63. There are ifs in the world

Six years ago?

That's when he disappeared after he went to the United States to see her.

She was really sad at that time.

How can you not be sad?

That's the person she fell in love with at the age of sixteen, the one who sent her postcards from far away every year, gave her a pair of high heels when she was eighteen, and gave her confidence and pride.

She healed herself, thinking that life would start again, but Lin Sheng, who was so good, was gone.

How many times has she thought that if it was Lin Sheng, if it was Lin Sheng who taught her to paint, who was willing to accompany her to see exhibitions everywhere, who always listened to her patiently, and who always had a gentle Lin Sheng in his eyes, everything would be different.

But what ifs are there in the world......

Yin Dong was still holding her and said, "There is a hand-painted screen in the car that he just bought for you, and there is a place where you should go with him to see, even if it is an old acquaintance, it is always right to be nice to your friends now." ”

Hand-painted screen...... He has already bought it.

When she said she was reluctant, it turned out that Lin Sheng still heard it.

"Let's go. Lin Sheng didn't know when he had come to him.

Yin Dong put his arm around her shoulder and said, "I have to go back and keep an eye on them to deliver the goods, do you leave the car to you, Lin Sheng, you send Ouyang?"

"You go, I want to go. ”

"That's fine. Yin Dong took out a large paper bag from the trunk and handed it to Lin Sheng, the two of them put their fists together, nodded tacitly, and Yin Dong waved his hand and left.

Ouyang Yuyu greeted the afternoon sun, squinting at the things he was carrying in his hand, Lin Sheng shook his hand and said, "This is too heavy, I'll help you hold it first." ”

He didn't have to ask, and he knew she would.

How could Ouyang Yuyou be polite to Lin Sheng?

He walked slowly, like a breeze over the treetops, gentle and gentle.

They walked to the subway station, there was a long queue at the automatic ticket machine, he asked her to stand in place and wait, he was at the back of the line, bought two one-way tickets, and when he was about to leave, a girl who looked like a junior high school student stood at a ticket machine next to her, anxiously rummaging through her school bag, and the people in the queue behind were waiting impatiently, urging her to gossip, and the girl was in a hurry, and sat on the ground crying.

"Hi, here's the coin, here you go. Lin Sheng took out the change, squatted down and stretched out his hand to hand it to her.

As soon as the girl looked up, her long, thick and straight hair slid down the sides of her school uniform, and she hesitated and looked into Lin Sheng's eyes.

"Take it, there's someone waiting for me. Lin Sheng turned his head and looked at Ouyang Yuyu.

The little girl also looked over and glanced at Ouyang Yuyou, as if she was relieved, grabbed the coins from Lin Sheng's hand, and said, "Thank you." ”

Lin Sheng wrapped the book and handed it to her, and the girl returned to the ticket line.

Lin Sheng returned to Ouyang Yuyou's side, the two entered the subway, stood at the waiting place, and saw that his gaze was stagnant, staring at a certain point, and did not move for a long time.

Ouyang Yuyou nodded his arm: "What do you think?"

Lin Sheng's eyes were full of smiles, "Thinking of you, when I took a 100-yuan bill to take the bus, the driver said that he wouldn't give change and wouldn't let you vote, and you were so anxious that you were about to cry at that time." ”

Ouyang Yuyou suddenly retorted with a raised face, "There is no such thing." ”

Lin Sheng smiled, and then nodded kindly, "Okay, no...... It's my mistake. ”

"Of course, you must be mistaken. Ouyang Yuyu was unswerving, in fact, she had gradually remembered it in her heart.

That was the first time she took the bus alone, Chen Jiatang took her a few times before that, but she has always walked in front, and someone gave the fare behind, she didn't know that the bus didn't give change, and she had no common sense of life, and she was really a bit stupid when she looked back.

And Lin Sheng happened to be in the car, and he paid the fare for her.

It should have been when Lin Sheng first went to teach her to paint, she was still a little timid, they sat side by side, and for the first time, they put aside black, white and gray, light and shadow, and talked outside of art theory.

"Why are you here?" she asked.

"Go to your house for class, you forgot?"

"Oh......" She did lose track of time.

"How do you get on the bus?"

