i love you after all

The beauty of time lies in its inevitable passing.

spring flowers.

Qiuyue.

summer.

winter snow.

In a flash, ten years have passed.

This day is Lixia.

The door of the flower shop was pushed open, and a string of bells hanging on the edge of the door rang in a "dang lang lang lang" zone.The drowsy female clerk behind the cash register hurriedly rubbed her eyes and stood up, saying "Welcome" before anyone could see clearly.

The one who came in was a girl who looked like she was in high school. Her hair was long and fell to her waist. It was black and smooth, with a healthy and youthful luster.She was wearing a clean and flat white shirt, and the skin on her neck was the same light color as the white shirt. She looked like a child raised by a wealthy family.

She was touching a white rose, her hands touching the petals were long and thin, and on her wrist was a jadeite bracelet of top-quality ice species. The bracelet pressed against her fair skin, like snow covered with moss marks on bluestone in winter. Jiao.

"Little girl, what kind of flowers do you want to buy?" the clerk asked.

The girl turned around, and the moment the clerk saw her face, all the boredom caused by the hot summer dissipated completely.She is so pretty, her eyebrows and eyes are as clear as a stream that has just thawed in spring, her nose is slightly bent, and she has the arrogance of a figure in ancient Greek mythology. The bright cinnabar mole between her eyebrows makes her look like an old beauty in classical paintings. With a considerable but unapproachable nobility.

She said, "Do you have flowers for the deceased in your store?"

"Yes, yes, come here," the clerk cheerfully led the girl past two flower stands, pointing to a bunch of already bunched flowers, "I just picked the white calla lilies this morning, surrounded by purple forget-me-nots, my guest Everyone likes to buy this bunch, it is very suitable for mourning."

While talking, the clerk kept looking at the girl, and she noticed that there was a small metal name tag pinned to the chest of her white shirt, with the school badge of Jinjiang Affiliated High School printed on the bottom, and her name on it:

Ran Chuqiu.

Chu Qiu picked up the large bouquet of flowers, lowered her eyes, "That's it."

"200 yuan, pay here."

The clerk went back to the cash register, and while distributing the invoices, he asked a lot: "A little girl like you rarely thinks about remembering the dead, must be someone who is very important to you?"

"Well, it's very important." Chu Qiu took out two [-] sheets and handed them to the clerk, "It's a... relative who grew up with me."

"Oh, what a pity to die so early."

"God doesn't let you live long, no one can do anything about it."

Chu Qiu's fingers holding the flowers tightened tightly, and the plastic wrapping the flowers made a rustling sound.

She paid the money and left the flower shop with the flowers.There was a cute girl with a rosy face waiting under the tree at the door. Seeing that Chu Qiu finally came out, she wiped off her sweat and complained, "We made a long detour to come to this flower shop, and we can't finish our homework when we go back!"

"Go to my house and write." Chu Qiu smiled slightly.

Lei Miaomiao knew that her subtext was that she could go and copy her answers, so she was immediately amused, "Okay, okay."

The two of them walked side by side for a while, and Lei Miaomiao couldn't help asking, "Who did you buy the flowers for?"

"Today is the anniversary of that death, you should remember it." Chu Qiu looked at the calla lily in his hand as he walked.

Lei Miaomiao thought for a while, then suddenly remembered: "Yes, I forgot. Fuck his homework! I'll accompany you to deliver the flowers first."

Lei Miaomiao made a phone call and asked her driver to bring the car to Chuqiu. Before going home, the two of them had to go to the cemetery on the outskirts of the city.

Half an hour later, we arrived at the suburban cemetery.They entered the park on foot, walked past stone tablets engraved with their names, and saw bunches of flowers placed in front of the stone tablets, and their hearts were inevitably covered with a layer of solemnity and sorrow.

Walking to the tombstone they were looking for, Chu Qiu squatted down and placed the white calla lily in front of the tombstone.

"There is always a banquet in the world." Chu Qiu stroked the name on the tombstone, his voice was very soft, "The living are alive, the dead rest in peace."

Lei Miaomiao sighed heavily.

