Rebirth: Throwing the Bamboo Horse

The season is not winter, and the scenery is different. I didn’t expect to come again. The scenery is different in different seasons, and the feeling is very different.”

After getting off the train, Xi Zhe took Lin Xia directly to a car rental company to rent a car, and he was free to drive wherever he wanted.

Watching Lin Xia open the car window, ignore the biting cold wind and just lie down and look outside.

Xi Zhe shook his head with a smile on the corner of his mouth, eyes full of doting

"Isn't it cold? If you catch a cold like this, don't rely on me to drag you out for a trip in winter."

Lin Xia closed the car window, the cold wind was blocked out, and after a while, the heater in the car warmed up her whole body

“The car is warm enough, but a bit stuffy”

“almost there”

Of course Lin Xia knew that although it had been a few years and the seasons were different now, she could still see the familiar outlines in her impression.

It was already late at night when we finally arrived at the destination, both Xi Zhe who was driving and Lin Xia who had been driving all day were exhausted.

Xi Zhe booked two single rooms, and the two of them took their room cards and went back to the room to freshen up before falling into bed and falling asleep.

Xi Zhe usually insists on exercising, and his work intensity is not comparable to that of Lin Xia. This kind of fatigue is a piece of cake for him, so he just slept all night and woke up refreshed early in the morning .

But Lin Xia insisted on sleeping until after three o'clock in the afternoon before waking up, still sleeping with back pain.

Xi Zhe looked at him lying on the bed with a funny face, "I tell you to exercise more and you don't listen. You are so tired at this level. I haven't dragged you to accompany me to climb the mountain to watch the sunrise yet."

Lin Xia couldn't help but wailed, "I really thank you for raising your hand so high."

"You're welcome, you're welcome"

Lin Xia couldn't help but turned her head and rolled her eyes.

Xi Zhe patted him with a smile

"Get up quickly, drink something first, let's go around, have dinner early today, and have a late night snack in the evening"

Even if there is heating in the house, getting up in winter is indeed a matter of perseverance.

Lin Xia struggled for a moment before slowly getting up.

Although the weather is very cold, the river in the center of the town is not frozen, and the sound of gurgling water makes the town that seems to be sleeping in winter look more peaceful and quiet.

Lin Xia was wearing a thick down jacket, most of her face was buried in the scarf, she followed Xi Zhe with her head down and walked slowly around the river.

Xi Zhe held a piece of dog's tail grass in his hand, and walked very leisurely. Occasionally, he looked back at Lin Xia who was walking behind him and said a few words to him with a smile.

And on the way the two walked, there was only a string of long footprints on the snow-covered ground.

Lin Xia glanced at the time, and it was 15 minutes to one o'clock in the morning of the next day. She looked at Xi Zhe helplessly.

"It's so late and all the doors are closed outside to sleep, where are you going to go during the day?"

"Of course not, hurry up, get dressed and I'll wait for you in the lobby"

Without waiting for Lin Xia to complain, she turned around and left.

Seeing the darkness outside, Lin Xia silently tightened the scarf

"Xi Zhe"

Xi Zhe turned on the flashlight to illuminate the road, and responded with a sound

"What's wrong? Don't tell me you are afraid of the dark, I will laugh at you"

Lin Xia couldn't help the black line, "I just want to ask you, have I ever offended you?"

Xi Zhe chuckled, "Why, do you think I'm taking revenge on you by dragging you out in the middle of the night?"

"No"

Lin Xia said in a flat tone, "I just think this scene is too dark and windy to kill people on a dark night, and the perverted doctor's crime with high IQ can't be more realistic."

Xi Zhe was taken aback for a moment, then imagined the scene described by Lin Xia, and couldn't help laughing out loud

"Although you don't have much business in your store, it's really idle, but I still suggest that you have nothing to do to trim the flowers and cut the grass, and read those novels less."

The two of them walked to the destination soon after talking. Lin Xia looked at the old tree in front of him by the light of Xi Zhe's flashlight, and was very speechless.

