gentle fairy tale

This New Year, Yu Mian spent in the wild.

The research team was divided into three groups, two of which had many Asian students and had returned to school early.Yu Mian should have left too, but she didn't go back and applied to stay in the last group to continue her research work.

She has spent many New Years alone, and she has gradually gotten used to it.

But the partners in the team are very caring, because they know that she is Chinese, and they also know what the New Year means to her.On this day, they finished their work early, cooked dumplings in the camp, bought beer, and gathered together to wish her a happy new year.

Yu Mian hasn't had a drink for a long time, because she knows that she doesn't drink well, and when she gets drunk, she always talks nonsense, making people around her have to take care of her.

After so long, the person who has been taking care of her is long gone, so she won't drink easily.

She has grown up.

Only this time, she couldn't hold it back, and drank two bottles of beer with her companions. After drinking, she started to be in a daze, sat for a long time, and suddenly ran out.

The companion chased her out worryingly, only to find that she didn't run far away, but stood under the moonlight, picked up her cell phone, and seemed to be calling her family.So he told her a few words and walked away.

Yu Mian didn't hear what others were saying clearly, she had already pressed the string of numbers at the top of the phone book... how many days and nights, she looked at this string of numbers in a daze, but never dialed out once.

This is the first time she has called Pei Songxi in the past three years.

The beeping of the phone came from her ear, gradually matching the beating of her heart.

Boom boom, boom boom.

Her heart was beating wildly.

Finally, the phone went through.

The other party's breathing was faintly heard in the electric current.

None of them opened their mouths, but they knew clearly that they were each other.

For a long time, no one spoke.

Yu Mian only listened to that person's breathing, almost greedy, as if knowing that person was on the other end of the phone, her heart was already satisfied.

It wasn't until she felt that she couldn't control her emotions that she locked the phone and hung up the call.

She had been blowing in the night wind for a long time, not only did the slight drunkenness from before dissipate, but it gradually surged up, burning her heart very hot.She didn't go back, she just stood there, staring at the phone call just now in a daze.

She suddenly remembered... The last time she posted a circle of friends, Pei Songxi was still the same. She neither liked her nor commented on her.

Only the next day, she clicked on her profile picture and saw that she had a new signature.Pei Songxi didn't sign it before.This time I wrote: The bridges are strong, and the tunnels are bright. [note 1]

Was it changed for her?

Just then, a new call came in.

It was Pei Songxi who called.

This time, the moment the phone was connected.She spoke first: "Mianmian."

Yu Mian smiled lightly in the night wind, her voice seemed to melt in the night wind: "...Aunt Pei."

Once he opened his mouth, it seemed that the next words became easier to say.

She raised her head, looked at the crescent moon in the sky, stretched out her hand and gestured lightly, as if she could hold the moon in her palm.

Her voice gradually calmed down, and she said very smoothly: "Aunt Pei, I was in a temple a few days ago. There are many statues in the main hall, which are said to have a history of thousands of years."

"……Um?"

"I asked them what time is. They said they didn't know, and told me to feel it slowly."

In the silent temple, she looked up at the tall and silent statue, and whispered to herself: "I like someone, do you know?"

No one responded to her, not even the statue.

There was a long silence on the other end of the phone.

Yu Mian was still smiling, smiling, her throat was choked up slightly, her tears fell, and she asked her softly: "Aunt Pei, can I go home?"

The other party was just silent.

The wind is still rustling.

Yu Mian didn't wait for her reply, and quickly hung up the phone.

Two weeks after the New Year, the students who had left school returned to school one after another, while the third group who stayed behind during the Spring Festival entered a two-week holiday.

Yu Mian also started to have a vacation.

Xu Xiaoyan knew that she was on vacation and asked her to come and play.Yu Mian had no other arrangements, so she agreed to fly over to see her.

Xu Xiaoyan just graduated half a year ago, she failed to open a flower shop as she wished, because her current boyfriend is a veterinarian, so she opened a pet shop, most of the time to help look after the pets around the community, and sometimes go to her veterinarian boyfriend to help Rescue small animals.

When Yu Mian saw her new boyfriend, she was already familiar with the strangeness, and just thought it was a little funny: "Tell me yourself, how many have you changed over the years?"

Xu Xiaoyan still looked carefree when she was young: "If it suits you, stay together, if it doesn't suit you, break up. I don't plan to get married in this life, and I don't want to tie myself up with a piece of paper. I don't cheat, I don't mess around, and I don't Splitting legs. If we get together, we will get together and if we don’t, we will separate. I like this kind of freedom.”

Yu Mian smiled and nodded: "Of course this is your freedom. You are very lucky, you are more free than others. Uncle Xu and Aunt Zhao will never restrain you. You can follow your heart and make the choice you want .”

They were sitting on the floor drinking, Xu Xiaoyan was a little drunk, and said with a smile: "Yes, my parents never ask me. I am very lucky. But Mianmian, do you know, in fact, your family did not ask you Did you make any request? It was you who closed your heart. It has been so many years, far and wide, up and down, you have traveled so many places, when are you going to come back?"

