Captain Than Wouldn't Bend [Interstellar]

Young Jinshi·The Story of Papa Gu and the White-tailed Vulture

[Front row tip: It is better to eat it with the piano piece of Acacia (singer October) _(:з)∠)_]

Bai Jinze was 17 years old when he met Gu Lintang.

The boy in the white shirt was sitting in the piano room, his slender fingers were jumping on the piano keys, and even the cicadas in summer were no longer so noisy.

Bai Jinze swears that he has never seen such a clean boy, as clean as a cup of refreshing iced lemon tea, even his eyes are clear and bright.

The young man who was not good at communicating didn't know how to get his attention, so he knocked on the door of the piano room, pretending to be indifferent: "Hey, you are very noisy."

"Ah." The sound of the piano was chaotic, and the boy turned his head. The backlight made his outline coated with a soft golden edge: "Sorry, did I bother you?"

Looking at each other, Bai Jinze suddenly felt his heart skip a beat, and his cheeks turned red.

"Nor...not at all." He turned his head away, pursed his lips, and said in a low voice, "It's quite nice."

"Acacia."

Bai Jinze raised his head: "What?"

"The name of this song." The boy's beautiful peach eyes were curved, brighter than the sunlight outside the window.

"Understood, thank you." Bai Jinze was dazzled by the smile, turned hastily to leave, ran a few steps, turned around, and shouted at the boy from a distance: "Hi! My name is Bai Jinze!"

Then, regardless of whether the person heard it clearly, he turned around and ran away.

It wasn't until he rushed all the way into the classroom and leaned against the door panting for breath that he pressed his lips against his pounding heart and hammered the door angrily after a long while.

"...forgot to ask his name."

For the next whole day, Bai Jinze was absent-minded, and even filled in the English test in the afternoon and handed it in hastily.

He couldn't help but think of the boy's fingers that were more textured than ivory keys, and his eyes that were bent like a spring of clear water.

He didn't know what this throbbing should be called, but when he downloaded the song from his mobile phone and listened to it, the picture of the boy smiling at him with his hands on the piano became clearer.

"Ah——" Bai Jinze lay on the desk a little irritably, put his finger on the earphone and hesitated for a while, but finally did not take it off.

The next day, Bai Jinze saw him again.

At that time, he was watching two sparrows deserting on the plane tree outside the window in English class.

Then his forehead hurt, and a piece of chalk landed on the table with a "click".

The young English teacher slapped the table and shouted at him: "Bai Jinze! How dare you be in a daze! In the last English test, you filled in a few D's for me in the three options of A, B, C, and I haven't asked you to settle it yet! Give it to me! Stand up and wake up!"

There was a roar of laughter in the classroom, and Bai Jinze stood up with a blushing face, but when he looked up, he saw the familiar figure standing outside the door holding a stack of papers, looking at him with a smile.

Kill me.

Bai Jinze thought.

He felt like his ears were going to catch fire.

His head was buzzing, and he had no time to notice what the man came in and said to the teacher.

All he knew was that when his embarrassment faded and he raised his head, that person had already left.

Then he learned his name.

Gu Lintang.

Bai Jinze recited these three words softly, and his ears that had just receded from the fever became red again.

For some reason, he began to faintly look forward to their next meeting.

Maybe it was God's blessing, three days later the small bungalow next to Bai Jinze's house ushered in a new owner.

Leaning on the recliner by the bedroom window, holding half a watermelon and blowing the air conditioner, Bai Jinze saw through the window Gu Lintang who was helping his parents in and out of the house in the yard next door.

"Bah-"

The spoon fell.

The relationship between the two who became neighbors quickly warmed up, and the two people of similar ages soon became so close that they slept in the same bed and chatted until midnight.

It's just that every time Bai Jinze looks at that peaceful sleeping face by the moonlight at night, his heart is always full of inexplicable astringency.

Later, Bai Jinze sat on the back seat of Gu Lintang's bicycle and looked at the hem of the boy's clothes flying up, and asked, "Xiaotang, where are you going to take the exam?"

"I didn't think about it." The young man's light and gentle voice came over: "...Medical University."

In Bai Jinze's mind, the image of Gu Lintang in a white coat, treating patients gently and gently, could not help but curl the corners of his lips.

"Aze."

"En?" Bai Jinze raised his eyes and met Gu Lintang's gaze.

"You look good when you smile." Gu Lintang poked two fingers on the corners of Bai Jinze's mouth and pushed upwards: "Smile more from now on."

"... Long-winded." Bai Jinze turned his head away, but his ears turned red.

On the tree-lined road mottled with tree shadows, the young man in white riding a bicycle carried Bai Jinze's youth behind him, and went all the way forward.

"Xiao Tang."

"kindness?"

"Teach me to play the piano."

"it is good."

Then the wind blew up, and the rolled green leaves circled around the hem of the boys' clothes and dissipated in whispers.

