A week passed in a flash, and on the twenty-ninth day of the Lunar New Year, Rong Taotao and Gao Lingwei, under the leadership of Yang Chunxi, formed a team of fifty people with a group of civilians from Songjiang Soul City who had returned to their hometown, and marched towards Songbai Town.

In a normal society, there will be a train one by one, but in this snowy and snowy land, there are "carriages" one by one.

Although it is located in the south of a wall, there is still a danger in the wilderness, so if people want to return to Songbai Town from Songjiang Soul City, they still need to be escorted by a soul warrior.

Rong Taotao controlled the snow night terrors, and came to walk side by side with Gao Lingwei, looking at the carriages behind him from time to time, he had a wonderful feeling, and said with a smile: "It feels like we are like ancient guards, soldiers riding horses, and civil officials sitting in carriages?" ”

Gao Lingwei said "um" softly, but closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

On Gao Lingwei's shoulder, the edelweiss cat has a strong ability to imitate, and following the example of the owner, she also closed her big blue eyes, raised her head, and took a deep breath.

Even with it, the Yunyun dog on Rong Taotao's head also raised his head and inhaled......

Today's weather is very good, very rare, and even Yunyun dogs are willing to stay outside.

The wind is light and the winter sun is warm at noon, making it perfect for walking.

She whispered: "I spent three Chinese New Year's Eve in Songbai Town, and I know that a large number of people rush back to Songbai Town every year for the New Year, and today is the first time to carry out an escort mission." Unexpectedly, the entire Songjiang Soul City was going to be hollowed out. ”

Starting from the 29th of the New Year, the "carriages" sent away batches of civilians who rushed back to Songbai Town for reunion.

Rong Taotao nodded secretly, when he thought of the grand celebration that Gao Lingwei described to him, he felt a little pity, because in the soul class, only two people came out.

Si Huanian is indeed the god of martial arts, with an authority that ordinary people can't imagine.

But while enjoying the privileges, Si Huanian was also firmly "nailed" in the martial arts hall, there were many college students who trained hard and did not return to their hometowns, Si Huanian still had to provide them with the benefits of accelerated cultivation, which also led to other soul class teenagers staying in the martial arts arena.

However, they celebrate the festival together, and the atmosphere should be very good.

Everyone went all the way south, and they also felt warmer and warmer.

Although it is only a short journey of fifty kilometers, the temperature is rising in steps, until everyone arrives at Songbai Town, Rong Taotao has a feeling that this place is probably at least 3~4 degrees higher than Songjiang Soul City!

"Oh!!"

"Woohoo~ I'm home!"

More than two hours later, bursts of cheers rang out.

Rong Taotao was still silently practicing the soul method on horseback, and when he heard such excited cheers, he couldn't help but turn his head to look, but he saw that on the carriages, people's heads were peeking out of the doors and windows, and they were looking at the sentry posts in the distance and cheering.

Rong Taotao turned his head, looked away, looked into the distance, and his ears were full of people's excited voices......

"Second uncle, go to the house to eat, haha, I think you are also an old bachelor, you will live with your family these days, let's celebrate the festival together?"

"Little rabbit, what about burying your uncle? What is a single, I earned a year's money, and this time I came back to marry you a second aunt! ”

"Poof... Ahem....."

"Hahahaha!!"

In the burst of laughter, Rong Taotao couldn't help but show a smile, in his sight, in the middle of the distant road, there was a checkpoint, and it was not too much to say that it was even a small camp.

The road is lined with dense green pines and cypresses, and the evergreen trees are still covered with frost and snow on the branches, as if to welcome travelers returning home.

"Tut-tut......" Rong Taotao couldn't help but be amazed, this way came more than 50 kilometers, and the trees in the wild can be said to be all over the mountains.

But with the checkpoint as the boundary, and then look south, the dense green pines and cypresses, endless, extremely luxuriant, with a little snow on the branches, constitute a perfect picture.

In the camp in the middle of the road, several officers stepped forward and made a gesture to stop.

The carriages passed in turn, Rong Taotao was quite curious, the procedures for entering the city were simply more cumbersome than entering the customs, and it was an inquiry, a security check, and a stamp......

With a lonely student ID, Rong Taotao came in very smoothly.

Yang Chunxi suddenly said: "It's time to get to the place, you two don't have to follow me, let's go to the city first, I still have to help the school teachers settle these students." ”

Many students of Songjiang Soul Martial Arts also came here for the New Year, and the school also provided them with collective dormitories, so it seems that Yang Chunxi is busy.

"Huh?" Rong Taotao blinked his eyes and looked at Yang Chunxi.

"Let's go, let's play." Beside him, Yang Chunxi said with a smile, "Keep the phone open." ”

"Drive!" Gao Lingwei snorted softly, her legs lightly clamped the horse's belly, and rushed out first, the dark ponytail flying behind her head, she turned her head and glanced at Rong Taotao.

"It's coming~" Rong Taotao hurriedly rode forward, chased after him, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and finally changed the silent mobile phone to ring mode.

Wow, comfortable~

Rong Taotao never thought that the moment of getting rid of the shadow of Si Hua Nian would be so comfortable!

It turns out that mobile phones can also ring!

It's amazing ™, Rong Taotao almost forgot that his mobile phone has this function!

"Where are we going?" Rong Taotao shouted.

"Wow!" On the natural curl of the head, the cloud dog also shouted.

Gao Lingwei turned her head to look at Rong Taotao and said, "I'll take you to my alma mater first?" Didn't you go to high school, visit? ”

Rong Taotao: "......"

Piercing my heart!

Surrounded by dense pines and cypresses on both sides of the road, Gao Lingwei and Rong Taotao rode forward one after the other......

After just 5 minutes, Rong Taotao, who finally entered the town, gradually opened his mouth into an "O" shape.

As soon as he entered the first street of the town, Rong Taotao saw a crowded scene.

He hadn't seen so many people in a long time.

Such a rich atmosphere of life is completely different from the atmosphere of a university campus.

"Keep right." The white horse under Gao Lingwei's crotch slowed down, marched against the right side of the road, and merged into the crowd of horseback riders.

Due to the characteristics of docile and humane, stable and knowledgeable of the way, coupled with the special weather and environment, the snow night terror has long become the main means of transportation in Songbai Town.

Here, the horse shop for renting horses has always been a particularly hot business, after all, in the snowy night, the snow night terror is a rigid demand for civilians to travel.

Rong Taotao looked around, and when he first entered the town, he encountered such a large market, and there was a lot of people, which he did not expect.

Although it is a commercial street, the overall buildings of Songbai Town are not high, most of them are only 1~2 floors, and many buildings are also brick and tile shapes, which have an antique charm.

"Eh, roasted sweet potato." Rong Taotao said suddenly.

Gao Lingwei turned her head to look and also saw an old woman sitting next to a roasted sweet potato stove in front of a door selling frozen goods, and there were several steaming sweet potatoes on the stove.

Gao Lingwei glanced at Rong Taotao with a smile, rode her horse to the right onto the sidewalk, turned over and dismounted next to the tree.

Snow night terrors also have a little advantage, that is, you don't have to "lock the car", you don't have to scan the code to return the car, and next to the trees on the sidewalk, it is the public area where snow night terrors are parked.

Gao Lingwei watched Rong Taotao on his side turn over and dismount, then pressed his shoulder with one hand, turned around, faced the snow night terror, and said, "Look at this face again, you won't be ridden away by others for a while." ”

As she spoke, Gao Lingwei gently stroked the face of the horse with snow night terrors, and walked to the roasted sweet potato stall with the stunned Rong Taotao.

He has too many details of life to learn and integrate, especially the overall structural style of this pine and cypress town is antique, which really makes Rong Taotao feel that he has returned to the ancient world.

Fortunately, the grandmother who sells roasted sweet potatoes accepts the payment by scanning the code on her mobile phone, and Rong Taotao is dragged back to reality......

The two of them held a hot roasted sweet potato in their hands, rode on the snow night terrors, and followed the flow of people while eating.

The first intersection turned north, and suddenly it opened up, and without the rubbing shoulders of the market people, the speed of the two men was much happier.

The two walked five streets north, almost to the northern edge of Songbai Town, where Gao Lingwei fed the edelweiss cat in her arms before stopping in front of a huge school gate.

Songbai Town Soul Martial High School.

