Chapter Seventy-One: Reinventing the "Swallow"
After the swallow left, my heart suddenly emptied. When I think of the impermanence of the world, I feel at a loss, and I often forget about it, as if my soul had gone with her. All the resentment against her before also dissipated, and all that was left was the laughter and mutual support and adversity that we had experienced together. So, some hatred is not inextricable, but we have not yet truly experienced the pain of loss.
The many beautiful things in my memory and the pain that I can't get rid of make me want to write again. I took out the opening novel and gave the heroine a new soul - the image and spirit of the swallow. I pinned all my thoughts on Swallow on her, and gave her a new name, also called Swallow. The swallow seemed to be back in my life, and in my novel, I found a new good friend.
"Swallow, you see, don't wait for the next life, we can be good friends again in this life. I muttered to myself as I wrote into the words.
So, I re-edited and changed the little text I had written before, and in the evening of two days after saying goodbye to the swallow, I wrote the beginning like this:
"On a big tree next to my house, there is a big swallow, I don't know when she hatched several small swallows, chirping every day, at first I thought they were very noisy, and then gradually got used to it, and then I actually liked them, and every day I have to run under the tree to observe for a long time, if you don't look at it for a day, it seems like something is missing. Later, I found out that they had a habit of flying south in the winter and coming back again in the spring.
So, when Yan'er flew south, I knew that winter was coming. When spring comes, I know my swallows are coming back.
This time, the elf-like swallow seemed to know what was on my mind, and not only flew back on her own, but also brought a lovely swallow to me. This is a little girl with two braids, her skin is not very white, but she looks very healthy. Her big watery eyes under her long eyelashes seemed to speak, and I guess they were particularly playful words. I liked her as soon as I saw her, but I don't know if she will like me, a little girl from the countryside. ”
When I finished writing, I realized that this is the feeling I felt when I first met the swallow, a real little girl appeared in front of me again, and I seemed to go back to my childhood, and the real reproduction of the scene was like a ray of sunshine warming my heart again.
"Mommy, Mommy, what are you laughing at?" My daughter didn't know when she was already standing next to me, stretching her neck to look at my computer.
"Did I laugh? Mom remembered a beautiful old day. I stroked her hair, gently pinched her smiling face, looked at her and said.
"Tell me what you're writing so funny. "Pleasant emotions are contagious, and my daughter is obviously happy because of my laughter.
"It's about Aunt Swallow, do you remember her?"
"Of course, she was very good at telling jokes, and she hadn't been to our house in a long time, and I really wanted to hear her tell that joke again. ”
"Do you miss her?"
The daughter nodded and pursed her little mouth. Happiness is like a seed, seemingly inadvertently spreading, but we don't expect it to have taken root and sprouted.
I seemed to have an understanding, took my daughter into my arms, and said softly, "Chenchen, will my mother let Aunt Yanzi tell you stories every day in the future?"
The daughter nodded vigorously, revealing two rows of tiny milk teeth. So, I have another motivation to write. Once I had this thought, all the memories of the past seemed to come back, and even some of the small things seemed to be very clear. My active mind pushes me on, and the pen in my hand feels like it's filled with oil, which feels great. I was looking forward to seeing a new and familiar swallow stand in front of me again.
At the same time, I thought of Yuqiu and Aunt Luo again. On the day we said goodbye to the swallows, we parted with our own sad hearts, and now two days later, I have been so immersed in my own world that I forgot to ask them. So, I learned by phone that Aunt Luo had returned to her hometown with the ashes of Yanzi with the help of my uncle, and I was deeply sorry for not being able to help, and Aunt Luo did not mean to blame and comforted me for a while. And no matter how Yuqiu's phone was dialed, there was only a blind sound of "beep", and the whole person disappeared like air.
In the following week, I was looking for inspiration for writing every day with various memories of swallows, and my distressing problems never appeared again. Compared with before, my life seems to have a new meaning - to continue the life of the swallow and realize my life ideals.
The subway and network incidents, which I largely ignored, did not stop moving forward because I ignored them. But this time, I smelled the smell of the end.
The family members of the kind father who died in the subway incident approached the public security bureau and the court, demanding justice for him. So the initiator of the incident, the woman who looked down at her phone, became the first to be found. Although the mistake was made unintentionally, the consequences were serious, and the responsibility for it was put on the agenda. But just when the police were paying attention to her, they found out that she was missing. The police went directly to her home, which had long been empty and there was no one to be seen. With the police's sense of smell, they predicted that this matter was not as simple as it seemed, so they began a series of investigations, and I, as a witness and person involved in the subway incident, was also called for questioning as a matter of course. After I told the truth about what I had seen and experienced, the police came to an astonishing conclusion: it was very likely that I was responsible for the subway incident.
