I put my phone down and caught a glimpse of three keys on the bedside table: the downstairs door key, the house key here, and the door key to my bedroom.

But this is not mine, my keys have always been in my bag, so this is the string that Jin Yebai took from Li Sisi, and he will finally not be able to enter my apartment casually in the future.

I got up and got dressed, folded the extra quilt and put it in the cupboard, then went to the bathroom to wash up, and when I was done, I grabbed my phone and bag and went out to forage for food.

As soon as I went out, I called Jin Yebai's phone, but he didn't answer, and then sent a message over, saying that he was okay and was at home now, and Qingya was by his side, so I didn't need to worry.

With Song Qingya, a doctor who came back from studying abroad, take care of him, what else do I have to worry about, besides, am I worried about the usefulness? With a wry smile, I threw my phone into my bag.

Li Sisi took Lu Zhenting back to meet his parents and prepare to get married, and he didn't make a phone call for several days, so he was probably very busy visiting relatives and friends.

Li Muchi went back to his hometown alone to accompany his parents for the New Year, in addition to WeChat these days, he didn't have a phone call, everyone was busy, and I was the only idler.

Before this year, I was a family person, whether I was a child or grew up, I looked forward to the New Year soon, and everyone was lively together, but now I am alone, and I don't even want to buy New Year's goods.

Originally, I wanted to go and buy breakfast, but because the Chinese New Year was approaching, most breakfast shops were closed, and only a notice was posted on the door saying when they would be back next year.

I couldn't help it, I couldn't eat the buns, so I had to go to the commissary and buy a bread and a bottle of drink, and while nibbling on it, I thought about where I should go next and what I could do this holiday.

I threw away the bread after I had eaten half of it, and the drink was thrown into my bag after only one sip, but I thought about what I had to do next.

Don't you want to live alone?

Can't a lonely person celebrate the New Year?

Not only do I want to celebrate the New Year, but I also have to have a lot of fun and make myself crazy again!

Then I went straight to a travel agency and signed up for a tour group with a destination in the Harbour area, and I wanted to go out and see the outside world.

I reported a three-day and four-night journey, and when I came back, half of the holiday had passed, and no one else called me during this period, except for a phone call from Li Muchi on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

There are a few WeChat messages, but most of them are sent in groups, from some ordinary friends, former colleagues, and old classmates, etc., it looks very boring, and some people don't even make modifications.

Of all the WeChat messages I received, there was only one from Jin Yebai, wishing me a happy new year, that's all, there were no other words, as he said, he was able to reassure me.

After a few more days of stuffiness at home, it was time to go to work, although this Spring Festival holiday was not very good, but it was not too bad, except for no one to accompany it, there were no other regrets.

I was the first to arrive at the office, and I couldn't help but think as I sat in a chair and propped my head on, did I get out of that dead end of becoming a nun and now I could fall in love and get married like a normal person?

Speaking of love, I have to think of Li Muchi, he came back from the train last night and went to work today, because the time was too tight, he didn't ask me to meet or come to my side or anything.

But I think if his heart for me hadn't changed, he would have called me before he got off work today, either asking me to go out to eat or going to his house for dinner.

Soon after arriving at the company, the outside office gradually became lively, everyone met for the first time in the new year, smiled and wished others a good new year, said some auspicious words and so on.

I sat alone in the manager's office and was so lonely, so I went out to join them, and when the time came for work, I went back to the small office, but after half an hour of work, no one else came.

What about Jin Yebai?

What about Lu Zhenting?

And Lises?

My friends, where are you all going, and wouldn't it be too pitiful to leave me here alone?

And on the first day of work in the new year, I should have a meeting, what should I do if you are not there?

After waiting for another half an hour, I finally couldn't help it, even if something didn't come, at least I had to make a phone call, so that I could have the bottom of my heart, so I didn't say hello like this, it was too unkind.

I picked up my phone, flipped through the phone book, and was about to call Lu Zhenting first, he was the boss, one of the founders of this company, but no one answered after several rings.

I continued to call without giving up, and finally came a mechanical female voice, reminding me that the user I dialed was not answered, obviously Lu Zhenting did not want to answer my call.

One refused to answer, so I continued to call the second one, so I pressed Jin Yebai's number, and what I heard was a mechanical voice reminding me that the user I dialed had turned off the phone.

I pinned my last hope on Li Sisi, but after the phone called, I was directly stunned, and it was the mechanical female voice that reminded me, but it was that I was dialing an empty number.

