The man looked at the woman next to him and opened his mouth.
"Can you marry me?"
The wind lifted the ends of a woman's hair and blew it into the air. Her gaze remained fixed on the ripples that rippled across the river. After a while, he turned his head to the man's side.
The man kept watching her with tender eyes, never leaving, and seemed to be waiting for her answer.
The woman looked into the man's eyes, but he avoided it, quickly turned her head and looked at the city on the other side of the river.
The woman said, "You're kidding, right?" Liking and loving are not the same. ”
The city lights across the river flickered, and the flashing man glanced down at his hands on the railing.
He said, "I know, but I'm so lonely that I need an arm to lean on." ”
He slowly twisted his head. His gaze moved from the shoes on the woman's feet to her pale, ruddy face.
She smiled contemptuously, and then met his eyes again, her lips fluttering slightly, and said, "But we have only known each other for three days, even if I agree, do you dare to marry me?" ”
Looking into her deep eyes, the man said, "I think I should be able to gamble right this time, that's why I said such frivolous words." ”
The woman raised her white hand and squeezed it into the man's face, smiling, "Okay then." As you wish. ”
At this moment, there was a loud noise from the other side, and for a moment the sky was illuminated, and the two of them could see each other's faces more clearly.
The man's hand wrapped ten fingers around the woman's hand, and one finger pointed to the fireworks released in the city across the river.
He said, "You see the fireworks blessing us." ”
Fireworks on the other side exploded in the sky, forming a short and gorgeous canvas. It's beautiful.
The woman looked at the rising fireworks and said, "1, 2, 3, 4, 5," she said, "Beautiful, hopefully we won't be as short as fireworks." ”
Men think they can live a hundred years at most, saying that it is not long, that it is not short. If he had been alone, this century would have looked like ten thousand years. But to know and stay with one person, even if it is ten thousand years, is willing.
He said: "This life is already very short. Do you believe in eternal love? ”
She didn't know what eternal love was. She only knew that they had known each other for three days, and could only three days produce love? It should be the passion added to the like, and the freshness of the mixture. When these things fade over time, then men are not all the same.
She smiled at the thought of this, the kind of self-deprecating smile. She knew it, but why would she agree to his marriage proposal? She didn't even have a ring, and she said it so casually that she didn't look like she was proposing, but she still agreed. She thought maybe it was because he was special. But thinking about it carefully, it didn't feel right, it turned out that she couldn't stand being alone all the time.
She let out a sigh and said, "You don't love me, what can you believe, what can you do if you don't believe?" ”
The man loosened his clasped hand and stretched out his arm to push the woman upstairs to his side, and the hand that had nowhere to rest finally landed on the hair on her right temple, softening clockwise.
He looked at her and said, "Believe it will exist." For example, if you believe I love you, then I love you. You believe in eternal love, and my love is eternal. ”
Overwhelmed by his actions, the woman leaned toward him without resistance. It was just that the hand was in place that made her feel uncomfortable, and she reached out her arm to take his warm hand down and hold it in her hand.
Then he said, "Slippery-tongued fellow, have you ever lied to a lot of little girls?" ”
The corners of the man's mouth rose and a smile appeared. Sink into memories of the past and think about past failed experiences.
He said, "I said it a few times, but they didn't believe it, so I was lonely." ”
Sure enough, men are the same, this is the routine he has played, so it is handy. But the word "eternal love" is very attractive and can deeply attract her.
She let go of his hand and said, "You're a scumbag." ”
The man did not speak, but just looked at the sparkling river surface of the wind. Judging from past behavior and frivolous words, it is true to say so
After a long time, the woman turned her head and looked at the side of his face. The man sensed that she was looking at him and turned his gaze away.
The woman saw him turn her head and open her mouth to express the doubts in her heart.
She said, "Have you ever seen eternal love?" ”
Eternal love This is not his rhetoric to deceive women, but the belief he pursues, in fact, he has never seen eternal love in the world, because life is not eternal, so what about the love left behind? He believed that love should be eternal, so he believed that there was eternal love.
The man changed his posture, leaned back against the railing, and looked up at the dark sky.
He said casually, "I haven't seen it, and I don't seem to have seen it before." ”
The woman leaned back against the railing like he did, looking at the black curtain without half a star.
She smiled and said, "You're funny, I believed." ”
……
Then they actually got married and went on a year-long wedding trip, during which they had no carnal desires, just accompanied each other and enjoyed the beautiful scenery of the road.
Like many couples, they had quarrels but were never separated. Their respective degrees are well mastered, and they can take the initiative to admit mistakes, apologize, and find steps. Of course, these are only occasional, and their tacit understanding seems to be innate, and they can cooperate better than those who have traveled for many years.
After the trip, they had no intention of having children. And each of them is doing their favorite work, and they all want to achieve something. But it is inevitable that they will fail and fall into a trough, and both of them have experienced this situation, but fortunately, they did not appear in the same period, and they survived each other's dependence.
