water clear and rippling

Entering July, the heat is steaming.One Saturday, Song Yizhou was going to Xia Qingyi's home for tutoring as usual, but that day was unusually cool, the clouds in the sky kept floating, and the cool wind was blowing head-on. According to the weather forecast, it was due to the super typhoon "Aiolos" Landing in neighboring provinces.

Unlike the previous few times, Xia Qingyi was the one who opened the door that day. He was wearing a cream T-shirt and a denim short skirt with suspenders. He had a very cute girlish face, looking elegant and refined.

"Parents aren't there?" Song Yizhou asked after scanning the room, while changing his sneakers.

"Well, I'm going to attend a relative's wedding." Xia Qingyi handed over a glass of juice. "The freshly squeezed watermelon juice can relieve the heat."

"Thank you, why don't you go with them? By the way, you don't have to make up lessons, hehe." Song Yizhou took a sip of juice, and followed Xia Qingyi to the room.

"Does it taste good? I don't know much about that kind of occasion, and it's the kind of relatives I haven't been in contact with all year round. It's just boring anyway, do you understand?" Xia Qingyi sat on the chair.

"It tastes good. Uh... I probably understand what you mean by being boring."

Xia Qingyi chuckled and said, "Your words remind me of a joke."

"What joke do you think of?" Song Yizhou was curious.

"Uh... there is a joke about a foreigner taking a Chinese test, and there is such a question. It is said that a subordinate gave a red envelope to the leader, and the leader said, 'What do you mean.' The man replied, 'It means, it doesn't mean anything.' Then the leader said "You are not interesting enough." The subordinate replied, "Small, small." The leader said again, "You are really interesting!" The subordinate then said, "It's not very interesting." The leader immediately said, "Then I won't I'm sorry.' The subordinate finally said, 'I'm sorry.' And the requirement of the title is to explain the meaning of each meaning, as I remember it seems to be like this."

"Haha, I seem to have heard this joke before, the foreigner must have been so sad." Song Yizhou said with a smile, and at the same time took out the tutoring materials.

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The wind weakened in the evening, indicating that the typhoon was moving away from the local area.A man and a woman walked side by side on the avenue full of sycamore trees, walking slowly, it was Song Yizhou and Xia Qingyi.

"Xiao Hei, what do you want to eat? I'm treating you, don't shirk!" Xia Qingyi said firmly.

"Well, it's better to be respectful than to obey, I'm just a little embarrassed." Song Yizhou thought that his polite words were not straightforward enough, so he might as well listen to her.

"Where is it? I still have to thank you for being able to accompany me to dinner, so I will treat it as your reward for accompanying me to dinner, haha!"

"It's nothing, I don't have to go home and do it myself, we are each other!"

The nearby commercial center is only a 15-minute walk from the residential area where Xia Qingyi lives, and he arrives within a short time between conversations.Entering the main entrance of the lobby on the first floor, the two talked and laughed and walked towards the eating area.There are middle-aged couples with indifferent expressions, young couples who are smiling and holding hands, immature and shy male and female students, and even young girls in cool and fashionable clothes... When Song Yizhou looked around, he found that they were facing each other. A woman who came was watching them. The woman was tall and tall, wearing a black tight dress and carrying a white shoulder bag. She walked slowly and looked about [-] years old.The woman nodded slightly at Xia Qingyi, and gave a procedural smile, then passed by.At that moment, Song Yizhou noticed that Xia Qingyi's cheerful and relaxed expression suddenly became a little cold.

The two chose a Hong Kong-style restaurant. Xia Qingyi ordered a pineapple fried rice as a staple food, and Song Yizhou ordered a Cantonese-style net wonton. In addition, the two also ordered a honey sauce barbecued pork and a shrimp dumpling. They chatted one after another.After dinner, Song Yizhou accompanied Xia Qingyi back the same way, but Xia Qingyi seemed preoccupied, completely different from when he came.

