timeless

Chapter 23 The Psalm in the Dream (1)
It has been two months since Jiang Weixiu went to school.For two months, Yu Xinye had no news of Jiang Wei, and even the suspension of school was announced by the head teacher.

When he heard the news, he couldn't hide his surprise, and turned to look at Zhao Mengfan.And the girl also seemed to have a tacit understanding, forgetting the previous holidays, and looked at him in amazement.

Yu Xinye saw the same confusion as himself in the girl's eyes.

It seemed none of them knew what had happened to her.

Tried to dial Jiang Wei's cell phone, but couldn't get through.Sent numerous text messages with no reply.He tried every means to contact her, but he stopped because of her not-so-good interpersonal relationship.

The anxious mood seemed to be poured with cold water.

It’s just that one time when I was walking in the school, I heard a teacher in the art group mention Jiang Wei’s name while chatting with the head teacher. The female teacher still said angrily: “When someone hit her with a word or two, she just gave up and sold the painting. It's too irresponsible. The psychological quality of the students nowadays is really bad." And his class teacher said on the side: "It must be something happened at home."

After hesitatingly stopping, Yu Xinye went forward and asked, "Teacher, do you know why Jiang Wei dropped out of school?"

The head teacher looked at him strangely: "I heard that something happened at home, she came here and asked to suspend school, and her father came to help her with the formalities the next day."

"Then did she say when she will come back to class?"

"This is not."

"Oh...thank you, teacher."

In the end, he left in great disappointment, ignoring the strange eyes of the two teachers.

I also comforted myself that maybe she just took a break from school because of an accident at home, and I guess she will come back in a month or two, but after waiting for two months, there was still no news of the girl, Yu Xinye finally couldn't hold back Living.

The next day, Yu Xinye made a decision to go to Jiang Wei's house.

He knew the address of Jiang Wei's house, and he had learned it from her accidentally.Some time ago, Yu Xinye went to look for her alone, but was told by the neighbor that "he moved a long time ago".When Yu Xinye asked, "Where did you move to?", the neighbor replied in a confused tone, "I heard that her grandmother's house reserved a room, and she may have moved there."When I asked for the detailed address again, the answer I got was that I didn't know.

After asking Zhao Mengfan where Jiang Wei's grandmother's house is, the girl who noticed his expression suddenly asked, "Are you going to her house?"

"En." Yu Xinye put down the drink in his hand, "Are you going together?"

"Oh, I'm not going."

I didn't know what to take, so I finally found out the passbook from the drawer where I had saved the New Year's money since I was a child.Yu Xinye opened the passbook and saw that he had already saved more than 1 yuan.

I don't know what to say when we meet, but I really want to see her.

Just want to see her.

He came here just like that, not caring about anything.

Follow the address to the place where Jiang Wei's house is located. It is a very old house, and it seems to have some history.After successfully entering the gate, Yu Xinye recited the address in his mind: No. 401, Unit [-], Building [-], and followed the signs to find it.

When knocking down with his fingers, Yu Xinye hesitated for a moment, and finally knocked down with his fingers that stopped in mid-air.

dong dong -- dong dong --

After a while, the anti-theft door was pulled open from the inside.

Then Jiang Wei appeared in front of him.

In the next second, he saw a long look of astonishment in the other party's eyes.

Yu Xinye looked at Jiang Wei, fixed his eyes on her, and didn't say a word.From the hair to the eyes, to the neck, to the arms, to the feet, just look at it once, and then look at it from the beginning.

Watch it again and again, over and over again, as if you can never get enough of it.

The thin light dyed her body, her outline looked clearer, and her expression became colder and sharper.

She was a lot thinner again, and she looked extremely haggard, as if she might be blown away by the wind at any time.The thick dark circles under the eyes are still deep-set eye sockets like Europeans, as well as the familiar light brown pupils and lips that are almost the same color as the skin color.It's just that the original long and thick black hair has been cut off, and it hangs short on the shoulders.

But it doesn't matter, it's still beautiful.

