42. Fanwai sandalwood incense

I want to ask you if you remember my name.

When the tide rises in the sea of people, the tide recedes several times.

Those things in those years, that crazy and warm romantic days.

Ah, it's like a lifetime away.

You've been here for a while, and I've missed it for the rest of my life.

It's irrational like that, what's going on.

I've been happy for a while, but why do I insist that it must be the most memorable thing for me?

Over the mountains and the sea, joy and sorrow, not not alone.

Fortunately, there was your warm heart, and the light you left is still bright.

You shine all of a sudden, and I am dizzy for the rest of my life.

I'm so sorry to be a fool.

But at the time, I really thought the way you hugged me was a hint of commitment.

After people coming and going, expecting and disappointing, I was still alone.

Fortunately, the eyes that have shed tears for you are still shining with the light of love.

All these things have happened all these years and all at once, what kind of life have you lived.

Please promise one more thing, if I can see you again.

Please let me see your splendid appearance.

- Liu Ruoying, "Light"

【Valentine's Day without Valentine】

A heavy Lincoln RV drove smoothly and at a steady pace, and if the occupants looked out the window, they could see the snow of the Alps in the distance.

The car is filled with elegant music, but it is not the familiar Western piano and violin music, but the classical oriental guzheng music, and each string of the guqin plays a flowing music, which attracts foreign drivers who are hired.

In addition to the driver, there was only one man from the Orient sitting on the wide leather seat in the car, who was handsome in appearance and gentle in temperament, wearing a three-piece Armani suit, with a thick notebook spread out on his lap.

On the small table in front of me are laptops and mobile phones, which are turned on and connected to the video.

The signal was quickly connected, and a warm smiling face appeared on the other side: "Son, when will you return to China?" ”

"Mom, I told you I'd only be there for a week." The man's voice was clear, with a slight taste of helplessness, and with the movement of his blinking, his curled and thick eyelashes shook rapidly, "I'm on my way to Geneva Airport now." ”

"Son, your father said that he would accompany his lover in his previous life tomorrow, and my mother only has you." Shen's mother pretended to be pitiful and said, "HappyValentine\\\-sDay!" Muuuuua~”

The thin lips slowly pursed, and finally turned into a handsome smiling face, and said to his mother, "HappyValentine\\\-sDay!"

Dad's voice came from the other side of the video: "Wife, look at what time it is, hurry up and go to bed!" ”

Shen's mother stuck out her tongue and said, "Son, Bye." ”

The video was cut off, and Shen Ruixiu smiled lonely.

It's another Valentine's Day without a Valentine.

He was immersed in the world of one person, and the driver did not dare to talk to him, he only felt that the guest looked particularly tired.

The driver's intuition was not wrong, and after one lonely Valentine's Day after another, Shen Ruixiu finally couldn't support it.

He prayed that God would take some time to listen to his wishes at this time.

Come back, come back.

I finally regret those past events, so my Xiaotan, can you give me a chance to make amends?

Shen Ruixiu lowered his eyes tiredly, and if the driver looked in the rearview mirror at this time, he would find that the corners of the eyes of this wonderful Chinese guest were crystal clear, and it seemed to be tears.

【Reunion】

The weather forecast says that the first snow since the Lunar New Year will be ushered in in City C today.

It should be the seventh snow of the winter.

Shen Ruixiu got into the car and went out with anticipation, there was an extended Lincoln at home, it was simply disgusted by everyone, his parents, eldest brother and sisters, and even him, liked to drive, it was impossible to buy such a business car for his own use, this was still a gift from his grandfather in a certain year.

One day a year ago, he had several surgeries one after another, and when he finally went home, he was so tired that he fell asleep in the car, and almost had an accident, Shen's mother was so frightened that she quickly accepted his driver's license and asked the driver to pick him up every day.

The road ahead is congested, Shen Ruixiu will be shaken, he is on a shift today, and this trip is to meet a tutor in college.

The car moved slowly again, driving smoothly, and suddenly the driver honked the horn, and after the rapid sound, he braked sharply.

"Mr. Shen, the car in front of you seems to have hit someone." The driver slid down the window, probed out, and said to Shen Ruixiu.

"Oh, you find a place to stop, and I'll go down and have a look."

When I got out of the car, I found that the snow had begun to fall outside, and a thin layer of snow on the ground would melt after a while, Shen Ruixiu stepped on it and walked to the car in front where the dispute occurred.

The driver of the car was scolding, and the object was the girl in red who was sitting in front of the car.

For a long time, the images in his head overlapped with reality, and he could hear his own rapid heartbeat, and although he knew it was not good for his heart, he couldn't control it.

