She walked and walked, and by the time she had circled the entire Houhai, it was already evening.
She must have been tired from walking, so she stopped in a deserted place, rummaged through a tissue from her bag, placed it on the ground, and sat on it.
She stared at the lake thoughtfully for a long time, then blinked, withdrew her gaze and lowered her head. Her fingertips carelessly touched the ground, and inadvertently touched a stone. She picked it up, then squatted up, holding the stone, and scratched it hard on the ground.
He was afraid of being discovered by her, so he deliberately kept a distance from her, but he could vaguely make out from her posture that she seemed to be writing something on the ground.
After a while, she stopped.
She stared at the place on the ground where she had just written and drawn. As she looked at it, she became stunned. Then He Jichen clearly noticed that her expression had changed from indifferent at first to extremely sad little by little. , just when he thought she was going to cry, she turned her head and looked at the lake.
Maybe her legs were sore from squatting for a long time. She didn't walk for too long this time, so she dropped the stones and stood up.
She moved her legs on the spot for a while, looked down at the ground again, and finally walked away.
After she walked very far away, He Jichen appeared where she had just been sitting.
At this time, the sky was already dark, all the lights around Houhai were on, the lake was dripping with light, and the scenery was absolutely beautiful.
He Jichen used the dim yellow streetlight nearby to identify the white traces drawn with stones on the ground: You are everywhere in his peripheral vision.
He Jichen read these seven simple words several times before he connected the sentence in his heart.
He didn't know how many times he recited this sentence silently, and finally it turned into four words, which lingered in his heart for a long time.
"Yuguang", "Manman", "Manman", "Yuguang"...
A gust of night wind blew, bringing with it the biting chill of early winter, and woke up He Jichen who was standing there distracted.
He lowered his eyes slightly to cover up the sadness and loss in his eyes, then turned his head and looked around for Ji Yi.
Her presence was no longer around. He walked quickly for a distance in the direction she had just left, and then through the glass window of a bar called "Flying Fish" he saw her sitting quietly by the window. He was sitting on his seat, tilting his head and ordering drinks to the waiter.
He Jichen stood on the street, looked at Ji Yi for a while, and then entered the bar.
There were no lights on in the bar, except where the resident singer was, and there were lights on the floor, leaving only a candle burning on each table.
The dim light blurred the person's face. He Jichen made a silent gesture towards the waiting waiter, chose the seat behind Ji Yi, sat down back to back, then took the drink list on the table and ordered a drink. Clear tea.