CHAPTER XXIV
The unrelenting rain gave the void under the streetlights a brassy texture, and he and she looked up at the sky, and he and she hugged each other.
They were standing at a stopover on a long-distance bus, and they were waiting for a bus to go to a distant country.
A police car with a siren sounding came towards them from a distance, and he subconsciously lowered his umbrella to cover his face.
When the police car drove by, he looked at the back of the police car with palpitations, and said sarcastically, "One is afraid of seeing people, and the other is afraid of seeing people, but such a combination has to travel all over the great rivers and mountains of the motherland." ”
She held his umbrella hand, "We can't stop, to stop is to die." On the way we traveled, we can still enjoy the mountains and rivers, isn't it God's attachment to us. ”
"When he was injured, he said to me that when a person is standing, one foot is enough, and when he walks forward, he realizes the importance of the other foot. It's like we're struggling to move forward with a broken foot. ”
"You've always had too much to bear, and I'm sure someone had already helped us dispose of their bodies. ”
"Maybe. ”
"I still remember when I was in the early days of my illness, the low-grade fever lasted for about half a year, but we went to Mohe, the northernmost and coldest place," she looked at him affectionately, "At that time, it was you who encouraged me and cared for me, even if I stood in the ice and snow, I felt that the world was warm." ”
"When we arrived in Nyingchi, Tibet, the lump of lymph nodes on my neck was as big as a walnut, and you drew a turtle on the lump while I was asleep, and when I got up in the morning, I saw a lifelike little turtle crawling on my neck, and I couldn't close my mouth with a smile, and I couldn't even bear to wipe it off. ”
A smile appeared on his sad face, "You were already very melancholy, and you have a lump on your neck, which makes you even more depressed. At that time, you wore a scarf during the day and at night to sleep, and I really don't know any other way to get rid of your demons. ”
"Only by leaving this world can my demonic horror disappear completely. ”
"Perhaps, there really is only one way. ”
"I still remember when we climbed Mount Hua, we stood on the shallow road in the long sky of Mount Huashan, stepped on the slippery and loose planks, held the cold and damp iron cable around the mountain, and walked forward slowly. Under our feet are majestic cliffs, thousands of abysses, and there are white clouds around the road, and I suddenly have thoughts of despair. ”
He nodded, "I can see your thoughts, I ask you if you dare to jump, if you dare to jump, we will jump together." ”
"I said I dare to jump. ”
"You look at the abyss under your feet, impulsive and timid. ”
"I'm just thinking. ”
"What are you afraid of? ”
"Fear, of course fear, everybody's going to be afraid...... I'm afraid to jump, and no one knows what I'm going to die about, and no one knows what I'm going to die for. I'm afraid to jump down and go a hundred, and I can go a hundred with a click. I hope that my death can awaken the memories of some people, and I hope that after my death, my soul will be sublimated in a certain space...... I didn't have this confidence, and I feared that I would fall like a stone into the abyss of incomparably darkness, fall to the ground and shatter to pieces, and become one of the countless gravels at the foot of the mountain, unknown to no one. ”
"So you haven't made up your mind to leave this miserable world, and you still have something in your heart that you can't let go. ”
"With your company, I don't have anything I can't let go. ”
"If I go, I will give myself to the sea, and when I die, I will return there. Her calm voice sounded like a bend in the dark of the night, deep, silent, desperate.
"If you go, I will not leave you alone. ”
She nodded slightly, "Remember what I said to you when we set off?"
"You want me to accompany you to the ends of the earth. ”
Her sad eyes were immersed in the heavy rain in the void, "We still have one last place left, the end of the world on Hainan Island, the real 'end of the world'." ”
Hainan Island faces the shore of the mainland.
Pale and weak, she snuggled into his arms, she raised her slender hand to touch his face, "I have never dared to touch your face, I am always afraid of recognizing the wrong person, I am afraid that it will be embarrassing, but now I am not afraid." ”
"The more scared you are, the easier it is to admit your mistakes, and only by reaching out and touching can you understand our differences. ”
She stroked his face, "Your face is so rough, I seem to feel the hardships you have been through...... I seem to realize how different your life experience is compared to Zifeng. ”
He closed his eyes, indulging in her caresses.
"Thank you. ”
He barely managed to squeeze out some smiles, "Fool, thank me for what." ”
"Chenzishan, thank you so much, thank you for accompanying me on this journey. ”
She tried to keep her eyes open, eager to remember the man in front of her before she died, praying that she would not recognize the wrong person in the next world, and that she must meet this man first, love him well, and have him well.
