June is our farewell song

Chapter 198 Sports Meeting ([-])
What is summer?

Is it the mottled and flowing tree shadows, the scorching sun hanging high in the clear sky, and the warm wind filled with water vapor?
Is it sunshine, brooks and rivers, dry and hot, or young, deep-rooted, and love?

Is it the noisy cicadas singing in the afternoon, the lazy and messy hair, or the sweat beads naturally dripping from the forehead?
Sitting on a bench on the roof, Gu Yuan overlooked the campus below, facing the green mountain forest, and downstairs is the playground. The middle school students on the playground are cheering for the athletes in the competition, and the gentle-looking girl lowers her head and caresses the bushes By the ear of the white cat, there is the sound of wind whistling.These are summer, and the soft and distant trivialities derived from summer.

When Jiang Zifeng left, he said "there will be a period later", but Gu Yuan felt that when the door closed, it was as if he was separated from her in two different worlds. He didn't know the meaning of "there will be a period" in that world. This world is not the same, but his intuition tells him that there are at least some differences.

She, who is about to graduate soon, and those of them who will stay here for more than a year, are about to usher in an inevitable parting.

He still remembered the two questions Jiang Zifeng asked him when he first joined the literature club almost two years ago.

Before he could find the answer to the question, the person who asked the question was about to leave.

Having said that, after winter, he wants it too.

In other words, this is his last summer before he comes of age.

So reasonable, yet so abrupt.

However, with those guys around, this summer... can definitely be considered colorful, right?
It's just that meeting is the beginning of the story and the countdown to parting, just like this summer full of infinite beauty is short and easy to pass away.

Of course, Gu Yuan would not understand this truth, he is still immersed in happiness, Xinxinran wants to continue taking pictures.

Birds fly to the center of the big tree in order to avoid the heat in the hot summer, because the dense leaves here block the sun.And the cicadas chirping peacefully by the side, everything in the summer afternoon is so beautiful, except——

"Zhang Yun...I didn't expect that you really came."

Standing under the wishing tree, Chen Ge looked at the wooden prayer talismans hung on the branches with red strings and said, of course, it was not for the wooden signs, but for the man standing next to him of.

"I was really surprised when I received the invitation, because I am not a well-known painter, even if I am an ordinary sketch teacher in the local area. Later I saw that the person in charge of the event planning If you have your name in it, you probably understand what’s going on.” Zhang Yun has already taken off his hat, revealing a grizzled head, “Although I don’t know what you want to do, I think I still want to Should come here."

"I don't want to do anything, I just want to chat with you. After all, we haven't seen each other for many years, right?"

"Eight years, if I remember correctly."

"Yes, it has been eight years. But even after so long... every time I go to this place, that scene will appear before my eyes again, with all the details, as if I have returned to that summer, the wind There is a strong fragrance of gardenia in the summer. When I walked out of the dormitory, when I came here, I unconsciously put my hands in front of my eyes to block the slightly dazzling sunlight. I opened and closed my eyes vigorously, and the corneas Dryness, soreness, even if it is wrapped in the liquid that seeps out immediately, it can't cover up the stinging pain."

"And...the...her lying behind the tree."

After blinking his eyelids twice, Chen Ge moved away the hand that was blocking his eyes, and turned to face the silent Zhang Yun. At this moment, he caught a glimpse of the slightly sparse gray hair, and his pupils couldn't help Shrink slightly.

"I know, and I remember." Zhang Yun stroked his thin white hair, "I have been worshiping Buddha everywhere these years, just to seek peace of mind, but you have seen the final result, the hair is gray, and it is also Less. I'm not yet 40 years old, and the new students have already started calling me Grandpa Zhang."

"you……"

"When I was suspended, I went away. I thought that by leaving here, deleting the records on social media, deleting photos and documents, the memory of that incident would no longer touch me. But it took me several years. I understand that although I have been escaping, those memories will catch up sooner or later, and will eventually entangle me. So I came back here four years ago, although I can't feel at ease, but at least I can be more at ease."

"Escape...hehe, do you also know that you are escaping?" Chen Ge sneered, "Your exaggerated report made her belief in future life completely collapsed, but you didn't even apologize to her. nothing."

"I know...that's one of the reasons why I'm here today." Zhang Yun squeezed the brim of his hat with both hands, bowed deeply to the wishing tree in front of him, bent at ninety degrees, fully It took ten seconds to straighten up again.

"I'm sorry," he said.

And those scenes that I don't want to recall, relentlessly, like foam, keep popping up in my mind:

"Give way, I'm sorry! Please make way!"

