Chapter 37:
The dream is from a previous life.
When he and Jiang Xiao spent the first year together, they were in that small rental house.
When I was young, Jiang Xiao spent money to buy two expensive little cakes and came back.
At that time, his cooking skills were not good, so he specially packed good food and came back from outside. The two of them had no home. In Jiang Xiao's imagination, they finally got together, and the two of them should be happy on this good day. It's just one game.
So Jiang Xiao bought the Spring Festival couplet stickers and Chinese knots, and cleaned and tidy up the small house, looking a little beaming.
But I didn't expect that when the Spring Festival Gala was about to be held at seven o'clock, the small rental house was powered off.
It seems that there is a problem with the circuit and it is aging. Jiang Xiao, who is celebrating the new year, called the landlord. The landlord was a little impatient, and reluctantly called the electrician, but at that time, everyone was celebrating the New Year. Who wants to come out and do repairs at this point?
Moreover, most of the residents in this rental house have already returned to their hometowns for Chinese New Year. Only Jiang Xiao is still here. The landlord doesn't care about his house, so he can light a candle for one night, and he will fix it tomorrow.
After all, it's not his own house. The landlord has several buildings that don't care about him as a small tenant. Jiang Xiao can't reason with others. After the phone call, Jiang Xiao said nothing.
no way.
On New Year's Eve, the two of them lit two candles and ate the meal. The Liujiang River outside was lively and lively, but the house was extremely dark, the old windows were not tightly closed, and I didn't know where the air was leaking. The New Year's Eve is not boring.
Without electricity, he could hardly do anything, and it was cold in the small house. Jiang Xiao pulled him and talked a lot. Because Lin Chengyu was in a bad mood, he hardly responded. Jiang Xiao spoke by himself for a long time, and then leaned on the side. He fell asleep in a daze, and repeated those words in his mouth.
"I will work hard to make money in the future."
"I earn money to buy a big, warm house, and then we live in it and don't have to suffer like this again."
"You have to believe me……"
Lin Chengyu wanted to reach out and hug him, but he was just a bystander, and he couldn't stretch his hand out. After a while, Jiang Xiao in front of him dissipated like smoke in front of him.
Lin Chengyu's eyes flashed, but the scene in the dream changed places.
The scene flashes to fifteen years later.
Jiang Xiao, he really did it. He bought a small villa, but unfortunately Lin Chengyu hadn't seen it clearly at that time, and he didn't think everything he got was precious.
Then he was punished.
It was the first New Year after Jiang Xiao died.
Not long after he found Jiang Xiao's tomb, the location given by Xingfushu Hospital was a cemetery with good feng shui, beautiful mountains and clear waters, and a few clumps of small yellow flowers were planted in front of the tomb.
He only remembered these. He also saw the words on the tombstone and the photo of Jiang Xiao on it, but at that time his mind exploded, and after waking up, he could no longer remember what it looked like.
He vaguely remembered that Jiang Xiao above was smiling, that was him when he was young.
Lin Chengyu was most afraid of Jiang Xiao's smile at that time. The last time they saw each other, Jiang Xiao was smiling. He felt a little strange at that time, but he left as usual.
He felt cruel to see such a smile.
Jiang Xiao's heart is really cruel.
I hate him for doing something wrong, so when he was dying, he was left with such a punishment, and no one thought that the two of them would end like this.
After Lin Chengyu came back, since he knew about Jiang Xiao's death, he first didn't believe it, then he went to Liujiang City People's Hospital to check the case, and he didn't believe the case, he had to find someone.
Live to see people, die to see corpses.
Anyway, he never cared about anything in the company anymore. Friends around him said he was a little crazy, for fear of stimulating him, but he didn't dare to go against him, so he helped him find Jiang Xiao, thinking that he could not accept it for a while, and waited until it was clear that the other party had already It's better after the fact of being dead.
But after finding Jiang Xiao's tomb, Lin Chengyu couldn't stand it on the spot and fainted there.
