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"How is it? Is the sound quality okay—" The boss's voice came from far to near, and the door was pushed open.

Lin Mo noticed the light breaking in from the door, subconsciously took a step back, abruptly distanced the two of them, and took off the earphones.Without even looking at Gao Wenxuan, he said "yes" to the boss and walked out.

Gao Wenxuan glanced at the storage rack at the store entrance with the CD wrapped by the boss, walked over to Lin Mo who was waiting outside the door and said: "The umbrella was taken away, let's go down and buy another one. "

"No need, it's only a few steps away."

Gao Wenxuan nodded and asked Lin Mo, "Is there anything you want to buy?"

Lin Mo looked at the CD in the opponent's hand and said, "I want to buy a bunch of flowers."

"Flowers?" Gao Wenxuan repeated.

"Well, I just saw that there seemed to be a flower shop downstairs, so I went there to have a look."

The two walked towards the escalator side by side, "What flowers do you want to buy?"

"Don't you even know what flowers my sister likes?"

It was just a conditioned reflex to fight back as usual, and it was only when the words came out that they realized that something was wrong. Although the tone was not too resentful, it sounded like a deliberate question.He was not interested in knowing these things, let alone hearing those words from the other party's mouth.

"This..." Gao Wenxuan recalled with a smile on his face, and stepped on the escalator, "I only gave roses."

Of course Lin Mo knew.He even remembers the smiling face of his sister when she came home with a large bouquet of roses on her birthday, carefully putting the delicate roses into a vase before opening the present, forgetting that flowers are just decorations to decorate the room and will eventually wither wither.Looking at the withered brown petals again and again, she seems to have forgotten to say that what she likes is not roses at all.

This is something that Lin Mo could not understand.Now he knows that my sister's interpretation of love is more about dedication and tolerance.

What about Gao Wenxuan?

He turned his head to look at the other party, and Gao Wenxuan returned a smile, as polite and polite as the perfect smile doctors used to treat patients.

"In fact, no matter what it is, as long as it is given by you, she will like it."

Gao Wenxuan pondered, and slowly restrained his smile.The elevator moved down slowly, and the scenery where he could see gradually became clear. Lin Mo withdrew his thoughts and walked out of the shopping mall with the people around him.

The rain outside is still going on. The flower shop Lin Mo said is at the corner across the street, which means that they need to take a short distance from the rain. Fortunately, it is midsummer, and the rain is slightly cool, and the drops will soon fall on the body. evaporation.

So the two didn't pay much attention, and quickly crossed the street, and ran to the small railing outside the shop across the street as a temporary shelter from the rain. Gao Wenxuan walked in front, slightly arched, the rain wet his back A white shirt with darkened material sticking to the body.

Lin Mo shook the hair sticking to his forehead, thinking that he would have to take a shower again when he got home.There was someone pushing a cart in front of the wall, and it was full of square cardboard boxes, because some puddles had accumulated on the ground because of the rain.

The puller in a raincoat pushed hard while reminding them, "Leave a way, be careful, young man, I'm afraid this thing will accidentally fall and hit you."

Seeing that the truck was about to wipe his trousers and move over, Gao Wenxuan suddenly turned around to block Lin Mo, with his back facing the truck that might drop the goods at any time and exposed himself to the rain, while his front inevitably approached Lin Mo.

Lin Mo didn't expect the other party to turn around suddenly, subconsciously straightened his back and wanted to take a step back, but his heels touched the wall, and there was no way to retreat.

Although he knew that Gao Wenxuan's actions were only out of good intentions, but being forced to look at each other at such a close distance, it was as if their noses were stuck together. The faint smell of tobacco on the other party's body mixed with the woody rosin surrounded him, which made him unable to adapt.

Gao Wenxuan's collar was slightly open, and the body under the collar passed through the soaked shirt. With the moist heat, Lin Mo lowered his eyes and turned his gaze to the back of the opponent. The rainwater fell continuously and vertically to the ground, splashing Layers of small splashes.

A low voice asked from above, and it seemed to be talking to himself, "Have you taken a bath?"

"Yeah." Lin Mo looked up at him, feeling that the other person's eyes seemed to get wet with the weather, sticking to his heart.

With a short chuckle, Gao Wenxuan's eyes still stayed on Lin Mo's face, "Then it seems that I have to wash it again."

