Qi Luo has no regrets

Along the way, he only cared about wrestling with Zhou Qiluo, but he didn't realize that the scenery around him had changed unknowingly.It was still blue water just now, but now it has become an abandoned pier, and the lawn on the left has turned into a bush with red fruits at some point, and an abandoned station stands quietly farther away.

Only when Zhou Qiluo was caught up and hugged him from behind did he feel exhausted.

"How far is it?"

"Hmm... I must have walked seven or eight kilometers." Zhou Qiluo didn't tickle me any more as if he felt my fatigue. Instead, he supported me leaning against him, and wiped the sweat from my nose with the back of his hand.

"Have you already traveled this far? I thought ten kilometers would be a long time."

"Ten kilometers is a long time, but when you're with Ashu, it becomes very short. Look, it's almost over in the blink of an eye."

Zhou Qiluo took my hand and carefully wrote something stroke by stroke on my palm, like an "X" and a "√".

"What is this? Right and wrong?"

Zhou Qiluo looked at me with an unbelievable expression, "Ashu, can't you see that I'm cheering you on?"

Come on, come on?I thought about that stroke carefully, could it be "+U"?

"Hahahaha, Zhou Qiluo, you are so stupid, who knows if you don't say this kind of abbreviation."

"I thought that with our tacit understanding, you would find out right away." He was like a deflated rubber ball, and all the high spirits he had just now were gone.

"Lolo, I recently learned a rustic love story, do you want to listen to it?"

"What?" Losing his head, Luo's eyes lit up again in an instant, like a super easy-to-deceive kid.

"The biggest tacit understanding between me and you is that when I love you, you happen to love me too." Looking at his dull expression for a moment, I regret saying this a bit. Did it scare him too much? , touched the tip of his nose embarrassingly.

Zhou Qiluo burst out laughing, and rubbed his forehead lightly against me, I felt the sweat from my forehead rubbing against his hair.

"Ah Shu, you are really... not frank at all."

"I, how can I?" He smiled and took my hand, and walked forward without answering my question. I was the only one left beside him, chirping and protesting.The two shadows on the ground, one big and one small, cuddled tightly together, as if they were about to merge into one.

I don’t know if Zhou Qiluo’s special “+U” played a role. I seemed to have really forgotten how tired I was, and walked a long distance with full energy until those two words came out of his mouth. I haven't even reacted yet.

"arrive."

"what?"

"The end!"

Lying on the railing, looking at the endless sea in front of you, sparkling under the sunshine, the sea is really perfect for summer.

"Is this the number one miracle in Love Language City you mentioned?"

"It's not the 'miracle' I was talking about." Zhou Qiluo hugged me from behind, resting his chin on my shoulder, covering my left hand with his left hand, interlocking with my fingers, while his right hand was inadvertently on top of me. out of my eyes.

"Lolo?"

"I'll take you to see that miracle now. You are not allowed to peek until I agree, you understand?"

"You said it so mysteriously, I want to see it even more, okay?"

"I know."

"You know you still say that?"

"Haha, because you look so anxious, Ashu, so cute."

Just as I was about to tear his hands off his eyes, I heard his threatening voice, "Ah Tu, don't you want to see a miracle?"

"think……"

"Then what should I do?" Putting down the hand that was pulling him, I pouted and followed him around, thinking to myself, if I can't see a satisfactory miracle later, I must be careful. clean him up.

"Stop." Feeling that Zhou Qiluo, who was supporting my body, pulled a little harder on me who was still walking forward, and then turned me around, a red light shone through his fingers, it should be sunlight .

"Be careful when you open your eyes later, the sun is a bit dazzling." His voice came from above his head, and then he slowly let go of his hands covering my eyes.

I opened my eyes and looked straight ahead, and there was a tree growing in the sea right in front of me.The branches and leaves are luxuriant, the roots are intertwined, the green canopy and the blue sea water reflect each other.The calm water surface reflects the sparkling light in the sun, decorating this green underwater forest.With the sea level as the dividing line, there is an identical "mirror world" below the water surface.

This Lianyu City is really similar to the city I live in.

I turned my head to look at Zhou Qiluo, and I didn't need to guess to know that my eyes were full of surprises.

"Mangrove, the forest growing in the sea." He looked at me with a smile, "I knew it, you would like it."

Zhou Qiluo's blue eyes sparkled and twinkled, just like the sun-drenched sea.

"This is the first time I have seen a real mangrove forest in reality. I only saw it in the TV program introduced by popular science before. I was deeply shocked at that time. Now I see it with my own eyes. In addition to being shocked, I am also shocked." Another feeling."

"How do you feel?"

"The climate in Lianyu City is actually not suitable for them to grow, but they grow so well. This kind of tenacity to grow tenaciously even in adversity makes people feel distressed and lovely..." Just like someone, I Turning my head to look at the child who grew into a big tree in adversity, I missed his childhood, youth, when I saw him, he was already such a tall and upright tree, which made people feel Feel reliable and secure.

"Yes..." Zhou Qiluo nodded his head facing the sea, but there was an emotion in his eyes that didn't match the smile on his lips, a little sad and a little lonely.

I gently grabbed his hand, Zhou Qiluo turned around and smiled at me, then turned to continue looking at the sea, after a moment of silence, he spoke lightly.

"You're right, it's really not suitable for them to grow here, so there were no mangrove forests in Lianyu City originally, this is a 'miracle of creation'."

He didn't continue this topic anymore, he was silent for a while, took my hand and left the beach, and came to a small park in the middle of the street.I wanted to ask him why he suddenly showed such a sad expression, but I didn't know how to speak, so I followed him silently.

Sitting on the swing in a corner of the park, Zhou Qiluo has recovered his usual grinning expression. He is a completely different person from before. With his long legs hanging down, he winked at me as if asking for credit.

