After everyone left, Jiang Laiyue put her hands behind her back, lowered her head and stepped on the fallen leaves, jumped towards me, and finally stopped beside me.

I finally snuffed out the unfinished cigarette in my hand, and in order to melt away the solidified atmosphere, I smiled and said: "The sound of firecrackers is coming and going, and there is still a week before the New Year, what are your plans?" ”

"Usually, at this time, I was busy with year-end promotions, and suddenly there were no mall activities, and I didn't know what to do."

Jiang Laiyue kept her head down and stepped on the fallen leaves under her feet when she said this, I know that she still can't adapt to the change of identity, every time she talks about the past, she always endures her emotions, and now she has nowhere to go, it is conceivable that in previous years, she transferred these emotions to work, and now she is afraid that even the last emotional sustenance has been lost, only to blame Jiang Wen for being too ruthless, leaving no room for it.

"Would you like to go with me to Gansu for the New Year?"

"Huh?"

"You heard it right, let's go over together if there's nothing to do!"

Jiang Laiyue looked at me with a complicated expression: "But I'm not familiar with that side, and I'm not as gentle and generous as Li Shi, in case I make your parents angry, how embarrassing." ”

"It's not for you to go to meet your parents, why are you so worried, just to spend the New Year together."

"I don't think I'm in a cold sweat on my forehead."

I reached out and touched her forehead, it really seemed like there was a cold sweat, but I still asked in disbelief: "You haven't seen any scenes, there's no need to be so nervous, right?" ”

"You don't understand, but this is the first time I've had a regular New Year."

I reached out and tightened the scarf around her neck, and then motioned: "I'm going to leave tonight, and I'll be there tomorrow morning, there is no air conditioning and heating in the countryside here, you go back and pack your things, we'll make an appointment to meet in the evening, and then we'll go." ”

"I shouldn't be able to buy a ticket, and my car is driving in the mountains and it's okay to find trouble, how can we get there?"

"I have made an appointment with Lin Ke a few days ago, drive his van, you go back to get your things, and I will pick up the car to pick you up when the time comes."

Jiang Laiyue nodded and drove away quickly, while I also took a taxi to Lin Ke's bar to pick up the car.

In order to give us a long face, during the time when he returned from the hostel, he had been carefully wiping the car in the cold wind at the mouth of the alley, but the age of the car was there, no matter how it was organized, it was a little shabby, but the warmth was that he put a bunch of things directly in the car, all of which were bought for his parents and cute gifts.

After quietly stuffing some money into his bar, I drove back to the hostel, took the New Year's gifts that Li Shi had prepared for my parents and others, and then went to the agreed place to wait for Jiang Laiyue.

During the time I was waiting, I inexplicably received an unfamiliar phone number, and after connecting, he said directly: "Yu Hang, don't hang up, I'm Qu Sen, I want to talk to you." ”

"I still have something to talk about, and I don't have anything to talk about with you."

"Are you interested in Jiang Laiyue?"

"You don't have to talk to me about this kind of thing, I don't have that much energy, that's all."

"Wait...... Don't you want to know why Jiang Laiyue has repeatedly been able to balance Li Shi and get a good company to such a point? ”

"I don't understand what you're talking about."

"You don't need to understand, you just need to know that if you unravel a certain link, Li Shi may return to China because of this."

"What does it have to do with Li Shi's return to China?"

"Don't ask, I have something for you, let's make an appointment at the Yijian coffee shop! I heard that the burning over there is almost gone, and now I can only drink coffee at the door, so I think that after the fire is burned, the coffee shop is more interesting! ”

Qu Sen's strange tone made me feel extremely uncomfortable, and I replied "now and past" and hung up the phone.

I am a very punctual person, if I make an appointment with Qu Sen, it is likely to delay the time agreed with Jiang Laiyue, but Qu Sen chose to tell me this at this time, as if he should know our plan to go to Gansu for the New Year, it is not unusual at all, Jiang Wen, who is in charge of wealth, hired a few eyeliners to monitor Jiang Laiyue, it is too common.

