After breakfast, Fang Ruohua and Shi Yi went to the hospital to visit Shi Yi's cousin who had just given birth a few days ago. Jia Jia was clingy and wanted to go with her mother and sister. Fang Ruohua was afraid that she was too young and had poor resistance, so she didn't like to take her to the hospital. Fu Shitian volunteered to take care of Jia Jia at home.
Although Jia Jia was still shy, she was willing to stay with Fu Shitian in her heart, so she didn't make a fuss and just listened to him. The two went upstairs together and played Lego in the toy room. After a while, they got over their differences and played together warmly.
When Fang Ruohua and Shi Yi came back, they saw two figures, one big and one small, sitting sideways on the crawling mat, arms touching, concentrating on playing something together. The warm afternoon sun shone through the glass and covered their hair, making it warm and fluffy.
Fang Ruohua and Shi Yi stopped at the stairs, feeling reluctant to disturb them.
"Si Tian is very good at getting along with children." Fang Ruohua sighed softly.
Jiajia is a little shy and rarely gets close to an adult so quickly.
Shi Yi looked at the two people who were unaware of it, his eyes soft without knowing it: "Maybe she is like a child sometimes."
Fang Ruohua's mind moved slightly, and she asked with concern: "After you get married next year, do you plan to have a child?"
Shi Yi said nonchalantly: "I haven't thought about it yet."
"Is that a plan?"
"Not necessarily." Shi Yi tilted his head, suppressed his smile, and said after a pause: "I don't really want it. If Si Tian really wants it, I will consider it."
It was a lie and also the truth. She didn't hate children, but she didn't have an obsession with having them. Children had never appeared in her plans. She had always thought that her life would be complete with Fu Shitian.
Fang Ruohua didn't know whether she really thought so or whether she was afraid of forcing Fu Shitian so she deliberately took the responsibility first. She said in an open-minded way: "Whether you want it or not, you should think it over carefully and don't regret it. I believe that both of you are confident in your children."
Shi Yi looked at her deeply, and Fang Ruohua looked at her frankly.
Shi Yi's eyes softened and he agreed: "Well, don't worry."
Fang Ruohua nodded: "I'm relieved."
After bidding farewell to her father a few years ago, she read what an author wrote about parents: "The so-called father-daughter and mother-son relationship only means that your fate with him is to keep watching his back gradually going away in this life. You stand at one end of the path, watching him gradually disappear at the bend of the path, and he uses his back to silently tell you: no need to chase." Over the years, with Jia Jia's rapid growth and Shi Yi's rapid maturity, she has felt more and more that the same is true in reverse.
Children will eventually grow up, and there will always be roads that parents cannot accompany them. Parents will eventually have to move from in front of their children, slowly walk to their side, and finally, retreat behind them. Letting go and watching them go is the last responsibility that can be fulfilled after the responsibility of teaching.
No matter how worried or reluctant you are, this is how it should be.
Shi Yi has grown up, and she will no longer interfere in Shi Yi's life. She only hopes that she will live without regrets.
"You go in and keep them company." She said calmly, "I'll go down and see how Auntie is preparing lunch."
Shi Yiying: “Yeah.”
Fang Ruohua watched her walk towards Fu Shitian, towards the path that belonged to her, with tenderness in her eyes.
In the evening, Xiangye Company held an annual meeting. Fang Ruohua would attend and would not eat at home. Shi Yi and Fu Shitian decided to take Jia Jia out to eat and feel the Christmas atmosphere.
The three of them chose a family-friendly restaurant with a strong festive atmosphere. In the restaurant, the Christmas tree was towering, the carousel was decorated like an elk, and Santa Claus was carrying a package and walking around under the dim lights, handing out candies to the children.
It is full of innocence and fantasy.
Shi Yi and Fu Shitian sat in a separate private room. From a long distance, they noticed Jia Jia, who couldn't wait to run into the amusement area and get on a new ride on the carousel after eating.
"Do you like children?" Shi Yi suddenly asked.
Fu Shitian looked at the small figures on the carousel and nodded: "I like it."
"You want it?"
Fu Shitian was stunned for a moment, then turned back to look at Shi Yi. Shi Yi stared at her, gentle and serious.
Fu Shitian trembled his eyelashes, straightened his expression, and asked: "Do you want it?"
Shi Yi confessed: "I don't feel anything."
Fu Shitian hesitated and said: "I'm fine too..."
"But don't you like it?"
Fu Shitian bit his lip, and answered the question with some difficulty: "Can I do it well?" www.
She said softly: "Shi Yi, I don't know what it's like to be a good parent when your child is growing up."
She hasn't seen it.
She is scared.
Shi Yi felt a sharp pain in her heart. She stood up and sat next to Fu Shitian, holding her fist that was slightly clenched beside the plate, and said firmly: "You can do it."
Fu Shitian was moved and hesitant.
Shi Yi had no intention of forcing her, and added: "But if you are really not ready, then it's fine if we don't."
I think Lailai must be the mother who loves her children the most in the world. Raising children must take up most of her energy.
