Today is still August 14th. From the time he was first awakened by the phone call to now, Lu Sheng doesn’t know how many August 14th he has experienced.
He knew that there would be another car accident on Heping Street tonight, but if he didn't appear there when it was supposed to happen, wouldn't he not be able to experience the car accident?
"I will stay at home today and not go anywhere. I want to see if he will show up suddenly and whether Zhao Shi will appear again!"
Lu Sheng decided to try and see if he could get rid of the car accident by staying at home. Although there were too many uncertain factors in the predicament, at least by staying at home, he could control the matter.
Lu Sheng tried hard to clear his mind and stop himself from thinking about anything, not those bad things, especially the fire, Zhao Shi, he was only focusing on the current situation now.
"Are we still going out?" Xiaoqing had already changed into beautiful clothes and walked to Lu Sheng's side.
Lu Sheng looked out the window. He did not answer Xiaoqing directly. Instead, he gently pulled her into his arms, and then said to her with a smile:
"We are not going anywhere today, I just want to have sex with you at home."
Coming from the mouth of a forty-year-old middle-aged man, these words seemed a little greasy, but when thirty-year-old Xiaoqing heard them, they were somewhat useful.
Xiaoqing pursed her lips and smiled. That smile made Lu Sheng feel particularly happy at this moment, and he unconsciously began to touch Xiaoqing's abdomen with his hand.
The full moon outside the window was exceptionally bright, and the world under the moonlight was particularly beautiful at this moment. Lu Sheng thought of many wonderful poems. He and Xiaoqing stood by the window, looking at the night outside the window, and Lu Sheng thought of Su Shi's famous poem
Chapter, he and Xiaoqing had a good rapport, and before he could speak, Xiaoqing spoke up first.
"Under the courtyard, there is a clear sky like accumulated water. There are algae and waterlilies intersecting in the water, and they are covered with shadows of bamboos and cypresses. How can there be no moon at night? Where are there no bamboos and cypresses? But there are few idle people like the two of us."
Lu Sheng looked at Xiaoqing, who was also intoxicated by the night, "We are just the two idlers now. It would be great if time could stay at this moment forever."
"You are very emotional today, and what you said is more like what a woman would say."
"Xiaoqing, we have been taken away too much time that belongs to us. No one really knows what will happen to me in the future, so I really want to cherish now!"
Xiaoqing's face was filled with a happy smile, and she snuggled gently into Lu Sheng's arms.
Good times are always fleeting, and most of the time in life is surrounded by pain and uneasiness. Just like now, simple reliance between husband and wife cannot allow them to enjoy themselves to the fullest.
"Ring...Ring...Ring..."
A sudden phone call broke the happy and sweet atmosphere.
As soon as he heard the ringtone, Lu Sheng immediately had a bad premonition. He knew that the ringtone would definitely not bring any good news. So he did not answer the phone for a long time.
"Ring...Ring...Ring..."
The phone was making an angry noise, and the sound seemed to be louder. It was angry at Lu Sheng for not using it quickly, and also angry at the person on the other end of the phone who insisted on dialing.
"Why don't you answer the phone?" Xiaoqing said doubtfully. She had already walked over and took Lu Sheng's phone from the sofa.
Lu Sheng glanced at the screen of his mobile phone. At this time, another call from Meng Kenan was displayed on the screen. Without thinking too much, Lu Sheng roughly knew what happened.
Xiaoqing looked at Lu Sheng, her eyes seeming to remind him to answer the phone quickly, as there might be something urgent.
Of course, Lu Sheng knew that this would be an emergency. Although he didn't want to answer the call, he thought about it and decided to answer the call first.
"What took you so long to answer the phone?"
Meng Kenan's urgent voice came from the other end of the phone, "There has been a serious car accident near your home. Come downstairs and help."
Lu Sheng didn't even have time to answer.
"At the intersection of Heping Street and Handan Road, at the traffic light, hurry up!"
After Meng Kenan finished speaking, he hung up the phone, as if he was afraid that someone would regret it. Lu Sheng never said a word. Meng Kenan seemed to think that Lu Sheng's breathing had agreed to his request for him.
Xiaoqing looked at Lu Sheng's ugly expression and asked with concern, "What happened? Is it urgent?"
"It's okay, don't worry." Lu Sheng put down his phone and turned to face the window without looking at Xiaoqing. "Lao Meng can handle it even if I don't go."
After such a phone call, all good spirits disappeared.
Xiaoqing looked at Lu Sheng's back and whispered to him, "Is there really no need to go?"
Lu Sheng was a little impatient, but it was obviously not because of Xiaoqing's question. He said, "A person who is destined to die, what's the use of me leaving?"
Xiaoqing didn't understand the meaning of Lu Sheng's words, nor why his mood fluctuated so much, and looked puzzled.
She didn't say anything else, she just sat silently on the sofa and looked at Lu Sheng who was standing by the window.
