14 years time difference

The food has started in the banquet hall.

Waiters pushing dining carts or carrying trays passed between the round tables, making the scene that was about to burn at one o'clock look even more chaotic.

Du Shen took Du Zhian off the stage.

Du Zhian's innocent and fragile expression was real, as if he did not expect Lin Zhique's arrival.

The old man Yinglun threatened: "Du Shen!"

The old lady in England pulled Du Zhian into her arms: "Du Shen, you are too inconsiderate! Have you ever considered An An's feelings? This is how you celebrate your child's birthday!"

The Du family was still a little embarrassed waiting for someone to tell them the truth of the matter.Their expressions were equally fragile, and apart from their fragility, they were shocked, as if they had already guessed something, but they couldn't confirm it.

Lin Zhique was so panicked that he only knew how to pick his palm, but he didn't dare to say a word.

Tang Li said softly: "Dad, Mom, let's talk after dinner, okay?"

Du Zhian was hugged by her grandmother, and suddenly he was so wronged that he began to cry silently.

Her birthday party was messed up, she must have been looking forward to it for a long time.Or maybe the harm caused to her by the family accident has accumulated too much during these days, and she can no longer bear it.

In short, everyone at the table was moved for her, and everyone comforted her softly, coaxed her, pulled her to sit down, and brought her various dishes that she liked.

Tang Li's sister-in-law said: "It's good for children to be happy, and don't care about those grown-ups."

Du Shen's mother took out an exquisite gift box and coaxed Du Zhi'an, "An'an, look, this is a gift from your aunt who asked us to bring you. She said that you two had an appointment, can you see it? Grandma can't understand..."

When the box was opened, Lin Zhique peeked at it. It was the latest "perfume bottle" mp3 she saw in a magazine yesterday.

At this moment, she is like a fragile young leaf floating alone in the turbulent undercurrent.

The guests began to chat and toast with Du Shen. Du Shen ignored the angry cold stares and heart-wrenching consolation at the same time, and only cared about the warm greetings with people from all walks of life.A fat business partner smiled obsequiously and said to Du Zhian: "Happy birthday, little princess." Then he glanced at Lin Zhique and said, "This is two thousand gold, right? Mr. Du's genes are so good, both daughters are It came out so beautifully."

The old man snorted clearly.

After the man walked away with a smile on his face, Lin Zhique heard the old lady mutter: "I don't even know if I can get on the stage! It's embarrassing!"

She bowed her head.

Want to cough.want to escape.Both desires are equally strong.

Here, only Du Zhian is a child who needs to be taken care of emotionally and can cry.

And she is the perpetrator, a cheeky uninvited guest.

She really envied Du Zhian, and envied Du Zhian's right to be wronged.

There were wave after wave of guests who came to congratulate, the Du family and the Tang family were trying their best to maintain their dignity, but Du Shen was still calm. This irresistible fact has coexisted ever since.

The panic hadn't dissipated yet, and more and more shame rose in her heart. Of course, she still couldn't fully understand the hearts of everyone present, let alone fully understand why she was ashamed. Heartbroken, on that day, the only thing she began to understand was loneliness.

The Tang family's parents couldn't sit still any longer.

"Okay, no one intends to give us an explanation," the old man took Du Zhian's hand, "An'an, go, go with grandpa."

They got up and left quickly.

Du's parents and Tang Li's siblings all got up to chase, Du Shen didn't know which table he went to greet the guests, all of a sudden, Lin Zhique was the only one left at the main table.

The guest at the next table teased her and said, "Sister, where is your adult? No one wants you?"

She hurriedly stood up, ignoring the tinkling of the ornaments on her body, lowered her head, and ran out of the exquisite and bright banquet hall.

It's still raining outside.She stopped.She left the umbrella on the chair.

Those adults blocked the elevator entrance, still making noise.Du Zhian couldn't stop sobbing loudly.

Lin Zhique hurriedly hid in the fire stairwell, followed by a few words that floated into her ears:

"What an important day today! How can he be so troublesome!"

"Look at that girl, what she looks like!"

She didn't want to hear any more, so she rushed downstairs and ran across the lobby, thinking that she would just rush into the heavy rain.

There was an unexpected person standing outside the lobby door.

For a moment, she thought, it was like being saved.

She called her: "Xi Nan?"

Xu Xinan was even more astonished than her: "Why are you here?" Before Lin Zhique could answer, she looked at the revolving door of the restaurant again, and stammered, "So... is it over? The birthday party."

"How do you know there is a birthday party today?"

She found Xu Xinan holding a wrapped gift.

It turned out that he was not rescued by accident, Xu Xinan also came here for Du Zhian.

Lin Zhique tried to squeeze out a stern smile, pretending to be relaxed: "I'm leaving, and their family doesn't seem to welcome me."

Xu Xinan hesitated and said, "Well... she will definitely be unhappy if you come over suddenly."

"OK, bye."

Lin Zhique turned his head and ran into the pouring rain without hesitation.

At first she just walked briskly, walked across the parking lot far away from the entrance of the restaurant, walked to the main road, walked faster and faster, and then turned into a run, only less than ten meters away, she stopped, stopped I can't stop coughing violently.

She began to weep again, weeping in vain.

The rain was so heavy, she thought, no one would notice that she was crying, right?

Those who are not favored have no right to cry.

July 2005, 7, a typhoon day.

Can't hear, can't see, many tears she shed, they all died in that rain.

14 years later, as fate would have it, she walked into the rain again.