Several large gilded characters, vertically pasted on an ancient tree, stand on the right side of the school gate.

The doorman's small window was suddenly opened, and an old man waved his hand with a smile: "Girl, you're back!" ”

"Ah, hello." Gao Lingwei's mind was confused, but she felt that this doorman was a little familiar, as a popular figure in Songbai Soul Martial High School, everyone in the school knew Gao Lingwei, but Gao Lingwei didn't know everyone.

"I saw that you were admitted to Songjiang Soul Martial Arts, and your photo is still hanging on the wall of the outstanding students' photos, you are a role model for my granddaughter, haha."

Gao Lingwei smiled and nodded slightly.

"Meow~" The edelweiss cat took a mouthful of roasted sweet potatoes, licked her small mouth with her pink tongue, tilted her head curiously, and looked at the doorman.

"A lot of students are back, but the high school students are only on holiday tonight, and the school is not allowed to visit at the moment, so you can come back tomorrow." After the doorman opened politely, he finally said the purpose.

I think it is Gao Lingwei who has a very high reputation and prestige here, and the attitude of the doorman is also very good, and he did not drive him away directly.

"Hmm." Hearing this, Gao Lingwei's face was inevitably a little lost.

The doorman thought for a while, but pointed to the north: "You are more familiar with that place than me." ”

"Yes, yes!" Gao Lingwei's eyes suddenly lit up and said, "Thank you." ”

"Huh." The doorman waved his hand and closed the small window.

Gao Lingwei turned the horse's head and continued north: "Go." ”

Rong Taotao followed curiously: "Where are you going?" ”

"There's a little park on the north hill, and there's a monument in the park, and there's a total of 303 steps from bottom to top, where we used to frog when we were in high school." Gao Lingwei's eyes were full of memories, and she smiled, "It's very high, overlooking the entire high school campus." ”

The two of them traveled all the way to the north mountain, and in a very quiet small park, they also saw the steps that seemed to lead to the sky.

The 303 steps are not very high, but the slope is very steep, and the surrounding green pines and cypresses are surrounded, and the top of the monument looms among the trees, as if it is standing in the sky.

In winter, the sun sets very early in the north, at this time it is only four o'clock, and it is already setting in the west, and the orange-red sun reflects the woods, and the appearance of the sunset is beautiful.

"Let's go." Gao Lingwei retracted the Snow Night Terror, "Just put your Snow Night Terror here." ”

As she spoke, she took the Yunyun Dog from the top of Rong Taotao's head, and gently wiped the Yunyun Dog's small mouth with one hand, which was covered with crumbs of roasted sweet potatoes.

"Hmm~" Yunyun Dog licked Gao Lingwei's fingers that reached out to her mouth, thinking that there was something delicious......

On the way to climb the mountain, Rong Taotao also saw the young people walking down the steps, and they all looked like they had come here to see their alma mater.

After passing shoulders with the two female students, Rong Taotao said with a smile while climbing the steps: "You are a celebrity here, these young people are all very surprised when they see you, muttering." ”

Gao Lingwei didn't say anything, but said: "This monument commemorates a principal of Songbai Soul Martial High School, named Xiao Li.

In the 80s of the last century, it was he who overcame many difficulties and single-handedly founded Songbai Soul Martial High School, which pushed the practice site of high school students in the snow realm more than 30 kilometers to the north.

It was also since then that the overall level of high school students in the northern snow realm has slowly caught up, and there is the bustling Songbai Town you see today.

Later, President Xiao died of illness in the school hospital at the age of 73 due to overwork.

In order to commemorate him, the school built a small park in the mountain behind the school and erected a monument. ”

Rong Taotao nodded, didn't speak anymore, and silently followed Gao Lingwei up the steps.

303 steps, step by step, Rong Taotao also saw that on the high monument, there were two simple characters imprinted: hero.

There are only two large characters on the tower-like monument, no annotations, no names, no sculptures or anything like that.

Gao Lingwei stood in front of the monument and looked at it for a long time, then turned around, came to the stone fence, and looked at her alma mater.

At the foot of the mountain, the entire Songbai Soul Martial High School has a panoramic view, the teaching building, the canteen, the dormitory building, the martial arts arena, and the children who are training hard under the sunset.

These are indeed her youth.

