i love you after all

Late at night.

Dan Jin went to sleep in her own room.Before leaving, she helped Ran Chuqiu change the gauze on her back shoulder, and also applied medicine to her hands.She stayed to put Ran Chuqiu to sleep, but when Chuqiu peeked at Danjin through the slits of her eyelashes, she found the bloodshot eyes from exhaustion, so she began to fake sleep.Seeing her falling asleep, Dan Jin would naturally go back to rest.

She has fooled Danjin, but she cannot fool herself.She opened her eyes and looked at the pink ceiling. When she saw the ceiling, she felt that it was about to fall, accompanied by clusters of fire.

Chuqiu hugged Erlang God tightly in her arms. Erlang God was very warm and made her feel at ease. She muttered "Erlang God" and "Erlang God" while thinking about the side face of Dan Jin when she made it small clothes.Just thinking about them, Chu Qiu gradually began to feel sleepy.

The pink ceiling slowly blurred.

Chu Qiu slowly closed his eyes.

She had a dream.

In the dream, she returned to the night of the last day when she was six years old.

It's almost twelve o'clock at night.After twelve o'clock, it was my seventh birthday.

She was sitting in a car parked outside a commercial building.Dad was on the evening shift today, so in order not to miss the important time of midnight, mom drove Xiao Chuqiu to pick dad up and go home.Chu Qiu happily sat in the car, she rolled down the window glass with some difficulty, and looked out the window expectantly.

Dad was still wearing formal clothes when he walked out of the company, and he was carrying a big gift box in his hand. When he opened the car door, he showed a big smile to Xiao Chuqiu: "Chuqiu, happy birthday!"

Chu Qiu looked at his hand and found that there was only a gift box and nothing else, so he frowned aggrievedly, "Where's my birthday cake? It's almost twelve o'clock."

Dad smiled, patted his mother on the driver's seat, and said softly, "Pingyu, didn't you buy it for her?"

Mom shrugged: "I don't know when you get off work. I'm afraid it won't be fresh if you buy it early. It's okay. The Sanweizhen supermarket on Fenghuang Road is still open and it's relatively close. Let's go and buy one."

"En!" Chu Qiu nodded repeatedly, and the small red mole between her eyebrows also swayed up and down following her movements.

The whole family sailed happily to Sanweizhen.While driving, they laughed and discussed how to spend Xiao Chuqiu's birthday. Dad said that tomorrow he would invite the whole class to eat hot pot. Mom said that tomorrow he would buy Chuqiu her favorite little skirt.

Chu Qiu said that it would be better to go to the zoo with Mom and Dad.

They arrived at the supermarket soon.After entering the gate, Dad looked at his watch and said, "The dessert area is on the fourth floor. I'll go up and get it alone. Pingyu, take Chu Qiu to the library area and tell her two stories to pass the time. "

"After two stories, will Dad definitely come back?" Chu Qiu blinked his big watery eyes.

"Yes, Chuqiu will wait for Dad." Dad smiled and stroked Xiao Chuqiu's hair.

Mom dragged Chu Qiu to the library area together. Although it was late, there were still many people in the supermarket.She gently asked Chu Qiu which one she wanted to hear, and Chu Qiu chose "Grimm's Fairy Tales".Mother sat on the floor with Chu Qiu, flipping through the book, telling the story in a soft voice.

Cinderella.

A man in bear's clothing.

the cat that wears shoes.

The genie in the glass bottle.

After one, two, three, four, Dad still hasn't come down.At the same time, there was a strange smell in the supermarket, like the rice in the pot was overcooked.

Chu Qiu asked several times, and my mother was a little worried, after all, the night was already very deep.After waiting for a while, she put the book in Chu Qiu's hand and said, "I'll go up and look for Dad, and you'll wait here for us to come back, okay?"

"it is good."

Chu Qiu obediently nodded.

Mom is gone.Chu Qiu watched her leave, then pretended to sigh deeply like an adult, she tiptoed to put the book back on the shelf, wanting to find another one.When putting the book down, I accidentally scratched it, and a few books on the bookshelf fell down with a clatter.She was frightened, and kept saying "I'm sorry, I'm sorry", squatting down to pick up books while talking, and apologized to those books seriously.

One of the books was thrown open, and when Chu Qiu was tidying it up, he glanced casually and caught a glimpse of a sentence on it——

"Despair has fingers, but it can only catch dead butterflies."

It just so happens that she knows all the difficult words in this sentence, and she has just finished learning the most difficult "butterfly".

But why does despair have fingers...?

Chu Qiu frowned and thought about it, she was too young to chew on these two too profound words.What's more, she has only copied the words "Jue" and "Wang" a few times in the matts of the word book, and she doesn't even know how the words are defined in the dictionary.Chu Qiu quickly began to comfort herself, it's okay, maybe when she becomes an adult, she will be able to read this kind of books that she can't read now.

She was holding a few books in her arms, and just about to put them back on the bookshelf, she heard a commotion on the other side of the elevator.Someone was yelling something, the hoarse voice was filled with extremely ferocious fear, Chu Qiu had only heard such cries in horror movies about being chased by zombies.

After listening carefully, the employee at the counter in the library area changed his expression greatly, and shouted at the library area: "The upstairs is on fire! Run!!"

