After Summer

[The full text has been completed and will be published later] The first time Chen Fengmian met Fang Yuebai was in the piano room on the third floor of the old school building. That day he was playing "Green Sleeves". There was a man at the door who leaned against the door frame and listened to the whole song. Then he opened the door and came in and said, "You can play it well." This man was very cool-looking, with a silver stud in his left ear, a red T-shirt underneath his school uniform jacket, and a black string hanging around his neck. Later, Chen Fengmian found out that there was no pendant on the black string and it was empty. He said his name was Fang Yuebai, from the next class, and he came in when he heard the sound of the piano while passing by. Chen Fengmian believed it. Later he found out that Fang Yuebai came here specially. He saw Chen Fengmian walking towards the old building in the corridor holding the music score, and followed him. He walked through the door of the piano room three times that day, and only opened the door on the third time. The first trip was to confirm whether he was there, the second trip was to make sure he was hesitant to go in, and the third trip was to find out that if he hesitated, he would go in today, so he pushed back. Chen Fengmian later said, if you had opened the door on the first visit, we could have talked for half an hour more. Fang Yuebai said, I spent that half hour at the door thinking about words. They started meeting in the piano room. Fang Yuebai sat on the left side of the piano bench, and Chen Fengmian sat on the right side, with a bag of oranges placed in the middle. Peeling oranges in the white moon, Chen Fengmian playing the piano. Sometimes Fang Yuebai would sit next to him and flip through the physics exercise book. Chen Fengmian would hit a certain note and get stuck. He would look up at the score, then say, "Take your elbows out a little bit," and then continue to lower his head and write his own questions. Chen Fengmian asked him how you knew that since you don't play the piano. He said that my sister had played it before, and I listened to it for three years. There were three lines of writing written on the upper right corner of the piano cover in that piano room. "Hello", "Hello", "Fang Yuebai" - the first two lines were written on the day Chen Fengmian and Fang Yuebai met for the first time, and the third line was quietly added by Chen Fengmian himself later. The second time Fang Yuebai went to the piano room, he saw the line "Fang Yuebai". He didn't say anything after reading it. He took out a blue pen from his pocket and drew a horizontal line at the bottom. From that day on, the words on the door frame have not been broken. The green pen and the blue pen alternated, writing from "Wednesday and Friday" to "Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, too", from "Good night" to "Sweet dreams", from "I'm back" to "I'm still in the same place as a sophomore in high school". The words on the door frame are getting denser and denser, arranged from the top grid to the floor, like two people building a building on a narrow board for three years. Fang Yuebai began to write music for Chen Fengmian. What he wrote was not piano music in the traditional sense, but what he heard in his own head. He was writing at the desk in his dormitory late at night, with Mu Yu lying next to him - that was his curly cat. Fang Yuebai's mother named the cat "Mu Yu", which is homophonic to "wooden fish". Fang Yuebai said that cats had a higher status than him. His mother knitted hats for cats, removed fish bones for cats, and only said to him, "Wash the dishes after eating." When he was writing music, the cat would lie down on his homework book, and he would move the cat away. The cat would lie down again, and he would move away again. After a month of writing, a variation on "Green Sleeves" was completed. When he handed the score to Chen Fengmian, he said, "Just play it and have a look. If it doesn't come out, forget it." Chen Fengmian popped up. He was playing in the piano room, and Fang Yuebai sat next to him and listened. After listening, he didn't say whether it sounded good or not. He only said: "When you played it, the modulation in the middle part was smoother than what I wrote." The two of them got along like this for three years. One uses the sound of the piano to record his thoughts, and the other uses an encrypted photo album to save every recording sent by the other party. Chen Fengmian wrote three diaries, with Fang Yuebai's name on every page. Fang Yuebai recorded every song that Chen Fengmian played, and changed the file name from "Green Sleeves" to "Feng Yue" - "Wind" is Chen Fengmian, and "Yue" is Fang Yuebai. He combined the two names into one word and put it in a folder on his mobile phone. Only he knows the password. Everyone thought they were together except themselves. It snowed heavily on New Year's Eve in my senior year of high school. Chen Fengmian stood in the piano room for a long time, while Fang Yuebai sat on the piano bench and waited. He finally said the words he had been holding back for three years. Fang Yuebai was silent for a long time after listening. He sat on the piano bench all New Year's Eve, with the radiator buzzing and the snow falling outside the window. He said, "It's not that I don't like it, it's that I can't like it now." Chen Fengmian asked him why. He said: "College entrance examination. My mother. My father. Repeat. You." Chen Fengmian said what to do. Fang Yuebai said: "Give me a summer and wait until the college entrance examination is over." Chen Fengmian said yes. He waited for a winter and a spring, and then the college entrance examination was over. On the afternoon after the last subject exam, he sat in the piano room and waited. The windows were open, and the June wind poured in from the outside, and the footnotes of the music scores were blown over and over by the wind. He waited for a long time, and footsteps finally came from the corridor - a frequency he had heard for three years, always landing half a beat slower than others. When Fang Yuebai opened the door and came in, Chen Fengmian asked, "Is it okay now?" Fang Yuebai said nothing. He took out his mobile phone, put one earphone into Chen Fengmian's ear, and put the other one on his own ear. The music started playing, and inside it was a variation of the song "Green Sleeves" he wrote two years ago - a version played by Chen Fengmian. Fang Yuebai kept the recording from the first to the last version, but he chose the middle version because he felt that the suspension in that version was the cleanest. He said, "You should have asked this question in your first year of high school." Chen Fengmian said: "When I was a freshman in high school, you didn't even dare to open the door. If I had asked you, you would have run away." Fang Yuebai said: "If you run away, you will come back." This is the story of "After the Summer". Two people who had been holding back for three years in total exchanged answers with a piece of music - from the old piano room in autumn to the old piano room in summer. After three years, the leaves outside the window turned yellow and green, and there was a thin scratch on the paint surface of the keys. He finally waited for his answer, and the person who pushed the door open. Gentle and delicate piano player × straightforward and cool skateboard boy Intention: Waiting for you all summer.