one
After work at night, I felt exhausted and ordered a buffet in a cafeteria outside the community.
I didn't hear the phone ring when I was walking on the road, and I didn't see three missed calls until I got home.
The name displayed on the mobile phone screen is Hu Jie, a classmate she met in high school. She is quiet and has long hair and eyelashes.
I met her one afternoon. She came out of the office with a stack of English exercise books in her arms. I just walked past her in a hurry and bumped into her, and her exercise book was scattered all over the floor.
I quickly squatted down to help her pick up the exercise books scattered on the ground and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."
She said softly, "Never mind, I'll pick it up."
Wearing a knee-length skirt, she squatted on the ground and picked up the exercise books scattered on the ground. The soft hair that was originally draped over the shoulders slipped from the shoulders instantly, and the action was very elegant.
Soon, I picked up the exercise book on the ground. When I picked up the last exercise book, my hand actually reached over and touched hers. She looked up at me and pulled it back.
I stood up and handed her a stack of exercise books that I held in my hand. She took the exercise books, said thank you softly, then nodded and turned away.
I clearly remember the back of his turn, as clear as a picture.
Sometimes meeting is just a moment, or just passing by, but we have to pretend that no one knows who.
Two.
Seeing those missed calls on my mobile phone, I wanted to call Hu Jie back, but I thought I'd better get back online first.
Because I'm afraid I won't know what to say first as soon as the phone is connected.
As soon as I turned on the computer, a news flashed out: Recently, a woman selling pork in Taipei broke the news online and was called "pork beauty". It turns out that this innocent-looking sister's name is Zhang, and she is also high flyers of Fu Jen Catholic University.
"Pork Beauty" worked in a bank after graduating from college, but because her parents were old, she gave up her comfortable job and chose to sell pork for her parents in the market and run this small stall.
All the neighbors praised her filial piety and virtue. It is not shameful for college students to sell pork. This "pork beauty" is not only pure and beautiful, but also looks like the "first love face" that everyone likes. I also wish this filial sister a better and better business.
Seeing this news, I remembered the scene of breaking up with hujie after graduating from high school, so I clicked on the interface of chatting with hujie.
I asked, "Sister Hu, are you there?"
Hujie replied, "Yes, I called you three times just now. Why don't you answer? "
"Oh, sorry, I was on the road just now, I didn't hear it."
She asked, "Do you remember what day it is today?"
I said, "I forgot."
Hujie said, "Today is my birthday."
I was at a loss at that time, and immediately sent her a few expressions of birthday gifts to wish her a happy birthday, but hujie said, "If I had known this, I would have been selfish."
Hu Jie, our classmate in the class next door, is the representative of English class in the class, and her grades have always been in the top one. Her family is not very good and she lives in a remote place. She can only go home twice a semester. She usually works in a restaurant near the school on Saturday and Sunday to earn some living expenses.
Later, I went to senior two. Basically go home once on Sunday morning and go to school in the afternoon. I often meet her in the restaurant outside the school, and we often meet at school.
Next semester in Grade Two, our class and theirs are the same math teacher. Every exam, the math teacher always shuts our class and their classmates out.
I remember that math exam. I sat in front of hujie. What we tested that time happened to be the topic of three-dimensional space type. Hujie's mathematical foundation is relatively thin, and his imagination space is very weak in the three-dimensional space proof, so he encountered difficulties when he did it later.
Ten minutes left in the film, I asked her in a low voice, "Have you finished writing?"
Hujie said: "No, there are several multiple-choice questions and fill-in-the-blank questions in front, and the three-dimensional space proves that it can't be done."
I said, "You still have a chance."
I quietly moved the test paper to the desk, slowly moved my left arm away and said, "Write quickly, or it will be handed in soon."
I looked at the math invigilator outside the window with trepidation. More flustered than cheating in the exam. After the exam, I walked out of their classroom in hujie with stationery.
When I returned to my classroom seat, I opened the pencil box and found a small note stuffed inside: "This is our secret."
After that exam, I wrote a love letter to hujie, which I thought was the palest and weakest one: I met you at the most helpless age, the secret that only belongs to the two of us, and I will always cherish it in my heart, and the fleeting years will bring you and me together. After the Spring and Autumn Period, can we still remember that meeting? "
three
After the exam, the math teacher distributed all the math papers. I saw my score of 135. I made a mistake in the previous multiple-choice question, and I got full marks in the fill-in-the-blank question. I dropped ten points on the last proof.
