The anger in Qiao Zhengqi's heart was quickly ironed out by the tears in her eyes, she looked up at him with tears, and his heart actually had a kind of pain.

His voice softened a lot and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Yuan Lu put the phone down from his ear, hung his head and said, "My friend's father has an accident, and I can't contact him now." ”

Qiao Zhengqi was silent for a while and asked, "Is there any other way to get in touch besides calling?" ”

Yuan Lu squeezed the mobile phone in his hand tightly, looked out the window, and said: "If I can't get in touch in another twenty minutes, I'll make another call, if it doesn't work, I can only fly to Gansu to find it in person." ”

Qiao Zhengqi: "Let's go now." ”

"Now?"

"You can make a call on the way to the airport, and I'll take you to the airport."

Yuan Lu felt that there was a light behind Qiao Zhengqi at the moment, and she wanted to call him "Angel Qiao", but she didn't have the guts.

The tears in Yuan Lu's eyes quickly disappeared, Qiao Zhengqi went downstairs to the garage and drove the car to the door of the hospital, she went back to the ward to greet her, took her coat, and went to the hospital door to meet Qiao Zhengqi.

******

Most of the cars on the Chinese New Year's Eve Road are rushing home, and the wide road is almost full of fast and urgent cars, and when they reach the area with many cars, they are jammed. It has only been about ten minutes since they drove for more than ten minutes, and they were stuck at a traffic light intersection and waited three times for the green light to pass.

The phone has been calling, but it has not been in the service area, and after a while, it will be half an hour, and Yuan Lu almost extinguishes the last glimmer of hope in his heart, and at this moment the phone suddenly has a beep.

Hara jumped up from the chair and sat down, clutching the phone in his hand.

The phone was working, but no one answered.

Yuan Lu was afraid that Lin Mu would not be able to call him all the time, so he sent him a WeChat message: Yao Fei's phone is now connected, but no one answers, I will continue to call, and it is estimated that I will be able to get in touch in a while.

Qiao Zhengqi glanced at her excitedly, and didn't disturb her to continue on the phone.

Little by little, the car moved towards the stop line at the traffic light, and finally crossed the intersection when the fifth green light came on.

Yao Fei's voice finally came from the other end of the phone: "Hey? ”

Yuan Lu gasped softly and called her: "Yao Fei, is Wu Jin with you?" ”

Yao Fei glanced at the second ancestor beside him, and said disgustedly: "He's here, I just received someone and is about to find a hotel to stay......"

"Wu Jin's father has an accident, you hurry up and let him answer the phone."

Yao Fei was stunned for a moment, reacted immediately, and immediately pressed the phone to Wu Jin's ear.

"! Wu Jin, you are going to kill me, I and Lin Mu are looking for you, and the whole world is going crazy, your dad is bleeding in the lungs and is rescuing, do you know? If he can't survive this, I don't believe you can be fine in this life! ”

Wu Jin was scolded by her on the bloody head, and Yuan Lu shook him with the word "fuck" that he yelled at the sky, and the two "fucking" in the back completely subdued his soul.

Yuan Lu was furious, the fire in his stomach finally came out, and his tone was slightly relaxed: "Don't leave the airport, go directly to the floor of domestic departure to buy the earliest flight back, I'll wait for you at the airport." ”

Wu Jin gritted his teeth, and the whole person was still in a state of blindfolding.

Yao Fei, who was next to him, heard the leak on the phone and figured things out, and pinched Wu Jin hard hatefully, and he bared his teeth and screamed in pain before coming back to his senses.

Yao Fei snatched back his mobile phone and said, "Lulu, I'll take him to buy a ticket for him to go back, my mobile phone signal is not good, you can call his number later, and we'll contact you again." ”

*******

Contacting Wu Jin, Yuan Lu finally breathed a sigh of relief, just now the whole person's qi and blood surged into his brain, which will hang up the phone and quiet down, and his brain is still buzzing.

Qiao Zhengqi glanced at her in the rearview mirror, the corners of his lips slightly crooked, and he felt that he might have a completely different opinion of her from tonight onwards.

