Chapter 500 When I Crossed Everything That Falls
The night in Qinghe District is not polluted by too many neon lights, with the unique quiet atmosphere of the old city. There are some traces of food stalls closed on the ground, such as melon seed shells and Crushed beer bottle caps were scattered among the tiles on the sidewalk.
Chu Qingmian looked up at the street lights that were flashing in a strange pattern, and couldn't help but poke the arm of the person next to him.
"Su Chengyi."
"Huh?"
"Don't you think it's a bit scary! This is the first broken street light along our journey."
As soon as Chu Qingmian said this, she shrank behind his shoulder in fear.
Su Chengyi was a little distracted just now. After hearing what she said, he noticed the broken but not completely broken street lamp above his head.
This is a very common phenomenon in the old city. Many of the infrastructures here are probably older than Su Chengyi, so it is most likely just that the street light circuits are old and have poor connections.
Miss Chu is as timid as a mouse. She becomes suspicious when walking at night. She also lacks common sense in this area, so she can't help but think of supernatural events.
"Could it be that you want to tell me a ghost story or something to scare me?"
Su Chengyi paused and looked at her with an eyebrow raised.
“That’s not true!”
Chu Qingmian stamped her feet, raised her fingers nervously, and made a “silence” gesture.
"Shhh - you dare to say that word out loud! You are so brave!"
"Okay, okay, nothing happened. Remember, I didn't ask anything and you didn't answer anything."
"No offense intended!"
Chu Qingmian broke into pieces Thought to himself, he began to push him forward.
Hidden one's ears and stole the bell.
Su Chengyi curled his lips, looked at the road ahead, and said casually:
"Have you seen the alley in front of you?"
"Yes."
Hearing his question, Chu Qingmian obediently took a look and saw that it was not far ahead. There is an alley here and there.
There seemed to be no lights inside. It was pitch black at first glance, and she retracted her head warily.
“Actually, when I was in junior high school, I used to take that alley to go home. It was considered a shortcut.”
Su Chengyi said slowly.
"Then why didn't you leave later?"
Chu Qingmian asked curiously.
Su Chengyi couldn't help but think that Miss Chu was really the most suitable person to listen to ghost stories.
Because although she is very timid, she is very curious and very cute.
She didn't even realize there was a lie ahead until the final, revealing part of the story.
“There are no lights in the whole alley, so you have to walk to the end in the dark, and then turn out to see the lights of the convenience store. I was still young at that time, so I was somewhat nervous.
So every time I walked into the alley, I would start singing quietly to give myself courage."
Su Chengyi frowned slightly, as if he was caught in some kind of memory.
Because they wanted to tell a story, the two of them stopped at the entrance of the alley.
Hearing this, Chu Qingmian's eyes lit up and she pulled his arm and swung it around.
"Wow! Su Chengyi, you are just like me! When I was a child, I didn't dare to sleep alone, so I ended up singing to myself to sleep!"
Su Chengyi said "hmm" and asked again :
“What song do you sing?”
“You can sing any song. Generally speaking, it’s the type that the nanny would sing to me.”
Chu Qingmian thought for a while and hummed a few words casually.
“The insects are flying~the flowers are sleeping~one pair after another is so beautiful~it doesn’t matter whether you are tired or not, and it doesn’t matter whether you are tired or not!”
Su Chengyi wanted to laugh a little when he heard this, but he laughed for a while It ruined the atmosphere at this moment, so he just nodded seriously.
"The song I could sing at that time was"
"The big rabbit is sick, look at the second rabbit.
Three rabbits buy medicine, four rabbits boil it.
Five rabbits died inexplicably, and six rabbits were lifted.
The Seven Rabbits dug a hole with their heads down, and the Eight Rabbits came to bury it. ”
Su Chengyi’s tone of voice when singing this song was smooth, more like reciting a jingle than singing.
But Chu Qingmian felt goosebumps all over listening to it, and just wanted to Cover your ears and tell him to stop singing, please, please!
Su Chengyi's singing did indeed stop suddenly, and he continued nonchalantly:
"Every time I finish singing this song, the alley just comes to the end."
He raised his chin to signal. Chu Qingmian looked into the alley.
"Actually, this alley is very short, right? But when you stand on this side, you always feel like you can't see the exit on the other side."
Chu Qingmian listened to him If so, muster up the courage to look into the alley.
In the dark night, such old alleys are like black holes that seem to swallow up everything.
