dhibooks Chapter 39
Chapter 39
The next morning, Yu Xi woke up very early. After being a student for so many years, she has already developed a biological clock.
After thinking about it, she got up on time and cleaned the billiard hall inside and out.
Although the boss has already run away, the billiard hall will not open again, and there are not many people in Zhuzhen who are willing to do this business, so it is estimated that no one will take over.
Maybe after a while, this billiard hall will be like the abandoned warehouse where Yu Xi did his homework in high school, covered in dust.
After Yu Xi finished cleaning, she moved a chair and sat in front of the billiard hall to read English. She knew that her spoken English was not good, and Zhu Zhen didn't have a good English teacher to teach her.
But she sat for a long time without turning a page in the English book.
She didn't know what she was waiting for.
Until a sound of footsteps approached, Yu Xi raised her head in a daze.
It was Zhou Qi who came, seeing Yu Xi's expression, he was startled: "What's wrong?"
Yu Xi shook his head: "Nothing."
The disappointment in her heart was because she knew it wasn't Jiang Yi when she heard the footsteps just now.That bit of confusion is because, is she still waiting for Jiang Yi?
What a joke.
Zhou Qi smiled and shook the two pieces of paper in his hand: "Then shall we evaluate the score?"
Yu Xi: "OK."
Both of them are academic masters, in fact, they are pretty good at answering the college entrance examination papers. Facing the standard answers brought by Zhou Qi, they can quickly estimate their scores.
Yu Xi's face was as cold as usual.
Zhou Qi couldn't tell whether she was good or bad in the exam, so he asked cautiously, "How is it?"
Yu Xi: "General."
Zhou Qi thought, no wonder there was no smile on his face.
But he really wanted to know which university Yu Xi would go to, so he still cruelly sprinkled salt on Yu Xi's wound: "Generally...how much?"
Yu Xi expressionless: "About 650."
Zhou Qi: "..."
This is basically close to the score of the provincial champion, okay?Facing such a college bully, I was worried about her being a ghost!
Yu Xi asked Zhou Qi again: "How are you?"
Regardless of whether Yu Xi was out of politeness or not, Zhou Qi was still quite happy: "I should be in my early 600s."
Yu Xi nodded, and it was considered normal.
"I want to go to Master Bei." Zhou Qi glanced at Yu Xi: "What about you? Or Beihang?"
Yu Xi: "Yes."
At least, both of them are still in the same city.
Just when he was thinking this way, Yu Xi suddenly asked: "Are you going to find a girlfriend after you go to college?"
Zhou Qi was dumbfounded: "Huh?"
Yu Xi: "Tell me, what exactly does it mean to like someone?"
Zhou Qi looked at Yu Xi.
He is not stupid, and now he also understands that Yu Xi asked this question not because of him, he smiled: "It is in the future plan, she will be there every day."
His face was slightly red, but he bravely looked into Yu Xi's eyes.
This is already the most blazing confession an introverted young man can make. If the other party intends, it is actually obvious enough.
But Yu Xi just let out an "oh" and lowered her eyes.
Zhou Qi smiled silently.
He didn't know what Yu Xi was thinking, but obviously, it had nothing to do with him.
******
What Yu Xi was thinking was that she agreed with Zhou Qi's answer.
Loving someone means having her every day in the future plan.
But last night she said she couldn't go to school, she would go wherever Jiang Yi went, why was Jiang Yi so angry?
Maybe she is really just an insignificant child in Jiang Yi's eyes. She is new at first, but gets annoying after getting too involved.
After Zhou Qi left that day, what was she still doing sitting at the door of the billiard hall.
Tanned like a fool.
Until noon, another wave of footsteps approached her.
She raised her head quietly, and already knew that it was Shu Xing.
"Are you studying English?" Shu Xing smiled as usual, "Shall we go up the mountain?"
Yu Xi quickly glanced behind Shu Xing.
Because of the sudden rainstorm last night, it was even hotter today. The cicadas on the trees squeaked loudly. It seemed that invisible heat waves could be seen on the stone road, rushing towards people in waves.
So, there is no one on the road.
Of course, there was no such figure that Yu Xi was expecting.
Yu Xi stood up and closed the English book: "Let's go."
She took Shu Xing up the mountain.
After walking on the mountain road for more than a week, Shu Xing is much more proficient than before.On the way, when Shu Xing pointed out a plant to her, she wanted to ask, "What is Jiang Yi doing today?"
