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During the first year of studying abroad in the United States.

Unaccustomed to the climate and cultural differences, he rushes into Wei Yang's life.

After a long time, I will miss the fragrant and sweet white rice, and when I am eating a sandwich, I will suddenly want to speak a few words in Chinese to express my troubles about heavy studies.

However, there are always good things in life. Facts have proved that there are indeed many boys represented by Tang Ruikai.

This Chinese student surnamed Wei was lying on the bed with a fever, and when he watched his Arabic roommate speaking English with a flying tone and making gestures with himself, Wei Xueshen could realize that learning a good sign language is of great importance to him. There are so many benefits in a person's life. For example, if he can make his roommate quiet and quiet now, don't disturb him to sleep.

Due to the special terrain of the North American continent, coupled with the collision of cold and hot air currents, it is very easy to generate a vortex, which is the so-called special natural disaster of the United States, the tornado.

Anyway, Wei Yang thinks that he has cultivated the good mental quality to be able to eat bread and write papers in the face of the strong wind.It is probably because his escaped personality has really quieted down a lot in the past few years. Many students praised him as that foreign student with a strong psychological quality, who has implemented the ancient Chinese principle that "the elk thrives on the left and does not blink".

In fact, they just thought too much, Wei Yang thought blankly with the bread in his mouth, he just played games all night last night and didn't want to talk.

It's a pity that people have been smooth for a long time, and they also need to encounter some storms and setbacks.

On the day when the storm was the worst, Wei Yang, a work-study student, was still working in a coffee shop. The electrical equipment in the entire street was damaged by the strong wind. It was gray outside, and the air was full of dust from sandstorms.

Just now when the strong wind came, by some strange coincidence, he pulled the landing sign at the door—as expected, a cut was made in the palm of his hand, and he turned his head subconsciously, and saw the giant dragon under the sky in the distance.

The blood dripped down, and there was a bloody smell that people couldn't say they liked. Wei Yang couldn't help but "wow" in surprise at the tornado. For the first time, my Chinese friend felt that his brain circuit was beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and it was more terrifying than natural disasters.

Pieces of houses were directly set off, and together with their colleagues, under the escort of the state police station and vehicles, a mighty crowd entered the shelter.

In the confined space, people are filled with numb and fearful eyes. Although it is not quiet, there is a special depressing atmosphere.

Immersed in it, Wei Yang also felt the sense of oppression on the front line of life and death, which is the natural fear of life and death.

Leaning against the cold wall, Wei Yang looked up at the ceiling above his head. There were rumbles outside from time to time. He was trapped in this world, with heavy gauze tied on his hands.

At the moment when a person is closest to death, in Wei Yang's cognition, he may be panic-stricken, or calm and calm, but when the fact comes, what he thinks about is his own short life, The people I have met think about the past one by one, calm and indifferent.

He intentionally put Xu Jiayi at the end, closing his eyes seems to be able to smell the fragrance of magnolia flowers in the Seventh Middle School, following the morning wind, following the quiet breeze at night, gently drifting into your heart when you are not paying attention, lingering.

In the new environment, there will indeed be some differences.

It is very likely that she will forget everything about her childhood, and start to live the so-called new life that Xu Jiayi calls her own.

It is true that he quickly integrated into the local rhythm of life, and had all kinds of friends—good friends with deep affection and affection, accompanied by all kinds of dazzling beauties, and his academic performance was as good as ever.

The surface is very shiny and dazzling, smooth and smooth.

But where is it so easy?

In countless nights or early mornings, at countless unexpected times, there will always be something lingering in the corner for a long time, which often touches you.

Those things will slowly shrink and shrink, but they will not disappear.

When he opened his eyes again, the wind was still raging outside, and he was still in this shelter.

Human life is fragile, and neither upward nor downward can escape the invasion of nature.

After thinking about it for a while, Wei Yang thought silently, it should be after nine o'clock at night in China, right?

He took out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket, opened the address book, and stared at the three words "Xu Jiayi" in it for a long time. The blood in the palm of his hand slowly soaked out, and a little bit was stained on the glowing screen, as if he was holding some wound. Like a sharp weapon.

Before I could react, I tapped my fingertips and dialed the phone.

Dazed for a moment, Wei Yang looked at the screen and thought, will he answer?

The sound of the signal connection sounded slowly: "Beep—beep—"

For so many years, he called him for the first time, and it was the first time that someone contacted each other actively. How amazing, how close people were at the beginning, how alienated they are now.

