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Chapter 68 "Always, No Way" Part Two

Xiaomei smiled and said to me: "You are here actually. I thought I would be waiting for you here for a long, long time."

I shook my head in confusion and asked again: "Where is this place?"

Xiaomei pointed to the other side of the bridge and said, "This may really be the underworld."

"Yes, I remembered it. If you die, so will I." I rubbed my head and thought.

"Everyone here has to cross the bridge and be reincarnated," Xiaomei said.

"Then why don't you go? To wait for me?" I asked doubtfully.

"Who else could it be if you weren't? Because I still want to be with you in my next life. So I'm waiting here. Some people can't wait and cross the river. But I'm so lucky, this is the first day I have you. It’s coming.” Xiaomei said.

I was thinking about what I had done before. The day Xiaomei left, I woke up and jumped off the building.

I turned to look at the other people waiting, and there was no expression on every face.

I walked up to a young man and said, "Brother, how long have you been waiting?"

The young man glanced at me, shook his head and said, "I can't remember, it must have been a few years. There is someone who remembers the time, and she has waited much longer than me."

I looked in the direction the young man pointed, and there squatted a woman covered in gray.

I walked slowly to her side, gently patted the ashes on her head and said, "I'm sorry, how long have you been waiting here?"

The woman looked at me and said, "46 years."

I said in shock: "How do you remember the time?"

The woman slowly moved her body away. On the tree behind her were traces carved by her bracelet.

The traces are divided into upper and lower sides, with stripes on the lower side and circles on the upper side.

Traces covered the surface of the entire tree, and I saw that the tree behind him was also covered with traces.

The woman said calmly: "One line is drawn every day, and 360 five lines are filled in a circle. There are 46 circles here, which means a full 46 years."

I looked at the marks on it and said, "Do you remember when you died?"

The woman pondered for a moment and said, "He died of leukemia at the age of 63. He should have been 66 by then."

"66 plus 46 are already 110 years old. Is he already dead and didn't see you crossing the river?" I said tremblingly.

The woman looked at me and said calmly: "Maybe."

I was surprised at first, then shocked.

I thought that if I said something like this, she would probably pounce on me and hit me the next second.

But she didn't do this. I was surprised and said, "Why are you so calm? What do you really think?"

The woman said calmly: "Twenty years ago, people passing by and people who couldn't hold on said what you said. In fact, I understood it very clearly. But I have been waiting. What can I do if he doesn't come? manage."

"Forgive me for talking too much, but if he is already dead and has passed by, is there any point in waiting? Or maybe he will be 110 years old next year. Not many people can survive this age." I said.

"No matter what happens, if he passes away, I will keep watching here. He will come back after he dies in the next life. I will wait for him here all the time. It would be great if I recognize him." The woman said lightly.

"Won't you admit your mistake?" I said.

The woman looked me in the eyes and said, "Will you forget your lover?"

I shook my head helplessly and said: "I said just in case, just in case he comes. You have been waiting for more than 100 years, and he doesn't recognize you at all."

"I'm not the oldest here. Ma Mian there said that there was a senior who waited for four reincarnations and 190 years to arrive." The woman said and smiled.

Xiaomei walked up behind me and grabbed my arm and said: "Sister Xiaoyu, please continue. I wish you success, let's go to reincarnation."

I watched the woman continue to stare at the crowd, her eyes glazed over, waiting.

Xiaomei pulled me slowly towards the bridge. Xiaomei stopped at the bridge and said, "Waiting for you is only the first step." "There are more later?" I said.

"After crossing this bridge, I will drink Meng Po soup. In order for you to recognize me, I can also recognize you. I have to do one more thing, something taught by my predecessors." Xiaomei said with a smile and squatted down.

I followed Xiaomei and squatted down. There were people's names wrapped in circles on the stones on the ground, and each name was in pairs.

Xiaomei bit off her finger fiercely, and drew a large circle on an unmarked stone with blood.

"This is it? Do I want to write my name on it?" I said lightly.

Xiaomei nodded and wrote on the right side with her finger: Chen Shimei.

And I bit my own finger and followed on the left: Qin Xianglian.

A red mark appeared on my right arm like it was on fire, and an identical mark appeared on Xiaomei's left hand.

I looked at the mark and said dumbfounded: "Is this one?"

"Yes, this is our mark. After being reincarnated together, we will be born together nearby. You must remember this when the time comes." Xiaomei said and pointed to my birthmark.

I nodded my head and Xiaomei pulled me across the bridge.

On a platform in the middle of the bridge, the old lady smiled and handed over a bowl of tea soup and said with a smile: "Drink, drink. Forget all the worries, all the love and hatred. Take another trip from the human world and experience the reincarnation of the world."

Xiaomei took the Meng Po soup and drank half of it. She handed the other half to me and said, "Half for you and half for me. This way we will feel that we are very familiar with each other."

The old lady looked at us and said with a smile: "What? Are you getting together with the right couple?"

Xiaomei nodded and said, "Grandma, can we really be together like this?"

The old lady nodded her head and said: "It has always been difficult to be in love with oneself deeply, but a shallow love will last forever."

"It's difficult for oneself? The fate is immortal?" Xiaomei repeated.

The old lady smiled and touched Xiaomei's head and said, "Silly boy, let everything happen. Let's go. The longer you wait after drinking the soup, the more you will forget."

Xiaomei smiled and nodded her head, pulling me forward and running wildly.

I was left in a daze, so I immediately drank the tea and put down the bowl.

As Xiaomei moved forward, a tauren stood at the other end of the bridge in the distance and directed the individual to move forward.

Xiaomei smiled and said: "Brother Niu, my other half is here. Hurry up and take us to reincarnation."

The tauren in front of him smiled and said: "It's really fast. It's only been more than a day. You two, come with me before it's too late."

The tauren seemed to have a quick temper, and he led Xiaomei forward quickly.

Xiaomei took my hand and touched the birthmark on my arm and said, "Don't forget this."

I nodded my head.

I looked at the cave entrances in front of me. The tauren pulled us to the innermost cave and said, "This is the way of humanity. Once you enter, you will be reincarnated. I wish you all the best and hope that we can be together in the next life."

Before the tauren finished speaking, Xiaomei said anxiously: "Grandma said that the longer you wait, the faster you will forget. I can't wait any longer."

Xiaomei took my hand and jumped down. The feeling of falling made Xiaomei hold on to me tightly.

The tauren was stunned for a second and said awkwardly: "What a rush to reincarnate. I forgot to mention that you can be born in the same city by jumping forward and backward. If they jump together, they will become twins."

. . . . . .

Beijing First Hospital.

"The baby is born, a twin. And there is a small birthmark on his hand, which is very cute." A man said excitedly on the phone.

(End of this chapter)