Chapter Twenty-Four: Praise the Father
After sleeping for less than four hours, the groggy feeling in Li Shen's head had receded like a tide. As soon as I woke up, I heard a strong wind outside, raindrops flying sideways, and pulling out a sharp flank.
put on his clothes and walked to the window, but found that Jiang Shan's room next door was still full of shadows and light.
At this moment, Jiang Shan had just woken up, tossing and turning in bed, but he couldn't sleep anymore.
simply got up from the bed, opened the diary, there were still some essays written on it, looked through it carefully, couldn't help covering his eyes with his hands, and secretly opened the slits, savoring his childish memories of high school.
"I'm such a good person, he won't refuse to confess to him, right?"
"He won't dislike me, I'm so proactive."
She is really going to die of shame, she was not reserved at all before, but speaking of which, she is too active now.
Maybe in the eyes of others, in the world, it will not happen that an anime-style honor student heroine falls in love with her waste wood at the same table.
Li Shen's grades are not as good as hers, and his family background is not as good as hers, and he is an ordinary person in the crowd. But they didn't know that in her eyes, Li Shen was never a waste of firewood.
On the night of the school exam results, people kept walking up to the podium and using the classroom computers to check their results.
The computer screen in the middle of the blackboard was lit up with a faint light, constantly displaying their results, 4 A's, 3 A's...... In the midst of cheers, all kinds of examination papers and materials on politics, history, geography, and technology were thrown into the sky and fell freely.
In the end, it was Li Shen's turn, everyone was very optimistic about him, Li Shen was very talented in the three liberal arts, and he was A in every mock exam, only his skills were not very stable.
Everyone had already helped him throw the test paper into the sky, and at the moment when the results jumped out, among the white butterflies flying in the sky, Li Shen's originally calm face pulled out a smile.
Three B and one A.
The classroom was silent, the test papers were noisy, and finally a white carpet was spread on the floor. Li Shen stepped down, step by step on the materials he had carefully bound, with a smile on his face that should have belonged to the victor.
Everyone is infected by this laughter, and it's not an optional exam, just pass it, and not everyone wants a trinity.
And as a tablemate, she saw that Li Shen walked to the seat, and the smile disappeared. In the end, that kind of hard work is an empty tiredness surging.
The bamboo basket is empty.
She thought that this tablemate was going to give up, after all, how tiring it was to retake the exam, and it was not bad to have an A.
But the next day, Li Shen asked her for all her political, historical, geographical, technical notes, textbooks, and stacked them on the table in a proper manner. In between classes where others are reading novels, he is retrieving his old memories.
She asked Li Shen why she didn't give up like this, and Li Shen only gave her a rotten answer: "Dream, I want to go to Copenhagen and see my dream." ”
But then she realized that it wasn't just a dream. Parents are a barrier between people and death, but Li Shen is gone. Only when he chases the sun like his father can he feel the few warmth in his life.
This was the first time she had learned about Li Shen, and she wanted to help him. Many years later, when she recalled the past from her hospital bed, she found that in just a few months as a teacher Li Shen, Li Shen's courage, determination, and gentleness made her heart beat again and again.
Finally, on the night of the second make-up test, 3 A's. Li Shen hugged herself for the first time, but let go timidly, and all her heartbeats converged into a surging drumbeat.
Perhaps fate felt that the joke played on her was too bad and gave her a crush, who would still reach out to her after she fell into the abyss.
She kept writing in her diary, engraved her experiences in the past few days.
In the future, this diary will not be shown to Li Shen, and she will read it slowly by herself on the night when she goes abroad.
Fingers twitching her lips and teeth, she was really insatiable. Every kiss and hug she felt was a fragment that she could savor in the long night ahead.
The youthfulness of this life is mixed with the enthusiasm of the previous life, which can also make up for the shortcomings of her not having a long relationship with Li Shen.
The phone suddenly buzzed, and on it was a text message from Li Shen: "What are you doing?" ”
She wrote in her diary: "I'm thinking about you. ”
But she kept making up reasons and kept deleting them. Finally, I sent one: "I was just sleeping and was woken up by your text message!" Rage! ”
I was really woken up, and I must scold him tomorrow.
"Sleep with the lights on?"
She tiptoed to turn off the light and replied, "I just forgot to turn it off." ”
Li Shen was suspicious, he used to sleep at night, and Jiang Shan couldn't sleep when the light was on. But after seeing that the light next door was turned off, he didn't bother anymore.
