The next morning, the two of them went to catch a flight, and when they arrived at their destination they took a long bus ride to Yanping County, arriving almost late in the evening..
They arrived at Yanping High School, but did not disturb the teachers.
The big red banner of the provincial top student was still waving in the wind on the school gate.
Wei Ying was familiar with school and took Lan Zhan into the campus with him, but it was not yet summer vacation, so there were students in every classroom, and the sound of reading and listening to English was faintly heard.
The two of them stood quietly in the twilight outside the school building.
Wei Ying pointed to a classroom on the first floor and said to Lan Zhan: “I was in this classroom in the first year of high school. It happened to be sunny in the west and there was no air conditioning, it was hot as hell every day.”
Lan Zhan raised his head to look at the classroom, only to see the burning clouds on the window glass like oil paintings.
Two years ago, his Wei Ying spent the bitter cold and scorching heat in this classroom and wrote a letter to him.
“All classrooms will be equipped with air conditioning this summer.” Lan Zhan said that Yanping High School received funds allocated by the government, as well as funding from the Lan family industry.
“How wonderful, how I missed it.” Wei Ying sighed enviously.
The two stayed in the county hotel for one night, and the next day Wei Ying took Lan Zhan to his hometown, Lotus Pillar Bay.
It was the busy season when the villagers were busy planting rice in the rice fields of the mountain cols.
An older woman who was planting rice seedlings recognised Wei Ying on the ridge of the field; word had spread in the village about the Wei family’s child being exchanged by mistake, but she had watched Wei Ying grow up and still asked about him like any elder, praising him for his success and for giving Lotus Pillar Bay a good face.
After speaking with the older woman, Wei Ying took Lan Zhan up the hill, pointing out the streams in the mountains, the insects singing in the forest, and the smoke from the roofs…
He told the story of his childhood in detail, and Lan Zhan listened carefully, walking all the way through the places where Wei Ying had lived.
Returning to Lotus Pillar Bay again, Wei Ying’s mood had changed completely.
This was once the place he thought was his homeland, where the hills were full of joyous tracks of his inexperienced life.
Then it was his prison, where the rolling hills were turned into a thorny fence that he could not cross.
Now it was just a small sentence in his long life, a sinking boat on the side of a thousand sails that he had already crossed, and he had crossed it forever.
Just like the name he didn’t want to change, it was a fatal mark on his life that could not be erased, a bitter tea that had destroyed him and nourished him, and after the initial bitterness, only a long sweet aftertaste remained.
The two of them wandered aimlessly through the mountains.
On their way back, they passed by a farmhouse with black tiles and white walls halfway up the mountain, which seemed to have been unoccupied for a long time.
The dilapidated wooden door was closed and the dojo was overgrown with weeds, with tattered spider silk tugging at the eaves.
Wei Ying stopped and looked over, and Lan Zhan knew that this should be the place Wei Ying lived before.
“I used to sun-dry tea on this dojo at this time of the year, and then take it back in the evening and sun-dry it again the next day.” Wei Ying said to Lan Zhan as he pointed to the dojo where the grass was growing.
Lan Zhan didn’t know much about this and only asked, “Have you ever drunk the tea you sun-dried?”
Wei Ying let out a laugh and said, “You don’t know this, right? You can’t brew tea directly after it’s sun-dried, you have to go to the tea factory to do it.”
Lan Zhan raised his eyebrows without saying anything.
The two of them turned around to leave the unoccupied old house, and Wei Ying suddenly grabbed Lan Zhan’s arm and shook it gently, “What should I do, I can’t walk anymore.”
Lan Zhan glanced at Wei Ying’s hand. With a smile on the tip of his eyebrows, he said: “Didn’t you say that you climb the mountain very well?”
Having said that, he still lowered his body, held Wei Ying’s leg and carried him on his back, and continued walking down the mountain at a steady pace.
The mountain sunshine was just right, and the breeze was quiet.
Wei Ying pulled a dog’s tail grass in his hand and rested his chin on Lan Zhan’s shoulder, quietly tickling him with the grass and being pinched hard on his thigh before he relented.
In fact, he was not tired, but suddenly remembered that a long time ago, he seemed to have longed for a tall back to carry him across the mountain, cross the river, and take him to the other side of the mountain.
So he did so naively.
On the third day the two could no longer wander around, as Yanping High School was scheduled to have its second anniversary of the live remote classroom project and commendation ceremony on that morning.
This celebration conference was not small.
The guests included the city’s leaders, Gusu High school’s leaders, and the representatives from the Lan Group, which founded the project.
Of course, there was also Wei Ying, the first provincial champion in Yanping County and even the city, in history.