Lin Zhique got out of the car with an umbrella.

After days of heavy rain, the city's sewer system finally collapsed, the streets were too deep, and the chassis of the cars in front of them turned off because of the water, forming a long queue.The car couldn't pass, so she had to get out of the car with a big umbrella to pick up Du Siren.Half of her trouser legs were completely soaked in the water, and finally dripped onto the higher sidewalk. The sound of rain and horns resounded through the street. Her vision was dim, and she didn't know whether it was because her head was too heavy or the sky was too gray.

The shooting location was in a residential building, and it was built into a warm wooden home scene. Du Si leaned against the window, covered half of his face with a magazine, and showed mischievous eyes at the camera.

When she saw her coming, the magazine slipped off her face unconsciously, and the photographer quickly clicked the shutter, praising her for her expression.

After the filming was over, Du Siren came over and touched her forehead, and asked her softly if she felt better.

"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up. The people from the program group are going to kill me." She could not stop coughing slightly while answering her.

They held an umbrella together and walked into the majestic rain together. Dusi held the umbrella and wrapped her shoulder with the other hand, and the two of them stuck together tightly in the wind and rain.

The umbrella was tilted towards her, she knew it.

She was weak all over, and finally she naturally leaned half of her body on Du Siren's shoulders. People are more likely to become dependent when their bodies are weak, and she didn't intend to provoke them.

The man from Dusi asked, "Where is the car parked?"

They struggled through the half-blocked street.The driver probably turned around and drove to a nearby higher ground.

A motorcycle broke through the water and rushed onto the sidewalk. Dusi took her in his arms and quickly backed up a few steps, until he retreated to the narrow canopies of the shops on the street. The car splashed water and almost died to wet their coats.

The car and the driver drove nearly ten meters away and then hit the rearview mirror of a small car due to slippery roads, and overturned. The fruit baskets piled up by the nearby fruit shop were also hit by the objects that fell from the person. When it collapsed, the horn rang again, and they watched the motorcyclist struggling to get up from the water, the owner of the hit car got out of the water, and the owner of the fruit shop also came out to check the situation, and then it seemed to turn into a quarrel. The world was thrown into chaos by the rain.

The narrow eaves where they sheltered from the rain belonged to a grocery store with shutters.The umbrella has not been put away yet, the eaves are not wider than the umbrella, the rain is so strong that it slides down from the edge of the umbrella, forming an almost continuous water curtain in front of them, the Dusi people looked up and exclaimed: " heavy rain."

Lin Zhique urged her: "Go quickly."

Du Siren was motionless.

"Wait a minute. It's dangerous out there."

"Where is the danger?"

The hands of the Dusi people around her shoulders did not let go under the eaves where they could shelter from the rain.

"It's very dangerous. You will fall and get wet. If you get wet, you will get sick."

Lin Zhique turned to look at Du Siren: "Walk on the road on a sunny day, and you may be killed by a falling signboard. Just stand here for the rest of your life and don't walk."

Du Siren also smiled and turned to look at her: "Really?"

"What really? I don't want to. To become a living fossil?"

Dusi said, "Well. So just wait a little longer. I want to hide from the rain with you one more time."

"...It's rare that you don't make excuses."

"Ok?"

It's rare that when you want to cling to me, you say you want to cling to me, instead of this kind of thing or that.

Lin Zhique closed his eyes amidst the sound of pouring rain.Her head was still heavy, and in a trance, she wondered if she had returned to the age of 13.This rain was originally the one when she was 13 years old.

Someone has come to hold an umbrella for her, so she doesn't have to stand alone in the rain and cry.

Du Siren was beside her, and suddenly said: "You must have a lot of things in your heart besides yourself."

"……for example?"

"For example, the courage to stand up for others, and the thoughtfulness that makes people not feel burdened, like when you shouted to the snow mountain, and when you asked me if I wanted to cry, and when you turned on the light for me .”

"...shut up, you."

People like Dusi people who can speak any nasty words in a natural way are really scary.

Lin Zhique closed his eyes.

She didn't know whether Dusi was looking at her or the rain.

"I hope that one day, you will also have me in your heart."

Her heart, which was overloaded with illness, beat suddenly and hard.

Dusiren said: "It doesn't have to be to remember me all the time, as long as it rains, you can remember that I will help you hold the umbrella, when you are sick, remember that I will take care of you, when you want to cry, Can remember, no matter what it is for, as long as I am here, no one can deny the reason for your tears. No matter what you came into this world for, to me, your existence is just what you have in your heart, and nothing else Nothing to do with anything. I am very happy to meet you, glad to have you in this world, so happy that I can sleep well every night when I think about it, and when I wake up every morning, I will think about this happy thing for the first time , so that you can live a whole day. Because of this, I hope that one day, you will also have me in your heart. "

The noisy rain isolated them in an independent corner in the center of the world.Dusi's voice was right next to her ear, too close and too clear.

Is this compensation?she thinks.It was this rain that made up for her, the preference that came 14 years late.

If Dusi hadn't participated in this competition, at this moment, she should also be sitting on that round table in East China, sitting among those adults who regard her as worthless, then she would never stray into her isolated island like this .

She should have made an agreement with her long ago.

If she doesn't say it, she doesn't have to reject her.

Even if she just wants to lean into her arms at this moment, in the isolated island in the center of the world, under the eaves forgotten by the sweeping time, and sleep deeply, but she can't, she has to replace the one who is alone A 13-year-old girl crying standing in the rain said:

"how is this possible?"