Chapter 2 Chapter 2 The Girl and the Rainbow

Qiu Feng is a petite and beautiful girl with fair and delicate skin, a snub nose, short hair, and a doll face.Six years ago, 19-year-old Qiu Feng joined Tianyuan Company as a typist, and soon fell madly in love with the 44-year-old boss Xiao Shuihan.There is no need to be shy, the chairman and general manager is simply an ideal prince charming.Unmarried, not too beautiful, but very "manly", with a sharp face, wide chin, thick eyebrows, tall and tall, broad shoulders.Of course, he is slightly older, but his face and figure are far younger than 44 years old, with black hair, smooth and moist skin, and elastic walking.He is humble and kind, with the style of an elder, but also very humorous. He often makes a few witty jokes casually in his spare time, which makes people laugh.Not to mention his talent and knowledge, the Tianyuan company he founded from scratch is simply legendary, and the products are dazzling.The company produces bioengineered materials that can automatically "grow" according to certain genetic instructions that have been adapted into (for example) ten-meter-long ivory cylinders (this is the real ivory material, since the development of this biological material, No one poachs African elephants anymore).It also produces biological air conditioners that imitate warm-blooded animals, etc., which are truly "green" products.Moreover, the chief designer of many products is the chairman himself.

In fact, these glorious achievements are not the reason why Qiu Feng fell in love with him, but because of another small thing.When carrying office supplies upstairs, Xiao passed by and naturally joined in to help.He lightly threw the large bundle of office paper on his broad shoulders—from that moment on, Qiu Feng fell in love with him hopelessly!Why love him?have no idea.Qiu Feng only knows that a 44-year-old middle-aged boss who shouldn't do physical work can throw heavy objects on his shoulders so casually and gracefully, and his movements are so beautiful, he is worthy of his love!

She knows her love is hopeless.Xiao has many suitors, among them there are many beauties of national beauty and beauty. Their glamorous beauty discourages Qiu Feng, who feels good about himself.There are also many talented women, and Qiu Feng often sees their names on TV and the Internet.Seeing them talking calmly and eloquently in front of the TV camera, she always thought dejectedly that she would never be able to do this in her life.She also knew that Xiao Shuihan would occasionally spend weekends with one of these beauties and talents, but strangely, he hadn't established a solid relationship with any of them.He seems to be a god who came down from Mount Olympus, and he would not make a life alliance with a mortal woman.

However, the petite Qiu Feng still bravely shoots the arrow of love, although her efforts contain the solemnity of only asking about the struggle and not about the result.Dr. Xiao noticed a girl's love of looking up - a pair of eyes were always secretly staring at him with scorching heat, and occasionally the eyes collided, and the girl's face would immediately blush.She is too simple, crystal clear and transparent like ice flowers.Xiao Shuihan likes this girl very much, but it's just the elder's love for the younger.He was very magnanimous and kind to Qiu Feng. He never made the little girl feel inferior in front of him, but he never made her have any extravagant hopes for success.

If not for such an opportunity. One summer evening, just after the shower, Qiu Feng came home from get off work and found that the car wouldn't start—she was always confused about mechanical matters, and the car was a cheap second-hand Fukang, which often broke down— He stood at the door of the company and waited for a taxi.The shower drove away the heat wave in Wuhan, the air was very fresh, the big and red sunset was approaching the horizon, and the cool wind was playing playfully against her short skirt.Qiu Feng lives in the suburbs with his 70-year-old grandmother.After the father passed away, the mother remarried, leaving the grandmother and grandson to depend on each other.At this moment, grandma should build a pergola at the door, remembering the safety of her granddaughter.A red taxi drove over, and Qiu Feng raised his hand to stop the car.At this moment, a long-bodied black H300 hydrogen-powered luxury car slid silently and stopped behind her. The window was lowered. It was the boss Xiao Shuihan. He said with a smile:

