Chapter 287: Wei Lai's Promise
That afternoon, Huai'en and I boarded the train to Shanxi.
Huai'en has been extremely excited since she set off with me. She swept away the sadness she had before and seemed to be full of expectations for this unexpected trip, chatting all the way.
And my mood is obviously not as relaxed as hers, and I have always been in excitement and nervousness.
Time flies, and the days in Tibet seem to be like yesterday, but three years have passed. Wei Lai, who was only over three years old at the time, is now nearly seven years old. Time seems to have passed for a long time, but those years are still so new to me. I know that some memories will never go far.
But I know more about what time means to a child. I can't be sure whether Wei Lai still remembers me and her former father now?
"Uncle, what if Wei Lai doesn't remember you?" Huai En probably guessed what I was thinking when she saw that I was in a state of silence, and asked with big eyes.
"No, Wei Lai must remember me. You don't know how attached she was to me at that time!" I answered with great certainty, but I didn't know that excessive affirmation was a manifestation of lack of confidence.
"I mean, if Wei Lai was only over three years old at that time, and a child over three would not have that long memory. What if she couldn't recognize you, would you be sad?"
I was slightly stunned when I heard this. In fact, I also knew that children's memories are the most unbearable to the passage of time and are also the age stage in life that is most likely to accept new things. Although I am not willing to admit it, what Huai En said is undoubtedly the truth.
I turned my head out the window and looked at the scene flying rapidly. After a long time, I slowly spoke: "Actually, even if she has forgotten me, it doesn't matter. As long as I know that she is happy and happy, it's enough. If she really doesn't remember me, I just need to look at her from a distance. I just miss her too much! As long as I can look at her again, it can be regarded as a knot in my heart. I finally did not disappoint the agreement with Wei Lai."
"What agreement do you have with Wei Lai?" Huai Enqi said.
"I promised her to see her soon the day Wei Lai left, but I accidentally lost her address. If it weren't for you, I would even think I would never see Wei Lai again in my life!"
Speaking of this, I suddenly realized that I could lose the news about Wei Lai, all relying on Huai'en's contribution, and I have never thanked her until now.
So he turned his head and looked at Huai'en sitting beside me, and said to her very seriously: "Huai'en, thank you!"
Seeing my solemn appearance, Huai En seemed a little embarrassed.
"Don't thank me for now. It's not certain whether that girl is your Wei Lai. Do you know how many people in the world are called Wei Lai? If not, wouldn't I let you look forward to it!" Huai En said and pulled my emotions back.
But I was very sure in my heart that the girl named Jiang Weilai that Huaien must be my Weilai. Although I don’t know why I am so sure, I believe in my sixth sense. This is not just because all the conditions are very consistent. I vaguely feel that the girl I am going to meet must be my daughter. It seems that there is a mysterious force in the dark that dominates my nerves, making me firmly believe in it.
"Uncle, can you tell me about Weilai?" Huaien seemed to be full of curiosity about the girl I was eager to meet.
So in this train carriage leading to Shanxi, I once again read out my memories one by one and told them to Huai En to know.
Unlike other memories in my life, this memory with Wei Lai is sweet, although it is inevitable that it ends with separation and sadness.
But at least we are at peace with each other, and now I have her again
News, even at this moment, I was on the way to see her. The sadness of parting at the beginning seemed to add to the joy of reunion.
The skylight outside the car window gradually darkened as I told you slowly, and night began to fall on the earth.
Huaien leaned against my shoulder, hugged my arm, and listened quietly. When I finished telling all the things about Wei Lai, she finally snuggled up on my shoulder and fell asleep.
The train finally stopped at Yuncheng Railway Station, Shanxi the next morning.
Huai'en probably never had such a long train trip. Because of the hurry, she had never bought a sleeper car. Throughout the night, Huai'en first slept unfamiliarly until midnight. Seeing that she was really uncomfortable, I put her head on my knees and let her lie on her side in her seat to rest.
Even so, when I woke her up, she was still tired, obviously she didn't have a good rest that night.
On the contrary, although I didn't close my eyes that night, I still seemed to be full of energy. The more the train moved forward, my spirit became more and more excited.
When the train finally arrived at the destination, my excitement almost made me unable to hold back.
Huai'en was woken up by me and looked around sleepyly. Then she realized that her head had been laid on my legs at some point. She smiled slightly at me and did not feel embarrassed.
Huai'en stood up, moved his stiff limbs, twisted his neck before saying to me: "Uncle, have we arrived?"
While I was picking my luggage down from the luggage rack, I said to her, "We're here, are you sleeping well?"
Huai'en once again showed me a charming smile and answered only sweetly: "Okay!"
