Ruoshui Qiaochu

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13. Section 1

——If the water is about to leave——

It rained for days and nights.This was the first rain that Ruoshui encountered in this city, but it was when she was about to leave.

She has packed her luggage properly.

All the luggage is still the same: a large suitcase, a backpack, and two handbags.So many, so heavy, at first I thought that I would stay for at least half a year, but unexpectedly she was going to leave in less than a month.

The flight takes off at ten twenty tonight.Zhou Linshan promised to send her off in person.

Before leaving Tao Leyuan's apartment that night, Ruoshui handed her mobile phone to Zhou Linshan.

She said: "I know that the ringtone of this number will never ring again. You gave me the mobile phone and the mobile phone number. Now, I will return them to you together..."

Zhou Linshan took the mobile phone, it was an Iphone.Ruoshui's mobile phones are almost all given by her. They have been together for four years, and as long as a new generation of mobile phones comes out, she will give her one. The one in her hand is the last one, and it is also an old model two generations ago.

Zhou Linshan knew that Ruoshui had to start over, so she didn't want to keep anything from her.She said to her: "After you go back, I hope you live a good life."

Ruoshui nodded and said, "I will."

Zhou Linshan said: "Don't think about the past anymore, you should forget me, completely, I don't deserve you to care about me so much..."

Ruoshui's eyes were red, and he didn't know how to answer the words.She turned to lock her trunk.

After locking it, she found that there was something she had forgotten to put in. She turned a string of codes she was most familiar with. This code——

0101 is the day when she and Zhou Linshan met, now is the time to change the password...

On the way to the airport, the two of them had nothing to say.Ruoshui leaned against the car window, watching the scenery that slid along the way.

She thought that on the day she arrived, sitting in Qiao Chu's car, she also appeared in this posture.

In fact, her sadness has become so shallow that she has lost her perception.She looked at the dim yellow raindrops floating under the street lamps in the night sky, and recalled every moment she spent with Qiao Chu in the past few days.Yes, it was Qiao Chu in the memory, not Zhou Linshan.

Ruoshui has been holding a white envelope in her hand. This is the letter she wrote to Qiao Chu in the lingering rain this morning:

【Qiao Chu, I'm leaving, I've never been kept here.But I want to tell you that what I have gained the most from this city is you, Xiao Qiao.

Thank you for all the company you have given me, you said I always say thank you, because I really don't know what to say other than this thank you.

I believe that everything is preordained, everything has been arranged since I decided to come to this city.

At the beginning, I would think, how cruel she is to me, why did you let me get off the plane and the first person I contacted was you?

But gradually I realized that this was like God's kind arrangement, and it was God who gave me the best comfort.It makes me want to believe that I am still blessed.

Thank you for being so kind to me. Although those days were short, they were as difficult as thousands of years for me. Thank you for being with me sincerely and attentively;

Thank you for accompanying me to watch movies, watch the sea, chat and play with me aimlessly, and let me take those photos.

Although our photo was not taken, your sincerity warmed me up.There has never been a person like you who is willing to change the light bulb for me, tie my shoelaces, and make an umbrella for me in the sky with a windbreaker. In my life, there has never been anyone who treats me like this, Only you, little Joe.

Because of you, I totally understand something.So I go, leave her, leave this place - this city that belongs to you.

After seeing you and getting in touch with you, I finally understand why she likes you, because you are unique and irreplaceable.

Xiao Qiao, I know that everything is due to your inadvertence, and I also know that you are innocent.

I really don't blame you and I don't hate you.Everyone has thorns under their feet.If you want to know the cause of the previous life, the recipient of this life is.

Everything is my own problem.I know that when we returned from the sea that day, you thought a lot, so why not me.Don't blame yourself, I really don't care.

Maybe, you didn't intend to be nice to me on purpose, if you were replaced by another person today, you would be the same as being nice to her.

You are a person with love in your heart and a person who knows how to love, so you touched me inadvertently.You deserve the deepest love.

If I were her, if I were your blue-faced confidant, I would love you too.Little Joe, I wish you happiness.

These days I have been thinking, what brought me to you?

I still deeply believe that it is fate.

