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The flower seller said: "Yes, sir, you really know the goods, and you know that the jade lotus in March is the most beautiful." As he spoke, he picked out a bunch of white and pink jade lotus flowers from a pile of colorful spring flowers.

Teng Zhongqian gave the money and got back into the car with a large bouquet of flowers.

The taxi driver looked in the rearview mirror and said with a smile: "Sir, are you going to see your lover today?" ”

Teng Zhongqian was stunned for a moment, and the shyness on his face, which seemed to be a young man's first time in love, was instantly cleaned up, and he quickly returned to his usual gentle appearance: "Go and meet a friend from your youth." ”

The driver smiled and didn't ask any more.

is just such a sentence, but it pulls the teacher Teng, who is in a parallel time and space, holding flowers to see his lover, back to the real world.

Teng Zhongqian looked at the scenery speeding by outside the car window and was stunned, but the scene that flashed in front of him was the time when he and Li Miaolian were there.

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The car drove to the community near Mingtan Park, Teng Zhongqian got off at the gate and walked to an apartment building in the north of the community.

He stopped outside the iron gate and pressed the door number of the unit on the tenth floor.

The old access control system made a "didi" sound, and soon, someone connected.

Teng Zhongqian's heart lifted.

"Hello, who?" The other party asked.

When he heard it, it wasn't Li Miaolian's voice, and his heart went down again: "Hello, I'm looking for Lawyer Tang's mother." ”

The other party paused and asked, "Who are you?" ”

Teng Zhongqian cleared his throat and clenched the bouquet in his hand: "I'm Teacher Teng." ”

"Wait a minute." The access phone is hung up.

Teng Zhongqian's heart came up again, and he was as nervous as the hairy young man wanted to see his first love.

After a while, the curfew was lifted, and with a "click", the iron door opened.

Teng Zhongqian walked in with a bouquet of flowers, pressed the elevator, and went up to the tenth floor.

Standing in the elevator, he had been swallowing his throat to relieve his tension, thinking that when he saw Li Miaolian for a while, he would at least stabilize his emotions and explain things clearly first.

He came today for the matter of Tang Xien's change of surname and entry into the family tree. But the more he reminded himself, the faster his heart beats.

The elevator soon reached the tenth floor, the door opened, he walked out with a jade lotus flower, stopped outside the door of a certain unit, and carefully observed the environment in which Li Miaolian lived.

The brown stainless steel security door and the floor at the door are scrubbed clean, and the spring couplets attached to the door are neat and intact.

He rang the doorbell, and soon someone came to open the door, it was a middle-aged aunt about fifty years old, who should be the live-in caretaker Tang Xien said.

After the other party opened the door, he said enthusiastically: "Hello Mr. Teng, please come in." ”

It's just such enthusiasm, after opening the door, after seeing the bouquet of jade lotus flowers in his hand, the expression on his face was sluggish.

Teng Zhongqian didn't bother with the caretaker's gaze, changed into a passenger tow, and went in generously with a bouquet of flowers.

Aunt Wang closed the door, followed, and said with a smile: "Sister Li is not in good health, the doctor told her to rest in bed, I will take you to her." With that, he walked to the room behind the living room.

While Teng Zhongqian followed the past, he was also looking at the house carefully. The design of the house is unique everywhere, and it should be designed by Fu Shiyu.

He stood at the door of the room and heard the nurse in the room announce: "Sister Li, Teacher Teng is here, let him in now?" ”

"Let him in." Hearing this familiar voice, which turned a thousand times in a dream, Teng Zhongqian's hands couldn't stop trembling.

So much so that Aunt Wang let him in, but he was still out of state.

Aunt Wang shouted again, and he came back to his senses, picked up the bouquet in his hand, and entered the room.

The room was large and tidy, with floor-to-ceiling glass on all sides. At this point, the curtains are all opened, and the warm spring sunlight shines on the dark wooden floors and white carpet inside.

In one corner of the room, in the middle of a pair of leather bucket chairs, is a small dark wooden round table, on which is placed a small transparent vase, in which are inserted several white and pink jade lotus flowers.

Teng Zhongqian's eyes moved to the side, and in the center of the room was a dark coffee-colored log bed of about 1.8 meters, the quilt on the bed was beige, and the sunlight outside the floor-to-ceiling window shone very warmly.

Teng Zhongqian looked at the woman sitting on the bed.

She had neat shoulder-length black hair with slightly enclosed ends; Her skin was fair and full, but on closer inspection, it was a pale, sickly white; Her lips were also a little pale; Her delicate nose is still straight and delicate, and her eyes, black and white, are still clear.

Teng Zhongqian's pupils shrank for a moment, and his gaze quickly returned to her whole body from Li Miaolian's face. She wears a pink-purple fitted cardigan with green and yellow knitted flowers at the neckline. She still looks slender and hasn't lost shape since she gave birth to three children.

She seems to be still the little Miaolian who called him "Teacher Tang" back then.

Teng Zhongqian's eyes were red, and he walked up to Li Miaolian with heavy steps, held the jade lotus in front of her, choked his throat, and said, "Miaolian, this is your favorite flower." ”

Li Miaolian also had red eyes, took the bouquet, put it on her lap, picked out the most beautiful ones from it, and handed them to Teng Zhongqian: "Teacher Tang, please help me insert it into the vase." ”

Teng Zhongqian watched her pick the jade lotus, and at the same time saw her rough and swollen hands.

He burst into tears instantly, knelt in front of Li Miaolian with a puff, grabbed her hands against his forehead, and couldn't cry.

On the contrary, Li Miaolian, who cried when she talked about Teng Zhongqian in the past, is unexpectedly calm today.

She looked at Teng Zhongqian, who was kneeling in front of her and crying bitterly, and after a long time, she said in her usual gentle and gentle voice: "Teacher Tang, I'm fine, don't cry." ”

Her hands were at least twice as thick as they used to be, how could it be good? But for Teng Zhongqian, she always reports good news but not bad news.

How could Teng Zhongqian not understand, just because he understood, so he was in pain. These pains come from anger at the incompetence of youth.

"Teacher Tang, how are you doing?" Li Miaolian asked him.

He finally stopped crying, let go of Li Miaolian's hand, picked up the jade lotus that Li Miaolian had just picked out, turned around, and inserted the flower into the vase.

There happened to be tissues on the table, he took out two, turned his back to Li Miaolian, gently wiped the tears under his eyes, and when he turned around, his usual gentle smile was already on his face.

He sat down on the chair opposite Li Miaolian, looked at Li Miaolian sitting on the bed with clear eyes, and said with a smile: "I'm fine, my work is very stable, and my life is not hard." Miaolian, what about you? ”

When he asked this last sentence, the smile on his face could not be contained, and the corners of his lips twitched slightly, which was a muscular expression that tried to control the urge to tears.