sinovels Chapter 30: Finale
Chapter 30: Finale
On the eve of New Year's Day, the last day of the festival is approaching, but the festive atmosphere has not diminished but increased. The supermarket is crowded with people as usual. At the last moment of the holiday shopping boom, all the shopping guides seem to be beaten up. A college student who is obviously a part-time holiday is wearing festive work clothes Standing in front of the seafood area, holding a price board to sell to customers.
"Special special price, seafood special price, loss-making sale, thank you for giving back! It's so cheap that you will cry!"
He yelled very vigorously and attracted the attention of many people. However, the quality of the goods was not very good. A few elderly aunts picked and picked. They thought it was not fresh enough and left without buying anything. As soon as they left, another A cart stopped in front of the booth.
He is a man around 25 years old, wearing a dark gray woolen coat, with a knitted scarf slightly covering his chin, and a pair of thin-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose. His eyebrows are warm and elegant.He lowered his head slightly, adjusted his glasses, and looked at the goods displayed on the ice with the eyes of cell slices under a microscope.
Emma, a member of the social elite, and exudes an air of isolation from the kitchen.
Nice!
The college student's eyes lit up, and he immediately rushed forward with a fresh-keeping bag in one hand and a plastic spoon in the other, and smiled at Xie Yi, showing his white teeth, and greeted him attentively: "Hey, this handsome guy, is it worth a catty? Please take the spoon and the fresh-keeping bag. The goods are troublesome to pick up~”
After finishing speaking, without waiting for Xie Yi to react, he rushed back and raised the board again, shouting loudly:
“Special specials—”
……
Xie Yi just glanced at it casually, and was stuffed into a plastic bag in his hand. He suddenly felt overwhelmed by the kindness. The ingredients were almost the same in his eyes. He couldn't tell the good from the bad, so he randomly picked a bag that was said to be cheap enough to cry. The special price of the abalone and jiwei shrimp, the color of the geoduck displayed next to it is not bad, and the price is not bad, so I can't help but buy it.
He and Shen Ye have traditional tastes, so they don't like these raw and cold foods, but the four children who will be guests tomorrow will probably like them, and it's not bad to change their tastes occasionally.
Thinking of the child who stalked and wanted to eat, drink and act as a light bulb, Xie Yi sighed helplessly. The last time he and Shen Ye agreed to spend the holidays together, although this time it was New Year's Day and not Christmas, they still wanted a world for the two of them. .However, he said no to his apprentice's softness, gentle smile and resoluteness, but Shen Ye was accidentally captured, which directly led to the failure of the plan.
In fact, Le Wuyi didn't dare to pester Shen Ye at all, but at the instigation of his friends, he went to Shen Ye's office and mentioned something cautiously. Unexpectedly, Shen Ye nodded and agreed after thinking about it.
Le Wuyi was tongue-tied, and then ran with joy.
From this point of view, although Shen Ye didn't say anything, he actually liked those young people quite a lot.
For him and Shen Ye, this was the first festival after the catastrophe, and it had more meaning than usual. It would be nice if there were a few more children who could play and make noise.
He took three bags of seafood to weigh and put the price tags on. Shen Ye walked over to the shelf in the condiment area, put light soy sauce, white vinegar, etc. into the shopping cart, looked at the things he just bought, and frowned. Said: "Let you pick some meat, how can you buy all these, you don't like seafood."
Besides, it's not very fresh.
Shen Ye thought to himself, but didn't say it out loud.
He refused to let Xie Yi into the kitchen, so Xie Yi couldn't bear the pain, and buying ingredients with him became Xie Yi's only entertainment, and he couldn't bear to dampen his enthusiasm too much on this matter.
"It's no different that they might like it, and besides, it's on sale, so they just bought some."
Shen Ye thought for a while, then shook his head: "It's cold, eating cold food is not good for the stomach."
Xie Yi hadn't thought of this level before, and now faced with three bags of seafood, he was in trouble: "Then what should we do with it? It's all sealed, so it's not easy to put them back."