"If you don't sleep late at night, you just want to take me to see this tree? Is it different in the daytime? Is it more effective to make a wish late at night?"

Xi Zhe turned around to face Lin Xia, his gentle expression was not at all like the familiar Lin Xia in normal times

"of course not"

As he said that, he turned off the light of the flashlight, and the surroundings immediately became dark.

The moonlight keeps the surroundings from being so dark that you can't see your fingers, but you can only vaguely see the appearance of the person in front of you.

Lin Xia's heart trembled, and he realized something for a moment but felt it was impossible.

Just as Lin Xia was stunned, Xi Zhe's voice sounded, not the usual smile, but more serious and solemn

"Lin Xia, I like you. I never believed that there is such a thing as love at first sight in this world, but when I met you, I believed it. As a doctor, I have seen too many people of all kinds. I never thought In this flashy society, there are still clean and pure people who are not trapped by their identity and background, but I met you and saw it. I don’t want much. A home, a lamp, and a person. Lin Xia, I like you , can you accompany me through the rest of my life?"

Lin Xia was a little dumbfounded, and even more at a loss. This was the first time in his life that he was confessed so solemnly.

I originally thought that he was a straight man until he could no longer be straight, but I finally convinced myself that I was thinking too much. It turned out that I was thinking too little.

For a moment, he really didn't know how to respond.

After one possibility was eliminated, that possibility suddenly happened, which made his mind go blank.

Suddenly, the big tree next to them lit up colorful neon lights, and the light instantly dispelled the surrounding darkness.

Lin Xia squinted his eyes a little uncomfortable, and opened them again, the lights were flickering, and there was only one big tree left alone on the unobstructed plain, exuding intoxicating brilliance, which was too beautiful to behold.

And under the tree, Xi Zhe restrained his smile and his eyes revealed an unbearably indulgent tenderness. He just quietly stared at the person in front of him, as if it didn't matter what the answer was, because he would always be there.

Lin Xia couldn't control his heartbeat, he didn't know what to do.

He cherishes Xi Zhe as a friend, but it doesn't mean that he likes Xi Zhe that way.

If he refuses, he doesn't want to lose such a congenial friend.

But accept, if he doesn't have that kind of affection for Xi Zhe, wouldn't it be another hurt.

"Xi Zhe...I..."

"In the next life, I only wish to see you as before, remember this sentence?"

Lin Xia's eyes widened immediately, and she looked at Xi Zhe in disbelief.

Xi Zhe looked up at the treetops, and there was only crystal white snow left on it. The wooden signs with ribbons might have fallen with the dead leaves, and there were only some ribbons tied on the lower branches. flutter every now and then

"Lin Xia, I don't want an afterlife, I just want to grow old hand in hand with you in this life. Five years ago, this is the place where we first met."

The colorful neon lights flickered silently on the tree, and the two under the tree looked at each other silently.

Destiny is such a wonderful thing, either to trick people or to be destined.

Some people leave deep imprints in their lives and unforgettable memories that cannot be erased by time, but they are destined to only become passers-by.

Some people just appear so plainly, approach your life naturally, and gradually become inseparable from you, just because they just appear not too early or too late.

Many years later, if you want to ask Lin Xia whether he lived happily, he will answer, happy.

If you want to ask Lin Xia if he has forgotten that relationship, he will say that he will never forget it in his life.

Remembering his whole life does not mean that he is unfair to Xi Zhe who has been with him all his life, but it only represents a part of his life journey and a relationship experience.

Isn't life filled with these ups and downs, why bother to forget and bury those imperfections deliberately?

Lin Xia does not regret having loved, nor does she regret choosing to let go after so much investment in her youth.

Because it is precisely because of these regrets in life that we can understand that the happiness in front of us is precious, and we will know how to cherish, manage and maintain it.

One morning, Lin Xia opened his eyes and saw the guy next to him who was not sleeping at all, moved the foot that was pressing on his leg, opened the window, and the soft rising sunlight came in.

The one on the bed buried its head in the quilt and continued to sleep, Lin Xia, who put his hands on the window sill, smiled comfortably towards the sun, and it was another sunny day.