Picking the stars

They packed up their personal belongings, and Pei Ji was going to sort out the rest. Song Yi stopped her and said, "There are too many, and someone will take care of it later."

Pei Ji stopped and looked at Song Er.

Song Er smiled at her and said, "Let's go home."

Pei Ji reached out and grabbed the lever of the suitcase in his hand, and nodded, her eyes had a faint smile because of the episode just now, but now the smile disappeared.

Song Er asked with concern: "What's wrong?"

Pei Ji's hand slid slightly on the lever, and turned to look elsewhere. For a moment, she realized that she was escaping again, and forced herself to look at Song Er's eyes and said, "I said it was good. When you leave the hospital, I will tell you one thing."

"Yeah." Song Er nodded, and then asked, "What is it?"

Pei Ji squeezed the lever. Following the lines she had practiced in her heart early in the morning, she said: "I will take you to a place, and you will know."

They leave the hospital.

Song Er sat in the car and looked at the traffic, greenery, pedestrians, and the tall buildings on both sides of the window.

She has been in the hospital for so long, and the summer is going to pass. The sun outside is still strong, but it is no longer the kind of fierce that seems to burn the skin, like a beast with fierceness on the outside.

Song Wei walked unconsciously, wondering if he could hear the cicadas and smell the fragrance of lotus leaves in the breeze now when he returned to the professor's house. There is also that small pond, there are many evenings, where the professor takes her for a walk, she has imagined it in her mind countless times, and now she can see it with her own eyes.

She thought mixedly, and finally inevitably thought of the destination of their trip.

I don't know where it will be.

She can only be sure that it is related to Pei Yi.

She had a very bad premonition, which made her feel flustered, but she couldn't say what it was.

As the car drove out of the city, the road became smoother and the speed was stable. Pei Ji turned his head and glanced at her, Song Wei happened to meet her, Pei Ji avoided her gaze and looked forward.

When Pei Ji told her that there was something to tell her when she was discharged from the hospital, Song Wei thought about asking people to check if something happened to Pei Yi. Her mission this time was indeed a long time.

But I also think that since the professor said to tell her when he was discharged from the hospital, he would definitely tell her when he was discharged from the hospital. She didn't need to do anything extra.

Especially the professor is reluctant to mention Pei Yi.

After driving for nearly an hour, the car stopped.

There are no buildings in this area, it looks a bit desolate, but a lot of trees have been planted, and each one looks old, thick and dense, forming a dense green shade.

Pei Ji found a parking space and said, "Here."

After she finished speaking, she closed her mouth, got out of the car and went around to the back seat to take a bag and a three-layer food container.

Song Er stood by the car, she raised her eyes and looked forward. The steps were wide, almost the width of four cars, with verdant pine trees planted on both sides, and many pine needles fell on the steps in a mess.

Up the steps is a gate. The gate is not a common iron gate, but the kind of stone gate often found in mountain temples. On the stone gate, there is a black background with gold characters and the words "Evergreen Cemetery" written on it.

When Song Wei saw those four words, her pupils shrank suddenly, and she hurriedly looked for Pei Ji: "Professor..."

Pei Ji walked up to her, afraid to look into her eyes: "I'm sorry..."

What Pei Ji wanted to tell her was already clear.

Song Wei walked forward, Pei Ji followed behind her.

They walked up the steps silently and reached the stone gate. Song Wei stopped and turned to face Pei Ji, still in disbelief: "When did it happen? Did she lie to me when she came out on the mission?"

Pei Ji looked at her. She had a lot of words to defend herself, but in the face of life and death, these reasons were too light. Song Wei twisted her eyebrows tightly, her eyes were full of tears, her lips trembled, and she asked again: "That's why you came to me and took care of me?"

In fact, the answer is obvious, these questions are meaningless.

Song Wei's tears slipped down, and Pei Ji wanted to wipe it off for her as usual, but his arm seemed to be filled with lead, too heavy to be lifted.

She nodded.

The noon sun, even if it is no longer the violent midsummer, shines on the cemetery without mercy. The tombstones are buried in sections of life that are either lackluster or magnificent, but whether it is the former or the latter, every tombstone After that, there was at least a period of unforgettable, passionate youth, with countless love and hatred, sorrow and joy, reunion and parting.

Pei Ji led Song Wei past rows of tombstones. The dark tombstones were dazzled by the sun, which seemed to melt the whole world.

