Shen Meigen went to Anhui that afternoon, because he thought that he would be able to see Bai Xiao'e early tomorrow morning. Early the next morning, Shen Meigen looked for the address Xiao Wu wrote to him.

"May I ask if this is Bai Xiao'e's house?"

Bai Xiao'e, who was cooking breakfast in the house, heard someone outside calling her name, the voice was so familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had heard it, so she ran out of the kitchen with a bowl, and when Bai Xiao'e saw the person outside the door, she was stunned, the bowl in her hand slipped to the ground, and it was no one else standing outside the door, it was her lover Shen Meigen.

"Are you Xiao'e?!" Shen Meigen didn't believe her eyes, the woman in front of her was completely different from the woman she remembered twenty years ago: her face was wrinkled, her hair was gray, her eyes were dull, her body was slightly curved, and the only thing that could find the shadow of twenty years ago was the crooked pigtail on her chest. Shen Meigen was shocked by the changes in Bai Xiao'er in front of her, and she couldn't believe that Bai Xiao'e, who was supposed to be the young grandmother of the Shen family, had become like this now!

"Why did you come back?" Bai Xiao'e asked Shen Meigen expressionlessly, Bai Xiao'e was very excited, but all her thoughts turned into one sentence, this sentence contains too much sadness, too much helplessness, too much sadness, and resentment is even more incomprehensible. When the pain is bitter and there is no medicine, it is painful to find a good medicine to cure the pain, and when the medicine is in front of you, but I don't know how to take it, this simple words contain how much sadness and pain Bai Xiao'e has, no tears, but extremely tearful, I remember that when Shen Meigen left, he only asked Bai Xiao'e to wait for him for two months, but this time he left, it is twenty years! Life is one life, ten years is not much, let alone twenty years! The turn of time has made Bai Xiao'e's feelings for some people recede from the temperature of the year, and she no longer has any illusions about some things in the past, and now she is really at a loss for letting a woman's family accept such a big surprise, but at this moment with mixed feelings, the only thing she can say is the only thing she wants to say.

"I told my family that I wanted to marry you, because my father felt that the difference in status between the two of us was too great, and he strongly opposed me marrying you, afraid that I would come to you, so he simply locked me up and didn't let me go out, I sneaked away several times, but it didn't work. Shen Meigen said helplessly to Bai Xiao'e.

"My family watched me very closely, and even my father went with me at my graduation ceremony, for fear that I would come to you on the way! Do you remember the painting "Pure Spring Water"? Because of the lack of braids, it embodies an asymmetrical and mutilated beauty, and it won an award, and someone was willing to pay a lot of money to buy that painting, but I didn't sell it. That painting has always been in my office, and I have seen it countless times a day, just to remind you not to forget you, that I will find you wherever you go, that I will never leave you again, and that I will always hope to see you again one day so that I can mend my braids and the day has finally come. Shen Meigen was searching hard for the memories they shared.

"Why did you just come back?" Bai Xiao'e repeatedly asked Shen Meigen why there had been no news for so long.

"After a year of separation from you, the family arranged for me to marry a general's daughter, that is, my current wife, and the family no longer looked at me so tightly, and then I had the opportunity to run out to find you, and I went to Shuizhai to inquire about your whereabouts, but unfortunately no one knows where your family has moved. "I had to go back to Shanghai again, but for so many years, I have been thinking about you all the time, Xiao'e, I named my daughter Shen Si'e, the purpose is to remind myself not to forget you, but what else can I do besides missing?

"Do I have a child with you?" Shen Meigen asked Bai Xiao'e to the point.

"It's because I have a son, and that's important to you? It's because I have a child, and my family didn't dare to tell the people in the village when they moved to town. Bai Xiao'e was still expressionless.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Shen Meigen asked Bai Xiao'e in a complaining tone.

"How can I tell you, I have only been with you for a month, when you left, I didn't know that I was pregnant with your child, and then I was waiting, and gave birth to our son, my father named him 'Bai Wenwu', and has been fostered in my brother's house, he looks very much like you. Bai Xiao'e mentioned that the child suddenly became stronger, and for so many years, the child was the pillar of her life. For a woman, she needs support to survive, either the support of her husband or the support of her children.

"I gave you the most precious thing of a young girl, I gave the most precious thing of a woman to my children, watching them grow from more than a foot to more than a meter high, I feel that life is only happiness and no bitterness. Bai Xiao'e's eyes were full of tears, but she still stubbornly held back the tears and didn't let them slip down humbly, because she knew that if the tears flowed out, there was no way to stop crying, and she didn't want to cry anymore.

"Xiao'e, can you forgive me?" Shen Meigen wanted to get Bai Xiao'e's forgiveness.

"It's been so many years, if you don't come, I'll forget about it, where is it involved to forgive......" Bai Xiao'e still said coldly to Shen Meigen with tears and no expression.

For a woman who lives under pressure, all she cares about is where is the children's dinner, how can she have the heart to resent?

"This is a little compensation for you, you have to accept ......it no matter what," said Shen Meigen, handing the deed of a house in his hand to Bai Xiao'e.

"This is the deed of a Shanghai villa, I know that this compensation is far from enough, but please accept it, only if you accept it, my conscience will be better. Shen Meigen said to Bai Xiao'e with extreme guilt.

Although Bai Xiao'e lives in extreme poverty, her life has become relishful and extremely rich in poverty, and Bai Xiao'e has also become extremely strong, she doesn't need the help of others, let alone the charity of others, even if she goes to scavenge for waste, she doesn't want to ask for help! The compensation that Shen Meigen gave her is indeed what she desperately needs, but Bai Xiao'e doesn't want it, because what she has lost is that this material compensation can be compensated? But in order to make the man she has always loved feel better, she still accepted it and kept it for her lover.

Shen Meigen handed over all the things to Bai Xiao'e, and seeing that Bai Xiao'e also accepted it, the things that had plagued her for most of her life could finally be put down, and she could finally complete the "Pure Spring Water" that he had spent twenty years waiting for and had not yet finished, and turned around and left with great ease.

The world is like this, always when people are most lost, help people, everything you do can destroy you, can also rebuild you, but God is extremely fair, and he will make people pay for their mistakes at the right time, or make amends.

Shen Meigen thought back to Bai Xiao'e's current appearance, very annoyed, he hated it very much in his heart, but he didn't know who to hate, the only thing that was gratified was that Bai Xiao'e accepted his apology and forgave himself, only this is what he really wants.

Many old people have passed away, Shen Meigen really doesn't need to blame anyone if she thinks about it carefully, the only useful thing is to cherish the people in front of you, don't let the past mistakes re-enact, don't let your lover fall into the abyss again, and don't let innocent people be hurt again. As for the memories that have never been forgotten, they are only occasionally placed somewhere in the heart, like a spark that will burn the prairie as long as it is recalled, and like a raging flood, it can be monstrous as long as it is recalled. The memory is still there after the wind and rain, and that memory is not only not taken away by the wind and rain, but after the baptism of the wind and rain, it has become clearer!