"Get in the car, I'll take you home." He got out of the car and opened the door on the right for Qiu Feng.Qiu Feng really didn't expect to have such good luck!She nodded apologetically to the taxi driver, and hurriedly got into the H300 car.After Xiao Shuihan asked her address, he drove onto the highway. This was the first time she was alone with Xiao Shuihan, Qiu Feng felt very lucky for himself.She obsessively and quietly observed Xiao's profile, at his resolute facial lines, high nose bridge, and bright eyes.Her usual eloquence turned into a clumsy tongue, and she couldn't even say a word of thanks. She thought, she must look terribly stupid.It was Xiao Shuihan who chatted casually, asked her if her work was going well, asked her about her family, asked about her grandma's health, and rescued her from distress.

The scenery after the rain is very clear, with fine rain in the wind.Qiu Feng regained his composure, and chatted with the boss very warmly.When the car drove onto the Yangtze River Bridge, Qiu Feng suddenly screamed: "Stop, stop!" Xiao Shuihan didn't know what happened, so he stepped on the brakes quickly, and the high-speed car screeched to a stop, and rushed towards the bridge sideways, leaving a long string of tire marks on the ground.Qiu Feng's head hit the windshield, she ignored the pain, opened the door and jumped out of the car, screaming excitedly: "Rainbow! Look, there is a rainbow in the sky!"

I see!It turned out to be just to see the rainbow!Xiao Shuihan shook his head secretly, parked the car by the bridge, and came to Qiu Feng's side.Qiu Feng was looking up at the east in fascination. A semicircular rainbow hung in the sky. It was Apollo's divine bow. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple were arranged in sequence. The edge of the rainbow merged with the same crystal clear blue sky. Hidden in the vast water.Behind him, a round of red sun was slowly falling into the water, as if carrying the sound of flames entering the water.Qiu Feng clapped his hands happily, leaning on the railing, looking at the rainbow obsessively.Xiao Shuihan stroked her shoulder and smiled quietly.

Passengers in the passing vehicles also noticed the rainbow because of their eyes. Most of them slowed down a little, pointed in the car, and then drove past.The armed police standing guard at the bridgehead came over vigilantly, Xiao Shuihan went up to meet him, explained a few words in a low voice, the armed policeman laughed, asked them not to stay on the bridge, then turned back and left. The sun behind it gradually sinks, and the rainbow slowly disappears, leaving only the gorgeous red glow of the day.Xiao Shuihan waited patiently until Qiu Feng returned to the car with unsatisfied enthusiasm.After the car restarted, Qiu Feng felt uneasy. She shouldn't let the boss delay her for so long, and his behavior was too naive and immature, so he would laugh at himself.Ever since she had that secret wish, Qiu Feng has been working hard to cultivate her own maturity, to behave like a mature woman in front of Mr. Xiao——that is worthy of the man in her mind.Being stupid today wiped out all her hard work.

"I'm sorry to take you so long." She said anxiously, but immediately forgot about the anxiety. "But I really like rainbows. I have only seen them three times in my life. They are so beautiful!" She said with a smile on her face, "Mr. Xiao, have you seen many rainbows in your life? Did the rainbows in the sky change after I was born?" Less? It must be, I have loved it since I entered kindergarten, and my companions and I used to sit at the door and wait for the rainbow to come out, but God is too stingy with me. I have only seen it three times today! Three times!"

