A collection of short stories about Qingshan as snow and yellow
Chapter 8 "Chapter Huanyin"
It is a summer evening.
The riverside park originally had a wide lawn, many blue swing sets, a carousel and a small fountain, but the new urban planning took these away and replaced it with a new commercial street.The only thing that has not been demolished are the benches along the path along the river, where people rest in twos and threes, including students who are tired from jogging, and aunts who have just finished dancing in the square.
A man walking by happened to see a young man sitting in the shadow of a street lamp.He greeted the other party: "Alone?"
"Yes." The young man was startled, "Do you want to sit here?"
The other party sat down on the bench.The setting sun spread across the river, a dull, melancholy red.
"I think you seem to have something on your mind." The man said with a smile, "Why don't you come and have a chat? What's your name?"
"Yu Wenzhou," said the young man.He looked at the stranger, who seemed to be quite old, and under the light of the street lamp, fine wrinkles could already be seen at the corners of his eyes.But when he smiles, it's contagious and relaxing.
"My name is Huang Shaotian." The man introduced himself, "I live near here. When I was young, there was a big park by the river, but now there are only a few benches left."
"Really?" Yu Wenzhou said softly, "I don't know."
Huang Shaotian asked, "Aren't you a local?"
"Maybe it doesn't count." Yu Wenzhou said, "My situation is a bit special."
"You seem like a person with a story." Huang Shaotian commented.
"Then do you want to hear my story?" Yu Wenzhou looked at him, "But you don't have to believe it, because it's really ridiculous."
"Let's talk about it." Huang Shaotian said, "I will be a good listener, ready to say 'Oh my god, it's like this', 'Really or not' and 'And then' and so on."
Yu Wenzhou couldn't help laughing.
He thought for a moment, then asked, "Have you watched The Time Traveler's Wife?"
"I have seen it." Huang Shaotian tilted his head, "Don't tell me you are the boyfriend of the time traveler."
Yu Wenzhou: "..."
"Okay, I'm just enlivening the atmosphere." Huang Shaotian cleared his throat, "What does this book have to do with your story?"
"It's kind of related." Yu Wenzhou said, "I'm a time traveler."
Huang Shaotian: "..."
Yu Wenzhou's expression was calm, it didn't look like he was joking at all.
"The amount of information is a bit large." Huang Shaotian blinked, "Really?"
"It's absolutely true." Yu Wenzhou said, "But it's hard to believe."
"It's unbelievable." Huang Shaotian looked him up and down, "Are you born to jump around in time like the hero in that book?"
"It's a bit different." Yu Wenzhou said, "First of all, it's not natural, but a catastrophic experiment; secondly, I don't travel randomly, but keep going back in time in the opposite direction of time."
As soon as Huang Shaotian came out of the laboratory, a freshman student came over and said that someone was waiting for him outside.
When he walked out of the teaching building, he saw Yu Wenzhou standing beside the car, looking like a personable social person.Huang Shaotian rushed over with a cheer: "Ouch, I finally saw you again!"
"Hasn't seen you for a long time?" Yu Wenzhou opened the car door for him.
"It's not a long time, maybe two or three months." Huang Shaotian took out his phone and flipped through the schedule records inside.Yu Wenzhou leaned over and wanted to watch, but was pushed away by the other party: "You are not allowed to watch, it will be boring to watch."
"What's the matter?" Yu Wenzhou said with a smile, "I will know about your dark history sooner or later."
Huang Shaotian said: "I'll return this to you without change! I've seen you when you became an uncle!"
"There is a big difference between when I am old and now?" Yu Wenzhou raised his eyebrows.
"Uh...still very handsome." Huang Shaotian said honestly, "Why on earth do you manage to get along so well every time?"
"It's not easy at first, but you'll know later on." Yu Wenzhou stepped on the gas pedal, "Even if it's this kind of thing, you'll get used to it after doing it more often, right?"
Their car drove out of the campus and headed for the bustling area in the city center.The traffic on the street on Friday was quite congested, and they drove slowly. Huang Shaotian took this opportunity to look him up carefully. Yu Wenzhou looked ahead and said, "Do you miss me that much?"
"Hey, I just want to see how much younger you are." Huang Shaotian coughed, "How enviable, a man who grows backward."
"Don't forget that you are the same in my eyes." Yu Wenzhou said.
"That's right." Huang Shaotian blinked, "Then when I get old, will I still be so fascinated by thousands of school girls?"
Yu Wenzhou smiled without saying a word.Huang Shaotian waited for a long time without waiting for an answer, and angrily turned on the radio in the car.
The singer on the radio began to sing: "You're my—"
"Okay, you should close it." Yu Wenzhou was dizzy from the shock, "I think about how to describe it..."
Huang Shaotian flicked off the radio.Yu Wenzhou said: "He is gentle, smart, and a very nice person. He also talks less."
"Really?" Huang Shaotian didn't expect him to answer so seriously, "Then I have to work hard. Don't spoil me anymore."
"You were the one who wanted to spoil it first." Yu Wenzhou glanced at him, "Are you a graduate student now?"
"That's right, I'll graduate next year." Huang Shaotian touched his chin and said, "I really hope you can stay for a few more years this time."
"Maybe it will." Yu Wenzhou said, "You have never changed on this point—about the time issue, you will not reveal anything to me."
"The future!" Huang Shaotian said lyrically, "With a future, there are infinite possibilities!... By the way, I have something to tell you."
Yu Wenzhou asked casually, "What?"
"You confessed to me when you left last time." Huang Shaotian said, "Then I thought about it, and now I decided to promise you. Let's date."
"..."
Yu Wenzhou slammed on the brakes, and they barely stopped behind the white line of the red light.
"I'll go and you calm down!" Huang Shaotian stuck out his tongue from being strangled by the seat belt, "If the mountains don't turn, the water will turn, there's no way to buy or sell, benevolence and righteousness!"
"Are you serious?" Yu Wenzhou asked.
Huang Shaotian smiled. "That's not your place to ask," he said. "You know my future self, and you know if I'm serious."
"The future you is the future you." That's when the traffic lights turned green again and they continued on their way.Yu Wenzhou said: "But this is something to seriously consider. In my case, this is not a good idea. I hope you can make your own choice."
Huang Shaotian stared at him for a few seconds, and asserted: "We will definitely be together in the future."
Yu Wenzhou: "..."
"I'm still very clear about what I'm doing." Huang Shaotian said, "Don't mention the future, that's all for the future. You said you didn't want to interfere with my life too much, right? Well, now I want to be with you, If you oppose me based on reasons such as time, logic, or the fate of the universe, then this is an intervention that does not belong to this point in time."
"You're making excuses," Yu Wenzhou said.Their car left the main road and turned into an alley.
"I never said I'm not good at this." Huang Shaotian said slyly.
The car stopped, and Yu Wenzhou turned sideways from the driver's seat: "Now I know how it all started."
"Hmm." Huang Shaotian narrowed his eyes, "I will remember to keep my mouth shut so as not to spoil this surprise."
