As soon as arrived at the hospital, heard that Xie Lihua woke up.

Although she is awake, she is still very weak, but she no longer needs to wear a ventilator.Standing outside the transparent window of the ward, Bao Le looked at the murderer who was obediently accepting the police's questioning inside, and suddenly felt sad—it was this woman who killed so many people and ruined so many families.But she is also the mother of her savior, and the biggest victim of the tragedy sixteen years ago.

But all of this needn’t have been the case, if Zhang Jian accidentally injured Zhu Yan and didn’t choose to run away; if the “friends” who were present at the time were willing to send her to the hospital;The truth; if Niannian took the initiative to tell what she saw at that time; if... Xie Lihua had someone around her who could give her a hand when she went astray.

Bao Le took a deep breath, resisting the desire to cry, put his hands in his pockets, leaned against the window with his back, and looked up at the flickering chandelier in the hospital corridor.

Han Ziyang came out of Xie Lihua's ward and was taken aback when he saw her.

The little girl asked softly, "Has she pleaded guilty?"

"admit."

Team leader Han handed over the evidence bag in his hand. There was a recording pen in it. Bao Le pressed the play button. She didn't understand what it was until the content of the recording sounded.At the beginning of the recording, Zhu Yan and Xie Lihua were discussing what to eat for dinner, and then Zhu Yan entered the gymnasium and found Zhang Jian being beaten on the ground. Shocked, she put the phone she was talking in into her bag, butForgot to press the hang up button.

Everything that happened afterwards was exactly the same as what Bao Le said.

So this is a recording of a phone call that has been kept for sixteen years.

Xie Lihua heard her daughter's panicked voice, but no matter how she called, Zhu Yan did not answer, so in a hurry, she recorded the call, so the whole process of the crime happened to be recorded.Hearing everyone's panicked voices, she knew that something had happened. At first she didn't know that it was her daughter who had the problem. Later, when she realized it, she only heard footsteps that got farther and farther away and fled in a hurry.

Then because the phone ran out of battery, Xie Lihua completely lost news of her daughter.

On that rainy summer night, except Bao Le's parents were looking for their eight-year-old daughter.And Xie Lihua, a helpless single mother, traveled all over the school and every corner where her daughter might go, endlessly looking for Zhu Yan's whereabouts.At that time, she was also accompanied by Guan Shuping, a young and righteous policeman from Beijing Comprehensive High School.

Until dawn, they finally found someone.

Han Ziyang sighed, rubbed his temples and said: "When the doctor examined Xie Lihua, she found a tumor in her brain. It was malignant and it was already at an advanced stage. There was still the last month at most. Mr. Xie guessed that it might beIt’s because of her frequent use of ‘Heavenly Blessing’. Think about it, if a person can pause time and then turn it back, it’s too buggy for other ordinary people, so the sequelae are normal.”

Bao Le's heart suddenly sank, remembering that Xie Huai used the gift of heaven twice in a row because he saved her.

Han Ziyang saw through what she was worried about at a glance: "Xie Youan is fine, after all, he is not as desperate as this one. It's just that his poisoning is a little deeper than Xie Lihua's, so he hasn't woken up yet."

The little girl breathed a sigh of relief.

"Jiang Baole," Team Leader Han called out her name tiredly, and then murmured as if talking to himself, "You said the case was finally solved, but why don't you feel happy at all?"

Bao Le thought for a long time before seriously answering: "Maybe this is the weight of the truth, but luckily because so many people have been working hard, it is not too late for the truth to come."

...

Xie Lihua's case has entered the normal judicial process, and there is nothing to worry about in the future.

Bao Le sat in front of Xie Huai's hospital bed, honing his apple peeling skills very seriously and hard.If Xie Huai hadn't woken up before the apples were completely oxidized, these apples would have entered her stomach, and the little girl would continue thinking about peeling another one.If Comrade Old Han knew that this girl took care of his brother when he was busy with work, he would be so angry that he would drive him away.

But the little girl can't do anything about it, Xie Huai won't wake up for a long time, so many colleagues, friends and seniors came to see him, one of them came to give a basket of apples, and if she didn't help digest some of them, there would be no piles in this ward.

Twisting, she remembered what Shen Wangyan said to her in the ghost market before.

He said that if he wanted to save Xie Huai, he didn't need to ask for help, she had the ability herself.She is the only person in the world who has the physique of Xi He. Although she has not received systematic training and does not know how to use the power of God, she has this foundation after all.

The so-called divine power is different from the power bestowed by heaven, not every family is the same. In summary, there are actually only two abilities: one is for creation and the other is for destruction.The creation and destruction of the world have always been the most powerful ability of the "god" species throughout the ages and across China and the West.

But Shen Wangyan didn't say in detail how she should use the ability of "creation" or "destruction" to awaken Xie Huai.

And does she really have the power of a god? Didn't the surname Shen fool her?While nibbling on the apple, the little girl thought hard, and finally simply threw the apple aside, and stared at Xie Huai on the hospital bed in a daze with her chin resting on her cheek.