Xiao Shuihan looked sideways at the forgetful Qiu Feng, listened to her childish words, and said with a smile: "Actually, I also like it very much, especially when I was a child. Once, I saw a rainbow after school. I was fascinated by it and wanted to understand it. Is there a lower half of the circle, I want to see how big the lower half of the circle is. So I climbed up the mountain vigorously, thinking that I should be able to see the part covered by the horizon if I stand higher. When I saw the second half of the rainbow, I hung up my schoolbag and got beaten when I got home—it seems like a hundred years ago.” He sighed. The car drove smoothly, and he put his hands on the steering wheel, lost in thought.Qiu Feng looked at him, giggled and said, "Hey, you sound like you've lived a hundred or two hundred years, but you're not much older than me, we must be considered the same age. Really, you look like 35 years old at most people." She strongly emphasized the boss's youthfulness, on the one hand, it was polite, and at least half of it was for the secret purpose in her heart. Xiao Shuihan shook his head, and continued following his own train of thought: "At that time, I liked nature as much as you did. I liked the crimson sunset, the lavender distant mountains, the goose yellow grass, the fiery red pomegranate flowers, the pure white snow, the golden wheat waves, and the deep blue sea; The dragonflies hovering on the lotus, the flocks of birds that soar, and the geese lined up in the sky. I always think. Which god created this beauty in various poses and with different expressions, which makes people tremble? It was created only for human beings. Is it? Later, I read Su Dongpo's famous line for the first time: "Only the autumn wind on the river, the bright moon in the mountains, the sound of the ears, the color of the eyes, the endless treasure of the creator, and I and It’s suitable for everyone.’ At that time, I suddenly understood the artistic conception of the article, and I couldn’t help dancing, just like you just carried away.” Qiu Feng smiled with a red face. "However, I soon learned from my physics class that all the brilliant colors in the world are just different frequencies of light waves. The magical rainbow is caused by the refraction and reflection of the sunlight by the fog droplets in the sky after the rain. They are not magical It can be said. Tell you, I was very disappointed at that time. I would rather live in Su Dongpo's era, use my own eyes to experience the colorful world, to appreciate the magical and hazy beauty, rather than use logical thinking to crack it into cold physical laws .” He smiled softly, and continued: "However, I finally sacrificed my passion and embarked on the road of scientific research. Science is another kind of beauty, which has a huge rational shock. I remember a man at the end of the 20th century. Science fiction writer Arthur Clarke proposed a law: Any fully developed technology is undoubtedly magic. This theorem is so brilliant, I like it very much, but I like its inverse law even more: Any magical magic of God is, to put it bluntly, nothing but A fully developed technology, people will eventually master it. Like a rainbow, we just need to spray water in the sky with our backs to the sun, and we can reproduce the magic of creation in no time. Oh, I shouldn't say these boring words to you ,” he said jokingly, “the gorgeous passion of a girl is the most precious thing, I shouldn’t pour cold water on it.” Qiu Feng said angrily: "I'm not a girl, I'm already an adult!" This kind of insistence on "adult status" obviously amused Xiao Shuihan, and he smiled happily.Qiu Feng's face was sullen, but he couldn't hold it anymore after a while, and he laughed too.In front is Qiu Feng's house, a two-story building standing alone in the vegetable garden and crop field, the twilight has sunk, the light from the door reflects the thin figure of Qiu Feng's grandma, she is looking anxiously towards this side. wait and see.Xiao Shuihan stopped the car, opened the door, and helped Qiu Feng out.Qiu Feng called "Grandma, Grandma" and ran over, Xiao Shuihan also walked over, and said to Grandma Qiu Feng: "Old man, wait in a hurry. Xiaofeng's car broke down, and he was delayed on the Yangtze River Bridge for a while—but the delay was worth it. Xiaofeng saw her favorite, which she had only seen three times in her life. Rainbow." He imitated Qiu Feng's tone and couldn't help laughing, "Old man, your granddaughter is really a goddess of happiness." Grandma Feng smiled like a flower, staring at the guests with her old dim eyes, which were also very sharp, and she could immediately see her granddaughter's affection for