June is our farewell song

Chapter 232 The Second Fork in the Road

On the day of the exam, the sky was clear.

Sitting on the bus rented by the school, Gu Yuan looked at the sky outside the window, gently twisting the shark pendant on his chest with the index finger and thumb of his right hand.

After finishing self-study the night before, Chi Yu put this amulet-like pendant that had accompanied her for several years around his neck.

It is said that it will bring good luck, but Gu Yuan has not believed in it all the time, and this thing seems to be made of metal, and it cannot be brought into the examination room. When the time comes, it will have to be removed and put in the storage bag. Even if it is really useful, At least you have to bring it with you to be effective.

The car is speeding on the highway, and there are golden rice fields and scattered brick houses on the elevated road outside the window. Occasionally, some withered and yellow grasslands can be seen flashing across the field of vision.

Chopin in the earphones kept beating his eardrums, but the Nocturne in E flat major could not calm his restless mood.Leaning his head against the window, Gu Yuan took several deep breaths in a row, but he still felt uncomfortable. Gao Lian, who was beside him, noticed his strangeness, pushed him with his shoulder, and asked:

"Motion sickness?"

"No."

Gu Yuan shook his head. Unlike the nausea caused by motion sickness, he now feels more like drowning, a little out of breath, but it's not so serious that he can't breathe, he just feels uncomfortable and doesn't want to talk.

He turned his head, subconsciously wanting to talk to Qi Yu, but he couldn't help being slightly taken aback when he saw the car window, the clear sky in his eyes was shaking and shaking along with the car.

How could I forget, Qi Yu is not in this car.

Not only Qi Yu, Qing Si, Xiao Ying, and Jiang Lu were also not in this car.

There was only the same melancholy Feng Ziqiu sitting in the back row of the car.

"High training."

"Ok?"

"Haruki Murakami said in "Dance, Dance, Dance", you have to be a calm adult. You are not allowed to be emotional, you are not allowed to miss secretly, and you are not allowed to look back. Live another life of your own. You Be obedient, not all fish will live in the same sea." Gu Yuan leaned against the window sill, looked at the clear blue sky, and murmured, "Is it true that no matter how good a friend is, they will eventually get separated. "

"Well... I don't know, but my dad told me that after going to college, there will be no fixed classrooms and classes, and it is likely that there will be no time and opportunity to get to know a friend slowly, even though you will meet many people , but they will be separated soon after meeting, it will be more uncomfortable at first, but you will get used to it after a long time, because adults are like this."

"Will you really get used to it?" Gu Yuan turned to look at him and asked, "Have you ever thought about it, if one day you never see someone again, never again, will you get used to it?"

Gao Lian didn't speak for a long time.

At last he smiled and said:

"It's said that it's an adult's world, we're still children, so we shouldn't have to worry too much."

Gu Yuan nodded, then shook his head again.

"But there's not much time left."

Gu Yuan's mood was better than before, but it was still bad.He has only recently started to seriously think about the future. After staying in Nanhua for more than two years, he always feels that graduation is a very distant thing.Now, watching helplessly, farewell is approaching, but there is nothing that can be done.In the past, when Sister Zifeng was here, although she would have worries, she never worried that there would be a day when she couldn't solve it. Now she can only rely on herself.

The exam is at [-] o'clock in the morning of the second day, four hours, eight big questions, one forty points.

That night, sitting by the window of the hotel room, Gu Yuan looked at the moon outside the window, his heart was silent.

He remembered that night a long time ago, when everyone sat on the grass behind the observatory, looked at the sky full of stars, and drank bitter gourd lemonade that they never wanted to drink again.At that time, he said that the future will be long, and he also believes that the future will be long.

Just like that night, he raised his hand to cover his eyes, and the bright sunlight still flowed through his fingers like water.

The phone vibrated once, and then it vibrated again. He picked it up and looked at it. It was two text messages.

The first one was from Chi Yu.

"Come on for the exam tomorrow!"

The second one was sent by Liu Qingsi.

"It seems to be raining tomorrow, remember to bring an umbrella when you go to the examination room."

Although there is not much time left, there is still some left.

Get moving and make the most of this time.