It's just that I haven't seen her for more than two months. She is still the Jiang Wei Yu Xinye is familiar with, but from the look of her eyes, she doesn't look like the previous Jiang Wei.

She looked at herself in astonishment, and unconsciously grasped the edge of the door with her hands.

He also knew that it was just that he hadn't seen him for two months.

Yu Xinye can even imagine how she shed tears, how much courage and determination she had, trembling legs, wholeheartedly standing in front of her mother to take on the responsibilities of this family, how much courage she mustered up to start from the past. That indifferent girl who was good at hiding herself turned into the current cold and sharp eyes.You can even imagine how she was trying to make money day and night, drawing desperately, and how determined she was when she cut off her hair.

What kind of sadness and courage is it to wipe away all the tears, stand up with trembling fingers, and use thin shoulders to open up a sky for this family.

Yu Xinye couldn't imagine it.

Hey, don't do this.

Don't look like this.

is it okay?

The last one who came to her senses was Jiang Wei. She straightened the slightly messy bangs on her forehead, caught the boy's clean white shirt, and looked at him calmly: "Why are you here?"

Yu Xinye came to his senses and lowered his eyelids: "It's nothing... just want to see you."

Just wanted to see you.

Jiang Wei looked at him for a while, then took a step back: "Oh, then do you want to come in and sit down or leave right away?"

Hearing her tone as if she didn't want to entertain guests, the boy wanted to answer "No need, we'll leave after chatting for a while", but after seeing her eyes, his tone softened again for some reason: "Well, let's go in and sit for a while."

I want to stay with you for a while.

A moment later, the glass cup filled with boiled water was placed on the tea table in front of Yu Xinye, and there was a clear sound of collision when the bottom of the cup touched the table.

Jiang Wei sat down beside him: "I don't have drinks at home."

It was explaining why he was served plain water.

"It's okay, plain water is fine." Yu Xinye took a sip from the cup, and the warm water flowed down his throat.

I didn't know what to say for a moment, and suddenly fell silent.

Silence lay between the two of them.

Yu Xinye looked around, it was empty, without any furniture, maybe it was sold.The living room is not big, it has a layout of two bedrooms and one living room.

"When do you plan to come back to class?" After thinking for a long time, he found a suitable reason to talk to her.

"It's not sure yet, the money hasn't been repaid yet."

"Is there enough money?" I asked, only to realize that I had said the wrong thing.

But Jiang Wei didn't seem to care: "Not yet, it's still a bit short. I saved almost 1 yuan, and my family has 2 yuan in deposits. My mother borrowed [-] yuan from a friend."

"Oh, really?"

Ten thousand, twenty thousand, forty thousand, that is seventy thousand, then there is still thirty thousand short.Yu Xinye was meditating in his heart, the passbook clutched tightly in his coat pocket seemed to be burning hot.

How should I say it without being abrupt and making her feel sad?He knew that Jiang Wei's character was proud and stubborn.Such straightforward help will only make her feel sad.

If it is for others, the other party will feel uncomfortable, right?What's more, what about her?

"Jiang Wei..." He swallowed unconsciously.

"What's the matter?" Jiang Wei looked at him.

Yu Xinye hesitated for a moment, then took out the passbook from his coat pocket and handed it to her: "This..."

Jiang Wei looked over suspiciously, and his face immediately changed after just one glance.

She even stood up excitedly: "You..."

Yu Xinye didn't expect her reaction to be so big, so she hurriedly stood up: "I just..."

Jiang Wei bit his lip, biting his teeth deeply into his lip, Yu Xinye even saw her eyes turn red.

But Jiang Wei still didn't say a word, but his shoulders trembled violently.

After a while, she finally slumped down on the sofa, like a machine that has been unplugged.

It seemed as if all the strength in my body had been emptied, and I couldn't even cry.

"Even you look down on me."

She was crying, her eyes were as desperate as what Yu Xinye saw in her dream.

At this moment, Yu Xinye realized how much his words had hurt her. He sat down in a panic, hugged her, and pulled her into his arms.

