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Chapter 10 Memories in the Rain

The place where Ah Jing lives now is a newly built high-end residential area.The entire building complex adopts a brownish tone, and the exterior design is similar to a duplex villa. The living space of each household is within [-] square meters, with a public swimming pool and garden.Ah Jing is currently one of the few residents here.The house was bought by her husband's family.Their family also has two properties in other cities.She had chosen it because of the swimming pool and the fact that it wasn't too far from the school.

She is now standing alone in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, looking at the open-air swimming pool on the ground.The sky was already full of thick gray clouds, and the light of dusk formed a few pitiful dim spots on the edge of the irregularly squeezed clouds, and the night fell ahead of schedule.The street lights in the community have not yet come on.The garden was also dark to see.Only the swimming pool filled with water, light blue, like a bright light, silently waiting on the eve of the storm.

I didn't see lightning, but I heard thunder.The car parked outside in the open air hurriedly sounded the siren, but no one went out to answer it for a long time.

Ah Jing didn't know how long it would take for the rain to fall, but she was sure it would be a heavy rain.But the heavy rain has nothing to do with her, she can hide in a cool and dry house.She no longer cared about the wind and rain news outside, but gradually fell into a long time-lapse memory.

At that time, their family was still living with grandma and grandpa in a small town with green mountains and rivers, where she was studying in a public school.She is about to have her tenth birthday.She has a friend of the same age named Yangyang.

Yangyang is a left-behind child, living with his grandparents.His parents are all out of town, and they come back to see him regularly during the Spring Festival, and pick him up to play in big cities during the winter and summer vacations.Ah Jing asked him if he missed his parents, and he replied that they missed them when they first left, but his grandparents told him that when he grew up, his parents' jobs stabilized and they would come back to pick him up to live with him.He believes in this sentence, lives happily every day, and wants to grow up faster.

He is a very beautiful boy with big round eyes and thick and long eyelashes, which compares to Ah Jing.He is a little taller than Ah Jing, and his skin is a little tanned by the sun. With his white teeth that are exposed when he smiles, he actually looks better and healthy.He has always shaved only a small crew cut.Ah Jing likes to rub the top of his head with the palm of her hand the most. The hair there is black and thick, and it sticks softly in her palm, giving her a tickling feeling.

He is also smart, good at math and loves to play.Wherever he goes to play, he will bring Ah Jing with him.

Ah Jing followed behind him, and sneaked to the river with the adults on her back, watching him use an empty plastic bottle to catch tadpoles in the small river.The plastic bottle he held was transparent, and the two of them squatted facing each other under the spring sun to see a small tadpole swimming around with only one tail in the bottle.Sometimes they can watch for half an afternoon.When the sun was about to set, they walked back to the river and put back all the tadpoles they caught. They were also very happy to see the tadpoles swimming back home in groups.That kind of happy mood often brings them into good dreams at night.

In spring he took A Jing to catch tadpoles, and in summer he carried the injured A Jing on his back and sent her home safely.Because Ah Jing loves to run, the roads in the country are uneven, her balance is not good, and she will fall down.

In autumn, Qiu Yangyang picked the first-ripe persimmons from her yard, put them together in the coat she took off, and brought them to her.Ah Jing asked him if he would be cold without a coat.He said no.Ah Jing reached out to touch the skin around his neck, and found that it was really warm and scalding.

Winter is the only time he will bully Ah Jing.Standing under the snow-covered pine tree, he waved to Ah Jing from afar.Ah Jing thought he had found something novel and wanted to ask her to watch it together, so she hurried over to him.He pulled her closer to him and brought her under the tree, and when she was unprepared, he suddenly pushed the thin trunk of the pine tree before he walked away, the snow fell and slid in along the gap between her neck and clothes, Ah Jing trembled and was caught Bing burst into tears.

He was a man who had brought to her a simple raw energy.

The summer of this year is here again.This noon, Ah Jing stood outside her house waiting for Yang Yang to pick her up by bicycle to pick her up to school.

She first saw the top of Yangyang's round head rising slowly from the back of a section of uphill road, and then saw him pedaling his bicycle vigorously with his mouth pursed, only then heard the sound of his bicycle wheels rolling over the road.She saw a white children's water bottle hanging around his neck, and the water bottle hat looked like a red cat's head.When he parked the car in front of her, she saw that the water in the kettle on his chest was faintly reddish brown, and she knew that he had brought mung bean soup again.