He reached out to hook the other's neck and kissed him.Yu Wenzhou seemed extra cautious, and his movements were not organized. Strictly speaking, this was a kiss without technical content.However, both of them could hear their own heartbeats, one by one, intertwined, as if filling this small carriage.
After they parted, Huang Shaotian touched his pocket and took out his phone: "As a souvenir, how about we take a selfie? For youth...and for your lost youth, let's smile!"
Yu Wenzhou was held by his shoulders, and the two of them squeezed into the camera frame. When the flash was turned on, the picture was frozen in this way.
"What kind of experiment is that?" Huang Shaotian asked, "It sounds a bit scary, you are not building a time machine, are you?"
"It wasn't at first, but as it turns out, it indirectly had a similar effect."
Yu Wenzhou took out a stack of papers from his pocket.The paper was crumpled and covered with scrawled handwriting, he seemed to want to pass it to the other party to see, but hesitated for a moment, then put it away again.
"It's useless," he said as if to himself, "this was a mistake."
"Sent yourself back in time by mistake?"
"I was just an assistant at the time." Yu Wenzhou said, "That project was an interference with the time plane, and when the experiment came to an end, I volunteered to test it. The experimental machine was not designed to send anything to the past or The future is just an observation...but it got out of control, and when I woke up, it was the past."
Huang Shaotian said, "You must have tried to stop this."
"Who wouldn't? After all, I'm now one of the experimental subjects." Yu Wenzhou said calmly, "At that time, I still had the hope that one day I would return to the future. No, it's better to say that I didn't Knowing my own situation."
"It seems that life is still different from movies." Huang Shaotian sighed.
"I found that I actually spanned decades." Yu Wenzhou said, "The professor in charge of the project has not yet been born, the laboratory has not yet been established, and everything has not yet been formed in the flow of time. It has not started, and there is no way to change it. "
"Decades..." Huang Shaotian rolled up his sleeves and looked, "It doesn't seem that much has changed."
Yu Wenzhou laughed: "This world is changing very quickly, but not everything will change."
"So you can be regarded as a future person." Huang Shaotian said, "Cheer up, in this way, you also have many advantages, don't you?"
"It's not like that." Yu Wenzhou looked down at his hands, "Although it's a bit strange for a scientific researcher to say that, what happened to me is simply a curse from time."
When Yu Wenzhou came home that day, he found that the porch light, which was always on, was also dimmed.A little tired, he turned on the light in the front hall without thinking, and suddenly a figure jumped out from the side, and sprayed his face with a colored paper tube: "Surprise!"
Yu Wenzhou: "..."
Huang Shaotian was wearing a red paper hat, and his hair underneath was pressed up.Yu Wenzhou took off the piece of paper sticking to his nose, and asked puzzledly as he entered the door: "What day is this? Did your thesis win a prize?"
"What are you thinking?" Huang Shaotian thumped his back from behind, "Isn't this your birthday!"
Yu Wenzhou was stunned for a few seconds, then rubbed his forehead: "I don't remember this at all."
"At least we haven't all forgotten." Huang Shaotian pushed him into the restaurant, where there was a table full of dishes, "Come on, let's have a good meal today, I ordered the most reliable takeaway. "
He stuffed the other party with a gift box.Yu Wenzhou looked at its size and said with a smile: "It seems that this year is not watches and electronic products, huh?"
"What electronic products, I won't give you those things that are antiques to you." Huang Shaotian glanced at him, "Quickly disassemble and disassemble, this time it is a gift full of meaning!"
Yu Wenzhou removed the packaging, revealing a section of the spine inside.Not without surprise, he said, "This time it's a book?"
"A book of great significance." Huang Shaotian emphasized.
Yu Wenzhou pulled out the book, turned it to the front, and found that it was a thick translation book "The Time Traveler's Wife".A piece of tape was pasted next to the "wife" in the title of the book, and three words were added on it: boyfriend.
Yu Wenzhou: "..."
At this moment, he remembered what happened a long time ago, and he couldn't help showing a smile.
"Thank you, it's a great book," he said, "I'll keep it in my collection."
"It's not bad for me to keep it for you." Huang Shaotian put the book on the side cabinet, "I mainly give this to remind you that this birthday is unique, it hasn't happened in the past, and it won't happen in the future—at least for the two of us. As a matter of fact."
"Why?" Yu Wenzhou asked.
"Because after this birthday, we are the same age, right?" Huang Shaotian said, "Just this one time, think about it, is it still a little exciting? From now on, we will only be older than each other."
"It seems that I will only meet you who are younger and younger in the future." Yu Wenzhou pondered, "Let me guess, was it a headache when you were young?"
"Who said that, I'm a good model student." Huang Shaotian shook his cup and said, "Just wait and see my youth."
"For youth." Yu Wenzhou raised his glass.
"For time." Huang Shaotian touched him, "Happy birthday, time traveler."
"The results of this experiment were a nightmare."
Yu Wenzhou said, "It not only sent me to the past, but also completely disrupted the time on my body. After being sent to the past for the first time, I also made many plans and took some actions, but time did not let go." Pass me—it takes me back to seven months ago again."
"You mean," Huang Shaotian confirmed, "seven months before the time you landed."
"That's right." Yu Wenzhou said, "My preparations and arrangements just lost their meaning. They are in the future, and I went back to the farther past."
Huang Shaotian thought for a while: "You mean, the time on your body is completely retrograde?"
"It can be said like this." Yu Wenzhou nodded, "Although it is intermittent, it jumps backwards. Every time I can maintain a normal life for a period of time, a few months in a short time, a few years in a long time... and then At some point, I know I'm going to jump back into the past even further back, and everything I've done won't exist again."
"But they're still there, aren't they?"
"They are still in time." Yu Wenzhou said, "But that is no longer my time."
"We've known each other for a while," Huang Shaotian said, "You must come to my house this time as a guest."
According to his usual habits, Yu Wenzhou would usually be noncommittal about such an invitation, but this time he followed the other party into the car without any hesitation.Huang Shaotian's home is in a residential area on the outskirts of the city, a small house surrounded by trees and flowers.
It can be seen from the entrance that the layout here is simple and full of warmth.On the top of the coat hanger was something that didn’t match the overall style of the painting. Yu Wenzhou leaned over to take a look. It was an old-fashioned colored paper tube that was empty, and I don’t know why it was hung in this place.
"Don't you live alone?" He couldn't help asking.
He seemed to see the ubiquitous shadow of another person in this home.Slippers in the cabinet, cups and dishes in pairs, books in two rows... He also spotted a blue pen holder on the closet.
"It used to be." Huang Shaotian laughed, "Or rather sometimes. Sometimes he would leave for a while."
The host poured tea for his young guest.The two sat on the sofa in the living room, chatting with each other.
"Why do you seem hesitant to speak today." Huang Shaotian said, "Is there anything you want to ask?"
"I do not know."
Yu Wenzhou leaned on the cushion, the relaxing environment seemed to draw out all his fatigue. "I'm just..." He thought for a while, "I'm a little at a loss."