One went unanswered!

One is turned off!

And one more is an empty number!

Isn't that a little too weird?

Is it April Fool's Day? But now it's clear that the Spring Festival hasn't even ended.

I was going crazy, my hands holding my phone were shaking, who else could I find now? I don't know, I couldn't think of anyone else, and I suddenly felt like I was abandoned collectively.

Sitting in my chair, I began to wonder where they had gone, and why had they disappeared so completely.

I remember that Jin Yebai seemed to have told me once a year ago that he should not come to work in the company again after the year, and Song Qingya did not let him come, and he wanted to start preparing for the wedding.

Well, this one is kind of a forgetful friend.

Lu Zhenting went to the Northeast with Li Sisi to meet his parents, and he had long heard that the Northeast people were always hospitable, maybe Li Sisi's relatives and friends knew that he opened his own company, and Li Sisi also worked together, so it didn't matter if he didn't come, so he kept them for two more days, and everyone contacted and contacted each other.

Or maybe they were only looking to visit relatives and friends, and forgot to book a ticket early, so they delayed their return trip, after all, it is normal for a ticket to be hard to find during the holidays.

I was relieved to think so, and I hope I'm right, and nothing will happen to them!

But I thought about it, and finally checked on the Internet whether there had been any traffic accidents in Li Sisi's hometown recently, but I didn't find anything.

So I can't figure out why they don't call me beforehand, I don't know if it's worrying?

I was going to eat together at noon today, but from morning to noon, none of them came, so I had to ask Zhang Yi to help order takeout and go out to eat with them.

During this period, Zhang Yi asked me, "Why didn't Mr. Jin and Mr. Lu come, shouldn't there be a meeting today?"

"Maybe there's something. I made a perfunctory remark, and the others immediately gave me strange looks, as if I shouldn't have answered.

But if I don't answer that, how else can I answer, and I would like to know why they didn't come, if something was delayed, or if something happened.

In order to avoid embarrassment, I fled back to the manager's office with a boxed lunch, and then never went out again except to go to the bathroom, looking outside from time to time, expecting a familiar figure to come over.

In the afternoon, I called all three of them almost every hour, and it was the three mechanical female voices who always called me back, making me want to smash my phone.

I waited for them in the company for a whole day, and the whole person was about to turn into a wangfu stone, but I still didn't see any of them, and the wait finally turned into disappointment.

I didn't even receive a call from Li Muchi before getting off work, watching the people outside leave in turn, and there was only one me left in the whole company, I felt as if I had been abandoned by the whole world.

Fortunately, when I was also packing my things and preparing to leave, the phone finally rang, and there were still people in this world who would contact me, I hope it was one of the three of them.

Ecstatic picked up the phone, I looked at the short number and was completely desperate, it was a call from a communications company, it was estimated that it was either a sales pitch or a questionnaire, I hung up directly.

Pick up the bag and leave, I closed the window and locked the door, Gu Zizi went downstairs to squeeze the bus back to the apartment, I swore that when Li Sisi came back, I must clean her up, I am so worried.

I don't know which fairy I offended today, even the bus bullied me, I waited for more than half an hour for the bus every ten minutes and didn't get on the bus, and I couldn't squeeze in every time, so I wouldn't be like this before.

Watching others squeeze into the car one by one while I was locked out, causing the cars I wanted to sit in pass by one by one, the feeling was even worse than Ling Chi's execution.

As the saying goes, people are unlucky to stuff their teeth when they drink cold water, and I'm the kind of unlucky guy now, which is much more unlucky than the last time I ran out of gas and attempted suicide!

Seeing that there was finally another car, I picked up my arms and was about to squeeze up, the phone rang at an inopportune time, if it was usual, I must have taken the car as the priority, and the phone was a big deal to wait until I got in the car.

But now the situation has changed, I have been waiting for some people's calls, afraid that once I miss it, it will become an eternal regret, but when I took out my mobile phone at the risk of not being able to squeeze into the car again, I saw Li Muchi's number.

He really knows how to pick the time, seeing that the car is full again, and the number of people around me is only increasing, I gave up the idea of taking the bus, and stopped a car while answering the phone, this time no one robbed me.

I knew that I would have to take a taxi back in the end, so why did I stand in this cold wind for about 40 minutes!

