When all the panic gradually subsided, the two sat around the bonfire, Xue Rin took the can from Yao Zhixia's hand, and gently pried the bottle cap with a knife, the bottle cap bulged, Xue Rin unscrewed the bottle cap, forked a hawthorn and sent it to Yao Zhixia.

"Aren't you going to eat?"

"I don't like to eat anything too sweet and sour. ”

Yao Zhixia had no choice but to open her mouth to swallow the hawthorn, as soon as the hawthorn that made people's teeth sour in her mouth, her taste buds were immediately awakened by this long-lost taste.

"Hawthorn is so sour, why do you love it so much?" Xue Rin looked at Yao Zhixia's satisfied appearance and wondered a little.

Yao Zhixia swallowed the hawthorn in his mouth and said: "When I was a child, I rarely had snacks to eat, on my 6th birthday, my father rushed back from City A early in the morning to celebrate my birthday, and my parents took me out to play for an afternoon that day!"

In the evening, Dad had to take the train back to the construction site in City A, he was a construction worker, and one less day of work would make him earn one less day. I still remember the scene when I took the sugar gourd that my father bought for me before getting on the train, and stood on the platform with my mother and waved to my father, the hawthorn was big and red that day, and the sunset of that day was shining orange light, I was so shaken by the light that I couldn't open my eyes, and when I opened my eyes again, the train had melted into the distant twilight......"

Xue Rin saw that Yao Zhixia didn't seem to be finished talking, so he couldn't wait to ask, "What happened later? Why did the sugar gourd that day make you remember it so deeply?"

Yao Zhixia pursed her lips, and there was a touch of sadness in her eyes, "Because that day was the last time I saw him." ”

When Xue Rin heard this, he knew that he was talking too much, so he instantly lowered his head guiltily and remained silent.

"That day, I ate the sugar gourd that my father bought, and I secretly decided in my heart that I must study hard in the future and be admitted to City A, so that my father can also live in a big house, and I don't have to work hard to build a house. But before I could grow up, he left, and there was an accident at the construction site. ”

Yao Zhixia has long learned to look down on the past, and time and experience have allowed her to gradually reconcile with fate and no longer complain about the injustice of fate.

Xue Rin saw that Yao Zhixia was willing to take the initiative to speak, so he cautiously asked his curiosity, "Then later, why did you, um......"

"You mean, I later became a waitress on a cruise ship?" Yao Zhixia said with a smile.

Xue Rin nodded, and the amplitude seemed to be nothing.

"Actually, I have always studied very well when I was in school, especially English and mathematics, my dream at that time was to major in international finance at City A and C University, but in the second year of high school, my mother had liver cancer, in an advanced stage, in fact, when I learned that she was sick, I knew that that dream no longer belonged to me, but I still wanted to do my best to catch something for myself. ”

Every time Yao Zhixia thinks of the summer of the college entrance examination, his heart is like a knife, and his eyes can't help but redden.

"Then you got in?"

"Hmm. ”

"But you don't have the money to go to school?"

"Hmm. ”

"So you're coming to City A to work?"

Speaking of this, Yao Zhixia suddenly became flustered, and in the face of Xue Rin, she still couldn't break the deep and strong inferiority.

"I started working in a factory in City B, but then I encountered something and ......"

"Actually, you haven't been unlucky all the time!" Xue Rin suddenly interrupted Yao Zhixia, who was hesitating how to continue.

Yao Zhixia didn't understand the meaning of his words for a while, and looked at him suspiciously.

The corners of Xue Rin's lips raised, and there seemed to be a flash of light between his eyebrows, "Because you met me!"

Yao Zhixia looked at him and couldn't help laughing.

"Isn't it? Follow me, there is chicken soup to drink, hawthorn to eat, cats and dogs, and a pastoral and airy house!" Xue Rin laughed so that the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes piled up.

"That's right! Someone washed my hair!" Yao Zhixia said, pointing to her own hair.

"Well, look at the whole island, the waterfall, the lake, it's all ours!"

Xue Rin stood up and strode towards the entrance of the cave, looking down the mountain.

