Ming Yu stopped, and Jiang Ruo was silent.

In the silence, Jiang Ruo heard that the background sound on the other end of the phone was piano music, and the music floated very faintly, and when Ming Yu spoke, he covered the music.

didn't get a response, Ming Yu knew that she was at the loss, and spoke in a low voice, "Jiang Ruo, you were forced to sell your shares, I can't escape the blame, but that's my responsibility, my mother doesn't know anything, I hope you don't blame her," she couldn't help but want to cry, and was afraid of annoying Jiang Ruo, so she couldn't help but sobbed from time to time, and swallowed quickly, "I am indeed not qualified to let you prove my innocence in front of my mother now, I, I will not force you again, if it disturbs you and Aunt Qiao, I am sorry." ”

A gentle female voice came from the side: "Don't talk on the phone, this is the dinner menu, you see what you want to eat, order first." ”

Jiang Ruo listened to Ming Yu's words without waves, the soft and weak tone, as if she was too calculating about this matter, too hard-hearted, she became a sinner who ruined the family, she was on fire, she heard what dinner was being discussed over there, she looked at the time, it was only ten o'clock in the morning, and she was thinking about dinner before lunch arrived.

In an instant, I thought that maybe Mingyu was abroad, and there was a time difference between him and China.

But it wasn't her business, and she didn't pay much attention to it.

Mingyu took the phone away, and when she replied to the other party, her voice Jiang Ruo couldn't hear it clearly, and she roughly knew that Mingyu told the other party that she wanted to call again and ask the other party to help her order.

A woman's urgent voice shouted from the other end: "What are you doing outside, how cold is it, you put on a shawl and jacket first......"

The woman's voice gradually became smaller, and it was Mingyu who left the place where she had been.

Jiang Ruo has been silent, and has not responded to Ming Yu's apology and asking her not to blame Xiao Lu.

But she didn't hang up the phone, and Jiang Ruo knew why. Mingyu trotted some distance, Jiang Ruo paid attention, and the piano music in the background also disappeared, and she lost her mind slightly.

Ming Yu softly called her name: "Jiang Ruo." ”

Jiang Ruo's empty thoughts were pulled back again.

It was cold outside, Mingyu really didn't seem to be wearing a coat, Jiang Ruo could faintly hear the sound of her teeth fighting, and her voice was also trembling: "I'm on the cruise ship now, looking at the glacier along Alaska to the north." ”

Jiang Ruo flipped through the books spread on his legs, and said perfunctorily: "Congratulations, you are free." ”

She remembers that not long after entering middle school, the two of them stumbled upon a polar travelogue in a magazine, the route from Argentina to Antarctica, and for a long time, Mingyu had an incomprehensible obsession with polar glaciers.

Jiang Ruo thought that Mingyu's most desirable trip was to go to Antarctica to see penguins through Buenos Aires, but after she regained her freedom, she went to Alaska.

Jiang Ruo was puzzled and didn't want to delve into it.

It's just that Ming Yu chose this node, Jiang Ruo would only think that this was her way of escaping the condemnation of her conscience, and at this moment she questioned Ming Yu's intention to call her.

Is it really to apologize, or is it deliberately angry with her?

How could Ming Yu not hear the sarcasm between Jiang Ruo's few words, even if Jiang Ruo didn't say anything coldly, especially her whole heart was like falling into an ice cellar.

"I originally wanted to go to Japan with my mom, on a cruise, at the pace of the elderly, she has a hard life, and I hope she can enjoy life when she retires, but my mom knows what I'm doing...... So it was just me, and I changed course. Ming Yu explained, then stopped, and said, "Jiang Ruo......"

Jiang Ruo found that Mingyu had called her name many times.

Mingyu hoped that Jiang Ruo would respond to him as before, but he didn't.

The wind whistled unusually heavy in my ears, and in the winter of the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, it was already dark after six o'clock.

Ming Yu stood on the deck, eating in the restaurant just now, she was only wearing a thin long skirt, the skirt was sparkling, just like the sea at this moment, colored by the brilliant lights on the giant cruise ship, swaying and shaking, all dazzling waves.

Her body was already icy, she seemed to be so numb that she couldn't feel the cold, staring at the sea and facing the other end of the phone: "Do you remember when we were in junior high school?" she remembered the past, and said: "We are only twenty minutes away from the school, and we have to wait for an hour on the road every time we leave school, and most of the time we spend time in the snack street outside the school. I want to eat but don't dare, I'm afraid that my mother will find out that I'm eating outside, you help me find a way to let me eat chewing gum every time I finish eating fried skewers. ”

She laughed, but Jiang Ruo still didn't respond to her, and she didn't even know if Jiang Ruo was listening.

Ming Yu shed tears sadly, choked up, and said with a smile again: "But when I went back to college, I found that the snack street was demolished and a shopping mall was built, and the school strictly controlled it, and there were no more vendors selling snacks and breakfast outside the school gate......"

The more Jiang Ruo listened, her mood became more and more complicated, and she interrupted her in a deep voice: "Why do you say this?"

Ming Yu was stunned.

Jiang Ruo asked again, aggravating the tone of questioning: "I ask why you are saying this? When you beg for forgiveness, you remember the past feelings, and when you do bad things, you only have yourself in your eyes, I am a victim, why do you want me to pay for your selfishness?"

