Chapter Thirty-Nine: Guarded Like a Dream
After eating, the three of them came to the side of the road, Zeng Hui wanted to drive Xu Wenmin back to school, but Xu Wenmin insisted on refusing, saying that he didn't want to trouble her.
And Zeng Hui also felt that he should buy some gifts to visit the second brother's family who took care of his son during this time, so he didn't force it anymore, but after repeatedly telling Xu Wenmin that he was in trouble to find her, he drove away.
As soon as Zeng Hui left, Bai Yaolong and Xu Wenmin stood on the edge of the road again with some embarrassment.
The two stood side by side, looking at the streetlights, billboards, garbage cans, and the ordinary pedestrian crossing across the road, Bai Yaolong felt pleasing to the eye.
Because he knew that he not only temporarily controlled the nightmare of his previous life today, but also Xu Wenmin's sensible, well-behaved, steady and unyielding qualities today also confirmed that this girl who was playing with her hair next to her ear was the person he wanted to accompany for the rest of his life.
Perhaps there was a turn for the better, and the hazy weather that had rained turned cloudy to clear, and the sun shone through the not-so-robust street trees, and the glorious flare was like a happy elf, making both of them full of some psychedelia.
"I'll take you back to school." Bai Yaolong broke the silence after Zeng Hui left, and glanced at Xu Wenmin expectantly, but she still looked across the street, shook her head and said, "No, I'll just go back alone." ”
Bai Yaolong knew that although Xu Wenmin was mature and stable, she actually attached great importance to her reputation or other people's evaluation of her, which was also a helpless thing, this kind of closed environment in the countryside was like this, everyone looked up and didn't look down, because your identity was fixed there, so the relationship between people had to rely on these invisible and intangible reputations to maintain, which is why the Chinese people have attached so much importance to the relationship for thousands of years.
In modern times, the reason why people's sense of kinship and friendship is getting weaker and weaker is that they can support their own family and even generate more value through the relationship of contract and cooperation through the bond or shackles based on the land, so such a relationship society is gradually disintegrating.
This is also the reason why the people in the city can now care so little about the evaluation and opinion of others, because their interests have nothing to do with these people who originally knew.
Although Bai Yaolong was accustomed to the scruples of his previous life, he still had to respect Xu Wenmin's values at this moment, so he continued: "Are you afraid that other classmates will see it, or else, you go ahead, I'm two meters behind you, okay?" ”
Xu Wenmin hesitated, but finally nodded, and just like that, the two walked towards the school one after the other, like a little couple who were afraid of being caught by their parents after eloping.
Although Bai Yaolong also liked Xu Wenmin in his previous life, he actually knew very little about her, looking at the pretty back in a white dress in front of him, although he was uneasy, he didn't know how to talk to her.
And Xu Wenmin in front obviously doesn't know much about him, and she cares about other people's eyes, and she doesn't have any desire to talk.
In this way, the two people who had held hands at the dinner table were now like ducks in the field, walking silently one after the other, until they reached the "turtle pond" where he talked to Jin Ling last time, Xu Wenmin stopped and looked at the sunny river in the distance, as if he had something to think about.
At this time, the sun hung on her body like the most beautiful colorful clothes, and the grass under her feet was like her crystal slipper, making her look like a beautiful sculpture.
Looking at this flawless jade figure, Bai Yaolong didn't have the courage to step forward and stand side by side with her, just like just now, quietly admiring the picturesque scenery from her side.
"Bai Yaolong, did you know me before?" Xu Wenmin looked into the distance, but she knew that Bai Yaolong was always behind her.
Her question startled Bai Yaolong, he unconsciously associated this question with the memory of his previous life, thinking that she was talking about whether we recognized us in his previous life, so he was subconsciously in a trance.
"Should... I don't know. Bai Yaolong himself didn't know how to answer, he really didn't know her in this life, but counting the previous life, how should he answer.
Xu Wenmin tapped the moth's head, but didn't delve into Bai Yaolong's uncertain tone, but turned around and looked at him seriously and said, "I have hollowed out all my memories, and I don't think I have any intersection with you, so I want to know, why do you hug as soon as you arrive at school... Holding me, and now going out of your way to help me, is a curiosity and trouble that has always been hidden in my heart, so I want you to tell me why you do this. ”
The breeze blew her hair, and the long white dress also fluttered with the wind, which was so beautiful that she couldn't help it.
Bai Yaolong knew that she would ask this question sooner or later, but he didn't expect this question to come so early, so early that he was not ready to answer this question at all.
Of course, it is impossible for him to tell Xu Wenmin that he has been reincarnated, he actually knew you in his previous life, and in this life, he stepped on the colorful auspicious clouds to marry you.
So this problem is destined to be unsolvable in this world.
"I... I don't know, maybe it's the devil who sent it, but there was always a voice in my heart crying out to help you. Bai Yaolong smiled bitterly, he could only use such a clumsy answer to answer the person he wanted to treat most sincerely.
But Xu Wenmin didn't get angry when he heard this ridiculous answer, but turned his head and said: "The old people in our village used to say that after some people die, they will ask the living to help them fulfill some unfulfilled wishes, I have never believed this statement before, because I have never dreamed of my dead father since I was a child, but along the way, I have believed it a little..."
Bai Yaolong didn't speak, of course he knew that what Xu Wenmin wanted to express was that he was the one who was entrusted with his father's dream, but in fact he wasn't, but he didn't have a better explanation than Xu Wenmin's wishful thinking, so he didn't know how to answer. The two fell silent again, Bai Yaolong also secretly hated himself for not being angry, he was a talkative person in his previous life, but now he seems to have become a dumb person who can't speak.
And he didn't know why he and Jin Ling had endless words when they were together, but in the face of this person he wanted to go to the twilight the most, he couldn't find a word or a topic, and it seemed that all the words were not as good as looking at her and accompanying her for a moment.
In the end, Xu Wenmin said again: "Okay, in short, thank you today, and please take me to thank Aunt Zeng again, I'll go first, you don't have to send me, it's almost time to school." ”
How Bai Yaolong wished he could stay with her for a while longer, but he couldn't find a reason to keep her, he also nodded indifferently, and it wasn't until Xu Wenmin walked out a few steps that he shouted at Xu Wenmin: "Wenmin! ”
Wen Min saw him calling himself, and looked back at her again, the sun shone from behind her, making Bai Yaolong a little unable to open his eyes to see her expression clearly, his shout was just to stop Xu Wenmin from leaving his pace, there was no reason at all, he could only think of a reason and said: "My grades are not very good... Can... I'm here to ask you. ”
He put his hand over his eyes to block out the harsh sunlight, and this time he finally saw the beautiful face smile, nodded at him, and then turned and strolled away towards the ivory tower.