Chapter 10 Chapter 9

Everyone has this experience. Hearing a certain song or a certain melody inadvertently, he will instantly recall himself in a certain period of time.Or college, or high school, or seeing that young face with a white line drawn with chalk that used to be next to my seat. Before the monster disappeared, he lent me a tape of Takeshi Kaneshiro's album. There was a song in it that was probably sung like this: "oh my baby, why does love always become empty? Because I love you, I can't just break up with you The figure filled my heart, because I love you, I can't let you go. Because I love you, I can't take my good after breaking up..."

This song, whose lyrics are so infatuated that it is almost white, is the theme song for the summer of my sixteenth year. The pseudo-summer vacation of freshman year is a crazy "snatching festival" for every cram school. I think that in any place in Taiwan, there is no high school student who has escaped such a cram school for a lifetime. The work-students at the school gate and the bookstore gate, handing out newspaper clip-page advertisements, copying the address directly from the graduation album On the leaflets, there are all introductions to cram schools that are invited to audition, and they try their best to emphasize that if you audition, you can get a lot of free lecture notes that are beneficial to the brain, and beautiful notebooks that are not beneficial to the brain.

Xu Bochun also took me and rode a bicycle through various cram schools in Changhua, looking for the girl we liked under the guise of audition. This guy Xu Bochun has a big head and the back of his head is vertically flat. It is his characteristic that he sometimes stutters when he speaks. It is his tragic talent to tell any joke until it goes cold and rotten.He is one of the most important friends in my life, and he is the only one who has never liked Shen Jiayi, so Xu Bochun has become my underwear friend who can talk about everything.I fell in love with Li Xiaohua and Xu Bochun fell in love with Li Xiaojing when I was in the third year of junior high school. After revealing the secrets of our love to each other, our alliance became closer.

Many years later, I deeply understood that the alliance of two big idiots is meaningless to the battle of love except to strengthen their friendship. Throwback to that summer full of cram school trial classes. Our calculations are simple.Because we are two shy half-cooked boys, we dare not call the shyness of asking girls out, so we decided to investigate which cram school Li Xiaohua and Li Xiaojing were auditioning for, and then keep tracking, the ultimate goal is to go to school with them The same cram school, locked, clinging on. "Will this work?" I doubted, but didn't resist much.

"Tell you, it's definitely useful, at least it's definitely more useful than you harassing her dog over there." Xu Bochun said firmly. "But her Tom is actually pretty fun, and I'm getting more and more familiar with it." I scratched my head and looked absent-mindedly at the cram school teacher who was spitting all over the podium. "Hey, don't name her dog randomly, you will confuse it..." Xu Bochun gradually fell asleep on the table.Our ulterior motives are not to study well in class, as soon as we find out that Li Xiaohua and Li Xiaojing are not there, we will start to fall into a coma.

But the whole summer, goddamn it, we all blew it away and were good students for two months for no reason. Speaking of Li Xiaohua's dog Tom, it is really a strange case of injustice. When Li Xiaohua and I were walking home together, we all waved goodbye in front of the alley of her house, so I only knew the approximate location of Li Xiaohua's house, but I didn't know which house the correct house was. Just after Li Xiaohua kicked me out of her life on the eve of the college entrance examination, the address book of the graduation yearbook came in handy.I rode a bicycle, looking for the address "No. 15, Chenggong Road" in the address book, and came to the downstairs of Li Xiaohua's house. Since then, I have been going back and forth, always looking forward to re-igniting the sparks in the way of "encounter".

The downstairs of her house is often locked, and only a big white dog who lives a boring life is guarded. "It's okay, you're bored, and I'm even more bored." I squatted down, shaking a big hot dog from 7-11 in my hand. "..." The big white dog was so bored that he lost the consciousness of not eating randomly, he opened his mouth and ate the big hot dog. Since then, we have become loyal partners of "I buy hot dogs and he eats hot dogs", and it also has a decent name, Tom.I force it, and it admits, for example... "Tom, eat a hot dog." I stopped the bike.

"..." Big White Dog, no, Tom sat down. After eating the big hot dog, Tom always accompanied me. He stopped downstairs in Li Xiaohua's house and looked at the floor-to-ceiling frosted glass on the second floor with a yellow light.I listened affectionately to the sound of the piano coming from inside, while Tom looked around with his tongue out. "You never told me that you could play the piano...God, you can play the piano so well. I am so happy to fall in love with such a talented girl." I sighed, imagining Li Xiaohua caressing the piano with both hands. "..." Tom licked the tomato sauce on the ground.

"It's the same with you, Li Xiaohua didn't mention you to me, maybe you are too ugly. But it doesn't matter, as long as you are serious, you can live a handsome life. Hey, are you listening!" I squinted at Tom . "..." Tom licked it to himself. "By the way, let me remind you again. My name is Ke Jingteng, and I am also your future master. Get acquainted with me quickly, and you must be loyal to me in the future." I put my arms around my chest, looking at the second floor and talking to myself . Eating clean, Tom's head rubs against my pants to tickle.

