“我唱，唱……”
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've e to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
‘Neath the halo of a streetlamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
No one dare
Disturb the sound of silence
“Fools” said I, “You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you”
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said “The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence”
夏冉江听着自己的声音，突然觉得这首从小听到大的歌似乎有种陌生感。一直以来沉浸其中的平静心绪恍然变成了一层五彩斑斓的油墨，被这如一塘绿水的旋律排斥于上，再也无法交融其间。
“我介绍几首歌给你。”
童哲拿起夏冉江手机，找到Sam Tsui的专辑。
“之前听到这个专辑，一个华人唱的，翻唱都很经典。听听看。”
“《Hold It Against Me》？”
“闭眼听就是了。”
“If I said my heart was beating loud, if we could escape the crowd somehow, if I said I want your body now, would you hold it against me……”
童哲小声哼着，边哼边靠近夏冉江。
“这歌这么不正经……”
夏冉江微微睁眼，正撞上童哲的直视，赶紧又闭上眼睛。嘴角却淡淡地凹陷上扬，头慢慢偏到窗外，不禁露出笑意。
☆、第 16 章
回到南京。一出飞机，迎面的寒风冻得童哲直打哆嗦。夏冉江赶紧从行李箱里找出一件羽绒外套给童哲披上。
“我可不穿这个，穿得跟个大煤球似的，太难看。”
童哲急忙躲开，硬生生地打了个喷嚏。
“你穿不穿？瞧你那样，鼻涕都快淌成秦淮河了，还在乎什么好不好看。”
夏冉江抻开外套，站着不动，一脸严肃地盯着童哲。童哲跑了几步回头，僵持了几秒，还是走了回来，背向夏冉江张开手臂，夏冉江把外套盖了上去。穿好袖子后，又转到童哲正面，“呼啦”一声拉上拉链。
“嗯，是挺像煤球的。煤球，咱们走吧。”
虽然只是过了一周，可是夏冉江走的时候是秋天，回来却已经如同隆冬时节了。跟童哲在校门口分别，夏冉江拖着行李箱，从校园正门进入。
校园里整个主干道两侧的梧桐树已经光秃秃的了。夏冉江忽然想起那次扫落叶的场景，童哲撞树的样子又浮现眼前。夏冉江不禁又多看了那棵树两眼。这时，一阵寒风吹过，高处灰色的树杈上隐约一缕红色飘了起来。夏冉江定睛一看，不知是谁在最上面的树杈上系上了一根红丝带。红丝带已经有些破损，像是已经系上去很久了，只是之前掩藏在宽大茂密的梧桐叶之间，很难发现。如今，满树的梧桐叶已经凋零殆尽，这一抹色彩却依然灵动如火。
来到宿舍门口，钥匙开门。正准备伸手开灯，“砰”的一声吓得夏冉江往后退了两步。
整个宿舍满是飘落的各色礼花彩条。夏冉江眼前顿时亮起，对面窗户上挂着横幅，上面写着几个大字“欢迎冠军凯旋归来”。
“欢迎冠军凯旋归来！”
几乎与夏冉江看横幅的速度一致，在何啸宇带领下，宿舍里的同学齐声喊了起来。
“夏冉江，你太他么牛逼了，我们看到比赛结果激动死了。”
“那是，咱们夏冉江同学出马，那些个牛鬼蛇神还不得统统俯首称臣啊。”
何啸宇接过夏冉江手里的行李箱，把夏冉江迎了进来。
“哎哎哎，吴庆，让你负责背景音乐的呢，你那个破电脑什么时候能修好啊，关键时候给我掉链子。”
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