I don't know why Zhou Huai'an remembers this sentence so well, just like when Lin Ran and him first met.

He exhaled slowly in the cold air outside, and finally chose to call Lin Ran.

It's all at this time, Zhou Huai thought about it with peace of mind, and realized that if he wanted to say something, he still had to talk to this old man who used each other with himself.

"Hello?" Lin Ran spoke directly, "Something?" ”

"I'll call you in the afternoon, your phone is busy, can you come here?" Zhou Huai'an got straight to the point, and said very vaguely, "I want to talk to you about something." ”

Lin Ran only felt that there was a strange tiredness in his voice, and his voice seemed to be a little hoarse, so he lowered his voice and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Zhou Huai'an was silent for a long time, and there seemed to be the sound of fingertips swiping across the page on the phone.

Lin Ran leaned against the window, and glanced at the direction where Lin Jinghe was standing from the corner of his eyes from a distance and a little absentmindedly, the man lowered his head and separated the two people's change of clothes, and his side face looked like a sculpture.

Lin Ran forced herself to shift her attention to Zhou Huai'an's sudden phone call: "The last time I called you, didn't your assistant say that you were not feeling well?" I also wanted to say a few good words to you and leave a way for others, but I was directly closed. ”

"Qiao Jingyi has been censored." Zhou Huai'an said such a meaningless sentence, and then after a while, Zi Lin added thoughtlessly, "Yes, you must already know...... But it's not a big problem, at most I will be fined, I won't fall into the ground, don't worry. ”

Although the last sentence returned to his normal IQ level, Lin Ran still heard that his words were a little confused, and his tail tone even trembled slightly, as if he had not just won a game, but had received some major blow.

"What the hell is going on?" His attitude was not like a trivial matter, Lin Ran was also serious, thought for a while and asked, "The old book is put in and can't be turned?" ”

This time she was answered by a long silence on the other end of the phone, and I don't know how long it took before Zhou Huaian said with difficulty: "My wife has always had a little cough, and she saw blood some time ago...... I thought it was tuberculosis or bronchitis or something, so I didn't care. ”

What the...... Circumstance?!

Lin Ran couldn't help but hold her breath, only the man's suppressed breathing was left on the other end of the phone, and she didn't know if it was her illusion, as if it was mixed with a little overflowing whimper, and the time of that breath was prolonged and prolonged, and then Zhou Huai'an gently spit it out and whispered: "...... I went to the hospital in the afternoon and just got the test results......"

Lin Ran frowned: "Yes......"

"Lung cancer."

Lin Ran's eyes widened, and she didn't even notice that Lin Jinghe walked over to her after sorting out her things.

Suddenly, it was as if the "ominous premonition" that had just emerged from her heart had been fulfilled - although the relationship between Zhou Huai'an and her was complicated, and they were mixed with incomparably more mutual use on the basis of their personal relationship, although she sometimes felt that this guy lacked virtue and did too much, and sooner or later he would be retributed.

She even thought in a mess in her mind - wait, hasn't his wife been said to have had a bad relationship with him all these years, why is this man like this, and is it because of this incident, is it because of this incident, is it before the husband and wife died...... Ahh

But...... That means, Zhou Huai'an's wife, her titular aunt...... Are you going to die?

Is a living person about to be gone?

She remembered what Zhou Huai'an had told her, in case there was any problem one day, ask her to help him for the sake of favors, but it turns out that Mr. Zhou is really so awesome and coaxing, really green pine is not old, and the network of relationships and interests that he has built up after more than ten years of hard work is really not something that the kind of "returnee" young man who sold himself to Lao Maozi can shake.

Now he's really having a problem, but ......

Zhou Huai'an said softly: "I want to find someone to talk about something, that's why I called you, I don't have anyone else to find, my daughter...... Don't mention it. ”

Lin Ran didn't even figure out how she responded, but before she heard Zhou Huai'an hang up the phone, she sighed lightly as if she didn't want to make a difference: "I understand a little bit now, what is 'Heavenly Reason, Retribution is not happy', if you don't believe it, look up, who will the sky spare?" ”

Lin Jinghe watched Lin Ran put down the phone, where he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time, and reached out and snapped his fingers in front of her: "What's wrong?" ”

"Heavenly reincarnation, retribution is unpleasant," Lin Ran said dreamily, and then smiled bitterly, "You say, how did these people who seem to be able to cover the sky with one hand end up falling on the words of birth, old age, sickness and death?" ”

She waved her hand and slowly sat down in the chair next to her: "It's nothing...... I can't say that, anyway, you let me be quiet first, I'm in a lot of trouble right now. ”

This silence was quiet until the next morning, Lin Jinghe saw her like this, knew that she must have not slept all night, and made a tough decision, called her counselor, and asked her for a day off.

But even so, Lin Ran was about to go back to school after breakfast, Lin Jinghe originally wanted to send her back, but before going out, she answered a phone call, and the opposite side seemed to be the investor of his art exhibition, and she was very eager to let him go over.

Lin Ran simply stood in the cold wind outside the unit building and waited for Lin Jinghe, and inevitably remembered the conversation between the two when Zhou Huai'an came to the school to find her last time.

Within a few minutes, Lin Jinghe also walked out of the corridor and patted her on the shoulder, attracting her attention back: "Okay, how are you going to go back?" ”

"I'll just take the subway back," Lin Ran's interest was not too high, after all, this was not something to be happy about, "What about you, how do you go to meet the investor?" ”

"Just like you, take the subway." Lin Jinghe shrugged his shoulders, and also saw that Lin Ran's mood was a little low, "Okay, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, don't worry too much, just do your best." ”

Lin Ran hooked the corners of her mouth, but how bitter this smile was: "I'm just uncomfortable, it's nothing, you should be careful on the road." ”

Lin Jinghe didn't have much to say, after all, he didn't know what was going on: "You too, call me at school." ”

"Okay, I know."

No matter what time it was, the subway in Yancheng was crowded, and Lin Ran finally found a handle to pull and stuffed the earphones into her ears with difficulty.

People's presents are actually made up of countless pasts, and no one can deny these pasts, Lin Ran thought quietly, even if your heart is full of negative energy when you think of them, you can't ignore them.

Just as she was thinking about this, the phone rang, and she didn't know who the caller was, so she answered the phone directly from the control button of the phone: "It's me." ”

It was Yu Mixia who called: "Ranran, I heard Sister Ting say that you are not feeling well and asked for leave - when will you come back?" ”

"It's on the subway, and it'll be there in a minute." Lin Ran replied, moving his body to make himself stand more comfortable, "The signal is not particularly good, can you hear it?" ”

"Yes, it's just a little unclear," Yu Mixia's words sounded intermittent to Lin Ran, "I went to the three canteens with Xiaoxin at noon, and I will take you back what you want to eat." ”

Lin Ran thought about it, and it seemed that when people were in a bad mood, they always thought about eating sweets: "Buy whatever you want, when you come back, look at the downstairs commissary to see if there is any chocolate or candy or something, I remember that my stock has been eaten." ”

"I've always wanted to ask, are you a squirrel? So much stock? Yu Mixia smiled and quipped, "Okay, I know, you be careful on the road." ”

Lin Ran finally felt a little better, and hung up the phone with a smile, but just now he felt a little better, when a low male voice suddenly came from behind: "Miss Lin, my boss wants to talk to you." ”

As soon as Lin Ran wanted to turn around, he immediately felt a sharp and cold thing in his lower back, and the man's voice was still very calm: "Miss Lin, if I were you, I wouldn't choose to turn around at this time." ”