Xu Jiayi probably didn't know his new number after going abroad. Wei Yang noticed this point. He remembered that the other party basically didn't answer unfamiliar numbers in the past. He didn't know if he would be hung up suddenly. Wei Yang leaned his head against the wall and laughed silently. For a moment, I felt like I was looking for a kind of vain comfort.

A soft "beep -" was interrupted, and the other party was connected.

Slightly widening his eyes, Wei Yang admitted that he did not expect Xu Jiayi to answer.

"Hi, hello, I'm Xu Jiayi." The voice came through the microphone, the opening remarks have been consistent for ten years, every time Xu Jiayi reported himself in such a serious manner, Wei Yang would laugh first.

But now he couldn't laugh anymore, it was both familiar and unfamiliar, he didn't know how long he hadn't heard this voice.

Wei Yang opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say. Obviously, his mind was full of memories just now, and now he couldn't say a word.No one told him how to greet the two people who hadn't been in touch for a long time, and he didn't expect that the call would be connected.

The other side was silent all the time, Xu Jiayi frowned and asked again: "Hey, who is there, what's the matter?"

It's nothing, just in this situation, suddenly wanted to make a phone call to hear your voice, Wei Yang smiled and answered silently in his heart.

The sound of breathing was transmitted to each other, and he heard some noisy voices from Xu Jiayi's side. Maybe he was attending some party, and suddenly the phone rang from an old friend. What would he think when he saw this strange number?Wei Yang thought aimlessly, actually enjoying this moment of feeling Xu Jiayi.

I don't know if Xu Jiayi has always had the ability to read minds, and he is particularly deeply rooted in the details.

He seemed to hesitate for a moment, and asked softly, "Wei Yang?"

His breathing was suddenly disordered, and Wei Yang felt something in his throat blocked his breathing. A numb and sore feeling rose from the back of his head and from his fingertips, and quickly diffused into a gray world.

No answer is the default.

Xu Jiayi suddenly fell silent. He pursed his lips and lowered his eyes to look at the flower pot in front of him. It was Jiang Yan's favorite pot of flowers. Recently, a dog gnawed on the fudge, and it was crooked like a bald ugly tree. with.

In wordless communication, no one is in a hurry to speak. It seems that words are a bit redundant, and silence is the way to love each other.

I don't know how long it took, as if a handful of gravel had been stuffed in his throat, Wei Yang said in a hoarse voice, "We didn't have any other choice back then, right?"

When we were young, we came to that intersection and found that no matter what, we would go in different directions. Perhaps this is fate. We have come to this point together. This is the result of two people working together.

Suppressing the trembling of her voice, Xu Jiayi replied softly: "Yes."

There is still half a sentence hidden in the coda, but I have never regretted liking you or meeting you.

Not knowing if he understood the other party's answer, Wei Yang smiled lightly. He didn't know whether he was delighted by the answer, or simply happy that he got what he wanted.

With a flick of his finger, he hung up the phone.

Falling heavily from the clouds of memories back to the hard ground, he sighed a long time and covered the wound on his palm.

It's like he clearly knows that this is a useless expectation, but he still wants to do it, go back to the street where he once walked hand in hand with the other party, and go for a stroll.

Perhaps what Xu Jiayi didn't know was that the meeting between the two of them wasn't just in the park.

There were many others. When he turned around in the street, he happened to see the figure walking quickly at the corner of the street.

With a pair of sleepy dark circles under his eyes, his face still has the same calm and peaceful expression. His hair has grown a lot in the past few years, and it has covered his eyes again-the eyes that are always attractive.

The first time I saw him, I couldn't help stepping up to keep up, and followed quietly all the way, and saw him walk into the community at home, and press the elevator to go upstairs.

Later, he stopped catching up and just watched the other party leave from a distance.

Time and time again, don't know why.

Or at this time, I am no longer pursuing a result, but a process.

Five years.

It took such a long time to understand the other party, to face the once powerless self, to calmly accept this reality.

When the natural storm goes away, the wound on the palm of the hand will scab and grow new flesh and blood.

Before graduating, Wei Yang received the expected company offer, took office in a busy season, and became a member of the busy working world, leading a busy and enviable life.

Sometimes when I wake up in the morning, I can't distinguish between dreams and reality, and I still want to reach for the school uniform at the head of the bed, so I can go to class with any set, and I can see Xu Jiayi sitting next to him in my seat.

In the end, I would suddenly wake up, remembering that I had graduated from No. [-] Middle School for several years.