The two mourned for a while in front of the stele, and Lei Miaomiao took out a few fruits left over from lunch from his schoolbag and put them next to the flowers, and said a few words about the bliss of early climbing.

After about 10 minutes, they finished remembering and got up to go home.

Walking in the cemetery, Lei Miaomiao couldn't help asking: "Actually, I've always wanted to ask you, how did you die? You never told me."

"Didn't I tell you?" Chu Qiu straightened his back, put his hands behind his waist, and rubbed the jade bracelet on his left wrist with his right hand.

"Yes."

"Greedy, ate a rat that was poisoned by Aunt Mei, and then died."

"This..." Lei Miaomiao sighed.

"Eating mice is a cat's nature, and I don't blame it." Chu Qiu lowered his eyes and looked at the button of his white shirt on his chest, "It's just that my Erlang God doesn't have the Xiaotian dog, so the past two years always feel empty."

"My condolences."

Lei Miaomiao patted her friend on the shoulder.

After getting in the car, the blue BMW drove away.The dust splashed by the wheels gradually dissipated, and the four large red characters engraved on the stone garden gate became clear.

Pet cemetery.

Ten years ago, after Yitian Tulongji was broadcast, ANT, who took care of one girl and two girls, became popular all over the country. girl group.Several people's net worth skyrocketed, and the three of them had to ask for a seven-figure price for attending a variety show together, and Yunzhou also became one of the top entertainment companies in China.A small character like Xiong Xue'er, who suffered from kidney pain when buying a mobile phone ten years ago, has now become a major shareholder, and has many properties under her name, including many golden areas in the city center.

However, no matter how rich they are and how many houses they have, the three of them still live in the little villa they used to live in.

Dan Jin stopped making TV dramas seven years ago, and turned to the big screen, only accepting female leads, not supporting female roles, her status is getting higher and higher.With a high net worth, a good script naturally came to the door eagerly to beg for acting. With a good script and a good director, she followed the general trend and won many awards.With her reputation of standing up to ANT, no one dares to regard ANT as an inferior lip-syncing girl group.Although, Xiong Xueer's current singing skills still have to rely on her mouth to fool her.

The three of them became very famous, but they were still unwilling to move to another place to live. As expected, they attracted a bunch of paparazzi.In order not to affect Chuqiu's schooling, they could only ask Lei Miaomiao's parents to send Lei Miaomiao with Chuqiu every day.When Lei Miaomiao's mother knew that the star lived 500 meters away from her home, she passed out happily.

From elementary school to junior high school, from junior high school to high school, Chuqiu has been riding Lei Miaomiao's car. Naturally, a deep girl friendship has been established with Lei Miaomiao.This year, they entered the end of their sophomore year together, and Chuqiu will be an adult in one year, and the three old women in the family have also entered the [-]th mark.

The scenery outside the car window flashed one by one, and the midsummer sun shone through the window glass on the young face in early autumn.

She has finally grown up.

17 years old, is it considered grown up?

It should count.

Her hand can already wear this bracelet.

The emerald bracelet dangled slightly hollowly back and forth on her thin wrist.

Back at the villa, as soon as she entered the yard, she saw Danqian watering the rose garden.

The 20-year-old Dan Qian is exactly the same as Dan Jin ten years ago, with the same long black curly hair, the same white and translucent skin, exuding an ethereal and unreal beauty.But she is thinner than Danjin, her eyes are as clear as a deer watching by the stream, her complexion is becoming sickly pale, her wrists are so thin that every movement of the bones can be seen through the skin.

She wiped the sweat from her forehead, and smiled softly at Chu Qiu who came home from school: "Chu Qiu, why did you come back so late today?"

"Sister, why are you watering the flowers again? I told you to wait until I come back to water the flowers." Chu Qiu hurriedly walked over with her schoolbag on her back, and took the water bottle from Dan Qian, "You still had a fever last night, so don't worry about it today." Sunny."

Danqian pointed at the setting sun that was about to set in the sky, and couldn't laugh or cry: "Is this also called basking in the sun?"

"Go back, go back," Chu Qiu couldn't help but drag Danqian into the villa together, "Has Aunt Mei cooked dinner yet? I'm so hungry."