"Brother Linchuan next door took me to the movies, but he went to the toilet and the person disappeared, so I looked for a long time, I didn't know where he went, I had no choice but to go home by myself. ”

After so many years, on the sunny bus, there was a conversation between a ride and a ride, and I can still remember it clearly.

Memory is something that can be really loved and hated at times.

It doesn't give you a chance to forget the sorrows, but it keeps the good things that are hidden in your heart for you.

Half an hour later, I came to a creative district, unique flower shops, cafes, and bars, all next to each other, the door was full of people, and the park had the most famous private exhibition hall in the city, the largest art statue, and the most interesting creative stalls, which was about a gathering place for literature and art lovers.

Turning into the hidden place covered by leaves, there were a few iron tables and chairs at the door, the dark green glass door was closed, he pushed it open, jingle a few times, the oncoming coffee aroma, the clerk wearing a dark green apron was making coffee inside, and the girl standing in front of the counter sorting out the books raised her head and saw Lin Sheng smiling.

"Boss, you're back. ”

The inside was almost full, and there were people looking down at books on the mint green soft leather seats, and as soon as Ouyang Yuyou came in, his eyes stopped at the paintings hanging on the wall, and in an instant, everything in the store became virtual.

Lin Sheng screamed a few times before she came back to her senses.

The shop is full of works from her school days, mostly sketches.

Those paintings that now seem immature and have no skills at all may be the scraps she randomly threw in the studio back then, but now the painting paper is yellowed, but someone treasures it for her.

Saying that she was not moved, it was fake, and her heart was beating hard.

Lin Sheng lives in an upstairs apartment, with two bedrooms and one living room, and the living room is full of thick art books, piled up as high as half a person, as if he has just moved over and has not had time to tidy up.

"How can there be your shop here?"

He admitted: "Because you like to visit bookstores, maybe you will come in one day when you walk here." ”

A furnished surprise, just waiting for her to appear.

Ouyang Yu was stunned, Lin Sheng took out a large picture frame wrapped in a white cloth from the room, put it next to the chair in front of her, lowered his hand to untie the white cloth, and the things in the painting instantly appeared.

"It's ...... You bought it from Basel?"

She was shocked, the painting in front of her was the work of the watercolor artist she liked, she couldn't help but squat down, close to the work and look at it carefully, "Are you going to hang it downstairs? It's so beautiful, hang it up and take down my painting, otherwise the contrast will be too strong, and I'll be so embarrassed." ”

"Don't hang here, I'll give it to you. Lin Sheng squatted down and stared at her, "A work of art is only valuable if it is in the hands of those who can appreciate it." ”

Ouyang Yuyou heard it, but a pair of eyes flickered slightly, still looking at the painting, she heard her heart beating hard, she didn't dare to meet his eyes, if she was a teenager, she was not so sensitive to the price, maybe she would laugh openly, and said in an excited voice, "Thank you, Lin Sheng." ”

Can ...... now

It's good, she likes it very much, it's not that she doesn't want it, it's that she can't ask for it.

This is not the same thing as the hand-painted screen at all, such artwork often costs millions, she is not a fool who will only blindly accept it, and she also knows what can be paid off, and what she simply cannot afford.

"It's expensive. She was not very good at refusing, and asked vaguely.

Lin Sheng had majesty in his eyes for the first time, and he was puzzled: "Yu Yu, what's wrong with you now? Buy what you need, you have to consider the price there, give you something you like, but you care if it's expensive or not? What did Ji Linchuan do to you? Make you become this kind of restrained person, this is not like you." ”

Ouyang Yuyou touched the edge of the frame, there was an embarrassment of being seen through, she didn't know how she became like this, it seemed to be very hypocritical and childish, Ming Ming Ji Linchuan spent a lot of money at the auction to buy her some things she didn't like, and she could accept it as a matter of course.

Why did she get to Lin Sheng here, but she felt that she couldn't bear it?

Lin Sheng let go of the painting, and suddenly took her into his arms with one hand, he was distressed, and said in a hoarse voice: "Yu You, leave him ......"

