God said I would meet you

"Aren't you..." For a moment, Lin Jinyu thought he was hallucinating, but the person not far away clearly existed again: "Didn't you go to defend yourself?"

"I'm done answering," Zhang Xinli walked up to him, "It's not about taking graduation photos, why walk this way alone."

Lin Jinyu thought to herself: Nonsense, it's because you didn't come.

He said, "How do you know that graduation photos are being taken today?"

"You said, before May [-]th, and then Zhou Hui told me to answer on the morning of the day."

It was Zhou Hui again, and Lin Jinyu suddenly had the illusion that there were two ghosts around him. Lin Ye rebelled, and Zhou Hui also rebelled. No wonder Zhang Xinli could find his place without saying hello, and went downstairs to get a dog to trick him. information.

Just at this moment, Lin Jinyu's cell phone rang. It turned out that his group of roommates called him, persuading him to come back and take pictures, otherwise it would be boring if there were no one in the dormitory.

Lin Jinyu hung up perfunctorily, Zhang Xinli gestured towards the playground and said, "Let's go."

Let's go, what a beautiful word.

"What are you going to do?" Lin Jinyu said, "I... have finished filming everything in my class."

"What does it have to do with the class, it's not that I agreed to shoot with you," Zhang Xinli said, "It's just me and you."

They are at the same level, and they are both in the graduation season. Zhang Xinli actually took graduation photos recently, but he didn't take them. He only took group photos and came here as promised.

Lin Jinyu said, "I thought you forgot."

"No." With the sound of birds chirping and lush flowers and leaves, they began to walk slowly towards the direction where Lin Jinyu came. Zhang Xinli said, "I will never forget it in the future."

……

"Catch up? Come on, come on," they just walked into the playground along the green-painted barbed wire, and saw Zhou Hui greeted at the entrance: "I'm really afraid that it will be too late."

"I got into the car as soon as the defense was over," Zhang Xinli said, "It was just right."

Everything is just right.

The playground is full of students taking graduation photos, and there are even students who got married after graduation, wearing wedding dresses and taking artistic wedding photos. It was a lively scene. Six people from Lin Jinyu's dormitory had arrived, and the class leader borrowed a DSLR from someone and was greeting them. past.

"Do you still want to shoot in your dormitory?" Zhang Xinli didn't belong to their school, so he didn't go there at first: "Call me when you're done shooting."

"It doesn't matter," Zhou Hui said, "The subjects of the class monitor and room manager are also here. Isn't it just a graduation photo? Anyone who is about to graduate can be photographed. The more people there are, the more lively it will be."

Lin Jinyu thanked him from the bottom of his heart for taking the initiative to say this, but Zhang Xinli didn't say anything, so Lin Jinyu dragged him to the middle of the playground.

The green grass on the ground is verdant and endless, and everyone has a smile on their face. The class leader held up the camera and shouted: "What kind of style are we shooting?"

The photographer who took the group photo was contacted by their dormitory, and the two parties have a friendship, so some of the costume squad leaders in the package begged for favors, saying that they would not return it temporarily after the shooting, and they would borrow their dormitory for free, and they would return it to the squad leader themselves .Zhou Hui joked that he used power for personal gain.

"Anything is fine, as long as it looks good." The class monitor's girlfriend took off her bachelor's uniform, trimmed her hair, and said, "Here are some sets with different styles."

"Okay, okay, let's take a look at the clothes, from fresh to heavy, let's take pictures one by one," said the room chief's girlfriend, "hehe, it's time to pretend to be young."

Everyone said that it should start from a young age, and the old bacon also dreamed of going back to high school. The monitor's girlfriend laughed and said, "You are dreaming, but we girls are not, we will be forever."

Everyone laughed again.They were not members of the dormitory, and they hadn't had much contact with anyone except their boyfriend, but they were not stage frightened, and they often said things gently and humorously, which made Zhang Xinli's presence less obtrusive.

The photography package agreed by their class includes two sets of clothes, both for men and women. The boys’ set includes a basketball uniform and a British-style V-shaped vest and white shirt suit.Zhou Hui went over to take the SLR and said, "Then let's start. Today I will be the royal photographer."

"You know how to take pictures?" It was the first time that Lin Jinyu knew that his roommate, who looked very ordinary and had no flash points, was half an amateur photographer because he liked photography and had taken photography classes.

It seems that he really knows too little about his roommate.

"Come on, come on!"

The skirts of the girls fluttered, and the people in the dormitory sat cross-legged in a row on the big grass to take a few group photos and then spread out, free to move around, a world of two with a girlfriend, each photo has a different pattern, the three who are single A pair of scissors beats all.