A lady who is in the mouth of her parents? A good girl in the mouth of the elders?

The smile on the corner of Qiao Zhengqi's lips became stronger and stronger.

Yuan Lu sent another WeChat message to Lin Mu: I got in touch, I went to the airport and waited for him to pick him up and take him to the hospital.

After a while, Lin Mu called: "My phone has just been connected, are you on your way to the airport?" ”

Yuan Lu: "Well, I told the nurse when I left, and if his father has any situation, he will call me immediately." However, his phone has already been connected, and it is estimated that he will definitely know the news in the operating room as soon as possible, and I will rush to the hospital as soon as I receive him. ”

Lin Mu: "I also go to the airport, this will be the family's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is also dispersed, tonight there are many people in the family, the elders are also accompanied, I have no problem withdrawing, I can accompany you at the airport and wait." ”

Yuan Lu glanced at Qiao Zhengqi beside her, and didn't know how Qiao Zhengqi would react if Lin Mu came to accompany her. But at this moment, she couldn't bear to push Qiao Zhengqi away, after all, he said so seriously that he was going to take her to the airport, and he was so patient with the cars coming and going all the way.

Yuan Lu was a little hesitant, Lin Mu "hey" on the other end of the phone, and asked, "Is it still there?" ”

Yuan Lu looked at the changing neon outside the car window, and said in a nasal voice, "Well, in this way, it is estimated that Wu Jin will have to arrive in the middle of the night, you should rest first, and when I receive someone to inform you, you will rush to the hospital, and we will meet in the hospital." ”

Lin Mu was silent for a while and said, "You will not be safe alone. ”

Yuan Lu looked at Qiao Zhengqi's reflection in the car window, and said in a very soft voice: "I'm not alone. ”

Lin Mu asked without a pause, "Qiao Zhengqi?" ”

Yuan Lu glanced back at Qiao Zhengqi beside him, and said almost inaudibly: "Hmm." ”

Lin Mu didn't speak, and after a while, he smiled and said, "Okay, I'll wait for your call." ”

Yuan Lu hung up the phone, feeling a trace of loss in his heart, as if he was empty.

Qiao Zhengqi glanced at her dejected appearance, and said mockingly: "The first phone call was like playing chicken blood, I automatically silenced a few words, how could this be like being splashed with dog blood by someone with a heavy will?" ”

The heron didn't speak. She sulked, obviously she dismissed Lin Mu because of him, but he still laughed at her. She is arrogant, like a shrew, she can't wait to pick Wu Jin's skin, she is rude, Ru Mao is not a problem drinking blood.

Qiao Zhengqi didn't like what he had just said, but as soon as he remembered the look of carefully trying to lower her voice so that he could not hear it clearly when she called just now, a nameless fire sparked in his heart.

He never wants to get angry, and he rarely gets angry, because anger is the greatest useless work of human beings, and only when things are so bad that he is helpless can he cause such a drastic change in physiology and emotion.

She was the first person to make him stop doing useless work.

Qiao Zhengqi lowered the window next to the driver's seat a little, allowing the cold air to cool down the slightly stuffy temperature in the car.

Hearing her sneeze, Qiao Zhengqi raised the window again, and his voice was unconsciously soft: "Go back and scald a bowl of ginger soup and drink it, there is a lot of wind tonight." ”

Yuan Luluo ignored it: "Hmm." ”

Qiao Zhengqi wanted to coax her, so he asked, "Do you remember what brand of orange-flavored soap you said in the morning?" ”

Yuan Lu shook his head: "I don't remember, it was bought for me by my mother when she went back to the countryside for the New Year one year, I only remember that the cardboard box containing the soap is white, and the words printed on the brand are orange." The citrus flavor is different from the usual tangerines and oranges, it is faint and very clear, and every time I use it to make a little foam, I have to rub my hands and smell it for a while. ”

Qiao Zhengqi felt that her tone was soothed, and the blocked road was not so blocked, "The aromatic hydrocarbons in memory are the most nostalgic smells. The imagination of the cerebral cortex and the hippocampus of memory allow the aroma of this memory to give you strong psychological cues, which is why people usually feel that what is in memory is the best. ”

Yuan Lu thought this explanation was fresh and said, "Yes, the memories are always the best." ”

I don't know why she remembered the back of him and Sun An side by side in the night at Hilton.

