No.70 days

Shao Wu stayed at home for three days, but he failed to meet Yang Shuyi.

On the first day, Yang Shuyi took his father-in-law to have a physical examination; on the second day, Yang Shuyi held a parent-teacher meeting for Longlong; on the third day, Yang Shuyi went to visit his aunt again.Shao Wu called and asked him if he wanted to go out for a walk, and he said apologetically that he would stay at his aunt's house for dinner... Normally, my aunt would accompany her mother-in-law.

Shao Wu had no choice but to say helplessly, let's go back to Chongqing together on the [-]th.

On the third day of the holiday, Shao Wu and Zhu Jingjing made an appointment to meet.In the past two years, although Zhu Jingjing still practiced long-distance running, unconsciously, she was no longer that carefree girl.Sometimes when Shao Wu went to Yang Shuyi and made a dinner appointment with her, he always felt that she talked a lot less than before.She is no longer like she was in high school, when she reached out to embrace Shao Wu like a buddy.

"Jingjing," the two sat in a bright KFC, surrounded by mostly elementary school students who had just finished school, "Do you want to go to graduate school?"

Zhu Jingjing bit her straw and swallowed a sip of Coke: "I don't know, my mother told me to go to graduate school, but I don't think I can pass the exam."

"Do you have a lot of places for professional insurance research?"

"It has nothing to do with me," Zhu Jingjing shrugged, "I failed, Mao Gai."

Shao Wu was secretly surprised, hung up on Mao Gai?This kind of public class is generally easier to pass, as long as you go to class on time and write the final exam carefully-Yang Shuyi said that the exams in his school are open-book.

"I misremembered the time, and my roommate and I did not take the same course, so..." Zhu Jingjing sighed, "Look, with my brain, what kind of graduate school do you still want to study? What about you, you want to study?"

Shao Wu hesitated for two seconds, then nodded.

Zhu Jingjing smiled: "During the Chinese New Year, our sports students got together. Zhou Lei said he was going abroad."

"Going abroad?" In Shaowu's impression, Zhou Lei was still the sports student with long arms and legs who couldn't learn analytical geometry.

"Well, he majored in sports journalism. He said he would continue to study journalism abroad... He seems to be quite interested in this major."

"Oh, that... that's good."

"Do you remember that when Han Huiyuan first went to Shanghai, Zhou Lei said in his QQ signature that he would go to Shanghai to find a job the next day?"

Shao Wu said: "Of course I remember." After speaking, he also felt a little embarrassed.

In 2009, they all went to college, the good ones, the bad ones, the near ones, in short, they all went to college.However, Han Huiyuan performed abnormally in the college entrance examination, and stayed in Yongchuan to study in the fourth year of high school. In the QQ group of Wen (1) class, her profile picture was always gray.One day in the midsummer of 2010, Shao Wu saw that Zhou Lei’s QQ signature was suddenly updated: I’m going to work in Shanghai in three years’ time! ! !

He was puzzled, but he didn't ask—after the college entrance examination, apart from Yang Shuyi and Zhu Jingjing, Shao Wu almost lost contact with his high school classmates.The reason is simple. In 2009, he was the more shocking news than Han Huiyuan's failure in the college entrance examination.Parents, relatives, the old class, and even the principal, asked him like a barrage of fire, why, why did he change his choice?Dealing with these people is enough for him to be exhausted, so in front of his classmates, he pretended to be dead: no reply to text messages, invisible QQ, two consecutive winter vacations, and asked Zhu Jingjing to lie for him at the class reunion, saying that Shaowu celebrates the New Year Not in Yongchuan, I went on a trip.

"Hey, yes, why did you say that?" Zhu Jingjing held her cheeks with a confused expression, "I think Zhou Lei is pretty good, and he likes Han Huiyuan so much, so he ran to Shanghai when he had nothing to do—you said why."

In 2010, Han Huiyuan, who had repeated her studies for a year, scored 652 in the test, No. 1 in liberal arts in Yongchuan District, and was admitted by Fudan University majoring in finance.

She went to Shanghai as she wished, and Zhou Lei also began to commute between Beijing and Shanghai once a month like a migratory bird.

Shao Wu often sees photos he posts on Qzone, sometimes of wheat fields along the way, sometimes of Shanghai’s streets and snacks, Shikumen, fried buns, and crab roe noodles.Of course, it is Fudan University more. Thanks to him, all the students in Wen (1) class know that there is a green grass in front of Guanghua Building in Fudan.

Until the beginning of this year, Zhu Jingjing told Shao Wu that Zhou Lei and Han Huiyuan broke up.To be more precise, they were never together at all.

It was at the Chinese New Year class reunion, Zhou Lei drank so much that he vomited, and at the end, he said with red eyes, I think she likes me quite a bit, but why doesn't she stay with me?

Is it because of Han Huiyuan that Zhou Lei plans to go abroad?

