Chapter 487 Goodbye

"Aren't you angry?"

In the cold night wind blowing against her face, Huai Shi heard the voice behind her and asked in confusion: "Angry? Why are you angry?"

"You're not angry at all when someone points your nose and scolds you?"

Fu Yi asked in surprise: "When did you have such a good temper? To be honest, I was really afraid that you would suddenly jump up and slap his head off his neck..."

"Isn't that too cruel?"

Huai Shi thought about the heartbreaking and tragic scene, couldn't help but take a breath of air, and shook his head: "No, no."

"Besides, he was right."

Huai Shi pedaled her bicycle and couldn't help but sigh after thinking about it: "As an ordinary person, apart from playing the piano, I am not as good as him in anything else. Well, except for being a little prettier than him... But this It shouldn’t be something a man can be proud of, right?”

"That's right...what shampoo did you use? There are no split ends?"

Fu Yi pulled Huai Shi's hair, just like pulling a girl's pigtails, with great interest.

Huai Shi couldn't help rolling her eyes in front of her: "That's enough. It hurts. Stop pulling me."

"Fine."

After pulling enough, Fu Yi sighed and hit his back: "So? You really didn't do anything?"

"Well……"

"What does 'uh' mean?" Fu Yi asked, "Did you do it or not?"

"did not do."

Huai Shi sighed, "Originally I wanted to let him have a valuable experience of border dysentery before school starts...but then you took action, and I didn't have the nerve to add insult to injury."

"Haha, I knew it."

Fu Yi burst out laughing, leaning forward and backward with laughter on the back seat of the bicycle, overwhelmed with joy.

"Don't swing, be careful of the car tipping over!"

Huai Shi tried hard to maintain her balance and turned around to glare at Fu Yi, "Guide the way, how to get to your house? I have never walked this road."

"Turn right ahead. It's faster to take the path."

"Seriously, any motorcycle you ride is faster than my bicycle." Huai Shi sighed, and then heard a calm voice behind her: "Then do you still want to take it with you?"

"Okay, I'll take you."

Huai Shi followed Fu Yi's instructions and turned right. She couldn't help but shake her head and sigh: "Who asked dad to love you?"

Then he was punched hard.

"That's enough. Don't take advantage of my dad." Fu Yi said, "His hair has been falling out a lot lately."

"Are you mad at your dog?"

"It was either the dog or you." Fu Yi asked, "Which one do you think it was?"

Huai Shi thought for a moment, and recalled that she had been fishing in the trenches recently, and felt that it was not both. It's extremely difficult for people to reach middle age... I can only admire Brother Xiang Wang's ability to withstand stress.

Thinking of this, Huai Shi couldn't help but lamented: "It's not easy for your father and I."

Then he was punched hard again.

All you can do is shut up.

In the brief silence, he rode his bicycle forward, hearing rhythmic friction sounds from the axle and vague humming behind him.

It seemed to be some kind of song, but only the vague tones were left, becoming strange and erratic in the intermittent humming, as if it had lost its shape and dispersed into mist, dispersing into the obscure night.

It was repeated from time to time, but it was always hard to hear clearly. Until finally, the humming gradually disappeared.

Only the sound of breathing in silence remained.

Calm and peaceful.

In the narrow alley, the girl sat quietly on the back seat of the bicycle, raising her head and letting her long hair float in the wind.

He just stared at the vague night sky revealed between the high walls. Under the clouds and scattered light, the stars are invisible, but they are still so high and far away.

"The world outside is so beautiful, Huai Shi."

She whispered softly.

"Huh?" the boy in front asked in confusion, "What are you talking about?"

"nothing."

Fu Yi shook his head, pulled up the hair that was scattered in the wind, and suddenly asked: "When do you decide to leave?"

Huai Shi was stunned for a moment, feeling that this conversation seemed familiar, but she couldn't remember where it happened.

I don't know how to answer either.

"I didn't think about it."

He said that after thinking for a long time, he couldn't help but explain: "It's actually quite troublesome. You may not believe me when I say this. I received more than fifty notices today, and all of them..."

"I gotta go."

Fu Yi interrupted him and said softly: "The flight the day after tomorrow will go to Rome."

"Rome? Why did you go so far suddenly?"

Huai Shi's pedaling rhythm was out of whack, and she turned around in shock: "So fast? Can your dad agree? Whose idea is this?"

After he finished asking, he realized that he had a lot of questions.

Fu Yi couldn't answer it at all.

After being stunned for a long time, he almost hit the wall in front of him. He turned awkwardly and glanced back.

But Fu Yi lowered her head and didn't look at him.

"Are you sure?" he asked.

"Well, I mentioned it to my mother first." Fu Yi replied: "I discussed it with my father for a long time, and he agreed... Actually, he is not as stubborn as you think, but sometimes he is unwilling to admit defeat..."

"The day after tomorrow?" Huaishi was confused: "Why so fast?"

"I'm not good at Latin. I have to take a preparatory class first. If I'm lucky, I can catch up before school starts in November. If not, I'll have to wait until next year."

Fu Yi said: "My mother has made arrangements. I thought there was no point in staying, so I was ready to leave."

Huai Shi listened blankly, not knowing what to say.

Riding forward sluggishly.

After a long time, I couldn't help but ask: "Isn't it good to stay in Dongxia?"

"That's fine."

