Chapter 20 The Rainstorm is Coming
The iron-blue sky was crushed by the clouds, and it tilted overwhelmingly towards the world; The dead leaves of the lost season fall slowly on the muddy road like weightless rain, like a creeping corpse for thousands of years; The bell that seeped into the soul was the murmur of the dead, slowly coming from the colorless forest, guiding An Zeru.
It's this dream again.
Anzeru trampled on the thick fallen leaves and followed the bells through one intersection after another. There were always people who came to ask her for directions, and those people lowered their heads, and An Zeru couldn't see their faces clearly, but felt that their voices were very lonely.
"I'm sorry, you can't come with me."
After the rejection, the people did not continue to entangle, they bent over and groped for other places, as if only An Zeru could hear the bell.
The bell became clearer and clearer, and An Zeru quickened her pace, she was afraid that her sister would not wait for her anymore if she was late. There were fewer and fewer pedestrians around, and they were all afraid of the direction An Zeru was going.
Through a cold, biting fog, the bell came to an abrupt halt, and the sky turned an ominous scarlet.
Anzeru walked on a waterlogged stone path flanked by high bush walls. In the distance, in front of the castle, grew a huge ginkgo tree, which looked like a dead monster, its thick roots protruding from the ground. At the base of the tree sat a beautiful girl, with one foot on the root of the tree, and the other foot hanging lightly, rippling on the water. The girl hummed a soft ballad and gracefully applied nail polish to her fair toes.
"Sister?" An Zeru called her from afar.
Jin Youna stopped what she was doing and looked at An Zeru with a smile. An Zeru likes Kim Yoona's eyes very much, her eyes seem to contain the whole world; Sometimes you look into Kim Yoo-na's eyes and feel that there is a bottomless indifference and sadness hidden there, and sometimes you feel that it is obviously pure, obviously incomparably clean.
An Zeru expressed her love for her eyes to Jin Youna many times, and told her a story that An Zeru saw from a book called "Xinghai Poet".
In the story, a poet who travels from Xinghai City to Luoluohai falls in love with the daughter of a Luoluohai fisherman. They fell in love and had a lively wedding with the blessing of the girl's parents. One day, the poet took the girl back to Xinghai City with a caravan from Luoluohai, and met robbers on the way. The poet and the girl fled into the forest, and in order to save the girl, the poet alone led away the robbers who were chasing her. Later, the poet was stripped naked, and the robbers took advantage of the night to leave him in the town. When the girl went to identify the body, she immediately recognized him, for he had clutched the wedding ring in his hand, embedded in the flesh of his palm.
"He came on this day, and the sun and the breeze were his taste; He said that I have the stars and the sea in my eyes, and I can see the whole world by gazing at my eyes; He died on this day, and promise and future were embedded in his flesh and blood; Later, I cried blind and let the stars and the sea accompany him into the earth. This is a monologue that the girl wrote for the poet.
At that time, after listening to this story, Kim Yoo Na just smiled and said, "I don't have a story like that, if you like my eyes, then keep reading." ”
"Sister, I thought I'd never see you again." Anzeru also sat down at the root of the tree.
"I'm sorry Xiao An, I can't get in the place you stayed before, please forgive me." Kim Yoo Na speaks Korean, but Ahn Taek-ru understands what she means.
"I understand," An Zeru was a little disappointed, "but sister, I really can't bear you." ”
"Xiao An," Kim Yoo Na Wan'er, "there are some things we have to do, remember?" ”
"Isn't it good for my sister to run away with me?"
"My sister has nowhere to escape, and even this place may be discovered by him."
An Zeru hugged Jin Youna's waist and buried her face in her arms: "Uncle can kill him, can I tell Uncle everything?" ”
"We are all lowly mortals, hiding from the gods who are looking for us, and your uncle is no exception," Jin Youna looked into An Zeru's eyes, "If someone else knows about this and makes a move, he will definitely find out, and no one will be able to fight him." ”
"That ······"
Jin Youna gently pushed An Zeru away from her arms and held her face with both hands: "Xiao An, this is the last time we meet here, I am here to remind you that there is a cruise ship about to leave for China, and the things on the cruise ship are very dangerous, you have to find a way to come to me as soon as possible, remember?" ”
"Remembered."
"I'm sorry, Xiao An, I have no other choice, this matter can only be done by you, I'm sorry." Kim Yoo-na's face became more and more blurred, and her voice became farther and farther away, "Sister! An Zeru wanted to hug her, but she was in vain.
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I don't know how long it took, An Zeru woke up crying, and the pillow was soaked with her tears. She seemed to have had a very sad dream, and she could only vaguely recall what her sister said. She lay on the soft bed, and the quilt that had covered her body fell under the bed.
An Zeru fell asleep on the way back last night, and I don't know how I got here. She felt a little cold, presumably because the air conditioner was turned on, and she kicked off the quilt again. She shuddered, rolled over and tried to pull up the quilt under the bed, but the moment she turned, the paintings on the wall hit her mind.
