Mutona slowly stepped off the train and took a deep breath, the moist and cold air instantly soaked her lungs, and an inexplicable feeling slowly brewed in her heart.

She had thought she would never return to this heartbroken land. At this moment, her heart is extremely calm, this land that carries her most precious youth and memories, and slowly wraps her tired heart with a warmth like her hometown. She loved this land immensely, because it was the people she loved the most...

Ironically, she left the land three years ago with sorrow and despair, and returned three years later because of an even greater pain.

"It's finally here." The man dragged a large bag of luggage and followed Mutona off the train. She reached out to take a few things for her husband, and the man crossed his arms to protect the luggage on his chest

"Don't move, don't move, don't be heavy, light. I'm just right with this. ”

Mutona looked at her smiling husband and smiled softly. This made her feel that her life still had a little warmth.

Her remarried husband Wang Qing is a simple and stocky Shandong man, just like Yu Qian guessed, after Mutona and Ma Yuan got married, they had no relatives in S City, which was very difficult. Ma Yuan has been enchanted since he became obsessed, and the relatives of the Ma family don't want to be concerned about him, and after Ma Yuan sold his assets, even the poor relatives in the clan who coveted his family's assets also decisively cut off contact. Not to mention that there is no oil and water, if the madman Ma comes to borrow money from afar, and he can't get by without borrowing face, wouldn't it be clear that the meat bun and the dog will go and there will be no return?

After that, Ma went far away to the relatives of the Yanma family, and they really breathed a sigh of relief. turned a blind eye to Mutona's existence, and after the divorce, the rumors in the school were also rampant. How much envy Ma Wen's family gained at the beginning, then at this moment, it became sarcasm and ridicule, doubling the joyful flow in the dark. twisted her nose in front of her and squeezed out tears to comfort her, turned behind her, and her painful experience wandered in the dark night in the laughter and conversation of her colleagues after dinner.

People lie like cows in the shade of a tree that does not shine in the sun, ruminating the misfortunes of those around them, to squeeze the last nutrients out of the bitter grass mixed with bile. Especially watching happy people suffer misfortune can squeeze out sweeter dregs.

But Mutona didn't want to go back to the Northeast, which was her hometown and the place where her and Ma Yuan's happy cruise ship set sail. There are good memories between herself and Ma Yuan everywhere, and she also left her determination to go to another country despite the dissuasion of her family. Her parents have passed away, and the home there has long been an empty shell, and when Mutona walked out of the Civil Affairs Bureau, she found that no giant ship was unsinkable, even the most luxurious Titanic hit the iceberg. She thought she had found a lifelong support, but looking back, she found that she had been adrift for half her life and had no place to stand......

She took the money from the divorce and property to travel aimlessly and slowly moved towards the north. She resisted but also approached the white mountains and black waters in her memory, until she met Wang Qing when she passed through Shandong.

Everything is like vulgar youth literature, the difference is that the two protagonists are no longer young. Although she is a, she still has charm, and the years have carved fine wrinkles in the corners of her eyes, and she has generously gifted her the mature charm that girls will not have. Suffering tormented her body and mind, and also gave her the beauty after washing away the lead. Although she wore a simple dress, she exuded the dignity unique to a young woman.

When Wang Qing saw Mutona at the tourist attraction at the foot of Mount Tai, this stocky man felt like a lightning bolt hit his heart. It was the first time in more than forty years of his life that he felt the power of love. In his thin emotional experience, he always thought that he loved the wife whose parents were his Zhang Luo, and they raised their eyebrows together, and they respected each other like guests. She worked hard for him for half her life and gave birth to a son and a daughter for him. When she died of leukemia, Wang Qing thought that she would never fall in love with someone else again.

But at this moment, he understood, he looked at Mutona who was standing on the side of the mountain road and sipping water with her head slightly up, and he instantly understood what love was. What he experienced before was not love, it could only be called respect at best. And at this moment, my restless heart, the sense of embarrassment of gains and losses, the eyes that do not turn their eyes, and the emotions that are jumping in every inch of my skin without a sound of breath are called love!

He watched Mutona smile in the breeze, and looked at the sadness that could not be concealed between her brows. He did what he had never done in his life, like a hairy boy of seventeen or eighteen years old, clumsily stepping forward, stumbling and stumbling with childish stalks. Mutona looked at the man who accosted her in surprise, rubbing her hands and stammering about the weather and scenery. For a moment, her scarred heart felt a hint of warmth.

She maintained a tactful and decent attitude, she had been hurt too much, she clearly understood what it meant to be in pain, so she didn't want others to be hurt. She cautiously responded to the strange man who expressed kindness to her, but Wang Qing misunderstood Mutona's kindness, just like everyone who fell in love, he became stupid and stupid, and he couldn't escape the curse of "if she doesn't hate me, she must like me" no matter what.

