C59 (2/2)

Zhu Ying is four years older than me and this year is 23. This brother is only 19 years old! I like Zhu Ying, but liking her is not as good as being your sister-in-law! ”

Afterwards, I heard Cherry Blossom say that Zhu Ying said the same words before her, but the meaning was completely different. Zhu Ying meant that age isn't an obstacle.

Zhu Ying and I didn't seem to be fated with each other, because when Zhu Ying was confessing her feelings to me, I ended up falling in love with her high school classmate.

I don't believe that Zhu Ying will love me either, because our first meeting was purely by chance; my true contact with her was at the moment I carried her on my back, past the Scorpion River.

At that time, Zhu Ying laid on my back with both of her hands tightly hugging my neck, I could feel the young girl's ample bosom unrestrainedly pressing on me.

For a few minutes my blood was boiling, but then it subsided.

After all, this is our first time meeting, and Zhu Ying telling me to carry her was also because she was seasick and wanted to cross the river. Even if I had evil thoughts, it wouldn't develop at that time, because on the other side of the river stood the Party Officer, Wei Hua.

I didn't say anything, but suddenly shouted loudly, ”Gu Zi, it took Teacher Zhu a while to find the teacher. Twenty or thirty children from the village have to leave the village to attend the Yang family's primary school, even if it's the center of primary school. But how can a kid walk more than twenty li on the mountain road?”

When Master Cripple said this, he looked at me for a long time and said, ”You will definitely pass the college entrance exam, but before you do that, can you teach some of the children in the village for Teacher Zhu?”

I did not expect the Limper to ask this question. Tears welled up in his eyes.

I was a mountaineer, it was my great-grandfather's grace to be admitted to university; my great-grandfather had been a high-ranking officer in the army, abandoning his comfortable barracks to return to his hometown in order to change the face of the mountains; but my great-grandfather's wish had not been fulfilled, could his great-grandfather's great-grandfather's great-grandfather's great-grandson be sensible enough to not do something for his hometown?

I agreed to Cripple Lord's request without even thinking about it. I taught the children in the village for more than a month before I went to university; I wanted to keep Zhu Ying's footprints on this land and my impressions of him …

Zhu Ying lifted her head from my shoulder, tightly grabbed onto my hand and said: ”Bones, forgive sister's impulses!”

Zhu Ying called herself big sister. Previously, she had never called herself big sister in front of me like this!

I looked at Zhu Ying in a daze, only to see her reaching out her hand to stroke her hair that was scattered on her forehead, laughing bitterly: ”Let's walk and talk!”

Zhu Ying and I walked forward hand in hand, the dark bamboo forest behind us growing further and further away.

There was no moon in the sky, and the sky was the world of the stars in the moonless night; each star of light was a continent like the earth, some of which might still be masses of air; but they shone.

How tiny it is for humans to be in such a vast universe, as tiny as ants busy on the ground all day long.

A man could crush an ant with his foot, but a man? He wouldn't be able to rule this planet forever!

Life is only a few decades, how much life is worth reminiscing and nostalgia?

”I'm married!” This was the second sentence that Zhu Ying said.

I paused and stared at her in amazement. ”Where are you married?” What does a man do? ”

I can only call Zhu Ying that 'man'. Even though Zhu Ying has called herself a 'sister' in front of me, in my heart, she was still the Zhu Ying who taught me Tong Village; and the Zhu Ying who taught me Tong Village is a lover in my dreams. How can I ask Gu Zi to call her 'brother-in-law'? Don't even think about it!

Zhu Ying sighed and held my hand tighter. The plump bosom of her body also touched my arm.

”When Zhu Ying left the Tong Village, he waited for three days!” Zhu Ying reminisced back what happened a few years ago with a sad voice. ”Gu Zi, do you know what I'm waiting for?”

”Of course you're waiting for me!” I bluntly said: ”The second day after you left, after I finished my university entrance examinations, I rushed back to the Tong Village. But Lord Cripple said that you had already left, and waited for a few days before leaving …”