26 A Slightly Open Heart | The Snow is Too Heavy
Jiang Yu turned around and brought a gust of fragrant wind, and Lin Weifeng's warmed cheeks finally transferred heat to the cold air.
She turned around with a smile and continued to check the water, electricity and facility safety with Tian Yusu.
Tian Yusu said, "Sister, I can live in the small room. There's a desk in it. Is that your room when you were a kid?"
Lin Weifeng took a look and nodded, "He started sleeping alone after he started elementary school, but he moved out soon after."
Tian Yusu noticed: "Although the furniture is a bit old, it still looks very solid and doesn't look like it has been used for a long time."
"Um."
Tian Yusu said unintentionally, "It's such a nice house, but you just say you don't want to live in it. What a shame."
Hearing this, Lin Weifeng recalled an ordinary school day when he was seven years old.
School ended on time that day, but her parents did not come to pick her up.
She was doing her homework in the office of her homeroom teacher, Mr. Chen, and waited until 6:30 in the evening, but no one came.
Teacher Chen couldn't contact her family, so he rode his bike to take her home.
At the nearest intersection to the community, she saw many cars from TV stations and newspapers, and some police officers standing at the entrance of the community to maintain order.
She was walking slowly as usual, but was caught by a quick-moving reporter. She heard him say, "Little girl, are you Officer Lin Haidong's daughter? What does your father think of the failure of Operation Hundred Flowers?"
She remembered that the reporter was so strong that he almost lifted her up.
Following his voice, many reporters gathered around and pointed the microphone at her chin.
She was not tall, and a microphone knocked out her teeth that were still in the process of being replaced. Blood flowed from the corner of her mouth, which gave Teacher Chen the opportunity to take her away safely.
She had never heard of Operation Hundred Flowers.
Night gradually enveloped the city, and Lin Weifeng was taken by Teacher Chen to the emergency room of the city hospital for a dental check-up.
However, that day, the emergency room was as bright as day.
Bursts of urgent ambulance sirens pierced the silence. The door was suddenly pushed open from time to time, and medical staff rushed in pushing stretchers.
It was the first time that Lin Weifeng saw the blood of the wounded, which could dye the white cloth on the stretcher red.
She cast a weak yet courageous glance, only to see the newly injured man's face twisted in pain.
The emergency room was shrouded in a tense atmosphere. In the entire department, only young doctors had time to see patients. The person who treated Lin Weifeng's dentist was even an older brother who was doing an internship in the hospital.
"What's the child's name?" The doctor talked to the little patient as usual.
Maybe it was because of the toothache or because she was frightened by so many reporters, but Lin Weifeng was so nervous at that time that she couldn't speak.
Teacher Chen answered helpfully: "Lin Weifeng, I am her homeroom teacher."
The doctor took out a new medical record book, put down the pen, and continued to ask: "What are the names of the child's parents?"
Teacher Chen: "Her father's name is Lin Haidong, and her mother's name is Gu Chengxiu."
The doctor filled out the form quietly at first, then suddenly looked up at Teacher Chen with a surprised tone: "Lin Haidong?" Then he quickly looked at Lin Weifeng's little face.
Lin Weifeng had no expression, not even an expression of toothache.
Only when she grew up did she realize that at that time, she also had telepathy with her relatives.
The doctor said nothing, but silently helped her remove the broken teeth and examined her mouth.
When the nurse accompanied Lin Weifeng to the corner to rinse his mouth, the doctor said to Teacher Chen, "I think I'll have to trouble you to pay more attention to this child."
That night, Lin Weifeng stayed at Teacher Chen's house.
Teacher Chen’s daughter Xiaohan is already in junior high school and has a single room. Lin Weifeng sleeps with Xiaohan.
However, that night was the first time in Lin Weifeng's memory that he stayed awake all night.
When Xiao Han went to the bathroom at night, he ran to wake up Teacher Chen and said, "Mom, that little girl is shaking all over."
Teacher Chen quickly checked Lin Weifeng and found that she was not feeling well. Lin Weifeng spoke very little that day and did not communicate with others much.
