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Chapter 151 Another Life

"What did you see?"

Qin Jian just finished asking, but without waiting for He Si's answer, he heard a strange voice coming from behind him.

"There are quite a lot of dog lickers these days."

The voice gradually got closer, and a boy with a Chinese-character face came over. He looked upright, but spoke eloquently. There were a few cheering friends behind him. They were all tall and strong, like members of the sports team. At first glance, he seemed to have done enough. Ready to cause trouble.

But for Qin Jian, these provocative tricks were too childish. He had no intention of entangled with them and wanted to leave, but He Si stayed where he was. He looked at He Si's dull eyes and knew that she was in an illusion.

Unable to leave or cause trouble, Qin Jian was in a dilemma. He lowered his eyebrows and lowered his eyes and remained silent at all, thinking that he would let these students take advantage of their words, as long as they left quickly and did not interfere with the clues He Si had just found.

But Qin Jian still didn't understand these stupid young men too well. Since they came in a fierce manner, they would not leave easily. On the contrary, when he saw that although Qin Jian was dressed handsomely and elegantly, he felt fierce, but when he encountered trouble, he would not leave easily. Dare to make a sound, he was obviously a weakling. Several people looked at each other and became even more arrogant.

"Hey, what about you, how far have you licked?"

The laughter came, Qin Jian's face darkened, but He Si still didn't move. An ancient coin slipped from his sleeve and landed on Qin Jian's fingertips.

Although he no longer has the ability to dominate others, it is still more than enough to teach these stupid young people. Qin Jian remained speechless, but a trace of disdain mixed with impatience flashed in his eyes.

"Zhou Guanwen, are you jealous that you can't find a female companion for Christmas?" Song Zhaoxuan, who had just left, turned back and took Yuan Yuan with him, just in front of Qin Jian.

"Let me just say that there are a lot of dog lickers." The man named Zhou Guanwen made a helpless gesture and said with a playful smile, "Are you defending your ex-girlfriend, or are you planning to turn around? It really makes you confused. .”

"Pig head and pig brain, of course you can't think clearly." A cold female voice came from behind. Zhou Guanwen did not expect that there would be someone at the scene to help He Si. He turned around in anger and confusion, only to see a strange woman walking in the distance. Petite in stature, she wears a snow-white gown and walks with great strides, full of momentum. Behind her, about half a step behind her, was a man wearing a long coat. Compared with the woman's hurried pace, he looked calm and leisurely, as if he was walking in his back garden. When he saw Qin Jian, he nodded almost invisible, even as a greeting.

Although the styles were different, they were all handsome men and beautiful women. The lively dance party gradually became quiet, and everyone's eyes turned to this corner, as if to see how this farce would end.

"Who are you?" Zhou Guanwen looked at the man and woman who suddenly broke in, especially the man with a smile on his lips, and instinctively felt fear.

"Brother, I've seen a lot of things that can't be achieved when you love them. Just let them go in a dignified manner. It's so ugly for you to throw dirty water on a girl because of your love and hatred." Fan Yu didn't know which corner he took it out from. He put his arm around Zhou Guanwen's shoulders and exhorted him affectionately, his voice loud and clear, just reaching the ears of the onlookers. He looked amiable, but almost pushed Zhou Guanwen to his knees.

"You...what are you talking nonsense about?" Zhou Guanwen defended in a pale tone, "This is a campus dance. Can any casual person from outside the school come in?"

Following his retort, several brothers behind him also reacted and started shouting: "It's amazing. One person can find so many helpers. There is also a rich second generation named Deng who didn't show up. No wonder he's always away from school. I really don’t know what kind of business you usually do outside of school?”

The meaning was pointed out, and the words were heart-breaking. He Si could not hear them, but someone answered them for her.

"She recently helped me with a geological survey project in the Kumtag Desert. At the same time, she was also helping Professor Li in Yincheng with digital research on wooden pagodas. She really doesn't have time to play house games with you here." Another question. The hoarse and majestic female voice, this time it was Jun Jiuzi who came from the dusty world, walked past Zhou Guanwen, and couldn't help but complain, "Do all the little boys nowadays like to talk so much? Have you finished your homework?"

Jun Jiuzi had a professorial aura, and those young guys like Zhou Guanwen instinctively shrank when they thought about their performance points and the approaching final exam.

