Chapter 52: The Beating Heartstrings
The girl talked nonsense with her family, and then ran quickly to the door under the winter cherry tree, but the figure she was thinking about was nowhere to be found.
Am I reading it wrong?
No! I can't be mistaken!
After whispering a few words in her heart, the girl raised her head and looked around.
Yorkham Jones was hiding behind the trunk of the tree at the moment, and when he saw that the girl was in a hurry, he came out with a smile.
"Are you looking for me?"
Looking at Yorkham Jones's gentle eyes, the girl couldn't speak, and even her head suddenly lost strength, and she didn't dare to raise it at all.
Stupid! Obviously there is a lot to say! Don't be shy! Don't be shy! Come on!
After cheering herself up in her heart and taking a deep breath, the girl looked up with a beautiful smile and asked:
"Uncle, did you come specifically to me?"
The girl's dress is very cute, because at home, the style belongs to the casual style, but the time is the night of the winter moon, so the clothes on the body are fluffy, and it looks like a lazy and cute bear.
"By the way. ”
After two glances, Yorkham Jones replied with a few words and continued:
"I came here to see a friend, and I happened to pass by number 81 halfway through, so I thought of you and stopped. ”
It turned out that they weren't looking for me specifically... But Uncle remembers me too!
The inner emotions kept tugging and changing, and the girl hurriedly handed the portrait in her hand to Yorkham Jones, and said:
"Uncle, I'll give you a gift. ”
Taking the portrait, looking at himself above, looking at his eyes as deep as the starry sky, Yorkham Jones couldn't help muttering:
"Why didn't I find out I was so handsome..."
Yorkham Jones's voice was very low, and the girl did not hear it clearly, and seeing Yorkham Jones's eyes lowered, the girl hurriedly asked:
"Uncle, don't you like it?"
"No, I love it!"
Quickly shaking his head, Yorkham Jones looked up and said:
"It just feels so handsome... Well, like when I was younger..."
"Hehe, if you like it. ”
The girl laughed twice and asked again:
"Uncle, how long will you stay here, and where is your friend?"
Yorkham Jones thought for two seconds, remembered that the No. 57 he encountered on the road had also been abandoned for a long time, and then replied:
"At number 57, but he doesn't like to be disturbed. ”
"Uncle, you have a mistake in your logic, you just said 'pass by No. 81 halfway through', but the No. 57 you're going to is ahead!"
The girl blinked, stared at Yorkham Jones with a smile, and waited for a few drops of sweat to appear on Yorkham Jones's forehead, and then continued:
"Uncle, so, you're just here for me, aren't you?"
How did you forget that she was a detective...
"Ugh..."
Shaking his head and lamenting, Yorkham Jones could only touch his head and smile awkwardly:
"Huh... Ha ha... You've found out..."
At this moment, a little boy of four or five years old ran out, glanced at Yorkham Jones and the girl, and then turned back and shouted:
"Mom! Sister is in love! She's hiding here on a date!"
Then, without waiting for Yorkham Jones to react, the girl suddenly grabbed his palm and ran quickly into the distance.
"Mom! my sister eloped with someone else!"
...
Under the dark night sky, fireworks lit up the whole of Phillip Street, and Yorkham Jones and the maiden quickly shuttled through the shade of the trees, and the multicolored fireworks occasionally reflected the faces of the two, both of them red, as if they had just come out of the steamer.
The heart was beating violently, and slowly, only a rapid heartbeat remained in the ears of the two of them.
Yorkham Jones never imagined that his heart would beat like this, and all he did during the day was just to make his boring life a little more interesting, and he did not intend to develop further with the girl.
But looking at the girl's running figure, Yorkham Jones's heartstrings were suddenly touched.
He had never met such a girl, as if she had come out of a story, she was full of shyness and fear, but she was brave enough to grasp everything that fate had to do, and when her eyes sparkled, she could give up everything to pursue the light in her eyes.
With only a few scattered beams of fireworks in the sky, the two finally stopped.
The sound of the water murmuring in his ears made Yorkham Jones and the girl's eyes light up at the same time, and they walked to the side of the river and sat down.
The girl snuggled softly on Yorkham Jones's back, and they gasped for breath to each other, but no one spoke.
The scattered starlight in the river flickered, the night light was still intoxicating, and the heartbeat continued to flow into the distance with the stream, and I don't know how long it took, the heartbeat of the two finally quieted down.
After a while, the girl gently got up and looked at the galaxy in the river, the scattered starlight was eternally frozen in the picture, and the girl turned back sharply and shouted:
"Uncle, I'm so happy! It's like a dream!"
Yorkham Jones also stood up, he looked down at the river, he didn't look at the stars, his eyes were on the reflection of the maiden.
Pure, beautiful, full of energy, all words that can describe beauty can be used to describe this beautiful shadow, so she should have a nice name, not just a vague 'girl' code.
But Yorkham Jones didn't ask questions, because he didn't smuggle fate to find his own beauty, he came for the beauty of this world, like a girl in the water.
Then Jokham Jones looked at his shadow in the river.
In the moonlight, he seemed to see himself as he once was, but for a moment, Yorkham Jones shook his head violently.
As the shadow in his eyes changed to the appearance of Yorkham Jones, he took off the former badge of light, and at the same time his pocket watch handed it to the girl:
"This one for you. ”
happily took the pocket watch and put it in the palm of her hand, the girl looked at it seriously, and then asked:
"Uncle, are you the pastor of the Church of Light?"
"Hmm... It can be counted. ”
When he replied, Yorkham Jones turned his head to stare into the girl's eyes and said softly:
"Can you close your eyes?"
Uncle is going to kiss me!!
With apprehension and shyness, the girl nodded vigorously, and then closed her eyes.
After a few minutes, the girl did not wait for what she was looking forward to, her eyelids moved slightly, and she realized that the uncle she had been thinking about was gone.
"Uncle, you can't run away! I'm a detective!"
Clenched her fists and muttered, the girl looked at the time of the pocket watch and saw that it was close to 10 o'clock, so she hurriedly muttered: "Mom will kill me!
Then the girl hid her pocket watch and ran in the direction of her home.
After a while, after confirming that the girl was completely gone, Yorkham Jones walked from the shadows to the stop sign in the distance.
Out of Phippley Street, Yorkham Jones called a horse-drawn taxi and hurried home.
Sitting in the carriage, gently touching his portrait, Yorkham Jones could vaguely sense that the girl had also touched every corner of the portrait so gently.
"Commandment of Fate 2: Avoid liking anyone as much as possible, love is great, but it will make you choose betrayal. ”
Whispering and shaking his head, Yorkham Jones put the portrait away.