Staring and staring, a voice suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the ward: "Are you studying whether it is more delicious to eat steamed or boiled?"

Bao Le said unhappily: "You know how to eat!"

"You don't know how to eat, so what are you thinking? Thinking about how to lay an egg for him?" Huoqiuqiu complained, "You haven't talked to me for several days, I want to eat roast chicken, roast chicken,fried chicken!"

The little girl was angry: "Why didn't I talk to you, don't you know? You eat or lay eggs all day long. I don't think you should be Bi Fang. You must be a weasel in reincarnation!"

Hearing her tone, Huoqiuqiu knew that she was really angry, and immediately changed the arrogant posture of the bird, and flattered her like a husky: "I know you are angry, but you can't just blame me.She is the mastermind who chanted it!"

Bao Le came back to his senses, and asked doubtfully, "Feng Yin? Where is Feng Yin?"

"We, Bi Fang, are actually distant relatives of the Phoenix family in terms of bloodlines. We have the ability to be reborn from the ashes. Whenever the old lord dies, we will return to the Fire God Temple, wait for the new lord to be born, and then be reborn from the ashes and return to the world.This process usually takes five years, so Feng Yin will appear in the world five years after you gave birth, and now she can only stay in the Fire God Temple."

After Huoqiuqiu finished speaking, he muttered: "So why don't you lay eggs, I'm so boring in the world by myself."

The little girl's fist hardened, but she would never really punch herself. Thinking about it, she said helplessly, "We humans are mammals, so we can't lay eggs!"

So girl, this is what you focus on?

"I want him to wake up, I want him to get better faster, Shen Wangyan said that I have the power of gods, this is not difficult for me... Huoqiuqiu, Wu Xianyang, do you know what I should do?"

Huoqiuqiu was stunned: "What do you call me?"

"Xianyang," Bao Le was puzzled, "Didn't they say that you are the prince of Bi Fangjie, what is your name Xianyang?"

Huoqiuqiu snorted: "You have been called Huoqiuqiu for so many years, what should you change now, Huoqiuqiu is so domineering, don't change it!"

"..."

Bao Le took a deep breath: "You don't want to talk anymore, believe it or not, I will pluck your hair and change your name from now on Bald Ball!"

The noble and arrogant divine bird suddenly changed from his usual ignorance, and beeped obediently and softly: "It's not like I won't say it, but isn't he already awake?"

The little girl raised her head in surprise, and she saw that Xie Huai's eyelids seemed to be rolled up, and even the eyeballs moved.Bao Le's first reaction was to ring the nurse's bell, but when she got up and was about to reach for the nurse's bell on Xie Huai's bedside, the old Qi of Xie's family who had just woken up suddenly stretched out her hand.

The big slender white hand was softly covering her little hand.

"Every year..."

She seemed to hear the other party calling herself that.

...

An inexplicable tear fell from her eyes, and then the world changed. By the time she realized it, she was already in the middle of the downtown street.Xie Huai's hospital bed, Xie Huai on the hospital bed, and the hand holding her all disappeared in an instant.

Bao Le looked down at himself, only to realize that he was not wearing the same clothes as before.White down jacket, beige trousers, brown snow boots, a furry scarf around her neck, and cute rabbit gloves on her hands. This outfit makes her look more like a student who is still in college.

In fact, when she saw her shoulder-length short hair from the reflective glass curtain wall, she understood something instantly.

There were people coming and going around, and the little girl was a little at a loss, but fortunately, the ringtone of the mobile phone saved her.It was a wechat call, and the friend on the top wechat opened it, and the note said "Don't make Xie Youan angry".

Bao Le pressed the call button a little amusedly. Just as the call was connected, there was a series of questions on the other end, and she didn't even have time to answer.

Xie Huai finally asked, "Where are you?"

In fact, she didn't know where she was. Before she received a call, she looked around and researched.After all, Kebaole is not a Beijinger. He only knows that this may be a pedestrian street surrounded by towering high-rise buildings and large shopping malls.

Xie Huai sighed: "Send me a location."

Twenty minutes later, the little girl was sitting on the edge of the flower bed, while dangling a pair of slender legs, she stretched her neck to look left and right.She didn't actually see the scene when Xie Huai walked towards her, but as soon as she turned her head, she was hugged into a warm embrace the next second.

"Niannian," Xie Huai's voice came from above his head, "I found you."

His heartbeat was ridiculously fast, and he was panting heavily even when he was talking, as if he had run all the way for the past twenty minutes.In order to rush to see her, he used all his strength.I'm afraid that if she is a second behind, she will disappear, and this beautiful dream will wake up.

"Where did you come from?" Bao Le held his cheeks and looked into his red eyes, as if he had just cried.

Xie Huai said with a smile: "From school, I have listened to half of Davis's lecture."

He took her hand, and the two walked side by side on the pedestrian street. Xie Huai, who was just in his early twenties, said with some fear: "You don't know that I fell asleep at Davis's lecture just now, and then had a nightmare, I dreamed that you were captured by bad guys, and I was so scared that I woke up immediately."