Cai Xiaotan's face was pale, obviously frightened, she slipped on the snow when she walked on the crosswalk, fell to the ground, heard the sound of shaking the sky, and came back to her senses to happen to the current situation.

A man walked up to her and gently crouched down to examine the knee she had fallen.

The man was dressed in a gray tweed coat, his slender legs wrapped under high-quality trousers, and his eyebrows were tucked to examine her wounds.

When was the last time you saw him? It's been a long time, six years, or seven years, and it seems that it was such a snowy day, and she loved snow so much at that time that she shouted not to stop when she saw it.

However, the last time they met, the snow was falling and it was cold to the bone, and for many years afterward, she did not dare to touch this elf-like snowflake.

The driver was still scolding, Shen Ruixiu glanced at him with slanted eyes, that look was actually calm and waveless, but with full momentum, the driver was immediately silent, thinking that he was unlucky and reversed and left.

Shen Ruixiu put his hands under her armpits and knees, and picked her up horizontally.

Cai Xiaotan was startled, and before he could exclaim, he found that many people around him were looking at them, so he had to wrap his neck tightly around him and bury his face in his chest.

Shen Ruixiu carried her into the car, put her in the seat safely, and calmly ordered, "Go to Ren'an Hospital." ”

took out his mobile phone to call again, "Xiang Yuxi, wait for me in the hospital in ten minutes." ”

Xiang Yuxi was speechless at the beeping phone, if he wasn't on duty today, how could he run to the hospital in ten minutes.

The driver in front felt that since Mr. Shen hugged the woman in red into the car, the air flow on the car had become more and more weird, and he shivered, so he should concentrate on driving.

There was no sound in the car, and Shen Ruixiu felt that the veins and veins behind his neck suddenly hurt, so he didn't think much about it anymore and closed his eyes to recuperate.

Cai Xiaotan secretly glanced at him, after so many years, he still has the same cold temperament, but his temperament is gentle and careful.

Shen Ruixiu still didn't open his eyes, but raised his hand and threw something over, Cai Xiaotan caught it and saw that it was a small hand warmer, he still remembered that her hands were cold, and she would get chilblains in winter, so she felt warm in her heart and smiled unconsciously.

Shen Ruixiu said lightly, "I've been by my side all these years, I'm afraid that when you come back one day, you won't be able to warm your hands." ”

"Cai Xiaotan, stay by my side, don't run away again, okay?" His tone couldn't have been more natural, as if he were asking what the weather was like today.

No one answered, and he sighed in his heart, still too impatient.

When he arrived at Union Hospital, he still carried her into the door, but accidentally bumped into someone.

Shen Ruixiu bowed his head proudly to show his apology, and the man who was hit looked at them like this, and knew that he was anxious, not intentionally, so he smiled politely and didn't take it to heart.

Xiang Yuxi was waiting for him in the lobby on the first floor, and when he saw him, he complained, "My little young master ......", and the rest of the words were swallowed back into his stomach because he saw the face of the woman in his arms.

Shen Ruixiu was simple and clear, "Take her to check." ”

Xiang Yuxi also hadn't seen Cai Xiaotan for many years, so he was surprised that they would be together at this time, and he didn't make a move.

Shen Ruixiu was impatient and reminded loudly, "Xiang Yuxi." ”

"Oh, oh, got it."

After leaving the hospital, Shen Ruixiu still took her to sit on the two lengthened Lincolns, Cai Xiaotan didn't know where he was going, but he didn't ask.

The car drove all the way to the small villa of Qianfeng Jiayuan, Shen Ruixiu carried her into the door again, and saw Shen's mother sitting in the living room watching TV.

Shen Luo looked young, with a good white skin and good temperament, she was gentle and dignified when she didn't speak, she turned off the TV, put the remote control aside, and watched her youngest son put the woman in her arms on the sofa opposite her, and then sat down beside her.

After a pause, Shen Ruixiu spoke, "Mom, I want to marry her." ”

Cai Xiaotan was startled and wanted to stand up, but Shen Ruixiu grabbed her wrist to prevent her from leaving the sofa, and repeated again, "Mom, I want to marry her." ”

It was Shen's mother who coughed lightly and amused, which resolved the embarrassing atmosphere, "Son, if you want to marry someone else's girl, you have to ask her if she wants to do it first." ”

"Mom, I'm ......" Shen Ruixiu wanted to say something more, but Shen's mother interrupted him with a wave of her hand.

Cai ...... Miss Tan? Shen's mother vaguely searched for this name in her memory, her name was not impressive, she was as beautiful and graceful as an ordinary Jiangnan woman, and her eyebrows and eyes were full of cleanliness and gentleness.

"Yes, Auntie." The corners of Cai Xiaotan's mouth twitched slightly, showing her uneasiness at this time.