After he was sent to the hospital and woke up, he seemed to be even more abnormal. At that time, it was winter again, and Lin Chengyu was running around outside. In the past few days, the cold wind and rain had been blowing, and the temperature had reached 39 degrees, so his brain was not sober. .
On New Year's Eve, he escaped the eyes of the nurses, ran out of the hospital by himself, and returned home.
The first thing he did was turn on all the lights in the cottage.
Jiang Xiao likes warm yellow lamps, and also likes bright crystal lamps. When turned on, the light is refracted, which not only has a delicate and translucent beauty, but also makes the room bright and warm even if no one is there.
After the lights were turned on, the room was bright, and it really felt like Jiang Xiao was back.
He sat hunched over on the sofa for a while, feeling top-heavy and light-footed, and there seemed to be a phantom in front of him. He seemed to see Jiang Xiao also wrapped in a small blanket, huddled in the corner of the sofa, blinked and looked at himself.
"...Xiaoxiao?"
Lin Chengyu wanted to reach out and hug him, but Jiang Xiao on the sofa shrank back, not wanting him to hug him.
"It's New Year's Eve, Cheng Yu, I like the New Year," he saw Jiang Xiaochong smiling to himself, it was the young Jiang Xiao on the tombstone, Xiao Huya was very cute, "Now I'm hungry, I want to eat. "
He said he was hungry, and Lin Chengyu panicked.
"I'll get it for you right away, Xiaoxiao wait for me," he walked over to the kitchen, "Xiaoxiao is not in a hurry."
He hadn't come back for a long time, and the refrigerator was already empty, and nothing new was stuffed into it.
He opened the cabinets in the kitchen, and there were plenty of rice noodles and all kinds of seasoning materials, but he couldn't make them. Because of the fever, his hands and feet were still floating. He washed the rice several times and poured it into the rice cooker. He couldn't hold the flour bag, and the flour fell to the ground.
In the rice noodle cabinet, there are also a series of grains, such as millet, barley, black beans. When Jiang Xiao was there, he would make soy milk, cook multigrain porridge, and steam multigrain cakes. Oh no.
In the other half of the cabinet, he turned out other things, a bag of imported cocoa powder and condensed milk, etc. These were placed on the same iron shelf, and there were still recipes posted on the shelf.
He opened the bag and smelled it, and it felt a little familiar, it seemed to be the taste that Jiang Xiao often drank.
Hot cocoa is easy to make, and Lin Chengyu's mind seems to be a little clearer. He turned on the small stove and carefully prepared a cup according to the recipe. Then he poured the hot drink from the small pot into the cup, like holding a baby Go to the living room to find Jiang Xiao.
"Xiaoxiao, would you like a drink first? I'll make it right away, and I'll have something to eat soon."
But there was no Jiang Xiao in the living room.
He panicked immediately, and he couldn't find it in the living room. He thought that he was probably sleepy, and Jiang Xiao was easily sleepy, so he went to the room to find Jiang Xiao with a cup.
There was nothing in the room, neither in the study nor in the bathroom.
He was the only one left in the huge house.
He stumbled all the way up, and went to the outdoor sun deck on the third floor. There was no one there, but it was very windy.
Lin Chengyu carefully guarded the cup of hot drink in his hand. On the third floor of the villa, you could see the tallest building on the Liujiang River. The electronic screens around the building began to light up, and the numbers were counted down. When the last one was counted, the whole building was illuminated red. That's the New Year's Eve sign.
New Year is here.
Lin Chengyu seemed to wake up at that moment.
Jiang Xiao was long gone, and his Xiao Xiao had died of illness for several months.
He suddenly remembered the tomb he saw not long ago, the cocoa in his hand was unstable, and fell to the ground at once, with broken pieces of porcelain on the ground.
There was too much wind on the outdoor sun deck. He was cold all over, and felt his blood was cold. That cup of cocoa was the only thing he could make. After it fell, he was reluctant to pick it up, and he lowered his head to pick it up. in spite of.