Everything is a combination of causes and conditions, when the conditions arise, they arise, and when the conditions are exhausted, they disappear, nothing more than this.For her, I have completely let go of her, but I never thought that our fate would be quietly interspersed in such a chaotic situation. Here you are, but we meet in such a hurry, and then we go our separate ways.

Is this fate deep or shallow?Will we meet again?

Maybe, maybe not.How deep is our fate?I don't know, do you know?

I can't find any reason to stay. Under such circumstances, I dare not say that I miss you.

Xiao Qiao, forgive me for saying goodbye to you only in this way.

I know that if we are destined, one day your news will definitely appear in my mailbox, and you can tell me your address at that time, so that I have the opportunity to send you a gift.

It's a pity you and I didn't get those pictures on the boat.It is inevitable that there will be regrets in life, but I still believe that everything is fate.

Do we still have a relationship?Joe, can you tell me?Ruoshui 5.20. Rainy day. 】

Before leaving, Ruoshui handed the letter and Qiao Chu's windbreaker to Zhou Linshan and asked her: "Help me give this letter and this dress to Qiao Chu..."

Zhou Linshan was surprised that Ruoshui would write to Qiao Chu.As she put them into her handbag, she said absent-mindedly, "I'll give them to her, don't worry."

"I'm leaving, thank you for sending me off."

Zhou Linshan said, "Safe journey."

Just like that, without any more words, or even more sadness, Ruoshui turned around and left, she walked towards the security checkpoint without looking back, only the white clothes shaking lonely in the crowd ...

Zhou Linshan slowly drove the car out of the airport.The rain is still ticking, not as heavy as it was when it came.

The traffic light turned red and she pulled the car over.Out of curiosity, she took out Ruoshui's letter to Qiao Chu from her bag.

She held the letter aloft in front of her windshield, and read and read it by the dim street lamp, wishing she had eyes that could see through it!

When she got home and sat in the living room, she took out the letter again.Still like when I was in the car just now——

No, now she is eager to open the letter directly!

However, the mobile phone rang at this moment, and she was so frightened that she crumpled up the letter and stuffed it into her trouser pocket, as if Qiao Chu was about to appear in front of her!

Of course, it was not Qiao Chu who called her, but other colleagues.Qiao Chu has been ill for a few days, let alone the phone, she is unwilling to reply to even a text message.

For some reason that night, Zhou Linshan even forgot to take the letter out of her trouser pocket, and she even forgot that there was a letter.

Just like that, she put the letter into the washing machine together with the trousers.When she suddenly remembered, the washing machine was already roaring.

Zhou Linshan was in a hurry and rushed to turn off the power.When the washing machine finally stopped stirring, she carefully took the letter out of the water and spread it on the table.

Next, she hurriedly found a rag to soak up the water, and then dried it with a hair dryer.

In this process of trying to save everything, everything seemed to be in order.

Zhou Linshan slowly opened the letter like this!Although there was a circle of watermarks on the handwriting, it still jumped clearly in front of her eyes.

Although Ruoshui looks weak, her handwriting is vigorous and powerful, which forms a strong contrast with her personality, and this is Zhou Linshan's most familiar handwriting.

Zhou Linshan read the letter word for word from beginning to end.She also saw the back of the letter, with the address attached.

After reading it again and again, it's not so much that she doesn't like the content of the letter, it's better to say that she doesn't want them to have further intersection.

She used to think that the relationship between the two girls could only be so-so.If the water can't let go of her, it is impossible for her to open her heart to accept Qiao Chu, even if she has let go, it is impossible, this is the weakness of human nature!

Shouldn't she hate Qiao Chu? Even if she didn't hate her, she shouldn't have any liking for her.

But they both left a deep impression on each other.The open-mindedness revealed between the lines of Ruoshui made Zhou Linshan feel that she had really underestimated this girl.

She threw the half-dried letter on the coffee table and went straight to bed.

After struggling all night, she made a decision - she wanted to completely destroy this letter!

After a long night, the letter was dried, but it was already crumpled.The moment Zhou Linshan took out the lighter, although she also felt a little guilty that her heart was beating and her hands trembling, she had the mentality of not doing anything but doing nothing.

She took the letter outdoors and lit the fire without hesitation.She started burning from a corner of the envelope, and within a minute, the entire letter was swallowed by the flames and turned into ashes on the grass, leaving nothing behind.

