Some people are chasing time, while others are being chased by time.

The first-born sunshine sprinkled on the golden wheat fields with fluffy white snow, and the misty sky, soft, without clouds, was shrouded in mist; a hill in the distance, a field path that winds down the hillside; How I wish that time like this would be forever, in time, in my life. (Zhang Guazi Diary)

It was the first time I saw her, and my mother took her hand and floated slowly in the direction of home; I heard the noise outside the window, one of the few lively days in the village since the Japanese invaded Tohoku.

She is dressed very thinly, and in these nine cold days, she is still slim and elegant, stepping on the snow without a trace, which can't help but make people pity.

I crawled up from the kang with a rolling belt, simply brushed the "rich" hair, held a handful of water from the water tank in front of the door, and threw it in my face indiscriminately - the door opened.

Accompanied by the breeze, it is the fragrance of the homeland in the village, and it is the holy girl outside the window.

Actually, I was stunned for a long time before I remembered that the girl was still standing in the cold wind, wearing only a white jacket decorated with a blue lotus flower, which was said to be the last thing her mother had left.

I ran back to the back room, grabbed a cotton garment I had worn and put it on her; Hey, that's what I wear when I pick up grain and work in the fields, and the smell of sweat, smoke, and moldy grain is mixed with all kinds of village smells. After all, in a family like ours, there is no distinction between the clothes of the field and the daily life.

Quietly, she gently brought her left hand close to her nose; I'm a little embarrassed, after all, I haven't worn that padded coat for the past few days; Scratching his head: "It's cold, please!" ”

The girl nodded slightly, and followed me with her mother in her arms.

When she entered the house, the girl still did not speak, she even breathed quietly, and she could even feel that the cotton-like filaments of air slowly flowed out of her nasal cavity, rolled up, and melted into the air.

The mother stroked her white hand on the side, constantly planning the future, from marriage to childbirth; From now to gray hair like snow.

At the moment, I just stared at her blankly, followed by her quiet, quiet my world.

Because of the female doll, she didn't go out of the house for a year; There is very little communication between us, I go to the field every day, and she takes the baby every day; The feeling was sudden, hasty; We are not familiar with each other yet, and our understanding is only hearsay.

It was another night of sleeplessness, and I kept thinking about the "eight-eight-nine-nine" thing, I don't know what happened, I had never been so eager before; This feeling has not yet arrived, if you act rashly, I am afraid that not only will it not succeed, but it is more likely to scare other girls, and it will be even more difficult to start in the future;

Pregnant! Just take her to the mountains to play, the foot pleats of the wild road chrysanthemums on the mountain and the plum blossoms in previous years should still be in bloom, prepare in advance!

The chickens in the yard crowed, and the dogs woke up.

"Yeon-yeon, Yeon-yeon!" I woke her up and gently brushed her falling hair; Her name is Qin Yan, and I also knew it inadvertently later.

On that day, I was preparing dinner in the kitchen, and there was no salt at home, and in these oppressive days, the price of salt had already been raised very high by the Japanese, and the family could not afford to buy official salt, so they boiled the seawater from the seashore over a high fire and refined the sea salt by themselves. I remembered that I still had a bag, so I rummaged around: "Salt! Salt! Salt! ”

When I found her, she stood in front of me, silent; I looked up and suddenly saw her, and I was also shocked, she just looked at me directly.

"You, why are you here?" I was puzzled that she rarely approached me on weekdays except when she and I were on the same kang.

"You're calling me?" The cold four words, like a bullet coming out of the chamber, were stiff and abruptly stopped.

"No, I'm looking for salt." I watched her slowly stand up, "Your name is Yeon?" ”

She didn't answer me, and turned away; I hurriedly called her, I have always called her girl, I should also ask her name, and I should know more about her past, "Wait a minute, Yanyan!" “

Before the words could be finished, she suddenly rushed over and hugged me; She cried, she let go of her disguise, the nickname "Yanyan", let me touch her heart for the first time, the fragile, already broken, but patched together glass.

That day, we talked for the first time.

"Yeon-yeon, I'll take you to a good place!" I picked up the coat next to me and handed it to her, and she nodded.

The mountain is not very high, and our destination is on flat land halfway up the mountainside; Yanyan followed me for a while, but after all, she was a girl, and she couldn't go up the hill, and she couldn't get used to this uneven wild road.

"Come, come up!" I leaned down and motioned for her to come up to my back.

Yeon-yeon, standing behind, looked at me and hesitated for a long time.

"It's okay, anyway, you're already my daughter-in-law who passed the door, what are you afraid of? We have a good name. I tapped me on the shoulder, thinking it would show my manly responsibility.

Slowly, gently, she sat on my back and put her arms around my shoulders.

"Sit tight! I am your most faithful warhorse! Let's go! "I got up and ran, saving miles of mountain roads, and I didn't stop, and the ground was full of gravel, and now it was as smooth as the floor of a large house.

"Hey, you slow down~ don't fall." Yeon-yeon hugged me tightly, her face close to my ear, and the snow in the mountains melted as she melted.

"It's here!" I stretched out my hand and pointed to the winter wheat fields not far away.

"Isn't this a wheat field?" Qin Yan was very sorry, at a glance, the wheat fields full of snow would be found in every village of Ren Na, and there was nothing unusual.

"Don't worry, it's still early, and it will be different in a while." I slowly leaned down and put Qin Yan down.

I pulled out a large bottle of salt and an old sheet from my bag, poured the salt over the sheet, grabbed the corners of the sheet, and threw it into the sky.

The sky sprinkled salt like snow, and stayed in the wheat fields covered with snow; I took Qin Yan's hand, spread the sheets on the ground, and sat quietly like this, waiting quietly for the sun to rise and for the salt to melt the snow.

"What are you doing? That's salt! Qin Yan shouted at me, obviously my "loser" behavior made her angry with me, but I didn't explain anything, just sat quietly, because I knew that when the snow melted, all emotions would be transformed, into romance, surprise and love.

The wind gently stirred the plum blossoms in the middle of the wheat field, Qin Yan and I sat quietly under the plums, and the pale pink petals fell for us; The skyline also spits out a faint amount of sunlight.

The snow slowly melted, revealing yellow, green, and white, which is also very coincidental, the wheat field melted by salt, just into a heart shape, and the sun sprinkled on the wheat field, refracted by the snow water with a faint golden light, and the rainbow actually crossed us, as if to witness our beauty.

Time stood still for us, and we sat under the plum trees, looking at the wheat fields in front of us, at the villages in the distance, at the gentle sky.

Qin Yan hugged me, and she cried again, such a good time in her world, which was tormented by Japanese aggression, like the warm sun in winter, like the drizzle in early spring.

I took her into my arms and stroked her head buried deep in my arms: "Don't worry, all the bitterness has passed, and I will give you all the tenderness and all the beauty." ”

She raised her eyes wet with tears and looked at me with emotion, I tentatively put my face closer, I knew that at this moment, our distance was already negative, and our hearts had blended together.

On this day, I made a promise to her that I might never be able to fulfill in this life; On this day, my dream of "eight-eight-nine-nine" was also realized.

"Five years later, when Mei'er grows up; Let's go and comfort the souls of my father-in-law and mother-in-law! ”