Yu Mian raised her head, drank a can of beer in her hand, smiled and burst into tears: "I... I don't know. I haven't thought about this problem... I don't know where to stay .I'll think about it."

Xu Xiaoyan didn't speak any more, and just handed her another can of beer, feeling a little sad in her heart.

She would rather she was drunk and crying loudly, than she would be so sober and calm that she didn't know, that she had to think about it.

Is it possible to make her cry out loud only by getting her drunk?

According to the usual practice, Pei Songxi only had a few days off during the New Year before returning to the company to continue working.

Wei Yi has been transferred to the vice president of the Greater China area, but during the meeting, he still served her a cup of coffee as before: "Mr. Pei."

Pei Songxi turned her head, her usually deserted face was faintly tired, she said softly, "Thank you."

Wei Yi looked at her with some uneasiness: "Just now, when Manager Wang was reporting on his work, I saw you... a little lost in thought. If you are too tired, do you want to consider going back to take a rest first? This is not very important Meeting."

Pei Songxi shook his head: "No, I'm fine."

After being reminded by Wei Yi, she realized that she was really distracted just now... But these days, she hardly had a good night's sleep, and her mental state was a little poor.

She took a deep breath, temporarily suppressed the turbulent emotions, flipped through the documents on the table, and listened to the reports of her subordinates.

The phone on the table lighted up silently.

She didn't intend to look at it at first, but only glanced lightly, and when she saw the person who sent the message, her brows slowly creased.

It turned out to be... It was a message from that little girl Xu Xiaoyan.

It was a friend I made many years ago. At that time, Mianmian was still studying in the attached middle school. One day she was not feeling well, so she asked Xu Xiaoyan to help take care of her.For so many years after that, this ID just quietly lay in her list.

Why did you suddenly send her a message...

Is it because of Mianmian?

Pei Songxi focused his eyes slightly, tapped the unlock button on the screen with his fingertips, entered the dialog box, and saw the video sent by the other party.

Her fingertips curled up slightly, her throat moved slightly, and her rationality was still reminding her that it was still working time.But the next moment, when she saw the message from the other party, she stood up in a daze, and the chair was kicked down with a loud bang.

But she turned a deaf ear to it, and just walked out in a hurry, leaving the people in the room looking at each other, and the reporter was even dumbfounded. She didn't know what annoyed her... She even threw down Mr. Pei, who had always been calm and steady. chair away.

But Pei Songxi didn't care about these anymore.

The other party said that Yu Mian was with her, and she said that this was her video.

She goes back to the office.The person who has always been calm and indifferent like water is also a little embarrassed at this moment. Her breathing is violently rising and falling, and she clicks on the video with trembling fingertips.

The light in the photo is a bit dim, probably at night abroad, the camera first passed over the empty wine bottles piled up on the floor, Pei Songxi frowned dissatisfied.But in the next second, she saw...Yu Mian, someone she hadn't seen for more than two years.

The girl was holding a bottle of beer, and the string of rosewood beads on her wrist was so dazzling.She was downing a bottle of wine with her head up, as if she was laughing, she stopped smiling, and she didn't know what she was talking about... She suddenly became nervous and anxious, took the schoolbag next to her and started looking for it. Soon, a piece of paper seemed to be taken out of the bag, not knowing what it was.

She smiled again, and kissed the paper again and again, with such a pious and focused gesture.

Pei Songxi stared at the piece of paper as if feeling something, the corners of her eyes and brows were trembling slightly, until the girl finally got drunk and leaned back against the wall, her hand slowly dropped to the floor, and the piece of paper also fell down... …Pei Songxi finally saw clearly that it was the lost old photo, it was her going to Yu Mian's parent meeting, and it was the first of all the photos.

At the very beginning, at the beginning of the beginning.

Earlier, she found that a photo was missing, and she searched for it at home for many days, up and down, but she couldn't find it... In her anxiety, she also wondered if she was taken away by Yu Mian .

Now it seems that this is the case.

The picture was still for a while, then gradually moved again.

The drunken girl came to her senses for a moment, subconsciously clenched her palms tightly, but accidentally made them empty.She looked around in a panic, and only breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the photo not far away.

She carefully picked up the photo, put it in her arms, near her chest, then leaned back, slowly closed her eyes, and fell into a deep sleep.

This is the end of the video.

Pei Songxi felt like her heart was about to break.

She took a step back, leaning against the door, unable to stand any longer, and slowly slid down to sit.

She covered her lips and began to choke up uncontrollably: "Mianmian..."

She had called her name thousands of times in her heart.

She watched the video several times, saved it, and then clicked to exit.

Pei Songxi thought of the phone call on New Year's Eve, and the girl asking her softly in the night breeze, Aunt Pei, can I go home?

She was silent for a long time, and finally figured out how to answer her, but the phone had already been hung up.

The depressing water in her eyes finally turned into tears, and her voice was trembling: "Mianmian... I never let you go home."

Those words were like stabbing her heart with a knife.