When Shu Xing pointed out a butterfly to her, she wanted to ask, "What is Jiang Yi doing today?"
When Shu Xing showed her a petal floating in the stream, she wanted to ask, "What is Jiang Yi doing today?"
But she bit her lower lip sullenly.
I scolded myself in my heart: Don't ask, you're useless.
The time on the mountain was the same as every day, Shu Xing drew pictures, and she did Mathematical Olympiad questions.
Until Shu Xing got tired of painting, Qianqian stretched her waist: "Would you like to come and see my painting?"
Yu Xi opened her mouth, but what she wanted to say was "I don't like painting", but a sentence came out of her mouth: "What is Jiang Yi doing today?"
It seems that this sentence has already flowed from my heart to my throat, and it has been stuck there, and I can't wait to come out when I open my mouth.
Shu Xing quickly lowered his head: "She didn't do anything."
Yu Xi: "Oh."
Just when she felt that the conversation could not go on, Shu Xing raised his head to look at her: "Sister Yi is gone."
Yu Xi was stunned.
A dragonfly flew over and landed on her disheveled hair.
******
In fact, Yu Xi didn't understand what Shu Xing meant at first.
"Where did it go?" she asked.
She thought that Jiang Yi left Zhuzhen temporarily to go somewhere, such as going to the city to pay back the money from the person last time, or to buy something.
Shu Xing said, "I don't know where I went, I just left."
Yuxi blinked.
Shu Xing said: "She left Zhuzhen and will never come back."
Yu Xi digested this fact.
"Did she go to another town to find a job?" Yu Xi asked.
"Maybe." Shu Xing held the paintbrush in his hand and tapped on his fingers, looking a little irritable: "You don't want to wait for her, do you?"
Yu Xi thought for a while and asked again: "How do you know she won't come back?"
Shu Xing threw the paintbrush into the pen container: "Zhuzhen's billiard hall is gone, why is she back?"
There was no smile on her face at all. In fact, she seldom didn't smile, but now she looked very conflicted.
She asked Yu Xi again: "You don't want to wait for her, do you?"
Yu Xi said: "I won't wait for her."
Shu Xing heaved a sigh of relief.
Yu Xi said: "I'll go find her."
Shu Xing immediately stared at her: "Are you crazy?"
Yu Xi lowered his head and smiled.
Jiang Yi once said this to her.Why did both of them say she was crazy?
Could the whole world see that she was the daughter of a madwoman?
But be crazy.
She raised her head and said calmly to Shu Xing, "I will find her."
Shu Xing: "Where did you find it?"
"A nearby town." Yu Xi said, "There is a billiard hall nearby, but there is no 4G network. Jiang Yi said that she doesn't like the Internet."
This is a pretty clear point.
Ke Shuxing said with certainty, "You can't find her."
Yu Xi: "Why?"
Shu Xing picked up the paintbrush again and tapped it on his fingers, looking very irritable: "There are so many people, you want to find someone like looking for a needle in a haystack, where is it so easy to find?"
"If you can't find it..." Yu Xi smiled calmly: "Just keep looking."
******
After this conversation, evening came.
The two went down the mountain in silence.
Yu Xi helped Shu Xing carry the drawing board and walked to the door of Jiang Yi's rental house.
She asked Shu Xing, "Can I go in and have a look?"
Shu Xing nodded.
Yu Xi followed Shu Xing in.
There was no difference in the room from when Jiang Yi was there, a narrow and small folding bed, an old cardboard box piled aside, and Jiang Yi's colorful skirts, all piled up in a mess.
Yu Xi asked: "Did she not take these skirts?"
Shu Xing said, "Maybe she wants to start over."
It's not surprising, Yuxi knows Qiumei a little bit now, every skirt that looks revealing is actually their "battle suit", the quality is very poor and cheap, just wear it in a fashionable way, It's normal to change every season.
Yu Xi asked again: "Didn't she leave me any words?"
Shu Xing: "No."
Yu Xi wandered around the room, and she followed behind Yu Xi, with her hands behind her back where Yu Xi couldn't see, her nails digging into her palms.
"She didn't tell you where she was going?" Yu Xi felt that this was the most unreasonable point: "Aren't you very familiar?"
Shu Xing said: "I'm not that familiar, Sister Yi is actually not that familiar with anyone."
Yu Xi: "Oh." Then said: "It's okay."
After she accepted the fact that Jiang Yi had left, she felt that it was nothing.
