Flowers all the way

Chapter 27 You Are Always By My Side

Xin Chen bought a ticket for the latest flight, and rushed to the airport as fast as she could. When she got on the plane, she heard the voice prompt to turn off her mobile phone and fasten her seat belt. , Only then did I realize that my hands were shaking badly.

Thoughts were churning in her mind, but she didn't dare to persuade herself to calm down and think about it. She sat upright the whole time, staring at a certain place in front of her in a daze.The passenger next to him was a middle-aged man. Seeing the tightly clenched hands and stiff sitting posture of the young girl beside him on the armrest, he felt compassionate and said soothingly, "Miss, is this your first time flying? Don't be nervous. It will feel better to relax, and it will be there in half an hour."

It took her a while to recover, "Oh, thank you."

Let that person strike up a conversation with others, she is not in the mood to respond.

After finally getting the plane to land, she got off the plane in a hurry and got into a taxi. The driver started the car and asked her where she was going. She paused and hesitated for a while before saying, "Master, you should get on the downtown expressway first."

When the driver was about to get off the airport expressway, Xin Chen announced the name of a lakeside community, and the driver turned the steering wheel as he said, and turned to another avenue.

The security guard at the gate of the complex asked them where they were going, and she reported the room number without thinking. The security guard handed the driver a parking card to let the driver go. She instructed the driver to drive to the villa, pay to get out of the car, and stop in front of the courtyard gate.

After standing for a while, she tried to push the courtyard door, which was locked with a latch. She hesitated for a moment, reached in and pulled the latch, and walked into the courtyard along the bluestone road.

The weather was fine, and the sun shone through the shade of the trees, casting irregular light spots on the ground.It can be seen that the decoration here has been completed. The curtains of the living room facing the courtyard door are drooping. The courtyard has been carefully planned, with bluestone slabs paved with narrow paths. On one side of the courtyard, there are acacia trees she is familiar with. The leaves are densely stretched.Lingxiao and morning glory are crawling along the courtyard wall. The flowers brought from her are placed in an orderly manner on the wrought iron flower stand. The rose, pomegranate and geranium are blooming in full bloom. The rose buds have sprouted, and the blooming should be in the next few days. .

Behind the acacia tree is a semi-open sun room with a rattan sofa and a small rattan round table. A chess set is placed on the round table. Lu Fei is sitting on the sofa, contemplating the chess game in front of him.

She stopped and didn't make a sound, but Lu Fei seemed to feel something suddenly. He turned his head, a little surprised, and then a smile appeared on his face. He reached out and picked up a cane beside him, and stood up, "Xiao Chen, How did you come?"

Wearing a white T-shirt, gray sports trousers, and a pair of canvas shoes, he walked out slowly with a cane in his left hand.

Xin Chen raised his hand to cover his mouth, silenced a scream, and looked at him in horror.She could hardly face the scene in front of her, and wanted to turn around and run away, leaving all this far behind, but she couldn't move, she just stood motionless.

Lu Fei walked down the steps in front of the sunshine room, "Come in, Xiaochen."

Xin Chen stared at him blankly, still covering his mouth with his hands.

"What's the matter, are you not feeling well?"

Xin Chen put down her hands, opened and closed her mouth, and finally managed to open her mouth: "Your legs, Lu Fei, your legs." Her voice was so hoarse and choked that she couldn't continue.

Lu Fei quickly reached out to hold her hand, "Don't be afraid, it's just a broken bone, and it's almost healed."

This sentence made Xin Chen unable to digest it for a long time. She stood there in a daze. Lu Fei led her into the sun room, unloaded her backpack behind her, and let her sit on the sofa. In a state of being in a daze.Lu Fei sat down beside her, put his cane aside, stretched his legs, and raised his hand to touch her forehead, where there was cold sweat.

"Why do you look so pale, do you want to drink some water?" Lu Fei looked at her worriedly, reached out to touch the cane and was about to stand up again.

Her hand pressed on his right leg like lightning, "Don't move." She immediately withdrew her hand, "I'm sorry, does it hurt?"

Lu Fei showed a dumbfounding expression, "Xiaochen, you pressed my right thigh, it's fine there, I just fractured the tibia and fibula of my left calf, and it was fixed with steel nails long ago, and it's almost recovered."

