Snow scene

From that day on, I was looking for clues about Ye Li.But I cleaned every house and found nothing.The clue was broken, and the New Year is coming, today is the New Year's Eve.

The curtains at the door are also put up, the food in the refrigerator is ready, and the candy for the children is ready.I turned on the drama and watched it all day under the quilt.In the afternoon, I got up to prepare dinner.In the evening, I didn't watch the Spring Festival Gala, but found a funny movie to watch. Anyway, this year's festival is just me.Maybe it was because the movie was so boring, I felt drowsy after watching it, and fell asleep at some point, but I was awakened by the sound of fireworks and firecrackers coming from outside the window.The movie on the screen had been over for a long time, I rubbed my eyes, took out my phone to check the time but saw two missed calls.One is an unfamiliar number from our province, and the other is a repeating friend.I was surprised by this unfamiliar number. After calling back, there was no answer, so I didn't pay much attention.The point is that it is almost twelve o'clock, and I waited for the countdown to end, and sent a "Happy New Year" message to my mother.In less than a minute, my mother called.

The phone rang for a while before I picked it up. No one spoke on the other end of the phone. I heard the faint sound of breathing before I said, "Mom...Happy New Year."

"You too, Happy New Year." Mom's tone softened and became quite hoarse. I haven't heard her voice for a long time.

"Mom, are you okay?" My voice trembled.

"I'm all mad at you."

"I--"

"We talk about happy things during Chinese New Year. I heard from Lulu that you lived at her friend's house and helped out there, and it didn't cause any trouble to anyone. Lulu said that her friend is a teacher who can dance and play the piano. , if you are idle over there during this period of time, you should study hard. When you come back, mom will help you tell the neighbors in the neighborhood and set up a children's cram school for you. Don't you like painting? Teaching children to paint is also a good idea. Okay, the money you earn is much more than your hard work. When you figure it out, tell your mother, and your mother will help you talk nicely to your father. Your father is stubborn and stubborn. You Don't be afraid, your father won't dare to beat you if your mother is here... Sigh, you said it's been a good year, and it hurts your child not to be at home. Ah Yu, my mother has stopped being angry a long time ago. Have a good life, I just hope that I can hold a grandson in the future, and the whole family can be happy. Think about it again, it's too late now, mom will stop talking, and go to bed..."

"... I see, then mom, go to bed early."

"I'll go to bed right away. Mom will transfer you some money later. Don't let yourself be hungry these days. You are weak. Someday go to the vegetable market to buy a black-bone chicken and make stew yourself. You know how to make black-bone chicken soup, right?" , Mom taught you. Also, don’t just drink soup, eat more chicken... Also, remember to eat longevity noodles and eggs when you wake up tomorrow morning, I know you don’t like boiled eggs, But you have to eat on the New Year's day... Mom has nothing to say, you are getting older, take good care of yourself..."

"……Um."

My mother hung up the phone, and the sound of fireworks blooming outside remained unabated. I put on my coat, exhaled whitely from the cold, moved a bench and sat in the yard watching the fireworks in the sky, tears streaming down my face.

A week later, the taste of the new year gradually faded, and my life became more and more boring.In addition to simply cleaning the house, I just practice drawing and watch dramas. I don't live like a girl who ran away from home.

On the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, at about three in the morning, Li Lulu made three phone calls in a row, and hung up after ringing for a few seconds, which made me unable to sleep. On the fourth call, I answered the phone in seconds and asked her what she was doing, and she was smiling Say come out and open the door.

Li Lulu came back from her hometown, which is next door to my house, and she would go back every year during the holidays, and this was the opportunity for me to become friends with her.I looked at her eating clear noodle soup with great relish. Should I say that I was lucky or unlucky to know her.

"Are you going home tomorrow?" I asked her, her home was in the same place as Sister He in the next city.

She sucked her noodles and nodded.

"Then why don't you just buy the tickets over there." Why did you wake me up in the middle of the night, so angry!

"I'm looking for something at Mu Jing's house." She drank the last sip of soup, "Have you found anything interesting in this house for so long?"

Yes, about Ye Li.But I dare not say that since Christmas Eve that day, I have felt that Ye Li is the scar in Sister He and Li Lulu's hearts, and no one would uncover other people's scars out of pure curiosity.

Seeing that I was hesitant to speak, Li Lulu must have guessed something, she rubbed her temples, "I just said it straightforwardly, I came to Mujing's house to find clues about Ye Li."

