"Ahhhh..." A scream suddenly came from the children's room. Xiaochen and Yunhen woke up from their nightmares, with panic written on their two little faces and sweat pouring down their foreheads.
Hearing the children's cries, Xi Haitang quickly ran into the children's room, "Xiaochen, Yunhen, what's wrong with you? Are you having a nightmare?"
"Yes." The two children nodded dully, their breathing was not smooth, and their eyes could not return to normal for a long time.
"Baby, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, mommy is here..." Xi Haitang stretched out his hand to help Yunhen, who was sleeping on the upper bunk, down, then sat beside Xiaochen's bed on the lower bunk, holding the two children tightly.
In my arms.
At this moment, Xi Haitang felt more deeply how frightened the two children were. Not only were their faces sweaty, but even their pajamas were soaked.
She took the paper towel on the bedside and helped them wipe off the tears or sweat from their faces, and then asked softly, "Xiaochen, Yunhen, what did you dream about? Tell mommy...
…”
The two children were slightly stunned. They still looked frightened. They were a little afraid to say it, for fear that if they said it, the nightmare would become a reality. But if they didn't say it, they would feel even sadder.
After hesitating for a while, Xiaochen and Yunhen said timidly, "Mommy... we dreamed of daddy. He was waving to us to say goodbye. We chased him, but we couldn't catch up no matter how hard we chased him.
, we yelled at the back to tell him not to leave, but daddy didn’t seem to hear him, he walked faster and faster, farther and farther..."
After hearing the children's nightmares, Xi Haitang felt cold in her heart. She had also slept uneasily just now. After attending the funeral, she had no intention of sleeping and just lay quietly. Unknowingly, she seemed to have had a nightmare.
Yes, but her dream was not as specific as the children's. She just vaguely saw Gu Xijue standing on the street with people coming and going. His straight back blurred the clear outline in the sunset, and his body fell bit by bit.
Going down, she wanted to reach out and hold him, but she was too late. He smiled at her, a misty smile that occupied every empty space.
Although Xiaochen and Yunhen were nestled tightly in Xi Haitang's arms, they still seemed very uneasy. The haze in their hearts made their little bodies still tremble slightly. They raised their heads, with water in their clear eyes.
The light filled the air, "Mommy, we are so scared. How about we call Daddy? We want to talk to him."
"Okay, Mommy is going to get the phone right now." Xi Haitang was about to get up, but the two children didn't let go, as if they were afraid that she would let them leave alone.
Xi Haitang's heart suddenly ached, and she took the two children's hands and said, "Come, come with Mommy."
"Um!"
Just as they walked out of the children's room, they saw Gu Xichao walking out of the opposite room with a bad look on his face and a slightly sad look on his face as he wanted to smoke on the balcony.
Xi Haitang trembled suddenly, remembering what Gu Xijue once said to her. He said that although he and Gu Xichao were not twins, they had regarded each other as the strongest rivals since childhood, and there seemed to be a mysterious connection between them.
Induction, there will always be some ties.
Gu Xichao was also startled. Seeing her expression and the expressions of the children, the uneasiness in her heart became even stronger.
Facing each other, a bad premonition ran through her heart. Xi Haitang felt that her nerves were starting to become numb again, and she timidly asked Gu Xichao, "Did you... feel something?"
"..." Gu Xichao looked at Xiaochen and Yunhen, but stopped talking.
But the two children were already more sensitive than ordinary children, and they could easily see Gu Xichao's unnaturalness. They let go of Xi Haitang's hand, ran into the living room, grabbed the phone and dialed.
Beep...beep...beep...
Beep...beep...beep...
No one answered the phone.
Xi Haitang suddenly felt that his head was a little dizzy, and the sudden emotion infected the dusty air, as if the oxygen around him had been sucked out, and he would suffocate to death if he took one more second.
She rushed back to the room with a slight stagger to get her phone. The first number on the shortcut key was his.
Beep...beep...beep...
Beep...beep...beep...
Also no one answered.
In an instant, her sensitive nerves pulled her complex heartbeat, buzzing in her hollow body. It seemed like a "snap", something suddenly broke in her body, and the fragments penetrated deeply into her skin and body.
The pain in her blood was excruciating. Her already heavy heart could not get any heavier at this moment, far beyond the load she could bear.
She shook her head at a loss. No, it was impossible. She had already rebooked her flight. In ten hours, she and her children would be on the plane. In another day, they would be reunited!
The white lamp above her head cast a cold light, and the air was filled with unknown moisture, like a dream. She heard her voice with a heavy cry filling every corner of the room, and her face was covered with it.
The cool liquid slipped into the corners of my mouth, which was unspeakably painful.
Happiness was within reach, but misfortune was always interspersed between happiness, shattering her dreams and heartbeat bit by bit. The pain seemed to be magnified many times, and there was always no end.
Everything in her sight became a fixed point of nothingness. She leaned against the wall and slid down bit by bit. Finally, she curled up in a corner with her knees in her arms, her shoulders twitching uncontrollably.
The mobile phone fell to the ground, making a crisp but heavy sound, which hit her heaving heart.
The phone screen was still on, and the photo of a family of four flashed on and off...
◎◎◎
Airport.
It was still a long time before the plane took off, but Xi Haitang waited persistently because she could not afford to miss it again.
There were very few passengers in the terminal, and the air was eerily quiet. Only the unknown TV series played on the LCD TV distracted her from her loneliness. She couldn't see those scenes, but a few shallow dialogues still came through sensitively.
into her ears——
"Every time I part with you, it feels like farewell forever..."
(Next week’s finale, An An is working hard to save the manuscript, so there may be fewer updates in the past two days. I will follow the plot and try to write the finale better. Don’t worry, friends, it will be there soon!)