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Chapter 5 The End of Summer in Seamounts ([-])
Yan Yu slowly raised his foot that was on Li Sansi's face, lightly brushing off the dust on his clothes, swayed past Liu Zhengxian, and said to Xie Hu and Duan Qishan, "Let's go."

Liu Zhengxian's face turned red and white, and his anger was about to break out, but he was suppressed by the reason that followed.

Li Sansi was supported by Lin Qing'er to stand up straight, and raised his blood-stained face. The halo on the horizon seemed to be drifting slowly, and time seemed to be slowing down, step by step, faltering at a speed that no one could detect. And walk, slowly flowing through the years, burning youth.

In the corner of the field, an overturned football was blown by the wind, and there were no distinct black and white spots, like a desolate warrior who had discarded his helmet and armor, rolling back and forth lonely against the dust, mourning the distant disappearance years of passion.

Lin Qing'er's tearful eyes gradually blurred with the surrounding sounds, until the whole world had degenerated to a pitch-black origin, and then slowly expanded, sharpened, and cleared.

For a moment, Lin Qinger's sobbing, the sound of Yan Yu's group chatting and laughing on the plastic floor "cha, cha" and leaving, Liu Zhengxian's face was blushing, and there was a constant humming and haha ​​sound coming from his throat. The elements all drilled into Li Sansi's ears accurately again, catalyzing into a kind of inexplicable self-blame and sorrow, "Why am I so weak! Why!"

Liu Zhengxian's low voice rang in Li Sansi's ears, "Which grade and class are you in, why are you fighting!"

Recognizing Li Sansi who was groaning and not chewing, Liu Zhengxian seemed to have found a step that he could go down, straightened his back, and said in a louder voice: "So it's you! Li Sansi, you just entered the school How did you guarantee it in front of your parents? If it weren’t for the sincerity of your parents, with your grades last year, I really wouldn’t let you in. Let your parents come to the school tomorrow. .”

Hearing the words "please parents", Li Sansi's body shook slightly.

All of this was seen by Lin Qing'er. In her impression, Li Sansi's parents were two very good people. His mother was a bit irritable. Like her own mother, she always belonged to the character of menopause, while his There was always a smile on his father's face, and every day when he went to school, he could hear his father calling Li Sansi kindly, "Sansi, hurry up, Qing'er is waiting for you, why isn't there a girl doll who moves quickly."

Judging from the attitude of his parents, he probably regards himself as his future daughter-in-law.Thinking of this, Lin Qing'er smiled slightly.

Li Sansi's grades were never good, but his family had unlimited expectations for him. In this small sunny city, being able to go to Haishan No. [-] High School, a key middle school, was something that everyone in the neighborhood envied. And as long as their children can go to one of the three major middle schools in Haishan, the children seem to be on a broad road to success, so countless parents, with countless expectations, no matter what method they use, they must put themselves The children are sent to the three major high schools.

Li Sansi's parents were no exception. Li Sansi, who had always had poor grades in the entrance examination for junior high school graduation, was kicked out of the ranking list without any suspense.Since then, Li Sansi's parents have used all the connections at their disposal to ask for help everywhere, but they have been turned away countless times.

Later, because there were too many people who wanted to get into the three major high schools, a clear text in black and red was posted on the admission list of the three major high schools: the score for the upper line will be announced, and the difference will be divided into five points. Several grades, each grade indicates how much money needs to be paid, like a hotel nameplate through and through.However, the treatment is completely opposite to that of a hotel: the price of the room in the hotel is expensive, the air is fresh, there are water heaters, air-conditioning, TV dvd, soft high-end sofas, and all the services are nods, promises, and high quality.But the school is just the opposite. The more people who pay more, the more they are discriminated against inside, the more they nod and bow to the school management, and laugh with open faces, like a complete student slave.

Last year, the total score of the senior high school entrance examination in Haishan City was 660, and the upper-line score of No. 520 High School was 2000. For every five points difference, he had to pay 440 yuan for "school admission fee". However, Li Sansi got 80 in the most unfortunate test, which is far from the third high school. The difference is [-] points, which belongs to the highest level of payment, but the treatment suffered is the lowest level, and I am in an embarrassing state of holding money and begging others to accept it.

