I just sat at the door of Su Jing's house by myself, completely ignoring the eyes of passers-by looking at me like a neuropath. The shadows of the sun on the ground were gradually lengthened, and at dusk came quietly, and I sat there almost motionless for an afternoon, if there was any movement, and I smoked one cigarette after another.

The mobile phone in my pocket has long since run out of power and automatically shuts down, and for a moment, I feel like I am cut off from the whole world. I shook the cigarette case, and the last cigarette came out of the box, and I was stunned for a moment before lighting the cigarette.

It wasn't until the last cigarette was finished that I finally stood up against the wall, and I knew it was time to get out of here, even if I was reluctant, but I had to accept the reality. No matter where Su Jing went, or ...... If something happens to her during the typhoon, I'm going to find her!

Leaving Su Jing's door and walking out of the side of the road outside, I first found a place to borrow a shared power bank to charge my mobile phone, and then went to buy a bag of fruit and a pack of cigarettes, and then found a place to sit down and smoke a cigarette.

As the sky gradually darkened, and it was time to get off work, the office workers on the road walked out of the office buildings one by one, and when I saw a few couples passing in front of me, my heart suddenly tightened, as if I had touched a certain heartstring.

"Dingding......

As soon as the charged mobile phone was turned on, I received a lot of message reminders, 7 missed calls and more than 80 messages, messages and calls from Han Yue, Qi Min and others, as well as information from the work group, but I didn't want to pay attention to these at this time, but called Cheng Yu over.

"What are you doing? Why did you suddenly remember to call me?"

The phone was connected, but I was still looking at the pedestrians on the road in distraction, completely filtering what Cheng Yu said to me, and I didn't react until he called me two more words on the phone.

I replied, "I'm home, where are you, can you come and pick me up?"

Cheng Yu said in a surprised tone: "Are you going home?" No, why did you suddenly come back without saying a word, can you say it in advance next time...... I'm in the suburbs now, and it will take at least 40 minutes for me to get to you, and now it's rush hour after work, and the traffic jam is in traffic, so you might as well take a ride back by yourself, your parents are at home. ”

"Oh. ”

"Alright, alright, I'm busy here, I'll talk to you when I go back in the evening, hang up." ”

The sound of "beep" rang on the phone for a while before I put down the phone I was holding. Make sure that the battery of your phone can last until you go home, and after returning the power bank, you will stop a taxi on the side of the road and go home.

On the way, I already imagined that Lao Cheng and Lao Liu would definitely ask me a lot of questions, and the most important thing for me to do was to hide my emotions and never let my parents know about Su Jing's disappearance.

......

When I returned to the door, Lao Liu came out with a smile and opened the door for me, but there was a hint of surprise in his smile: "At first, I thought I had heard it wrong, but when I came out, I found that it was really you who came back!

I entered the house, tried not to think about those things in my heart, and responded to my mother with a smile: "I don't want to surprise you, just appear at home, how good!"

"It's good to come back, what kind of fruit do you buy, you have everything at home...... Your dad is upstairs, I'll cook first. My mother glanced at the shopping bag in my hand and went into the kitchen with a smile.

I nodded, changed my shoes, and went into the kitchen with the fruit.

"Mom, is there anything I need help with?" I opened the fridge and glanced at it to see what was delicious.

"No, you're in the way here, just go and do your business, and call your dad down when we're going to eat, and you can draw pictures on it." Mom was talking while washing the vegetables.

I nodded expectedly at what my mother said: "I think so too, so I just ask, Mom, you go on, I'll wash some fruit and go upstairs to accompany Dad." ”

My mother pretended to be angry and gave me a blank look, then her brows furrowed, and she smiled and said, "It's still so poor! ”

When I walked up the stairs on the second floor, I already heard Lao Cheng's voice, I looked inside the study, and it turned out that he was on the phone. When Lao Cheng saw my appearance, the expression on his face was not as smiling as his mother, he just nodded, and then continued to talk to the person on the phone.

After another half an hour, Lao Cheng, who had already finished making the call, walked out of the study, lit a cigarette, and asked me with a frown: "Aren't you supposed to work in the company today, why did you suddenly go home?"

