mountain sleep

The summer vacation in the United States started early, Yao Ge and Lin Jisen packed their bags and prepared to go to the camp.

"I put the medicine to prevent mosquito bites and some gastrointestinal medicine in your bags," Ji Xiayue told them worriedly, "Jason, you have to take good care of Yao Ge."

"I know, I know."

The theme of the summer camp they went to this time was survival in the wild. Although Lin Jisen is an art student, he is very good at riding and hunting.Yao Ge looked at the itinerary, hiking into the mountains, inspecting wild animals, rock climbing and kayaking, but he was not interested in any of them.But it didn't matter, so he didn't have the time and energy to think about Xu Zihang.

However, he was wrong, physical exhaustion did not make him forget Xu Zihang, on the contrary, he remembered him even more firmly.

They walked in the mountain stream, stepped on the uneven stone road, and looked at the rivers and lakes in the distance. Yao Ge would think that he and Xu Zihang had never traveled together, they had not climbed the mountain hand in hand, and they had not sat on the ground by the stream together.

Obviously the hunting tools that the coach taught them to make were catapults, but Yao Ge looked at the bamboo sticks and rubber bands in his hands, but only thought of the slingshot on his bookshelf that he had touched for many years and that seemingly similar afternoon.

When he was half-hanging on the rock with a rope, the coward Xu Zihang suddenly popped up in his head. He could scream when he went to the water park. If he was asked to climb rocks, he might be scared to death.

"Here, wash it with water." Lin Jisen took a bottle of mineral water and washed Yao Ge. Yao Ge's palm was scratched by the gravel and there were small wounds. If it was someone else, Lin Jisen would definitely laugh at it, but Yao Ge , he glanced at the man with dirty clothes, "Does it hurt?"

"It's okay." Yao Ge accidentally stepped on the air and slid down the mountain when he was going downhill.He secretly scolded Xu Zihang in his heart, if it wasn't for him, he would have been in the country long ago, how could he participate in this summer camp, which made him dirty and tired, and he couldn't wash his hands frequently, which made him live like a year.

"Fortunately, it's just a skin injury." Lin Jisen finished applying the medicine to him and asked him, "Do you want to rest?"

Now it was time for them to take a lunch break, and the coach asked them to cook by themselves using the natural fire method they had learned in the past few days and work together in groups.

"It's okay. I'll help them find wild vegetables." This minor injury is nothing. Field training cultivates teamwork. If he takes a rest because of such a trivial matter, he will be too pampered.

Yao Ge went back to the team, knelt down and put on his already dirty gloves, disgusted but could only bear it, he sighed, and resignedly followed everyone to pull edible wild vegetables in the soil.At this time, I thought about Xu Zihang again, many years ago, Xu Zihang even wrapped the bamboo skewers in paper and handed them to him, but at that time, I didn't appreciate it.

It seems that I have changed a lot without knowing it.

"What are you laughing at?" Lin Jisen, who was shoveling the dirt, stopped and looked at Yao Ge who suddenly laughed out of nowhere.

Yao Ge immediately stopped laughing, patted the soil off the vegetables and put them into the basket: "You don't care about me."

Soon, barbecue grills were set up in the camp, and chicken legs, sausages and small fish were worn on thin sticks.Yao Ge remembered that this was the second time he had a barbecue in the wild. Last time, his joys and sorrows were very real. He was happy to be close to him, but worried that he was not close enough.

Many spring days and summers were separated, and many autumn nights and warm winters were consumed. He was just reincarnated in "losing him".

"Money received. Thanks."

"You're welcome." Li Chengjin was lying on Dongmeng's lap, comfortably supporting Erlang's legs, "But why are you borrowing money?"

"Test for TOEFL."

"Ah? Your parents won't let you take the exam?"

Xu Zihang's pen cap was on his lips, he was still thinking about why he did the wrong question just now, so he paid a little attention and responded: "No, I'll tell you later, hang up first, I'm busy."

He wrote a whole book full of wrong questions, and Xu Zihang was forced to improve his study habits this semester. When encountering wrong questions, he first thought about the reasons and wrote a summary. "Through accumulation, thin growth", Yao Ge always said so.

Obviously I have withdrawn, I obviously want to compromise, but the biological clock still can't be changed, I continue to go downstairs to practice listening at five o'clock every day, and I can't help but take out the TOEFL test papers after throwing them in the drawer.

Xu Zihang is not lazy or cowardly, but he is bound by too many shackles of love, with his parents' expectations on one side and Yao Ge on the other. He is at a loss in the fog and doesn't know what to do.

So he didn't say anything to anyone, and he stopped yelling and making promises everywhere, which was better than making people sad when he failed.

At the end of the ten-day summer camp, Yao Ge put the unwashed dirty clothes into bags and separated them from the clean clothes. The full suitcase looked as neat as when it came.The phone vibrated, and Yao Ge didn't have time to put down the half-folded pants before grabbing the phone. On it was a text message from Ji Xiayue asking when they would arrive home.

His fingers rested on it, and he laughed.What are you thinking, of course it can't be the person you think of, the QQ that is open in the background is silent, the two of them have maintained a high degree of tacit understanding on the matter of not contacting, and no one has broken the deadlock this month.

After the end of the semester, Xu Zihang stayed in Nai City for an extra week, and the exam fees were all borrowed.

This time, there was no Xu Xingqiang waiting outside the TOEFL test room, and no one cared on the other end of the phone.He bought a roasted sweet potato at the entrance of the street. It was hot and could resist a little bit of bitterness in his heart. It matched today's sunny day and clear wind.

Xu Zihang was assigned to a different examination room, and the draft paper was still pink.He drew a small smiley face in the upper right corner of the draft, and wrote a line of small words below it.