Life returns to flat, there are often surprises, and they still maintain the romance of their youth. Will send flowers, will give each other gifts, will travel, will walk two people for a long time. They all feel that as long as the other person is around, no matter what they do, it is the greatest romance.
That day they came to the beach and waited until the tide receded. The water on the beach retreated farther, and they held hands and chased the direction of the water barefoot. The wind blew towards them with the fishy smell of seagrass. The wind is refreshing, not hot or cold, and it is very comfortable to blow on the body.
By the time they saw the small waves rising and falling and slowly dissipating, they were already far away from the shore, and the far side could only see the people walking on the shore as moving black dots. How vast the sea is, and at the other end there is only one line without a boundary except the sun.
The magnificence of the sea intoxicated the woman, making her feel the urge to die at the bottom of the sea. She walked slowly toward the sea, the waves lapping at her legs and at her waist.
The man stopped walking, he stopped, and the hands that were holding him also made the woman stop.
He pulled her toward him and said, "Come here, you can't go any further." ”
The woman turned and walked a few steps toward him, then walked back and forth to the shore together. She told the man about the impulse she had just had.
He glanced back at the sea behind him, looked at the road under his feet, and said, "A person lying on the cold and bone-chilling bottom of the sea will be very painful and lonely." ”
The sea was cold and his hands were always warm. The woman kicked mischievously, and the beads of water flew into the blue sky, and in a short while they disappeared.
She took a few steps and said, "With you by my side, the world seems to have a lot less suffering." ”
After a slight silence, she continued: "I don't want to lie alone at the bottom of the sea, I didn't want to do it before, and I don't want to do it in the future." ”
The man smiled and quipped, "Don't try to pull me, I haven't lived long enough." When I've lived enough, let's go back to the bottom of the sea together. ”
They do not intend to have children in this life, they think that children are not the crystallization of love, but the continuation of life. Of course, children have their love in them, but such love will be diluted by time until it disappears, and it is still too far from eternity.
Time flies by, and in the blink of an eye, many years have passed. They have all achieved something in their careers, and the price is the pain of aging. They are old, old and overwhelmed, and their bodies hurt and cramp from time to time. The old age life without children is very hard, fortunately, great achievements have been made in career, eating and drinking, and in the old age, I have to ask a nanny to take care of it.
Life after retirement is very comfortable, abandoning fatigue and enjoying life. Sit together in a wicker chair, snooze, bask in the sun, and go out for a walk from time to time. Sometimes they often don't go home, the phone is not answered, so that the nanny is easy to find, but they can't find it, and every time they come back by themselves.
The woman was seriously ill that year, lying in a hospital bed all day, and they never went out together again. The small hospital became a cage, trapping the two of them in this square inch, and the man spent most of his time with her, talking to her and talking about past memories.
Whenever a woman falls asleep late at night, the man can't help but shed tears when he thinks of her physical condition. When a woman wakes up, she can always see the tear marks on the man's cheeks, and the warm tropical hands that hold her hands.
Soon the woman died. The man accompanied her through the last moments of her life. She left with a smile.
At that moment of consciousness she said to the man, "I am lucky to meet you in this life, and I hope that in the next life we can have a child." She smiled peacefully, pointed her finger at the blue sky outside the window, and said with difficulty: "You see, my love is condensed there, and it is flying to the blue sky." When you leave, it will be like this. Remember to come to me with your love, and when you find it, our love is eternal love... Take care of yourself, I love you. ”
Man: "I love you too." ”
That love flew into the blue sky until the man could no longer see it.
Half a year later the man came to the seashore where he had been with the ashes of the woman, and he scattered the ashes into the sea, and the red eyes were blown by the sea breeze, and the wind blew more and more, and he laughed and shed pearls the size of grains and fell into the seabed.
The following year, on the woman's birthday, he sat at his desk holding his favorite famous book and read it, and this reading was a day. At night, he took off his glasses, rubbed his tired eyes softly, and looked out the window at the dark sky, as if something was calling to him, and he saw the woman's face and felt his body fluttering. There was a gas gathering in the sky, as if to form a spinning ball.
He knew his limit was coming, and his love was condensing. It looked like he was going to find her, and he was happy. How lonely the days without women were, it was a daily ordeal, and if there were no beautiful stories in the book, he would have gone with her a long time ago.
The man found a piece of paper and picked up the pen that the woman had given him on his birthday that year, but it was too long ago for him to remember. The pen moved on the white paper, the black ink spit on it, and when the last full stop was written, his hand holding the pen stopped.
His love rushed out of the sky and went straight to the blue sky, there was no nostalgia in this world, he had to pursue the love of the lover who had passed away for a year, and merge with it to form eternity.
The nanny made dinner to call the man to eat, knocked on the door a few times and no one answered, then turned the doorknob and entered the house, she poked the man's shoulder with her hand, and found no response. She was terrified, bad thoughts arose in her head, and she reached out to probe the man's sniffles, and sure enough, she verified her thoughts. Then the man leaned over and fell to the ground in response, and a blank piece of paper fell from the table. The babysitter bent down to pick it up and turned the paper over with only ten words on it.
"Please scatter my ashes into the sea."
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