"How is it? Isn't this place amazing!"

I thought about how wonderful it is to be able to sit with him so openly while the scenery is beautiful, so I nodded seriously at him.Looking at his smiling face, I don't know why the question just now came to my mind again.

"Lolo..." I pondered over my words, "What is the 'miracle created' you mentioned just now?"

Why do you look so sad at the mention of the word?

Zhou Qiluo looked at me, thought for a while, and said slowly, "As I said just now, there was no mangrove forest in Lianyu City. The underwater forest was planted by a professor with his team. I introduced it from other places and planted it myself. At that time, many experts disagreed, saying that although Lianyu City is by the sea, the climate is not suitable for introduction.”

Zhou Qiluo's words seemed to wake me up, and I suddenly remembered that the magic city that was used as a template by Lianyu City also had such a mangrove forest, which was planted by a professor named Zhong Yang and his team. , he said, this is a gift for the future, but the professor passed away before he could see the mangroves grow, could it be...

I raised my head and looked at Zhou Qiluo in shock. He continued to tell me the story I knew well. He looked forward and didn't notice anything unusual about me.

"In the first few years, several batches of saplings died due to natural disasters..."

"But he didn't give up, that's why we got the mangrove forest we saw today, didn't he?" When he heard my question, he nodded slightly, and I pursed my lips and asked the question I was most concerned about , "Then... this professor, how is it now?"

Zhou Qiluo lowered his head slightly, his feet slid across the ground, leaving deep and shallow marks.

"That professor... died unexpectedly a few years ago." I thought of Professor Zhong Yang who died in a car accident last year, and I had some vague thoughts in my mind.

For a while, only the sound of the swing "creaking and creaking" echoed in the air.After a long time, Zhou Qiluo suddenly turned his head and asked me seriously, "Ashu, if you were that professor, would you feel regretful?"

I thought about the respected professor. He has devoted his life to the protection of plant diversity. Mangroves are not the only contribution he left to the world. He once said that "a gene can save a country , One seed can benefit thousands of people.” Such a person, even if he has regrets for the world, it’s not just because he can’t see that the mangrove forest he planted is now flourishing.

I turned my head to look at Zhou Qiluo, perhaps what he wanted was not my answer, he must already have an answer in his heart.Smiling, he kicked the ground hard and swung the swing up.

"I'm not that professor, so I won't regret it if I can't answer for him, but if it's me, as long as I try my best, I won't regret it."

"Actually—" When he spoke again, Zhou Qiluo's voice was much clearer than before, and he didn't know if he had come out of sadness, "I always think that there should be at least two kinds of people in this world."

"Men and women?" The words were quickly answered.

Zhou Qiluo froze for a moment, then burst out laughing, "No, they are people who discover and create miracles. But now, I think there is a third kind of people."

"Huh?" I looked at him suspiciously.Across the two chains of the swing, he just turned his head to look at me, his big eyes smiling into crescent moons.

"The third type of person is you."

"I?"

"Well, you. Your existence, Ashu, is a miracle to me." When Zhou Qiluo said this, his eyes were round and bright, and his expression was extremely serious.

These words hit straight into my heart, "Lolo."

"Ok?"

"Maybe it's not necessarily a miracle. I have thought about why I came to this world countless times, but now I have the answer, because——you are here."

I saw him jump off the swing next to me, walk in front of me, grab my swing chain with both hands, and lower his head to my forehead.

"Would you like to play on the swing?"

"think."

"Then let me push you, okay?"

"Okay." I raised my head and looked at him with crooked eyebrows and smiling eyes, and the tip of my nose brushed against his. Suddenly, a pair of swans with intersecting necks in the mangrove forest appeared in my mind.

Zhou Qiluo came up behind me, dragged me by the waist, and pushed me out forcefully. The swing was swinging high and getting higher and higher.

I heard him ask me loudly behind me, "Is it tall?"

"high."

"Do you want to go higher?"

"want."

"Ah Tu, you are the real Pi." Although he said so, he still pushed me higher, I heard his chuckle in the wind, looked up at the blue sky and white clouds, and from time to time Near and far.But my little sun is right behind me, no matter how high I swing, I will return to his arms, won't I?

Tired of swinging, Zhou Qiluo slowly helped me stabilize the swing, hugged me from behind, and put his chin on my head. Sometimes I thought, if my head is bald, it must be because of He kept rubbing his chin against me.

Not far away, there was a "jingle dingling" car bell. We followed the sound and saw that an old man was riding a bicycle slowly passing by the road we had walked for a long time.If you look closely, you can also see a leash tied to his handlebars and a little yellow dog running behind.

I raised my head to look at Zhou Qiluo, who also seemed to have suddenly remembered something, "...Wow, there is actually a trick of riding a bicycle." After speaking, he lowered his head and pecked me on the forehead.

"I don't believe you didn't remember it, you just took me on a walk on purpose."

Zhou Qiluo smiled and blinked at me, returned to the swing next to me, pulled hard with both arms, and got on the swing with both feet at the same time.

"Because I think it's better to walk slowly with Ashu." While speaking, I kicked my legs vigorously, and I saw Zhou Qiluo's huddled body suddenly flew high like a light bird Swing out, even higher than I just swung.When the swing reached the highest point, his whole body seemed to melt into the sunshine.

"If you ride a bicycle for this distance, it will take half an hour at most." I heard his voice in the wind, "This is too fast."

When the swing returned to my side again, he who was always looking ahead suddenly turned his head to look at me. I couldn't see his expression clearly against the light, but I heard a sentence, which was different from the slightly high-spirited and bright one in the past. The voice, with lingering tenderness.

"The time with you - it must be slower, slower, and slower."