Chapter 39: Missing Again
For two days in a row, Yu Yue did not contact Ah Shen. The work of the Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Magazine is very busy, so she can forget the unhappiness with Ah Shen for a while. But every time she finishes her work and looks at the endless stream of red car taillights downstairs, she feels extremely lonely.
"Yu Yue, you haven't left yet?" Zhuo Fan appeared at the door of the office, looking at the dark office, Yu Yue stood alone by the window. Originally, Zhuo Fan was likely to ignore Yu Yue, but as soon as he walked to the door, he heard a soft sigh from the window, which made him have to wonder who was still standing there at such a late hour.
Yu Yue seemed to be taken aback, but after seeing clearly that the other party was Zhuo Fan, she was relieved, "Zhuo Fan." ”
"How about this, let's have a supper together?"
Yu Yue agreed.
It was drizzling outside, and Zhuo Fan's car drove out of the magazine, turned a corner at the traffic light intersection, and entered a one-way street. The one-way road is lined with huge sycamores, and the branches of the sycamore trees overhead criss-cross, and the road becomes a sycamore tunnel.
"It's autumn." Yu Yue muttered. Zhuo Fan's car drove through the street covered with sycamore leaves, and the yellow sycamore leaves made a crisp sound.
"yes." Perhaps it was Yu Yue's depressed mood that infected Zhuo Fan, and he suddenly remembered that a long time ago, he had a supper with his father in a small restaurant nearby. He looked around and stopped in front of the shop.
"Here?" Yu Yue never noticed that there was such a small shop hidden here. At first glance, it really doesn't look obvious. There is a lonely orange wall lamp in front of the store, giving it a warm feeling on such a cold and rainy night.
"I used to come with my father." Zhuo Fan explained, "I originally wanted to go to the food stall, but I turned the corner just now, and suddenly I remembered it, so I couldn't help but stop." ”
Yu Yue remembered that at that time in Duanmu Long's villa, Duanmu said that Zhuo Fan's father fell off a cliff a year ago. The shadow in Yu Yue's heart shrouded in another layer. "It's good here."
"Let's go inside." Zhuo Fan was very gentlemanly and helped Yu Yue open the door.
It's a small shop that's clean, and there's no one in the shop, but it's full of aroma. Yu Yue hadn't eaten much in the past few days, and when she smelled the fragrance, she suddenly felt hungry.
The ordered dishes came up quickly, and Yu Yue didn't care about talking, so she buried her head and began to eat. It was Zhuo Fan, who looked leisurely and raised his chopsticks slowly.
When Yu Yue was half-full, she found that Zhuo Fan basically didn't move, and stared at her from time to time, she blushed embarrassedly, "Why are you looking at me like this?" After saying that, he awkwardly picked up a tissue to wipe his mouth.
"Would you like to hear about my father?" Zhuo Fan gently picked the bones in his bone plate with chopsticks and said casually.
Yu Yue was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect Zhuo Fan, who had never talked about her private affairs with others, to take the initiative to tell her about her father, which surprised her.
"If you don't want to hear it, forget it, let's eat." Zhuo Fan's eyes couldn't stop the loss.
"Listen! Listen! Yu Yue put down her chopsticks and looked at Zhuo Fan seriously, "Say it." ”
Zhuo Fan suddenly smiled, and his clear face looked even better because of his smile. "Don't be so serious, I just suddenly remembered him."
"Hmm." Yu Yue remembered in a trance that there was a time when she listened to Ah Shen talk about how much she missed her parents, but now Ah Shen, who grew up with her, made her feel stranger than anyone else.
"I didn't have a mother when I was a child, and my father brought me up single-handedly. When I graduated from business school, my father wanted me to take over his career, but I was young and willful, and despite his opposition, I chose to apply for a master's degree in media. After graduating, I joined my current magazine despite his objections. Speaking of this, Zhuo Fan choked up a little. He drank all the water in his cup in one gulp. He continued, "I haven't been home since I graduated. He came to see me a few times, but I didn't talk to him properly. The last time we met, it was here. We had a late-night snack together. The owner here is a good friend of my father......"
The boss was a tall and thin man, wearing a dirty apron, he helped Zhuo Fan and Yu Yue add water, and greeted Yu Yue by the way.
After the boss left, Zhuo Fan continued, "Later, I received the news that my father had stumbled and fallen off the cliff while climbing the mountain...... Zhuo Fan sneered, "People are really interesting, they keep resisting when they get it, and they are especially reminiscent of losing it." ”
"Zhuo Fan. Since people can't be resurrected after death, don't be too sad. Your father must have understood. Yu Yue tried to comfort him.
"Duanmu is right, I have always been haunted by my father's death. Do you know? When I was younger, I used to play hide and seek with my father, and often I searched the whole house and couldn't find him, only a certain room remained. I was locked out of the door, which was a combination lock, and I yelled at the inside. Until my father gave me a hint of the password......" Zhuo Fan smiled, and suddenly, his smile froze at the corner of his mouth, "The hint of the password ......"
