Fuyun Town is a remote town in the southwest. The people here maintain the simplest natural customs. Shao Tianze felt it strongly as soon as he arrived there. It was when he got off the car that he accidentally broke the handle of the box.
It was extremely difficult to lift the heavy box. A middle-aged man in his forties came over and spoke broken Mandarin to help him.
Shao Tianze's first reaction was that he was a liar and might have robbed his luggage and ran away, so he said warily: "No, thank you."
He trudged forward dragging his suitcase. There were no taxis, not even a tricycle. He was in such a hurry that he didn't even bring a map, and he didn't know where the hotel was.
The older brother came over just now: "Are you a foreigner?"
Shao Tianze still didn't want to talk to him. At this time, an old woman in front of her suddenly fell down. The middle-aged man finally left her behind and rushed towards the old woman, shouting anxiously in words he couldn't understand.
Shao Tianze thought to himself: "No, is there anyone who dares to help a fallen old man these days? It's probably his relatives."
So I randomly grabbed someone and asked, "Who is he?"
The person in question shook his head: "No, he doesn't have such old relatives. He only has a wife and two children."
Soon, there were more than just middle-aged men, including the person Shao Tianze asked just now. Many people gathered together and talked anxiously. An enthusiastic young man patted his chest and said something. Everyone nodded and turned to the old man.
He helped him to the cart where he originally carried vegetables.
The old man was sent away, probably to the hospital. Shao Tianze was extremely shocked. This is almost impossible to see in a big city. Nowadays, people are indifferent. How can anyone be willing to help a stranger?
He suddenly understood why Xu Ou wrote that sentence on that photo, because he also wanted to regard this place as the place he most yearned for.
Someone pointed out an inn to him. Yes, the hotels here are all named after inns, and they seem to still maintain the atmosphere of the Jianghu. There are not many hotels, just two or three, all in farmhouse style. They don't look luxurious, but they are clean.
After settling down, Shao Tianze began to look for Xu Ou. He took Xu Ou's photo and asked everywhere. There were many people on the street, but no one knew her after asking so many people. Gradually, Shao Tianze became less anxious and simply settled down.
, search slowly, and while searching, take photos everywhere with your camera.
One day, the shopkeeper looked at the camera in Shao Tianze's hand with a big pipe in his mouth and said, "Isn't it expensive? All you city people like to play with this."
"Have you seen a SLR camera? Come on, let me take a picture for you!" Shao Tianze said, asking the shopkeeper to pose.
The shop owner is considered a well-traveled person in the town. There are many people coming and going in his place, and he has seen some things that others have not seen.
"I've seen it before. Some time ago, there was a city girl who took a photo of me with a camera like yours. I even took a photo with her."
Shao Tianze smiled lightly and said, "That's right."
"Yes, you city people are just good-looking and fashionable, so you are different from us."
"I prefer your simplicity." Shao Tianze said sincerely.
"Haha, we all like things we don't have. Wait a minute..." The shopkeeper knocked out the smoke from his cigarette pouch excitedly, turned to his room and took out a photo album, sat down next to Shao Tianze and said, "You didn't come
At that time, a woman who was also from your city came to live with me. Now in my life, I have never seen a woman as good-looking as her. So I asked her to take a picture with me. She was quite
Generously, I agreed.”
Shao Tianze couldn't help but laugh: "Then you think about me every day?"
The shop owner smiled and didn't deny it.
However, when Shao Tianze saw the photo, he couldn't laugh anymore. That familiar smile and the eyebrows engraved in his bones were deeply reflected in his eyes.
His voice was trembling: "She...how could it be her? Where is she?" Shao Tianze grabbed the shop owner's arm.
The shop owner looked at him ambiguously: "How's it going? You think it's beautiful too, don't you?"
Shao Tianze took down the photo and said, "I bought this photo. Please give me a price!"
"Hey! I didn't say I wanted to sell it! I finally got her to take the photo with me, and it was taken with her camera. I don't even have the negatives. I won't sell it if I don't!"
"Five hundred dollars!"
"Not for sale!" the shopkeeper said firmly.
"one thousand!"
The shop owner was a little hesitant, then thought about it and said, "It's not a matter of money..."
"Three thousand! That's it!" Shao Tianze immediately took out the cash, took out an extra five hundred, and put them all in front of the shop owner, "I'll give you another five hundred, tell me where she is now?"
When the shop owner saw the real money in front of him, he still couldn't hold it back. You know, his one-day accommodation fee was only twenty yuan!
He looked at the photo and then at the money. For simple working people, the woman in the dream was no match for real money. He gritted his teeth, took the money and said, "Okay! I'll tell you!"
Shao Tianze stood in front of the small wooden house pointed by the shop owner and suddenly lost his courage.
