The black dots in the picture book
The pharmaceutical factory next door broke ground, and the young lady came to see Shen Tiancheng several times, asking him when he would be back.
According to the date, the brothers of the Shen family should set off from Ping'an County.
People couldn't help but talk about it. On the 20th of the year, all the Shen family members returned, and the four brothers brought their parents back to Benyuan County. Shen Tiancheng and Shen Tiannan rented an independent farmhouse in the south of the city, close to the pharmaceutical factory.
After settling his parents, the second brother rushed to the pharmaceutical factory to let his younger sister go see his parents, while he himself was anxious to visit the little sister next door.
Shen Roujiao was very happy, so she called Lingxi and rushed to the courtyard.
"Dad, Mom!" They shouted without even entering the house.
"Master Jingxuan!" To Yu Lingxi, Tan Cuimei is not only the mother who raised her, but also the master and senior sister who taught her medical skills.
"Hey, little sister, so fast." Fourth brother Shen Tianyou jumped out of the house, met Shen Roujiao, picked her up, and walked around for several circles on the spot.
"Put her down quickly, don't let her fall." The eldest brother Shen Tianhua walked over to them, and after the two of them stood still, he took the younger sister's hand and said, "Come in, our family misses you so much."
Inside the house, Shen Roujiao threw herself into her mother's arms, "Mom, I'm so glad you're back."
"You've been gone for more than ten years, so you should come back and take a look." Tan Cuimei stroked her daughter's soft hair, each stroke more tenderly than the last, "and help Master Xianyun check on the pharmaceutical factory."
When Ciyun was mentioned, the three disciples hugged each other and cried bitterly.
"Wipe it off." Father Shen handed over a towel and said to his daughter, "Your mother misses you two the most in Nanshan Village." He raised his eyes and glanced at the door, and asked, "Why didn't Huaiyue come?"
"Dad, he went to Shanghai to order a machine. Huaiyue. He will be your son-in-law in the future." She laughed wantonly, thinking she had dropped a bomb, but found that only a few splashes of water were made.
"Okay, okay, okay. As long as you are fine." There was no surprise in Mr. Shen's joyful expression.
"Third brother, let me tell you." Shen Tianyou spread his hands and nodded at Shen Tiannan, "Zhou Huaiyue has been targeting my younger sister since the beginning. He is both cunning and cowardly."
"No wonder he doesn't help anyone but my little sister. He's so stubborn." Shen Tiannan smiled and shook his head, thinking back to the time when he dug wild Polygonatum sibiricum. He advised his little sister from the bottom of his heart: Zhou Huaiyue is from the capital, and is only suitable to be a master.
"Huaiyue is a good match, you two are a good match." The eldest brother Shen Tianhua had seen it with his own eyes, the younger sister leaning on Zhou Huaiyue's shoulder, their heads touching, the ambiguous atmosphere was more like that of a couple than a couple.
The brothers were talking to each other, and their words revealed that they had known this day would come.
"What? Brothers, stop talking nonsense. He only started to like me later." Shen Roujiao couldn't stand them saying that Zhou Huaiyue was a scheming man.
Shen Tianyou tapped his little sister's forehead lightly, "He said that? Do you believe it?"
"I don't believe it." Shen Tiannan answered first. At least when the laziest educated youth took the initiative to dig medicinal herbs, he must have put some thought into it.
"Little sister, big brother doesn't believe it either." Shen Tianhua agreed with the fourth brother's guess. Zhou Huaiyue looked so disgusting that he ignored everyone. It was not right for him to be willing to be the little sister's master.
"Dad, Mom, look at them." With her parents around, Shen Rou coquettishly acted like a spoiled child and complained.
"Dad believes it, Dad believes it. Huaiyue must have found that my daughter is good in every way, so he likes the youngest child in the family."
Father Shen had resented Zhou Huaiyue in his heart. When Zhou Huaiyue suddenly left before the pharmaceutical factory was established, he saw his daughter was depressed and her eyes were red. He wanted to persuade her, but when the words came to his lips, he couldn't say them.
If the relationship was broken, it was because Zhou Huaiyue had no vision. He believed that his daughter could meet someone better.
"Huai Yue is a good boy who can hide things in his heart." Tan Cuimei smoothed out the loose hair on her daughter's forehead. With Zhou Huai Yue guarding her, the mother could return to Nanshan Village with peace of mind.
The Shen family endured all the hardships, completely changed the tragic fate of everyone in the original text, and welcomed the day of reunion.
They happily immersed themselves in the belated reunion dinner, enjoying the hard-earned family warmth.
Shen Roujiao drank some wine with her father and brothers, and returned to Zhou Huaiyue's residence in a daze. She missed Zhou Huaiyue so much, wanted to hug him, and wanted to ask him when he started to like her.
She lay on Zhou Huaiyue's bed, covered with the quilt he had once used. The longing for him came over her like a tide, and her tears wet the pillow.
A corner of the album was exposed under the pillow. She flipped it open and found that every picture in it was of her: she was sleeping, she was laughing, she was wearing new clothes, she was sitting on the back seat of a bicycle...
The corners of each page are marked with time, from the Taoist temple years ago to holding hands that time, from her pressing on him to him tying her scarf on the street, from her standing on the stage at the commendation meeting to them boiling medicine together during the plague, from saving the two paparazzi of Da Huang to buying half a wild boar, from him wiping her nosebleed to holding wild ginseng with shining eyes, from holding a brush to become a disciple to her making a "V" sign to the sky by the river...
The last photo was her first day in the period novel.
He was by the river where she was reborn.
Zhou Huaiyue had seen her and remembered her since the first day she came to this new world.
