The Cliff of Eternal Sun

Chapter 30

The next morning Wei Mu got up early, but still didn't go to the bench again.

Aunt Lin came over by bicycle at around eight o'clock. When she entered the store, she saw that the windows and counters were clean and bright. Three steamed buns were handed to Wei Mu, which she had specially set aside for Wei Mu when she was cooking at home in the morning.

There is not much work in the store, and the occasional customers who come in are entertained by Wei Mu. After a few days, he has become very proficient in doing these things. Aunt Lin is sitting at the counter, continuing to knit her sweater, smiling slightly and occasionally raising her eyes. Wei Mu, looking at it, she seemed to suddenly remember something, and the smile on her mouth faded.

After the customer left, Wei Mu poured a glass of water and put it on the table in front of Aunt Lin. Aunt Lin took a look, raised her head and smiled at Wei Mu, motioning for him to sit down on the chair beside her: "Sit."

Wei Mu pulled the chair over and sat down with his arms around the back of the chair, quietly watching Aunt Lin knitting the sweater.After a while, the sewing stick in Aunt Lin's hand stopped, and she suddenly asked, "Are you going to leave?"

Wei Mu lay on the back of the chair, was silent for a moment, then shook his head, and said softly, "I don't need a salary."

"Stupid boy." Aunt Lin said, her tone sounded a little annoyed, but also a little helpless, and she said it again, "What a fool, I don't know how I got into such a good university."

Wei Mu didn't feel angry when he was said to be stupid. Instead, there was an unspeakable irony in his heart. Liang Yan had never spoken of him in this tone before.

"It's not that I don't want you to stay here. I'm usually alone, and it's nice to have you by my side." Aunt Lin said, "But you're only so old, so you have to think about yourself. Do you want to be like this all the time? No matter how good a person is, it’s not worth such a toss, and everyone has their own life, why are you still guarding here?"

Wei Mu knew that Aunt Lin had good intentions, and what she said was right. Over the past few days, all he had received from Ji Suian was humiliation and rejection, but he was not afraid of these things. What made him desperate was that he did not Can see any glimmer of hope that it might be possible to return to the life he remembers.

"I don't know." Wei Mu looked at the shadow cast by the chair in the sunlight, and said in a difficult voice, "But I can't walk, I can't..."

He couldn't go on anymore, seeing him like this, Aunt Lin wanted to scold him a few more "stupid boy", but a soreness welled up in her heart, she sighed, and said, "Okay, let's start now." Don't talk about it, you can stay as long as you want."

At the end of a row of needles, Aunt Lin took out the sweater stick and changed it again.After a few days, Mickey on the front of the sweater has finally finished knitting most of it, leaving only the second half of the pointy face and the smiling mouth.The soft wool shuttled nimbly between the needle stick and Aunt Lin's fingers, and a row of knots was woven smoothly. Seeing Wei Mu watching, Aunt Lin smiled and said, "If you don't mind, when the weather gets cold, I'll knit one for you too."

Wei Mu also smiled, and called out, "Aunt Lin."

"Ok?"

"Why do you knit so many sweaters?"

When Aunt Lin was looking for a suit for him earlier, Wei Mu had seen neatly stacked sweaters in the cabinet. There were at least ten or twenty sweaters, and they all looked like no one had worn them.And it's summer now, it's getting hotter every day, and it's not the time to be in a hurry to put on sweaters, but Aunt Lin seems to be just circling around these sweaters every day.Although Wei Mu had doubts in his heart before, he was too embarrassed to ask. Today, perhaps because Aunt Lin asked about him first, he was bewitched by such an intimate and relaxed atmosphere, and unconsciously relaxed.

The sweater needle in Aunt Lin's hand stopped, and then moved again after a while. She didn't look up, but said vaguely: "It's just for fun."

Before Wei Mu could speak again, she ordered: "The weather outside is so nice, you can move those cabinets in the storage room out to dry, and put the things inside out to dry."

This job is not too small, Wei Mu immediately got up to do it, and the two of them stopped talking about the sweater.

Unexpectedly, it was still a sunny day in the morning, and the sun was shining brightly above the head. At around three o'clock in the afternoon, the wind suddenly blew up, and the wind came very fast. But in a short while, the whole street was full of flying sand and rocks, and the clouds were densely pressed up, no one could react. In the strong wind, raindrops fell, and the ground immediately seemed to be sprinkled with countless dense copper coins. In the blink of an eye, the street was already like water. Note, the whole world fell into a coma.

The wind and rain came unexpectedly, Wei Mu didn't bother to open the umbrella, and ran to the house twice to carry his things, his whole body was already soaked before he finished moving.Aunt Lin walked out quickly from the storage room, and stuffed a large plastic sheet that she had just found out to Wei Mu: "Don't move it in, cover it with a plastic sheet first, and wait until the rain stops."

Wei Mu responded, and hurried out of the store with the plastic sheet. Aunt Lin picked up the umbrella behind the door and opened it to follow him, helping him hold it.It was raining heavily, and the plastic sheet was blown into a mess before it could be unfolded. Wei Mu grabbed it with difficulty, pressed a corner under the cabinet, and shouted at Aunt Lin: "Aunt Lin, you Don't stay here, go to the house first."

Aunt Lin refused, and worked hard to hold the umbrella for the two of them with one hand, and helped Wei Mu pull the plastic sheet with the other hand. In just two or three minutes, the surrounding area was covered with water, and the trees more than ten meters away They were all obscured by the rain and fog, and the people on the street seemed to have been blown away by a gust of wind at the beginning. There were few people in the originally lively street.

After finally pressing the four corners, before Wei Mu had time to breathe a sigh of relief, he raised his head and called "Aunt Lin" to take the umbrella from her, when Aunt Lin turned her head and stared at it firmly. A man walked past them with an umbrella.

Wei Mu asked strangely, "Aunt Lin?"

He didn't hear Aunt Lin's answer, but saw her suddenly running into the rain and chasing after her.The man was walking very fast, and the rain was pouring heavily, but he had already walked a long way in ten seconds. The umbrella in Aunt Lin's hand was blown up by the strong wind after a few steps, and it was blown over to the side bushes. In the bushes, the rain poured down in an instant, but she didn't seem to realize it at all, and just ran forward after the man.The rain swallowed most of her voice, Wei Mu could only hear a few vague "wait a minute" and someone's name, but this voice could not penetrate the thick rain curtain and reach the people in front go.

The wind and rain staggered her, and she looked so thin and thin in front of the violent nature.

The accident happened so suddenly that Wei Mu didn't have time to think, and ran after Aunt Lin into the rain, shouting, "Aunt Lin, Aunt Lin, what are you doing?"

Before he could catch up, he saw the person in front tripped hard and fell to the ground.

Wei Mu rushed to Aunt Lin, trying to help her up, but Aunt Lin struggled to push her away.Her hair was disheveled, her former elegance and indifference were all gone, she pushed Wei Mu forward forcefully, her voice in the rain was hoarse and trembling, as if she had used all her strength in her life: "Go, go, catch up he……"