Chapter 25 Chapter 24

After Liao Yinghong hit the rocks inexplicably, one night on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there was an earthquake. At that time, I was lying on the upper bunk of the dormitory reading a book, and suddenly there was a sudden earthquake. The whole dormitory shook violently like a piece of tofu, and it seemed that there was no sign of stopping. Horribly, there was a booming sound from the wall beams of the building. "This earthquake is terrible!" I sat up straight and looked at my roommate Wang Yizhi who woke up from his sleep. "Fuck! Run away!" Wang Yizhi yelled, turning over and jumping off the upper bunk.

"That's ridiculous." Jian Han stared blankly, observing our reactions. "Nine knives, why don't you run away quickly! We're on the third floor!" Shi Xiaolun came back to his senses and yelled at me. So the four of us ran out of the dormitory quickly, and the corridors were full of dormitory students who ran away. Everyone rushed downstairs in a strange shaking, and ran to the square of the dormitory. The square was already full of people who fled from the dormitories. Everyone discussed how the earthquake took so long and was so strong, and began to speculate on the location of the epicenter, and bet on whether classes would be suspended tomorrow.

Obviously it was likely to be a terrible disaster, but everyone was immersed in heated discussions.It wasn't until someone heard from the radio that the epicenter might be in Taipei, and that it was likely to cause an unprecedented disaster, that everyone woke up from the enthusiastic atmosphere and started calling home to ask if they were safe. I was anxious with my mobile phone empty, because the external communication was almost full.I kept pressing the playback button, and repeatedly called home, my girlfriend, and Shen Jiayi, but I only heard the beeping sound of the sky. After finally getting in touch with my family and girlfriend, and knowing that everything is fine, I have been unable to get in touch with Shen Jiayi.As more and more rumors about the earthquake spread around, there were various theories about the suspicious epicenter, but none of them ruled out Taipei.My heart is getting more and more uneasy.

The line in front of the public phone is very long, and it must be dawn when it is my turn. "Nine knives, do you want to go to another place to fight!" Shi Xiaolun shook his phone and suggested: "There are too many people here and the base station is overloaded. Let's go out by bike and go to a place where there are few people to fight!" "Is this theory right?" I wondered, but my feet started to run towards the carport. "I don't know!" Shi Xiaolun was decisive, and ran to the carport. I left Jiaotong University on a motorcycle and rode to a remote place in Zhudong, stopping to play on my mobile phone from time to time. At this time, the street was full of people wearing underwear and slippers coming out to chat. It seemed that the city's power was cut off, and the street was hazy.

It has been a long time since Shen Jiayi's cell phone was connected. "Are you okay?" I breathed a sigh of relief. "It's okay, it's just that the earthquake just now was really terrible." Shen Jiayi still had lingering fear. "It's good that you're fine... I heard from my classmates who live in Taipei that the hotel near their house collapsed, so the epicentre might really be in Taipei? Uh--in short, it's really great that you're fine." I said. Park the motorcycle on the side of the road and turn off the engine. When I looked up, the sky was full of sad sparks.

"What about you? Are you in the school dormitory?" "It doesn't count. It was quite scary just now. The whole building seemed to pull out of the ground and escape by itself." "You are so kind. I am really touched that you still care about me so much." She said quietly. "I'm so moved, you're the girl I've been chasing for eight years, you're gone, who am I going to find to remember our story in the future." I hummed, trying to distract myself. It's hard to get through, and I don't want to hang up on it. Because I like Shen Jiayi's "history" for too long, my girlfriend has always had a grudge against Shen Jiayi in my heart. In order to avoid quarreling with my girlfriend, I have less and less contact with Shen Jiayi. The less we communicate, the more topics we can talk about. Very limited, even in two or three months to contact only once thinly.

But I cherish the time I can chat even more because of it.For example now. Thanks to an overwhelming earthquake, we chatted about it like before that night, and many memories of the high school days were blown away and vented all over the floor. My emotions are also wrapped in an indescribable magic coil, rolling in the ups and downs of memories. Shen Jiayi is reluctant to hang up the phone, and I don't mind being blown by the wind all night. "Do you remember that on the night when the scores of the college entrance examination were announced, you asked me if I would like to hear your answer?" I asked along the direction of the wind.

