Unrequited Love

Luo Zhi glanced at the door subconsciously, wondering if he would be stopped by her halfway if he ran over now. This time she was really scared, tears rolling in her eyes. She knew that it was a wise move to avoid the other person's gaze at this moment, but she stared at them like an evil.

It seemed that a century had passed, and she was so nervous that her neck hurts.

The woman turned back leisurely, picked up the scissors, and cut the red silk that was connected between the two panes with a click. Then, using the back of the scissors as a weapon, she severely smashed the glass in the two compartments, and removed everything inside. All of the offerings were taken out and smashed on the ground. Then he smiled faintly, took the scissors into the cloth bag, and walked towards her slowly.

Luo Zhi watched her and slowly put down the receiver, without hearing the people inside calling her name constantly.

"Are you his daughter?"

The vicissitudes of life are hoarse, but the voice is extremely beautiful. The tone of this sentence does not have the slightest gloomy feeling, but like an ordinary elder. If you ignore her weird dress and excessively aging body, you can see that she must have been a beauty when she was young, with an unforgettable sharp jaw and slender phoenix eyes, but it is a pity that she was eroded by the wind and frost so that it is hard to see her original face. .

"Your eyes really look like your father..."

As the woman said, she stretched out her hand to touch Luo Zhi's face. Luo Zhi did not avoid it, perhaps because he was completely shocked. The cold and numb cheeks were covered by the same cold palms, with only some dull touch.

She withdrew her hand suddenly, Luo Zhi's gaze followed the hand and saw that all her naturally curved fingers were red and swollen, and she turned to the beginning a little bit unbearably.

"When I came, I found that his ashes had been taken away, so I kept hiding behind the last row of cabinets. I saw you came in to deliver the ashes."

"Is your mother okay? I don't even know her. I used to hate her. I used to curse you to deserve it. I am confused."

The woman's beautiful, slow and low tone floated in the room, seeping into the floating dust up and down in the air. She only said a few words, but Luo Zhi felt that the voice had been lingering for hundreds of years.

Seeing Luo Zhi's dumb look, she smiled, the deep wrinkles in the corners of her eyes were more obvious than the gaps where her eyes were narrowed. "Don't be afraid, I am not a ghost. If I were a ghost, I would have been reborn. I would vote for a good person and live again."

She talked and walked out, and the red dress quickly disappeared outside the door.

Luo Zhi stayed for a long time before he remembered the phone in his hand.

"Hey, are you still there? I'm fine."

She feels a little guilty, but she doesn't know that a sentence as light as a feather rescued the person on the other side of the phone.

"The person who was talking to you, has he gone?"

"gone."

"If you're scared, don't hang up the phone. Is the cabinet locked? Go outside once it's locked. Don't be afraid. I'm on the phone. Get out of there quickly, goodbye."

She recovered from that scene and heard the voice on the other end of the phone that was so soft as to coax a child, she suddenly sobbed, tears falling down her eyes, and said, okay.

"As soon as the old man talked about handing in the papers, everyone stood up, and they were all using the chaotic scenes of handing in papers to answer each other's answers. In fact, the questions this time are very kind. Most of them are filled in the blanks and choices. There is only one big question. .

"My classmate gave me some coupons for Mr. Pizza. I remember that day you told me that you like to eat gold medal potatoes. I wanted to treat you to them today..."

Sheng Huainan's voice kept ringing in Luo Zhi's ears, itchy. She walked quickly to the door, but stopped again, and turned to look at the two compartments where the red silk had just been cut by the woman in red.

The names of the two deceased inside seemed unfamiliar, but Luo Zhi was surprised by the group photo stuck in the depth of the glass cabinet.

It's her grandparents.

It turned out that the ashes of her grandparents were placed here. Luo Zhi twisted the red silk with his free hand, groping for the stubble with his thumb, thoughtfully.

"...We didn’t know that we would take a quiz until halfway through the class. The teacher said that we would take a test during the break, and gave us a meaningful smile, saying that if you want to send a text message, you should send it quickly, or call directly. Well, let's only rest for ten minutes.