"Young people, don't be discouraged." Huang Shaotian put the teacup back on the saucer, "There are infinite possibilities in the future."
"You know these things about me," Yu Wenzhou spread his fingers and looked at his palm, "but maybe you don't quite understand the troubles of the time traveler, or understand why I feel confused."
"Actually, I'm not that ignorant." After Huang Shaotian said this, he fell silent.
You don't understand, Yu Wenzhou thought.Time, it will take away all of me, the trace of my existence, the proof of my hard work.Everything is moving forward without a doubt, only I am going upstream step by step.My past is my future and my future is my past.
Huang Shaotian said: "Think about it from another angle, since you are going to the past, maybe what you did in the future, what you left in this world, has already affected your present?"
"Really?" Yu Wenzhou said, "I don't seem to have seen such a sign. But what you just said is right, I do have something to ask you..."
He seemed to have made up his mind, raised his head, and asked bluntly, "Did you know me in the past?"
As soon as the words came out, the room fell into silence.
Huang Shaotian thought for a moment, and was about to speak, but Yu Wenzhou continued, "I'm just trying my luck. As a stranger, you have an indescribable familiarity with me, but of course I can't be sure of this, after all, you have never I really mentioned this. In fact, it is not the first time I have seen you. Please recall, in your past life, is it possible that you have seen me... I am older than now, even if Just a little impression?"
He looked into the other person's eyes, feeling the long-lost nervousness about the imminent answer.
If it turns out that Huang Shaotian had never met him before, then their fate must have ended there. They would just be strangers who met by chance in the distorted time loop and passed by.But if they did cross paths, even a tenuous connection would be the thing that would pull him out of this time curse—it would be fate, courage, and vital proof.
"I want you to see this."
Huang Shaotian didn't give an answer, but stood up and led him to the study.When Yu Wenzhou pushed open the door of the study and the lights here turned on at the same time, he froze in disbelief.
On the cabinet, on the desk, on the window sill, on the shelf, there are framed photos everywhere.He knows that printing film is an outdated habit in this era, but these frozen colors and pictures are displayed there, as if they have become a continuous rotation of years.
There are always two people in each picture.These two people are strangers to him, but they are very familiar; one of them is obviously his appearance as he grows older, and the other is Huang Shaotian, who looks younger than he is now.They took these photos in many places - the ancient city wall in the sunset, the lakeside in the morning mist, the garden of this small house, the night scene with bright lights... One photo is particularly blurry and crooked It looked like he was in the driver's seat of a car; the young Huang Shaotian hooked his neck, and the two squeezed under the camera, smiling brightly.
"Is this you?" Yu Wenzhou murmured, "This is...me?"
"I didn't want to reveal too much to you." Huang Shaotian leaned against the door and said, "Although I have already experienced these things, they are still your future. I don't want to interfere with you. But I think you At least a little encouragement is needed right now. The curse of time isn't that bad, and even so, you can still have a life."
"I will meet you again in the future." Yu Wenzhou scanned the photos one by one, "Many times, we seem to have a very close relationship."
"Of course." Huang Shaotian said, "We are friends."
Yu Wenzhou asked, "Is that all?"
"Specifically, you have to find out what's going on by yourself." Huang Shaotian said with a smile, "Spoilers are a kind of behavior that is not worth advocating."
"Thank you." Yu Wenzhou said, "This is very important to me."
He still has a future, he can still change, he can still hold on to something fleeting.Time, and everything else, still meant something to him.
"So your troubles are like this."
Huang Shaotian concluded, "Every time you accomplish something, you will jump to a certain period of time before that. So you don't know what the results of your efforts will be, because the future has been left behind by you."
"That's it." Yu Wenzhou said, "It sounds incredible."
"Although it's quite sci-fi, it still makes sense logically." Huang Shaotian said, "And if you think about it, if you can't see it yourself, it doesn't mean they never existed, right?"
Yu Wenzhou asked: "Can you imagine working hard on something that you will never see the results of?"
"It will definitely be very discouraged." Huang Shaotian said, "This is the same for ordinary people."
"The problem is that my time has jumped forward several times, and I still haven't seen anything that can prove my existence." Yu Wenzhou turned his head and looked at the sparkling lake, "Sometimes I think, maybe I Disappeared from this world at some point, so there is no hope in sight."
Huang Shaotian smiled and said: "I think you are too pessimistic. Your future is still in the past, how do you know what you will do in the future? Even if in the future, in the past on this timeline, you have really done something that can be seen in the world. You don't know about leaving traces, right now."
"It's hard to say," Yu Wenzhou shook his head, "The world is ever-changing, how can there be things that can stay forever."
Huang Shaotian got off the train dragging his suitcase, and stood in a completely unfamiliar station, surrounded by countless noisy torrents with local accents, for a moment he hardly knew where he was.
"What are you doing in a daze?" Yu Wenzhou smiled and patted him on the shoulder from behind, "Let's go, let's find a place to stay first."
Huang Shaotian has almost grown in stature during this time, but he is still not as tall as him.He bounced twice in the cold northern air: "Let's go! Oh, it's the first time I've had a vacation with no homework at all. This feeling is not usually exciting-you have to have a good meal later. "
"Didn't you have no homework during the holidays before high school?" Yu Wenzhou exposed him, "And the time after the college entrance examination is also much longer than this golden week."
"Ah, it feels different." Huang Shaotian rubbed his hands, "Isn't this going to college? I'm about to enter a new world where I'm relaxed, happy, free-spirited and don't need to learn mathematics. Thinking about it, I'm a little excited!"
Yu Wenzhou hesitated to speak for a long time, but he didn't have the heart to expose his unrealistic and beautiful fantasy about the university.
The two lived in a clean and comfortable small hotel with two beds. Huang Shaotian threw himself on it and rolled over, then crossed his legs and began to count the things he was carrying.Yu Wenzhou came out of the bathroom and said casually, "What are you looking at?"
"Tickets." Huang Shaotian said.
He spread his hand, and there were three tickets on it: two round-trip tickets, and one one-way ticket.
In the north this season, the weather is getting colder and colder.Pedestrians on the street put on autumn and winter clothes. The two came from a warm place, and they were more prepared than the locals.They come together, but they will only be alone when they go back.
"I'm a little worried." Yu Wenzhou said, "Is it okay for you to go back alone?"
"I said that there is no problem with infinite loops." Huang Shaotian rolled his eyes, "Let's explain that you know everything, why worry?"
"Don't talk to me." Yu Wenzhou took out the scarf from the box, "Spoilers are not worth advocating."
"Compared to this, I don't want to separate from you so soon." Huang Shaotian said sullenly, "Before I was so nervous about studying, I didn't have time to come to you. You haven't been in the university for two months, and you have to leave again." .”