The so-called timidity of being close to home is probably true. He traveled thousands of miles to get here, but he didn't have the courage to knock on the door.
He was afraid that Xu Ou would run away again when she saw him. This was her last spiritual destination. If she left again, he really didn't know where to find her.
Shao Tianze stood for a long time. Suddenly, the door of the wooden house opened, and he subconsciously hid in the bushes on the side. The casually dressed woman who came out was indeed Xu Ou. She was very quiet, quietly teasing the flowers and plants, and gently stroking a few little ones.
Cat. She wears the clothes of local women, and her beautiful figure and elegant temperament are not comparable to those of local women.
She is always like this and can firmly lock other people's attention at any time.
But such a woman wastes her youth on a man who doesn't love her at all, and misses the most beautiful years.
Shao Tianze suddenly decided that he would not face her. He could not bear to destroy such a beautiful scene. He could not bear it.
He bought a small wooden house like Xu Ou's nearby and set up an infrared telescope. The biggest pleasure every day was watching what Xu Ou was doing across the street. Sometimes when she went out for a walk, he would follow her.
, everywhere she goes, from a distance, silently beside her like air.
Sometimes Xu Ou would feel that someone was watching her silently, but when she turned around, she found nothing. Then she felt that she was overthinking it. Who would have imagined this place?
She likes to go to the only flower shop in the town and buy a bouquet of flowers every day. She likes fiery red roses, the kind of flowers that represent love, which used to make her feel very tacky, but now she likes them very much because there is a lack of them in her life.
A passionate love.
Suddenly one day, Xu Ou opened the door and saw a bouquet of roses at the door.
Xu Ou was surprised. She looked around but didn't see the person who sent the flowers. Who was it? A figure flashed in her mind, but she immediately shook her head and rejected it.
If you are a man in a small town, they will express their love in the most direct way, singing love songs in front of you, never in this sneaky way.
Could it be him?
Xu Ou couldn't believe it.
The next day, the third day, and every morning for half a month, there would be a bouquet of fresh roses outside the door.
Xu Ou couldn't help it anymore. She went to ask the flower shop owner who ordered roses from her every day. The flower shop owner said that she couldn't tell because she promised that man.
Unable to get the result from the flower shop owner, Xu Ou decided to check it out himself.
This night, she didn't sleep all night.
But the roses didn't come. Xu Ou felt very disappointed. Is the mysterious flower sender finally tired of it and no longer continuing this seemingly interesting but actually boring guessing game? People develop a habit and suddenly change it.
You will feel uncomfortable all over. Xu Ou feels that he has become accustomed to seeing a bouquet full of life beside his door every morning.
She was very tired after not sleeping all night, so she went back to her room and had a good sleep.
She slept until the afternoon, and when she opened the door, her heart almost jumped. There was still a large bouquet of fiery red roses, so vivid, as if they had been specially sent to her in her dream.
Xu Ou's heart suddenly felt warm.
She didn't know that Shao Tianze had been waiting for the lights in her room to dim. The flower shop owner told him that when Xu Ou came and asked who the person who sent the flowers was, he knew that Xu Ou would definitely be waiting for him. He waited
She dimmed the light and waited for her to fall asleep. She waited all night, and he also waited all night. It was not until he saw her sleeping soundly on the table from the window that he finally quietly put down his flowers.
That night, Xu Ou's cabin had no lights, and Shao Tianze placed flowers in front of Xu Ou's door as usual.
The door of the wooden house suddenly opened. Under the cold moonlight, Xu Ou looked at Shao Tianze with tears in his eyes.
"It's really you..."
Shao Tianze was a little frightened: "Xu Ou... you... you didn't sleep..."
Xu Ou said: "I guess it's you, you are the only one who would do this. Tianze, why are you forcing me? I have already escaped here. I want to be alone for a while. Do you want me to have nowhere to go?"
Will you be satisfied?"
"Xu Ou, I didn't want to disturb you, I just wanted to see if you were doing well, just to see you."
"We have nothing to do with each other anymore. I have nothing to do with everyone and everything in city x. Please leave and don't bother me again!"
The door was slammed shut, also separating Xu Ou and Shao Tianze from each other.
It is already the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, and the weather in the town is still very cold, with a few flakes of snow falling from time to time.
On this night, everyone was gathering together in a lively manner. Only Xu Ou and Shao Tianze were separated by a door, but they were far away from each other.
Snow slowly began to drift from the sky, quickly turning the earth white.
Xu Ou hid in the room and cried. She could not ignore the news that Mr. Shao was looking for Shao Tianze from the computer. He belonged to that prosperous land and could never be with her.
Shao Tianze did not leave, but stood silently in the snow. His mind was as blank as the snow in the sky.
He thought: If Xu Ou doesn't want him, he might as well let the snow bury him.