Xue Xiaochan
Chen Xiaowei liked Ou Jian 'an when he moved across the hall, didn't he? Boys with black eyes, wearing red shirts and plaid pants, look like people in movies. At that time, the whole street was covered with beautiful kapok.
But it's a teenager of twelve or thirteen. Chen Xiaowei is thin, fair-skinned, and wearing a somewhat old skirt. She lived with her mother, and her father went abroad to divorce her. Her mother moved back to this city from Beijing. A lovelorn woman always wants to stay away from the cities that have hurt her.
Chen Xiaowei moved into Ou Jian 'an's class, and many people laughed at Chen Xiaowei, a girl who didn't speak Cantonese and didn't have that kind of tongue curl. At that time, Ou Jian 'an would bravely stand up and say, "You are not standard, and Chen Xiaowei's Beijing accent is so beautiful."
After living in Beijing for twelve years, Chen Xiaowei came to a strange city because of his parents' marriage.
If it weren't for Ou Jian 'an, she would have sneaked back to Beijing. The classical and beautiful quadrangles are full of begonia flowers, peony flowers, towering ancient trees and cypresses. No one knows her feelings for Beijing. When the pigeon whistle sounded in the blue sky, she felt like a blooming flower. How beautiful autumn is in Beijing. In the works of Lao She and Zhu Ziqing, how nostalgic Beijing with four distinct seasons is and how different it is from Guangzhou without four seasons! Without Ou Jian 'an, Chen Xiaowei really didn't know how to live.
Often after school, Ou Jian 'an will hold her hand and teach her to speak Cantonese word by word. Two teenagers stand under the kapok tree and look like two beautiful flowers. At that time, Chen Xiaowei thought: She will never forget such a picture.
Occasionally, Ou Jian 'an will buy a small hairpin with his own change, and let a girl tie Chen Xiaowei's hair and put it in her pencil box. At that time, they were all sixteen years old, and Chen Xiaowei also knew that putting two red apples in Ou Jian 'an's small drawer, the secret of two teenagers, had a sweet taste.
In the summer of eighteen, Ou Jian 'an called Chen Xiaowei out, still under the kapok tree. He said to her, Chen Xiaowei, our wish will come true.
What wish?
Go back to Beijing, and let's take an examination of schools in Beijing together! You know, with your grades and mine, we should be fine. Chen Xiaowei looked at the boy with vague lips, the man who accompanied her through six years of loneliness, with a string of pearl-like tears scattered in his eyes. Yes, he went to Beijing for her. Otherwise, how could he leave Guangzhou? His parents asked him to go to Sun Yat-sen University.
They stretched out thin fingers and pulled hooks in kapok flying all over the sky. It's a promise that two teenagers will go to Beijing together.
In July of that year, Chen Xiaowei's mother had a car accident.
That day was the second day of the college entrance examination in Chen Xiaowei. Chen Xiaowei somehow entered the examination room and left. When she was twelve, her father left them. When she was eighteen, her mother disappeared from her world forever because of an accident. She knew that something had happened to her mother on her way to the examination room, because she was her only hope.
A month later, Ou Jian 'an went to Peking University and wrote a letter to Chen Xiaowei at the unnamed lake: "I am waiting for you here, believe it, the flowers will bloom again when they fade."
At this time, Chen Xiaowei got in touch with her father again. Because she was going to school, her father said, "Come to the United States, and I will be responsible for everything."
She refused because she was going to Beijing. She didn't go to America, so she chose to repeat.
That year was the most bitter year. I read that I lost a lot of hair, slept for three or four hours every day and wrote to Ou Jian 'an. Ou Jian 'an wrote a long letter, but told her, "You just need to tell me how you are in a few short sentences. Next year, let's talk at the unnamed lake. "
When the grass turned green again, Chen Xiaowei became the best student that year. Because of the agreement with Ou Jian 'an and the dream of returning to Beijing, she played incisively and vividly in the examination room of the college entrance examination. A month later, she received the admission notice from Peking University.
When I called Ou Jian 'an, she was even a little naughty. "Ou Jian 'an, I didn't do well in the exam." Ou Jian' an comforted her, "It would be nice to come to Beijing." She smiled. "I just got into Peking University." Ou Jian 'an shouted at her ecstatically on the phone: "Little girl, have you just been admitted to Peking University?" That summer vacation, Ou Jian 'an didn't go home to join the Peking University mountaineering team, but she said, "Come on, Xiao Wei, come early. I'll pick you up in Beijing and show you around Beijing first! " Chen Xiaowei took him, "still take me? Let me take you there. "
Chen Xiaowei promised him, but didn't say when she would come to Beijing. She wanted to give him a surprise.
My father sent Chen Xiaowei a lot of tuition and living expenses. My father said, "I graduated from Peking University. Four years later, Harvard. "
At that moment, she forgave her father. Maybe her parents really have their own reasons for divorce. Besides, my mother didn't blame her father. She just said we weren't married.
However, a few days after the start of school, Chen Xiaowei did not report to Peking University. Ou Jian 'an called, and his parents said, "Chen Xiaowei has gone to the United States, and she is not going to study in China."
Ou Jian 'an's heart cooled down. He stood alone by the unnamed lake, thinking that this autumn should be beautiful, but he didn't expect it to be so cold. The girl he had an appointment with left without even saying hello. Perhaps America is far more attractive than Peking University?
