Chapter 15 The World is Cold and Warm
The story of the butterfly may be just a beautiful wish, you can be her just a story, but I want to remind people / but also remind myself / must not forget the most primitive and beautiful innocence in my heart, no matter how others are, no matter how hot the world becomes, don't deliberately change yourself, don't let yourself become numb....
The butterfly's love did not begin until Guoan's tear dropped on her face, but it was already separated by yin and yang!
There is no distinction between high and low after birth, no matter whether he is physically defective or not, no matter what industry she is engaged in, you must not just look at the surface, because we all have thoughts, we all have a world of our own, if you don't know her story, don't look down on her easily!
To truly love a person is to love everything about her, respect her choices, understand her past, and tolerate her mistakes.....
The night the butterfly walked, except for the fox, we were all in pain, I don't know if it was the sadness of the story itself or a certain nerve involved in our reality!
In fact, I envy the little fox, because she is still a child and does not know what life and death are, what is the real pain, maybe she will never die because she is a demon, then I only beg God to let her never grow up, so that she will always be an innocent and happy child...
The next day, we/I, Fox, Ma Ling'er, Guoan, and the big brother of the underworld, Boss Wang/We went to the place where Butterfly took in the homeless elderly, which was the outer area of the suburbs of the city, and the roads were also potholed and dilapidated, and the scattered houses in the village looked very simple, basically all of them were dilapidated buildings, and there were not a few new houses in sight!
If it weren't for the butterflies telling us about this place, we really wouldn't have known that there was such a place on the edge of the city! Maybe it can't even compare with the better-developed countryside, even the small market streets in our hometown in the countryside are better than here!
We found a place to rent a butterfly by inquiring, many people here know butterflies, we are very warm and kind to us when we mention butterflies, which shows the position of butterflies in their hearts!
After the enthusiastic people led the way, we walked for about five minutes and found the three rooms rented by the fox in a small alley, entered a small alley, a very small kind of alley, if two people walk side by side, it will seem crowded, walked for a while to an iron gate, the mother-in-law who led the way told us that it was inside, the mother-in-law gently pushed the door open, inside is a small courtyard that does not look very old, in the small alley outside for a while, suddenly saw such a yard but people feel a sense of sudden enlightenment, the yard on both sides of the fence cut with bricks is also planted with some flowers and cabbage and other vegetables, being able to see a little greenery in this yard makes people feel a little refreshed, but there is a feeling of a unique cave!
There were also two round stone tables in the middle of the courtyard, and around the stone tables there were stone benches, on which five old women and their husbands sat justly, but their faces looked a little gloomy, as lifeless as the stagnant water in the pool!
Maybe people of this age are like this, the passion of life has nothing to do with them, and every day is a countdown to death!
Seeing us walk in, the faces of several old people instantly revealed a hint of smile, and a little light flashed in their eyes, which made the somewhat thirsty faces glow with a little vitality! They all stood up a little excitedly, except for the two old women who were slightly better, the other three old people looked a little difficult to get up, although the two old women stood up a little slower than ordinary people, but when they walked, the gap between them and ordinary people was a little bigger, and their steps were obviously very slow.
Seeing them walking so pitifully, I couldn't help but feel a faint pain in my heart, if it wasn't for the butterflies taking them in, this prosperous city might have already become a desolate tomb for them!
I can't understand how far humanity has gone, and those who don't support the elderly should really have a law to cut them to death!
Two old women preemptively walked up to us and asked us if we were butterflies' friends, and why butterflies hadn't come to see them for so long! Looking at their longing eyes, we were all silent, and I don't think we had the courage to tell these old people who had lost their lives that the butterflies that supported their spiritual light were dead! We looked at each other, and neither of us knew what to tell them!
At this time, the other three old people also came over with each other's arms, maybe it was our silence that made them see some clues, the old people seemed a little flustered, and hurriedly asked us if something had happened to the butterfly girl? Looking at the tension and sadness in the eyes of the old people, and then looking at their barely standing legs that were still trembling slightly, we didn't know if we told them the news of the butterfly's death that they would still have the strength to stand, or maybe they would have the intention of continuing to live!
