The gloomy sky hung low, and the continuous rain line fell.

Pushing open the rain-soaked window, a cool breeze invaded the room.

Xu Anchuan closed his eyes and stood in front of the window, quietly breathing in the fresh air with moisture, and the noise of traffic in the wind in his ears.

Perhaps the rain had been stolen into the room by the wind, and the corners of his eyes were a little shining.

No one knows when parting will come, and in the face of birth, old age, sickness and death, it seems that all farewells without saying goodbye are so sudden......

Today is Saturday, a rare time to make up for lazy sleep, but Xu Anchuan got up unusually early. Lying on the bed, his eyes staring at the pattern of the ceiling, silently counting the lines of the petals on it.

The pressure of approaching the college entrance examination has caused his sleep quality to decline significantly recently.

Somehow, there is always an indescribable sense of depression in my heart today. It was like being pressed against the chest by a thousand pounds of heavy stones, and it was dull and inexplicable.

Maybe it's because I've been under too much pressure lately, it's really cranky for no reason, it seems that I still have to practice more with this mentality.

Xu Anchuan smiled, put his hands behind his head, and found a suitable reason for his inexplicable panic.

In this quiet morning, everything is so clear. Not to mention that he was born with an extremely sharp hearing that is unusually human.

Therefore, he clearly heard Ms. Xia's thin whimper outside the door. When he got out of bed and was about to clarify the situation and comfort his mother, he was stopped by a sentence.

"Don't inform Xiaochuan about this matter for the time being, that kid has been close to the old man since he was a child. Now is the most critical moment in his life, if he knows that his grandfather is gone, I am afraid that emotions will affect him. ”

"Hey, why did you leave so suddenly, this old man? This makes me how... Woohoo......"

A familiar and friendly voice came from the other end of the phone, it was a grandmother in a distant mountain village.

It was an irrepressible chok, and in Grandma's intermittent voice was a deep sadness and powerlessness that couldn't be hidden.

What? Grandpa is gone?!

Xu Anchuan lost his mind for a while, and today's inexplicable panic has a source.

How could it be, the old man's body has always been tough, why did he suddenly leave?

Obviously, I talked on the phone some time ago, and I obviously said that after the college entrance examination, the two of us chatted well, and we made an appointment to go around the mountains together, how could it be that yin and yang were suddenly separated?

"I know, I know."

"Mom, don't cry, don't cry, don't be too sad. The deceased has passed away, and Dad doesn't want you to be so sad in the sky. ”

"Mom, I'll go back right away, I'll go back right away."

Ms. Xia whimpered while comforting her sad mother-in-law.

The emotions of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law seem to be connected at this moment, and the tears carry the same bitterness. In the corner they didn't know, Xu Anchuan stared at the ceiling in distraction......

His fingers unconsciously rubbed the mobile phone, and his eyes drifted in the lights of thousands of homes lit up outside the window.

The night rain was still falling, and the city shrouded in lights seemed to be filled with a hazy mist. Xu Anchuan lost his mind for a moment, and his mind was filled with an inexplicable sense of unreality.

Maybe it's just a dream?

The sudden vibration awakened the reverie of reality and dreams.

Xu Anchuan looked at the video call invitation sent by Ms. Xia Qiunan on the screen, then silently closed the window, raised his hand, wiped the water marks on his face with his sleeve, and tried to make a sunny smile as usual at the glass. He swallowed and foamed, cleared his throat, and then clicked.

"Hey."

"Good evening, Mom."

Waving his hand at the mobile phone, Xu Anchuan sent a sunny smile to Ms. Xia Qiunan on the other end.

"Xiaochuan, my mother temporarily received an urgent notice from the company's leaders today, and she has an extra big project under her hands, and she may have to work overtime for a few days recently, so she can't go back."

"There are still some meals in the fridge, so when you are hungry, you can eat them in the microwave. If you don't want to eat, go to the restaurant downstairs and order your own food, and I'll put the money on the table for you, and use it carefully. ”

"By the way, Xiaochuan, when my mother does a good job of this order, there will be a big red envelope bonus, and when you finish the college entrance examination, your mother will take you out for a good walk and relax."