In the early morning, Wei Ying took Lan Zhan, the representative of the top student’s family, to Yanping High School to report, and was applauded and welcomed by the extremely enthusiastic teachers and students of his alma mater.
Wei Ying felt that he was riding a horse with a big red flower on his chest.
He saw his teacher, who had left him for a long time.
Liu Mingue, the head teacher who had been on the train all night and took him to Gusu No. 1 High School, was very happy to see him, but his eyes were red.
He patted Wei Ying hard on the shoulder and praised him for becoming confident and cheerful, asking him to continue to study hard in the future and stop coming back to the mountains.
When the teachers and the student met, Wei Ying couldn’t help but have a sore nose.
After catching up with the teacher for a while, he followed him to the lecture hall to attend the conference.
Because he had to speak afterwards, he was arranged to sit on the podium side of the lecture hall, while Lan Zhan sat in the audience below the stage.
However, because of his outstanding looks, Wei Ying saw the girls on the stage craning their necks to look at Lan Zhan.
Next to Wei Ying sat an acquaintance, Wang Zixuan, the secretary of the Lan family.
Wang Zixuan had been in charge of the remote classroom project, and she came to participate in the conference on behalf of the Lan Group this time.
After the two of them exchanged pleasantries, the conference started with the speech of the principal of Yanping High School.
The leaders and representatives took turns to speak on the stage, and each made a generous speech.
Wei Ying felt a little bored, so he used his cell phone to quietly chat with Lan Zhan.
But soon it was his turn to give a speech.
When the host said, “Now, let’s invite our province’s No. 1 in science this year, student of the first live broadcast in Rocket class of Yanping High School—— Wei Ying to speak”, the entire lecture hall burst into a tsunami of applause.
Many students even stood up and cheered loudly.
Wei Ying felt flattered, he did not expect his popularity to be so high.
He stood up and walked to the center of the podium amidst thunderous applause, set the microphone, and looked at the students who were gradually quieting down the stage.
They were looking at him with eyes full of expectation and admiration.
At that moment, he suddenly remembered himself two years ago, sitting in the dilapidated classroom in Yanping High School. He also looked up at Lan Zhan who was thousands of miles away on the screen with such hot, bright, hopeful eyes.
And right now, Lan Zhan was sitting in the audience on the stage, gazing softly at himself.
Suddenly, his eye sockets were hot, he took a deep breath, and started the speech that he had already prepared for a while into the microphone.
He didn’t use flashy rhetoric or quotations.
He just narrated his own experience and told these students who were as young as him in the past, that he had also been confused and perplexed, but as long as there was something firm in his heart, he could see the way forward and ride the wind.
At the end of his speech, he promised his best wishes to Yanping High School students:
“May you not forget to look up at the moon in the sky when you lower your heads to study. May you, like me, find your own moon and discover that you too can shine as you run towards it.”
Wei Ying returned to his seat amidst the even more enthusiastic applause.
After sitting down, he was still a little emotional, and Wang Zixuan smiled and applauded: “You speak so well. Even I, a person who has worked for so many years, felt as if I have returned to my senior year of high school, and I want to work hard and study hard. “
Wei Ying just smiled.
The conference was followed by a recognition session.
From this year onwards, the top three students of the final examination in Yanping County would be rewarded to study in Gusu No.1 High School.
At this moment, the three rewarded students were coming up to the stage in turn to give their speeches, and each of them looked very excited.
Wei Ying looked at the students on stage and couldn’t help but whisper to Wang Zixuan on the side: “They are all quite lucky, like me, to stumble upon such a good project and have such a rare opportunity.”
You only had to drop a rope into the deep well, and the people at the bottom of the well would climb up.
These few students in the mountains were going to be like him in the past, grabbing this rope to study in Gusu No.1 High School.
Perhaps, they could change their fate completely.
“They have you to thank for their good fortune.” Wang Zixuan said with a smile.
Wei Ying froze for two seconds, did not understand Wang Zixuan’s meaning, and asked, “This is the ranking they have achieved with their own effort and hard work. Why should they thank me?”
Wang Zixuan looked at Wei Ying in astonishment and said, “Don’t you know?”
“Know what?” Wei Ying’s eyes were blurred.
Wang Zixuan seemed to feel that she had said something wrong. She couldn’t help but glance at the audience.
Even though the auditorium was turbulent, she could still find Lan Zhan at a glance, and the male teacher next to him was speaking to him.
She did not intend to say, but Wei Ying persistently asked: “What do you know?”
Wang Zixuan again thought it should be okay to say, so she whispered to Wei Ying. “If it wasn’t for you, our group wouldn’t reward the first place in Yanping County to go to Gusu No.1 High School with this system. You are the first, and only with you can there be a follow-up now.”
