don't die

It was a dead cicada.The body is arched and slightly curled up.

The singer who had lost his life had lost the strength to make a final cry, and stared blankly at the world, as if he wanted to remember something in the end.And its beautiful and thin cicada wings could no longer be stretched, and turned into a sacrificial garment, gently draped on its back.

He gently lifted the dead cicada with both hands, but the girl next to him screamed in shock.

"No, it's scary."

He turned his head and looked at the screaming little girl.

"Why should you be afraid of it?"

The little girl who looked only four or five years old timidly said: "Because it is a bug, it is ugly, and bugs are ugly and scary."

"Really? But look at its wings." The man showed the cicada's wings to her, "Look, it is colorful in the sun and reflects beautiful light. Don't these wings look good? "

The little girl hesitated, carefully looking at the cicada wings.Its thin and beautiful shape quickly attracted her.

"It's very beautiful, so beautiful, like crystal!"

"Yeah." He smiled softly, "So although most bugs are ugly, they also have beautiful parts. It's like Nuan Nuan, you are very cute, but isn't Nuan Nuan's poop also stinky? Is it because of this that Nuan Nuan is not cute?"

"Pfft, what are you talking to the child so early in the morning?"

"Mom—!" The little girl jumped into the man's arms happily.

The young woman gently hugged the girl, tapped the tip of her nose and said, "Nuan Nuan, don't believe what he says, you will pollute your ears if you hear it."

He had no choice but to look at the two, one big and one small, and said, "I'm just making an analogy."

"Using poop as a metaphor? Only you can think of it."

Being stared at by the woman, he was helpless, but he still didn't give up, and explained to the little girl: "Look, Nuan Nuan, no matter how ugly a bug is, it has beautiful parts on its body, and no matter how good-looking a person is, there are also beautiful parts. He doesn't have a good-looking side. So, we can't easily judge a thing by its appearance, understand?"

The little girl half understood, looked at the cicada in his hand, and nodded.

"Then dad, why did the cicada die? It has such beautiful wings. It's a pity that it can't fly after it dies."

Yes, why do beautiful things always fade away easily, but not for long?

He smiled lightly and said:

"That's probably because God doesn't allow such beauty to last too long."

Human beings don't know how to cherish too much, and they won't cherish that beauty for too long.

The little girl nodded ignorantly, at her age she still couldn't understand what the man was saying now.All she could remember was the two hands that were holding her tightly, one on the left and one on the right, a man and a woman were holding her tightly.

And when the man looks back at the woman he loves, he meets a pair of bright and charming eyes.At that glance, it was as if a cruise ship sailing into the harbor saw its own ever-burning light.

Warm, yet bright light.

"Xia... Xia... Xia Shili!"

Far away, it seemed that there was a voice from elsewhere to take him away from this harbor and leave this warm world.

He frowned unwillingly, but the voice of that calling became more and more similar, very close to his ears.

"Xia Shili! Xia Shi...li..."

"Xia—huh!"

He Tun hurriedly took a few breaths, he had been running up the mountain for half a day, and he was exhausted at this time, and he wanted to shout loudly, but he felt a little "deprived of oxygen" after shouting a few times.

"Xia... Damn, where did this guy hide?"

The small courtyard was quiet, there was no fire in the house, and the door was tightly closed.Even if he was patrolling the forest, he should have returned by this point. Why is there still no one?

He Xi gradually had bad guesses in his heart. Could it be that, as Lin Shen said, Xia Shili was...

"What's up?"

Pa, a hand struck hard on He Tun's shoulder who was bending over and panting, and He Tun, who was startled, suddenly raised his head.As soon as he turned around, he saw a pair of pale faces staring at him very close, and his mouth was wide open, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.

Xia Shili found it strange to see He Xiong not responding for a long time.

"Crash?" He stretched out his hand and waved, "Hey, come back to your senses, come back to your senses! Is the soul still there? Is anyone there?"

"you……"

"Huh?" He satirized the voice too softly, Xia Shili couldn't hear it clearly, so he leaned closer to listen.

"You are so heartless! Repeatedly, are you doing it on purpose or on purpose?" He Xie yelled into his ear, "I should be glad that I don't have a heart attack, otherwise I will find you to pay for my life sooner or later!"

Xia Shili took two steps back from the shock, rubbing his ears again and again, he laughed out loud as he looked at the distraught He Tiao.It made He Tun even more furious, rushing forward and grabbing his neck was a fat beating.

When Lin Shen followed behind and returned to the small courtyard, what he saw was that He Tun and Xia Shili looked like good brothers, hugging each other and making love to each other.

He walked into the yard and stomped on a dead branch under his feet, and the two of them stopped and stared at him.

"Play well, exercise and keep fit, keep playing."