They finally stopped in front of a tombstone that was indistinguishable from other tombstones.

There is a picture of Pei Yi. She is wearing a uniform and smiling as if there is no haze, as if her life is always shining by the sun, bright and happy.

Song Er was in tears, she kept saying: "How could this happen... that day, she clearly..."

Pei Ji took out the joss stick in silence, lit it, and arranged everything in accordance with the ritual. She also prepared a bunch of flowers, put it up, and then walked away.

She thought that Song Er would need time alone with Pei Yi.

She walked to the corner and waited, watching Song Er crying in front of Pei Yi's tombstone from a distance.

Pei Ji lowered his head, Song Wei taught her to like it, taught her to miss it, and taught her how happy and heavy it is to like this emotion.

If it can be done again, she will not lie to her.

Because she now understands that it is torture if the people who love each other get together one second later, not to mention the separation of life and death, and she can't give her the last time.

If she was deceived like this, she would never say a word to that person again.

Will Song Er still care about her?

She raised her head and saw Song Er reaching out to touch the picture of Pei Yi. She was talking, but she couldn't make a sound when she didn't say a few words.

Pei Ji felt that his heart was hollowed out, as if he had no sense, and it seemed to hurt his bones. She wants Song Wei to stop crying, to hug her, to tell her that I will be with you, you can be my kitten, and I will never leave you.

But she has no position.

The tombstone was hot by the sun, and Song Er's fingertips gently stroked the picture of Pei Yi.

She recalled that in the morning, Pei Yi bent down in front of her. She couldn't see, but she could judge by her voice. Pei Yi bent over and looked at her who was sitting.

"I'm going to the next city and come back tomorrow. If you are scared, let Sister Zhizhou come to accompany you all night."

At that time, she was in a low mood because of blindness, and she just said: "Okay, don't worry."

Pei Yi stood up straight, and said: "It may be delayed. Then come back the day after tomorrow. Don't skip meals. I will contact Sister Zhizhou to check your post. Alas, no more, Zhizhou. Sister hates me, so be self-conscious."

She knew that Pei Yi wanted to make her happy, so she smiled and said, "Okay."

Pei Yi turned and left. Her footsteps gradually faded away. Song Er listened. When she reached a certain distance, she stopped and stopped moving.

She was a little strange. She turned her head to listen, but couldn't hear any movement, and then asked, "What's the matter?"

Pei Yi's voice was a little farther away, with a frustrated expression: "I don't want to go. I don't know why, but I just don't want to go. I want to stay home, I want to be with you."

Sometimes Pei Yi is very childish, obviously two years older than her, but she especially likes to let her coax her and act coquettishly with her. But at that time, it was difficult for her to treat herself tenderly, let alone deal with her little willfulness.

She cheered up and said, "Go, go, go, go back."

Pei Yi looked helpless and said: "Okay." But he still didn't move.

Song Er was already a little impatient. She made an appointment with a doctor in the afternoon. She knew that most of the results were still not good, but she still had to go, for the slightest possibility might be less than one in ten thousand.

"Xiao You. When I come back, I will contact my sister." Pei Yi said.

Song Wei heard her mention Pei Ji and nodded, "Okay."

Pei Yi sighed: "I talk a lot today, as if I want to finish talking about the whole life."

She said these words too ominously, Song Er's face was a bit bad, and she wanted her to stop talking nonsense. Pei Yi went on talking on her own: "There are only two things I am worried about, and one of them will probably never get a chance."

Song Yi wanted to ask, what happened, but Pei Yi did not give her a chance, and then said, "The other is my sister. Maybe I can find a good way to let you know her and let us sit in these two days. Come down and have a talk."

She was a little nagging, and Song Wei waved her hand and said, "Okay, I know, you go now."

Pei Yi smiled and said, "Goodbye."

This time, she really left.

Because of this passage, Pei Ji appeared and said that when Pei Yi asked her to take care of her, Song Wei thought that this was the way Pei Yi came up with. He thought she was going to do the task, so he simply entrusted her to Pei Ji and let her They have the opportunity to meet.

Song Wei felt very guilty because she was happy to know Pei Ji, and because they got along more and more harmoniously, she quickly forgot Pei Yi behind her head. In the past two months, she mentioned her a handful of times.

Pei Yi smiled brightly in the photo, and that uniform suits her very well, setting her up with spirit and heroism.