Yu Wenzhou stayed here for almost two years.He took care of the company that had already taken shape by his self several years ago, and made many preparations for his future self and future Huang Shaotian on the positive timeline.Huang Shaotian spent most of his time at school, and only occasionally on weekends would he come out to have a cup of tea with him, wander around, and listen to some interesting stories he told.He still remembered that time at the school gate, when he saw each other for the first time in this period of time, Huang Shaotian talked and laughed with his classmates, and turned around to see him inadvertently——At that time, his eyes were so bright, in the dusk It seemed to be shining with irresistible joy.
He rushed over in two steps in three steps: "We meet again, I have been waiting for a long time! You really didn't lie to me, you have become a lot younger..."
"Did I tell you everything last time?" Yu Wenzhou rubbed the other person's hair in distress, "I really created a problem for myself."
"Guess what?" Huang Shaotian shook his schoolbag back and forth in his hands, and smiled slyly, "Uncle Time Traveler?"
Yu Wenzhou couldn't help but smile.The sunset at that time was so beautiful that he seemed to remember things from a long time ago.
"Anyway," Huang Shaotian interrupted his thoughts, "Thank you for traveling with me, I've always wanted to come here and take a look."
"Really?" Yu Wenzhou glanced at him, "Why do I get the feeling that you are brewing some kind of plan?"
Huang Shaotian was a little nervous: "What? No! I was just figuring out where to go to play, after all, this is the last time."
"It's not the last time, you will see me again in the future." Yu Wenzhou said.
"But the you I saw in the future is the you in the past." Huang Shaotian said, "He is the you who doesn't have these memories. I think you must know what it feels like? Stop, don't spoil it."
Yu Wenzhou smiled wryly: "Shaotian..."
"Don't think so much." Huang Shaotian cheered up, "Let's go, let's go to the night market first!"
This northern city is not a tourist hotspot, and it was not too busy during the Golden Week holiday. They spent a very pleasant few days here.The two walked all over the streets, took many photos, tried various local specialties, and helped a little girl find her lost fat cat.
As time went by, Yu Wenzhou felt more and more that Huang Shaotian might be troubled.The specific performance is that his words seem to be less, which is a great omen.
With their own concerns in mind, the two climbed onto the roof of the hotel on the last night.This place is located on the outskirts of the city, and the surrounding light pollution is not as serious as it was later. As long as the weather is good at night, you can see many stars.However, their luck was not very good. The sky was covered by clouds this night, and only a faint gradient of different shades could be seen from the dark background.
"I thought I could see the stars." Huang Shaotian was wearing a thick overcoat and covered half of his face with a scarf, "Why is the weather so gloomy lately? I don't mean to show face at all."
"It's fine if there are no stars." Yu Wenzhou said, "It's cold up there, let's go back."
"No..." Huang Shaotian whispered, "Are you leaving?"
Yu Wenzhou nodded wordlessly.
"Stay with me for a while." Huang Shaotian said, "When you go back to when I was younger, remember not to be too strict."
"Have I ever been a strict person in your eyes?" Yu Wenzhou asked with a smile.
"It's agreed that there will be no spoilers." Huang Shaotian glanced at him, "Anyway, ahem, you have to explain to me your identity as a time traveler, and don't scare me away. I'm afraid I'll never meet you again gone."
"The script has been written, it's just that the actors haven't got their lines yet." Yu Wenzhou said, "We are sitting here now, it is destiny."
"You are extraordinarily artistic tonight." Huang Shaotian buried his face in the scarf.
On this starless autumn night, Yu Wenzhou once again felt the familiar waves washing over his whole body.Time is calling him, wanting to tear him off the curtain and throw him back into the wilderness of time.
"What's wrong?" Huang Shaotian turned his head sharply, "Are you leaving?"
Yu Wenzhou looked at him, and for a moment this face merged with the slightly mature face a few years later.Huang Shaotian who was in the car said, "You confessed to me when you left last time..."
He opened his mouth and was about to speak when Huang Shaotian suddenly grabbed his hand.
"Before you disappear, listen to me." He said quickly, "I know you will go back to the past soon and meet me without this memory, and I will meet you without this memory in the future , but every word I say is serious. I'm confessing to you seriously—let's date."
Yu Wenzhou barely reacted: "Shaotian..."
"It sounds very unreliable, but I have thought about it seriously." Huang Shaotian interrupted him, and continued loudly, "You are very important to me, and I hope to always meet you in the future, Even if you don't remember anything now - I will remember, Yu Wenzhou, I will remember for you! No matter how many times, you will find me, and I will find you, I will never getting over You!"
Yu Wenzhou smiled with difficulty, he had already started to dissipate in this time and space.At this moment, he felt something small and cold on his cheek.
It was the first snow of the year, and thin snowflakes drifted down from the night sky, whitening their eyebrows and hair.
"I love you," he heard Huang Shaotian finally say, "my time traveler."
The setting sun was about to disappear into the sky, leaving a swaying crimson shadow on the river.
"You haven't come across what you're looking for yet." Huang Shaotian said, "Believe me, this kind of thing will always come to you sooner or later."
Yu Wenzhou didn't really believe it.But the other party was someone older than him, and the tone of his voice was so gentle, which made him feel a little bit of strange comfort.He doesn't lack courage or a strong heart—otherwise he would have given up the first time he found himself thrown into the past—he's just not ready to wrestle with fate, and time.
"Then I have to pay attention to one thing." He said, "It doesn't necessarily mean that the guy who passed by is the person who will be unforgettable to me in the future."
"Ah, that's it."
Huang Shaotian smiled and said, "Fate has nothing to do with anything else. No matter how fate and time play tricks, people who are destined to meet will eventually be connected together."
People sometimes have the feeling that the time I am living right now is the happiest and happiest time of my life.They may experience it in their youth, they may think so in their high-spirited prime, or they may feel sincerely satisfied with the present when they sit in a rocking chair and take a contented sip of tea after all the dust has settled.
From this point of view, whether in the forward direction of time or in the reverse direction, people are no different from each other.
When Huang Shaotian got out of the tent, he saw Yu Wenzhou sitting not far away.He tiptoed to the back, and the other party said, "Did I wake you up?"
"What, did you hear that?" Huang Shaotian went around and sat down next to him, "I thought my stealth skills were already high enough."
"I can feel you coming." Yu Wenzhou smiled, "After all, it's still very quiet here."
The night on the prairie is not so silent.The sound of the wind, the swaying blades of grass, the rustling and whispering of insects, all echoed in the darkness.But this is another peaceful land, the sky full of stars is high and far away, and there are no people in the surroundings. This is a rare and precious tranquility.
"Stars." Huang Shaotian raised his head, "We once wanted to see the stars, but there were too many clouds in the sky, and then it snowed, so we couldn't see anything."
"Oh," Yu Wenzhou said, "That must not be a good memory."
"Wrong guess." Huang Shaotian leaned closer to him, "That was my favorite night."
Yu Wenzhou asked: "I like it more than now?"
"Hey, let me tell you, don't be so serious," Huang Shaotian pouted, "One of my favorite nights, are you satisfied? If you care too much about logic, you will have no life, do you understand?"
"Understood." Yu Wenzhou rubbed his hair, "It's not appropriate to worry about details at this time."