It's like holding a cold doll.

"Even you look down on me." Jiang Wei huddled in his arms, his voice trembling, and he just repeated these words without any unnecessary movements.

"I don't want your money! You want to help me, you can introduce me to a job, I can do anything...Really...but why are you giving me money? What do you mean..."

His voice trembled so much that he couldn't make a sentence, but Jiang Wei still didn't shed tears, but just looked at the boy with a pale face.

Her desperate eyes made Yu Xinye unable to hug her.

"I'm sorry, I wanted to see you, so I came here." Yu Xinye hugged her, resting his chin on her head, "You should rely on me once in a while."

Jiang Wei didn't say how desperate she was at the time, nor did she say how she survived these two months.

Facing her mother's tired and disappointed eyes every day, she can only desperately help others draw.However, not every day there is a picture to draw, but sometimes there are seven or eight pictures at a time, and one painting means not sleeping for days and nights, which makes my eyes swollen and my whole body loses weight.

When there is no painting, she goes to work in the coffee shop opened by Qi Xian's friend, the young man who bought Jiang Wei's entry.It costs 1000 yuan a month, and I'm often so busy that I don't have time to eat all day long, and my stomach always hurts like it's about to get twisted.

She didn't even tell Yu Xinye that one day when she was going out to work, she was about to get off the bus when she suddenly saw a man who looked like him on the street.So she retreated into the car, and the people behind scolded her inexplicably, "I'm sick, why don't I get out", "If you don't get out, don't get in the way".She didn't refute, but just squeezed to the glass window at the back of the carriage, and waited until someone approached to see clearly that it was really him.

At that time, it should have just finished school, and Yu Xinye went home alone, without Xie Yayi by his side.Jiang Wei hid in the car and watched. It had been a long time since the boy seemed to have grown taller. She felt both sad and happy.

In fact, he seems to have been in her life all the time, never leaving, and Yu Xinye can be seen in the streets and alleys.

In the end, the car drove away and she was still watching. In the end, she missed the time to get off the car and was almost deducted wages for being late.

I often dream of myself and Yu Xinye, but I rarely dream of the two of them together.

There are a lot of things that I don’t have time to tell him, and I want to tell him a lot of new things I saw while working and the grievances I received.

But these, when she actually saw Yu Xinye, she didn't say anything.

Jiang Wei just said lightly, "I'm fine."

pretty good.

Putting down the paintbrush at dawn and falling asleep, and then waking up from the dream a few hours later with swollen and stinging eyes.

When I was working in a coffee shop, I saw high school boys and girls drinking coffee together. Jiang Wei would think of Yu Xinye when he looked at those boys who always had a confident and naughty smile on their faces.

Will he still drink coffee with many girls now?

Does he still have a lighthearted smirk on his lips?

Does he still like to fight with girls?

Will he always bully girls with a smirk?
He still remains in his heart like that painting together with the osmanthus grove.

He is still the part of the melody ending when she listens to the song.

So... where are you?

Is it in my dream, the dream I don't want to wake up from?Want to sleep forever.

Never wake up again.

Before going to bed, Jiang Wei received a text message from Qi Xian, saying that he would come to see her tomorrow.

After Jiang Wei thought for a while, he replied "Yes".

The phone never turned on after that.

The next day Jiang Wei went to the coffee shop where he worked early. The shop had just opened and there were not many customers yet.A big fat cat named Jiuye kept by the store manager ran to Jiang Wei's feet, and the chubby cat's head rubbed against the girl's calf.

"It's so early." The young store manager who was sorting things at the counter saw her and greeted her with a smile.

"Yeah." Jiang Wei turned around to get the bag of cat food, poured a few dried fish into his palm, then knelt down to feed the cat, "Today I made an appointment with Qi Xian."

"That's it." The young store manager took a can of coffee powder off the counter shelf, watched the girl feed the cat, and warned, "Be careful, don't be bitten by the cat."

"Hmm." The other hand stroked the cat's head.

Jiang Wei was making coffee when Qi Xian came.Seeing him push the door open, Jiang Wei's eyes flicked across his face: "Here we come."

