Early December, Saturday morning

Urban, Pharmaceutical Administration Section, Nanzhou Health Bureau

"Jingle bells, jingle bells......"

A rapid phone rang.

"Hey, who's you looking for......"

After a few words of greeting with each other on the phone, a female comrade in the office covered the microphone and shouted loudly outside the door:

"Cao Xiaolin's phone! Long-distance ...... from G City"

"Oh... It's coming!"

The young woman who was talking to the section chief next door heard her long-distance phone call, and hurriedly got up and ran into the office.

"Who's here......" she asked casually as she answered the microphone.

"A Man's ......"

Cao Xiaolin picked up the microphone.

"Hey, who's ......?"

"Xiao Lin, I'm Cheng Youfu......"

A low, hoarse voice came from the microphone, with a thick local accent in Southeast State, which was very familiar and strange, and it was wonderful music for her.

"Oh my God, is that really you?"

“……”

After answering the phone, Cao Xiaolin was immersed in good memories and anxiety all day long.

Cao Xiaolin looks almost one meter six, the water and soil in the southwest region with less yang and more shade and humid climate make her skin white and smooth, melon seed face, eyes are not very big, slender eyebrows, long hair shawl, and delicate.

Her only regret or flaw is the scald scar on the right side of her face, which is an accidental imprint when she was a child, and the pain in her parents' hearts.

I have seen many hospitals and done some skin surgery, but the scar is still there, but it is much better than in the past, not particularly obvious, but I can't see it up close.

It is precisely because of this scar that she has a certain inferiority complex, and when the female classmates in the same dormitory in college are busy falling in love, although she wants to go to it, she can only force herself to focus on her studies.

In her graduation internship, she won the first place in the class, and was given priority to be left by Professor Zhang in the Institute of Chinese Medicine to complete her graduation thesis.

In the institute, she had close contact with Cheng Youfu, who had graduated with a master's degree and stayed in the institute to work.

Strictly speaking, Cheng Youfu is the senior of her university department, with a difference of 3 years.

Most of Cao Xiaolin's graduation theses in the institute were completed by Cheng Youfu under the guidance of her mentor.

After half a year of getting along day and night, his patient explanation and careful guidance made her long-suppressed love burst out.

She thinks that Cheng Youfu is tall, looks very average, and his family is a farmer in a poor mountainous area, so the economic burden is not light. But this person is very self-motivated, enterprising, usually does not smoke and play cards, and devotes himself to scientific research.

And she herself was born in a family of eunuchs, and the economic conditions of her family were good in the society at that time, and the two just complemented each other, and she thought she could be worthy of him.

So when she was about to give him, she threw a hydrangea to him and took the initiative to write a love letter to him, which required courage for a young girl at the time.

But what he never expected was that he refused.

That evening, Cheng Youfu asked her to talk in the dormitory.

"Xiao Lin, I... I have to regret to tell you that I... I can't accept your love because I already have another girl in my heart, I'm sorry ......"

He bowed his head and looked apologetic.

"I've never seen you with any girl, and everyone knows you're single and don't have a girlfriend!"

Cao Xiaolin's face was pale, and she wanted to expose his self-made lies to her face.

"It's true, she's not in the house but in my heart. ”

"Okay, please tell me who she is?!" she was reluctant to try.

"It's... I can't even tell you if I kill you!, but it's true!" Cheng Youfu almost pleaded.

"You ......"

She covered her face with her hands and fled from the single dormitory like crazy.

This severely hurt her self-esteem, and she cried in grief all night.

Cheng Youfu also stayed downstairs all night, afraid of accidents.

She decided to leave this sad place.

The next day, she held the distribution index list in her hand and went straight to the group of 3 people assigned to the graduates of the department.

When the department leaders listened to her request with shocked expressions, they couldn't help asking:

"Why is that? Staying in a big city is a dream for many graduates, but you do the opposite......"

"I miss home and I can't live without my parents and relatives. Her reasoning is clearly far-fetched.

"But ......"

“……”

In the end, she returned to her hometown of Nanzhou. What is left for teachers and classmates is all kinds of speculation and sighs.

Only one person knows the reason, and that is, of course, Cheng Youfu.

What's even more surprising is that one month after Cao Xiaolin left the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Cheng Youfu did not say goodbye. He did even more absolutely by resigning directly, and went to Hainan alone and has not been heard from since.

The last time we met by chance at Nanzhou People's Hospital, the two sides also had a meal and left each other's phone calls.

Cao Xiaolin found that Cheng Youfu was more mature, his smile was more sincere and sweet, and he had more temperament.

He told her on the phone today that he would come to the city tomorrow to see her.

Hee-hee, what a wonderful thing.

The crescent moon is as thin as a hook, and the whole city seems to have fallen asleep after a busy day, restoring the tranquility of nature.

The lonely sky was covered with twinkling stars, like countless sparkling eyes embedded in the infinite black curtain, watching the people swimming in the darkness. The moving body, the still mind.

And they are the most powerful testimonies of everything that happened in this dark night.

On this night, Cao Xiaolin had a very strange dream, he dreamed that he and Cheng Youfu were holding hands and floating in the sea of clouds! The two of them appeared and disappeared in the sea of clouds, which seemed to be real and illusory, and the beauty of a wonderful and ethereal fairyland.

The scenery in the sea of clouds is often looming, vague, imaginary, real, and unpredictable.

In her dream, she has a sense of seclusion, mystery and mystery, and the blurred scenery is poetry, painting, and subtle beauty.

Later, Cheng Youfu seemed to have kissed Cao Xiaolin, it is not clear who kissed first, but the kiss is indeed certain, otherwise why would there be a lot of patches on the pillow when Cao Xiaolin woke up the next day?

Hahaha, it's disgusting! I don't know if the pillow is clean or not.

The next morning, the city railway station

The K-shaped express train from G City slowly entered the station.

As soon as the car stopped and the door opened, people scrambled to make a mess at the door, and before the people on the train got off, the passengers on the platform were busy squeezing up.

Cheng Youfu finally squeezed out of the car and slapped the dark purple windbreaker on his body.

"Grandma's, there are footprints on the trench coat. He muttered and walked towards the exit.

It is about 150 kilometers from G city to the city, Cheng Youfu took a fast train to start early in the morning, and finally arrived at the destination after more than 2 hours of bumpy ride.

When I got to the exit of the station, I saw Cao Xiaolin standing there not far away.

The weather in early winter was overcast and cold, but fortunately it did not rain and the wind was not very strong.

Cheng Youfu hurriedly stepped forward to say hello.

"Xiao Lin ......"

"You're here, we haven't seen each other for more than 2 years, are you okay?" Cao Xiaolin's happy smile is still quite cute.

She wore a light yellow tweed short coat, tight stone-ground blue jeans, brown half-leg leather boots, and her shawl hair was spread out, gently coiled up in a bun, fashionable and cute.

Cheng Youfu raised his eyes and looked at her stunned, revealing his trademark smile: "I'm fine!

"It's not like that, if you're not busy or idle, just mix it up!"

She sighed casually, telling about her boring and passionless life.

Cheng Youfu felt something, and he was so interested that he quickly found a topic to diverge.