"Jiang Ruo, I ......"

Ming Yu's voice was almost inaudible, and Jiang Ruo didn't stop at all, "From now on, I will at least think that you dare to do it, what is going on now? Confide in me your grievances, let me remember the past, and then I can write off your mistakes? I deserve to be wronged, and I will be trapped until I have nothing, and I should remain generous and forgive?"

Ming Yu listened blankly.

Jiang Ruo: "Mingyu, there is no such good thing in the world. Don't say you're miserable, there are more people than you. Can you have a little backbone and take responsibility for what you have done?"

Ming Yu didn't speak for a long time, and when Jiang Ruo was about to hang up the phone impatiently, Ming Yu spoke, his voice was hoarse and rough, and he lost his soul, "It seems that I really can't go back......"

Jiang Ruo didn't speak for a long time, and after a long time, he answered definitely: "Hmm." ”

"But Jiang Ruo, I still have a lot to say to you, although I didn't go to Antarctica, but I have seen the first appearance of the glacier here, we are only halfway through the journey, the scene in front of me is enough to amaze me, I have never seen it, I am so satisfied, I never thought that in my lifetime, I can really see such a scene, but ......"

Ming Yu stared at the distance of the black urn, muttering halfway, the phone suddenly came with a "beep" twice, she took the phone away and looked at it, there was no signal.

But the days when I went to and from school with you every day were the most beautiful and unforgettable times of my life.

Jiang Ruo heard half of it, the signal was cut off, and there was no sound over there.

Jiang Ruo glanced at his phone and put it aside.

Her eyes returned to the book, but her mind was difficult to settle, she could read every word, put it together, but she couldn't read the meaning of the sentence.

It's finally snowing in the city of Higashi, after a week of cold rainy days.

The snow starts to fall in the middle of the night, sleet in the city, but in the suburbs and at slightly higher altitudes, it is already white.

Jiang Ruo opened the curtains in the morning, and she stood in the warm room like spring, and the snowflakes outside the window fell into the snow all over the ground as quietly as tearing cotton wool.

She's in a good mood.

Each residence in the villa area is far apart, Lu Huaishen and Jiang Ruo's home is halfway up the mountain, the snow is up, and the mountains and forests in the distance are paved white, which is a bit of a sense of seclusion.

After eating at noon, the snow did not stop, Jiang Ruo thought about opening WeChat, saying that the snow was still falling, and asked Lu Huai to come back in the evening and drive slowly.

I was sleepy after the meal, and I was about to go upstairs to take a nap, when a courier arrived, and Aunt Wu went to pick it up.

"Madam, your courier. ”

Jiang Ruo sat on the sofa, Aunt Wu handed it to her, Jiang Ruo glanced at the sender, I don't know, the sender's address is a university in Donglin City.

When Lu Huaishen arrived home in the evening, the car went directly into the garage without a single snowflake.

The living room at home was lit like daylight, and when he entered the door, he took off his coat and put it on the sofa, Aunt Wu was cooking, and there were already plates on the table, and there were a few dishes, but he didn't see Jiang Ruo.

He asked Aunt Wu, "Where is Jiang Ruo?"

Just when Aunt Wu heard the sound, she came out of the kitchen with a shovel in her hand, with a worried face, "It's in the study upstairs." ”

Lu Huaishen noticed that Aunt Wu's expression was not quite right, and he frowned: "What's the matter, the meal hasn't come down yet?"

Aunt Wu said: "I don't know, she received a courier in the afternoon, and then locked herself in the study in the morning, when I went to call her to dinner, I saw that she had been sitting on the sofa, motionless, I was a little worried." ”

Lu Huai's heart sank, "Do you know what express delivery is?"

"It's a letter. Aunt Wu knew that it was because Jiang Ruo opened it in front of her, but as soon as she opened the letter, she closed it, went upstairs, and never came out in the afternoon.

Lu Huaishen turned around and went upstairs to the study.

The door was unlocked, and it opened with a push.

As soon as the door opened, only the floor lamp next to the sofa was on, and the dim light faintly covered the lonely shadow on the sofa like a cover.

On the small round table beside her was an unfolded letter.

Lu Huaishen turned on the light in the study, and saw that she moved, as if she was avoiding the dazzling light.

"Why don't you turn on the lights?" Lu Huaishen asked as he approached her.

But she didn't answer, still motionless.

Lu Huai leaned deeply, turned her face to face him, and met a pair of lifeless eyes.

Lu Huai's deep throat rolled hard, "What's wrong?"

Jiang Ruo wanted to push him away, but he fixed her face and held her gaze tightly, not letting her have the possibility of escaping.

Her eyes finally flickered, her eyes gradually reddened, tears filled her eyes, she looked at him for a long time, and the moment the tears fell, she said in a dumb voice: "Mingyu is dead." ”

Lu Huaishen was stunned for a moment, and seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

Jiang Ruo closed his eyes and burst into tears: "I killed her." ”

Lu Huai frowned: "What nonsense are you talking about!"

"It's me, she asked me for help before she died, she said that, she hoped I could keep her, I understand, I understand......" She raised her eyes to look at Lu Huaishen, "but I pushed her." ”