There must be no school uniform. He casually touched the cigarette case by the bedside and lit the cigarette with the lighter. In the rising smoke, Wei Yang thought, when did he learn this skill?

Can't remember, and don't plan to.

It seems that my personality has also changed a bit, I don’t like to talk nonsense as much as before, and I don’t know if it’s because there are fewer people to talk to, or it’s just a change.But Jiang Yuemei really likes his calmness now, and would praise him for growing up from time to time, every time Wei Yang heard it, he couldn't laugh or cry.

There is a mobile phone by the bed, the message enters, and the screen lights up.

Looking up, Wei Yang felt choked.

I can't smoke anymore, and the members of my working group are summoning me again. I can't stop working hard.Pressing out the cigarette in the ashtray, Wei Yang rubbed his face before getting up from the bed, and went to the bathroom with his slippers on.

A group of people in suits and leather shoes sat in the office, with confident eyes and sleepy dark circles talking about the work plan that they racked their brains and thought about day and night.

The corporate culture is to encourage innovation, flexibility and thoughtfulness, so that the German working partner at the table was so excited that he even flew out of German, and suddenly inserted a sentence in another language into the long string of English, which shocked the colleagues present. , Wei Yang held the document in his hand, and he really felt a little dumbfounded.

The two-hour long discussion finally had an intermission. Wei Yang sank his head on the sofa in the rest room and took a short rest. The way of life, I don't think so.

The mobile phone in hand rang, Wei Yang opened his eyes and saw that it was an unfamiliar number.

Look at the number of digits and the beginning of the number seems to be domestic?

It shouldn't be Xu Jiayi, his number hasn't changed in so many years, and he has his own notes.

Who would that be?

Swiping open the screen to connect is a completely unexpected person.

Thousands of miles away from the United States in more than a dozen time zones, the autumn wind is blowing at the riverside venue in City A late at night.

Fang Yuman spoke with difficulty: "Hello, is that Wei Yang?"

Unexpectedly, Fang Yuman would contact him, Wei Yang was stunned for a few seconds, and really couldn't figure out the relationship between them.

He hesitated and said, "It's me, what's the matter?"

There was a whistling wind on the opposite side, Fang Yuman paused for a while, and said like a broken jar: "Ahem...well, Xu Jiayi is drunk, and now he is standing by the river, I really can't persuade him , and dare not let other people know... Forget it, let me just say it directly——Wei Xueshen, Xu Jiayi insists that you come back and set off fireworks with him!"

In the last sentence, Fang Yuman glanced at the young man next to him who smelled of alcohol, and felt that his face and his face were all lost at this moment.

After a pause of about 20 seconds, Wei Yang sat up suddenly, and he lost his voice: "What did you say?!"

At this moment, Ms. Fang regretted that she did not ask Xu Jiayi out for a barbecue and a drink because of a bad job, and even chose a place with fireworks. She was simply asking for trouble for herself.

Fireworks were set off across the river bank all night. Xu Jiayi had been drinking for a long time, and he couldn't stop him. Who knows, he got worse every time. Last time he shouted to delete the photos. What is it this time?

This time, I was yelling for people to come back and set off fireworks with me-let a ball and set off fireworks!Fang Yuman felt his head was getting bigger, and grabbed the emotional hair boy: "Jiayi, can we stop standing by the railing, my heart is not very good..."

"No." Xu Jiayi, who was standing on the railing, rejected her suggestion solemnly despite his drunken eyes: "I haven't let off the fireworks this year. After waiting for so long, why hasn't Wei Yang come over?"

He didn't have the usual sneering and dignified look when he saw the leader. The 29-year-old man looked like a cheating junior high school student.

Fang Yuman raised his hands in surrender: "Okay, okay, can I call and urge him now?"

"Okay." Xu Jiayi nodded, and said very seriously: "You get connected later, let me tell him."

Fang Yuman, who had just connected the phone, froze for a moment, she was sure that Xu Jiayi's words had passed through the microphone, because she heard Wei Yang smile very clearly.

"Give him the phone, and I'll hear what he has to say." Wei Yang raised his eyebrows.

Fang Yuman paused for a moment, and was not in a hurry to tell the other party. Instead, he said to Wei Yang: "He... Jia Yi, he these years..." In the end, it turned into a helpless sigh: "Forget it, I have no right to say anything. Wei Yang, just treat him as a lie..."

lie to him?What are you lying about?

