Chapter 9: The Search for Promises

When he arrived at Xu Yue's hometown, when Li Shaohui looked at the three old houses in front of him, he suddenly felt a little nervous inexplicably, as if the promise was inside, he patted his chest lightly, calmed down, and knocked on the door, there was no movement in the door, Li Shaohui had to knock again, and shouted.

This time there was a voice inside, the footsteps were very light and slow, as if stepping on Li Shaohui's heart, so that his heart kept ringing, although Li Shaohui knew that the usual promise would not be so light to walk, but he was lucky in case the promise had telepathy and felt his arrival!

In Li Shaohui's troubles, the door opened, and it was a kind old lady, Li Shaohui was disappointed, and the tension just now suddenly dissipated invisibly.

"Who's you, young man?" asked the old lady kindly.

"Is this Do'er's home? I'm her friend, so I've come to see her. ”

"Duo'er?" the old lady's hesitant look flashed, and then she looked understanding, and smiled, "You mean No'er?"

"Nuo'er?" This time it was Li Shaohui's turn to be surprised, but he figured it out in an instant, promise and promise, isn't the nickname called Nuo'er, didn't he call it like this a long time ago? As for Duo'er, who of these girls in the night club didn't give themselves a pseudonym?

"Come on, young man, come in!" After the old lady knew Li Shaohui's identity, she called him in enthusiastically.

The yard is not big, but it is neat, everything is placed in an orderly manner, and a few flowers are planted on the east side of the yard that Li Shaohui can't say, which are blooming in purple and red, it seems that this is also an old man who has the same hobbies as his grandmother, Li Shaohui thought of the grandmother who had just passed away, and he became a little closer to the elder in front of him.

Entering the house, the old lady hurriedly washed the fruit, brought it to Li Shaohui for him to taste, under the hospitality, Li Shaohui had to eat an apple, and after he just finished eating, the old lady immediately stuffed him with a banana, Li Shaohui couldn't cry or laugh, so he had to eat again, and when the banana was finished, another nectarine was handed over.

Li Shaohui hurriedly refused, and secretly thought in his heart: "The old lady is too enthusiastic, why didn't she learn anything from her promise?" She has been cold, and she can't get angry with herself at every turn, and she has to accompany her with a smile to coax her and beg her every time. ”

Li Shaohui was thinking about his thoughts, and at a glance, he found that the old lady was looking at him with a loving face, just like looking at his own child, Li Shaohui was quite uncomfortable, so he pondered how to speak, but he didn't want the old lady to speak first, "Why didn't Nuo'er come back with you?"

"Ah, is she really not here?" Li Shaohui was extremely disappointed when he heard this, it seemed that he was destined to return empty-handed this time.

"Don't you know anything about her, are you two arguing again?" said the old man eagerly.

"No, no, I and Do-Nuoer are just ordinary friends. ”

"Nonsense, you even know that her name is Duo'er, how can you be an ordinary friend? If it's an ordinary friend, how can you come all the way here to find her?" Li Shaohui looked at the disapproving expression of the old man in front of him, and smiled bitterly, as if once it involves the issue of men and women, it is a person who becomes very sensitive and smart, let's just say that the old man in front of him judged his identity by just a few words, and he also analyzed the head of the Tao, and there is one point that makes him very puzzling, it seems to be "Duo'er" The name has other meanings, not as simple as a promise of a random pseudonym for the purpose of a night show.

Li Shaohui didn't want the old man to worry too much, so he smiled and vaguely said a few words, but the old lady was angry and said: "This dead girl, how can she run away when she is unhappy like her dead mother?" Speaking of the promised mother, the old lady's face was full of sadness, and asked Li Shaohui if she knew,

Li Shaohui secretly thought in his heart that this was a disgraceful private matter after all, and the less he knew, the better, so he said: "I said a little bit, but I don't know the specifics." ”

The old lady sighed, "If you talk about the things before and after, even Nuo'er doesn't know very well, Nuo'er's father is a good person, we are sorry for him, we all blame me, Nuo'er's mother is spoiled, spoiled lawless, dare to do anything by temperament, alas!"

When the old lady said this, her face was full of regret, Li Shaohui didn't know how to comfort her, so she could only be silent, and after a while, the old lady said again: "But don't worry, Nuo'er, this child will not be like her mother, she hit her parents a lot, and I have also taught her to be a man since she was a child, especially to be consistent in her feelings, so she is very serious about feelings, as long as it is the person and thing she recognizes, she will persevere and keep going, you can rest assured." ”

"Well, yes, that's true, and I'm sure Doll isn't the kind of person who messes around. Li Shaohui was bitter in his heart, but he still endured it and didn't tell the promise of the recent incident, if the old man in front of him knew, he didn't know how sad he would be?

Li Shaohui's affirmation of the promise made the old lady laugh and said: "Like last time Nuo'er quarreled with you, and then she ran back to hide for two months, I asked her what happened, she didn't say, and lied to me that she missed me, and wanted to stay at home with me for a while longer, that time I educated her, and the couple must talk calmly and heart-to-heart about something, not play missing, so she stayed at home for a short time, and I drove her back again." The old lady looked at Li Shaohui as she spoke, the more she looked at Li Shaohui, the more she liked it, and she couldn't help but take his hand to make decisions for him, and said: "If you encounter any grievances in the future or Nuo'er bullies you, even if you come here to find grandma, grandma will definitely help you educate her." ”

Li Shaohui smiled bitterly, and had to follow up to make a statement, praising and promising to be gentle and virtuous, it's too late to hurt yourself, how can you bully yourself!