She told herself that if it wasn't for her, Ruoshui Qiaochu would never have met each other.

After all, this fate was brought to them by her, since she brought it, she can cut it off, as if nothing had happened!

A week later, Qiao Chu finally came back to work.

She's still not doing well.Because of illness, she lost weight, and because of going to sea for a few days, she became dark.She was still groggy after taking too much medicine.

Facing Qiao Chu, Zhou Linshan thought she was fearless, but unexpectedly seeing her, she was still very guilty.

She hesitated to return the windbreaker that Ruoshui gave her.Only trench coat, no letter.The letter was burned, as if it never existed.

She drilled herself so.This is a secret, a secret that only she knows.

Since Ruoshui believes in fate, then she will soon believe that Qiao Chu has no reply, and the relationship between them is called - no fate!

Zhou Linshan put the windbreaker on Qiao Chu's table, then summoned up her courage and said to her, "Ruoshui asked me to return it to you...she left last night..."

Qiao Chu silently stared at her windbreaker.Then, she buried her face in her clothes and burst into tears.

Zhou Linshan was very surprised.She just froze on the spot.

"Qiao Chu..." She instinctively wanted to stop her.

In the past few years, Zhou Linshan has hardly seen Qiao Chu cry.She never knew that Qiao Chu also had such an emotional side.

Her sensibility has never been shown in front of her.Now, she was crying for a girl she no longer loved, for a girl she had only known for less than a month, and it was right in front of her!She was so outspoken, or was it entirely because she couldn't help herself? !

Colleagues nearby all cast curious glances, and everyone exchanged puzzled looks, but no one dared to ask a question.

Qiao Chu also wanted to control her emotions, but she failed.Her heart hurts.

Since that night, she still doesn't know how to settle her messy emotions.

Now hearing that Ruoshui had left, her heart felt as if it had been hollowed out.

A kind colleague next to him handed over a large handful of tissues, Zhou Linshan took it, and quickly stuffed it into Qiao Chu's hands.

She stared blankly at her, feeling worried and uneasy in her heart. After a while, she said, "Qiao Chu, you are too emotional. Why should you care about someone you meet by chance."

After Qiao Chu wiped away her tears, she put on the windbreaker directly, and she began to feel a little trembling again.

Zhou Linshan's words sounded very cold to her.She is a cold and ruthless person.

A person who is greedy for the new and forgets the old, and always abandons, no matter how nice she is to her, she is not a good person.Qiao Chu began to feel chills towards her.

14. Section 2

——Believe that fate is always the same——

It was difficult to get through that day, and Qiao Chu came home from get off work on time.She no longer left with Zhou Linshan as usual, and then went home after having dinner together.

Zhou Linshan left earlier than her, and she appeared by her car first and waited for her, saying: "My car broke down, can you give me a ride, okay?" Zhou Linshan knew where Qiao Chu's weakness was, so she would definitely not be able to reject.

The car door opened, and Zhou Linshan sat in first without waiting for Qiao Chu's consent.After the car left the company for a long time, Zhou Linshan looked at Qiao Chu's stern face, and asked with guilt and difficulty: "Qiao Chu, do you have any misunderstandings about me? Tell me now."

Qiao Chu asked her coldly, "Where are you going?"

Zhou Linshan protested slightly, "You are being cold and violent."

Qiao Chu simply parked the car on the side of the road.Zhou Linshan was stunned.What does it mean?Did she get out of the car?

She felt that she had underestimated Ruoshui, and she also underestimated Qiao Chu.It turned out that Qiao Chu's principles were much stronger than she imagined.

Zhou Linshan once again confirmed that Qiao Chu is definitely not a little girl who can be controlled by her at will. She must deal with the problems between them very seriously.

Zhou Linshan began to feel very painful.There was a moment when she really wanted to raise the white flag of surrender to her.

She began to struggle whether she should tell her frankly that Ruoshui had written a letter to her.However, she never had the courage to tell her that the letter was burned by her.

If it is true, what is the motivation for burning letters?

Even she herself found it unreasonable.If it is said that the letter was lost by her, it would be too far-fetched, let's go all out, she simply admits that she couldn't help peeking at the letter, and now just tell her the contents of the letter in detail.

