Eternal

"Chi Jing is going on a long trip, please take care of me in the spring morning and evening." On the second day after staying in the inn, the second apprentice knocked on my door before dawn, so he said.

I nodded after hearing this, and didn't ask him what he was going to do or when he would come back. I just responded lightly, "Understood. I will take good care of them."

I thought he would leave here, but in the next second he heard him explain again in an affirmative tone, "It won't be more than one month at the latest, and the disciple will return." Then he didn't know what to think, he paused, and then said "Chun Zao and Wan Zhao experienced a lot of ups and downs in life before they were adopted by the disciple. The disciple should have taken good care of them, but——perhaps because the disciple inherited his father's bad words, so that he learned to be a child at a young age. Sensitive to words and expressions, sensitive minds—the disciples haven’t informed the two of them this time, so I asked Master Yue to tell them on their behalf, and pay more attention to their emotional changes.”

"Well, I see. You can rest assured." I smiled and nodded.

After looking at me carefully, he cupped his hands and saluted:

"Master, this is the disciple's farewell." After finishing speaking, he turned and left.

After closing the door, I went to the bed and opened the window, looking out——

The sky has not yet opened, and there is still a faint star shining in it.

Across the street, there are already sporadic and busy hawkers talking in low voices.

Turning to the corner of the street again, I happened to catch a glimpse of the afterimage left by the slender back of the second apprentice as he turned his feet.

I stared at the empty end of the street for a few seconds, then calmly withdrew my gaze and closed the window.

Walking back to the bed, kissed the big cat next to the pillow from the air, and then continued to hold the quilt to catch up on sleep.

I didn't wake up again until it was broad daylight.

After washing up as usual, I carried the big cat, who was still asleep, to the room where the twins were.

"Knock button." I knocked on the door.

After about three breaths, there was movement inside.

The door creaked open.

The door was opened by the twin who always kept the other behind.

"Are you a night photo?" I asked with a smile.

"En." Wan Zhao nodded.

"Aren't you going to invite me in?" I asked with a look of resistance on his face.

It was obvious that my words bothered him.

But I didn't continue to say anything, I just waited quietly.

His expression changed from resistance to hesitation, and finally froze into determination.

"Please come in." He took a step back and opened the door completely.

Once inside, I looked around and finally saw a small piece of fabric on the edge of the room's dangling sand curtain.

After subconsciously touching my earlobe, I said to the evening photo standing at the table pouring tea:

"You two should take a shower, right?"

"Hmm." He nodded.

"That's right, let's go down and have breakfast with me." I said with a smile.

"But--"

"But what?"

"But Brother Jing hasn't come to call us yet." He summoned up his courage and said.

"Ah, he, he's gone out and won't be back for a month. He asked me to take care of you." I explained.

Wan Zhao opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but someone spoke before him:

"You liar! Brother Jing used to go out, but for three to five days at most! And he will definitely tell us before entrusting us to someone he knows to take care of!"

It is the spring morning behind the gauze curtain.

I looked at the somewhat deformed sand tent that was obviously caught, and shook my head.

"Yeah, maybe it was true in the past. But you have to remember, that was only the past. And what you are facing today is the present. Don't judge and use the past experience as a basis-this sentence I hope you will remember In my heart." I looked at the evening photos, then looked at the direction beside the bed, and added, "Remember, it must be in my heart, not in my head."

The room suddenly fell silent, and it seemed that even the sound of birdsong outside disappeared at that moment.

But that was just my illusion, the next second I heard heavy breathing from the other side of the bed curtain, and——

I turned to the evening photo and saw a pair of red eyes.

I looked away indifferently, and left the room with strides after saying "I'm going to order food, you guys remember to come down to the hall in a quarter of an hour".

***

For breakfast this time, I still chose the window seat.

For the recipe, I ordered whole porridge.

I ordered red bean porridge for the twins, fish and shrimp porridge for the big cat, and white porridge with pickles for me.

The red bean porridge was served to the twins just before I went upstairs yesterday——

It is expected that even if I order this later, the two of them will probably dislike breakfast because they see me, but they will not be too disgusted.

well.I sighed in my heart and looked at the bustling crowd outside the window.

I don't actually like kids that much.

Even a little in awe.

They are naturally as keen and transparent as those animals that follow their instincts unconsciously-like mirrors.

When I saw them, it was as if they were adults in the future staring at me with a pair of indifferent eyes, examining me from a height.

Stay away, this is my attitude towards them.

But, like I said to them earlier, this can only be the way it used to be.

From the moment Su Jingchi knocked on my door this morning, it was already doomed that I must start to change.

Because this is the responsibility he passed on to me:

There was already a certain connection between my twins and me when he said the phrase, "Please take care of the master for the spring morning and evening photos."

—and I cannot escape and ignore this connection.

Thinking of this, I looked away from the window and looked at the porridge on the table—even though it was covered, I could clearly feel that they had become warm and cold.

"Meow—" the big cat suddenly yelled in a certain direction.

"Big cat, are you hungry?" I patted the big cat's head with some self-blame, "Okay, we won't wait, if they don't come, I'll ask Xiao Er to make a gift later—"

The voice stopped abruptly.

Because from the direction the big cat was facing, there were two small figures walking over holding hands.

"Hey, that's all." I smiled and shook my head, waved to the two people in the stairwell, and then slowly lifted the lid of Big Cat's fish and shrimp porridge——

"Big cat, sometimes I really feel that you can really understand what I say, and can convey some kind of message for some kind of unspeakable existence - before I met them in the woods, before I was about to give up this meeting It's time, even just now—you said, are you someone's messenger?"

"Meow——" The big cat's soft cry still answered me.

"Okay, okay, I know you really want to eat this time. Here I will feed you!"

"Meow--"