After leaving the train station, Huai En and I found a breakfast shop. After borrowing the bathroom in the store, we ordered some breakfast casually.
After breakfast, Huai'en and I got on a car to another county town. I didn't ask for the specific address like Huai'en, but I vaguely knew that I was not far from Weilai.
The car stopped two hours later, and I knew that we finally arrived at the city where Wei Lai was, which made my heart even more excited.
While excited, there was a hint of anxiety. I couldn't help but think in my heart, if Wei Lai really didn't remember me anymore, what should I do? Will I be sad? I must be.
When she left me, she was just a young child, but she was only three years old. Now, three years have passed, almost half of her current life. Three years are so far away for a child who is only six years old, and it is normal that she doesn't remember me.
But in my heart, I still longed for Wei Lai to call me Dad again.
The taxi finally stopped in front of the yard of the Future Kindergarten on a plaque on the wall. The driver told us that this is where we are coming.
I paid the fare, but when I got off the bus, my legs were shaking, and my heart was pounding.
I looked up at the big words "Future Kindergarten" written vertically on the wall of this four-story building, and I was stunned for a moment.
The name of this kindergarten is actually pronounced with the same pronunciation as Wei Lai. I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or other factors that I don’t know. But it undoubtedly makes me more convinced that my Wei Lai is now close to me, only separated from me by a wall. How can this not make me feel unbearable?
Huai'en looked at me quietly, and she could probably understand my mood at the moment and quietly took my arm.
Huai'en and I came to the guard room in front of the kindergarten and told the security guard who was watching me.
After our purpose, the security guard told us that there was no special matter in class time and that we should not visit the park. But he then raised his wrist and looked at the time, telling us that it was Friday and that the children could finish school early after class in the morning, saying that school was about to end in twenty minutes. If we had nothing urgent to do, we might as well wait at the school gate for a while.
Huai En knew my eagerness and wanted to go forward and say something, but I reached out to stop her.
"Let's wait a little longer." I said to Huai En.
Huai'en looked back at me and retreated to the side in silence.
Actually, I don’t want to go into kindergarten now to meet Wei Lai.
I wonder if Wei Lai will remember me without any prompts, so I wonder if she will recognize me when she comes out of school when I appear in front of her as a passerby.
Although the weather in the north was cold, it did not snow. Huai'en and I sat under a tree not far from the entrance of the kindergarten and waited quietly. But I was already nervous.
Time passed by minute by second. For the first time, I felt that time could sometimes go thousands of miles quietly, but sometimes it was so slow that it almost collapsed. At this moment, it seemed that there were countless scales in every second, so slow that it made people feel suffocated.
As time passed, some people began to come to the kindergarten gate one after another. Everyone was holding a card in their hands, standing or squatting waiting at the kindergarten gate.
I could probably guess that these people should be here to pick up their children in the kindergarten.
There are also some vendors selling snacks or small toys who also came here with a trolley. I think they also found out the time for kindergarten to finish school and came here to earn some money.
As the crowd gathered more and more, my eyes began to wander among the crowd. I hoped to see Wei Lai's biological parents, namely Jiang Chengxiu or the girl named Xiaolan, but I could never find those two familiar faces.
This made me feel a little worried. Although I was extremely confident the moment before, I became a little panicked when the answer was about to be revealed.
I don't know how disappointed I would be if the little girl named Jiang Weilai who came out from it later was not my Weilai.
A moment later, a ringtone finally came from the kindergarten. My heart also jumped up as the ringtone rang, and I couldn't help but stand up.
Huai'en, who was holding my arm, was trembling slightly. I knew she was nervous.
After the ringtone, the unique noise of children began to come from the kindergarten, like a group of birds waiting to return to their nests, chirping!
The door of the kindergarten was opened, and the person who picked up the child instantly snuggled up. They used the card in their hands to swipe the machine on a machine and automatically reported the child's name. The children who were called were taken out from the inside and handed to the adults. This shows that the kindergarten's safety awareness is quite good.
I was squeezed by the crowd. Although I was more anxious than anyone else, I didn’t have a card that could call out Wei Lai’s name in my hand. It was in vain to squeeze in. I had to suppress my excitement and wait for the machine to call out Wei Lai’s name!
After more than ten minutes of suffering, most of the people outside the school gate finally dispersed, and I finally heard the name that made me dream about all the time: Jiang Weilai!
My heart seemed to explode from my chest, and my breathing became rapid in an instant. I stood outside the crowd, almost urged to open the crowd and rush in. I couldn't even wait for a second. God knows how much I miss my Wei Lai!
Chapter completed!