Actually, speaking of Zhao Xiaoyi, I don't know if she is doing well now, since she left Lubotan, I have seen her three times, one of which was not long after returning to Qindu, she went to the company to go through the resignation procedures.

A week later, I also quit my job, and in the days that followed, except for the occasional outing, I basically stayed at home and wrote things randomly, and I also thought about calling her to talk, but I didn't know how to comfort her.

After a few hesitations, I finally dialed her number on a star-studded night, but the answer to my apprehension was the tone of the phone turning off.

Then, it's always been like this, QQ and WeChat messages, and there is always no response, my mood changed from apprehension to worry, and from worry to despair, thinking, maybe she deliberately avoided me, right?

However, almost half a year later, she suddenly called me, saying that she was in the Bell and Drum Tower Square and asked me to pick her up.

She's dressed up beautifully, of course, she's so beautiful in her own right, and whatever she wears, it's actually very good-looking, I mean, she came to see me, obviously very well dressed.

However, when she saw my expression, she was not happy or angry, and she was flat, as if I was a dispensable person.

Next, she dragged me to go shopping, went to the supermarket, and frantically bought a lot of vegetables, went to my place to cook, and after eating, she didn't leave, just watched any TV show and cried silently until about 12 o'clock at midnight, and whether I was still watching or not, just turned off the TV and lights, went straight to my bedroom, and went to my bed.

The next morning, at five or six o'clock, she got up and went to the kitchen to cook four poached eggs herself, and then pulled me up from the couch to eat, she ate one, but I had to finish three.

After eating, she said: "Zhou Shen, don't look for me, when it's time to appear, I will naturally appear again." ”

She then left on her own on the bus and lost contact again until three months later, when she reappeared in the same way and did almost exactly the same thing.

Do the math, it's been three or four months since she last disappeared, and I wonder if she will suddenly reappear in the same way?

Speaking of which, deep down, I was still quite looking forward to it, but this time, I decided that I would not let her go so easily, maybe it was time to ask what she was doing these days?

I thought about it later, and the strange behavior of the first two times she came to me may have something to do with the strange night when we first arrived at Lubo Beach a year ago, and the lonely men and women lived together.

It was also after that night that the ordinary days became no longer ordinary, and the fate of me and her, as well as many others, has changed dramatically since then, and many people have even parted in life and death.

Therefore, since my novel is to start with Zhao Xiaoyi, it will inevitably start with that unusual night in Lubotan.

Speaking of this, let's first talk about the "Lubo Beach", which is located north of Qinshan Mountain and south of the Wei River, is a vast wetland formed by the degradation of ancient lakes, which is inhabited by many rare and protected animals of the country.

But there is also a legend that says that Lubo Beach is actually a "ghost beach", in which demons are rampant, ghosts and monsters are numerous, and those who go deep into it are almost never able to come out alive again.

This later proved to be ten or a hundred times more terrifying than the legend, but at that time, we, the foreign development companies and personnel, did not think so.

At that time, I had just been promoted to the director of the company's project development department, and Zhao Xiaoyi, a recent college graduate, was personally arranged by the chairman to be my assistant.

At the time of the large-scale economic development of the Lubo Beach, the slogan was to work hard for ten years to turn the 800-mile salt-alkali beach into Shenzhen in the west.

Our company also took advantage of this shareholder wind to buy 1,000 acres of land there to prepare for the construction of a sightseeing airship manufacturing base, and the purpose of my visit was to carry out the preliminary preparations for infrastructure construction.

Since I had to coordinate a lot of things with all parties and a lot of copywriting to deal with, as my only assistant, Zhao Xiaoyi naturally followed me to the base.

Actually, to put it mildly, this was also what she took the initiative to ask, at that time, considering the difficult conditions of the base, she was a young girl, and she was going to transfer a boy from other departments to go with me.

But after she learned the news, she resolutely objected, saying that I was leaving, what was the point of her staying in the company, and what was the beautiful scenery and good air in Lubo Beach, she had long wanted to have fun.