In this way, Qiao Chu might feel much better. As long as she lives well, she will have a good life too.However, it doesn't seem right to do so.

After Zhou Linshan thought about it, she struggled fiercely, and regretted it!

Only now did she deeply realize that Ruoshui's letter was the only straw to save their relationship, but she wiped out this chance of survival.If Qiao Chu knew the truth one day, their relationship might be over.

Zhou Linshan thought hard, Qiao Chu seemed to have calmed down slowly.She sighed heavily, stepped on the accelerator and drove the car away with a whistling sound, sending Zhou Linshan home directly.

Zhou Linshan breathed a sigh of relief, but that night, Ruoshui's mobile phone, which she abandoned in the corner, suddenly rang.

Zhou Linshan took a look, and it turned out that Qiao Chu's mobile phone number was displayed on it.

Qiao Chu would call Ruoshui's cell phone to contact her. Although she had expected it, she was still caught off guard.

Zhou Linshan originally wanted to slide open the phone screen to answer, and honestly confessed that Ruoshui had returned the SIM card and the phone to her, but soon, she stopped moving and gave up the idea.

Zhou Linshan, who had just felt remorse just now, was obsessed again. She thought to herself: If Qiao Chu didn't reply, Ruoshui would definitely think that there was no relationship between her and Qiao Chu;

If Ruoshui didn't answer Qiao Chu's call, Qiao Chu would definitely think that Ruoshui didn't want to contact her again.

People are unwilling to answer your phone calls, which means they don't accept you in their hearts, can you still not give up?

Just like that, Zhou Linshan put her heart down again, silently put down Ruoshui's cell phone, and let Qiao Chu's ring keep ringing, ringing and stopping, stopping and ringing again——

A month passed like this, Ruoshui began to wait for news from Qiao Chu intentionally or unintentionally.She looked at the letterbox on the stairs every two days.

Where she lives, there is only a small post office, and there is only one person who delivers letters, named Ashin.

Ruoshui is very close to Ashin, she waits for Ashin's motorcycle to pass by every day, but Ashin does not pass by every day.

After all, this town is small, and there are really no letters to be delivered every day.What Ashin sent was nothing more than electricity, water, phone bills and some letters from banks.

It's the [-]st century now, in an era of advanced technology and electronics, who needs to write letters?

What a corny thing to write a letter.But Ruoshui prefers old-fashioned things, just like she prefers old record players and vinyl records, and she would specialize in film cameras for photography.

She listened to those old songs that even her mother didn't listen to.Mom said, your grandma said, those songs are sad.

That's the song of grandma's era.Mom is more fashionable than her, she is only three years older than Zhou Linshan, and she listens to Jay Chou.Mom takes pictures with the most advanced high-resolution mobile phones.

After coming back from the city that belonged to Zhou Linshan, Ruoshui felt a sense of relief for the first time, and she was finally freed from a long-term deep emotional vortex!

Now no matter where she went or what she was doing, she felt happy physically and mentally, and she even began to think——it would be great if Xiao Qiao was here.

Some vision began to appear in her life, a vision that had been missing for three years.

How much she hopes that Qiao Chu can come to her town to have a look. At that time, she will definitely find a chance to sing to her, maybe at night when they lie together on the tatami in her room, she will let her identify, she Are your singing skills good or bad?

She will also tell her that a woman's fingers should be straight, moderate in length, soft in appearance, soft and moderate in touch, that is a pair of hands with good character.

If the fingers are twisted, this person must be complicated and love to dig into the horns;

If the fingers are too long and hard, the person is thoughtful but paranoid;

If the fingers are stubby and clumsy, it is a conservative and mediocre hand.Ruoshui thought over and over in her heart about the unspoken words that night, and she eagerly waited for Qiao Chu to come to find her, and she wanted to tell her: Her hands are the most characterful hands she has ever seen!

However, one month, two months, and now three months have passed, and there is no news from Qiao Chu.

Ruoshui's mother couldn't help being curious when she saw her daughter waiting for letters every day. She said, "Miss Zhou is not a letter writer. Whose letters are you waiting for?"

Indeed, when Ruoshui and Zhou Linshan were together, they never wrote letters to each other, and Ruoshui never thought of writing to her.

Now she seems to have seen something clearly—maybe the "talent" she writes is reserved for another person.

