Chapter 54
“We don’t have a chance anymore.”
One sentence, ten words, this is Shen Xinrui to Lai Yuanhang’s answer.
Li Yuanhang silent for a long time, and finally let go of her back to the sky and laughed, laugh pale as if in the autumn leaves helplessly leave the branches of the leaves, drifting with the wind, I do not know where is the place to return. Shen Xinrui looked at him, clenched his teeth and turned to run into the room, tears flowing freely.
This is really the end?
No, not, Li Yuanhang did not leave, he still stayed in XX village, as in the past, in Shen Xinrui’s flower cultivation to help.
Like a silent guardian, or a stubborn insistence, Li Yuanhang chose to stay quietly in the place closest to Shen Xinrui.
The farther away you are from me, the closer the pain is to me.
Li Yuanhang did not want to leave Shen Xinrui again, even if there is no more opportunity, he wants to stay by her side all the time. He believes that he can endure, can endure like when doing the mission, even if he sees the happiness that belongs to him given to someone else, he can endure and no longer go to take it by force, but like Mu Yunsheng, silent and quiet guardianship.
To think deeper, indeed, Mu Yunsheng paid a lot, not only Shen Xinrui owed him, he Li Yuanhang also owed him.
In his absence, he protected Xinrui for him, loved the child, played the role of husband and father.
Li Yuanhang understood that he was not qualified to accuse Shen Xinrui of choosing Mu Yunsheng in order to make amends. The deficit is heavier than the lack of love.
Right now, he just wanted to quietly stay by Shen Xinrui’s side, and if she took care of Mu Yunsheng, he would take care of her. There is no need to determine any relationship anymore, there is no need for any proof to prove it, both of them hold a common idea, that is to take good care of the one they owe, and for the rest of their lives, live peacefully and quietly.
Experienced too much, Lai Yuanhang steeply feel that their death grip may not be the right, perhaps like Mu Yunsheng, do not ask for return quietly guarded in the love of the people around, is the best way.
If you love someone, it’s good that the other person is happy.
Shen Xinrui originally thought that Li Yuanhang would leave, or take extreme ways to force her, did not expect him to do both, only very calm to stay by her side, quietly do something for her.
The days passed are considered calm, all people get along harmoniously. Shen Xinrui thought, perhaps this peaceful life after the rest of the life is also good, love her people and the people she loves are around.
One day, the weather is excellent, the sun hanging high in the sky. Shen Xinrui thought of lifting the blankets and mats covering the shed, so that the flowers could bask in the sun and absorb the real sunlight, rather than artificial daylight.
Once the boss’s wife gave the order, the employees started working. With Xiao Zhou watching, Shen Xinrui was naturally relieved, so she didn’t follow her out to keep an eye on them, and Lai Yuanhang didn’t go out either, but stayed by her side.
Outside the people are working feverishly pulling blankets and straw woven mats and so on, Shen Xinrui moved to the ladder, climbed up to check out the plants that like a dry living environment, they are usually hanging in the shed half empty.
Lai Yuanhang stood next to the ladder to support, see Shen Xinrui climbed to the highest point, can not help but voice: “You be careful, or I’ll come.”
“No need.” Shen Xinrui smiled and reached out to check the leaves of those flowers, “I’m used to doing this, I’ll be fine.”
“Don’t be careless, you’ve had this problem since you were a kid.” Lai Yuanhang frowned in dissatisfaction. He still remembered that when he was a child, Shen Xinrui would often do the wrong thing because of carelessness, and often got hurt because she was too careless to take danger seriously. He never wanted to see her get hurt again, not at all.
Just as he was thinking, the shed suddenly issued a “creak creak” sound, used to build the planks suddenly broke off, straight down to the ground. Shen Xinrui and Li Yuanhang were shocked, before they had time to react, the shed suddenly shook a few times, followed by a big hole in the center, and a person with a large pile of blankets fell down from above.
“Ah!” Shen Xinrui was so shocked that she was unsteady, and her body fell down with a swish. Seeing this, Li Yuanhang quickly pounced over to catch her, and the two of them fell into a pile of flower pots together.
Li Yuanhang held Shen Xinrui with palpitations in his heart, and after a second, he returned to his senses and yelled at her, “Damn, is it so dangerous to plant a flower?”
Shen Xinrui’s ears buzzed from the yelling, and subconsciously replied, “This is nothing! A few years ago when I was still in my hometown Z city, once the hanging heat lamp came loose and the lamp fell down, directly smashing into the flower stand on one side, and a few pieces of debris even stabbed into the inside of my thighs! Luckily, Yunsheng helped me deal with it urgently that time, otherwise I would have died of hemorrhaging.”
Hearing Shen Xinrui’s words, Lai Yuanhang froze, and then asked, “You dealt with it on the grass in the middle of the flower garden? There was a trillium on the side?”