Xin Chen stared at him steadfastly. Ever since she knew that Lu Fei had gone to Qiandongnan to look for his injury, her heart had been filled with indescribable panic and panic, and she tried her best not to think about it.

However, from Dongzhimen to standing outside the courtyard just now, the messy thoughts lingering in her mind suddenly came up one by one clearly: car accident, frostbite in the snow, hypothermia, amputation... The outdoor knowledge she originally possessed and the pessimistic Lenovo was entangled and couldn't get rid of it, and she had been exhausted along the way, and seeing him coming out with a cane, her mind was shaking, and now she really couldn't regain her composure all at once.

She worked hard to adjust her breathing rhythm, and waited until she thought she could speak normally before she spoke: "Are you recovering soon? That's good, remember to go to the hospital for reexamination on time, the steel nails seem to have to be taken out after a while, and when you exercise and walk, you hurt your legs. Don't push yourself hard."

Her voice was so gentle that there were no ups and downs. Lu Fei looked at her thoughtfully, "This is consistent with what the doctor said. I didn't expect you to have a lot of medical knowledge."

"You must know how to deal with all kinds of accidents on foot. You have a good rest. I'm leaving first." She stood up, reached for her backpack, and Lu Fei pressed her hand.She suddenly got angry from nowhere, and without thinking, she pushed his hand away fiercely, and picked up the bag, but Lu Fei grabbed her wrist and pulled hard, she lost her balance and fell into his arms, before it was too late Surprised and angry, he immediately shouted, "Did you press your leg?"

Lu Fei said lightly: "I said that the thigh is fine, but don't move around, it may affect the wound."

Xin Chen immediately stayed in his arms obediently, not daring to move, Lu Fei hugged her tightly and put his chin on her head, after a long time, he sighed softly, "Are you worried about me, Xiao Chen? "

Xin Chen remained silent.

"I'm fine, don't be afraid."

Her voice came from his arms, "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"I'm afraid you'll be worried, and I don't want you to feel guilty. I was planning to go to Beijing to see you after I can throw away my crutches."

"Why should I feel guilty?" Xin Chen raised his voice, "What's none of my business?"

"Yeah, it's none of your business." Lu Fei tried hard to hold back a smile, "Well, I don't want to appear in front of you like this, and make you think I'm a disabled person."

Xin Chen was discouraged, and after a while he said, "I'm sorry, I'm really unreasonable."

There was a pleasant smile on the corner of Lu Fei's mouth, and he didn't speak.He couldn't tell her that since they met last year, she had been acting too reasonable, and he enjoyed her sudden unreasonableness just now.

"Tell me about the situation at that time." Xin Chen whispered in his arms.

"I got on a military truck transporting disaster relief supplies and drove from Guangxi. The journey was very slow, but everything went smoothly. When I got to that section of the road, the brake system suddenly had a mechanical failure. The driver was very experienced and turned the steering wheel. I made the choice with the least cost. The car slid into a ravine and rolled over. I, the driver, and a soldier in the cab were all injured, but they were not serious, but the temperature was low and it was uncomfortable. Fortunately, the transportation There is a coat in the rescue supplies, we took it out and wrapped it, and we can survive it. After the radio contacted the convoy, the rescue arrived. You see, it is not thrilling at all, and it is definitely not as complicated as the situation you encountered on the way.”

He spoke lightly, Xin Chen broke free from his arms suddenly, and without standing up straight, stretched out his hand to pick up the leg of his left sweatpants. The stitched wound on his calf was not a regular long strip, but a ferocious winding one. There are branches protruding from the middle, extending from below the knee to the position close to the ankle. Her fingertips hesitated and touched it lightly. The uneven scars have a warm skin texture, and the skin color in several places is obviously darker. , It can be seen that it is the trace left by frostbite.

"Is it an open fracture?" She knew it wasn't as simple as the tibial and fibula fractures he said. She had seen various accidents on foot and traveled for several years, and had carefully collected trauma treatment data, which really came in handy.

"There are open wounds, but look, it's really all right. I started working after the Spring Festival." He didn't mention that in the hospital, the secretary had already read documents to him beside his hospital bed, and he started to use a wheelchair as soon as he was discharged from the hospital. work in company.