As if he had a premonition, Wei Ying suddenly felt his heart beating violently at that moment, and his expression was still confused: “What do you mean it wasn’t for me?”
Wasn’t this the public welfare education plan that the Lan family had planned from the beginning?
The year before, Wei Ying already knew through his grandfather that the remote classroom project that allowed him to study in Gusu High School was founded by Lan Zhan’s father, Lan Xichen.
In order to repay him, his grandpa also told Lan Xichen that Wei Ying should recognize Lan Xichen as his godfather.
Lan Xichen smiled and said no, Wei Ying would eventually be his son in the future, and the grandpa who didn’t know the truth at that time was still a little puzzled.
At that time, Wei Ying was also shocked and emotional for a long time after knowing it.
It turned out that the imaginary white-haired grandfather who sponsored himself was actually Lan Zhan’s father, and he said to Lan Zhan indebtedly “you see, God and your father have arranged for us to be together.”
At that time, Lan Zhan gave a hum, saying that he was lucky, and he replied that of course, how could he come here if he had bad luck.
And at this moment, he heard Wang Zixuan say to him amidst the sound of the report hall reverberating like a heartbeat in his chest.
“This reward of sending the first place to Gusu No.1 High School was entrusted to me by Lan Zhan. At that time I did not know what he meant. Later he always asked me to show your monthly exam results in Yanping County to him. I realized that this reward is specially made for you.”
“But also you are smart enough to work hard on your own and really got into first place and didn’t let him down.”
“There is also your allowance. You should still remember that around the midterm examination, the school gave you an allowance. It was given to you by Lan Zhan using his own money.”
“…”
The students on the stage were still expressing their feelings in awe, thanking their teachers and thanking Gusu High School for the sponsoring, and vowing to study hard to get ahead in the future, just like Wei Ying two years ago.
At this moment, Wei Ying couldn’t listen at all.
He was in a huge blankness and heartbeat, as if he stepped into the endless clouds in his sleep, but at the moment his body was weightless, he was dazzled by the bright moon and brilliance thousands of miles above the clouds.
With the last applause, the lengthy meeting finally ended.
The students in the lecture hall slowly rushed towards the door like a tide.
Wei Ying quickly came down from the stage, trying to pass through the crowd to find Lan Zhan in the audience.
But as soon as he jumped off the stage, he was surrounded by a group of juniors and girls, all youthful and innocent faces looked at him with smiles, and asked him questions in a frantic manner.
One of the tall boys rushed to him first and said to him excitedly: “Senior Wei Ying, although I thanked you in my speech just now, I still want to say thank you personally.”
Wei Ying looked over in a daze and vaguely recognized the boy as the student who gave his speech on stage earlier, but he hadn’t listened carefully.
The boy reddened his face, seemingly extremely embarrassed, and said expectantly: “Senior, do you remember me? I was in the same junior high school as you, and you saved me when I was bullied in the past.”
Wei Ying was even more confused.
His “brilliant deeds” in junior high school had already been deliberately forgotten by him, and he had no impression of the person in front of him at all.
“It’s okay if you don’t remember!” The boy hurriedly said.
“I always remember, Senior. I used to get very bad grades, so I thought it was useless to study. But when I saw you on the live screen in the classroom after I went to high school and saw that you were that good in Gusu No.1, I decided to study hard and go to Gusu No.1 like you. Now I’ve made it happen, so I thought I’d come and thank you in person!”
As the boy stumbled over his words, the students gathered around him laughed kindly, making him blush even more.
Wei Ying also laughed, he turned into the model senior and patted the boy’s shoulder, encouragingly said: “Cherish the opportunity in Gusu No.1 High School and pay back your alma mater later.”
The boy nodded very vigorously and clenched his fist: “I will!”
The crowd gradually dispersed and left, and Wei Ying was finally free.
He turned around in the lecture hall and saw the clear daylight coming through the long slanted windows, cutting the old auditorium into a bright geometric figure.
In that bright place, Lan Zhan was holding his arms half leaning against the seat, his eyes fell on him, there was a light smile in his eyes.
Wei Ying took a deep breath and walked slowly towards Lan Zhan.
Lan Zhan lowered his eyes slightly, and he saw that Wei Ying’s eyes were covered with a layer of water, as if they had been wet not long ago, so he raised his eyebrows and asked, “So happy to be thanked by a student?”
Obviously the scene of the boy’s excitement and gratitude was all caught by Lan Zhan.
Wei Ying pressed down the long-standing tide of his heart, the corners of his mouth curved and said: “There are people who study hard for me, of course I’m happy.”
