Chapter 47: The Returnee

The high-speed train runs through the mountains, drilled out from the aisles everywhere, experiencing the interlacing of light and darkness, she leans on the chair of the high-speed rail, looking at the changing scenery outside the window, Adele's new song hello is playing in the headphones, she likes this song very much, when she first heard this song, she felt that this song was sung into the depths of her heart, although she has not been good at English in college, and can only understand most of the lyrics, but when she heard Adele's thick and hoarse singing, I remembered that the two people who were in love met again after many years, they looked at each other, the past time flowed in their eyes, but they could only pass by, continue to go farther and farther on their respective roads alone, and occasionally meet again when they recall the bits and pieces of the past with a wry smile, and their hearts are both regretful and relieved.

"Miss, I'm sorry to disturb you, check the ticket." The conductor was a young and shy boy, and he looked at the girl sitting by the window with a calm and melancholy expression, she was very beautiful, with light makeup, short shoulder-length curly hair, wearing a plain white but expensive cashmere woolen jacket, and two more slender and slender legs wrapped in black cropped pants were folded inward.

"Huh? What did you just say? She turns her head to look at the conductor and takes off her headphones, and when she looks at you, you feel that she is curious and kind to explore you, but this exploration always maintains a strong sense of alienation, both showing her respect for you and showing that she wants to keep a certain distance from anyone.

"Routine checks, if you have a ticket, please show it, and if you don't have one, make up the ticket as soon as possible." The conductor, who was uncomfortable with the girl's eyes, looked away from her with a little shyness.

"Oh, great work, here's my ticket." She nodded understandingly, and took out a blue ticket from her small handbag without looking, and the conductor took it and glanced at it, nodded, and returned the ticket to the girl:

"Luo Ruyan, Shanghai to Linyang, G2251, January 31 9:31 ......"

The high-speed train is very noisy, pinching outside the tunnel, the rural aunt sitting opposite is making a rough phone call, training the husband on the other side of the phone, and the young man on the side is bowing his head and playing a music game with the volume at the maximum, and his hand is nimble on the frequency screen clicking on the circles that follow the syllables one by one, but his wandering gaze stops on the beauties around him from time to time.

I don't know where behind the seat, someone is playing a bloody romance drama, and someone is fighting the landlord, and the conductor is still checking the ticket from seat to seat, and from time to time he bows his head and apologizes in the uncooperative reprimand of some fare evaders.

"Passengers, we are about to arrive at Linyang City, which is known as the northern jade city, this seaside city is like spring all year round, famous for producing beautiful jade, which has produced world-famous jade, and is also famous for its developed tourism, you can find the largest mine cave in China here, and the famous 5A-level scenic spot Tiankeng Devil Valley......" The gentle and clear female voice on the high-speed rail sounded, the high-speed rail has driven out of the mountains, driving on a vast field, and the city in the distance is gradually clear......

She put on the headphones again, and the singing blocked all the noise and sound out of her ears, she swiped the lock screen of her phone, clicked on the text message, and found the name that she hadn't contacted for a long time:

Yuan Xi.

"Where are you?" She pressed the words on the text message, frowned, and deleted the text message.

"How's it going? Do you still have nightmares at night? Still make Nescafe, the one I hate the most? ......" She pursed her lips, feeling that her ability to find topics was really poor, and pressed the delete button again to delete it.

"Have you listened to the symphony of the Imperial Capital Philharmonic Orchestra that toured to Linyang a few days ago?" Deleted light, and suddenly talking about the classical music they both liked was a bit too abrupt.

"It's been a long time since I've seen you, I just had a chance to come back, can you find time to meet?" Delete the light, why is she so proactive! She snorted unconsciously, remembering the evil smile she remembered that made her angry.

"I just finished talking about business in Shanghai recently, and now I have free time, so I can take time off and go home, why don't you come and welcome me?" No, I heard that he hasn't been doing well lately, will this mean to show off? He has always valued his dignity very much, and he deleted it.

She smiled bitterly, why did she have to be so entangled? Isn't it just a text message? is still looking ahead, with his big personality, how can he think so much? If he knew what he was looking like now, he would laugh at himself for being a sensitive fake literary youth who was sad and sad.

But will he really respond to himself, obviously he has said that he will go his own way and never mention the past, but why did she come back inexplicably? It is his business that he is willing to stay alone in this small city, and it is also her choice that she is willing to go away and fly away and never look back, Jiang Yi also supports their decision, why is she still hesitant and hesitant, and say goodbye to this place completely, isn't it the best choice for her? Is there anything else worth nostalgic about here?

In the end, she only sent a text message:

"I'm back." Why she came back, what she came back for, why she sent this text message, she herself didn't understand.

Outside the window, the sky was still shining in winter, but now there was a thick layer of dark clouds covering the sky, and the bleak wind passed through the sky and the earth, blowing the trees and dead grass in the field to roll and sway.

It snowed, and bits and pieces of white suddenly filled the sky and the earth, from small to large, and the cold wind danced elegantly, countless snowflakes fell one after another, and the child was curiously lying in front of the car window, looking at the sudden white elves outside the window.

Linyang welcomes its guests with snow, which is unusual in the eyes of her, who has attended college here for four years, because Linyang is a coastal city and there is no snow all year round.

The phone vibrate, and just a few minutes after sending it, Yuan Xi immediately replied:

"Welcome back." Looking at this text message, she was stunned, then lowered her head and chuckled a few times, what was she expecting? It's so stupid that he makes himself laugh, what else can he say but this sentence?

She put the phone back in her bag, but it vibrated stubbornly again.

Did he reply to something else?

She took out her phone and took a look, only to find that it was from an "unknown number" and wrote a sentence that she didn't understand.

"No.2, you'll never be able to escape this city, it's an endless labyrinth."

What? For some reason, she deleted the text message as spam and simply turned off the phone.

She was sure she wouldn't be here for long, and if she couldn't get what she wanted, she might as well say goodbye to this place forever......

Endless labyrinths? She stared blankly at the city that was getting bigger not far away, Linyang, an ordinary small city, what kind of labyrinth could it be called?