Chapter 4: My Farewell Song 2
City A is a city more than 400 kilometers away from City J.
After Cheng Ge returned to City A, his cell phone was confiscated by his father, and he could only accept the devilish teaching baptism in City A High School.
There are many restrictions in A City High School, one of which is that students cannot mail letters at school, so Cheng Ge can only find a way to contact Qing Nuan through the Internet .
Without a cell phone, Cheng's father also restricted Cheng Ge's online life. He could only go online for two hours on Sundays. Cheng Ge would leave messages to Qing Nuan through QQ, and each message was a long paragraph.
Not only that, he would also send emails to Qingnuan, and her email box was filled with letters addressed to "Qingnuan". Cheng Ge didn't know if Qingnuan had seen it, because Qingnuan's home computer seemed to only have some stand-alone teaching games such as typing practice and exercises installed, and it was not connected to the Internet. A girl like Qingnuan who obeyed school rules would definitely not go to an Internet cafe, so Cheng Ge didn't have much hope.
He felt that Qing Nuan must not have seen it. She wouldn't even open her mailbox. She didn't have such a habit, so she never replied.
Despite this, Cheng Ge persisted and wrote emails to Qing Nuan whenever he had the chance.
The emails are all fairly mundane, talking about the English teacher who is in menopause, or the strange hat the dean wore today, or the fact that the male teacher in the math class forgot to zip up his trousers today.
Cheng Ge tried his best to make his writing style appear light-hearted and humorous. He thought that Qing Nuan would definitely smile after reading the email.
So every time he wrote an email, he would imagine Qing Nuan smiling. In that way, Cheng Ge felt that every separation was a prelude to future reunion.
Just like that, time flies by unknowingly.
It’s time to reach the final sprint stage of senior year.
Cheng Ge was still writing an email to Qing Nuan. It happened to be the weekend, and the late spring sunshine shone through the window into Cheng Ge's small study. The warmth came just right, giving Cheng Ge the illusion that Qing Nuan was still by his side.
But what came with the sunlight was a strong shaking.
The light bulb on the roof swayed from side to side for a while, and finally couldn't bear the load and exploded with a bang.
Then, Cheng Ge saw that everything in the room was shaking violently, and the chairs were flipped to the ground.
The ground was shaking more and more violently.
The old-fashioned clock hanging on the wall fell down and hit Cheng Ge's shoulder.
"Ah!" Cheng Ge felt a sharp pain in his shoulder, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and his whole body lost balance instantly. At that moment, Cheng Ge's mind buzzed, and he realized that an earthquake had occurred in City A.
The whole floor was shaking and he needed to get out.
The computer was flickering, indicating unstable voltage. The screen was still on the page where Cheng Ge was writing an email to Qing Nuan. Cheng Ge staggered step by step in a state of weightlessness, as if he was climbing over mountains and ridges, and finally staggered to the computer.
He stretched out his hand with difficulty, grasped the mouse, moved the arrow to the "Send" button, and clicked it.
It was not until the words "Sent successfully" appeared on the computer screen that Cheng Ge breathed a sigh of relief.
Then the computer screen went black and the circuit was completely broken.
Another violent tremor came.
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred in City A.
This news was already known to everyone across the country on the day of the earthquake. All media were reporting on the casualties, damage to houses and roads, and the impact of aftershocks.
Qing Nuan naturally knew it too.
When she saw the news, she was having dinner at home with her father.
On the TV screen, a female reporter from the TV station was conducting a field survey of the residents of City A in rigorous and standard Mandarin.
"Suddenly, the world started spinning and my mother hugged me and ran out of the house. My father was holding my mother and was behind us, so he couldn't get out. Then the house collapsed..." On TV, the little girl was crying and telling the sad truth.
The reporter asked a few more people, and each of them told a tear-jerking story .
Qing Nuan sat at the dining table like a wooden stake, staring blankly at the TV. The braised pork in the bowl had already gone cold, and it felt like chewing wax when she ate it.
Father discovered that Qing Nuan was acting strange.
