Chapter 100: The Summer of Flowers and Leaves (II) / Lin Muxing's Perspective
5. Things are not people.
When I returned to the ancient town, I knew that everything had changed, and I took the navigation and planned to go back to my ancestral home according to the address given to me by my mother.
"Brother Muxing! I'm not going anywhere, I'm just waiting for you here, you remember to come back early! I'd be scared alone. Tian Xiaoxiao, who is obviously the most fun-loving, knows that some things can only be handled by myself, and I am willing to stay alone in the Internet café.
I walked and walked, which was a revisit, and the sparsely populated place was very fresh and the air was very fresh.
I found that many people in the old town had moved away, and I heard that there were autumn leaves that I had been thinking about day and night. But I didn't believe it, I ran to her house like a madman, in fact, it wasn't that I didn't believe it, but I just wanted to break my thoughts.
The door inside is locked, and the word "demolition" is written on the door in red paint, and this place is about to be demolished.
After many twists and turns, I found Akiba's aunt, who was very surprised by my arrival:
"I didn't expect you to come back to our poor town, I haven't been back for a few years."
"It's been ten years, how is Ye?"
"She? Okay, but she often talks to you, and she always says, 'When will Xia Hua come back?' ’”
"Where is she now?"
"In the city, I'll write you the address, and you can find it." Ye's aunt wrote me the address of Ye Xin's home, and asked me to see if there was any chestnut crisp that Ye liked to sell in the ancient town.
The ancient town has long since lost its prosperity, and it is more quiet and desolate, and most of the people who live in the ancient town are people of the older generation, such as Ye's aunt. The chestnut crisp vendor is an old man in his sixties, and the chestnut crisp he makes is fragrant and sweet.
I held the hot chestnut cake in my arms, for fear that it would be cold when I saw Ye Shi, so I went to the city. I saw the leaves, but ......
I never thought the way we met would be so embarrassing, I didn't show up in your eyes, I hid in the corner. Because I don't have the courage to face you, Akiba, my leaf.
Sure enough, people's hearts are fickle, do you remember me? I don't think it's better, you already have another person to love you for me.
Yes, Ye has a boyfriend.
The boy would hug Akiba and say, "Baby, did you miss me?" ”
Akiba would lean into the boy's arms and snuggle, "Of course I miss you, I think about you every day, every hour, every minute, every second." ”
I've seen it with my own eyes, I'm such a coward, why don't I come back sooner? I even think that if I had come back sooner, maybe the person you loved would have been me.
Things are people, not everything, but the face I was most familiar with in the past is now so unfamiliar, you are so happy to laugh, because he came. You are very compatible, he is a handsome guy and it seems that he likes you very much, so I should leave you with peace of mind, Ye must be happy.
When I came to Ye's house, I saw Ye......
"Why didn't you come and tell me?" Ye's face was full of those helpless doting, Ye should like the one in front of him very much, right? I looked at them with a wry smile, and it all made me look out of place.
"I'm sorry, I want to surprise you, see what this is?" Ye took out a bag of hot chestnut crisp, which happened to be brought by me, but I didn't need to bring it anymore.
"You, you, why did you buy me this? Cold or not? It's winter. ”
"It's cold, so you're going to hug me." Ye's took the initiative to give Ye a big bear hug, and Ye obediently let him hold it.
I was sad and angry. I was so jealous that I threw the chestnut crisps I had bought all the way into the trash, but it didn't take long for me to feel sorry for myself.
This chestnut crisp should contain our happiness back then, not my annoyance and resentment. When I came back, I realized that I smiled and smiled.
People are changeable, you didn't feel sorry for me, it's just that we didn't know how to love at that time, and we were unscrupulous.
You're right? My dear leaves.
6. Relief.
"Why are you going to leave again, and finally come back for a while? Stay longer? "Ye's aunt didn't want me to leave so quickly, saying that she hadn't come back for more than ten years, at least she wanted to see the ancient town, so I chose to stay for a few more days." That's right! "Ye's aunt was very happy and let me stay at her house for the last few nights.
"Auntie, do you know this flower?"
"This ......" Ye's aunt looked at it for a long time, and said slowly: "Isn't this the flower that Qiu Ye gave you in the first place?" At that time, the old people in this town were still counting on the two of you to have a baby kiss! It's a pity, your mother wanted you to go to the city to study......"
Ye's aunt is very talkative, she still remembers the events of ten years ago very clearly, she always laughs unconsciously when she tells me these old things, and it can be seen that she loves this town very much and likes me, an ignorant bad boy.
"I don't know what it's called, but I know a lot about you and Akiba."
"At that time, the girl in Akiba always said, 'I like Xia Hua the most!' I'm afraid that others won't know that your name is Xia Hua, boy, you are getting more and more handsome now, you were a good person when you were a child. What does Tagore say: Tagore's life is as gorgeous as summer flowers, and death is as quiet and beautiful as autumn leaves. ”
Ye's aunt said very seriously, her eyes flashed with a light that she didn't have on weekdays, she was a lonely woman, and her uncle died when she was only 40 years old.
I smiled embarrassedly, "Auntie, this is all ignorant when I was a child." Ye's aunt handed me a piece of cake and said with a smile, "Did you bring the chestnut cake to Autumn Leaves?" You've been back from Akiba for so long, and you haven't mentioned her. Isn't it a twist? ”
"No, Ye She's fine, more beautiful than before."