Zhou Linshan is a 100% high-tech media person. She is obviously a person from the old age, but she is not used to the things of the old age.

Zhou Linshan can't adapt, can Qiao Chu adapt?

Isn't she also someone who works in the high-end technology industry?

However, Ruoshui is always willing to believe that Qiao Chu is different from Zhou Linshan.

Looking back on the past, what Ruoshui was looking forward to was never the postman Ashin, the motorcycle, or the mailbox, but the "My Inn" opposite.

Because, when Zhou Linshan came, she lived in "My Inn", with a monthly subscription of 550. There is a shared living room and kitchen on the ground floor, as well as WIFI supply.

If Zhou Linshan came, she usually only came for a month. At that time, she came through a project of an overseas oil refinery [-] kilometers away from the town.

Whenever she came, Ruoshui would not stay at home, and she would go straight to the opposite inn to stay and fly with Zhou Linshan.

The place where Ruoshui was born and grew up is a bustling small town.

The busiest street in the town - Sangyang Street, is the street where Ruoshui's family is located.This street is always crowded with people.

Morning, afternoon, evening to night.This street always changes clothes in several time periods, and here is a "prosperous" area.

However, those people are like extras in the movie. If you look carefully, they are just those few people who come and go.

One side of water and soil supports one side of people. The residents here are simple, simple, and happy. Everyone tirelessly conveys the activities of the neighborhood every day. Who gets married today, and who has a baby tomorrow. Pass it back.

The matter of Ruoshui and Zhou Linshan was also known to everyone, everyone knew about it.What they knew was that Ms. Zhou was the benefactor of the Shang family and the benefactor who provided Ruoshui to study in Japan.

Ruoshui's mother is a traditional honest person, and she often reminds Ruoshui of two words: "When you get favors from others, you must find an opportunity to repay them." "How do you repay Miss Zhou?" and so on.

Ruoshui's father was the dean of instruction at the most famous middle school in the town during his lifetime.He is 15 years older than Ruoshui's mother, and he is extremely serious and reticent.

As the dean of students, he puts his own children in teaching by example, words and corporal punishment.

Therefore, Ruoshui and his older brother Ruoshan grew up in a family with strict family education.Ruoshan Ruoshui likes to get into trouble when playing, Ruoshan will cry loudly every time he is whipped by his father, but Ruoshui doesn't cry, because his father thinks she doesn't admit her mistakes and doesn't repent because she doesn't cry, so he smokes a few more times, and the elder brother pushes and pushes while crying She said: "Cry, why don't you cry? If you cry, Dad won't beat you."However, Ruoshui really couldn't cry, so she had to fake cry, and her father beat her even harder.

Afterwards, the little siblings will start to compare whose calves leave more cane marks.

Ruoshui often takes this as shame, because when she goes to class the next day, she will be ridiculed by her classmates: Hahaha, Ruoshui was beaten by her father again, she was beaten by her father all day long!

My father loves reasoning. He told Ruoshui more than once that a person should be like water. Regardless of adversity or prosperity, water is soft and compliant. No matter what container the water is placed in, water will always be water. Although the shape changes, the nature remains the same. .

The grocery store opened by Ruoshui's mother is the most famous grocery store on Sangyang Street. It is a small store with all kinds of goods.

As the name suggests, this store has a long history, it is an old store handed down by Grandpa Ruoshui.

"Time-honored brands" do business with integrity, and they can also pay on credit.The upstairs of the grocery store is Ruoshui's home.

After the father passed away, the elder brother divided the long living room into two rooms, one was his, he said that he would use it as a wedding room when he got married, and the other was for Ruoshui, he said that when she got married, this room would be his child’s house.

Her family background belongs to the upper middle class, neither bad nor very good.Ruoshan can't read, Ruoshui can read.

Dad was determined to let Ruoshui go abroad and let her choose subjects by herself, and she chose animation.Because Ruoshui, who is seventeen or eighteen, is addicted to anime like many young people.

However, at the beginning of the second year in Japan, the family's financial situation had a problem——

My elder brother was engaged in the black market lottery business and embezzled huge sums of money from the winners and refused to hand them over. Later, when things got serious, the family could only give him the money earned from the business to fill the hole.Therefore, Ruoshui's tuition and living expenses will be paid by Zhou Linshan.