"Zhang Mingrui's cell phone can't get through when the phone is out of power, and the person is not in the dormitory. I can't find him. I hurriedly called you, but he was never in the service area. Is the funeral home too far from the city and the signal is not good? ?

"Luo Zhi, are you there?"

His mother-in-law was really nagging. Luo Zhi knew that Sheng Huainan was afraid that he was still thinking about the scene just now, so he tried to say some trivial things to make her no longer afraid.

"I'm here. I just walked out of the building." The voice didn't sound so empty anymore.

"Ok?"

"I won't be afraid when I walk into the sun."

"That's good."

In the deserted compound, Luo Zhi stood silently at the door. The phone became a little hot due to the long conversation, but it warmed her left ear.

"Sheng Huainan?"

"Ok?"

"Are we going to be'good friends' again now?"

There was just silence on the other end of the phone.

"Are you still not going to tell me why I did those weird things to fix me? Why did it suddenly disappear, why... Then simply smooth it out and start again. Everyone is still a good classmate?"

Sheng Huainan still did not answer.

"It seems that I did something that made you angry without my own knowledge, so why did you call to be a friendly classmate again? If this is a new way to retaliate against me, before you know that I... I'm to you... In short, if this is another kind of revenge, I think it's better for you to keep the peace of the world away. It's too cruel to play tricks over and over again."

Luo Zhi saw her mother coming from the parking lot and beckoned a hand from a distance.

"Thank you for the test...Thank you so much."

There was finally an answer on the phone: "From the beginning to now, you have said'thank you' three times."

Luo Zhi smiled faintly: "Three times of'thank you' and three times of'sorry', to each other, not to mention my gratitude is much simpler than your apology. I haven't had lunch yet, hurry up, I hang up. "

There was a clear and audible gasp over the phone, as if there was still something to say, but Luo Zhi pressed the hang up button the moment the other party spoke.

"mom!"

"You haven't come out all the time, it scared me to death. Just now I saw a mentally ill woman coming out of this door and jogging all the way there, so I hurried over to see if something happened to you..." Mother's eyes were red. , I will cry after a few more words.

"I'm fine, don't be afraid."

Since she got in the car, her mother had pulled her into her arms and touched her head, as if she had always said "feeling the hair can't be scared" when she was a child. Luo Zhi glanced at Uncle Chen in the driving seat embarrassedly.

The temperature generated by the phone because of the call has not yet receded, she held it in her hand, a little bit of warmth passed to her heart, a little sour.

In the morning in the car, Uncle Chen had been talking to Luo Zhi, asking about school majors, life in Beijing, and talking about the experience of meeting Luo Zhi’s mother. However, in the car returning at noon, none of the three spoke.

Luo Zhi felt that Uncle Chen liked her mother.

She intuitively thought he was a good person, but didn't plan to think too much.

That is mother's own business. All she needs to do is to work hard along the way to show that she also likes Uncle Chen.

In this case, one day, mother will not care if she will be unhappy.

The sun in winter is radiant, and it doesn't have a slight temperature when it is on the face through the car window as if it is fake. Luo Zhi's thoughts have been entwined with the woman just now. When her mother eagerly asked if she had hit the mental illness, she shook her head firmly.

She was completely shocked and stupid. Just now the woman was holding her face with her right hand, what kind of light was shining in her aging and beautiful eyes. She seemed to have been stunned, but she couldn't understand the waves flowing in the opponent's eyes.

She is like a witch who has traveled through time in the past. In the photo, the young and handsome father frozen in time, and the weird woman in red dress in front of her, there is always an indescribable fit between the scenes. It seems that the mother, Uncle Chen, and the sunlight outside the window are all unreachable real worlds flowing forward in the long river of time, but Luo Zhi was cursed by her because of her eyes, and stayed in the frozen space and time.

She concealed her mother and told herself that it was all hallucinations.

After returning home and having lunch with his mother, Luo Zhi said that he wanted to go to high school.

"Where to go in such a cold day?!"

Luo Zhi persisted, until his mother shook her head and groaned: "Go and come back quickly."