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Sang Tian sighed, and held Lin Xue's hand instead.

From the moment the two looked at the river, until now, there was something that had been floating in the air and could not land on the ground, and it landed smoothly.

Lin Xue took a step closer to Sang Tian, ​​in the humid cold night of the small town, in the gradually receding bustle of the market, in the glow of lanterns and candles and the smell of fireworks thrown by some child.

She whispered in Sang Tian's ear: "I miss you very much."

The air in the south of the Yangtze River is damp and cold, and there will be mist at night. Lin Xue's face is a little unreal at first, but when she gets closer, she feels familiar with seeing the moon through the clouds.

Sang Tian's heart beat fast at first, but gradually stabilized because of this familiarity.

It was a long-lost stable frequency, which she deeply missed when she woke up in the middle of the night countless times, something that could be called a "sense of security".

She slowly stroked Lin Xue's fingers: "I miss you very much too."

Lin Xue said: "You don't want to investigate Chao Xi's affairs, we two are fine, okay?"

But Sang Tian said: "You and I will find out what happened to Chao Xi back then, okay?"

Lin Xue lowered her head.

The fusion of temperature brought by the touching of their fingers made their hands warm for a while in the cold night, but the temperature gradually disappeared with the embarrassing silence.

Finally, whoever it was, let go of the hands they held together.

Lin Xue went to a bench by the side of the road and sat down, with her hands on her knees, with a relaxed and lonely posture, she no longer shy away from Sang Tian, ​​and lit a cigarette for herself.

Sang Tian walked to her and sat down.

Lin Xue's lungs were really hurt by smoking. As soon as the smoke was inhaled between her lips, she couldn't help but cough.

Sang Tian called her softly: "Lin Xue."

"I understand all the truths you want to say." Lin Xue curled her lips into a smile: "But Sang Tian, ​​why do you think I ran away back then?"

She stretched out her hand from the sleeve of the coat, revealing the colored rope bracelet on her wrist: "This was knitted by Chao Xi back then, after wearing it for so many years, it's fluffed up."

"I couldn't keep anything since I was a child. My father, my mother, and even a stray cat I raised secretly, for some reason, never appeared again. Chao Xi is the only one who has been with me for many years. friend, but she also left in the end."

Lin Xue took another puff of cigarette: "The thing Chao Xi can't let go of is her parents. No matter what, I have to keep her parents for her. Sang Tian, ​​I don't know how you ran social news before, but If someone is really eyeing her about Chao Xi, the water here will be much deeper than you think, let's investigate and put ourselves in, what will Chao Xi's parents do, and what will your mother do?"

Sang Tian: "Do you think it's silly for me to investigate this matter?"

Lin Xue shook her head: "It's not that you are stupid, it's just that this matter will make us pay an unbearable price, and it's not worth it."

"Do you really think it's not worth it?" Sang Tian asked, "If you have a clear conscience, why would you lose your sense of taste?"

Lin Xue lowered her head and smoked, not speaking.

Sang Tian gently took the cigarette away from her fingers: "Stop smoking."

"Let me tell you one thing. I was under a lot of pressure for a while, so much that I wanted to dance */lou, so I was scared and scared, so I fled from the social group to the sports group."

"I thought it would be fine for me to be a salted fish with peace of mind, but life is really not that simple." Sang Tian raised his lips and smiled: "I was afraid that I might have psychological problems, so I kept seeing a psychiatrist. The time it took to open, the psychological evaluation turned out to be very bad."

"Lin Xue, don't those firefighters who rush into the fire, those doctors who put on white coats and go to the front line during the epidemic, don't they know that they may die?" Sang Tian said: "But life is like this, there are always some You have to do something, it’s a mission in a noble way, and it’s in order to make you sleep peacefully at night.”

"For these things, we have to accept our fate. The meaning of accepting our fate is not to ask whether it is worth it."

Lin Xue still didn't speak.

Sang Tian remembered that in her previous life, before she danced *lou, she and Yang Jingsi saw the news of Chu Lingxue's death in the apartment at the hot pot restaurant. Competing to the final result.

Sang Tian persuaded Lin Xue: "Even if you don't talk about our being together, if you keep running away, your psychological problems cannot be solved by a doctor."

"Lin Xue, come back to Beicheng with me. You said before that you will take care of my mother's illness with me. Now, I don't know whether it is big or small to find out about Chao Xi's matter. It may indeed not be small. But no matter how big it is, let's carry it together, okay?"

