【Wedges】

The sea and the sky were connected in a vast blue, and a large pile of lead clouds pressed down on the handover line, and the black Mercedes van stopped in front of the intersection of the bay and waited for the traffic light.

I looked at the bay through the car window, and after looking at it for a long time, the distant sea seemed to reveal a little red, like a ball of silk poppies blooming on a silk veil.

I thought again of the explosion that shook Shanghai and Nanjing eight years ago.

Rubbing my eyebrows, I thought, I should be glad that the mistake I made fifteen years ago can finally be remedied.

I habitually opened the tablet to watch the news, slid down one by one, and a piece of news popped up again and again, I clicked on it, and couldn't help but read: "Huguang giant Zhan Yuche announced his marriage, and middle school teacher Zhi Yiwen married a rich man." Zhi Yiwen, Zhi ......"

Assistant Cheng was driving in the driver's seat, and he smiled: "It turns out that Miss Jiang also cares about these entertainments. ”

I have been in the TV station for so many years, and I am known for my rigor and dedication, otherwise I would not have the opportunity to interview the legend of Shanghai-Nanjing Province - Mrs. Yi Shao, so I understand the joke of the assistant.

I also laughed and said, "The surname Zhi is not common. ”

The van started again, passing through the outer circle of security posts, and the scenery outside the car window changed to a shady pine and cypress, and the camera faintly visible in the jungle glowed with a miserable white sky.

Along the asphalt road, the car drove up the mountainside, a European-style seaside villa stands in the mountains and rivers around, the security under the mountain is excellent, the black lacquer and gold carved door in front of the villa is wide open, the assistant Cheng drove the car in, but did not get out of the car, he said to me: "I still have to go to take it, Miss Jiang can go to see the young lady by herself?" ”

I knew that he was talking about Yi Shouzhi, the young master of the Yi family, so I nodded and got out of the car.

After Assistant Cheng drove the car away, I looked around, and next to the villa were clusters of Xiangfei bamboos, dotted with each other.

At this moment, a woman dressed in a royal blue batik cheongsam walked out of the bamboo forest with bamboo leaves, a pure white cashmere shawl decorated with tassel white crystals on her shoulders, and a bamboo basket full of bright red strawberries on her arms.

I called, "Mrs. Yi." ”

Mrs. Yi Shao frequently appeared on the cover of "Fengyun" magazine, I don't know why, in front of the public, she is always in traditional attire, indescribably beautiful and elegant, and it is always difficult to compare with the sharp daughter-in-law of the Yi Group in the stock market mall.

She bowed her head in return.

I followed her into the villa, facing the floor-to-ceiling windows with two rolls of bamboo curtains, she advanced to the kitchen to light a fire and boiled strawberry milk tea, and then we started the interview in the living room, the shooting a few days ago has been completed, this interview is also very smooth, after the interview is completed, Mrs. Yi Shao left me to drink tea and chat.

After saying a few words painlessly, Mrs. Yi Shao asked me, "Miss Jiang is from Rongcheng?" ”

I said calmly: "Yes, I also graduated from Rongcheng No. 1 Middle School. ”

She asked, "Top student in the college entrance examination?" ”

I smiled lightly and said: "I know I can't hide anything from you, I was also for a person, he followed someone else to Huzhou, I chased after me, and I also wanted to enter Yi's work when I graduated early, but it was also because I met him and you again, I didn't even play well in the interview, and then I entered the TV station." ”

She tilted her head to look at me, but said, "I can't remember." ”

I took out a three-inch square black velvet box from my bag, put it on the coffee table and said, "When I was in school, we didn't have contact, but after you left, I saw him like that - I've only seen him twice in my life, so I secretly left it in anger after that, I didn't expect that it would be fifteen years, and I want to say sorry to you if I have the opportunity today." I took it and appraised it, and this white crystal is a fine treasure. ”

She trembled and reached out to open the velvet box on the coffee table, the white crystal wrapped in black velvet shone brightly, and was also tied by a bright red silk thread as a pendant, which reflected the bright light on her ring finger.

