i like you for many years

Chapter 6
She watched Gu Xicheng disappear at the end of the street from a distance, her whole heart was warmer than the sun.

It was also in that year that the relationship between Ah Bao and Qingchu developed very quickly. Maybe it was due to Qingchu's familiarity. Anyway, it didn't take long for Ah Bao to start calling him brothers.

Qingchu belongs to the very talkative type, which is somewhat similar to Gu Xicheng to some extent.Bao judged this way.And this kind of trait is mainly manifested in the summer vacation of the second year of high school, when Ah Bao made a fuss about going to Phoenix to play, none of her friends were willing to go crazy with her.

But only Qingchu stood up and said that he would go with her.

They sat together on the train without air conditioning, both of them were sweating profusely from the heat, but Qingchu never forgot to tell her jokes, take pictures of her, and carry her bags for her along the way.Abao successfully floated into the water while playing rafting. She jumped a few times in the water, and was about to subconsciously call Qingchu's name, but she saw him also fall into the water.

After he was rescued, before Ah Bao had time to laugh at him, Qingchu scooped up a handful of water and splashed it all over his face.

She instantly understood his intention.

When they returned to the stilted building they rented that day, both of them were drenched, but they couldn't be happier.Ah Bao asked him indiscriminately as if he was drunk, why are you so nice?

Qingchu didn't speak for a long time.

you caught a cold?A Bao teased him.

Because I like you.Qingchu suddenly said loudly.

A Bao was stunned.

That was the first time Qingchu confessed to her in memory.Of course, it's the only time.Against the backdrop of the mountains and rivers of the Tuojiang River, the young man in front of him is handsome, his wet hair is still dripping water, A Bao reached out to touch his forehead, wanting to ask him deliberately like on TV, "Do you have a fever", But felt his hands trembling.

I mean it, if you don't believe it, forget it.Qingchu laughed, and ran back to the room in a hurry.

Ah Bao actually didn't sleep well all night because of this.

In the middle of the night, she simply got up and sat in front of the window, looking at the lights outside the window, she thought of Gu Xicheng again.

Only then did she really feel what it was like to be liked by someone.She wondered if Gu Xicheng had noticed that she was secretly liking him.

Qingchu sent a text message at four o'clock in the morning, he said, don't think about it, I'm just joking with you.

Bao was moved.

There's no need to guess anything, he must be the same as her, too worried to sleep.Ah Bao sent a string of "hahahahaha, I know, why did you interrupt my dream", and walked down the steps he gave.

Early the next morning, the two went to buy breakfast with swollen eyes. Qingchu said, do you want steamed buns or steamed buns?Bao didn't respond.He bought two buns and stuffed them into her hands.

I don't want steamed stuffed buns, it's so unpalatable, I want steamed buns.Ah Bao said.

Give me the stuffing, the outer skin is just steamed buns.Qingchu raised his head triumphantly, as if he was proud of his "safe" choice, completely oblivious to the embarrassing recollection of the phrase "give me the stuffing" at Bao.

After a while.

Ah Bao finally decided not to bother with the thick Qingchu, broke open the bun, and squeezed the meat inside to him.

On the last day in Fenghuang, Ah Bao went to the post office to buy several postcards, filled them with Gu Xicheng's address, and mailed them out.

She didn't tell him what she met or what she played, but she just came to a new place and wanted to share this feeling with him.Fearing that he would not receive it, she wrote many sheets.

When Qingchu was waiting for her, he finally couldn't help asking, who is this writing for?

Abao looked at him with a smile, but didn't speak, the meaning of his expression seemed to be interpreted as the sound of the word "hum".Qingchu seemed to understand something.

Ah Bao finished all this and was ready to go on the road, but Qingchu stretched out the package to her without saying a word, here.

His implication was "take it yourself".

Ah Bao took the package angrily, and walked in front without looking back.They didn't say a word until they got on the train.Opposite Po on the train is an old woman with a kind face and a smile.The old grandma chatted with Abao one after another, chatting and talking about showing her palm reading.

Bao stretched out his hand.

Unexpectedly, the old grandma squeezed her hand tightly.Then he gave Qingchu a look with his eyes, and said, when arguing, boys should give way to girls.

As he spoke, he couldn't help but stuff A Bao's hand into Qingchu's palm.

Qingchu was taken aback at first, but then he also squeezed her tightly.

That was the only time they held hands - if it could be counted as holding hands.

Of course, soon, Ah Bao glared at Qing Chu angrily. Although she was embarrassed to lose her temper with the old grandma, she still managed to break away from the warmth of his palm.

She turned her head and looked at the scenery outside the window, not daring to look at him again.

After this time, Qingchu probably won't appear again.Po thought.

After getting off the train that day, it rained heavily, and Ah Bao hesitated for a few minutes, and finally decided to "go all out".But at this moment, Qingchu handed him his umbrella.

