Chapter 49: A Chance Encounter

In the winter season in the north, the sky is getting later and darker. The arrival of Jing Xuan last night was thrilling for Qiu Se. This night, there is not much difference between sleeping and not sleeping. Seeing the cigarette butts lying on the steps at the door of the hotel, Qiu Se's heart was also like being burned by cigarette butts, and she had a feeling that it was left by Jing Xuan, but when she began to blame herself for her ruthlessness, she was not confident that maybe she happened to be a stranger who had the same preferences as Jing Xuan, and she sat here last night worrying about something! But even so, tears welled up uncontrollably in her eyes. She raised her hand and quickly wiped it, and strode forward, but as she took the first step, another tear rolled down, and then, two, three... She squatted helplessly on the ground, simply closed her eyes and cried silently.

At this time, someone tapped her on the shoulder.

She jerked her head - it was the master who swept the streets.

"Girl? You okay? The uncle held the broom with one hand, gently patted her shoulder with the other, and then retracted his hand, "My hands are dirty," and smiled awkwardly, "Are you okay?" ”

Qiu Se's eyes were hazy with tears, and the moment her shoulder was touched, she was almost ready to turn around and see Jing Xuan, however, it was not Jing Xuan. She turned her head, buried her face in her knees, and cried even harder, barely controlling herself from making a sound, but her shoulders shook uncontrollably.

"Is there anything you can't say?" There was the warmth of an elder in the uncle's voice, "The young man who smokes here is your lover, right?" Just left. What a contradiction, one lives in a hotel by himself, and the other smokes downstairs without saying that he goes up to coax. If you look at the cigarette butts in this place, they hurt so much. The uncle stood behind Qiu Se and wanted to pull her up, but he felt that it was not good to do it again, so he persuaded again: "Get up quickly, go home!" When I was young, I had a temper, just looking at him smoking so many cigarettes here, it means that he still has a deep affection for you, he is soft, so stiff, it is not good for anyone, ah, go back! ”

After listening to the uncle's words, the bitterness in Qiu Se's heart had already flooded into a river.

The uncle is responsible for the cleaning of this street, and he comes out to work before dawn every day. It's the same today. Swept downstairs to the O2 Hotel, I saw a young man sitting on the steps in front of the hotel smoking, saw the uncle coming, looked at the cigarette butts under his feet, nodded to the uncle embarrassedly, then got up, walked a few steps, looked upstairs again, and then strode away. He was dressed in a gray bony coat, and the folds of his straight smoky trousers were no longer visible as he walked away. The uncle was about to clean up the cigarette butts all over the ground, and Qiu Se came out of the hotel with a sad expression. Seeing the cigarette butt on the steps, he stood thoughtfully for a while, not paying attention to the uncle next to him. Somehow, she suddenly raised her hand to wipe her tears, and just after a few steps, she squatted on the ground and began to cry.

The road of life has been going on for decades, and the children are older than Qiu Se, and they can't see the young girl shed tears, so the uncle took care of "idle things" for a while. Seeing Qiu Se squatting on the ground and not moving, in desperation, the uncle just waved the broom lightly and swept up the cigarette butts.

As he swept, he aimed his eyes at Qiu Se's back squatting on the ground.

After a while, Qiu Se stood up, turned around and bowed to the uncle, said nothing, and walked towards the school.

Yes, what to say?

The uncle looked at Qiu Se's distant back, inexplicable.

After the place where the tears flowed was dried, there was a feeling of tightness, just like Qiu Se's heart at the moment - tightly constricted, unable to relax. There are no specific things in my mind, just a chaotic mind. She walked very fast, the wind ran through her hair, and there was a faint pain in her ear canal. She rubbed her ears with her fingers as she walked, her hands were cold.

Soon, she arrived at her destination, the small shop was still the same as more than three years ago, the glass windows were covered with a thick mist of heat, and the aroma of steamed buns could be smelled from a distance. But Qiu Se had no appetite, so she crossed the small shop, stepped into the high threshold of the side entrance of the school, and walked all the way down the old dormitory area. I came to the small fountain behind the school hospital and sat down on a swing. At this time, the campus is still quiet. Qiu Se also sat quietly on the swing, swinging gently, watching the sun climb up little by little through the morning mist, watching the people on campus get more and more little by little, and everything slowly became vivid. Just like that morning three years ago, when she came out of Jing Xuan's house, she was also here and sat for a long time. It's just that this time, it was summer, the surroundings were green, and the wind was warm; Now the surroundings are withered and the wind is cold.