The high price of 32000 yuan fully emptied the parents' savings for many years. This is undoubtedly a devastating blow to this ordinary family whose parents are ordinary employees with a meager salary.

There was no need for sympathy, and no one to confide in. On the night of receiving the news of the failure, the mother and son hugged each other on the sofa and cried, soaking half of their clothes with tears, telling the many helplessness of life.This beautiful and bright town almost makes people forget the sadness, it seems that it is not always sunny.

"I don't know what your parents usually taught you, but now there is a student like you, it really shames our Haishan No. [-] Middle School!" Liu Zhengxian's unhurried voice rang in Li Sansi's ear again.

"Last year your mother came to my office to cry and begged me to forgive you for entering our Haishan No. [-] Middle School. Your mother begged me like that for you. You said you didn't study hard to repay them. What do you do every day, play? Play? Fight!?"

Li Sansi lowered his head and clenched his fists tightly, unable to see his expression.

"Ms. Liu, regardless of Li Sansi's affairs, the three of them beat Li Sansi around, and Sansi was only the one who was beaten." Lin Qing'er tried to defend herself.

"Don't talk too much! You stand aside. I can see what happened just now! I'm asking this person now, but I didn't tell you!" Liu Zhengxian gave Lin Qing'er a hard look, and continued to talk to Lin Qing'er. Li Sansi said: "I think you are just like your father. You are destined for the same life all your life and have no future. How about riding a mountain wheel after graduating from high school? I will take care of your business."

Liu Zhengxian seemed to have found a tool to vent his anger without fighting back. He vented the sulking from Yan Yu's group on Li Sansi without reservation.

"Your mother was crying at my place. In front of so many teachers in the office, how did you tell me to step down? Why did you cry at me? If you want to let it go, go to the principal's office. It's no use asking me! I see you and you Like mother, ignorant of current affairs!" Liu Zhengxian's mouth was splashing, his plump lips opened and closed up and down, appearing extremely uncoordinated due to the excessive speed.

"Oh!"

Lin Qing'er covered her open mouth, watching Li Sansi punching Liu Zhengxian's face in disbelief. The scene seemed to be controlled by a camera with old film. Li Sansi punched with determination in his eyes. , Liu Zhengxian's frightened face, the blood that spilled from his nose like tomato sauce, his obese body that fell backwards, the white clouds floating quietly in the sky, and the sudden and quiet wind in the air, everything was suddenly stopped and frozen, and then slowed down. to play step by step.And the muffled sound of the boxing echoed clearly on the playground of Haishan No. [-] High School that was filled with golden sunlight that evening.

Summer mornings always light up very quickly, even in the end of summer, the streets are scattered with scattered leaves at midnight, waiting for sanitation workers with long brooms to come .Six o'clock seems to be the boundary of the sky from light to dark, without a clear gradual process, like a magic trick, the dark sky before six o'clock is replaced by a bright curtain after six o'clock on time.The summer in Haishan City is like this, as if agreed by two mischievous gods in charge of time and space, in this small town that has gone through wind and frost but never appeared in the history books, there is a silent story that has been quietly changing and lasted for thousands of years. drama.

Lin Qing'er will walk to the street entrance of the central garden on time at 5:[-], and meet Li Sansi who has been waiting there for about [-] minutes, walk through the central garden path full of palm groves on both sides, and then exit the garden in the Across the street, there was a small shop selling freshly ground coffee, and I took the bus to school in front of the platform. This kind of life continued for three years as usual.

Three years ago, Li Sansi stood at the intersection for the first time and blushed with embarrassment. Now, Lin Qinger is walking alone on the forest path in the central garden with her schoolbag on her back. The light slowly travels through the palm trees, revealing the distant mountains shrouded in mist from time to time, and the peaks of the mountains are frozen with ice that cannot be melted even in summer.

Since that fight, it has been 30 or [-] days since he didn't show up at Huayuan Street as usual.Li Sansi, are you okay now? Why have you gradually become reticent? I am really afraid that in the future, I will never see the smile on your face again.

"I, I want to be with you like lovers." Walking on the forest path at sunset, Li Sansi suddenly turned his head and said to Lin Qing'er, the corners of his mouth were still bruised from the fight with the three of Yan Yu just now.