Just when we were in a dilemma, a girl of about twenty-four or five years old came out of the house, with black hair coiled on the top of her head, and her face looked very delicate, and she walked towards us, but it seemed that her right leg was a little problematic, and she was a little lame when she walked!
"Didn't I tell you, Butterfly has now graduated from university and gone to study abroad. The girl raised her voice very high, but it didn't sound reproachful, but it made people feel very clear!
The old men were skeptical, but by their stiff expressions they didn't believe what the girl had just said! The girl took them back to the stone table and sat down, and then ran over to greet us!
"I'm sorry they have bad ears, so I'm talking a little loud. We all laughed, and she didn't say that we could see it.
She led us to the living room, the living room is not too big, but the TV and refrigerator are still there, there is a glass coffee table in front of the TV, and some wooden stools are very low, we sat on the sofa and chatted for a while!
It turns out that this girl is the nanny that Butterfly said, in fact, it is better to say that it is a nanny than a volunteer, except for Butterfly's living expenses, she is here every day to take care of the elderly is not paid. She also knew the news of the butterfly's death for a long time, but those old people were too dependent on butterflies, and they were already very fragile and couldn't withstand any blows, so she kept lying to them that Butterfly went to study abroad, but these old people didn't believe it very much!
After talking for a while, she took us to watch the other old people in the house, some of them were doing in bed and some were still asleep, there were beds on both sides of the room, and there was a passage in the middle, but it looked clean and tidy and did not make people feel very crowded!
Before leaving, Ma Ling'er left all the 130,000 yuan in her bag to the nanny and told her the password of the butterfly bank card! We all left very fast, and we all wanted to leave this worrying place as soon as possible, so we walked in silence without saying a word, until we got into Boss Wang's Porsche off-road car!
Looking at the scenery flashing outside the car window, I suddenly felt a sense of loss that I had never felt before, a great fear rushing towards me from a distant place, spreading in my body!
I couldn't help but think of myself in my last years, hunched over, alone, staggering step by step in the silent park, with nothing but the silent woods, no noise of people coming and going, no birds and insects!
In an instant, the world became so desolate, I sat alone on the lifeless table and chair looking at the same silent sky, and then watched it slowly sink down, devouring my panicked soul little by little, and finally I was buried in endless darkness! I desperately wanted to wake up from this absurd fantasy, but I felt a pair of strong hands pulling me deeper and deeper, I was very frightened, I felt like I was about to die...
"Brother Qiang, what's wrong with you, it's time to get off when we get home. The fox opened the car door and called me, and I came to my senses! I was already sweating profusely, as if I had a distant but real dream!
I tried my best to retract my mind and calm myself down! Maybe I haven't come out of the lonely world of the old people yet! I went to my house with the boss of Guoan Wang, and it was like having a nightmare just now! As the master, I poured Coke for them one by one, Ma Ling'er's expression was still so solemn, like stagnant water, without waves, and the sadness that appeared faintly in her eyes, seemed to be nothing, but it was easy to see through the endless sadness and loneliness....
Boss Wang proposed to worship Ma Ling'er as a teacher again, but Ma Ling'er did not refuse or agree! She didn't make an obvious perversion! Just let Boss Wang think about it more, whether she really wanted to learn the Tao with her, after all, a big brother in the underworld and a boss with hundreds of millions of family assets, it is not so simple to let go!
Ma Ling'er knows this very well! That day, Boss Ma and Guoan asked Ma Ling'er a lot about the cycle of life and death, and I listened quietly on the side!
For a moment, I only felt that I had suddenly become small, and that it was as small as a speck of dust on the ground! As if I was standing on the verge of death at this moment, looking at the world was so helpless and so reluctant!
All the worries and thoughts that I am most afraid of being forgotten in the depths of my mind will also be washed clean by Meng Po's bowl of soup, is this life over! The things I want to forget and the things I don't want to forget are all gone, what will I be like in the next life? Will I be the person I hate the most in this life, or can I only be reincarnated as an animal..... All the fears came over me and made me feel a little crazy.......