I knelt down and patted its stupid head. People say that when you catch a thief, you first catch the king, but I started with a dog and bribed him.I squeezed its big face and said: "The words are up front, you have eaten so many hot dogs from me, and when I have the opportunity to perform in front of Li Xiaohua, I am very close to you, you have to cooperate and don't let me miss it." gas." Tom kept sniffing at me like he was trying to get a second hot dog out of me. "It's gone." I patted it, stepped on the bicycle, and watched the yellow frosted glass on the second floor leave.

Summer is coming to an end, and Tom and I are getting better as the hot dogs disappear one by one. Every time I rode a bicycle away from Li Xiaohua’s house, I stared blankly at the angle of the neck on the second floor, which gradually drooped, and then looked at Tom sticking out his tongue, and waved my hand, promising that it would be better next time. Go with it a little. "Hey, why is your master ignoring me? The entrance exam is over." I asked. "..." Tom was still eating the hot dog, which was his only interest. "Could it be that my personality is too frivolous... No, I've always been very unreliable, and your master knew that I was this kind of person from the very beginning when he knew me." I was very confused. "..." Tom licked his tongue. "Doesn't your master want to finish listening to the passionate story of "Yuji Miyamoto Brings a Knife Again"? The rest is super exciting." The more I talked, the more sad I felt, and finally sighed, "Who says a sixteen-year-old boy can't Do you understand love? Then what's the matter with the sourness and bitterness in my heart?" Of course Tom didn't answer, he just stayed with me in the best way he could. The freshman training was about to end. One day, I passed by Li Xiaohua’s house wearing a uniform that hadn’t been embroidered with the student number. I suddenly found that Tom was missing, and his puppy house was also gone. I jumped off the bicycle and saw the iron gate was pulled down, and a piece of paper was pasted on it. I can still recite the words written on it: "Mr. Postman, we have moved, please don't send newspapers and letters here. Thank you." .” For a moment, my eyes were out of focus and my thoughts went blank. How is this going? move place?Where to move?What about the hot dog in my hand? I rushed home in a hurry and called Shen Jiayi. "Shen Jiayi, have you heard about Li Xiaohua's move?" "What? She moved?" "Yeah, I just saw a note telling the postman to get out of her house just now, what should I do? I'm finished, I'm finished, and Xu Bochun and I plan to print leaflets and distribute them near her house..." "send flyer?" "That's right, "Ke Jingteng likes Li Xiaohua" was written on the leaflet, and everyone around her knew it, which made her feel very romantic. Now everything is over, and the earth is about to lose control..." I screamed. "It's an exaggeration, do you like her that much?" Shen Jiayi's tone was a bit disapproving. "I'm finished, I'm finished, I can't find her in the future..." I was so frustrated, I looked at the cold hot dog in the plastic bag: "Please, you can call those stinky three-eights for me, and find out Let me know where she moved to, okay?" "..." "Please!" I yelled. I was very disappointed, and I still rode my bicycle to and fro downstairs of her house. My heart is empty, but I don't know what I am emptying. Later, Shen Jiayi found out clearly, sent a phone call, and told me a piece of news in a very definite tone. "Ke Jingteng, you are definitely mistaken, Li Xiaohua didn't move at all." "Impossible, I clearly saw a picture posted downstairs at her house..." "I made several phone calls, and everyone said that Li Xiaohua hadn't moved. If you don't believe me, you can call Li Xiaohua directly and ask. And let me tell you, I'll stop here, and you can figure out the rest. " "How is this possible……" I hung up the phone, went downstairs to Li Xiaohua's house again, and dubiously studied the note. The note might be fake (joking with the postman? How naughty), but Tom's big enough to miss one, it's not a joke.I was super puzzled, and when I looked up, I stared at the house number in a daze. Suddenly, I was shocked. This is... 15 XX Street?Not No. 15, Chenggong Road?My eyes widened and my whole body was shaking. Without stepping on the bicycle, I just quickly "checked" the house numbers of the nearby houses. God, this is the intersection of Chenggong Road and XX Street, and the "genuine Li Xiaohua's home" is located in the "black heart Li Xiaohua's home" Ten meters away from the opposite side of "My Home", but the numbers on the two house numbers are both No. 15! "It's too coincidental, two 15s..." I was dumbfounded. It was a misunderstanding from beginning to end, a misunderstanding that only the most idiotic people in the world would encounter. This place has never been Li Xiaohua's home. And Tom, of course, is not Li Xiaohua's dog. And those hot dogs... I sighed, it was a wrong investment! I laughed out loud, fortunately Li Xiaohua didn't move, I can still ride a bicycle to wander here in the future, and be my love ground binding spirit.And this time there will be no more misunderstandings. I stared at the house number of Li Xiaohua's house, and confirmed again and again that this is the authentic one... "Woo." I stepped on the bicycle, and the wheels turned when I stepped on it. I looked back as before, but I didn't look at the real Li Xiaohua's house. My eyes fell on the old seat where Tom always sat, watching me, the hot dog baron, leave. "Tom, where is your big white dog that cheats and eats and drinks?" My heart is so stuffy, I still can't stop looking back. Until the moment when I was typing on the keyboard to catch up with the serialization of the magazine, I still couldn't breathe just thinking about it. Many summers have passed, and every time I pass by Li Xiaohua's door, I always take an extra look and think a lot more about that address full of misunderstandings. There are more memories there. There used to be a big white dog named Tom who accompanied me to listen to strangers playing the piano.