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The man turned his phone to speakerphone and put it back on the table.

Then, he picked up the unfinished noodles from the woman opposite him, paused his chopsticks again, and prepared to wipe out the noodles in the bowl.

As if everything just now didn't matter, the important thing was that he was really hungry

"What's wrong with you?" said a middle-aged woman's greeting on the phone.

"What's wrong?" the man was still eating his noodles, and his tone was obviously much calmer than the conversation he had just had with the woman in red.

"Son, I see that you just posted on Moments, but you deleted it all of a sudden, what is there to talk about at home. ”

The woman on the phone was also soothing, and seemed to be cautious in her conversation with the young man.

The young man coughed twice before replying, "I don't have much to say lately. ”

"That's a bad thing, you can say it. The man's mother still insisted.

I don't know why, when Gu Chen heard this, he found that the man suddenly had a sour nose.

After trying to calm down, he wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with the back of his hand.

Perhaps to make himself look fine, the man calmed down for nearly ten seconds before replying, "It's nothing, I'm eating out." ”

"What are you eating?"

"Eat whatever you want, lung tablets or something. ”

There was a sudden pause on the other end of the phone for a few seconds, and the man's mother asked lightly, "But haven't you ever taken lung tablets since you were a child?"

The man hesitated for a few seconds, and then laughed: "That was before, because my friends loved to eat lung tablets, so ...... So people always change. ”

"It's cold, pay more attention to your body outside, but don't tire yourself. ”

"Okay, I know, let's do it for now, I'll have to work overtime later. ”

"Uh-huh, then I won't bother you. ”

The man talked to his mother on the phone for a while, and then he hung up.

At this time, a pair of men were holding the large bowl of noodles they had just picked up, looking for a place left and right.

When he saw Gu Chen sitting alone in a two-person seat, he didn't eat.

So one of the men with glasses hurriedly asked, "Are you going to sit here and eat?"

Gu Chen glanced at the two men, then stood up with interest, gave up his seat and said, "You guys sit here and eat." ”

"Thank you. Another man also offered to thank him.

After Gu Chen looked left and right, only the position of the woman in red just now was still vacant.

So Gu Chen took the initiative to walk over and sit quietly opposite the man.

The man glanced up at Gu Chen slightly, and soon recognized Gu Chen, and also nodded slightly to say hello.

"That was your girlfriend just now?" Gu Chen also asked casually.

The man smiled, a little embarrassed, but still nodded: "It used to be, but from now on it won't." ”

Looking up at Gu Chen again, the man smiled slightly: "Thank you just now, I made you wait so long." ”

"It's okay, I have time. Gu Chen said.

The man turned around and took out a tissue to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, then turned around and said, "You saw everything just now?"

Gu Chen nodded.

"Makes you laugh. The man said with a smile.

Gu Chen didn't care and said: "It's nothing, it's just an emotional problem." ”

"Huh. The man laughed dryly and couldn't help complaining: "To be honest, after living in a big city for a few years, I feel more and more that it is very difficult to express emotions. ”

Seeing Gu Chen listening carefully, the man shook his head and laughed at himself: "Because I don't know you, I will confide in you." ”

"You seem to be troubled a lot?" asked Gu Chen.

The man nodded and said, "Almost, sometimes I want to say something, but when the words come to my lips, I think about it, and forget it." ”

"Even if it is a circle of friends who complains, it may cause a series of chain reactions. ”

"For example, just now, my mother called, just because I deleted a circle of friends news, hehe. ”

"She should care about you very much, after all, it's hard to have a mother who doesn't care about her son. ”

The moment Gu Chen spoke, a deaf and dumb waiter came over at this time, and just brought a large bowl of noodles and placed it directly in front of Gu Chen.

Then, the waiter gestured dumbly in front of Gu Chen and pointed in the direction of the front desk.

Gu Chen knew that he was telling himself that this was called by the man opposite just now, and now give it to Gu Chen.

"Thank you. Gu Chen made a simple gesture, and he didn't know that his dumb language was not standard.

However, the deaf waiter understood it, smiled and left.

Gu Chen also picked up the chopsticks and began to gobble up, because he was too hungry.

The young man opposite took a sip of soup with a big bowl, and after putting it down, he smiled at Gu Chen and said, "I heard that the sign of a person's maturity is to learn to control his emotions. ”

But in this world shrouded by social networks, the so-called control of emotions is actually a process of shrinking the circle of friends. ”

"Just like me. The man pointed to himself and couldn't help but say, "I don't even have much contact with my former classmates except for my colleagues at work." ”

"And those relatives of mine, as well as my good friends before, after I got a girlfriend, I started to have very little contact. ”

"I controlled it so many times like this, and in the end, my desire to express it disappeared. ”

"That's right. Gu Chen looked at the other party seriously and said, "That feeling of carrying everything on yourself, not only will you acquiesce, but even your friends around you will get used to it." ”

"Maybe that's how people are. The man took out a tissue, dipped his mouth and said, "Once a person is in a hurry to do something, he has no reason to think about it, and the matter itself is unreasonable." ”

"It's only after you have to calm down that you have time to face the depression in your heart. ”

And the longer the repression, the stronger the desire to be understood, as I am now, as you have just seen, I am not understood at all. ”

"You mean...... Your girlfriend?" Gu Chen asked knowingly.