At this moment, Sang Tian smiled at her for the first time. That smile was like the long-lost sunshine, shining through the fog in the forest, and shining on the swamp where Lin Xue had been hiding.

But Lin Xue, who lived in the swamp for a long time, struggled for a long time, and found that she couldn't lift her arms or legs.

She was covered in mud and turned into a wet plant in the swamp. She got used to it and lost the courage to face the light.

There is light ahead, and there is also a cliff. Maybe if she walks out, everything she has painstakingly maintained for many years will be wiped out immediately.

Will Chao Xi tell her in hell: "I will never forgive you."

Lin Xue touched the fluffy bracelet on her wrist, touched it again, and finally said, "I don't want to go back to Beicheng."

Sang Tian: "You just want to keep running like this?"

Lin Xue still didn't speak, and put her hands on her knees. In fact, the cigarette between her fingers had already been sucked away by Sang Tian, ​​but her fingers were still holding the cigarette stiffly, leisurely and stubborn.

Sang Tian seemed to be holding her last hope and called her: "Lin Xue."

In that sound, there is the gentle sunshine, the catkins flying in spring, the green ivy climbing the red brick wall, and all the beauty that Lin Xue has secretly coveted for several years.

But she didn't dare to reach out, she didn't deserve it.

She said in a voice so low that she couldn't hear clearly: "Sang Tian, ​​let's go."

Sang Tian smiled and stood up: "Okay, got it."

She walked forward without looking back.

It wasn't until she had gone a long way that Lin Xue dared to look up and quietly look at her back.

A white coat with a collar of fur dangling in the night.A pair of light brown cowhide short boots gently crush the moonlight and night.

The back view looked a little lonely in the night, but no matter what, there was a chicness and determination in those footsteps that Lin Xue couldn't even imagine.

Lin Xue didn't dare to look at it anymore, she lowered her head, and a self-deprecating smile emerged from the corner of her mouth.

Sang Tian is a different person from her.

No matter how lazily Sang Tian was talking, once he found himself sinking into the bottom of the water, he would still try his best to swim towards the sunlight on the surface.

Maybe Sang Tian is the sunshine itself, so he has the instinct to look towards the sun.

That was something that Lin Xue had long since lost, so she could only sink into the swamp and secretly decay.During the annual physical examination of the ice school, the doctor said that some of her organs had aged like the elderly, and that was the result of her constant abuse of herself.

In fact, Sang Tian was right just now, she is not satisfied with herself.

Chao Xi not only asked her to help take care of her parents back then, but also told her to stick to her dream.It's just that she chose to listen to what Chao Xi told her to run away, and let Chao Xi use it as a cover for her cowardice, and she has been doing it for so many years.

******

When Lin Xue woke up the next day, Aunt Chao was already choosing vegetables.

Lin Xue walked over and dragged a small bench to sit down, choosing with Aunt Chao.

Aunt Chao asked her: "Yesterday it was rare that you wanted to go to the market. You were not interested in this kind of shopping before. How was your shopping?"

Lin Xue only said, "It's okay."

Aunt Chao asked again: "I got up so late this morning, are you tired or did you catch a cold last night? If you catch a cold, I'll make you some ginger soup later."

Lin Xue smiled: "I didn't catch a cold, maybe I'm a little tired."

Aunt Chao: "It's good if you don't catch cold, go and eat your breakfast first, the soy milk and rice buns left for you are on the table."

Lin Xue responded and walked over, Aunt Chao said to her while choosing vegetables: "Eat more, you eat so little at such an adult, it's like cat food."

Lin Xue reluctantly said: "I went to the market last night and ate a lot of snacks, and I'm not hungry yet."

In fact, one is not in the mood, and the other is that I can't taste any taste.

In her impression, the rice buns that Chao Xi brought her were very sweet, but now they tasted like chewing a ball of cotton.

In fact, there is no need for Sang Tian to say, Lin Xue herself knows that since she fled to Mudu, her sense of taste has finally returned, and her sense of taste has deteriorated more and more seriously.

She put down the bowl and chopsticks before taking two bites: "I'm going out for a while, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, I'll go to the hospital and get back the medicine for you and Uncle Chao in advance."

In fact, she woke up quite early this morning. To be precise, she didn't fall asleep very much last night, but she just stayed on the bed and didn't want to get up.

As if he was afraid that his feet would not work when he got up, before Sang Tian went to the airport, he ran downstairs to the hotel where Sang Tian was staying and waited.