She smiled beautifully and solemnly: "After all... this way, you will truly belong to me forever."
"I can have you all to myself," she leaned closer and whispered in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Shi Yiyi, I couldn't ask for more."
Stirring a pool of spring water.
Fu Shitian heard his heartbeat suddenly getting heavier.
She tilted her head to look at Shi Yi. They were so close to each other. Shi Yi's clear eyes sparkled under the light, as gentle as a lake and as bright as stars.
Fu Shitian's heart was pounding.
She found that no matter how many years they had known each other, no matter how familiar they were with each other, Shi Yi was still the girl who would blush and her heart would beat fast if she looked at her for a second or heard her say a few more words.
She covered Shi Yi's eyes, kissed her cheek, and answered in her heart:
I have you as my baby, and I have nothing else to ask for.
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In September of the following year, Shanghai University held its centennial celebration and invited alumni from all corners of the world to visit the school. Shi Yi, Fu Shitian, Chen Xizhu, and Yin Fanlu had not seen each other for a year, so they made an appointment to return to Shanghai and visit the school together.
Jian Luhe, who lives in Shanghai, came to pick up everyone. As early as last year when Shi Yi and Fu Shitian returned to Shanghai for Christmas vacation, they had met once. Although it was Jian Luhe who took the initiative to ask Shi Yi to meet Fu Shitian, but after a long separation, Jian Luhe really met Fu Shitian and remembered the unpleasant parting that year. She felt a little awkward and cramped. It was Fu Shitian who took the initiative to reach out and hugged Jian Luhe without any alienation, and wiped away all the cracks in the past with a sentence "Luhe, long time no see".
From the beginning to the end, she never blamed Jian Luhe. She thanked her for encouraging and taking care of Shi Yi during those saddest days. She cherished Shi Yi as much as Shi Yi did that she had such a sincere friend for her.
When they graduated, due to Yin Fanlu's going abroad and Fu Shitian's absence, except for the class and major group photos, there was no formal group photo of them wearing bachelor's gowns left in their dormitory. This time back in Shanghai, it was the first time for the five of them to get together after the reunion. Jian Luhe suggested that they make up for it this time.
Everyone had the same idea, so they made an appointment with a photographer, rented bachelor's gowns, took off their high heels together, changed into T-shirts and canvas shoes, which were the most common clothes worn by students in their youth, put on bachelor's gowns, helped each other adjust their collars and hats, compared and compared, laughed and joked, and returned to the place where it all began.
Like the graduating seniors, they walked through the dormitories and teaching buildings that they had visited countless times. In the library with thousands of books, beside the rippling Egret Lake, on the small green playground, and under the trees with fragmented light and shadow, they lined up, posed, and enjoyed the belated joy of graduation.
Fine beads of sweat glistened on the tips of their noses, and laughter lingered around them.
They walked and took photos until evening. When the sky was filled with sunset glow, they arrived in front of the small auditorium where the Business School graduation ceremony was held that year.
Looking up, on the steps, the door of the small auditorium was open. On the bulletin board in front of the door were several movie posters, all related to figures in school history, probably in preparation for the upcoming school anniversary.
Shi Yi suggested: "Let's go in and take a look?"
No one had any objection.
Shi Yi held Fu Shitian's hand and walked in front, into the front hall of the auditorium, then walked down and into the main hall of the auditorium. In the main hall, the melody of the Shenda school song was lingering, and a man was standing at the front of the auditorium, adjusting the curtain in the center, who seemed to be a staff member.
Fu Shitian knocked on the door and said politely, "Hello, we are alumni who graduated from the Business School. May we come in and have a look?"
The staff member's gaze stayed on Fu Shitian for a second, then turned to Shi Yi.
Shi Yi nodded almost imperceptibly, and the man agreed, "Sure, welcome, please feel free to visit."
Fu Shitian was just about to thank him when Chen Xizhu and Jian Luhe behind him suddenly burst out laughing, looking like they couldn't help laughing.
Fu Shitian was puzzled and turned to ask them: "What's wrong? What are you laughing at?"
Shi Yixin raised her eyebrows slightly, narrowed her eyes and winked.
Chen Xizhu and Jian Luhe quickly suppressed their laughter and said in unison: "Nothing."
Fu Shitian: “???” Weird.
Yin Fanlu interrupted and diverted Fu Shitian's attention: "Let's go, let's go in and see if there are any suitable scenes to take some photos." As she said that, she took the lead and walked forward.
Fu Shitian didn't doubt him and turned around and followed him in.
Shi Yi quietly waved to Fang Ruohua, Jia Jia, Jiang Xuemei, Fu Jiantao and Fu Siyu who were standing at the entrance on the other side of the auditorium and made an OK gesture.
Five people took photos together at the window of the auditorium with the sunset as the background. The staff seemed to have finished the adjustment and suddenly invited: "Do you want to watch the promotional video of the school anniversary?"
Chen Xizhu replied excitedly: "Is it possible?"
The staff member smiled and said, “Sure.”
Shi Yi naturally took over the conversation and asked Fu Shitian: "Then let's take a look?"
Of course Fu Shitian had no objection.
