It tells a story about dislocation and reunion. The childhoods of Lin Xiaoman and Cheng Ye were engraved on the same sycamore tree - when he was seven years old, he used a pencil to trace "sitting at the same table with Xiaoman" on the bark, and she stood on tiptoe and drew a crooked star next to it.
On the first day of the third year of junior high school, when transfer student Lin Xiaoman walked into the classroom holding her new school uniform, chalk dust was flying in the sun. She recognized the birthmark on the back of Cheng Ye's neck, which looked like a shrunken sycamore leaf. But the boy who once folded paper airplanes for her now pushed her schoolbag to the aisle with a cold face: "Don't touch my basketball."
The codes of the old days are hidden in every corner of the campus: the sycamore leaf specimens used in the nature class still have small holes burned with a magnifying glass between the leaf veins; under the piano bench in the music classroom, there is a yellowed note with the words "Xiao Man is out of tune"; and Cheng Ye always wears the faded red rope bracelet, and the knot is the "snail knot" she invented back then.
The night the typhoon blew down the old sycamore tree, a soaked Ultraman pencil case rolled out of the tree hole. Lin Xiaoman opened it tremblingly, and inside were neatly stacked her little erasers that Cheng Ye secretly hid every Children's Day. The latest one was engraved with: "I hate the transfer notice, and I look forward to the reunion notice."
During the rainstorm while taking graduation photos, Cheng Ye suddenly stuffed the crumpled note into the side pocket of her schoolbag. It floated out from the center of the sycamore tree when it collapsed. Seven years ago, Lin Xiaoman wrote with a highlighter: "If you get separated, just wait for the third sunny day under the tree." At this moment, "Childhood" was playing on the playground radio, and the raindrops hit the sycamore wood sign used for group photos, like the spots of light falling into the leaves of the stars that year.
Intention: youth