But now, what else can she and Sang Tian talk about?

She kept staring at the time on the screen of her mobile phone, which seemed to be slow, and she finally walked a little bit, and then a little bit.

Finally, she felt that Sang Tian had already left before she dared to get out of bed. She still didn't dare to let herself be idle. Since she couldn't eat, she wanted to go to the hospital to get medicine.

That woman was a bit powerful, she was always laughing or annoyed in Lin Xue's mind.

Lin Xue's world lost her, but Lin Xue's world was full of her.

Lin Xue took a deep breath and went out. The damp air in the south was like an invisible knife, cutting through the defenseless throat, causing a sore throat, and the sourness in her eyes that had been accumulated for a long time almost fell away in panic.

Lin Xue managed to hold back, but something fell in from outside the firewood gate in the small courtyard, and fell on her feet.

Lin Xue looked down.

A bunny lantern.

She almost gasped, picked up the rabbit lantern and held it in her hand.

c, Sang Tian, ​​you are really good at it, very good at it.

Lin Xue watched helplessly as a small drop of water appeared on the rabbit lantern, and then another drop.

She thought it was raining, but when she looked up, there was only a thick gray cloud in the sky.

Instead, her face was cold.

She was taken aback, and asked herself frantically in her heart—so after all these years, would you still cry?

******

After Sang Tian returned to Beicheng, he first went to the hospital to see Sang Jia, and brought her the cakes and chess cakes.

As soon as Sang Jia took it, she asked, "Have you brought it for Xue Lin?"

Sang Tian untied the scarf and said, "Old lady, who is your real daughter? I have been away for two days, and when I came back, you didn't ask me if I was tired, and you only cared about others."

"Is that Lin Xue someone else?" Sang Jia waved his hand: "Okay, don't take off your scarf, I don't need you to stick around here, you can go to Lin Xue, and I will continue to watch it with you Aunt Fang It's old meat."

Sang Tian talked badly, but Sang Jia drove her out anyway.

Sang Tian had nowhere to go, so after thinking about it, he called Yang Jingsi: "Is there a live broadcast tonight? If not, let's have dinner together and take away the souvenirs I brought back for you from all the way."

"All right, all right!" Yang Jingsi did not give in to this kind of taking advantage, and rushed to meet Sang Tian on her Dada little horse's hooves.

Yang Jingsi made an appointment with Sang Tian at a newly-opened online celebrity skewers shop today. The lights were so bizarre that it looked like a coiled silk hole. Sang Tian felt that he didn't look like a spider today, so he was a little embarrassed to go in.

Yang Jingsi weighed the cake that Sang Tian brought her: "It's really solid, throwing this bag over can kill me."

Sang Tian ticked the duck intestines and green bamboo shoots she wanted to eat on the menu: "Take your time and eat, don't stay at home in the middle of the night and ask me to deliver you stomach-strengthening and Xiaoshi tablets."

"Do I have that?" Yang Jingsi asked, "Is this the only present you gave me?"

Sang Tian glanced at her: "What else do you want? They won't let me take live hairy crabs on the plane."

"You have to bring me the freshly baked gossip!" Yang Jingsi patted the table anxiously: "Come on, gossip that is as important as this cake, hurry up and offer it to the girls! Do you and Lin Xue have any follow-up? ?”

Sang Tian stared at the menu and asked, "How about boneless chicken feet?"

"Yes." Yang Jingsi patted the table anxiously: "Oh, don't change the subject!"

Sang Tian beckoned and handed the menu to the waiter: "There is a follow-up. Later, Lin Xue came to see me, and we went to the market."

Yang Jingsi: "Did she sleep with you or did you sleep with him?"

Sang Tian: "...Why are you so vulgar?"

Yang Jingsi: "Then what's the matter? Are you really contributing to unscrupulous small traders? Don't you know that places are all cheating tourists?"

She hurriedly asked Sang Tian: "What did you buy? You don't know how to buy jade, do you? Jade is the worst!"

Sang Tian smiled: "No, I just bought a rabbit lantern."

"Rabbit lantern?" Yang Jingsi was stunned: "The peddler is after you and insists on selling it to you? How much is it for you? Don't ask you for two hundred and five?"

"You are only two hundred and five." Sang Tian scolded with a smile: "It's not expensive, only twenty, which fits the simple and simple temperament of the town."

No one chased and sold it to her.

It was she herself who wandered around in a small town that traveled through time and space all night.