"You are also walking around the school, let's take some more commemorative photos." Zhou Hui looked quite professional with a camera strap hanging around his neck. He said to Lin Jinyu, "There are several places in the school where the shots are good."

"Thank you, we just want to go shopping." Zhang Xinli is not very playful, and Lin Jinyu is satisfied with taking a few group photos with him, so he doesn't expect much, after all - at this important moment, he is already very good. .

"It's just this time of graduation," Zhou Hui smiled, "The class monitor and the head of the room are all alone, and the other two single dogs think it's not fun for two stinky men to take graduation photos, so they went back to the dormitory to sleep..."

Lin Jinyu didn't read what he meant at first, but Zhang Xinli understood and said, "Do you want to come with us?"

Compared to being the person in the photo, Zhou Hui prefers to be the one behind the camera, so he nodded and said, "If you don't mind... I can take the photo for you."

……

The college campus is probably the last place in a person's life experience that still has a student spirit.

The classrooms with bright and clean windows, the voluminous library, and the corridors of the teaching building full of creepers, everything is so youthful, sunny, and full of vitality.Zhou Hui directed the two of them with the camera: "Look at each other, turn your head a little...Okay, yes, that's it, be natural, lean on the bookshelf, but don't really lean on it, read a book, then look at the camera, and then look at each other, Look at it with affection."

Today's library is obviously special. There are no large groups of self-study students, seniors come to take pictures, and when there are some noises between the bookshelves, the administrator does not say anything to others.

Lin Jinyu took off her coat, and a formal shirt and tie matched the environment, while Zhang Xinli wore clean loose short-sleeves, white socks and sneakers that were sunny and energetic.

The golden-white sun shines through the glass, passing through the gap between the bookshelves, and reflecting on their faces. When they first started taking pictures, they were a little cautious, and they didn't make any intimate movements. At most, they just looked at each other against the bookshelves, or Sitting on the long stairs scattered across a few steps, one leans forward a little and the other leans back a little.

In the photos, there is a vague, quiet intimacy and ambiguity between each other, not like a couple in love, but like an unbroken ambiguity, or a socialist brother.

"Actually...you can get closer," Zhou Hui felt that he was there, and they couldn't let go: "I'm fine, really."

He only had eyes for the scene. Both Lin Jinyu and Zhang Xinli had very good appearances, but they had two styles, which were very expressive. With the blessing of light and shadow, any shot would look good.Zhou Hui likes good-looking photos. He cares about what the picture can convey, not whether it is a man and a woman or two men or women.

After taking pictures in the library and going to the classroom, the three of them took a few pictures in the corridor. Zhang Xinli kept looking around. He really wanted to be intimate, but he was afraid of being kicked by someone... Thinking about it this way, he is really a rake ear.

"You guys should change your clothes first, um... Lin Jinyu wears this one, you wear that one, just put on the jersey, it will be better if you don't wear the same one."

The photo of two people is not like a group photo. It needs to be unified to look good. When there are not many characters in the picture, there are contrasting clothing styles that can sometimes collide with sparks.

The blackboard in the classroom was clean and spotless. Zhou Hui stood in front of the podium, commanded them to change their clothes condescendingly, and then asked them to sit one by one in front of the back, one on the left and one on the right. He picked up his camera and said, "You guys Just treat it as a class in a high school classroom, relax, be lazy, and be as comfortable as you like-hey, it’s great, it’s very emotional, and the next one can be more intimate.”

Lin Jinyu took off her serious and formal suit jacket and put on that British-style V-neck vest. After that, her student spirit and bookish spirit doubled. She looked younger by several years, making Zhang Xinli think that she was really young in the past. , a child, or a student, he is arrogant, self-centered, has no disease, and has never been depressed.

Zhang Xinli, on the other hand, was wearing a silver-white basketball uniform, like a mature high school student who had just returned to the classroom after playing basketball. His facial features, which were not entirely of the Han nationality, were sharp and wild under the camera, so unruly.

It's so suitable... Zhou Hui said in his heart while shooting: Harmony, but also tense, and the skin tone also matches well. If you adjust the lightness a little later, the contrast will be more obvious.

During the whole process, Lin Jinyu looked really relaxed. There is probably a kind of person who is born with the kind of personality that is not afraid of being outstanding, and is suitable for standing in the spotlight or under the camera. I saw him propping up his hands, either lazily playing with a pen for a while, or burying his face in his arms Pretend to be dozing off, or put your legs on the table and look at the window. It's very casual, but it also has a sense of camera.

