Nowhere to be found, only the heart of a young man

Twenty years later, I am a middle-aged man approaching forty, with a happy family of my own and a thriving and vibrant career.

Now I am teaching in a university in another province, teaching German, and I am an excellent backbone teacher unanimously selected by the students and leaders of the department.

After living outside the province for a long time, the days of returning home have become less and less.Years of wandering, shuttling in the vast sea of ​​people, trying to make a living and running around, made me gradually forget the mountains and rivers of my hometown, the people and things in the past.

Parents still stay in the small town in the south.Minmin also has a family. Like me, she has lived in a different place for many years.Our two sisters only take the high-speed rail during the holidays, go back to our hometown, visit our parents, and enjoy a short but warm family reunion.

Today, 20 years later, the country has undergone earth-shaking changes, and we have entered the information age of the 21st century.

Feel the life around you, and you no longer have to live in isolation like in the past.With my mobile phone, I can easily contact people and things far away, and read any news from all over the world.

It is precisely because of this that through the interaction with my classmates and friends on WeChat on my mobile phone, I got in touch with Fang Fang, whom I hadn't seen for many years.

When Fang Fang said "hello" to me again on the other end of the network through the mobile phone, I had already stepped into the middle-aged heart, and I was pleasantly surprised in an instant.

"Comrade Whispering, haha! Do you remember me?"

After reading these words, I smiled happily.

"How can you not remember, Comrade Fang!"

Even though the two of us were far apart, we still chatted non-stop like young people, and our passionate hearts jumped excitedly all night.

It seems that there are too many words, and we can never finish them.

This scene seems to return to the past campus.

In this way, I re-established contact with my good friend Fang Fang.Even if time cannot go back to the past, we can still choose to continue the past friendship indefinitely.

One year in the middle of the year, Fang Fang sent me a WeChat message with an electronic invitation letter, which was about the 60th anniversary of the middle school in my hometown.

She was desperate to know if I would have a chance to go back to the event?

"Going, Whisper?"

"Is it this weekend? It's a pity that I have to stay at home with my children to go to special classes on weekends! There's some conflict in time."

"Professor Lin, this is a good opportunity for us to meet, don't you want to take this opportunity to meet us who are separated by thousands of miles?"

After reading this, I hesitated a bit.

"I just bought a plane ticket and flew back!"

I'm starting to waver.

Seeing that I haven't responded yet, Fang Fang boldly chose to attack.

"Is there someone you want to meet again? Do you remember Holly? I heard that he will go back to attend the class reunion this time!"

Her words that fell from the sky startled me.For a while, I was so overwhelmed with thoughts that I couldn't answer for a long time.

"Remember to answer, whisper. I have to go to work."

Fang Fang desperately wanted to end the chat.

Seeing this sentence, I couldn't help but speak.

"Comrade Fang, I don't want to see Heli, I want to see Dajun!"

Fang Fang was amused by my whimsical nonsense.

"If you want to see Dajun, then you have to go to the army. He is an officer now. It is inconvenient to travel far away for personal reasons. He has to ask his superiors for leave. It is not certain whether he will be approved or not!"

"How do you know so well?"

I am so strange.

"That's my husband, of course I know!"

"what?!"

This guy Fang Fang, even in middle age, still impresses me.

"Damn guy, you are so strict! Look at how proud you are of keeping secrets like this. You two are really good!"

She responded with a grin and continued chatting about her proposal.

"Go, go, meet him! It's like seeing an old classmate."

I didn't answer.

"Then I've booked a plane ticket! See you on the weekend!"

At ten o'clock in the morning on Saturday, after a few hours of long-distance train travel, I dressed up a bit and appeared in the former campus of my hometown in decent clothes.

Today's school is decorated with lanterns and festoons, banners are hung, and there are huge crowds of people.Everyone was immersed in the hustle and bustle and cheers of the 60th anniversary celebration of their alma mater with a happy face.

The campus of the past is still there, but it has become too fashionable and modern.Looking around, I can no longer find those concrete buildings, those sycamore trees, and the lush grass in the playground that I have left memories of in the past.What replaced them were modern decorated buildings, neatly manicured pines and cypresses, and a high-quality carpet-like lawn on the playground.

Children who run back and forth in school are more enthusiastic, generous, optimistic and lively.The teachers who come and go in and out of the teacher building are also more confident and cheerful.

The old classmates who came as scheduled gathered in the campus corridor, crowded and shoulder to shoulder.After greeting and exchanging brief greetings with several familiar faces one by one, I managed to vaguely recognize Fang Fang in the crowd who was chatting happily with others.

"Comrade Fang! So you are here."

I yelled.

Fang Fang turned her head and saw it was me, she was overjoyed.She hastily finished chatting with others and walked towards me.

"Come on, let me see!"

As she spoke, she pulled me to a corner with few crowds.

"It hasn't changed, it's still so beautiful, it's just a little more charming!"

I laughed, knowing that her mouth has always been sweet and not telling the truth.

"Count your sweet mouth! You are over 40, how can it be possible that you have not changed since childhood. Not only have you changed, but you are also old!"

Fang Fang also laughed, and then began to tease me.

"My teacher Lin, didn't you say you're not coming? Are you going to accompany your child to an interest class?"

"Isn't this just to see you! The child was handed over to his father and taken out to play. I came back by myself by train."

"Haha! If I want to see you, I have to rack my brains. I knew that trick would work. You are not only here to see me, but you also want to meet other old classmates?"

I glared at her, smiled and said,

"So what? Isn't this what you said to ask me to meet my old classmates? What, where are others? Are you here?"

Hearing this, Fang Fang stopped smiling.

"Didn't you come?"

I continued to ask.

"Do you see that you are in a hurry?"

Fang Fang put her mouth close to my ear and whispered,

"He Li is back. I saw him yesterday. However, he happened to have a party here this morning, so he couldn't come over here. He knew you were coming back, so he asked me to ask you out. It was near your house before, but now One-on-one at a new coffee shop, he wants to meet you so much."

Hearing this, I sighed, a little disappointed.

"Don't sigh, my murmur! We will meet tomorrow, if you have anything to say, you can talk face to face then."

I shrugged, saying that I had no choice but to give up.

"Come on, I have brought my words, now I am happy, go to see other old classmates with me, these old guys! Look, they all look happy, they are almost the same as they were 20 years ago. The way things are..."

After speaking, Fang Fang kindly took my arm, took me with her, and merged into the excited crowd in front of her again.