In the dead of night that night, the summer solstice quietly got up, walked to a corner of the courtyard and dialed Yi Zihan's phone.
Originally, she didn't hope that no one would answer as before. She didn't want him to answer this time. Although it was just a word "hello", she still recognized that his voice was a little hoarse and decadent.
Somehow, she didn't know what to say, and for a moment, she was silent.
After he gave a "hello", he kept silent.
Embarrassment crept across the phone.
Finally, he broke the deadlock. He whispered, "are you all right these days?"
"I'm fine. How about you? Where are you now? Are you safe?" she said her worries one after another as soon as she opened her mouth.
"I'm in China. I'm safe in a mountain now. Why do you ask? Are you worried about me?" Yi Zihan's voice suddenly lowered.
"Just be safe. I'm really worried. Because I've been calling you some time ago, but I can't get through." Xia solstice told me truthfully.
Yi Zihan was silent again.
After waiting for a while, the summer solstice said, "since you are all right, I can rest assured. That's it for the time being? Bye?"
Said 'goodbye', but she waited and didn't hang up immediately.
She didn't know what she was waiting for, but her inner impulse was to make her wait.
"OK. Bye."
This time, he hung up first.
Listening to the busy beep on the other end of the phone, summer solstice felt inexplicably lost and melancholy.
She felt that they were obviously alienated, so alienated that there was hardly anything to talk about, and so alienated that he could hang up the phone so eagerly
Sure enough, fate is the most ethereal thing in the world. It can arrive when you can't predict, and it can also leave quietly when you're unprepared.
She and Yi Zihan are probably really destined this time?
When you think about it, everything makes sense.
Who will wait for a woman who has clearly rejected him?
What's more, this woman has been entangled in her past feelings?
Men with a little self-esteem probably won't wait foolishly anymore?
No one else is to blame, but herself.
It was she who insisted on ignoring all the good things around her and blindly buried herself in the gratitude and resentment of the past
The summer solstice sighed bitterly, turned around and went back to the room dejected.
She didn't sleep until four o'clock in the morning. She got up early and woke up the child and Bessie.
After washing, the three quietly went out of the door.
The child was still sleepy and kept walking with his eyes closed.
Summer solstice worried that he would fall, so he simply carried him on his back.
There were more than 3000 stone steps up the mountain. She was very tired, but she insisted all the time.
In the end, his legs were as heavy as lead, but he still insisted on mechanical movement.
Bessie repeatedly offered to help her carry the child, but she resolutely refused.
She is not willing to let go of the child.
Because he is her son, she sacrificed everything to finally get her son!
When she finally reached the top of the mountain, her nervous tension finally relaxed, her knees softened, and she knelt on the ground.
The ground was a green grass covered with dew, which easily removed her pants, but she didn't care. She just looked at the red clouds on the far side of the mountain with satisfaction.
The rising sun will rise soon!
Bessie quickly took the child from her arms and reached out to help her.
She refused, put her hands on the ground, jumped up, turned her head and smiled at Bixi: "wait another half an hour at most, and we can see the sunrise!"
Bessie smiled and nodded, "well, we arrived just in time! But how did we get to the top of the mountain to see the sunrise?"
The summer solstice said with a smile, "because the sunrise can also be seen on the edge of the cliff next to the temple, but there is no shock on the top of the mountain."
"I see. But it's good to save us from being disturbed." Bessie said happily.
"Let's go! Let's sit on the big stone and wait!" the summer solstice climbed up the boulder first, and then bent down to pull Bessie up.
He sat down and wrapped the still sleeping child in his thick cotton padded clothes. At the summer solstice, he took a long breath and said with satisfaction: "a rainstorm yesterday afternoon made the air in the mountain more and more fresh. It felt all the fragrance of soil and leaves. It was really very comfortable."
Bessie said with a smile, "it's true. The fresh and pollution-free air makes people feel comfortable. It reminds me of my days on my farm."
The summer solstice sighed, "perhaps only in the mountains can we breathe such beautiful air."
"We'll come often after that."
"Yes." summer solstice nodded thoughtfully.
As he was talking, the summer solstice suddenly felt the child in his arms move. He bowed his head and saw that the child was stretching and yawning with his eyes closed. It was really pitiful.
The summer solstice couldn't help but bow his head and kiss his lips. He suddenly opened his eyes, looked at her, looked around, and looked confused.
Obviously, for a while, he didn't understand where they were now.