As time ticked down by the minute, Xu Zihang had no distractions, put aside all his obsessions and worries, and answered the questions smoothly all the way.

Listening, reading, speaking and writing, every click on the next question is to add chips to the front and back of the coin respectively. He doesn't think about which side will fall in the end. After all, no matter how bad it is, it can't be worse than now.

Will there still be a chance?Is there still a chance?I give myself another chance.

The students in the examination room left one after another, and the draft paper left on the desk was put away by the invigilator.One of the cards sandwiched in the middle has this sentence on it: Beibei, I miss you so much.

"Are you going to get married in the future?"

Dongmeng and Li Chengjin were sitting in front of the stinky tofu stand, a row of wedding cars drove slowly through the crowded street, and the bride in the tulle red hijab looked very beautiful.

Li Chengjin reached out to block the chopsticks he stretched into his bowl, and squinted at him unhappily: "What nonsense are you asking?"

Dong Meng still snatched a piece from his bowl, and he quickly stuffed it into his mouth, squinting his eyes and smiling triumphantly at Li Chengjin.

"What if we didn't get into the same city?"

"How is it possible?" Li Chengjin poured the vinegar a few times, and didn't think it was a problem at all. "When the time comes, fill out the volunteers together. There are so many schools in City A, are you afraid that you won't be able to get into it?"

"Assumptions, I mean assumptions. What if I can only go to a very poor place because of poor exams and so on? And it's not like you can go wherever you say you want to apply for volunteering."

Li Chengjin looked at him helplessly, not understanding what he had to be afraid of, and stuffed a piece of stinky tofu into Dongmeng's mouth: "I'll report wherever you report, okay?"

"No." Dongmeng swallowed what was in her mouth anxiously, and started to break up with him seriously, "If I go to a bad place, don't follow me."

"Okay, okay, you have the final say." Before the horoscope was written, I began to worry that the writing would not look good.In Li Chengjin's view, the moment of deciding to be together is the most difficult moment, "What does it matter if they are in a different place, Xu Zihang and Yao Ge are still in a different country."

Plenty of wedding candies came out from the accompanying floats, street vendors and passers-by on the road stretched out their hands to catch the joy, and some of them fell on their tables.

Dongmeng reached out and picked up one of the Dove chocolates, and asked Li Chengjin, "Why do wedding candies have Dove?"

"Because Dove is Doyouloveme."

The first time I heard about this, Dongmeng was a bit out of date, because he seldom eats chocolate, and Dove is a bit expensive for him.He tore off the candy wrapper in his hand, broke the chocolate in half, and sent a piece to Li Chengjin's mouth.Li Chengjin's mouth was full of salty and spicy taste, and he didn't want to eat something sweet, but when Dongmeng's fingers touched his lips, he still chose to open his mouth to swallow the small half of chocolate.

Doyouloveme? If you ask me, I'm going to say yes out loud.

"If I lie to you in the future, will you forgive me?"

Before the chocolate had fully melted, when he heard such a question, Li Chengjin became a little unhappy, just like the mixed tastes in his mouth, messy.

"No." Li Chengjin looked straight into Dongmeng's eyes, "You'd better not lie to me again." Seeing other candies on the table from the corner of his eye, he snorted softly, "Then I will like others."

"Marry someone else?"

"Yes."

"Then do you want to invite me?"

Li Chengjin picked out the peppers in the bowl without raising his eyelids: "No."

"why?"

"Oh, you're so annoying." Li Chengjin stopped his chopsticks, and was finally stepped on the bottom line of his emotions by his question after sentence, "Do you still want to eat? If you don't eat, leave."

There was still the last piece left in Dongmeng's bowl, so he cut it in half with chopsticks and stopped.He muttered softly, "Okay."

The unique fragrance of stinky tofu radiates in the mouth. This taste is very long-lasting, and Dongmeng likes it very much.How long he and Li Chengjin can be together, he is not sure, and he doesn't expect too much, it would be good to have a taste.Obviously what I saw was a lively and happy wedding event, but thinking of myself was such a disappointment.

Li Chengjin didn't know why he kept asking these strange questions today, which disturbed him.But he didn't dare to promise beautiful big words easily, so as not to be embarrassing in case the people parted in the future.

"It's over, let's go!"

Seeing him pretending to be relaxed and happy, Li Chengjin felt as uneasy as himself in his heart.He got up and walked a few steps forward, caught up with the person walking in front, and secretly held a finger of him in the crowd.

In the summer when I was 17 years old, the joys and sorrows of young people were scattered in the wind and sand. They said eternity on their lips, but they thought eternity was far away in their hearts.

This was the second time Xu Zihang faced the "check results" on the screen. He pretended that he could accept any result, but he closed his eyes reflexively the moment he clicked.

27,27,26,25.

Xu Zihang sat without moving, but his vision was blurred.He admits that he only wanted one outcome from beginning to end, that with a little certainty, he could overturn his comfortable fortress and fly toward his star again.

"Dad, Mom, I want to quit school."

The head teacher is right, you can't have it both ways, he has to make a choice.In front of Chen Siyi and Xu Xingqiang was a printed TOEFL score report, with only two short lines on the A4 paper.

Xu Xingqiang met his son in front of him. Xu Zihang's dark eyes showed the fearlessness and sincerity exclusive to young people.He sighed, and then laughed: "105, 5 points more than the full score."

Chen Siyi's tears dripped onto the paper, he couldn't explain what he was feeling, he just asked, "Have you thought it through?"

"Yes." Xu Zihang nodded slightly, "I hope you believe me."

He didn't want to prove to himself how tough life was without Yao Ge, he had already tried it once, twice, three times.This time, he will not leave a way out for himself, he will struggle to get rid of the shackles, and he will not regret rebelling against the world.