"You seem a little depressed?" Song Yizhou finally couldn't help asking.

"Ok?"

"At night, I will become Fairy Qingxia." Song Yizhou compared Xia Qingyi to a character in the movie "Journey to the West", which is a movie that both of them love to watch.

"There's nothing so vicious!" Xia Qingyi reacted and regained his expression a little, but his eyes betrayed the expression.

"Is it related to the woman I met before dinner?"

"What?" Xia Qingyi seemed surprised.

"It's just that I found that since you saw that woman just now, you have been a little absent-minded." Song Yizhou expressed his opinion.

Xia Qingyi responded speechlessly.

"Xiao Hei, let's go from here." After a few seconds of silence, Xia Qingyi said calmly, and walked straight to another road.

Song Yizhou stayed for half a second, then followed Xia Qingyi's footsteps.After a while, the two came to a public sports field that seemed to be open to nearby residents.The sky is gradually darkening, the moon is at the end of the world, the moon is half in the sky, and a crescent moon has hung in the sky.Several basketball courts were illuminated by lights, and groups of young people were sweating profusely.The small football field not far away can only be decorated by the moonlight. It is sparsely populated and quite lonely.Between the two yin and yang sites is a grassy area for people to rest, with a few benches scattered around, and two iron swings and a stone slide in the middle.Xia Qingyi walked to the swing and sat on it, Song Yizhou also sat on the other swing.

"Do you know where this place used to be?" Xia Qingyi turned his head and asked.

"Where is it?" Song Yizhou asked back.

"It's school, elementary school."

"Oh, no wonder, I think this kind of stone slide is almost invisible now."

"Well, this elementary school has to be built at another address because the school building is old. Most of the buildings in the original school were demolished, but the playground part was preserved, and it was later remodeled into its current form and used as a sports place for nearby residents. "Xia Qingyi narrated the history of this elementary school, and she was like a witness.

"Have you ever been to this elementary school?"

"Well, you are right, this is my alma mater. Even after the renovation is completed here, I will come here often, just want to come to play on the swings, just like when I was in elementary school. You may not believe it, it feels like swinging It can ease my emotions, and all the unhappy things will go with the wind at that moment, but you must close your eyes, and you can try it too." Xia Qingyi said, grabbing the iron chains at both ends of the swing with both hands, and trotting forward a few times Take a step, and then sit on it, the swing swings like a pendulum.

Song Yizhou imitated Xia Qingyi's appearance, also swinging on the swing, closed his eyes at the moment when the swing reached its peak, and let it swing freely.The difference is that he didn't forget everything, but Xia Qingyi's appearance on a swing appeared in his mind, just like the "Flying Apsaras" in the Dunhuang murals.The hair blowing in the wind, the clear and bright side face under the moonlight, accompanied by my beating heart, and she was beside me in my mind.

"How do you feel, Xiao Hei? Do you feel like letting go of everything?" Xia Qingyi stopped first and asked.

Xia Qingyi's words interrupted Song Yizhou's rambling reverie. Song Yizhou came back to his senses and tried to stop the swing with insufficient kinetic energy and potential energy, and pretended to say: "It's really relaxing. I almost fell asleep when I was so relaxed."

"Falling asleep is less of a problem than falling to death." Xia Qingyi said with a smile. "Did you just ask me why I was in a bad mood after seeing that woman, didn't you?" Xia Qingyi put away her smile and said immediately.

"Well, it probably means that, do you know her?" Song Yizhou also stopped and asked tentatively.

"I've seen her a few times, and she seems to be a VIP member of the gym my dad opened."

"Oh~ so your father opened a fitness club! He must also love fitness, no wonder he keeps in such a good shape! But... But I still don't understand the connection." Song Yizhou asked further, but in fact he I already had a bad premonition in my heart.

"Uh...she! How should I put it..." The relationship between this woman and his father seemed to make Xia Qingyi unable to express himself clearly quickly, so he was constantly organizing appropriate words in his mind.

