Liang Shirong went to Beijing to participate in the award ceremony and met Liu Manli, which can be regarded as a kind of fate and a legend. Liang Shirong originally thought that the past would pass with the passage of time.

However, the past does not pass.

Once something happens, it is an existence, and it will be recorded in one way or another, leaving a deep or shallow trace in history and social life, affecting people today and in the future.

This is true for Liang Shirong. The night was dark, and the whole study was still immersed in a faint green. The table clock on the table "rubs" and the hands run from nine o'clock, ten o'clock, eleven o'clock until midnight, and then point to the early hours of the morning. And Liang Shirong has been deeply immersed in the soft sofa, his arms resting on the armrests on both sides, his left hand hanging, and his right hand has five thin and soft and hard fingers supporting the broad and protruding forehead, and his eyes are slightly closed, as if he is contemplative, and he seems to be drowsy.

Although Liang Shirong closed his eyes, he did not fall asleep, and it was impossible for him to fall asleep. The years that had passed, everything that had happened, reappeared in his mind—

Liang Shirong clearly remembers that since the resignation of the Guangzhou Paper Mill and the return to his hometown to establish the Paradise Paper Mill, especially since his daughter visited and performed abroad with the Art Troupe of the Guangzhou Sports Institute, she got to know Peter. David, after getting married, received a "green card" and settled in Canada; Soon, Feng Yulian suffered from uterine cancer, and after the operation, due to the need for family care and other reasons, her daughter also got a "green card" for her and settled in Canada.

In the first two years of his wife's settlement in Canada, she would come back with her daughter for the Chinese New Year. As time passed, the number of times his wife and daughter returned to their home countries became smaller and smaller.

After many years, her daughter gave birth to a big fat man in Canada, and that year, his wife, daughter, and son-in-law brought their grandson back to reunite for the Spring Festival, and Liang Shirong was once again intoxicated with the joy of sharing family.

Coming back after a long absence, the family was reunited, and another grandson was added home for the Spring Festival, which was originally a happy and worthy celebration. But there is one thing that makes Feng Yulian feel bored and regretful: she has been married to Liang Shirong for more than 30 years, gave birth to a boy and a girl, and now, her children have grown up, and her husband's career has also done well, and he has become China's most influential outstanding township entrepreneur and national model worker; Although he is nearly sixty years old, he still has a strong physique and vigorous energy as when he was young, and looks like a handsome guy in his early thirties. And he is old and yellow, and he is terminally ill...... I can't drag my husband down, and my husband must be accompanied by a wise and understanding woman.

At dusk of the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the remnant sun is like blood, and the sunset smears the earth red.

After Feng Yulian and her family had dinner, under the camphor tree in front of her home, she picked her teeth with a toothpick while looking at the undulating Longshan Mountain in the distance. Suddenly, there was a sound of birds overhead, and Feng Yulian looked up and saw two birds that looked like birds of bliss, playing in the trees. The male bird was showing off his brilliant colors, as if to highlight his appearance with dance and other display movements, and put on a breathtaking show for the female and the birdwatchers.

Feng Yulian vaguely remembers that this bird lives in the inaccessible alpine jungle, and people just see this beautiful bird flying in the sky, but do not know where it flies, so a beautiful legend has been born: the bird of paradise is a kind of "sacred bird" that lives in the "heavenly paradise" and feeds on the nectar of the dew.

Touching the scene!

Feng Yulian really couldn't imagine that she was upright and did many good deeds all her life, but why did the sky make people, the wrinkles on her forehead gradually increased and deepened with the passage of time, not to mention, she even suffered from a terminal illness, but her husband seemed to be getting younger and younger with the passage of time......

"Wife, what's wrong with you?" Feng Yulian woke up from her stunned moments, looked down, and asked her husband Liang Shirong.

Feng Yulian shook her head again and again and denied: "No...... Nothing ......."

Liang Shirong pierced in one sentence: "Wife, don't deceive me." You have something on your mind, and tears are streaming from the corners of your eyes. ”

Feng Yulian wiped the corners of her eyes with her hand, only to know that there were already tears on them, so she had to sigh: "Alas-"

Feng Yulian's tone was full of apologies: "Husband, as a man. Don't you feel upset when you see me like this? I have been married to you for so many years, but I have not taken good care of my body, and I have a terminal illness, and every time I think about this, my heart not only feels guilty, but also aches. ”

Liang Shirong comforted: "Wife, how can I blame you for this? I'm not distracted. ”

Feng Yulian's teeth bit her lip for a long time before she said, "Husband, I have thought of a way." ”

When Liang Shirong heard this, he became interested, stretched his neck, and asked, "What way?"

Feng Yulian: "Let's divorce and marry you separately, I will never have any complaints about this." ”

Liang Shirong glanced at her: "Wife, see where you have gone?" When you married a flower in Xiguan to me, a countryman, you have suffered a lot, and I always feel sorry for you in my heart. Why do you say such a thing?"

Feng Yulian was so moved that her eyes were shining with tears, and her nose was sour: "If you don't get divorced, then you can find another confidant." Maybe she'll take care of you for me. ”

Liang Shirong's face sank: "Wife, stop talking nonsense." Since you and I have become husband and wife in this life, we must respect each other as guests and grow old together. ”

Feng Yulian saw that Liang Shirong was angry, and she didn't dare to say anything more.

After spending the New Year in the countryside, Feng Yulian returned to Canada with her daughter, son-in-law, and grandson.

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Since his wife went to Canada to settle down, whenever there is a major matter that he can't make up his mind or has a heart that he can't solve, Liang Shirong is locked in the study alone, falling into deep thought, thinking hard, and looking for a solution......

In this sleepless night, Liang Shirong's mind once again appeared the scene of going to Beijing to attend the award ceremony, everything that had happened between him and Liu Manli.

That day, after collecting wind in the deep mountains and canyons, and experiencing the thrilling rafting of "China's No. 1 Dragon Drift", everyone felt that the aftermath was not over. At that time, Lu Jianhui, a essayist who was famous for writing about the real mountains and rivers of the Chinese land, proposed: This time it is rare to meet in Beijing, and to meet friends with literature, why don't we take advantage of the aftermath to move to the Yangtze River to collect wind and feel the heroic spirit of the great man who crossed the Yangtze River in the past 10,000 miles, "no matter the wind and waves, it is better than a leisurely walk".

Lu Jianhui's proposal was immediately met with a warm response from the members of the delegation and the consent of the organizing committee of the competition. So, the group drove to the Wuchang Hanyangmen Wharf, under the guidance of the staff, a group of 12 members and tourists who came to visit the Yangtze River gathered together, sequentially launched from the Hanyang Gate, down the river for 5,000 meters, to the Hankou River Beach Three Gorges Stone Square to start the water. The neat formation on the river surface is like "crossing the long dragon", which is quite spectacular.