"That's the reason
The riverside park originally had a wide lawn, many blue swing sets, a carousel and a small fountain, but the new urban planning took these away and replaced it with a new commercial street.The only thing that has not been demolished are the benches along the path along the river, where people rest in twos and threes, including students who are tired from jogging, and aunts who have just finished dancing in the square.
A man walking by happened to see a young man sitting in the shadow of a street lamp.He greeted the other party: "Alone?"
"Yes." The young man was startled, "Do you want to sit here?"
The other party sat down on the bench.The setting sun spread across the river, a dull, melancholy red.
"I think you seem to have something on your mind." The man said with a smile, "Why don't you come and have a chat? What's your name?"
"Yu Wenzhou," said the young man.He looked at the stranger, who seemed to be quite old, and under the light of the street lamp, fine wrinkles could already be seen at the corners of his eyes.But when he smiles, it's contagious and relaxing.
"My name is Huang Shaotian." The man introduced himself, "I live near here. When I was young, there was a big park by the river, but now there are only a few benches left."
"Really?" Yu Wenzhou said softly, "I don't know."
Huang Shaotian asked, "Aren't you a local?"
"Maybe it doesn't count." Yu Wenzhou said, "My situation is a bit special."
"You seem like a person with a story." Huang Shaotian commented.
"Then do you want to hear my story?" Yu Wenzhou looked at him, "But you don't have to believe it, because it's really ridiculous."
"Let's talk about it." Huang Shaotian said, "I will be a good listener, ready to say 'Oh my god, it's like this', 'Really or not' and 'And then' and so on."
Yu Wenzhou couldn't help laughing.
He thought for a moment, then asked, "Have you watched The Time Traveler's Wife?"
"I have seen it." Huang Shaotian tilted his head, "Don't tell me you are the boyfriend of the time traveler."
Yu Wenzhou: "..."
"Okay, I'm just enlivening the atmosphere." Huang Shaotian cleared his throat, "What does this book have to do with your story?"
"It's kind of related." Yu Wenzhou said, "I'm a time traveler."
Huang Shaotian: "..."
Yu Wenzhou's expression was calm, it didn't look like he was joking at all.
"The amount of information is a bit large." Huang Shaotian blinked, "Really?"
"It's absolutely true." Yu Wenzhou said, "But it's hard to believe."
"It's unbelievable." Huang Shaotian looked him up and down, "Are you born to jump around in time like the hero in that book?"
"It's a bit different." Yu Wenzhou said, "First of all, it's not natural, but a catastrophic experiment; secondly, I don't travel randomly, but keep going back in time in the opposite direction of time."
As soon as Huang Shaotian came out of the laboratory, a freshman student came over and said that someone was waiting for him outside.
When he walked out of the teaching building, he saw Yu Wenzhou standing beside the car, looking like a personable social person.Huang Shaotian rushed over with a cheer: "Ouch, I finally saw you again!"
"Hasn't seen you for a long time?" Yu Wenzhou opened the car door for him.
"It's not a long time, maybe two or three months." Huang Shaotian took out his phone and flipped through the schedule records inside.Yu Wenzhou leaned over and wanted to watch, but was pushed away by the other party: "You are not allowed to watch, it will be boring to watch."
"What's the matter?" Yu Wenzhou said with a smile, "I will know about your dark history sooner or later."
Huang Shaotian said: "I'll return this to you without change! I've seen you when you became an uncle!"
"There is a big difference between when I am old and now?" Yu Wenzhou raised his eyebrows.
"Uh...still very handsome." Huang Shaotian said honestly, "Why on earth do you manage to get along so well every time?"
"It's not easy at first, but you'll know later on." Yu Wenzhou stepped on the gas pedal, "Even if it's this kind of thing, you'll get used to it after doing it more often, right?"
Their car drove out of the campus and headed for the bustling area in the city center.The traffic on the street on Friday was quite congested, and they drove slowly. Huang Shaotian took this opportunity to look him up carefully. Yu Wenzhou looked ahead and said, "Do you miss me that much?"
"Hey, I just want to see how much younger you are." Huang Shaotian coughed, "How enviable, a man who grows backward."
"Don't forget that you are the same in my eyes." Yu Wenzhou said.
"That's right." Huang Shaotian blinked, "Then when I get old, will I still be so fascinated by thousands of school girls?"
Yu Wenzhou smiled without saying a word.Huang Shaotian waited for a long time without waiting for an answer, and angrily turned on the radio in the car.
The singer on the radio began to sing: "You're my—"
"Okay, you should close it." Yu Wenzhou was dizzy from the shock, "I think about how to describe it..."
Huang Shaotian flicked off the radio.Yu Wenzhou said: "He is gentle, smart, and a very nice person. He also talks less."
"Really?" Huang Shaotian didn't expect him to answer so seriously, "Then I have to work hard. Don't spoil me anymore."
"You were the one who wanted to spoil it first." Yu Wenzhou glanced at him, "Are you a graduate student now?"
"That's right, I'll graduate next year." Huang Shaotian touched his chin and said, "I really hope you can stay for a few more years this time."
"Maybe it will." Yu Wenzhou said, "You have never changed on this point—about the time issue, you will not reveal anything to me."
"The future!" Huang Shaotian said lyrically, "With a future, there are infinite possibilities!... By the way, I have something to tell you."
Yu Wenzhou asked casually, "What?"
"You confessed to me when you left last time." Huang Shaotian said, "Then I thought about it, and now I decided to promise you. Let's date."
"..."
Yu Wenzhou slammed on the brakes, and they barely stopped behind the white line of the red light.
"I'll go and you calm down!" Huang Shaotian stuck out his tongue from being strangled by the seat belt, "If the mountains don't turn, the water will turn, there's no way to buy or sell, benevolence and righteousness!"
"Are you serious?" Yu Wenzhou asked.
Huang Shaotian smiled. "That's not your place to ask," he said. "You know my future self, and you know if I'm serious."
"The future you is the future you." That's when the traffic lights turned green again and they continued on their way.Yu Wenzhou said: "But this is something to seriously consider. In my case, this is not a good idea. I hope you can make your own choice."
Huang Shaotian stared at him for a few seconds, and asserted: "We will definitely be together in the future."
Yu Wenzhou: "..."
"I'm still very clear about what I'm doing." Huang Shaotian said, "Don't mention the future, that's all for the future. You said you didn't want to interfere with my life too much, right? Well, now I want to be with you, If you oppose me based on reasons such as time, logic, or the fate of the universe, then this is an intervention that does not belong to this point in time."
"You're making excuses," Yu Wenzhou said.Their car left the main road and turned into an alley.
"I never said I'm not good at this." Huang Shaotian said slyly.
The car stopped, and Yu Wenzhou turned sideways from the driver's seat: "Now I know how it all started."
"Hmm." Huang Shaotian narrowed his eyes, "I will remember to keep my mouth shut so as not to spoil this surprise."