Su Chengyi looked at her nervous expression, and then said:
"But one night, I walked through this alley, and I started singing as usual."
Hearing this, Chu Qingmian was so nervous that her whole heart was raised. She was scared and wanted to know what was going on.
“But that night, after I finished singing a whole song, I found myself still standing in the middle of the alley.”
Su Chengyi said calmly:
“The small tombstone in the dark forest is the cold corpse of a rabbit.
The screams and screams are long gone, and the sun slowly crawls out.
That day I sang it many times at night, but I still couldn’t see the exit of the alley.”
“Ah!”
Chu Qingmian was so frightened that she lost her mind. She always felt that something terrible was going to emerge from the alley in the next second and snatch the two of them away, so she dragged Su Chengyi and ran away.
Su Chengyi was holding back her laughter while being pulled away by her involuntarily, almost out of breath.
Miss Chu's physical strength has never been so good. Su Cheng realized that she had been running eight hundred meters on her side like a little penguin.
Sure enough, human potential is unlimited. As the saying goes, if a tiger catches up, there will be no lame one.
"Ghosts beating the wall, ghosts beating the wall, this must be the ghost beating the wall, right? It's so scary, so scary, Su Chengyi, you dare to take this road, you're so brave, you have to stay far away from here in the future. Oh, it’s so scary. I can’t stand it. Help!”
She could even run away while talking without pause.
Su Chengyi saw that this potential long-distance runner was already dragging him away from the road home, so he had to slow down and pull her back.
“Stop, stop, stop, I’m joking.”
“Run, run, RUN! Why don’t we go to the temple to sleep tonight, in case something terrible comes here? What should I do? Oh my god, why are we the unlucky ones?"
After Chu Qingmian realized what he was talking about, she immediately turned around and her eyes widened.
Su Chengyi raised his hands in a gesture of surrender and said with a smile:
"What I just talked about was actually the plot of the comic "Lighting Store", Private Marseille."
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Chu Qingmian was silent for a long time, then began to look around.
“What are you looking for?”
"Look for a weapon I can use to beat you to death, you liar."
"Look, women are scarier than ghosts."
Su Chengyi laughed and rubbed it. Rubbing the top of her angry head, she received an angry retort.
“What’s more terrifying than women are nuisances!” Although Su Chengyi confessed that he was making up lies to scare people, Chu Qingmian was still frightened.
She was shrunk and sneaky all the way, wishing she could wrap herself around him like an octopus.
Su Chengyi looked at the shadows of the two people under the street lamp and thought silently, if an innocent passerby walked across the street at this time, he would be scared to death by this weird Cthulhu creature.
And as a result, the traveling speed of the two people was also greatly affected.
Su Chengyi raised his wrist, and the luminous pointer of the diving watch was already pointing to ten o'clock.
Miss Chu declared against all the opinions that she would stay at his house. Uncle Gao struggled for a long time but she could only agree to stay. However, he said that he would come to take her home at eight o'clock tomorrow morning, reminding the two of them that they must "Go to bed early and get up early."
Thinking of this, Su Chengyi simply stepped forward two steps faster and squatted down.
“Come up.”
Chu Qingmian said “huh?” somewhat unexpectedly.
Su Chengyi did not answer, but tilted his head to indicate.
Chu Qingmian's eyes lit up, she lay on his back and wrapped her arms around his neck.
Su Chengyi put his hands around the bend of her knees, weighed the weight, and easily stood up with her on his back.
Chu Qingmian shook her calves excitedly like a child playing a height-lifting game for the first time, then leaned into his ear and asked softly:
"Will it be heavy?"
"No."
Su Chengyi shook his head.
Rather, I still think this guy is a bit unbelievably light.
Chu Qingmian was repenting for the few small cakes she had eaten during the late night snack time recently. She felt relieved after hearing his answer.
So feeling the temperature on his back, she suddenly felt that this night road was not scary at all, and she even hoped to walk a little longer.
"Su Chengyi, what are you thinking about?"
Chu Qingmian asked while lying on his shoulder.
"Nothing."
Su Chengyi answered without thinking.
“Liar!”
Unexpectedly, Chu Qingmian’s answer was more confident and she looked very confident.
"You have been like this since you came out of KTV, absent-minded. What are you thinking about, you have to tell me.
How on earth could you, a boy, have so many little secrets? I don’t even have any secrets from you! "
Chu Qingmian curled her lips and bit his shoulder lightly.
