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Lu Aiyuan's husband, Yang Ji, was a carpenter, mainly making furniture.

The furniture made by Yang Ji is not only practical, but also a work of art. A collector with a vision, collects his furniture as a work of art, and waits for the day he dies to appreciate and sell for a good price.

From the collector's attention to the furniture made by Yang Ji, it proves that he is a talented carpenter, such a person is naturally a person with wisdom and stories. The wife she marries must either be beautiful and make people jealous, or she has a background, or she is rich enough.

Yang Ji is a lucky carpenter, and his wife Lu Aiyuan is both charming and generous, because her maiden family is considered to be a wealthy family.

Those collectors who claim to be prescient are not waiting for Yang Ji's death, but his disappearance.

It had been five years since Yang Ji had been heard from, but his wife, Lu Aiyuan, did not announce his death to the outside world, because she said that her infinite love for her husband made her sensitive sixth sense tell her that her husband was still alive and that he would come back sooner or later. So she waited every day, so that everyone who knew her thought she was an infatuated woman and praised her.

Collectors don't know if Yang Ji's furniture will appreciate because of his disappearance, according to common sense, the works of dead people are much more valuable than the works of living people, and the longer they die, the more valuable they are, so that his works can be sold for a lot of money. Let those who collect his works have the opportunity to send them once at a time.

Therefore, the person who collects the furniture made by the carpenter Yang Ji once went to Lu Aiyuan to announce that her husband had died, after all, there had been no news of him for several years, maybe he died in an accident, so he did not return home, and even if the police tried their best, they could not help her find her husband. For this reason, Lu Aiyuan was very dissatisfied with the police, and wrote a letter to the mayor, saying that the police were not able to handle the case, and there was no way to find her husband, so that she did not have any confidence and trust in the police.

Lu Aiyuan swore to collectors who had their own little abacus in their hearts that even if her husband Yang Ji was no longer alive, if she couldn't find his body, she would not casually announce her husband's death. She firmly believes that her husband will come back one day. Perhaps, Yang Ji will be like the TV series performance, he fell under the cliff, or was hit by a car, although he was rescued, but he lost his memory, he couldn't remember where he lived and the contact information of his family, and he lived with a kind life for the time being, and when his memory recovered, he would go home.

Her remarks sounded like a touching story, but the listeners didn't buy her account, thinking that she missed her missing husband too much, couldn't figure out reality and fantasy, and had hysteria, which couldn't help but make people sympathize.

One morning, Lu Aiyuan looked out of the window of her husband Yang Ji's carpentry room, the scene outside seemed to be sudden, the elm trees seemed to change color overnight, the emerald green leaves turned red, or dark yellow, yesterday was still summer, today the world outside the window has belonged to autumn, and then looking at the mountains in the distance, it seems to have become a little gloomy, once again confirming that the footsteps of autumn have been approached.

Her husband Yang Ji left her at the end of September five years ago, and it will be even more sad to say goodbye to someone close to her in the lifeless autumn, which is an unforgettable feeling.

Autumn is here again, and in the past few years since her husband Yang Ji disappeared, every three or five days, she would go to her husband's carpentry room from time to time, sit for a while, and look at the elm tree that changes with the seasons through the window. The bark of elm is dark gray, with irregular deep longitudinal fissures, rough, the leaves are elliptic-ovate, the leaf surface is smooth and glabrous up close, the dorsal leaves are pubescent, the leaves are glabrous when they are young, and some of the veins have tufts of hairs in the axils, and the petiole surface is pubescent. The flowers are open and clustered in the axils of the leaves, the wings are sparsely obovate and round, and the flowering and fruiting period is from March to June.

In the past five years, as a botanist, she has no knowledge or interest in plants, but she knows the appearance and growth and flowering of the elm tree very clearly, because ......

Because of what? She didn't want to think about it anymore......

She stubbornly believes that the secrets in her heart, if she usually thinks too much, will be exposed sooner or later. Usually she thinks about the secret under the elm tree except when she is in the carpentry room, when she looks at the elm tree through the window, and at other times, she has a strong idea, and will never let the image of the elm tree appear in her mind, because that will cause her fear of the secret for no reason, so that she can't help but tell the secret to others, or say that the dream talk, let people hear.

The secret she had so carefully guarded, she believed only the elm tree knew of it but herself. So on several occasions she was going to cut down the elm tree, but at last she gave up the idea, because when she was fine, she would go to the carpentry room, and sit for a while looking at the elm tree from the window, like lovers looking at each other affectionately—gazing at the elm tree for a while, during which time her mind would gallop like a war horse on the flat ground and could not stop, so as to pass the time of boredom in self-forgetfulness.

At the same time, she would feel that this short time was simply the spice of her life, and that her face could not help but show a smile of victory as if she had won a battle, but her expression would sink immediately, and the sadness hidden behind the smile would eventually prevail over her pleasure, making her face look like a clear clear sky suddenly covered by black clouds, no matter how her expression changed, but her eyes never left the thriving elm tree.

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E-O is slightly chubby. Since her husband disappeared five years ago, for some reason, she has become fatter, and others say that she has become plump and more attractive. She is a natural beauty embryo, and being fat and thin has no effect on her beauty, but after she got fat, the beautiful clothes she wore before were a little tight, and she felt a little uncomfortable because of the small sleeves and tight armpits.

She decided to spend nearly a year losing weight, and then next summer, in a new state, she would sit in this carpentry room and look at the tall elm tree, because her husband had also said that she was still thinner and better. Because of his words, she never allowed herself to gain weight. If she cared so much about him, why did he still leave her and disappear?

No...... She knew his tracks, only she wouldn't admit to anyone, including herself.

While this self-delusion is ridiculous, it is the only way to bury the secret, and as to whether it is feasible or not, time will tell.