The Cliff of Eternal Sun

Wei Mu stood there for a while, then took off his gloves and put them on the shelf, turned around and entered the shop.

Aunt Lin just came out from the shelf, and Wei Mu said to her, "Aunt Lin, I want to take a leave of absence to go shopping, and I'll fix the shelves outside at night when I come back."

Aunt Lin said "Hey", first subconsciously agreed, then couldn't help asking after a pause, "Is it because you came to find your girl just now?"

She saw Wei Mu talking to a girl in the shelf, worried about hearing something she shouldn't hear, so she didn't feel embarrassed to go out, but saw the two talking face to face for a long time, their faces were not very good-looking, the girl was still red Eye sockets go.

Wei Mu let out a "hmm", touched his trouser pocket, and said to Aunt Lin with some embarrassment: "Aunt Lin, can I advance my salary for the next three days?"

Wei Mu's salary is 80 yuan a day, paid by the day. At first, Aunt Lin felt that he had no money to spend, so she wanted to pay him a month's money in advance, but Wei Mu refused and insisted on paying by the day.Every evening before leaving, Aunt Lin would count out 80 yuan from the drawer and give it to Wei Mu, but it was inevitable that she would forget it as she went too many times, and Wei Mu never mentioned it until Aunt Lin remembered it the next day. Make it up for him.

After a few days of getting along, Aunt Lin already trusted Wei Mu very much. When Wei Mu opened his mouth, she opened the drawer without saying a word, counted 240 yuan from it, and handed it to Wei Mu while asking: "What are you going to buy?"

"Tomorrow night is her engagement banquet," Wei Mu said, "I don't want to be empty-handed, so I want to go out and see what kind of gift I can buy."

Aunt Lin's expression instantly became extremely complicated, her eyes were tinged with sympathy, and her voice was softer than usual: "She is engaged, are you going?"

Wei Mu didn't notice Aunt Lin's abnormality, and just gave a brief "hmm".

Aunt Lin looked at his pale face and gloomy expression, and thought that Wei Mu looked so lethargic today, and he didn't say a word all day, so it was because of this.She saw with her own eyes how much he loved that girl. He was a fine young man who sat on the street all day long without going home. He was tortured to the point where he was ill. He felt so uncomfortable. It was only a few days in a blink of an eye. In the past, that person was about to get engaged to someone else.

She watched Wei Mu push open the door and go out, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh behind his back.

Wei Mu didn't know Aunt Lin's misunderstanding, but he was only thinking about what he could buy with the money on his body.Although Ji Tangtang told him that he didn't need to prepare anything, but after all, it was such a big event as engagement, Wei Mu couldn't go there empty-handed, and even if he didn't go to the banquet, he should give Ji Tangtang some gifts.But with the 240 yuan that Aunt Lin just gave him, he only had 400 yuan in total, and he couldn't buy anything decent at all.

Wei Mu had been shopping on the street until dark, but still didn't buy anything, until he passed by an antique street, he saw a woodcarving shop, went in on a whim, and finally bought an unprocessed piece from there for 300 yuan. raw wood.

When he returned to the shop with the piece of wood, Aunt Lin had already gone home. Wei Mu put the wood back into the hut where he lived, and went to tidy up the iron shelf outside before returning to the house to focus on fiddle with it. wood.

When he was young, he didn't have much entertainment, and watching TV often made Liang Yan angry, so he would often sit on the stone in the corner of the yard, and play with carving wood with a ten-cent knife bought from a small shop.In that corner there was a tall hawthorn tree and a luxuriant holly bush. He sat in it, and people could not easily spot him. The sun was shining on him well, and he felt that there was no more pleasant place than that. .

He has never learned carving, but after a long time, he has also explored a set of his own exclusive skills, and some small ornaments can also be carved lifelike, with a rough and cuteness, until he grew up and was busy with school and work. It was only gradually that I stopped carving wood to pass the time, and now I haven't touched it for several years.But for 400 yuan, he couldn't find a less shabby gift than this.

The small carving knife in his hand was bought in the store together with the wood for ten yuan, and it was not very convenient to use. In addition, he was a bit unfamiliar at the beginning, and accidentally cut several times in a row.He didn't care too much, he frowned slightly and went to rinse it under the faucet. After the bleeding stopped, he wrapped it with tape hastily, and continued to pick up the carving knife to polish it.