"Am I a little selfish, knowing that I won't live long, I still pull you to accompany me...... After I'm gone, you and Xiaoxue should be good, do you know what I mean? ”
He didn't say a word, just pressed her white, cold hand to his warm chest.
"Zishan, promise me. ”
With tears in his eyes and a bite on his lips, he nodded slightly.
"Your chest is so hot, is my hands too cold?"
He touched her forehead, the biting chill seemed to touch the ice, he really felt that her life was running out, so he used all his strength to hug her, for fear that he was not strong enough to snatch her from the hands of death, "No, no, it's my chest that's too hot." ”
After he finished speaking, he noticed that she was laughing, and tears were flowing uncontrollably.
She looked at him affectionately and tried to raise her hand, "Zishan, don't feel sorry for me, you forgot, my name is Xiaoyu," she wiped away the tears that fell under his chin, "It's like snow falling in the sky, happy and short-lived, warm in the palm of the hand held by you, turned into tears of rebirth, rain of rebirth!"
"The snow melted and turned into tears of rebirth, rain of rebirth. He repeats the phrase so that he realizes its meaning, "I want to tell you that I am not ......"
At this point, he shook his head again.
He thought to himself, forget it, at this time, it is better to let her go with happiness than with the truth.
"What do you want to tell me?"
"I want to tell you that I'm not...... I'm sad, I'm very happy to be able to give you one last ride, at least I won't leave any regrets. ”
"You can say that, and I'm satisfied. ”
She closed her eyes and pondered for a moment.
It didn't take long for her to slowly open her eyes and look at the end of the sea, "Zishan, scatter me there." ”
"Where?"
"The sea across the street. ”
"Don't you want to give 'yourself' to her, she's your family. ”
"It would be very difficult for her to give her my ashes...... Don't forget, she and I are twin sisters...... If she had been me, she would have chosen it the same way. ”
She said slowly, feeling that her eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and it took all the strength of her life to open them, "Don't let her see it, and give me to the sea." ”
She was powerless to resist the heavy sleepiness, but in her heart she felt that everything in this world was a dream, and it was time to put an end to it.
"Zishan, I really want to sleep. ”
"Goodbye Zishan, ...... You must be good with Xiaoxue in the future, you know, you have to be good with Xiaoxue in the future......"
"We seem to know each other in a fog, see flowers in the fog, and finally pass a layer apart. ”
"Zishan, I'm so sleepy, can you sing a song to help me sleep?"
"What song?"
"Leslie Cheung's "I". ”
He nodded, and while rhythmically patting her on the back, he sang:
I am what I am
I'll always love me like this
Happiness is
There is more than one way to be happy
The most honored
Everyone is the glory of the Creator
No need to dodge
Live for the life I love
No ink
Just stand in the corner of the light
I am who I am
It is a firework of a different color
The sky is wide
To make the strongest foam
I like me
Let the roses bloom with a result
In the lonely desert
The same blooming naked......
When she let go of her hand, his face did not show an inalienable pain, he stared at the sea calmly, and whispered, "Please forgive me for my deception, forgive me for not being able to grant your dying request." You give yourself to the sea, you will not be alone in that place, and when I see you again, you will definitely understand. ”
......
The beach side of the villa.
When he had scattered the ashes from the jar, he threw out the empty jar.
He pulled down the hat on his head to cover his eyes, "Where we came from, and we will return there." ”
He lifted his feet in the mud and took a big step towards the depths of the sea, and the whole person disappeared from the surface of the sea without a trace.
On the verge of death, he walked through the tunnel of time, and under the guidance of the divine light, he relived the last time with her.
He opened his heavy eyelids and said, "I'm sorry......"
As soon as he spoke, a mouthful of seawater choked into his internal organs from his mouth, and he struggled frantically to get rid of this suffocating pain that only accelerated the exhaustion of his life.
When there was only the last strength left in his life, his whole body was convulsed, and he still insisted on saying the words that he had always wanted to say to her but couldn't speak, "I'm sorry...... I'll accompany you on your last journey...... Loved one...... It's not that you ......."
"It's you. ”
He saw a rainbow of light pierce through the dark sea, shining warmly on him, she appeared in the beam, she took his hand, and drifted to the unknown world above.
He smiled and walked with her.
The black jazz hat floated above the sea, and the white urn of ashes floated to the shore.