On the way back, the snow was getting heavier and heavier. Many pedestrians were wearing hats or wrapping their heads with scarves to avoid the biting cold wind. Gong Xue was in a hurry when she went out. Not only did she not wear a hat, she even wore a down jacket casually.
Something light and thin.
Waiting for the bus in the cold wind was really not a comfortable thing. She squinted her eyes slightly, put her hands in her pockets, and kept tapping her feet to resist the power of the cold winter.
The cell phone began to sing happily in her pocket. She opened her clear black eyes, took out the cell phone, looked at it, smiled, and picked up the phone in a brisk voice.
"Hi, Xie Fei!"
"Still outside?" Xie Fei was eating instant noodles in the dormitory. Their private high school had one day of late exams and would not be released until tomorrow afternoon.
"Well, I'm waiting for the bus." In the distance, a public bus leading to the military compound drove into the station. She took out her bus card, lined up along with the crowd, and prepared to get on the bus.
Xie Fei's mouth made a crunching sound, "My dad just called and said that Grandpa Gong's review time is scheduled for the morning of tomorrow. What do you think?"
"Okay, we have no problem here." As long as it's not tomorrow morning, she is free.
"Then it's settled, the morning after tomorrow! You'll be waiting at home then, and I'll follow the ambulance to pick you up!"
"You want to go too?" Gong Xue felt embarrassed.
Xie Fei took a bite of instant noodles and replied with a smile: "Why, you don't want me to go? No matter how bad I am, I'm still better than Gong Tao's bean sprouts!" If you lift Mr. Gong or something, he can at least support him.
For personal use. Unlike some people, it is like soft noodles and falls flat when pinched.
It was Gong Xue's turn to get in the car. She swiped the card and said to the phone with a smile: "Don't scold Taotao. In my heart, my brother is much more valuable than you!"
"Ball!" Xie Fei cursed, laughed loudly, and made strange noises while chewing something in his mouth. Gong Xue thanked him in advance and hung up the phone.
Because of the snow, the carriage was very crowded. She gave her seat to a middle-aged woman holding a child, and she grabbed the handle and swayed from side to side with the rhythm of the vehicle.
Outside the car window was a snowy world. Although it was only after five o'clock, the sky had already darkened. The businesses on both sides of the road had already lit up their lights. Gong Xue saw that the glass windows of many shops had been replaced with Christmas decorations.
It became a traditional window grille or Chinese knot for Chinese New Year.
"Mom, what festival is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month..." The little girl sitting in the seat she just gave up asked curiously, pointing to the messages on her mother's phone.
"The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is the Little New Year in the lunar calendar. On this day, it means that the New Year is about to begin." The mother touched her daughter's braid and explained with a smile: "Niuniu, do you know what the New Year program is?"
The little girl pursed her lips in embarrassment and snickered. She pinched her mother's fingertips and whispered, "I know, it's a festival for giving lucky money."
"Oh, it turns out it's a program for giving lucky money... Niuniu is a little money addict!" The mother pinched her daughter's chubby face and laughed together with her daughter.
Gong Xue turned away and suddenly felt an unspeakable hot feeling in her eyes.
The twenty-third of the twelfth lunar month is the small year of the lunar calendar. It is her birthday and the memorial day of her parents.
On this day last year, she fell from the Ferris wheel of happiness into the dark abyss. She once thought that her soul would go with them and spend the rest of her life as a loveless and careless puppet. But after a year of fiery
After suffering and painful tests, she stood up again from the ruins and lived strong and bravely in a world without her parents.
She must be strong.
Just like her grandfather once expected of her, to be a strong person, a brave man who never admits defeat, and to protect everyone around her who loves her and the people she loves...
"Ring-ring-------Ring-ring------" the phone suddenly started ringing again. She was immersed in her own emotions and didn't seem to hear it. If it hadn't been for the little girl's kind reminder, she might have
Let the ringtone take its own course.
"Thank you." Gong Xue thanked her, took out her phone and pressed connect.
"Aunt Tian, I'll be home soon. There are still two stops!" She saw the neon lights of China Resources Supermarket flashing not far away, and knew that she was not far from the compound.
It was not the gentle voice of Aunt Nakata that I expected, but a hearty laughter that was so familiar that it penetrated my bones, "Haha, Xiaoxue, it's me."
real.
Really, I lost my temper at that time..
The little girl was frightened by her elder sister's suddenly red eyes and sparkling tears. She carefully touched her mother and asked, "Is your sister crying because she has no place to sit?"
Gong Xue laughed when she heard this. She raised her face, wiped away the tears that were flowing freely on her face, and said to the little girl with a smile: "It's not because of the reasons you said, sister, I'm just too happy."
Gao Yuan smiled sadly and asked: "My girl, are you crying? Is it because you miss me?"
This time he lost contact for so long that he felt that the male hormones in his body were on the verge of going out of control. Fortunately, all the nightmares ended before he had an attack. He had the opportunity to talk to his beloved Xiaoxue.
Yes, he still has a chance...
There is a chance...
Can't say yet.
Gong Xue jumped out of the car with brisk steps, waved goodbye to the two mother and daughter in the car, turned around and melted into the world of ice and snow. Different from the scenery she just saw, the now shining Mobei made her feel the long-lost throbbing.
and happiness..
He said he missed her very much, so much that he couldn't sleep at night, and even his bones were filled with longing for her.
Gao Yuan asked her if she missed him.
In the car, under the curious gaze of the little girl, how could she have the nerve to answer?
Because there is only one answer, and it will always be that thirteen-stroke character, I think.
think.
I miss him, I miss his smell, I miss his smile, I miss his stubble that he could never shave clean, I miss his majestic figure under the straight military uniform, I miss...him... Plateau!
However, she couldn't express any of these feelings. She held it in for a long time and could only hold back three words. What do you think? She asked him perfunctorily.
Gao Yuan was teased loudly by her, and the familiar, rich laughter, like the soul-shaking music, pushed her up into the clouds of happiness...
Unfortunately, the time spent floating in the clouds was too short.
There was something going on over there on the plateau, and he left without saying a few words to Gong Xue. Before hanging up the phone, he asked Gong Xue about tomorrow's arrangements, and if possible, he would try to accommodate her time.
Gong Xue told him the arrangements for the next day in detail. Except for attending the commendation meeting at the Municipal Education Center at nine o'clock in the morning, her time belonged to him.
Before Gao Yuan hangs up, I say see you tomorrow.
When she heard the beeping sound, she couldn't believe it was true, because after returning from southern Xinjiang, they had never kept in touch for two consecutive days.
God must have taken pity on her and gave her her first precious birthday gift in advance on this cold winter night.