Wei Yang was still thinking, and Xu Jiayi took the phone over there, and asked very coldly: "Why haven't you come here yet?"

This familiar tone immediately pulled Wei Yang into a familiar vortex. He paused, then smiled and said, "I was pestered by Xiaorui just now. I left the house a little late, but I'll be there soon. Have you bought the fireworks?"

After getting the explanation, Xu Jiayi's attitude became a little softer, and he said with a smile: "You haven't put the one you bought, why buy a new one?"

He bought it?Looking at the busy traffic outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, the busy street will never let you down. Wei Yang was stunned. He remembered the fireworks he bought that year when he went to the interview. Before boarding the plane, he gave all the fireworks to Xu Jiayi.

He insisted that it would be a waste to buy it, so he asked Xu Jiayi to find a few friends to release it with him, but he didn't seem to find anyone else, and kept it for himself.

"I've been hiding it for so long, aren't you afraid...you won't be able to light it up again?" Wei Yang lowered his voice, he couldn't tell what was in his heart, but there was a kind of dazed sourness welling up.

Fang Yuman stood beside her silently, looking at the sparkling river in the distance and the cruise ships passing by from time to time, her eyes sparkled.

Hearing this, Xu Jiayi laughed instead, like a pure and naive high school student, she swore, "I've kept it very well, how could I not let it go?"

With a firm and serious tone, he poked at a corner of his heart that had been covered up for a long time. Amidst the heavy smoke and dust, Wei Yang was almost overwhelmed by the surging emotions and memories.

After a long time, Wei Yang, the shining young man from back then, appeared, trembling, and asked: "Xu Jiayi, do you like me, how much do you like me?"

"Who knows?" Sitting on the railing with his feet dangling, the night wind blowing his black hair, Xu Jiayi smiled and rolled his eyes, the 17-year-old said softly, "Maybe when I didn't realize it, it was I really want to see you every day."

When I fell in love with you, I was innocent and brave.

A moment of collapse, a moment of heartbeat.

Two shining stars, no matter how far apart they are, they will always inadvertently shine gently on each other.

"Xu Jiayi." Swallowing all the bitterness and indescribable in his throat, and then opened his eyes again, Wei Yang said word by word: "Will you wait for me?"

"Yes." Xu Jiayi felt drunk, paralyzing his limbs and consciousness: "I will always wait for you."

The pupils suddenly dilated, and there are birds passing by outside the tall building, which affects your thoughts.

The wind blows across the mountains and ridges, and travels thousands of miles, and it also gently brushes your face.

There is always someone who travels across mountains and rivers to come for you.

There was a sound of hurried footsteps, and a tall and straight figure hurried past the conference room.

The working partners at the table who were facing the computer screen to revise the plan raised their heads one after another, and watched Mr. Wei, who in their eyes "mountain collapsed before his eyes and remained unchanged", dashed downstairs.

During the most difficult days, they had never seen him like this. The Chinese girl in the team couldn't help jumping up a Chinese with a cute accent: "Is his house on fire?"

However, almost none of the people present could understand Chinese. There was a lack of translation, and everyone was lost in thought about this Chinese sentence.

Sitting at the table, Wei Yang dialed the phone in his hand, and the transoceanic signal flew thousands of miles to connect.

On the phone, Jiang Yuemei listened to her son's narration, she was silent for a long time, and finally sighed: "Actually, Mom should have seen it clearly, you are already a very mature adult, you have always had your own opinions, My own belief. This time, I can no longer interfere in your life, mother believes in your choice. "

Looking at the "resignation letter" email on his screen, Wei Yang held the phone by his ear, lowered his head and smiled: "Thank you, Mom."

Click the mouse with your finger, save, and confirm sending.

"Youth with you in attendance

not to keep you absent

I really want to follow the memory

running towards you"

It was also many years later, standing in the same auditorium of his alma mater.

Memories and old friends are reunited. Facing the innocent and pure eyes of the audience, Wei Yang smiled and said:

"Life can never be repeated. The past you are you, the present, and the future are all you, in the same line."

You are the beauty and difficulties of youth in the past, you are the one who is out of reach now, and I am also me in the past. This is the meaning of life that cannot be repeated.

There was thunderous applause from the audience, and in the audience, Xu Jiayi in the second row was still looking at the trees outside the window with dazed eyes, completely unaware of the magnitude of what he did when he was drunk.

The author has something to say:

"Youth has you present, not to make you absent." - You Changjing "Yesterday's Blue Sky"