Castle Peak Like Jade

After staring at these messages for a moment, Chushuang's eyes darkened, and she paused after clicking on his number.

A few seconds before the screen was about to turn off automatically, as if telepathically, an incoming call popped up on the phone.

After watching it for a few seconds, she got up and went to a quiet place to pick it up.

"Bubble."

The man's voice came along the microphone, and it was close to his ear as if he were standing next to him.

Chushuang looked into the distance. After the setting sun disappeared into the horizon, there was still a little bit of red in the sky. The evening wind ruffled a few strands of hair on her cheeks. She slowly moved her lips, "Are you still not asleep?"

At this time, it was already late at night in other parts of the country.

"I couldn't sleep. I just went to the back garden to walk the dog for a while."

It looks like he's home.

"Is the hamster okay?"

Sheng Ting: "Not very good."

"It's been a little restless all day, maybe because it hasn't seen you."

There was silence on the other end of the phone.

Sheng Ting said, "Do you want to turn on the video to see it and Bubbles?"

Chushuang: "It's too late today."

The man paused slightly and then spoke again: "Where are you playing today?"

"I didn't play. I was on the plane the whole time."

"Is it here now?"

"arrive."

"Where are you?"

Chushuang: "Korla, go to the Taklimakan Desert tomorrow to watch the sunset."

She went so far.

Sheng Ting was fascinated by the photo of the two of them in the photo frame in the bedroom. In the photo, she was as bright as the bright moon, with a delicate smile, but when he looked at it, it felt like a long time ago.

It was all his fault that they reached this field.

She had just begun to learn to face life calmly. She had just gotten rid of the painful bonds of the past and wanted to start over. It was he who made her panic again.

Everything was in vain.

Every time he thought of seeing her lost and lost look at the beach that day, Sheng Ting's heart felt like it had been cut with a sharp knife.

In the end, it was him who hurt her the most.

"How long do you intend to stay?"

"We have friends here, let's see what happens."

There was a voice calling Chu Shuang on the other end. She said into the receiver: "My friend called me. It's getting late. You should go to sleep."

After hanging up the phone, Sheng Ting stood alone in the garden for a long time.

The sky is filled with bright stars, and the stars are woven into a huge net with no visible edges, and darkness swallows the world silently.

In the past, seeing such a beautiful starry sky, one would have to marvel at the majesty of the sky, but now it feels depressing.

I haven't felt such loneliness for a long time, even to the point of being unbearable. Staring into the abyss, Sheng Ting's black eyes were dark, and his fingertips were caressing unconsciously.

The moment he took out the cigarette case, he clicked his knuckles slightly, put it back, and clicked on his phone to check for air tickets.

……

After work, the crew director invited everyone to eat roasted whole lamb. Lin Su refused to eat, but got a small plate for Chu Shuang.

"Travel is exhausting, you eat more meat, if you don't have enough, I'll add more for you."

Under Lin Suliang's expectant eyes, Chushuang took her first bite wearing disposable gloves.

"How about it?"

Chushuang nodded again and again, "It's delicious, this is the best roasted whole lamb I've ever eaten."

"Haha, it's very authentic, isn't it? I was amazed when I ate it last time."

Chushuang raised the meat and put it in front of Lin Su, "Would you like some?"

Lin Suhong closed her lips tightly, "I will never eat at this point. This is my quality as an actor."

The crew's lighting shed some light, and when Chu Shuang lowered her eyes to eat meat, her eyelashes cast a shadow on her eyelids, making her whole person very quiet and overly vivid.

Lin Su calmed down.

“Does traveling make people happier?”

Hearing this, Chushuang tilted his head.

Lin Su has the simplicity and wisdom of a woman in science and engineering, and she smiles beautifully. She slightly raised her chin and looked at the crowd.

"Did you see the guy roasting the whole lamb?"

Looking along, Chushuang saw an uncle who was about 60 or [-] years old, turning over the second sheep on the grill.

At first glance, there was nothing special about it, but upon second glance, I realized that he only had one hand.

"When he was 12 years old, his right hand was amputated by a sandblasting machine. His family had no money to send him to a big hospital for treatment, so he only found a local doctor who treated him with herbal medicine."

Lin Su slowly recounted: "You can imagine the conditions. Without anesthesia, his wound was inflamed and painful and he had a high fever. He finally managed to save his life, but his brain tissue was partially damaged. He had some speech difficulties and could not speak fluently. At 14 Years old, his family thought he could support himself, so they kicked him out of the house to support himself.”

Chu Shuang listened and frowned lightly.

"why?"

"It was a difficult time. There were many people in the family, and there was no labor force. Maybe the adults thought he was a burden."

"But he is only 14 years old. He is his biological child after all."

Lin Su smiled faintly, "Aren't there too many conflicts between brothers and sisters? Besides, he has many sisters in his family, and his parents don't count on him. People often rely on interests to maintain relationships, and family members are no exception."

Even though there were many such things, Chushuang still couldn't put herself into that kind of parent's perspective.

She looked at the stooped and thin uncle. His skin was dark from years of exposure to the sun, but his clothes and hair seemed to have been taken care of. He had a feeling that even if his life was difficult, he could not lose his dignity.

"He must have experienced all the suffering in the world these years." Chushuang said in a calm voice.

"Is he alone?"

Lin Su: "He was alone. No one looked down on him in the first half of his life. At the age of 35, he finally married a wife and gave birth to a daughter the next year. Seeing that life was slowly getting better, it was unexpected that the child was killed by the village when he was three years old. He was bitten by a big mad dog and died before he was sent to the hospital."

Chushuang was speechless for a long time.

"and after?"

"His wife couldn't take the blow and dived into the water. He was the only one left, and he has nothing left in middle age."

"He has lived very hard, but life seems to have not let him go."

The sound of first frost blends into the night.

"Who am I?"

There are so many suffering people in the world, what is she?

Before Shengting went to bed, she received a message from Chushuang.

He set an exclusive notification tone for her. When he knew that she took the initiative to send him a message, his heart rate was unbalanced for a moment, but after clicking on it, the man paused for a long time.

[I want to walk around by myself. You don’t have to worry about me, and don’t buy a plane ticket to come with me. Give me some private space and time, okay? 】

After a long silence, Sheng Ting pursed her lips and typed.

【it is good. 】

How perceptive she was, not long after he had just booked the flight, she bluntly refused to let him go there.

In a simple sentence, he could hear her seriousness and persistence. She really wanted to be alone.

Therefore, she really doesn't want to see him now.

There was no light on in the dark bedroom, Sheng Ting lost his mind for a moment in the darkness, as if remembering something, he suddenly picked up his cell phone and called An Jingyu.

After learning the cause and effect, there was silence for a long time.

"Objectively speaking, you are right about this, and she is right, but she was injured because of it."

Sheng Ting's voice was hoarse, "I was wrong for letting her get hurt. In the final analysis, it is unreasonable to rush to save people regardless of my own safety and the feelings of my family."