"Unfair, unfair, unfair. "
"Okay, okay. ”
Unable to defeat her, and also because there were other secrets that were even more difficult to reveal, Su Chengyi gave up the idea of trying to get through.
"I was actually thinking about Zou Leng."
"The words he said tonight make me feel that he is quite brave. Compared to me, he is more like the previous generation The real victim of human grudges."
Su Chengyi thought for a while and continued:
"If I were put in his position, I would obviously not be able to do what he is doing now. .
In the final analysis, I am just a person who advocates 'escape is shameful but useful'."
After all, without rebirth, the method he took was just to escape.
Hidden one's ears and stole the bell, and trapped oneself in a cocoon.
“Why do you think so.”
Chu Qingmian reached out from behind and patted his face gently.
"How could you think of making such a comparison with him? This is not the same thing at all."
"It's the same when comparing with others. For example, you, you are also very brave."
Su Chengyi used both hands to lift the person on his back and replied casually.
"Me? I'm not brave at all, okay."
Chu Qingmian's cheek touched the base of his ear, bringing warmth, and her voice became louder. Closer.
“Actually, there have been many times when I wanted to escape.
Oh, you don’t know. When I was a child, my family often said that my brother couldn’t be born because you were born. My brother couldn’t come into the world because of you. You can only survive because of your brother’s sacrifice
I was not good at that time. Whenever they said such things, I secretly retorted in my heart, I didn’t want to be born.
It sounds like being born is a good thing, but what good is there in this world? If I could choose, I wouldn't want to be the 'lucky' kid. ”
“But now, I feel that I am very lucky, super lucky to be born in this world. Because there are relatives and friends in the world, there are cute cats and dogs, there are hot pot barbecues and matcha chocolate ice cream.
Of course, the most important thing is Su Chengyi! ”
Chu Qingmian was talking to herself, and the ends of her hair that had fallen down unintentionally rose and fell with Su Chengyi's steps, and were cast thin reflections on the ground by the light of the street lamp.
Su Chengyi lowered his head and looked at the swaying shadows, hearing her sweet voice that smelled of mint julep.
“Even so, I am very timid. You see, I have liked you for so long, but when I was about to graduate, I felt anxious that I had to tell you.
If there were four, five, and six, I might have delayed it for a long time!”
Hearing this, Su Chengyi laughed, shook his head and said in denial:
"The fact that you have persisted in secret love for so many years is a very brave thing in itself."
"But you also gave me this courage."
Chu Qingmian nuzzled him. The hollow of the neck and the pillow of the cheek form a soft arc.
“So don’t think like you just did, okay? As long as the courage of the two of us combined, it’s enough to deal with the whole world.
Because every time I feel very When I feel like I can’t hold on anymore, I will become brave again when I think about your existence in the world, the love I have had for you over the years, and the things we might do together in the future.”
"For example, what things?"
"So many things! I want to climb a super difficult mountain, I want to see a spectacular meteor shower, I want to watch stupid humpback whales swimming"
< br>It seems that Chu Qingmian must have been planning for a long time, and it sounds reasonable.
Su Chengyi was a little amused by the "clumsy humpback whale" when he felt that her voice had weakened, but it was still clear and firm.
“I want to marry you.”
Su Chengyi was slightly startled, and felt that the summer night wind at this moment became very gentle because of these words.
Chu Qingmian may have been a little shy, but she did not regret the words she blurted out. She cleared her throat in a subtle way and began to say again:
"Okay, okay, okay. , I will think about the future later. Mr. Golden Age, do you remember that sentence? "
"Which sentence?"
Su Chengyi's heartbeat is still for her. He was pounding at the words just now, and it took a while to calm down, and he asked as calmly as possible.
He didn't mind the nickname "Mr. Golden Age". Ever since his speech at the 100-day swearing-in ceremony, this group of people had used it to tease him.
"Think about it, what should you recite at this time?"
Chu Qingmian smiled, her eyebrows curved, and the ends of her eyelashes rubbed against his neck, feeling a slight itch. meaning.
Su Chengyi was a little distrustful of her attitude.
“Don’t you have the right answer in your mind right now?”
"Who said that!"
Chu Qingmian snorted unconvinced, and said in a deliberately long tone:
"When I——"
Test successful , and sure enough I thought of going together again.
Su Chengyi lowered his eyes with a smile in his tone.
"When I cross over everything that has fallen and fight for eternity, you are my flag."
(End of this chapter)