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When I came out of the examination room, it suddenly started to rain.Gu Yuan looked down at the pencil in his hand—it was wrapped in green lacquer leather, with the inscription "Chinese Drawing Pencil" written on the tip of the pen. It can be seen everywhere in stationery stores. A pencil that won't make you regret it.

The index finger snapped hard, and this seemingly plain and unadorned pencil was now in Gu Yuan's hand, and it was so fragile that it was broken into two pieces. A wooden thorn pierced into the flesh of the palm at the broken part, causing burning pain.

"Hu-hu-"

Sweat dripped from his forehead and palms, dripping down his jawline and fingers.

The slight rain made the weather very muggy, and there was a sour smell in the whole examination room.

When going down the stairs, he casually threw the broken pencil into the trash can. Gu Yuan heaved a sigh of relief and raised his hand to wipe his sweat. As a result, the wound on his hand was stained with salt water and started to hurt again.

Standing at the assembly point, I watched other people slowly gather, their faces were wet, whether it was sweat or rain, no one dared to speak loudly, but everyone was very excited, so the formation of A fantasy scene where everyone looked at each other with a strange light shining in their eyes.

Although everyone had agreed in advance that "the test is fine, the answer is wrong", but sitting on the return bus, I could still hear some whispers containing physical quantities and calculation formulas.

Gu Yuan put on the earphones and didn't want to listen. He didn't feel very good about this exam, and he didn't even do the same practice content well, so it took him more than an hour to stumble just to understand the questions, and he didn't dare to turn his head. to participate in their communication.

The drive back was silent all the way, when Qi Yu entered the classroom, Qi Yu was fiddling with her chemistry competition exercise set on the table.

"Hey!" She raised her right hand and greeted them with bright eyes.

But Gu Yuan didn't respond to her much, just walked back to his seat silently and sat down, cleared his throat, and began to take out the items in the backpack one by one and put them into the drawer.

"what happened?"

"It's okay. It's not a day or two since I hate rain, and it's not like you don't know it."

"Tch, I thought something was wrong with you, how did you do in the competition exam?"

"It's okay, we'll wait until the results come out." After taking out all the things, Gu Yuan put the empty backpack between the left side of the seat and the window sill, and supported it with a chair, "Hey, when are you going to leave?"

"Tomorrow afternoon, I don't think there will be classes for a few days. Alas, I'm so exhausted. After the exam, I must take a good rest for two days." As he spoke, Qi Yu lay down on the table again.

"Don't keep thinking about rest. Everyone is working hard for their own future. Don't lose the chain at this critical time."

"I know, I know, how come you speak more and more like my parents." Qi Yu got up from the table, grinned at him, showing a mouthful of neat white teeth, "Just wait for my good news Bar."

At this moment, Qi Yu suddenly felt the boy beside him stiffen all over.

"What are you laughing at?" Gu Yuan looked at the girl in front of him who burst out laughing a little confused, "Crazy?"

"I'm laughing. Some people have poor acting skills. They can't hide a little bit of things well. They can be seen through as soon as they touch their eyes."

"What the hell... I don't understand what you're talking about."

"If you don't understand it, you don't understand it. After all, some people have been so stupid for the past two years, ah, right, some people?" Qi Yu said and elbowed him, "Hey, I should go in a while. It's time to eat. Today we have boiled beef and braised fish."

Gu Yuan stared at her blankly.

She must have seen that his test results were not very good, so she said what she just said.

"Can you continue the college entrance examination?" "It's just a one-time exam." "People have stumbled and stumbled." ...

But Qi Yu didn't say a single word of these comforting words.

Just looking at him with a smile, telling him what delicious food will be in the cafeteria today.

It was just another way of telling him that no matter how bad today was, life had to go on.

"Cheer up! Hee hee."

I spent years trying to figure out how to describe that smile, but I couldn't find the right words or words.Straight forward right arm, scissor hands, neat teeth, raised mouth corners, curved eyebrows, swaying ponytail... It's not that there are no adjectives to choose from, but no matter how you choose, no matter how you combine them, you cannot Describe the thrill of that smile.

I just remember that it was just after the rain and the sky cleared up, and a beam of sunlight penetrated the clouds and shone on her body.

Like the angels in Michelangelo's paintings.

(End of this chapter)