timeless

Chapter 3 Fireworks (1)
The burned out light bulb in the corridor was finally replaced by a bright incandescent light bulb by the property management company after the residents of the entire floor spent several nights without street lights.When Jiang Wei went out at night, he no longer needed to look at the road through the street lights outside, and he no longer needed to listen to his mother's mutterings and complaints.

It's just that family problems are always the first difficulty facing Jiang Wei.Although Jiang Wei's mother always said, "Just concentrate on reading your book and don't worry about adults' affairs", but these days when Jiang Wei goes home, some familiar or unfamiliar people always come up to chat: "Hey, you How is the family lawsuit going? Is your family okay?" Putting on a warm and sympathetic false face, as if it couldn't hide the pity in the eyes.

And Jiang Wei always had to stop and answer their enthusiastic questions: "Ah, I don't know... I don't know too well." At first, she still patiently slowed down to fill the gaps at home. The insatiable thirst for knowledge of neighbors who play mahjong and watch TV.In the end, even she was bored, so that when someone asked her again, she always quickened her pace, and said a hasty "don't know" to those curious faces with a cold face.

They didn't really want to care about and help her family, Jiang Wei knew it very well.All they need is the latest hot topic of discussion on the mahjong table and dinner table.

And in Jiang Wei's house, there was another contradiction for no reason.

The beginning of the conflict was a phone call from grandma.The reason is that Jiang Wei’s mother borrowed 3000 yuan from her grandmother two years ago and has not yet repaid it. Grandma called to remind her mother, but her mother called on the phone, “Mom, it’s not like you don’t know the current situation of our family. You think the money is three yuan, how can it be taken out casually... I am also your daughter after all."

In the end, both parties were very angry, and Jiang Wei's mother hung up the phone even more angrily.

"She has the nerve to chase after me for 3000 yuan!" Jiang Wei's mother still couldn't suppress her anger at the dinner table, "Your grandma is really selfish, as if she doesn't know about our family's situation!"

"But you owed 3000 yuan for two years, haven't you..." The girl mumbled the end of her words in her throat, and she swallowed her food sullenly.

But Jiang Wei's mother couldn't get support, and her anger rose by a few percentage points: "What do children know? You have the ability to get 3000 yuan, and you go out to earn money to support the family! It's easy to say, 3000 yuan, your mother and It’s not a bank, so you can pay out a handful of money just by grabbing it? Besides, I don’t know when this lawsuit will end, and if you have money, you can’t use it indiscriminately, and you have to keep it safe.”

"But don't you have 2 yuan in your family..."

"Do you think you are rich if you have 2 yuan?" Jiang Wei's mother raised her voice, knocking her chopsticks on the plate, "This is the money for you to go to college, the money for studying! You study hard for me After finishing college, find a good job to earn money to support the family, do you hear me?"

Jiang Wei ate silently with his head down.

Although I have argued before that "I can paint, don't I also make money by painting", but in the end I was suppressed by Jiang Wei's mother's words: "There are many people who can paint in this world. Can draw two paintings, and the money flows into the house like water? Do you know what is the lowest admission rate in the college entrance examination? It is an art student. What is the hardest thing to find a job? It is an art student. You honestly give I am good at culture class."

So when he heard such topics in the future, Jiang Wei would no longer defend himself.

Painting, specialties, dreams, hobbies... These distant words are far less affordable than "entering college" in the eyes of parents.In the mind of the parents, if they do not study well, they will have no food. Only by being admitted to a good university can they find a stable job after graduation.Perhaps if you are lucky, if you can be admitted to the civil service in the future and have a solid job, you will no longer have to worry about making a living, and your life will be guaranteed, which is even better.It seems that even if you go to college, you may not be able to find a job, or even if you find a good job, you will lose your job, which is a more practical problem, and they simply don't see it.

At first Jiang Wei also laughed at "it's really a philistine's idea", but when the reality was in front of her, she had to choose between "hobbies" and "reality", and temporarily let go of the one that was far out of reach, and was forced to helplessly. Accept the one that is closer to you.

When school was over at noon the next day, Jiang Wei had just walked out of the school gate with Zhao Mengfan, and Zhao Mengfan went to the dessert shop opposite the school to buy some snacks.Jiang Wei didn't like to eat snacks, so he stood aside and waited for her. From a distance, he saw Yu Xinye was not far in front of him, standing on the side of the street fighting with the small group that always stayed together. Who are you waiting for.

