Chapter 15 Chapter Fourteen "Then.", 1998.

Kang Zhengxing Du Huijia shook me awake, she took my hand and said excitedly, Taipei is here. We rushed out of the car and walked out of Taipei Main Station. On a Saturday afternoon, sure enough, Taipei was just like the crowded feeling I once encountered when I held a temple fair in our town. Taipei Railway Station is really bigger than I imagined. This should be a temple or something rebuilt, right? Yes, it should be. We passed an overpass, and Du Huijia pointed to the front. She said that this is the Da Ya Department Store that Taipei people must visit, as well as Shin Kong Mitsukoshi.

Standing in front of the department store, I thought of our Sanshang Department Store, which had only three floors, and the bottom two floors were mostly for moms’ clothes. I followed Du Huijia like this, wandering from the first floor to the fourth, fifth and sixth floors, but the two of us looked at the price and couldn't afford it, so we just tried on things that were interesting, and tried them on randomly, anyway, it was just nonsense. After the nonsense, I asked Du Huijia a little shyly, saying that I had never taken the MRT and wanted to try it. Yes, anyone who has been to Taipei likes to show off that they have taken the most popular MRT in Taipei.This is very important. It is the evidence to prove whether you have been to Taipei. Just like if you say you have been to Taipei but have not taken the MRT, others will not admit that you have been to Taipei.

So we just took the MRT and ran around, wandering out of every station, the old street in Tamsui, the hot spring area in Beitou, etc., without any goal or purpose. Anyway, our trip to Taipei had nothing to do with it. In a strange city, it is more relaxing than in a familiar place. It's as if I have never seen Du Huijia so happy in the past few weeks, or I have never seen so many smiles on her face. Maybe it's because, in an unfamiliar environment, no one you know, no familiar baggage, no one will remember who. So why did Huijia Du return to her familiar Taiwan? Or is Taiwan just a place she is unfamiliar with?

I watched her lying on the window glass of the MRT, and it suddenly occurred to me that we didn’t know each other very well. I didn’t even know how many of her family members there were. I don’t even know why I came back from Japan to study in Taiwan.In other words, we haven't even done "heart-to-heart talk" at all. Forget it, I have known Yu Shouheng for so long, and it seems that I have never had a "heart-to-heart talk". However, if I have to say it, it should be one time, when he was in the second grade of junior high school, once he took my hand after school and said that he would go to his house, and he had a plan to tell me.

After I arrived at his house, I followed him up to his small room in the attic. At that time, his room was full of sundries, a pile of comic books, Dragon Ball, Seven Smile Fist, Yu Yu Hakusho, etc. He cut out each issue of "Youth Express" and bound it into a book. There are many pictorials on the walls, most of which are cartoon characters. He also learned to draw those characters in the textbooks, but I think he probably didn't. Talent as a cartoonist. He asked me to close my eyes first, then he took my hand, got into the bottom of the single bed in his room, lay down, facing the bottom of the bed, I don't know what secret plan he has, I Just did it.

"Can you open your eyes?" I said. "Not yet." He stopped me and ran to turn off the lights in the room. "Can you open your eyes?" I asked again. "Not yet." He crawled back under the bed and lay next to me, shoulders to shoulders. "Can you open your eyes?" Actually, I was a little impatient. "Not yet," he said. "I need to open my eyes," I said. "Wait until I count three two one, get ready, three, two, one." I opened my eyes, and under the dark bed, I saw something shining brightly. I squint my eyes, is it my hallucination?Or it seems not, the bright lights are like the stars that can be seen when you look up in the deep night.

The sky is full of stars. That is, he cut the luminous stickers (that wonderful thing that absorbs light and then glows at night.), cut into small pieces, small pieces, and pasted them under the bed. But at that time, I seemed to have an illusion. I thought I really saw the whole starry sky, the whole starry sky without the sky. "This is Altair, this is Vega, this is Lyra, Aquila, Cygnus, here are the three horns of summer, this is Polaris, Polaris is a star, I made it big on purpose, and then, this is like The curved one in S shape is Scorpio, your zodiac sign." He said. According to the summer constellation map, he arranged the starry sky for the whole summer.

"Give it to you as a birthday present this year," he said. I didn't speak. "Actually, I had saved money to buy a birthday present for you, but last week I bought all the money for the Kexin Boys Express, so I can only give you this." He said. "You don't blame me, do you?" he said. "Don't be silent, I also waited for three days, my eyes are blurred." He said. "But I think I'm still wrong, because if I gave you my bed base, my mother would beat me to death, so I had to show you," he said. I can't speak, I can't say a word.

I just stared blankly at the stars, and he arranged the stars for me for three days. Perhaps, this is the only time we talk heart to heart. Du Huijia and I went back to Ximending, and found that the sky was already dark. I looked at my watch, ten fifteen, ten fifteen?Ruined!this late?Now it will take at least a few hours to go back by car. I will definitely be killed by my dad when I get home. I will definitely be killed by my dad. "Let's live in Taipei today?" she said. "what?" "We can pick a cheaper hotel." "what?" "Anyway, tomorrow is Sunday."