After Jiang Shan turned off the light, the light next door turned on again.
Why hasn't he slept yet? In the middle of the night.
After a long time, the light next door still hadn't been extinguished, and she couldn't help but feel anxious. In the past, when Li Shen stayed up late to sort out the experimental data, she lay on the bed, constantly worrying about what to do if Li Shen died suddenly one day.
Now, that feeling is spreading to her heart again.
Finally, she couldn't help it anymore and called Li Shen directly.
The phone was connected, and Jiang Shan asked directly, "Why don't you sleep yet?" ”
Li Shen also knew at this time, Jiang Shan must not have slept before, just deceived him, he must have been doing something unseemly before.
"I keep a diary."
When Jiang Shan heard the answer, he didn't know what to say for a while. There was a small expectation in her heart, and she wanted to see it.
The voice over there directly complied with her intentions, and directly began to read aloud: "It's really shameful to be 353 days away from the college entrance examination......"
Jiang Shan pricked up her ears, but what was below made her too ashamed.
"Li Shen is afraid that I will be alone...... Although I had a cold...... But he actually ......."
This was obviously written in her diary, but Li Shen guessed it, and the writing was very similar.
She really wanted to hang up the phone, but the voice kept attracting her, and she might not hear it again.
Her face grew redder and redder, and finally she spoke, "Don't say it." You're going to keep me awake. ”
Li Shen stopped teasing her when he heard this. For a moment, there was only the sound of two people breathing on the telephone.
Outside the window, the rain was rushing rapidly, but in the ears of the two people, there was only the sound of each other's continuous breathing.
"Tell me a story, I can't sleep." Jiang Shan silently turned on the recording button, and in the future, she had to let Li Shen tell a few more stories and treasure them, otherwise how could she sleep in a foreign country.
"But I don't know how to tell stories."
"Then let's talk about praising the father day by day."
Li Shen was stunned for a moment, was silent for a while, spoke softly, and slowly spoke.
"Kuafu was born in a mountain plain called "Chengdu Zaitian", which is extremely dark, and he hopes that the sun that rises every day will never set, but ......"
Across a wall, the quilts of the two people lit up with a shining light, this light seemed to be the same as the little sun, blown by the sound, and warmth and calm slowly swept Jiang Shan's whole body.
"In the end, Kuafu died, and he turned into a peach forest and ...... for every latecomer"
Hearing this, Jiang Shan's sleepiness kept surging, and she showed a satisfied smile, she can't succeed, there are always latecomers who will succeed, they will no longer be bothered by this disease, and her stay will be passed on in another form to other people who love each other.
Li Shen heard Jiang Shan's delicate breathing, but he was still telling the story.
"But in fact, the day-by-day Kua Father did not die, he lived in endless time and space, and kept repeating this failed austerity."
"As he walked, Ying Long told him that it was all meaningless, and that the sun would set as usual, and he would keep returning to the starting point."
"But Kuafu told Ying Long that everything in the world would decay, and even if he caught the sun one day, the sun would go out, but it was in this doomed journey that he kept believing in the meaning of life."
Ying Long couldn't believe this absurd statement, he kept killing Kuafu, but every time the sun rose again, in that peach forest, one by one, Kuafu stepped forward, raised smoke and dust, and galloped towards the sun.
The recording of the mobile phone is still on, and it keeps recording Li Shen's story, and the last one.
"Good night, my sun."
The wind and rain were still there, but the sun had already risen behind the clouds.
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Jiang Cong woke up very early, and wanted to wake up his daughter, but when he pushed the door open, it was his daughter's sleeping face. The phone is still next to my daughter's pillow.
He tucked the quilt for Jiang Shan, so that she would not catch a cold.
Putting the phone on the bedside table, there was a low snoring from another person inside.
He hung up the phone, smiled helplessly, and went to his wife's window to stuff a postcard, and now Li Shen is calling, it is really a huge reincarnation.
The recording has been recorded in the file, and the conversation between Li Shen and his daughter is playing automatically.
"Li Shen is afraid that I will be alone...... Although I had a cold...... But he actually ......."
Hearing the contents of the diary at the beginning, Jiang Cong looked at the wall with unkind eyes, it seems that this kid is really bold!
But when he heard the last praise of his father, his heart gradually condensed on it.