"Alas......" Ye's aunt sighed, "What are you two called?" If you had come back earlier, it might have been different. ”
I didn't answer, silently eating my bread, remembering that when I ate bread with Ye, we were innocent and innocent at that time.
"Woo, Ye don't cry, give you bread to eat......" You stopped crying, hugged me with a smile and said: "I like Xia Hua the most, let's eat ...... together"
The ancient town has changed a lot, and even the name of the ancient town, Qingshi Town, is no longer known. It is said that the bluestone town is because there are a lot of bluestone slabs used for paving, so it is named, after I came back, I basically can't see the bluestone slabs, Ye's aunt told me that almost all the bluestone slabs in the town have been taken to build the foundation.
Even the stone slab bridge in the ancient town was heavily dusted, and I knew that Ye and the green love had turned into dust together...... Drifting into the wind, I can't find the way it first looks.
I returned to the Internet café, and Tian Xiaoxiao was asleep.
"Sister Xiaoxiao, it's time to get up." I wiped the hara left by Tian Xiaoxiao when she slept with paper, and it has always been Tian Xiaoxiao who has been by my side for so many years and grew up with me.
"Brother Muxing! You're back, it's so fragrant—you brought me the bread? Brother Muxing is so good. Tian Xiaoxiao smelled the smell and took out the chestnut crisp directly from the backpack behind me, and ate it without any food.
"Sister Xiaoxiao, you're up." I saw Tian Xiaoxiao finish eating and wanted to pull her up, but she didn't move.
"Lin Muxing, my brother Muxing, my leg is numb." Tian smiled and muttered, so cute.
"Then I'll carry you." I took off my backpack and put it on Tian Xiaoxiao's back, squatted on the ground and waited for Tian Xiaoxiao to come up on my back.
"Tian Xiaoxiao, you have eaten too much, just like a pig." I couldn't help but complain while carrying Tian Xiaoxiao, but he was so steady.
I went back to my mother, to the Lin Group, which I single-handedly run.
My mother asked me if I had seen Ye, and I said yes, Ye is fine, and I am relieved now. My mother gave me a look of convincing and hurried away to work, she was almost sixty years old and still liked to go out and work as a cleaner, and I told her not to go but couldn't resist her.
Looking at the back of his mother, a trace of pain and desolation welled up in his heart - his mother was old and hunched over.
Even though my mother forced me to commit suicide, all the hatred was gone in that moment.
Time is really an ignorant child, not only erases the beauty we have, but also erases the youth and vitality of the mother.
What I didn't expect was that when I came back, it was Ye Zhe who picked me up.
"I don't particularly want to pick you up, it's just that my second cousin doesn't have much time for that Micah." When Ye Zhe came to pick it up, he didn't say it was because other people didn't have time.
And at the end, it was Tian Xiaoxiao who grew up with me, watched me leave, watched me return to her, she didn't love me all the time, but she didn't leave half a step.
I asked her, "Sister Xiaoxiao, do you hate me very much?" It's because I lost my temper with you for some reason before. Tian Xiaoxiao was surprised that she never thought that I would say this, and immediately explained: "How can I hate you, if I hate you, I would have left a long time ago...... What kind of sister are you? ”
I hugged Tian Xiaoxiao in front of me, "Sister Xiaoxiao, are you willing to be my sister?" For a lifetime. Tian Xiaoxiao was very excited, her face turned red, and she said loudly, "Lin Muxing-I do-"
I looked at Tian Xiaoxiao's face similar to Ye, it was really similar, but this time I saw Tian Xiaoxiao, no, it was Tian Xiaoxiao all the time.
"Ahh Brother Muxing, where did this come from? Tian Xiaoxiao looked at the bag of dried flowers in my hand, and couldn't speak for a long time, maybe she knew about this flower, right?
"Brother Muxing, this flower is called ......"
Tian Xiaoxiao told me the name of the flower, I went to check and couldn't find the flower, so I didn't ask Tian Xiaoxiao again. It's all a flower scattered in the world but no one cares about it, and the next day I received a call from Ye.
People who were once so familiar are so strange. There was already an impermeable barrier between me and Ye, and we didn't know what to say, just a few polite greetings.
"Xia Hua, when you come back, why don't you look for me?"
"I wanted to go, but I just had something." I couldn't have answered her, I went to her, I saw her and other men. "Xia Hua must come next time."
"Yes......"
"Xia Hua, you have changed."
"Well, it's changed." Ye, you know what? We've all changed, it's just that we're all running away, running away from the fact that we're not brave and honest.
"Xia Hua, do you remember the flower I once picked for you?"
"Hmm...... I remember. ”
"I heard that your name is Lin Muxing now, isn't it? Xia Hua, you changed your name, right? ”
"yes, I've been changing it for years......"
You also said that you really liked me when you were a child, but it was just when you were a child, and the Yiren no longer have the same obsession and affection as before. When you asked me the name of the flower, I was silent. I know the name of the flower, but I don't tell you.
The flower is called summer chrysanthemum, and the flower language is - separation, parting.
I approached the dried flower that I had carefully preserved, and the fragrance of the flower had faded considerably, just like my thin affection for you.
"Autumn leaves, I still have something to do, hang up first." I hung up the phone in a hurry, and the leaves had already been left with me, and all that was left to me was the autumn leaves.
I already know the name of the flower, but it's a little late...... Probably only the flower knows...... It turns out that flowers also cry - I'm sorry, I used to love you very much, but I loved you too late, and the flowers you gave me passed their expiration date.