typhoon transit

"Little sister, do me a favor." My brother sneaked into my room with half a roast duck in his hand.My dad only allowed us to eat half a duck for a meal, and he must have stolen the remaining half.

Looking at this shiny and crispy duck, my saliva is almost drooling.But I still want to be tough, because nothing good will happen to my brother.

"No, Xu Jiming."

"Xu Jinghe!" He raised his voice, "Give me some insight, can you call your brother by his first name like this?"

I turned my head away from him, but the aroma of roast duck wafted in the hot air, and I felt dizzy like seasickness.

"Just this time, little sister, help me, I'll give you all this duck." He came over and shook my shoulder.

"Go and close the door for me, don't be heard by Dad."

"Then can you help me?"

"No help."

He got anxious and raised his hand as if he was going to hit me, but I knew he wouldn't do that.

"You don't even help your brother, be careful and I'll tell Dad."

Well, threaten me with Dad.Although my dad always praised me, he didn't love me at all. If anything happened to my brother, he would help him first, and let me handle my own affairs.He taught me that my younger sister must listen to my older brother, and my younger sister must fulfill what my older brother asks me to do.

"Xu Jiming, you are a scoundrel." If I arrived, wouldn't I be so involuntary?

"So you helped me?"

"What are you talking about?"

"It's nothing." He pulled out a letter from behind him, "I just asked you to deliver something for me."

I know what tricks he's up to.He often does sending love letters, this kind of disgusting and nasty thing is very in line with my brother's style.

"I advise you to give up," I hesitated to answer the letter, oh, it was still pink, and it was sprayed with perfume of unknown smell, "She doesn't like you, she won't like you no matter what."

"Xu Jinghe, you are looking for death." My brother was annoyed, he threw the letter on my back, "If she didn't let me go to her, I would come to you?"

"Today's busy, you have to help if you don't."

I heard the sound of him closing the door with a slam, and heard a sentence from outside the door: "Dad, look what kind of daughter you gave birth to."

I turned my head, and there was still a shadow of the roast duck.The window was wide open and the letter floated to the floor.I picked it up and blew on the ash on it, wanting to blow off the sweet perfume smell by the way.

My brother is not good at anything, but his handwriting is okay.I saw the words "Changqiao" on the cover and thought they were so beautiful.

That afternoon I went to Chang Qiao's house with the letter in my pocket.I took the No. [-] bus from the starting point to the end point, and finally I was the only passenger left.I crossed a road without a zebra crossing, walked into a small alley, passed an abandoned park, and walked a few steps further in, to the yard of Chang Qiao’s house.

The pomegranates are beginning to ripen, and the green color of their skins has gradually turned yellow.They hung low on the bushes, and I stared at them for a long time, thinking that it would be okay if I plucked them off and opened them up to eat now.

I shouted on the window sill: "Sister, I'm Xu Jinghe! Can you let me come up?"

I'm pretty experienced at delivering letters.Her mother should be taking care of the store at this time, she is probably staying in her own room alone, and she will definitely answer if I call up.

Sure enough, I saw that the window was opened wider, and Chang Qiao's head was exposed from it.Her hair hangs straight down.Her hair was cut a lot shorter, it used to be long, and it hangs down the windows like that, as if I could climb them up like a prince.

"Come up, the door is unlocked." She beckoned to me.

I pushed open the door of her room. Four years later, the inside still hasn't changed a bit.There are all kinds of picture albums and books on a small table, and there is a photo of her and her mother on the cabinet. She told me before that it was taken at Tianchi Lake in Changbai Mountain. It cost a lot of money to wash it, but the photo The background was white, and even their smiles were blurred, probably due to fog. She said that the top of the mountain is prone to fog.We only have small mounds here, and I have never seen a foggy view of the top of the hill.

At this time, Chang Qiao was lying on her small bed against the wall, facing the window and reading a book with a yellow cover.She saw me put down the book and smiled at me.

"Little sister, Wendan isn't cooked yet, otherwise I'll pick some for you."

"When will it be ready?" I hid the letter behind my back and asked her standing at the door.

"August, it's still far away." She was wearing a vest, and I could clearly see the bones on her back.There is neither an electric fan nor an air conditioner in the room. I watched her use the cattail fan to fan the wind vigorously, but her chest was still wet with sweat.

"Come here." She shrank back into the bed while talking, and I went over and sat on the edge of the bed.

Chang Qiao treated my brother badly, but treated me extremely well.In the past, every time I was my brother's courier and came to her house to look for her, we would sit on her little bed and peel and eat.In fact, what we eat is sour. Wendan is only ripe in August. I have never eaten a completely cooked Wendan here. I think of August four years ago. She didn’t come back for a long time after leaving.

"Why are you here?" She helped me take off my shoes and let me lie on the bed together.

"Here," I handed her the letter, "my brother asked me to give it to you."

"I knew it." She took the letter and casually threw it aside, "He still does the same thing."

"Yeah," I smiled, "I already know what's written in it."

