At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, Guo Guozhu took off his gloves and walked to the lounge, and he inadvertently glanced in the direction of the workshop office. Suddenly someone called him. He was stunned, his voice familiar. He knew who it was as soon as he heard it. He was a little excited, inexplicably excited. Even suddenly wanted to walk away. Unclear contradictions. During this time, he spent time in contradictions and low self-esteem. He didn't want to see people he was too familiar with in the workshop, and avoided the people who had made him unsettled and painful at the moment.

He suddenly wanted to walk away, he wanted to go home early. He thought so, but he didn't move. Twisting his neck, he turned his head in the direction of the factory gate, but his body did not move.

In the darkness, it was Yue Hongfeng who came out. From the side, Yue Hongfeng was facing Guo Guozhu first, but she somehow suddenly twisted her body to the side, as if facing a stranger and someone she knew. She glanced sideways behind her, and in the distance behind her, the light in the workshop office was on, which was the light in the office aisle, which was reserved for the night shift workers, in fact, there was nothing in the aisle, only a few iron cabinets against the wall, all locked. The others were just two wooden benches, a telephone set on a tin cabinet, and a few charts on the wall.

The dim halo from the half door of the high train group seemed to tell people that in the middle of the night, there were only one or two people on night duty. Yue Hongfeng seemed to have something, and was a little hesitant. Guo Guozhu waited for Yue Hongfeng to speak.

"You're off work?" Yue Hongfeng asked. There was hesitation and unnaturalness in the questioning. As he got closer, he could see that Yue Hongfeng's face had a luster that he hadn't had in the past, although the light was dim.

"Hey," Guo Guozhu's sigh was followed by a little squeezed out of the smile, which was not easy to detect, but it was very gloomy, "just got off work." ”

"Can you give me a gift?" Yue Hongfeng seemed to have recovered to his original feeling, and he was also a little anxious.

"Huh? Well," Guo Guozhu hesitated, he was a little excited, and deliberately covered it up, "Okay." "The tone is a bit lacking.

"Let's go." Hong Feng said and walked straight forward. Guo Guozhu shook his head behind him and couldn't help but smile bitterly. He couldn't tell what to laugh at himself. A little apprehensive, a little confused.

When the two of them rode out of the factory gate, Yue Hongfeng waited for him with one foot on the pedal. Hesitated: "It's too late for you to go back, right?" Otherwise, you can go back directly, I'll be fine. ”

"That's okay, it's so late, it's too unsafe for you to go back alone." He said this almost reflexively. "Wow, it's okay, it's so late, how can I go home alone." He didn't think about how she would have gone home without Guo Guozhu sending her during this time.

After turning the path to the bungalow area, Guo Guozhu suddenly felt that the familiar path in front of him was unfamiliar. The branches swaying in the cold wind have lost their leaves at some point, and the scattered street lamps are among the branches, like big eyes that are dumbfounded. It's not the same as it was a few months ago. It was bleak and cold, even a little sad.

Guo Guozhu is very unfamiliar with this path, and even has a feeling of being a newcomer. When he walked halfway, Yue Hongfeng Bai said: "Thank you, you are so late for the delay, you are almost there, you see the intersection of the bungalow in front, you see, hey, okay, you hurry back." I turned a corner ahead of me and got home. ”

Guo Guozhu almost didn't react, he promised in his mouth, got out of the car, stood and suddenly thought, that's it? That's it? I didn't say anything, I thought I had something to say. Guo Guozhu thought, even a little lost.

He was embarrassed to stare at Yue Hongfeng's back, and kept looking at her as before, disappearing at the entrance of the bungalow at her father's call. He was stunned for a moment, numbly turned and rode back, and only then did he pay attention to his figure moving from front to back as he passed the pale and lonely streetlights, the only but hidden and visible faithful companion, who only came out in the light and accompanied him for a while.

She must have something to do, otherwise, she wouldn't have suddenly taken the initiative to ask him to send him home at this time. Obviously, what she had planned to say came home, and she didn't make up her mind in the end.

What was the matter that made Yue Hongfeng hesitate again and again, and finally chose not to say anything.

Alas, the more this is the case, the more people can't let go of it.

Walking alone on this path with few street lights, for a moment, he felt something inexplicable attacking. After a while, the feeling was like a cold wind, which slightly surrounded him and enveloped him. He was a little afraid.

It was already one o'clock in the morning when I got home, and Guo Guozhu's mother heard the loud sound of the door opening, and said anxiously: "Why did Guozhu just come back, and others can't sleep, ah?" His voice was full of resentment, "Don't let anyone else sleep yet?" Ah, I didn't come back early after the second shift, where did I pounce. "Guo Guozhu's mother usually says this, where to play, just say where to pounce on 6." You haven't thought about it yet," said his mother, who immediately followed suit, "Who's eating?" Don't eat it, there's still it in the pot. ”

Guo Guozhu hmmed, he didn't answer specific questions, and it wasn't perfunctory, he was used to it. His mother knows that Guozhu doesn't want to say more. She suddenly remembered something, "Xiong Erbo came to you in the afternoon." ”

"Huh?" He kind of saw it suddenly, "When?" ”

"In the afternoon, it's past four o'clock in the afternoon." "You just left," he said, and came out of the room with his clothes on, one arm not yet on the sleeve of his clothes, as if he had something to say, and he couldn't sleep tonight if he didn't say anything.

Guo Guozhu already had something in his heart, so he hurriedly said: "Alas, alas, go to sleep, what are you doing when you get up in the middle of the night." ”

His mother didn't seem to hear it, and she was anxious like a long-tongued woman in the alley, and said, "What do you guess Xiong Erbo is here?" Her mother wasn't ready to let Guo Guozhu guess at all, so she blurted out, "People are going to get married, do you say it's fast, look at people, look at people." Her words were full of envy and amazement, and most of them were envious. Guo Guozhu actually knew about it, and did not show surprise to satisfy his mother. A little complaining: "Look at people, you still ignore it, really!" His mother may suddenly think that her son had just gotten off work and came back so late, so he shouldn't be delayed to go to bed early, "Sleep wow, sleep wow, so late, what are you doing all day long, sleep wow!" The last sentence suddenly raised his voice.

Guo Guozhu didn't speak, just hummed, and finally raised his voice and said, "Okay, what's wrong if you don't want to sleep." ”

Guo Guozhu went to the small kitchen for a while, wanting to drink some water, and suddenly he remembered the big bucket. The tin bucket used to be in the corner of the kitchen, but now it's in the workshop, in the high-speed train lounge.