The Xiangfei curtain on the floor-to-ceiling window was rolled up high, but the sea was treacherous, it was a cloudy day, she looked out the window and said in a trance: "This story, in fact, should be told by me." ”

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The night in the early morning was dark, and under the dim street lamps of Qingrong Road, even the banyan trees planted on the side of the road began to freeze and curl up their leaves, mottled and mottled, as if there was a layer of frost, and only a few miles away from the largest and most prosperous resort in Shanghai-Nanjing Province and the Golden Grotto, Gentle Bay, was suddenly as far away as another world.

Zhi Siyu only wore a ginger-colored half-sleeved sweater, because the coat he brought from home three years ago was really unbearable, with a salary of two thousand and one, Siyu was not beautiful enough to drink, basically no tip, he had to send six hundred yuan home every month, and he had to pay his salary for four days, and he had to pay four hundred yuan in rent five days later, and he only had two hundred and fifty yuan left this month, so a slightly better down jacket was a luxury for Siyu, even in the early morning of late autumn, Siyu could only reluctantly shrink his neck.

Siyu pressed the button on the side of the phone, and the phone was still black, sure enough, it was the old mobile phone three years ago, Siyu thought, three years ago, he was admitted to the first middle school in Rongcheng City, and his mother Zou Ziying was so happy that she asked her stepfather Zhi Zhiyuan to buy the latest mobile phone, and used Zhi Zhiyuan's meager salary to buy a new mobile phone.

Siyu was a little frustrated, unconsciously, a big banyan tree that flourished in late autumn has come into view, this banyan tree is said to be decades old, so tall and reassuring, the rental area in the northwest of Gentle Bay has also got a name of "Qingrong Road", the branches and leaves that are oblique next to it overlap and overlap, and the thin halo shuttles between the branches and leaves, and it falls on the road but it is only a shadow, dark, and nothing can be seen clearly.

Next to the banyan tree, there is a black alley, there are only two tenants in the alley, Siyu and the left-behind grandfather, but Siyu has never been robbed on Qingrong Road, probably because this place is too poor, and there are either working girls like Siyu or empty nesters left behind.

Siyu came out and mixed for three years, and the only time she was robbed was when she was on a night shift, her sister Jiajia, who was in charge of the private room "Night", suddenly had acute gastroenteritis, and the supervisor Sister Li told her to go up, and she had to sacrifice her life to accompany the gentleman to get a tip of 200 yuan, and then she naturally vomited. After calming down in the toilet for a few hours, she couldn't stand it anymore, so she wanted to eat a bite of soft strawberry egg tart, so she went to the night market in the south, and when she arrived at the cake shop, the strawberry egg tart had already been sold out. So, with this experience, when she was about to enter the alley, she was really startled when she heard the whispering of the man under the banyan tree.

"Translation ......"

The man's voice was low, as hoarse as the sea breeze blowing through the leaves of a palm tree.

But Siyu immediately calmed down, turned around again, and looked at it, it turned out that there was a person under the banyan tree, sitting against the root of the banyan tree, and it seemed that he was still tilting his head, as the saying goes, curiosity kills people, and the road is uneven and detours, in fact, Siyu has already eaten a trench three years ago, but she is still too young, so she walked to the person under the tree.

"Hello? hello？ ”

Siyu screamed twice, but the man didn't answer, so she simply walked up to the man, but she smelled a faint smell of wine, she leaned down and patted the man's face, but the man's head was tilted to the other side, and the shallow halo of the street lamp finally fell on his face, it turned out that he was already drunk and asleep.

Although Siyu is not a nymphomaniac, I have to admit that it is a very good-looking face.

The man was only about twenty-five years old, the broken hair on his forehead fell at the center of his eyebrows, and his brows were slightly frowned, his narrow red phoenix eyes and seemingly nonexistent lying silkworms, with a slight black mole at the corner of his right eye, the gloom between his eyebrows and eyes was like a fog over the cold water, and above his thin lips was a high nose bridge, like a mountain ridge. At this time, he pursed his lips and closed his eyes, which made Siyu think of the boundless sea in the dark night outside the gentle bay, like deep silk, and the endless waves were silver embroidered lace on the silk, modest and calm, and unfathomable.

I'm sure I've seen this face somewhere.

Siyu looked at this face carefully, thinking to herself, but she is so big and there are so many people around her, even in her low-level box, there will be no person with such a temperament.

But Siyu soon realized a problem she was facing, she glanced at this person, the pure black suit on his body didn't look cheap, and it was more exposed, it was too unsafe to sleep on the side of the road after all, but if you want to be a good person, it is not to send him to the hotel, maybe you have to take a beat, the recent hotel room rate is less than one hundred and five and at least thirty ......

After some struggle, Siyu decided to take him back to his 35-square-meter rental house.

Anyway, it looked familiar, and saving someone's life was better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter, so Siyu helped the person up. Fortunately, he is not heavy, so Siyu can help him around the bottles and cans in the alley, because the grandmother of the tenant will pick up waste to supplement the family, and Siyu has had a few serious illnesses when he first came, and the old man takes care of Siyu as a girl, and Siyu is not easy to say.

The light on the opposite door had been extinguished, and Siyu easily turned on the door and the light, and helped the man to his one-meter-two iron bed with a light pink plain sheet, and the man slept so deeply that he was unconscious.

After such a toss, Siyu lost his sleepiness, thought about it and decided to be a good person to the end, and turned on the only expensive electrical appliance in the house - a rice cooker, made some white porridge, and he could eat it when he got up tomorrow morning, and Siyu himself went to the public bathroom of the two houses at the end of the alley to wash up briefly, and then sat down at the desk in front of the window.

There are more than a dozen books neatly placed on the desk, all of which Siyu bought for herself in the past three years, and there are colorful notes on them, all of which she marked, flipped through them, and then glanced at the person on the bed, fortunately, although he was drunk, but the wine was good, and he was not drunk at all, and then Siyu lay on the desk, and glanced at the calendar hanging on the door next to the desk, it turned out that today was October 23rd, where a circle was drawn with a red pen, and the words "seventeenth birthday" were written, and then she read "Capital" in a daze, But he felt that the white woven lamp on his head was getting more and more dazzling, his eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and the colorful markings were dangling in front of him, and finally, Siyu fell asleep on the desk.

Siyu didn't sleep deeply, but she dreamed that three years ago, also on October 23, she was still in school, and her mother and father would give themselves a little more money in advance, so that they could buy strawberry cake, a small piece of the kind, the school was acquired by the Lin Group, one of the two leading companies in Shanghai and Nanjing, and the canteen was replaced by a better contractor, and since then the canteen has more desserts such as milk tea cakes.

Siyu has loved strawberries since he was a child, and even the pink schoolbag has a snow-white crystal strawberry ornament, and the white crystal carved into strawberries was picked up by his mother when she sorted out old things.

I don't know why, although Zou Ziying was stunned at the beginning, she carefully rubbed the lines on the white crystal, the white crystal was in the palm of her hand, she was also clear, like a lotus flower in the mud, Tingting Pure Plant, but she was about to cry, even if it was put aside after a while, she was going to throw it away, but she looked at Siyu's eyes were hot, so she gave it to Siyu casually, and Siyu hung the crystal strawberry on the zipper of the schoolbag with a bright red silk rope, which was crystal clear in the clear autumn light.

She dreamed that she was sitting in a seat next to the huge turquoise glass window on the second floor of the cafeteria, and outside the glass window was a row of towering banyan trees beside the road, and on the other side of the road was a river like Bai Lian, floating and golden, and the afternoon sun turned a thousand times among the leaves of the banyan tree, and finally fell on the glass window and fell on herself.

She cut the small strawberry cake into two smaller pieces, and the faint berry pink pulp on the cream flowed down the cut of the knife, but she felt so happy, she pushed half of the cake to the person opposite, and then couldn't wait to take a bite of her cake, soft and sweet, the sweetness reached the heart, rippling in the golden autumn.

Then she raised her head, the person opposite seemed to be a chubby figure, as if plated with a golden halo, blurry but warm, she happily said to the person: "It's really delicious, such a bright sunshine, it's good to draw a curtain, the kind of Xiangfei curtain on the book, I stay with you, and I even save ...... rolling blinds every day."

"The rain washes the eaves and wet Hunan curtains, and the light shadows are so bad. There are also thousands of bamboos in front of the window, and there are no incense stains and tears. "The love that rolls up time is so poignant, but at that time she was still so young, she didn't understand the joys and sorrows and was always ruthless, and she just wanted to be simply happy in a clear autumn light.

Then, the person on the other side said something, but Siyu's heart was sour, spreading to her internal organs, and her voice in the dream became smaller and smaller, and the golden and warm picture became farther and farther away, and she fell asleep more and more.