deskmate in the third year of high school. On the day Yanyi left school, his face had returned to ruddy.His eyes gradually became brighter. "So when we meet again, I may be your junior." He smiled.

Yu Zhouzhou didn't know what made him finally decide to demote for a year, leave Zhenhua and return to the high school where he was a student, preparing for the next year's art exam. Maybe it was because Mi Qiao told him, "If you continue to hesitate like this, you will be old." When that pale figure disappeared at the door, Yu Zhouzhou suddenly wanted to tell Wen Miao who was studying in Singapore, do you know that if we are brave enough, Tokyo is really not far away. As long as you have the courage to break the boat. Because Mi Qiao said, this is youth.Simple and sour words.

Youth beyond expiration. Xin Rui finally ran to the teaching office to intercede with Ling Xiangqian.She didn't have the courage to tell the truth, but she still assured over and over again that Ling Xiangqian just forgot to put the materials in her schoolbag before the exam.She was sitting at the back table of Ling Xiangqian, and she could see clearly that the other party had never reached out and touched the pile of documents. Although it doesn't help.Although not brave enough. However, there are too few things in this world that are 100% perfect. Ling Xiangqian did not come to school again.She stayed at home to prepare for the college entrance examination. It is said that there are many things she still wants to think about.The school papers were sorted out by Yu Zhouzhou, and then delivered to her home via Lin Yang or Jiang Chuan.

Yu Zhouzhou, Lin Yang, and Ling Xiangqian all lost their places recommended by the school. When Chu Tiankuo and others were busy going to Beijing for the interview, the three of them and Jiang Chuan went to the ice and snow playground together. Yu Zhouzhou thought it was funny.She seemed to be following in Chen An's footsteps along the way, even including losing the most critical opportunity at the most critical moment. ---------------------------------------- At the beginning of March, she received another call from her father. On the phone, there was no mention of missing appointments throughout last year, and Yu Zhouzhou didn't ask.She quickly set the time, and then stood at the door of the hotel early and waited.

This man always promises easily, breaks the contract easily, and then doesn't say a word about the past, but he can still call in a gentle tone.Whether it was treating her mother at the beginning or treating her later. Yu Zhouzhou really wanted to know if he was like him in some way—maybe when he was bullying Lin Yang? The man in the windbreaker who walked towards him seemed to need to dye his hair again. The new white stubble on his hair made him look elegant but old.Yu Zhouzhou looked at him steadily, without any special feeling in his heart. He is too strange. "Zhou Zhou? She's grown up so much...more and more like your mother."

Yu Zhouzhou smiled and nodded. "Go in, let's have a meal together...By the way, there is no make-up class at school today, right?" "I'm not hungry." She shook her head. Yu Zhouzhou's father is a person who is used to all kinds of situations. He felt that Yu Zhouzhou was playing childish temper with him, so he stretched out his hand and wanted to pat her on the head - but he didn't expect that Yu Zhouzhou would be there at that moment. Raising his head, Qing Lingling stared straight at his raised hand in mid-air. He put it down with some embarrassment, and said, "Then... let's go."

Are you nervous about studying, which school do you plan to take, whether you have yet to take another exam, what time do you study every night... Ask and answer, although it is cold, it is also very peaceful. Yu Zhouzhou had to admit that she didn't seem to have the slightest memory of this person beside her.She was just curious and wanted to know why her mother loved him for so many years. She thought she couldn't find the answer.Maybe sixty or seventy years later, I should ask my mother directly-if my mother still remembers the reason then. Lazily answering questions, he was about to find an excuse to leave when he suddenly saw a row of four small bottles of individually packaged beverages in the window of a small supermarket on the street. The bottles were beige and sealed with tin foil, named "Xi Le".

She remembered the sweet and sour taste.At that time, they always bought a small bottle alone, inserted a thin straw, and drank it one mouthful at a time, reluctant to drink it all up. Yu Zhouzhou stopped, looked at the man beside him, and at the joy in the window. When she was about three or four years old, she first had an impression of her father, but it was her mother who lost control and drove this "uninvited guest" out of the house, accidentally scratching her arm.The man sent his mother to the hospital, and then took Yu Zhouzhou, who hadn't eaten yet, out to buy snacks.

She remembered him leaning over and saying, "Zhou Zhou, I'm your father." I also remember that he bought her a row of four joys, all of which were sealed with plastic film. In Yu Zhouzhou's opinion, this was simply the most beautiful gift, and he was flattered. I was reluctant to open it, but when I got home, my mother grabbed it and threw it out of the window. She dared not even cry. Even later, I dare not drink joy in front of my mother.Because there is no joy in their lives. Things that I thought I had forgotten, I remembered again. "Dad," she shouted for the first time, and she deliberately didn't look at the surprise in the man's eyes, "buy me a plate of four joys, that's the one."