When Wang Qing's dry accosting ended quickly because of his bad words, Mutona also cleverly ended the topic, and the two parted. Mutona left with a warmth from a stranger, while Wang Qing stared at Mutona's shadow gradually disappearing into the crowd climbing Mount Tai with her fantasies that she also liked me...

If the story ends here, then it can only be said that this is a beautiful encounter with the romantic feelings of middle-aged people. Wang Qing didn't even know what her name was. But Providence is a naughty naughty boy, which not only makes people scratch their heads, but also inadvertently surprises and touches people.

When Mutona walked into the restaurant at the foot of Mount Tai in the evening, the manager who came out of the back kitchen wearing an apron to greet him was none other than the strange man she met at the foot of the mountain during the day. This wonderful reunion with a little warmth inadvertently shook Mutona's thick heart, but Wang Qing felt that fate was pushing him towards this destined marriage, and that indescribable sweet mood with sourness filled his heart.

"You, what are you going to eat?" Wang Qing held back the joy in his heart and excitedly asked Mutona, who was looking at the menu

"Two home-cooked dishes are fine." Mutona and the upper menu smiled slightly. Wang Qing hurriedly rushed to the back kitchen...

Ten minutes later, a plate of scrambled eggs with sauce, a plate of beef tenderloin with sharp peppers, and a bowl of hot rice were brought out by Wang Qing. He felt that he had never wanted to make two dishes like today in his life, and when he stir-fried the dishes, he felt that his heart had slid into the oil pan with the spatula, and he was tormented and matured with the beef tenderloin.

Maybe love is really the best seasoning, Mutona has eaten caviar for hundreds of dollars an ounce, also eaten exquisite Cantonese cuisine at a three-Michelin-starred restaurant in S City, and had countless dreamy beauty with Ma Yuan in the first half of her marriage. However, in this situation, the two plates of the most common home-cooked dishes in the north dealt the most fatal blow to her fragile heart, the nightmarish life of those three years, the hellish mental torment, the white eyes and shameful laughter of the people around her after the divorce, and the misunderstanding and accusations of her daughter against herself. The whole person who left S City all the way was confused and lonely. It all turned into a heavy fortress that enveloped her scarred heart.

But man is neither born strong nor eager to be strong. If they could, who wouldn't want to sleep peacefully in a fairy tale? The more suffering people close their hearts, the more they yearn for comfort and warmth. This warm and simple meal aroused Mutona's grievances and sadness, and she kept big tears while eating, until she could no longer hold back and cry loudly on the table, crying happily for the past three years. She can no longer hold the mature shelf, in this strange city, in a strange restaurant, crying like a seven or eight-year-old child to the restaurant owner who only has one side.

Wang Qing was stunned, hurriedly handing over the tissue, listening to her vague complaints and cries, I don't know why my heart followed Mutona's cry for a burst of violent colic...

After that day, Mutona stayed in T City for three days, came to Wang Qing's restaurant for three days, and on the evening of the third day, Mutona planned to leave T City the next day after dinner to continue her journey north, by the way, thanking the boss for taking care of her these days. However, before he could speak, Wang Qing came out of the back kitchen wearing a brand-new suit, and knelt on one knee in front of Mutona with roses and diamond rings.

"I, I, I'm not in good condition, with children and daughters. But, but I'm willing to work, I'm not lazy, if you marry me, I promise you that you will live, just like that, the emperor's daughter! I wouldn't be comforting to hear you say so much that day, but I promise! In the future, I will make you happy and happy, and I will never cry again! Wang Qing stammered, feeling that his neck was about to break from his tie, and he couldn't breathe.

Mutona looked at the man in a suit but didn't fit well, knelt down on one knee in front of her, and stammered a rustic marriage proposal. She remembered the moment when Ma Yuan proposed to her twenty years ago, the beautiful young man with a graceful and well-dressed manner, reading Pushkin's poems under the bright moonlight on campus.

"You're the cutest." I didn't have time to think about it, but after thinking about it, I still said this...

The burning love was the best memory of her life. Thinking about the overlap between the picture in her memory and the scene in front of her, her nose was sore, and her tears were uncontrollably vented, she covered her mouth tightly and didn't know whether to cry or laugh, her love wheel hit the iceberg, but the man in front of her, who was a stranger three days ago, melted the iceberg in Mutona's heart with his hot and sincere chest.

"You're still a little more handsome in that chef's outfit." Mutona put down her hands that were tightly covering her mouth and said with a smile full of tears......

……

now

Mutona and Wang Qing walked on the streets of S City, the weather was still cool in the morning and evening in early spring, but Wang Qing was still sweating profusely with his luggage, he ripped open his collar, leaking out a strong and broad chest, and the steam wafted in the cold wind.

Mutona stretched out her hand to hold Wang Qing's arm, although the heavy blows pressed on her slender shoulders one after another, but at this moment, she found the fulcrum of her soul again, and walked forward step by step with her strength.

Mutona held back her grief and silently read it in her heart

"Wenwen, mom is here to pick you up......"