"yes. The man nodded, and said, "I was busy from morning to night every day, and I didn't even have a chance to catch my breath, and as soon as she came, she said that I didn't understand her." ”

"She is busy at work, and I am busy with work, so we should understand each other......"

Thinking that he had confided this to a stranger, the man hesitated, shook his head and smiled, "I've told you too much." ”

"It's okay, I'll forget it soon. Gu Chen exuded a smile of insight into the world, and still said lightly: "So, after another long silence, you looked at the other party's disappointed expression, and then you suddenly understood the reason why you were becoming more and more speechless, right?"

The man smiled and nodded: "Almost, after all, the purpose of people expressing emotions is to get the other party's understanding." ”

"If you don't do that, whatever you say will only create a bigger misunderstanding. ”

And the number of misunderstandings increases, and the original close relationship will become more and more distant with the loss of time. ”

Taking out his phone, the man found the woman in red's social account, and then sent a smiley emoji.

Soon, a red exclamation mark appeared.

"Beibi has turned on friend verification, and you are not his (her) friend yet. Please send a friend verification request first, and the other party can only chat after the verification is passed. ”

After the light subtitles, there is also a blue link that says "Send Friend Verification".

The man smiled and showed the conversation page to Gu Chen: "It seems that she really deleted me." ”

"Maybe she's right, we're really not suitable, like when she's sad, I'm always more upset than her, so why is she still with me?"

Gu Chen didn't speak, and continued to eat noodles, this kind of thing should not be mixed with himself.

The man lowered his head slightly, so that he didn't have to look at Gu Chen, and he looked at the dialog box on the screen in his hand, as if he was about to run out of energy.

Suddenly, he smiled to himself, and secretly cheered himself up: "Maybe it's best to delete a friend, I always don't know what she needs, and she hasn't thought about what I need?"

"And you know, I didn't like to eat lung tablets since I was a kid, but for her sake, I changed my habit because she liked to eat them. ”

He raised his head slightly, and let out a soft laugh as he had done hundreds of times before: "I just suddenly discovered a lot of things, things that I hadn't noticed before, and things that I hadn't paid attention to. ”

"Probably...... This is probably the most ironic part of life. ”

"When we grow up, we always want to fit into another world, but in the process, we get farther and farther away from the people we know best. ”

"Later, we keep hitting a wall in another world, becoming silent because we are tired, and we are disqualified because of silence. ”

It was only at this time that we remembered to look back and finally understood that the meaning of the original expression was not to be understood by others, but to let you distinguish who is the one who is willing to understand you. ”

The man opened the phone address book and showed Gu Chen the five phone calls his mother had dialed to him just now: "Do you know? ”

"For example, my mom, I just send a timely mood story and then delete it, and my mom can make five phone calls in a row to comfort me. ”

"Maybe no one in this world can bother me like this anymore. ”

The man was a little emotional, his whole nose was sour, and tears suddenly couldn't help but flow.

It was also because his voice was a little loud just now, and many customers sitting nearby dined at the same time for a short period of time.

The man couldn't get any better just by looking at the full audience, so he wiped his tears again and said, "I'm sorry, I'm out of shape." ”

He felt in his pocket, only to find that the napkins had long since run out.

Gu Chen took a sip of noodles, then took it out of his pocket, put his napkin on the table, and then pushed it in front of the man, and said, "Use mine." ”

"Thank you. The man was not polite.

Gu Chen shook his head, and said lightly: "I think we should still cherish people who are still willing to express their emotions." ”

"But if you don't express it, who likes to put a hot face on a cold fart? Or don't you want people to understand you?"

Gu Chen found that when the woman in red walked into the restaurant just now and sat opposite the man, the man seemed to be preoccupied, but in the face of the woman's various complaints, he had no desire to express it at all.

It seems that there is some misunderstanding between the two, but the man does not want to explain.

But in the adult world, you can only get what you want if you take the initiative to fight for it.

After all, no one is a roundworm in anyone's stomach, and many people pretend to be like depressed princes, not wanting to say what they think, but wanting others to understand him and understand him.

This in itself is also unrealistic.

The man smiled and said, "I understand, thank you." ”

"Senior Brother Gu. It was also when the man's voice just fell, Yuan Shasha walked to Gu Chen's side with the rest of the food: "We are all eating inside, why are you alone outside, Senior Brother Wang is looking for you." ”

"Oh, then I'll go right over. Gu Chen hurriedly agreed.

"Then come here. Yuan Shasha reminded her and left.

At this time, the young man sitting opposite Gu Chen also smiled, stretched out his hand and said, "Then you go and accompany your friends first, don't worry about me, I want to be quiet here." ”

"Okay, think more about your parents in everything, if you don't know what to do now, then try to honor your parents, this will not be wrong. ”

Gu Chen also came up with textbook-like persuasion......

Persuasion work like this, Gu Chen can encounter it every month.