Passing by these two people without looking back, Lin Shen walked towards the door.

He Tun quickly straightened his clothes.

"I'm not joking, I'm asking about his work."

"Oh."

"Really, why am I lying to you? Didn't you just tell me at the foot of the mountain that Xia Shili may have 'work troubles', so I came here to check on his situation."

"Oh."

"Lin Shen...you are dumb, can you use another word?"

"to make."

He satirized speechless, completely overwhelmed by Lin Shen's sudden strange temper, what's wrong with this guy, he suddenly became in a bad mood.

On the other hand, Xia Shili seemed to have noticed something, and looked at the two with a smile on his side.He didn't intend to speak at first, but when he saw something in Lin Shen's hand, he called out softly.

"Lin Shen, is that in your hand?"

Lin Shen heard his question, turned around, and saw Xia Shili's anxious expression.

He suddenly grinned and smiled.

"Are you asking this?" Stretching out his right hand to let Xia Shili have a good look, Lin Shen stared into his eyes and said word by word, "This is a dead cicada I picked up on the road."

The weak life that had already lost its life was lying powerlessly in Lin Shen's palm, and the bright wings also lost their color and became dim.

Xia Shili's pupils constricted for a second.

Lin Shen didn't miss this detail, and asked in hot pursuit: "You pay attention to it? A dead cicada?"

Xia Shili raised his head, met his aggressive gaze, and after a while, he smiled.

"No, it just reminds me of something."

His face seemed a little pale, Xia Shili said: "It reminds me of something that should be very happy, but I can't figure it out, why?"

He fell into confusion alone, the sky was dark, and under the shade of the trees, the whole person seemed to be plunged into the shadow.

"Xia..." He Tun worriedly wanted to call him.

"I remembered!" Xia Shili suddenly came back to his senses, and showed a bright smile to the two who were looking at him. "I remember, not so long ago, I said something similar to my daughter."

As he spoke, he seemed to recall a warm memory, with a happy smile on his face.

"I said a lot to her at the time, but her mother said that I was raising a bad child. In fact, she also understood me. She knew that I just wanted to tell Nuan Nuan something, and she understood..."

"Daughter?" He satin raised his voice slightly, "Wait! Whose daughter are you with? When did you give birth to a daughter? No, how did you give birth to a daughter?"

"Of course it wasn't me, it was born by her mother." Xia Shili looked at him strangely, "How can a man have a child? Are you still normal, He Xie?"

"It's not that I'm abnormal. Wait a minute, you and your girlfriend got pregnant first? No, you gave birth before wed?"

"of course not."

"Then you gave birth to another woman? Or adopted?"

"I only love her, how could there be other women! Nuan Nuan is my child!" Xia Shili seemed a little angry.

He was puzzled, "You didn't get pregnant with your girlfriend out of wedlock, and you didn't have sex with other women. Where did this child come from?"

Xia Shili smiled as if sighing: "Hey, is there any problem here? I love her, and I have a child with her. There is no contradiction between them?" He looked at Heyong with pity, "Maybe It's too hot, I'll go to the house and slice watermelon for you to cool off, wait a minute."

Looking at Xia Shili's back as he entered the room, He Tun felt that he was the most powerless one.

"I just want to know one question." He sat on looking at the door, and said numbly: "Since he didn't have a child with his girlfriend out of wedlock, and he didn't mess with another woman's belly, where did he get his own daughter? She jumped out of a rock? Self-conception?"

Lin Shen said, "Ask him himself."

"Absolutely not!" He satirized, wanting to cry without tears, "Didn't you see how confident he was when he refuted me just now? If I ask him again, I'm afraid I'll look even more like an idiot."

"It's very simple." Lin Shen said: "Choose one, either you are an idiot, or Xia Shili's logic is confused. But before that, I have to remind you of another thing."

"what?"

"He said just now that he has a child. Has he told you about this before?"

"No." He satirically replied.

Lin Shen: "That's good, there's only one thing you have to worry about next. Maybe tomorrow, he will suddenly come over and tell you that he has a son named He Tun."

"...that joke is not funny at all."

Lin Shen turned his head and looked at him seriously.

"Which ear did you hear me joking, I'm serious."

He Xie really wanted to refute that he had heard it with both ears, but seeing Lin Shen's extraordinarily serious expression, he couldn't help but began to doubt himself.

Would Xia Shili really do that?In fact, the most abnormal person today is yourself?

Imagine that tomorrow, Xia Shili ran over to him and said:

Son, let Papa come and kiss me.

Papa, dear.

The pro.

"..."

Lin Shen waved his hand, and stood beside He Xie who suddenly froze.

"Hey, Hey, wake up?"

"I was just joking."

He Tun has lost his wits.