Ruoshui and Zhou Linshan met on the streets of Tokyo.Although the process of getting acquainted is dramatic in the eyes of Ruoshui today, she never denies that it is fate.

On January 7st 1 years ago, the jubilant countdown event just ended in the most bustling area of ​​Shibuya, Tokyo, at the intersection with criss-crossing zebra crossings——

Shibuya Crossing is a street that never closes.

Those crowds, like bees pouring out of a hive, are densely packed and gather into waves of dark crowds.

When Ruoshui crossed the road with the surging crowd, Zhou Linshan was walking in front of her.

Suddenly, Zhou Linshan's scarf fell on the zebra crossing and was trampled by passers-by. Ruoshui quickly picked it up for her, and took two steps to return it to her.

Zhou Linshan turned her head in astonishment, and when she took her scarf, she said "thank you" in very broken Japanese.

Ruoshui said, "You're welcome."

Zhou Linshan regarded Ruoshui as a Japanese girl. At that moment, she was very surprised and pleasantly surprised to hear that she spoke Chinese. She said: "I didn't expect to meet a Chinese here. Thank you. I didn't even notice that the scarf fell off."

Ruoshui, who has lived in Japan for a year, is used to having a polite smile on her face, and subconsciously bows to her.

The most amazing thing is that after just half a month, they met each other again.Also in Shibuya Crossing, there was also a dense crowd of people waiting to cross the road, and they stood side by side in the crowd.

That day, the temperature dropped to minus three degrees, Zhou Linshan wrapped herself up like a penguin, and was still rubbing her hands in the cold.

It was she who found Ruoshui first, she stopped her and said, "Hey, do you remember me?"

Ruoshui said without thinking, "Of course I remember. The one who dropped the scarf last time."

Zhou Linshan laughed heartily and said, "I didn't expect Tokyo to be so big, and I could meet you again. It's great."

Then, they crossed the road together, chatting while walking, and found out during the conversation that their destinations were actually the same.

Just like that, Zhou Linshan took the initiative to invite her to a nearby izakaya.Tokyo is full of izakaya.

That is also the place Zhou Linshan often goes to when she is in Tokyo.Small space, crowded with people, narrow, noisy and smelly of smoke.

Zhou Linshan likes this kind of lively place.She said, "It's cold here, but it's warm here, haha."

The place was small, and the two strangers sat very close to each other, and they were very affectionate. Zhou Linshan ordered Ruoshui a cocktail mixed with fruit juice, and she ordered a large glass of iced sake. She also ordered fried dumplings, fried chicken nuggets, and ochazuke .

She said cheerfully, "Eat it! Eat it! These are the best things in this izakaya!"

That night Ruoshui returned to the residence with a smell of smoke all over her body, but she was in an extremely happy mood.

The young, beautiful and refreshing Ruoshui attracted Zhou Linshan in this way.Before long, they were together.

Zhou Linshan told Ruoshui that Tokyo is a place she never tires of visiting.After getting to know Ruoshui, she went from once a year to twice a year.

She always stays in a hotel in a fixed area, and then invites Ruo Shui to her hotel.

For Ruoshui, Zhou Linshan was the second "divine person" she met at that time. The first was a female classmate who taught her to "read people by hand". Zhou Linshan was 36 years old at the time, because of her personal experience, Talent, wealth and superior communication skills, like a magical magician, deeply attracted the young Ruoshui.

She often tells her various experiences in her life, those people and those things, to Ruoshui, it sounds like reading an interesting and in-depth book, and she feels that they will never happen to her.

And Ruoshui is just like a piece of white paper, let Zhou Linshan scribble on it however he likes, she is also like a piece of clay, let her knead it into any shape she likes.She gave Zhou Linshan all her first times.

Love, at Ruo Shui's age, is still an unfamiliar term.In her eyes, Zhou Linshan is a mature woman with charm, she is a peach that is so ripe that it falls off the ground, and she, she is still hanging on the top of the tree, so green that she has been plucked before it is too late to covet .

The initial defenselessness turned out to be painful.It was only later that she learned that Zhou Linshan was married and had a 10-year-old son at the time.Zhou Linshan told her that her marriage had already existed in name only.

A 19-year-old girl looks up to and adores a 36-year-old woman.