"Didn't you always want to go to Mount Tai to see, this time our mother and son have a good turn."

Ms. Xia Qiunan on the other side seemed to be very happy, but her voice was a little hoarse that could not be concealed, her expression was also a little tired, and her eyes were slightly red. But she still smiled at Xu Anchuan.

"yes, I see."

"Mom, I've grown up and will take care of myself, don't worry."

Xu Anchuan nodded.

"I don't have to take care of yourself in the next few days, and you can't relax in your studies, you are about to take the college entrance examination, but you can't drop the chain at this time."

Ms. Xia looked at Xu Anchuan with a serious face and made a familiar preach and nag, Xu Anchuan just smiled, smiled and nodded in response to his mother.

"Well, I got it, Mom."

"Mom, you also have to pay attention to your body, don't be too tired, pay attention to rest, don't stay up late, drink more water, drink less milk tea, it's unhealthy and easy to gain weight. At that time, there will be little meat on the face and stomach, and it will not be the district flower of our community, haha. ”

Xu Anchuan touched his stomach and made a funny smile at the other end of the screen.

"Go, go, go! Xiaochuan, do you dislike your mother's old pearl yellow, old age and decay have embarrassed you. ”

Ms. Xia rubbed her eyes, the corners of her eyes were red, and she seemed to be extremely sad about her son's words.

"How can you, my mother! Let's go out for a walk together, and everyone else thinks I'm your own brother. ”

"Xiao Chuanzi is rude and offensive, and he doesn't choose to say anything for a while, he should be beaten!"

Xu Anchuan put the mobile phone on the table, made a sincere and frightened expression at the screen, opened the bow left and right with his hand, and gently slapped it on his face.

"Hey, you're getting skinny, don't pretend to be a treasure."

Ms. Xia sneered and waved her hand at Xu Anchuan in disgust.

"Before you know it, you're going to be eighteen. That little lump back then, now it has become a one-meter-eight guy, Mom can't hold you anymore, the years are urging people to get old. ”

"Okay, let's stop talking, mom is going to work."

"You have to study hard, these days are a critical moment for the review sprint, and you can't relax if your mother is not there. Don't think that you are already stable, the arrogant army will be defeated, you must always keep working hard! ”

"I know, I know, I am steady, I am good at diligence and frolic, I will not relax. Mom, I'm going to brush up on the questions, I'll contact you if there's something. ”

Xu Anchuan picked up the workbook on the table and waved it at the screen, showing a studious and knowledge-seeking appearance.

"Alright then, goodbye, Ogawa."

Ms. Xia nodded and smiled at Xu Anchuan.

"Goodbye, Mom, take a break."

Looking at the screen that was slowly going out, Xu Anchuan was silent for a long time.

Push open the window and the evening breeze blows.

The rain said goodbye to the sky, the dark clouds quietly dispersed, and the bright moon like a round and flawless moon secretly appeared.

The evening breeze was gentle, and a few points on the plantain leaves slid down, splashing and ticking to the ground.

I don't know when the rain has stopped, and there is the sound of insects outside the window, which is noisy but inexplicably lively.

"Good all the way, old man."

The moonlight fell on his face, quiet and cold.

Xu Anchuan sighed lightly and whispered goodbye to the sky in the distance, where it was the direction of the mountain and the direction of his grandfather......

Dreaming of juvenile things in the middle of the night, Xu Anchuan tossed and turned.

Somehow, the deeply buried memories were inexplicably hooked.

Looking at the full moon outside the window, he suddenly remembered it, the one that had been hidden in his memory for a long time.

Removed the small wooden box from the wardrobe that had not been opened for a long time, and slowly wiped off the thick layer of dust on it with a towel. Carefully opened the quietly rusty lock, and what caught his eye was the familiar object, Xu Anchuan was a little lost for a while.

"Tick, tick."