I had no choice but to agree, or rather I subconsciously did not object to her together, a few months of colleagues, I have become accustomed to seeing her every day.

The location of the base is more than 600 miles away from Qindu, where the company is located, and 70 or 80 miles away from the nearest county seat, which can be said to be a very remote location.

Fortunately, in order to carry out large-scale development of Lubo Beach, the local government spent a huge amount of money to build a high-specification highway, although the road surface is not very spacious, but it is very fair, and I feel that I am about to catch up with the quality standards of the expressway.

So, we drove all the way through, and it was a smooth ride, and even in an unpopulated area, we were racing for 80 yards, which was very enjoyable.

It's just that when we arrived at the base, we were all dumbfounded, and as far as the eye could see, there was only a row of temporary houses, like building blocks piled up by children, standing alone in the corner of our company's territory.

Most of the plots in the vicinity, although they have also been expropriated, have not yet started construction, not even a wall, or temporary houses like ours.

Only three or four miles away, the general airport of Lubotan has already been built, which can be regarded as adding a little popularity to this boundless desolation, but from this angle, it also seems so ethereal.

By this time, the flat asphalt road had come to an end, and in its place was a temporary gravel road paved by our company, and because of the soft salt flats below, the vehicle could only walk on it at a turtle speed, and even then, it was like walking on a mattress, constantly bumping up and down.

I asked Zhao Xiaoyi, who was sitting in the passenger seat, with a smile while driving: "Xiaoyi, do you regret coming to this place?" ”

Zhao Xiaoyi shook his head and said very bravely: "No, I think it's good, how quiet!" ”

The vehicle finally arrived in front of the temporary house, and at this time I felt that in fact, the construction area of this temporary house is quite small, with two floors and more than a dozen rooms.

However, there were only two people and a dog who came out to greet us, the two were Uncle Dang who was the janitor and Sister Zhang, who was cooking, and the other dog was a big yellow dog that was half earth and half wolf, named "Leopard Sai".

Although it was the first time we met, Sai Leopard seemed to welcome the two new guests, wagging his big tail into a phantom and humming affectionately.

All I can say is that I've seen a lot of dogs, but it's the first time I've seen a self-cooked dog like this.

Some of the nature of girls makes Zhao Xiaoyi like it, so she picked up a ham sausage we bought when we set off from the car, threw it over, and then played like a pair of sisters and brothers.

I was a little surprised and asked Uncle Dang: "Uncle Dang, why are there only two of you, didn't you say that there are still a few workers here?" ”

Uncle Dang waved his hand and said: "There is no work for the time being, they went back yesterday, in addition, Mr. Zhou, since you are here, I just asked for a leave, there are not enough people recently, and my uncle hasn't gone home for a month, don't worry, I'll go back for two days!" ”

I didn't expect that Uncle Dang would ask for leave as soon as they met, but he was old, and it was indeed excusable, and it was difficult for me to refuse, and it was said that he was still a relative of the chairman, and it was estimated that he had planned it a long time ago, and asked me for leave, just to save face.

So, I said, "Okay, it's not too early, if you want to go back, hurry back!" ”

When Uncle Dang heard this, his face immediately turned happy, and he immediately pushed out a motorcycle from under the corridor, rode it and stepped on it seven or eight times before lighting the fire, and then walked away.

However, the matter is not over yet, coincidentally, just a while later, Sister Zhang received a call from home, saying that her son had a high fever and asked her to go back to take care of him quickly.

Sister Zhang's face turned white immediately, and she turned her gaze to me with a pleading look.

In this case, what else can I say, so I had to grant her leave, and offered to drive her back, but she said no, her home is in a small village ten miles away, and she will soon arrive home by electric motorcycle, mainly because the road where they are not easy to drive.

As Sister Zhang spoke, she also pushed a motorcycle out of the corridor, but hers was an electric motorcycle, and she ran away as if she were riding it.

In this way, the entire base, an area of thousands of acres, is only left with me and Zhao Xiaoyi, as well as the enthusiastic big yellow dog Saibao.