After picking up the broken pieces of porcelain, his hands were bleeding from several openings.
At this point, it's okay to still feel the pain.
After Jiang Xiao died, he often felt dazed and couldn't cry, just dazed.
Everything in front of him seemed to be fake. He hoped it was fake. It was like a nightmare. He always felt that when he woke up and opened his eyes, Jiang Xiao would be by his side. It was like a self-protection mechanism. He won't be in so much pain, he can't even breathe in pain, as if a pair of invisible hands are choking his heart.
If he hadn't found Jiang Xiao's tomb, he might have been able to deceive himself for the rest of his life.
But Lin Chengyu knew this in his heart, but he was still looking for it. Jiang Xiao left, and he couldn't lie to himself anymore.
On New Year's Eve that day, he was alone on the outdoor terrace of the villa, and finally burst into tears.
The year when he first met Jiang Xiao, he went through bankruptcy and the departure of his relatives, and fell all the way from Heaven's Pride to the bottom. That year, the small rental house had a power outage on New Year's Eve, and it was cold, cold and dark. Worse and worse.
Only now did he know that eating glutinous rice bran was not bitter at all.
At that time, Jiang Xiao was there, the two were guarding each other, and there were still thousands of hopes. What was the temporary economic hardship? If you can meet a person who can support each other and help each other all your life, he already has a supreme treasure.
He has been like this for fifteen years. Lin Feng harmed him before. After he had enough ability, he returned it as it was. His revenge had already been avenged, and the money would not be spent in a few lifetimes.
He should have looked back and guarded Jiang Xiao long ago, but to miss is to miss, and now he is really called nothing.
This is suffering. When that person is gone, it becomes an endless sea of suffering. People cannot be resurrected from the dead, and there is no hope for him.
Lin Chengyu woke up from such a nightmare.
In the winter, he broke out in a cold sweat. After waking up, he was panting heavily. For a long time, he could not tell whether what was in front of him was reality or a dream. But even if it was clear, his emotions could not be dissipated for a while, he was stuffy in his heart, and he couldn't cry if he wanted to cry.
If only Jiang Xiao was by his side.
But he is not here, he is far away in Houlin, and he will not be by his side at this time.
He didn't know what to do, how much effort he had to put in, and he would be willing to come back.
The next morning, the Lin family who stayed in Liujiang called him as usual, talking about Jiang Xiao.
"...He played fireworks downstairs for a long time."
"Looks, very happy, very happy."
He finally calmed down a bit.
Lin Chengyu slept unsteadily in the New Year, but Jiang Xiao was the opposite. He was tired enough and earned money a year ago. This year has been very comfortable and he slept soundly. When he woke up, it was past 19:00 on the New Year's Day. It was the first time he slept so late since his rebirth.
After waking up, I felt something strange under the pillow. I reached out and touched it. It was the New Year's money given by Xia Wanwan, and a few words were written on the red envelope - for Nian Nian, good health and all the best.
With five hundred dollars, Jiang Xiao happily put the red envelope away, got up, washed his face, brushed his teeth and looked outside.
Downstairs, there was a layer of red shavings of firecrackers in the snow. It was prosperous. Xia Wanwan steamed the steamed buns. There were leftovers last night. It was delicious to eat with the steamed buns when it was hot.
According to Houlin's practice, he went to his in-law's house on the first day of the first year, returned to his mother's house on the second day of the first year, and then began to visit various relatives. The first and second days of the first and second days of the new year were relatively long, and there were still few people on the street. After the third day of the first year, many people brought their families and friends out to play. It was more appropriate to go out to set up stalls at that time.
Today, he made up for the winter vacation homework during the day. Xia Wanwan was watching the replay of the Spring Festival Gala in the living room, and her laughter could be heard from time to time.
In the second year of junior high, Jiang Xiao made up for the winter vacation homework. In the early morning of the third day of junior high, he went back to the spring market to set up a stall to earn money.