not a monster

Chapter 193

Chapter 193
The girl's words were surprising, as if this was something new.

Youthful years, ten years at a glance.

If that big banyan tree could talk, I would definitely complain about it. It has been decades, how can it not be tall? Is it too much for a tree to grow so big that it can block out the sun?In fact, it is not too much.

The girl pointed out to Feng Wuli that next to the old banyan tree, there used to be a house there, which was the school kitchen, but now it was all demolished, and a large and new gymnasium was built, which was very grand.

The banyan tree is an evergreen vegetation, and it is also lush and green during the winter solstice. Once the wind passes in the evening, it rustles and the sound of the wind is like waves.

In her perception, it was indeed yesterday, but this yesterday was almost 60 years ago.

"You should go back." The young man beside her urged her. After Feng Wuli unlocked the bicycle, he put the lock on the rear of the bicycle and sat on it. The tripod slapped, and he pushed the bicycle to leave.

"It turns out that you will really become a ghost after you die." She was only now surprised by this.

"Well, it will scare people."

"2017, it's amazing. If I hadn't died, would I be a gray-haired old lady now?"

She spoke with the agility of a young girl at this age, but when she thought about it carefully, the people of the same age she knew during her lifetime were probably in their seventies and eighties. Feng Wuli felt that he was talking to an old woman with a girlish heart. This feeling was very strange.

Like a dialogue across time and space, the sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl in the 50s traveled to the present to talk to him.

"Maybe."

Now that the sun is setting, the dormitory students start to study at night. The weather is cold, and they all wear their pockets and necks. They wear thick clothes like penguins, and there is white mist at the corners of their mouths when they talk.

Feng Wuli pushed the bicycle out of the bicycle shed, and the girl followed him all the time.

On the road, I saw two classmates, a man and a woman, who tucked their necks in their pockets and greeted the wind unreasonably. He could also respond with a smile. There was a section of the road that passed through the teaching building, so they went the same way.

"It's great to study for a day. It's cold, so I can't do the evening self-study."

The old lady had no choice but to shut up when the boy talked to him. She thought the two children must be related, ouch, how old are they.

"It's okay, I have to ride back every day, and the road is icy."

"I don't know what happened in the gymnasium just now. It seems that something exploded, and suddenly there was a loud noise."

"At this point, the gym should be closed."

"Yeah, but it's so loud that many people have heard it, and it seems that there are still people yelling inside..."

"What new version of ghost story again."

"Hey, seriously, you ask her."

The girl next to her was rather shy, she nodded and said she heard it, Feng Wuli said that someone might be arguing inside.

"Let's go, be careful on the road."

"Well, goodbye." Feng Wuli also replied.

The girl followed Feng Wuli, looked around, saw the boy walking away, and followed him again and again.

Every brick here doesn't belong to her. It feels like things are different from people. If she wants to wait for that letter, she will definitely not be able to wait. The girl looked at her feet, and it turns out that ghosts have feet.

amazing.

"Hey, wait for me, don't you want to save me?"

"Your nature is more 'stubborn' than I imagined, it's too troublesome, I have to go back to eat."

"??" Is this job so flexible?Say no to do it?
"Wait a while, a boy with a bad face should find you and give you relief. He may not be very skilled, so please be more tolerant in advance."

The girl didn't react to his words, she was stunned, the other party had already walked a long way with the bicycle.

"Comrade, comrade, wait for me."

"No one calls comrades anymore."

There were more people, Feng Wuli tried his best not to squint, ignoring her existence.

There is a long way from the bicycle shed to the school gate.

The girl keeps asking questions when she sees novel things, and she feels novelty and anticipation about the future world. Her memory is incomplete, and she only remembers to wait for the letter, and a letter will be sent back.

Whose letter, why did she have to wait, where is her home, and who I am all don't remember.

She had just seen the banyan tree, and suddenly remembered the memory of reading a book with that boy under the tree.

In her memory, she looked up at him with a smile. He was facing the sun, and all he could remember was the smile on the corner of his mouth. The black Mao suit was washed cleanly, the sound of the sun, the color of the wind, the smell of cicadas, and the leaves falling.

It was a beautiful picture, but unfortunately she could only remember the man's height, hair color, Chinese tunic suit, and his face was a little blurry.

Shazhong has a history of 115 years, and this old campus has a history of nearly 60 years. They are the first batch of students.

