Receive with the sky

After receiving the letter from Shi Fan, Chen Chao summoned up his courage and came to Class 3 to meet Lin Xian.

"Lin Xian, this is Shi Fan's phone number. He asked you to call him when you have time." Chao Chen copied the phone number from the letter on a post-it note and handed it to Lin Xian.

"Chen Chao, do you have time this weekend?" Lin Xian asked suddenly after taking the phone number.

"Yes, what's wrong?"

"Shall we play with Shi Fan at Shi Fan's school?"

"Okay!"

Chen Chao finally waited until the weekend.He was wearing a long-sleeved T-shirt over a short-sleeved shirt.

After lunch, Chen Chao came to the intersection and met with Lin Xian.They took the bus together. On the bus, the driver played Teresa Teng's song, and a song "Spring Breeze Fills the Town" spread in the spring-like air.

They came to No. [-] Middle School from No. [-] Middle School and met Shi Fan.Shi Fan was a pure man, with his hands in the hip pockets of his jeans, he took Chen Chao and Lin Xian to walk around the campus for a while.

"Although our academic performance is not as good as that of the students in your school, we can still visit the school." Shi Fan said with a self-deprecating tone.

After visiting the campus, Shi Fan took them to the game hall.The game hall this time is a bit more advanced than the one next to the cinema. It is a football game called "Pro Evolution Soccer".

After playing for a while, Shi Fan saw that I was not active enough, so he suggested to play in a more exciting place.

It turned out that there was a stream nearby with a width of about 100 meters and a depth of no less than five meters.A viaduct spans the stream above the stream, and that is the only railway line that passes through the small city.The minimum height of the viaduct from the water surface is not less than ten meters.

Shi Fan took Chen Chao and Lin Xian up the viaduct along a steep ladder, and they walked along the rails to the center of the stream.Looking down at the flowing water in the stream from the viaduct, Chen Chao felt a little weak in his legs.

Shi Fan said:

"There used to be a student standing here, and suddenly the train came, and he jumped directly, and was drowned in the water."

Chao Chen said:

"Is he committing suicide?"

Shi Fan:

"If you want to commit suicide, you can go directly to the river and go to the deep water. Why bother to climb to such a high place first and then jump down."

Chen Chao:

"Maybe he originally wanted to commit suicide by lying on the rails, but he regretted it when the train came."

Shi Fan:

"Look at where we are standing now, there is half a meter away from the train track. Even if you repent, it is absolutely safe to stand here obediently."

Chen Chao:

"Is there no one nearby to hold him?"

Shi Fan:

"I didn't witness it, I just heard the train was coming and he jumped."

Lin Xian finally spoke:

"He must have been the only one at the time. He must have been frightened by the high-speed train. Not to mention the strong vibration of the viaduct caused by the train running over the rails, the piercing whistle alone was enough to drive people away. Compared with a strong group, a single person is so weak and drifts with the wind."

Both Chen Chao and Shi Fan fell silent.

When I heard it, I secretly thought:

"Don't be afraid, I'm here, you're not alone, and I'll hold your hand so you won't fall. If you want, I'll hold you tight in my arms, and I'll really jump, Let's dance together."

Regrettably, he didn't dare to say what was in his heart.

After staying on the viaduct for a while, they didn't wait for a train to pass by, so they went to the place where Shi Fan lived. It was a rented house outside the school.

Shi Fan lay on the bed, played the music, and told Super Chen and Lin Xian to lie on the bed together.Lin Xian shook his head and lay down on the table.Chen Chao took off his shirt and lay down on the bed.Shi Fan asked Lin Xian:

"Why don't you lie down on the bed together?"

Lin Xian said, "It's okay, I'll just sit here."

Eason Chan's "Sad Letter" came from the repeater, and the three of them fell silent at the same time.

Xu Xu took this letter again as you clinging to me and hugging me,

It's a pity that the letter is too thin, how can it be filled and lost,

The sooner you believe the injury, the sooner you suppress the pain, the heavier it will be,

Difficult to balance the ups and downs of my anxiety,

It is difficult to forgive the repeated changes in my heart.

Still need you so much still need you so much,

If today is lost, how to retreat and how to advance,

If you don't believe it, you'd rather die than believe it,

But no matter how excited my hands are, I still feel sad,

Eason Chan's affectionate and stinging singing stopped, and Shi Fan spoke:

"Chen Chao, in your letter to me last time, you mentioned something about the third year of junior high school. You said that during the days of the senior high school entrance examination, because there were not enough beds, we slept in the same bed? I don't remember much. gone."

Chen Chao was surprised when he heard this, he didn't expect Shi Fan to mention this matter in front of Lin Xian and himself, he felt embarrassed, and lied quickly:

"Actually, I don't really remember much, hehe." Then, he promptly put aside the subject and continued, "I do remember that year, when many big events happened."

"Big thing? What's the matter?"

"For example, SARS, and the Iraq War, I still remember them all vividly."

"Yes, at that time there were still a few months before the high school entrance examination, and I was exhausted from studying every day. A few days before the Iraq war started, I remember, we listened to the radio every day before going to bed, looking forward to when the war would start, and then a few days later we really Then came SARS, and we were all worried, afraid that we would be quarantined, and there seemed to be rumors that there was no need to go to the city for the high school entrance examination, in order to prevent the spread of the epidemic.” Shi Fan was told by Chen Chaoyi, and he also remembered those things.

