When the car slowly drove out of the gate of Jingnan University, Xiao Wanqing inadvertently swept across. On the opposite side of the road, there were two people, Xia Zhijin and Shiman, who were tugging. The two stood facing each other, Xia Zhijin held Shi Man's hand, as if they were in a stalemate. The night was hazy and the distance was too far away, Xiao Wanqing couldn't see their expressions clearly, but could only see, as if Xia Zhijin had said something, Shiman shook off her hand and turned around. Then, in the next second, Xia Zhijin took her hand again, and hugged Shiman...
Xiao Wanqing withdrew her gaze, turned the steering wheel to the right, and the car merged into the traffic flow, blending into the night.
She couldn't help thinking of Xia Zhijin's "I have no choice in life" after Xia Zhijin gave her a bleak smile not long ago, her heart sank, and she couldn't help sighing.
Lin Xian sent Zhou Qin a text message announcing the good news that her class had won an award. Suddenly hearing Xiao Wanqing's sigh, she jokingly said, "Aunt Xiao, I heard that sighing often can speed up aging."
Age is probably the culprit of every woman, but that does not include Xiao Wanqing, a woman with a calm heart. She just smiled nonchalantly and said, "Then I'll smile and make it up." She hesitated for a moment, but still asked Lin Xian worriedly: "Zhijin and Manman, have you had any conflicts lately?"
Lin Xian couldn't help but sigh when he thought of Shiman who ran away from home, and Xia Zhijin who forced a smile on his face. She nodded and replied: "Well, but I don't know exactly what happened. It's just that Manman has been away from home for a long time, and has been refusing to contact Zhijin."
Xiao Wanqing let out a deep "Oh" and did not continue.
After a long time, when Lin Xian thought the topic was over, Xiao Wanqing suddenly offered a tactful suggestion: "Maybe you can persuade Manman to give Zhijin some more space and time? If the thread is too tight, it will Break, people, if you push too hard, you may also collapse."
Lin Xian frowned, sat up straight, and asked Xiao Wanqing in confusion: "Aunt Xiao, what do you know?"
Xiao Wanqing pursed her lips lightly, shook her head and said in a joking tone: "I don't know anything. It's just that my intuition tells me so."
Lin Xian burst out laughing, and promised her, "Well, if I have a chance, I will persuade you a lot." Her big fox-like eyes rolled around for a while, and she suddenly leaned over to approach Xiao Wanqing. , asked Xiao Wanqing slyly: "Aunt Xiao, did your intuition tell you, what reward do I want?"
"Reward?" Xiao Wanqing looked ahead and asked back with some incomprehension.
Lin Xian smiled and said, "I won the first prize. It took so long to get it. Aunt Xiao, won't you reward me?"
Xiao Wanqing laughed, glanced at Lin Xian, and teased: "The certificate is yours, the honor is yours, and the prize is yours, why should I reward you instead?"
Lin Xian pouted, dissatisfied: "Then I won the award, Aunt Xiao, are you happy?"
Xiao Wanqing nodded without thinking: "Happy." She recalled Lin Xian's dazzling and graceful appearance on the stage, and there was a faint smile on her lips unconsciously.
Lin Xian continued with satisfaction, and continued to ask: "Whose is the happiness? Isn't it yours, Aunt Xiao?" She was confident and confident, and said without blushing, "So, I worked hard to win the award, and I will give it to you, Aunt Xiao." Sent happy, Aunt Xiao, shouldn't you reward me?"
The red light came on at the right time, and Xiao Wanqing stopped the car slowly and steadily. She turned her head to look at Lin Xian, bent her eyebrows slightly, stretched out her slender index finger and tapped on the tip of Lin Xian's tall nose, and said with a dumb smile: "Xianxian, I'm sure, Sister Zhou Qin and Brother Lin Zhan You are not as good at eloquence." She blinked her eyes softly, looked at Lin Xian's bright and flamboyant face, and said dotingly: "Then what reward do you want me to give you?"
Lin Xian raised his eyes, staring at Xiao Wanqing with burning eyes, the corners of his lips curled up slightly. Like an unconscious movement while thinking, she gently tapped her index finger on the thin lips, and said in a low tone: "Well, let me think about it, for example, kiss me..."
Xiao Wanqing's eyes subconsciously followed the girl's words, moved downstream, and fixed on Lin Xian's slightly moving red lips.
For a moment, Lin Xian clearly noticed that Xiao Wanqing seemed to be surprised, slightly opened her eyes, and straightened her back.
A sly smile flashed across Lin Xian's eyes.
In the next second, Lin Xian moved his index finger away from his thin lips as if nothing had happened, tapped his left cheek with a big gesture, and continued with the previous words: "It should be impossible. Although, if I show something every time If my performance is particularly good, or I have achieved some particularly good grades, my mother will kiss me on the face a few times when she is very happy. But I think, Aunt Xiao, you should be too embarrassed to use this kind of enthusiastic way of expressing people, right?"
Is Zhou Qin such a person? Xiao Wanqing was startled in her heart.
But the girl looked at her frankly, her eyes were sincere, bright and clean. Xiao Wanqing's face turned hot inexplicably. She quickly turned her gaze away, stared at the bright rear lights of the car ahead, bit her lip, and responded in a low voice: "Well, I am, not really."
Lin Xian was very considerate: "So, I want a simple and convenient reward. Aunt Xiao, let me invite you to have dinner at Apollo Square on Christmas Eve?"
After the yellow light passed and the green light turned on, Xiao Wanqing slowly drove the car to keep up with the traffic ahead. She eased the embarrassment that she misunderstood Lin Xian's words just now, regained her usual calmness, and said softly: "If you invite me to dinner, how can it be regarded as my reward?"