All along, Shen Roujiao believed that she was the one who took the initiative to approach Zhou Huaiyue, but she never thought that Zhou Huaiyue was waiting for her to approach him, waiting for her to fall in love with him, waiting for her to discover his painstaking efforts.
Shen Roujiao's heart seemed to be torn into countless pieces. Zhou Huaiyue got angry so many times not because he liked to be angry, but because he was sad because of her neglect and disregard.
Curled up in the quilt, she recalled those nights in the hospital, when the two of them were squeezed on the bed, and Zhou Huaiyue hugged her from behind and whispered in her ear: "I have waited for this day for a long time."
Her emotions collapsed and Shen Roujiao burst into tears.
.......
Even though her second brother Shen Tiancheng came back and resumed his position as acting factory director, Shen Roujiao still stayed in the factory director's office every day, just waiting for Zhou Huaiyue's call.
Finally, at noon that day, she waited for it.
After the call was connected, Shen Roujiao burst into tears, "Roujiao, what's wrong? What's wrong? Please don't cry, okay?" Zhou Huaiyue's heart was ached by her crying.
"Huai Yue, I saw your album. In the last picture, why were you standing in the river?" Shen Roujiao paused for every word, crying as she asked the question that was weighing on her mind.
Why is he there?
Why is he hiding?
Why had he never mentioned it?
What exactly is he hiding?
Zhou Huaiyue, who was silent on the other end, thought for a while before saying, "I saw you floating on the river."
"What?" She had already guessed that the small black dot not far away in the picture was a person, it was her.
"Shen Roujiao, I saved you. You survived by the river." He did not describe the process, but only told the result.
"Wuwu!" she cried loudly.
It turns out that she was able to travel into the historical text because of Zhou Huaiyue, because he saved her.
She survived because of him!
"Why don't you say it?" Shen Roujiao sobbed intermittently.
"I don't want you to like me just because I saved you. I just want you to like me because I like you." Zhou Huaiyue said affirmatively and sincerely.
"Zhou Huaiyue, you are a fool."
A lovable fool.
"I can tell the difference between gratitude and like. Zhou Huaiyue, I like you just because of you. It has nothing to do with anything else." At this moment, Shen Roujiao felt that she was the luckiest girl in the world. She had everything: parents, brothers, sisters, friends who loved her, and Huaiyue who loved her. She had everything.
"My girl, I love you!" How he wanted to run to her, hug her tightly and kiss her gently.
…
That night, Shen Roujiao had a dream.
In her dream, she was standing by a river. There was a black spot floating on the river not far away. She walked into the river, but found that the water had turned into knee-deep white snow, and it was extremely difficult for her to walk.
She almost walked and crawled as she got closer and closer to the black spot. Then she found a person lying in the white snow.
She thought it was herself, but when she got close, she was so scared that she fell down.
It's not her, it's him.
It's Zhang Qingjun.
The chest of his army green cotton coat was covered in blood that had frozen hard, his eyebrows and lips were covered in snow, and a corner of the candy wrapper was visible from his clenched right hand.
"Brother Qingjun, Brother Qingjun." Shen Roujiao wanted to wake him up, but found that he had no response.
"Help! Is there anyone here? Help, save him! ..."
Shen Roujiao didn't know how long she had been screaming, Lingxi woke her up, "Junior sister, you are having a nightmare and can't wake up. You keep crying for help."
Shen Roujiao slowly regained consciousness and suddenly grabbed the hand of her junior sister, "Lingxi, I dreamed that my friend died, frozen to death in the snow. I wanted to save him, but I couldn't save him at all."
"Friend?" Lingxi asked. Without waiting for her to answer, she continued, "Just say a random word and I'll help you predict whether it's auspicious or not."
"Snow."
In Shen Roujiao's mind, at this moment, there was still a vast expanse of white snow.
"The word 'snow' is made up of 'rain' and '彐'. The word 'rain' means things falling from the sky, or disasters; the word '彐' is like a hand, which means control, and can turn danger into safety. From the perspective of Tai Chi, if you remove the top frame, there are seven remaining, which is three drops of water. In the Five Elements, water generates wood, and if wood does not grow out, there is a high probability that something bad will happen to the person. If you remove the bottom frame, there is one remaining, which means taking root, which is half and half, and the person will be saved."
Lingxi's explanation made sense. Although Shen Roujiao didn't understand the principle, she heard the result clearly: dreams are the opposite of reality, and Zhang Qingjun will not die.
"Junior sister, is he a very important friend of yours?" She asked this because she felt that the junior sister had not finished speaking.
"He's a very important friend. What's wrong?" Knowing that Zhang Qingjun was fine, Shen Roujiao no longer felt nervous.
"After this, you can no longer be friends." Lingxi saw the ruthlessness that wiped out all emotions in the word "snow".
"As long as the person is okay and still alive, even if we can't be friends, I still wish him his dream to come true."
Shen Roujiao didn't think much about this nightmare and was quickly immersed in the atmosphere of the Shen family's reunion back in Hedong Village.
However, the word "snow" that Lingxi predicted turned out to be a prophecy.
In the distant snowy plains of Tibet, Zhang Qingjun, who was shot in the chest, survived!
The bullet penetrated his chest, but luckily did not hit any dirty objects. In the crude operating room, the doctors took four hours to bring him back from the brink of death.
The scene that Shen Roujiao dreamed of was that Zhang Qingjun was about to freeze to death there.
The blood loss made him even colder. Zhang Qingjun shivered and took out a colorful candy wrapper from his pocket. He smiled bitterly.
That was the fruit candy that Shen Roujiao had put into his hand when she saw him off at the station. The candy had already melted, leaving only the candy wrapper.