There were two police cars parked on the newly built boulevard. Si Junmo and Li Shiyu struggled to squeeze in from the crowd, but it took a long time, but they were still stopped by the yellow cordon, blocked by two tall and burly policemen. Out of their sight, they could only see Chen Ge, who was paralyzed on the grass and lost his soul, through the gaps under his arms.

"Chen Ge! Chen Ge!"

Si Junmo yelled at him twice, but Chen Ge just turned his head silently, looked at him and Li Shiyu with empty eyes, and opened his mouth slightly, but he didn't speak or make a sound, as if he was broken. Like an electrified robot, his body didn't even move.

At this moment, they saw their most trusted person in this school, Mr. Guan Zhongting, walking over.However, the face of this man, who has always been known for his gentleness and humor, no longer had the confident and peaceful smile of the past, but clouded over.

"Teacher Guan... this... what the hell is going on?"

"Let's go back and talk about it..." He just shook his head slightly, and then shouted to the crowd, "Everyone! Go back to class first! The school and the police will deal with the matter here."

Of course the students were unwilling to leave, but soon, those tall and burly policemen came up with their arms outstretched and drove the students away like ducks. The head teachers and other teachers of each class also drove away one after another. Come here and bring your respective students back to class.Even though Si Junmo and Li Shiyu didn't want to leave, they were dragged further and further away by the crowd.

Only Chen Ge was still sitting on the grass, the police did not go to pull him, only a nurse squatted beside him and looked at him worriedly.

A leaf fell on Chen Ge's face, interrupting his thoughts.

"Hey~ You two, long time no see."

An unexpected voice suddenly appeared, with some frivolity, and erased the heaviness.Si Junmo didn't know when he appeared in the screen. He put his arm around a person's shoulder, grinned slightly at Chen Ge, then turned his head and said to Zhang Yun:

"Hey, I asked you to come and you really came to look for him. Your courage is commendable. You are not afraid that he will kill you? Come on, there are barley tea and pastries for visitors in the lecture theater to the southwest. It’s not too late.”

As he spoke, he gently pushed Zhang Yun's back and pushed him away from Chen Ge's side.

There was an embarrassing silence for a while, Zhang Yun stood there and hesitated for a while, then turned and left.

"You let him... wait, you met him?"

Watching Zhang Yun go away, Chen Ge asked aloud.

"Yeah, about a month ago, a little bit faster than you."

"why did not you tell me?"

"It's not because I'm afraid of you doing stupid things. I don't want my best friend in this life to spend the rest of his life in prison. And in the end, he didn't do anything. But, you can't keep him from coming. Sooner or later, your heart will Untie, as a friend, I think I should help you with this." Si Junmo patted his chest with his backhand, "——So, how did the chat go?"

"Generally... I still can't forgive him."

"Is that so... That's okay, it's easier this way." Si Junmo let out a breath exaggeratedly.

"What do you mean?"

"The big deal is to continue to resent him. This is much easier to deal with than if you can't forgive yourself?"

The young man turned his head and raised his eyebrows to look into his friend's eyes.

"So Chen Ge, the one you can never forgive, is it Zhang Yun, or yourself?"

"..." Chen Ge didn't answer the question.

"Do you still remember what was said in Qiu Ling's suicide note?" Si Junmo took a step forward and looked up at the tree-filled prayer symbols, "Please remain proud and persistent, and love the days when Xia Feng is gentle and everything I have my summer, you have your blue sky, you are the birds, and I am the cicada. I will remember everything we have experienced together, because this is all I have. Sudden encounters, unexpected I like..."

"But it left us with an unexpected goodbye and a merciless end." Chen Ge went on to say, "Of course I remember, so you do too."

"This is not a competition." Si Junmo smiled, "I just want to say that she never blamed you or anyone else, so it's time for you to reconcile with yourself."

"I'm not mad at myself."

"Um--"

It was Si Junmo's half-believing look in his eyes that turned his head and shot him sideways.

"Didn't you say that your nose will grow longer if you tell a lie? Why didn't your nose grow longer?"

"Isn't that just proof that I'm not lying?"

"Oh—forget it, forget it, whatever you say~ Hey, speaking of which, shouldn't you go and see your students? One of them is still lying on the hospital bed. As their leader Brother, don't you care about it at this time?"

"What's the leader...I'm their teacher."

"Um-"

"This is their own business. It's not good for me to go, right?"

"Really--"

"Although I've been here for a long time, I'm doing my job well."

"Um--"

"Okay, okay, can I go?"

Watching Chen Ge swearing and walking towards the school hospital, Si Junmo couldn't help laughing.

"Hey, this guy... It seems that he should pay more attention to the present."

(End of this chapter)