When the truck rolled over, Lu Fei's left leg was stuck, another soldier was concussed and unconscious, the driver was the least injured, only his forehead was cut by glass, his flesh was turned out, and his face was bleeding.He dragged them out of the cab one by one, dug out the first aid kit for emergency treatment, cut open the packed supplies in the rear compartment, took out the cotton coat and covered them.Lu Fei endured the pain, picked out the broken glass on the driver's wound, and bandaged him.

The distress signal was received quickly, but it was limited to the road conditions. It was already 18 hours later when the rescue arrived.

He was sent to the hospital, and the results of the examination were an open fracture of the middle part of the left tibia, a comminuted fracture of the left tibial plateau, a fracture of the lower part of the left fibula, two open wounds, blood loss, and not a small area of ​​frostbite. Debridement, and then fixed with a brace, he has been anxiously waiting for the news, finally he was relieved to hear that Xin Chen had escaped from Xiaocun and stayed with him in the same county.

He was immediately sent to the military hospital in a neighboring province, where he underwent surgery to place steel nails for internal fixation.His mother rushed to visit him in the hospital and asked him why he was injured in a province far away from his work. He confessed: "My girlfriend is trapped there, and I want to pick her up."

His mother looked at him angrily, "Your father is so busy right now that he doesn't have time to teach you a lesson, but you are almost 30 years old, do you still need me to tell you what you should do and what you should not do?"

He just smiled and took his mother's hand, "Mom, have I ever worried you before?"

"That's not true. It's just that after the enlightened niece appeared, you changed. Otherwise, you wouldn't do such a thing as canceling the engagement, let alone almost die this time."

"It's not that serious, and I told you last time that what I did has nothing to do with Xiaochen. She is now very capable of living independently and takes good care of herself. You should know that I went to her and said Maybe she will find it annoying."

"She didn't even come to see you. What do you think you are doing this for?" After all, the mother felt sorry for him. She looked at his legs with tears in her eyes.

"Don't let her know."

His mother shook her head, knowing that it would be useless to say anything else, "You child, you have been sensible since childhood, I thought you would not do stupid things, alas."

He smiled and said nothing, but what he thought in his heart was that a person who has always lived rationally can sometimes do stupid things outside of reason, so that his heart can be peaceful and joyful.

Lu Fei only felt that cool fingertips stroked along the scar and stopped at the ankle. She leaned over, and he couldn't see her expression clearly, but he could feel the slight trembling of her fingertips.He pulled her up and hugged her back into his arms, and she put her arms around his waist.

"If something irreversible happens to you because of this," Xin Chen couldn't help shivering at the thought of this possibility, "What do you ask me to do? I will never forgive you."

"It was just an accident, don't think too much about it. I didn't cripple myself to let you remember my plan forever. If the weather and road conditions were not too bad, nothing would happen at all."

She asked in a low voice: "Why are you so stupid, you insist on running to find me. It's just that the traffic and communication are temporarily interrupted, and I'm not trapped in no man's land. Wait for a few more days, won't I come out properly?"

"I can't wait. Your last call only said that you were going to a remote town. I carefully checked the map and the weather report. I couldn't be sure whether you had arrived safely or if you were stuck on the road. And." He paused After a while, gently stroking her back, "Your birthday will be coming soon at that time."

Xin Chen was annoyed again, trying to control himself, "What kind of reason is this? It's not like you don't know, I don't care about birthdays. What's the big deal about a birthday, it's worth the risk."

His voice came from above her head, "I miss you too much, Xiaochen, I can't let you spend that birthday alone in the snow. But I still miss it. There are some things that I really can't force."

The faint desolation in Lu Fei's voice made Xin Chen silent.

That day, she was in the small village, and realized that her birthday was approaching quietly. Facing the red charcoal fire in the brazier, she recalled the days they had been together and missed in the past 12 years. With hesitation and uncertainty, the fire reflected her face brightly. Slightly reddish.She didn't expect that he was trapped in a ravine only more than ten kilometers away from her.

When she was a child, her grandparents and father would buy her presents on her birthday, and her father took her to the best hotels to eat cakes several times to celebrate.However, after she was 14 years old, she suddenly became indifferent to this day. When Lu Fei mentioned her birthday for the first time, she immediately thought of him when he heard that it was her birthday, and her face turned pale.