This sentence is like a boulder smashed into a puddle, hitting the calm water surface heavily, and the fragmented water drops are raised high. With the sound of "thump", the water drops in the air slowly and slowly It fell slowly, and when it touched the dust, it exploded suddenly.

The department store area, furniture area, cooked food area, and book area on the first floor boiled instantly.

"what?"

"It's on fire!!!"

"It's on fire, it's on fire, it's on fire!"

"Fire? Where?"

"Ah, run, run! Hurry up, hurry up!!!"

"quick--"

Immediately after the emergency exit, a bunch of people coming down from upstairs swarmed out, including customers and employees. Their faces were distorted, hideous like ghosts, and they wanted to trample the people in front of them under their feet.Chu Qiu was still standing there blankly, but when she saw the thick smoke billowing from the stairs, she suddenly remembered the fire emergency evacuation drills done in the school. The difference was that the school used dry ice, while the supermarket’s When this smoke was poured into his nose, Chu Qiu choked so much that tears and snot flowed out.

The fire was spreading rapidly at an abnormal speed, and the first floor soon lit up with red flames, and thick smoke was also emitting from the gaps in the ceiling.There were too many people blocking the stairway, and many people were trapped behind, unable to move, and could only scream in horror.

The male clerk at the counter saw Xiao Chuqiu who was in a daze when he was running, he hurried forward a few steps, picked up the child, put it on his shoulder and ran outside.

All this happened as quickly as the small gap between lightning and thunder. Before Chu Qiu could react, the world was turned upside down. In her eyes, the floor became the ceiling, and the ceiling became the floor.Flames sprang up on the ground, and many people stood on their heads in the sky, and the flames burst out behind them. Those flames seemed to be magnified many times, and they could eat people's popcorn.

Suddenly, between the sharp teeth of the popcorn, she saw the two most familiar faces.

"Father..." Chu Qiu murmured, and then instantly shouted, "Dad! Mom!"

The male clerk was still running towards the outside of the supermarket. The fire was so fast that the ceiling above his head was completely burned, and the pipe buried in the ceiling was also leaking. Some liquid flowed out, and the fire intensified its trend , smashed down with fire one by one in blocks, and hit all kinds of shelves, burning a sea of ​​flames.Some people on the first floor were hit by the flames because they didn't escape in time, and they were instantly engulfed by the flames, leaving no room for resistance.

There is only scorching heat, chaotic screams, and red light all around.

Chu Qiu wanted to go down to find her parents, but she kicked and beat the male clerk on the shoulders desperately. She saw her parents were at the emergency exit, her mother’s hair was on fire, like a magic trick on TV. All gone.Dad's suit is also full of fire, and his tie is ignited with red flames, like a letter that is ignited when firecrackers are set off in the New Year.

While struggling in the fire, they screamed miserably, which was especially ear-piercing when mixed with the mourning of a group of people.

Chu Qiu burst into tears.

My mother cherishes her hair the most. She always likes to stand by the sink and comb them again and again in front of the mirror.

Dad also likes his suits the most. He will squat on the balcony and wash those beautiful textures bit by bit.

"dad……"

Chu Qiu cried so hard that she couldn't breathe. In the rendering of tears, she vaguely saw that her parents were all covered with fire. Last second, she could still see their faces. After a blink of an eye, there were only two flaming limbs left.The fire completely carbonized their epidermal nerves. In the end, they couldn't even move or cry out. They could only freeze there dryly. After the firelight, the scorched corpse's skin was faintly exposed.

"Dad, dad——mother—" Ran Chuqiu cried out hoarsely, she stretched out her hand to them, and tried her best to spread five fingers in her small hand, but she could only watch helplessly as they drifted away between the fingers , followed by the running of the male clerk, shaking the whole world dizzy.

Another piece of fire from the ceiling fell down with a wooden plank, hitting the backs of the male clerk and Xiao Chuqiu.The male clerk was slammed to the ground, he was frightened, screamed almost madly and got up, he looked at Xiao Chuqiu who was lying on the ground like dead ashes, and the fire that was burning behind her shoulder.He wanted to hug her, but he was afraid of getting angry, a big man blushed, and he quickly made a choice, crying and saying "I'm sorry, I'm sorry", as he said, he rolled and crawled to her by himself. run outside.

Just like not long ago, Chu Qiu apologized for the book that fell on the floor.

I am sorry.

I am sorry.

The smoke was too heavy, and the surrounding area was red, like purgatory.

Everyone in the world has read fragments of hell from books, but only those who were in this fire have seen it with their own eyes.

Chu Qiu lost strength in her limbs, her head was dizzy, and she couldn't get up. Her forehead was on the scorching ground, as if she had fallen into the magma of a crater, and her skin was about to explode.The material on the back shoulder is on fire and it hurts there.

She stared closely at the direction where her parents disappeared, and stretched out her hand there with the last consciousness.

The little hand tried to spread five fingers, but she could only watch everything disappear between her fingers. Her father, her mother, and herself couldn't grasp anything.

Can't catch it.

Has she grown up?

She seems to be...

Suddenly I understood the sentence that only adults can understand.

——“Despair has fingers, but it can only catch dead butterflies.”

despair.

Butterfly.

dead……

Butterfly.