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Thousands of blind men cross the river. Those holding hands, holding on, carrying their backs, leaning on crutches, touching stones... Is that true? She often dreams of a blind man crossing a river, and wakes up in a cold sweat. No, this is not a dream!Wherever she went, there was this painting.On the street, at this station, in the office, in the library, in the cafeteria, in the dormitory, there are people crossing the river everywhere. She was lying on the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling, where there were also people trekking in the turbulent torrent. This is a very narrow single dormitory.Two beds, one of which is a three-drawer table.Two desk lamps illuminate two single women respectively.That one was Li Suoling, who was ten years older than her and was not talkative in the proofreading department.

It is said that Li Suoling is very strange, and few people know about it.Nine out of ten people in the reporter department don't know her, even though she has been in the newspaper office for eight years.It was this woman, whom the reporters didn't know, who had proofread all of their manuscripts, corrected many of their typos, and could tell who wrote those flamboyant or dog-like fonts.She is like a bat, she leaves work when others go to get off work, and wakes up when others sleep.Reporters can't remember knowing her. She is a proofreader, and the people behind the scenes don't go on stage.

Fang Fang would not have known her if she hadn't been assigned to the same dormitory.Although it is rare to see each other on weekdays, we are always together on Sundays and holidays.They also talked to each other, but Fang Fang's words were always thrown into the water, and they couldn't even hear a single sound.After more than a year of friendship, Fang Fang only got a few words: "I have joined the team, been unemployed, married, and divorced. I have loved and hated, and now I neither love nor hate." Meeting such a tempered person , Interviews and teaching are not effective.

This strange man, like Fang Fang, was lying on the bed at the moment.The difference is that her eyes are not fixed on the ceiling, but on a book.She always reads books.Read manuscripts at night and read books during the day, never let your eyes be idle.Once Fang Fang asked her: "Aren't your eyes tired from reading a lot?" "If you don't look at anything, just close your eyes." Then I went to read her book again. She also has a quirk in reading.Every book is wrapped in a cover so that no one can see what it is, just like wrapping yourself up.Lock the book in the drawer when you can't read it, just like locking yourself.

Fang Fang's eyes moved from the ceiling to Li Suoling.She was holding a book, lying on a reclining motionless.She was married and had a family.She was divorced and her family broke up.They didn't make it through.I fell, I fell, I fell, it hurts, I don’t want to go through it again, I can’t go through it again.Why didn't he hold her up?Why didn't she hold him up. Liu Shuhuai's words seemed to give her a universal key for her to open the doors of thousands of households.She feels that she has grown up and matured, and she will no longer cry because she can't write a big manuscript; she will no longer bother to collect materials such as those random changes in mate selection criteria; Difficult" and other topics written by others as treasures.She felt that she had a new height, as if she was standing on the cliff beside the big river, looking down at the thousands of families walking towards the center of the river step by step at her feet.

What a magnificent picture it is, so spectacular that it makes one's heart jump, and it is so magnificent that one wants to close one's eyes.No, she wants to keep her eyes open, she wants to grasp the details.She wants to observe the external characteristics, internal psychology, and fate of each person crossing the river. In front of you is a man who fell into the river!The temptation was too great for her, and she couldn't hold back. "Suo Ling, stop reading too much, okay? I want to talk to you." "What are you talking about—" He didn't put down the book, and didn't show his face.

"Tell me about you. Why did you get married? Why did you get divorced?" Even I was surprised, Fang Fang, how dare you ask her such a question. Book, did not put down.After a long time, a sentence emerged from the back of the book: "Out of curiosity?" "no." "Then why are you asking me?" "I'm working on family problems. I really want to know, what's the pattern between the harmony of the family and the disintegration of the family?" "irregular." "But is there a law to everything?" "No rules are rules!"

"I don't understand what you're saying?" "You will understand later." "A few days ago, I interviewed a person. He said that tens of thousands of families are like blind men crossing a river—crossing slowly by their own hands." The book fell from Li Suoling's hand, and fell straight onto the cold and hard concrete floor. Fang Fang saw a pale face and big terrified eyes. "Who is it who said that?" "A very ordinary man." Li Suoling bent down and slowly took the book up.With the other hand, he brushed the long hair covering his face, lay down again, and put the book in front of his eyes.

For some reason, Fang Fang felt that she was not reading. "Tell me, does this person really have experience? I want to interview him again." "I advise you not to go." "why?" "You will regret this."