Finally, Teacher Chen said, "Breeze, tomorrow morning, I will take you to find your parents."
Lin Weifeng nodded, and only then could he have a shallow nightmare.
Lin Weifeng later learned that the night she couldn't sleep, Lin Haidong spent the entire night in the operating room trying to save the patient, and Gu Chengxiu also spent the entire night guarding the hospital corridor.
When Teacher Chen took her to the ward, Lin Haidong had become a survivor with a broken arm covered in scars.
Lin Weifeng realized that the injured person covered in blood that he saw in the emergency room was his father.
The joy of survival and the sadness of incompleteness brought a double shock and change to Lin Weifeng's life.
She grew up in these two opposing and complementary energies and forgot what the reporters called the "Hundred Flowers Operation."
But she remembered that for a whole year, reporters came to visit and asked to interview Lin Haidong.
Because Lin Haidong insisted on refusing, reporters would occasionally block Lin Weifeng's way home from school.
Fortunately, Gu Chengxiu protected her very well, and the reporter's microphone could not bring blood to her again.
Lin Weifeng didn’t know whether Lin Haidong finally compromised and accepted the interview. He only knew that Gu Chengxiu made a temporary decision to move out of Yuhua Community and moved to his current home.
In a composition class in junior high school, the students had to write about their father. Lin Weifeng suddenly thought of his fallen teeth and the term "Hundred Flowers Operation".
In her little eyes, "flowers" should be beautiful things combined with "fairies", so how could they hurt her father?
But when she searched online, there was no trace of it.
So she gradually forgot about these things.
This was all she remembered about Lin Haidong's injuries and this house.
After the inspection of the house was almost finished, Lin Weifeng helped Tian Yusu make the bed and explained to her how to use the kitchen utensils.
After the explanation was complete, Lin Weifeng took out a bunch of keys from his pocket. Just as he was about to take off the key for this house, Tian Yusu said, "Sister, I'll just use the spare key. You can keep your own. Sister is my landlord. I'm very happy. I don't need any top-secret privacy."
"That's fine. I can take care of you if you have any troubles."
Lin Weifeng turned around, walked into a room facing south, opened the drawer under the TV cabinet, and searched for the spare key.
She pulled out the wooden boards layer by layer and took out all the decent keys to fit Tian Yusu.
By chance, she found a slightly faded biscuit box.
I opened it and found that it was filled with cutouts of newspapers.
She picked up the top one and saw the headline: "Undercover: Sharpshooter trapped in desperate situation, on the line between life and death." She switched to the next one and saw the headline: "Teammate betrays, internal and external enemies to deal with, sharpshooter's life hangs by a thread."
A dozen thick slices of waste newspaper all revolve around one keyword: Hundred Flowers Action.
Tian Yusu tried the key, walked to the door and said, "Sister Breeze, I found it."
Lin Weifeng looked at the contents on the paper without saying a word.
Tian Yusu asked again: "Sister?"
Lin Weifeng looked at her, a trace of panic in his eyes, and covered the biscuit box with his hand as if he wanted to hide something.
Because it was not covered tightly, the rubbing sound was a bit harsh.
Tian Yusu said innocently, "I found the key."
Lin Weifeng stood up holding the box, his arms tense, "Okay, I'm leaving now."
Her eyes had always been bright, but at this moment, they suddenly became extremely dull.
Tian Yusu saw that she seemed to be talking to herself, but her eyes were always focused on her hands.
Lin Weifeng just walked past Tian Yusu silently and left the house silently.
Tian Yusu stared at the closed door, not knowing what had happened for a full half minute. Then she sent a WeChat message to Jiang Yu: [Sister Breeze left first.]
Jiang Yu didn't see this WeChat message.
At that time, he happened to be carrying two bags of sawdust milk pudding and walked to the gate of the community. He saw Lin Weifeng rushing into the heavy snow from the stairs. He quickly opened the car door, but could not start the car and it did not move for a long time.
"You're leaving now. Is this really just a money relationship?"
Jiang Yu muttered to himself, ran a few steps, and quickly came to her car.