A gust of sea breeze blew, the salty, lush woods swayed with the wind, and the sea in the distance shimmered in the sunlight, Xue Rin put away his smile, and his heart suddenly brightened.

"So, life is full of scenery, don't get entangled with the past, don't tear with bad luck, in order to be reborn. Xue Rin tilted his head slightly, feeling the temperature behind him.

Yao Zhixia looked at Xue Rin's back, and put another hawthorn into her mouth, the sweet and sour juice overflowed the entire mouth, she couldn't help frowning, and said to the man in front of her in her heart: "Thank you, Xue Rin." ”

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As night fell, Yao Zhixia and Xue Rin brought firewood, wild vegetables, and mushrooms back to the cave from the day, and it was their first attempt to eat mushrooms on the island.

Yao Zhixia had gone down the mountain several times before and wanted to pick some mushrooms to come back to cook soup, but he never had his hands free, so he had to give up. Today finally had the opportunity, Yao Zhixia picked a few gray-brown umbrella-shaped mushrooms under the surrounding trees when Xue Rin was collecting firewood.

Xue Rin carried the kettle to fetch water, Yao Zhixia put the mushrooms and wild vegetables in the basin and cleaned them, and she opened a can of meat to make a mushroom broth.

When Xue Rin returned from fetching water, the two put the kettle on the fire and put all the food into the water to boil.

Xue Rin was bored, and while adding firewood, he looked at Peng Peng and Ding Man on the side, these two guys took advantage of the two of them to pick and catch a rabbit together, and now they are sharing the fruits of victory.

"Do you think they don't have a sense of taste? I felt that the roast rabbit meat we ate last time was so fishy, and they were eaten raw, and they could be eaten so happily!" Xue Rin pursed his lips in disgust.

Yao Zhixia lowered his head and smiled, stirring the soup in the pot with a branch, and the aroma of meat in the soup wafted out.

"Did you see that?"

Xue Rin suddenly patted Yao Zhixia's arm excitedly, and before she could react, Xue Rin had already pulled her arm and walked out of the cave.

Yao Zhixia didn't know why, and when she saw Xue Rin raising her head and searching for something in the sky, she also raised her head blankly and looked at the sky, but there was only a cold bright moon and a few stars in the black sky.

"Meteor! It's a meteor!"

Xue Rin put his hands on his waist and stared eagerly at the sky, for fear of missing the next meteor.

Yao Zhixia didn't feel looking forward to the word "meteor", but turned his head to look at Xue Rin on his side.

His hair was a little messy, and his jaw was covered with a blue beard, but his eyes were bright and clear as if they were reflected in a star, and his lips were slightly open, and the corners of his mouth were childlike smiles.

Yao Zhixia unconsciously locked his gaze on the small mole on Xue Rin's right earbone, as if he had been enchanted, and he couldn't take his eyes off it.

"Is that all?"

Xue Rin raised her hand and brushed her hair back, and the ear drill shone with his movements, which made Yao Zhixia, who was wandering, wake up, she withdrew her gaze without a trace, and looked at the sky with care, but her eyes blinked aimlessly.

Yao Zhixia was sorting out his thoughts, and a few meteor tails suddenly appeared in the sky and disappeared in a flash.

"Did you see it! again!"

Xue Rin patted Yao Zhixia on the shoulder excitedly, eager to lift her up to the sky to see.

Although Yao Zhixia had no waves about the meteor in his heart, he saw that Xue Rin was so excited, so he smiled and nodded to him.

Xue Rin happily sat on the big stone at his feet, and did not forget to take Yao Zhixia's hand and settle her beside him.

"Do you know the story of Asteria, the goddess of meteors?"

Xue Rin looked at the sky, tilted his upper body to the side, and lightly bumped into Yao Zhixia.

Yao Zhixia shook his head.

"Asteria is the goddess of meteors in Greek mythology and the oracle of dreams. Her sister was the Titan goddess Leto, one of Zeus's many wives, and when she was pregnant and about to give birth, Hera, the queen of heaven, ordered that the earth forbid her to give birth, and her sister Asteria turned into an island for her sister to give birth. Xue Rin suddenly stopped when he said this, and looked at Yao Zhixia proudly.

