There was only a small piece of light in the dark room.

On the projection screen is Sheng Yao's back walking.

He had just left the community hospital and walked for a short while, and stopped on the spot, turned his head and looked at the camera.

His gaze just swept across the camera, and soon turned away, searching around, as if he was looking for something, but in the end he was ineffective. He could only withdraw his gaze and continue walking.

The camera still followed Sheng Yao, photographing Sheng Yao's slightly dragging footsteps.

Snap!

There was a cluster of flames in the room, and the matches came to the cigarette, and there was one more scarlet spot.

The next second, blue smoke rose.

The hand holding the match flicked gently, and the match fell on the projection screen, and a black hole was printed on Sheng Yao's back.

...

Sheng Yao returned home absent-mindedly. After seeing Bai Xiao, he was still uneasy, but he was already another kind of "uneasy".

Bai Xiao smiled and asked him to wash his hands and have a meal.

Sheng Yao nodded, sat down at the dining table, and slowly started to eat the steamed mandarin fish prepared by Bai Xiao.

"It's very fresh? I saw the boss killing him. The boss said that he had just been brought in from the aquatic products wholesale market today and kept it all the way. There were also very fresh clams in their house. I told him to ask him to help spit the sand and I'll get it tomorrow. I bought the mandarin fish today..."

"It's delicious." Sheng Yao replied.

The two of them were eating slowly. The TV in the living room was on, and the news of this period was broadcasting.

Suddenly, the word "baby" penetrated Sheng Yao's ears.

Sheng Yao turned to look at the TV.

"...It's a pity that 'baby' left us..." The narrator of the news was straightforward, saying "regret" and his tone was very calm.

The picture is a medium shot. Through the glass, you can see the middle-aged nurse kneeling beside the incubator, lowering her head, unable to see her face clearly, but instead letting people feel her real grief.

It was Fang Simin and Sheng Yao who thought to himself.

He also recognized the little nurse standing beside Fang Simin. The little nurse kept wiping her tears, but tears still fell down her face.

The news did not give this content sound. Only a few brief introductions on the narration outside the screen, then cut off the screen and played the next news.

"He... is dead..." Bai Xiao sighed.

Sheng Yao did not answer the conversation.

His mood was very complicated, as if he had seen the expected situation, or he seemed to have heard bad news, and he was unable to react for a while.

Some kind of "miracle" he expected didn't happen.

However, the reason why "miracle" is called "miracle" is because those who are looking forward to it know that it is unlikely to happen.

Emotion and reason have made judgments as early as the "miracle" appeared.

"How could you let a criminal go?" Boss Le's words appeared in Sheng Yao's ears.

Sheng Yao looked at Bai Xiao.

Bai Xiao was in a low mood, lowered his head and continued to cook rice.

Sheng Yao put a piece of fish into Bai Xiao’s bowl.

Bai Xiao looked up and smiled, "I'm fine. It's just a pity... But we were not destined to be with that child... That child... that child did something bad again, right?" She hesitated and asked.

Sheng Yao nodded.

"Oh...If I had adopted him earlier..." Bai Xiao felt even more regretful.

Sheng Yao looked at Bai Xiao like this and suddenly said, "Today, I went to meet someone."

Bai Xiao was stunned and curled the corner of his mouth, "I knew you were not going to see your cousin today." She blinked playfully and ate the piece of fish, "Who did you go to see?"

Sheng Yao did not answer immediately.

Bai Xiao did not urge him either.

"You don't know his name, and you have never seen him. Is it... the driver who caused the accident..." Sheng Yao said softly.

Bai Xiao's chopsticks stopped. She was a little confused, and she slowly showed a sudden enlightenment.

"That driver...ah...so...this..." Bai Xiao lowered his eyes and pinched his chopsticks, as if he was at a loss.

"He has passed away." Sheng Yao continued, "I am going to see him for the last time. No, it should be said that he is about to die and wants to see me."

Sheng Yao did not hide it and told Bai Xiao what he heard from Lin Youde's son.

Lin Youde probably wanted to face Bai Xiao and his sins after he died.

Sheng Yao didn't know what the world after death would be like. Perhaps there was no world after death at all. But no matter whether there was that place or not, Lin Youde could not find Bai Xiao there.

Bai Xiao listened quietly and after a long time he said "um", "So that's it. It's not easy for him to live all these years."

A light sentence, without emotion, neither resentment nor sympathy.

As Sheng Yao expected, Lin Youde was just an irrelevant stranger to Bai Xiao.

Sheng Yao said, "If you didn't meet me, didn't fall in love with me, and got married, I didn't plan any anniversary that day..."

Even if Bai Xiao was not pregnant, he might not be stuck by the deformed car body.

Bai Xiao looked straight at Sheng Yao, reached over the table, and held Sheng Yao's hand, "Then I won't be so happy."

Sheng Yao's eyes heated up and he held Bai Xiao's hand with his back.

"Let's go to visit the graves for parents tomorrow?" Bai Xiao said suddenly, "You can't stay at home all the time. I... should say goodbye to them."

Sheng Yao looked at Bai Xiao's gloomy expression and held her hand harder, feeling her smooth and soft skin and the diamond ring that was heated on her ring finger.

"Everything is over. We should start over again. A new beginning." Bai Xiao said solemnly, and after that, he showed Sheng Yao's familiar gentle smile.

