Give a bellflower to the drowning ghost

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The ranger moved his feet and walked in the direction Wang Ze left.

He is not good at dealing with Wang Ze.

Unlike him, Wang Ze has a family background and a future. He can express his thoughts without caring about other people's faces, and apologize directly without caring about his own shame, as if he can go forward bravely for the so-called rightness.

For Wang Ze, his behavior must be wrong.

But in his eyes, there is no difference between Wang Ze and that girl. To him, he just needs to fulfill his duties and let them fulfill their wishes.

It should be like this.

56

The ranger came to the lake in the dark from memory.

Today's clouds are relatively thin, and in places where there are no trees to cover, you can still see things in front of you clearly with the moonlight.

Wang Ze was giving the girl artificial respiration and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

He was barefoot, probably only had time to take off his shoes, and the wet clothes were tightly attached to him, as if he had just crawled out of the lake.Although Wang Ze seemed in a state of distress, he was still meticulously performing chest compressions for the girl, and performing artificial respiration strictly according to the frequency of one-person rescue, so focused that he did not notice the appearance of the forest ranger at all.

How long has passed?How long has the girl been in the lake?

Is it possible to be rescued?

The ranger stood behind Wang Ze, thinking about these questions in a mess.

If he is rescued, does he need to control Wang Ze to let the girl try again?

If Wang Ze had been here when the writer committed suicide, would the writer have survived?

What he was looking forward to, was their death or their life?

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The girl coughed painfully, spitting out the water stuck in her throat.

The ranger felt his knees go limp and almost fell to his knees.

rescued.

Wang Ze was too tired to speak, so he just sat aside and watched the girl lying on the grass retching.

After a while, the girl regained her strength, stood up tremblingly, picked up a stone from her feet, and threw it at Wang Ze.

Wang Ze didn't even have the strength to move his body to dodge, he just raised his hand to protect his head.There were streaks of blood on his arm, and he didn't know whether he was scratched by gravel at the bottom of the lake or by the stone thrown by the girl.

The girl cried: "...Go away! Who asked you to save me?! Do you know how hard it was for me to come here?!"

After throwing all the stones around her, she crawled to Wang Ze's side and beat Wang Ze's body with her fists weakly.Seeing that the girl didn't have much strength, Wang Ze simply sat down and let her continue.

The girl trembled her lips, and was so tired that she had to part a few times before she could finish her sentence: "Who wants you to save me... are you a policeman?! Did I beg you?! Did I get in the way of anyone by running here? !I spent the rest of my money on tickets...what else can I do...I just want to die...'

Wang Ze said weakly: "Probably telling you that others will be sad... is useless, even if someone may fall into pain because of your departure, for you, that person may also be hurt." It’s not as good as a ticket.”

"There is no such person!" The girl raised her voice.

"Yes," Wang Ze said with a wry smile, "The forest ranger next door who was too scared to speak is one of them."

Wang Ze stretched out his hand and held the girl's shoulder, letting her see the forest ranger standing not far away.

Wang Ze said: "No matter where you want to go next, I will pay for the travel expenses, and I will try my best to help you if there is anything. Maybe I am just self-satisfied, and I can't just say 'I will definitely do it in the future. Someone to give you happiness'. However, suicide is not something that needs someone's approval to complete..."

Under the moonlight, the forest ranger stood not far away in old and ill-fitting clothes, staring at them dully, without any usual momentum.

"That guy is just a soft-hearted ranger with social disabilities. He can't bear such a heavy load. Please don't let him become a murderer, please."

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The ranger raised his hand and wiped the tears from his face with the back of his hand.

Is it because of human instinct?

He actually felt that it would be better to be alive.

59

In the early hours of the morning, Wang Ze supported the girl and brought her to the medical staff.

The ranger leaned on the tree trunk, watching Wang Ze who was walking towards him: "Are you going to give her money?"

Wang Ze said: "She sounded very concerned about money at the time, and the only thing I can help is money."

The ranger said, "What if she further depends on you and makes you responsible for her life?"

Wang Ze shrugged: "Then tell her I'm gay."

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The young policeman also appeared, there were only a few policemen in this rural area, and he had to show up no matter what happened.

The policeman greeted the forest ranger: "You have saved her twice, maybe they will give you a small pennant to hang when they turn around."