After finishing speaking, Gao Wenxuan turned around and continued walking, leaving Lin Mo behind in a daze.

There were no customers in the flower shop during this period of time. After Lin Mo went in, he gave the name of the flower and asked the boss to wrap it up. The boss was a middle-aged lady, and she did things neatly. She handed the bouquet to Lin Mo not long after, and she was very enthusiastic when she left. He stuffed an umbrella for them.

"So she likes tulips." Gao Wenxuan said.

The car was filled with a faint fragrance. Lin Mo was holding a golden yellow bouquet wrapped in several layers of crepe paper in his hand. The large petals were stained with the rainwater that just fell on the road. They were matched with a unique flower shape like a flower bud, which looked like it was about to bloom. Subtle and quiet beauty.

Lin Mo remembered that her sister said that she liked the feeling of being silent and tenacious the most.

"She liked it a long time ago, but you never knew it."

Gao Wenxuan said in a serious tone: "I thought I knew your sister well enough."

"No one can really understand anyone." Lin Mo really thought so.

I thought that Gao Wenxuan would ask a few questions and refute, but I didn't expect that the other party just glanced at him, nodded and said, "You're right."

After a while, Gao Wenxuan suddenly said amidst the sound of rain: "Unfortunately, there are only yellow tulips left."

Lin Mo didn't know much about these meanings. He only knew that tulips are unique in shape and rich in fragrance. They are the national flowers of some countries.As for distinguishing the color, he has not studied it. When he went to the flower shop just now, he bought the golden yellow purely because there were no other colors. It was a passive choice.

"What is the language of flowers?"

"Love without hope."

Gao Wenxuan's voice was completely opposite to the short and eager raindrops outside. It was heavy and echoed in the car like night fog, slowly covering some inexplicable emotions.

Lin Mo looked down at the bright bouquet tightly held in his hands, and for a moment he felt so similar to his departed sister.

Early the next morning, Lin Mo woke up on time when the alarm clock rang. In fact, he didn't sleep much that night. When he walked out of the room with slightly red eyes, he found that his parents were already fully dressed and sitting quietly in the living room. His face was haggard, and he must have tossed and turned last night, unable to sleep.

Seeing Lin Mo walking out of the room, Mother Lin got up and said, "Momo, go wash up quickly, breakfast is ready. Your brother-in-law will be here later, he said he has eaten, we can't wait for him to eat first. "

It was the same in previous years, Gao Wenxuan's parents drove together, and Gao Wenxuan drove to pick them up early in the morning, and then the four of them went to the cemetery together.Lin Mo’s parents work very close to home, so there is no need to buy a car on foot every day. They originally wanted to buy a car for their daughter Lin Ran, but Lin Ran said that she was afraid of driving on the road, and she has maintained an excellent personality in all aspects since she was a child. She refused to take the driver's license test anyway.

Later, when Lin Mo went to university and went to other places, Gao Wenxuan would pick up Lin Ran and Lin's father and Lin's mother when they went to places a little further away, so they were even more satisfied with this son-in-law.Now that his daughter is not alive, and his son has graduated from college, Father Lin is sitting in the passenger seat thinking, it is really not good to bother this son-in-law.

Then he said to Lin Mo who was sitting in the back: "It's time for you to learn how to drive. Take some time these few days to register at the driving school next to the community."

"It's hot and hot recently. I don't think he has much time to go to work. Dad, why don't we talk about learning to drive after the summer. Anyway, I'm still here. You can tell me where you want to go."

Lin's father waved his hand and said, "I always trouble you, it's tiring to ask you to pick up Momo every day..."

Lin Mo, who was staring out of the window in a daze, turned his head, and happened to see Gao Wenxuan looking up at him in the rearview mirror, just a faint glance.

When they arrived at the cemetery, they took out candles from the trunk to burn incense, paper money and ingots, and the fruits that Lin's mother bought yesterday and washed this morning. They were all Lin Ran's favorites. plate.

It didn't rain today, but the sky was gloomy, and the gray clouds were crumpled up as if they were about to press down on the earth.Lin Mo hugged the tulips he bought yesterday, feeling as if there was a heavy weight in his hands, and the scene he was afraid to face along the way finally came.

At this moment, he looked at the white tombstones arranged from low to high not far away, and a sourness surged up from his chest, making his eyes turn red instantly.