gentle fairy tale

Winter vacation is coming again soon.

On the day of going to school to collect the report card, Pei Songxi was waiting outside the school, and saw Yu Mian from a distance.She walked with several children of the same age, with a childish and sunny smile on her face. She didn't know what she was talking about, and she smiled happily.

Pei Songxi is most familiar with Xu Xiaoyan, and Liang Zhixing and Jing Zhiyi have met each other a few times, but the young man walking in the back is tall, thin, silent, and handsome, and does not participate in their conversations, but raises his head from time to time. Looking forward, showing a little shallow smile.

Is this the boy Teacher Xiong mentioned?

"Aunt Pei!"

Yu Mian made an appointment with Pei Songxi, and she will pick her up today, so she was looking for a familiar figure along the way, and when she finally saw her, she rushed over happily: "Why are you here so early?"

Pei Songxi caught her: "Slow down, don't run too fast. Your friends are still behind."

Yu Mian smiled and said it was okay, and waited for Xu Xiaoyan and the others to come over and greet her, and finally Yu Mian introduced Tao Rang to her: "This is my deskmate, Tao Rang. The classmate I told you about."

Tao Rang has never been humble in dealing with others, and greeted her: "Hello, I am Yu Mian's deskmate, Tao Rang."

Pei Songxi's eyes flicked past him, showing a faint smile, and nodded to him.

Yu Mian took Pei Songxi's arm to leave: "Then I'll go back with Aunt Pei first! If there are study problems, let's discuss online!"

Xu Xiaoyan laughed and laughed at her: "Look, here we go again. I just said that I want to eat Mala Tang with us, but now I'm going back again. Mianmian, you Auntie Pei! Let's go!"

Yu Mian couldn't help blushing: "What Auntie Pei...just talking nonsense. I just don't want to eat it!"

Xu Xiaoyan made a face at her, walked forward holding Jing Zhiyi's hand, Liang Zhixing and Tao Rang walked behind, and the four entered a spicy hot shop outside the school.

Pei Songxi looked back and asked her: "Mianmian, have you made an appointment with your friends? Is it because I came too early, if you have something to do, you can go there first."

Yu Mian took her hand and walked forward: "Oh, that's what I said, Aunt Pei, don't worry so much. I'm fine, I want to go home with you!"

Pei Songxi smiled helplessly: "Okay, go home."

Throughout the year, Yu Mian's favorite day is the winter vacation. She stays at home, and Aunt Pei also takes vacations. Sometimes she will take her out for fun, such as going to hot springs, climbing mountains, and sometimes reading books and watching movies with her at home. .

Occasionally, there would be some special surprises. For example, one week before the Spring Festival, Pei Linmo returned to China and brought Pei Zhiyuan over to play.

One big one and one small two are not serious, teach Yu Mian to play cards, teach her to play games, and even dare to persuade her to drink.

Pei Songxi stopped him with a cold face: "Pei Linmo, if you say one more word, go out immediately."

Pei Linmo was dissatisfied: "Why are you so fierce...Really. Do I want to lose face? Isn't it just a joke, right, Xiao Mianmian?"

Yu Mian did not speak for him this time, and stood firmly on Pei Songxi's side: "No! Aunt Pei is right!"

Pei Linmo: "..."

Heartless little thing!

But although he likes to make trouble, he has played a great guiding role for Yu Mian in the matter of painting.

Pei Linmo would pick some sunny afternoons to come over, look at Yu Mian's paintings one by one, instruct her on how to compose, how to write, how to match colors, point out some of her small problems, and then tell her how to improve.

Yu Mian's learning of painting is entirely out of interest, and he will enroll in some classes during the winter and summer vacations. At other times, he mostly practices by himself, and has never participated in any painting competitions. He only pays attention to painting as a thing he loves.

Now with his professional guidance, the progress is very fast.

Pei Linmo made great efforts to develop Yu Mian in a professional direction, but the reality and expectations ran counter to it—Yu Mian seemed not interested in taking painting as a career. On the contrary, she solemnly announced one morning: "I want to be a good architect."

Pei Linmo was dumbfounded: "What's the matter, Xiao Mianmian? Are you stupid?"

Yu Mian shook her head: "I didn't! I'm serious!"

Pei Young artist Lin Mo wanted to cry angrily: "What kind of architect are you? Are you not good at painting? You said before that you would buy a house for your aunt Pei, but now you don't buy it. Why don't you just build a house yourself? "

"Oh!" Yu Mian rushed over to hit him, "Little uncle! You are too bad! You make fun of me!"

Pei Linmo said no: "Sister, can you comment on theory? I taught her painting for so long, but she told me to learn architecture?"

Pei Songxi smiled gently: "Students who study architecture must have a foundation in painting, and this is just right now."