"Well, morning." The boy walked straight towards her, greeted the store manager on the way, and then stopped very close to Jiang Wei.

"What do you want to drink?" Jiang Wei asked him, "Same as last time?"

"Well, black coffee, chocolate tiramisu." Then he got closer and helped the girl take out the top coffee and handed it to her.

"You are more handy than Jiang Wei." The friend who is the store manager made fun of him.

In the end, it was Qi Xian who made the coffee by himself, and he pulled Jiang Wei to sit down beside him: "The result of the competition has come down, and there are three first prizes."

"How many prizes have you won?"

"First prize."

"It's pretty good." Jiang Wei's eyes passed through the white mist emerging from the mouth of the cup, and fell on his exquisitely framed entries hanging on the opposite wall.

It was she who abstained, so she couldn't blame others, only life.

Fortunately, Qi Xian didn't intend to continue talking, but changed the subject: "Is your waist still hurting these days?"

Jiang Wei remembered that when he called him a few days ago, he mentioned that his waist and back hurt a little recently, so he frowned unconsciously: "Maybe it's because I've been too busy recently, and it still hurts."

"I told you to pay attention to rest, what if you are in a broken body? You can still find a way about the money." Qi Xian also frowned, as if he was very unhappy.

Jiang Wei could hear the displeasure in Qi Xian's tone, just smiled, and subconsciously wanted to run his fingers through his hair for fun, and suddenly touched the empty shoulder, only to remember that he had cut his hair long ago.

She should have remembered that it had been cut off a long time ago, with everything from before.

It's time to wake up from the long dream before.

"How far is it?"

"I don't know how much my mother collected, I have almost [-] here."

"Ten thousand... I think you are desperate."

"Heh... my mother searched all the connections to accommodate her. A fine of 10 yuan is already very light. My mother has lost her job, so now she can only set up a dumpling stand in the residential area where she lives. It's barely worth it. "Jiang Wei said lightly, with no emotions on his face.There is only an expression that seems to have nothing to do with this matter, "I don't know about other judgments, and my mother won't let me know at all. In short, let's get the 10 yuan first. I'm really... really good." Worrying about her going to jail."

Qi Xian turned his head to look at the girl's profile, but Jiang Wei's gaze remained on the glass table in front of her lightly.

"By the way, I got the phone number of the family of the deceased. Wait, I'll call." She suddenly took out her mobile phone and dialed a number as if she remembered something.

Qi Xian sat beside her and waited patiently.

"Hi, hello, is this Mr. Ji...well, I'm Shen Yanhua's family member, and I want to ask you out to talk about compensation. Well, yes, it's not asking for low compensation...Are you free this afternoon? I'm going to I'll pay you part of the compensation first...Is it three o'clock at Meiji Restaurant on Huaibei Road? Okay...thank you, goodbye."

Seeing Jiang Wei hung up the phone, Qi Xiancai asked: "Wait a minute, are you going to give him the money?"

"Yes." Jiang Wei nodded.

"If you give cash, remember to ask him to write a receipt." I'm afraid she will suffer.

"I know this."

"That's good...do you want me to accompany you?"

Jiang Wei nodded: "Okay." This is safer.At this time, guests were already pushing the door one after another, Jiang Wei stood up, "Then I'll go get busy."

At this moment, Qi Xian grabbed her hand suddenly: "Wait a minute, I still have something to tell you."

Jiang Wei turned his head and met Qi Xian's clear eyes.

Holding my hand, like the most reliable backing.

In the next second, there was a boy's clearer voice:

"I will never leave you at this time, but in order not to let you misunderstand, I think it is better to make it clear. From now on, I will always stand behind you and accompany you, in the name of 'brother' No matter what happens in the future, I will always stand by your side and protect your sister."

One day a month later, Jiang Wei stood alone in the noisy and noisy waiting room with his luggage and called his mother: "Mom, I'm getting ready to get on the bus. I'll call you when I get to Xunjiu."

(End of this chapter)