See you on the rooftop

On the day Yuan Yao moved out, the northern suburbs were cloudy and rainy.

That was the first time I made a wish and found out that in summer, the days would be as gloomy as the nights.

The dark clouds are bloated, like a face towel soaked in the sun, absorbing the overwhelming golden yellow.

He sat on the sofa and looked out.

The distance between the family courtyard building and the building is not too wide. The two unit buildings are facing each other. In the middle is a small flower bed, which is covered with moss and dripping rain on the edge, which is already old.

Although the stone is cold and hard, the smooth and round arc was "polished" by the children's buttocks in many days and nights.

Usually, many people pass by here, but they never look at it.

Now, a man is squatting on a flower bed and smoking a cigarette.Wishing to meet him, he is the eldest son of the uncle on the third floor of the next-door unit. A few years ago, he returned to the city after finishing his doctorate, but rarely returned to the family hospital.Many familiar faces who came back from other places were holding umbrellas, standing in the middle of the building, pointing here and there.

These people can still see it now.

Once the house was moved, everyone lived in densely packed small windows, took the elevator up and down, and traveled in the basement, the curtains were drawn tightly, and no one could see the other among the neighbors.

Kittens and puppies wandering in the family area and even the entire abandoned airport ran past in the rain, shaking their fur and curling their tails, not knowing what they were talking about.

Wishing was in a low mood, and even felt that he was the puppy, staggering behind the kitten in front.

Maybe it's because there are still memories of this area. When his mother came home to announce the demolition that day, she didn't have too much trouble in her heart.

Although I have already heard the news, there are still reasons why I cannot accept the wish.

He has been in this "village in the city" for more than ten years, and he has feelings for every plant and tree here, so he can't face the reality for a while.

If you move from here to a high-rise building, it will not be so easy to meet Ah Hang, the community will no longer be lively, and the neighbors will no longer be familiar with each other...

Even now, most of the roofs of emerging houses are locked, and people are not allowed to go up at all.

Only the roofs of old buildings can be converted into gardens and platforms for drying clothes.

This area has always been a "thorn in the eye" of municipal planning. Since a few years ago, many high-level officials have come to lobby and exchange conditions with units at all levels.

The city is developing with each passing day, and the high-speed trains are running too fast. After all, this place has not been able to catch up with the pace of the times.

During the replacement of all things, this is the point of contradiction between people and things. People are always unwilling to let go of the old, but they cannot resist the new.

It has always been a very interesting thing in wishing to have a home that can only be returned through the grass and mysterious corridors.

He blinked, feeling the wind from the rain.

Perhaps it was because of the rain that the wisps of wind were full of tears and extremely humid.

Seeing Yuan Yao dragging the suitcase out of the house, he made a wish and turned around and said, "Is it over?"

Coincidentally, Yuan Yao was wearing the same black hoodie that he wore when he came to Xu's house a year ago, and his bare arms protruded slightly from the outline of his muscles.

A year flies by.

He didn't have too much luggage, but his whole demeanor had changed.

There is more vigor in him that this age should have, and his state has improved, and he looks more like a teenager than a year ago.

"Put it away," Yuan Yao extended the trolley of the suitcase, leaned it on the armrest of the sofa, walked over to make a wish, looked outside the balcony, and asked curiously, "There are so many people today?"

Wishing to frown, "That's right. Didn't my mother sign it? I read the demolition clause, and there's nothing to be picky about. Hey, but I..."

"But you don't want to move," Yuan Yao tried to comfort him, "This building is older than you, it's not safe for an earthquake, and it won't last long."

Wishing and lowering his eyes, the raindrops slapped on the canopy of Xu's balcony, crackling.

He moved his mouth and said softly: "It's a bit broken here, but it's human. You said that every new year and festival will come, how can I go to every house..."

During the Spring Festival in previous years, the study tasks were not too intense. He always, together with Gu Yuanhang and Sand Table, called three or two childhood friends who finally came back to accompany the elderly on New Year’s Eve. They jumped from Unit [-] to Unit [-], squatting Fired cannons in the yard, and then climbed the barbed wire at the airport in the dark.

Now, it doesn't matter if the barbed wire is removed, and even the family quarters have to be removed.

"People have to grow up, and they have to learn to let go."

Yuan Yao's voice gave him a sense of peace of mind, even though he hated the words "grow up" and "abandon".

Later, when I made a wish, I figured it out. Demolition and relocation is the same as going to college, saying goodbye to the old and leaving the new.Who can say that high school is not good, but there may be more colorful ones in college.

Hey, smart people don't make unnecessary struggles.

Make a wish and sniff your nose, don't waste time with Yuan Yao to be sad, tilt your head to look at Yuan Yao's packed luggage, everything seems like a lifetime away.

