Perhaps the rosemary Buddhist music in the temple made her mood clear. When making the wish, she remembered many past events with her mother. The most common was that year when she fled from Qining to Senzhou. She lived in the campus of Senzhou University, and her mother
She found a job as a nanny outside of school, and her mother, who had been pampered all her life, endured all kinds of hardships for her.
At that time, my mother's employer was an old lady who lived alone and her children were abroad. She was particularly cunning and overbearing. She was filled with the sense of oppression of women in the old era. She treated her like a maid and even deliberately let her use the outdoor in the cold weather.
Ice water for washing vegetables and laundry.
The old lady's nanny changed numerous times, and the nanny price offered by her children far exceeded the market price.
Shu Tinglan felt distressed and refused to let her mother do this job again, but her mother shook her head:
"I can raise some more money to buy you a house in Senzhou, and my mother will have nothing to worry about in her life."
Later, her mother became ill, and Shu Tinglan didn't know whether it was her father's affairs that stimulated her to bury the root cause of the disease, or whether it was caused by being abused by the old lady. Sometimes she was sober and could clearly tell the address and name of Shu Tinglan's work, and sometimes she was confused and almost masochistic.
.As a last resort, I had to be sent to the hospital for long-term treatment.
Thinking of all the past events, Shu Tinglan felt heartbroken. She knelt down on the futon and bowed deeply. If there really is a god, she hoped that her mother would recover and that she would be happy and healthy for the rest of her life.
"Shu Tinglan!"
"Shu Tinglan..."
She knelt for too long, completely immersed in the past world. Zhuo Yu'an beside her had to remind her loudly, and her thoughts were brought back to reality little by little.
"What's wrong?" Zhuo Yu'an helped her up and looked at her red eyes worriedly.
"It's okay, the smoke from the incense candles here is too dazzling."
Zhuo Yu'an looked at the incense candles surrounded by electronics. There was no trace of fireworks, but he did not expose her and held her hand out of the Guanyin Temple.
"Where are we going next?" Shu Tinglan calmed down and put away all the inexplicable negative emotions just now.
"Just take a walk," he said.
Walking along the stone road in a bamboo forest, at the other end is a Yuelao Temple. The Yuelao Temple is not big, and there are several couples standing inside asking for fortune.
"Try?" Shu Tinglan encouraged him, a little curious about his marriage.
"Okay." Zhuo Yu'an went over and smoked one according to the procedure.
"Let me see what's written." Shu Tinglan leaned over and read together.
"One is joy, the other is fear, what does it mean?" Shu Tinglan knew both words, but he didn't even know whether they were good or bad.
"There's someone in front of you who will get the certificate. Go and ask." She pushed Zhuo Yu'an forward.
The interpreter took the lottery from him, looked at it, and said
"Winning the lottery means that in this world, you can't have the best of both worlds. It's up to you to take something or give it up."
Zhuo Yu'an didn't say anything, folded the stick and put it in his pocket.
Shu Tinglan listened with only a half-understanding, and concluded that he had many romantic interests, so he needed to choose and choose.
"Is it accurate? Is it accurate?" she asked.
"No, I'm very sure about what I want. I don't have to choose, let alone give or take." The two of them were walking through a small forest, and he suddenly stopped and looked at her, answering this question seriously.
"Oh." Shu Tinglan nodded, indicating that he understood. For some reason, his heart was beating hard.
The days are short in winter, so by the time they finished visiting Huiyuan Temple, it was already evening and the sun was setting. The afterglow of the setting sun illuminated half of the sky red. Standing on the top of the mountain, it was very spectacular.
Zhuo Yu'an held his mobile phone in one hand and held Shu Tinglan's shoulder in the other. With his back to the sunset, he took two selfies and put them in his pocket with satisfaction.
It was getting dark and the mountain road was difficult to walk. By the time they slowly walked down the mountain, it was completely dark. The first day of the New Year was spent so fulfillingly. Before going to bed at night, Zhuo Yuan thoughtfully massaged her legs.
Relax your muscles to avoid leg pain the next day.
Shu Tinglan was a little tired after climbing the mountain for a day, and thought vaguely, this man is so good, from head to toe, there is not a single flaw in him.
The next day was the second day of the Lunar New Year. When Shu Tinglan woke up early in the morning, the first thing he did was move his feet. Fortunately, except for a little soreness, it didn't hurt at all.
"Morning!" Zhuo Yu'an also woke up, lying on his side and looking at her, his voice low and charming.
The two were close again, looking at each other with their eyes facing each other.
"What are the plans for today?" she asked.
"This arrangement." He said, turning over and trapping her in his arms. The morning was always so charming.
On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the refrigerator at home was out of supplies, and certain family planning supplies were also out of supplies, so I had to go out to buy them. Zhuo Yuan seemed to be free of money. Within an hour, the cart was already full.
All kinds of food.
"Are you planning to save it until next year? You can't eat it all if you buy so much."
"Don't worry if you can't eat it, just buy it and keep it at home so you're prepared."
Shu Tinglan was noncommittal. When he was in the elevator, he couldn't help but ask:
"When will you go back to your home? Are you really sure you don't have to spend the New Year with your family?".
Zhuo Yuan hesitated for a few minutes this time and then said
"Sorry, I'm flying back to Beijing tonight to wish the old man a happy New Year."
In fact, he and his parents were originally going to go back to spend the New Year with the old man on New Year's Eve, but his father had to stay in Senzhou to take charge of the work temporarily, so it was postponed to the second day of the new year. Zhuo Yu'an delayed it as long as he could.
Bian has called him many times to ask him to go back. If he doesn't go back, he will come to Senzhou to see him in person.
The old man had a tough temper and kept his word. As soon as he took action, things became a big deal and Zhuo Yuan had no choice but to agree to go back.
Shu Tinglan originally just asked casually, but upon hearing that he was really leaving, a trace of disappointment flashed through her heart.
"Can you do it alone?" he asked.
"Okay, I'm not a child."
Zhuo Yuan rubbed her hair
"I'll try my best to come back as soon as possible. Otherwise, I'm afraid you'll burn down the kitchen again."
"How can I burn the kitchen?"
"That's almost it."
Zhuo Yuan said and got up and went to the kitchen.
"what you do?"
"Cooking for you."
"Just finished eating."
"It's for tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. It's hard to order takeout these days, lest you starve to death."
"I will take care of things myself and don't need you to worry about it."
"Eat bread for three meals?"
"I'll never die of hunger."
Zhuo Yu'an shook his head, and regardless of what Shu Tinglan said, he just focused on cooking. After it was done, he refrigerated what should be refrigerated and what should be frozen, in the order in which the times were marked for the three meals a day.
He works alone in the kitchen with concentration and seriousness, as if what he has in hand is not three meals a day, but scientific research products, his beloved career.