the visitor.She sincerely stayed with the guests for dinner, Xiao Shuihan politely declined.Before leaving, he held Qiu Feng's little hand for a long time: "I am very happy today. Thank you for bringing me back to that transparent state of mind, and to appreciate the beauty and magic of nature. This state of mind is rare after I have grown older. Thank you very much." he said sincerely. "No, I should be the one thanking you. Thank you for sending me home, and thank you for letting me see the rainbow." Xiao Shuihan smiled heartily, bid farewell to Grandma Qiu Feng, and got into the car briskly. This experience narrowed the distance between Qiu Feng and his boss.From now on, whenever the two meet, Xiao Shuihan will smile, point to the sky with his finger, and draw a big semicircle.The female companions noticed this and asked Qiu Feng what it meant, Qiu Feng said mysteriously: "Secret, this is a secret!" But she slowly saw the danger involved. If Mr. Xiao kept showing his closeness to her in this open and playful way, then her lovesickness would be hopeless.After realizing this, the meeting with Xiao Shuihan became a kind of pain.She couldn't express her indifference to Mr. Xiao's smiling face, and she was unwilling to let the relationship between the two develop along this hopeless direction.What should she do?But Qiu Feng was lucky after all, and fate gave her another chance. Not long after, about two weeks later, when he was about to leave work, Qiu Feng, who was working, received a call from his boss, and his voice was very urgent: "Is it Qiu Feng? I'm Xiao Shuihan, come quickly, wait for me at the central elevator entrance!" Qiu Feng The wind was confused and hurried away.Xiao Shuihan waited for her to come in with a smile in the elevator, closed the elevator door, and pressed the light to go to the top floor.While the elevator was going up, he didn't give any explanation for the sudden summoning. When he got out of the elevator, he led Qiu Feng up to the top floor, and said with a smile, "Look, your favorite thing." Qiu Feng exclaimed in surprise: "Rainbow!" Another rainbow.There is a misty rain in the sky, and I don’t know when it started to fall. The rainbow spans from the high-rises in the downtown area to Guishan Snake Mountain, like a bridge connecting the heavenly palace from the human world.And today's rainbow is very special. There is a faintly visible secondary rainbow on its outer circle, which is parallel to the main rainbow, but the order of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue and purple is opposite to it.Not only had Qiu Feng never seen such a spectacle, he had never even heard of it.She grabbed Xiao Shuihan's arm in a ecstasy, and said happily: "Shuanghong! You are amazing! You must have created the double rainbow, yes, it must be!" Xiao Shuihan laughed loudly: "I'm afraid I don't have this ability. Really, this is the first time even I have seen such a double rainbow." "That's also the good luck you brought me! Mr. Xiao, thank you, thank you so much. You let me see it twice within half a month, and I also saw the even more magical double rainbow." Xiao Shuihan smiled and said: "Well, let's consider it a gift from me, this is the real 'Borrowing Flowers to Offer Buddha'." Qiu Feng stood by Xiao Shuihan and watched the rainbow for a long time until it slowly disappeared.Her heart was filled with coptis honey, which was slightly bitter in the sweetness.Mr. Xiao still remembers her interests and preferences, he has himself in his heart.Leaning against this strong man, she felt his strength and warmth. She felt that the two experiences of enjoying the rainbow together brought the two of them closer together, which was somehow God's will.When the two returned, Xiao Shuihan held her little hand and said: "Miss Qiu, I'd like to treat you to a light meal tomorrow night, can you please?" Qiu Feng was very pleasantly surprised. She didn't want to pretend to be reserved - that's the love rule that her girlfriends have repeatedly instructed - and said straightforwardly: "Of course I am willing! I have been looking forward to this day for a long time." Xiao Shuihan laughed happily. The next day was the weekend, at night, Xiao Shuihan took her to the garden on the top floor of Longfeng Building.The night is dark, the stars are like beans above the transparent pergola, the artificial rain curtains hanging around the pergola are dense and thin, and the music is soft and soft.The garden on the top floor was very quiet tonight, only five or six neatly dressed waiters stood around with their hands down, and there were no other customers.Qiu Feng didn't know that Xiao Shuihan had booked the entire floor, she looked at the