After parking the car, I looked at the high-spirited Qu Sen, and met again after many days, and he seemed to enjoy his identity even more...... We each took off our sunglasses, but without saying a word, we walked to the door of the coffee shop.

After taking a seat at the door of the coffee shop, Qu Sen ordered a pot of boiled water, and the waiter poured a cup for each of us, but no one took a sip, and we couldn't sit together calmly and drink water, so I said to him directly: "Say, come to me with all your might, and talk to me about something." ”

Qu Sen took a sip of tea from his cup, and then asked me with a sharp look in his eyes: "You see clearly, you are asking me now, can you not put the tone of interrogation in the past on this occasion, OK?" ”

I could feel the unwillingness and unkindness in his tone, but he still kept calm and replied: "I don't have too many emotions to waste on you, you can say it if you want to, and if you don't want to say that I am leaving." ”

"Give this letter to Jiang Laiyue, and then you just wait for the result!"

I watched suspiciously, as Qu Sen took out an envelope from his bag and was about to tear it open.

Qu Sen didn't stop me, but said coldly: "You can read this letter in vain, because you can't understand the things in it at all, and if you read Jiang Laiyue's letter, I'm afraid she will be unhappy, and I'm afraid everything will become beyond your control." ”

I picked up the cup and splashed the water directly on the ground, and sneered: "I'm afraid that you have watched too many spy war movies, and some things are beyond your control. ”

Qu Sen frowned, gritted his teeth, and then smiled: "I hope you can say such tough things in the future, I want to see how long you can last as long as this clown can last." ”

I stood there with a fire in my belly, holding the envelope, until Qu Sen drove away, took out the tea money from his wallet and threw it on the table, and then went to pick her up from Jiang Laiyue's residence with all my thoughts on my mind.

……

The sky was getting dark, Jiang Laiyue in the cold wind turned her back to me, stood in place and stomped her feet, and only after hearing my horn did she turn around and wave at me.

I thought she would complain that I was twenty minutes late, but the first thing I said after getting on the bus was: "Come, I'll open a swap place, seeing that you haven't come for a long time, I cooked some porridge and brought it in a thermos pot, you eat it while it's hot, and it will be long in the middle of the night." ”

"Okay."

After coping with the sentence, I felt the letter in my pocket and hesitated to give it to her, because I did not know what the letter was about, so I did not dare to tell her easily, for fear of ruining her interest.

Immersed in eating white rice porridge, Jiang Laiyue was driving the van a little nervously, she seemed to notice that something was wrong with my mood, her eyes were still staring ahead and asked: "What do you think, why do I think you are more nervous than me, you can get distracted when you eat, I don't dare to count on you to drive tonight." ”

"Don't worry, I'm fine."

Jiang Laiyue suddenly pulled over the car and stepped on the brakes suddenly, her original expression of joy turned cold in an instant, she looked at me, and the atmosphere became more and more stiff in the silence of each other.

I finally broke the silence in embarrassment: "Why don't you open it?" ”

She ignored my doubts, but looked at me and asked: "You and the two of you before, do you have something to hide from me, or do you regret taking me to Gansu for the New Year, if you are embarrassed to speak, just say it, I don't mind." ”

I touched the tip of my nose and squeezed out a smile and said, "Don't think about it, it's really nothing." ”

"I have lived for so many years, I can distinguish some emotions, I understand, you don't need to explain, the car has only driven more than ten kilometers, I just call a car to go back."

Her words made my heart ache inexplicably, and I finally understood how much she hoped that this New Year could save her loneliness, and I finally explained to her in a low voice, "Don't think nonsense, I am late for this time because Qu Sen is looking for me." ”

Jiang Laiyue's face was even more ugly: "Is it?" You're late to see him! ”

My mind suddenly stopped, I couldn't explain again, and I was about to hand over the letter to her, when Jiang Laiyue suddenly lost her patience, pushed open the car door and ran along the side of the road.

I came back to my senses, pulled my legs and chased after her, and then grabbed her again, not wanting her to leave like this, Jiang Laiyue frowned and said, "What did he tell you?" ”