Butterflies Fly Over Winter Chapter 39
byChapter 39 Wanye Lenglu
Just before sunset, everything by the river looks hazy and swirling.
The evening breeze on the river, the reeds at dusk, the croaking frogs on the plank road… are so gentle that they make people feel a little helpless and disappointed.
People who want to stop talking stand side by side, and their heartbeats resonate with the tide.
Meng Yike and the others walked to the front early, and after a while they turned back and asked Chu Yiqi and Xi Yuan to hurry up.It was neither too early nor too late, and they all just happened to have half of their headphones on.
The two looked at each other for a moment, as if they were embarrassed.
“Come on, come on.” Chu Yiqi looked away first and responded to Su Luojian’s urging.
Xi Ai was half a step away, followed slowly, and clicked on a playlist.
The name of the playlist was chosen by myself and has only one letter – “Q”.
Chu Yiqi didn’t dare to look back, for fear that the person in front of him would overlap with the person in the video.
“Everyone thinks this movie has a sense of redemption. So were there any touching points when you were filming this movie?”
Xi Ai looked at the camera. The person who always answered everything fluently seemed to be hesitating and thinking.
It’s really rare.
So Chu Yiqi heard Xi Ai’s answer after thinking: “In terms of a sense of redemption… I personally don’t like this word.”
The host also felt it was new, so he continued to ask: “Why?”
“Because I don’t think Ye Ruqing actually needs redemption.” Xi Ai smiled, looking straight at the camera with those fox eyes, but they seemed to be looking at someone intentionally, full of deliberate ripples and deep affection. “She actually doesn’t need redemption. The moment she wants to come out, she no longer needs someone to complete the process for her.”
It just happened that during that period of time, someone else was traveling with her, so she was mistaken for salvation.
What Ye Ruqing met was another version of herself.
As for Xi Ai, she felt that she was just lucky enough to meet Chu Yiqi, who was still struggling.
Xi Ai was silent for a moment, and before the host asked the next question, she added half a sentence: “She is much braver than me.”
Chu Yiqi pinched her fingertips, feeling a little numb. She couldn’t help but look at Xi Ai’s shadow.
The person next to her was wearing a long skirt, and the tail of the skirt was slightly curved in the evening breeze, like a pas de deux without substance, like many stages that Chu Yiqi had choreographed in the past two years.
Xi Ai listened to the song, her steps were broken, and she was obsessed with stepping on Chu’s shadow.
Chu Yi hoped to catch this movement, and suddenly felt a little funny caused by the contrast.
“Xi Ai, you are really childish.” Chu Yiqi stopped suddenly. Xi Ai didn’t stop him even a step, and the shadow she stepped on happened to hit the shadow of Chu Yiqi’s skirt.
The white skirt is swaying, as if it is light and free, but it is always restricted by the cheongsam, so it is always controllable.
When the video ended, Chu Yiqi slowed down and clicked on a playlist.For some purpose that she didn’t want to say, she slowly walked to a row with Xi Yuan.
They hadn’t gotten along like this for a long time, they were very quiet, they didn’t need to think about anything else, they just walked at the same pace in unison.
This atmosphere was so familiar that Xi Yuan and Chu Yiqi unconsciously wanted to raise their hands.The fingertips hooked together, and finally felt some strangeness, accompanied by absurd and inappropriate thoughts.
Like a lonely boat that has been lost for a long time, it finally glimpses the lighthouse and wants to step forward.Chu Yiqi and Xi Yuan both hesitated for a moment, wanting to hold each other’s hands.After all, it was because he was timid about being close to home, so he let go after hesitating.
“Why are you so tired these two years?”
Chu Yiqi did not look at Xi Yuan, but looked at the four people chatting and laughing in front of him, and did not notice the flash of surprise in Xi Yuan’s eyes.
Xi Yuan turned her gaze away, smiled a little, and said, “I’m just used to it.”
Chu Yiqi didn’t say whether he believed it or not, he just stared at the entangled and harmonious shadows of the two people.
Of course Xi Yuan didn’t tell the truth, and Chu Yiqi also knew it.
