Qi Zai is still in the conference room, and he is about to end the year, the company's operation this year, the planning report for the next year, etc., all need him to knock the board last. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Secretary Su clutched a mobile phone tightly in his hand, restless outside the door of the conference room, and the hand that pushed the door stretched out and retracted.

In the end, she finally pushed the door open, and more than 40 executives all looked over, some angry, some puzzled, some curious, some indifferent...... The man at the head also looked at her, unfazed, and after seeing the mobile phone in her hand, his eyes flashed twice. After a long time, he said slowly:

"After such a long meeting, everyone is tired, so let's get here today, take a rest first, and wait for everyone's activities to be fully reimbursed by the company."

Everyone immediately became lively, and although they had doubts in their hearts, they all left the table happily. When Qi was left in the huge conference room, he stood up inch by inch, looked in the direction of Secretary Su, but didn't look at her face, "What's wrong?" ”

"Mr. Qi, you-" I wanted to say something reassuring, but she knew that it was about Mai Dong, and what she said was in vain, "Their car was in a car accident on the way back, fell off the cliff, and the car was destroyed and people died. ”

After listening to it, Qi Zai didn't say anything, and sat down slowly. Secretary Su is a thoughtful person, and after receiving this news, he must have verified it before he came to tell him, and nine times out of ten it can't be wrong.

"What about the corpses?" Qi Zai's vocal cords seemed to be caught by fire tongs, and the voice he made was hoarse and laborious.

"When the car fell, there was a fire, and it was late autumn, which incidentally ignited the dry and flammable vegetation around it, and the corpses were burned to ashes, and there was wind again...... If it weren't for the fire, pedestrians passing by wouldn't have noticed that there was a car accident there. ”

Secretary Su was very worried about the man in front of her, she had never seen him like this, sitting there alone, hunched back, as if he was going to curl up his body, even the air around him was sad and lonely, blocking people from outside to enter At the same time, it also made the people in the center more sad and lonely.

"Who called you?"

Secretary Su pursed his dry lips, "The people from the Public Security Bureau picked up Miss Mai's mobile phone on the side of the road, and the missed call was returned. ”

Qi Zai remembered that it was still a call he made to Mai Dong in the morning, and he wanted to ask her how the situation was on her side, but he didn't expect it......

"Give me the phone, you go out. Keep up with me and follow up on the police investigation, thank you. ”

Secretary Su sent the phone over, only to see the tears in his eyes.

She left, gently closed the door, did not look back, and left Qi alone in an empty conference room, licking her wounds.

The mobile phone in Qi's hand is a Nokia straight old mobile phone, with smoothed corners, polished paint, and occasional scratches, all of which show its age and history.

*

Rewind to 2003.

SARS is rampant on the land of China, and it is the time when the whole country is united to fight SARS, schools, bus stations, and railway stations...... Martial law is in place of many public places.

However, Mai Dong seems to be not afraid of anything alone, and has passed through one level after another, with only one destination: Dahe Town.

Qi Zai followed behind Mai Dong, thinking of An Jinru and Qi Jianguo's faces, the couple were sitting on the sofa in the hall, diagonally opposite the well-behaved and quiet Mai Dong.

"Mai Mai, my mother wants to send you to study abroad, okay?" When Anjinru said this, she was very gentle.

Mai Dong lowered his head and did not speak.

"The quality of foreign universities is high, you can adapt to the environment when you go outside in the third year of high school, and then go on to finish college, and come back as a returnee, and you don't have to worry about any future."

Mai Dong still didn't speak, An Jinru seemed to be a little anxious, and Qi Jianguo grabbed her beside her.

"What's good abroad, she doesn't speak English well, and she doesn't know how she will die when the time comes." Qi Zai couldn't wait to go up and slap the silent Mai Dong twice, looking at her appearance, the roots of her teeth were itching.

"Qi Zai, how do you talk!" Qi Jianguo got angry and yelled at his son.

Qi Zai rolled his eyes.

"Mai Mai, we will find a reliable family for you to live there, and you don't have to worry about life." Qi Jianguo whispered to Mai Dong, who had been keeping his head down, perhaps because he didn't approve of sending Mai Dong away, so there was some hesitation in his voice.

"Mai Mai, you are still young, going out to see the world will be good for you in the future." Seeing that Mai Dong still didn't speak, An Jinru was already getting a little impatient.

Mai Dong is fighting with silence, but her young mind seems to have told her that going abroad is a given result, and her struggle is ineffective. The small fists clenched and clenched, and the nails pierced into the palms of the hands, and there was no pain in the slightest.

"If you say 'no', you'll die!" Qi Zai couldn't help but yell at her, and after saying that, he turned around and went upstairs.

Qi didn't know what else happened downstairs later, but when he was sitting alone in the glass room sulking, he heard the sound of Qi Jianguo and An Jinru driving out, and heard the sound of the door opening and closing on the second floor......

I don't know why, he followed her out and followed her all the way to Dahe Town.

At first, Mai Dong didn't pay attention to him at all, as if he had never left Dahe Town, and skillfully helped Liu Guilan wash dishes, light the fire, and do some housework; went to Liu Min's house to visit, chat, and fight tooth sacrifices; Sitting alone on the high ground, watching the rice waves rolling under his feet, the evening breeze carries the summer heat and the fragrance of rice, the days pass very slowly, and he is also very happy, he has never seen such a wheat winter.

Quiet with cunning, lively and calm, so warm that she makes him want to hug, like a candle in the night, a fire in the cold winter, can easily touch the heart of a wanderer.

He clearly remembered that day, when he came out of Liu Min's house, Mai Dong looked up at the starry sky, in the vast universe, the two of them were not even a speck of dust, she said in a thick nasal voice, "Let's go back, it's time to start school." ”

His heart was still beating "suddenly" as if it had fallen to the ground, but he didn't feel its power at all.

Qi Zai clearly remembered that sitting at Liu Min's house and chatting to the end, Liu Min meaningfully hugged Mai Dong into his arms and said: "Maizi, don't blame your mother, she is not easy, she also went out because she wanted to support you, she was alone outside without relatives, no one knows anyone, how much she has suffered and how much she has suffered, only she knows ......"

Before leaving, Liu Guilan was watering in the vegetable garden in the yard in front of the house, Mai Dong called "grandma" through the fence, saw that Liu Guilan did not look back, and gently said to her back: "I'm gone, I may not be able to come back to see you for a long time, you must take care of your body." ”

She stood there for a long, long time, not knowing what she was expecting.

Qi had always felt very uncomfortable on the way back, and before Mai Dong left, he secretly put the money he had saved under Liu Guilan's pillow, so that he also emptied all his pockets, and even the ticket back was paid by this little girl who he never "looked down on".

Qi was thinking, he felt uncomfortable, was it because he felt that he had lost the price?

*

Qi Zai looked at the worn-out mobile phone in his hand, which he gave to Mai Dong at the beginning, he rarely used this mobile phone to contact Mai Dong, there was only Mai Dong's phone number alone, only that day when the sun set, Mai Dong sat on the high ground and watched the back of a large rice wave under his feet, although the pixel is very low, it is the key to open the high-fidelity memory.

He was immersed in memories, and it seemed that his brain had automatically constructed a protective device, using all the memories of the past to shield the news brought by Secretary Su just now, and after many psychological hints, maybe he himself would believe that he had just experienced a nightmare......