"It's being done, the sisters are back today, remember to say hello to them."

"Dan Jin is back?" Chu Qiu hesitated, then couldn't stop laughing, threw the schoolbag on the sofa and searched everywhere on the first floor.

The schoolbag happened to hit Xiong Xueer who was nestling on the sofa, and Xiong Xueer jumped up angrily, yelling: "Little bastard, get over here!"

"I'm sorry, sister Xue'er, don't be angry, sister Xue'er, pay attention to your body, sister Xue'er."

Chu Qiu saw that there was no shadow of Dan Jin on the first floor, so he casually said a few words of comfort, ran away to the side of the stairs, and jumped up three steps at a time, carrying the vigor that only belongs to young people.

Jiang Yanran from the restaurant came over with the freshly squeezed juice, and comforted Xiong Xueer: "I'm getting old, and I'm still angry with the child."

"No, Captain Jiang, why do you—" Xiong Xueer raised her pair of claws in grief, "Look at it, look at it, the nail polish I just painted all scratched her schoolbag!"

"Oh." Jiang Yanran nodded, then turned to the kitchen and shouted, "Aunt Mei, Chuqiu's schoolbag is stained with nail polish, help her wash it tonight."

Xiong Xueer laughed back angrily: "I think that sooner or later I will be pissed off by you people."

Chu Qiu quickly ran to the third floor, panting slightly, and turned around the corridor, just in time to see Dan Jin's back.

Dan Jin is sitting in front of the French window, her long black curly hair is hanging behind her, she is holding an open book in her right hand, a transparent thermos cup soaked with Chinese wolfberry in her left hand, and a handful of old people’s special cups sitting under her buttocks. The bamboo folding recliner swayed gently to and fro as she swayed, and there was a pouf flower cushion on it that she drew out with wool.

This recliner was specially bought by Danjin last year for her own elderly care. When she was away, Chuqiu would lie on it and play as a swing.Five months ago, due to the excessive shaking in early autumn, a wooden support of the fragile elderly recliner was broken. After Danjin knew it, she didn't blame her, but just found a toolbox and wood pieces by herself, and repaired it by knocking.

At that time, Xiong Xueer looked at Dan Jin who was squatting on the ground, wearing gloves and wielding a hammer, and sighed: "Let me help you take the Golden Leopard Trophy for Best Actress to the blacksmith and change it? Change it to the Kind Old Father Award How about it?"

At that time, Danjin was holding a hammer, and replied lightly: "You said the Golden Leopard trophy. Didn't you say you like it last time in Chuqiu? I broke off the cup and gave it to her to drink water."

Xiong Xueer's eyes were wide open, and she ran away violently while yelling "You are going to piss me off".

Thinking of the situation at that time, Chu Qiu couldn't help laughing.

Danjin put the thermos cup soaked with wolfberries on the small table beside her, and said lightly, "What are you standing there giggling at?"

Chu Qiu hurriedly walked over, obediently stood beside Dan Jin, lowered his head: "Why didn't you tell me in advance when you came back today?"

"The company's schedule changes every day, and I'm not sure."

Dan Jin closes the book, puts it aside, turns her head to face Chu Qiu squarely.

In ten years, she hasn't changed at all.

Yes, it hasn't changed at all, not even a small fine line has appeared.

If you have to say something has changed, probably only the subconscious feeling. The 20-year-old Danjin makes people feel alienated and indifferent. Now Danjin is gentle and refined, with a lot of human touch that I have never seen before.

Probably it was the human touch brought by the days when they lived together in the small villa.Perhaps this small villa is more like a home for Danjin.

The author has something to say: ["The beauty of time lies in its inevitable passing. Spring flowers, autumn moon, summer, winter snow." from San Mao's "Years"]

Let’s take a look at this volume titled “Achilles’ heel” today.It is said that there used to be a baby named Achilles. In order to make him invulnerable with copper head and iron arm, his mother held his heel and rinsed the baby in the god water every day.So Achilles' heel, which was held, became the only place that did not soak in the divine water. Later, he was shot in the heel by Apollo with an arrow and died.So "Achilles' heel" means "Achilles heel".