Before Ah Bao could react, he turned around and ran into the rain without saying anything.She was the only one left, holding the old folded umbrella, staring at his back in a daze.

Not even a word of farewell, not even "goodbye", do you want to see her again?A Bao guessed this way.

At the same time, she received a call from Gu Xicheng, who said that he would come back for the New Year during the winter vacation, and asked if she had any presents she wanted.Ah Bao was flattered immediately, although he hesitated to say, no, but he couldn't help jumping up and down with joy when he received a teddy bear T-shirt from him.

What makes her happy is that he didn't even buy the wrong size.

In the early hours of New Year's Eve, the sound of firecrackers rang in her ears, and the doorbell of Ah Bao's house rang. She went to open it in her pajamas, but it was Gu Xicheng.He asked, do you want to hang out together?
She quickly said, okay.

We went to the streets together to buy firecrackers and firecrackers, the kaleidoscopes we played with when we were young, and the rabbit lamps we wore on our heads.Gu Xicheng always walked in front, but he turned his head from time to time to check whether she was following safely.

At the corner of the street, Abao meets Qingchu.

She saw him from a distance. He brought a group of younger brothers and sisters out to play. When he saw her, he didn't pretend to be strangers.He came forward with a smile and said, Happy New Year, Po.

Happy New Year, Qingchu.

He took a last look at Gu Xicheng lightly.

In the second half of the third year of high school, Qingchu came to look for Ah Bao, and he smiled carelessly, as if he no longer cared about the past.He said, Bao, we are such good friends, it's a pity that we don't get in touch.

Ah Bao thinks about it too.

What's more, Qingchu's care is always meticulous. In fact, she also has a little bit of attachment.

It won't be long before the college entrance examination, and Ah Bao wants to move out of the school dormitory on a whim, and Qingchu takes this business as a matter of course.He said that he happened to have a friend who wanted to sublet the house, and the conditions were good, because he was in a hurry and it was cheap.

A Bao went to see the house and moved in readily.A pile of clothes, books, quilts, and things that little girls never leave are all piled up in a big box, and Qingchu goes to check them in on a bicycle.

The first two trips went very smoothly, and Ah Bao began to clean up and tidy up in the small room with peace of mind and satisfaction. On the last trip, Qingchu was sent directly to her house, and his mother received him.

But when he was carrying things upstairs, he accidentally fell down the stairs.

Lying on the hospital bed, Ah Bao stood by her side, and finally waited until he woke up in a daze, smiling at her.She looked at Qingchu's kind face, and tears fell down.

Although there was nothing serious about him, it was just a little skin trauma, and his wrist was dislocated but it was fixed.He kept saying to Abao, it’s okay, I’m going to be discharged from the hospital tomorrow for this minor injury, and I’ll continue to do my best to help you clean.

But the more he said this, the sadder Ah Bao became.

For the first time, she felt that Qingchu was really too kind to her.It's just that before, he didn't have enough room for expression.That's why she didn't realize it.

Qingchu's so-called "slight injury" recovered for a full month.

When he was finally able to look for A Bao again alive and kicking, she had already packed up her hut and said with a smile that she would treat him to dinner.Qingchu thought for a while, and said, okay, let's do spicy shabu-shabu.

That's Po's favorite food.

If Qingchu was a girl, Ah Bao thought, she would definitely stride forward to give him a hug, and tell him, you are so kind.

Unfortunately he is not.

They ordered a messy table of food, the vegetables were piled high, and the heat rushed into their faces.Ah Bao suddenly cried in the mist.She said, Qingchu, I have a secret to tell you, you can't tell anyone, we hook up.

Qingchu laughed at her as childish, but she still agreed.

She told him the secret about Gu Xicheng.

She said that she liked Gu Xicheng for two or three years, from a small infatuation in the past to a big longing later.But there is always a distance of three years between her and him.Time is caught in it, so that even if she tries hard to catch up with him every time, she still falls short.

Every time, just a little bit.

But he still left the school first. When she went, there was always a feeling of being absent.

So this time the college entrance examination, she still has to apply for his university.This time there was no time difference, and she believed that as long as she could go, he would be there waiting for her.

After Ah Bao finished speaking, he glanced at Qingchu, as if he had finally said the deepest thing in his heart, and he no longer felt so depressed.But Qingchu's expression made people feel in a trance.

She expected it.

However, she didn't want to lie to him.

The college entrance examination is coming soon.

Abao reported to Hangzhou, and Qingchu came to see her, insisting on seeing her volunteer form.In fact, she should have expected that a boy like Qingchu would not turn around and walk away just because of her confession.

He wrote the same wish as her.

The score requirements there are not too high, even though Ah Bao doesn't understand why Gu Xicheng went to Hangzhou for the test.According to his grades, he can go to a better place.

During the vacation, she finally couldn't hold back anymore and called Gu Xicheng. She said that she had received the admission notice, and that he couldn't escape the ending of "Swordsman" this time.

Gu Xicheng happily agreed on the phone, and told her to find him when she arrived.