He knocked on Lin Weifeng's window glass.
Lin Weifeng rolled down the car window, glanced at Jiang Yu out of the corner of his eye, and said nothing.
Jiang Yu said: "The snow is too heavy, it's not safe to travel."
Lin Weifeng was a little anxious at the time, his voice trembling: "I'm going home, not traveling."
A few large snowflakes floated in from the car window and landed on her shoulders. Jiang Yu tilted the umbrella a little towards her.
Jiang Yu saw a biscuit box on the passenger seat. The lid was not aligned properly, revealing an arc-shaped gap. As she kept trying to start the car, a crescent-shaped space was left.
Inside were some old newspapers with eye-catching headlines.
He understood something immediately.
He first said, "No matter how big the matter is, we have to wait until the snow subsides before going back."
Then he walked around to the passenger door, put away his umbrella, opened the door and sat down without any hesitation.
He closed the box of newspapers tightly, placed it gently on his legs, wiped off the snow water on the sawdust milk pudding packaging bag, and gently threw it into her arms.
Lin Weifeng's car was very small and he was quite tall, so he had to move the seat back before he could sit upright.
He fastened his seat belt and glanced at Lin Weifeng's troubled and pale face.
Then he put his hands in his jacket pockets, closed his eyes, and said leisurely, "I'll wait with you until the snow stops."
His series of movements were quick and efficient.
Lin Weifeng followed his gaze, holding the milk pudding, unable to get a mouthful.
Since the car couldn't move anyway, she simply closed the windows, turned on the heat, fixed the air vents facing him, and heated the car seats as well.
The car was very quiet, so Lin Weifeng played some pure music at a very low volume.
The sound of her sleeves rubbing against the packaging bag reminded her that she had not transferred the money to him yet.
So she opened WeChat on her phone and clicked on the new dialog box that appeared in the list today.
Bullies can get it.
Before transferring the money, she opened Jiang Yu’s circle of friends.
His signature is engraved with five words: [Wait for the wind to blow over].
As if being concentrated by a tiny electric current, Lin Weifeng's heart trembled and he pursed his lips tightly.
She glanced at Jiang Yu.
At that time, an intuition emerged.
She secretly believed that there seemed to be some secret connection between them, and she had become a part of his complete life without knowing it.
I had just opened the door to my life and hesitated to let him participate in it.
Over the years, it has been called growth, but it has also been a form of missed opportunities.
This person neither sets his profile to be visible for three days nor shares much about his life. In the past ten years, he has only posted seven pieces of content, four of which were officially pushed.
Lin Weifeng slid the screen to the bottom and browsed the remaining three.
The first one was about my first report back at the beginning of my freshman year. The picture showed the welcoming gate of the People's Public Security University, and the caption read: [My life as a person has begun, moving from being alone to being in a group.]
Lin Weifeng left a like.
Second, you must get full marks in the 15-meter shooting test at the end of your sophomore year.
The background of the picture is a standard police academy shooting range, its smooth sandy ground dotted with bullet casings and footprints. The sky is a clear blue. He is wearing his police academy uniform, feet slightly apart, leaning forward slightly, maintaining a steady shooting stance. His arm is straight, the muzzle of his gun pointed steadily at the bull's eye.
His eyes were focused and determined, but more immature than when he was at Anhe Hotel.
Caption: [Fifteen meters, full marks.]
Among the avatars that were liked, there was Lin Haidong.
Song Ze commented: [Dear roommate, by the time you see this comment, I've already failed the course.]
The third post is a photo of me and the Wutong tree after graduating from college. The accompanying picture is the photo in Jiang Yu's room, with the caption: [From a group of people back to being alone.]
Song Ze commented below: [Don’t you think it’s easy for two people? ]
And then it was gone.
When you click back to the dialog box, there is a red dot prompt on the "Discover Page". When you click it, you can see that after Lin Weifeng clicked the like button, Lin Haidong also followed suit.
Lin Weifeng was startled and sat up straight. Suddenly, his cell phone ran out of battery.
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