三三 23 · Stiff neck

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Twenty Chapter 3: Stiff Neck

It was already night when the two of them went back. After leaving the train station, they had to transfer to several subway trains. There is an overpass outside Yingying's community, perhaps because it is close to a shopping mall. The overpass is covered with colorful lights. Looking from a distance, the colorful light strips seem to be flowing down from the bridge.

Sometimes during dates, Yingying would wait for him here. Whenever night came, he would send Yingying back. The colorful lights would suddenly start flashing irregularly. If they met, He would happily run onto the overpass and stand there for a long time, unwilling to leave.

The two got out of the subway, crossed a sidewalk, and walked to the overpass. Perhaps it’s because of the high daytime temperatures in summer, but at night, the slightest bit of cool breeze can feel biting.

The two of them stood on the bridge. The lights on the overpass were not on today and it was a little dark around them. He stood on the overpass and looked at the cars coming and going under the bridge, and murmured: "It's so familiar!"

"What's familiar? Are you thinking of your ex-girlfriend?" Yingying joked.

A gust of wind blew, and his body couldn't help trembling, and then he burst into laughter along with Yingying.

The most important thing before the wedding is the wedding photos. The wedding photos are scheduled to be taken in autumn. It was the same time as when we met him. The air was a bit cold. Walking along the road where Yingying went to work, the maple leaves began to change again. Yingying likes this very much because she lives downwards.

Yingying likes trees very much, even an unknown trail. No matter whether the road is covered with uneven cement slabs, even if she steps on it, the slippery wet mud will be shaken off. to the thighs. As long as there are trees on both sides of the road, and when the leaves are in full bloom, at a glance, the path looks like a long tunnel, and Yingying can happily stay under the trees for an afternoon.

When taking wedding photos, Yingying hardly chose the style of the wedding dress. Instead, she was very concerned about the shooting location. She didn't follow the bridal shop's advice to go to a beach or a castle. Instead, she chose a maple forest and took pictures while the leaves were falling.

The leaves were a little stiff, and she could hear the "squeak, squeak" sound of the leaves splitting when she stepped on them. The sound made her feel comfortable and made her feel like she was integrated with the forest. She was running wildly in front of her with her heavy wedding dress. This was probably the happiest time she had had in recent years. The smile on her face didn't stop for the whole day.

The photographer was a little tired. When taking wedding photos in the past, most couples would get tired in advance, and no one wanted to make themselves panic at such an important moment, so most of them stood still Somewhere quietly at the mercy of the photographer. But today, this person was the only one running through the woods with her wedding dress, and the photos were all dynamic, making the photographer keep chasing after her.

Yingying agreed to marry him without knowing what was going on, and he didn't even propose. But thinking about it carefully, it was not decided in a moment of heat and panic. Perhaps Yingying was waiting for this sentence, waiting for him to excitedly jump in front of her one day, put on the proposal scene that she had prepared for a long time and say that Say "Let's get married", so that Yingying can excitedly hold his hand and tell him that she is waiting for his words, and maybe even hug him and kiss him excitedly. After all, no girl is willing to refuse this formal way of expressing love.

But he was not excited when he said it, and was even a little shy. He just said it while holding a glass of water and lowering his head. And Yingying just took a sip of water and agreed with a gentle "hmm". There were no flowers, no applause, and no kisses.

But Yingying felt very satisfied, because at that moment it was as if there were only two of them in the whole world. In this world of only two people, he loved herself.

He is a good talker, but he will never quarrel. Whenever he is angry, his face will turn red at most, but he can't say anything, especially when there are only two of them together. Sometimes, he talks less. In the year since their relationship was established, the two of them had not had any quarrels. Sometimes Yingying would even deliberately anger him just to see his face turned red from suppressing it, and then she would say: "I...I Stop talking!"

Every time at this time, Yingying would laugh non-stop. He knew that Yingying was lying to him, so he became even more speechless and blushed even more.

The wedding was scheduled for spring, and the temperature seemed to be chilly and unsuitable for the wedding. A week before the wedding, the two made an appointment to have dinner together at their favorite hotpot restaurant.

That night, Yingying got off work a little late because of work. It was already after eight o'clock in the evening when the two of them arrived at the hot pot restaurant. The hotel was already crowded with guests, and the front desk led the two of them to the waiting area to wait.

