Chapter 112: Living Like a Mayfly
The glance at Shanan Railway Station became Zhou Muqing's lingering memory.
But after that, she never found any trace. That short and profound moment seemed to have a dream, or in a trance, remembering the past.
That was the answer she finally got for decades.
Her increasingly old body can no longer hold on to the distance, and the world is developing in full swing. She was left behind by the times and was eliminated together with the missing person notice published in newspapers when she was young.
At that time, Zhou Xiaotian had inherited everything about her and grew up to be a young man in a new era.
From the courtyard of the old society to the tall buildings in 2021, the inheritance of these two eras was completed with only two masters and apprentices.
Master’s glorious years are no longer pursuing, and Zhou Xiaotian took over her mantle.
The last hexagram was settled by Zhou Xiaotian to help Zhou Mu.
Zhou Xiaotian spread out the big yellow cloth that belonged to his master. The cloth surface was already broken, full of traces left by decades, and it was a bit worn, just like Zhou Muqing himself.
This young man who has a successful career has the first hexagram in his career, and it is also the last hexagram for Zhou Muqing, who taught her to raise her and brought her up.
"Looking for someone."
Zhou Muqing looked at the young apprentice and said with a smile.
Zhou Xiaotian lowered his head and shook the copper coins. Three Qianlong Tongbaos were scattered on the yellow cloth on the ground, making a clanging sound when they met.
"Master, let's go to Baicheng."
Zhou Xiaotian pointed to the north.
At the end of 2021, the master and apprentice arrived in Baicheng. Zhou Muqing chose a bankrupt antique shop on the old street, put it down and redecorated it. She was afraid that Zhou Xiaotian would not have a place to live in the future.
The hexagram is to find someone, but she didn't look for it anymore. In the last period of her life, Zhou Muqing used it to decorate the shops and places where she lives. Her half-life savings were enough, and there was also the dowry prepared for Zhou Xiaotian.
This year, Zhou Xiaotian was twenty-six years old, and he was at the age when he was supposed to get married, and he was also the age when Zhou Muqing once left Yicheng.
It's like a cycle of reincarnation.
In a trance, Zhou Muqing seemed to have returned to decades ago. At that time, she was still young, at the same age as Zhou Xiaotian, and she was so energetic.
If she hadn't left Yicheng at that time, would her whole life be different?
In the cold winter, Zhou Muqing became older, but her whole memory became clearer. She always remembered the courtyard at that time, which was the most worry-free time in her life.
When she was wandering on the street, the man took her home, taught her to read and read, and her aunt helped her knitting clothes...
This is human.
Zhou Muqing thought that the rest of his life would pass by in a daze.
After all, she couldn't survive this winter and could not hold on before the end of the year.
In the last time, Zhou Muqing remembered that his master had calculated a fortune for her and was displaced for half his life.
She thought that was her original fate, she had not been picked up by her master, and she had been wandering around and had no place to live, so she would not be able to do so after meeting her master.
Who knows, this is still the road in the end.
She is also a casual person.
Zhou Muqing smiled self-deprecatingly.
"Silly girl, don't learn from your master. You can't be a vulgar person."
"Master, your life is in your life..." Zhou Xiaotian held Master's hand, "Do you regret it?"
Zhou Muqing smiled and shook his head. If he regretted it, staying in Yicheng would have regrets even more. He would only think about why he didn't do that at the beginning.
Now I only have a little regret, after all, it was the path she chose herself.
"Xiaotian, you have to be fine."
"Well, I will be fine." Zhou Xiaotian said.
A few days later, Zhou Xiaotian was always calm when he helped Zhou Muqing handle the funeral and fulfilled his last wish.
Gu Police
Life and death are a very important thing in life and an inevitable thing. She knew that there was such a day when she was in Yangjiang.
The master can finally rest.
Zhou Xiaotian thought that he could finally stop after his half-life wandering, but Zhou Muqing asked not to erect a monument to build a tomb, and after his death, he would sprinkle it in the river there.
She did as she did, leaving only a portrait in the cottage next to her.
"I won't be honest when I die." Zhou Xiaotian muttered by the river. Seeing so many fishermen, she rented a boat to the middle of the river. She didn't want people to disturb her master.
When Zhou Xiaotian helped Zhou Muqing sort out the relics, he found that she didn't have much stuff.
In addition to a few pieces of clothes and a mobile phone, it is the tools used to set up stalls before, which are simple.
“Master…”
Zhou Xiaotian also found a piece of paper that was being torn to pieces in the drawer. It was torn to pieces. It was news of looking for a baby girl in Ruzhou. A few years ago, Zhou Muqing showed it to her, but it was taken over by Zhou Xiaotian and torn it. I don’t know when Zhou Muqing put it together again, and he glued it with tape and kept it for her.
Zhou Xiaotian took it and looked at it for a long time, and was stunned.
In fact, the master couldn't bear to leave her.
The paper was thrown into the copper basin by Zhou Xiaotian and burned together. She only had one relative in this world.
In the early spring of the following year, a black cat ran into the store. Zhou Xiaotian was unwilling to raise it at first. It was said that the black cat could see the dead souls, and she was afraid of shocking her master.
But the black cat kept rubbing here, and Zhou Xiaotian finally left it behind.
Life seemed to be no different. She was still quietly managing the store. In the early days, the master helped her fix the customer base. She carefully put the business card that she had been sitting in the formation for a while and changed it to her own business card.
Years of life have long polished her to a tough mind, but in fact, she is very ruthless.
Zhou Xiaotian thought that he was a ruthless person.
But when I get home and face the empty room, I always feel empty.
When I woke up at midnight, I occasionally felt that my master was still there, right next to me. As long as I shouted, she would respond, and then scolded her for not going to bed at night.
Occasionally, there was a vague sound of cars outside, and the water flowed upstairs came from the bathroom.
Zhou Xiaotian looked up at the ceiling and shouted softly in the darkness, but no one responded to her.
She raised her voice but still did not respond.
She remembered that twenty years ago, the master and apprentice were lying together and talking at night.
Zhou Muqing was not old at that time, and she had not grown up yet.
‘Teacher, they said I don’t have parents.’
‘The master doesn’t have it either. What’s the matter? Do you ask them if they have a master?’
‘They don’t.’
‘That’s all.’
Zhou Xiaotian closed his eyes, and two lines of clear tears slid down his face, wetting the pillow.
Now she has no master, she is the only one left.
Zhou Xiaotian covered his mouth and curled up.
She did not cry when Zhou Muqing left, and she did not cry when she helped Zhou Muqing handle the funeral.
Three months after Zhou Muqing's death, Zhou Xiaotian cried bitterly in the middle of the night.
She really has no master.
It turned out that it would take a long time before she realized this. From then on, no one touched her hair and whispered to her for the rest of her life.
Life is like floating, death is like rest.
The woman with a straight body and a firm step will never be seen again.
Chapter completed!