Rong Taotao hugged the Yunyun dog in his arms and looked around, but when he walked to the side of the monument, in his sight, he saw a tall figure standing in the pine and cypress in the north.

At sunset, a forest of pines and cypresses is soaked in orange-red hues.

And that woman was wearing a red dress, like a wedding dress.

The long black hair fluttered gently in the breeze, leaving Rong Taotao with a back.

"This ......" Rong Taotao blinked stupidly.

In the silence, he cautiously walked a few steps to the right, the stone bricks under his feet turning to snow, and when he entered the edge of the woods, he saw the woman's face.

Her side face is beautiful, but her expression is very melancholy.

The frozen white palm was bloodless, pressed against the trees beside her, and her eyes were hollow, silently looking north.

Her gaze seemed to be able to pass through the pine and cypress that was not dense, and see the wanderers returning to their hometowns in the north.

Rong Taotao looked at this scene in a daze, and suddenly for a moment, he understood what it meant to "look forward to wearing".

I don't know how long it took, Gao Lingwei walked to Rong Taotao's side with a dull expression, followed Rong Taotao's line of sight, and looked curiously at the edge of the woods, and then her face froze.

The memory was opened in an instant, if it wasn't for seeing this woman here, Gao Lingwei would have forgotten her existence.

Teacher Chen, the practical teacher of Songbai Soul Martial High School, she only became a high school teacher a few years ago, and she is also a very special existence here.

Because her mental state is not very good, she rarely takes students and rarely goes to class, but always stops here and waits for a day.

Whenever Gao Lingwei comes here, she can always see her standing at the edge of the forest.

In such a quiet environment, Rong Taotao's mobile phone rang suddenly, even a little harsh.

"The heavy snow closes the door and sends the God of Wealth again, and the fire can't burn the people in your heart......"

This Northeast folk song is a special ringtone set by Rong Taotao for Yang Chunxi, and he specially set it up when he first met his sister-in-law half a year ago.

Rong Taotao hurriedly flipped through his mobile phone from his pocket, and the ringtone rang stubbornly.

Beside him, Gao Lingwei's voice suddenly came: "Chen... Hello Chen Jiao. ”

For a moment, Rong Taotao's body stiffened, and he only felt that the hairs on his body stood on end, as if he was locked by someone's gaze.

Rong Taotao didn't care much, and hurriedly took out his mobile phone, but he heard the cold voice of the woman in red in the distance: "Don't answer." ”

"Goo." Rong Taotao's Adam's apple squirmed, and he raised his head cautiously, but he saw the woman with red eyes next to Songbai in the distance, looking at Rong Taotao quietly, to be exact, looking at the mobile phone that Rong Taotao had just taken out.

The bell also rang stubbornly, unusually clear.

"Saibei Remnant Sun is her red makeup, and a mountain of pines and cypresses is the bridesmaid......"

"Huh." The woman sighed deeply, a layer of mist rose in her eyes, and a smile squeezed out of her face, very reluctant, very frustrated, "He said, he will come back, let me wait for him here." ”

"The sound of gongs and drums is the first month, the sound of firecrackers is red, and every household is lit with lanterns......"

Gao Lingwei took a step forward, blocked in front of Rong Taotao, and said, "Take it." ”

Rong Taotao immediately connected the phone, but he didn't put it in his ear, but he also heard Yang Chunxi's faint voice: "Taotao, where are you?" It's time to come back, I'm ......"

The woman raised her head, wiped her red eyes, and on her face with faint tears, the extremely reluctant smile was heartbreaking to watch.

And she just turned silently, pressed one hand on the cold bark, looked to the north again, and said no more.

"Let's go." Gao Lingwei grabbed Rong Taotao's wrist and led him back step by step.

Gao Lingwei was very vigilant, but the woman in red was standing in the sunset, standing next to the pines and cypresses, motionless, waiting quietly.

It wasn't until the two of them retreated to the monument and blocked the red figure that Gao Lingwei breathed a sigh of relief, but she quickly turned around and walked down the steps with Rong Taotao.

"It's been three years, and this is the first time I've heard her speak."

"Is she waiting for her family?"

"You've seen it."

"Huh?"

"Xiao Ziru."

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Three watches, 12, 17, 20.