If she couldn't find someone, she kept looking until she found it.
This is her ruthlessness and also her stubbornness.
"I'm going first," she said.
"Wait." Shu Xing called to stop her: "I have something to tell you."
Yuxi turned to look at her.
Shu Xing: "I'm leaving too, staying one more day is to say goodbye to you."
Yu Xi remembered: "Didn't Jiang Yi say that you would stay for two weeks?"
Shu Xing: "The sketches are almost saved, and I have something to do when I go back to Beicheng, so I moved ahead of time."
In fact, there is nothing wrong with her going back to Beicheng. It was her cousin who called her last night and asked her to follow Ye Xingzhou back to Beicheng immediately. Don't stay in Zhuzhen and cause more trouble. Walk.
She really wanted to say goodbye to Yu Xi, so she asked, "Shall we have dinner together tonight?"
Yu Xi: "Yes."
"I invite you." She asked Shu Xing: "If you're not too hungry, can we eat later?"
"I'm not hungry." Shu Xing asked, "But what do you want me to eat?"
"Jiang Yi's favorite fried noodles shop is a supper stall, so we have to wait." Yu Xi turned around after speaking.
Shu Xing asked, "Where are you going?"
"Go find someone, I'll pick you up later." She left in a hurry.
******
After Yu Xi left, Shu Xing slowly sat down by the bed.
She slowly stretched her hand under the pillow, the place where Jiang Yi hid his cell phone before.
The mobile phone has been taken away by Jiang Yi, and it is the only thing Jiang Yi took away from the whole room.
Originally, other things in this room had nothing to do with the real Jiang Yi.
The place where the mobile phone was originally hidden is now hiding a letter.
It's a bit of an exaggeration to say it's a letter. To be precise, it's a thin piece of paper.
Before Jiang Yi left last night, she hastily wrote a secret message to Shu Xing, asking her to hand it over to Yu Xi.
The handwriting on it was sloppy, and there were only three lines in total:
"I'm not the person you think, don't look for me, go to your school."
Shu Xing said "yes" at the time.
But after Jiang Yi left, she hid the piece of paper.
******
After Yu Xi came out of Jiang Yi's house, she first went to find Xiao Wu.
In Zhuzhen, even the punks can't do anything tricky.It was night now, Xiao Wu and a bunch of punks were squatting on a broken wall, smoking, doing nothing.
Yu Xi put his hands in his jeans pockets, stood still some distance away, and shouted from a distance: "Chen Wu."
The punks glanced this way and booed collectively: "Hey, Brother Wu, a girl is looking for you!" Someone even whistled at Yu Xi.
Yu Xi ignored her with a cold face.
Xiao Wu blushed to stop them: "Don't make trouble." He stamped out his cigarette butt and ran towards Yu Xi: "Why did you come to me?"
Yu Xi really didn't know how Xiao Wu could be a gangster when he was so shy, and felt that Jiang Yi looked at Xiao Wu differently.
She asked: "Did Jiang Yi come to see you yesterday?"
Xiao Wu was stunned: "Why did Sister Yi take the initiative to find me?"
Yu Xi: "Because you proposed to her."
Xiao Wu's face became even redder: "How do you know?"
Yu Xi thought to himself that my eyes are fixed on Jiang Yi every day, so there is something I don't know.
Xiao Wu smiled: "She has already rejected me."
This time Yu Xi was a little surprised: "Really?"
During these days in the billiards hall, she also learned about Qiu girls that even if they faced customers who were unwilling to accept them, they would not reject them explicitly, but hang on to them.
Xiao Wu smiled: "Is it because I am too toad to eat swan meat? It was only two days after I proposed, but Sister Yi found someone else and rejected me. Let me stop messing around and find a good girl." .”
Xiao Wu remembered Jiang Yi's appearance that day: "The mouth is painted so red, there is a cigarette in the mouth, the whole person is leaning against the edge of the pool table, the waist is so soft, leaning, beautiful and cool."
Yuxi turned around and left.
"Hey, why did you leave?" Xiao Wu stopped her: "Why did you come to me and ask this?"
Yu Xi turned back calmly: "Jiang Yi is gone."
Xiao Wu was stunned: "What do you mean by leaving?"
"Just leave Zhuzhen."
"Is it because the pool hall is closed?" Xiao Wu asked, "Where did she go?"
"No one knows." Yu Xi asked, "Will you go find her?"
Xiao Wu obviously hesitated.
Yu Xi smiled: "I will."