When Yu Mian heard her words, she rushed over and hugged her with a smile on her face: "Aunt Pei! Do you support me?"

Pei Songxi touched her hair: "Of course. Mianmian, do what you want."

Yu Mian nodded vigorously: "Yes! I want to be an excellent architect."

……

Many years later, when Yu Mian was standing on the stage, talking about the latest developments, her eyes quickly flicked across the audience, and accidentally bumped into the plain and pure picture that she hadn't seen for several years, but which was always engraved in her heart. face.Her eyelashes were wet with tears in an instant, and there was an imperceptible choke in her voice: "I have wanted to be an excellent architect since a long time ago."

At this time, she is still an ignorant girl, a white pawn on the fate chessboard, but her eyes are honest and firm, like a small torch, quietly lighting up her own destiny.

When the winter vacation was about to end, the school committee reminded the class of the homework due at the beginning of the semester, and Yu Mian suddenly found that she almost missed the history homework.

The winter vacation homework assigned by the history teacher was to let the students watch a historical documentary at home. She chose "Hexi Corridor" after a long time of selection.

The beautiful, majestic, and empty palace, the beautiful soundtrack, the camera flashing across the vast wilderness, and the long river of history reverses in an instant.

She watched this movie with Pei Songxi, and watched the ninth episode "Common Life" from the first episode in one go.When the desolate and vast natural landscape of the Northwest appeared on the camera, when the commentary said: "Ragged men, women, old and young, with faces and bodies that have been carved by wind and sand... the ups and downs of the vast common people... condensed into historical moments Eternal image..."[Note]

Yu Mian was shocked by the magnificence of history and the haste of time, and burst into tears unknowingly.

Pei Songxi handed her a tissue, asked her to wipe away the tears on her cheeks, and asked her gently: "What's wrong, Mianmian?"

Yu Mian took a deep breath, and said with a faint nasal voice, "I...I don't know what's wrong, I'm just a little shocked. Aunt Pei, I want to go there, I want to see it, when I grow up."

Pei Songxi didn't ask her why, she remembered how Yu Mian would cry because of that time text when she was a child.This child has seen the impermanence of the world prematurely, and has an almost instinctive sensitivity and concern for the passage of time and the prosperity and decline of life and death in the world.

And she has always known that when Mian Mian grows up, she will step by step towards a more distant and wider world.

She was in a daze for a while, remembering that a few days ago, she visited the old gardener again and showed him all the photos of Yu Mian when she was a child.

The old man's hair was gray and his teeth were clean. He said tremblingly: "I really saw her...His family is a big one. I don't remember where she lived, but I remember...she was killed by her at the time." Grandpa was holding him on his lap, I fell and jumped down to ask someone to help me."

The old man's memory has declined so badly that he can no longer recall anything else.

But just such a sentence proves a fact that is enough to keep Pei Songxi awake at night - she guessed right, Mian Mian must still have family members alive, but for some reason, she did not come to find this lost child.

After walking out of the small apartment, Pei Songxi asked Wei Yi to go back first. She walked a long, long way along the long street, full of thoughts, and when she got back to the car, she found that it was raining outside, and her coat was covered with moisture. Wet.

She felt a kind of joy that her long-cherished wish had been fulfilled. She finally found a useful thread among countless messy clues. It seemed that after walking a long, long way, she finally saw a little light, and it seemed that the end was in sight.

If everything goes well, and the old man can recall a little bit more, or find new clues, then she will definitely find Mianmian's family.

When she finds Mianmian's family... she will send Mianmian back and let her return to her family.

After all, it was only a momentary thought to keep her.Until now, Pei Songxi has not been able to find the reason for her decision at that time - Mianmian is like a special variable outside of her calmness and rationality, interfering with her thinking and disturbing her trajectory without warning.

She has always been very clear that with her personality, she is not suitable to accompany a child to grow up, so she is often worried that Mian Mian has not been given a good environment.Fortunately, this child is sunny by nature, and has grown into the little girl she is now, bright and lovely.

When Mianmian comes home, she will withdraw from her life.

This is what she decided long ago.

but.

but.

When she thought of this, she always felt as if her heart had been pinched for a long time, and that kind of uncomfortable energy made her feel distressed and bored... This was a feeling that had never happened before, and it was a feeling she could not understand.

She fell into a brief daze, if one day, Mianmian really wanted to leave, would she leave her behind because of her incomprehensible emotions?

Pei Songxi regained her senses and turned her head. Yu Mian had already wiped away her tears and continued to watch the last episode of the documentary. Her small cheeks were serious and solemn, but her eyes contained expectations and yearning for the world.

At this moment, she got the answer - no.

She thought quietly, "I'll let her go."