He reached out to hook the other's neck and kissed him.Yu Wenzhou seemed extra cautious, and his movements were not organized. Strictly speaking, this was a kiss without technical content.However, both of them could hear their own heartbeats, one by one, intertwined, as if filling this small carriage.
After they parted, Huang Shaotian touched his pocket and took out his phone: "As a souvenir, how about we take a selfie? For youth...and for your lost youth, let's smile!"
Yu Wenzhou was held by his shoulders, and the two of them squeezed into the camera frame. When the flash was turned on, the picture was frozen in this way.
"What kind of experiment is that?" Huang Shaotian asked, "It sounds a bit scary, you are not building a time machine, are you?"
"It wasn't at first, but as it turns out, it indirectly had a similar effect."
Yu Wenzhou took out a stack of papers from his pocket.The paper was crumpled and covered with scrawled handwriting, he seemed to want to pass it to the other party to see, but hesitated for a moment, then put it away again.
"It's useless," he said as if to himself, "this was a mistake."
"Sent yourself back in time by mistake?"
"I was just an assistant at the time." Yu Wenzhou said, "That project was an interference with the time plane, and when the experiment came to an end, I volunteered to test it. The experimental machine was not designed to send anything to the past or The future is just an observation...but it got out of control, and when I woke up, it was the past."
Huang Shaotian said, "You must have tried to stop this."
"Who wouldn't? After all, I'm now one of the experimental subjects." Yu Wenzhou said calmly, "At that time, I still had the hope that one day I would return to the future. No, it's better to say that I didn't Knowing my own situation."
"It seems that life is still different from movies." Huang Shaotian sighed.
"I found that I actually spanned decades." Yu Wenzhou said, "The professor in charge of the project has not yet been born, the laboratory has not yet been established, and everything has not yet been formed in the flow of time. It has not started, and there is no way to change it. "
"Decades..." Huang Shaotian rolled up his sleeves and looked, "It doesn't seem that much has changed."
Yu Wenzhou laughed: "This world is changing very quickly, but not everything will change."
"So you can be regarded as a future person." Huang Shaotian said, "Cheer up, in this way, you also have many advantages, don't you?"
"It's not like that." Yu Wenzhou looked down at his hands, "Although it's a bit strange for a scientific researcher to say that, what happened to me is simply a curse from time."
When Yu Wenzhou came home that day, he found that the porch light, which was always on, was also dimmed.A little tired, he turned on the light in the front hall without thinking, and suddenly a figure jumped out from the side, and sprayed his face with a colored paper tube: "Surprise!"
Yu Wenzhou: "..."
Huang Shaotian was wearing a red paper hat, and his hair underneath was pressed up.Yu Wenzhou took off the piece of paper sticking to his nose, and asked puzzledly as he entered the door: "What day is this? Did your thesis win a prize?"
"What are you thinking?" Huang Shaotian thumped his back from behind, "Isn't this your birthday!"
Yu Wenzhou was stunned for a few seconds, then rubbed his forehead: "I don't remember this at all."
"At least we haven't all forgotten." Huang Shaotian pushed him into the restaurant, where there was a table full of dishes, "Come on, let's have a good meal today, I ordered the most reliable takeaway. "
He stuffed the other party with a gift box.Yu Wenzhou looked at its size and said with a smile: "It seems that this year is not watches and electronic products, huh?"
"What electronic products, I won't give you those things that are antiques to you." Huang Shaotian glanced at him, "Quickly disassemble and disassemble, this time it is a gift full of meaning!"
Yu Wenzhou removed the packaging, revealing a section of the spine inside.Not without surprise, he said, "This time it's a book?"
"A book of great significance." Huang Shaotian emphasized.
Yu Wenzhou pulled out the book, turned it to the front, and found that it was a thick translation book "The Time Traveler's Wife".A piece of tape was pasted next to the "wife" in the title of the book, and three words were added on it: boyfriend.
Yu Wenzhou: "..."
At this moment, he remembered what happened a long time ago, and he couldn't help showing a smile.
"Thank you, it's a great book," he said, "I'll keep it in my collection."
"It's not bad for me to keep it for you." Huang Shaotian put the book on the side cabinet, "I mainly give this to remind you that this birthday is unique, it hasn't happened in the past, and it won't happen in the future—at least for the two of us. As a matter of fact."
"Why?" Yu Wenzhou asked.
"Because after this birthday, we are the same age, right?" Huang Shaotian said, "Just this one time, think about it, is it still a little exciting? From now on, we will only be older than each other."
"It seems that I will only meet you who are younger and younger in the future." Yu Wenzhou pondered, "Let me guess, was it a headache when you were young?"
"Who said that, I'm a good model student." Huang Shaotian shook his cup and said, "Just wait and see my youth."
"For youth." Yu Wenzhou raised his glass.
"For time." Huang Shaotian touched him, "Happy birthday, time traveler."
"The results of this experiment were a nightmare."
Yu Wenzhou said, "It not only sent me to the past, but also completely disrupted the time on my body. After being sent to the past for the first time, I also made many plans and took some actions, but time did not let go." Pass me—it takes me back to seven months ago again."
"You mean," Huang Shaotian confirmed, "seven months before the time you landed."
"That's right." Yu Wenzhou said, "My preparations and arrangements just lost their meaning. They are in the future, and I went back to the farther past."
Huang Shaotian thought for a while: "You mean, the time on your body is completely retrograde?"
"It can be said like this." Yu Wenzhou nodded, "Although it is intermittent, it jumps backwards. Every time I can maintain a normal life for a period of time, a few months in a short time, a few years in a long time... and then At some point, I know I'm going to jump back into the past even further back, and everything I've done won't exist again."
"But they're still there, aren't they?"
"They are still in time." Yu Wenzhou said, "But that is no longer my time."
"We've known each other for a while," Huang Shaotian said, "You must come to my house this time as a guest."
According to his usual habits, Yu Wenzhou would usually be noncommittal about such an invitation, but this time he followed the other party into the car without any hesitation.Huang Shaotian's home is in a residential area on the outskirts of the city, a small house surrounded by trees and flowers.
It can be seen from the entrance that the layout here is simple and full of warmth.On the top of the coat hanger was something that didn’t match the overall style of the painting. Yu Wenzhou leaned over to take a look. It was an old-fashioned colored paper tube that was empty, and I don’t know why it was hung in this place.
"Don't you live alone?" He couldn't help asking.
He seemed to see the ubiquitous shadow of another person in this home.Slippers in the cabinet, cups and dishes in pairs, books in two rows... He also spotted a blue pen holder on the closet.
"It used to be." Huang Shaotian laughed, "Or rather sometimes. Sometimes he would leave for a while."
The host poured tea for his young guest.The two sat on the sofa in the living room, chatting with each other.
"Why do you seem hesitant to speak today." Huang Shaotian said, "Is there anything you want to ask?"
"I do not know."
Yu Wenzhou leaned on the cushion, the relaxing environment seemed to draw out all his fatigue. "I'm just..." He thought for a while, "I'm a little at a loss."