I'm still thinking: "The fifteen points I lost here won't be the topic that the math teacher just talked about a few days ago, will it?"
When I went to the corridor outside the classroom, I saw hujie standing outside, too. I was confused. What was the situation then? Does the math teacher know our love letter?
The math teacher took hujie's test paper and said, "hujie, the teacher is very happy to see your results in this exam. You have made great progress, but why are your two wrong questions the same in this exam? "
I said, "This problem is too difficult for us to work out."
I didn't look into hujie's eyes, but I knew that hujie had been watching me quietly. At this moment, I want to accompany her across the sea, watch the clouds floating in the sky, and continue to write the unspeakable secret together.
Hujie and I are getting closer and closer, and every time we send love letters, clear handwriting and familiar voices in the name of borrowing books.
At the end of the third year of high school, hujie suddenly wrote me a note, which simply wrote a sentence: "I may have to leave for a while until I come back."
During those weeks, when I passed the window outside their classroom in hujie, I never saw her again. Then I asked her classmate Hu Jie. As a result, the classmate in their class said, "hujie's mother is in hospital, which seems to be cancer. I cried when I saw hujie calling in the dormitory a few days ago. "
She never told me about the story behind Hu Jie.
Friends around you, when you were away, did you send a simple greeting to your parents who have been worried about us at home?
When they were ill in hospital, did you choose to leave everything behind and stay with them?
four
When Hu Jie returned to school, it seemed that he had suddenly changed. Many times I walked past their window and saw him sitting there alone in a daze. Later, after several mock exams, I knew that her grades had fallen sharply.
In the third year of high school, the learning task is more arduous. Hujie spends less time studying every day, and most of the time is self-study. When I went to the toilet, I saw that her seat was always empty.
After the third mock exam in senior three, hujie's grade suddenly fell to the first 15 in the class, ranking more than 200 in the grade.
One day at noon, I came back from the canteen and happened to meet hujie in the corridor. Unexpectedly, the first thing she said was: long time no see.
I said, "I feel like we are strangers suddenly."
Hujie said: "It's just that we communicate less with our hearts."
That conversation with hujie turned out to be the last time before we broke up.
I forgot when I got used to some greetings and listened to the last one of the old love songs. My lips tremble like an endless sea. We swam feebly, wondering who was waving our sleeves. When will you love me? When will you accompany me to which intersection? I don't know why you can accompany me to the end of my life. When will you love me? When will you wait for me at which bridge?
On the second day after the college entrance examination, I saw Hu Jie move all his books to the second-hand book collection off campus and sell them. I met her on the stairs.
Her eyes were so cold. Is it because two people have lost their feelings for a long time and everything has faded?
I asked, "Why do you want to go with the flow and let your grades drop again?"
Hujie said, "This is my choice. Each of us has our own life track. Everyone has his own way to go. Why force it? "
I said, "I still have your place in my heart, but you have never lived there."
Hujie said, "Then rent out the vacant position in your heart. I don't deserve your love, let alone your wasting precious time for me. Your ideal is to be admitted to an ideal university, and my ideal is to stay at home with my parents. We are two straight lines that never intersect in the same time and space, so forget me. "
Seeing hujie's departure, I was very disappointed. Why did I wait until the last moment when I was about to blossom and bear fruit, but I got a parting?
On the day after the college entrance examination, I didn't see hujie at school. I heard her best friend say, "hujie asked her to help bring back her diploma."
I asked Xiao Gan, hujie's best friend, "Why didn't hujie come and get it himself?"
Xiao Gan said, "hujie's mother has cancer, which is in the terminal stage. Even if the doctor says chemotherapy now, it will not last for half a year. "
Only then did I realize that our so-called ideals and dreams are simply insignificant in the face of benevolence, righteousness, courtesy and filial piety. Our parents have raised us for most of their lives, but when they are injured and sick, we can't stay with them. Is this the so-called filial piety?
When I heard Xiao Gan's words, I immediately felt a burst of remorse. It turns out that I misunderstood hujie. She resolutely chose to give up her studies and go home to take care of her parents. This is the great love on earth!
It turned out that after graduating from college, pork beauty chose to give up banking, go home to take care of her elderly parents, sell pork for her parents in the market and run this small stall. This is also a rare great love!
I still remember the last sentence that hujie said when chatting with me: "If I know now, I should be selfish."
I replied to her, "If you had chosen to be selfish, you might not regret it now, but you will regret it for the rest of your life."
Because the whole world is gray, only you are shining. I hope you are the next "pork beauty".