She pointed towards the window.Her father nodded and said as if admonishing a child, "You wait here, I'll be right out." Yu Zhouzhou remembered that if it was her mother, she would definitely add a sentence, "You are not allowed to follow whoever leads you!" Her nose is a little sour. No one will come to fetch her.She will go her own way. That's enough. Yu Zhouzhou's father took the row of joy and walked out of the gate of the supermarket, but there was no sign of Yu Zhouzhou at the gate. ----------------------------------------------- On that day, Yu Zhouzhou finally mustered up the courage to go back to the small home of himself and his mother by car.She didn't go upstairs, but just walked around downstairs, following the route that she used to walk with her mother after dinner, the comic book rental house, the gazebo, and the grocery store. Meixiang Grocery Store. When Yu Zhouzhou turned around the intersection, he happened to see the demolition workers in the old city tear down the plaque of "Meixiang Grocery Store" and throw it on the ground, raising a cloud of dust. She raised her head and saw Xin Rui. "It's finally taken apart." Xin Rui said. Yu Zhouzhou nodded. "We haven't been home together for a long time." Yu Zhouzhou smiled. "You still don't want to talk to me. It's okay, I owed you too much in junior high school, and now I just pay it back." Yu Zhouzhou shook his head, "Xin Rui, you don't owe me anything." "No," Xin Rui smiled peacefully, "I owe you a lot. But I can't help it. I don't know how to pay it back. I'm still jealous of you. I think I did that because I was jealous of Ling Xiangqian. Because... because I like Chu Tiankuo." Yu Zhouzhou suddenly laughed out loud. "Xin Rui, you are still so dishonest even now." Xin Rui stopped laughing. "I thought you figured it out." "You are not jealous of Ling Xiangqian because you like Chu Tiankuo. You like Chu Tiankuo because you are jealous of Ling Xiangqian. In fact, you are not jealous of anyone, and you don't like anyone. You are so pitiful." Yu Zhouzhou spoke slowly, not loudly, but she knew that Xin Rui could hear her. When graduating from junior high school, Wen Miao told Yu Zhouzhou that Xin Rui didn't know how to say thank you, nor could he smile, and even spoke ambiguously, implying provocation—but it was all in private, to Wen Miao, not to Her real benefactor Yu Zhouzhou. My father said that if you lose a great favor for a long time, you will become an enemy.Wen Miao pulled Yu Zhouzhou's ponytail and said softly, you have to be careful of Xin Meixiang.She is sick. The loud sound of demolition seemed so far away, Xin Rui didn't say anything for a long time. Actually, you don't like Wen Miao either.You just hate me. Yu Zhouzhou's every sentence is like a snapshot, showing her most embarrassing side one by one. Xin Rui stared closely at the small grocery store being dismantled and emptied little by little, and the words "Meixiang grocery store" were broken into three pieces. She crouched on the ground, weeping uncontrollably. She was finally no longer Xin Meixiang. -------------------------------------------- After the short winter vacation, both Lin Yang and Yu Zhouzhou immersed themselves in intense review and rarely saw each other again.They ate together in the cafeteria again, and it was Lin Yang who "ran into" Yu Zhouzhou again in the old way. Halfway through eating, when he was about to hesitate and haw, Yu Zhouzhou had already taken out a small pocket book from his pocket. Made of cardboard, it is very simple, the cover and content are black and white silhouettes, and the handwriting of the painting is simply the level of children's stick figures. "this is……" "Today is your birthday, isn't it?" Lin Yang felt a sense of embarrassment that the trick was exposed on the spot, and then the sweetness spread again——she actually deliberately remembered it. Lin Yang took the self-made comic book and opened it. On the first page, the kindergarten children were running with their calendars. The two leading children, a boy and a girl, could only see their backs facing the sunset. On the second page, there is nothing but a mess, with a lunch box tilted beside it.It seems that the author of the painting was afraid that he would not understand clearly, so he pointed an arrow at the puddle on the ground, and attached five words, "persimmon and egg soup". It should be because the drawing is too bad, I am afraid that the only reader will not be able to understand it. Lin Yang suddenly felt that his heart would stop beating.He carefully flipped through the pages, and on the last page there were no pictures, only three words. To be continued. Yu Zhouzhou tilted his head to look at him and smiled, "How is it?" He opened his mouth, not knowing what to say, and finally smiled, "The painting is really ugly." Yu Zhouzhou stomped on him hard under the table, Lin Yang didn't realize it, and enjoyed it so much. He wanted to ask something, but it was still buried in his heart. In the future, they all have a long and bright future. ----------------------------------------- Zhenhua's tradition is that the graduation ceremony is at the end of May before the college entrance examination. It is said that the headmaster of a certain class said that after the college entrance examination, the world is unpredictable, the world is cold and warm, and the children will become a little sad because of their frustrations. The most beautiful and simple graduation ceremony is just a classmate and a teenager. . Yu Zhouzhou was surprised.She didn't know that there was such a romantic principal in Zhenhua's history. On the way to school to attend the graduation ceremony, she met