"You have two things to worry about..." Song Wei said, tears could not stop falling, she choked, still trying to talk to Pei Yi, "I don't know what the first is, and the second is I will help you complete it."

Pei Yi looked at her in the photo, silent and silent, as if she had always been gentle.

Song Wei packed up the sacrifices in front of the tomb and left the bunch of flowers. Pei Ji walked over, took the things in her hand, and looked at the tombstone.

She has very few impressions of Pei Yi. Most of them stayed when they were young. They were not close. Most of the time, they were strangers, like strangers.

But on the day Pei Yi passed away, she was still very sad, as if a part of her life was cut apart and taken away.

She doesn't hate Pei Yi, even if she is always rejected outside the family, she has never hated Pei Yi. When she was young, when she was still living at home, she tried to get along well with Pei Yi and showed her kindness, but she was too bad at expressing, and after working hard a few times, Pei Yi didn’t notice and didn’t take her. The show is good.

She had no choice but to give up, but she felt sorry in her heart.

She didn't know what her expression should be at this time, or what to say to Pei Yi's tombstone.

Song Wei stared at the tombstone for a long time, and then said, "Let's go." Her voice became hoarse.

Pei Ji nodded, she followed Song Er, took two steps, and stopped again. She looked back at Pei Yi and said in her heart: "I have learned a lot of emotions now. I unilaterally reconcile with you, like us It’s the same during the fetal period before birth."

At that time, they must be in harmony.

She did not say that she likes Song Ye and will pursue Song Ye in the future. Because Pei Yi probably wouldn't want to hear this.

Pei Ji believes that any words in front of the tomb cannot reach the ears of the dead, but many people do it. She understands this as a ritual, understands it as the self-consolation of the living, and does so.

She followed Song Er and went out without taking the initiative to speak. She has exercised many possibilities in her heart, and Song Er may swear at her, so let her swear. Song Er might ignore her, then ignore her. Song Er might resent her, then resent her.

Pei Ji thought about many possibilities, and she decided that no matter what Song Er would do to her, she would accept it and she deserved it.

As a result, when they got into the car, Song Er's first sentence to her was: "Go to Pei Yi's house."

Pei Ji couldn't react a little bit. She looked at Song Ye. Song Ye's eyes were red and swollen, but she no longer shed tears. Seeing her look over, thinking she didn't hear clearly, she repeated: "Go to Pei Yi's house."

The voice is still dumb, but the mood is fairly stable.

This is different from any possibility that Pei Ji has practiced in advance.

Pei Ji rolled his eyes slowly, decided, accepted, and listened to Song Er.

"I don't have a key," she said.

"I have." Song Er closed his eyes when he finished speaking.

Pei Ji drove towards Pei Yi's house.

She has only been there once, but remembers the address and follows the navigation.

The return journey was still a long time, and the driving distance made Pei Ji a little tired. Song Wei proposed to change with her midway, but Pei Ji refused.

When they got downstairs at Pei Yi's house, they got out of the car and walked upstairs. When they got outside, Song Wei took out the key from the inside of her bag and opened the door.

The living room is still the same as when they left two months ago. Pei Yuan and Zhao Yu should have not come to clean up.

Pei Ji walked in and looked around.

It seemed a little different from the feeling I saw last time. She felt that the house seemed to be empty and deserted.

Song Wei walked straight into a room on the left, Pei Ji followed behind her.

She saw Song Er stop at the door, as if she was a little hard to deal with. Then, she saw Song Er close his eyes and reached out to fumble. As she did when she was blind, she groped around the room slowly and moved slowly against the wall.

This is a room with a bedroom connected to a study room. It is very large and has a lot of furniture and decorations.

Song Er walked for a while against the wall, and then touched a small bookshelf. She touched the bookshelf with her fingers, judged what it was, turned around, walked, and then stroked a cabinet, a desk, and a purifier. , And some decorative ornaments.

Finally, she bypassed a table with a racing model, and stopped in front of a pure wooden cabinet.

"I remember, it was this place." She was talking, bent down, counted, opened the third drawer, and then opened her eyes.

Pei Ji walked over, Song Wei flipped through the drawer, and when Pei Ji walked to her, she said, "Found it."

He stood up with three documents in his hand and handed it to Pei Ji.

Pei Ji stretched out her hand to pick it up, and when her fingertips touched three things, she saw a line above the top piece of paper that read the DNA Test Report of the Genetic Laboratory.