"But Kuafu told Ying Long that everything in the world would decay, and even if he caught the sun one day, the sun would go out, but it was in this doomed journey that he kept believing in the meaning of life."
Jiang Cong sat on the side and listened to the whole story silently, he actually didn't want to listen to his daughter's privacy, but the story behind it attracted him.
"Nice story." He thought to himself. But why does a minor always speak so vicissitudes?
His phone rang suddenly, and he answered it. His wife's tired voice came from there: "What's wrong with Shanshan's fever?" ”
Jiang Cong put his hand on his daughter's forehead, the fever had roughly subsided, and the young man was really in good health.
He said, "It's much better, Qiuhua, let's go to bed quickly after the night shift." ”
"Where did the night shift come from, it's all day, there are too many people in the hospital, and I may not be able to go back in the last few days."
Jiang Cong couldn't help but worry, there must have been a lot of injured people in the past few days, and his wife must have been busy.
"I'll take care of things at home."
There was silence for a while, but he still spoke: "Old Jiang, in fact, I want to ask you, would you like to go back to the hospital, there are too many people who have been bitten by snakes recently, non-toxic and poisonous, and the hospital has not enough manpower and serum, I know you have an opinion about the hospital, but ......"
Before Qi Qiuhua finished speaking, Jiang Cong said the word "good" happily.
At that time, he was arrogant, took the initiative to resign, and went to a snake venom company as a consultant, which was a lot of money, but every time he saw his wife who was so busy that he didn't even have to eat, he was always annoyed.
The other end of the phone was silent for a long time, and said: "Old Jiang, if Shanshan's fever has not subsided, you are still ......"
"Don't worry, Shanshan will be taken care of." Jiang Cong looked at his daughter's smiling face, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise.
"Who?"
"The kid next door."
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When Li Shen went out, he saw Jiang Cong sitting at the door.
Li Shen couldn't figure out for a while, and he didn't know what Jiang Cong was going to do.
"If you really like Shanshan, you have to respect her and think about her future, understand? You are not allowed to enter her bedroom, you are not allowed to bring her to you, you are not allowed to do anything to her! ”
Halfway through speaking, Jiang Cong suddenly stopped, as if his daughter was more active, so he gritted his teeth again and said, "You have to hold on!" ”
Li Shen nodded hurriedly, of course he wouldn't do that kind of thing, it's still too early, and the review won't allow him to write.
"These days, you have to take care of her, Shanshan likes to eat mangosteen and egg fried rice, she doesn't like to eat shiitake mushrooms and fatty meat."
After chattering a lot of precautions, Jiang Cong went downstairs with peace of mind.
He didn't worry about Li Shen's misconduct, and there was still surveillance at home.
When Li Shen and Jiang Shan were left in the family, something called responsibility suddenly fell on his shoulders.
Changing into an apron, he began to prepare breakfast.
And Jiang Cong was looking at Li Shen on his mobile phone on the assault boat.
The lace apron that was originally worn for women was worn on Li Shen's body, so much so that it felt funny, Jiang Cong laughed out loud, but he stopped laughing immediately, he seemed to look like this when he wore this.
Li Shen is actually not very good at cooking, and the things he makes are limited to what he can eat, and now it is difficult for him.
But no matter how it is, his level is better than Jiang Shan, who is a high school student.
Just as he was about to crack the eggs, an anxious "stop" came from behind him. “
Li Shen turned around and saw Jiang Shan, who had just gotten up, his shoes were worn backwards, his hair was unkempt, and his eyes were half-open and half-closed.
"You wash your face first, and when you wash your face, you can eat it."
As he spoke, Li Shen was about to start beating eggs, but Jiang Shan immediately ran over, and one shoe fell to the ground.
can't blame Jiang Shan for making a fuss, she has eaten Li Shen's egg fried rice, drenched in oil, and the oil can fry another dish. And there is always too much moisture, and the bottom of the pot is pasted into a piece.
Jiang Shan had already snatched the bowl and kicked Li Shen out of the kitchen.
Li Shen was helpless, this was still the same as before, he washed the dishes, Jiang Shan cooked, and the division of labor was clear.
He could only take Jiang Shan's slippers that he had run away halfway to the kitchen and put them next to Jiang Shan's bare feet.
Although he also wanted to help Jiang Shan wash her face, while she was cooking, wipe her sweaty cheeks little by little, put on an apron for her, and preferably bring a maid hat.
But alas, the surveillance is still hanging there.