Mother Shen saw it in her eyes, sighed slightly in her heart, and turned to Shen Ruixiu, "Son, I understand what you mean, I'll come and talk to Miss Xia, you go to your eldest brother first, and I will send someone to send Miss Xia home." ”

"I'll go find you tomorrow." He picked up the note on the coffee table, tore off one, wrote down his mobile phone number, and stuffed it into Cai Xiaotan's hand.

She didn't agree, she didn't object, and the piece of paper lay quietly in the palm of her hand, as if it weighed a thousand pounds.

Shen Ruixiu left, Cai Xiaotan raised her eyes, and all the guilty feelings emerged, "Auntie, I can't ......"

In Limon's bar, three good-looking men sat at a table in the corner, and Xia Linchen and Zhong Yaoyang had reservations between handing over glasses, just because the other was desperately pouring wine.

Shen Ruixiu no longer knew how much he had drunk, as a doctor, he rarely came into contact with alcohol, except for that time, he was never drunk to the point of delirium.

Zhong Yaoyang saw that the situation was not right, and asked Xia Linchen with his eyes if he could carry him back.

The thirty-six or seventeen-year-old man raised his eyebrows, took a sip from his wine glass, and said, It's okay, let him go.

Before going out, his wife confessed that Shen Ruixiu was not allowed to enter the house without getting drunk.

Xia Linchen smiled at the corner of his lips, liking that he wanted to vent his anger for Cai Xiaotan.

When he had contact with Shen Ruixiu or was still pregnant, one day Zhong Yuechen accidentally fell and injured his leg, and the attending doctor after being sent to the hospital happened to be Shen Ruixiu.

Because of Cai Xiaotan, he never waited to see him, but Xia Linchen and Zhong Yaoyang quickly became good brothers with him.

Shen Ruixiu was already about to lie on the table, but he was still pouring wine into the cup, muttering something in his mouth.

Zhong Yaoyang couldn't hear what he said, but swallowed another mouthful of clear yellow liquid in silence.

Only love words can hurt people so far.

It looks like it will be done in another half an hour.

【Spell】

After fleeing from Shen Ruixiu in a hurry, Cai Xiaotan lived in a small rented house and didn't sleep well all night.

The next day, she was drowsy, did her work wrong, and was ridiculed by her boss.

And at night, she had to go to a high-end club to work, there was a traffic jam on the road, she was still late, the manager's face was not good, and because there were guests next to her, Xia Haili hurriedly changed into her uniform, and vaguely felt that the back she saw just now was very familiar.

She was tired, but in order to pay off her debts, she had to keep making money.

Cai Xiaotan disappeared after Zhongyi's wedding, and she cut off contact with all her friends in the past, and it wasn't until she returned to City C not long ago that she contacted Zhongyi.

I like to see her face that has lost a lot of weight compared to a few years ago, and I can't bear to complain no matter how much I complain.

When they were separated, she repeatedly asked her not to tell others about her coming back, and she liked to take care of her friends, but she didn't even say anything about Xia Linchen, and promised not to tell her father on the summer night.

Being at both ends of a city, Cai Xiaotan thought that it would not be so easy to meet Shen Ruixiu, but he didn't expect to meet again so easily.

Shen Ruixiu was arrogant many years ago, and it is still the same, pressing her hand and saying that she wants to get married.

How is this possible?

When she graduated from college, her father was seriously ill, the family sold the house, and the medical bills were still like a bottomless pit, making her, a young girl who had just graduated, stretched.

Shen Ruixiu had a bad temper, she was physically and mentally exhausted during that time, and once she couldn't help but quarrel with him, and in a fit of anger, he proposed to break up, and he didn't come to her for a long time after that.

Shen Ruixiu still liked that they didn't know anything, she couldn't say it, and then Shen Ruixiu's father found out where he found out about it, and came over to help her father pay the hospitalization fee.

She immediately caught up with her when she found out, and in the stairwell, she begged Shen's father to take back the funding, she also had her backbone and didn't want to accept help from her ex-boyfriend.

In that back and forth of prevarication, Shen's father accidentally fell down the stairs, and I heard that he was left with the root of the disease later.

Cai Xiaotan returned the money, did not see Shen Ruixiu again, took his father to another city, and borrowed money from relatives.

Cai's father eventually left, leaving her alone in this world, working during the day and part-time at night, trying her best to make money, hoping to pay off her debts as soon as possible and start a new life.

Later, there was a high-paying job, but the location was in City C, and she weighed it again and again and agreed.

She left because of money, but she didn't expect to have to come back, or for money.

The reason for this ridiculousness is that it is not easy to survive.

She was grateful that Shen Ruixiu hadn't forgotten her, but how could she enter the door of the Shen family.

