Next to the small pond was a deserted field, and the sun shone on the circle of broken trees around the pond, reflecting all sorts of strange halos and points of light between the branches. Although the winter morning is bitingly cold, walking in the dazzling sunlight, I still feel a trace of warmth soaking into the bone marrow.

Although we can see the pond downstairs every day, we rarely walk to the pond, perhaps, what can be easily seen in front of us, people will not get closer to it, anyway, it is close in front of us, within reach, but too lazy to reach out and touch it.

Li Yun and I walked around the fence around the rental house and walked on the ridge by the pond, and along the high ridge, we could get all the way to the edge of the pond, where there was a ditch that could bring water into the field. It's just that because the fields have been barren, the ditch has been filled with silt, and some parts of the soil have cracked, giving people a sense of desolation.

Li Yun suddenly stopped and said, "Listen, there is the sound of birds." ”

I listened for a while, but I didn't hear anything.

I said, "There are no birds, how can there be birds in the winter?"

Li Yun asked me, "Do you like winter or summer?"

I replied, "I like summer, the fragrance of leaves everywhere in summer, especially at night in summer, when a person can smell a strong smell when he stands under a tree, it is the fragrance of trees, the highest gift of nature." ”

Li Yun had a sweet smile on her white and beautiful face in the sun, and she said, "There is also a fragrance in winter." In winter, the wind and trees will have a dull fragrance, but the human nose is too cold, which affects the sense of smell, and it also makes people afraid to smell and feel with their hearts. ”

She stood quietly in the fierce winter light, slowly closed her eyes, and said, "You can feel the silence and hear the birds." ”

Suddenly her body shook, almost as if she was about to fall into the pond, and I took her hand, and felt her face so pale, her hands so cold, and I was breathless from the heartache.

"Yesterday's rice wine was so powerful," Li Yun opened her eyes and said, "I'm so dizzy now." ”

I said should we sit by the pond for a while.

Li Yun said no need, let's go.

"Where are we going?" I asked Li Yun, "Today, your father ----- that person will come to see you, do you really, don't want to go back to school to see him?"

Li Yun said lightly: "I want to go to the library to read books, will you accompany me?"

I sighed, "Why bother. ”

Li Yun said: "Why bother. ”

I could only take Li Yun's hand and leave the pond, and when I walked to the ridge, Li Yun suddenly stopped and exclaimed in surprise: "Zhou Xu, look, birds, there are really a lot of birds." ”

She pointed to the wasteland in front of her, and sure enough, in this large barren field, many sparrows flew from nowhere, flying over the field, and some stopped, walking leisurely on the ground in search of food.

"Look, I'm right, I really feel the sound of birds." Li Yun screamed excitedly, desperately pointing me to see those sparrows.

I heard, and now I heard the sudden burst of chirping of the birds, as if they hadn't appeared a few minutes ago, but had only miraculously appeared in this desolate field because of Li Yun's premonition.

I took Li Yun's hand, looked at Li Yun's happy expression, and suddenly realized that maybe my oath to Li Yun was not as I imagined, it was just a whim, perhaps, it was really out of my original intention. It's just that this original intention has been lurking in the bottom of my heart?

A mature 37-year-old mind falling in love with a 21-year-old girl is ridiculous, but wonderful.

I gently hugged Li Yun from behind and whispered in her ear, "Your so-called hurdle has passed!" Whether it refers to the real age or the imaginary number, the so-called "20-year-old kan" that the master said has disappeared, really disappeared!"

Well, Li Yun also responded in a low voice: "I have long forgotten this hurdle, maybe, I have already crossed this hurdle, but you don't know it yet." ”

Li Yun and I didn't go to the library at Hangzhou University because I wasn't sure if the library would be open during New Year's Day. So the two of us decided to go to the video store and buy cassette tapes, records, or videotapes.

At that time, there was a relatively large audio-visual store on Wensan Road, and almost all popular music tapes were sold, and if you had a good relationship with the store, you could even buy some imported discs that could not be bought outside.

We carefully observed the decoration of the store, and although it was a video store, Li Yun and I also discussed how to make the video and video part as well.

At noon, I asked Li Yun again, really don't you go to school and wait for your father to come to see you?

Li Yun gave me a blank look: "I didn't recognize him as a father." ”

"Alas, you are so stubborn." I said helplessly.

"I'm just so stubborn, all the way to the black, don't you know?" Li Yun said disapprovingly.

On the first day of the new year, the merchants on the street rushed to reduce the price, Li Yun dragged me around the street with great interest, bought me a sweater and jeans, said that I was particularly handsome in jeans, and bought herself two coats and a vermilion tweed dress, and also bought a pair of popular boots.

I heard that women's ways to relieve stress are nothing more than shopping and eating, and it seems that Li Yun should drag me to a restaurant to eat a full meal.

When she finished shopping, Li Yun suddenly shouted: "Oops, I forgot, we still have to pay the rent of the bookstore, and the money is all used up, what can we do?" ”

I said, "It doesn't matter, I'll have money if I transfer Wenxin Bookstore." ”

Li Yun said angrily: "Why didn't you remind me, you didn't dissuade me when you knew I was going to buy so many things." ”

I laughed and said, "Because I'm afraid of my wife, how dare I care about you." ”

When I said the word "wife", Li Yun had a smile on her face, although on the surface she still said, "Phew, who is your wife." ”

In the evening, we found a noodle restaurant and had a simple beef noodle meal, which was the end of a wonderful first day of the new year. I said to Li Yun that during the Chinese New Year, I went to Qian Haiping to pay a New Year's greeting and bring some gifts, and I may have to rely on him in the future, including approving licenses, affiliated units, and it is always easier to do things with the brand of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

Li Yun nodded and said okay, as long as you don't go to "that person" for help.

I know who "that person" refers to, in fact, "that person" is working on the city's largest book city project, and his energy is obviously much greater than that of the Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles.