Chapter 139 Seems like everything is about to change
Days will always go on, and the sadness of losing a friend will slowly be healed.
The first semester is coming to an end soon. Qi Si will leave Chunshui Town to go to high school after graduating from junior high school. Watching him prepare for the high school entrance examination, Luo Yan occasionally feels empty in his heart.
She doesn't like the word goodbye very much.
At the end of June, when she and Lu An came back from fishing for loaches in the fields, several uninvited guests came to the Qi family.
The two men in suits and ties were a bit flattering. They didn't know what they were talking about. Aunt Lu and Qi Si's attitudes were very cold.
Luo Yan hid in the corner and waited for them to leave before going home.
After a while, I heard from people in the town that a big boss in Imperial City wanted to invest in Chunshui Town, develop it into a tourist resort, and pay for the relocation of local residents. It was said that the money given was a lot.
But the villagers are all locals, and most of them are still unwilling to leave their hometown.
I thought that the big investor and chamber of commerce would give up. Two months later, the government also issued a document stating that it would build Chunshui Town into a folk tourist attraction. The relocation conditions this time were twice as high as last time.
For ordinary families, it is enough to cover expenses for twenty years, and many residents are excited.
Qi Lu was furious after hearing the news, "I knew he wouldn't compromise so easily. I know him too well. In order to get what he wants, he will use the power in his hands to do whatever he wants."
Qi Si listened at the side with clear eyes.
"Asi," the little girl was taking a nap in her room. Qi Lu looked at her son and asked him uncertainly for the first time, "Do you want to live with your father?"
His voice was cold, "You haven't raised me, so what kind of father do you think you are?"
Qi Lu was silent for a while, then suddenly said, "If, if he can give you a better life, you can actually consider it..."
Qi Si frowned, "I have a mother who gave birth to me and raised me. Why do I have to live with a person who can be regarded as a stranger?"
Looking at him, Qi Lu didn't speak for a long time, but there was some sadness in his eyes that Qi Si couldn't understand, which was fleeting and could not be caught.
Realizing that her physical condition was not very optimistic, and the medicine hidden in the bedside table was almost gone, Qi Lu decided to go out once.
The night before she went out, she wanted to tell Qi Si about her affairs, but she couldn't speak when she really looked at her upright and quiet son.
She dared not think about how sad he would be if she was no longer there, how he would live and grow up.
When I think about it, my heart feels like being cut with a knife, and the pain is so painful that my internal organs are sore.
And she couldn't let go of that poor little guy.
"Asi, you have to remember what mom said."
Qi Si's eyes stayed on her for a moment, and his thin lips moved, "Yeah."
"You have to take good care of Yanyan and treat her as your own sister. Don't let her be bullied."
"good."
"Also, I know you are against what mom said that day, but listen to mom, if," Qi Lu choked up and tilted her head, "I mean if something happens to me, you just live with your dad. He will
It can give you a better life."
Qi Si keenly sensed something was wrong and frowned, "Are you hiding something from me?"
"I just watched TV yesterday and saw a mother died in a car accident and her child became an orphan. I felt very pitiful and thought of myself."
She still needs time to be sick.
Touching Qi Si's head, she smiled softly, "I'll go talk to him. You take good care of the little guy."
As soon as Luo Yan got up, she saw Aunt Lu going out. She ran over and called her softly, "Aunt Lu."
Qi Lu knelt down and straightened her collar, "Aunt Lu is going to the city and will bring you some delicious food. You can stay at home with brother Qi Si, okay?"
"How long will it take to go?"
"The place we went to is a bit far this time. I'll be back in three or four days. How about I buy you a new skirt then?"
"Okay!" Luo Yan looked at her with a smile, "Then be careful on the road, I will be obedient and wait for you at home."
"So good."
When Qi Lu stepped out of the threshold, Qi Si called her, "Can't I go with you?"
"You have to take care of Yanyan."
Qi Si glanced at Luo Yan, and Qi Lu said helplessly: "Just wait for me at home. What are so many people doing? Will I leave you all behind?"
She won't lose them, but she seems to have lost herself.
Four days have passed as promised and she hasn't come back yet.
Luo Yan thought that the journey was too far and she was delayed on the way, so she continued to wait at home.
Recently, Chunshui Town has not been as peaceful as before. Many families are packing their things and preparing to move.
Even the Lu An family has to leave.
I heard that this project will start by the end of the year, and people who had previously held a wait-and-see attitude gradually signed and agreed to move.
Because Aunt Lu was not at home in the Qi family, several staff members came in with folders but returned without success.
The happy and peaceful town in the past seemed to become busy overnight, and after the busyness, it cooled down and became depressed.
Luo Yan realized that everything seemed to be changing.
There was abundant rain in August, and the misty rain enveloped the town. She sat on a stool in front of the threshold and watched the rain hitting the bluestone floor of the yard, creating little splashes of water.
Beside him, Qi Si held an umbrella and was about to go out.
He stepped into the yard where the water was flowing, and his umbrella protected him from the rain.