a boy at the corner of the intersection, still so short and wary. They were all stunned. They had never met each other in the whole three years of school.Yu Zhouzhou actually wanted to greet him friendly at that moment. However, Zhou Chenran obviously didn't think so, he sneered, and just about to speak, he heard Yu Zhouzhou say loudly: "Please, shut up." He was stunned. Yu Zhouzhou turned her hands back very solemnly, just like the expression and gesture she had every time she wanted to say something seriously when she was a child. "I have never been interested in robbing you of your father since I was a child." "You do not have to worry about." "It turns out that I always thought that it was your family that kept me in the shadows." She paused and smiled. "Now I understand that, in fact, you have always lived in my shadow. It's not my fault, it's your own choice." -------------------------------------------------- Ling Xiangqian, Yu Zhou and Zhou Xinrui represented the liberal arts class together and acted as the flag-bearers for the flag-raising ceremony. The people who raised the flag were Lin Yang and Chu Tiankuo. Naturally, he would see strange eyes from others, including Chu Tiankuo. He turned his head and smiled at Ling Xiangqian, a little reserved. "haven't seen you for a long time." "Well, long time no see." Ling Xiangqian spent her last time at home very comfortably.Her family problems were still unresolved, but after the breakdown, her mother's face miraculously stopped shaking. When the matter of Chu Tiankuo's escort was settled, it seemed that he finally had the confidence to send Ling Xiangqian the first text message. "How are you?" Ling Xiangqian did not reply. When she finally saw this boy again, she suddenly had a feeling as if she had passed away. Under the sun, Ling Xiangqian smiled brightly. Chu Tiankuo was stunned for a moment, and said, "You still look more beautiful smiling like this." Ling Xiangqian readily accepted some nasty words. "Actually, I've always been beautiful." She raised her head proudly. Then he lowered his head and quickly edited a text message. "Jiang Chuan, your uncle." ----------------------------------------------- Xin Rui stretched out her hand to block the too bright sunlight in front of her eyes. She squinted her eyes and looked at the sea of ​​people, but finally she didn't look at Yu Zhouzhou. In the end, Xin Rui understood that there was an untouchable hard core in her heart, and she didn't know when she would have the courage to solve this mystery. So she will continue to be humble and proud with this isolated attitude. However, she still said in a small but firm voice, "Anyway, back then, thank you." Yu Zhouzhou smiled. "Thank you back then, Meixiang." Thank you for "Don't Cry at Seventeen", your thumbtacks, clatter sticks, and the gentle smile that stood outside the glass wall and watched me with chicken pox. Many years later, she will not remember Xin Rui, but only these details. Our memory always selects those things that were not considered important at the time and hide them in the collection. -------------------------------------------- The lengthy graduation ceremony was finally coming to an end, Yu Zhouzhou stood behind the rostrum, feeling that he was about to faint from the sun. In a trance, it seems to see the face of Ben Ben in the crowd, but it disappears in a blink of an eye. The shadow of that little youth gradually dissipated.It was as if her childhood had disappeared without a trace.But whenever warmth and strength are needed, the memories are there, and Benben will always be there. Just like Mi Qiao finally told her with a smile, Ji Xijie said you are unhappy, we are in the same class, I have to take good care of you.But it's not that I'm not jealous, so I have to find you a boyfriend... Don't blame me, right? In fact, from the beginning to the end, he was so deeply loved. The loved one has no right to blame. Suddenly someone patted her on the shoulder, she raised her head, and found that it was the Australian foreign teacher. The old man tried his best to squeeze out a small shade among the large number of teachers hiding in the shadows, and beckoned her to come in and hide. Yu Zhouzhou rushed over gratefully. They listened quietly to the leader in the loudspeaker.Yu Zhouzhou believes that this will not be the last leader's speech she will hear in her life. What's funny is that the old Australian man obviously didn't understand anything, but he listened seriously with a frown. When it was finally over, he applauded and said to Yu Zhouzhou, "congratulations!" Yu Zhouzhou smiled and thanked. "So what's your future plan?" future?Yu Zhouzhou turned his face to the side and thought about it. At that moment, a large number of white pigeons were released from the cage, and the sound of flapping their wings was like a sudden sea wave. 1517 graduates, 1517 pigeons. Mi Qiao is no longer here, but she still has a pigeon. Even, the last sentence she left to Yu Zhouzhou was not "Be happy" with tears in her eyes, but a righteous and awe-inspiring saying, "I went to enclose land to buy a house to pay off the loan. When the time comes, you two can come over." Rent my house!" Lin Yang rolled his eyes, "Take your medicine well, charterer!" No one expected that Mi Qiao couldn't wait, and ran to the underworld to start the enclosure movement the next day. As Yu Zhouzhou thought about it, tears suddenly rolled in his eyes. The old man looked at the young girl in front of him with good intentions, seeing her with tears in her eyes and crooked eyes smiling. "My future plan?" She pointed to a large number of white pigeons fluttering their wings. "Fly free."