The woman who looked at her through the midsummer afternoon sun, called her Xin Chen, talked about her date of birth, the weather on the day she was born, her weight, her blood type, the red mole on her right foot... Try to convince her.

In fact, she didn't need those proofs. When the woman stared at her and said "I am your mother", she knew that it was true.

That sentence also made her finally know that no matter how happy and relaxed she is, she is different from other children.Before that, she lived at her uncle's house, and seeing her aunt coming in every night to cover her cousin Xin Di with a quilt, she was somewhat inexplicably envious.

Her mother had not existed since she was born, and there was an invisible gap in her life; and her mother suddenly appeared in this way, and then disappeared without a sound, leaving her with only the sleep disorder that has been entangled ever since, and that gap became Deming can no longer be ignored.

She didn't think about that, and shook her head at Lu Fei, "I don't want to celebrate my birthday, take me to the movies, go out to play, just don't mention birthdays, no cakes, no candles, no gifts, nothing at all."

Lu Fei understood her immediately, stroked her hair affectionately, and nodded slightly.He never mentioned birthday to her again, but when they were together, every time it came to this day, he would always make time to spend it with her by her side.

He tried his best to pamper and care for her occasional fragility, but how could he know that her sense of insecurity was always magnified.

When her father was accused, she saw with her own eyes that the procuratorate took him away for investigation. Even being hugged and comforted by her uncle could not stop her frenzied fear. It fell apart and could never be put together again.

When Lu Fei left, all her reactions were despair.Domineeringly refusing to let go, he fiercely swung his sharp claws towards his heart, only hoping to make him feel the same pain as himself.

But no matter what, he still left.

It is true that some things are destined not to be forced. She can only learn to face her life with gaps, repair it little by little, and grow up day by day.

No one else can go through this process for her.

Finally she can look at everything calmly. For her, her birthday has become an ordinary day, maybe gloomy and cold, maybe there will be a little sunshine that hasn’t been seen for a long time, maybe it’s the same as the day she was born, with a little snow falling—but None of it mattered, just a day in the middle of a long winter.Whether it is in the city where she was born and raised, or in a simple house in a remote village, whether she is with him or not, she can accept another year older.

However, after such a long time, he still remembered that this day had a different meaning to her.Just like she always remembers the first hug he gave her when she was 14 years old.

Sunlight shines obliquely through the sunshade curtain on the roof of the sun room, and countless fine dust flies in the beam.The world is nothing but a journey against all things, time sends away the passers-by of a hundred generations, life is like a dream, how happy is it?Born in this mortal sea of ​​people, everyone is just dust floating in the sun.

The sand will slowly ooze out from between the fingers, and the memories will settle a little bit in the bottom of my heart, but, after all, there are still some things left.

What they are looking for is probably nothing more than fighting against time, trying to hold the relationship that the ruthless years have tried to wash away stubbornly in their palms.

The sun room is facing the yard, and the eyes are full of colorful flowers, blooming like a brocade, blowing towards the face.Xin Chen looked at the pot of asparagus bamboo placed in a corner of the sunshine room, "It seems to have grown taller again. When I was there before, no one believed that asparagus bamboo could grow so tall."

"The gardener of the property also said that it was the first time he saw asparagus bamboo growing more than 1 meter high."

Xin Chen looked at the chessboard in front of him, reached out to pick up the black bishop, and touched the small dent on the corner, "Are you competing with Master Lu's grandson for chess?"

"I went downstairs that day and bought a Transformer to exchange with him. He obviously liked my gift more."

Xin Chen stared at the chess piece she had caressed countless times, smiled slightly, and put it back in place.

"It's nice to sit here and look at the flowers."

"Yes, I like this design the most. It can also be used as a greenhouse in winter. I can be regarded as a good gardener now, and I can take good care of the flowers you left behind. See this tree in the yard?"

"Acacia tree, I like it very much."

"I like it too. I specially picked a tree from the forest farm and transplanted it, and it should bloom next month. From spring to now, watching these flowers bloom in bunches, it seems that you are always by my side."

"Lu Fei, I'm not that naughty little girl who hugged and shook the silk tree."

"I know, Xiaochen."

"If you think you can accept a girlfriend who is uncertain about her relationship and always hesitates, let's try and start over."

"it is good."

(End of this chapter)