If neither person can hear a true word, the confrontation will end in silence.
So Xi Yuan thought for a while and said, “Chu Yiqi, do you want to hear the truth?”
Chu Yiqi seemed to have a premonition and knew the answer Xi Yuan wanted to say, but he did not dare to hear the final verdict, even if there was only a slight possibility that it would be an unexpected result.
“Whatever you want to say, I will listen to.”
Xi Yuan was unwilling to talk anymore, so she asked: “What about you, why do you want to go to country F?”
Why, even though I didn’t know French at all before, I still had to stumble to get to Huangyi.
Speaking of this, Xi Yuan actually remembered a photo of Chu Yiqi.It must have been taken secretly during class, so Chu Yiqi sat by the window and looked up at the podium, focused and calm. Only the slight frown between her eyebrows showed that she was a little tired.The long hair is tied to one side, and the hairband is wrapped around the hairpin and finally wrapped into the end of the rose pink hair dyed with gradient.
There are always flower vines hanging outside the curved windows, creating a pink midsummer sky.
Chu Yiqi raised his hand to adjust his glasses. There was no prescription, but they could be interpreted simultaneously.
Xi Yuan waited to hear what Chu Yiqi was going to make up.But Chu Yiqi heard what Xi Yuan meant – Xi Yuan wanted an equivalent exchange. If Chu Yiqi could tell the truth, then Chu Yiqi could also hear a hint of sincerity.
Very naive, or stubborn, but Chu Yiqi still said: “If I say it’s just because you used to be in Huangyi, would you believe it?”
Xi Yuan took a step forward, feeling sour in her heart. She finally realized the consequences of hiding her emotions, but a rare confession was like dragging Xi Yuan back into a winter snow.
Ever since their last meeting two years ago, when Xi Yuan thought of Chu Yiqi, her strongest emotion was actually an inexplicable grievance.
The wind on the sea was carrying salty moisture, and Xi Yuan sat in the direction of the wind. It was just the sunrise, and several seabirds fluttered and stopped on the railing.Fu Jingchu came over with a glass of mint water, looked at the person standing in front of the drawing board on the deck from afar, and finally turned around and asked Xi Yuan, “Would I like to have a drink with you?”
Xi Yuan looked at Fu Jingchu’s mint water with an expressionless face, and finally said: “Is it appropriate that you still have to drink mint water for me if you don’t drink well enough?”
“Seriously, Xi Yuan, you still have a chance to vent your emotions now, so don’t embarrass yourself.”
Xi Yuan tilted her head, blinked a few times, and said, “It’s okay.”
Fu Jingchu sighed, brushed her hair to one side, and picked up the water glass.She said: “Xi Yuan, you will get yourself into trouble sooner or later.”
Xi Yuan touched Fu Jingchu’s cup, the tip of her nose was a little red.
Xi Yuan has always been very quiet when she cries, unless the role requires it. The tip of her nose and eyes are red, and her delicate and beautiful face always looks distressing, and she cannot say a harsh word.
It’s just that they have known each other for more than ten years. Fu Jingchu knew at first glance that Xi Yuan was fighting with her emotions again, and her rational self had the upper hand and began to deny her emotions.So the heartache will turn into a hatred of iron.
Before Xi Yuan could speak, Fu Jingchu started to hurt her: “I just said that you are so wronged by the way you cry. How can Chu Yiqi really leave after just one look at her.”
“I didn’t.” Xi Yuan answered “grieved.” Fu Jingchu also knew it, but was too lazy to refute.
Xi Yuan added: “But she wants to leave, why should I let her hesitate?”
“Have you ever thought that at that moment she wanted you to keep her?”
“But…”
“Admit it, Xi Yuan, you just felt wronged and angry at that moment, but you didn’t want to express it. But you are in love, not cooperation. Absolute reason is not suitable for love.”
“Jingchu, come and have a drink with me.”
A tear that had been hanging in Xi Yuan’s eyes for a long time fell down and fell into the wine.
A cicada chirps through the summer night.Chu Yiqi stretched out his hand, stopped Xi Yuan and said, “Why do you have to step into puddles?”