"By the way, Cheng Ge transferred to another school two years ago. I remember you said that he was also in City A?" asked the father.
Qing Nuan was so scared that her hands holding the rice bowl were shaking uncontrollably. When she heard her father's question, she took a deep breath, slowly put the rice bowl back on the table, and then responded with a single word: "Yeah."
"Oh no." The father sighed subconsciously, "That's not good. How is he now? Are you still in touch?"
Qing Nuan was silent for a moment, trying to suppress her worry and anxiety, and pretended to be calm and said, "No contact. After he returned to City A, we had some , but starting from the second semester of his sophomore year, his father suddenly confiscated his phone, and he was usually strictly controlled by the school and his family, so we rarely contacted each other."
"Oh." Dad nodded, stared at the TV, and sighed, "That kid is good. I wonder how his family is doing now?"
Qing Nuan's eyes were fixed on the TV screen: "Yeah, I wonder how he is doing..."
The meal was tasteless.
From that day on, Qing Nuan tried to call Cheng Ge's number, but that number seemed to be cursed. Every time she called, the mechanical female voice rang on the other end of the line: "The number you dialed is turned off."
She was almost going crazy.
How she wished she could hear Cheng Ge's gentle voice on the other end of the phone. He didn't even need to say much. It would be enough if she could just hear his breathing to prove that he was safe.
But even this could not satisfy her.
Qing Nuan, who had always studied hard and focused on solving questions in order to be admitted to University in City A, became silent and distracted in class. She was also absent-minded when she was with Xu Jiarong after class. She even had no intention of responding to Song Yang's usual provocations and teasing.
Xu Jiarong naturally knew the reason for Qing Nuan's change, and Song Yang certainly understood it as well.
Xu Jiarong comforted her every day: "Cheng Ge will be fine. City A is so big, and the number of casualties is not high. There must be no Cheng Ge!"
In short, Xu Jiarong repeated this type of sentence over and over again to comfort Qing Nuan.
Song Yang didn't participate in this topic at all. To be honest, as Cheng Ge was his love rival, he didn't care about Cheng Ge's life or death at all. But Song Yang really couldn't stand Qing Nuan worrying about Cheng Ge all day long.
For this reason, Song Yang secretly kept an eye on Qing Nuan every day, fearing that the absent-minded silly girl would be hit by a car while walking on the road, or something similar would happen, or that Qing Nuan would get carried away and do something unreasonable...
Song Yang felt that he had to keep an eye on her.
A week after the earthquake, Qing Nuan felt that she really couldn't wait any longer and she had to go to City A in person.
It happened to be the Labor Day holiday, and Qing Nuan decided to use this holiday to go to City A.
The day before the holiday, she secretly bought a train ticket and took out all the pocket money of more than 800 yuan she had saved, put it in her pocket, and prepared to leave the next day.
The next day, Qing Nuan decisively took the bus and went to J City Railway Station.
It seems that every city’s train station is so bustling.
Qing Nuan couldn't help but think of that summer when she followed her father on the train and met Cheng Ge, who was still a little boy at the time, on the train.
At that time, Cheng Ge was smiling widely, running around in the carriage like a disobedient child. He hid under her seat, his nervous eyes and playful smile passed by Qing Nuan's eyes like a movie.
Qing Nuan thought that she was actually attracted to Cheng Ge at that time.
Otherwise, how could they, who had never met before, and a timid woman like her, lend him a helping hand and even suggest that he call the police...
She was so cowardly, inferior, and at a loss at that time. Her mother had just passed away, and her whole world was almost shrouded in darkness.
But in such a situation, she met Cheng Ge, a boy with a completely different personality from her.
She was submissive, but he dared to resist.
She is silent and gloomy, but he is cheerful and sunny.
To her, he was like a guide who led her step by step across the single-plank bridge and led her to the avenue. However, he led her to the avenue and left before he could walk with her.
How could she bear to let Brother Ge stay in that turbulent city?
She must find him and make sure he is safe so that she can continue to study hard and take the college entrance examination.
"Brother Ge, wait for me."
Qing Nuan prayed silently in her heart and walked into the station.
