The Cliff of Eternal Sun

Two days later, Aunt Lin sat in a wheelchair and came down to the store accompanied by Shen Miao.

After returning from the hospital that night, Wei Mu never went there again. Shen Miao took Aunt Lin home early the next morning, and he couldn't see anyone when he went.In the past two days, he stayed in the store by himself. He still opened the store early in the morning, cleaned all the counters on the ground, and waited for customers to come. He closed the store after the sunset in the evening, and put away all the money he sold. In a drawer inside the counter.

Now Aunt Lin finally came back, but not to prop up the store, but to pack up and close the store.

Shen Miao is not an unreasonable person, and she blames her grievances. On the night she stayed with her in the hospital, she looked at Aunt Lin's haggard sleeping face for a long time. On the way home the next morning, she suddenly let go and said that after returning home, she would leave her home. To make room for Aunt Lin's storage room, and to store her things for Aunt Lin. This is the purpose of the two of them coming here today.

The weather on this day is still not very good. Although there is no rain, the clouds are gray and there is no sun. It is a cloudy day.Shen Miao was cleaning up inside, while Aunt Lin was sitting at the door of the store, stopped Wei Mu, and said, "Let Miao Miao clean up, don't go, let's talk again."

Wei Mu moved a small bench and sat down next to Aunt Lin's wheelchair.

They sat side by side in front of the store, looking at the familiar street outside, and the people and cars passing by on the street.

After a while, Aunt Lin spoke, with a somewhat apologetic look: "I'm sorry, Xiao Mu, I told you earlier that you can work here as long as you want, and it's only been a few days before you broke your promise."

Wei Mu shook his head.He sat low, and looked up when talking to Aunt Lin: "Don't say that, if you didn't let me work in the store, I could only sleep on the street these days."

"What about after that?" Aunt Lin looked at him with concern, "Where are you going after that? I originally wanted to leave the key to you first, so that you could have a place to live, and leave when you want, but... ..."

Her tone was like a sigh: "Let's go, Xiao Mu, don't stay here anymore. Let's all go back to our respective homes and stop thinking about it."

After a moment of silence, Wei Mu nodded and said, "Okay."

Aunt Lin laughed, as if she was relieved, but also sad.Both she and Wei Mu have stayed and waited here, and now they are both about to leave. When they left, neither of them got what they wanted.

She suddenly raised her hand and pointed to the opposite side of the street. Wei Mu looked along and saw that it was a digital store.

"It used to be a mother and baby store there. I picked up Xiaoshu from the kindergarten after get off work that day, and we went home together. When I got here, I remembered that Miaomiao's milk powder was almost finished, so I wanted to take Xiaoshu with me. I'll go in and buy two bags."

"He refused to go in with me and insisted on staying outside because he told me on the road earlier that there was a kid in the kindergarten wearing a sweater that was knitted by his mother himself, with his favorite Mickey on his chest. I knit one for him too. I was so busy every day and my hands were clumsy, I never knit anything, so I didn’t promise him, and he got angry with me because of it.”

"I thought I wouldn't go in if I didn't go in. Nothing would happen if it was just a few minutes, but it was just a few minutes, just a few minutes... I seemed to hear him call mom, and I don't know if I heard it wrong But after I came out, I never saw my little tree again..."

Aunt Lin's voice trembled, she looked at the digital store in the distance, as if she had penetrated the long time, and saw that autumn many years ago, the leaves of the sycamore trees fell all over the ground, and Shen Shu was wearing a black hooded jacket. coat, standing under the tree puffing up.

"The most understandable truth in this world is that anyone can live without anyone, but who knows how to live and what to live like?" She closed her eyes, and the last sentence seemed to be sighed from the bottom of her heart. With endless bitterness, "My whole life..."

Wei Mu looked at her, and after a brief silence, he took out something from his pocket and put it in Aunt Lin's hand.

Aunt Lin opened her eyes. It was a small wooden sculpture with no special decorations. There were only three people on it, a boy and a girl, cuddling in the arms of a woman.

