Zhang Ya: Let’s Get the Certificate (Free Chapter of Birthday Special)

Dark clouds enveloped the city, and the sky seemed to be within reach.

Li Man stood by the window, watching the rainwater slide down the glass, leaving trails behind.

The clock on the wall was ticking, and the dull time flowed quietly in the cabin.

"5:30, call it a day and get off work." Li Man stretched himself, moved the succulents on the window sill into the house, and walked to his desk.

She put the sign on the table that said the Marriage Registration Office into the drawer, and glanced at the big words on the wall - administration according to law, civilized service.

"It's raining so much today, no one should come to register for marriage."

Li Man hummed a song and started cleaning. She was the only one in the empty marriage registration office, and the staff at the divorce registration office next door had already left work 15 minutes earlier.

"Hi, may I ask if this is the place where you get the marriage certificate?" The door was pushed open, and a mature and magnetic male voice came from the door.

With such a nice voice, the person must also be very handsome.

Li Man looked up, and there was a man in a black raincoat standing at the door of the marriage registration office.

He looks ordinary, but he has an indescribable temperament about him.

"Yes, you...do you want to apply for a marriage certificate?" Li Man looked at the man carefully. It was the first time she saw a man wearing a raincoat and carrying a heavy hiking bag to apply for a marriage certificate.

"Well, I made an appointment online to handle it today."

"Let me check, what's your name?"

"Chen Ge."

Li Man typed the word Chen Ge into the computer, and sure enough, he saw his appointment application: "I'm about to get off work, let's make a quick decision, have you brought all your things? Both the male and female household registration books, ID cards, and you The two have no proof of relationship between direct blood relatives and collateral blood relatives within three generations."

"I brought them all." The man opened the backpack and began to rummage inside.

Li Man vaguely heard a meow, and she glanced into the man's backpack curiously.

Inside the bag were a repeater, comic books, dolls, ballpoint pens, and a big white cat.

"I'm sorry to trouble you." The man handed two household registration books and two ID cards to Li Man: "Everything is here. I have met the woman's family and they are very satisfied with me."

"It seems that you have made a lot of preparations." When Li Man finished registering the man's information and was about to start registering the woman's information, she suddenly found that the magnetic stripe on the ID card was no longer usable. She looked at the name on the woman's ID card, Suddenly realized something.

The man in front of him came to register for marriage, prepared all the documents, and even brought a cat, but he didn't see his girlfriend.

"Wait a minute, sir." Li Man stopped what he was doing: "Are you here to get married?"

"kindness."

"What about your girlfriend? How can you get married by yourself?" Li Man smiled wryly: "You must be present in person to get the marriage certificate."

The clock on the wall was ticking, and the rain outside the house was getting heavier and heavier. The man slightly pursed his lips and looked up at Li Man: "Here she is, standing behind me."

Raindrops hit the windows violently, and the air in the house gradually froze.

"Sir, don't be joking. Both parties must be present in person to get married. I can't help you if you're like this." Li Man clutched her chest, she didn't know why she was suddenly out of breath.

"She is really here, we are inseparable, wherever I am, there is her." The man's eyes were clear, and there was a hint of stubbornness in his tone.

Seeing the seriousness of the man, Li Man held the degaussed ID card in her hand, and she suddenly thought of a possibility.

Opening the woman's household registration book, the page with the woman's name was stamped with the stamp of the police station declaring her death, and the time of death was still a few years ago.

"Sir..." Li Man wanted to say something, but she was a little moved when she saw the man's stubborn expression.

Looking at the man's backpack, Li Man looked at the items in the bag.

Are these the same things that girl used to use? Are these preserved and cherished things the memories of the two of them? Is this cat the girl's own cat?

for a moment,

Li Man understood why a man would bring a lot of things to the marriage registration office, and also understood why a man would say that a woman was with him all the time.

With stern eyes, Li Man held the girl's ID card. She didn't know what to say, whether she wanted to comfort the man or tell him the cruel truth.

Her lips opened slowly, but Li Man couldn't say what she wanted to say. Looking at the child-like man in front of her, she felt a little complicated.

She forced herself to keep smiling: "Sir, you must love her very much, right? How did you meet?"

