countdown to winter

Chapter 44

Five years later.

City A.

Summer is getting hotter and hotter.

Start walking from the alley, bypassing an old locust tree planted with cicadas, you can hear noisy voices, often those old men are sitting around playing cards, and the rest of them are standing and watching. After eating popsicles and ice water, and moving down from the big truck, I was so tired that I was sweating.

The young man was a bit fat, and after three trips of ice water, he was so tired that he couldn't breathe, and the back of his T-shirt was wet in a large area.

"Drink some water," the guy next to him threw a bottle of ice water over, "I'll give it to you."

The young man took it quickly, laughed, wiped his sweat, and unscrewed the water bottle.

"When will this summer pass? It's so hot."

"It's only June,"

Before taking a few sips, the door curtain was lifted.

A slender man walked in, as if he didn't come in from the heat outside, he was clean and fresh, wearing a white short sleeve and black pants, showing his fair and straight calves, and wearing a white Converse cap, very clean.

He didn't look at the person sitting next to him, went in and took a bottle of iced drink and a pack of biscuits on his own, the young man looked at his back thoughtfully and fanned the wind.

"How much."

The drink and biscuits were placed on the surface, the young man stood up, scanned the code, and put them in a plastic bag for him. The man paid for it, lifted the curtain, turned around and was about to leave.

"Hey!" The young man called out to him, "Wait a minute."

The man stopped and turned his head suspiciously.

"Is it... Time Star?"

The man looked serious, and looked at him carefully for a long while before overlapping him with the figure in his memory.

"Zeng Guang?"

The sky is getting dark, and there is a gentle dusk on the horizon, the cicadas are tired of singing, and the wind is mixed with heat waves, submerging the world of mortals like sea water.

Shi Xing opened the can, took a sip, the cold liquid slid down the throat, relieved a lot of heat, he said: "Are you selling things here now?"

"That's right, there were not many students in our class who were admitted to college. I didn't pass the college entrance examination, and I didn't want to go to college anymore, so I just put it here and did it—well, they all know me, and they are quite comfortable—you remember Tang Ran, right? .”

Zeng Guang moved the fan over and blew it on him, but after thinking about it, he thought it was not good, so he changed it to turn it on and on.

"Remember," Shi Xing pondered over these two words. For hyperamnesia, all of these things seemed to have happened a few minutes ago. As long as a key is given, the memory is like water in a reservoir, and it can't be heard. "There was a fight."

"He didn't go to college either, but he went to serve in the army, and we haven't heard from him since then," Zeng Guang sighed, "You said you left too suddenly at the time, and I'm not used to not having a tablemate all at once. Our class also discussed for a long time, wondering why you are leaving."

Shi Xing lowered his eyes, touching the cold outer shell of the can.

"You've changed a lot, I almost didn't recognize you," Zeng Guang made a gesture of height, "You've grown too much—and you feel different from before."

Shi Xing didn't need to answer, he went on himself: "I feel much handsomer, I don't know what to say, anyway, just like the stars on TV. Hey, by the way, have you gone to college yet?"

"Up."

Zeng Guang stepped forward: "Where did you go?"

Shi Xing said a name, and Zeng Guang smacked his lips, "My grandma, did you go to the police academy?"

"Well, I just thought it would be good to be a policeman," Shi Xing took another sip, "Later, I found it was quite tiring, but there was no way out, so I just kept learning."

"Going to the police academy is pretty good. It's decent. We've worked so hard, and no one remembers it," Zeng Guang said, "By the way, are you married yet?"

"marry?"

Shi Xing is now 23, it's embarrassing to say, the relationship history is still blank, it's not that no one has confessed to him, but he doesn't want to harm other girls, so every time he politely refuses, sometimes he gets impatient when he is pestered, Will turn cold, and Ning Cheng, who is on the same team as them, laughed at him.

"You deserve to be single."

"That's right, I'm married," Zeng Guang said with a smile. "It happened last month. In fact, many people in our class are already married. Even those who are not married still have girlfriends and boyfriends."

Shi Xing's heart tightened suddenly, and he blurted out, "Is Wen Xia married too?"

As soon as this guess was uttered, his heart was suddenly empty, which made him a little at a loss.

He didn't dare to mention this name to others for five years. In a strange city, Shi Xing only dared to walk in his heart once in a while, like trekking in the wilderness in the dark night, holding the lamp in his hand, not daring to let the wind blow When it's gone, I don't dare to let the darkness swallow it anymore, I just put it in my heart, and I feel that it is enough.

He didn't contact Wen Xia again - only once, when Shi Xing participated in a drinking party and was drunk a lot of alcohol, he didn't know how to drink, so he vomited faintly in the toilet, took out his mobile phone, and dialed that number.

Quick pick up over there.

"Hello, who is it?"

Shi Xing changed his number, but Wen Xia didn't know.

Occasionally, Shi Xing would think that when Wen Xia wakes up drunk and finds that he is gone with no news from him, would he feel like a white-eyed wolf, or would he feel sad and... miss him.He didn't dare to guess, didn't dare to ask, and sometimes Shi Xing wondered if he didn't like him that much anymore, but when he heard Wen Xia's voice, the huge rock in his heart still fell down earth-shatteringly, Destroyed all the way.

Shi Xing hung up the phone, retched for a long time, and finally took a deep breath on the mirror in the bathroom, and wrote two words before the mist dissipated.

Wen Xia.