However, it is undeniable that there are indeed many deviations and inconsistencies between them due to age differences and life values.

For example, Ruoshui can take the subways in Tokyo from east to west, from north to south. She said it is convenient, fast and economical, but Zhou Linshan doesn’t take the subway at all. No matter how expensive taxis in Tokyo are, she would rather take a car because she thinks she can afford it.

For example, Ruoshui is a nostalgic person, she likes to walk aimlessly in the quaint streets, and feel the loneliness and poignancy that have long been neglected by the times, but Zhou Linshan only pursues advanced technology, bustling downtown and Shopping spree.

Once, Ruo Shui took her from Ginza to Akihabara by subway, and the crowd was so turbulent after get off work that they were far apart.

When she arrived at the station, Zhou Linshan was blocked by a thick human wall and almost couldn't get out of the station.

She shouted helplessly behind the human wall: Excuseme! Excuseme! But no one paid attention to her.

No matter how polite the Japanese are, the experience on the subway really made her not flattered.After that, Ruoshui told Zhou Linshan that the Japanese couldn't understand excuseme, so they had to say Sumimasen.

Zhou Linshan refused to learn this common Japanese phrase, and she said that she would never take the subway in the future.

For three years in Tokyo, they got together less and separated more.The year when they returned to the small town was the time when they got together most often.

But the best time is also the last time.After Ruoshui returned to China, it’s not that she didn’t think about leaving the town to develop in a big city, but her relationship with Zhou Linshan made her delay her future, and she was delayed for several years——

It was an afternoon three months later.

Ruoshui finally took the film photos taken on the yacht that day to a nearby photo studio to develop and print them.

In those photos, there are seascapes, sunshine, Pan Liren, and Qiao Chu.Pan Liren was swimming in the water, while Qiao Chu was kicking the water beside the boat, and she kicked all the splashes on Pan Liren's face.

Ruoshui starts to think, are Qiao Chu and her blue-faced confidant finally together?Is she doing well?Is she still blaming herself?

With no news of Qiao Chu, Ruoshui began to feel a little lost.However, she is consistent in her belief in fate.

15. Section 3

——The scent of frangipani——

Ruoshui smelled the fragrance of frangipani again at night, and that fragrance was always lingering at the tip of her nose, sometimes she would get up from the tatami mat and go to the window, breathing hard, but what? Can't smell it either.

She began to suspect that the fragrance of frangipani had been hidden deep in her subconscious for some time.In fact, they have already disappeared with the end of the flowering period.

Ruoshui once heard from Master Xiaomeng that frangipani has no nectar, and its fragrance is just to attract moths at night to deliver pollen to it, but the poor and innocent moths never know it.

So, they never stop rushing towards the scent of flowers obsessively at night during the flower season.

People are always obsessed and waiting in the truth that they cannot recognize clearly.Ruoshui began to feel like a moth obsessed with the fragrance of frangipani at night.

Nectar has never existed, and the flower season has passed, and the fragrance of flowers is even less likely to remain.

The stomachache that has been haunting her for a long time has come back recently...

This afternoon, Ruoshui decided to see Master Xiaomeng.

Xiao Meng is the teacher she worshiped when she learned the tea ceremony during her spare time after breaking up with Zhou Linshan three years ago.

Xiaomeng's ancestors were all tea sellers, and their shop has a very elegant name called "Yanxiang". "Yanxiang" and "Time-honored Brand" are only separated by a row of shops.

At that time, Ruoshui would feel that as long as she came in front of Master Xiaomeng, any heart that was bothering her would immediately calm down.

"Yanxiang" is always full of fragrance. The store is connected by two stores, one of which is the place where Ruo Shui learned the tea ceremony.

Ruoshui spent the most painful time with Master Xiaomeng.Yes, spend it, he is the one who saves her.

Xiao Meng is not young, but everyone in the town calls him Xiao Meng.Xiao Meng is 45 this year. He is a devout Buddhist believer and student, and he is also a vegetarian.

He looks elegant and handsome, just like an ancient scholar, exuding a unique temperament.

At that time, the master often told her many major life-related topics by citing scriptures, allowing her to gradually realize herself during a period of emotional trauma.

Ruoshui will never forget that afternoon, when the master first told her about the "Six Paths"