Zhang Xinli just tilted his head slightly, quietly watching the willows rising and falling in the wind outside the window.

The first few pictures were all good, probably to the extent that the selected films were all good, Zhou Hui urged them both: "You two sit in the same row, get closer, and hurry up."

Zhang Xinli didn't move, Lin Jinyu moved up a row and sat next to him, Zhou Hui told them to look at the camera, there were several clicks.

It's okay, but kind of similar.Although the overall style of their graduation photos is small and fresh, they can't take a subtle style in every photo, which is very repetitive and fatigues the aesthetics after a long time.Zhou Hui coughed after watching the group just now, and winked at Zhang Xinli.

"Lin Jinyu," he called, "look at me."

Lin Jinyu looked up at him, Zhang Xinli understood, and secretly raised his hand to reach his shoulder, but due to guilty conscience, his eyes couldn't help looking in the opposite direction.

The clicking sound kept ringing. Lin Jinyu didn't notice it in the first few seconds, but Zhang Xinli was probably too nervous. In the last few seconds, his hand trembled and rubbed against Lin Jinyu's back. Lin Jinyu turned his head suddenly, startling him, The guilty person immediately put his hands away, but failed to hug.

"Hey, you said you..." When the success fell short, Zhou Hui looked even more distressed than himself: "I've already signaled, if you don't make a decision, it will be over, it's a bit awkward."

"Signaling." Lin Jinyu glanced at the two of them respectively, and said, "You're not childish."

The two childish ghosts tacitly did not speak.

Zhou Hui looked at the photos just now with regret on his face, and seeing that the regret on his face was gone, he laughed out loud instead.

"What are you laughing at?" Lin Jinyu was curious, and leaned over - the camera screen faithfully recorded the funny scene just now, from the two of them looking at the camera seriously, to Lin Jinyu's still seriousness, and Zhang Xinli squinting at the window, secretly reaching out his hand, Then he was caught by Lin Jinyu, and he stopped in a panic.

Several photos are connected into a humorous little picture that does not require lines, but everything is silent. There is no physical contact, no eye contact, no sex and no eroticism, but a few photos with nothing clearly explain what youth is. Bitterness and love.

——"Love is wanting to touch, but then retracting."

Lin Jinyu was silent for a while, then hooked the corners of her mouth.

Zhou Hui pulled the photos one by one, and the more he looked at them, the more he was satisfied. He felt that if he had just followed his plan to hug and kiss, his posture would be out of the ordinary, so he said, "Actually...it's not bad, the style is more unified, you can A set of pictures has been released, and the name is 'Salinger's Love'."

"Come on," Lin Jinyu smiled, "I dare not touch porcelain, and besides, no one knows who Salinger is."

Zhang Xinli, who had just walked over from his seat to join in the fun, raised his eyebrows and said, "I know."

How could he know, Lin Jinyu thought: He probably didn't know.

Zhang Xinli said: "When you were in high school, you wrote this person's name in your Chinese documents."

During those difficult and secret love years, Lin Jinyu wrote about Neruda, Dai Wangshu, and Salinger in the book, and wrote their poems, which actually meant herself, but now it seems to be reversed.

After Zhou Hui finished watching, he handed the camera to Lin Jinyu and Zhang Xinli, letting them watch it by themselves, and said at the same time: "I'll simply get it back and send it to you later, or do you want to wash it out? That's fine. By the way, remember to put Just transfer the money to me."

Lin Jinyu squinted down, seemingly carelessly, but actually looked at each photo very seriously. Zhang Xinli leaned over from the side, looked over his shoulder, and looked at each photo seriously with him.

The green ivy leaves outside the window reflected the dazzling sunlight, and the birds left the branches. The green shade and bicycle shed downstairs seemed to be the same as the one that was often occupied by students from the attached middle school to steal some takeaway.

These vivid and youthful photos fill in the distant student days that Lin Jinyu and Zhang Xinli failed to experience together, repair regrets, and fill in the missing gaps.

"Unexpectedly, I look quite young," Lin Jinyu said "tsk tsk" twice: "Pretending to be a high school student is quite qualified."

Zhang Xinli said: "No matter how old you are, you are always the same in my heart."

Lin Jinyu looked up at him, Zhang Xinli's eyes were gentle and peaceful.

Some people can make lingering eyes, the way he looked at Lin Jinyu was like a kiss.

With countless mathematician hats flying into the clear sky, this July, the date when 15-year-old Lin Jinyu went to Liangshan for the first time—they graduated together.

The author says:

"Love is trying to touch and then withdrawing." - Jerome David Salinger.