The summer solstice fondly rubbed his broken black hair. "Are you sleepy? If you're still sleepy, go to sleep for a while. I'll wake you up when the sun is about to come out."
As soon as the child heard this, he immediately widened his black eyes, drilled out of her arms, looked around, and then asked with surprise and joy, "when did we reach the top of the mountain? Am I dreaming?"
"You didn't dream. You're on my back. And you've been here for a while. I see you're sleeping heavily, so I haven't called you." the summer solstice said with a smile.
"Mom, why didn't you wake me up? I'm a man. I should go by myself!" the child was a little unhappy.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot for a moment. Forgive me!" Xia Zhi said pitifully with his mouth and hands bowing to him, "when you go down the mountain, will you be a man?"
When the child saw her look, he couldn't help laughing and generously touched her cheek, "okay. For your sake, I won't care about you."
He said he earned the ground from her arms, stretched his arms greatly, and said happily, "it's so high here!"
Bessie hurried forward with her down jacket. "Young master, it's cold on the top of the mountain. Put on your clothes and don't catch cold!"
The child put it on obediently, then snuggled up in the arms of the summer solstice and asked, "is it fast?"
"Soon! Do you think the clouds on the other side of the mountain are getting redder and redder?" the summer solstice pointed to the distance.
The child stared and nodded excitedly, "it's true! Soon, soon!"
On the same day, the clouds became more and more red and gorgeous. The sun like egg yolk finally nodded shyly.
The child jumped up excitedly, clapped his hands and shouted, "the sun is coming out!"
The summer solstice got up, stood up, took his hand, smiled and looked at the rising sun. The originally dark heart became warm and bright at this moment.
The child is an angel given to her by God. As long as she has a child, why bother about the mistakes she has made, forget the past, and have the present and future is the most important!
When the sun rose completely, the whole mountain top was covered with a golden dress, which was dazzling.
The child jumped off the boulder excitedly and cheered around.
Although there was a relatively flat grassland on the top of the mountain, there were many small stones hidden in the grass. Bessie worried that he would fall, so she followed him step by step.
Summer solstice has been smiling, sitting on the stone and looking at them from a distance. What is rare in my heart is peace.
But just then, the child suddenly fell down and then rolled out of control to the edge of the cliff. Bessie screamed and tried to bend down to grab the child's hand while chasing.
But the child rolled so fast that she couldn't catch it at all.
The summer solstice was so frightened that she jumped down from the stone and ran towards them. She crossed Bessie and jumped forward.
She fell heavily to the ground, and a stone hit her soft abdomen, which almost made her gasp.
But she couldn't care so much. She just desperately stretched out her hand and grabbed it.
She finally caught the child's hand, but she still couldn't stop the child's falling posture and dragged her down the cliff.
At the moment when they both fell off the cliff, she quickly grabbed the trunk of a pine tree with thick wrists at the edge of the cliff, which temporarily prevented them from falling.
She looked down at the child. The child was very flustered, his face was very pale, his hands were holding her left hand, and his two hanging legs were pedaling aimlessly.
Although he was small and light, he struggled so hard that she could hardly catch the summer solstice.
She took a deep breath and tried her best to say calmly, "baby, don't be afraid and don't pedal or move, otherwise we will fall down. Stay obediently, and mother will find a way to throw you up!"
Her voice was like a powerful tranquilizer. If it really calmed the child, he looked up and looked at her with incomparable trust, "Mom, I'm not afraid."
"Good!" summer solstice smiled gently, and carried him up bit by bit on his left hand.
By this time, the panicked Bessie had rushed over and lay on the ground trying to pick up the child.
The summer solstice pulled up the child with all her strength. Seeing that Bixi's hand was about to reach it, suddenly the pine tree shook disorderly, and the summer solstice and the child fell down again. As soon as Bixi lost her hand, she panicked, and most of her body went out. If she hadn't retracted her hand quickly, she would have fallen into the air.
Her face was so frightened that she looked at the summer solstice at a loss and was about to cry, "what should I do?"
The summer solstice looked up at the pine tree that would fall anytime and anywhere. She couldn't help but have some determination. With a fluke attitude, she gritted her teeth, threw the child up with her hand, and shouted, "catch it!"
Bessie instinctively opened her arms to catch the child flying to her, but she couldn't receive it. Seeing the child falling to the cliff again, she couldn't help but look at the summer solstice helplessly and hopelessly.