Zhou Minggao has only one birthday wish.

When he heard Shen Yuan's mobile phone prompt and opened his eyes, he had actually made a wish, but when Shen Yuanyuan asked him to "concentrate on making a wish" again, he still closed his eyes again cooperatively, and repeated it again in his heart: I hope that I am safe and happy.

The next day is Sunday. Shen Yuanyuan wanted to take Zhou Minggao to see her mother together, but Zhou Minggao said, "You haven't seen each other for so long, and you have a lot to say, so I'd better not go first." He said, "I'll send you there, and then call me when you want to come back, and I'll pick you up." ”

Shen Yuanyuan agreed. "Well, that's fine. We can go get some food after you pick me up, and I'm going to have that mango smoothie. ”

"It's all season, and I'm still thinking about eating ice."

Shen Yuan smiled and said coquettishly, "I'm going back to school soon, you still haven't fulfilled my little wish?" ”

"Good, good, eat." Zhou Minggao couldn't help her, "Let's go, send you to your mother." ”

He Wenli's place is actually very close to Shen Yuanyuan, and it takes 30 minutes to get there by bus. After sending Shen Yuanyuan to the downstairs of He Wenli's community, Zhou Minggao left.

Shen Yuanyuan sent a WeChat message to her mother saying that she had arrived, and then entered the elevator and waited for her mother to press the elevator upstairs.

It was obviously a meeting with the closest person, but Shen Yuanyuan felt uneasy. She hadn't seen her mother for a long time, and she was still resentful of her, but when she heard Zhou Minggao say that she was not doing well, how could she not be soft-hearted? In fact, she also knows that her mother still has her in her heart, for example, her mother told her before that she chose to buy a house in the current community, just to be closer to her.

Since you have her in your heart, why don't you be nicer to her. It's something she hasn't figured out yet.

After getting off the elevator, she saw her mother waiting for her with the door open. She walked over, not knowing what to say for a moment. Mom is old, this is the first thought that comes to Shen Yuan's mind. She has a lot of gray hair, and her face is not as good as before.

It was the mother who said first, "Why is my daughter so thin." Then he beckoned her to come into the house. Obviously, He Wenli didn't know how to get along with Shen Yuanyuan, her demeanor when she greeted Shen Yuanyuan into the house was as warm and unnatural as entertaining distant relatives who had not seen her for a long time, Shen Yuanyuan didn't say anything, changed into slippers and entered the house.

This is the first time Shen Yuanyuan has come to He Wenli's current residence. She thought her mother was doing well—at least financially. The rumors outside all said that He Wenli was with the current man for money, although Shen Yuanyuan didn't want to listen to this, but after a long time, he also believed it a little. But now it seems that this residence is old and small, and the conditions are far less good than Shen Yuan's family.

As soon as Shen Yuanyuan sat down on the sofa, He Wenli asked her if she wanted to drink Coke. I wanted to answer if I wanted to drink it, but He Wenli said, "Thinking that you like to drink, I specially prepared it yesterday." Shen Yuanyu couldn't bear to refuse, and said, "Drink." ”

"Aren't my uncle and brother at home?" Shen Yuanyuan asked this because she saw the bedroom door closed, and she was worried that she would see those two people, causing some unnecessary embarrassment. Fortunately, He Wenli's answer reassured her, He Wenli said, "It's not here, the child went to his grandmother's house, and your uncle is not here." ”

Then, the mother and daughter asked each other about the current situation without saying a word, and talked about some daily life that they had never talked about on the phone. Shen Yuanyuan has thought about how she will get along with her mother many times in the future, but it doesn't seem to be the way it is now. She thought that there would only be two extremes in their relationship, either they would never get along with each other, or they would be intimate and be family members. But it turned out that they would only sit together politely and distantly to talk as they do now.

When I was young, I only had to say "we reconcile" to anyone, but when I grew up, there seemed to be no such thing as reconciliation. People don't touch the knot in their own and other people's hearts, and then over the years, after smoothing the knot into something that has little impact on their lives, they reconnect with the person who gave them the knot. But the relationship between the two can never go back to the beginning, not to mention other relationships, even mothers and daughters like He Wenli and Shen Yuanyuan.

They tacitly agree not to talk about the past, but only about the current situation, because in this way, they don't need to face the things they don't want to face.

After a while, there was a sudden sound of a key opening the door. He Wenli's face changed suddenly, she drove Shen Yuanxuan to the bedroom, and said to her, "Lock the door, don't come out no matter what sound you hear." ”

Shen Yuan stood in the bedroom blankly, and as soon as the door outside opened, she could smell a lot of wine in the bedroom. Then she heard the man's voice cursing in a hoarse voice. suddenly remembered what Zhou Minggao said about her mother being subjected to domestic violence, and Shen Yuan's mind was hot and she wanted to go out to protect her mother, but she immediately reacted that it was useless to do so.

She tried to call Zhou Minggao, but the signal in this bedroom was very poor, and her phone couldn't be dialed, so she tried several times, but there was still no response. The voice outside the door had gradually changed from scolding to the sound of He Wenli being beaten, Shen Yuan was anxious, and dialed the police with an emergency call. After clearly reporting the address to the police, she tried to dial Zhou Minggao's number again, but failed.