He paused, and the corners of his mouth smiled deeper, “Isn’t this the same as when I tried to study hard for you?”
“Not the same.” Lan Zhan denied decisively.
“Where is it different?”
Lan Zhan raised his eyebrows, raised his chin slightly and said, “He can’t catch up with you.” There was some arrogance in his expression.
Wei Ying was happy and said with a smile, “That junior didn’t want to chase me, okay.”
Of course it was not the same.
No one could be as lucky as he was, so lucky that someone was willing to create luck for him silently.
The two walked side by side towards the outside of the lecture hall, and all the way, there were scattered students quietly looking at them, the bolder girls shouted ‘senior, hello’ and scurried away.
At noon, they had a long and boring lunch with the local leaders, and were dragged to take various pictures.
When they came out, nearly half of the afternoon passed.
Wei Ying took Lan Zhan and rushed to do the last thing in Yanping County this time, to handle household registration migration.
Because it involved the household registration of two completely different places, the migration of household registration was more troublesome than Wei Ying thought, and it took him a lot of time to prepare the documents.
The police station was clean and deserted.
Lan Zhan asked Wei Ying to sit on a chair in front of the window, while he stood aside.
The staff placed all the documents next to the computer and meticulously went through the documents to check.
Wei Ying looked at his own archives in the hands of others, like a book bound by fate that hurriedly turned over, and he suddenly realized that this place really had nothing to do with him.
The memory of these more than ten years flashed in front of him like a flash of light, like a blanket of fog in the morning ocean blurred, but he remembered the most vivid pictures in the fog.
Thinking of the Lotus Pillar Bay where he grew up, the peach blossoms blooming on the banks of the River and egrets flew over the jagged green and white paddy fields.
He hid in the woodshed to paint, and unwittingly learned of his fate as a joke, and had since spent his days in the mountains in a muddle.
Thinking of the dilapidated classrooms in the first year of high school, the summer heat in summer was like weeds that start a prairie fire without an end.
He saw Lan Zhan for the first time on the screen, and from then on a bright moon rose in the wilderness of his heart.
Thinking of the empty and huge concert hall, the drooping sunset rolling violently on the horizon, the endless red-gold twilight spreading in through the long windows, blazing over the black piano and kissing them.
Thinking of the Christmas Eve of his seventeenth birthday, they were in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, looking side by side at the bright neon and drifting snow.
Lan Zhan kissed away the tears at the corners of his eyes and said to him.
“Wei Ying, I’ll take you home, okay?”
It was almost evening when they got the household registration certificate.
He and Lan Zhan walked out of the police station together, pushed open the glass door that was condensed with water vapor, and the thick twilight and heat rushed towards them.
They bought two bottles of iced soda, and walked aimlessly side by side in the silent evening streets of the small county.
The sunset was like a coral buckle tied to the skirts of the sky and mountains, the twilight was paved with late autumn maple leaves on the bluestone pavement, the feet of two long slanting shadows swaying close to each other.
Wei Ying looked at the sunset at the end of the alley and said to the person beside him:
“I used to think I was very unfortunate, but later I felt very lucky. There are three things that I think are my best luck. Do you know which ones?”
“Which ones?” Lan Zhan asked smoothly.
“The first is to see you, the second is to be sponsored to study at Gusu No. 1 High School, and the third is to become a student of Grandpa Zhou.”
He paused briefly and turned his head to look at Lan Zhan, perhaps because he was facing the setting sun, the twilight accidentally haloed in the corner of his eyes, and he said:
“Now I know that all my luck comes from the first one.”
Seeing you, meeting you, going to Gusu No.1 High School, becoming a student of Zhou Wanghan, and returning to the family that was missed for seventeen years, all the luck was because of you.
Lan Zhan lowered his gaze, raised his hand and stroked Wei Ying’s thin red eyes with his thumb, swiping the long eyelashes lightly on his fingertips as he asked:
“Then, do you know the luckiest thing that ever happened to me?”
“What is it?”
“Opened the letter you wrote to me.”
Lan Zhan paused, and the corners of his lips lifted slightly, “After all, I didn’t throw away such a fancy letter. It really takes a lot of luck.”
Wei Ying couldn’t help but smile.
In the sleeve of the summer breeze, in the skirt of the setting sun, the hand that caressed his face lifted his chin and he gently closed his eyes, waiting for the kiss of the person in front of him.
Once he was in a deep well looking up at the moon.
It was only by following a rope that happened to hang down that he was able to climb out of the well and walk alone toward the moon, never hesitating even for thousands of miles.
It turned out that the rope was not an accidental good luck.
It turned out that when I was running to the moon.
The moon was also running to me.
THE END
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