Shen Ye went to get a plastic bag again, put a starfish in it, and then picked out clams from the white steam coming out of the ice, without raising his head, he said: "Just buy more and make it into a seafood hot pot, so as not to stew it again." Soup."
Xie Yi watched him pick and choose carefully, and finally filled half the bag with sharp eyes, and found that one of them had broken its shell, and immediately picked it out with a look of disgust and threw it back on the ice, unconsciously pursing his lips and smiling secretly.
Shen Ye, who is good at all kinds of housework, always makes people feel very gentle.
Shen Ye spent a long time in the seafood area, let Xie Yi wait on the spot, and carried two bags to weigh. Xie Yi looked at his back with soft eyes, half grateful and half afraid.
Such an ordinary day of firewood, rice, oil and salt was almost lost.
In the last battle with the heart demon that day, Shen Ye fought with his life, and there were two fatal wounds on his chest. At that time, Shen Ye felt that there was no hope of surviving, and even tried to erase his memory with his last spiritual power. Interrupt was not successful.
He watched Shen Ye close his eyes, his face was pale, the blood dripping from the wound was almost dry, he thought that the world was falling apart, everything was over, and it no longer had any meaning.
Fortunately, among the medicinal materials presented by Yanjiawen Renyu, there is a plant of Dracaena Buzhoushan, which can instantly stop bleeding and regenerate muscles, and reshape flesh and blood.
In the following days, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the rest of my life, every day deserves to be treated tenderly.
After queuing in a long line at the cashier area to check out, he packed two shopping bags and took the elevator back to the first floor of the mall. Only then did Shen Ye suddenly remember that there was mustard sauce that he forgot to buy.
The supermarket is on the basement level, the shelves are crowded with people, and the checkout line is long, which looks very stuffy and crowded. Xie Yi asked Shen Ye to stay in the rest area and guard the two bags while he went to buy mustard by himself.
Shen Ye was a little thirsty. He took a cup of hot water and took a sip. He stood by the bench and waited. Suddenly something soft hit his leg. He quickly stabilized the paper cup and looked down. The chubby cotton bun hugged the huge rabbit doll, and it was about to fall down.Shen Ye subconsciously stretched out his hand to hold the cotton bun, and the cotton bun raised his head, facing him with a small face that was about to cry.
Shen Ye's outstretched hand froze, his heart shrunk into a small ball in his chest, stopped moving, his blood circulation lost power, and turned into a viscous and cold thing that stagnated in his limbs. He stared blankly at the other party, his lips Slightly opened, and silently shouted: Xiaoxi...
With that appearance and demeanor, even if it was a thousand years later, it was impossible for him to admit that he was wrong.
Cotton bun twisted awkwardly to break free from his hand, and watched him nervously from behind the rabbit doll.
Shen Ye came back to his senses slowly. He suppressed his increasingly violent heartbeat, and slowly squatted down to look at the little girl. His voice was as soft and soft as possible, so as not to scare her away: "Why are you crying?"
The little girl buried her face on top of the rabbit doll's head, only showing a pair of defensive eyes between the pricked ears, looked at him for a while, and muttered, "I don't know you, mom said you can't talk to strangers!".
Shen Ye calmly took a deep breath, keeping his voice stable and not trembling, and tried his best to pull a smile on his lips, and said softly: "...Xiaoxi, your name is Xiaoxi, right?"
"Hey?"
Shen Xi cried out in surprise, raised her face from behind the rabbit, turned her head slightly to look at Shen Ye, her big black crystal eyes were full of confusion, and asked childishly, "Who are you, how do you know Xiao Xi's name?" name?"
"I..." Shen Ye didn't know how to answer, suppressed the sadness, rubbed the girl's soft hair, smiled and said in a hoarse voice: "I knew Xiaoxi a long, long time ago."
"A long time ago?" The little girl tilted her head, murmured unpredictably, and said innocently, "Was it when Xiaoxi was still a baby?"
Shen Ye smiled bitterly and said, "That's right."
