Chapter 296: The City, and the Rivers and Lakes (Part II)
Can you tell me about it? Brother Xiaoxia ordered a glass of wine and asked.
"Good~"
Naturally, the bartender agreed to Brother Xiaoxia's request.
Then he wiped his wine glass, while serving the drinkers around him, while telling such a story to Brother Xiaoxia.
This story is very ordinary, in fact, before the Ark came out, in a city called London, this story was circulated, but it is like what was just said.
The story is very ordinary, there are no huge demons and heroes in the story, and there is no reverberation in martial arts, so the story has not become a legend.
It...... In the increasingly dense steel city, gradually, it is forgotten.
......
「MargaretMcCollum」。
This is the name of this strange old lady, and maybe if Brother Xiaoxia had chased after him and asked, the woman would have answered this name. But it may not be.
In short, near this platform, this old man is the epitome of the old woman from a century ago.
She is a retired worker who is too ordinary to be ordinary.
Since 07, she has been coming to the subway station day after day, she never takes a ride, just sits quietly, and sits for a day!
The administrator of the platform also said that she had been doing this for ten years...... Or longer!
However, this old lady must not suffer from Alzheimer's disease, and she has a brain problem when she is alive.
She has been here for more than ten years, and she has only one purpose, that is, to wait for the subway to open, listen to the prompt that has been used for forty years:
【MindTheGap】
That is, the sound that Brother Xiaoxia heard in the platform before [Pay attention to the gap].
Because this sentence was recorded by her husband forty years ago.
......
In 2007.
It was a distant time, and the lady's husband was gone forever...... It may be due to aging, or vascular disease...... But what it is, no one knows now.
Anyway, all of a sudden, her world collapsed.
And the only thing that supports her to face life is the prompt sound recorded by her husband in the subway station.
And when they met, it was also in front of the subway station!
She is a passenger, and her husband, is a train attendant.
The first thing he said to her was...... Pay attention to the voids
This sentence is the most beautiful sentence in the world for her!
However, as time went on, the prompt that her husband had recorded forty years ago was gradually taken down.
In the entire city, there is only one old station left, and this chime is still playing.
In order to hear her husband's voice, she moved to the vicinity of the site, had to dress up every morning, and then went out early.
With the bartender's unhurried narration, Brother Xiaoxia seemed to see a scene.
In the subway passage, the old woman passed by countless oncoming passengers, but her eyes never fell on anyone.
Occasionally, a wandering artist would be seen, and his talent reminded her of her husband, so she would come forward to toss a coin and stop to watch for a while.
After getting off the platform, she kept looking back, for fear that she wouldn't be able to catch the moment when the subway opened.
It was as if she was afraid that her husband would be disappointed if he didn't see her face when he opened the door.
And when the train comes, she will be happy like a child again, and there is still a trace of shyness before seeing her lover.
Finally, when she waited for the train to open, the familiar voice sounded, and the corners of her mouth began to rise, as if she had seen someone waiting out of the door smiling.
This lonely old man has lived like this for ten years, and for so many years, no one but herself knows the story, and no one can understand her approach.
But she never cared, she just sat quietly, waiting, listening.
......
Until one day, there were waves on a peaceful day!
On this day, she went out early as usual, and everything around her was no different from usual.
Except when she got off the elevator, the couple in front of her made her fall into memories for a while.
However, when she finally waited for the train to come, and was full of anticipation for the prompt to appear, the radio remembered another cold voice:
【Please be careful about the gap between the train and the platform】
It's clearer and more pleasant than the previous one.
However, at this very moment.
She began to panic.
At first, she thought it was something wrong with her ears, but when the radio sounded again, her eyes were full of unease and despair.
Finally, she was in the crowded subway station, crying bitterly, the pedestrians around her did not notice the old man attached to the body, they walked in a hurry, walked past her, maybe occasionally one or two people cast an eye of attention, but soon, they will be attracted by the open subway door.
After all, this woman is just a passer-by in other people's worlds.
And in her own heart, at that moment, her husband was completely ...... Gone from her......
......
......
Afterwards, she approached the staff and hoped to get the disc containing her husband's voice.
After the subway staff told her that the disc had long been obsolete and nowhere to be found, her grief had crawled through every wrinkle on her face.
"I've lost him again......"
It was the last thing she said as she turned to leave.
......
Of course, the fact that this story was able to be circulated in that era must indicate that this story did not end here.
Because of the old woman's affair, it was announced by the staff in the London underground station, and a director also heard the story and made a short film.
The name is [MindTheGap]
Of course, in this copy, Brother Xiaoxia will definitely not hear the whole story, he just listens to the bar tell the story, and then ...... In the newspaper on the side, I saw a report similar to "The light rail platform will be renovated next month".
There weren't a lot of people in the bar, and naturally there was no noise.
Soft music sings unknown songs......
[The city is indifferent, it makes your heart unable to find direction]
[The city is tender again, it allows your traumatized heart to meet a ray of light]
[With a warm heart, find a more dazzling light in the city]
[It's not just cold language, but the other person is never late to wait]
[Don't be afraid, I'm by your side]
Brother Xiaoxia put down his wine glass...... He has read too many stories, in those books, there are long rivers and sunsets, rain, snow, wind and sand, heroes, and beautiful women, they all have heart-wrenching experiences, which make people so excited that they get goosebumps of love and hatred.
This kind of coarse salt and ruthless emotion occupies an unshakable position in Brother Xiaoxia's spiritual world.
Chivalry, it seems like that......
But it seems that at this moment, in Brother Xiaoxia's heart, in addition to the huge things in the world that can only be touched in the spiritual world, there are some other things.
For example, a woman sitting quietly on the edge of a platform......
A small bench that has been listening for more than ten years.
It seems to be also a river and lake.