"Young people, don't be discouraged." Huang Shaotian put the teacup back on the saucer, "There are infinite possibilities in the future."
"You know these things about me," Yu Wenzhou spread his fingers and looked at his palm, "but maybe you don't quite understand the troubles of the time traveler, or understand why I feel confused."
"Actually, I'm not that ignorant." After Huang Shaotian said this, he fell silent.
You don't understand, Yu Wenzhou thought.Time, it will take away all of me, the trace of my existence, the proof of my hard work.Everything is moving forward without a doubt, only I am going upstream step by step.My past is my future and my future is my past.
Huang Shaotian said: "Think about it from another angle, since you are going to the past, maybe what you did in the future, what you left in this world, has already affected your present?"
"Really?" Yu Wenzhou said, "I don't seem to have seen such a sign. But what you just said is right, I do have something to ask you..."
He seemed to have made up his mind, raised his head, and asked bluntly, "Did you know me in the past?"
As soon as the words came out, the room fell into silence.
Huang Shaotian thought for a moment, and was about to speak, but Yu Wenzhou continued, "I'm just trying my luck. As a stranger, you have an indescribable familiarity with me, but of course I can't be sure of this, after all, you have never I really mentioned this. In fact, it is not the first time I have seen you. Please recall, in your past life, is it possible that you have seen me... I am older than now, even if Just a little impression?"
He looked into the other person's eyes, feeling the long-lost nervousness about the imminent answer.
If it turns out that Huang Shaotian had never met him before, then their fate must have ended there. They would just be strangers who met by chance in the distorted time loop and passed by.But if they did cross paths, even a tenuous connection would be the thing that would pull him out of this time curse—it would be fate, courage, and vital proof.
"I want you to see this."
Huang Shaotian didn't give an answer, but stood up and led him to the study.When Yu Wenzhou pushed open the door of the study and the lights here turned on at the same time, he froze in disbelief.
On the cabinet, on the desk, on the window sill, on the shelf, there are framed photos everywhere.He knows that printing film is an outdated habit in this era, but these frozen colors and pictures are displayed there, as if they have become a continuous rotation of years.
There are always two people in each picture.These two people are strangers to him, but they are very familiar; one of them is obviously his appearance as he grows older, and the other is Huang Shaotian, who looks younger than he is now.They took these photos in many places - the ancient city wall in the sunset, the lakeside in the morning mist, the garden of this small house, the night scene with bright lights... One photo is particularly blurry and crooked It looked like he was in the driver's seat of a car; the young Huang Shaotian hooked his neck, and the two squeezed under the camera, smiling brightly.
"Is this you?" Yu Wenzhou murmured, "This is...me?"
"I didn't want to reveal too much to you." Huang Shaotian leaned against the door and said, "Although I have already experienced these things, they are still your future. I don't want to interfere with you. But I think you At least a little encouragement is needed right now. The curse of time isn't that bad, and even so, you can still have a life."
"I will meet you again in the future." Yu Wenzhou scanned the photos one by one, "Many times, we seem to have a very close relationship."
"Of course." Huang Shaotian said, "We are friends."
Yu Wenzhou asked, "Is that all?"
"Specifically, you have to find out what's going on by yourself." Huang Shaotian said with a smile, "Spoilers are a kind of behavior that is not worth advocating."
"Thank you." Yu Wenzhou said, "This is very important to me."
He still has a future, he can still change, he can still hold on to something fleeting.Time, and everything else, still meant something to him.
"So your troubles are like this."
Huang Shaotian concluded, "Every time you accomplish something, you will jump to a certain period of time before that. So you don't know what the results of your efforts will be, because the future has been left behind by you."
"That's it." Yu Wenzhou said, "It sounds incredible."
"Although it's quite sci-fi, it still makes sense logically." Huang Shaotian said, "And if you think about it, if you can't see it yourself, it doesn't mean they never existed, right?"
Yu Wenzhou asked: "Can you imagine working hard on something that you will never see the results of?"
"It will definitely be very discouraged." Huang Shaotian said, "This is the same for ordinary people."
"The problem is that my time has jumped forward several times, and I still haven't seen anything that can prove my existence." Yu Wenzhou turned his head and looked at the sparkling lake, "Sometimes I think, maybe I Disappeared from this world at some point, so there is no hope in sight."
Huang Shaotian smiled and said: "I think you are too pessimistic. Your future is still in the past, how do you know what you will do in the future? Even if in the future, in the past on this timeline, you have really done something that can be seen in the world. You don't know about leaving traces, right now."
"It's hard to say," Yu Wenzhou shook his head, "The world is ever-changing, how can there be things that can stay forever."
Huang Shaotian got off the train dragging his suitcase, and stood in a completely unfamiliar station, surrounded by countless noisy torrents with local accents, for a moment he hardly knew where he was.
"What are you doing in a daze?" Yu Wenzhou smiled and patted him on the shoulder from behind, "Let's go, let's find a place to stay first."
Huang Shaotian has almost grown in stature during this time, but he is still not as tall as him.He bounced twice in the cold northern air: "Let's go! Oh, it's the first time I've had a vacation with no homework at all. This feeling is not usually exciting-you have to have a good meal later. "
"Didn't you have no homework during the holidays before high school?" Yu Wenzhou exposed him, "And the time after the college entrance examination is also much longer than this golden week."
"Ah, it feels different." Huang Shaotian rubbed his hands, "Isn't this going to college? I'm about to enter a new world where I'm relaxed, happy, free-spirited and don't need to learn mathematics. Thinking about it, I'm a little excited!"
Yu Wenzhou hesitated to speak for a long time, but he didn't have the heart to expose his unrealistic and beautiful fantasy about the university.
The two lived in a clean and comfortable small hotel with two beds. Huang Shaotian threw himself on it and rolled over, then crossed his legs and began to count the things he was carrying.Yu Wenzhou came out of the bathroom and said casually, "What are you looking at?"
"Tickets." Huang Shaotian said.
He spread his hand, and there were three tickets on it: two round-trip tickets, and one one-way ticket.
In the north this season, the weather is getting colder and colder.Pedestrians on the street put on autumn and winter clothes. The two came from a warm place, and they were more prepared than the locals.They come together, but they will only be alone when they go back.
"I'm a little worried." Yu Wenzhou said, "Is it okay for you to go back alone?"
"I said that there is no problem with infinite loops." Huang Shaotian rolled his eyes, "Let's explain that you know everything, why worry?"
"Don't talk to me." Yu Wenzhou took out the scarf from the box, "Spoilers are not worth advocating."
"Compared to this, I don't want to separate from you so soon." Huang Shaotian said sullenly, "Before I was so nervous about studying, I didn't have time to come to you. You haven't been in the university for two months, and you have to leave again." .”
