Chapter 16:
Holidays are always short.
Before returning to Beijing, I accompanied Aunt He to buy groceries.
The once amusement park had already been flattened and replaced with high-rise buildings.
As we walked, Aunt He suddenly stopped, 'Zhi Zhi, look at that telephone pole!' 'I see it.' 'It wasn't taken down,' Aunt He smiled and said, 'When you were ten, you stayed at the amusement park, and he stood under this pole waiting for you.' 'What? He was waiting for me?' 'Yes, he left you there, but he couldn't bear it and stayed here because he didn't have money to buy another ticket to go back in.
He thought you would come out with him.' 'But I was also waiting for him.' 'Yes, you waited until it got dark, and he also waited for you until it got dark.
When he didn't see you in the end, he panicked and went to find the police.' Recalling the past, Aunt He was full of emotion.
'Little He cried very sadly that day, thinking he had really lost you...
In a blink, you both have grown up.' I stuck out my tongue, 'Aunt, to be honest, I thought he was crying because he got beaten.' Aunt He said, 'Huh, don't you know? When Little He got home that day, he kneeled on the ground and asked to be beaten.
But we were really angry and went too hard on him...' We walked past that telephone pole.
I seemed to see ten-year-old He Qi, stubbornly standing there.
'Actually, Aunt can tell,' Aunt He said again, 'Little He has always liked you.' I shook my head repeatedly, 'That's not true, he disliked me before he even had a chance.'"
」 "No, since high school, Xiaofang has been waiting for you to go to school every day." "It was me who insisted on sticking to him." Auntie smiled and said, "You don't understand.
If Xiaofang doesn't want to be stuck by you, can you catch him? Actually, he wakes up earlier than you every day, deliberately dawdling and deliberately lingering in front of you, waiting for you to stick to him." It turns out that this is the case...
Walked down the road to school in the past.
The setting sun softened my heart.
On the last night at He Fang's house.
After the elders went to sleep, He Fang sent me a WeChat message.
"Where did you go with my mom today?" "To the amusement park we used to go to." He didn't reply anymore.
After a while, he knocked on my door.
He Fang scratched his head awkwardly, "I came to apologize." "Apologize for what?" "I left you at the amusement park and almost caused a big mistake.
I'm really sorry." "Why didn't you send a WeChat message?" He Fang said seriously, "Apologies like this must be face-to-face to be sincere.
Personally, I think any text or letter is not as sincere as face-to-face." No wonder, for the past three years, he has faced so many rejections, and still insisted on coming to Beijing to find me.
He is implementing his own principles.
I said, "I'm going back to Beijing tomorrow." "Hmm." He looked at me reluctantly, "Wait another half a year, I'll come in September too." The promise we made three years ago, he fulfilled it.
"He Fang." "Hmm?" "Come in." He took a step forward and entered the bedroom.
I closed the door and turned off the lights.
The sudden darkness made it impossible for us to open our eyes.
I asked, "You're so tall, if I push you, will you fall?" "Yes," He Fang whispered in my ear, "As long as it's you, I'll fall wherever you point." So, we spent a sleepless night.