Jinnian

Winter 2011.

In the early morning, Gu Chen opened the window, a layer of silver frost quietly peeled off, and transparent crystal icicles hung on the window sill, outside was a plain white world.

It's snowing, and I haven't seen such a big snowflake in the winter here once in the past three years.Fluttering, soft and holy like petals.

Gu Chen walked out the door with a cane, his shoes creaked on the snow, and the snowflakes fell on his eyelids, the cool and silky touch, so nostalgic, the most real feeling in winter.

He stood under the hibiscus tree in the yard, raised his head slightly, the branches were covered with snow, so pure, and the petals were bright red, so bright that it set off a dazzling elegance.

The rouge washes away the shadow of autumn, and the ice and snow attract the soul of dew.Gu Chen muttered in a low voice.

A snowflake fell to the bottom of the eyes, and a tear was reflected in the circle.

The door of the yard was pushed open with a creak, and Gu Chen turned his head. In his blurred vision, he saw a person standing outside the wind and snow, unable to distinguish his eyebrows.

Lu Chuxiu looked at the man standing in the snow. He missed the man for more than 1000 days and nights. He was dressed in black and had black hair.

Tears flowed silently.

Three years, Gu Chen, I have been looking for you for three years.

My child, my love, finally waiting for you.

City Z, which is thousands of miles away from City S, is a small town that is far inferior to City S in terms of city level, scale, population, land area, and development trend. The flowers of the ancestors and the moon are under the moon, the small ones are elegant and graceful, and they are also quiet, slow and serene.It is the kind of shallowness that is easy to be buried by the years, washed away but can last long in memory.The ancient lines on the bluestone slab are like the intricate veins in the palm of an old man. It is not noisy, but only bustles with its own joy. It is not ostentatious, but only shows off its own color. changing existence.

In this hasty era, it waits for a man who is painstakingly accomplished and bruised all over his body to come. It watches the colorful city that never sleeps in the far north and goes silent like a shadow, and then it waits quietly.At night, the flowing water under the wooden bridge is gurgling, and the young man of a certain family is standing on the bow of the boat, lighting a candle and looking at the distance peacefully.Faint but warm enough.The bricks and tiles that have been beaten by the town in the past few decades seem to be broken sentences. Time is the most corrosive existence. After washing away the lead, the dazzling glory is just a flashy dream.

——Preface

Deep in the alley of Qingshiwa in the small town, there is an independent house with a yard. The owner of the house is Gu Chen, a 29-year-old young man.It might be too much to say that he is young, but compared to the 60-year-old old men and women around him, Gu Chen is indeed very young.

When he was young, he opened a clinic at the intersection of Linshui.

Gu Chen is a doctor, and the clinic is not big. There are two rooms, a total of more than 120 square meters. One room is equipped with a lot of medicines, and the other is a simple operating room for minor operations. Come to him to see a doctor There are quite a lot of people in the hospital. Older people always have various problems that don’t suit them. Children also often stumble. Dr. Gu always smiles and asks patients patiently and meticulously. , Prescribe prescriptions methodically.

If you don't talk about his age, I can't believe that he is almost in his thirties. His face is fair, his eyebrows are delicate, and even the fine lines at the corners of his eyes are extremely gentle. Smiling, modest and warm, the old people often joked in the clinic: "Ah, isn't this the son-in-law in front of Dama Yujie! This looks, isn't that Pan An!"

Everyone laughed eagerly. Everyone knew that Gu Chen came here alone. It has been more than three years since he came here. During this period, he never left, and no one came to visit him. Others only knew that his parents passed away too early. But I don't know where he came from before, because he is often alone and lives in a simple place.Two years ago, the clinic recruited a female doll, who just graduated from university, she is smart, and she is helping Dr. Gu. With her here, the clinic has become more active!

When Xia Beibei saw Gu Chen for the first time, it was stormy outside, and inside the room a thin, half-wet man was closing the window on a stool, with a walking stick beside him. Comrades are benevolent doctors who save lives and heal the wounded. Later, Xia Beibei felt obliged to stand beside Gu Chen and said, "Brother, I graduated from XX University of Medicine. I'm here to help you. Do you think so?"

Gu Chen was surprised for a long while, and asked dumbfoundedly, "That's a good university too. You came to my small clinic, aren't you Qu Cai?"

Xia Beibei waved her hand and said loudly: "What's the matter! The purpose of studying medicine is to save people, so it doesn't matter where you save people? How comfortable you can be without seeing that big hospital!"

Gu Chen smiled and said: "I am indeed short of manpower. It is of course great if you are willing, but I can't pay you a high salary."

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, you can watch it!" Xia Beibei said boldly.

Gu Chen agreed, thinking in his heart that he seemed to be a child from a wealthy family who didn’t need wages to live on. After thinking about it, he didn’t know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are. Later, the two discussed based on the clinic’s monthly income. Less, Xia Beibei agreed nonchalantly, and Gu Chen explained some basic matters to her. From then on, the clinic could always hear Comrade Xia Beibei's devilish "laughter". After a long time, Gu Chen knew This child is from S City, and he came to him because of the rain when he was passing by to see his classmates.

"What a fate, if it wasn't for the heavy rain, I would still be in S City!" Xia Beibei said while closing the window when it rained again.

Gu Chen's hand flipping through the book paused, but he didn't speak.

Xia Beibei found that Gu Chen didn't seem to want to hear her talk about her life in S City, sometimes she would keep silent for a long time without replying a word, but Xia Beibei didn't care, Gu Chen kept silent most of the time I don't know what I'm thinking.