luxurious decorations around curiously, and asked softly: "How come there are no customers in such a luxurious hotel?" Xiao Shuihan smiled, without explaining, he opened the chair for her.The waiter stepped forward lightly, made hot tea, and then kept away from him, standing quietly with his hands down.Xiao Shuihan held Qiu Feng's catkin in his hands across the table, staring at her with a smile, making her face hot.Then, he whispered a decision that surprised Qiu Feng: "Such a beautiful evening, I don't want to waste time. I want to propose to you directly, will you say yes?" Qiu Feng was really pleasantly surprised, this was something she had dreamed about, but the victory came so easily that she couldn't believe it.After the shock had subsided for a while, she ecstasy shouted: "How did you choose me?" She said unfairly, "Among the swans around you, I am just a little khaki sparrow." Xiao Shuihan smiled: "I happen to like little sparrows the most." "But I don't have much scientific knowledge. I'm just a typist. You and I won't have a common language." Xiao Shuihan smiled again, but there was a hint of sadness in his eyes: "My exploration in the science maze is too hard, it's a long exploration... I hope to have a woman who doesn't understand science accompany me, that will make me feel more relaxed. " "Then..." Qiu Feng was still looking for a reason to disagree, Xiao Shuihan said with a smile: "If Miss Qiu is unwilling to give in, then don't look for a reason, I can withdraw the marriage proposal." Qiu Feng said bluntly: "That's not acceptable! How can I give the spoils I captured with great difficulty to others?" Xiao Shuihan smiled happily, he put away his smile, and said solemnly: "Then, if Miss Qiu doesn't mind my old age—I am old enough to be your elder—I hope you will seriously consider my marriage proposal." "Of course I agree! I don't think you're old. Let me tell you a secret. My father passed away very early, so my Electra complex has never had a host. If I find a husband and an old father, that would be cheap." ’ she said with a beaming smile. Xiao Shuihan laughed loudly again, and the laughter scattered into the night sky.His heart was very happy. Ever since he passed the scene of the Yangtze River Bridge, he had felt the attraction of this girl. She was a shallow mountain spring, a crystal, and even a fragile ice flower. But she It can make you forget all your worries and return to the transparent state of mind of your childhood, which he has not seen for a long time in his hundred years of loneliness.Before proposing to Qiu Feng, he was quite hesitant.With his real identity, he entered into a marriage contract with the 19-year-old Qiu Feng, and he couldn't escape the guilt in his heart.But he couldn't leave this girl anymore.Qiu Feng didn't understand his inner turmoil, and seriously comforted him: "But you don't look like a 44-year-old person at all. Your body is only like a 35-year-old youth, maybe 38 years old at most. Really, I'm not lying to you at all. So, there is no big difference in our age. Why do you You have to imagine yourself as an old man." "Thank you for your compliment." Xiao Shuihan smiled, and gradually turned into deep thought, his eyes were slightly desolate and sad.Afterwards, in the joint life after marriage, Qiu Feng discovered that her husband often experienced this kind of sadness periodically, and he seemed to have a nightmare that could not be driven away.Xiao Shuihan said: "However, before you decide to come into my life, I must tell you one thing seriously and plainly: My wife has to make a sacrifice." "No problem, I promise!" Xiao Shuihan smiled sadly: "I haven't finished my words yet. Let me tell you, I am actually an ominous person, maybe a paranoid patient. Sometimes, I will involuntarily recall my previous life, and even the previous life The memories of my past life, my past life, are my haunting nightmares. The dreams are very realistic, and... some of the dreams are so true that I, a biological scientist, actually believe it." Qiu Feng's eyes widened when he heard this, and he felt a chill in his body: "Previous life? You mean you believe in previous life?" "Yes, it's not just 'belief', it's almost real. Therefore, my behavior is often eccentric. Usually, I disguise it strictly. The chairman Xiao you see is just a man with a halo I will take off the mask when the veil of the family is closed, though, and then the eccentricities may be revealed. If you want to be my wife, you should be prepared for this, you should learn to turn a blind eye to it, don't Get to the bottom of it." His words reveal a kind of gloom that penetrates deep into the bone marrow, and his eyes are heavy.Qiu Feng