It was already late at night when Shen Ruixiu got off work, he waited for a day, and kept looking at his mobile phone between several surgeries, but Cai Xiaotan really didn't contact him.

He drove to the downstairs of Cai Xiaotan's rented house, an old residential building, the environment was very poor, the street lights were sparsely on, and drunks passed by from time to time.

He wanted to rush up immediately and take Cai Xiaotan away, but he held back.

She'd had endured enough, and he didn't want to turn himself into a stressor for her.

Shen's mother loved her son, and tried her best to persuade Cai Xiaotan, so she didn't let her run away overnight that night.

Shen Ruixiu couldn't help but think about what made the two of them like this.

It was he who didn't give her enough security, she didn't trust him, and she refused to ask him for help when she was in trouble. Later, he willfully proposed to break up, originally wanting to dry her and wait for her to take the initiative to come to the door to make peace. He didn't understand until she disappeared that he had been squandering Cai Xiaotan's gentleness, losing his temper casually, and always letting her wronged herself and compromised him.

Shen Ruixiu has already had a few girlfriends, and none of them have ever made him so concerned, he should have been kind to her when he realized this fact, so that there would be no separation between them later.

Sandalwood, Sandalwood.

The name was the most tender spell in the world for him.

【Sandalwood】

The upper class circle in City C is not small, and most of them will enjoy it, the nightlife is very rich, and Guanghua Street is even more noisy and extravagant.

The Guanghua Hall was bustling with activity, and Cai Xiaotan was blocked by a frivolous man with oily hair and pink face as she walked through an open-door box.

The man seemed to have drunk too much, and grabbed Cai Xiaotan and pestered him, and several other well-dressed rich men in the box whistled.

"Little girl, I'll play with my brother, I promise you're happy." The man said in what he thought was graceful, and his hand was still reaching for her waist.

Cai Xiaotan naturally wouldn't give in, and took a step back at the moment, but unexpectedly bumped into someone.

Shen Ruixiu had a calm face, the corners of his forehead were flushed, he supported Cai Xiaotan's back with one hand, and looked at the people who wanted to be light on her, and his eyes turned and swept over the group of people in the box one by one.

He pulled Cai Xiaotan behind him, and the meaning of protection was very obvious.

The frivolous man frowned: "Shen Shao, we have always been in the well and not in the river, you are in front of my brother today to rob the chick I fancied, I'm afraid it's not very suitable, right?" ”

Shen Ruixiu's eyes were cold, the corners of his mouth were raised, and he snorted coldly: "She is my person, do you understand?" ”

The door of the box was open, and the people outside could see it clearly, and the frivolous man was dismissed by him, and his face was red and white for a while, but he couldn't afford to offend Shen Ruixiu, so he could only endure it.

"For the sake of my father's friendship, I'll sell you face, but don't get carried away-"

Shen Ruixiu didn't bother to listen to his nonsense at all, and pulled Cai Xiaotan and walked out.

The night was cool, and Cai Xiaotan was wearing the uniform of the club, with a thin layer, which was all penetrated as soon as the wind blew.

Shen Ruixiu's gaze slid over the tip of her red nose, her body trembled slightly, and silently took off her coat and draped it on her.

Cai Xiaotan pushed: "I don't want it." ”

"Dressed." Shen Ruixiu thought that he had a bad temper, and he had already exerted all his patience with her.

Cai Xiaotan didn't move, Shen Ruixiu sighed, and wrapped her in his coat strongly.

"Xiaotan, don't be reckless, I don't blame you."

Shen Ruixiu began to slowly infiltrate Cai Xiaotan's life, boiling a frog in warm water, not doing things rashly, and when she came back to her senses, she had regained her habit of saving it.

But compared to the past, it is clearly different. For example, today's Shen Ruixiu has learned to think for her from her standpoint.

Shen Ruixiu didn't stop her from working at night, just waited there on time every day to send her home.

She hadn't felt such tenderness for a long time.

Man is always a fragile creature, and will be treated gently and subjugated by others.

The car stopped slowly, Cai Xiaotan didn't unbuckle his seat belt for a long time, bit his lip, and stopped talking.

Shen Ruixiu took her hand, put it in the palm of his hand, and said, "Xiaotan, my life is not long, I don't want to waste any more time." ”

With her by his side, decades would surely pass by his fingers, and he still felt that little.

Cai Xiaotan raised his eyes to look at him, and his watery eyes seemed to be the affection that had not been released for many years, overflowing with the tears that slid down his cheeks.

Shen Rui grabbed her neck and pinched it gently.

That was a little habit between them, Cai Xiaotan closed his eyes.

A kiss landed on the corner of her lips, sweet as honey.

There seems to be a scent of sandalwood.