She seemed to see the brightest light, shining brightly.

Qingchu came to her, and she also talked about "Swordsman" with him, and he said that, I played it too.Shall I tell you the ending?

Ah Bao shook his head desperately, no, I want to play till the end by myself.

At that time, Abao always faced Qingchu again and again and refused decisively.But after the story, no one can be the first to know.

She searched many Taobao stores, and finally chose the CD version of the game, inserted it into the CD drive, and it worked.And at the moment when he saw the familiar starting screen, Po felt sad.

Those memories that haven't been revealed for a long time, those longings that she suppressed not to get involved in, those feelings that she would say to herself "I'll wait for him" every time I think of Gu Xicheng for many years, all burst out at this moment come out.

She told herself, soon, Hangzhou is very close.

She and Qingchu bought tickets for the same day.

Qingchu said, with me here, you will definitely arrive safely.But she curled her lips, turned her head away, and said, I have someone to pick it up, so I won't lose it.

Gu Xicheng didn't come to pick her up that day.

He said that the school had something to do temporarily, and asked her if she would wait for him to finish, or come by herself.He was so thoughtful that he asked her specifically if she was alone.

But Ah Bao would not lie to him, so he had to say that she could go there by herself, with her classmates.

Gu Xicheng didn't reply anymore, probably because he was too busy.Bao comforted himself.

Although there will still be a little loss in my heart.

Along the way, Qingchu was still helping her with her luggage. He had a bunch of bags, but most of them were not her own.A Bao asked him why there were so few things, and he said with a smile, it's not because of you, I checked the luggage.

There was a slight shock in Abao's heart.

Thin, small, she hardly even noticed it herself.

She just suddenly felt that if she didn't ask about many things, she might never know them.

Of course, there are so many things in life that you can't even think about, so how can you ask them.

It's like, Gu Xicheng finally took her to the dormitory to beat "Swordsman Love 2" to the end.

Even though Ah Bao didn't understand love when he was a child, he wholeheartedly hoped that the hero and heroine would not be separated, that they would meet again soon, and that they would be together forever.

That is everyone's initial hope.

But at the end of the game, the male protagonist Yunfei who had defeated his greatest enemy Wanyan Honglie was about to kill him when Ruoxue suddenly rushed in.It turns out that Wanyan Honglie is Ruoxue's father, and Ruoxue's real name is actually Wanyan Ruoxue.Feiyun was hesitant for a moment, but at this moment tragedy happened. Wanyan Honglie, who fell to the ground, gathered all his strength to pat Feiyun behind him. Feiyun, who was listening to Ruoxue's story, was unguarded, and felt his body light and light in an instant. He took Ruoxue's hand and flew in the sky, flying higher and higher, farther and farther... At the end of the game, A Bao fell on the computer desk and burst into tears.

Gu Xicheng laughed at her stupidly, and said that although Feiyun died, his heart was still with Ruoxue.But Po got up and turned off the computer.

She couldn't tell why she was crying, it was like a premonition with no reason at all.

It's just that the ending that I took for granted before didn't happen.

What happened later confirmed that Bao's premonition was correct.

She really didn't know too many things, but she didn't ask about it.

For example, why Qingchu likes her.

For example, he gave her the long-planned iced tea.

For example, he skipped class to queue, but he didn't get the movie ticket for the movie that he agreed with her.

For example, Qingchu has liked her for a long time, since she didn't know his existence, just like she did to Gu Xicheng, perhaps, there is no reason why.And later, he accompanied her all the way to join the person she liked.

These are all mysteries.

By the way, there is one more.

It wasn't until the end of his freshman year that Ah Bao slowly realized that Gu Xicheng actually had a girlfriend who had been in love for many years. They were not in the same university, but they didn't lose contact because of this.At this time, Gu Xicheng was also approaching graduation.

From then on, there were still three years between her and him.

And from the beginning to the end, what he gave her was just the ending of a game.At the end, he seemed to be explaining to her that not every relationship works out the way it should, and that each one grieves in a different way.

She thought of Qingchu.

That boy followed her all the way from one city to another, no matter how far away, and no matter how incredible others thought it was, he was always smiling.He always told her to come to me if she needed anything.

Come to me if you need anything.

Many years later, Ah Bao discovered that this is the most beautiful promise in the world.

But time flies, how many years have passed, and five years have passed in the blink of an eye, the boy who was the best to her has disappeared now.She stubbornly didn't ask for his contact information when she graduated, and during the nearly four years of losing Gu Xicheng, she rarely went to Qingchu again.She always said to herself, the wound needs to be healed by one person.

Later, she bought a book by Lin Xi.

There is a paragraph on the last page of the book that reads: Even seeing the exit of a certain subway, we ran around like ants.Looking back suddenly at [-] kilometers, I photographed forever.Seeing that skyscraper, I can't photograph where we broke up, and I can't photograph the silk of tears.

(End of this chapter)