(xviii)
When Liu Zhixi returned to Country Garden, she happened to meet Lin Sujin and Leng Jiang, Lin Sujin was still smiling arrogantly, but now in this smile, there is more shyness, she is immersed in love, she compares with Liu Zhixi everywhere, but she disdains to compare with her everywhere. Leng Jiang carried the piano bag on his back and held Lin Sujin in one hand, and when he looked at Liu Zhixi, his eyes were obviously hot and sad. Liu Zhixi didn't believe that Lin Sujin didn't feel it, but Lin Sujin was willing to be the winner on the surface, maybe what she wanted was not love, but the pleasure and vanity satisfaction she received.
Lin Sujin may have had a few drinks outside, and he stumbled a little when he walked, but there was a spark of love in his eyes, and his beautiful cheeks were flushed by the heat. Leng Jiang silently sent her to the door of the house, and only after confirming that she had rested did he return to find Liu Zhixi. Liu Zhixi saw Leng Jiang walking towards her, and hurriedly turned around and walked quickly, but as if she was wearing a heavy anklet, she couldn't lift her step, her heart was very painful, heartbreaking, miserable and hopeless, like being cut by a knife, like being burned by a fire, like being eaten by a wild beast. "Zhixi, wait for me!" Leng Jiang called behind her, she still couldn't harden her heart, quietly wiped her tears, and glanced back at him.
"Zhixi, do you know, the first time I saw you, I had a special feeling. You're a lot like a girl I met a long time ago. At that time, she was about five or six years old, and an old man took her with her, and in the snowy winter, the doorman of the community did not let them in, and they waited in the cold winter. Snow fluttered in her hair, and she shivered, looking like a little snowman. I sympathized with them, but I couldn't convince the security guards to let them in, so I begged the doorman to let them make a fire in the reception room, and I gave the little girl a box of Ferrero. Leng Jiang said to himself, with a cold look in his eyes, but the expression on his face was very gentle.
"I always remember that girl, it was so cute that I couldn't help but want to protect it, just like I felt when I saw you." Leng Jiang looked at the green grass underground, as if he wanted to dig out all the stories hidden under the soil of time.
"What?" Liu Zhixi looked at Leng Jiang in astonishment, her thoughts were pulled back to a long time ago, she stroked her hair that was blown by the night wind, and sorted out her messy thoughts by the way. "What's wrong?" Leng Jiang was puzzled by her surprise and asked puzzled. "It's nothing, I'm just thinking, I'm not fragile or feminine, how can you want to protect me?" Liu Zhixi's heart turned upside down, but she tried to suppress her beating heart. Her heart was so close to Leng Jiang, but she felt thousands of miles away, as if the person in front of her was just a ghost, an unrealistic phantom.
Under the moonlight, Leng Jiang looked at Liu Zhixi seriously, and before he could answer, Liu Zhixi left in a hurry, leaving him alone. Under the quiet moonlight, he stood alone for a while, even if the cold moonlight was arrogant, he was also the confidant of the literati and writers of the past generations, and he was an ordinary man, but no one could confide in his true heart, and no one could really understand him. Lin Sujin's text message came, and he looked at the clear moonlight lonely, and then put his hands in his pockets, leaving a lonely back, and walked towards home with some chagrin.
Lying on the soft bed in the bedroom, Liu Zhixi curled up in a ball, as if deliberately embroiling her body in Simmons. She closed her eyes tightly, but the tears were like unstoppable water valves, dripping out and falling on the white pillow, and after a while, they were wet. From time to time, her eyes widened, and she stared silently and vacantly at the ornate decorations on the ceiling.
The person she was thinking about was by her side, but she didn't have the joy of reuniting after a long absence, her heart was just painful, like a dagger inserted, she would rather Leng Jiang not him, so wandering and scattered heart, there is a trace of beautiful reverie, and a hope of sustenance. But the reality is so cruel that it doesn't give her soul a chance to transcend. Now, everything was clear, and when all the facts were exposed to the bright sunlight, she finally realized that the hidden memories had long since deteriorated and corrupted, and there was no going back to the past.