The little girl blinked her eyes, thought carefully, pressed her chubby chin on the top of the doll's head, and apologized earnestly like a little adult: "I'm sorry, Xiaoxi was still young at that time, so I don't remember you, so don't be angry, okay? "
Shen Ye closed his eyes, and said in a gentle voice: "I will never be angry with Xiaoxi... Can Xiaoxi tell me why I am here alone now?"
Shen Xi flattened her mouth, wrinkled her little nose, as if she was about to cry, bit her lower lip with her fine white teeth, and managed to hold back, with two bags of tears in her eyes, her face puffed up, with an aggrieved and self-reproachful expression: "Xiao Xi didn't do it very well. Obedient, mother said that Xiaoxi should hold father's hand, Xiaoxi saw the salesperson auntie pushing a cart of plush bunnies, but daddy was shopping for vegetables, so Xiaoxi ran to play with little bunnies... Then, then Xiaoxi will not be able to find her parents."
Shen Xi's sensibility and grievances stuck in Shen Ye's heart like thorns, causing him a dull pain in his chest. He took out a handkerchief from his pocket and gently wiped away the tears hanging from the corners of Shen Xi's eyes, and said in relief: "Xiao Xi, don't worry, Remember Mom and Dad's phone number?"
Shen Xi shook her head, sniffed, and said in a muffled voice: "Xiao Xi doesn't remember."
She looked like she was about to cry again.
Shen Ye hastily coaxed softly: "Then... let's go to the mall and ask the announcer sister to call Mom and Dad on the radio, and let them come to Xiaoxi, okay?"
Children are always very comforting, Shen Xi's tear-stained eyelashes flicker, and the corners of her eyes are red with tears.
"Okay~o(*^▽^*)o"
Shen Ye left two full shopping bags in the coffee shop on the first floor of the shopping mall, thought for a while and found a can of Swiss sugar from the bag, opened the tin candy box and gave it to Shen Xi to hold, and then took her to The customer service center on the fourth floor.
The shopping mall was crowded with people, and when walking towards the elevator, Shen Ye was afraid that Shen Xi would be squeezed, so he hugged the little girl with a human and a rabbit doll, and Shen Xi obediently lay on his shoulders, wrapping her arms around him He hugged his neck tightly, looking for protection and trusting with all his heart, just like a thousand years ago.
Shen Ye patted her weak back as a comfort.
He has been doing such a thing for more than 100 years, comforting the little girl who is living in a nightmare and will never grow up.
At that time, Shen Ye had to work hard to make Shen Xi, who was still in shock, stop crying.
Now, she has completely got rid of the nightmare, and is no longer so restless and terrified.
This is the best thing that has ever happened to him in this life.
Tell the staff on duty at the customer service center about the missing little girl, and the announcer immediately turns on the microphone and repeats the broadcast, asking Shen Xi's family members to come to the service center as soon as they hear the announcement. During the waiting time, Shen Ye and Shen Xi sat side by side. On the couch in the customer service center, the little girl snuggled up beside him, with the bunny doll in her arms, concentrating on peeling candy.
Peeling off one, she suddenly raised her arm, brought the candy to Shen Ye's mouth, and looked at Shen Ye with watery eyes.
Shen Ye unconsciously smiled, and opened his mouth to put candy in his mouth: "Thank you Xiaoxi, Xiaoxi is so good."
The little girl smiled sweetly, and the two small dimples at the corners of her mouth seemed to be filled with sweet wine.
Shen Ye watched as she peeled off the other one and ate it by himself. He quietly and clumsily made paper airplanes out of candy paper, held them in his small hands, and played contentedly in front of the light.
He selfishly hoped that Shen Xi's family in this life would come later, and later.
Shen Xi's family still came, a middle-aged couple who dressed well and looked well-to-do came trotting over in panic.
Shen Xi happily jumped off the sofa and threw herself into the arms of her parents. The middle-aged couple went up to meet her. The man picked up his little daughter who was almost lost and couldn't help but kiss her. The woman with exquisite makeup was crying with joy, her eye makeup was wet with tears, and she looked a little Embarrassed, she snatched her daughter from the man's arms, complained angrily about her father's carelessness, turned to Shen Ye with anger that was too late to suppress, and thanked Shen Ye with tears and smiles.
