Chapter 40: No Soul
In the evening, I finally returned to Guangzhou, which should have been a time for dinner, but I had no appetite at all, so I left the high-speed rail station and took a bus back to my accommodation.
Back at the rental house, Yang Fan hasn't come back from work yet, which is not surprising, because he basically has to work overtime. I took a shower and went back to my room to sleep, because I was so tired, the kind of tiredness that was physically and mentally exhausted......
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I don't know how long it took, I felt someone shaking my body while I was asleep, at first I thought it was an earthquake in my dream, but when I opened my hazy eyes, I found that it was Yang Fan standing next to the bed.
"Finally woke up! I thought you wouldn't wake up! You suddenly came back without saying a word, you slept comfortably, and a group of us were dying!" Yang Fan pulled out a chair and sat down, glaring at me dissatisfied.
I reluctantly lifted the quilt and got up, picked up the pillow and put it on my back, and half lay on it, but I didn't think much of Yang Fan's words, and asked the answer: "What time is it? ”
Yang Fan's expression was even more exaggerated now, as if he was looking at me with strange eyes, and he said in a loud voice: "You are really an ancestor!"
That being said, he brought me a box of dumplings from outside the house and came back to my room, and after throwing the box on the side of the bedside table, he lit a cigarette and said, "This was supposed to be a supper I bought in advance just in case I got hungry, let's eat, eat......"
He spit out a puff of cigarette and wondered: "Cheng Ting, do you say that I owe you in my last life, I didn't serve my mother so well, and I brought it to you to eat." ”
I winked at him and replied with a blank expression, "Then would you like to feed me a bite by the way?"
"Fuck off, uncle! I don't want to eat, I don't know my sexual orientation, I understand my sexual orientation very well, don't Su Jing ...... as soon as you leave" Yang Fan realized that he had said the wrong thing, paused, relaxed his tone and said: "You go home, what happened, let's talk about it, don't let everyone worry too much." ”
I crossed my legs and continued to eat dumplings on my own, saying, "It's delicious, do you want to eat one?"
"Eat your sister, ask you, be serious!"
I put down the box of dumplings, wiped my mouth, took a cigarette from his cigarette case and lit it, and after a while, I replied calmly: "What can I do, if I find her, I won't come back alone...... I went to her house that day to look for her, and I didn't get a response for a long time, and then it was an aunt in her neighborhood who told me about it......"
I repeated to Yang Fan what the aunt said to me that day, almost word for word, and after speaking, both of them fell into silence, each smoking without saying a word, and the small room was made into a miasma by the two of us in a blink of an eye.
"Open the window wider, don't make my quilt stink, let's go out and find a place to talk." I left the bed, briefly cleaned up the garbage on the bedside table, and then left the house with Yang Fan.
We went to a tavern outside for a few drinks, and we went not only with me and Yang Fan, but also Qi Min, Han Yue, Wen Shuya, Hu You and others. I asked Yang Fan to tell everyone about the general process of the matter, and then several people said some comforting words to me, and at the same time said that they would continue to help me pay attention to and inquire about all the news related to Su Jing in the future.
"Then you should be able to come back to the company tomorrow and continue to work, right? It's not easy for my boss to do it, if I continue to help you ask for leave, the director will have an opinion about me." Han Yue probably wanted to adjust the atmosphere and joked to me.
The group smiled and looked at me in unison, waiting for me to make a statement, and I nodded that I would return to normal work tomorrow.
I looked at the time, it was already eleven o'clock, so I stood up with my wine glass, looked around them, and said sincerely: "During this time, I have caused a lot of trouble to everyone, thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules to help and support me, this glass of wine, I salute everyone!" After speaking, I took a sip of the wine in the glass.
"Needless to say, we are all such good friends. Qi Min patted me on the shoulder and said.
"Well, okay, let's be here tonight, it's not too early, go back and rest early, I have to go to work tomorrow." Speaking of the latter sentence, I deliberately glanced at Han Yue, and once again responded to what she just told me to go back to work.
After everyone went back, I asked Yang Fan to get the key to the house, and then went out for a walk by myself. I walked aimlessly down the street until I saw an overpass not far away, so I walked up and watched the cars come and go with peace of mind, thinking nothing but trying to be quiet for a while.
After standing there for about ten minutes, I was followed by a homeless man, holding his belongings in his hands, looking at me with wary eyes.
I looked at him questioningly, and he pointed to where I was standing, and whispered, "That...... That's my turf. ”
At this moment I felt very speechless, and asked inwardly, "Am I so much like a vagabond? I am not so down as to compete with him for territory......
"Don't worry, I'm just standing here for a while, this feng shui treasure is still yours. I smiled in return, motioning for him to relax.
"Thank you...... Thank you. ”
After smoking the last half of the cigarette in my hand, I nodded to him and left the flyover.
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In the days without Su Jing, I seemed to feel that every day was like a year, but that was just my opinion, in fact, more than a month had passed. During that month or so, no matter what I did, I became lazy, and I was no longer as motivated as before. During this period, whether it was Han Yue or others, they all came to persuade me, but I seemed to be in my left ear and out of my right ear, ignoring what anyone said to me.
It was another day when I was about to get off work, so I turned off my computer, almost pinched the time to check in, and then walked out of the elevator that I pressed down.
"Cheng Ting, you stop for me!" Han Yue's very dissatisfied voice came from behind her, and she walked quickly towards me with her high heels.
I turned around and looked at her calmly, but didn't speak.
"Going to and from work on time every day, not doing anything all day, just being there in a daze, are you so interesting?!" she looked at me with a displeased face, waiting for me to reply.
My expression remained unchanged and I replied, "9 to 6, I just work according to my normal commute time. ”
Han Yue laughed and said: "Work? Are you embarrassed to say the word 'work' to me? What have you done? Let you check a material form, you actually filled in 1,000 of the number of floating items, do you want everyone in the venue to watch a floating feast? If I hadn't checked it later, the executive team really bought things back, how would you let the finance side calculate this account! This is not the first time you have made such a mistake, you were not like this before. ”
"Isn't it romantic and childlike to have more floating activities in the opening of the children's park?"
"You ......" Han Yue's face turned red with anger from me, and her chest rose and fell. She took two steps closer to me, and her voice choked up, "All of us have been looking for this long, Su Jing...... She's gone, can you accept the reality and cheer up, none of us want to see you like this...... Cheng Ting, you're almost out of soul, do you know......"
Han Yue's eyes were already moist at the end, and her expression was painful, but she looked at me expectantly, trying that I could change a little and make a change.
What she said made my heart tingle, but I finally let her down again, and said with a blank face, "This is my business...... The elevator arrived, and I went first. ”
"Cheng Ting!you bastard!!"
The moment the elevator door closed, I saw the endless disappointment on her face, and a tear slipped from the corner of her eye. I don't know if she finally wiped the tears from her cheeks, because the elevator had already gone down.
I looked out through the glass of the elevator, and the neon lights reflected my shadow on the glass, and the figure in front of the glass was like a walking corpse, as Han Yue said, without a soul......