Vollständiges Metamorphose-Handbuch

Kapitel 19

I keep urging the rain to stop, but the rain just won't stop.

An old shoe repairman sat under the eaves of a house on the street, looking at the plum blossoms with curious eyes.

There were no pedestrians on the empty street, only Hua Meizi stubbornly waiting for her missing A Dong, the A Dong who was now thousands of miles away and whose face was blurred.

She waited for him in the rain in front of the station for two days. She believed he would come, he would come, he would come...

Finally, she fell ill with a high fever.

That night, she kept talking nonsense without any logic...

On the morning of the third day, she got up again and braved the endless rain to go to the station to wait.

Her cold, thin body finally warmed up, becoming burning hot...

Those days, everyone was saying: "The sky is leaking."

Hua Meizi leaned against a tree by the roadside, forcing herself not to fall...

Finally, the old shoe repairman under the eaves packed up his stall and slowly pushed his cart over in the rain.

As he passed Hua Meizi, he stopped and said, "Child, are you waiting for a man?"

Hua Meizi nodded weakly.

The old man sighed and shook his head: "Don't wait anymore, go home, he won't come."

Hua Meizi looked helplessly at his weathered face.

After he finished speaking, he left. After taking a few steps, he turned back and said slowly, "Decades ago, I was just like you, waiting here for a woman. It rained endlessly, but she never came. Go home."

Soon after, Hua Meizi heard from another online friend that A Dong had already started dating another girl in the south.

The girl's father is the chairman of some kind of group.

Hua Meizi didn't know exactly how rich her family was; she only heard that her family had bought an island for A Dong.

In reality, what Hua Meizi did was meaningless. In reality, he knew perfectly well how deep Hua Meizi's love for him was; these things were not important.

These are not the important things!

Love is not just about two hearts; it includes many other things as well.

Or rather, love is made up of many other things, plus two hearts...

Upon hearing the news that night, Hua Meizi wrote in her diary while crying:

And that's how it ended...

We've known each other for so long, and I still don't even know what you look like...

But at least you've seen one of my photos.

If, many years later, we brush past each other in the vast sea of people, and you turn around and glance at me, at that moment, I will have a feeling of déjà vu...

After telling the story, Hua Meizi's face was covered in tears.

The person remained silent for a long time.

She took out a tissue and gently wiped away her tears. She suddenly realized that she shouldn't have told this story to a stranger, much less cried her eyes out.

The sun is fake (4)

Do you hate him?

"Hate. This hate is no longer the hate that is the opposite of love."

"If only you had called him back then..."

"Alas, it's all fate's arrangement."

He paused, then said softly, "Not all destinies are unchangeable, and not everything that is unchangeable is destiny."

A cool breeze blew by, and Hua Meizi heard the grass swaying and birds flapping their wings.

She forced a smile and said, "Don't I know how old you are?"

I am twenty-five years old.

This statement made Hua Meizi a little suspicious.

Hua Meizi is blind, but she is extremely sensitive to sound. It can be said that Hua Meizi has been interacting with his voice for the entire time she has been with him.

Hua Meizi felt that his voice didn't sound like that of a twenty-five-year-old, a thirty-year-old, or even a forty-year-old; it sounded like that of a man in his fifties.

Hua Meizi always felt that he was an old man, but she didn't dare to say it.

She suddenly tensed up: "I have to go."

"Let's stay a little longer?" he said again.

“I’ve been out long enough.”

"Alright then, goodbye."

Hua Meizi suddenly said, "Could you... take me back to the village?"

Hua Meizi wanted to use her aunt's eyes to see whether the person in the darkness was a young person or an old person.

“I’m sorry, I don’t want to go into the village…” he said.

Hua Meizi originally thought he would definitely not refuse.

She was a little embarrassed and said, "I'll come again tomorrow."

As Hua Meizi walked back to the village along the dirt road, she could still feel him watching her from behind.

Why didn't he go into the village?

For Hua Meizi, he was hidden in the darkness, never to be seen.

Crying Grass

After Hua Meizi had two private moments with Leo, she lowered her guard against him.

On this day, she came to the outskirts of the village again.

Unbeknownst to her, she had developed a dependence on the voice in the darkness.

Sure enough, she ran into him again.

Hua Meizi said to him, "If only I had met you a month ago!"

"Why?"

"At that time, I was still able to see you. I really wanted to see you, even just for a moment."

"When the sun rises, you will be able to see me."

"But the sun will never rise again..."

The person paused for a moment, then suddenly said, "Not necessarily."

Hua Meizi thought he was just saying something to comfort herself, and she smiled bitterly, not taking it to heart.

He continued, "I know an old traditional Chinese medicine doctor who died at over a hundred years old. He told me that there's a kind of grass around this village called the 'crying grass.' It's called the 'crying grass' because it produces dew on its own every morning, which is very strange..."

Hua Meizi listened quietly.

"Before he died, he told me a folk remedy—every morning at the moment when the sun is just rising red, wipe the blind man's eyes with the dew of the weeping grass for forty-nine days, and there is a one in ten thousand chance of regaining his sight. You must not stop, otherwise all your efforts will be in vain."

Hua Meizi felt that this folk remedy had nothing to do with medicine, but rather had the flavor of witchcraft.

She shivered.

"Would you like to try?" he asked her in the darkness.

Hua Meizi thought for a moment, then said hesitantly, "Is it true?"

"I don't know if you can stick with it?"

Hua Meizi nodded obediently without hesitation.

"Then I'll do this for you."

"But this will interfere with your work..."

"If a miracle really happens, then I will have made a great discovery."

For some reason, a sudden wave of sorrow washed over Hua Meizi; she felt as if she were making a fruitless struggle…

From then on, Hua Meizi came to the fields outside the village every morning to receive treatment.

Spring has just begun to bring greenery.

Hua Meizi became happier day by day, as if the light was truly drawing closer to her—even though she knew it was self-deception.

—If there were a person who knew he could never catch the sun, but kept running and running towards it, I think we wouldn't laugh at him.

That was a solemn matter.

Aunt saw him

Days passed by one by one.

That morning, Hua Meizi got up, washed up, and was about to go out.

Her aunt asked her from under the covers, "Hua Meizi, what do you do every morning?"

Hua Meizi hesitated for a moment and then said, "I'm going to exercise."

"You can't see, so be very careful and don't go too far."

"I see."

But that evening, after dinner, while her uncle was out, her aunt stroked Hua Meizi's hand and said, "Hua Meizi, I want to tell you something."

"What's up?"

"Your mother entrusted you to me, so I have to take responsibility for you, right?"

"What's wrong?"

"I'm going to ask you a few questions, and you have to tell your aunt the truth."

"I will."

What exactly do you do when you go out every morning?