Shi Yi led her to sit in the first row in the middle. Chen Xizhu, Yin Fanlu and Jian Luhe used the excuse that they were too close and chose to sit in the rows behind them.
Fu Shitian asked Shi Yi: "Shall we go to the back as well?"
Shi Yi glanced at her but didn't respond. With a smile on his lips, he held her hand and had no intention of getting up and changing seats.
Fu Shitian thought she was just being willful, so he laughed and let her do as she pleased, sitting up straight and not changing.
The staff thoughtfully lowered the curtains of the auditorium, and the room fell into a brief darkness. But in just two seconds, the piano music came on with the white curtains, and two cartoon anthropomorphic rabbits standing close together appeared in front of Fu Shitian.
One is white and the other is gray, they have long ears and big eyes, and are extremely cute.
Fu Shitian's eyes lit up and he couldn't help but praise: "So cute."
The corners of Shi Yi's lips curled up secretly, and he pretended to be indifferent and just said "hmm".
The screen started moving and the promotional video began.
It is an animated silent film with delicate and smooth pictures and a fresh and warm style. It can be seen that it is a very carefully made work. What is the connection between the story and Shenda? Fu Shitian still couldn't understand it after watching it for more than a minute.
The story begins with a group of small animals living together in a forest. There is a little white rabbit who, for some unknown reason, is trapped on an isolated island in the corner of the forest. A small river separates her from the other small animals. She can only watch with envy as the other small animals in the forest live happily together, feeling sad.
One day, a gray rabbit came to the forest and found the trapped little white rabbit. He cut down a big tree, built a bridge, and led the little white rabbit out of the isolated island and into the forest together.
They played games together, caught butterflies together, and watched the stars together, and lived a happy life.
But one day, a big bad wolf suddenly became ferocious and wanted to eat them.
The little white rabbit held hands with the little gray rabbit and ran away together, and they hid in a tree hole. The big gray wolf chased them relentlessly, and when he saw that he was about to find them, the little white rabbit ran out of the tree hole, led the big gray wolf away, and fell into the valley with the big gray wolf.
The little gray rabbit was unable to save her, so he went down the mountain to look for her, but he found nothing. She was unwilling to give up, so she kept looking for her, asking everyone she met, and always remembered the little white rabbit.
As time passed, the little gray rabbit grew up and left the forest to go to a wider forest. In the school in the new forest, she met a rabbit that looked very similar to the little white rabbit.
They knew each other and loved each other, read together, traveled together, slept together, hugged under the poinciana trees, and kissed under the stars. But in the end, they quarreled in a stormy night and broke up on the street where animals were coming and going.
They walked back to back, and the moment they turned around, all the stars in the sky dimmed in the picture, and the world fell into eternal night.
The little grey rabbit walked away with its back to the little white rabbit, but the transparent soul floated towards the little white rabbit; the little white rabbit did the same. The two bodies were busy and struggling to survive on the screen that was split in two, and the two souls were helplessly drifting in the dark night, unable to escape.
Until one day, they met again in front of a river.
The soul returns.
This time, the little gray rabbit took the plank and didn't want to build a bridge. On the other side of the river, the little white rabbit looked at her and suddenly jumped into the water.
The little gray rabbit was frightened and jumped down as well.
The little white rabbit suddenly floated to the surface of the water, smiling, swam towards her, and hugged the little gray rabbit tightly.
At that moment, all the stars in the picture lit up again.
In the auditorium, the dark blue sea of stars also lit up at the same moment along with the lyrical music at the end of the film. The curtain and the walls, the walls and the ceiling, the entire auditorium, formed a vast and boundless starry sky.
Everywhere she looked, there were stars, as if she was in the Milky Way. Fu Shitian was stunned. In the dreamlike light, she saw that the people sitting in the back row were not only Chen Xizhu, Yin Fanlu, Jian Luhe, but also her mother, uncle, aunt, Xiaoyu and Jiajia.
"Shi Yi..." she murmured with a dry throat.
Shi Yi's eyes were particularly gentle under the dim starlight. She looked at her and asked with a smile: "Guess what the little gray rabbit would say at this moment if this movie had sound?"
Fu Shitian was slow to react, but she also realized it. Her eyes were filled with tears. She wanted to laugh, but her nose was sore. She asked with a choked voice, "What?"
Shi Yi said: "I love you."
She took off her bachelor's hat, took her hand, kissed the back of her hand, stood up, and a rose and a ring appeared out of nowhere. She knelt on one knee and said, "Come on, marry me? Let me accompany you to see all the stars in the future."
Under the rustling meteors, her smiling eyes are as clear and bright as those of her childhood, stunning time and gentle years.
Her loved ones in the back row cheered loudly.
Fu Shitian's tears suddenly fell uncontrollably, and her heart felt so full that it seemed like it was about to explode.
She was sure that it would not get dark again.
Everything that fate had mercilessly taken away from her has now finally been returned to her one by one in a different form.
She reached out her hands and hugged Shi Yi, the only star in her life that would never go out, and smiled with tears in her eyes:
"I do."
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