This conclusion, which has not yet been fully verified, really frightened me, and I can't figure out who hates me to such an extent that he would risk human life.
There are many suspicions about a person's life and a person's disappearance, and the police have decided to formally open a case for investigation, and my responsibility is to cooperate with the investigation. As a result, all my interpersonal relationships became the focus of the police investigation, including the company I worked for before, the client Liu Bin, and my ex-boyfriend Rufeng.
So, on the same day, I met at the same time these people who had gone through different periods of my lives.
In the corridor of the police station office, Mr. Zhang and Liu Bin sat together, and Rufeng sat on the other side.
Mr. Zhang is still the same as before, still smiling, and there is no lack of irony between his words.
"Shen Weilan, you can become a celebrity now, congratulations!"
I gave him a blank look and didn't answer, Liu Bin observed my expression, pulled Mr. Zhang's clothes and signaled him to stop talking, but Mr. Zhang didn't seem to see it, and continued, "What's the matter?
"Where I am has nothing to do with you!" I glared at him fiercely, as I couldn't get used to seeing him like that.
Seeing that I was not speaking well, Mr. Zhang lifted the frame of his glasses, and squinted his eyes to reveal a false smile.
"Miss Shen, you are good now, I saw a lot of rumors about you on the Internet before. Liu Bin's eyes lit up, and he asked sincerely, I haven't seen him for so long, the big basin seems to be much smaller, the hairstyle has been changed to a simple board size, and the bib pants are gone, replaced by shirts and trousers.
"I'm fine, don't bother. ”
I said unceremoniously, and at the same time secretly glanced at Rufeng, and found that he was looking down at his phone the whole time, without looking at me.
"Miss Shen, I want to say sorry for this, it's all the trouble I have caused you, I have filed for divorce with Chen Lihong, she does not agree, I have hired a lawyer to go through the judicial process. Liu Bin didn't seem to see my hostile attitude, touched his chest and stretched his neck to continue.
"It's your family business, why do you tell me, and besides, I don't want to know. His confession made the scene very embarrassing.
"No, Mr. Liu, how can you leave at will when you get married? Men still have to put their families first, and no matter how fragrant the flowers outside are, they are all wild flowers after all. Mr. Zhang's eyes widened beside him, holding on to the frame, and posing as a well-intentioned person to advise Liu Bin.
"You don't understand, she's a tigress, and I've had enough of that. Liu Bin pulled the clothes on his body and sighed.
"Shen Weilan, this won't be because of you, right?" Mr. Zhang suddenly turned to me with strange eyes.
"What do you mean? don't talk about it!" I was so disgusted with him that I wanted to tear off the glasses that covered his false eyes and throw them on the ground.
"Shen Weilan, don't look pretentious, it's a fact that the two men who went viral on the online video fought for you, if you don't have anything, how did this happen?" Mr. Zhang's disdainful eyes went up and down on me, and I was furious.
"Weilan, don't be like a villain. Ruyun, who had been listening silently, didn't raise his head, and suddenly opened his mouth.
"Who are you?"
"Didn't you just say that there were two men fighting for Weilan? One of them was me. ”
"It turned out to be you, don't make a fool of yourself now, Shen Weilan, I see if you have anything else to say. ”
"What is bullying a woman, there is a kind of one-on-one competition with me, do you have the guts?" Rufeng still did not look up, and always kept looking at the phone in the same posture.
Liu Bin originally didn't like or dislike Mr. Zhang, a business partner, just a temporary mutual cooperation out of interests, but today he saw his behavior and suddenly felt a disgust with him. He hadn't had a chance to interject just now, but now he saw that someone was going to argue with him, so he deliberately lit a fire again.
"Lao Zhang, someone deliberately challenged you, I really don't know how thick the sky is, if you don't give him some color to see, he doesn't know how old he is. ”
Mr. Zhang couldn't help sweating on his forehead when he heard this, and suddenly regretted that he didn't choose what he said.
At this moment, a voice came from the police office, telling him to go in for questioning, and he quickly got up and ran in with a smoke.
Behind him, Liu Bin couldn't help but almost laugh out loud for a while, like the wind still maintained the same posture. I was finally able to catch my breath and cast a grateful look at Rufeng for her timely help.