gentle fairy tale

After entering the third grade, Yu Mian began to grow taller.

A child of this age grows like a willow branch in spring, and a large part of it pops out without knowing it. When Pei Songxi came back from a two-week business trip, he was a little dazed when he saw her: "Why did you grow taller again?"

But Yu Mian sighed with melancholy, and put his palms in front of her: "Aunt Pei, I have many, many wrinkles."

Pei Songxi was startled: "Huh?"

Yu Mian pointed to the veins in the palm of her hand, her small face wrinkled slightly: "Am I wrinkled? Am I getting old?"

Pei Songxi laughed, and touched her cheek speechlessly, thinking she was cute: "No."

"really?"

"real."

Pei Songxi spread out his palms and put them in front of her eyes: "Look, I have them too."

Yu Mian nodded hesitantly: "Okay."

Pei Songxi thought this topic was over.

But unexpectedly, the next evening, Yu Mian ran back from the gate crying. She is not a child who loves to cry, but now she is crying so hard that her heart sank, and she hugged her: "Mian Mian ,What's wrong?"

Yu Mian was out of breath from crying and didn't speak for a long time. Pei Songxi hugged her to his knees, wiped her tears with a tissue, and anxiously opened her sleeves: "Have you been bullied by classmates? Or is it hurting? Mianmian ?”

"I……"

Yu Mian choked with sobs, sat on her lap, looked up at her: "Will I die?"

"what?"

Yu Mian sobbed: "Will I die, will you die... Aunt Pei. I'm so scared. I'm afraid of death."

Pei Songxi breathed a sigh of relief at first, but now he is slowly relieved: "Everyone will die. But Mianmian, you are so young, why are you afraid of death?"

Yu Mian looked at her with tears in her eyes: "I'm just afraid...just afraid."

Pei Songxi stretched out his hand to touch her back, and said softly to her, "What are you afraid of, Mianmian? Grandma Tai is almost 80 years old. She is not in good health, but she is not dead. How old are you, why are you afraid? Woolen cloth?"

Yu Mian took a deep breath, jumped off her lap, took out the Chinese textbook, and turned to a text, with a choked nasal voice in her voice: "Look at this."

Pei Songxi took her little textbook. The title of the text was "Race against Time".

She froze for a moment... as if she had learned this text before.

I vaguely remember that the author's grandmother passed away when he was a child, and he couldn't accept it, but later realized that the passage of time was irresistible...

A paragraph in the textbook was circled in red pen, and it was written impressively:

"All things in time, never come back. Your yesterday is gone, it becomes yesterday forever, and you can never go back to yesterday."

"One day you'll grow up and you'll be as old as grandma, and one day you'll be like grandma when you've spent all your time and never come back."

"Although there will be a new sun tomorrow, there will never be the sun of today." [Note]

Pei Songxi was startled.

It turns out that such a young child will also be exposed to such a cold and hard reality.

She breathed a sigh of relief, and hugged Yu Mian in her arms: "Mian Mian, don't be afraid."

Yu Mian blinked, and there were still two crystal clear teardrops on her eyelashes: "Aunt Pei..."

Pei Songxi lowered his head, and the corners of his lips curved into a beautiful arc: "I will always be by your side and grow up with you. So don't be afraid, okay?"

"What about when I grow up?"

"When you grow up, you will grow old with me."

Yu Mian frowned and tugged at her skirt: "No way! Don't grow old!"

She has always been lively, bright and energetic, this is the first time she has such a rare temper and self-willedness, she repeats earnestly: "You are not allowed to grow old!"

Pei Songxi looked at her, feeling distressed and sad.

She had seen the impermanence of the world prematurely, so she never asked for it, and she would not speak in this tone, so she nodded gently: "Okay. I won't grow old. Don't cry, okay?"

Yu Mian nodded, but it was rare for her to act coquettishly: "I'll sleep with you tonight, okay?"

Pei Songxi treats her close but not close, and always pays attention to cultivating her independent personality, allowing her to have her own room and small study, and allowing her to find her own hobbies, comics, picture books, plants...

She picked up a seed, but she had no intention of interfering with the direction of her growth. She only gave her plenty of sunshine and fertile soil, so that she could grow into what she was in nature, warm and bright.

She gently wiped away the tears on Yu Mian's face with her fingertips, nodded in agreement: "Okay."

Yu Mian smiled through tears, and hugged her: "Okay!"

Pei Songxi's room was a little deserted, the curtains were half drawn, and the light and shadow floated.

A thin snow gauze shawl was casually draped on the sofa, and the bedside candles still had a bit of cool fragrance, and there was an open hardcover book and a small white bottle next to it.

Yu Mian broke free from her hand, ran over, picked up the small bottle and asked her, "Aunt Pei, what kind of medicine is this?"

She had asked this question before, and Pei Songxi told her that it would help her sleep, but Yu Mian didn't seem to believe the same set of reasons for a long time, and kept asking her, probably hoping to hear the answer one day .

She is so small, but her heart is extremely firm.

Pei Songxi didn't say the reason I said before, but just opened the drawer, put all the small bottles in, took a small copper lock to lock it, and handed the key to her: "From now on, put the keys here, okay? good?"

She put away all her medicines... sleeping pills, melatonin...even the mood stabilizers.

Maybe I can stay with her longer.This is what she promised her.

Yu Mian held the small key, and immediately took a step back: "Give it to me? What was given to me is mine! I won't give it back to you again!"

Pei Songxi smiled: "Okay."

In fact, she has not needed sleeping pills to fall asleep for a long time.

Sometimes I’m too tired from work, I go home to see her in Yu Mian’s room, seeing her sleeping soundly, I always feel peaceful in my heart; sometimes when I come back early, she picks her up, Yu Mian drinks soy milk, and gives her Bring hot milk, drink a cup of rich and rich milk, she seems to have no trouble sleeping.

The next day was Sunday, Pei Songxi woke up very early, and heard a knock on the door.

As soon as the door opened, Yu Mian was wearing blue sweatpants: "Aunt Pei! Let's go for a run, shall we?"

Pei Songxi didn't know what was in her little head, but she indulged her: "Okay."

When they went out, they passed by the photo wall in the living room. Many photos had been hung on it. It was the first parent-teacher meeting. They picked up a small fan under the ginkgo tree. Yu Mian held a sweet fruit to share with her; it was a Children's Day party, and the camera recorded a star...

Yu Mian looked at the photo, and held Pei Songxi's hand even harder: "Aunt Pei, we will run every day from now on. The teacher said that exercising more can lead to a longer life."

Oh I see.

Pei Songxi's eyes drooped slightly, and his expression was gentle and distant: "Okay. I know, don't worry about me, okay?"

Yu Mian looked up at her, and nodded obediently.

But she seems to work a little harder than before.

Because she won the Olympiad Cup, Teacher Qin asked her if she wanted to skip a grade.Pei Songxi meant no, and neither did she.Because there are too many things she wants to do, it takes a lot of time.

Reading comics is a hobby... Mathematical Olympiad is a hobby, and so is painting. She likes many and messy things. It takes a lot of time and effort to learn, and it is also very hard to learn, but she just likes it.

Like a green plant with extraordinarily vigorous vitality, it grows vigorously, always upwards, and embraces the sun.

Time is as unpredictable as the wind.

She always has a sense of urgency, as if if she doesn't work hard, the flowers in the garden will wither.

The more urgent you are, the faster time passes.

Time flies by in the blink of an eye.