"Clues?" What's the matter with the full sense of sight in the second grade.

"It seems that you know the relationship between Ye Li and Sister He?" Li Lulu was curious about my focus.

"Just guessing that they should be a couple...?"

"Yes." Li Lulu snapped her fingers, "So don't tell Mu Jing about my coming here today."

"What on earth do you want to do?" My intuition told me that Li Lulu was about to mess with me again.

"Go to the place where Ye Li lived before."

"why?"

She curled her mouth and smiled helplessly, "To cure Mu Jing's heart disease."

"Why don't you just go to Ye Li himself..." My voice became softer and softer, and I vaguely guessed something in my heart, maybe...

"She's dead."

The wind blows from nowhere, and the snow hits the body, making people shiver. The kitchen lights are incandescent lamps. Li Lulu's hair is messy, and there is a layer of dark circles around her eyes. She wipes away tears with her fingers.For the first time, I felt that the light was dazzling.

"Sorry." That's all I could say.It's really so stupid, I didn't expect it to be like this at all, I just thought He Jie and Ye Li separated, I didn't expect it would be a sad ending like the death of one of them.

"...It's okay." Li Lulu calmed down, and she asked me if there was anything about Ye Li in the room.

"I can probably find the clues you want..." I remembered the envelope under the desk in Sister He's room, took Li Lulu to Sister He's room, and took out the envelope from the bottom, "I found it when I was cleaning it, and it fell on the desk under."

Li Lulu took the letter, looked at the envelope, gritted her teeth, and said, "I just said it, no wonder every year I went abroad to find Ye Li's landlord and said that I went on a trip. It turns out that this woman has changed her address a long time ago!"

Probably Li Lulu, you are too capable of causing trouble... I dare not say this.

"I'd like to see what you two dog girls said behind my back..." Li Lulu opened the envelope while muttering a bunch of words I couldn't understand. mouthed.A few seconds later, she burst out laughing, and I was taken aback by her ups and downs. She pointed to one side of the postcard and said, "What about 'Luohua Feixue', and 'I and you', this art is amazing. People get goosebumps."

That's why they all dislike you!You spoiler!

"But they really look like them." Li Lulu flipped over the postcard, and there was a landscape sketch on the other side.

"Do they often fall in love in such a literary way?" I couldn't understand it, and even felt that it was awkward to fall in love like this.

"No." Li Lulu lay directly on Sister He's bed, "This is actually their code. Should I say they are boring or really interesting?"

"What do you mean?" I sat on a chair and checked the time on my phone, it was past four o'clock.

"After Ye Li's death, Mu Jing moved to this house. In the past three years, Mu Jing would sit in that park, smoking and drinking, and spend the whole night in a decadent way. I didn't understand why she did this at first, and I vaguely guessed what they might have Promised, now I understand."

"Because of this postcard?"

"I remember when I was in college, our club held a bachelor party on Christmas Eve. Mu Jing left early, and Ye Li followed. Later, when we returned to school, the two of them didn't go back to the dormitory. Only after we contacted did we know that they were lost. It happened to be snowing that night, and they hung up on me without telling me where the address was. The two of them came back at noon the next day. From then on, I discovered that the relationship between the two of them was very ambiguous. Later, after my death It was the stalker who found out that they expressed their affection for each other that day."

"The small park near here is where they got lost?"

"That's right, this letter should have been sent three years ago." Li Lulu's eyes darkened, she sat up and stretched, "The sketch of the landscape on the postcard was drawn by Ye Li, and the place she drew is where she and The place where Mu Jing met for the first time was the famous ginkgo grove in the university. They just like to do these commemorative things."

"This way the relationship can last longer..." I thought of Liu Feng, and after thinking about it carefully, the two of us are relatively rigid people, and we would never put a "commemorative" label on any object or place.Maybe that's why we gradually feel that every meeting becomes more and more boring.

"No." Li Lulu packed the postcard, took a picture of the address on the envelope, and put the letter back under the table, "They broke up."

"What?"

"In junior year, they broke up."

"What?" I couldn't believe it, since we broke up, why would Sister He still be like this...

"That's the truth. When they were juniors, the two of them quarreled fiercely. At that time, I was busy in my senior year. When I came back from an internship, I heard that Ye Li had gone abroad to study. Mu Jing also said that they broke up. gone."

"Wait, Sister He is one year younger than you?" I remember Sister He said that Li Lulu was younger than her.

"What do you care about?" Li Lulu complained instantly, and then explained: "Mu Jing is two years older than me, she is 29 years old, and she will be three years old after her birthday this year."

