Gu Nanqiao and Fan Lingchu kept slowing down their pace, and in just ten minutes, they were stunned for more than half an hour before they arrived home. Then Gu Nanqiao was worried about her master's mental state, and chatted with him for a long time, until she was a little happy with the old man, and she gradually put her mind at ease.

And after all this was done, when Gu Nanqiao returned to his house, it was almost eleven o'clock.

After entering the door, Gu Nanqiao turned on the light in the entrance, and with the dim yellow halo of the wall lamp, the huge room suddenly brightened, and the furnishings shrouded in darkness became clear, and it was a simple two-bedroom apartment as far as the eye could see, because it was the family building of the old theater troupe, it had been built for some years, and the air was filled with the faint smell of dust unique to the old house.

In recent years, although Gu Nanqiao has added some new things intermittently, he has not replaced the previous large items, and the furniture in the room is still in the same place when his parents were there, with double-door solid wood bookshelves, rosewood tea cases and eight immortal tables, with quaint carpets and a few dripping Guanyin raised in celadon flower pots, which looks simple and simple.

After Gu Nanqiao changed his shoes, he went straight to the refrigerator to get a bucket of instant noodles, boiled a pot of hot water casually, and soaked the instant noodles with ease.

After getting off work, she rushed directly to the spring garden, and has been busy until now, and she doesn't even have the time to drink saliva. Although she couldn't arouse any appetite, her fragile stomach with a faint ache had already protested on behalf of her body, reminding her that it was time to eat.

The moonlight came in through the window, and the cold moonlight sprinkled on the floor, reflecting the staggered halo, and the room was so quiet that only the sound of the wind outside the window and the ticking of the hands of the wall clock could be heard. Gu Nanqiao leaned cross-legged on the sofa, holding the instant noodle bucket in his hand, picked up a small mouthful of instant noodles with a fork, blew it and put it in his mouth.

The noodles soaked in hot water were definitely not delicious, and the strong flavor filled her lips and teeth, especially when this mood was not very good, it made Gu Nanqiao's mood even more irritable for no reason.

The conversation with Fan Lingchu tonight was always lingering in her mind, and when she was quiet at the moment, those sharp questions drilled into her mind uncontrollably, forcing her temples to hurt, so that Gu Nanqiao couldn't help but sigh again, a bad debt in the spring garden was really too much of a headache.

In fact, vaguely, Gu Nanqiao already had a plan in her heart - of course she knew how to get through the current difficulties, or rather, how to unload the burden on Fan Lingchu. But such a choice requires too much courage, those thoughts come and go for a while, and even Gu Nanqiao feels that he is thinking too absurdly.

Distraught, she took out her mobile phone and dialed Shen You's number.

"Hey, Qiaoqiao?" Shen You quickly answered the phone, he lowered his voice very low, and he could vaguely hear the haste between the words that was different from the past, "What's the matter, call so late?"

It wasn't until he heard Shen You's voice that Gu Nanqiao finally came back to his senses, and he couldn't help but secretly annoy that he was a little impulsive. There was a rustling sound on the other side of the phone, vaguely like the sound of music, and it quickly stopped before Gu Nanqiao could hear it clearly, just like her illusion.

"You're not at home, is there anything going on over there?" asked Gu Nanqiao.

"Well, I worked overtime in the company, and I only followed up the performance a few days ago, and I was busy issuing a project report to Canran Group. Shen You explained casually, "Why haven't you slept yet?"

Gu Nanqiao stirred the instant noodles with a fork, not thinking about whether those ridiculous plans should be discussed with Shen You, in the gap between organizing the language, she casually teased: "I miss you, okay, I don't look for you and I don't see you looking for me, what's the matter, I'm so busy that I haven't seen anyone for a month?"

This sentence is nothing more than a very normal ridicule between couples, who knows that Shen You did not say some coaxing soft words as usual, but said in a somewhat serious tone: "Qiaoqiao, don't be a little tempered, what are you looking for me, I'm busy here." ”

Gu Nanqiao was stunned for a moment, and recalled what he had just said, feeling that there was nothing wrong, and he couldn't think of what Shen You was impatient. She and Shen You have been in love for so long, it's not that she hasn't encountered him working overtime and being busy, and the two of them are half peers, she can understand this sudden busyness, and she will never lose her temper because of these things.

But in a situation like now, where I haven't seen him for more than half a month, and I don't even want to say a word on the phone, it's really a little wrong to think about it.

"What's the matter, I can't call you if I'm fine?" Gu Nanqiao didn't mean to quarrel, and when he said this, he was obviously joking.

"Of course you can, but you can't see what time it is. There was a faint sound of footsteps from Shen You's side, as if he had walked from the room to a more empty place, and a faint echo could be heard, "Qiaoqiao, if there is nothing in a hurry, I will hang up first and call you later." ”

Hearing the undisguised perfunctory tone of Shen You's tone, Gu Nanqiao frowned slightly.

If Shen You said such a thing in normal times, she would definitely hang up the phone empathetically and let him be busy first. But now, I don't know if it's because of Shen You's subtle change in attitude, or because a girl can call it a wonderful sixth sense, Gu Nanqiao vaguely felt a sense of indescribability.

