Chapter 16: The Funeral (1)
Who will attend your wedding and who will attend your funeral?
The chaotic crowd grew crowded, with onlookers, mall staff, medical workers, and frightened old ladies calling for help.
I had a brief conversation with the staff, and there was no medical examination required, so I signaled them to pay attention to the others. There was still no figure of the man in the jacket in the crowd, and it should not be completely unnoticeable if something like this happened, even if that person escaped from the sliding escalator in the first place, he left the scene directly, which always made people wonder.
Suspicions are just doubts, I didn't tell anyone about it, and no one paid attention to this small detail.
Soon no one paid attention to me, an unharmed person, and I decided to leave quietly. Before leaving, I looked back at the rescued people, but fortunately no one was seriously injured.
Inadvertently, the woman in the dark blue coat who was still sitting on the ground in a trance and still in a trance gently brushed my gaze, I turned my head to stop looking at her, just hooked the corners of my mouth, and drowned in the crowd.
The whole thing took about ten minutes, which was not very long, but it was long enough for a cigarette.
"How many did you go and smoke? It's like a fall. Qiu Shao was already impatient and ready to move his chopsticks.
"Something trifled." I smiled and sat down.
"All the best, Happy New Year." Liu Lian raised his glass.
"Happy New Year."
I didn't expect a working meal to be so thrilling, and I couldn't help but feel that life is really unpredictable.
Christmas is less than a week away, and the whole company is very busy, and the more holidays come, all kinds of activities will follow. The company's business development is very smooth, a variety of high-level large and medium-sized cocktail parties, banquet activities have been signed, Lao Di Ping is very popular, whether it is business, or political and economic have many partners. In addition to the company's professional team, the reputation of Defensive Shield in the same industry has always been relatively good.
"You're going out again?" As soon as I got off the treadmill in the training area, I saw Liu Lian hurrying to the elevator, carrying a heavy briefcase.
"Huh? Qiu Shao didn't assign you a task? Liu Lian looked back at the empty company, almost all of them had been dispatched, and now there was a clear shortage of manpower.
"Lao Di said that there was something to do in the afternoon and he needed to draw someone out, so Qiu Shao threw me down." I rubbed the towel on my shoulder against my cheek.
"Huh? Lao Di? All right. The elevator door opened, and Liu Lian stepped in and beckoned to me, "Bye-bye." ”
I want to go back to the office area to get a cup of water to drink, the empty cubicle is quiet, the gloomy clouds through the floor-to-ceiling windows are low and overwhelming, the incandescent lights are even whiter, and I always feel that the vest is cold.
"Let's go~" a listless sigh.
My hairs stood up, and the hand holding the paper cup lifted it up a little hard, turned my head, and a shadow sprinkled on the ground but I couldn't see anyone, "Who?" ”
"I~ah~" Dong Jian leaned listlessly against the door frame, and if he wasn't careful, he couldn't see that there was a person standing.
"You can't walk with a little noise?" I put the heart back in my stomach, I thought he wasn't calling me, "Liu Lian went out just now." ”
"I mean, let's go and pick up Lao Di." Dong Jian picked up the car keys on the table.
"Oh? Lao Di? I put down my glass, "I'll go change my clothes later." ”
The sky is gloomy, and although it is not cold in winter, it is even more cold when the north wind blows to the south. People have changed into thick sweaters, and those with a slightly weaker constitution have even turned out their long-sealed down jackets. Dong Jian is rarely wearing a scarf, which is not at all compatible with his image of a delicate big brother.
"Liu Lian sent it?" I sat in the passenger seat and glanced at the color around his neck, then twisted out the window, and the SUV drove in the direction of old Dizhu.
"What?" Dong Jian held the steering wheel.
"Scarf."
"How do you know?" Dong Jian said in surprise.
"You don't look like someone who buys your own scarf to keep warm." Once upon a time, I also received scarves, and that warmth is only understood by those who have felt the cold.
"Heh, you can see it at a glance."
“…”
"You used to, forget it, nothing." He might have wanted to ask about my past, but he took it away.
"The person who is willing to give the scarf must be the one who has been thinking about it, since they have already received it, what is there to deny." It is really difficult for the old men to talk about this kind of topic, and only the relationship between brothers will be slightly touched.
"But." It is rare for Dong Jian to encounter something so twisted.
"But what, if you don't like her, you may have been on it a long time ago, just because you put her in it, but you have a lot of worries." I was still looking out the window, the shadow of the core swaying in the mirror in the hazy drizzle.
"Huh? Educate me? Dong Jian snorted, "Believe it or not, I'll fix you like before." ”
"Are you still a child? If you have the spare time to clean up my work, it is better to ask someone to go out on a date, my family Zhuang Jing is four years old. I scoffed.
Okay, that's what you said, but. Dong Jian patted the steering wheel, looking like he had made up his mind.
"Again."
"But what is a date for?"
", think for yourself."
"Hahahaha..." The drizzle outside the car was drizzling, and the two men in the car laughed.
Lao Di's residence is located in a chic old courtyard, which belongs to the earliest batch of modern buildings in the Special Administrative Region, when the Special Economic Zone began to accept foreign ideas, coupled with the continuation of the original mainland architectural style, and adopted the design of the housing community near Hong Kong. Compact use of limited space, so that the look crowded building spacing is not particularly narrow, so long Lao Di has always been reluctant to change the place, he said that the villa is not suitable for people with limited mobility like him, sometimes need someone to help pull the throat and no one cares, according to his words, sometimes wealth makes people more and more lonely.
"Alas, thank you. It's raining so hard, so go back first. Lao Di smiled and waved to the community security uncle holding an umbrella behind him, it seems that the two middle-aged and elderly people of the same age are not particularly unfamiliar because of their different identities.
After braking the SUV, Dong Jian and I put his electric wheelchair into the SUV and carried him to the back of the SUV.
"Boss, where are we going?" Dong Jian helped him close the car door, sat back in the driver's seat and ignited the engine.
"Longquan Mountain Funeral Home." Lao Di's voice was still as hoarse as before.
"Funeral home?" Dong Jian and I turned our heads at the same time to confirm again.
"Yes, do you know the way?"
"Navigation." I pulled out my phone and thought to myself, who knows how to know the funeral home.
There were no more words along the way, and the rainy and heavy low clouds were simply tailor-made for going to the funeral home. Lao Di's mood was a little low, and he looked out the window expressionlessly in the drizzle, as if he was reminiscing about the past with someone, but that person is estimated to be lying in the funeral home now, and the funeral is the end of his life, who is it?