Alley

Chapter 14

In 2004, the fourth year after Xiang Yu left, Shu Yi was admitted to university.

Shu Yi is not a genius. He decided to study physics in college before he began to take high school textbooks seriously.

He was just muddling through his studies, and his expectations for the future were slowly fading away under the pressure of life.However, this sudden dream completely disrupted his rhythm, and he began to turn on the lamp to read at night. He was busy with housework at night to help his adoptive mother, but he was often too tired to lift his arms, and he still recited the text with his eyelids drooping.

On weekends at the vegetable market stall, occasionally with some free time, he would secretly take out his math textbooks and try to solve one or two problems.

After the college entrance examination, he developed a high fever due to long-term fatigue. After the fever subsided, he received an admission letter from X University, branch of physics and astrophysics.

The adoptive mother tore up his admission notice without saying anything, Shu Yi said slowly amidst the constant coughing of the adoptive father.

"I'm an adult."

In a legal sense, you are no longer my adoptive parents.

The adoptive mother looked at him with red eyes, "Where does our family get the money to send you to school? Do you think I want this?"

Shu Yi bowed his head, just knelt silently, just like when he was admitted to high school three years ago.

In the end, his stubbornness and ignorance allowed him to go to university as he wished. His adoptive father took out a roll of money from his padded jacket and handed it to him tremblingly. His adoptive mother dropped something at home that day.

At the end of 2004, when Shu Yi was a freshman, his adoptive father passed away.

Shu Yi lay on his adoptive father's bed and cried. He always remembered the day when his adoptive father took out the last savings of the family. His face full of dimples and wrinkles was deeply imprinted in his heart.

He always thought that he hated his adoptive parents. He unknowingly lost his parents and his carefree childhood. When he arrived at his adoptive parents, there was endless housework to do.He wantonly imposed the hatred hidden in his heart on his adoptive parents.

On the day his adoptive father died, he wondered blankly whether he didn't take the college entrance examination and didn't go to get the money, or if he didn't go to high school earlier, could his adoptive father be able to use better medicine today, did they just I can make up the surgery fee that I have been unable to make up for a long time.

The adoptive mother sold the house in the alley for 3 yuan, bought a tomb for her adoptive father and herself, and told Shu Yi that she would go back to the countryside.

She gave Shu Yi 5000 yuan, and Shu Yi accepted it dully.

He heard her say, "Yiyi, study hard at school. Come back often. Don't be too tired."

He pretended not to see her tears and guilt, he thought he hated her too.He hated her arrogance, hated the endless work she had assigned him all along, and the decision to take him home as a labor force in the first place.

The adoptive mother hugged Shu Yi, and her rough hands slowly brushed the top of Shu Yi's head.

Shu Yi's tears dripped down, and he couldn't restrain himself from trembling and crying.

He also remembered that when he had just arrived at the home of his adoptive parents, he could not sleep all night because of his adoptive father's coughing and the uneasiness of his new environment, and his adoptive mother would get out of bed and pat him on the back to comfort him.

These years, he has not had an easy life, and neither has his adoptive mother.

He opened his mouth, wanting to ask his adoptive mother why she brought him back back then.

But he didn't ask anything, he just held tightly the 5000 yuan left by his adoptive mother after buying a cemetery worth 5000 yuan, and returned the embrace of his adoptive mother who was a few years late.

In 2005, the fifth year after Xiang Yu left, Shu Yi met Duan Yiping on campus.

Shu Yi is already a sophomore, and two years of professional courses made him deeply realize that his initial exploration of the so-called parallel universe and time travel was simply stupid and unattainable.

The heavy and difficult schoolwork and endless part-time job left him no time to think about unnecessary things and make unnecessary friends.

The weather was fine that day. After days of cloudy and rainy days, the sun was extravagantly peeking out from the thick clouds. Shu Yi had just finished his mid-term exam. Sitting luxuriously on a wooden chair by the lawn, I don't want to squint my eyes and bask in the sun.

Shu Yi thought in a daze, he was very grateful to the senior who made him make the decision to go to college.

Shu Yi doesn't feel too strenuous in his current life.Grants, scholarships, and part-time work-study allowances allow him to study steadily and concentrate in college.

Professional courses are difficult, and it is even more difficult to stand out from the crowd of X University students and get a scholarship. Therefore, he cannot arrange too many part-time jobs for himself, and basically spends his time reading books and doing projects except for the work-study program three times a week.

He doesn't have a laptop, not even a Nokia mobile phone that is popular nowadays, he doesn't understand entertainment, he is old-fashioned and boring, he has no money and no time to make friends; the roommates in the dormitory know about Shu Yi's situation, although they are not particularly close, Shu Yi will be dutifully notified of anything in the class, and a piece of cake will be left for Shu Yi on someone's birthday.

He is very satisfied with this kind of life.

Reading is the easiest thing. He can read in the dry and bright library. When he is tired, he can go back to the dormitory and lie on a soft bed. On weekdays, he is still reluctant to make meat dishes for himself in the cafeteria. Fortunately, he spends three days a week in the university Mr. Zhu, who has a lot of work and work, always takes it upon himself to turn a pair of Orleans grilled wings in the microwave for him.

Shu Yi felt very happy.

The kindness he rarely gained in the past 20 years has gained a lot in the simple and small society of the university.

Occasionally he would think of Xiang Yu, if Xiang Yu knew that he had passed the university, what would he say to him...

"classmate!"

Shu Yi's fugue was interrupted, he turned his head in a daze, and saw a somewhat familiar face.

Qingfeng Jiyue, a boy who bent and squatted in front of him, smiled at him, "Can I trouble you to take a photo?"

As he spoke, he pointed to himself and his friends.

Shu Yi nodded, took the Nokia N73, and snapped two photos.

The boy took it and looked at the photo with his companion, laughing out loud.

"Well, classmate, can you please take another photo for us...the face was not photographed..."

Shu Yi looked at the photo, his face blushed, and he said, "I'm sorry..."

"It's okay, it's okay, please take another picture for us."

After taking a good photo, the boy expressed his thanks again and wanted to leave, Shu Yi mustered up his courage and said, "Senior!"

The boy turned around in surprise.

"Senior, I'm from high A, and I've heard your speech before."

"Now also in X-big astrophysics."

Some noisy wind blew by, and the boy noticed the beautiful boy who was taking pictures of them in front of him. The sun was shining on his body, and his pupils were shining.

He smiled and replied, "Hi, I'm Duan Yiping"