Xi Ai quickly recovered her emotions and quickly came to her senses, but said, “You have seen me in various places in the past two years, right?”
Chu Yiqi nodded. In the past two years, she had always heard or seen Xi Yuan on various occasions – news from the business district, announcements from film festivals, chats with friends…
At first, Chu Yiqi always wanted to avoid it, but later he found that he couldn’t avoid it at all, so he got used to it, and even started to look forward to hearing about Xi Yuan’s current situation.
“Then my goal has been achieved.” Xi Yuan took a few steps forward, and Chu Yiqi followed in a daze when he saw Xi Yuan turn around.
Xi Yuan finally had a smile in her eyes, and she said, “Teacher Chu, can you walk faster?”
“Oh.”
“Teacher Shiny, are you…preparing to withdraw from the circle?”
Come on, I thought about it for a long time and asked a question that I already know the answer to.
Xi Yuan was quiet for a moment, and then said: “That’s not enough, after all, it will be a long time.”
It’s not too early.
Xi Yuan was not in a hurry, but Chu Yiqi pinched her palms secretly. She was anxious, but the information she had was not confident enough, so she did not dare to gamble too quickly on a possibility.
“The song I drew was written by you, right?” Chu Yiqi changed the subject, unfamiliar and stiff.
Xi Yuan laughed and said, “It seems like I haven’t made much progress. You can tell right away.”
“How could it be?” Chu Yiqi said, “It’s just that they all come to talk except you, but you are the only one who can sit still every time.”
Xi Yuan did not refute and snorted in her heart.
That’s not so positive because many such important albums are collaborations between her and Chu Yiqi.
People who have been fighting each other from the beginning always understand best, so they can accurately grasp what the other person wants to express in the song, and then fill in the lyrics according to the guessed direction.
Only when the first version of the lyrics is finalized will we “check” with each other. The results are always unexpectedly good. Even if occasionally the ideas don’t completely match, there can still be fireworks after the collision. In short, there is a tacit understanding.
After a long time, it even formed a habit, and I could catch each other in a few songs, and then start writing lyrics in silence.
Xi Ai said: “Then do you want to discuss it this time?”
Chu Yiqi refused without hesitation, with a smile on his eyes: “Then what’s the point? It’s just a blind man touching an elephant.”
“That’s the name of the song.”
“Sister Luo will refuse your random naming of songs.”
“Xi Ai.” Chu Yiqi was silent for a moment, but couldn’t help but ask a question, “So how many of your words today are true?”
“Who knows? Maybe all of them?”
“Really?”
Xi Ai laughed, walked around the end of the belt on the side, and began to talk nonsense: “Today’s truth quota has been used up, but there can be additional questions that are randomly triggered and there may be rewards?”
“…”
“In the hope that-” Yu Nianxi grabbed Meng Yike’s arm and used it as a crutch, then looked back at them, stretched out her hand, and her whole body was filled with happiness.
Meng Yike pulled her and said, “I’ll turn you into a little retard on the steps.”
“Not allowed.”
“How about Xi Ai and I wish to walk a little faster and we sing?” Nie Chuiying hugged Shi Yunshan’s arm.
Xi Ai turned her head to look at Chu and asked, “Did you hear that, Teacher Chu?”
“Let’s go, hurry up.” Before he finished speaking, Chu Yiqi ran forward, looking back at Xi Ai, and the last few words were blended into the running water.
Xi Ai was stunned for a moment, then quickly followed up and asked Chu Yiqi: “You are so bad! You will get zero points for running early!”
“Then hit me.”
“…”
Su Luo gradually saw everyone gathered and asked casually: “Be proud of the copyright, and the lyrics… must be colorful.”
“Actually, the only important thing is to be proud of copyright.”
“You accidentally said the correct answer.”
“Captain, let’s take the lead.” Nie Chuiying smiled and tricked others first.
Shi Yunshan remained calm: “This is the best thing to bear the brunt of.”
Meng Yike glanced at Chu Yiqi, and suddenly felt blessed in his heart: “The first warm cloud appears, the cold green of the fields.”