At sunset, the mountains are far away

Xia Chengqi finally boarded the train back to Xiamen. She propped her chin up and looked out the window at the scene of speeding past. She remained motionless like a sculpture. Her heart seemed to be a lake in the depths of the forest that covered the sky and the sun was hidden. The bottom is dark and turbulent.

It was raining heavily in Xiamen, and the raindrops hit the umbrellas with crackling.When Xia Chengqi stood at the door of Tao Yan's house, his shoes were a little wet, and a few strands of wet hair stuck to his pale cheeks, looking a little embarrassed.Xia Chengqi simply tidied up his appearance, raised his hand and set off the doorbell.

The door was opened from the inside, and Shen Junran looked up and down at the strange woman standing at the door with a tired face. Seeing Xia Chengqi whose body was obviously stained by the rain, he put on a bright smile on his face, "It's raining heavily outside, come in first. Yes Are you looking for Tao Yan?"

Xia Chengqi pursed his lips and nodded slightly as an answer. His wet legs were as heavy as lead, and he couldn't lift them up. He still stood motionless at the door.The gentle sound of music and the warm feeling coming from the room instantly engulfed Xia Chengqi, and her heart seemed to have fallen into a hole in the ice.

"Yanyan, someone is looking for you." Shen Junran turned her head and called affectionately towards the living room.

Hearing the sound, Tao Yan walked unhurriedly to the entrance, and when he saw the dusty and pale Xia Chengqi, his body obviously paused, and he froze in place for a while.Tao Tao passed through Shen Junran, and ran towards Xia Chengqi cheerfully, Zuo Wenwen sniffed and spun around Xia Chengqi's legs, Xia Chengqi was just about to bend down to make fun of Tao Tao, when he heard Tao Yan's voice without warmth.

"Tao Tao, come here." Tao Yan turned around and entered the study, Tao Tao let go of his maid and followed behind step by step.

Shen Junran felt a little strange about Tao Yan's behavior, and was a little embarrassed for a moment. She looked at the somewhat dull Xia Chengqi apologetically, "Why don't you come in first?"

Before Xia Chengqi politely declined, Tao Yan turned back to the entrance, carrying a bag in his hand, and put the bag in the corner of the porch, then raised his eyes and looked at Xia Chengqi, "It's just in time for you to come, this is the bag you left before. The next thing." Xia Chengqi has been chasing Tao Yan's gaze since Tao Yan appeared, but when this gaze looked at her naturally and calmly, she was a little panicked. This gaze made her very strange. , plainly like a clear forest stream.

"Is there anything else you can do?" He kept asking Xia Chengqi with his eyes fixed on him.

Xia Chengqi withdrew his fruitless gaze, bent over to pick up the bag in the corner, stood up straight, and bowed to Shen Junran, "I'm leaving first, excuse me."

There was a sound of closing the door behind him, Xia Chengqi stopped, and stood sideways against the wall for a while, his wet hair seemed to have dried a bit, and it fell gently on Xia Chengqi's discouraged face.

After Tao Yan closed the door, he seemed to lose all his strength. He leaned against the corner of the door, his eyes downcast in a daze, and he held himself in his arms with both hands as if he was afraid of the cold.Seeing this, Shen Junran wanted to step forward to embrace Tao Yan, but Tao Yan seemed to know it, and said with a sense of exhaustion, "Leave me alone for a while."

Tao Tao squatted at Tao Yan's feet, raised his head and looked at the motionless master with some confusion.Tao Yan gradually slid off the wall, sat on the floor, and hugged Tao Tao in his arms, "Everything will be fine, right? Just like I used to be."

Tao Yan once thought that when the relationship between the two stabilized, Xia Chengqi would give up the idea of ​​settling in Qinghai, but she found that she was wrong, Xia Chengqi had no intention of changing her life path because of her appearance, and she Never allow yourself to be one of the options to be abandoned again.

A black figure stood downstairs in the community, like a frozen picture.Xia Chengqi held an umbrella, stood in the heavy rain, and looked up at the lights on the 11th floor. The orange lights made several halos through the torrential rain curtain, which seemed a bit blurred on the cool rainy night.

The light finally draws down the curtain, returning to the boundless darkness.Xia Chengqi lowered his astringent eyes, staring at the bean-sized raindrops falling on the hard ground, and the splashed water droplets falling on his shoe.The crackling sound of the umbrella brought her thoughts back to the distant past.In the year of grandma's death, it took nearly half a month for my mother to show up and go home for the funeral.Xia Chengqi has no memory of her mother, she just heard from her grandma that when she was five years old, her father took her to visit her mother, and that time was the last meeting between her father and mother when they negotiated a divorce.

It was also raining heavily that day, and 14-year-old Xia Chengqi was holding an umbrella and standing silently on the side of the cemetery. She looked at a woman standing in front of her grandmother's tomb. The woman was holding a black umbrella, so she couldn't see her face clearly.He learned from his father that the woman was his mother.Xia Chengqi narrowed his eyes, hoping to see his mother's figure more clearly, but the rain was too heavy, and his mother seemed to be submerged in water.

The woman turned around and strode towards Xia Chengqi. Xia Chengqi's ears were ringing, her heart was beating faster, but her legs were as motionless as if they were fixed.As the distance between the two of them drew closer, the woman's face gradually appeared from the edge of the black umbrella. Xia Chengqi held his breath, as if he wanted to imprint that face into his heart.The mother's facial features are very three-dimensional, the bridge of the nose is raised, and there is a gentle temperament of a Jiangnan woman between her brows and eyes.The expression on his face was indifferent, and there were no tears on his dull face, but his face was slightly tired.

Mother stood in front of Xia Chengqi, scrutinizing Xia Chengqi's face as if looking at a strange stranger.The mother and daughter held umbrellas, in the smoky cemetery, separated by the rain curtain, looking at each other speechlessly.Mother stepped forward and moved closer to Xia Chengqi, "It's time to go." Then she wiped her umbrella and walked towards Xia Chengqi's back. The fleeting fireworks seem to have never left any bright traces in the night sky.Xia Chengqi suddenly thought that his mother probably didn't recognize him.Washed by the rain, the gray stone path in the cemetery looks bright and shiny. The grass beside the path is green and full of vitality. In the misty cemetery, Xia Chengqi longingly looked at the back of his mother's departure, but finally did not step forward. courage.