"Right." No, how can I breathe a sigh of relief and be happy because I don't have to go to class tomorrow? The point is not that I will not have class tomorrow, but that I have no experience of staying overnight outside, let alone notified my dad, and it is in Taipei, where I am unfamiliar. The most terrifying thing is to be with a girl? "This one is fine, what do you think?" She pointed to a small hotel with a strange name called "He Huan Ju" with neon tubes shining outside, and the light inside was fluorescent pink. "Nine hundred and nine for the night, I still have seven hundred here, do you have two hundred and nine?"

"I still have five hundred, five hundred and twenty-three." I took out the money in my pocket and counted it. "That's enough. Anyway, I bought a round-trip ticket." She said. "That's good." What good?How could I answer "that's fine."? It's over, it's over, it's over. We walked into the small hotel called "Hehuanju" and asked for a room at the counter, but only the last room on the second floor was left.We walked up the stairs and passed a long corridor. The whole hotel was very dark, except for a row of shell lights next to the corridor. I walked quickly towards our room with her, opened the door with a key, and turned on the light. The room was quite small and the bed was round. I checked the toilet and it was clean, but why was there only one piece of foggy glass? blocking? She said she wanted to take a shower first, I just said yes, and then told her that I had to go to the pay phone downstairs to call and talk to my family, then turned around and opened the door and left. I voted a dozen yuan at will, dialed my home phone, my dad picked it up, and I immediately responded that I was pretending to be tired, saying that I was at Yu Shouheng's house, and I was doing math with him. It was taught by a new teacher today, but I have to take the test next week. He doesn't understand, I don't understand, we don't understand, so we study together, maybe we will sleep in his house tonight and never go back. I don't know if my dad discovered my guilty conscience. My guilty conscience is because, in fact, I spent the night with a girl in a different place. Also, I betrayed Yu Shouheng. I hung up the phone in a hurry, feeling very cramped, but I still made up my mind and walked up to the second floor, the same long corridor, the same dim shell lights, but in other rooms, there seemed to be strange shouting sounds, girl The sound, a repeated and roaring sound.I covered my ears, went to our room, and knocked on the door. Du Huijia opened the door, she only had a bath towel around her. Why is she only wearing a towel?Hair still wet?She doesn't want to sleep naked with a towel on, does she? I told her that I had told my family, okay, I said I wanted to take a shower too. She closed the door and fastened the chain. I stepped into the bathroom, took off my shirt, and wanted to calm myself down, so I turned on the cold water tap, and suddenly I realized that the wall was originally transparent when I saw it just now, but why now I can’t see through it from the bathroom side , I leaned close to the wall, and then groped the whole wall suspiciously. It turned out that this was a one-sided perspective wall. Too bad she should have seen me in the room and laughed at my every move in the bathroom. Oh my goodness, this is such a disgrace. I put on my clothes pretending to be calm, dried my hair with a bath towel, and walked out of the room, deliberately letting out a big exhalation from the hot shower, while she was watching the TV, holding the TV remote control. She shouldn't have noticed, right?I comfort myself. "You're thinner than I thought." She said suddenly, turning her head. "What?" Shouldn't it? "I will definitely install this kind of glass mirror in my house in the future, it's fun." She said. "Yes indeed." What am I doing right?I really beat myself up. She turned on the TV, and we just lay on the bed like that, not talking the whole time. She asked me if I still want to watch TV?I said whatever you want. Then she turned off the TV and said she wanted to sleep, but I said whatever, whatever. Then she pulled the sheets and asked me if I wanted to sleep, and I still said whatever, whatever. Then she turned off the light and lay down beside me. Then I didn't sleep at all. Then I knew she wasn't asleep either. Then suddenly she opened her eyes and we looked at each other. Then she said to me, "May I kiss you?" I said, whatever, whatever. Then she kissed me.Her lips were soft and wet. Then her hands came and went around my shoulders. Then I hugged her waist with both hands, her waist is very slender, even through the bath towel, I can feel the temperature of her body, or my own temperature starts to rise, and the heartbeat also speeds up. Then she took off my T-shirt, then kissed my neck, then she pulled off the towel, then her tongue slid across my earlobe, to my lips, and I followed her tongue into her mouth, Then she grabbed my hand and put it on her chest, and she unbuttoned my jeans. I suddenly pushed her away forcefully, she was stunned by the bed, and I was also frightened by such a move.I felt so ashamed, I didn't know what the hell I was doing, I just turned around and ran to the toilet and hid in it, even though I knew she could see my every move, but I just wanted to hide, As long as I don't have anyone around me that's enough. Then I cried, and the feeling of shame seemed to slowly spread from my stomach to my throat, and I couldn't vomit it out. Then I didn't sleep all night. In the morning, I went out of the bathroom and patted her on the shoulder. She woke up, changed her clothes, checked out, took the very early train, and was ready to go home. On the train, I was tired and dozed off with my head resting on her shoulder, while she just quietly watched the passing scenery outside the window, and then listened to Faye Wong's "Sky" repeatedly.