Three or Two Things about Rebirth

At some point, snowflakes started falling from the sky again, and large flakes of snow slowly fell down.

Qiu Luming sat on his bicycle, imagining what he would do if he saw something terrible in the hotel. Then he thought again, his eldest brother and his wife had come over on New Year's Eve, and his mother didn't get angry. So he thought his second brother was polite and sensible, and it must be nothing serious. So he put his mind at ease.

She stretched out her arms and caught the snowflakes with her sleeves. "The ground is white and the wind is cold, and the snowflakes are as big as my hands."

Qiu Moshi smiled, "No birds have flown away from the thousands of mountains."

Qiu Luming understood immediately, "School ends at 4:30."

"The snowflakes in Yanshan are as big as a mat,"

"There's a watermelon rind on the table!"

"Hahahaha, don't you see horses walking along the snowy seashore?"

“The deer’s cry and the horse’s neighing are as good as those of gods!”

"Haha, aren't you a ready-made Granny Liu?"

Qiu Luming hit Qiu Moshi on the back and said, "You are Granny Liu! Humph!"

"If you don't want to be a mother locust, then do you want to be Lin Daiyu?"

"No! This book is a commemoration of the Ming Dynasty. All the women have tragic endings. I don't want to be anyone. I just want to be myself!"

"Hey, you also know Daoming, I thought you would read the love triangle in Dream of the Red Chamber like you read Qiong Yao's novels!"

"Humph! Don't underestimate me from now on!"

"Okay, okay, I'll use a magnifying glass to look at you from now on!"

"Humph!" Qiu Luming said again, "Third brother, do you think that person can be saved after losing so much blood?"

"I think so. Judging from Aunt Wang's attitude just now, she's not busy, so it should be fine. It's just that the surgery is a bit troublesome. Didn't you hear that her neck is almost broken? There must be a lot of places that need to be connected."

Qiu Luming shuddered when she heard this. Seeing that they had reached the intersection of the distant hotel, she suddenly jumped out of the car. Qiu Moshi supported the car with his feet and looked back at her.

"Third brother, I want to go to the riverside to see the snow. Take me to the watchtower so I can see the thousands of miles of ice and snow!"

Qiu Moshi thought for a moment and said, "That's fine."

Changing direction, the two headed towards the river.

It's rare that the wind isn't strong today, but the empty riverside is still much colder than the street.

The other side of the river seemed to be an uninhabited wilderness. Qiu Luming's ears suddenly moved, and he pulled Qiu Moshi to go home. Qiu Moshi frowned, "What's wrong with you, little girl? Why are you always so windy and rainy?"

Cheerful laughter came from the dam on the west side. Qiu Mozhi looked over subconsciously and saw two people sliding down. The man put a piece of paper shell on the dam and sat on it, while the woman sat on the man's thighs. The two spread their arms and slid down the dam more than ten meters long with screams of one, two, three!

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, there were hardly any people by the river. The two of them played this game, which children love to play, seven or eight times and never got tired of it.

Qiu Luming looked at her second brother's smile and for some reason felt a little distressed for him. She had never seen her second brother smile like this before. It seemed that after laughing today, there would be no fun tomorrow.

They climbed up from under the dam, hand in hand. Perhaps they had already noticed them not far away, or perhaps they were immersed in their own joy, ignoring everything in the world.

Qiu Luming hugged his third brother's arm tightly, fearing that he would rush over and call his second brother to come home the next second.

The two men had stopped slipping and were walking towards the river hand in hand. They waded through the knee-deep snow like fools, walking a little bit at a time, sometimes rolling in the snow and laughing. Zhou Lina almost buried the second brother with the snow, and the second brother didn't know how to fight back.

Later, perhaps because they were tired, they lay on the river and looked up at the sky. Qiu Luming vaguely heard a few words:

"... the most daring act of my life, ... the most correct act."

"...I'm probably crazy too."

"I didn't expect your town to be so small, with chickens and dogs all over the place... It's a big hassle for you..."

"It made you laugh."

"No,... the hotel aunt is very nice, but she talks too much.... you will go to work after the New Year, and you will probably be the talk of the town."

"hehe."

"...I'm getting married on May 1st."

"I know."

"You won't stop me?"

"Do you want me to stop you?"

"...Even if you can't stop it, you should at least show your support!"

"Well then...I will go to Beijing on May Day to cause a scene at your wedding and grab the bride." Qiu Jiashu said seriously.

"Hahaha!" The girl's laughter gradually became choked with sobs.

Qiu Luming wanted to listen again, but his third brother said, "The border guards are here."

Qiu Luming looked towards the east and saw, sure enough, two soldiers with guns and live ammunition were walking towards the two men who were almost at the center of the river.

She chuckled.

"I'm really impressed!" Qiu Moshi got on the bike and rode away. Qiu Luming screamed and chased after him for a few steps, hugged his waist, and then jumped on the bike.

***

When they got home, He Manshu immediately asked about the situation at the hospital. Qiu Moshi said, "The man was seriously injured. The operation will take a long time."

"It's not life-threatening."

"should not."

"Oh, that's fine. Otherwise, how are we going to spend the rest of the year?" He Manshu sighed, "Come on, eat, Dabao is so hungry that he's confused."

Halfway through the meal, He Manshu asked again, "Um, did you see the police? Didn't their family report the case?"

"I don't know. It seems that no one reported the case. What's the matter? Are they afraid that they will ask my second brother to go to the scene?" Qiu Moshi said with a smile, "It's okay. Your handsome son and his girlfriend are playing by the river! They are so happy! Mom, you might as well show mercy and let Zhou Lina live with us. My second brother and I will go out to find a place to stay. You can watch over them. It's better than letting them run wild outside."

"What nonsense are you talking about!" He Manshu put down her chopsticks. "What do you mean by being wild or not? It's because I didn't show any mercy, it's because Zhou Lina's family didn't agree! They are big officials in Beijing, they look down on people from our small place! They have been looking for a girlfriend since they were in their sophomore year, and today, they have sent their own daughter to Jiayang! She came to my house on her own, what can I do? I should call her parents and tell them, ah, take your daughter back home quickly, don't let her seduce my son?"

"Haha, I see that's what you think!"

"I'll beat you up, you little brat!"

"There are actually people who don't like my second brother!" Qiu Luming said indignantly.

Liu Xiaomei laughed when she heard this.

He Manshu stopped laughing, "That's not because I don't like your second brother, that's because I don't like your parents."

She sighed, "Zhou Lina's father is the leader of a certain ministry, not too big or too small. They are looking for in-laws who can help each other. Your second brother is not the kind of person who can be humble and submissive, so he won't be liked by them at all."

Qiu Luming was even more angry, thinking that those people had bullied his brother. "It's best not to become in-laws with a family like this, otherwise you will be annoying to death for the rest of your life!"

After saying this, Fuzhi looked at his eldest sister-in-law with a sincere heart, and said in the tone of his mother, "Yes! In the future, let my second brother find a second sister-in-law as good as my eldest sister-in-law!"

Qiu Moshi laughed and gave his sister a thumbs up.