Chapter 6: The Time Machine 2
Every weekend, Mu Xin asks Yi Lan to drive him to the Botanical Garden, and even if the weather is bad, this trip will not change. A meteorite had recently fallen in the botanical garden, and a large area had been cordoned off to visitors.
But even then, it would take a few days to walk to the rest of the area. Yi Lan took Mu Xin in through a different door every time, and walked around from early morning until dark.
Yi Lan didn't quite understand why Mu Xin was so obsessed with the botanical garden. His interest wasn't in the plants, he just walked from one end to the other, sometimes running away and playing hide-and-seek with Ilan.
After going there more times, Mu Xin gradually developed a strong interest in various plants. Mu Xin's patience is really good, he can spend most of the day, squatting in front of a sunflower, watching the petals enjoy the sunshine, slowly blooming, after noon, the sun is getting farther and farther away, they gather up their delicate faces, wrap themselves tightly, and wait for the next day, and the sunshine to date again.
Mu Xin asked Yi Lan to buy him a specimen bag, collected some plant seeds, leaves, and flowers, and took them home to take a closer look at the introduction in the book.
Later, Yi Lan was really tired, so she bought Mu Xin a mobile phone so that he could contact her at any time. When she went to the botanical garden again, she filled Mu Xin's small backpack with water cups, snacks and specimen bags, and went to play with him. She brought a book with her and sat in the café in the garden to read.
The time spent with Mu Xin after work made Yi Lan feel more tired than going to work. Since Mu Xin appeared, she has occupied almost all of her private space.
The leisurely off-duty time in the past has now become doing this for Mu Xin, doing that for Mu Xin, taking Mu Xin here, accompanying Mu Xin there, and being ready to answer all kinds of strange questions from Mu Xin at any time.
It's wishful thinking to sleep comfortably on the weekends, as in the past. On weekends, Mu Xin would wake up earlier than usual, arching around under the covers, coquettish and cute, urging Yi Lan to get up quickly and take him to the botanical garden.
Mu Xin's body exudes the unique milky fragrance of children, which will always make Yi Lan involuntarily gush out of maternal love from the bottom of her heart, and she can hardly resist agreeing to all his requests.
When Yi Lan was as old as Mu Xin, she lived with her grandmother. She doesn't know how to play the role of a good mother at this stage of her child. She was in a hurry, but she had no experience to draw on. Because she couldn't explain Mu Xin's life experience, she didn't dare to tell her parents and ask for their help.
She never imagined that she would have a child, nor did she experience the psychological buffer period of pregnancy, nor did she experience the strong joy of becoming a mother for the first time at the moment of childbirth, nor did she participate in Mu Xin's previous life growth.
The overdraft of physical strength, coupled with psychological pressure, and various suspicions about Mu Xin's life experience, made Yi Lan more and more tired day by day, on the verge of collapse.
"Honey, be my mom working overtime for a day, I'm going to buy Huan tonight!"
"I must take Anna's Black Forest to compensate me, otherwise I will break off my friendship!"
After sending a message to Peng Xinxin, Yi Lan asked Liao Wu Qianhui and a few other colleagues with good personal relationships to go to the bar at night. She needs to forget about Mu Xin's existence for a while and release it before she completely collapses.
People need to be alone from time to time and talk to themselves, otherwise the mind will easily get lost after a long time.
But Ira's confusion is not something that can be solved by being alone. She was sure that Mu Xin was not born to her, but she couldn't explain why he inherited her genes.
Whenever Mu Xin inadvertently talked about the past, what she had said to him, what they had done together, but she didn't understand it at all, like an amnesiac fool, and her mind was at a loss, she was so crazy that she wanted to hit the wall.
Throwing herself into the bar's bizarre lights and deafening music, Iran floats and floats, like a dolphin living in a small pool, usually uncomfortable with turning around, and suddenly returns to the sea, boundless freedom, swimming in the heart of the waves.
The DJ is on the other side of the bar, playing with full devotion, igniting the wildness on the dance floor, the smell of wine, sweat, perfume, mixed with the smell of youthful hormones, intertwined into the love of men and women.
It's a very different bar from the bars that Yi Lan, Peng Xinxin, and Coco frequent, and this is a place where young people indulge their souls and bodies at will. What Yi Lan wants tonight is to be very different from her usual life, and to indulge her soul.
But why did you come up with the word "young people"? I haven't bloomed in the best youth, but I have already passed the noon sun, and I can only wrap my heart layer by layer, occasionally blooming in the blur of midnight, and no longer look forward to the sunshine? Or has youth really gone far?
Yi Lan didn't want to ask Coco and Peng Xinxin to spend the night together, she was too familiar with them, and the disguise was easy to be exposed after drinking.
At the bottom of everyone's heart, there will be some unknown things that no one wants to share with anyone, especially those close to them.
Peng Xinxin and Keke said that it was not worth it for her to decide to be lonely for the sake of Mu Jiangrong, but where she was willing, she just couldn't get out.
And at this midnight, when she released her soul to breathe, she saw a fresh, bright self who was looking forward to being illuminated by love.
Iran was drinking as she took out her phone and sent an email.
"Have you ever had a moment when you were so dazed that you couldn't even breathe? Mu Xin often told me about the past, but I couldn't understand a word. This feeling is very uncomfortable, as if abandoned by the whole world, and the next second you will forget who you are, and you will almost suffocate when you feel uncomfortable. I don't know how to raise children at all, and I've never thought of having children, why did God play such a big joke on me! ”
"Unexpected encounters are not necessarily beautiful, but they can also be distressing. I have experienced the most difficult times, so I can understand your helplessness. Sometimes we just think we can't, but if we try, we may find that we can and do better than we think! As long as the mind is not trapped, there is no such thing as a dilemma. You've done a great job! ”
"Tonight, I asked a colleague to buy a joy at the bar and take out my soul to bask in it, and she told me that she had not bloomed in the best youth, and she had already passed the wrong noon sun, and she was very lonely and unwilling."
"After midnight it was the midday sun again, maybe different from yesterday, maybe better than yesterday. As long as your soul wants it, she will always meet the right time for the sun. ”
"But my soul only wants his light. A deep feeling, it is easy to convince yourself to give up, but it is difficult to convince your heart. ”
"If you don't get up yet, you assume you're going to fall, and you've already lost half of it. It is never the difficulty itself that can defeat you, but a heart that does not dare to try again. ”
"I'm about to take on a new project, and I hope that the busyness of work can dilute the worries of life. Quiet! ”
"What is the main purpose of the new project? If it's convenient, maybe we can explore it. ”
Iran didn't want to talk any more and put her phone back in her bag. She drowned herself in a group of young bodies, writhing, swaying, and releasing until she tossed herself to exhaustion, only then did she feel that her vitality was back, and she had the courage to face tomorrow's life, like the enigmatic Mu Xin.