Chapter 2: Broken Dreams
The four of them ordered four dishes and one soup in a Sichuan restaurant about 500 meters away from the street corner, Jiang Hong's role as a waiter during the meal poured water and rice for them, only Li Xue and Qin Hao, who was usually honest, kept talking and arguing on the table, Ma Ruoqing slowly picked up the rice into her mouth, and Wen Wen was quiet. From time to time, Jiang Hong sandwiched dishes for her, and the strange meal was not too embarrassing in the quarrel between Li Xue and Qin Hao, and they returned to the hotel after forty minutes.
"Jiang Hong, you are actually not bad, you know how to take care of people. Li Xue popped up when Ma Ruoqing entered the room and said with an inexplicable smile. Jiang Hong looked at her puzzled, only to see her grinning and retracting her head and slamming them shut.
Jiang Hong entered the room suspiciously, and without thinking about it, he ended up on the bed and began to make up for sleep, and it didn't take long for the sound of sleeping to come from the room.
In his sleep, Jiang Hong seemed to be in a dark space, with no air, no trees, and no life...... There was chaos around him, making it difficult to breathe, as if he was about to suffocate, and his heart was unconsciously afraid.
Suddenly, a blurred back figure wearing a white dress appeared in the darkness in the distance, with a slender figure, a slender waist that seemed to be absent in the dark, and the long flowing hair automatically fluttered on the waist without wind, like a fairy. Like a gust of wind blowing, the agile figure slowly turned, Jiang Hong's breathing seemed to slow down by half a beat, his eyes were staring at him, he was dumbfounded, he forgot his previous fear in the dark.
Jiang Hong's eyes stared at it tightly without blinking, only to see a vague face reflected in his eyes, although it was vague, he was sure that it was Ma Ruoqing, the face shape he had been thinking about for the past few years had already been deeply imprinted in his mind.
“...... Come here, save me, save me......" The blurred figure saw him and stretched out a hand to call out weakly to him.
Jiang Hong's heart touched fiercely, as if he was being torn by someone, and he kept running forward in pain, but Ma Ruoqing's figure was getting farther and farther away, and it gradually blurred.
"Live well, avenge me, avenge me......" As the figure gradually disappeared, a vague voice rang in his ears for a long time.
And it went a long time, it seemed like a year, two years...... The darkness had finally calmed down, and all he could seem to hear was his own rapid breathing.
Just when his consciousness began to blur, a blue crystal appeared in the trance where the figure disappeared, it seemed to be turning, the blue lines were like rivers, oceans, mountains, wind and clouds, and this endless darkness, giving him the helplessness that the heavy rain was coming, but he couldn't find a place to shelter from the rain.
Suddenly, a dazzling giant axe-shaped light shot out from the azure crystal, piercing the darkness and shooting into the distance, and then after a long, long time, a line of words appeared: The soul is the pillar of the body, the carrier of the spirit, and the origin of all things. The day of death is also the beginning of new life, even if the soul is annihilated, there can be no reincarnation. For my spirit is immortal!
Such a strange scene had appeared in his dreams countless times, and had appeared in his sleep over and over again since he could remember, so that he knew in his dreams that he was dreaming. After talking to the old man and his neighbors at the beginning, everyone in the village could repeat it every time he said he was dreaming.
After a long time, the school where he was located appeared in the blue crystal, saw him pursuing Ma Ruoqing, and then agreed to be his girlfriend, and after a while, the picture turned again and saw them break up.
Gradually, like a flashback of his life, he studied silently in high school, and then in junior high school, he went to school with Zhang Qin on Mondays and went home together on weekends, from the county to the town, more than four hours away, playing and making trouble together, happy and carefree, going home to read books together, and going out to do farm work together...... The picture keeps changing every ordinary and happy day.
Slowly only the mountain village where he grew up, he saw a young middle-aged man with an ax going up the mountain to chop wood, and he could see that he was an old man from his youth.
"Wow wow...... ......Suddenly there was a burst of children's cries from the side of the roadside ditch, and the old man strangely followed the direction from which the cry came, and under a rock in the ditch, a baby in dragon swaddling clothes kept crying, as if he knew that the old man was coming, and the more he cried, the more sad he became.
The old man ignored the branches passing over his face, and ran up quickly to look at him blankly, and the baby's voice stopped surprisingly at this time, and grinned at the old man, and the white and chubby face was even a little inconspicuous. The old man looked at it for a while, picked up the child and smiled at him, as if he had picked up a treasure.
After that, I saw the old man walking home with an axe and the child in his arms. Along the way, he met people who said that he had picked up the child, and asked whose family it was, until he returned home, and then he went door to door to ask who it was.
The picture kept changing, and suddenly Jiang Hong heard someone call his name, he kept answering, but he couldn't make a sound, he was so anxious that he broke out in a cold sweat, and then moved all of a sudden, he was lying on the bed, Qin Hao sat on the edge of the bed and looked at him and asked, "Are you still sweating, are you dreaming of azure crystals again?"
Jiang Hong ignored his teasing tone, looked at the light from the slipway and asked, "What time is it, why is it not dark?"
"Big brother, it's seven o'clock in the morning, and I'll leave in an hour, you're still dreaming, my things are ready, hurry up and get ready to go." Regardless of what Jiang Hong said, he turned around and walked outside after crackling.