"Let's put it this way..." Xia Qingyi said after thinking for tens of seconds. "She may be a third party, do you understand?"

"Sure enough, it's exactly as I expected, but there seems to be something wrong... Ah, right!" Song Yizhou muttered in his heart.

"You mean, your father cheated?" Song Yizhou confirmed.

"En." Xia Qingyi nodded.

"But I don't understand why you said 'maybe' just now." Song Yizhou expressed his inner doubts.

"Because I'm not sure, but I feel like she is."

"Feeling? So what?"

"Because... because I saw him coaching her to exercise, they..." Xia Qingyi didn't seem to know what to say, and his face showed the youthful feeling that high school girls face when they face such male and female problems.

"You mean their behavior is too intimate?" Song Yizhou tactfully said for her.

"Uh... I don't know if it counts as intimacy, but..."

"But what?"

"But he has stopped teaching students in person, but I have seen him instructing that woman in person more than once, and it was at a time when it was impossible for anyone to come." Xia Qingyi said his inference in one breath .

"Huh? According to what you said, it does make some sense.... But after all, it's just your guess, there is no evidence, maybe there are special circumstances." Song Yizhou tried his best to choose the right words and analyze it from a good angle.

"I also hope it's just my guess, but my feelings don't allow me to think so." Xia Qingyi's tone seemed a little emotional.

"It's not necessarily accurate! It's like after an exam, every time you feel good, the final result is often unsatisfactory; and every time you feel very bad, the result is unexpected." Song Yizhou said comfortingly, but In fact, what I was thinking in my heart was that 'women's sensitive intuition is surprisingly accurate in this respect, and they all become Sherlock Holmes in seconds when encountering such problems'.

"Oh, let's not talk about it, let it go! Sometimes I think it's okay for them to get divorced." Xia Qingyi said something surprising, but when he said it, he was unusually calm, staring at the front in a daze.

"Why do you think so?" Song Yizhou was very surprised.

"Because I found that they are not suitable, they have no common hobbies, no common topics, just like two people who live together and become acquainted with each other over time." Xia Qingyi seemed a little lonely again for a while, He raised his head and stared blankly at the night sky.

"Then why..." Song Yizhou asked a little out of place.

"In those days, when you get old, you can make do with it." Xia Qingyi's answer was completely beyond the confinement of age, not like the understanding that this age should have.

"Yeah." Song Yizhou didn't notice this, but thought of his parents, the situation is similar, but their special feature is that they dare to overthrow previous mistakes and start over in a peaceful way.

Looking at Xia Qingyi who was not far away, Song Yizhou vaguely felt that he could feel her soul, and the distance between them was so close, so close that there was no need to rely on words.

Song Yizhou couldn't help getting up and walking towards Xia Qingyi, sat down beside her, gently stretched out his hand to hold her in his arms, Xia Qingyi also leaned his head lightly on Song Yizhou's shoulder after the initial moment of being at a loss, The two souls became mates at this moment, suddenly speechless, and there was no need for words.

For a moment, a wave of emotion came over, Song Yizhou really wanted to hug her and kiss her, but at the same time there were countless voices in his heart arguing endlessly, in the end he still didn't do it, just sat quietly under the night sky, sitting , the wind keeps blowing...

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The summer vacation when I was a child seemed like a century. Sweat, evening breeze, and clearing games are all full of memories.The summer vacation after growing up suddenly became fast and monotonous, and it passed by in a flash, and there was no longer the feeling of length when I was a teenager.Except this summer, this summer vacation...