"I'm ready to resign." Yingying suddenly said.

He turned to her and quickly put his hands on his neck and asked, "What did you say?"

Yingying stretched out her hand to explore his neck and asked, "What's wrong with your neck?" ?"

"It's okay, what did you just say?" He put down his hand and asked again.

"I'm going to resign. I don't want to be a psychiatrist anymore." Yingying answered.

This was not to test whether he would say something like, "Just resign, if you can't find a job, I'll support you." Yingying knew that he couldn't say those things.

"I just don't want to be in this profession anymore. I want to relax and write something. I'm currently submitting articles to a magazine." Yingying continued.

"Okay, do you want to switch to writing?" he asked.

"That's not true. You have to starve yourself to death by writing." Yingying joked with a smile.

He nodded, then turned his head as if he suddenly realized something: "You didn't resign because of your marriage, right?"

"I just wanted to take a rest recently. , I accept so many people's negative emotions every day, and it seems that they are all accumulated in my mind. I have to spend some time cleaning them up." Yingying was amused by his nervousness, and she pointed at his neck and asked. , "Now tell me what's wrong with your neck?"

He rubbed it vigorously and said, "It's just a stiff neck while sleeping. I don't dare to turn my head. It hurts when I turn my head."

The waiter came over and said to the two of them: "There are seats available. Come with me."

The two of them quickly stood up and walked forward. Yingying walked on his left and said, "You have a funny neck, but you have a stiff neck at this time."

He didn't understand, turned sideways to Yingying, and turned her head straight along with her. Come over, all the joints in the body seemed to be screwed up and unable to move, like a robot that had not yet been debugged. Yingying was amused by him and hurriedly pulled him and said: "You don't have to turn your head, just keep an eye on the road." "

He then turned around and asked, "What did you mean by that?"

Yingying held his arm: "Look. Isn’t this the case? People’s life is like walking on a one-way street that keeps going forward. Everything they have done and the people they have met are left behind. Because it is a one-way street, you can’t turn around and go back. You can only think about it. When you get up, you turn your head and look back at the past, the person you used to be. Now you are about to get married, and you have a stiff neck. This is not to prevent you from looking back, but to physically stop you from missing you. Isn’t it fun to have the possibility of being an old friend?”

The two sat down and ordered the pot, selected the vegetables and meat, and handed it to the waiter. He still straightened his neck, and after listening to Yingying's words, he said: "According to this statement, everyone in this world is like a pillow, and they don't dare to look back on the past. Even if they look back, Choose the one you want and go see it."

Yingying originally just wanted to make a joke with him, but she didn't expect him to answer seriously, and she was immediately made to laugh non-stop. After laughing, he asked, "What happens next?"

He frowned, turned his head vigorously and said, "I'm not sure whether this is a good thing or not. Every time I turn my head, the pain increases." It will increase by one point, and those memories will increase the pain by two points. In this way, it is indeed fundamentally cut off." Yingying kept laughing, and she couldn't say why, maybe it was his. His seriousness made him laugh. Just as the waiter brought the bottom of the pot, the two of them hurriedly started eating.

It was already after nine o'clock when he came out of the hotel. When he sent Yingying home, Yingying's parents were still watching TV in the living room. When they saw him coming, they quickly and enthusiastically asked him to sit down. , Yingying turned around and entered her bedroom.

Soon, Yingying called him in the bedroom, and he quickly ran into the bedroom. Yingying held a bottle of medicine in her hand and said to him: "Sit down."

He turned to the chair next to the desk and sat down. Yingying picked up the medicine and sprayed it on his neck. When sprayed, the medicine felt a little cold, and he shuddered unconsciously. Yingying reached out to help him rub out the medicine, and while rubbing it, she said, "Look, I have medicine here to help you look back." He laughed.

The wedding was held as scheduled a week later. The location was set on the open-air lawn of a hotel. After exiting the hotel door, you had to walk through a long corridor made of solid wood. The wood in the corridor was covered with The vines turn around a fountain with Cupid on the top and there is a long red carpet.

He stood at the end of the red carpet, holding a bouquet of flowers in his hand. He was wearing a dark blue suit. The suit fit well, and he was paired with a lined white shirt and a plaid tie. His slender body looked a bit straighter, and the leather shoes on his feet were polished to a shiny finish.

He just stood there looking straight ahead, smiling happily with his teeth exposed.

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