Before she could figure out what to do next, He Wenli suddenly shouted, "Call the police!" Shen Yuanyuan was taken aback. The man's attention obviously shifted from He Wenli to this bedroom, and Shen Yuan hurriedly looked around for something that could defend himself, but found nothing.

The bedroom door was old, and the man only kicked it open a few times. Shen Yuanxuan had already deleted the alarm record on his phone a few seconds before he broke into the door, and threw the phone far away. When the man slammed the door open, she tried to calm her emotions and raised her hands to shout at him: I didn't call the police, I won't call the police.

Then it's enough to wait until the police come. Shen Yuanxuan thought so, and stood in place without moving. She saw that the man had a knife in his hand, and the blood on the knife was dripping to the ground, and thinking that it was all her mother's blood, Shen Yuan was both shocked and distressed. The man was drunk and not very sober, and when he saw Shen Xuanxuan saying this, he seemed to feel that there was no threat, so he returned to the living room to find He Wenli in a menacing manner. Seeing that her mother was about to be hurt again, Shen Yuanxuan couldn't calm down anymore, she rushed out of the house, and while her mother bit the man's arm, she picked up the knife that fell on the ground and threw it in the opposite direction for several meters. The man was so angry that he turned around and pressed her to the ground and grabbed her by the neck.

He Wenli had already crawled out a few meters at this time, she took the knife that was thrown away by Shen Yuan, and stood behind the man. Shen Xuan gradually began to suffocate, and his vision gradually blurred. She couldn't make any sound, and could only pray in her head that her mother would save her.

But He Wenli's knife didn't cut at the man in the end, she just screamed like crazy, and then threw away the knife and ran out of the house, shouting in the corridor - help, help.

Before his consciousness was completely withdrawn, Shen Yuanyu saw the dream again.

She saw Zhou Minggao standing in front of her, and said to her repeatedly, "Woo, you believe me, I really came back to you from the future." She looked down and saw that she was wearing a high school uniform, while Zhou Minggao was wearing ordinary clothes. This time, she saw Zhou Minggao's face clearly, and even saw his yellow hair dyed very much that killed Matt at some point.

She smiled. Laughing and laughing, the picture shattered, and she also fell into the boundless darkness.

On the other side, Zhou Minggao didn't receive Shen Yuanyuan's news for a long time, and thought that she had a good chat with her mother, so she forgot the time. But when he sent several messages to ask when she was going to leave and still hadn't received a reply, he panicked. Without much hesitation, he put on his coat and went out.

When he arrived at He Wenli's community, Zhou Minggao saw a police car parked here. The parking position of the car was directly opposite the building where He Wenli lived, Zhou Minggao felt that his brain was blank for a moment, he rushed into the corridor but couldn't wait for the elevator, so he ran up the stairs.

He remembered that Shen Yuanyuan said that He Wenli's home was on the twenty-sixth floor.

He ran up like this, a full twenty-six floors, and he didn't stop once.

When he reached the twenty-sixth floor, he pushed open the door of the stairwell, and what greeted him was a cordon set up by the police. At this time, a police officer came out, and he wanted to ask, but he couldn't say a word. The officer also seemed to see that something was wrong with him and came over to ask who he was.

The exhaustion of running twenty-six floors in a row came up at this moment, Zhou Minggao squatted on the ground and asked tremblingly, "What's wrong?" ”

"You're the son of this family?"

"Shen Xuan." Mr. Zhou did not answer the officer's questions. His brain was still blank, and only the name of Shen Yuanyuan was left in his mind, and the only thing that could say the voice was these three words.

"Who are you Miss Shen?"

"Family." Zhou Minggao said, "I am her family. ”

The officer was silent, and when Zhou Minggao raised his head again, he met the officer's sympathetic eyes.

When he opened his eyes again in the hospital, Zhou Minggao moved his numb arm and found that he was receiving an infusion. When he saw the nurse enter the ward, he quickly sat up and asked the nurse, "What time is it?" ”

"Eight o'clock in the evening."

"I said years, months, and days."

The nurse was asked a little inexplicably, but replied anyway, "October 13, 2019." ”

Zhou Minggao seemed to have been drained of his strength all of a sudden, he stopped talking and lay back silently.

The correct time and date showed that he did not travel back in time again because of Shen Yuan's departure. After learning of Shen Yuanyuan's death, Zhou Minggao fainted, and he thought that if he opened his eyes again, he would be in a certain year and month when Shen Yuanyuan was still alive.

It's a dream. He laughed at himself in his heart, and unconsciously touched the cigarette in his pocket, but thought that it was in the hospital, so he gave up.

The person who killed Shen Yuanyuan is very clear - it is He Wenli's current husband, and he has now been taken away by the police. Zhou Minggao hated very much, not only hated that person, but also hated He Wenli, and hated himself.

He hated why he went to see He Wenli, and hated why he didn't accompany her.

Why didn't you keep her again.

Zhou Minggao opened a folder on his phone. The folder creation date is the end of February of this year. These were some of the things he had written down when he had just crossed over, and he hadn't opened this folder since he met Shen Yuan again.

He sighed and clicked on the first document in the folder. Because it's something that I'm just writing down to myself, the title of the document is very simple, it's called: I guess the way of travel.