The sound of water droplets dripping on the windowsill echoed in the quiet room, and Xu Anchuan woke up like a dream.

After hesitating for a long time, Xu Anchuan took out the object in the box that was carefully wrapped by yellow silk.

Slowly unraveling the layers of silk cloth, he had a bronze mirror on his hand that had been baptized by time.

Rubbing his fingers on the notched bronze mirror, feeling the familiar pitted concave and convex feeling, Xu Anchuan's complex mood seemed to slowly calm down at this moment.

Looking at the quaint pattern behind the bronze mirror, which resembles Tai Chi Pisces, Xu Anchuan felt a little inexplicable for a while.

It seems that his relationship with this mirror began a long, long time ago.

That's a cliché story.

This mirror has had an inexplicable connection with him since childhood.

For example, his grasp is it, his mood is tied to it, he will cry when he can't see it, but he will smile when he sees it. Even when he was young, he would inexplicably give birth to some minor illnesses and disasters, such as the sudden fever and the sudden scratching of his hand.

may even be a little demonized, Xu Anchuan has always felt that this mirror is spiritual, and there is a warm soul in it, which has accompanied him for a long, long time.

Maybe their relationship is the same as Jia Baoyu and the Tongling Jade in the Red Mansion.

The only difference is that Baoyu's jade is innate, and Xu Anchuan's mirror is an ancestral old thing of the Xu family......

However, I don't know when it began, this mirror that has been with you for many years was put on the shelf, Xu Anchuan no longer looked at it in a daze, no longer confided in it about his youth, and no longer rubbed it from time to time.

Maybe it's because you don't need the company of your young anymore when you grow up.

People always yearn for a farther future, need to go faster, and the love of youth is not forgotten to be scattered in time after all.

The soft cloth caressed the mirror that seemed to have been carved by a sword, and under the action of wax, the mirror carved by time gradually regained its former moving luster.

Looking at the blurry figure in the mirror for a long time, the depressed feeling in Xu Anchuan's chest slowly faded.

maybe

Time really never shows mercy. Parting always comes suddenly, and the single-trip life train only stops at the final station.

However, the unconscious tears still can't be understood in verbal relief.

Silently turn off the lights, close your eyes, and slow down your breathing.

Xu Anchuan's hand fell on the pillow, carefully feeling the inexplicable peace of mind brought by the familiar and unfamiliar cold feeling......

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"Ding Zero~"

The wind chimes rang softly, and the moonlight swayed.

The humble alleys are quaint houses that don't fit in with the surrounding city.

A small oil-paper lantern was lit in front of the house, and the orange world was lit up in the darkness. Simple and simple, like a clear spring in the desert, let the restless hearts have a home.

There is an ebony plaque hanging on the house, the color of time deposited is deep like a blooming black tulip, the stars are shining, and the carved words reflected are like a thousand years of history, brewing the luster of black jade.

"Penglaidang".

Three small seal characters are inscribed in the corners of the city, under the light of candlelight, warming the lonely insects and moths in the night, giving them a hidden corner to settle down and not letting them die......

"Squeak~"

The wooden door pushed, "creaked", made a long sound, and the black wooden door revealed a gap, and the moonlight stole in, and the dancing candle flame covered the simple and simple furnishings of the house.

A handsome young man like a sunny boy next door, dressed in a casual white shirt and jeans, was lying quietly on a rocking chair woven with ancient rattan, his eyes narrowed slightly, and the rattan chair swayed slowly. On the small table beside him, there is a white candle as warm as jade, a pot of tea containing hot gas, and half a cup of tea is added to the small ink-colored teacup, the tea lid is half closed, and the faint fragrance of bitter tea lingers in the room.

The room is quiet, quiet like a freehand ancient painting, and the wooden door seems to have opened the dusty time and opened the melancholy history.

"Here we are."

It didn't seem to surprise the visitor who came by the starry night, and the young man pretended to sleep, and his tone was flat and careless.

"You're still the same."

Someone gently bolted the wooden door, and the latch was tight, like an iron wall to isolate the house from the fireworks of the world.