Bao Le snorted: "It's not that you have been rushing to catch up on your thesis recently. If you want me to say that studying law is too hard, why don't you transfer to the department to accompany me. You are so smart and have a good memory. You will definitely be able to learn our major with ease."

"I don't." Xie Huai took her hand and stood in front of her. "Lawyers make a lot of money to make you fat."

The little girl made a face at him, and said triumphantly: "Who wants you to raise, maybe I will raise you in the future, Xie Huai, let me tell you, you only have to be a house husband!"

Xie Huai froze for a moment, then smiled, rubbed the little girl's head with the hand that wasn't holding her, and tried to smooth the hair of the cat-like girl: "Then what should I do, I don't know how to cook."

Bao Le didn't believe that he couldn't cook.

"I want to eat braised fish in braised sauce," the little girl shook her head coquettishly, "Xie Huai, you can make me braised fish in braised sauce, okay~"

Xie Huai had no choice but to say, "It's not the reincarnation of a greedy cat."

Bao Le stuck out his tongue at him.

"But not today," Xie Huai raised his hand and glanced at his watch, "The shutter is disabled, I'll take you back to the dormitory."

Before he finished speaking, the hand that was holding each other was suddenly tightened by the other party.

Bao Le happily pointed to the sky, and said with a smile, "Xie Huai, Xie Huai, look, it's snowing!"

Yes, it's snowing.

...

The way back to the dormitory was so long, Bao Le kept talking in order not to reveal his secrets.She always feels that no matter which world she is in, she must be a talkative person in front of the person she likes, and she always wants to attract the other person's attention. If she doesn't say anything, she won't be like her.

They chatted from food to drink, and from photo stickers to birthday presents.She doesn't know much, if this continues, the topic will be over sooner or later.

When the gate of Beijing Comprehensive University appeared in sight, Bao Le finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The snowflakes falling from the sky quietly fell on her eyelashes.The little girl saw it and blinked, and the snowflakes fell from her eyelashes to the palm of her hand.Bao Le turned his head, breathed out a ball of white air, and asked Xie Huai with a smile: "Do you know what happens after snow melts?"

Xie Huai put his hands in his pockets, tilted his head and thought for a while and asked, "What is this, a brain teaser?"

The little girl who was asked thought about it, then nodded with her lips pouted: "That's right."

"It's water, it's H2O, it's a colorless, odorless, non-toxic liquid, it's..."

Bao Le interrupted him angrily: "Xie Huai, are you stupid! If the answer is so simple, would I ask you?"

Xie Huai smiled softly, and suddenly took his hand out of his pocket, and pulled her arm into his arms not far away.The distance between them suddenly broke through the safe distance in Bao Le's heart. Xie Huai looked at her seriously, bent slightly, and got closer and closer to her.

He should... want to kiss her.

As Jiang Baole's boyfriend, he has the qualifications, but unfortunately she is not his Jiang Baole.

But if she hides at this time, all the previous efforts will be wasted, and she has nothing to tell him in time.

Some nervous little girls closed their eyes, she didn't know if she should push him away, her palms felt hot and sweaty even wearing gloves.Time passed by every minute and every second, and at the end, she still raised her hand—she could lie to Xie Huai briefly that she was Niannian, which was a white lie, but she couldn't do this instead of Niannian, only NiannianOnly qualified to do.

Her hand was between the two of them, but Xie Huai didn't really kiss her.

He whispered in her ear: "It's spring."

"What?" Bao Le opened his eyes, but he didn't turn his head around for a moment.

Xie Huai took a step back, returned the safe distance to Bao Le, and shook his head: "That's a question in her favorite anime "fruitsbasket". I watched it with her. After the snow melts, it's spring, because the snowMelting means that winter is about to pass and spring will finally come.”

Bao Le froze for a moment and hesitated, "When did you..."

"It probably started when you called me Xie Huai. I may not have told you. If it was every year, you would only call me Xie Youan." Xie Huai looked at the night sky that had completely darkened and said softly, "At firstAt the time, I thought I had a nightmare, but now I realize that it turned out to be a good dream."

"I dreamed that I didn't finish the lecture, dreamed that I found her before the snowy night came, dreamed that I held her hand and walked with her on the street, dreamed that I finally sent her back to the dormitory."

Xie Huai sighed sadly: "Why do dreams always wake up?"

Bao Le stood on tiptoe, but the height difference between them was much different even if they stood on tiptoe, but Xie Huai lowered his head in cooperation.

She patted his head and said softly: "Xie Huai, everything is over, let the snow in this city melt, after waking up from the dream, it will be spring."

...

It turned out that the inexplicable tear at the beginning was not hers, but the tear from the corner of Xie Huai's eye.

The little girl stretched out her hand, caught the teardrop before it fell into the pillow, and at the same time rang the nurse's bell.

"Nurse, he seems to be awake."

Bao Le looked at Xie Huai with a smile, and Dr. Xie, who was wearing an oxygen mask, also smiled back.