When the moon is setting in the west, the sun is rising, and the pale golden sunlight pierces through the clouds, it seems that there is still hope for everything.

She watched the shop open the creaking shutter door, and finally bought a rabbit lantern.

The boss dug out the rabbit lantern from the dusty closet: "They are quite old, and no one buys this style anymore."

Sang Tian smiled: "It's okay, how much is it?"

She carried the rabbit lantern and walked towards Chao's small courtyard, the rabbit's ears quivered and the bluestone road swayed along the way.

She squatted at the gate of the small courtyard for a long time.

Until there was a faint movement in the courtyard—someone got up.

Sang Tian suddenly became flustered, and she realized that she didn't have the courage to ask Lin Xue again, "Do you want to go back to Beicheng with me?"

She couldn't bear Xue Lin to give her another disappointing answer.

As if she was running away, she lightly put the rabbit lantern outside the firewood door, and hurried away.

******

After eating Chuan Chuan and checking out, the waiter probably had a task, so he enthusiastically sold a fruit wine in the store to the two of them.

Just as Yang Jingsi was about to say "we can't drink very much", she found that Sang Tian was very interested, looking at the pile of small porcelain bottles with great enthusiasm.

Yang Jingsi: "What are you doing? Fruit wine is also wine."

Sang Tian smiled: "Sisters have completely started a new stage of life, why not celebrate?"

The waiter said with a smile: "That's the most suitable wine for us! Our wine has a characteristic, people who are in a bad mood drink it vigorously, and people who are in a good mood drink it very hard."

Sang Tian was stunned: "Is this wine or Veritaserum?"

But if she doesn't buy it now, she seems too guilty.

And where is the wine that can measure a person's mood?It's too mysterious.

She didn't believe it.

After saying goodbye to Yang Jingsi and drinking two bottles of wine when she got home, she realized that it was too early to speak big.

Now she is holding the toilet and vomiting upside down, she can't help but not believe it.

Throwing up and vomiting, it was hard to tell whether it was snot or tears on his face, Sang Tian didn't have the strength to get up, thinking that it was all over anyway, so it's better to cry more thoroughly.

Dazed, she took out her phone and opened a music app. She clearly clicked on "Sell 100 Sad Songs", but with a swipe of her hand, she clicked on "100 Hot Heads and Dance".

The phone began to sing impassionedly:

"Look at the clatter of iron hooves! Travel across thousands of miles of rivers and mountains!

I stand on the cusp!Hold on to the sun and moon to spin!

……

I really want to live another 500 years! "

The uncle let out a howl, and Sang Tian almost dropped the phone into the toilet with a trembling hand.

She had finished thinking about it, but now her artistic conception was destroyed and she couldn't cry anymore.

I didn't expect her to cry so loudly.

c!She doesn't want to live another 500 years!She only wanted Lin Xue to come back!

Sang Tian was crying vigorously to the majestic singing, when the doorbell suddenly rang.

Sang Tian reluctantly supported the toilet to get up, thinking that he must not have fainted from drinking, and forgot what appetizers he ordered?

Unexpectedly, as soon as the door opened, Yang Jingsi shook the garlic-flavored peanuts: "In my previous Lujiang novel, when Ge Wei and Gu Xiaochi got into trouble, her sisters brought garlic-flavored peanuts to accompany her to drink. It also brought you, is it moving?"

Sang Tian: "It's a bit embarrassing not to be moved."

She and Yang Jingsi have been sisters for so many years since college. Before meeting Lin Xue, Yang Jingsi never saw her cry once.

It turns out that I have only known Lin Xue for a long time, how many times has she cried?

"Who are you throwing away? Do you feel that you are very ugly when you cry?" Yang Jingsi comforted her: "It's okay, even if your eyes turn red from crying, you are still beautiful. It is not ambiguous to play a cameo in Journey to the West and play a rabbit spirit!"

Sang Tian choked up and asked her: "Am I like a female goblin?"

Yang Jingsi was afraid that she would cry more fiercely and nodded immediately: "Like like!"

Unexpectedly, Sang Tian still wailed loudly: "But I'm so tempted, what should I do!"

******

Sang Tian didn't know if there was anyone worse than her in the whole world.

At the same time that he finally realized that he had been tempted, he had completely lost love.

Moreover, the sisters who brought peanuts to accompany her to drink away their sorrows not only ate up a large bag of peanuts, but also dropped peanut clothes all over the bed, let alone put them in the shape of "big". Occupying her entire bed, causing her to lie on the sofa all night.