looked at him distressedly, and it was only then that she realized that the most holy and holy in her (and all female companions') minds would have such psychological pain.But this strengthened her love, she was determined to walk into his life, his heart, caress him like a little mother, and warm his heart. "Also, the person who marries me will not be able to have children for life..." Qiu Feng hurriedly interrupted him: "Can't bear children? Why?" He smiled wryly and said: "This is exactly the ominous legacy left by my previous life to this life. It is a heavy oath: My own children will definitely make me suffer from God's punishment, and my life will end on the day my own children are born. As for why, I have no idea." I don’t know, but this is by no means illusory, I can laugh it off, I feel its magical power all the time, and I have decided to abide by it. Therefore,” he said heavily, “if you want to be my wife, you have to sacrifice being a mother.” I know that this is cruel and unfair to you, and you have no obligation to be my burden. But I can't get rid of this heavy oath, which is the reason for my delay in marriage. I put it all Let me tell you, I hope you will think carefully before making a decision." Qiu Feng lowered his eyes, his heart was overwhelmed.She is not a scheming girl, and usually everything is irrelevant, but this incident just hit her sore spot.This decision is not easy to make.After contemplating for a long time, she raised her head, and there was light in her eyes.she says: "I remember reading a Taiwanese novel that said that there is no mystery in maternal love. It is progesterone that is at work. People who have that thing in their bodies will make all kinds of kind and friendly faces. After reading it, I was very angry and strange. How can anyone come up with such a goddamn thing. Likely, I have a lot of progesterone in my body. The year of menarche, I have a secret desire to be a mother. I always have fantasies about a fat white child Suck in my arms. I never dare to say these words to my female companions, lest they laugh at me. You are the first person I confide in my inner world." After a long silence with clear eyes, she said decisively: "However, I am willing to make this sacrifice for you!" Xiao Shuihan moved her into his arms.They did not speak again that night, and any language would be superfluous at this point.They cuddled up to each other, listening to the rain curtain ding-dong, the guqin sound of "Chun Jiang Hua Yue Ye" was like water waves rippling, and the moonlight pouring down the ground.In silence they forged the alliance of this life. They were married three months later.A luxurious, Chinese and Western style wedding.The envious eyes of his companions.Grandma smiled with her mouth closed.During the whole wedding period, Qiu Feng spent the feeling of ecstasy and trance, just like Cinderella who just entered the palace.She walked into Xiao Shuihan's life circle and a brand new life.But in the ecstasy of marriage, she still had some uneasiness in her heart.After all, those two promises about marriage were too weird.And, her gut told her, this oddity was just the tip of the iceberg.What exactly lay beneath it—didn't know.The joy of marriage dilutes these shadows, but they do not disappear, they lurk quietly in the shadows. Life after marriage is very happy.Xiao Shuihan is really not only like a kind old father, but also a passionate lover.The dream of the previous life mentioned before marriage did not affect their lives. Qiu Feng only noticed that her husband would occasionally fall into sadness. In traditional Chinese painting, the dry and cracked bark is rendered in a bold and resolute way, and the ancient locust tree reveals an aura of looking down on the ages.There is no author.The husband did not introduce the origin of this ancient locust tree, but only revealed that this ancient locust tree is a symbol of the previous life. Qiu Feng abided by the pre-marital agreement and pretended to turn a blind eye to it.However, in these days, she changed from a naughty baby girl to a loving little mother, putting her husband in the cradle of love and singing a distant lullaby for him. The only unsatisfactory thing is - the child, the child who often lies in Qiu Feng's imagination and is always hanging half a day away.Of course Qiu Feng had to keep his promise to her husband, but that didn't stop that child from often coming down from mid-air and walking into Qiu Feng's dream.When she wakes up, her eyes will be flushed, and she will miss him (her) obsessively.The husband knows her thoughts very well, and whenever this happens, he will hold his wife in his arms and talk slowly to change the topic.