Li Muchi called to ask me if I was home, and asked me not to cook, but to go to his side to eat, and sure enough, as I guessed during the day, I didn't shirk it, and immediately agreed.

Taking a taxi back to the apartment, I looked at the time, it was very close to Li Muchi's appointment, so I planned to go to his house for dinner first, and then go back to the apartment.

When I got downstairs I called him and said I had arrived, and he immediately threw the key down from the window and told me to open the door myself, as we always did, so as not to run down and open the door.

Because I had the key, I didn't knock on the door when I got to their house, and I used the key to open the lock, but the moment I opened the door, I couldn't help but widen my eyes in surprise.

In addition to Li Muchi, there was also a woman sitting on the sofa in the room, holding a cup and not knowing whether to warm her hands or drink water, this was the first time I saw another woman in his house.

Seeing me come in, Li Muchi immediately greeted me, I recovered from the shock, returned the key to him, and asked with a smile, "It turns out that you have a friend." ”

"Well, I'll introduce you. Li Muchi's expression was a little strange, and he walked to the sofa and introduced to the woman, "This is my girlfriend, Shen Manxi." ”

The woman immediately stood up and smiled gently at me, greeting me in a flat voice, "Hello." ”

I felt like I had just been through a thunderstorm, and I couldn't even speak for a while.

What did Li Muchi tell me before?

He said he'd give me time, he'd wait for me, wouldn't he? Even when he left a year ago, he still said that he hoped to take me back to my hometown during spring break this year.

I also know that the wait is painful, but now it is only more than two months before his New Year's Day confession, will his so-called wait be too short?

"Meng Lu. Li Muchi shouted at me and pulled me back from the short circuit in my brain.

He used to call me Lulu, but now he is Meng Lu, and even his affectionate title has changed, what else has not changed?

"Hello. I smiled back at Shen Manxi, "My name is Shu Menglu, it's a pleasure to meet you, and I bless you." ”

After a brief introduction and greetings, we finally entered the theme of tonight, everyone had dinner together, Shen Manxi behaved like a hostess, and had a lot of interaction with Li Muchi.

Li Muchi's cooking skills are nothing to say, and what he cooks today is basically the dishes I like to eat, but unfortunately now I am restless, and I don't know the taste.

In the past, I would help Li Muchi clean up the table and clean the pots and pans after eating, but now it is obviously not necessary, these things are done by Shen Manxi, if I do it, it will be anti-customer-oriented.

After eating, Shen Manxi silently cleaned up the table, Li Muchi and I sat on the sofa and chatted, he asked me how the Spring Festival was going, how it was, I told him that I went to the harbor area to play, and it was not bad.

After sitting for a while, I got up and prepared to go back, Li Muchi took the key on the shoe cabinet and said to send me down, the meaning is self-evident, he has something to say to me.

"Meng Lu, I'm sorry!" he whispered an apology as soon as he walked out of his house.

"You have nothing to be sorry for me. "I am not in a boyfriend and girlfriend relationship with him, we are all single, and he doesn't need my permission to find a girlfriend.

Although it was very surprising and a little aggrieved for him to suddenly point to another woman and say to me that it was his girlfriend, he was still not wrong after all.

"I once said I would give you time, I would wait for you. "But I broke my promise." ”

"It doesn't matter, no one can say for sure about fate. I smiled, pushed open the door on the first floor and walked out, the cold wind blew, and I couldn't help but shiver.

"Anyway, I still feel sorry for you, and I hope you can forgive me for breaking my promise. Li Muchi put his hands in his trouser pockets and walked beside me with his head down.

"If you think it's better for me to accept your apology, then I'll just accept it, don't mind, at least we're friends now, aren't we?"

He didn't say anything, and in order to ease the awkward atmosphere, I changed the subject, "You guys seem to have a good relationship, shouldn't you go on a blind date?"

There are too many single men and women who are reluctant to rush home for the Chinese New Year, one is that the Spring Festival is too spectacular, and the other is that when visiting relatives and friends, they will always be asked about the object.

What's more, some parents ordered that they must bring a partner back for the New Year, so there is a matter of renting a girlfriend or boyfriend home for the New Year.

Li Muchi is already thirty years old, and his family is already anxious like ants on a hot pot, and it is normal to arrange a blind date for him when he goes home.

