timeless

Chapter 28 Extra Story: Scorpio (2)
After getting off the bus with the crowd at the station, Yuzi ran into her mother at the door of the fruit shop that she had to pass on her way home.Seeing her, her mother greeted her quickly: "Come here and taste this longan. I've eaten it before. It's very sweet." After stuffing a piece of peeled fruit into the girl's mouth, she asked again, "How is it? Is it sweet? ?" Seeing Yuzi nodding, his mother shouted at the shopkeeper, "Pack two catties of longan!"

The girl stood aside and waited, the fruit she was chewing turned into a round core.She spat it out and took the heavy bag of fruit from the owner.

A bag of longan weighs two catties.

So how much is a memory?
No matter how hard Yuzi thought about it, he couldn't understand what sad things would happen to basketball.Murder?At most, it was an unbelievable plot of "picking up a ball on the road but getting into a car accident" and coaxing elementary school students not to play ball on the road, but soon she overturned her guess, and she decided that Yu Xinye was joking.

Either way it looks fake.

But if it is true, does this count as knowing his secret indirectly?
Yu Xinye's secret, the secret of not wanting to play basketball, is only known to her.

This problem directly caused the girl to be unhappy at the dinner table, without even touching her chopsticks, and finally sat on the sofa and continued to speculate while peeling longan.

Until after dinner, my mother called her with the handset: "Yuzi, it's Ningmei's call!"

Only then did the girl come to her senses, and reluctantly stood up to answer the phone: "Oh, here we come."

[six]
It is said that the growth of youth is wonderful.

Just like Yuzi originally hated discussing constellations with others, she was afraid that everyone would know her unbearable side as a Scorpio.But it's different now. She not only believes that Scorpio has such a gentle side, but sometimes she will put on an inexplicable smug smile when she thinks about it.

Before, she looked at Yu Xinye with probing eyes, but now there is more heat and anticipation that Yuzi himself has not noticed.

Yuzi felt that now he could gradually understand Ning Mei's behavior of deliberately falling in front of the boys.She just hoped that boys could focus on her, so she deliberately did this kind of behavior.

It was as if she wanted Yu Xinye to focus on herself all the time.

"Scorpio is ruled by Pluto, right?"

"Yes."

"The patron saint of Pluto is Charon?"

"Stupid, Charon is a satellite."

"This question is so simple, don't you know? Oh, bring it here, I'll help you write it."

"It's not very good, I can just write it myself."

"You're welcome!"

"I found a delicious dessert shop, let's go together after school, we are going the same way anyway!"

"Okay."

This is the first time that Yuzi has extended an invitation to a boy so bluntly and blatantly. She brazenly and carefully narrowed the distance between her and Yu Xinye, getting close to him.

Her efforts were not in vain.When one day she found that Yu Xinye had become more and more used to going home with her, he was polite and ambiguous to other girls, but he could only quarrel with her with vicious smiles and sly smiles, even in the middle of the night. After texting her until she fell asleep, Yuzi began to laugh.

In Yu Xinye's mind, he already has more and more sense of existence.

She thought it was a harbinger of success.

[seven]
Sometimes when I was laughing and playing with Yu Xinye, I would glance casually, and I would find that Ning Mei's thoughtful eyes not far away were falling on me.

But Yuzi will soon continue to laugh and joke with Yu Xinye as if nothing happened, as if he didn't see anything.

And there is always a vanity voice in my heart saying: "What are you looking at? If you have the ability to talk to him yourself."

There is a kind of elated pleasure.When she laughs with boys, she always has a natural sense of superiority, as if she is so powerful.

Yuzi felt that she had changed, became proud and vain, but she had a self-confidence that she didn't have before, and she seemed to shine overnight.She even used those eye-catching tricks that Ning Mei used before.She became a vulgar but proud girl.

All this was brought to her by Yu Xinye.

She handles this privilege carefully, trying not to do too much out of the ordinary.She was curious about the boy's past, but she was very measured not to touch his privacy too much.

She is the one who holds his secrets.

On weekends, Yuzi and Ningmei go shopping together.When going to the supermarket to buy snacks, Ning Mei suddenly asked Yuzi: "You and Yu Xinye have gotten very close recently."

"Ha, is it?" Yuzi raised his eyebrows quietly.

Seeing that she didn't respond, Ning Mei continued to probe: "Do you like him?"

"Where is there?" Yuzi absently tiptoed to get the goods on the shelf.

Seeing that Yuzi refused to admit it, Ning Mei didn't say anything else. She also turned her attention to the shelf in front of her: "It's fine if you don't have one. I'm still worried about you. Do you know why he dropped out of school?"

"You know?" Yuzi stopped raising her hand to reach for the products above, and she turned to look at Ning Mei.

"You don't know, do you? I heard about it too. He used to be on the basketball team. He had a good time with a girl when he was in the first and second grades of high school. That girl liked watching him play basketball very much. But later, the girl died. before him."

"Ah? Really or not!" Yuzi's mouth was opened in surprise, and the unbelievable expression on his face was clear at a glance.

"Of course it's true. He saw his classmate was killed by a car, so he was so stimulated that he dropped out of school." Ning Mei's expression was very proud, as if she knew some big secret, "I heard that he likes that person Girl, that's why I was stimulated."

"..." Yuzi's eyes rolled quickly.