"I'll go find her."
******
After bidding farewell to Xiao Wu, Yu Xi went to find Xiao Mei again.
"Sister Yi left?" Xiaomei was equally astonished as Xiaowu: "Has she gone to another town to find a job?"
"I don't know." Yu Xi asked, "Did she come to see you yesterday?"
"No." Xiaomei: "But Shu Xing came to see me today, saying that Sister Yi asked her to come, and gave me 8000 yuan."
It happened to be the money for sister Xiaomei's operation.
"I asked Sister Yi why she didn't come, and she said that Sister Yi was very busy, and she didn't say that Sister Yi left." Xiaomei was a little confused when she said that: "Sister Yi left? How can I pay back the money? "
Yu Xi: "You save up first."
Wait until I find Jiang Yi.
She turned away.
******
When Yu Xi turned back to the rental house to find Shu Xing, Shu Xing was already waiting for her downstairs.
Yu Xi walked over: "Let's go."
Shu Xing nodded: "Okay."
Yu Xi took Shu Xing to the fried noodle stand.
The billiard hall suddenly closed down, and the fried noodle stall's business became even worse. I don't know how long it can last like this.
Yu Xi called the boss: "Two bowls of fried noodles, plus bean sprouts, ham sausage and fat sausage."
It is the luxurious version that Jiang Yi likes.
Shu Xing and Yu Xi sat on the plastic stool and waited together. During the week in Zhuzhen, she got used to this oily plastic stool a little bit.But when the boss brought over the fried noodles, she was still shocked: "So much?"
A white plastic bag covered a stainless steel plate, which was full of vegetables, meat and fried noodles, piled up like a hill.
Shu Xing asked: "Sister Yi likes this?"
Yuxi nodded.
Shu Xing took a sip, and it was oily.
She asked again: "Sister Yi can finish this portion?"
Yu Xi nodded again.
The expression on Shu Xing's face was obviously shocked.
Yu Xi asked: "What's wrong?"
Shu Xing said: "Sister Yi didn't eat this kind of food very much in Beicheng before, and she couldn't eat so much."
"She's in Zhuzhen..." Shu Xing picked up fried noodles: "How should I put it, it's quite different."
She looked up at Yu Xi: "But no matter what, she's gone."
Yu Xi let out a "hmm".
Shu Xing: "You just went to the town to ask around, does anyone know where Sister Yi has gone?"
Yu Xi didn't deny it.
Shu Xing said, "No one will know."
Yu Xi asked: "How do you know?"
Shu Xing: "Because Sister Yi just made up her mind to leave and didn't intend to let anyone find her."
Yu Xi suddenly remembered that Xiao Mei once said that ball girls like them, like duckweed, count wherever they float, so they don't have heart-to-heart relationships with anyone. Leaving a place means disappearing forever.
So Jiang Yi left so suddenly, was it because of her nature, or because she owed money and ran away because she lost her job, or because what Yu Xi said last night was suspected of relying on her?
Yu Xi didn't know either.
"Now you know it's hard for you to find Sister Yi." Shu Xing asked, "Are you still looking for it?"
Yu Xi ate fried noodles, her cheeks bulged, and she nodded quickly.
Shu Xing hesitated to speak: "What are you looking for her for?"
Yu Xi thought about it, but she actually didn't know what she could do if she found Jiang Yi.
At least she wanted to ask Jiang Yi——what was it like to leave so suddenly?
"Hello." Shu Xing called her, and she recovered.
The bowl of fried noodles in front of Shu Xing didn't move much, he looked at Yu Xi with his chin on his hands: "I'm going back to Beicheng tomorrow morning."
"How to get there? By bus?"
"Someone is coming to pick me up."
Yu Xi nodded: "The journey is smooth."
Shu Xing suddenly smiled: "Sister Yi is gone, and you said you were going to find her. Then I'm gone, will you also go to find me?"
Yu Xi said: "No."
"Hey, Wood." Shu Xing smiled: "You know it hurts to be so blunt?" She took out a piece of paper from her pocket: "Here is for you."
It's funny to say that she draws too much, and the drawing paper she brought is used up, and in Jiang Yi's rental house, there is only an old notebook thrown there by some tenant. On the cover is an old-fashioned retro calendar girl. The paper is all yellowed.
Jiang Yi's message to Yu Xi was torn off a piece of paper from this book and written hastily.
The paper she is handing to Yu Xi now is also torn from this book, with her mobile phone number written on it.