The goldfish Hime floating in the air looks affectionately at the little human boy Sousuke; Lilliputia's Arieti stands on a fence stake and waits for Sho to return from surgery; The freed white dragon carries Chihiro Ogino full of joy; Seiji Amazawa, who is holding a bicycle, and Wen Tsukishima, who is holding a book, are strolling on the asphalt road······
An Zeru jumped out of bed, ran to the wall quickly, and gently stroked these paintings, they were actually signed by Hayao Miyazaki! An Zeru grinned stupidly, tears in her eyes again, her tears never seemed to break these days. It turns out that there are really people who care about her so much, and will silently find a way to achieve it for her words.
What she didn't know was how many flights had been sent from all over the world last night to Shixia City. Those combat commissioners who were usually decisive in killing and fighting were crazy after receiving orders from the command center, carrying a lot of cash to search for these lottery drawings. What she didn't know was that these would be her fondest memories for the days to come.
An Zeru picked up a note placed on the table, which read "For children" in the words of Dragon Flying and Phoenix Dance. ”
"Thank you."
There is also a box under the note, and in the box is a letter, and next to the letter lies a Huawei P30. She quickly opened the letter and poured out a folded letter paper, a green bank card and a white magnetic card.
"Dear Ms. Anzejou,
We are pleased to inform you that you have been entered into the Treehouse Group Business Unit Intern Profile.
We have opened a salary card and an identity card for you, which is your access to Treehouse Group, please keep it safe. The included mobile phone is installed with the 'Treehouse Group' internal APP, please log in and verify your account later, and the corresponding permissions will be opened for you.
Thank you for choosing Treehouse Group and we are always looking forward to having you join us.
——Personnel Department of Treehouse Group. ”
"Uh······ The power is out. ”
An Zeru wanted to see the so-called APP, but she didn't expect the battery to be low as soon as she turned it on, so she had to put the phone on the table to charge it for a while.
Since entering Tanton Psychiatric Hospital, her mobile phone has been confiscated by the director, and she usually wants to call home, she has to ask the nurse sister to borrow it, but her ruthless parents will add the number to the blacklist every time. After everyone's numbers in the hospital were blocked by her parents, she could only keep hearing "I'm sorry, the number you dialed was empty".
The strong sunlight shines through the white curtains of the balcony, illuminating An Zeru's room, and it looks like it is already noon.
An Zeru opened the glass door of the balcony, her room was on the second floor.
It turned out that this villa was the only building in the vicinity, surrounded by endless fields and clean asphalt roads leading to a small forest in the distance. The rice in the fields is yellow and green, and the scorching sun bakes the surface, and the rich aroma of rice comes to the face. An Zeru took a deep breath, then leaned on the guardrail to scream.
But as soon as she looked down, she saw two people standing in the small pond below, bent over and staring at the water—it was Pete and Lu Yulin. Lu Yulin was obediently holding a bamboo basket, and Pete was holding a sharpened branch in his hand.
"What are you doing?" An Zeru asked curiously.
"Catch fish." Lu Yulin raised his head and looked at An Zeru, who leaned his upper body out of the railing.
"Don't talk, the fish are gone." Pete lowered his voice and stared intently at the water. I saw him hold the branch and gather momentum backwards, and then swing it vigorously, and the branch pierced the water like an arrow from a string. Pete eagerly picked up the branch, and a red and white koi was pierced on the branch, constantly flapping its long tail.
"How many?" Pete proudly threw the fish into the bamboo basket that Lu Yulin was holding.
"Three of a kind." Lu Yulin said.
"Alright, that's enough." Pete threw the branch far into the field, and then walked to the edge of the pond and sat down with Lu Yulin. The pond is surrounded by large stones of various shapes, and between the cracks of the stones there are small trees with beautiful shapes.
"What are you catching fish for?" An Zeru asked.
"You can't even order takeout here, you can't wake up when you sleep like a pig, and our latest ingredients are only fish," Pete put his feet into the pond and tossed up and down to wash off the attached mud, "These are fish raised by Master You, you two must not tell him, he can't see a few less anyway." ”
"He still has this leisure?" Anzeru was a little incredulous.
"But no, his biggest dream is to be a simple old farmer after retirement, and he also said that after he retires, we people will all get far away, and we are not allowed to disturb him," Pete took the bamboo basket in Lu Yulin's hand and shook it, "If he retires, half of the sky in the tree house will collapse, so there will be no day, he will come to live once after this villa is repaired, and the dream of the lonely old man is always difficult to realize." ”
"Does the commander-in-chief have no children?" Lu Yulin asked.
"Yes, yes, both children and daughters, they are all very powerful people," Pete put down the bamboo basket, "but I died many years ago, and You Ye said that I looked like his son, so he kicked me mercilessly." ”
"I'm sorry." Lu Yulin realized that he had asked something he shouldn't have asked.
"It's okay, don't mention it in front of him, do you want to eat grilled or boiled?"