Yu Wenzhou stayed here for almost two years.He took care of the company that had already taken shape by his self several years ago, and made many preparations for his future self and future Huang Shaotian on the positive timeline.Huang Shaotian spent most of his time at school, and only occasionally on weekends would he come out to have a cup of tea with him, wander around, and listen to some interesting stories he told.He still remembered that time at the school gate, when he saw each other for the first time in this period of time, Huang Shaotian talked and laughed with his classmates, and turned around to see him inadvertently——At that time, his eyes were so bright, in the dusk It seemed to be shining with irresistible joy.
He rushed over in two steps in three steps: "We meet again, I have been waiting for a long time! You really didn't lie to me, you have become a lot younger..."
"Did I tell you everything last time?" Yu Wenzhou rubbed the other person's hair in distress, "I really created a problem for myself."
"Guess what?" Huang Shaotian shook his schoolbag back and forth in his hands, and smiled slyly, "Uncle Time Traveler?"
Yu Wenzhou couldn't help but smile.The sunset at that time was so beautiful that he seemed to remember things from a long time ago.
"Anyway," Huang Shaotian interrupted his thoughts, "Thank you for traveling with me, I've always wanted to come here and take a look."
"Really?" Yu Wenzhou glanced at him, "Why do I get the feeling that you are brewing some kind of plan?"
Huang Shaotian was a little nervous: "What? No! I was just figuring out where to go to play, after all, this is the last time."
"It's not the last time, you will see me again in the future." Yu Wenzhou said.
"But the you I saw in the future is the you in the past." Huang Shaotian said, "He is the you who doesn't have these memories. I think you must know what it feels like? Stop, don't spoil it."
Yu Wenzhou smiled wryly: "Shaotian..."
"Don't think so much." Huang Shaotian cheered up, "Let's go, let's go to the night market first!"
This northern city is not a tourist hotspot, and it was not too busy during the Golden Week holiday. They spent a very pleasant few days here.The two walked all over the streets, took many photos, tried various local specialties, and helped a little girl find her lost fat cat.
As time went by, Yu Wenzhou felt more and more that Huang Shaotian might be troubled.The specific performance is that his words seem to be less, which is a great omen.
With their own concerns in mind, the two climbed onto the roof of the hotel on the last night.This place is located on the outskirts of the city, and the surrounding light pollution is not as serious as it was later. As long as the weather is good at night, you can see many stars.However, their luck was not very good. The sky was covered by clouds this night, and only a faint gradient of different shades could be seen from the dark background.
"I thought I could see the stars." Huang Shaotian was wearing a thick overcoat and covered half of his face with a scarf, "Why is the weather so gloomy lately? I don't mean to show face at all."
"It's fine if there are no stars." Yu Wenzhou said, "It's cold up there, let's go back."
"No..." Huang Shaotian whispered, "Are you leaving?"
Yu Wenzhou nodded wordlessly.
"Stay with me for a while." Huang Shaotian said, "When you go back to when I was younger, remember not to be too strict."
"Have I ever been a strict person in your eyes?" Yu Wenzhou asked with a smile.
"It's agreed that there will be no spoilers." Huang Shaotian glanced at him, "Anyway, ahem, you have to explain to me your identity as a time traveler, and don't scare me away. I'm afraid I'll never meet you again gone."
"The script has been written, it's just that the actors haven't got their lines yet." Yu Wenzhou said, "We are sitting here now, it is destiny."
"You are extraordinarily artistic tonight." Huang Shaotian buried his face in the scarf.
On this starless autumn night, Yu Wenzhou once again felt the familiar waves washing over his whole body.Time is calling him, wanting to tear him off the curtain and throw him back into the wilderness of time.
"What's wrong?" Huang Shaotian turned his head sharply, "Are you leaving?"
Yu Wenzhou looked at him, and for a moment this face merged with the slightly mature face a few years later.Huang Shaotian who was in the car said, "You confessed to me when you left last time..."
He opened his mouth and was about to speak when Huang Shaotian suddenly grabbed his hand.
"Before you disappear, listen to me." He said quickly, "I know you will go back to the past soon and meet me without this memory, and I will meet you without this memory in the future , but every word I say is serious. I'm confessing to you seriously—let's date."
Yu Wenzhou barely reacted: "Shaotian..."
"It sounds very unreliable, but I have thought about it seriously." Huang Shaotian interrupted him, and continued loudly, "You are very important to me, and I hope to always meet you in the future, Even if you don't remember anything now - I will remember, Yu Wenzhou, I will remember for you! No matter how many times, you will find me, and I will find you, I will never getting over You!"
Yu Wenzhou smiled with difficulty, he had already started to dissipate in this time and space.At this moment, he felt something small and cold on his cheek.
It was the first snow of the year, and thin snowflakes drifted down from the night sky, whitening their eyebrows and hair.
"I love you," he heard Huang Shaotian finally say, "my time traveler."
The setting sun was about to disappear into the sky, leaving a swaying crimson shadow on the river.
"You haven't come across what you're looking for yet." Huang Shaotian said, "Believe me, this kind of thing will always come to you sooner or later."
Yu Wenzhou didn't really believe it.But the other party was someone older than him, and the tone of his voice was so gentle, which made him feel a little bit of strange comfort.He doesn't lack courage or a strong heart—otherwise he would have given up the first time he found himself thrown into the past—he's just not ready to wrestle with fate, and time.
"Then I have to pay attention to one thing." He said, "It doesn't necessarily mean that the guy who passed by is the person who will be unforgettable to me in the future."
"Ah, that's it."
Huang Shaotian smiled and said, "Fate has nothing to do with anything else. No matter how fate and time play tricks, people who are destined to meet will eventually be connected together."
People sometimes have the feeling that the time I am living right now is the happiest and happiest time of my life.They may experience it in their youth, they may think so in their high-spirited prime, or they may feel sincerely satisfied with the present when they sit in a rocking chair and take a contented sip of tea after all the dust has settled.
From this point of view, whether in the forward direction of time or in the reverse direction, people are no different from each other.
When Huang Shaotian got out of the tent, he saw Yu Wenzhou sitting not far away.He tiptoed to the back, and the other party said, "Did I wake you up?"
"What, did you hear that?" Huang Shaotian went around and sat down next to him, "I thought my stealth skills were already high enough."
"I can feel you coming." Yu Wenzhou smiled, "After all, it's still very quiet here."
The night on the prairie is not so silent.The sound of the wind, the swaying blades of grass, the rustling and whispering of insects, all echoed in the darkness.But this is another peaceful land, the sky full of stars is high and far away, and there are no people in the surroundings. This is a rare and precious tranquility.
"Stars." Huang Shaotian raised his head, "We once wanted to see the stars, but there were too many clouds in the sky, and then it snowed, so we couldn't see anything."
"Oh," Yu Wenzhou said, "That must not be a good memory."
"Wrong guess." Huang Shaotian leaned closer to him, "That was my favorite night."
Yu Wenzhou asked: "I like it more than now?"
"Hey, let me tell you, don't be so serious," Huang Shaotian pouted, "One of my favorite nights, are you satisfied? If you care too much about logic, you will have no life, do you understand?"
"Understood." Yu Wenzhou rubbed his hair, "It's not appropriate to worry about details at this time."
"That's the reason
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