Chapter 30: Old Place Barbecue
"Okay, Mom, I know, I'll go to sleep right now. I gently pushed the drawer back and watched my mom out.
I retracted the thought I wanted to read the diary just now, thinking that there were a lot of things in the past two days, so let's put Xia Yan's affairs aside first, after all, I have been tossing for those dreams for several days, and I also need to take a good rest.
I turned off the light, went to bed, and completely emptied myself, thinking about nothing more, and praying that I would be able to sleep all night until dawn without a dream.
However, just as I was about to fall asleep in a trance, the phone on the bedside table suddenly lit up, emitting a faint light, followed by a piercing ringtone.
I fumbled and squinted, saw the name "Xiao Jun" displayed on the screen, and picked it up.
"Hey, Xiao Jun!"
"Chen Ye, I'm at the barbecue restaurant we used to come to often, do you want to come over?" Xiao Jun said on the phone, he seemed to be in a place where there were more people, and the sounds around him were very noisy, and I listened carefully to barely hear what he was saying.
"The barbecue restaurant you used to go to often?" I sat up from the bed in confusion, I really couldn't remember the barbecue restaurant that Xiao Jun said he frequented.
"That's right, that's the barbecue restaurant that I often went to with you and Xia Yan at that time... Belch... ......"Xiao Jun seemed to feel that he had said something wrong, and immediately hung up the phone.
"Barbecue restaurant, Xia Yan?" I muttered to myself in the dark, while carefully searching my mind for memories of the barbecue restaurant, as if I had seen it in the diary that Xiao Jun gave me and Xia Yan wrote.
I got up and turned on the light in my room, intending to take out the turquoise-covered diary in the drawer again, but when I opened the drawer, I found it empty.
"Was it taken away by my mother?" I frowned, and wanted to go out and ask my mother, but thinking that she might have fallen asleep by this time, I had to forget about it first.
At this time, there was silence around me, but I always felt as if there were hands stirring it all in secret.
I picked up my phone and called Xiao Jun back, it seems that I can't forget those dreams and Xia Yan for a while today, I still decided to struggle with these things that bother me.
"What are you kid hanging up on?" I asked Xiao Jun.
"That's not—" He couldn't say for a long time.
"You just said where is the barbecue restaurant you used to go to? You send me the address on WeChat, and I'll be there in a moment. ”
Because I didn't find any clues in the hospital all day today, I was a little depressed, and now I received this call from Xiao Jun, it seems that I don't want to sleep peacefully tonight, it is better to go out with him to have some barbecue and drink some wine, so as to relieve my current confusion of not knowing where to find clues.
"You're coming?" Xiao Jun was a little surprised.
"What? I can't go? Is there anyone else?"
'You called me to come along, and now you don't want me to go?' I thought to myself.
"Yes, of course, there is no one else, just the two of us. ”
"Then send me the address, what's the name of the barbecue restaurant?" After saying that, I quickly got dressed and took the keys out of the house.
I opened the door, and it was pitch black, and my mom was already asleep. As soon as I put on my shoes, the WeChat prompt sounded, and it should be Xiao Jun who sent the address.
I went out and clicked on the address Xiao Jun had just sent me and read: "The old local barbecue restaurant, the name is often frequented at first glance." ”
After that, I hailed a car and went to the "old local barbecue" restaurant.
As soon as I arrived at the door of the barbecue restaurant, I heard Xiao Jun calling my name and beckoning me to come over.
"Chen Ye! ”
I walked towards him and sat down across from him.
"I don't know if your taste has changed, I ordered according to your taste before, did you eat at night, I called you out so late. Xiao Jun said to me with a smile, but there was no more desire and embarrassment on the phone before.
I looked at the hot and grilled food on the table, including mushrooms, fish steaks, beef tendons, beef, and more. These are the things I love to eat, and to be honest, my tastes haven't really changed at all over the years.
However, what touched me more was that I didn't expect that after so many years, Xiao Jun still remembered my eating preferences.
I reached out and patted Xiao Jun on the shoulder: "Thank you, brother." Then he picked up a bunch of mushrooms and ate it. I had eaten tonight, and I was seven points full, but when I saw this table of barbecue, I still felt a sense of hunger.
"Thank you for what?" Listening to my sudden thanks, Xiao Jun was a little confused.
"The freshly grilled one is the best, hurry up and eat it!" I handed him a string of fish steaks, not intending to explain the gratitude I had just given, I just thought it was good to have such a brother for so many years, and it was a bit hypocritical to say it.
Xiao Jun took the fish steak in my hand and ate it, without asking anything more.
"Your beer. "Not long after we ate, the waiter at the barbecue brought us beer.
"You didn't drive here, did you?" Xiao Jun asked me as he nibbled on a chicken leg.
I opened the beer, filled it for Xiao Jun and myself, and replied, "I know that I want to drink when I go out with your kid, and if I come here, I won't get drunk tonight." ”
"Good brother, don't get drunk and don't go home. Xiao Jun threw the gnawed chicken bones into the trash, wiped his hands with a tissue, and raised his wine glass to clink glasses with me.
I raised my glass and touched it with him, then I raised my head and drank it.
Maybe it was the wine that I just had in my stomach that made me want to talk: "I went to Hua'an Hospital today, and I asked my friends over there to help me check the files of all the hospitals in the city, but there were no files of my car accident, and my clues were broken again...... ”
I filled myself with a drink, and as I drank, I continued, "Also, do you remember the last time you sent me a journal with a turquoise cover? I remember that I kept it in a drawer, but when I went out today, it was gone......
"There weren't many clues in the first place, and the only diary that could be called a clue was lost......"
"Don't I just want to know what happened in the past, what happened to the car accident ten years ago, why does everyone around me hide it from me?" I looked at Xiao Jun stunned, the effect of alcohol made me groggy, but it didn't let me fall asleep, but I was in a fog, and I couldn't tell what was real and what was unreal.
"I just want to know my past, why are you all blocking me one by one. My hand slapped heavily on the table a few times, and the alcohol amplified the feeling of being teased in my heart, perhaps because of my trust in Xiao Jun very much, so I vented all the depression I had been suppressing in my heart today.
As he spoke, Xiao Jun got up and sat next to me, put his arm around my shoulders, and quietly listened to my somewhat venting words.