"We didn't find this person named Xu Xin."
"Please check it out, the class of 2003, and then I borrowed it from you in the market test and the third high school. Xu Xin, can I check it again?"
"I'm sorry, sir, we checked the student status information, and there is really no such person named Xu Xin. Did you make a mistake?"
"Impossible, I did find Xu Xin's information somewhere in our school, and the label also came from you."
Early in the morning, Xue Xi drove to the high school that Xu Xin originally attended, which he found out from the head teacher.
"Really not. I'm sorry, sir, we can't help you... If there is nothing else, I still have work here, do you see..."
Xue Xie reluctantly left the high school's staff office, and walked out of its gate in a daze.
He still can't understand the whole story. Why do all the students, even the class teacher, know that Xu Jiayi and Xu Xin are two people... only him.
Only when they came to him, they overlapped and became the same person
Xue Xie sat in the driver's seat of his car and didn't start it for a long time. His mind was in a mess like a paste. He thought that after returning from that business trip, everything was over.
He is enjoying that journey, and right now he has a dream of the past eleven years... He feels that everything has been completed even if this young love cannot go to the end, but that one is in the mall, in order to regain some time The kiss is enough.
Xue Xi gritted his teeth, took out his mobile phone, and asked the old squad leader for Xu Jiayi's contact information... Maybe, if he contacts her again, he will know something.
But he hesitated for some time, hesitating whether to call or not.
Or... let's take a look at her facebook first. Thinking so, Xue Xi finally opened the personal page that recorded Xu Jiayi's every detail.
The first page, the first photo, a selfie of a woman wearing a protective yellow helmet standing on a coastline. The outline of the woman's face is 60 to 70 percent similar to Xu Jiayi in his memory... What I don't want is , she saw short hair, and, a lot fatter.
Completely, fundamentally, it wasn't Xu Jiayi who he met in the hotel during his business trip... And the time of this photo was also the first day of his business trip.
Xue Xi scrolled through the photos one by one... from her holding her child, to her wedding photos, photos of her and her boyfriend... photos of her life when she was in college abroad.
Little by little, this woman, who was already a mother, gradually returned to the appearance of Xu Jiayi in Xue Xi's memory, the appearance she had in high school.
"I... who the hell did I meet?" Xue Qian lay on the steering wheel for a long, long time.
In the end, he mustered up the courage to make a direct phone call, an international call.
"Hi! Ho-are-you?"
"Is it... Xu Jiayi?"
"Ah, I am, you are..." A woman's doubtful voice came from the other side.
"It's me, I'm Xue Xi."
"Ah! Xue Xi! It's been a long time!"
The woman on the other side of the phone smiled and said, "Well, congratulations. I heard that you are getting married soon, right? The monitor called me a few days ago. Um... I'm sorry, I can't get away from work here, I can't attend your wedding."
Very polite, very polite, very formulaic answer.
That feeling of alienation almost made Xue Qiang's hands and feet feel cold.
"It's nothing, you're married and have children, and I haven't blessed you." Xue Xie responded bluntly.
"Xue Xie, I'm sorry, I'm going to be busy here." The woman hurriedly said, "I'm sorry, keep in touch, ok? If there is a chance to return to China, let's get together again, okay?"
beep! !
…
Xue Xie went home and stayed at home all afternoon by himself until it was completely dark.
He didn't turn on the light, he just turned on the TV, and didn't turn the channel, just watched the written picture flash by frame by frame, but the memory could never be retained.
He didn't even know what he saw, all he could think about was the second half of the third year of high school.
Wan Zishan came back from get off work, turned on the light as soon as she entered the door, and saw Xue Xi sitting on the sofa and watching TV stupidly, but it seemed that she was out of focus.
She opened her mouth, but gently put down her things, walked around the back of the sofa, pressed her hands on Xue Xie's shoulders, kneaded them gently for a while, then lowered her head and said, "Well, this strength can ?"
Xue Xi reached out and patted her hand, turned around and knelt on the sofa, hugging Wan Zishan, without saying a word.
"I am so tired today?"
"I didn't go to work today."
"Well... something on your mind?"
"Don't ask, just let me hold her like this... This way I can feel real." Xue Xie said softly.
Wan Zishan smiled softly, reached out and hugged his head slowly.
They hugged each other for a long time, and then Xue Xi fell asleep like this, sleeping on the sofa.
…
During the day, Xue Xie woke up with a headache and found that his body was covered with a blanket. Wan Zishan had already gone to work, but left a rich breakfast on the table and a note.
Remember to eat breakfast, you didn't eat anything last night. I asked for leave from the company for you, saying that you are not feeling well and if you are tired, take a good rest for a day.
Xue Xie sat down, asked himself what was bothering him, and silently ate the food in front of him bit by bit.