"And then?" Yao Zhixia asked curiously.

"Who do you guess her sister's baby is?"

Xue Rin saw that Yao Zhixia was still confused and shook his head, so he had no choice but to reveal the mystery.

Her sister gave birth to two children, one was Artemis, the goddess of hunting, Zeus's favorite daughter, and the other, the male god Apollo, who was more popular with girls. Both of them were the main gods of Olympus. Xue Rin spoke unhurriedly.

"How do you know so much about Greek mythology?"

Yao Zhixia was a little surprised, and always felt that according to Xue Rin's character, it was not like a person who would be interested in this kind of ethereal myth.

This simple question broke the originally cheerful atmosphere, Xue Rin quickly dodged Yao Zhixia's gaze, he crossed his hands in front of his chest, his fingers squeezed each other hard, and raised his head aimlessly towards the sky, and took a deep breath.

"My mother majored in Western history in college, and her family was well-off and well-educated, but when she met my father in the club, she resolutely gave up her research direction and followed my father to start a business after graduation.

My father was a poor boy with no family background at that time, even if my grandfather threatened to sever the father-daughter relationship at that time, she never compromised, and when they were the most miserable, the two of them ate a box of instant noodles a day, and they didn't even dare to get sick, so they worked hard little by little for more than ten years. ”

Xue Rin closed his eyes and raised his hand to rub his wrinkled forehead.

"Your mother often tells you stories of Greek mythology?"

Looking at Xue Rin's slightly arched back, a tingling sensation came from somewhere in Yao Zhixia's heart, and she didn't want the man in front of her to let go of his emotions, so she quietly changed the topic.

"Well, I still remember a summer night when I was a child, just like the temperature now, my mother was sitting on the swing chair in the courtyard, I was pillowing on her lap, listening to her story and listening to it, suddenly it started a meteor shower, that was the first time I saw a meteor, I was shocked and speechless, my mother urged me to make a wish on the meteor quickly, I was so panicked that I didn't know what to wish for, so I closed my eyes stupidly, and when I finished reciting my wish, a large number of meteor showers were long gone, I was almost angry, I felt that the wish was only heard by ghosts。 Xue Rin's tone was full of regret.

"What's that wish?"

Hearing the words echoing in the air, Yao Zhixia was shocked to blurt out herself, and then she had a trace of worry, she had no right to ask, but there was a voice in her heart that kept making her seem to be under control.

Xue Rin tilted his head and looked at Yao Zhixia silently, a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Secret. ”

After Xue Rin finished saying these two words, he smiled even wider, and crow's feet squeezed out of the corners of his eyes.

I have to admit that the moment he heard his answer, Yao Zhixia was a little disappointed, but this thought was immediately suppressed by reason, this is his private matter, how can he tell outsiders?

Yao Zhixia stopped talking, she raised her head and followed Xue Rin's gaze to the sky.

The originally calm sky seemed to be suddenly hit by an oracle, and a meteor shower fell all over the sky, and countless white tails of light were fleeting in the air.

"Make a wish!"

Xue Rin anxiously urged Yao Zhixia, who was indifferent on the side, and seeing that she was still slow, he simply grabbed her hands and put them together.

Yao Zhixia glanced at Xue Rin in a panic, then stopped all movements, she lowered her head and thought about it, then quickly closed her eyes and meditated in her heart.

Xue Rin saw his eyes on the side, his gaze resting on Yao Zhixia's fine eyelashes, which were faintly shaking with the movement of his eyes.

"What did you wish?"

After a moment of silence, Yao Zhixia slowly opened his eyes, looked up at the starry sky, and Xue Rin couldn't wait to ask.

"Secret. ”

This time, Yao Zhixia sold Guanzi, and she pursed her lips and smiled at Xue Rin.

"Hmph, if you don't say it, you won't say it!"

Xue Rin pursed his lips and raised his arms childishly to cross his chest, his chin raised high, staring at the meteor shower in the sky.

Yao Zhixia looked at Xue Rin quietly, repeating the prayer just now in his heart, "I hope he can return to the world that belongs to him." ”