Dear Chen Jiu

Chen Jiu was sitting on the edge of the bed, staring at the suitcase with his head down in a daze. The back of his neck bent into a beautiful arc, and his slender fingers hung down on the dark gray bed sheet.

I knocked on the door to interrupt his thoughts, "Can you come in and sit down?"

I have made a plan, if he rejects me, I will bring grandma out to speak out.

Who knew that Chen Jiu just looked up at me, gave a soft 'hmm', and motioned for me to sit on a chair not far away.

Accompanied by the thunder, big raindrops finally fell and hit the window glass heavily.

Chen Jiu got up and walked to the opposite room, gently opened the door, and then I heard the sound of the window being closed.

Soon he returned to his room, and he was not in a hurry to pack his luggage, he just stood at the door.

The room was quiet for a while, and with the rain falling faster and faster outside the window, I suddenly felt a strong parting emotion.

I can see that Chen Jiu is not in a good mood right now, and I intend to break the oppressive atmosphere.

"How long will you stay in Jiangzhou for training this time?"

"Two months."

"Actually, it's pretty fast. Did you find someone to take care of grandma? I will come here often from tomorrow, but I may not learn to cook so quickly. I can ask my aunt to do it for the time being." For a few days, do grandma have any taboos when eating? Do you like salty or sweet..."

When I am nervous, I will become very long-winded, and Chen Jiu interrupted me when I continued to babble.

"Gu Zong."

This seems to be the first time he called me, so he really remembered my name.

I sat on the chair and stared at him. He was still leaning against the door frame, but his eyes fell on the window of the room.

The rain outside the window still continued to fall, sometimes rushing and sometimes slowing down, disturbing people's mood.

"No, I found a relative."

"oh, I see.

Where do you want to go to university in the future?Stay in the province or go out? "I was prepared for him to talk about the top art schools or not answer me at all.

"Jiang Yi."

I can still clearly remember the determination and persistence in Chen Jiu's eyes at that moment.

Jiang Yi is the only comprehensive art school in our province. Fine art is the ace major of this school, but it belongs to the second-class school, ranking far behind those top art schools.

Perhaps for ordinary art students, being admitted to this school is already considered excellent, but Chen Jiu's cultural subjects are among the best in his grade.

Giving up arts and sciences to study fine arts, the final goal is actually a second-class college in the province.

At that time, I couldn't understand Chen Jiu.

But I have no position to ask this anyway.

This is his choice, no one's life and future can be interfered by an outsider.

The summer rainstorms come and go quickly, the rain stops, the sun comes out again, and it's time for me to go.

The day before departure, you should leave some time for Chen Jiu to pack his luggage or chat with grandma.

I'm still somewhat inconvenient here.

It's just that the rain stopped, but my mood didn't clear up, as if I was pressed by a stone and I couldn't breathe.

"I'm leaving. You can call me at any time if you have anything at home. I will visit grandma often."

I walked to the door and looked back at Chen Jiu who was sitting by the bed, "Chen Jiu, don't worry, I'm here."

The weather after the rainstorm is always extremely hot. This afternoon, I still have no real feeling. I can't connect Chen Jiu and Jiang Yi.

It was as if this person could fly to a wider world, but his wings were broken and he landed halfway.

I have no plans for the future, and I don't care which city or university I go to. After all, I go to university for work, but I haven't considered these.

But Chen Jiu is different!

******

After I got home, Lao Xiao was watering the flowers in the yard.

"Little Gu, it's only the first day of the holiday. Where have you been? I'm planning to ask you to play golf, but I can't even find you."

"I'm so excited, playing in the rain? You'd better stay here and continue watering the flowers."

"You don't know that an indoor basketball stadium has just been built in the eastern suburbs.

It's only 150 for an hour, so we don't have to worry about the venue when we play in the future.

Hey, don't be in a hurry to go home, did you go to him again today? "Every time Lao Xiao mentioned Chen Jiu, he would use 'he' instead and deliberately lowered his voice.

I frowned and glanced at Lao Xiao who asked the question knowingly.

"Old Xiao, we will be promoted to sophomore next year."

For some reason, this topic suddenly came up again.

In the last class of the first year of high school, Lao Xiao chose 'Wu Di' like me.

The total number of people who choose this class in the whole grade is less than one class, and Lao Xiao and I can continue to be classmates again.

"Yeah, we can still make appointments to play while we are just on vacation, and my mother will be full for my tutoring later."

Lao Xiao's mother has already started to grasp Lao Xiao's grades, which did not touch my mother. My mother always thought that as long as I can live in front of them in a healthy and healthy way, it will be fine.

"Old Xiao, what do you think of Jiangzhou?"

"The provincial capital city is not bad. Xiao Gu, you finally have a new pursuit in your life. As a good brother, I am very pleased."

"I can have a fart target."

We talked about the distant future under the scorching sun after the rainstorm through a courtyard door.

"Ah, damn it, Chen Jiu doesn't want to go to Jiangyi, does he???" Old Xiao seemed to have come to his senses, and even made a dolphin sound in surprise.

See, even Lao Xiao, an outsider, finds it unbelievable.

"No, although this school is not bad, anyway, if we were replaced by the two of us, it is definitely the kind that can only be admitted by super performance, but what does Chen Jiu's grades go to Jiang Yitu? Can a good student choose a university and do whatever he wants?"

This series of questioning is also what has been bothering me today after learning of Chen Jiu's answer.

"Come on, you, a science student, have no qualifications to apply for an art school."

"I'm just making an analogy like this, isn't this the same as science students filling in Jiang Cai next door.

People like Chen Jiu must at least go to an art school at the level of Jiang University. "

I lay on the courtyard door of Lao Xiao's house and sighed, "I'll go back first, accompany me to Chen Jiu's house tomorrow to see grandma, let's make a ball game tonight, I'll reserve the venue."

After saying this, I left Lao Xiao and went home. There was no one at home, so I lay on the sofa and hugged a computer to search for universities in Jiangzhou.

After looking around, I found that, very well, with my current level, I couldn't even get into the last university in Jiangzhou.

I went to bed early that night, because Chen Jiu was going to Jiangzhou the next day, so I planned to see him off at the station.

This is a good thing about a small place, and you can see everything in a small bus station at a glance.

I arrived at the station at 8:30 the next morning. I checked the bus departing from here to Jiangzhou the night before. There are 9 buses a day, and the earliest one leaves at 9:10 in the morning. It takes two and a half hours to arrive .

Sure enough, after I entered the station to buy a bottle of water, I saw Chen Jiu, who was dragging a black suitcase into the station, walk to a secluded corner, and then leaned on the suitcase to check his phone.

He wore a black peaked cap, a simple white T with black pants, and carried a backpack.

The expression is indifferent, with a lack of interest in everything, exuding an aura that strangers should not get close to.

After a while, he put away his phone.

After I watched him line up to buy a ticket and enter the station, I calculated the round-trip time, and it seemed that I could still catch up with the time agreed with Lao Xiao yesterday. Then I went to the window and lined up to buy a ticket to Jiangzhou.

When I got in the car, there were still a lot of vacancies in the car, and I immediately saw Chen Jiu who was sitting very far back, with his head leaning against the window glass, wearing earphones and closing his eyes as if trying to catch up on sleep.

I walked over to him and sat down.

I've said it a long time ago, fate cannot escape, our positions are actually linked together.

He was probably afraid of noise, so he specially chose the back seat.