Jiang Wei suddenly remembered that he forgot to return the washed clothes in his schoolbag, and was about to walk over when he saw a girl walking towards Yu Xinye suddenly.The two of them didn't know what they said, but the boys around Yu Xinye suddenly burst into boos, causing the students passing by to look over.

The girl lowered her head and pulled Yu Xinye's sleeve, but Yu Xinye looked at her with a smile.

Jiang Wei stopped hesitantly.At this moment, Zhao Mengfan also bought some snacks and came over: "Let's go."

"Oh, good." Jiang Wei finally gave up the idea of ​​going forward.

Clothes, return them to him in the afternoon.

"By the way, have you heard that Xia Shuo in the next class was robbed yesterday!"

His ears keenly caught the sensitive word "robbery", and Jiang Wei's eyes widened all of a sudden: "Huh?"

"Xia Shuo, the one in the class next door, the one called the class grass, you should know." Zhao Mengfan's eyes searched around for a while, and finally stopped suddenly, and his tone followed, "Look, what about that?" Over there!"

Jiang Wei subconsciously looked in the direction Zhao Mengfan was looking at, then returned to Yu Xinye who was in the middle of the crowd, and then turned to another tall boy with cold eyes beside him.

"Did you see that? He and Yu Xinye from our class are the ones sitting behind you. The two of them are having a great time. Wherever Yu Xinye is, there will definitely be him." Zhao Mengfan said excitedly. At the end, he triumphantly added a question, "Aren't you handsome?"

"Ah...ah?" Jiang Wei stared blankly at the boy.Looking from a distance, his eyes gave off a cold but gentle feeling, gradually overlapping with the calm face in the dark street in his memory.

"I heard that he was robbed yesterday, but after others robbed him, he still calmly said to the person who robbed him, 'Give me back the phone card'. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! "

Jiang Wei listened blankly to Zhao Mengfan's crazy gossip in her ear, and suddenly unconsciously clenched his hand in his coat pocket.

"You know him?"

"I know him." Zhao Mengfan replied as a matter of course, and then asked, "Do you know him?"

Jiang Wei replied blankly: "No. I don't know."

How could you not know him.

The memory begins to rewind.

"It's you?" The boy's confused eyes suddenly relaxed, and then replaced by an unconscious indifference and softness, "Did you see it just now?"

"Ah...um." Jiang Wei nodded blankly, and the topic followed him unconsciously.

"Scared?" The boy walked closer to her, "You also go this way?"

The girl still nodded in a daze.

"You saw it just now...it's not safe to walk alone at night, let alone a girl." After that, he looked back, as if to confirm whether the gangster had left, and looked back at Jiang Wei, "Go Bar."

"it is good."

It turned out that we met, and more than once.

Speaking of which, the first time I met this boy named Xia Shuo was before high school, probably before the high school entrance examination, before Jiang Wei's mother was suspended from her job.

They didn't know each other at that time, but they met by chance in the surgery department where his mother worked. Xia Shuo accompanied his cousin to perform appendicitis surgery, and the surgeon happened to be Jiang Wei's mother.

At that time, Jiang Wei was sitting next to the boy, with a distance of one meter between them, but Jiang Wei was waiting for her mother, while Xia Shuo was waiting for his cousin.

Before the operation, Jiang Wei's mother told Jiang Wei to remember to pour water for the patient's family members. Jiang Wei took a disposable cup and took a cup under the bucket of water.When handing it to the boy, the boy raised his head and said "thank you", showing a pair of cold but gentle eyes, and then took the cup from Jiang Wei's hand.

Jiang Wei sat down one meter away from him again.

The awkward silence lasted for a while, and was finally broken by the boy's words: "What's your name?"

"Me?" The girl was a little surprised when she received the boy's confirming gaze, but she answered anyway, "Jiang Wei."

The boy nodded, and the lines on his face softened a lot: "I've seen you."

Like a smiley face.

"Huh? You..."

The boy turned his face slightly to look at her, and explained: "Your friend Zhao Mengfan, I know you, I have met you several times."

"Oh……"

Now it's clear, it turned out to be Zhao Mengfan's favor.

The two of them didn't talk much after the operation. After the operation, the boy said goodbye to her politely. Jiang Wei's mother, who was taking off her white mask, asked strangely, "Do you know each other?"

"No, I don't know him. He is Zhao Mengfan's friend."

Besides, when they met for the second time, they were just meeting each other.When the paint in Jiang Wei's hand was splashed on the head of the boy named Yu Xinye, Yu Xinye turned around and shouted: "Hey, Xia Shuo, hurry up and help me and the inmate get a towel and clothes." !"