"The flowers will bloom when they wither, and the birds will come after they fly, as long as you look for them. And I will wait for you here."

We almost read it together, laughing and shrugging our shoulders.

"Is the road far? Are you seasick?" I asked her.

"I came back from the direction of Shanghai. There are no boats in Hangzhou these days." She pinned her drenched hair behind her ears, "It's a big boat, so I won't get dizzy. Damn, after all these years, the boat The ticket is even more expensive, and the locals don’t give a discount. I also quarreled with the ticket seller at the ticket office. Because I don’t speak the local language, he wouldn’t let me go through the special passage. I showed him my identity Evidence is useless."

"It's still the same here as before. It's a matter of other people's words to take a boat or a car. There are no rules at all. The outside is different, and you can't go through the back door. I was 2 minutes late last time when I went to the station. Get on. Not like here, even the driver is late."

She was talking to herself, she didn't look at me, and I don't think she expected me to listen.

"Have you ever been on that boat? It is said to be a new boat with several floors."

"I haven't sat, I don't go out very much."

"Ha, you will sit often when you go to college." She smiled.

"The results haven't come out yet," I scratched my head, "the conclusion hasn't been made yet."

"How do you feel about the college entrance examination?"

"I don't know, I don't feel it." I answered truthfully.

"You're so smart, you'll have good results." Chang Qiao smiled and tugged at my shoulders, letting me get closer.

She left for Xinjiang because of her failure in the college entrance examination.Originally, she was supposed to go to Hangzhou to take the exam for the best university in the province.Neither she nor I see this as a failure, but only us.

"I'm sorry, four years have passed and there is still no fan or air conditioner." Her pillow was wet and her hair was sticking to the back of her neck.

"Then you come to my house." I suggested.My house has air conditioning.My family is the wealthiest family in the town.My dad is the chief of the bureau, and everyone fawns on him. There is also a warehouse in my house, which is dedicated to storing tobacco, alcohol, tea, and local specialties sent by others.

"not going."

I know she won't come.She always came to my house for only one purpose, to quarrel with my brother and persuade him to give up.And my dad, she doesn't like my dad, and my dad doesn't like her either. He often said to my brother, "Hurry up and deal with that shit." My dad likes to deal with people and things, if He can do it himself, he has already done so.This is still because of my brother's affection.

"Are you still going?" I asked her.

Four years ago, Chang Qiao didn't get into a good university, so her mother thought about going to university and letting her find a job here to make money.She shyly went to my dad to help arrange it. At that time, Changqiao and Chen Yi's affairs were full of turmoil. My dad had already disliked her, but my brother kept fanning the flames and said that she should stay here. Well, it will be convenient to get married in the future.My dad didn't know what to do, so he gave her a job as a secretary. She was supposed to start work in September, but she bought a boat ticket to Shanghai in August and escaped.

I went to her house to deliver some fruit that day, and we ate plums on the bed together.At this time, it suddenly rained outside, and I thought that the TV reported that a typhoon was coming.It was overcast like it was early night.When we watched the rain, the manhole cover was not opened in time, and the water flooded the yard, and the whole alley became a river.

That day, she said: "We are like a ship floating on the sea."

The next day, she left without a sigh or a goodbye.

In the days that followed, I would always leave a few pages in my books and not read their endings.That's cruel, no matter how well-planned, the story will always end abruptly.A lot of creations, a lot of beauty, will eventually disappear and collapse.

She didn't answer me.Chang Qiao looked out the window, as if she didn't hear what I was saying.

She just said to herself: "Little sister, you have grown up."

She looked at me with a smile and leaned against my side with her head in her hands.Slowly sliding her fingers across my browbones, corners of eyes, bridge of nose and lips, she said, "You have become so different from before."

Is that so, Chang Qiao?You know, sometimes I don't even recognize myself.Four years ago, I was still a junior high school student who stubbornly followed your ass. There are still many things that I care about, such as those math problems that I can’t solve, summer nights plagued by mosquitoes, endless quarrels with my brother, and the long-lasting forever. There is no end in sight, you are not the only one, because I always feel that you will always be by my side.

But I only have you now, Changqiao.I am no longer the naive child I was four years ago, I am about to grow up.what about you?How have you become?

Chang Qiao, hug me, just like before.I think of those summer vacations in the past, no matter how hot it is, you will hug my waist and hug me.I buried it on your chest, touched your smooth skin covered with fine sweat, and smelled the faint smell of sweat in the air.That's the smell of summer, I smell the whole summer in you.For the past four years without you, every day seems like a cold winter.

But she didn't do that after all, our arms were next to each other, but the whole time and space seemed to be blocked in between.

The weather was too hot, so she fanned me with cattail fans, but after walking all this way, I still felt like I was going to suffer from heat stroke.Everything in front of my eyes became blurred and twisted into a ball, like waves extending out of the window.

"Sister, I miss you." Probably because the heat of summer couldn't make me think normally, the thoughts in my mind were unconsciously expressed by me.

Chang Qiao remained silent.Summer is actually very quiet, and the sound of cicadas sounds like a long silence.