Chapter 367 Memories Flooding
As the night deepened, the military dependents gradually dispersed.
Aunt Chu and Mother Lin also took the three little ones home first.
Lin Anan sat for a while and saw that Chu Mingzhou was still not well. "Brother Yan, let's go first. I'm a little tired."
"Okay, I'll take you back."
Lin Anan looked towards Chu Mingzhou, waved at him, then pointed at Gu Yan, indicating that she would leave first.
Chu Mingzhou said something to the leader next to him and strode over.
"Mingzhou, Brother Yan and I are leaving first. It's getting late, and Brother Yan has to take a bus back to the city."
Chu Mingzhou reached out and gently held Lin Anan's shoulders, helping her to straighten her clothes. "Okay, then you go back first. I'll ask the guards to drive Dr. Gu back. It's so late, how can we let him go back alone?"
He turned to look at Gu Yan, his eyes were solemn, "Doctor Gu, thank you for coming here today. I will come to thank you another day."
Gu Yan's slightly pale face showed a faint smile, "Captain Chu, you are too polite. It is my honor to witness this glory."
Lin Anan was about to speak when Chu Mingzhou took off his coat and put it on her.
There was a familiar smell on the coat, mixed with his faint body temperature.
"It's cold outside, put it on."
"Okay, then you should go home early too."
"Um."
Lin Anan wrapped her coat tightly, turned around and followed Gu Yan out of the auditorium.
The cold wind, carrying fine snow, blew in my face, but the remaining warmth on the coat kept it out.
Gu Yan walked beside her, deliberately slowing down his pace and adjusting his position to shield her from the wind and snow. He kept an eye on her feet to see if there was any snow that could make her slippery.
As the two of them walked to the steps of the auditorium, they suddenly heard hurried footsteps behind them.
"Wait!" Chen Tiezhu's wife chased after him holding a cloth bag, her hair at the temples messy by the wind.
"Sister An An, take this umbrella and the bag. There's a kettle in the bag filled with brown sugar ginger tea, and there are also some hot roasted sweet potatoes. Hold them to keep you warm on the way."
Lin Anan took the cloth bag, and her fingertips touched the warmth of the teacup. She was very grateful, "Sister-in-law, thank you so much."
"What are you talking about!" Chen Tiezhu's wife patted her hands with a smile, her eyes fell on her slightly bulging belly, "You have to be careful now, if you need anything, just ask."
As he spoke, he took out a handkerchief embroidered with a little tiger from his pocket and said, "This is what I prepared for the child. I've wanted to give it to you for a long time, but I never had the chance. We have an old saying here that if a tiger is pressed under the pillow, the pregnant woman will be blessed. I just want to bring good luck."
"This... is so exquisite, thank you sister-in-law."
"Hurry back, the weather is getting cold."
"Oh, okay~"
Lin Anan spread out the handkerchief and took a look. It was just an ordinary cotton handkerchief, but the little tiger embroidered on it was lifelike. The embroidery was so exquisite that it was not much worse than those in Jiangnan.
He put it away carefully and then walked towards home.
Gu Yan took the umbrella and opened it to block out the fine snowflakes.
Looking up, the night was dark, snowflakes were falling like cotton wool, weaving a hazy veil in the air. The moonlight penetrated the clouds, coating the snow with a layer of silver, and the mountains and camp buildings in the distance were covered with a thin layer of frost.
The Milky Way appears and disappears in the gaps between the snow curtain. The stars are like crushed diamonds, inlaid in the inky sky, alternating with the snow.
The snow fell silently, with only the "crunching" sound of footsteps on the snow. Occasionally, the snow on the treetops was shaken off, dancing with the snowflakes in the air, fluttering in the dim yellow halo of the street lamps, and refracting tiny rays of light.
Gu Yan was silent, his fingers holding the umbrella handle tightened slightly, and the snowy night in his memory suddenly overlapped with the one before his eyes...
It was the end of the year and Lin Anan was still in the hospital due to health problems and couldn't even go home for the New Year.
On New Year's Eve, she insisted on going out, saying that she felt very uncomfortable in the hospital and wanted to feel the New Year atmosphere.
It was also a snowy night that day, and Gu Yan couldn't resist, so he secretly took her out of the hospital.
He also held an umbrella for her like he did now, but she slapped it away and said, "If I could share the cold years with you, why would I be afraid of the wind and frost staining my hair with autumn."
She looked up at the starry sky, snow fell on her eyelashes. The light in her eyes when she said that was brighter than the stars in the sky at that moment.
"Brother Yan?" Lin Anan's voice interrupted his memories.
Lin Anan held the cloth bag in her arms, and the white breath she exhaled condensed into mist in the cold air. "You look so bad, are you feeling unwell?"
Gu Yan turned his face away and tilted the umbrella towards her: "It's okay, just thinking of some old things."
"Oh, are you going home for the New Year this year?" Lin Anan asked casually.
"I'm not sure yet. I probably won't go back."
"Then you can come to my house and celebrate the New Year with me! You don't have many relatives in the northwest, and it would be lonely to celebrate the New Year alone."
Gu Yan paused slightly!
I didn't respond.
The two approached the military compound, and the lights in the compound were dyed into warm orange spots in the snow.
Lin Anan suddenly stopped and pointed to the sky, "Brother Yan, look! That should be a constellation in the north, so beautiful!"
"Well, that's Orion's Third Belt."
Gu Yan's Adam's apple moved slightly, and memories once again came flooding back like a tide, almost swallowing him up...
Gu Yan has always loved studying the stars. Lin Anan once pointed to an astronomical map and said that after she recovered from her illness, she wanted him to accompany her to Mobei to see the real starry sky.
And at this moment... she was pregnant with a new life, standing in a world that belonged to Chu Mingzhou, with a happiness in her eyes that he had never seen before.
"Let's go." He lowered his eyes to avoid her gaze, and the umbrella was shaken violently by the wind. "It's cold outside."
Lin Anan touched her ear and said, "Yes, it's very cold."
They both walked faster and just as they reached the door of their house, they heard the sound of a car in the distance.
Lin Anan turned around and looked at the oncoming car. The headlights split the snow into two beams of light, illuminating the flying snow like a pouring Milky Way.
"Doctor Gu, Captain Chu asked me to pick you up." The guard lowered the car window.
Gu Yan handed the umbrella to Lin Anan. The condensed snow on the umbrella ribs glowed coldly under the light. His pale fingers were slightly red from the cold night, but when they touched her fingertips, he retracted them as if he had been electrocuted.
"Go in, don't catch a cold." Gu Yan's voice was a little light due to the wind.
Lin Anan nodded, "Okay, goodbye, Brother Yan."
Mother Lin came out upon hearing the noise. Seeing Lin An'an still standing with Gu Yan, she knew that the two had returned together. She became a little alert, "An'an! Come in quickly. I left some hot corn paste for you!"
“Here I come.”
Lin Anan waved to Gu Yan.
Only after watching Lin Anan enter the house did Gu Yan turn around and get into the car.
Two parallel rows of footprints on the snow gradually became blurred under the street lights.
The jeep drove off into the night.
Gu Yan looked at the dead tree receding outside the car window, not knowing what he was thinking, but there was only regret and longing in his eyes.
…
If I could share the cold years with you, why would I be afraid of the wind and frost turning my hair gray?
But what can I do as fate has separated me from the phoenix mirror? I can only sigh at my white hair in the cold night.
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