In just a few seconds, Gu Nanqiao quickly recalled what had happened recently-when was the last time he met Shen You? It was the day Fan Yishan left the Peking Opera Troupe in Province B, the two of them had a light meal in the Western restaurant, but they broke up unhappily because they talked about the spring garden, but no one wanted to quarrel at that time, so they forcibly suppressed those undercurrents.

After that, Su Yiyang's surprise visit, Gu Nanqiao informed Shen You about these things that night, and she talked about her views on the investment in the spring garden with great interest, vaguely revealing her plans for the future. When telling Shen You about the adaptation idea of "Farewell My Concubine", Gu Nanqiao was looking forward to Shen You, a senior in the performance industry, for some guidance, but he only got a cold sentence of "I am not optimistic and I don't express my opinion", and he was poured a whole basin of cold water firmly.

Gu Nanqiao didn't understand why his rare revelation of his heart did not receive any support, but made the state between the two drop to the freezing point in an instant.

She also didn't understand when she started to have too many topics that she and Shen You couldn't talk about, and once they talked about it, it would trigger a new round of embarrassment and cold war, so repeatedly, endlessly.

After a quarrel that is not a quarrel, neither of the two people wants to talk through it, even if they know each other exactly where the crux is, they can't compromise, and they are reluctant to give up. The tacit understanding between lovers is revealed at this time very appropriately, and the two people want to cover up and pretend to be stupid together, and as time goes by, no one dares to delve into the cause and effect.

At present, the tenderness is all supported by the bitterness of the old days, and the sweetness of the future and return is tantamount to drinking to quench your thirst.

In just a few seconds, Gu Nanqiao smacked carefully in his mind, if he insisted on saying that there was any change with Shen You, it might have started at that time.

After that, Gu Nanqiao was busy with the rehearsals of the Peking Opera Troupe and the drama reform in the spring, and Shen You took over the concert project of Canran Group. The two of them are busy in their own ways, no one mentioned the meeting, and the occasional calls and text messages are like clocking in at work, and it is not difficult to notice that the words are less intimate and sweet, but there is a little more inexplicable rustiness and evasion.

Especially in the performance of "Picking Up the Jade Bracelet" a few days ago, Shen You was too busy with work, so he didn't show up for the whole performance for three days. All kinds of signs are too abnormal, that is, no matter how understanding Gu Nanqiao is, he is somewhat muttering in his heart.

"I said you, why are you so hard to say a word?" Before Gu Nanqiao could say anything, Shen You's voice came again, and the impatience in his tone became even more obvious.

"Qiaoqiao, what are you talking about to me, don't say a word, just listen to each other's breath with me?"

Gu Nanqiao is used to being alone, but there are also times when she is sensitive, fragile and overwhelmed, she really wants to talk to Shen You and tell all the depression in her heart, otherwise there would be no such a ghostly phone call - however, she didn't even have such a chance, after all, talking to Shen You about the difficulties of the spring garden was nothing more than making the already awkward relationship between the two more delicate.

What's more, Gu Nanqiao could feel that there was something abnormal behind Shen You's perfunctory appearance at the moment.

Recently, there have been too many family affairs, and Gu Nanqiao didn't have time to solve his emotional problems, so he put the invisible bomb that could not be triggered there. It wasn't until Shen You's attitude was so obvious at this moment that she suddenly realized that they didn't know anything about what was happening around each other during this time, and even the greetings were more perfunctory than caring, and they had unconsciously been divided to this extent.

All the words that circled between his lips and teeth turned into a sigh under Shen You's questioning, and there was no point in saying more.

After a moment of silence, Gu Nanqiao said lightly: "Okay, you are busy, I'll hang up first." ”

Then before Shen You could react, she hung up the phone very simply.

Listening to the busy voice, Shen You was slightly stunned, he didn't put his mind on Gu Nanqiao recently, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't even understand the most basic human feelings, not to mention that he used to be sincere to Gu Nanqiao, no matter how bad he is, he also has deep feelings. When he heard that the emotion on the other side of the phone was obviously wrong, he felt inexplicably tight, and it was rare to reflect on whether he was deliberately cold to Gu Nanqiao during this time, a little too cold.

But this mood didn't last a few seconds, and it was pulled back by a sweet and greasy female voice with complaints.

"What are you doing, Shen You, you have to come to the living room to answer the phone, deliberately avoiding me?"

Li Xuanci shook out of the bedroom, she was casually draped in Shen You's wide shirt, sitting lazily on the sofa, her slender legs swaying gently, revealing indescribable charm.

"No, baby, it's a matter of work," Shen You quietly put away his phone and sat next to Li Xuanci, "Seeing that you are sleeping, I am afraid of disturbing you." ”

"Who, after eleven o'clock, he still talks about work, and he spends time with Bill Gates. Li Xuanci muttered with some dissatisfaction, "We have never interrupted the big projects of Canran Group, and I haven't seen anyone call me in the middle of the night to talk about work." ”

"The small company is busy with me inside and out, of course, it can't compare to Miss Li's chic. Shen You raised her hand and rubbed Li Xuanci's short hair hanging down her shoulders, and her lips covered her lips and dropped a kiss on her slightly furrowed eyebrows.

"Okay, I'll go back to the house with you to sleep, good. ”

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