Although things have changed here for a long time, there are shadows of the past in many places.

For example, the pomelo tree that blooms every year but doesn’t produce fruit. Even the gentlemen look forward to it every year, but every year it disappoints everyone. The gentlemen smiled and said, just like you, you can’t succeed. The boy secretly said to him, It was because there was not enough fertilizer. Tomorrow, he brought the old cattle dung from his family to school. As a result, the husband was so angry that he asked him to clean up the pile of stinking cow dung. Everyone couldn't stop laughing.

For example, a man and a woman are walking towards the teaching building with books in their arms. The girl looks at the boy beside him. The girl's voice is her own, and the boy's voice is that person. They said that the winter solstice is a few days away, you are cold, why don't you go to his mutton soup shop for a bowl of mutton soup, she said shyly, how embarrassing that is, In the end, the boy said that he was embarrassed, he called all the other classmates, and you are the only one who is missing... pissed off!
For example, the person running on the track over there, because it was dark and far away, she saw the boy excitedly saying that maybe in a few years the country will re-enter the Olympic Games, he wants to win glory for the country, and now he will start exercising and running!As a result, after running for a few days, he gave up again, and said conclusively that he didn't know what year it would be. By then, he would be an old man, and the country definitely didn't need him, so let's rest.

For example, when he saw the students practicing chorus there, he ran over excitedly and said that there was an opera troupe in the county yesterday, and the Kunqu opera they sang was really good. Go learn it, and sing it to her when you learn it. She smiled and said yes, but the matter disappeared within a few days.

What a stupid boy who likes to mess around.

He always has all kinds of strange ideas and likes to toss a lot of things, but every time it is only 3 minutes of enthusiasm, he gets bored quickly and then gives up.

But every time, the girl would tell him, you can do it, I believe you can do it.

She was weak and sickly since she was a child, her body could not stand a little bit of tossing, and she would be out of breath when she moved, so she could only look at him from the side, seeing him like a sun, full of endless vitality, warm by his side.

Obviously things have changed here, and there is no trace of the past everywhere, why is that person's shadow everywhere in her eyes.

Who is the ghost? Why is he lingering? It turns out that memory is like brown candy stuck to the sole of your shoe. After sticking to it, you can’t kick it away. The more you walk, it’s on the sole of your shoe. The stronger it sticks, the more you step on it and you think it's gone. Wait until you look at the sole of the shoe, oh!It has been covered with chicken feathers and fallen leaves, and it can't be peeled off.

As she saw more, the girl remembered more memories about that person, and his appearance became clearer and clearer.

Beautiful, infuriating, regrettable, belly laughing.

That happened 60 years ago, in the same space, but in a different time and space.

"Do you know a man named Li Quansheng?"

The girl suddenly asked the wind for no reason.

Feng Wuli shook his head, expressing that he had no impression of the name.

"We are students of this school, so you are still my junior."

He chatted with her.

It turned out that the letter she was waiting for was a letter from a boy.

A love story between an old lady and a grandfather.

"It's not an old woman. You see, I'm still a big girl now. I'm not an old woman anymore."

The boy said that this battle must be fought. Now the international relations of the country are very tense. Without the trust of the Soviet Union, industrialization will be even more difficult to start. The two superpowers are eyeing each other. The place where you lie down, how can you allow others to spy on you.

She doesn't understand.

"There are so many people. You are a frail scholar. You are not allowed to go!"

He was silent and didn't say a word.

She was very angry, but she could only be anxious, grabbed his arm, and begged him over and over again not to go.

"You are just a whim, you are a person who can't do anything well, what do you have to persevere, you are passionate about everything for 3 minutes, you can't suffer, no, you can't, you are just talking Right, just like before, just like before, just talking to me!"

"Don't go!"

She burst into tears.

Just like in the past, every time I'm excited, wouldn't it be good to give up soon?

"I like everything to be popular in 3 minutes, but there are two things that are not, one is my country."

He smiled and said, "I will write a letter back and leave the day after tomorrow. Can you send me off then?"

The girl turned and ran away.

On the day of departure, the boy stood on the train platform, waiting for a long time in the vast crowd.

He used to like to fiddle with everything in the past, but he couldn't hold on to anything for long. He just talked about everything verbally, like being an athlete and going to practice running. After running for two days, it was nothing. In this way, that girl will support herself with a smile every time, saying that you can do it.

It was the first time he had something he had to do, but she said for the first time, you can't do it.