No matter how you look at it, it is a happy family.
The beloved daughter was lost and found again, the middle-aged couple thanked Shen Ye a thousand times, and then asked Shen Xi to say goodbye to him.
Shen Xi stretched out her arms from her father's arms towards him, Shen Ye bent down knowingly, Shen Xi wrapped her arms around his neck, and kissed his face.
Shen Ye closed his eyes, and various images appeared in his mind instantly, like the warm wind blowing off flower petals in late spring.
The little girl who was still babbling in the maid's arms ran behind him waving her arms like lotus root joints.
He climbed up the statue of Shennong, and carefully hugged Xiaoxi, who was naughty and dared not come down from the top of Shennong's head.
After waking up from the nightmare, Xiaoxi was coaxed into tears by him, and stretched out her hands to him coquettishly: Brother, hug~
Those pictures are as fresh as yesterday in his memory, but it was all a long, long time ago.
Shen Ye watched the family of three go away, the couple quarreled softly, the man held his wife's hand, Shen Xi lay on the man's shoulder, her eyes bent into crescents, and waved to him with a smile.
He took a step forward almost uncontrollably, forcing himself to stand still, and then slowly raised his hand, waving to Shen Xi who was walking away.
It's just a one-sided relationship, I don't know if we can meet again in the future.
In this life, he is no longer Xiao Xi's relative.On the shoulders that Shen Xi rests on is another father who will take care of her and will not push her into endless nightmares.
Shen Ye felt a great sadness in his heart, and at the same time, there were strands of soft joy entangled in it.
He thought he should be grateful for the unknown power that arranged the wheel of fortune in the dark.
At least let him see Xiaoxi again, knowing that she lives in this world, and in this city, she is one of the thousands of ordinary girls who are doted on.
She will grow up slowly with the passage of time.
Familiar footsteps came hastily from behind, Shen Ye turned around, the person who came was indeed Xie Yi.
"How did you come?"
Xie Yi was in a hurry, took off his coat and put it in his arms, his forehead was dripping with sweat, and his breath was a little short of breath: "I heard the broadcast, so I rushed over... Did you see Xiao Xi?"
It was almost closing time for the shopping mall, and the customer center on the fourth floor only had staff members. Shen Ye stared straight at the empty corridor, and answered in a daze.
Xie Yi looked at Shen Ye's expression calmly, suppressed his worry, and asked with a smile, "Is Xiao Xi okay?"
Shen Ye nodded, and said absentmindedly: "She's fine. She's much more lively and cheerful, and looks energetic. Her parents love her very much."
Other than that, nothing else to say.
Not everyone is destined to be able to reunite after parting, and then walk through a lifetime together.
It is a rare blessing to meet again.They all know this truth.
There is no way to comfort Shen Ye's loss and sadness, he is burdened with all the memories of the past and the present, and the pain he has suffered cannot be healed even by time.
Xie Yi didn't ask any more questions, and stretched out his hand to hold Shen Ye's elbow, and passed the warmth of his palm, together with a silent concern and support, he looked at Shen Ye and said gently: "Ah Ye, let's go home."
Going back to the first floor of the shopping mall, I went to the coffee shop to pick up the food bags. To thank the kind store manager, Shen Ye bought a few bags of coffee beans and evaporated milk. Xie Yi saw the coffee cups on the counter, light brown and Mi Bai was in a pair, and he liked it so much that he couldn't help but buy a pair, but in the end he had to bring more things home.
When I walked out of the shopping mall, it was snowing outside, the snow foam was very small, only faintly visible around the mercury lamp, it was just a very inconspicuous light snow, but people immersed in the festive atmosphere were easy to please, young men and women all over the street shouted in surprise Take pictures, take out your mobile phone and take pictures of the snowy night sky.
Xie Yi and Shen Ye looked at each other and smiled, each of them lifted a shopping bag, their free hands were naturally clasped together, and they walked into the snowy street side by side, blending into the flow of people.
They walked slowly towards the nearby bus stop, chatting in small talk while walking.