"I said you guys are too busy. You don't have a great opportunity to date the girl you like, but you are looking for trouble here. No wonder you can get it together..." Fan Yu pretended to count as he said, "One, two, three, four, five, Yo, the single guy who made up a basketball team."

Fan Yu's words were much more relaxed. Most of the people in the auditorium were lovers. Looking at the embarrassed and abrupt few strong men, they burst into sporadic laughter.

Zhou Guanwen's cheeks turned red and he was furious. He said to Fan Yu, "Aren't you also single?"

Fan Yu was not as dull as him. He stepped forward and put his arms around Jun Jiuzi's shoulders, and said in the eyes of all the boys who were shocked and angry: "Cheng Rang."

When relatives and friends gathered from all directions, He Si was in another life of hers. It was a life that she had never had before, a life that she lingered on and refused to leave.

The origin of life coincided with the beginning of the memory just now. Her mother touched her head. Her eyes were filled with love for one moment and madness for another. She said: "Ah Si, my mother will put on the most beautiful clothes for you in a while and tie up your hair." The most beautiful headband, can I take you to see daddy?"

She raised her head, and a voice in the distance told her not to, but she looked at her mother's hopeful eyes and nodded solemnly.

"So good." Her mother smiled with relief and touched her head gently.

She took advantage of the time when her mother returned home to help her get clothes, ran to the small yard, and knelt down towards a Guanyin statue. She always felt that it was not an object in her home, but for some reason, she felt that the Guanyin statue should be there. .

The statue of Guanyin is extremely beautiful. It wears a flower crown on its head, is covered with armpits, and has a red skirt with lace on its lower body. The exposed skin is white and delicate, and its feet are on lotus flowers. It is casual, natural and beautiful. But He Si couldn't see her face - because the Guanyin statue had its back to her, giving her only a compassionate back.

But He Si didn't care. The little girl knelt down on the red mat and prayed devoutly, hoping that all her mother's wishes would come true, hoping to see the gentle smile on her mother's face again, until her mother's call appeared in the living room. inside.

"Asi, where have you been?"

"I'm here." She quickly stood up and ran towards the house, but she didn't realize that the red futon and the Guanyin statue behind her were gone.

Just like in her memory, her mother took her to the dance, held her hand and led her to the center of the dance floor. All eyes were focused on her. She walked alone to the familiar yet unfamiliar man, mustered up the courage to shout :"dad."

The man hesitated and gently picked her up.

She didn't struggle and let the man hold her. She didn't feel happy in her heart, but when she saw her mother smiling with joy, she suddenly felt it was worth it.

But the dance was still in chaos, and he saw his father's wife rushing up and slapping his mother in the face.

"You shameless woman!"

"What are you doing!" The father stretched out his hand, "Don't make things too ugly." "Am I ugly? Is it because of me that things become ugly?" the woman asked aggressively, waving her hands to get away. My father pulled me, but hit me in the face. The originally shining gem turned into a sharp weapon, cutting a long gash on my face and blood gushing out.

Everyone was stunned, but her mother rushed up and hugged her: "Ah Si, Ah Si, are you okay?"

"Haha, Ah Si, how could someone give their child such a name? Do you want your daughter to be like you?"

"No," for some reason, there seemed to be a voice in He Si's little mind. It was gentle, clean, and reassuring. She followed that voice and said those words, "Everywhere in life, we know what is the same." , It should be like a flying dragon stepping on snow and mud, this is the meaning of my name."

Her father's eyes flashed with surprise, and He Si felt herself being held tighter by these hands. For the first time, she was sent to the hospital with her father and mother accompanying her.

"It's my fault," she heard her father say to her mother outside the ward, "I'm sorry, you raised your daughter very well."

"It's all what I should do, she is also my daughter."

"I'll find a way, give me some time."

The wound on her face ached faintly, and she felt uneasy in her heart. Something was wrong, but as she looked at her mother's improving body, she suppressed the uneasiness deep in her soul, and the statue of Guanyin that suddenly appeared and disappeared suddenly. Forgotten together.

There were scars on her face after all, but she had a father and mother who loved each other.