Bai Jinze was used to playing basketball and boxing, so he found it difficult to play on the smooth and delicate piano keys.

He clumsily poked and pressed on the keys, and the music was played intermittently, which was horrible.

Gu Lintang, who really couldn't bear the torment of the devil's voice, walked behind Bai Jinze and bent down, covering Bai Jinze's body with his hands.

"Come on, play with me...yes...so..."

The boy's eyes were full of seriousness, and he didn't notice the sudden flush of Bai Jinze's cheeks in his arms.

Time passed by the jingle sounds of the piano, but later Gu Lintang failed to enter the Military Medical University, but was sent to the Central Military Academy by the stubborn old Mr. Gu.

Gu Lintang is Mr. Gu's old son, and the two elders are both veterans. Their biggest wish is to see the day when their son puts on the military uniform.

So when Bai Jinze excitedly knocked on the door of Gu's family with the admission letter from the Medical University, what he got was the news that Gu Lintang had already gone to the military academy to participate in the special pre-school training.

"...Ah, that's it." Bai Jinze lowered his head in disappointment, "...I learned that Acacia, and I want to play it to you..."

Then he looked at the steel fortress-like military starship hanging in the sky, and then at the notice in his hand that he had tried so hard to get, he pursed his lips.

The management of the military academy is strict, and there are external training tasks during the holidays, so it is basically difficult to see Gu Lintang again.

……

Bai Jinze repeated the reading.

He gave up the opportunity to enroll in the Medical University and chose the more difficult Central Military Academy.

With the power of the Bai family's military and political family, it is entirely possible to send him to the gate of the military academy through the back door.

But Bai Jinze refused.

In the second year, when Bai Jinze appeared in front of Gu Lintang wearing a brand-new student uniform, the first sentence he said was: "Lintang, I have already played Acacia very proficiently."

Later, the two graduated successively and became closer comrades-in-arms than anyone else.

On the day of Gu Lintang's wedding, Bai Jinze drank a lot of wine.

He should have smiled and wished his best brother a happy wedding, but his heart seemed to be weighed down by a stone, making him breathless.

He didn't know how to describe that feeling, his throat felt as if it was stuffed up, and even his eye sockets were sore.

He was standing on the rooftop with a wine bottle in his hand, and he yelled that person's name into the dark night sky with his hands folded into a trumpet shape.

"Gu Lintang!"

"Gu Lintang—"

"Gu Lintang..."

Someone said: "You're drunk."

Bai Jinze nodded without denying it.

But he knew that he was extremely sober, he just felt uncomfortable, and he didn't know why.

Time flies, Gu Ye was born when he was a child, Gu Lintang's parents died one after another, Gu Lintang divorced, Bai Jinze followed Gu Lintang closely all the way.

From the military academy to the grassroots troops, from the grassroots troops to the snowy land.

For him, following in Gu Lintang's footsteps has almost become a habit.

The only thing that remains unchanged is the piece called Acacia that exists in Bai Jinze Cary. After listening to it for more than 20 years, he can play it with his eyes closed while sitting in front of the piano.

However, Gu Lintang always said that the piece he played was soulless, and Bai Jinze was never convinced.

Until the bad news came.

On the 48th day after Gu Lintang left, the dazed Bai Jinze sat in front of the piano again and played the piece again, but almost shed tears, and truly found Gu Lintang's so-called soul.

After the war, the retired Bai Jinze left Changbai Mountain in good weather.

His destination is No. [-] Middle School in N City.

their alma mater.

In early summer, the chirping of cicadas has already begun.

The bionic mechanical prosthesis can already be used freely, Bai Jinze can even wear it to play basketball with those recruits without losing the wind.

Most places in the school haven't changed much, Bai Jinze passed by those energetic children, it was like passing by his own youth.

He walked along the familiar boulevard.

The Fatong tree that he often used to distract himself in class is gone, and now that place has become a green lawn.

The place where they usually park their bicycles has opened up a small square, and now there are student associations conducting recruiting activities there.

On the huge light screen in front of the teaching building, the Central News interview with the two young major generals was played. Bai Jinze heard some students say: "I also want to be admitted to the Central Military Academy and become a person like Major General Gu!"

Then he passed through many buildings and arrived at the old abandoned music building.

Open the door, the inside is still as clean as new.

It is cleaned every week and opened to students as part of the history of the school.

Bai Jinze saw the piano room.

Outside the window, the shadows of the trees are swaying, the sun is dappled, and the cicadas are chirping.

It was very similar to that summer many years ago.

At that time, Bai Jinze met his 17-year-old here.

He walked into the piano room and stroked the yellowed keys.

"Boom-"

This sound seemed to come through time and space, knocking his eyes red, and the gentle boy in white bent his eyes and told him: "Acacia, the name of this song."

Bai Jinze sat down on the piano bench, and the sound of the piano began to flow in the space.

The name of that piece is Acacia.

The Chinese name is Jincai.

Also known as: Acacia.