"You're not crazy. It's just that your world is different from that of ordinary people."
Gu Xiuji opened the passenger door for Shi Ling, but when he turned around, he saw that she and Yu Chen were already sitting in the back seat, and his face darkened.
Shi Ling sat diagonally across from the driver's seat and smiled at Gu Xiuji: "Thank you, Teacher Gu. Doctor Gu Yang said the same thing."
Gu Xiuji smiled and nodded, without any trace of the gloom from before.
Shi Ling knew she was not crazy as early as when she opened the door to the world of metaphysics. People who knew her did not regard her as a mental patient, but as a master of metaphysics. Shi Ling only made fun of herself occasionally.
In the cold winter, the days are short and the nights are long.
Only after the car drove out of the parking lot did Shi Ling realize that it was already late.
Under the orange street lights, heavy snow fell and the pedestrians on the road were wrapped up like dumplings.
Christmas is approaching, and a giant three-story Christmas tree has been placed in front of the shopping mall. There are also decorations such as Santa Claus dolls next to it. The Christmas tree is surrounded by colorful lights, and the green branches are dotted with stars, bells, Christmas stockings and other decorations. The light flows at night, which is very eye-catching.
The mall was near Yu Chen's side, and Shi Ling leaned out to look out of his car window.
Yu Chen also cooperated by leaning back to give her more vision.
Gu Xiuji saw Shi Ling in the rearview mirror and asked gently, "Shi Ling, do you like Christmas?"
Shi Ling: "I love the Chinese New Year!"
Gu Xiuji smiled and said, "I heard that you grew up abroad, and in Western countries Christmas is celebrated during the Chinese New Year."
Shi Ling held her face in her hands, her eyes sparkling as she stared out the window at the falling snow and the street lights. "I'm talking about the Spring Festival! It's a month-long winter vacation! Plus, there's lucky money to be collected."
Gu Xiuji was dazzled by the light in her eyes, but his heart sank slightly: "Do you also celebrate the Spring Festival abroad?"
Shi Ling nodded. "Yes. Grandma would take me to put up Spring Festival couplets and make dumplings. When I was in boarding school, Qin Niao even took me to skip classes to set off fireworks and firecrackers. And Chinatown is so lively during the Spring Festival."
Shi Ling's eyes reflected the colorful neon lights outside the window. He looked at her with gloomy eyes, and his cold and snowy eyes seemed to be tinged with a soft light. "Do you like setting off fireworks?"
"I like it. The kind with a big box of them, whooshing all up to the sky and exploding in bunches, so beautiful. But Qin Niao said that there are fewer varieties of fireworks abroad, and domestic ones are better looking. I haven't seen Chinese fireworks yet. Yu Chen, have you ever played with fireworks?" Shi Ling talked nonstop the moment he was having fun.
Gu Xiuji listened to the innocent and romantic laughter of the girl behind him as the car entered the tunnel, his eyes darkening. Who was it that had taken Shi Ling away in the first place?
Yu Chen shook his head.
He spent most of his time in a coma, and after waking up, he would appear in a dark and boundless hell. Evil spirits constantly tried to tear him apart and devour him, but he eventually killed them all, absorbing their energy and becoming stronger. Later, in his dreams, he dominated the land, and no one dared to disturb him. He finally found peace.
When he woke up, he was either reading books at the Yu Family Manor and accompanying his grandfather, or checking in the hospital or copying scriptures and beating wooden fish to pray in the temple.
Every Chinese New Year, the man named Si Ting from the Si family would come to see him, and would secretly take him to the imperial capital or travel somewhere else. When he was a child, he would coax him into calling him "Dad", but when his grandfather found out, he would always tell him to get out and chase him with a broom.
Yu Chen's memories came back to him and his eyes fell on Shi Ling.
In fact, he was also very grateful to Si Ting. (End of this chapter)
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