Shao Wu stared at the hamburger on the table, the spicy chicken drumstick, he took a few bites, and half of the leaves drooped out.He suddenly remembered that one day at noon in high school, he stayed in the classroom for Yang Shuyi, bought two set meals at this KFC, and then lied to Yang Shuyi that the set meals were discounted and he couldn't finish them.

See, Shao Wu thought deceptively, Zhou Lei and Han Huiyuan are in Beijing and Shanghai, it really doesn't work, it's more convenient to be in the same city... although he doesn't know what is convenient.fall in love?How can it be.Yang Shuyi likes girls.

Besides, we can be in the same city now, what about in the future?Can we stay in the same city forever?If Yang Shuyi really went to Shanghai to study...he followed?But his parents wanted him to study abroad.Besides, even if it's the same as in the past, it's still the same as now. As an old classmate and good buddy, find some innocuous reasons to meet him, have a meal, and chat with him.That's all.

Coming out of KFC, Shao Wu and Zhu Jingjing wandered along the river. In the past two years, Yongchuan has changed a lot. The night market outside the school has been rectified, the crowded small stalls have become spacious shops, and the previously undulating sidewalks have also been restored. After paving, the blue-gray floor tiles are smooth and clean, and even in summer, there is a sense of coolness.

Zhu Jingjing said, "If the school gate hadn't changed, I wouldn't have recognized it."

Shao Wu's gaze wandered among a series of shops, but in the end he couldn't find a small shop selling cold cakes, so he replied softly: "Well, yes."

Early in the morning on May 1500th, Shao Wu went to the passenger station to take a bus back to Chongqing.Before leaving, his mother made him a breakfast comparable to lunch: fried chicken gizzards with green peppers, winter melon ball soup, stewed beef with tomatoes, and a bowl full of rice.Dad got up early and went to work, and left a red envelope for Shao Wu, which seemed to be placed on the TV cabinet casually. Shao Wu counted it, and it was [-] yuan in total.

"He said it's a holiday, I'll give you a gift," my mother said with a smile, "Take it to treat your classmates to dinner, or go shopping and buy some clothes to wear."

Shao Wu didn't react for a while: "What festival is it?"

"Today is May [-]th, Youth Day."

Shao Wu: "...Oh."

Shao Wu understood that his father might want to give him pocket money, but he was too embarrassed to give it directly, so he found an excuse for Youth Day.

"Yaoer, pay attention to your health at school." Mom took Shao Wu to the bus station and straightened the collar of his shirt. "Study is important, but don't be too tired. Why do I think you are so tired?" The next time you come back, you are thinner than when you were in the New Year?"

Shao Wu smiled and touched his face: "No."

"Be sure to eat more, the new girls in our garden, all of them don't eat rice in order to lose weight... This is not good, you know? You are the age with the fastest metabolism now, and you have to eat three meals a day."

"Well, Mom, don't worry." Shao Wu looked at the traffic lights in the distance, but he couldn't see the bus to take.

"Remember to text me when you arrive at school, huh?"

"Okay, remember," Shao Wu turned sideways, not daring to look at his mother's face, "Mom, I...I want to go to graduate school in China, okay?"

"Huh?" Mom was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "Did you see those books?"

"I see, I..."

"Your dad has a college classmate who is now a professor in Beijing. Your dad heard him say that English majors were very popular in the past few years, but now more and more people are learning English, and the employment situation is not good. Well, he said, it's better to use English as a tool, and then learn individual majors, so that you have a lot of advantages over ordinary students."

Shao Wu said awkwardly: "I'm not minoring in geography."

"Well, geography is okay, but..." Mom didn't finish, and smiled again, "Yaoer, your dad and I stay in Yongchuan every day, so the information on this is definitely not as good as yours, and we don't understand it either. ...In short, we definitely hope that you will go to graduate school, and it would be best if you can go abroad to see the world, and you don't have to worry about money, understand?"

"Mom, but I... don't really want to go abroad, really," Shao Wuyue said in a softer voice, unconsciously clenching the shoulder straps of his backpack with both hands, "Is it okay for me to study in China? My grades can be guaranteed. Yes, you don’t need to take the exam, and you will be recommended to graduate students.”

"That's fine, we don't have to ask you to go abroad," my mother patted Shao Wu on the shoulder, "I'm still worried about you going to the United States and Britain."

Shao Wu secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "Well, Mom... thank you."

"Hey, thank you for what the family said, okay, the car is here."

Shao Wu boarded the bus and waved to his mother through the window, and his mother waved to him with a smile on her face.

Shao Wu thought, his parents must still want him to go abroad, right?He had let them down two years ago, and now, maybe, he was going to let them down again?He understands that going abroad to study for graduate school may not be better than studying in China, but from the perspective of parents, it is always a bit of face to say that the son has gone abroad, and it may attract the praise of those relatives and friends. Wu didn't go to the National People's Congress at that time, and he is still very good now.

Yongchuan is just that big, and his parents' life circle is just that big, and they have to bear much more eyes than Shaowu.

Shao Wu understands all this.