"The person I like died in front of me, do you think this kind of person is too unlucky?" Ning Mei became more and more excited, "I don't think there is anything wrong with him, he still fights with girls, there is no pain at all What do you mean, he dropped out of school to avoid responsibility?"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Yuzi suddenly turned his face to stare into Ning Mei's eyes, "How familiar are you with him!"

[Eight]
Yu Xinye was suddenly called out by Yuzi.Seeing Yuzi's figure at the entrance of the alley, he quickened his pace and walked up, showing a relaxed smile: "Why are you looking for me?"

Yuzi looked at him: "Do you have someone you like?"

"What?" The boy froze for a moment.

"Do you like me?" Yuzi asked pretending to be nonchalant.

"..."

"I like you." Yuzi held back the tears rolling in his eyes.Although she already knew the answer, she still said, "You can see it?"

"En." The boy finally acquiesced.

"But you have someone you like, right? They say you killed the person you like, right? But even if you killed her, you still like her!" Yuzi shouted at Yu Xinye with all his might , Tears followed and fell.

"Don't do that." A complex look flashed in the boy's eyes.

Yuzi wiped away tears and looked into Yu Xinye's eyes.

"You knew from the beginning that I was not the gentle Scorpio you said. You knew from the beginning that I hated Ning Mei but still pretended nothing happened. In fact, the gentle and beautiful Scorpio you mentioned is not me at all, but the one you like People, right? You know so many secrets about me, yet you still approach me casually and strike up a conversation.

"Is it funny to look at me smug? I like you, tell you my secrets, and you won't tell me anything about—

"You clearly know that I like you, and that I have made so many changes to attract your attention, but you can pretend you didn't see it!

"If you don't like me, don't get close to me! You obviously have someone you like, but you still say that Scorpio is actually gentle, why do you still want to be so close to me!"

"I'm sorry." The boy lowered his head slightly, unable to hear the tone, "I really regard you as a friend."

"But you didn't mention your matter to me." She wiped her tears.

"I don't think...that's necessary." Yu Xinye raised his head and looked at Yuzi seriously.

After a while of silence, Yuzi gritted his teeth and kicked the boy's calf, then ran away with tears all over his face: "I hate you!"

The words and tears blown to pieces by the wind, carrying all the secrets, were shattered in the wind.

"sorry."

"I hate you."

[Nine]
The secret about Liu Yuzi is coming to an end here.The topic will eventually return to the boy named Yu Xinye.More than a year has passed since that incident, and he has gradually accepted others, stepped out of the shadows, and slowly recovered his former self.

When meeting girls like Yuzi, he always thinks that girls have a beautiful side. He said to them, "Scorpio girls are actually very beautiful", and gave them hope, but he never showed his special love for any of them. .

Don't want to show it.

I don't want to like others either.

I don't want to tell anyone my secret.

It's not to deceive them, or not to trust them, it's just that I don't think it's necessary.

His secret is not because he doesn't want to play basketball, but because he has never been able to like anyone except the dead girl.

There is no need to tell others.

Now that she's gone, he doesn't need to make a fuss about it.

It seemed that for a while, he was immersed in boundless autism.He locked himself in the room and didn't want to have contact with anyone.He always dreamed that she was sitting under a sweet-scented osmanthus tree smiling gently at him, with white petals falling leisurely from her ears.

The painting full of sweet-scented osmanthus that Jiang Wei gave him was framed carefully and carefully by him, and hung on the bedside.What must be done every day is to clean the glass outside the painting.

Sometimes she would even sit in front of her house in a daze, knowing that her mother had moved away.

The reason is as tangled and simple as that. "Without her, the whole world would be empty" is not what he said to others, but Yu Xinye's own true thoughts.

Can live without her.

Without her, it would be meaningless to live so painlessly.

If there is no her, then treat her and the memory as a secret that you never want others to know, and enshrine it in your heart.

Yu Xinye and Jiang Wei, they are not boyfriend and girlfriend, let alone ordinary friends.They are entangled in each other's youth with a special identity, exhausting each other's nutrients like two vines.But one day, they will all get tired of this relationship.

It's like having the same dream over and over again, but you still don't want to wake up.

Stubbornly thinking that every Scorpio is the same as Jiang Wei.

In the heart of this boy named Yu Xinye, there is always such an eternal dream hidden.It was a midsummer a long time ago, he slipped out during a school outing, and took the girls to another place to see the sweet-scented osmanthus forest.At that time, the silver osmanthus flowers all over the sky were like rain, enveloping them in a world where there were only two of them.Before leaving, he secretly took out his mobile phone to take a picture of the girl.

The girl who didn't notice his small movements was obviously startled when she heard the click of the camera, and stared at the screen with light-colored eyes in a little surprise.

Beside him was Yu Xinye with a smug smirk.

The background is silver osmanthus in full bloom.

This photo became the only thing about her that he kept later.

Was her surprised expression wondering why she suddenly patted her?
You are my only dream.Jiang Wei.

Where have we met?Is it in a dream?Why is it in a dream?

Can you not wake up?
Jiang Wei, why can't we be together?

I dreamed of you again last night, Jiang Wei.

But I rarely dream that I am with you.

Yu Xinye looked at the back of the girl who disappeared around the corner while wiping tears while running, her bangs were messed up by the wind.

The midsummer cinnamon that can't be found is forever frozen in memory as an ulterior dream.

Waking up from a short dream a second before tears flowed down.

In the rest of my life, I never dreamed of the fleeting years spent with you.

(End of this chapter)