Chapter Twenty-Five: Romance in the Mirror II

In a week is Luobei's 18th birthday, and Lin Shuang not only has to prevent Luobei's suicide that year, but also prepare a special birthday gift for Luobei. What kind of birthday gift should I prepare for Luobei? Lin Shuang thought about it and prepared to give Luo Bei the bottles of perfume that he had stolen from the sarcophagus in the tomb earlier.

This time, Lin Shuang wanted to personally hand over the perfume that he had exchanged for his life into Luobei's hands, so that his heart would be more steady. But she had to figure out how to get to the city where she had worked. Also figuring out, how long does it take to get to that city? She has a month's time, and Luobei gave her another month's time, so that Lin Shuang has two months.

Lin Shuang is now in the summer vacation, and the time is very free, and she can travel at any time, but she has to find a suitable reason to ask her parents for leave. Even if he can successfully reach his rented house, he must prevent being discovered by Ouyang Lie, otherwise he will never be able to return to Luobei's side. Alas, it seems like it's not a big deal to come out of the door, but it's not that simple to really want to implement it.

No matter how many difficulties there are on the road ahead, Lin Shuang must also find a way to overcome all difficulties and give him everything he can give to Luobei as soon as possible. Because, she doesn't know how much time she can have with Luobei? Everything is erratic, and everything in the world is full of infinite variables. Love, in particular, is ethereal and capricious. Therefore, Lin Shuang should cherish every second with Luobei.

Luobei sent Lin Shuang to the door of the house and told Lin Shuang to come and pick her up early tomorrow morning to go to the mountain. After saying that, Luo Bei drove home.

Lin Shuang stood at the door of her long-lost home, looking at the courtyard where she lived a long time ago, as if she was in a different world. It was the 80s, and the family lived in the family courtyard of their parents' unit, which was a large living area, surrounded by rows of red-tiled and blue-brick bungalows on three sides. Each house is a large set of three, with a large courtyard. There are also two houses in the courtyard, one for the kitchen and the other for storing coal and miscellaneous goods.

In the 80s, the family's housing was allocated free of charge by the unit, and they didn't want a penny. People don't have any concept of houses in their minds, thinking that no matter where they go, there will be units allocated to the house anyway. When the parents retire, the children can take over the work of the parents, and even the children do not have to worry about their future jobs. If the child studies well and can be admitted to university when he grows up, then the state will assign jobs to college students. The most gratifying thing is that at that time, college students went to college, and the tuition fees were paid by the state, so they didn't have to worry about tuition fees at all.

Lin Shuang's parents are both from the construction unit of the Third Railway Bureau, and they will go wherever there is an engineering task. Therefore, these children in the triathlon bureau have been drifting around with their parents since they were young. If you live in Shanxi Province today, you may move to Shandong Province tomorrow, and you may have to move to Anhui Province the day after tomorrow. The state had relevant policies on the issue of household registration and children's schooling for employees and their families, and every time they went to a new place, they would settle down and go to school smoothly. The houses are all built in advance, only more, no less, to ensure that everyone has a house to live in.

Lin Shuang stood at the door of her house in the 80s, and her mind suddenly felt that the situation in front of her was not quite right. The time on my arm is the 90s, but the bungalow in front of me is a house from the 80s, why is this? The world in front of me is like a large patch, made of various fragments of time, and the traces of the splicing are highlighted in the colorful color. Could it be that even Luo Bei and himself at this time, as well as all the people who can be seen, are all temporarily combined?

"Xiaoshuang, what are you doing stupidly at the door of your house? Why don't you come in yet? In the courtyard, there was a strange cry of my mother.

When Lin Shuang heard this, she hurriedly pushed open the courtyard door and walked in. She saw her mother watering the vegetables in the garden. The walls of the courtyard are covered with green beans, and the vines are covered with small purple flowers. On the eggplant seedlings in the courtyard, purple eggplant twists are hanging. The chili seedlings are full of small green chili peppers. The tomatoes on the persimmon seedlings are still rich green and not ripe. Lin Shuang had an indescribable kindness in her heart, immersed in the scene she hadn't seen for a long time, as if she was living again.

Lin Shuang looked at her parents and was secretly surprised. The parents are too young at the moment, and the people of this world are a little too pale for some reason? The smiles on their faces were so stiff.

Lin Shuang unexpectedly found that the people in this world seemed to have no shadow. Even if you walk under the scorching sun, the people who pass by you will not spread their shadows on the ground. Lin Shuang seems to be the only person in this world who has a shadow.

Shadows, the most common phenomenon, have become a very personal symbol in this mysterious world. It invisibly creates an inalternative division or removal for you. This division is something akin to a rule, more like a clear line that is difficult to cross. You can't get out into other people's worlds, and no one else can come into your area.

Luobei, is there a shadow? Lin Shuang didn't particularly care, maybe she deliberately didn't pay attention to these. As long as it appears in front of her, it is Luobei. What kind of Luobei is Lin Shuang's favorite in his heart, and he can't change this anytime and anywhere.

When Lin Shuang ate with her parents, her parents rarely spoke, and they each ate their own food. Her parents looked at her kindly, sometimes touching her hair with their hands. But when they talked to Lin Shuang, they seemed to be extra cautious, for fear of saying something that they shouldn't say. At other times, when they faced Lin Shuang's problems, they seemed to want to speak and stop. Lin Shuang wondered in her heart, when did her parents become so reserved?

Lin Shuang looked up at her parents in between meals. To her surprise, her parents, who were sitting across from her, were staring at her silently, seeming to be full of curiosity about her. At this time, the eyes of the parents looked strange and weird, like a pair of people who had never known each other, but they were temporarily draped in a pair of parents' skins. This astonishing discovery made Lin Shuang's heart frightened and a little creepy. At the moment when the eyes of the parents and Lin Shuang met, the parents hurriedly lowered their heads and continued to eat, hastily retracting the gaze that fell on Lin Shuang's face.

Are the overly young couple sitting in front of them really the parents of the present world? Lin Shuang was beating the small drum in her heart, seven up and eight down. Could it be that parents are still fake? They are Lin Shuang's closest relatives, the ones who raised her, and they are as kind as mountains. Could it be that the love of flesh and blood will still be mixed with falsehood?

Lin Shuang's day was really dazed, and the whole person seemed to be constantly traversed by some unknown thing all the time, and he couldn't help it, passive and hurried. The world around me and my relatives seem so illusory, and I can't see the boundary between reality and illusion. Perhaps, because Lin Shuang was on top of that vague boundary, he couldn't see the originally clear boundary. That boundary may have been covered by Lin Shuang herself, and she was deeply confused and didn't know where to go.

As soon as Lin Shuang got up the next day, Luo Bei walked in from outside and picked her up to pick flowers on the mountain and collect spices for perfume. Luo Bei and Lin Shuang's parents seemed to be very close to each other, they kept shouting and asking for warmth when they met, and sometimes got together and whispered to prevent Lin Shuang from hearing it. It seems that the relationship between parents and Luobei seems to be more intimate than that between them and Lin Shuang. Lin Shuang smiled bitterly and shook her head, I don't know why.