Jiang Hong didn't care about his tone, and sat on the bed in a daze, thinking about the strange dream last night. He had never dreamed so chaoticly, just as Qin Hao teased, he had always only repeated that dream every night, and it had never changed in his memory.
This time, not only the old man appeared, but also Zhang Qin and Ma Ruoqing...... He couldn't figure it out.
He was sure that the baby that the old man picked up was him, and it was not like the old man said, his parents were both killed in a car accident, and he felt alone that he had adopted it from there, and at this time he also knew why every time he asked him where he had adopted it, he couldn't get an answer every time.
Unable to think of a reason, he didn't go into it anymore, but planned to wait for this time to go back and make sure to find the old man to confirm. Hurriedly took care of himself and walked out of the hotel with his duffel bag.
"I thought I'd wait until I left to call you, come over and help, get things in the car. As soon as Jiang Hong emerged from the hotel, Qin Hao waved to him and shouted, holding a box of compressed biscuits in one hand and handing it to the car. Looking at everyone who was busy, Jiang Hong was really a little embarrassed, and walked over to him with an embarrassed smile.
"A big man slept in the morning, thinking he was at home, and we were all exhausted. What are you doing slowly, come over and help. Jiang Hong walked to the front of the car, and Li Xue also carried a big bag and sweated profusely at him.
"I'm sorry! I felt tired last night, and I slept until now...... "Before he finished speaking, Ma Ruoqing, who was directing to move things on the side, looked at him and smiled and said: "It's okay, there aren't many things, so many people will move up in a while, you haven't eaten breakfast yet, go over there and finish breakfast first, and then set off later." She remembered that every classmate asked Jiang Hong to run around yesterday to do things, and her heart was inexplicably soft, and she said softly.
"Okay!" Jiang Hong looked at the fact that there was not much left, looked at the other classmates and said, "If you still have breakfast, I will bring it to you." Qin Hao and Li Xue immediately ran over and said in unison: "I want two buns and soy milk!"
All of a sudden, all the classmates stopped and looked at them, Li Xue turned her head with a red face, Jiang Hong was a little strange, and when her face was also red, she kept sighing in her heart. Qin Hao was smiling, looking at the two of them at this time, Jiang Hong somewhat understood that Qin Hao, who had been sleeping lazily, had gotten up so early this morning.
"Okay, okay......" Jiang Hong said with a rare he, looking at Qin Hao with a lewd smile. The other classmates also laughed, only Zhou Long pouted and carried the travel bag into the car.
Jiang Hong went to a nearby breakfast shop to buy Liu Bao and four boxes of soy milk, and bought a few fritters and walked to the car. He knew that Li Xue hadn't eaten, and Ma Ruoqing definitely hadn't, they were always together, so he brought Ma Ruoqing's share with him.
When they arrived at the car, Qin Hao and Li Xue hurriedly ran over to divide their share, and ate without any scruples without saying anything.
Jiang Hong came to Ma Ruoqing's side and watched her wipe her sweat with her white and tender little hands, two clusters of redness appeared on her delicate cheeks, her hair kept swinging at the back of her head, and her lips seemed to be moving on her flawless face that seemed to give people endless reverie, under the morning light, it was beautiful and moving, Jiang Hong's heart was touched fiercely, and he looked stupidly at the purpose of forgetting to come.
In his heart, the figure in his dream constantly coincided with the figure in last night's dream, no difference, just a different dress. Thinking about the distance between them now, Jiang Hong's heart fell into endless pain, there had never been a moment of such pain in the year since the breakup, his heart was distressed, and the pain was a little distorted on his face.
"Jiang Hong, what's wrong with you, what's wrong, talking?" Ma Ruoqing put down her little hand and asked anxiously when she saw his ugly face.
Jiang Hong came back to his senses, and before he had time to adjust, he replied with some pain: "It's okay, it's okay, it may have been caused by drinking raw water last night." Then he handed over the remaining two cabbage buns and a box of soy milk in his hand and said, "You have been busy, you must not have eaten, I brought you with you." Ignoring his concerned eyes, he put breakfast in her hand and lowered her head to eat fritters.
Ma Ruoqing didn't react for a while, and after a while, she said weakly and said two words: "Thank you!" If Jiang Hong hadn't been with her for a long time and was familiar with her voice, he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to hear it. Jiang Hong hurriedly replied, "You're welcome, I also brought it to them." As he spoke, he looked at Qin Hao and Li Xue, who were sitting together and gobbling up, and Jiang Hong regretted it a little after speaking, and he couldn't wait to slap himself twice.
"Yes!" replied in Ma Ruoqing's inaudible voice.
I don't know when they became so polite to each other, obviously familiar with each other more than anyone else, the polite tone made them a little strange, some distance, and no one dared to touch the two hearts that slowly healed after being broken. Like two fragile glass crystals, holding them in the palm of your hand for fear of accidentally falling on the ground and shattering, there is no possibility of healing. In fact, they all seem to be holding the heart of the opposite, caring about each other, but neither of them wants to exchange it back first.
A little after eight o'clock, the four of them finished breakfast, and Jiang Hong was the last to get in the car and drive towards their first destination, Kunlun Pass