Lin Qing'er's pointed ears were pricked up, she couldn't believe it, Li Sansi, who punched her teacher just now and dragged her out of school, didn't seem to realize that she was about to face a catastrophe, so she could still treat her here Make such a big joke.

She thought it was ridiculous, but after seeing Li Sansi's serious expression in a blink of an eye, Lin Qing'er abruptly stopped smiling. Li Sansi had never been serious before, and Li Sansi was always like a noisy child in normal times. What can make him sad, make people jealous, that smiling face that will not hesitate to anyone, makes Lin Qing'er who is so close to him always feel like bathing in the warm sunshine of summer, that This kind of comfort, that kind of intimacy, is like the wind gently embracing the whole body from behind in spring.

But now, he is very serious, his eyes are clear, like a child who is frank and waiting to be hugged by another heart or cut by a knife. I am in so much pain that I want to live, but I have to keep my eyes wide open, looking forward to a clear understanding.

I have an inexplicable feeling for Li Sansi, like being attached to an elder brother, and having a heart-to-heart like a friend.However, that is definitely not love. I know that it is definitely not love. True love has infinite admiration, romantic encounters, and the throbbing throbbing of getting along with him.Li Sansi, I don't feel this way about you. We are like good friends regardless of gender. We can laugh and fight together, hold hands and cry together, but we must never fall in love, because there is no fate or accident between us. , there is no intoxicating romance, no lingering fetters.

And you are not the Prince Charming of my dreams.

The night came up, the sky was light blue, and the starlight sprinkled on the two of them, as if they were covered with a layer of gauze.

After a while of silence, Lin Qing'er lowered her head and said, "Think twice, isn't it good for us to be friends?"

Li Sansi unconsciously kicked the small stones on the ground back and forth with his toes, only to hear his own voice saying, "Can't we go one step further, I want to be with you."

"Aren't we together?" Lin Qing'er smiled mischievously, but felt uneasy in her heart.

"It's different, many years later, many years, many years later, I will still be with you, let's get married!" Li Sansi summoned up unprecedented courage, and finally said all the words that had been in his heart for a long time. .

Lin Qing'er froze in place, whether she didn't expect Li Sansi to have such courage, or because she didn't know that this young man who was happy on the surface but could not see the slightest bit of sadness actually hid such deep emotions in his heart.Whether to continue to hesitate, or to accept the truest feelings in the heart of this passionate young man.

"I'm sorry to think twice that we can't be like that." Lin Qing'er just said that, the sky full of stars reflected on her face and body, making her look like a princess in silver gauze.

After a long period of silence, Lin Qing'er knew that in the conversation she and Li Sansi just had, the worlds of each other intertwined into two parallel lines that gradually drifted away, and they could never return to the origin, never to the beginning. .

But Lin Qing'er didn't know that many years later, in the middle of the night with the same starry sky, "Many years later, I will still be with you, let's get married!" When she was wearing a nightgown and looking up at the railing, when she looked up inadvertently, when she was looking at the lights of fishermen in the distance by the sea, and every night when she looked up at the starry sky, she burst into tears.

When Li Sansi went home that night, Lin Qing'er heard a clear slap outside the door, followed by Li Sansi's father's roar and his mother's crying, "My parents worked so hard for you to go to school, what did you repay us? Fighting? Still hitting the teacher!?" After that, she couldn't hear anything, tears blurred Lin Qing'er's vision, she ran all the way home, and fell asleep under the quilt, this day was too long and exhausting.

Li Sansi's incident is said to be quite big. Liu Zhengxian threatened that he would not forgive Li Sansi, and vowed to expel him from school and kick him out of school. Li Sansi's parents begged Liu Zhengxian many times overtly and secretly. The principal who never showed up also personally went to Liu Zhengxian to do ideological work. Due to the principal's face, Liu Zhengxian agreed not to argue with Li Sansi any more. I don't know what method Li Sansi's parents used to invite the principal. , Li Sansi never appeared at the intersection of the Central Garden Street where he had an appointment with Lin Qinger. During that time, the signature smile he used to have when he was in school was much less, and he became more and more taciturn. When I was secretly worried, the last month of summer passed by gently.

At the end of this summer, with the last bird song at dusk, the curtain is still unfinished and silently closed.

(End of this chapter)