Happy time will speed up, but depressed time will do the opposite, it will slow down or even stop.
Lu Sheng prayed in his heart that the matter would end soon. He didn't know how long he had been standing by the window, but if there was a fire on Heping Street, it would have been so long and the fire must have been extinguished by now.
Lu Sheng lowered his head and glanced at the phone. His eyes widened. Then he rubbed his eyes with his hands. Then he turned to look at Xiaoqing behind him. He looked at the screen of the phone in disbelief because he was so frightened.
It was discovered that only one minute had passed since Meng Kenan hung up the phone.
Mingming and Xiaoqing talked so much just now, and Mingming stood by the window for so long, could it be that only one minute had passed?
Lu Sheng didn't believe this evil. He raised his head, looked away from the phone, and looked out the window. In the community downstairs outside the window, pedestrians passed by in twos and threes from time to time. Lu Sheng began to count silently in his heart, "One, two, three...three
Twelve, thirty-three…seventy-five…one hundred and twenty.”
He counted very slowly, and after making sure that more than a minute had passed, he looked down at his phone again, but there was no change at all. Only one minute had passed since Meng Kenan hung up the phone.
Lu Sheng kept staring at the phone. He consciously spoke out and counted while looking at the numbers on the screen. No matter how many times he counted or how many times he counted, the time displayed on the screen did not change at all.
changes. Time seems to have really frozen at this moment.
Lu Sheng's face was getting worse and worse, and his mood was getting worse and worse. "Does this mean that if I don't go out, if I don't go to Heping Street, time will stop forever? Everything at that intersection is waiting.
Will it happen only if I go?"
Lu Sheng stood there for a long time, spending many repeated minutes.
"Since some things are destined to be inevitable, it's better to face it directly."
Lu Sheng turned around and picked up her phone, walked quickly to the door and put on her shoes.
Xiaoqing looked at Lu Sheng who was in a hurry and knew that he was going out to find Meng Kenan, "Lu Sheng, pay attention to safety!"
Lu Sheng seemed to be talking to Xiaoqing, or to himself, "There was a serious car accident on Heping Street tonight. I should be at the scene at this moment."
As soon as Lu Sheng came downstairs and walked out of the door, a rolling heat wave hit him, just like always!
………
The scene of the car accident was already crowded with pedestrians passing by. Lu Sheng walked through the crowd and walked towards the center.
"Lao Lu, you came very quickly." Meng Kenan stood guard beside the overturned vehicle and said happily after seeing Lu Sheng.
Hearing this, Lu Sheng did not feel a little embarrassed, even though he had hesitated for a long time at home.
Lu Sheng saw the overturned vehicle starting to emit billowing black smoke again, "You can't pull it out no matter what, right?"
Sure enough, everything was waiting for Lu Sheng's arrival to continue happening. At this time, the fire on the car broke out as expected.
Meng Kenan was still working hard to save the car, but the fire quickly took over the entire car body. Lu Sheng just waited aside, waiting for Zhao Shi to be reborn from the fire.
The scene that happened next had happened many times. Lu Sheng was just waiting. He watched Zhao Shi climb out and waited for him to speak.
Huo Ren spoke again, "Teacher Lu, we meet again."
"Just tell me what you want."
Fireman Zhao Shi said angrily, "This is your fucking dream, you are torturing me over and over again."
Lu Sheng roared equally angrily, "This is indeed my artistic conception, but if possible, I don't want to see you all the time."
"If you had confessed at the beginning, wouldn't such bad things happen in the future..." Before Lu Sheng could finish speaking, he suddenly realized something.
"Teacher Lu, you are such a good teacher..." Zhao Shi said a lot more, but Lu Sheng just stood there thinking and did not continue to listen to what he said.
"What if Zhao Shi pleads guilty? Things will be completely different after that? If this is really the case, is it in my consciousness..." Lu Sheng didn't want to continue thinking about it.
"Lu Sheng?"
Xiaoqing's gentle voice came over. She couldn't worry about Lu Sheng, so she kept following Lu Sheng. Now she was standing not far from the accident.
Lu Sheng glanced at Xiaoqing again, looking at Xiaoqing who he finally saw in his dream after looking forward to it for a long time. He thought desperately in his heart, "Do you really want to do that?"
"That woman is your wife..." Zhao Shi did not finish the last complete sentence, and the skeleton was scattered on the ground again.
"No, I don't want to do that. Even if I live on this day forever, I don't want to do that." Lu Sheng ignored Meng Kenan behind him, turned around and walked towards Xiaoqing, hugging her tightly.
Xiaoqing felt Lu Sheng's sudden embrace, and she knew that Lu Sheng must have faced a major decision in life again, as he had done before.
The heat of the weather is still there, as if it is deliberately scorching people. The hot heat spreads through clothes, through skin, and even into people's hearts.