"It's not. Li Muchi's answer surprised me a little, "She was my high school classmate, and it can be regarded as my first love, but later they separated because they didn't go to college in the same place, and then the relationship gradually faded." ”

Li Muchi is already thirty years old, even if Shen Manxi entered school earlier than him, he will not be much younger than him, Bensan's woman is only looking for a boyfriend now, will it be too late?

"When I went home this time, there was a high school reunion, I didn't plan to go, she called me, and then I went, and when I saw her, I found out that she was divorced, had no children, and is still single. "Li Muchi walked very slowly, and he spoke slowly and logically, as if this would be easier for me to accept.

I didn't speak, waiting for him to continue.

"She told me that she actually never forgot me, and then we were both drunk, and I sent her home, and I couldn't control myself under the influence of alcohol, and I did some bad things to her, and I couldn't be irresponsible......," Li Muchi's voice became lower and lower.

I sorted out my thoughts, the two of them used to be their first love, and now they are both single, plus drunken disorder/sex, they made a one-night affair, in order to be responsible, Li Muchi finally chose to be with her, the story is probably like this, right?

"Do you know about your affairs?" I think Li Muchi should not just be with Shen Manxi because he is responsible, the first love is the most unforgettable, and many people's marriages and love in life have problems because of the appearance of their first love.

Li Muchi nodded, "I know, she went to my house when I was in high school, and my parents had a good impression of her, although she got married later, she divorced within two years, and she had no children, plus my parents were in a hurry to hold their grandson, so they had no opinion, urging us to get married quickly." ”

"And do you love her?" is a question I shouldn't have asked, but for some reason, I suddenly wanted to know the answer.

"Hmm...... I've never forgotten her over the years. Li Muchi stopped, and my apartment was close in front of him.

I also stopped, "I'm here, you go back, she's still waiting for you." ”

"Meng Lu, do you think I'm very attentive, obviously I still think about her in my heart, but I still fall in love with you. Li Muchi asked cautiously.

Aren't most people like this, eating from their own bowls, looking at the pot, and even if this is not enough, they have to secretly look at other people's bowls.

Besides, people are not plants and trees, who can be ruthless, who can completely let go after a real love, most people don't have to meet several people in their lives, how many times do they fall in love?

As the saying goes, don't hang yourself from another tree, you should try to find a few more and compare which one is the most suitable for you.

"No!" I smiled, pulled the key out of my bag, waved goodbye to him, and went straight upstairs.

Li Muchi has Shen Manxi in his heart, and I am very glad that I didn't agree to be with him at the beginning, otherwise even if I go home with me, who can guarantee that he will not rekindle his old feelings and throw me aside after seeing his first love at the class reunion?

Rather than being abandoned later, why didn't I agree from the beginning? Li Muchi gave a big surprise today, and from now on I don't have to worry about whether or not to be with him.

Lying in bed at night, thinking about the recent events, I have to admit that this is a very strange Spring Festival, everyone is good before the holiday, and it seems that the future is a spring flower.

Jin Yebai plans to marry Song Qingya this year and then go abroad for his honeymoon;

Li Sisi also took advantage of the Spring Festival to take Lu Zhenting back to his hometown, and saw his parents come back to get the certificate after taking the household registration book;

Li Muchi said that he hoped to take me home during the Spring Festival this year, and I put down Zhou Mingchuan, blessed Jin Yebai, and had the idea of being with him.

But after the New Year, it was only a few days, Jin Yebai's phone was turned off, Lu Zhenting's was unanswered, and Li Sisi's directly became an empty number.

Li Muchi was even more powerful, bringing back a first love who had rekindled an old love, and introduced it to me without changing his face, it was his girlfriend, and even his parents had seen it.

People say that the new year is new, but I feel new troubles in the new year, life always gives me a surprise from time to time, but often there is only surprise but no joy.

I spent three days in a row calling them over and over again on the phone of the manager's office, and I didn't hear anything except the mechanical female voice.

The employees outside looked at me more and more strangely, I didn't dare to go out to eat with them, and every day at noon, as soon as the takeout arrived, I ran out and brought it in, and hid in the manager's office alone to eat.

I was the first to arrive at work, and when I got in, I went into the manager's office, closed the door, and was the last to leave after work, not wanting to give anyone a chance to ask me because I couldn't answer their questions at all.

Where did Jin Yebai go?

When will Lu Zhenting come back?

What about Lises?

The reason why I said that it was three days in a row was not because someone came back after three days, but because it was just that after three days of hard work, it was the weekend when I didn't have to go to the office again.