After fluctuating back and forth a few times, I finally looked at my phone, ready to reply to Chen Yi's message, but repeatedly deleted the words I pressed on the screen. I was in a daze, I didn't even have the ability to reply to a message in the middle of the night, I pulled another cigarette out of the cigarette case, wanted to light it, and finally didn't light it, my consciousness was a little bit out of control.

I figured out that the reason why I was so wooden was because I couldn't judge what Chen Yi's decision meant to me.

I finally replied to Chen Yi's message, only a simple "oh" word, and she didn't reply after that. My feelings gradually calmed down. After a long time, he lit the cigarette that had been holding in his hand.

I had insomnia, I didn't expect Chen Yi to not return to Nanjing for a while, I thought a lot, people are like a leaf in the wind, sitting on a chair for a while, lying on the bed for a while, swaying.

In the middle of the night, I simply washed all the dirty clothes I had accumulated in the past few days, and then hung the clothes on the hanger on the balcony with a wooden basin, and I saw that there was still light in Chen Yi's room, and her back was reflected on the white curtains

In the sound of water dripping from her clothes, I seemed to see a quiet her, sitting on the sofa with a cup of steaming boiled water in front of her, her chin propped up, frowning and thinking about some of her own thoughts

At this time, my mobile phone vibrated in my pocket again, and I subconsciously thought it was Chen Yi, because I saw with my own eyes that she had not rested at the moment, and in the middle of the night, there would be no one else except her to give me messages.

I took my phone out of my pocket. This time, the person who sent me the message turned out to be Xiao Ai, and I misjudged it again, just like I mistook Chen Yi's message for Xiao Ai not long ago.

"Jiangqiao, the moonlight on the observation deck is particularly beautiful now, do you want to come and see if you haven't slept yet."

She surprised me at the observation deck at this time, and immediately replied: "It's the middle of the night, I really haven't slept, why are you running to the observation deck alone, how dangerous is it?"

"Don't ask so much, you can't come"

"I'll be here in ten minutes."

I went back to my room and put on a thick dress, and left the inn, and there was no one on the way, the whole Lijiang seemed to fall asleep, only some of the lanterns at the door of the inn still emitted a faint light, the wind was very cold, I estimated that the temperature may have been close to zero.

I was at the observation deck within ten minutes, and I vaguely saw Xiao Ai, who was sitting next to a street lamp, with a thick down jacket over her body, and her guitar and suitcase beside her. I realized that she hadn't been to the guest house at all that night, and that she might have been at the observation deck since we parted

I came to her side, and she smiled at me

I said with reproach in my tone: "You're still laughing"

"When I meet a poor person who has insomnia like me, why can't I laugh Oh, no, you're insomnia, I don't plan to sleep at all."

I still kept a straight face and asked, "Can you sue me, what kind of routine are yours, can't so many inns in Lijiang accommodate you, so you have to come here to spend the night?"

Because he was sitting on the ground, Xiao Ai kept looking up at me, and replied for a while: "I'm going back to Nanjing tomorrow, it's so boring on the plane, it's better to leave the waking time for the last night in Lijiang, I think it's worth it, you can see that such a good moonlight is not like the last time I came, it rained for several days." ”

"You didn't make any money from the guest house, did you?"

"I've earned it," Xiao Ai said, took out a handful of change from his pocket and showed it to me, there were ten or five dollars in it, God knows if this money would be enough to stay at the inn for the night.

I didn't have words, I was a little disgusted with her audacity, after all, she was a woman, how could she spend the night alone in such a place, but she had always been like this, when we first met, she climbed over the courtyard wall into my yard, which seemed to have become a bad habit that she couldn't break

She motioned for me to sit down beside her, and I stared at her fearless face for a moment, and at last, with a soft sigh, sat down on the cotton coat she had padded on the floor.

She took out the phone I gave her from her pocket and said to me, "You don't have to worry about me, I set your number to the top, and I can get through to your phone by pressing a dial key, so as long as this phone is there, I feel safe."

I took the phone from her hand, and then looked very closely at the pendant on it, and I confirmed that it was an ancient bridge with a very unique shape, and I could even see the stairs above, although the whole pendant was only as long as a finger.

Xiao Ai snatched the phone back from my hand, and then stuffed it into her own pocket, she didn't speak anymore, just handed the weight of her body to the guardrail behind her, and then looked up at the moon in the sky

But I couldn't tell if it was the moonlight that made her more delicate, or if she made the distant moon more brilliant.

"Ebashi, do you feel that many things in this world seem to have been designed?"

"How do you say that?"

Xiao Ai finally turned his head to look at me, and replied after a while: "Actually, before I came to Lijiang, I didn't know whether I should come or not, because I did my own piano shop, and with students, I had to be responsible for them, I can't be as willful as before, right?"

"That's for sure."

Xiao Ai nodded, and said: "But the next day, the parents of the students called me to ask for leave, these children are from the same school, the school organized to travel to Harbin to see the ice sculptures before New Year's Day, so I suddenly had an extra 5 days of time is such an accident that I have the courage to make the decision to come to Lijiang, but I have to go back tomorrow, because there are classes in the evening, but these days really make me have a feeling of worthwhile, and also make me very confident to face the life after returning to Nanjing."

I don't know where her confidence comes from, and she is a person who is going to study in Germany, and it doesn't make sense to talk about life in Nanjing at this time.

"Why don't you talk anymore"

I shook my head and replied, "I'm just envious of your sudden burst of confidence, and I, a person who can't hold up the wall, is still living in loneliness and moaning."

"Then half of my faith will be yours"

I finally smiled, put my arms behind my head a little lazily, and then leaned against the guardrail and sighed: "If only human consciousness could really share, then we would have a lot less misunderstanding and pain, right, what time are you on the plane tomorrow"

Xiao Ai thought for a while and replied: "We are all wrong, it's not tomorrow's plane, it's actually today's plane, because it's already three o'clock in the morning."

I smiled and said, "yes, then what time are you on the plane today"

"It's one o'clock in the afternoon, and it's time to get to the airport before twelve o'clock at noon."

"I'll send you."

Xiao Ai didn't care if I would send her, she asked me again: "What about you, when are you going to go back to Nanjing?"

"Just for two or three days, I can't stay here for too long. There is also a customer in the coffee shop waiting for me to go back to help him with the proposal planning, which is not a small list."

Xiao Ai nodded, she didn't speak again, she tightened the down jacket wrapped around her body, and then closed her eyes, I heard her even breathing, she leaned on my shoulder and fell asleep, sleeping very soundly, although her eyelashes still had night dew, but she regarded this fully open observation deck as her safest home.

I thought: she must like me, she believes that I am the best person in the world to protect her, which is why she sleeps so peacefully at this moment.

I was sleepy, but I couldn't leave her, so I finally picked up her guitar and gently picked her up from the ground and took her to the nearest inn to the observation deck. After that, I went back to the observation deck because I couldn't take her luggage with me all at once.

I dragged her suitcase and stopped just as I was about to leave the observation deck, I looked at the moon at the right time, and the moonlight was still so good, I couldn't help but think of life after returning to Nanjing.

Yes, even though Lijiang is beautiful, I still want to go back to Nanjing, because this is not my hometown, and I am always wandering here

I think that some things that are hesitant at the moment may naturally have a clear proposition after returning to Nanjing