“Yes, how did you know?” Shen Xinrui looked at Li Yuanhang strangely. That day, she was so lost in thought because of him that she only came back to her senses when the lamp fell and hurt her. Because the shards were stuck too deep, she cried out in pain, just as Mu Yunsheng was looking at the trillium on one side, so he let her lie down on the grass and helped her with some more emergency treatment. When she entered the hospital and wanted to call Lai Yuanhang to tell him, she learned that he had already returned to the army, so she didn’t tell him about it.
This is such a small accident and coincidence, so that Li Yuanhang always thought that Shen Xinrui and Mu Yusheng had a relationship at that time, until now he realized that his rude and unreasonable out-of-context is how bad, both hurt Shen Xinrui and let himself suffer from suspicion and jealousy.
After the truth came out, Li Yuanhang also did not dare to tell Shen Xinrui about his suspicions, so he covered up and drank: “Planting flowers is also so dangerous! This occupation is not good, Shen Xinrui I order you to change it immediately!”
Shen Xinrui raised her hand to wipe away the dust on her face, and hearing Lai Yuanhang’s words, she couldn’t help but laugh softly, lying on his chest, she said, “You’re making too much of a fuss, this thing was an accident. It’s probably because the shed was built for too long, the wooden boards rotted because of the humidity, and when they went up to uncover the blanket, they accidentally stepped on it and broke it. This is good, I’ve long wanted to replace the entire frame of the shed with one made of stainless steel.”
“Shen Xinrui!” Li Yuanhang shouted angrily, his two sword brows furrowed, he was about to be infuriated by this little ninny in his arms who didn’t take his safety seriously.
Seeing that Lai Yuanhang really got angry, Shen Xinrui busily raised her hands in surrender and said, “Okay, I know, I’ll be careful in the future, it’s okay.”
“Change your occupation.” Lai Yuanhang frowned and helped her again, the two of them got up together.
“Stop it, Lai Yuanhang, I like this profession, and as I said, what happened today was an accident. There are a lot of accidents in life that can’t be avoided, we should accept them with equanimity and then think of ways to solve them, it’s impossible to beat a retreat every time we encounter them.” Shen Xinrui patted the dust on her body, then raised her head and looked at Li Yuanhang: “Yuanhang I found that you’re getting more and more sufferers and not moving forward ah, when you were a soldier in the past, you encountered difficulties surely I’m much more of these.”
“That’s different!” Lai Yuanhang spit out the dust in his mouth, angrily low drink, at the end, twisted his face to the side, muffled: “At that time how difficult I do not care, because you are not around, do not have to bear. I’m not afraid of anything, I’m afraid that something will happen to you.”
“…… “Shen Xinrui was silent, she is still a little unaccustomed to Lai Yuanhang’s so direct confession, after all, in the past he didn’t say anything, all the feelings were hidden so well.
Shen Xinrui didn’t answer, and Li Yuanhang didn’t open his mouth again, just as the atmosphere began to be awkward, the employee who fell down over there had already climbed out of the blanket, and was busy anxiously running to the two of them.
“Boss’s wife, Boss Li, are you guys okay?”
Li Yuanhang didn’t say anything, Shen Xinrui smiled and shook her head, “We’re fine.” And asked, “How are you, are you hurt?”
The employee waved his hand, “I’m fine, don’t worry, boss lady! It’s just that this shed needs to be rebuilt, and it can’t be made of wood anymore, it’s stronger with stainless steel pipes.”
“Well, I know, you quickly go out and give everyone a peace report, the people outside must be anxious.” Shen Xinrui nodded.
“Good.” The employee complied and went outside.
When the employee left, Shen Xinrui turned back and realized that Lai Yuanhang was still sulking there, so she pursed her lips in amusement and walked over.
“I know you’re worried about me.” She looked at him with a smile and spoke in a low voice, “Aren’t you there? As long as you’re there, I’m not afraid of anything.”
Lai Yuanhang was stunned and quickly looked up, looking at Shen Xinrui’s smiling face, he couldn’t help but reach out and tug her into his arms.
His chin rested on her head, and his hands tightly strangled her body.
Shen Xinrui hesitated for a second, but finally reached out and slowly encircled his waist, burying herself in his warm embrace.
The shed that had an accident was quickly demolished and replaced with a new cultivation room made of stainless steel. This time not only all replaced with stainless steel, but also made two new shed.
Completion day, Shen Xinrui fussed to buy firecrackers to celebrate, and pulled a whole car of vegetables and fruits and chickens, ducks, fish and meat, please the village up and down to eat and drink a big meal.
On that day, everyone ate, drank, sang and danced, and had a great time, even Mu Yusheng, who always liked to be quiet, was present, and his increasingly pale cheeks were colored with a hint of warmth.
Speaking of Mu Yunsheng, I have to say, his body seems to be out of order, the injuries he suffered before have not been well, and I don’t know why. Shen Xinrui was very anxious and took him to several hospitals, but the doctors all said that as long as he recuperated, he would slowly get better, and only after hearing this did she feel a little more at ease.
Mu Yunsheng was still in the same faint manner, not too concerned about his own body, and only comforted Shen Xinrui that it was fine. He explained that it was probably because he had been living with taut nerves in the past, and now that he had relaxed, his body was not adapting for a while.