She shook her head under his shoulder: "I tried, but I couldn't." ”

"Let me help you. ”

"Are you going to take me away?" she was stunned and whispered softly: "Someone once told me that he is my Jiatang brother, you have seen, a gentle person like you, but I don't know if he is dead or alive now." ”

She said, "How good it would be for you not to leave at that time, Lin Sheng, you probably don't know what you gave up, I used to really like you very much, I thought about never contacting you again after I dropped out of school, but I still couldn't help but tell you the address in the United States, I know that you have been to many places, I wait for you to send me letters every year, because of you, I feel that life is not so bad, all because of you." ”

The living room shone in the sunlight, and the dust floated like notes on golden strings.

Their shadows fell obliquely to the ground.

Ouyang Yuyou sniffed and said, "Do you know, when I heard that you were coming to the United States to see me, I was so happy that I couldn't sleep, I was looking forward to it half a month in advance, thinking that I could finally see you, I went to pick you up at the airport on the day you came, I was afraid that you would see that I was nervous, so I had to keep talking, but you kept smiling and looking at me, in fact, you know, how much I miss you." ”

Lin Sheng put his arm around her and nodded: "I know, at that time, I saw that the little girl had grown taller and her hair had grown, and I heard that she was still holding an award for painting, I was happier than you, I just wanted to listen to you keep talking, and it was best to watch you dance and listen to you talk like that for the rest of my life." ”

She couldn't help but shed tears, "But when I left, you didn't let me send it, you said you didn't want to say goodbye, but why didn't you have any more news?" Yin Dong said that you did something wrong. ”

Ouyang Yuyou raised his right hand, which still had marks, tears falling on the back of his hand, and asked, "Are you married...... Really?"

Lin Sheng said that she didn't ask anything when she was in Hong Kong, God knows that she didn't want to ask, she was afraid, afraid that he would tell the real reason, so she would rather pretend to be confused, if he said that he actually chose someone else, how should she accept it, she used the person she loved throughout her youth, this best Lin Sheng also gave up on her.

She is cowardly and cowardly, accepting all the fruits of fate in one go.

No matter how sour and bitter it is, it must be swallowed raw in the stomach.

Isn't that what life is all about?

Lin Sheng's hand was held by her, trembling slightly, and he said, "Yes, because of a mistake, I am responsible." ”

She finally asked, Lin Sheng seemed to have finally waited for this moment, he pulled her to sit on the sofa, hanging her head against her forehead, as if she had saved enough strength to pull out the story from her heart.

He said that in the years after resigning from school, he has been traveling around, and he met a famous Taiwanese craftsman during the perennial journey, and after leaving the United States that year, Lin Sheng went to him to get a custom-made ring, which engraved his life's heart, a unique ring, and he was ready to go back and propose to her.

He had nothing at the time, and he was not sure if Mr. Ouyang would hand over his daughter to him, he was very worried, but when he finally mustered up the courage to decide to go to the United States again, he encountered the Taipei MRT slashing incident.

It was the accident that sounded like news to others that changed his later life.

At that time, there was chaos in the subway, traffic was interrupted, he rescued a girl with an injured right leg in the carriage, many people were crowded, many people fled in a hurry, the situation was forced, Lin Sheng did not wait for the ambulance to come, and carried her to the hospital for treatment.

The girl is a convenience store clerk, born in an orphanage, she is afraid of losing her job and refuses to be hospitalized, Lin Sheng's consistent personality dictated, decided to stay to help her, and replaced her as a cashier for half a month.

Until the day before his visa expired, the girl was discharged from the hospital and thanked him in a rented house.

Lin Sheng didn't say anything more about what happened next.

The result of drunkenness is about nine times out of ten.

It's like a TV series that is played on time every night, and you can guess the ending at a glance.

Lin Sheng recalled the incident six years ago, he said that it was like walking on a smooth road, and he saw that he had reached the turning point of flowers, but he was hit by heaven and could not get up again.

When he turned his face to look at Ouyang Yuyou, his eyes were moist.

Such a gentle and calm man, but at the moment he is like a child who has done something wrong, tears are flowing all over his face, and it is heartbreaking to watch.

He pleaded, asking her if it was possible for her to forgive him.

To this day, he doesn't dare to crave too much.

I just want to ask her, can you forgive him for six years of absence and give him the right to love her again?