"Then why is she a junior and you a senior?"

"Mu Jing repeated the study for two years, and I skipped one grade in elementary school." Li Lulu tried to open the drawer of Sister He's desk, but it was locked.

I was a little surprised that Sister He had repeated it, and even repeated it twice, but I was even more surprised by Li Lulu who picked the lock with a card in front of her, "What are you doing?"

"Of course it's opening the drawer."

"Haven't you already found a clue?"

"The address counts as one. I just don't understand why Ye Li still wants to send something like this after we broke up." Li Lulu's expression suddenly became serious, but her hands were turning the one-word card very unceremoniously, and she didn't know how she did it. Yes, the lock of the drawer was really picked by her.I think Sister He and Ye Li made the right choice to hide many things from her.

There is only one book in the drawer, a small hardcover book that is common in bookstores, and the cover of the book is pitch black except for the title in white English font.Li Lulu read the cover, "Evenfall and Sunrise, the meaning of dusk and dawn." She flipped through the content, "The names of the protagonists in the book are Evenfall and Sunrise. The names of the protagonists in books are getting more and more strange these days. The content should be a literary novel. love story."

Li Lulu put the book aside, I stared at the cover of the book, always feeling a little awkward, as if something was wrong.Li Lulu's cry brought me back to my thoughts. She had already pried open another drawer. Before I could complain about her amazing hand speed, my mouth was sealed by a pile of envelopes in the drawer.

Li Lulu randomly took out an envelope and opened it. Inside was a postcard with paintings on both sides, but no writing. She looked at it carefully, "Tsk tsk tsk, they really know how to play..."

"What?" I didn't understand what she meant.

"Look at the street in this painting. The words of every building in it are drawn indiscriminately. The only clearly recognizable word is a magazine on this newspaper. The letters on it are some kind of code. They used to often Playing this word game in front of me..."

"They all broke up and still play like this?" In fact, I want to complain that Li Lulu has been disliked to such an extent.

"Do you think they broke up?" Li Lulu pointed to a pile of letters.

"Then you said what happened to the breakup in junior year..."

"I don't know, because I was really busy and crazy during that time..." Li Lulu looked at several envelopes in a row, all of which were postcards, and there were paintings on both sides.

"Did they pretend to break up?" I said my guess, maybe it was forced by my parents like in the novel.

"Impossible." Li Lulu answered decisively, "Mu Jing and I grew up together, no matter how good her acting skills are, it's impossible for her to act so realistically."

"That is, after breaking up, I found out that I still can't do without the other party and started a foreign relationship." That's the only possibility.

Li Lulu howled with her head in her arms, "No! I don't believe it's so simple! It's so boring!"

Hello!You just want to play!He deserved to be disgusted by the two of them!

Li Lulu didn't seem to give up, she opened all the envelopes in the drawer in a daze, they were full of postcards, I counted 32 in total.She stared at the postcard and snapped her fingers, "I guessed it, it must be so. The letters that can be clearly seen in each postcard can be spelled into a sentence! Ye Li used to play with Mu Jing like this before. Before the relationship was made public, Draw ten sketches under my nose every day, and the letters inside spell out a sentence, which is their date place!"

Didn't you reflect on why you were rejected by them?

I saw a sketch of the building of the snack street in front of me at a glance, and the name of the shop was very clear, "What about this, a bunch of letters..."

Li Lulu didn't give up, and said she must solve the puzzle, so she took a picture of the sketches on each side of the postcard, and passed it to me, so that I could help think about it too.After being tormented by her like this, it was past six o'clock in the morning before she knew it.We packed the postcards and put them back in the drawer. Li Lulu used the card to lock the drawer again. What a horrible woman.

I went back to my room to rest, while Li Lulu kept looking at the photos on the phone in the living room.Around nine o'clock, I was woken up by the noise. I went to check out the window, and there was a man fighting with Li Lulu at the door.I remember this guy, he seems to be called Peng Yun, he was in the kitchen with Li Lulu on New Year's Day.The man held Li Lulu's hand and let out a sigh of relief. The two looked at each other and smiled. After embracing and kissing, they put their interlocking hands into the man's pocket, and they walked out of the alley close to each other.

They look like silly couples showing affection.Did outsiders feel this way when they saw me and Liu Feng?No, after all, they are all girls, so the intimacy is also normal.I took a deep breath and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. It was snowing outside all the time. It was so cold. I really hated snow.