"How did the SARS virus come from?" Lin Xian asked.

"That virus is called H7N9, right?" Chen Chao said.

"That's right, you study biology well, someday you will find out how this virus came from, and tell me, a kid who can't read." Shi Fan laughed at himself again.

"I guess I have to learn politics well. Because it is possible, this H7N9 is a new medical drug made by the United States, in order to prevent China from having the energy to deal with the Iraq war." Chao Chen made a rare joke, which made Shi Fan amused.

In the evening, after the three of them had dinner together, Chen Chao and Lin Xian bid farewell to Shi Fan, and took the bus back to No. [-] Middle School.After getting off the car, Lin Xian said he wanted to go to the bathroom, so he took Chen Chao to the Internet cafe's bathroom.After Lin Xian went to the toilet, he wanted to surf the Internet, so he asked Chen Chao to play with him for a while.So Chen Chao sat beside him and watched Lin Xian go online.

This is the first time for Chen Chao to come to the Internet cafe, and he usually uses the computer in the computer room of the school.Lin Xian kept looking for some webpages for him to read, as if to show Chen Chao to look at some new things.But Chao Chen didn't seem to have adapted to the environment of the Internet cafe, and was always absent-minded.After a while, Lin Xian saw that Chao Chen was not in good condition, and said:

"I still want to play for a while, do you want to go back first?"

Chen Chao originally wanted to stay with Lin Xian for a while, but somehow, he said goodbye.

On the way home alone, Chen Chao suddenly felt that sometimes he and Lin Xian were in the same world, and sometimes they seemed to be in a different world.

Another summer vacation is coming, and before the summer vacation is over, they entered the third year of high school ahead of schedule.Chen Chao also moved from the school dormitory to off-campus, and lived in a house with Zhang Xiang.This house is an old farm house, just at the main entrance of Jianzhou No. [-] Middle School, just a few steps away from the fast food restaurant.The advantage of the old house is that the room is relatively large, but there is a disadvantage that the toilet is not modern enough, commonly known as the latrine.

In September of the third year of high school, Chen Chao wrote a letter to Shi Fan.But in October, there was still no reply. Super Chen thought it was lost, so he didn't think about it.After the National Day holiday, Chao Chen met Lin Xian by chance in a fast food restaurant.

That day, after school at noon, he went to the fast food restaurant in front of the school to eat as usual.Just as Chen Chao was ordering, Lin Xian suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.

"Hi! What a coincidence." Lin Xian said.

"Yes, I eat at this restaurant all the time." Chao Chen seemed to be explaining the coincidence, or affirming that this coincidence was not intentional.

"I rarely eat here."

"No wonder I haven't seen you before."

After they ordered their food, they sat down at a table.Lin Xian ordered fried pork with bean curd.

"Do you like fried pork with bean curd?" Chao Chen asked.

"Well, it should be said that I like to eat bean curds. What about you?"

"Actually, I also like to eat bean curd."

After Chen Chao finished speaking, he lowered his head and picked up the rice.

"By the way, there is something I should tell you." Lin Xian said suddenly.

Chen Chao let out a "hmm", thinking in his heart, what could it be?

"Last weekend, I went to Shi Fan's place. He gave me a letter and asked me to pass it on to you, but I put it away and then forgot about it."

"Oh! It seems that he has received my letter. I thought it was lost."

"Shi Fan also told me that he was too lazy, so he didn't reply to your letter in time."

The two were silent for a while, and Lin Xian chatted about this fast food restaurant.

"The business of this store has always been good." Lin Xian said.

"Yeah, compared to the school cafeteria, the food in this restaurant is delicious."

"You see, the proprietress is standing at the back door to collect the money, and it's too late to settle the bill. It's all up to us to pay the bill. And there is a front door, so there is a big problem."

"I don't understand what you mean, what's the big problem you're talking about?"

"I'm afraid that someone will eat the overlord's meal."

"No way."

"Why not? Don't look at No. [-] Middle School as if they are all top students. In fact, there are all kinds of people."

Chen Chao didn't speak any more, this topic seemed to have gone beyond the scope of his philosophical thinking.

After eating, the two came to the door of the store and paid the money to the proprietress.Super Chen didn't expect that Lin Xian would actually talk to the proprietress about the big problem he mentioned just now, so he suggested that the proprietress hire a small worker, or leave only one door for entry and exit.

The proprietress smiled, obviously feeling that Lin Xian was worrying too much.The proprietress expressed her great trust in the students of No. [-] Middle School, and thanked Lin Xian for her kind reminder.

Lin Xian's suggestion was not accepted by the proprietress, but Chen Chao could tell that after talking with the proprietress, Lin Xian became a little happier.

"Let's come here for dinner together at night." Lin Xian said.

"Okay," Super Chen said pleasantly, "Then see you at the store door after school."

To him, it's like a date.

After school, Chao Chen came to the fast food restaurant without stopping.Before Lin Xian arrived, he was already standing at the door of the shop waiting.Chen Chao looked at the front of the road, and the students after school slowly passed by.He recognized every face that appeared in the distance, as if he couldn't wait to see Lin Xian's appearance from afar.At the same time, he was worried whether Lin Xian would forget this agreement.Until Lin Xian really appeared, Super Chen felt relieved.He was still too young to realize that dating, waiting, and meeting, accompanied by a series of complex emotional changes, are clearly a love affair.