Luo Yan sat up straight and tightened his knuckles unconsciously, "Qi Si..."
The young man turned around and looked around, his brows and eyes filled with mist.
"You'll come back, right?"
He paused slightly, looked at her for a moment, and his voice seemed a little softer than before, "I'm going to Tang's house and I'll be back before dinner."
After thinking for a while, he asked her, "Do you want to come together?"
"Um."
People tend to get sleepy on rainy days, so she fell asleep while watching TV on the sofa in Tang's house. When she was vaguely conscious, she heard the sound of raindrops hitting the umbrella in her ears, and she seemed to be moving.
Opening her eyes and seeing Qi Si's shoulders and profile, she softly called out, "Brother..."
He tilted his head, his eyes fell on the tip of her small nose, and he said in his throat, "Well, I'm home."
Luo Yan's eyes were red, and the words she had not dared to ask these days finally came out in the drizzle.
"Aunt Lu, do you still want me?"
Qi Si frowned slightly, and his voice was mixed with the coolness of the rainy season, "Yes."
"She may have had some physical problems, but she was cured and came back."
Luo Yan sniffed and paused, "What's the disease? Why didn't she tell me?"
"She didn't even tell me."
If he hadn't seen the test report she hid under the pillow, he would have been kept in the dark by her.
She hoped he didn't know, so he had to pretend not to know.
The young man's eyes were dark, and he stood in the rain for a while before continuing to lift his feet, "We have to believe in her, she will get better."
The little girl held back her tears and said, "Yeah."
Luo Yan loves to dream a lot recently. She dreams about washing her uncle's shoes in the cold winter months, her hands are swollen, and her cousin cries and sobs in the dark bungalow.
She dreamed that Luo Shu finally came to see her, took her away from her aunt's disdainful eyes, and bought her a beautiful dress and a doll.
She dreamed again that Luo Shu was holding a baby in her arms and looking at her coldly, and Aunt Lu was waving to her with a smile on her face.
Lu An's family was also moving away, and the last time they saw each other was under the old banyan tree at the entrance of the village.
He gave Luo Yan a whole box of snacks and candies, and said to her: "Big brother will always be the big brother. I bowed to you under this banyan tree last year sincerely. Remember to come to me when you grow up. Brother Lu will always protect you."
With you."
"Lu An..."
"Don't be bullied when I'm not here, be braver."
"I bought these snacks with all my pocket money. I don't have anything to think about for you. You have to eat them well." Lu An looked at her tearful eyes, reached out and wiped a handful for her, and laughed,
"Don't cry. I have lived a good life, and I am not leaving this beautiful world. Even if we can't see each other, we have to grow up well. Let's grow up to be better adults and meet again. Qingbai, the three of us will definitely meet again.
We met."
Luo Yan choked and said, "Okay, let's meet again when we grow into better adults."
"Thank you. You are the first friends I have made in my life. I am very happy to be with you."
"I am also very happy to have a sworn sister who is just a follower."
"Take care, Lu An."
Lu An's eyes were dark and quiet, "See you later, little one."
——
The childhood friendship sprouted under the Tang family’s pomegranate tree, thrived under the banyan tree, and eventually became three branches that extended out.
The colorful rice dumplings that were not sent out and the heavy snacks in hand marked the knot of this friendship that can heal a lifetime.
"What a sin! Why has there been so much rain this year? The river in the west swelled. I heard that a person was washed away."
"When did this happen?"
"Just this morning, Lao Hou saw it from a distance. An hour ago, the town mobilized young people to go to the downstream reservoir to fish for people. Oh, what a crime. I don't know whose family it belongs to."
The conversation between the two uncles squatting in front of the door and eating melon seeds reached their ears. When they saw Luo Yan, they shouted, "Children, the river bed swells during the rainy season. You kids can't go there to play."
"Yeah." Luo Yan nodded and went home with the box in his arms.
Qi Si was not in the lobby. She carried two bags of potato chips and went up to the attic. The painting on the drawing board on the attic was only half completed, but no one was there.
It's strange, he used to never leave in the middle of painting.
After watching TV downstairs for a while, the sky was getting dark, and after thinking about it, she went to Tang's house.
Tang Yu was a little confused, "Qi Si didn't come here today."
Qi Si didn't come back all night. The next day she searched around the town and met the two uncles from yesterday.
"It is said that a young man in white clothes was fished out and he was already out of breath..."
Her heartbeat jumped into her throat, and Luo Yan ran to the west river.
The water in the river was turbid, and there were not even half a human being in sight.
Only then did she realize that the uncle said it was downstream, and she walked down the river on the muddy road.
It started to rain again, and tears mixed with the rain. Even though she knew Qi Si was not here, she still had to shout, "Qi Si..." every few steps she took.
"Qi Si——"
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and when she realized that the river was rising, Luo Yan was startled and wanted to walk higher.
The continuous rain for half a month soaked the land. The soft ground was washed away by the fierce rain, and the little girl fell into the rolling river together.