Regardless of whether anyone outside the window could see into the house, he grabbed Yuan Yao's wrist and exerted some strength in his hand, "Aunt Jiang Yao is here to pick you up?"

"Yes." Yuan Yao turned his head and glanced at the hut where he stayed for a year, "She said she would come back after get off work after nine o'clock."

Counting that there are still two hours left, the wish is satisfied, "Okay, my mother said that I will practice it for you tonight."

When it was time to get off work, Yu Lanzhen and Xu Weidong went home together, carrying a lot of food in their hands, all of which were packed in boxes. They said that they got off work late and had no time to cook. They were afraid that the two children would be hungry. Take it home and eat it.

The meal standard of this banquet is higher than the wishing birthday.

While tidying up the table, Yu Lanzhen said, alas, there are so many people in the courtyard who don't know what to do, those juniors always feel that they don't pay enough, and want to make more trouble, but the elders are all sensible and content, Who can let them mess around?

Wishing, holding the bowl and laughing, said, "Look at me, I won't make trouble!"

Xu Weidong was very satisfied with picking up vegetables for Yuan Yao, and said, "My son is better than many people in this regard. He is easy to be satisfied, and he will soften his heart if he gives him something sweet."

Wishing a mouthful of rice stuck in his throat, he coughed several times, and suddenly had the illusion of "splashed water by a married son".

His father also said, "Xiao Yuan, since you and Xu Yuan went to the same university, you should take care of him more, don't go to the university to play every day and then fail eight subjects to persuade you to quit..."

Make a wish and secretly poke the rice, shouldn't it be?

Yuan Yao agreed one by one, and hearing the wish made his heart shudder, fearing that Yuan Yao would train him like a senior in college.In the one or two months before the exam, life was worse than death, and he was memorizing formulas while sleeping and talking in his sleep. Fortunately, his scores did not let him down.

It must be because he didn't go to the rooftop to make a wish to the sunset before the exam, so he was so lucky.Thankfully, I was so flustered the day before the exam that I completely forgot to pray for blessings.

Blind wishing is not a good habit, and you should quit it in the future.

At nine o'clock in the evening, the rain lightened up.

The stone slabs on which the flowerpots were placed on the balcony were thinly glazed, and a dampness unique to summer spread into the house.

Yuan Yao put the hood of the hoodie back on his head to cover the black stubble that he just shaved.

His ears were stuck to the edge of his hoodie, and the line from the earlobe to his chin was more pronounced than a year ago, and his height was a little higher.

He has been here for less than 360 five days.

But he has been reborn as a man who is fully capable of talking about freedom and responsibility.

Yuan Yao stood so casually by the gate of Xu's house, carrying the suitcase out with one hand, the light from the corridor hit the top of the hair——

"Go away."

He greeted Wishing, and waved goodbye to the couple who got up from the sofa, "Aunt Lan, Uncle Xu, I will come back more often when I have time."

There was a loud ticking sound next to my ear, and a drop of water on the balcony fell into the soil along the leaf stalk.

"I'll find you on WeChat if I have something to do? Make a wish?"

Hearing someone's roll call, making a wish, it was like waking up from a dream, with a choked throat.

He came back to look at each other.

Before the sun set, Yuan Yao asked him, why not go home with me tonight?So I told Aunt Lan and Uncle Xu that they wanted to visit my house.

At that time, Wishing stretched out his hand to pinch his collar, rubbed and scraped his fingertips against his Adam's apple inch by inch, as if on purpose, and said, it's not very good, you should spend good time with Uncle Yuan and Aunt Jiang Yao on your first night home !

just now……

I regret making a wish.

If you really don't hurry to keep up, you will be tossing and turning hard to sleep tonight.

He and Yuan Yao stayed at their own home for a year, but actually wanted to visit each other's home.

Although the person who made the wish was soft-tempered, he had always been a master of what he said and what he would do.

He came back to his senses, ignored Yuan Yao's words, turned around and went into the room to collect a pair of pajamas and underpants, put them in his pockets and hugged them, and exchanged glances with Yu Lanzhen.

Before she could say anything, Yu Lanzhen waved her hand, and the sapphire bracelet on her wrist reflected the light from the overhead light in the living room, "Get out!"

Being seen through the intention, making a wish, a heart is pounding.

So without looking back, he snatched Yuan Yao's travel bag on the suitcase, and swooped out of the unit building.

Then he bumped into Gu Yuanhang.

Wishing to take a few steps back, he was so anxious that he put on his mask backwards, "Where are you going, Ah Hang?"

Gu Yuanhang stared at the outfits of the two of them who had run away from home, his eyes shot from top to bottom, he raised his chin at Yuan Yao, and turned his firepower to Wishing.