I didn't expect Lao Cheng to suddenly ask like this, so I was stunned for a while before replying: "Oh, I worked overtime a few days ago, and our leader gave me two days off, so I came back." ”

Lao Cheng said "um", took a puff of cigarette, and said: "I'm going to go out to talk to customers later, I won't eat at home tonight, you go down and talk to your mother, you don't have to cook my food." ”

"Oh...... Dad, I've just come back for a while, and you're going to go out, let's have a meal together. ”

"We can eat together as a family every day, but customers can't. Lao Cheng's expression was as serious as ever, he snuffed out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, turned around and walked towards the stairs, and did not forget to add: "Don't stand here, go down to the kitchen to help your mother cook, I'll go out first." ”

I shouted towards the staircase, "Got it." Then he also got up from the chair and followed Lao Cheng down the stairs. At this time, I received a message from our group of several people again, and still asked me about Su Jing. I took my phone and looked at it for a while, then leaned against the wall and replied briefly with a few words: "Su Jing is not at home, I will go back to Guangzhou the day after tomorrow." ”

Although it was only a few words, I knew that they must understand what it meant, and I didn't want to explain too much, so I would meet them again when I returned to Guangzhou.

After replying to the message, I first went down to the kitchen on the first floor and told my mother that Lao Cheng was not at home for dinner, and then went to the door to see off my father, and at this time Cheng Yu also came back.

For dinner, my mother, I and Cheng Yu ate together. My mother filled me and Cheng Yu with a bowl of soup respectively, and then asked me inadvertently: "Cheng Ting, you and Su Jing didn't come back for the Mid-Autumn Festival last time, didn't you say that you should choose a vacation time to come back together, then you go home this time, did Su Jing come back with you?"

I took the time to take the bowl of soup from my mother's hand, and I quickly thought about how to answer. I first took a sip of soup, and then replied with a smile: "Mom, you said that you will come back on Saturday and Sunday, today is a working day, Su Jing has to go to class." One more thing...... Gotta tell you about it. ”

Cheng Yu and my mother looked at me at the same time, waiting for what I was going to say.

I paused for a moment and continued: "Su Jing, she is going to do a research with her tutor, and after the research is done, she will go directly to the graduate school entrance examination. ”

"Where are you going to investigate?" asked Cheng Yu suspiciously.

"It should be Canada, and the school that Su Jing wants to take is also Columbia University in Canada. ”

"Then you mean, is Su Jing going to stay abroad in the future?" The old mother put away her smile, frowned, and asked with a serious expression.

I pondered for a while, then nodded and replied, "It's very likely, it mainly depends on how well she does in her research and whether she can be admitted in the end." ”

"Silly boy, didn't you dissuade her? You know that she doesn't know when she will come back, so what about the relationship between the two of you?!" the old mother knocked on the dinner table, and her tone became a little excited.

I put down the dishes and chopsticks and patiently explained: "Mom, it has always been Su Jing's dream to go to graduate school and go to Columbia University for graduate school, I can't be so selfish, I should support her." ”

My mother said sharply: "Selfish, then isn't she selfish when she does this?! What kind of dream, can't we live a good life together, do you have to go abroad? This is thousands of miles away, what if ...... If she gets along with someone else, you don't know!"

"Mom......"

Seeing this, Cheng Yu waved his hand at me, signaling me not to say any more, then looked at my mother and said comfortingly: "Mom, they are all adults, and they all have their own judgments, so let them make their own decisions." ”

"But ......"

"Okay, Mom, let's eat first, you see this dish is almost cold. ”

After Cheng Yu finished speaking, his mother just shook her head in disappointment and didn't say any more. I gave Cheng Yu a thumbs up in a position that was not so easy to spot, to thank him for the assistance he gave me.

......

About an hour after the meal, I asked for a glass of whiskey with ice at a small Qing bar near Cheng Yu's house, and sat down at the bar to chat.

"Is Su Jing really going to Canada? Cheng Yu took a sip of wine and took out a cigarette from my cigarette case and lit it.

After he took the cigarette, I also took out a cigarette and lit it, took several puffs in a row, and was silent for a while, I decided to confess to Cheng Yu, so I said in a deep voice: "Actually...... There was no such thing at all, it was just an excuse I was just making up...... Hehe, I wish this was true, but the reality is not. ”