A polite knock came from outside the door, she quickly wiped her eyes, showed a standard smile in the mirror, and then opened the door, it was Shi Yue. He held a cup of coffee in his hand and smiled with a smile in his eyes: "Sister, this is what I grind with coffee beans, my parents said it tastes good, you can also taste it." She secretly glanced at this half-brother of her own flesh and blood, although she has gone through ups and downs, she has not forgotten her original intention and is still optimistic. How could she not be like this, but now these painful entanglements have made her change a little, she can't say whether these changes are good or bad, they are like a fast car, taking her to the unknown distance.
Liu Zhixi carefully took the tray and tasted it, the coffee ground by the coffee beans was really different from the instant brewing, the taste was authentic and mellow, and the bitterness was thick and sweet. The corners of her mouth drew a good-looking arc, and she stretched out her thumb towards Shi Yue, who smiled shyly, like a child who had picked up a toy that she had been thinking about, "Sister, if you like to drink, I will grind it for you to drink every day." Liu Zhixi's heart was like being watered by the rain, and there was an unexpected joy that gave her some hope and comfort in this indifferent world.
"Nuan Yang, when I see Shiyue, I am happy. However, I feel sorry for Su Huai. Their lives have completely changed, although maybe that is Su Huai's fate, but I can't forget this excellent young man, he once had all the good things in the world, and he deserves all the good things in this world. In my heart, there is always a sense of guilt, and I vaguely feel that if I hadn't appeared, then Su Huai would still be that sunny lucky boy. It may be unfair to Shi Yue to say this, but I can't help but think so. Liu Zhixi tapped lightly on the keyboard and privately messaged Nuan Yang on Weibo. The avatar of the warm sun is an endless sea, and the sunset blooms with the blue lotus. "Zhixi, do you still love Lengjiang?" Nuan Yang suddenly asked her. Her hands froze in mid-air, yes, she loved him, but it was because of this love that she could not forgive him, that she could not open her heart to him without guilt, and even the most precious memories, she tried to forget.
"When you enter a new relationship, everything else has to be redefined. Do you understand? Nuan Yang sent a cute smile and said to her, "A person is true or false, even if the eyes can't see it, the heart can feel it." ”
"Nuan Yang, have you ever been afraid that this world will be dark?" Liu Zhixi skipped his inquiry. "I've never seen the sun, so I'm not afraid of losing it." Nuan Yang replied frankly, but Liu Zhixi felt that there was infinite sadness in this answer, this friend who had never met knew her so well, but she was always wandering outside his heart.
When cleaning up the high school books, Liu Zhixi saw the beautifully packaged gift box, she remembered that it was a New Year's gift given to her by Zeng Xiao during the winter vacation of her freshman year of high school, and she had asked her to read it after graduation. Zeng Xiao's daily life, and her meticulous care for her, can make her feel something other than friendship. She was hesitating whether to open the gift, and suddenly thought of the conversation between Zeng Xiao and herself at the graduation party. She suddenly smiled with relief, wiped the dust off the cover with a tissue, and casually put the gift into the cabinet where the secret was stored, so that the secret of youth will be a secret forever.
The sunlight shone in obliquely from outside the house, Shi Yue opened the door and ran in happily, "Sister, I was admitted to the second middle school!" "No. 2 Middle School is the best middle school in this small city, except for Orange Well Middle School, where Liu Zhixi studied. Seeing Shi Yue's happy appearance, Liu Zhixi was also sincerely happy, but for some reason, her nose was sour, and tears were stored in her eyes. The college entrance examination is about to be released, but these days, she feels more pain than the restlessness of waiting. They are all birds with wings, they can fly higher and wider into the sky, and they can fly freely, but Su Huai, who should have been the pride of the sky, lived a difficult, chaotic, and hopeless life, as if he was a child abandoned by the god of fate, and he was cut off his wings before he could take off.