At the end of August, the heat continued unabated.At two o'clock in the afternoon, it was the hottest time of the day, there was no wind outside the window, and it was as silent as midnight.Xia Qingyi by the window was immersed in solving exercises, the air conditioner divided indoor and outdoor into two seasons.And although Song Yizhou looked out the window, his gaze still sneaked at Xia Qingyi who was beside him from time to time.No matter men or women, the serious state is full of indescribable charm, especially Xia Qingyi in Song Yizhou's eyes at the moment.Since the last night of swinging together, the relationship between the two has undergone subtle changes and seems to have become closer, but behind this, there seems to be a thin layer of veil separating the two sides, just one step away It can be pierced, but this step is extremely difficult.

This is the last tutoring session. According to Xia Yu, after the summer vacation, there will be no further tutoring sessions. Therefore, it will be over in two hours. Song Yizhou is thinking about this in his heart, and has an indescribable emotion spread.This emotion is like the reluctance when parting, and also like the helpless sadness, but it is not completely.

"Okay, it's almost done, let's end here today." After explaining the last exercise that was prepared in advance, Song Yizhou still said this sentence to Xia Qingyi.

"Well, I feel dizzy after doing this." Xia Qingyi put the tutoring materials and stationery into the white file bag.

"So, this is the last tutoring session, you know that?" Song Yizhou asked knowingly.

"Well, I know. By the way, I almost forgot that I have something to give you." Xia Qingyi got up and took a set of scrolls from the top of the bookshelf. "I want to thank you for being kind to me for the past two months...ah, anyway, it's for you, Nuo." Xia Qingyi handed it to Song Yizhou with both hands in a posture similar to holding an imperial decree.

"Shall I open it now?" Song Yizhou asked.

"Open it, it's not very well written." Xia Qingyi said modestly.

Hearing Xia Qingyi's words, Song Yizhou guessed that most of them were calligraphy works.But I still couldn't wait to know what was written, so I slowly unfolded the scroll on the table, and saw two lines of poems neatly written in italics on the scroll—"When the time passes by like water, I will never forget each other, I have known each other in silence. "There is also a red seal under the scroll, signed as "clear water ripples".Song Yizhou searched the origin of these two poems in his mind, but he had no impression.

"You write so well, I didn't expect you to have this hand, you are really versatile." Song Yizhou admired it from the bottom of his heart.

"It's not good! When I was young, I signed up for extra-curricular calligraphy classes. I should say that I continued to learn calligraphy until junior high school. This time, I actually didn't write well. I was in a bad state that day."

"It's already amazing, my handwriting is simply cursive script, cursive script with quotation marks, haha. But I have never seen these two lines of your poem."

"Ah, you don't even know this, it was written by such a famous poet." Xia Qingyi expressed disbelief and showed a surprised expression.

"Who is it?" Song Yizhou still had no impression in his heart.

"Pfft..." Xia Qingyi couldn't help but pursed her lips and laughed.

"Haha, it turned out to be you! Thank you, the famous great poet." Song Yizhou finally came to his senses and said with a smile.

"Forget it, it's just, ahem... for this great poet, it's a piece of cake."

A few minutes passed.

The two packed up their things respectively, and then Song Yizhou said goodbye to Xia Yu who was resting at home, the two sides exchanged some polite words as usual, Xia Qingyi sent Song Yizhou out of the door.

"By the way, if you have any questions about your studies in the future, you can still ask me. I have contact information... Then I'll go first." Coming to the car on the side of the road, Song Yizhou turned and said.

"Hmm... eh..." Xia Qingyi seemed to want to say something.

"Ok?"

Xia Qingyi hesitated to speak, and silently accompanied Song Yizhou to the car parked on the road diagonally opposite the door.

"Then...bye, you can go back." Song Yizhou waved his hand as he said.

"Well, bye." Xia Qingyi turned and left along the path in front of the door, his thin figure disappearing behind the door.

Will we see you again?Song Yizhou asked himself, but he didn't know.

In the evening, the wind suddenly picked up, and the clouds were densely covered. After a while, heavy raindrops poured down. The wipers had no time to remove the raindrops on the car glass, and everything looked like it was covered with a layer of fog.