The man nodded, his gaze looking directly out the window.

And Gu Chen also took the noodles that he hadn't finished eating and walked directly into the No. 8 private room.

"Gu Chen, is that your friend outside?" As soon as Gu Chen entered the private room, Officer Wang turned on the questioning mode.

Officer Wang was very sure that the man in the hall seemed to know Gu Chen somewhat.

After all, the circle of Jiangnan City is so big, maybe some people in the same city will never see each other in their lives, but some people can always meet in a suitable place.

I also saw Gu Chen chatting with him in the living room for a long time, so Officer Wang asked more.

"I just met, I don't know the name. Gu Chen sat back in his seat, but found that there were many small snacks on the table.

Yuan Shasha hurriedly explained: "Just that person just now, his temper was a little short-tempered, and he was a little embarrassed by the boss's wife, but Senior Brother Gu was wise, and he gave him two bowls of noodles, so he gave up." ”

"I see. Officer Wang nodded slightly, and asked Gu Chen in a gossipy tone: "Then Gu Chen, do you know why he is angry?"

"Relationship problems, just broke up. Gu Chen said.

When Wang Dewen heard this, he immediately smiled and said: "This young man, who doesn't want to experience some emotional setbacks, can only meet true love after experience." ”

"Then Senior Brother Wang, what do you think true love is?" Lu Weiwei originally didn't expect that Wang Dewen would talk about such a high-end topic, and she hurriedly asked him with the mentality of not missing it.

Wang Dewen was stumped all of a sudden.

But Officer Wang beside him said as a passer-by: "Lu Weiwei, do you really want to know?"

"I really want to know. Lu Weiwei nodded vigorously, very sure.

Then Officer Wang glanced at Yuan Shasha......

Yuan Shasha quickly shook her head and pointed at Lu Weiwei and said, "It's Senior Sister Lu who wants to know." ”

"Actually, it's nothing. Officer Wang put down his chopsticks, touched his bulging belly and said: "Actually, I think true love is, obviously both of them are very ugly, but they are still worried that each other will be snatched away, I think this is true love." ”

"Poof!" When Wang Dewen heard this, he almost didn't squirt out the lung pieces in his mouth, and he also smiled and said: "Lao Wang, your point of view is a bit interesting." ”

"After all, I'm from here. Officer Wang also leaned back, leaned back on the seat and said: "But the true love in this era is not to look at the mobile phone when you are together, and to reply to messages in time when you are not together." ”

In fact, people nowadays believe in love, and at the same time, they believe that love will not happen to them. ”

When Wang Dewen heard this, he also nodded quickly, and said with longing: "So in the past, the carriage and horse were very slow, and there was only enough to love one person in a lifetime, which sounds very beautiful, but I always feel that the person concerned actually wants to love many people." ”

"It's just that the cars and horses were very slow in those days, and there was no way to love only one person. ”

Looking at everyone's surprised eyes, Wang Dewen also coughed lightly and explained: "That's the truth, anyway, you can taste it slowly." ”

"Senior Brother Wang, you may also be the fish that slipped through the net of quality education after Lao Wang, right?" Lu Weiwei couldn't help but tease, feeling that these two people were really like each other.

Wang Dewen hurriedly drew a line with Officer Wang: "I'm different from him, I'm me, he's him, when my girlfriend changed three, Lao Wang didn't have a girlfriend yet." ”

"If I hadn't been assigned to the fire brigade of Jiangnan City in the end, I might have to settle down in other places, Lao Wang, he didn't have a choice, and he was not at the same level as me. ”

"Hahaha. ”

also listened to Wang Dewen's old history of Officer Wang, Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha suddenly laughed.

Comrade Wang was embarrassed and wanted to strangle Wang Dewen.

The entire No. 8 private room was suddenly full of laughter.

But at the same time that everyone was teasing each other and tearing each other down, Gu Chen obviously saw the young man outside the door, who seemed to be observing something.

Soon, he stood up, picked up the black leather bag casually, and walked directly towards the bathroom of the silent noodle restaurant.

"Senior Brother Gu, what are you looking at?" also saw that Gu Chen was absent-minded, after all, could he learn about Comrade Wang's past from Wang Dewen.

However, Gu Chen's mind didn't seem to be here, so Lu Weiwei was also curious.

Gu Chen smiled: "It's nothing, I want to go to the bathroom." ”

"Then I'll accompany you. Lu Weiwei said, and began to take out tissues in her bag.

Yuan Shasha took a look, and quickly put down the chopsticks: "Then I'll go too, let's go together." ”

Gu Chen nodded, got up and walked out directly.

Several people came to the outside of the restroom.

The restrooms of the entire silent noodle restaurant are a side-by-side structure, and there are a total of 3 single toilets, regardless of gender.

At this time, in addition to Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha, there were several customers waiting in line at the door.

5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes passed......

The customers in the restroom came out one after another.

But when Gu Chen was the last to walk out of the bathroom, he found that the customers who were queuing on the far right just now were still standing in place and waiting anxiously.

And Gu Chen clearly remembered that on the right was the cubicle that the young man entered, but now there was still no movement inside.

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