When Sang Tian got up from the sofa, he almost suffered from a headache when he walked around. Even so, he still had to go to work with a broken body and a broken heart.

She couldn't help scolding in her heart: c, the adult world is so cruel!

When Sang Tian sat down at his desk, Lao He leaned over and asked, "How was the investigation in Nan Province?"

Sang Tian told about the current situation of Chao Xi's parents, and Lao He was quite emotional when he heard it: "Although there are quite a lot of children from rich families who learn ice sports, many of them come from poor backgrounds. Mom just doesn't know how to get on with it."

"We didn't have time to save Chao Xi, but if we can really find out some conspiracy and save more children, that would be a great merit."

Sang Tian smiled: "I don't seek immeasurable merit, I just want to do what I should do so that I can sleep soundly every night."

******

After another snowfall, the Chinese New Year is here.

In the last class of the ice school years ago, Sang Tian distributed crispy candy to the children: "We should control our weight in normal times, and indulge in a little indulgence during the Chinese New Year."

Miao Kefei pulled her aside and asked quietly: "Ms. Sang, did you help me give the chocolate to Coach Lin?"

Sang Tian smiled and patted her head: "Don't worry, I've already given it."

After she returned to Beicheng, she sent the chocolates to Lin Xue according to Chao Xi's parents' address.

On New Year's Eve, Sang Tian accompanied Sang Jia and Aunt Fang to watch the Spring Festival Gala in the hospital.

Aunt Fang's son couldn't come back from abroad, so Sang Tian took on the important task of teasing: "Two old ladies, I bet you five yuan. In this Spring Festival Gala sketch, there must be one who encourages vaccination, and one who advocates vaccination. The one who celebrates the new year, one who promotes marriage and birth, and the other who opposes the parent's chicken baby!"

The two old ladies were laughing while nibbling melon seeds. They were not interested in watching the skit, but when Lao Xianrou was singing on stage, the two groaned in unison. Sang Jia threw a sugar orange and shook it on the table. Sang Tian, ​​who was blocking the TV with sugar, smashed it open.

The nurse on duty came in and said, "You didn't hide two geese secretly, did you?"

There was another burst of laughter in the ward.

Yang Jingsi pestered Sang Tian to send herself a big red envelope of 888, and she sent Sang Tian a red envelope of 999 backhandedly.

Even Zuo Ming initiated a video call from Syria, and the three big faces of Sang Tian, ​​Yang Jingsi and Zuo Ming appeared on the phone screen at the same time.

The screen was a bit stuck, and Sang Tian asked word by word: "Senior Zuo Ming, do you have any dumplings?"

Zuo Ming cheerfully replied: "No! But if we have compressed biscuits, we can drink!"

The sound of cannon fire faintly came from Zuo Ming's side. It was different from the hustle and bustle of the Chinese New Year, and it was another kind of turmoil that made people feel frightened.

But Zuo Ming’s smiling face remained the same as before—maybe one day behind the cessation of artillery fire, there will be a prosperous and prosperous world, and no one will remember that there are still a group of journalists who have nothing to do with the war itself, who have silently contributed behind this.

After hanging up the video, Sang Tian stood by the window and watched a burst of fireworks rising outside the window. It was a holiday gift presented by the municipal government to all citizens.

Sang Jia crackled the melon seeds behind Sang Tian's back, as if afraid of losing to the fireworks: "It's so lively!"

Sang Tian looked out the window and said softly, "Yes, it's really lively."

It's just that I don't know if the small town a thousand kilometers away from Beijing is as bustling and lively as it is now, or if it's as empty as her heart, and the emptiness can't stop the lonely wind.

Sang Jia: "The fireworks are all over, what have you been looking at by the window?"

Sang Tian said softly, "It's nothing."

Really nothing to see.

The distance of a thousand kilometers is so vast in the night, how can she see through it with a pair of eyes.

Some people will never come back even if there are rabbit lanterns to guide the way.

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感谢在2022-01-2616:53:37~2022-01-2715:57:36期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who cast the rocket launcher: 1 Huosen;

Thanks to the little angel who threw the landmine: Zhaohai 2; Mu Chenyan, the piece in the middle of the watermelon is for you to eat, what to do, Quan Guangzilang, qr, and Xiaoder 1;

Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution: 5 bottles of Guanguan Jujiu; 3 bottles of Xiaoder; 1 bottle of Boyan;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!