Wei Mu spent the whole night on that piece of wood. He didn't stand up until the sky turned white, moving his stiff shoulders.It was almost dawn, he thought, wondering if Suian would go out this morning.Just thinking about it like this, a huge soreness surged up in his chest, the words Ji Suian said to him the night before still lingered clearly in his ears, Wei Mu hurriedly rubbed his face vigorously with his hands , rubbing the unresponsive sudden tears together with tiredness, it looks like the red eyes are only caused by sleepiness.

In fact, he was a little thankful that he still had one thing to do urgently, otherwise he didn't know how he would get through this night.

Wei Mu stood on the spot for a while, struggling, but still walked out of the room.He opened the store door, the sky was pale in the distance, but there was still a thin layer of dark blue nearby, the cool wind made him shiver, and the fatigue on his body was also cooled down a little.In the end, he didn't go outside, but just moved a small bench and sat in front of the shop, hanging his head and continuing to refine the wood in his hands.

After a night of carving, the [-]cm-square wood can already be seen in general shape. The base is full of flowers, and the heads of a few small animals can be vaguely seen in the middle. It was the hollow sun, moon and stars, on which he engraved all the beautiful and beloved things he could think of, surrounding the two people in the middle.

During the day, apart from working, Wei Mu sat on the small bench tossing the piece of wood, while Aunt Lin sat at the counter knitting her sweater.

Aunt Lin's sweater is very finely woven, with a dark green bottom and a Mickey on the chest. From time to time, she needs to change the thread of a different color, and if there is something that doesn't fit, she has to tear it down and start over again, so after so many days, she hasn't knit much. , but she is extremely patient about it, as if knitting is the biggest thing in her daily life.The weather was getting hotter and hotter. Wei Mu didn't know why she wanted to knit a sweater at this time. When asked, Aunt Lin just smiled and said, maybe there will be a time when she can wear it.It was a bit strange to say this, but after she finished speaking, she lowered her head and concentrated on knitting, Wei Mu couldn't continue to ask.

During this day, the two of them did their own work, which was very harmonious, but it was easy for passers-by to misunderstand that this was a handmade shop.

When it was almost five o'clock in the afternoon, Wei Mu saw Ji Suian's car driving past.

Aunt Lin has also been secretly observing Wei Mu's state all day. The more focused and serious Wei Mu is, the sadder she feels when she sees him.Seeing Wei Mu looking outside at this time, she asked, "It's almost time, shouldn't you go?"

Wei Mu nodded, found a cardboard box and put the wood in it.He didn't carve very carefully, and the time was too tight, and he could only do so with his best.

After packing up, he bid farewell to Aunt Lin, but was stopped: "Are you going to wear this?"

Wei Mu followed her gaze and looked at himself. The simple long-sleeved trousers were informal and even cheap, but he only had two clothes in total, which were the most wearable.

He smiled and said, "It's okay."

Aunt Lin was dissatisfied, she put down the sweater in her hand, walked out from the counter, and dragged Wei Mu to the small room where he slept.

After entering the room, she opened the closet at the end of the bed and bent down to search.Although Wei Mu has slept here for several days, except for the first day when Aunt Lin took out a change of clothes for him, he has never touched this wardrobe himself, and he doesn't know what clothes are in it. Only then did I realize that the upper floor was full of neatly folded sweaters of various colors.

Before he had time to take a closer look, Aunt Lin straightened up, holding a dark gray suit in her hand.

Seeing some doubts in Wei Mu's eyes, she explained with a smile: "It's for my son." She gestured to Wei Mu with the suit and said, "Try it on."

"Aunt Lin, I don't need to..."

Before Wei Mu finished speaking, Aunt Lin stuffed the suit directly into his arms: "On such an important occasion, the couple don't know how beautifully they have to dress up. Since you are going, you should be in good spirits. You can’t just lose to them.”

Only then did Wei Mu realize that Aunt Lin seemed to have misunderstood, but he couldn't explain it, so he could only helplessly watch Aunt Lin close the door and walk out.

Wei Mu changed into that suit and went out of the room. Aunt Lin stared at him motionless for a long time. Wei Mu called her several times before she came back to her senses. She took off her glasses, wiped her eyes, and smiled. Said: "The height is appropriate, but a little fat."

She looked at Wei Mu with an expression that could almost be called affectionate: "You are too thin, you need to eat more in the future."

When he walked out of the Garden of Return, Wei Mu had the illusion that he was like a soldier rushing to the battlefield, because Ji Tangtang didn't know the truth of a word, and he rushed to the ending that might be smashed without hesitation.The suit that Aunt Lin gave him was the only thin layer of armor on his body.