Some old ladies who came here to see a doctor would sometimes make fun of Gu Chen and her, and sometimes when Gu Chen didn't come in the morning, those old ladies who got up early and finished exercising would ask him quietly, "Babe, what about Dr. Gu?" Is there any progress?" Xia Beibei was very depressed, she didn't care if she heard it, Gu Chen would always frown when he heard it, although he didn't speak, but Xia Beibei knew he was unhappy.

Everyone can see that Gu Chen must have experienced something before coming here, no wife and no children, this is not the life a normal man should have.But no one asked Gu Chen, expressing curiosity and pity for other people's experience is a kind of harm.

So Xia Beibei became the hardest hit area, as long as she was alone, she would be besieged forever!

"Brother, they're here again, ah, why did you open the clinic on the street?" Whenever she couldn't bear it any longer, Xia Beibei yelled at Gu Chen.

"Where is the clinic open on the street? Deep in the mountains and old forests? Little girl, hurry up and start a relationship. If you stay with this uncle like me all day long, you will drown sooner or later!" Gu Chen prescribed the prescription slowly and calmly. Said.

Xia Beibei immediately fell silent, stared sadly, and continued with the work in hand!

Gu Chen never seems to care about whether there is a woman to marry him, or he doesn't care about many things, as if the world has nothing to do with himself and no one else, and there is no need for him to participate in it. He sometimes lives like an old man The hermit, who has no desires or demands, keeps silent about everything, and rarely tells others.Xia Beibei looked at Gu Chen's face quietly flipping through the book in her spare time, and always thought: "Has he always been like this? How could anyone be like this?"

However, life will always explain such a truth to Xia Beibei: "If you live for a long time, you will see everyone."

If it were her in college, she might still be pestering Gu Chen to ask questions endlessly, wishing to find out even the eighteenth generation of his ancestors, but now she is no longer the little girl who was ignorant and ignorant of the world. Even though he is not mature enough, he also knows that life is impermanent.

A man who suddenly lost his legs when he was about to stand in his thirties, a lonely soul who left the city and wandered in a foreign land, and a silent figure who has been alone for many years and is inseparable from each other, there are too many sad stories hidden behind it, which makes people feel sad. Can't bear to ask carefully, can't bear to read.

Lu Chuxiu rubbed his brows, staring at the document intently, while the assistant was reporting the data in a machine-like voice step by step next to his ears.He quickly processed the materials at hand, one plan after another was running in his mind, the day at noon was so hot that even the asphalt road had a high fever. The paired lunches were tasteless.

Occasionally looking up at the photos on the table, staring at them for a long time, my heart warms up, then pains, numbness, and finally slowly returns to coldness.Someone once taught him how to reconcile with life with love and forgiveness, but he didn't learn until this person left.

His life has never been slack. Before he came, it was boring and lonely. After he left, it was a new desolation.

Over the years, everyone has seen his irascibility and coldness, but no one dared to step forward to persuade him.Just because of his status, no one can replace him.

Lu Chuxiu is 31 years old. He is the eldest son and grandson of the Lu family. The Lu family has been in business since the grandfather's generation. The ups and downs have been passed down to him for many years. It is hard to say the decline. The history of the rise and fall of a family can almost be regarded as a refractor of this society. , China, which has developed into the 21st century, already has the demeanor of a big country, and a family like theirs has stepped into the new blueprint of the times with this rising country step by step!The accumulation of assets has become increasingly rich, and the class gap has been widening.But so what?When the tide of the times hits, there are only a few wavers rolling on the top of the waves!In addition to the blessings of the ancestors, the Lu family is a family with confidence and artifice!

Lu Chuxiu's father was only one son, and his father had two younger brothers and a younger sister in the same generation. The Lu family had their shares, and there were many brothers and sisters under the family, but in the end only Lu Chuxiu was the one who succeeded the Lu family.

And at the age of more than 30, he can control the general rule of the Lu family, and he is often a model in the circle of the same class. This role of flaunting is not only praised by those of the older generation, but also convinced by the younger generation. The points are not together at all, but it does not prevent Lu Chuxiu's mysterious existence in this circle.

Apparently, what the elders care about is his youthful and successful means and precise vision. The difference between Lu Chuxiu and other rich men is that he didn't inherit Lu's business right away. The most sensational thing at the beginning was his great achievements in entering the Lu family with his own career!After the millennium, the world's commercial torrents have focused on the Internet. Among the young people of the same generation, Lu Chuxiu was the first person to taste crabs. In those years, his name was simply dazzling in the business circle, but most of the time This is a silent and restrained person.

And what the younger generation admires the most is his cleanliness. He is different from those extravagant and extravagant noblemen. His restraint is a kind of calm and graceful charm soaked in the breath of life, and his silence hides a fierce atmosphere and purity.He is an existence that fits that class but is ridiculed at the same time.He seldom exiles physical pleasure in sensual places, and he has not even had a lover for more than ten years. Such a good young man who talks about five things and four beauties is really surprising in their circle.

However, when you see this person, you have to believe that his eyes are too full, and there is a fundamental difference between him and the drunkenness and dreaming in the eyes of those red men and green women.You will instinctively have a pure admiration and fear.Because his deepness hides the soul, and his loneliness is soaked in affection.Even if you can only see in his eyes the same coldness and dignity as ordinary businessmen.However, this is a person who once knew love.