But the boy whose name was called said something very embarrassing: "You deserve it!"

When Jiang Wei heard a familiar voice and raised his head to look, he happened to meet the boy's cold and soft eyes.

After that, Xia Shuo looked at each other for a few seconds when he brought the clothes back.

That was the second meeting.They didn't say a word, just looked at each other briefly twice.However, Jiang Wei found out that his original name was Xia Shuo.

And it was the third time we met again under the special circumstances of "being robbed".

After the first get out of class in the afternoon, Yu Xinye, who was sitting behind Jiang Wei, stood up and stretched himself, then walked past Jiang Wei, as if about to leave the classroom.Jiang Wei hesitated for a while, then stopped him: "Yu Xinye."

When the boy heard it, he turned around and looked at her with a smile: "You called me?"

Jiang Wei nodded, and took out the clothes from his schoolbag: "Your."

Fold neatly.

There was a hint of surprise in Yu Xinye's eyes.He took the clothes and said with a smile: "Ah, thank you!" After speaking, he casually sat on someone else's table, unfolded the clothes and held them up to look left and right.He was shaking his legs, tugging at the folds of his sweatpants, his soft bangs resting on his forehead, "It's so clean, thank you!"

"Well...you're welcome."

With the light from the side, you can see that the side face of the boy facing the light is a little shiny, coated with soft white light.

Xia Shuo and Xia Shuo are two completely different types.

Although I heard that he and Xia Shuo are good friends, they are obviously two opposite people.

Just like myself and Zhao Mengfan.

A few boys who often hung shoulders with Yu Xinye came up from behind, and one of them climbed onto Yu Xinye's shoulder with a smile: "Hey, Yu Xinye, that girl looks good today."

"What kind of eyes do you have, it's so disgusting!" another one continued.

"Go, what do you know is beautiful? Hey, Yu Xinye, why don't you express your opinion." He laughed and pushed.

"Haha, Yu Xinye has too many women to count, how can there be any 'girlfriend'?"

"I warn you not to talk nonsense." Yu Xinye rolled his eyes at them, and directly put the unfolded clothes on his body.

"Yu Xinye would be embarrassed too? Hahahaha!"

"I mean your sister! Go die!"

The sound of scuffling was quickly drowned out in the noisy voice of the end of get out of class.Yu Xinye's clothes were messed up, and the appearance of the boys was not much better.A few people chattered and laughed, and changed the subject after a while.

Jiang Wei looked at them calmly.

She knew what they were discussing, and more or less heard something from Zhao Mengfan.But at noon, a girl from an ordinary class confessed to Yu Xinye at the school gate, and the matter quickly escalated and became a hot topic in the grade.But the attitude of the person involved was very ambiguous, neither accepting nor rejecting, which made people unable to help but imagine.

For Jiang Wei, she would definitely not be the one to take the initiative in confession.However, as the person involved, Yu Xinye seemed to have become accustomed to such things, and hardly had any major reactions.

After all, such a boy should be loved by most people.

When Jiang Wei and Yu Xinye, who suddenly turned his head and looked over, met their eyes, Yu Xinye didn't seem to feel embarrassed, but smiled at her habitually, and then turned back.

It seemed unreal that it would disappear with just a light touch, Jiang Wei's nerves suddenly tightened.

A few girls who are usually very active in the class came here, and a group of people made fun of Yu Xinye on the topic of the girl's confession at noon.One of the girls, Xie Yayi, laughed exaggeratedly, holding her stomach and laughing non-stop, even squatting on the ground.Yu Xinye seemed to be laughed at anxiously, and also smiled and slapped Xie Yayi on the shoulder: "You're still laughing!"

The natural movements are like old friends who have known each other for a long time, like smiling at Jiang Wei when they should have looked at each other awkwardly just now, without any coyness.

A piece of my heart suddenly collapsed, like the unwritten question on the test paper, suddenly blank.

Sure enough, it's a different type from Xia Shuo.

When I got home, I received a call from Zhao Mengfan.Jiang Wei was sitting on the edge of the sofa, with a phone between his face and shoulder, and an orange peeling in his hand.

"Hmm... um... huh? Another split? Where's the boy from Class [-] who asked you out last time?" Still couldn't help being surprised at how quickly Zhao Mengfan changed his male partner.

"Ah, can't we get along!"

