Chapter 17 Summer is Collapsing - Chapter 17: No one else but the two of them (Part 1)

Summer is Collapsing - Chapter 17: No one else but the two of them (Part 1) Shen Han often comes to look for Keke with a black notebook. Often after get off work, he takes Keke on his bicycle and goes to eat food stalls together. Drink cold beer.Then, under the greasy and dim light, Shen Han asked Keke to tell him over and over again, how she saw Cheng Jianguo die, how Cheng Jianguo stood up in the green back seat, how he pushed aside The crowd hurried into the subway, as if they were going to catch a train instead of dying. Shen Han repeatedly asked every detail, including the clothes he was wearing, so it was only a summer apart, but it was Ke Ke’s memory. But it has become very blurred, but she tried to recall it repeatedly, and finally she seemed to follow him into the tunnel, saw the dazzling lights hitting her body, and heard the screams of the crowd.

"He may be my father." Shen Han said to Ke Ke, "Why did he die, my mother has been dead for three years, I don't know why she died, sometimes I hate them, they can't explain to me anymore all of these." "Yeah." Coco nodded, sucking a long fan hard.Cold beer is bubbling in summer. "One more thing, do you know why I suddenly disappeared for a period of time three years ago?" "Well, actually, Xiaoqiao and I were at the window of the office building that day. We wanted to say goodbye to you and see what happened on the playground." Coco said.

"I don't know what the boy is doing now. I grew up fighting, stabbing countless people with knives, and being stabbed, but I always miss him, and I only think about him. Later, I went to In the countryside, he has no voice, no longer appears, I don't know what happened to that boy later." Shen Han fell into the memory again. "He should be fine. Xiaoqiao and I waited by the side for a long time that day, fearing that he would bleed too much, but he stood up later and walked back by himself. His arm must have been injured." Coco also remembered the last one. In the playground at night, the boy's sobs and Shen Han's shirt bulging like a small flag, she often doesn't want to think about these things, but she is pulled back to the narrow cinder track playground again and again .

"So you all know, I thought it was a secret." Shen Han said with a smile, remembering the really frightening life in the countryside for a few months, sleeping in a damp farmer's house all day, and having fresh air in the field at night. Wind, there are countless stars in the sky. The fact that his mother has died is far away from him, as if it never happened. Black and white photos are placed inside the frame.Shen Han began to search for the cause of Cheng Jianguo's death again these days. He was not reconciled, he was always kept in the dark, his whole growth was kept in the dark, he wanted to pierce that layer of paper, use his Once stabbed a person's strength.And all the records in the black book are already a few years ago, people quickly forget about Cheng Jianguo, and Shen Han is still looking for an address recorded in the notebook after get off work every day, he is very sleepy, I was also tired, and tried to avoid fighting. After searching every day, I fell directly on the bed and fell asleep, and I didn't even have the strength to take a bath.

Coco wants to help him very much, but she has no time to take care of all this, because her father is about to leave again. My mother has had the stitches removed, she can get out of bed by herself, and she can take care of her own life.She saw the uneasiness and guilt in her father's eyes. In the past, every time he came home at night or was about to leave home, he would look at Ke Ke with such eyes, so Ke Ke knew that he wanted to leave again. She couldn't stay for so long, and when her father was standing on the back balcony smoking a cigarette late at night, Keke felt desperate. She didn't know what else she could do to save her, and she didn't know how to let her father know her despair.

Xiaoqiao was already on the train to Taocheng, and because she lost more than 300 yuan, she couldn't go to Xiamen, so she picked a nearby small town, which was quiet and cheap.Everything was very different from the journey she imagined. There was no floral cotton dress written in the book, and no conversations with strangers on the train. She left Shanghai as if fleeing, carrying only a small package for a change of laundry. I left a small note for my parents on the table.She didn't talk to anyone in the carriage, she just slept with her eyes closed, and now her sleep became endless.

As soon as she arrived in Taocheng, Xiaoqiao found a very clean small hotel with a bathtub, put a bathtub full of hot water, poured the bath salt she brought, and soaked herself thoroughly, keeping the hot water faucet on all the time. Then, she soaked in it, from noon until dusk fell in the evening.She pulled herself out of the water, feeling that the traces David had left on her body finally disappeared into the dark drain hole along with the current. On the night of the first day, because someone was having a wedding in the town, red lanterns were lit up, and the red lanterns joined together to form a fire dragon, circling the town again and again, Xiaoqiao sat on the balcony of the hotel Above, with an empty stomach, I watched the fire dragon meandering and turning intermittently, and heard the laughter of the people, the firecrackers exploded in the sky, and the air smelled of sulfur.It seems that she is very far away from Shanghai, far away from Keke, Ding Chengcheng, Dawei, and Shen Han. She has finally arrived in another place, alone, growing up as a person for the first time, without their participation, no one Know.

In the past few days in Taocheng, Xiaoqiao spent most of her time on the bed in the hotel. She slept until the afternoon every day before getting up and wandering around the village outside. She didn't go to any tourist attractions. , I only eat one meal a day, drink frozen Coke, tomato egg soup and fish in a small restaurant near the hotel, and watch the owner's children play with the dog.Some people around talked to her, a little girl from Shanghai, and she said that she was here for a summer social practice and would stay for a week.This was the most carefree few days she spent in the whole summer. She temporarily forgot the man who jumped to the subway and died, and also forgot the crossroads in Dingcheng City, Keke's afro, and the damage caused by David. , she just wants to grow up quietly by herself for a while, even for a while.The sun is very good every day. The plants here are different from those in Shanghai. There are no sycamore trees, and palm-sized leaves will not fall.

But on the fourth night, Xiaoqiao received a call from Shanghai. It turned out to be Ding Chengcheng who called, and as soon as he answered the phone, he said anxiously: "Where are you, Xiaoqiao, are you missing? Come back and help find her. Only you know her best, and you will definitely know her." Where is it?" That night Xiaoqiao packed her bags, and then she lay on the narrow bed in the hotel with her clothes on, smelling the sun-baked smell on the cotton sheets, and didn't close her eyes all night. So she picked up her bag, went to the long-distance bus station to buy the nearest bus, and drove back to Shanghai along the expressway. She wanted to run back to Shanghai, and she wanted to find Keke. The two of them must have a small blood vessel connected together, and suddenly Beating up, touching the heart.

On the way, the sun gradually came out, and the sun shone into her eyes. Xiaoqiao still didn't close her eyes, but due to her exhaustion, the sun made her eyes leak liquid. She leaned her head against the window, feeling that the past few days in Taocheng had become so dull. It's unreal, the red lanterns that circled the town that night have become very far away, but Shanghai is so close, it only takes three and a half hours to drive back here, she can't go far, in No matter how hard she tried this summer, she couldn't get far, and was brought back here again. But where is Coco?