I'm waiting for you in the wind and snow

Chapter 363 Back to Shanghai

Listening to Yang Sisi's confusion, I was also confused. Can the so-called moving thing really become the nourishment for love? …It’s hard to say, at least I have never had to choose who to be with because I was moved, but it does not rule out that there are other people besides me who will understand and treat love from a different perspective.

From the next step, Yang Sisi sat on the step parallel to me, which is beside me...

She stared at me for a while, and then asked very seriously: "Mi Gao, have you ever been moved by anyone?"

I leaned my back on the stone pier next to the iron gate in a very relaxed posture, thought for a while, then nodded and replied: "Yes."

"Moved enough to cry?"

"It's not that exaggerated...but it really warms my heart!"

"Who is it?"

"Go and buy me a pack of cigarettes, and I'll tell you."

"You dead smoker, don't talk about pulling down..."

Yang Sisi's aversion to my smoking really overwhelmed her own curiosity. She sat there motionless, with her chin resting on her hands as before, as if she was thinking about something.

I swallowed back the words that came to my lips, and then stared blankly at the empty cigarette case.

……

I don't know how long I sat like this, but Yang Sisi finally broke the silence, and she leaned over to me again and asked: "You said, Cao Xiaobei secretly gave me a parasol, should I break it with him? How about not breaking it?"

"Don't poke it?"

"why?"

I froze for a moment, and then asked back, "Do you think that parasol is useful?"

"Of course, when I was painting portraits for clients, they complained to me that there was no shade, it was too hot! . . . It would be much better to have a parasol."

"Isn't this the end of it... You just treat it as a surprise, and find an opportunity to replenish him in the future, for example, give him something quietly, in return... It's so boring to pierce it face to face... It seems that people's IQ is very low. , obviously already very careful, but in the end you saw through it."

Yang Sisi pondered for a while, then nodded and smiled: "For his good intentions, I will accept this gift."

"Ah."

I didn't want to talk more about this with Yang Sisi, so after I answered, I took the initiative to change the subject and asked her, "What surprise do you want to give me?"

"I don't want to give it to you..."

"Are you kidding me?"

"Who made fun of you! Of course good things should be given to people who are kind to me... Are you kind to me?"

I laugh……

"No skin and no face."

Yang Sisi cursed, then picked up the backpack on the ground again, and was about to leave here.

I said to her again: "By the way, my parents are coming to Dali tomorrow, and I'm going to invite all my friends here to have dinner together...you can come too."

"Your parents are coming?"

"Well, they said to come and see me."

Yang Sisi seemed to know me very well, she replied: "You are afraid that the atmosphere will be bad, so you want to invite all your friends?"

I nodded, feeling indescribably sad, I don't know how to face Lao Mi and my mother, and I don't know what they will say to me after meeting... No matter what I say, I'm afraid I can't avoid grief, right?
I know they are well-intentioned and out of worry, but they really shouldn't have come at this time... When I face them, how can I not be emotional, and not think about going home with Ye Zhi after the next year? their situation.

Yang Sisi comforted me softly, and she said: "It's okay, we are all with you... With so many people talking with you, you will stop thinking about it."

I looked at her, a little surprised, because she seemed to know what I was thinking.

……

In the gap between dusk and night, Yang Sisi and I left the "sheet factory" before me. I found a piece of drawing paper in the place where she had just sat. I picked it up and looked at it. It turned out to be my portrait.In the painting, I have no clothes on my upper body, and my feet are wet. The background is the Erhai Lake in Ma Jiuyi.

I suddenly remembered that this was a certain scene after I rescued Sun Jiwei's wife and children ashore...

I smiled, I have already forgotten some of the scenes I have experienced, but she remembers them more clearly than I do.

Presumably, this is the surprise she just wanted to give me.

I can imagine that she is painting under the scorching sun amidst people coming and going. The reason why she chose such a scene to paint it with a brush is probably because she hopes that I can remember my brave and righteous side...

She is encouraging me, and she seems to have never forgotten about the matter of encouragement. Even if some methods seem so insignificant, she has been persevering. From the day Ye Zhi encountered the accident, she I have been holding on.