The ranger lowered his gaze and did not speak.

Wang Ze took the lead: "Actually, it's my fault this time."

The policeman had a half-smile: "Oh?"

Wang Ze said with a smile, "But I'm working as a summer job here now, and I'm also half a forest ranger. Strictly speaking, I'm still a forest ranger in the mountains who do what is right."

The policeman glanced at the ranger, waiting for Wang Ze's next words.

Wang Ze said: "So, no matter what happened in the middle, the result is that the forest ranger saved the person, and everything will be fine if the result is good, don't you think?"

The policeman understood, and he said, "Well, I guess I was responsible for taking notes later on. After all, I'm the one with the lowest qualifications here, and I just have to do more work than the seniors..."

The policeman patted the ranger on the shoulder: "Give yourself a vacation once in a while, the teacher told me about you last time."

61

The ranger woke up.

He was sleeping on his own bed, next to Wang Ze who was still sleeping soundly, and the weather was hot, so both of them chose to kick the quilt under the bed.

They didn't return to the ranger's hut until dawn. They were so tired that they just went to bed and didn't even bother to toss their sleeping bags.The sun had already set to the west, and it was estimated to be three or four in the afternoon. The forest rangers hadn't tried absenteeism for a very long time, and they were very uncomfortable with this decadent behavior of reversing the biological clock.

As soon as he got up from the bed, Wang Ze woke up immediately, groping with his hands sleepily: "Huh? What time is it? Where are you going?"

The ranger said, "Go and cook."

Wang Ze'an waited for a moment, and then screamed: "The materials I bought from a long way away... unexpectedly fell at the foot of the mountain."

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The next day, Wang Ze spent most of the day buying the ingredients, and asked the forest rangers to retrieve the oven and cooking tools he had thrown at the foot of the mountain the day before yesterday.

Wang Ze skillfully made the cake embryo in the oven, cut off the mango pulp piece by piece with a brand-new kitchen knife, and rolled them into several golden and delicate mango flowers.The remaining mango pulp is pureed and stirred with whipped cream and milk treated with an electric egg beater to make mango mousse filling.Then put the cake embryo and mousse filling in order in the cake mold, freeze in the refrigerator for half an hour, then pour in the mirror pectin made of mango puree, and freeze it for the second time. Finally, unmould the cake and put beautiful mango flower.In this way, a perfect mango mousse cake is completed.

Wang Ze cut the cake into pieces and carefully placed them on the plate: "Come and taste."

The ranger put the cake into his mouth with a fork: "It's very delicious."

Wang Ze said proudly: "I have learned it for a long time."

The ranger bit his fork and said in a low voice: "I have also learned for a long time. But I didn't find a store that sold ovens, and I didn't buy an electric egg beater. I didn't even know to add gelatin sheets. I just used a rice cooker to make it. When the egg cake comes, I've tried my best."

Wang Ze put down his fork.

The ranger lowered his head: "If you were the one who met him, probably, you would do better than me."

Wang Ze didn't answer.

The sweet and sour feeling of fresh mango spreads on the tip of the tongue, almost feeling a little bitter.

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Wang Ze said, "Do you still remember our original agreement?"

The ranger looked up.

Wang Ze said: "I wanted to know the reason why he left, but you refused to tell me, so I stayed here and paid the rent with money and other conditions, because I don't think you would like someone dangling in front of you all day Go, you'll tell me sooner or later out of boredom, or I'll find the clues myself."

Wang Ze cut a piece of cake: "At that time, I agreed to make a dessert the next day, but it rained heavily and it was difficult to buy ingredients. I immediately pretended that there was no such thing. I just like this 3-minute enthusiasm, and I can't stick to many things." come down."

The ranger said, "But..."

Wang Ze said: "There is no but, there will be no but, so don't blame yourself."

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Wang Ze said, "Talk about our agreement."

"I've finished the cake and paid the rent, but what I want to know, I've already guessed it all by myself. In this way, the transaction will not be established, so I need you to do something for me instead."

The ranger frowned: "Yesterday you said you were gay, right? I won't do that kind of thing with you, I'm a showman rather than a body, Boss."

Wang Ze spread his hands: "Okay, then don't do that kind of thing."

"I have to let you accompany me to a place."