Chapter 16 Peacock Forest (16)

I rent a house near the school. Judging from the style and materials of the building, it should be about 40 years old. The house is in a deep alley, with two floors, occupying a small area. Downstairs there is a suite with living room and kitchen; upstairs there is also a room with a bathroom outside the room. There is a fence about 1.5 meters high around the house, and some flowers and plants are planted in the small yard surrounded by it. The biggest feature of this house is that the stairs are not in the room, but by the wall next to the yard. The stairs are made of concrete, without any treatment on the surface, retaining a rough taste.

After years of wind, sun and rain, it looks mottled and dilapidated, and some moss has grown in some corners. The owner cleaned the downstairs room a bit and then piled all the clutter in the upstairs room. Therefore, although he rented the whole house to me, he only counted the rent for my downstairs room. The rent is cheap, which I consider lucky; the only downside is that the upstairs looks a bit spooky. But that's okay, I'm thinking about lending it to a studio for a horror movie set. On the third day after I moved here, Wei Ting left Tainan to work in Taipei. For a week after she left, I had no idea how to live?

Not knowing what to eat, not knowing what to do, not knowing how to sleep; I don't even know how not to think of her. The time of getting together suddenly became precious, and I began to regret not cherishing every previous meeting. My free time is more flexible, Wednesday or Thursday is possible; But her free time must be holidays, and holidays are not necessarily free. When we first separated, I went to Taipei to see her about every two weeks. We will have a meal together, go shopping, watch a movie, and go for a walk. Later, this time interval gradually lengthened to one month or even longer.

If you look at a tree every day, even for a year, you may not see any changes in the tree. But if you look at a tree every 10 days or once a month, you might notice: The trunk is thicker, the branches are longer or bent, and the leaves are more and darker. Every time I see Wei Ting, I have this feeling. Even sometimes, I feel that this tree has become strange. Once I went to Taipei to look for her, and it was raining that day, so I had to give up the idea of ​​going out for a walk. We ate at a pasta restaurant that was barely lit except candles on the tables. Wei Ting must think it's very romantic, but I think lighting so many candles will only make the air worse.

In the faint firelight, she looked delicate and charming, with a kind of beauty that I had never seen before. After leaving the restaurant, I held up her umbrella, which was a bit small, so we got close. I was surprised that she seemed to have grown taller, and when I looked down, I realized that she had stepped on a pair of high heels. It may be because of the high heels she wears. It is not easy for me to grasp her walking speed. I had to walk faster and slower to match her pace. When we were in Tainan before, not to mention the pace, we even had the same breathing rate. We don't have a clear goal, just walk around in the alleys.

I remember the first time I ate with her, I walked around aimlessly after the meal. "seriously. ’ I remembered the dialogue at that time, so I stopped and said, ‘Where are we going? 』 Wei Ting stopped and turned to look at me, seeming to recall the scene at that time. "Honestly," she said with a smile, "I don't know either." I also laughed. For that brief minute, we travel back in time at the same time. "Where are we going?" Wei Ting said, "I don't know." "Ok? 』 "Where are we going?" she added, "I don't know."

Just when she was about to ask her why she repeated the question and answer twice, she shed tears in a daze. I raised the umbrella with my right hand, hugged her with my left hand, and patted her on the shoulder. "You should go." She stopped crying and gently pushed me away, then wiped her cheek with her hand and forced a smile. After getting into the taxi, he waved to her through the closed window. The car moved, and she also walked forward, which was the direction she was going back. The car stopped and went in the traffic in the rain, sometimes even slower than her walking speed.

I looked out the window, feeling an indescribable loneliness. Then I saw Wei Ting again. She didn't see me, she just walked forward. And I went up and down with the speed of the car, sometimes I saw her front, sometimes I saw her back. The car stopped at an intersection, the number on the red light was 88, and the rain suddenly became heavier. The window of the car became more and more blurred, Wei Ting's back became farther and farther away, and finally she turned a corner. After the green light turned on, her back had disappeared. "Is it your girlfriend?" the driver asked.

"Ok. ’ I replied. "See you soon," he said. "thanks. ’ I squeezed a smile. Then I closed my eyes and recalled the image of her back that remained in my mind. Her back looked a little strange, and I couldn't help but feel panicked.