At this moment, I have a deeper understanding of what is moving... But I didn't think deeply like her, whether this kind of moving can be related to love, I just feel very comfortable, even if there is a cool breeze blowing in front of me , I also feel very warm.

……

On the way home, I received a call from Taozi, saying that she would meet me no matter what. In fact, even if she didn’t call me, I would call her later , ask her to have dinner with her tomorrow night.

During this period of time, I have been busy with the affairs of the commercial street, and I was burdened by my mood, so I ignored some friends, and Tao Zi was one of them.

In fact, I have also heard some news about her from Nicole one after another. Some time ago, she and Nicole took half a month off, saying that they went back to their hometown. Calculating the time, she should have just returned. Dali didn't take long.

Tao Zi and I met at a bar on Renmin Road.

I ordered beer, and she ordered a glass of Coke. I smiled and said to her, "I heard from Nicole, you went back to your hometown some time ago?"

"Ah."

"Is there something wrong at home?"

"Nothing, just go back and have a look."

I nodded, and didn't know what to say to her next, so the atmosphere was a bit cold; Taozi, like me, was burdened by emotions, and also lost the ability to actively communicate with others.

After a while of silence, she took out a document bag from the satchel she was carrying, put it on the table next to me, and finally said to me: "There is 17 cash in it, which is owed to the previous innkeeper." For the transfer fee, you can transfer it to him for me."

I was surprised, and then asked: "Why didn't you hand it over to him yourself? ... Also, where did you get such a large sum of money? I remember that the money you and Tetsuo had saved before had already been fined." Empty."

Taozi put her hand on her forehead, and replied in a low voice: "Don't ask...Tie Nan will be sentenced next week. I asked the lawyer, and he will have to go in for at least two years."

"and then?"

"No more, fate is over... I came to see you today to say goodbye to you... I'm going back to Shanghai."

"This, this is too sudden!"

Tao Zi held her forehead with her hands, preventing me from seeing her expression, but her shoulders kept trembling, and after telling her choice, she cried...

She choked with sobs and said to me: "Fate is over, let's treat Dali as a dream."

"Have you thought about Tie Nan? Think about what he will face when he comes out a few years later... It's nothing but a bamboo basket."

"No one can tell clearly about the matter between us... It is the best result for me to go back to Shanghai."

"Then let me ask you, did you go back to Shanghai for yourself or for Tetsuo?"

After I said this, I regretted it a bit, because for Taozi, this is an injury that can burst the wound...

I can be said to be her most trusted friend in Dali. I should understand her decision better than anyone else, and I also know why she made this decision; To return to the old business, first of all, the 17 she just gave me is already of unknown origin.

Facing the silent Taozi, I said again: "No matter what happens between you and Tie Nan in a few years, please stay in Dali, okay?...No matter what you do, I will support you, spiritually , will be supported financially.”

Tao Zi shook her head, then glanced at me again, I saw in her eyes the determination to go back to Shanghai... and then she was about to leave.

I grabbed her wrist and asked again: "Is this 17 yuan related to your return to Shanghai? ... Where did the money come from? ... I told you before that you and Tie Nan The debt you owe, I will pay off for you after Tie Nan pronounces the sentence..."

"Mi Gao... let me go and let me go clean. The 17 is my last salvation, and it's not your turn to pay it back."

I didn't let go, I felt that she left too suddenly, and I even had a faint feeling that after this farewell, I would never have the chance to see her again.

Tao Zi broke free from me, she picked up her bag from the chair, and ran outside the bar...

It turned out that she didn't come alone.

Under the flashing neon lights, she took a man's arm, and hurriedly left this romantic land behind.

I can't help being sad... Is the word "waiting" really a derogatory term?Why do people who get it suffer from pain and feel like they are living in a cage of self-imprisonment...

At this moment, what I saw was Taozi's desperate struggle to break free, but I felt elusive as to the reason why she had to leave.

Or, I over-interpreted the word "waiting", and I don't know much about peaches.

(End of this chapter)