"Why do you always bring mung bean soup?"

"I love to drink. Grandma also said to drink more of it in summer to reduce fire."

"Then I don't like to drink, what should I drink in the afternoon?"

"You also have a kettle, why didn't you bring it today?"

"I just think the water in your kettle tastes better. I'm going to drink yours."

"Okay, I'll share it with you when the time comes. If you don't like to drink, drink less. Run less, you won't sweat, just drink less for an afternoon."

Ah Jing got on his bicycle, put her arms around his waist, and they walked forward together.

They reached an intersection where they needed to turn, and a blue truck drove towards them.The car was full of minerals, the road was uneven, and it looked rickety, as if it was carrying too much weight.They were about to pass the car, Yang Yang rode the car very fast, and the car on the other side didn't slow down at all. Just when they were about to miss, one wheel in front of the car sank into a small dry pit , the rear of the car then swung over like the inside of the road.Yangyang didn't have time to slow down or jump off the bike, lost his mind, shook his hand, and the bike fell down, he fell into the bottom of the bike, and Ah Jing fell on the side of the road in the opposite direction.

The blue car stopped at the intersection, and someone got off the driver's seat.He saw that there were no other vehicles or pedestrians on the entire road, only a little girl in a pink skirt sitting on the side of the road in front of him.

Another little boy was lying face up in the middle of the road, and his lower body had been run over by the rear wheels of the car.

The driver took out his mobile phone and asked them to report their parents' numbers.

Yangyang reported his father's number, the phone was connected, and his father couldn't come back for a while.

The driver asked for the number of their teacher again. The teacher lived nearby, received the call, and arrived quickly.

Ah Jing looked at Yangyang who was held in the arms of the teacher, and felt that the bones around his thighs were soft, as if they didn't exist anymore.

Yangyang complained of pain after a while, and the teacher told him, you are a man, be stronger.

Yangyang pursed her lips tightly, and she stopped screaming.

Ah Jing was picked up by her parents at the entrance of the hospital, but she didn't know about Yang Yang's stay in the hospital.When she hears news about Yangyang again, it will be the news of his death.She didn't go to class for a few days, and her parents were with her all the time. When the police came to question her, it was her parents who answered.

A few days were not very long, and she went back to school as usual, but instead of taking the road that had swallowed a lot of blood, she took a longer one.

On that day, she heard that the lawsuit about Yangyang's car accident had ended, Yangyang's parents had received a sum of money as compensation, and Yangyang's body, which was parked in the hospital, would soon be cremated.She walked to the hospital by herself after school in the afternoon.

She saw the dead body lying in the ice coffin, covered by a large piece of red soft cloth, only a little bit of the arms and the hair on the top of the head were exposed.She saw him lying there on his back, motionless, as if he had just fallen asleep in a position he didn't usually like, as if the little cold coffin was very comfortable.Ever since she saw him being run over by a car, she has neither felt sad nor frightened, just a little flustered.

She wandered around by herself one day later, and went to the place where they used to play together, and saw that the scenery was as usual, and the seasons were still in order.She walked forward with her head down, and walked through stretches of poplar forests. The summer wind blew by, and she heard a loud clattering sound from the woods behind her. She looked back, but couldn't see the boy with the big eyes who were sunburned , she realized that he had really left and would not come back here again.

There was a flash of light outside the window at this moment, and Ah Jing was also shocked to come to her senses.

She saw a long, curved line of lightning burst into the sky, and before she could blink, it was gone.

After a while, there was a heavy thunder.

"too fast."

"It was too fast, so there was no time to react."

She recalled her childhood reaction to Yangyang's death, and realized that it was too fast, so she didn't have time to react.It's not that she has no feelings for him, but that she is too young to face impermanence and death.But she remembered his death in a way that buried a haze in her heart.She longed for some intense feeling to fill her.She needs her parents' need for her to convince herself that her life is solid and solid.On the one hand, she actively trains her survival skills, and on the other hand, she passively relies on the answers given by her parents to build her life.Now the two aspects conflict with each other, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, she needs to make a choice.

She remembered that it was time for Zhixiang to visit her this weekend.