He was too anxious and didn't pay attention to the volume, "Should I be the one who asked you? Wish? School only starts in mid-August. You guys are so eager to go out and..."

"Shh!"

Wishing to make a wish, he wanted to crumple the mask into a ball and stuff it into Gu Yuanhang's mouth, "Yuan Yao's parents are home, and he won't live in my house anymore. I'll take him home."

"Leave today?"

Gu Yuanhang was stunned, and pointed to the change of clothes in Xu Wish's arms, "Do you need to bring a change of clothes to send someone home? You won't accompany me to surf the Internet tomorrow night?"

"I know how to surf the Internet every day. Doctors like you are not called rejuvenating with wonderful hands, but destroying flowers with hot hands." Wishing to bypass him, he carried his travel bag over his shoulder, "I'll stay at Yuan Yao's house tonight."

After all, he made a wish, carrying a travel bag on his body, with a chic figure, and bypassed Gu Yuanhang who had turned into a stone statue.

Gu Yuanhang scolded: "...May I wish you are so fucking wild."

The summer after the college entrance examination was extremely long and hot. Humid showers fell one after another in the northern suburbs. The epidemic hindered almost everyone's graduation trip.

Li Chun and the others were crying and shouting in the class, sending wildly aggrieved panda head emojis, saying how about we go on an N-day tour in the city, and everyone live at home?

Make a wish and say: Just don’t come to my house.

Shu Jingyi asked: Why?

Make a wish and send a huge red envelope of 50 yuan in the group: My house has been demolished!

There was a frying pan in the class, and there was another burst of crying and shouting.

Fortunately, Yuan Yao's house was close to Xu Yuan's house, and the two of them ran back and forth all day long, and finally reached a consensus that they would go back to live in Phoenix Mountain after dinner, and return to Yuan Yao's house when they got up in the morning.

Back then, after Yuan Yao's family moved out, the newly assigned house was also the house of the police family, but the building was relatively new, with red bricks and tiles, and it was a new community.

Although the greening is inappropriate, there is a row of bottom shops, and family life is more convenient than in Phoenix Mountain. Ten years later, it still keeps up with the aesthetics of the times.

Wishing to think, Yuan Yao is really a bird flying out of the mountains. Ten years later, Nirvana grows into a majestic phoenix that can spread its wings and fly high, and then perch back on the plane tree.

Time passes.

Yuan Yao is no longer a footless bird.

The wish is Yuan Yao's sycamore tree, and I want to be Yuan Yao's Phoenix Mountain.

Regarding the matter of turning cocoons into butterflies, not only the wishing person thinks so, but also the people from the original Xiangyang unit.

Yuan Xiangyang's legs and feet are inconvenient, but it doesn't prevent him from showing off his son's college entrance examination results on Moments.

There are also comments at the bottom, saying: My brother Yang is alive and well again?When you were making lunch in Chongzuo, you showed off Xiaoyao's achievements everywhere!Hard work comes, great!

Yuan Yao took advantage of his dad to go to the bathroom with a stick, read his dad's Moments comment once, and made up his mind to see how his dad squatted holding a lunch box and still didn't forget to talk about himself with his colleagues, feeling a little sad.

From waking up to now, Yuan Xiangyang has never mentioned half a bitter word, let alone tell him what happened during the dark days when he was missing until he almost died.

Yuan Xiangyang knew that if he said one more word, it would be a thorn in his son's back that could not be removed.

He said that Yuan Yao had changed, but he couldn't quite see what had changed.

After being discharged from the hospital, Yuan Xiangyang was in the recovery period, and his mobility was not convenient yet, so he had to take care of his son.

Jiang Yao was busy with commuting, so Wishing and Yuan Yao would bring food and pack food on the way back every day, and then go to exercise in the afternoon after eating.

Yuan Xiangyang's old acquaintances from the Municipal Bureau often come to visit. A few middle-aged people sit in the living room for the whole afternoon, chatting about homework, and complimenting Yuan Yao on how well he made tea.

Yuan Yao is not a talkative person, he sometimes chats with his father and comrades-in-arms, and sometimes reads in the room with Xu Wish.Make a wish and read "Qingdao Cultural Map", Yuan Yao read "Advanced Mathematics", make a wish and glance at the cover to pinch people, saying why do you still read mathematics, physics and chemistry after the college entrance examination, Yuan Yao said, maybe you have to study for the postgraduate entrance examination.

There was no answer to the wish, silently closed the pages of the coloring book, leaned on Yuan Yao's shoulder, hugged his arm, and watched the high math with him.After turning two pages, Yuan Yao found that Wishing had fallen asleep, so he carried him back to the bed and lay down.