He found that he had eaten this woman's breakfast for four or five years. But at this moment, he felt an unprecedented sense of guilt for staying here, very embarrassed, very uncomfortable... very uncomfortable.
He decided to take a walk in the street.
…
Before he knew it, he still walked downstairs where Xu Jiayi used to be, and stood there staring at the empty suite for a long, long time.
Then he turned and left silently, not knowing where he was going, just walking like that... walking the whole semester that he and that girl had walked.
At that time.
"Wow, arcade, I'm going to play Street Fighter! Hehehe!!" she said, waving her little fist.
Are you a girl...
"Hmm... this candied haws are not tasty, so I won't buy them in the future!" She was angry.
I ate the third...
"Xue Xie, do you think we should adopt a kitten? Build a hut here, and then come and feed it every day after school?" She was curious for a moment.
Who will shovel shit...
"Xue Xie, would you like to treat me to a piece of cake?"
For the first time, you took the initiative to talk to me.
Xue Xie stopped. Unknowingly, he walked in front of the bridal dress shop. He subconsciously looked across the road... The guardrails surrounding the big banyan tree hadn't been removed yet.
The sky was still gloomy, and it seemed that it was about to rain. It was almost six o'clock in the evening... I walked for most of the day like this.
"It turns out that it hasn't been cut yet..." Xue Yao stared at the wishing tree across the road in a daze. On the blackened branches.
Xue Qian suddenly felt an unspeakable discomfort.
He suddenly ran across the road, regardless of the surprise of the passers-by, and began to tilt a few floor tiles under the tree, dug out the soil, and dug out a treasure card buried here again.
He patted the dirt off the box, opened it again, looked at the treasure, and ran down the long street.
Xu Jiayi, I want to be with you forever!
Xu Jiayi, what university are you going to... Which university? Great score, but I'll give it a try! I must pass the exam!
I just want to know... who you are who was with me.
I don't want it... I don't even know who the person I loved so much is... I don't want it. I won't be able to remember you when I get old.
…
Jingle!
With the sound of the doorbell ringing, Xue Shao pushed open the old door forcefully, and stood in the lobby panting... This time, it seemed that he had found this place even faster.
The owner of the club seemed a little surprised, slowly put down the book he was reading, and raised his head: "Guest, what's the matter?"
Xue Xie shook his head, adjusted his breathing, and walked towards Boss Luo... If everyone doesn't know the answer, then the shopkeeper in front of him must know.
If no one can give him an answer, then the mysterious shopkeeper in front of him must be able to.
"What you arranged for me to meet is not the real Xu Jiayi, is it?"
Boss Luo said indifferently: "Guest, this doesn't seem to be very important. Because your request is to see the girl you fell in love with first, isn't it?"
"I just want to know the answer." Xue Yao said in a deep voice, "The real answer!"
Luo Qiu thought for a while, stood up, and walked in front of Xue Yao... This made Xue Yao take a slight step back.
Luo Qiu then stopped and did not continue to approach, but said softly: "So, are you going to buy this answer this time?"
Seeing Xue Xi's hesitant to speak, Luo Qiu said indifferently: "I remember the guest said that he is unwilling to get rid of anything that will destroy your future and your wife for this matter. So whether it is your lifespan, Health, emotion of any kind, you don't think it's for sale to us, do you?"
Seeing that Xue Xie was still silent, Boss Luo continued softly: "So, are you willing to break your previous decision just to know this answer? For an answer to the past, and your own future...how will you choose?"
It was a difficult and painful choice.
It is equivalent to putting that girl and Wan Zishan in front of him, so that he can only choose one of them.
so difficult.
He tightened the box containing the treasures in his hand, took a deep breath and said, "I still have something that can be sold without affecting the future... I don't believe that all the happy memories of my childhood are just sold with It's not enough to change an answer!"
"I lost all my childhood happiness, and I will never be able to remember it in the future. Don't you feel it's too bad?" Boss Luo asked curiously.
Xue Xi said faintly: "Happy memories can be recreated... I believe I can. However, I don't want to never know the answer for the rest of my life. If I can't know... I can never face Zi Shan again."
"As expected of a social person, he is very budget-conscious." Boss Luo smiled slightly, "Then...the contract is concluded. Guest, please come to me."
"With you… "
Before Xue Xi finished speaking, he immediately stopped what he wanted to say... because he was no longer in that shop, but on the road.
"This is..." Xue Qian looked at everything on the road in astonishment, "Why did you bring me here?"
Bridal shop... wishing tree... under the tree.
"Here is the answer you want as a guest." Boss Luo pointed to the wishing tree, "Please put your hand on it, and I will let you know the answer."
Xue Xie couldn't help but believe in the boss's words. Slowly, slowly, he put his hands on the trunk of the fallen tree.
Please give me the answer.