"Zhuo Fan, what's wrong with you?" Yu Yue thought that she had touched Zhuo Fan's sadness again, and wanted to say comfort. But Zhuo Fan stood up suddenly, "Yu Yue, I'm sorry, I suddenly have something urgent and have to leave first." Zhuo Fan hurriedly put away the clothes on the back of the chair, took out the car key from the pocket of the clothes, and handed it to Yu Yue, "It's so late, it's not safe for you to be alone, drive my car back." As soon as he finished speaking, he hurried outside, stopped a taxi, and disappeared to the side of the road.
Yu Yue looked at the car keys in his hand, completely confused.
The boss walked over, "Miss Yu, I'll invite you for this meal." His father used to come often, and every time he came, he would talk to me about his son, but rarely talked about his career. Before his accident, he and his son had come to have supper together, and I was happy for them at the time, but I didn't expect it......" The boss sighed and said no more.
"Thank you." Yu Yue sincerely expressed her gratitude. She didn't want to live up to the boss's opportunity to express her longing for her old friend, so she didn't ask for a checkout.
Yu Yue drove back to the garage of her community, and suddenly thought of Ah Shen, she hesitated for a moment, and finally got out of the car.
Nothing was said all night.
The next day, as soon as Yu Yue returned to the office, he heard from his colleagues that Zhuo Fan had taken a month's long vacation with the manager, but the manager disagreed, but Zhuo Fan still left.
Yu Yue was puzzled, according to the regulations of the magazine, employees should not take leave for more than one week, plus annual leave, at most not more than half a month. This is an accommodating thing in any company. Zhuo Fan was so anxious that he took a month's leave at once, regardless of the manager's objections. Either way, it's abnormal. Yu Yue inquired several times in the magazine, but did not ask the reason. She thought that Zhuo Fan left in a hurry last night, could it have something to do with that? In the afternoon, Yu Yue finally dialed Zhuo Fan's mobile phone.
"Sorry, the number you dialed is turned off......"
Shutdown? What the hell is going on.
When she was feeling anxious, she received a call from her father, "Yueyue, your mother and I have come to the hotel to see Ah Shen......"
When Yu Yue heard this, she left and jumped up from the chair, "Parents, Ah Shen hasn't fully recovered yet, I'm afraid it's not very convenient......"
"Yueyue, what are you talking about, Ah Shen is what we have seen since we were children, how can it be inconvenient?" There was a pause on the other end of the line, "However, we rang the doorbell several times, and no one answered. And then, ah, we go to the front desk and ask, do you know what the front desk told me? ”
"Say what?" Perhaps puzzled by Zhuo Fan's sudden long vacation, Yu Yue became nervous inexplicably, and her hands on the phone were sweaty.
"The front desk told me and your mother that Ah Shen has checked out!"
"What?!" Yu Yue hurriedly said, "Wait a minute, I'll come over immediately." Yu Yue hung up the phone in a hurry, explained a word, and ran out.
When they arrived at the hotel, Yu Yue's parents had been waiting in the lounge area in the front hall for a long time, and when they saw Yu Yue, they waved to Yu Yue from afar, and their faces were so worried.
"What's going on?" As soon as Yu Yue finished asking, he ran to the front desk to ask the reason. It turned out that Ah Shen had already checked out a day ago, so neatly, and he didn't say a word to Yu Yue. Yu Yue was still angry about the inspection for so many days, but when she turned around after being angry, she found that Ah Shen had already disappeared.
Yu Yue smiled bitterly, how come the two people around her disappeared in one day. Disappeared so suddenly and in a hurry. Yu Yueqiang held back the dissatisfaction in his heart, and said to the second elder and Yan Yuese, "I just called Ah Shen, he went out to do something, and I didn't have time to tell you because I was afraid that you would worry." When he's done, we'll go back and see you guys, okay? ”
finally coaxed away the second elder, and Yu Yue was greatly relieved. That's when I had time to start thinking about what had happened.
Yu Yue thought about it for a long time, but she just felt that Ah Shen probably hid because she was awkward with herself. But Ah Shen never had nowhere to go, and after losing his memory, he couldn't remember anything. Where can he go?
Yu Yue drove back to Ah Shen's villa and stopped at the door. At this time, Aunt Zhang next door hurriedly ran over, carrying a bag in her hand, "Miss Yu, Miss Yu, it's great to see you." This one is back to Dr. Shen. Aunt Zhang handed the bag to Yu Yue, and Yu Yue saw that there were several books in the bag.
"Last time, my old Wang asked Dr. Shen to borrow a few books, but I saw that you haven't come back for a while, so I haven't returned them, Miss Yu, don't see them." Aunt Zhang said with a smile.
"Where, of course not. Ah Shen is very recognizable, and it is rare to be able to lend you books. Yu Yue said.
"What are you talking about, Miss Yu. Dr. Shen has a lot more relatives than before, and he took the initiative to say hello when he saw us that day. Aunt Zhang smiled dignifiedly, and the corners of her eyes swept out layers of crow's feet because of the smile.
"What do you say? Dr. Shen took the initiative to say hello to you? When was this? Yu Yue asked.
"It was the same day, and it was late afternoon when the two of you came back together, around two o'clock that afternoon. When my old Zhang saw Dr. Shen, he asked him to borrow these books. ”
Yu Yue's eyes widened, she couldn't believe her ears, obviously, she and Ah Shen had been together that afternoon. Yu Yue seemed to notice that the book she was carrying in her hand had become extraordinarily heavy.