"Where is the fifth class that sent you home a few days ago?"

"I have nothing to do with him, it's just that he sent me back."

"Oh, so...so?" Jiang Wei peeled off the last piece of orange peel and threw it into the trash can at his feet.

"Recently there was a boy..."

The pointing at the other end was vague, but Jiang Wei still understood what she meant, and followed Zhao Mengfan's words: "Who? Who are you dating again?"

"Not really, it's just interesting..." Zhao Mengfan's voice on the other end of the phone was unexpectedly embarrassed, "You should also know..."

"Who?"

"It's that... the one who was calm after being robbed... Xia Shuo."

Jiang Wei was taken aback: "What?"

"I've known you before."

"so?"

"So that's it. I suddenly became interested in him recently. I have always had a good impression of him."

"You want to be with him?"

"Well, that's not it. It's just that I have a good impression. Let's see how time goes by... Don't talk nonsense to others. It will be embarrassing if people find out."

"Oh."

I have always had a good feeling.

Jiang Wei held the phone receiver silently, involuntarily recalling that night.

"I remember your home is in the city hospital?" The boy turned to look at her.

"Um...um, yes."

In fact, Jiang Wei regretted his act of sitting on the sidelines just now.But Xia Shuo didn't seem to care about it at all, which caused her embarrassment and panic to settle down, and she slowly regained her composure.

"Just now... I'm sorry, I didn't call the police..." Jiang Wei bit his lip.

Xia Shuo heard it, and turned to look at her: "It's okay, you were scared too, right? Girls usually cry when they encounter such things?"

"Hmm... um." It turned out that he thought so.

The two walked side by side, unlike when they first met, there was a short distance between them. The originally dark street somehow suddenly gave off a peaceful feeling.

"Go to the street next time, or go with others, it's too dangerous here. By the way, why didn't your friend come with you?"

"Her father came to pick her up."

"then you……"

Jiang Wei shook his head.

Xia Shuo seemed to realize something, so he didn't ask any more questions, but changed the subject: "You can go back by car later."

"Walk." She was embarrassed to tell him that she had no money.

The boy was a little surprised, as if he didn't understand why she still insisted on walking at night.

"What did they take away from you?" Jiang Wei asked a more practical question.

"Mobile phone, and tens of dollars in cash."

"How do you tell your family when you go back?"

"It's okay, just buy another one."

"Oh……"

It turned out to be a son-in-law too.

Jiang Wei's footsteps overlapped with Xia Shuo's.

The side street exit is just ahead.

The boy stopped suddenly.

"Are you walking back alone?"

"Yes." Jiang Wei nodded to him.

The boy smiled lightly, his eyes became gentle and soft in the darkness: "I'll see you off, anyway."

The road ahead is long and embarrassing.

Jiang Wei was still thinking about how to open his mouth to break the deadlock, but the boy spoke first: "Your hair is quite long."

"Ah...really?" She took the topic a little unexpectedly.

"How long have you stayed?"

"It's been ten years."

"It's been a long time."

"Yes."

The gentle light of the street lamps stained the night with a warm yellow ink stain.

"You are very nice." The boy commented quietly.

Hearing this sentence suddenly, Jiang Wei was a little stunned: "Huh? Why do you say that?"

"Yu Xinye's clothes..." the boy reminded, "Aren't you careful? Girls usually run away in fright when they encounter such things."

It was this.

"It's my fault to dirty his clothes."

"That's why I say you are nice." The boy had a quiet and gentle smile on his brows.

Jiang Wei blushed suddenly, shyly hiding in the darkness.

Because people are nice——

That's why I help Yu Xinye do the laundry;

That's why he could bear Zhao Mengfan's temper;
That's why Xia Shuo made such a comment.

The road gradually widened, and many pedestrians and shops that had not closed were seen on the street.Such an environment reassures the girls a lot.

Getting closer and closer to my own neighborhood.

The boy stopped and turned to look at her: "Then I'll send it here." "Well... thank you."

"Then I'm leaving, bye."

"Goodbye."

Goodbye.

"Hey, what's the matter? Why don't you talk anymore?" Jiang Wei came back to his senses when a girl's dissatisfied voice came from the other end of the phone. The two chatted for a few more words before hanging up.

Maybe everyone would feel annoyed, when suddenly there is a boy who can attract his attention, but he just heard that he and his good friend have known each other for a long time, and they are interested in each other.

Jiang Wei didn't know what to say.

This feeling suddenly made her very discouraged.

(End of this chapter)