Soon, he had a girlfriend. She is a beautiful Beijing girl with the characteristics of a Beijing girl. She likes to talk, free and easy, neat, and talk about state affairs. She even likes to talk about plane crashes and things like that. She said, "There was another plane crash a few days ago, and now there are too many plane accidents. I really can't be a plane in the future. "
He looked at her sideways seriously and said with a smile, "It's really the nature of Beijing girls. What do you care? " ? Think about how to love me. "
Four years later, he went to Australia to study with a Beijing girl. Two years later, he got married. Then he was transferred to the American headquarters. When he flew to America, he suddenly felt sad. "Chen Xiaowei, which city in the United States is Chen Xiaowei after six years?"
According to his memory, he thought Chen Xiaowei's father's name seemed to be Chen Zidong, so he looked up a man named Chen Zidong on the Internet behind his wife's back. He entered it in Chen Zidong, and more than 40 people came out immediately. It seems that there are many people named Chen Zidong in the United States.
It was with these little clues that he began to look for Chen Zidong, a doctor of chemistry, a singer and a big boss in the Middle East. Finally, in desperation, he found Chen Zidong of new york Institute, with his introduction written on it: 50 years old, from China. On the same day, he flew from Texas. This time, intuitively, he felt that this must be Chen Xiaowei's father!
The first time I saw Chen Zidong, he began to feel flustered. This must be his father. His eyes and figure are absolutely the same!
Ou Jian 'an's eyes are a little sour, as if tears are coming out, but he feels very inappropriate. He took these people by the hand and asked bluntly, "What happened to Chen Xiaowei? Is she okay in America? Did you feel that you didn't go to such a good school when you went to Harvard? You must have a good time here. "
Chen Xiaowei's father looked at the young man with a mist in his eyes. He said, "You must be Ou Jian 'an?"
Ou Jian 'an shivered in his heart. "Do you know me?"
Chen Xiaowei's father said, "Yes, I knew it a long time ago. Are you looking for Xiao Wei? Then I'll contact you. Can you wait for my answer? Her temperament has changed a lot now. "
Ou Jian 'an is very unhappy. Isn't she a Harvard girl? What's the big deal?
Five minutes later, Chen Xiaowei's father came out of the room. He looked a little excited and said, "She just wants to contact you by email. If you are interested, I can give it to you. "
That's the only thing Ou Jian 'an got after impulsively flying to new york, a mailbox that Chen Xiaowei used for many years. When I opened it, he stayed for a moment, and his English name and birthday were registered on it! He was impulsive, but he soon calmed down, which was nothing. Because she didn't even have the urge to see him.
The first letter he sent her was only one sentence: "Do you remember those kapok trees?"
The reply is very long. He opened it, almost thousands of words. She described the six years with delicate words, the six years she spent with him. Of course, she said, "If I had known that I would miss those kapok trees so much in the future, I wouldn't have gone to Beijing."
He was even more disappointed. He didn't understand what she meant, so he asked, "Are you married? My child is one year old. "
She wrote back and said, "I also married an American. He is so strong. He is taller than you anyway. Southerners are short. "
In the letter, they talked about life and the days after we left. She has been talking about how good America is. It was right to give up Peking University. He said that he is in America now, why can't he be seen? Even if you call him? What makes it so mysterious? Are you afraid of your husband being jealous? American husband, isn't he?
The longer it takes, the more he wants to see her. What has she become? Still so beautiful, still so tender, so white? Still so slim? He asked her for her phone number many times, but she refused. He said, "I didn't expect you to become so heartless that you didn't even give me a call." It seems that you are false and kind. "
I haven't heard from her for three days. Ten days have passed and there is still no mail from her. Ou Jian 'an was in a hurry and dialed his father's mobile phone. Chen Zidong said, "She is ill."
The words "she is ill" made him fly over. When he met Chen Zidong, he said, "Whether she likes it or not, I want to see her this time."
Chen Zidong said, "Are you really so eager to see her? No matter what she becomes? "
"Yes," said Ou Jian 'an, "no matter what she becomes." He thought, what can he become if he doesn't go to Harvard?
This time, Chen Xiaowei's father gave him a call and answered it. He froze, because this is the area code of Beijing.
"She went to Beijing?"
"No," said Chen Zidong, "she has never been to America. She has been in Beijing. "
He didn't understand, "haven't been to America? What about Harvard? What about the American husband? "
Chen Zidong waved and refused to explain. His eyes were full of tears. "Seven years ago, I bought her a quadrangle in Beijing. She said she wouldn't come back to America with me because she is close to you and can feel you. "
"Why? Why? Please give me an explanation. " He shouted almost crazily.
"Seven years ago, Xiao Wei went to Beijing to see you and booked a plane ticket to Beijing. The plane caught fire halfway. Xiao Wei survived, her face was burned, her legs were paralyzed, her eyes were blind and her voice was hoarse. So, instead of reporting to Peking University, she said that she had gone to the United States, which was her excuse. Her fabricated happiness was to make you happier.
For an instant, Ou Jian 'an's heart seemed to be pierced by ten thousand arrows. What did the girl standing under the kapok tree do for a love? She would rather be silent all her life than disturb his happiness.
I don't want to fly south, tears drop by drop, my empty arms are not surrounded by you.
Everything I have, you gave me the most beautiful.
I went back to chase and let the past scenes make people cry.
I grieve for it every day, so cold that love will wither and let snow cover my heart.
It was on the plane back to Beijing that Ou Jian 'an heard this song "Snow Migratory Birds". He suddenly fell down and burst into tears. She is more like a snow migratory bird, flying south for love, but getting farther and farther away from happiness.
When he opened the door of the old Beijing quadrangle, he really saw the begonia flower she once said. The woman in a wheelchair in spring is Chen Xiaowei, because her back is still so beautiful.
Do you remember those kapok trees? He stood behind his back and said.
After returning to the United States, the greeting on his mobile phone was replaced by a sentence: I love snow migratory birds.