What a failure.

He scratched his head, the train was about to leave, but she didn't come.

He still has something to say to her.

One is my country and the other is you.

It seems that there is no chance to say it.

The train whistled and roared away.

What he didn't know was that the girl was going to see him off at the platform that day.

She also wore light makeup and the most beautiful clothes.

As a result, on the day I went, I stumbled and fell into the pond, and it was wet when I came up.

That winter was very cold, as cold as this year, the north wind was like a knife, the sky was dark, the wind was strong, and it snowed.

I have to go to the train station quickly, my makeup is all over, and my most beautiful clothes are wet, it's really embarrassing to send him off like this.

"Sister Tuo! You said that the bus just left! Why is my whole body wet!"

The person on the platform told her so.

She was short of breath, dripping with water, and left the platform tick-tock.

This stupid appearance really can't make you look any better.

It's just that the girl has been weak and sick since she was a child. She had a high fever that winter, and she didn't wait for the spring, and she didn't wait for the letter.

Feng Wuli pushed the bicycle all the way to the school gate, and was almost at the security booth. The old woman followed while talking, that was her past memory.

"Li Quansheng... want me to help you find this person?"

"no need."

She said with a smile, her smile was full of youth, probably because no one else could see her, so she wanted to talk unreasonably with the wind.

After I finished speaking, I was relieved.

"I let you chat with me for so long, but it's just some boring past events."

After finishing speaking, she no longer followed behind, Feng Wuli looked back, she stood in front of the security booth and stopped following, waving to him.

He stopped waving, just nodded veiledly, and rode his bicycle into the vast night.

"Uncle Li, the shift has changed."

Someone came to replace him in the security booth. It was cold, and Lao Li had just dozed off. It seemed that someone called his name vaguely. It turned out to be Xiao Zhao, who was the substitute.

He smiled and said, "Oh! The shift has changed, hey!"

"Master, you are getting old, you should take a rest."

"Damn! It's not that I'm a hothead. You let me go home and sit. I can't sit still for 1 people. How nice it is to be here. It's so interesting to watch these young people."

"It's cold, sir, keep warm."

"Row!"

Lao Li walks with a slight limp. I heard that he went to the battlefield when he was young, and his right leg was injured, but his bones are very strong. He looks like he is in his 20s and [-]s when he is in his [-]s. He has been a security guard for more than [-] years. I passed him many times, and he said he could still run and jump, and he didn't want to go home and sit around.

Lao Li put a felt hat on his forehead, straightened his hat, wrapped his coat tightly, and limped out of the security booth into the night. It hadn’t snowed yet, but it was already very cold. That winter It seems to be so cold.

Lao Li lives next to the school, and lives with his nephew who is the vice principal. As he said, he can't be idle, and now he doesn't want to go home and sit after get off work.

Just walking in the school, and walking to the head of the old banyan tree.

As soon as the evening wind blows, the sound of leaves is like waves. Occasionally, some students pass by, and before the evening self-study, people are in a hurry.

He sat in front of the tree, smiling like an old chrysanthemum on his face full of gullies, took a small wine bottle from his clothes pocket, took a sip to drive away the cold, and sat there with his hands in his hands, like many years ago Same.

"All over the green hills~the hoofs are red~the cuckoo~"

He hummed in an old, dry, dry voice.

Among them, there seemed to be children who were misbehaving in the countryside;

"Peony~although it's good~he's coming back in spring~how can I take it first!"

The song "A Dream in the Garden" is all out of tune, it's terrible, and it turns out that this person can't do well no matter what.

Under the night, two young men came, a boy with a bad face, his body was so dirty that he thought he was rolling in the mud, and a girl in a white lamb suit.

The two of them quietly listened to the Kunqu opera sung by the old uncle.

……

Feng Wuli was riding his bicycle, and just at the intersection of the school, he saw a Xiao Xilou standing in the cold wind with his face in his pocket and his face stinky.

"Why are you here?"

"Just passing by... Didn't I say I'm working here? Are you listening to me in your head?"

"Go back together? Shall I drive you back?"

Chifu reluctantly sat on the back of his bicycle, and the little girl sat sideways, after thinking about it, she still hugged his waist.

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PS: In the end, the company duo appeared because the girl (Wandering Soul) was standing next to Uncle Li, scolding him for not being able to do anything well in his life, and all the songs he sang were out of tune.

(End of this chapter)

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