When I opened my eyes again, it was already night.

Close your eyes again, the boy in the dream gallops on the waves, the sea in the distance seems to hang in the air, and the foam is pure white.Yuan Yao walked in the waves wearing the school uniform of No. [-] Middle School, the three blue spots merged into one, and a ship docked at the port to return to the port.

The vacation time before the start of the university also passed by in a blink of an eye.

A few days before the start of school, the entire family area was notified to move out, and seven or eight minivans were blocked on the small road that entered the street community on the North Third Ring Road.

A group of half-grown children stood under the street lamps, watching the adults go about their business, just watching the bustle would not be of much help.Wishing to recognize one or two of the children, who have grown so tall all of a sudden after not seeing each other for several years.

The bgm in his head hit play.

On a certain afternoon many years ago, he once ran to Gu Yuanhang's house with Yuan Yao, Gu Yuanhang and a few other kids, and eavesdropped on Ah Hang's mother playing the piano.I vaguely remember making a wish, Ah Hang said that the song was called "The Street Where the Wind Lives", and said why did Feng live in the street?

At that time Yuan Yao was young, she pursed her lips and said nothing, making a wish thinking that he didn't listen, but now thinking about it, it might be that the child remembered something unhappy.

Now he can understand this song again.

Dozens of cart wheels rolled on the uneven road, and the street lamps cast their shadows.

On the day Yuan Yao left, there were also a group of children waiting at the intersection.

Only this time, everyone was sent away by the courtyard that had endured decades of wind and rain.

In order to facilitate planning and relocation, those half-person-high weeds have been trimmed to level ground, leaving only a bare piece of verdant green.

Make a wish and think of the bracelet on Yu Lanzhen's hand.

"Well, we have to move out, within five days at the latest. I wish you to pack up your things as soon as possible. Your messy books, toys, etc. should be thrown away or kept, otherwise there will be no more piles at home!"

Yu Lanzhen wiped off her sweat, and the bracelet bumped against the table, leaving behind a bunch of jingling keys, "The unit was allocated a transitional resettlement house for three years, and a monthly property management fee of [-] yuan. Waiting for the demolition compensation We will move in after the house is repaired."

Yu Lanzhen and Xu Weidong have always been down-to-earth and stable, they didn't choose money, they didn't choose shed renovation, everything was arranged, and people in the two systems didn't want to demolish and relocate to make a fortune, they just wanted to have a place to live.

Xu wished for the keys on the table, dazzled, "How many sets?"

"Two sets." Yu Lanzhen laughed, "Either choose three small sets, or one large set and one small set. There are three in my family, so I must choose plan B."

Wishing to twitch the corners of her lips, "My mom can still say plan."

Yu Lanzhen looked at him and replied, "I'll still say it, silly."

Make a wish: "..."

He couldn't help asking again: "How old is the new home? Is it still in the northern suburbs?"

"A set of 120 flats for three, and a set of 92 flats for two," Yu Lanzhen said, "What about the northern suburbs? Now this area is within the third ring road and is a downtown area. When the family courtyard is demolished and the airport is rebuilt, After the construction of Metro Line [-], the north side will change a lot.”

"...That's it," Xu Yuan couldn't help but sigh, "I guess this area will be lively in the future."

Although this area is within the third ring road, it has remained unchanged for more than ten years. It can be regarded as a piece of pure land in the busy city. Usually, people from outside rarely come in. It is also quiet and will not be disturbed by traffic and crowds.

"Xiao Yuan." Yu Lanzhen suddenly called Yuan Yao.

"Aunt Lan." Yuan Yao replied immediately.

Yu Lanzhen grabbed another bunch of keys, and the emerald green bracelets collided again with a crisp sound. The woman's hands were capable and slender, and when she was young, she had practiced holding a pistol all the year round to form a thin layer of calluses.

At this time, the entire family courtyard was noisy, and the shouts of residents and the sound of car horns continued to be heard outside the window.

Time is no longer a boat moored in the harbor.

It leaves Hong Kong tonight, and is about to set sail with its childhood dreams.

It is not just a pig-killing knife, but also a gentle knife for breaking away.

Furniture and electrical appliances were loaded and unloaded repeatedly, old sundries were discarded, and the old-fashioned voice-activated lights in the corridor were called on again and again, flickering——

I only heard Yu Lanzhen calmly said: "In my opinion, the resettlement house cannot be rented out. So, I will keep one set with you, Uncle Xu, and the other set will be left empty for now. Keep you and Wishing when you come back from vacation, why not?" Sample?"

Wishing for a while, resisting the urge to look at Yuan Yao, not understanding if there was something in his mother's words, and what it meant.

The author has something to say:

Wish: If you have a house, you can marry Yuan Yao!

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