Lin Xian leaned back and leaned against the soft back of the driver's seat, as if completely relaxed. Looking at the receding street scene outside the car window, she said calmly: "I heard from my classmates that on Christmas Eve this year, the newly built musical fountain in Apollo Square will be used for the first time, and there will also be artificial snowfall activities. Speaking of which, Except when I went abroad to study with my parents when I was young, I saw snow when I stayed in North America. Later, when I returned to Anjiang, I haven’t seen snow for many years.”
She tilted her head and asked Xiao Wanqing: "Aunt Xiao, have you ever seen snow?"
Xiao Wanqing's hand holding the steering wheel tightened slightly. After a long silence, she closed her eyes and said softly, "I have never seen snow before."
Her mother is particularly afraid of the cold, and she has the kind of physique that would cause chilblains in a south as warm as Anjiang. She and her father love her dearly, so when their family travels in winter, they never choose places that are so cold that it will snow. Although, in fact, since she was a child, she has always envied the snow-covered winter in the north, the sky is full of snow, and she envied the textbooks about snowball fights and snowmen in the winter snow. So later on, she always thought that when she grew up, her parents assured her that she would travel alone, and she must go to the north to see with her own eyes the appearance of a city sealed in ice and snow. Later, after having the dream of a young girl Huaichun, this wish became again, to watch a snowstorm with the person I like.
Unfortunately, when she grows up, she is reluctant to be too far away from her parents. Therefore, she did not choose to go out of the province for university. From then on, I took root in Anjiang City, studied for an undergraduate degree, took a master's degree, and started working.
The year Yan Jia left her, when they traveled during the May Day holiday, Yan Jia was still making plans, saying that she would take her to the Ice City to see the first snow in her life during Christmas. Fulfill her long-cherished wish.
Later, they didn't wait until Christmas.
On Christmas Eve, when it rained, she sat silently on the sofa, quietly watching Yan Jia drag her luggage and close the door, and quit her life.
Later, the parents left. Since then, her life no longer has wishes or expectations.
Because if you recognize it clearly, if you have a wish, you will suffer, and if you have expectations, you will be disappointed.
When she was young, the desire to watch a snow with the person she liked had long been forgotten in the long river of time along with her silent heart. It's not that she hasn't been to a city where it snows when she is working, but she has never looked forward to or waited for it. Even this year's National Day outing, because Wen Tong thinks it's not the best season to see the snow-capped mountains, she doesn't have to go on purpose, she just has a little regret in her heart, and then agrees without any objection.
However, being thirty-one years old and never seeing snow, shouldn't it be a particularly ridiculous thing, right
Lin Xian, why did you smile so happily after hearing the answer
Xiao Wanqing looked sideways at Lin Xian suspiciously. Lin Xian raised his eyes and met her gaze. Xiao Wanqing saw the bright smile in the girl's eyes, and when she heard it, she said in a soft tone: "So, it is your reward for me to share the memory of the first snow in your life with Aunt Xiao."
"So, Aunt Xiao, on Christmas Eve, let's go to see the snow together."
At that moment, Xiao Wanqing felt that the tip of her heart was trembling slightly.
Maybe, in this world, is there really such a mysterious thing as fate.
Otherwise, how can I explain why Lin Xian, who is obviously so many years younger than her and has never participated in all her past lives, can always step on the accented beat of her life so casually and accurately , and delicately grasped the veins in her life that were circled in red.
Is the white head as new as it was before
After a long time, Lin Xian heard that Xiao Wanqing showed a slight smile and promised her softly: "Okay, let's go to see the snow together."
When class resumed on Monday, Shiman finally came to school normally. During self-study in the morning, Lin Xian thought about Xiao Wanqing's advice to her, so she couldn't hold back, nervously whispered to Shiman, and asked in a low voice how she and Xia Zhijin were doing.
Shiman rested his chin with one hand, with a smile that he couldn't suppress, and said sweetly: "Zhijin said, give her a few more days to think about it. So, I also promised to go home with her first."
Lin Xian was surprised and said, "So, were you... forcing her to express her opinion?"
Shi Man casually turned the pen in his hand, shook his head and replied: "No. I'm forcing my mother to express her opinion." She knew exactly where Xia Zhijin's heart knot was, and without Shi Jinglan's expression and acceptance, she would It is impossible for a person like Jin who values affection and gratitude to accept her.
And what does Shi Jinglan want? She also knows it all too well. What Shi Jinglan wants is for her to live a peaceful life and grow obediently into an excellent successor of Shi Xing who can be recognized by the family. She was just using herself as a bargaining chip to negotiate with Shi Jinglan.
Facts have proved that this negotiation was the result of another compromise by Shi Jinglan.
On the night after the competition, Shi Jinglan was at home, and after the video conference, she called her and Xia Zhijin to the study room, and made a promise in front of them: "I will not interfere with your emotional life, Zhijin, if you If you are willing to be with Shiman, I am also happy to see it come true, so don't worry about me."
At that time, Xia Zhijin's expression seemed to be too surprised to be too calm. Shi Man heard her answer Shi Jinglan in a neither humble nor humble way: "I will seriously consider it."
The next day, Xia Zhijin packed up two pieces of clothes and went back to see her grandma and sister by herself.
Before leaving, she touched Shiman's face with nostalgia, and said to her: "Give me a little more time, and I will give you an answer when I come back."
The author has something to say: Shi Jinglan chuckled: Fighting with me, you are still a little tender.