Aunt Lin looked at Wei Mu, and Wei Mu said, "I had some materials left over when I was making that woodcarving. I carved this small one when I was free these two days."

Although he finished it, he actually hesitated to give it away. Aunt Lin had already decided to close the shop and leave. Maybe she could completely untie this knot in the future. However, after hearing what he said, Wei Mu realized that some people had Things are carved into the bone marrow, and can only die with the passing of life, and nothing else can take them away.If this is the case, he hopes to give Aunt Lin a little more thought.

Aunt Lin turned her gaze back to the wood carving in her hand, lifted it up, looked at it carefully, and said with a gentle expression, "It's so beautiful."

"Xiao Mu." She suddenly called Wei Mu's name, looked back at him, and said softly, "Can Aunt Lin ask you something?"

"When you go to other places in the future, can you help me see if there is anyone who looks like my son?"

One of her hands was lifted up, as if there was nothing to support her in the air, and she stopped for a moment, trembling, and fell on her own neck, the voice was very soft, but heavy as if it carried the thoughts of this life , Choked up and said: "He has a red birthmark here."

Wei Mu's throat was also tight, he nodded vigorously and said, "Okay."

Aunt Lin seemed to be relieved, and continued to look at the wood carving in her hand. The three people on it were snuggled together, intimate, growing on the same piece of wood, and would never be separated.

A small trunk took away the worries that Aunt Lin had accumulated for more than 20 years. Wei Mu stood at the door of the store and watched them leave. Aunt Lin stretched out her hand from the rear window and was still saying goodbye to him far away. .

When he came, Wei Mu had nothing on him, just a lonely person, after more than ten days, his things were packed into a small bag.

Returning to the garden was locked, and Aunt Lin refused to lower the shutter door because it would cover the photos on the glass, so Wei Mu sat down on the steps in front of the shop with his bag in his arms.After sitting for a while, he turned his head to look at the things in the store, and looked through the glass in the same way, and finally his eyes fell on the short bookshelf next to the glass door. It was because of these books that he first started reading. Walked into the garden for the first time.

After sitting outside for an unknown amount of time, Wei Mu saw the little girl again, and he still remembered her name, Mianmian.She didn't wear that beautiful princess dress this time, and sat in front of the tricycle with a small face.

The old man stopped the car, took the little girl down, and let her play beside her while she went to clean up the trash in the trash can on the side of the road.Mianmian stood there for a while, saw Wei Mu, she obviously recognized him, and walked over here.

Wei Mu smiled and asked her, "Why didn't you wear a princess dress today?"

The girl looks so small, but she has learned to frown: "I don't like skirts anymore."

Wei Mu was a little surprised: "Why, didn't mom buy it for you?"

"I don't like mom anymore."

She spoke angrily, but her eye circles were red, and she wiped her face with her two small hands indiscriminately a few times, as if trying to hold back, but in the end it failed. She burst into tears: "I don't like brother ,I dislike him."

Wei Mu was a little at a loss, for some reason, a few words made her cry, when the little girl's grandmother heard the movement, she walked over quickly, held her hand, and scolded: "Why are you crying! Your mother is working outside, and it’s not like she hasn’t come back all the time. This time, your brother is sick, so she and your father can’t come back to celebrate your birthday. It’s been a few days, so why cry every now and then?”

She dragged the little girl away, but this time she didn't let Mianmian sit alone on the car seat next to her, but held her in her arms.

The tricycle also gradually drove away, Wei Mu kept watching, and only looked away after a long time.He scanned the people passing by the side of the road one by one, and suddenly a great sadness welled up in his heart. This sadness was not only for himself, but related to a more grand life and destiny.This kind of thinking is very self-sufficient, like a mayfly sympathizing with the ancient world, but he couldn't help thinking, among the many people passing by on the street, how many of them have no pain in their hearts?

He thought of a word that had been used too vulgarly, all beings are suffering, and then another word broke into his mind - mother.