...

The next day, Sheng Yao bought flowers, took Bai Xiao to take the bus, transfer to the subway, and then took the shuttle bus to Xianhe Cemetery.

This cemetery has a history of nearly twenty years. Even so, it is also the latest cemetery in the city. The facilities, greening, and tombstones in the cemetery have not been too old, but there are inevitably problems such as narrow corridors and crowded environment. Standing at the entrance of the cemetery, looking around, there are dense gray tombstones on the left and dense slim trees on the right - this is a new tree burial that was launched a few years ago. There is also a newly built small building, which is a place for concentrated wall burials, so the price is naturally cheaper.

It’s not Qingming Festival now. There are very few people coming to visit the tombs, but there are not many. At this moment, people who are busy with burial gather together, crying and wailing from afar.

No matter how fierce the sun shines on this tombstone, it will give people a sense of coldness.

Sheng Yao found the tombstone of his parents-in-law in law.

Their family bought early, but they chose a relatively cheap tomb. They can only say that they have everything they deserve. Like this cemetery, there are inevitably problems such as small tombs, rough carvings of tombstones, etc. In fact, shortly after Bai Xiao's death, their parents-in-law secretly bought the tombs of the two. Bai Xiao's death suddenly happened and there was no time to prepare. At that time, Sheng Yao was confused and unwilling to face reality, and it was even more impossible to handle Bai Xiao's funeral. His parents-in-law could only listen to the arrangements of the funeral shops and hurriedly bought a single-cavity tomb. Because of this, Sheng Yao almost had a physical conflict with the employees of the funeral shop. Afterwards, the old couple bought a cemetery for themselves, and they thought of moving Bai Xiao's grave, but they looked like they had already seen it, but still came to visit and take care of them regularly and couldn't speak. After choosing, they only bought this double-cavity tomb.

From an investment perspective, you can still make a profit by buying this tomb. It is just that it is "actually used" and the experience is not good.

Sheng Yao only heard his father-in-law tell these past events when his mother-in-law passed away. He was in a calm mood at that time. He was now recalling the past. Seeing Bai Xiao reluctantly shrinking his body and squatting in front of the grave, he couldn't help but feel sad.

He reached out and stroked Bai Xiao's long hair.

Bai Xiao turned his head to look at him, showed a reluctant smile, turned around and stared at his parents' photos.

The phone in Sheng Yao's pocket sounded a prompt, but Sheng Yao did not check it out.

He was with Bai Xiao and talked about his parents-in-law’s life for the past 35 years.

Bai Xiao listened quietly, like the most competent listener, interrupting and caring from time to time, just like Sheng Yao was talking about what was happening now, constantly touching her mind.

The two of them squeezed in front of the grave and stayed for a long time.

"...It's good if this happens. They haven't suffered much... It's good if this happens..." Bai Xiao exhaled and leaned his head on Sheng Yao's shoulder, "Let's go and see your parents later."

The two have always called each other's parents "mother and father". Sometimes when talking about things, they are inevitably confused, so they add "you" or "me".

Sheng Yao stroked her scattered hair, "Are you tired? My parents were buried in Fushou Garden, and it's still a bit far away here."

"It's okay. I'm not tired. I want to go and have a look." Bai Xiao interrupted Sheng Yao's words and couldn't help but smile, "It's the Crane Cemetery again, and the Fushou Garden..."

"There is also a Changshou Garden..." Sheng Yao said this and paused.

Bai Xiao had already stood up and reached out to pull Sheng Yao up, "Let's go. How do you go to Fushou Garden?"

Sheng Yao subconsciously stood up with Bai Xiao's force, and then came to his senses. What he wanted to say before was interrupted by Bai Xiao, and he threw it behind his head. He replied with care: "There is no subway in Fushouyuan, and buses, so it is usually a kind of bus... Let's take the shuttle bus back to the subway station first, and then take a taxi when you get there."

Bai Xiao nodded, "Is it very far?"

"Actually, it cannot be said that it is far. The straight line distance is not far. It is just that the place is relatively small and there is an industrial park. There is no bus or shuttle bus. There is only a shuttle bus during Qingming Festival. The route is quite scattered."

Bai Xiao asked, "Why take the subway or bus to the nearby area first and then take a taxi? Will it be very expensive to take a taxi here?"

"It's okay. It's about the same." Sheng Yao replied casually, "The main reason is that its location is awkward. The industrial park is blocked outside, and the subway and buses all reach the entrance of the industrial park. The industrial park is very large. It is close to the riverside."

Bai Xiao still has some concepts of the city map. When Sheng Yao said this, she understood and asked strangely: "How could a cemetery be opened there?"

"Who knows..." Sheng Yao sighed, "Mom went to buy it with her sisters. I think this thing was to be a fraud at the beginning, but it was really a cemetery. But the tomb over there is better. I had thought about whether to move the graves for my parents, or buy two more places there, but then--"

Before the word "forget it", Sheng Yao raised his head slightly and looked ahead.

They were almost walking to the cemetery gate, and the area for tree burial was in front of them.

Most of the trunks lined up are only thick and thin with their hands. However, the branches and leaves are very lush and have been built into a unified arc. Looking out from a distance, you can also praise the beauty.
To be continued...