"She chased me. The first love letter I received in my life was from her." The man's eyes drifted, as if recalling the past: "Our first date was at the abandoned school."

"Abandoned school? First date to an abandoned school?"

"West City Private Academy, where she has her obsession and past, I stood in the hall where she used to practice dancing, leaning against the mirror, leaning against her, and we talked to each other."

Li Man listened silently, and a picture appeared in his mind.

In the quiet night, the two recalled the past in the abandoned alma mater. The college used to be beautiful and lively, but now there are only two of them, back to back, cuddling each other. What a beautiful love!

"The second date was in a mental hospital. She was wearing a red dress, she was stunningly beautiful, and she was so beautiful."

"Psychiatric hospital?"

"Because of my parents, that day I..."

"Understood, I'm sorry." Before the man finished speaking, Li Man apologized. She didn't like to expose other people's scars. Perhaps her parents were another pain in this man's heart.

"The third date was in a building where I stuck the man who made her unhappy in the elevator and taught him a lesson he will never forget."

"You really dote on your girlfriend. I think she must be very happy when she finds out about this."

"She was by my side at the time." The man's expression was gentle, reminding him of the elevator wrapped in black hair in the Guidan Association building.

"That scene must be very romantic and heartwarming." Li Man felt that the man in front of him seemed to be an overpowering boyfriend.

"The fourth date was in the underground mortuary of the Forensic Medicine College. She was injured but didn't tell me. She sat with me quietly and seemed to secretly hug me." The man's voice was very pleasant, hoarse With a mature charm, he was recalling the past, and that faint feeling even made Li Man subconsciously ignore the special dating place of the underground morgue.

"The fifth date was on the roof of a small town. That day was very similar to today. It was raining heavily outside, and I leaned against her."

Compared with abandoned schools, mental hospitals, and underground morgues, Li Man was a little uncomfortable with the normal location of the date: "Did you confess your love to her that day?"

The man nodded lightly: "I stood on the highest point of the town, and yelled out my heart to that strange world. I don't believe that there is anything more romantic in this world than being inseparable forever."

"Wow." Li Man had heard stories from many people, but none of them were as shocking as Chen Ge's. Maybe it was because she had seen the death certificate on the household registration book and knew the reason for the result in advance: "What about later?"

"Later..." Chen Ge took a light breath: "She fell asleep, and it took a long, long time to wake up. I have been waiting for her."

The death certificate on the household registration book pierced Li Man's heart like a steel needle at this moment, and tears welled up in her eyes unconsciously.

Lowering her head, Li Man pretended to be looking for something. When the computer covered her face, she secretly wiped her tears. She already knew the ending of the story.

No one in the room spoke. After a long time, it was the man who broke the silence. He put his hand lightly on the empty seat next to him, as if his girlfriend was sitting there: "Our sixth date..."

It doesn't matter what the man said later. Li Man knew that after his wife had an accident, he trapped himself in a cage called love. He thought his girlfriend was still alive.

Because of deep love, I refuse to believe the fact that the other party has left.

Clasping her hands together, her fingertips turned white. Li Man wanted to tell Chen Ge the truth, but she couldn't bear to say it.

She buried her face behind the computer and entered all the information on the application form. She wanted to help the man in front of her fulfill a dream, but when she pressed the OK button, the computer popped up a page that did not match the household registration information .

That girl died many years ago, and there is no such person in the household registration data.

The reality was pouring on Li Man like a basin of ice water. She looked at the man's face lost in memories, and bit her lips: "Sir, our data here is incomplete, and the system is being upgraded, so we can't help you at the moment. Come back on Monday."

Li Man wants to help the man in front of him, even if he wants to make a similar little red book that does not have legal force.

"Okay, I'll trouble you then." The man stood up slowly, packed up all his things and walked out. When he reached the door, he suddenly took off his raincoat and put it over his head, as if he was still standing next to him. Looking at another person: "Zhang Ya, don't stay too far away from me, it's raining heavily."

Li Man could see clearly in the room, there was no one else under the man's raincoat except himself.

Looking at the back of the man going away, Li Man wiped the corners of his eyes: "Maybe this is love, falling in love with you, being loyal to you, being sincere to you, and ending with you."