It turns out that growing up in a normal family is so happy. She doesn't have to worry about her classmates laughing at her for not having a father, her mother's sudden madness, or her grandmother's sighs and forced smiles. She grows up sunny and happy. Only very occasionally in the middle of the night, she would still have dreams, and the dreams were full of gloomy darkness. The Guanyin turned around and asked her if she regretted it.

She broke out in a cold sweat, but still couldn't see Guanyin's face clearly.

She had no regrets. She thought about her mother's increasingly healthy physical condition. Even if she was just a bargaining chip, she had to be a qualified bargaining chip.

She grew up step by step in this way, and successfully entered the university of her choice. Under the guidance of her parents, she filled out the most promising major in finance. The moment she submitted her application, she was surrounded by a sense of loss and melancholy.

"Ah Si has really grown up, and she will be hurt by separation." At that time, my mother's forehead was already stained with hoarfrost, but she still looked at her and smiled as tenderly as when she was young. He Si naturally attributed this sadness to leaving home. Accompanied by her parents, she left home for the first time and came to university.

She was very happy, she always told herself this, as if she needed to confirm something to herself, but her uneasiness became more and more serious. Sometimes she would even suffer from insomnia. She heard someone keep calling in her ear: "Asi."

It was the same voice as that voice many years ago, gentle, clean, and reassuring, but it was not the voice in her life.

"Why don't you go to the hospital and have a look." Her mother became more and more worried about her condition, so her parents accompanied her to the hospital again, but this time she had a boyfriend, who was filial and obedient, but He Si But I couldn't see his face clearly, and I always felt that I was separated from him by a heavy fog, neither close nor throbbing.

But my mother was very satisfied. She said: "Ah Si, there are very few good men like this anymore. Don't look forward and backward and follow in my mother's footsteps. When my mother was young...oh, my mother did harm to others when she was young."

The mother sighed, and He Si discovered that her back, which was always upright, was actually stooped.

That would be him. He Si thought, and in the eyes of her parents' blessings, she took the man's arm. The red carpet led to the white church. She walked step by step with the man with a vague face. She was more confused than happy. She even couldn't laugh.

Her parents and relatives were applauding, and she heard cheers one after another. Everyone was blessing her, except for herself, and she even stopped in her tracks.

"What's wrong?" The man next to her leaned down and asked in her ear, "What's wrong? Why don't you leave?"

"What is that?" She pointed to the statue at the end of the red carpet - wearing a flower crown, wearing armpits, with its back facing her. It was the Guanyin statue that she had worshiped in her childhood.

"It's the priest, Ah Si, what's wrong with you?"

You deserve to call her Ah Si. For some reason, that voice suddenly sounded in He Si's ears again, but this time, the gentleness faded away and was replaced by bone-chilling coldness.

Looking further ahead, there was clearly a priest at the end of the carpet, with a kind and solemn face, looking at them expectantly.

"Asi, are you feeling uncomfortable? Why don't we go to the hospital first?"

A worried voice sounded, but the man beside her was still touchingly considerate. He Si shook her head: "No, I can continue."

She continued to walk forward, and the long red carpet was endless. She became weaker and weaker, step by step, as if she were stepping on cotton. It was soft and not solid, but there was no real danger. So she walked step by step until she saw a pair of malicious eyes - especially shocking among all the expectations and joy.

She vaguely knew whose eyes those were, and she had a half-sister.

There was a dull pain in her brain. The priest was already close at hand. He Si looked at his face and suddenly felt palpitations. No, it shouldn't be like this. Her life was smooth, but it was like a script written by someone, step by step, unchanging, and even stepped on other people's lives.

Why is this happening?

She heard that voice again - Do you regret it?

He Si didn't know. She looked at her parents, who were already covered with silver hair. They were supporting each other. There was a happy smile on her mother's face that she had never wanted to break. He Si didn't know that she would not regret it in the future.

But then she saw more different people, a carefree strong man, a tomboy-like valiant female man, a cold female doctor, a charming and colorful woman, a black bird with golden eyes... and... There were many people who were clearly not in her life, but yet were so familiar to her. For example, the man standing far away in the light, whose face could not be seen clearly, already made her want to cry.

She looked back at her mother again, wanting to keep this smile in her heart.

No matter how beautiful the dream is, you have to wake up.

(End of this chapter)