"Call Tong over here too, he's at home alone, so he won't have to cook."
"He's not at home. I've already left for City A today, and I'll probably be in Longbingyu tomorrow."
"It seems that we need to add some more ingredients to prepare."
"Yes. When Hitomi comes back, I will definitely bring another person to Cengfan."
Music flowed in the audio-visual product store behind the bus platform, and the soothing and melodious melody of an old Cantonese song came out——
"I just look forward to the intersection of ten fingers in 30 years, but it will become tighter and tighter."
May Qimeng Fusheng be more ruthless than youth in 70 years
Then do not change the decoration pattern mood
Live peacefully in the old residence for a long time
Come to miss the perfect scene”
END
Hitomi Twelve Small Theater:
Longbing Island.
The sea breeze was as cold as a knife, and the waves surged onto the beach, splashing snow-white foam.
Hitomi tightened her neckline and clicked her tongue. This is really not a good place to talk.
The puppet named Twelve on the opposite side was obviously in a daze. Hitomi looked down at the white coat on her body, and explained actively: "This suit is really not suitable. I had an emergency operation before I came here, and I didn't have time to change clothes."
Twelve let out a blank "Oh", and suddenly came back to his senses, lowered his head in a panic, his face turned pale nervously, and said incoherently: "No, no... Master Tong looks good in anything..."
Hitomi was slightly taken aback, and couldn't help but smile at the corner of her lips.
At this moment, Twelve realized that he had said the wrong thing, he was so nervous that his tongue was almost on his tongue, and his words became more and more confused: "I...I'm not...that, Master Tong, why did you come?"
Hitomi calmly said: "Ah Ye told me everything, he said that you are the No. 12 puppet I made, and you have always been with me as an assistant. Later, when Liuyue City collapsed, I sent you to the lower realm... ...But I really don't remember any of these."
Twelve stood stiffly after he uttered the first sentence, with his head lowered, his lips tightly pressed, and his color was as pale as paper.
After all, he is also a person who has lived for a thousand years, so why is he so easy to bully.
Hitomi sighed silently, raised her right hand and pressed it on the top of Twelve's head, the puppet's hair was soft and icy cold by the sea breeze.
"Through these years, I have suffered from you."
Twelve trembled all over, his teeth clenched his lower lip, biting the blood-colored lip out of a glaring red mark, his shoulders began to tremble slightly, a drop of water dripped along the edge of the mask, and then continuously wet his toes The small piece of ground in front of it.
Hitomi watched him weep like rain behind the mask, and suddenly changed the topic: "But I won't praise you."
Twelve's lips parted slightly, unable to respond, 'Huh? ' With a sound.
Tong Tong said in a deep voice: "If I sent you to the lower realm, then I definitely don't want to see myself treated so harshly."
Water dripped from the edge of the mask even more fiercely, Twelve cried silently and trembled all over.
Hitomi was silent for a moment, then asked, "Why are you crying, do you feel wronged?"
Twelve hurriedly raised his sleeves to wipe away his tears, shaking his head anxiously.
Like some kind of loyal pet that has been scolded by its owner.
There was an uncontrollable smile in Hitomi's voice: "Oh, it's not wronged, it's just happy."
Twelve choked up and couldn't make a sound, and nodded repeatedly.
Tong took it for granted: "Since you are so happy, then come back with me and be my assistant."
Twelve raised his head abruptly, water stains slid down his cheeks, his voice was mixed with a strong nasal sound, and he said in an unbelievably hoarse voice: "Master Hitomi..."
A pale palm with skinny knuckles stretched out in front of him, Tong Tong said in a flat voice, "Twelve, let's go back."
Twelve cautiously stretched out his hand to hold it, his fingertips trembled when he touched the cool skin, and gradually tightened his grip, sweating from the palm of his hand, Hitomi closed his fingers and gripped back softly.
This time there will be no push away, no one alone.
Twelve took off his mask, raised his cuffs and carefully wiped away his tears, with water vapor in the corners of his eyes, he looked at the opposite person without blinking, and said with a bright smile: "Yes, Master Tong."