This remark made the old lady more and more happy, holding Li Shaohui's hand, chattering for a long time, and even revealing the promise to wet the bed when she was a child.

The two chatted for a long time, Li Shaohui saw that it was getting late, the promise was not there, and it was pointless to stay here any longer, so he planned to say goodbye first, but he didn't expect the old lady's enthusiasm to be like fire, so he refused to let him go, and insisted on keeping him overnight.

Li Shaohui couldn't refuse, so he had to listen to the old lady's nagging about a lot of promised childhood pasts, and ate the promised favorite hometown food, before at nine o'clock in the evening, he entered the promised room to rest, the room is not big, the furnishings are also very simple, a bed and a dresser, and posters of Jay Chou and Leslie Cheung are pasted on the wall, I didn't expect her to be a girl chasing stars!

Li Shaohui lay on the bed, opened the promised quilt, smelled this faint and familiar fragrance, as if staying with the promise again, and unconsciously, his mind floated over the promise's beautiful face and seductive body...

Li Shaohui tossed and turned, couldn't sleep, so he put on a coat, quietly out of the yard, the night in the countryside is much more meaningful than the night in the city, the black is so deep, the black is so far away, the sky is full of stars, each one is like a bright pearl, crystal clear, not like the bleak in the city, it is not very interesting to see, the spoon composed of the Big Dipper seems to pull Li Shaohui back to his childhood, he remembers that since he learned the Big Dipper in the nature class, he likes to carry a small stool and lean on his grandmother's arms after dinner and count the seven bright stars, count and fall asleep…

Suddenly, a gust of wind rose, blowing the budding flowers in the courtyard swaying, and also blowing out a strange and strange sound, if there was nothing in this shadowy night, Li Shaohui was frightened, and hurriedly quietly returned to the promise room.

Lying on the bed, Li Shaohui thought that this trip was fruitless, and couldn't help but sigh. Sighing, he thought again, even if he met the promise, what could he do? After being sneered at by her, he still had a big quarrel with her? Taking 10,000 steps back, even if he was reconciled, would he still be the same as before? Who should be responsible for Xiao Bei's death?

Li Shaohui sighed, although it is not too long to be separated from Xu Promise this time, he can never go back to the past, he and her have been separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, separated by Xiao Bei, who is red-faced and thin-faced, maybe the current discord is the best ending for the two...

The next day, Li Shaohui left with a heavy hometown specialty under the care of the old lady. After he had walked for a quarter of an hour, when he turned to look back, he found that the warm and kind old lady was still standing there and staring at him motionlessly, with that rickety back, that old face, and that charitable look, all the time, and did not want to take care of her hard-working granddaughter in her heart like a baby.

But she promised not to give herself a chance, she wanted to hurt herself in the way she hated the most, once was not enough, she had to hurt twice, and Xiao Bei had to pay. At this time, the old lady raised her arm again and waved goodbye to Li Shaohui, and inexplicably, Li Shaohui's tears rained down...

Time is fair, it will seem very long when you waste it, and it will be as fleeting as a bright meteor when you are buried in hard work.

Since then, Li Shaohui has given up all his thoughts and devoted himself to his work, working hard at home, the company, and customers, and his friends and colleagues around him have also spent most of the year in laughter and pain, and ushered in another New Year in sighs.

At the company's commendation party for bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new, Tian Zhao, the sausage mouth of the next department, relied on nepotism and was promoted to the deputy manager of their department, and the promotion speed was as fast as a rocket, this guy was naturally proud, under the hypocritical congratulations of those colleagues and subordinates, a glass of wine, and after a while, he actually walked towards Xia Xue again, and Xia Xue raised his eyebrows in Li Shaohui's warning eyes, and smiled at Tian Zhaohuazhi, Li Shaohui was angry, and almost blurted out a sentence of "dog men and women".

Fortunately, Li Shaohui's efforts have also received a lot of returns, his strategy of surrounding the city in the countryside has begun to bear fruit, not only the small customers in the Sichuan and Shaanxi regions, but also the "Shuohai" company controlled by Xingmang has become a customer of the retail department, so he has achieved good results He was advised by Xia Xue Shilei, Lu Yuan Liu Qiang waved his pen, and he was exceptionally promoted to senior account manager, which also marked that he had been in the sales department with Xia Xue, Shi Lei is on an equal footing, one level higher than Shi Hui and Han Wenbin and the new colleagues.

When Li Shaohui stood on the stage to accept the award with great interest, he found that Shi Hui and Han Wenbin in the audience both cast envious, jealous and hateful eyes, and he suddenly felt uncomfortable in his heart.

Workplace struggles are not that you want to get along with each other and survive without forming a gang, sometimes your down-to-earth efforts are a threat to others, because this will affect the promotion path of others. Li Shaohui smiled bitterly, it seems that he has two more colleagues who are secretly competing, and in the future, he will have to watch and listen to all directions in the company.

In the past six months or so, although Li Shaohui's work and career have made progress, his life has come to a standstill. Xu Promise and Xiao Bei have been deeply hidden in his heart, and if there is no accident, he will never reveal this shocking scar again.

After such a long time, the promise seems to have disappeared from the world, and Li Shaohui has never been contacted again, and Li Shaohui, who hates the promise so much, no longer looks for the promise, it seems that the two have completely broken up, just waiting for the years to slowly erase the two from each other's hearts.

As for Xiao Bei, Li Shaohui would take the time to bring Ke'er's latest news to the funeral home to visit her every week, but after such a long time, Li Shaohui still didn't find Ke'er, so Li Shaohui, who sighed incompetently, every time he saw Xiao Bei, the guilt in his heart would grow, so that he didn't dare to visit Xiao Bei anymore.