He turned around, his hair gray and his beard unskewed. Although the corners of the eyes are covered with dense crow's feet, they still can't hide those clear eyes.

It can't be seen from his appearance that he is young, and he should also be a handsome man who fascinates the hearts of thousands of people.

"We've known each other for almost seventy years."

The old man stared at the candle flame, the orange light reflected on the vicissitudes of life, his eyes narrowed slightly, and his expression was in a trance.

"I remember the last time I saw you was eighteen years ago."

"I've been determined to see you again."

"I didn't expect that my shameless old man still came."

"Huh."

"The older a person gets, the cheaper this skin becomes, and if you say it's lost, you're lost."

The old man nagged, with self-deprecating laughter and inexplicable sadness.

"You owe me!"

"Eighteen years ago, you buried my child in a red coffin."

"Now, it's time to pay off the debt."

The old man stared at the young man who was pretending to sleep in the rocking chair, and the corners of his dry eyes were slightly moist.

"Okay."

The rattan chair swayed softly, silent for a long time.

The boy raised his hand, picked up the teacup, and took a sip. A mouth spit out a faint bitter tea fragrance.

"Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, you should go."

The young man opened his eyes, like two ancient wells, and his deep eyes were calm and waveless.

"Okay."

Receiving the expected answer, the old man chuckled. With the momentum of stealing the bell in an instant, the over-aged hand speed picked up a cup of tea on the small table, and with a grunt, it poured into his mouth like a cow chewing a peony.

"Hiccup~"

"Good tea!"

"I'm gone, haha!"

Like a child who successfully eats candy, the old man laughed and pushed the door away.

The night was thick and could not be dissolved, the long silent street was empty, and the old man wandered under a familiar building. The cold moonlight and the lights of thousands of homes merged into a dim world in the shallow mist after the rain, faintly, hazy, bathed in the moonlight, the old man's figure gradually became transparent, and then slowly turned into a little fluorescent, disappearing in the midnight wind.

"Heh, it's still that scoundrel."

The young man looked at the stars and moon with an inexplicable expression.

"Still."

"Heaven and earth are connected, and people and gods are forever separated."

"How can he bear the half-broken road to Hades."

The boy gently wiped the teacup, squinted his eyes, and blew away the non-existent dust from the candlelight.

Put down the teacup and leave the rattan chair.

Straightened up and patted his trouser leg gently.

"Farewell."

"Ah Sheng."

The evening breeze quietly pushed the door shut, and the sleeping insects outside the house rose and fell, and the quaint wooden door seemed to separate the two worlds as heavy......

A full moon is set in the starry sky like a black screen, and the bright moonlight falls on the world, and the quiet world is plated with a layer of silver light veil.

The moon is pouring, and the mirror is bathing.

The bronze mirror outside the dream was bathed in moonlight, Xu Anchuan's hand on the mirror was as white as jade, and a vague white shadow quietly appeared on the sleeping Xu Anchuan.

Pisces rotates, yin and yang rotate.

The blurred mirror gradually became clear, and the engraving on the back of the mirror, which resembled the yin and yang fishes, rotated silently.

Suddenly, a familiar voice echoed in Xu Anchuan's ears, expectant and worried:

"He chose you."

"Seventeen years of delay."

"In the end, it's still lost."

"That door is open after all."

"Ogawa."

"That's all the old man can do for you, and the road ahead is up to you."

"Goodbye."

"Good grandson."

The white light flashed, and a streak of light flashed on the bronze mirror, which was fleeting.

Xu Anchuan, who was asleep, seemed to feel something, and whispered softly.

"Is that you?"

"Don't go, grandpa!"

"I miss you."

The evening breeze enters the house, and the moonlight is gentle.

Everything seemed to be, a dream.

The white shadow on Xu Anchuan's body gradually became clear, and then it poured down like a stream of water, slowly injecting into the bronze mirror.

Outside the window, the bright moonlight seemed to suddenly brighten up a little more......