Fu Yi said indifferently: "Then just stay, or go to Jixia... But if you think about it carefully, there is no difference. Both sides are the same, they are unknown people and unknown places."

Huai Shi remained silent and did not speak.

But Fu Yi couldn't help but laugh.

"Huai Shi, the college entrance examination is over." She said softly: "You can't stay in one place all your life, right? No matter how long you wait, nothing will change. You have to look forward. right……"

She paused and asked, "Didn't you teach me this principle?"

"I can't remember a time when I said something so philosophical."

Huaishi turned his back to her, rode his bicycle, and said seriously: "You must have misunderstood."

"That's wrong. Who can avoid making mistakes?"

Fu Yi shook his head indifferently: "You won't stay in Xinhai forever, right? You are an ascendant, the supervisor of the Astronomical Society, the savior and hope of many people... Xinhai is too small for you , just like a cage.”

Huai Shi was silent for a long time and whispered: "Actually... it doesn't matter if it's a cage."

"Don't be stupid."

Fu Yi shook his head and laughed: "No matter how good the cage is, you will always get tired of it, right? You're just not used to the life outside the cage yet. In fact, I am the same...after leaving home, I don't know where to go. Where, but where would it be bad to go? It’s better than staying in a cage forever, right?”

"..."

Huaishi said nothing.

He pursed his lips and rode the bike in silence, moving forward and struggling uphill.

In fact, it doesn't take much effort, but it seems like you have to put all the weight of your body on it and try your best - until the bicycle is overwhelmed and makes a creaking sound.

He struggled to hold on to the handlebars and climbed over the high slope.

There was an unfamiliar scene before him. Even though the new sea was so small, there were still places he had never been to, and there were still enough places for him to explore.

In the sudden impulse, he couldn't help but open his mouth and make a sound.

"Fu Yi, you have to leave—"

"Can't."

His words were interrupted by a voice behind him.

So gentle, yet so determined.

Determination was not like the girl who always smiled in Huai Shi's impression, but there was no doubt that it was her words, even if they had changed unknowingly.

"Because you won't stay," she said.

Huai Shi paused for a moment, almost forgetting to pedal, what he had just said, and what answer he heard.

In the long silence, there was a lonely silhouette leaning against him.

So gently.

.

Go through Dongxie Lane, turn right on Yushan Road, turn left, and then turn right.

Gradually the lights dimmed and the noisy voices faded away. In the silence, Huaishi parked the car outside the community, and Fu Yi jumped out of the car.

The night wind blew all the way, her hair was messy, her face was a little pale, but her smile remained the same.

"Okay, let's send it here."

She waved goodbye and said, "Do you want to score points together when we go back tonight?"

"Okay." Huai Shi nodded, as if it had happened before, "Any time is fine."

"Then... half past nine?"

"Okay, I'll go back and wash up before turning on the computer."

Huai Shi nodded, waved goodbye, turned around and changed the direction of the bicycle. After taking two steps, pedaling, the bicycle started running smoothly on the road.

He looked back at Fu Yi, who was still standing there, quietly watching him leave.

Huai Shi withdrew his gaze and speeded up, but soon, he heard the voice behind him again.

It was as if he was shouting with all his strength.

"Huai Shi!"

He turned around in shock.

Across the road, I saw that familiar figure.

She was looking at herself too.

Fu Yi took a deep breath, mustered up all his courage, and asked loudly: "If in the future, I mean, if, you pass by Rome...will you come to me?"

Huai Shi replied without hesitation: "Of course!"

So, Fu Yi laughed, took two steps back, and waved vigorously at him.

"Then goodbye..." She smiled and said goodbye, "I'll see you again, right?"

"Um."

Huai Shi nodded and responded solemnly.

He pedaled the bicycle again, facing the night wind blowing in his face. He felt as if he had thrown something away, so relaxed, but he couldn't help but look back, wanting to turn back.

He saw Fu Yi still standing there, looking at him from a distance and waving.

Then, Huai Shi continued to move forward, but couldn't help but look back again.

But she has disappeared.

Like a ghost from the past dissipating.

Huai Shi was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but shake her head: "Why don't you give me a little extra time?"

No one responded to him.

He suddenly applied the brakes. In the brief silence, Huai Shi stared at the direction Fu Yi left, took a deep breath, and shouted in a voice that could be heard by the girl no matter how far she walked:

"Fu Yi, have a nice trip!"

The boy shouted with all his strength.

The silence was broken. The dozing security guard in the community gatehouse was awakened and looked at him blankly.

There were sounds of babies crying in the distance, the sound of the TV, mixed with the excited barking of dogs, and the angry growls and roars of middle-aged people who had just fallen asleep and were woken up after finally taking a vacation.

The silent night seemed to fade away in an instant, and many noises emerged, echoing in the sparse lights.

The girl walking in the shade couldn't help laughing.

Humming vaguely, she raised her hand and waved it behind her.

It's as if Huai Shi can still see it.

Say goodbye solemnly.

And firmly believe that we can meet again in the future.

In this way, the little hedgehog, who was attached to the cage, mustered up the courage, opened the door, and walked into the world that was too big for him.

Start looking forward to tomorrow’s arrival——

This chapter was very difficult for me to write. I revised it three or four times. It was so hard... After I finished writing it, I no longer had the energy to continue ORZ. I will update it today.