Such consistency is like a joke of fate.
Yu Xi said, "No need."
Shu Xing held the piece of paper and smiled: "Let me ask you, what if you can't find Sister Yi for the rest of your life?"
Yu Xi's calm tone seemed to be saying something very logical: "Then look for it forever."
At such a young age, Shu Xing said that he did not know how important it was to find a lifetime confession, but it strengthened Shu Xing's mind - he did not want to give Yu Xi the note left by Jiang Yi.
Everyone thinks that young love is glass candy, which will be smoothed and dusted in the years to come.
At that time, Shu Xing already had a premonition——
Yuxi's liking, if you say a lifetime, is a lifetime.
Shu Xing lowered his head, took another mouthful of oily fried noodles, and thought: Is this Jiang Yi's favorite taste?
People like Jiang Yi are like an outlier in Shu Xing's overly smooth life. Shu Xing can be compared with anyone, but Jiang Yi is the only one who can't see through.
That's why she followed Jiang Yi's line of sight to follow Yu Xi, and that's why she wanted to snatch Yu Xi from Jiang Yi.
Why does such a pure liking belong to someone like Jiang Yi?
Should not be.
After eating fried noodles, Shu Xing asked the boss for a pen, and held Yu Xi's hand.
Yu Xi: "Hello..."
"Don't move." She pulled Yu Xi's hand in front of her. Since Yu Xi didn't want that piece of paper, she simply lowered her head and wrote down her mobile phone number: "After you arrive in Beicheng, you will find troublesome things, which are more troublesome than you imagined." Much more."
"Remember to find me then, huh?"
Yuxi withdrew his hand.
Shu Xing looked at her and said, "Then, Yu Xi, see you later."
Yu Xi: "Goodbye."
She turned away.
******
When Shu Xing was packing up in the rental house that night, Yu Xi was also packing up.
After tidying up, she went to take a shower.
Only then did she catch a glimpse of a string of blue numbers written on her hands.
Forget it all.
As soon as the water was flushed, the string of blue numbers became lighter and lighter, and disappeared with the gurgling water.
******
At the end of June, the day when the college entrance examination scores are awarded.
The score check started in the early morning, Zhou Qi stood by the phone, his hands shaking a little.
When his mother passed by, he said, "Go to bed early, and check tomorrow."
His father also said: "If you do well in the exam, you will honor your ancestors. If you don't do well in the exam, it doesn't matter."
Grades are not valued so much in Zhu Town.
Zhou Qi raised his head and smiled, and found that his lips were trembling too.
In fact, after checking the answers last time, he estimated his score to be close to ten, but he still couldn't help being nervous, always afraid that something unexpected would happen.
He also thought of Yu Xi's always clear and indifferent face, so pretty without any expression.
He admired Yu Xi a little, as if he was born with a big heart.
Zhou Qi stared at the clock on the wall, the second hand paused, and finally jumped to twelve o'clock.
He grabbed the phone and dialed with trembling fingers.
The score came out, 604 points, only two points away from his own estimate.
When Zhou Qi put down the phone, his heart was still beating wildly.
He wanted to yell, he wanted to yell, he couldn't wait to share his joy with others, but when he glanced at his parents' room, they were already asleep.
Eventually he jumped up and ran out the door.
******
Zhou Qi ran all the way to the billiard hall.
Usually he doesn't come to the billiards hall very often. Firstly, his handsome and weak image with glasses doesn't match the billiard hall. Secondly, he knows that Yu Xi is not interested in him, and he is afraid that going too much will cause trouble.
But this is a happy moment, Yu Xi should have done better than him in the exam.
The handsome young man ran all the way to the entrance of the billiard hall, holding his hands on his knees and panting.
He was stunned.
The rusty rolling gate of the billiard hall was tightly locked, and a thick layer of dust had accumulated on the lock, as if it hadn't been opened for many days.
He knew about the fact that the owner of the billiard hall was running away, and he also knew that the girls were owed wages and had nowhere to ask for salary, and the billiard hall had long been closed.
But he knew that Yu Xi had been living here all the time, and the owner of the billiard hall was not in the town. This period of time was a window of time when no one was looking after him, so he took it for granted that Yu Xi had always lived here.
But Yuxi isn't here?Where can she go?
Is there any place in town for him?
The boy straightened up slowly, unable to think of an answer.
The author says:
感谢在2022-05-0414:40:09~2022-05-0516:43:58期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~
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