To Mu Yunsheng’s words, Shen Xinrui didn’t quite agree, but the doctors all said that as long as he recuperated, he would be fine, so she didn’t have any doubts, and every day, she bought a whole bunch of supplements for him to eat, just to get his body well quickly.
Peaceful life continues, the cold winter unknowingly left, the warmth of early spring with light footsteps slowly come.
It is the beginning of spring, the weather is gradually warming up, and the lingering spring rains are coming.
The right amount of rain can moisturize the flowers that have suffered through the winter in the greenhouses, but again, if there is too much rain, it will flood into a disaster. Therefore, Shen Xinrui had to make preparations in advance, moving some of the more delicate flowers to higher huts and doing a good job of waterproofing them.
XX Village was at a low elevation, surrounded by mountains on all sides. Whenever the rainy season came, the rainwater from the several nearby mountains would always flow into the river from high to low, and at that point, the river would suddenly surge, and in serious cases, flooding would occur. Luckily, though, there hadn’t been any major floods in the past few decades, and at best, the water’s shoreline soared.
“Rumble, rumble–”
Spring thunder rolled through the dark clouds in the sky, and bean-sized raindrops immediately descended, and in just a few moments, XX Village was covered in a majestic downpour.
Rain is too big, the trees can not absorb the flow of the terrain to the small river, the water level of the small river instantly soared, a head to the big river. Seeing the water level of the big river rising higher and higher, to Shen Xinrui occasionally live in the cabin are drowned in half, the villagers have to bring their valuables to move to the higher half of the mountainside.
Shen Xinrui was a little worried, her shed was built against the river, although she had made preparations before, there were still quite a few flowers left in the shed. Look at this situation, I am afraid that the shed will also be flooded, the loss must not be light.
Seemingly sensing Shen Xinrui’s worry, Mu Yunsheng, who was sitting in a wheelchair beside her, reached out and groped for her hand, gently calling out, “Xinrui ……”
“Hm? Yunsheng, what’s wrong?” Shen Xinrui returned to her senses and turned to squat down. She raised her hand to touch Mu Yunsheng’s face, and when it was cold to the touch, she frowned and said, “Yunsheng, why is your face and hand so cold, is it uncomfortable?”
Mu Yunsheng shook his head and was about to open his mouth when a mournful scream suddenly rang out of thin air.
“Ah …… Xiao Luzi!!!”
As soon as the scream rang out, the crowd followed the sound and looked for half a day, and found that in the rain curtain in the distance, there was a woman in a red floral dress squatting by the ridge and screaming, and there, the river had flooded up.
“What’s going on?”
“Quickly, quickly, send a few stout backwoodsmen over to take a look!”
“Did someone fall into the water?”
The people were talking and discussing, Shen Xinrui also worriedly stood up and looked over there, Lai Yuanhang was even frowning tightly, his eyes locked on the accident side. Suddenly, like a panther, he jumped down the hill and rolled on the ground a few times, then climbed up and rushed over there.
Seeing Li Yuanhang rushing down the hillside, Shen Xinrui let go of Mu Yusheng’s hand without thinking and chased after him, “Li Yuanhang, where are you going?”
Mu Yunsheng subconsciously curled his fingers, only slowly dropping them when he realized that his hand was already empty.
On the other side, when Lai Yuanhang rushed to the woman’s side, he found a little boy around seven or eight years old and a calf swept down below by the flood, a few bushes following them.
“Xiao Luzi! Little Luzi!!!” The woman cried by Tian Geng, the floodwaters had already drowned half of her waist. Seeing this situation, Li Yuanhang immediate decision, one hand pulled up her to send to safety.
After bringing the woman to safety, Lai Yuanhang wiped the rainwater off his face and yelled at her, “Don’t be anxious, go to the hillside side, it’s safer there, your child I will save him, don’t worry!”
After saying that, Lai Yuanhang turned around and jumped into the water, then strained his hands to swim towards the little boy.
When Shen Xinrui arrived, Li Yuanhang had already swam to the little boy’s side, and she nervously twisted her hands, not daring to make a sound for fear that she would distract him with her voice.
“With a crash, several waves struck towards Li Yuanhang, and under the impact of the waves, he was forced to sink into the water. Shen Xinrui watched with fear and trepidation, wishing to grow wings and fly over to help him, praying in her heart that he would be safe.
The current is too fast, and from time to time there are still debris floating down from the upper reaches, Li Yuanhang action is very strenuous. Fortunately, he had received special forces training, and his physical and mental qualities were relatively good, so he would not get lost in the flood and rain curtains.
In the LiYuanHang reach out to the little boy where the bush, a wood suddenly from along the flood fast fall, he afraid of wood hurt the child, then use his body to block.
“ping”, the wood knocked heavily on the body of Li Yuanhang, with his block, the little boy did not hurt, the wood was also turned a corner and floated away.
This scene to see Shen Xinrui heart jumping, almost screamed out, she was biting her fist to hold back, but the next second, Li Yuanhang suddenly disappeared in the river surface ……