What was the best one in his memory?

Yuan Lu's brain began to automatically recall what Lu Shijing knew when he first sorted out the reports related to the G big poisoning case. Lu Shijing's background is the right one with Qiao Zhengqi, and her appearance is recognized as the flower of the courtyard in the eyes of her classmates back then, and even her intelligence is the kind of Cheng Dù who is awe-inspiring.

Although Lu Shijing later suffered family changes, a person's background is an indelible imprint, and the innate temperament from a good family upbringing, which is about invincible, is very appropriate for her.

A faint sense of loss came to his heart again, and Yuan Lu saw himself in the reflection of the car window, and suddenly came to his senses, startled by the things he had just thought in his head.

She was actually curious about what kind of person Lu Shijing was?

The original heron was frightened and shook her head several times.

Qiao Zhengqi asked, "Motion sickness?" Under the weather? He gently pulled the brakes under his feet to slow down the car.

I finally crossed the highway and got on the highway, but the speed slowed down.

Yuan Lu hurriedly said: "No, my mind just didn't think about it." ”

Qiao Zhengqi held the steering wheel and asked lightly, "What are you thinking?" ”

Yuan Lu was asked for a while, and a chill rose up on his back, "No, nothing." ”

Qiao Zhengqi raised his eyebrows noncommittally.

Fireworks were set off far away, and Yuan Lu looked at the fireworks that were constantly blooming and withering in the distance on the highway, and asked, "Why haven't you come back for so many years?" ”

Is it because of what happened back then? Because there are those memories in C City that he feels bad.

Qiao Zhengqi was also looking at the fireworks in front of him, glanced at her slightly, and said flatly: "I was hired as a lecturer after graduating from MIT Ph.D., and I could choose to come back at that time, but it seems that the job offfer that came back should not be better than this, so I stayed in Boston." ”

She's probing, he's hiding, as if it's a conversation in a vacuum.

One asked, but there was no medium to propagate the sound; One answered, but the answer was not what she asked, what she wanted to ask was the reason in his heart for not wanting to come back.

Sometimes the dialogue between each other seems to be a silent film that can only be communicated or disguised by the heart.

******

Qiao Zhengqi observed that she was really fine, her body didn't seem to be too uncomfortable, she just wanted to release the brake and add the accelerator, and suddenly the whole carriage spun around, the car slammed and made a loud noise, and the car flew out of the top for more than ten meters.

Qiao Zhengqi subconsciously stepped on the brakes tightly, but his upper body flew towards Yuan Lu, protecting her tightly in his arms.

At that moment, neither of the two of them knew what was going on, and Yiqiē's reactions were all subconscious choices that were not thought about. He hugged her like an open shield, her hand clutching in the air in a panic, trying to hold his hand tightly.

The car slammed four or five times before it stabilized, and the front hit the guardrail of the highway before the airbag slowly deployed.

"Qiao Zhengqi ......?" She was terrified, and could only feel a warm embrace around her.

Qiao Zhengqi's back was pierced by the broken glass from the front window, and his flesh and blood were blurred, and he gritted his teeth and answered her: "...... Well. ”

"Why?" she asked. ”

She didn't come back to her senses at all, she didn't know if she was asking why he hadn't come back for so many years, or why he had to protect her in his arms so desperately for life and death, she was just stupidly asking why.

He put it in her ear in a deep nasal voice and said, "Because you ......."

"What?"

The voice was too low for her to hear.

Qiao Zhengqi gradually let go of her, and slowly hunched over and stood up with both hands on the back of the passenger seat.

One of his hands went to pick up the gaps, and the other was propped up on the side of her head.

His eyes were watching her, the fireworks were burning outside the car window, and the bouquets were blooming like stars, red, green, white, and yellow......

He saw the starry sky in her twinkling eyes.