"Of course I remember. I wanted to tell you, but you refused to listen." She was very proud. "I didn't have the guts then, it's different now...I want to hear it." "You, you missed a great opportunity." I smile. "At that time, I didn't understand why you wouldn't listen to me saying that I like you and want to be with you? If you beg me not to tell, I don't want to say it myself." "..." I changed from a smile to a wry smile. "Ke Jingteng, you are always too confident, you keep saying that one day you will catch me and marry me, but you are very timid when facing the answer." She mocked me.

"Because I liked you so much at that time, so much, if your answer kept me thousands of miles away, I would not know how to face you...face myself" I was very honest, scratching my head. "But I was also at fault." "Oh? The strong Shen Jiayi also makes mistakes?" "What a strong person?" She chuckled: "I often hear people say that the most beautiful part of being in love is when you are ambiguous. When you are really together, many feelings will disappear. At that time, I thought, if you don't want to hear the answer, you can just say Let you chase me longer, otherwise you will become lazy once you chase me, and I am not at a loss? So hold back and don't tell you the answer. "

"Damn it, I would have listened if I knew it." I hated it: "So we tasted the most beautiful ambiguous period of love repeatedly, but we didn't get the final fruit. Damn, you really have to bear half of the responsibility." "How dare you say it... Who knew that the person who always said he wanted to marry me couldn't stand any setbacks. He gave up after a few curses, and ran to find a girlfriend within a few days. It seems that liking me is fake Yay! She embarrasses me. "Ha, I don't know who it is? You actually responded to me by making a boyfriend at the speed of light. You say I'm naive, and I'm not much better!" I went back embarrassingly.

We laughed and had a good time. Beep, beep, beep... My phone beeped a warning that it was about to run out of battery. "The battery is almost out." "Thank you tonight, you will think of calling me to care about me." "Well. I just want to thank you for telling me the answer back then. To be honest, I was relieved. Your answer let me know that I like you. It turns out that everyone responds, not me alone. Dancing. It's very important to me." I looked at the red starlight over the city and said, "My youth was never a monologue." "You are so emotional, maybe one day you will be a writer." "Goodbye, then." "Wait..." she said hurriedly. "Oh?" "If the phone didn't cut off suddenly, if you hear another one, it should make you stinky for a long time." "All ears." "Since you made a girlfriend, I thought that your liking for me would make you break up with your girlfriend sooner or later, and then you would be able to be with you justifiably. In the end, you waited and waited, you have been doing well, It made me envious, but there was nothing I could do about it.” It does not make sense?But I'm still really moved. However, life is not a person, like, nor a person. I've embedded another girl in my life, and that girl's life too.I can't turn around and leave, that is also my precious and guarded love. "I can't help it, that's the kind of person I am. Once you like it, you have to go all out." I admitted. "Yeah, I like that kind of person you are. But in fact, on April Fool's Day this year, I was going to call you and ask if you want to be with me." Her tone was brisk, and she was not disappointed. "Really!" I was taken aback. "Really. If you answer no, then I can still laugh and say it's an April Fool's joke. If you nod and say yes, then we can be together." Shen Jiayi said generously. In an instant, I couldn't move. "It doesn't seem like something Shen Jiayi would do at all?" I said dumbfounded. "Yes, so it's enough for you, Ke Jingteng." She teased. With almost nothing left to say, my heart is filled with gratitude. Although I couldn't give her the love answer she hoped for, the girl I liked deeply did not spare her heart, she poured everything I missed into my heart. Warmly overflowing, overflowing. "Without Yuelao's red line, it's really hard to rely on love alone, and I missed a lot of scenery." I sincerely hope: "Maybe in another parallel time and space, we are together." "...I really envy them." She agreed. Shen Jiayi's voice disappeared in the phone that lost power. I didn't start the car immediately, but just blankly recalled every word of the conversation just now, imagining the moving expression on her face that I haven't seen for a long time.I really want to stare at Shen Jiayi and see how she said these words herself. The night wind blows, lightly touches my body, and leaves gently. On September 21, 1999, at 1:47 in the morning, a powerful earthquake with a scale of 6.8 on the Richter scale struck Taiwan. That night, at the age of twenty-one, my heart was also spinning. The love between me and her finally has an unsatisfactory but solid end. The underground band "Sodagreen" who recently released a record has a great lyrics to "Flying Fish": "What's the point if it blooms but doesn't bear fruit? If you are a fish, you must swim?" For a love without result, as long as it blooms, the color will be brilliant. After seeing that brilliance, my youth has no regrets.