Chapter 3: Airport Encounters
Pushing open the door, I looked at the somewhat empty room, and suddenly I didn't feel very used to it, but then I thought that I was about to stop living here, so I didn't mind so much.
The next day, after breakfast, I walked to the office.
At the end of the daily morning meeting, I opened DingTalk, filled out the resignation application, handed over all the information in the computer to Zhang Chi, and explained the work at hand clearly, and left the company.
At half past ten, I called the landlord and informed him to check out today, and the landlord, Lao Liu, was very satisfied and returned the deposit to me after inspecting the house.
When it was all done, I went to the bar with my suitcase and guitar on my back.
Walking into the bar, I saw Wen Yang arranging the chair, and when I saw me carrying a suitcase, I immediately put down my work and walked over, and asked, "Are you carrying a suitcase to move?" ”
I was just about to answer, but Mei Mei took two glasses of juice and handed them to Wen Yang and me, and asked, "Where are you going to move?" ”
"I resigned and left Yiwu to go to Dali."
I said a few words, took the juice she handed me and drank it.
Hearing that I was leaving the city, Mei Mei's face changed slightly, and said: "I can understand you if you resign, but I really can't understand your thoughts when I leave Yiwu to live in another city, if Ye Ke comes back to you one day, will you regret leaving Yiwu." ”
When Ye Ke's name came out of Mei Mei's mouth, I chuckled in my heart, but then shook my head and said: "When she left without saying a word, I had the illusion that she would come back, and there was no news for two years, so I didn't want to stay here, and leaving was the best choice." ”
As soon as my words fell, Mei Mei fell silent, and Wen Yang patted me on the shoulder and said, "Since you have already thought about it, we won't say anything more, when will we leave?" ”
"Tickets for eight o'clock in the evening."
"Okay, I'll send you."
I nodded, had lunch with the two of us at noon, sang a few more songs in the bar in the afternoon, and at about six o'clock in the evening, I took a taxi with Wen Yang to the airport.
On the way, I looked at Wen Yang and still asked the doubts in my heart, I wanted to know why he didn't want to see Meimei at that moment.
Instead of answering my question, he pulled down the window and asked me for a cigarette.
I didn't know what he was thinking, so I lit a cigarette as well.
After a while, Wen Yang spoke: "Before I met Meimei, I had a girlfriend, she and I were both from Suzhou, we both studied painting in college, and her father was a famous local entrepreneur, she can be regarded as a rich daughter, and I am just from an ordinary family, we are very happy when we are together when we don't think about this, but ...... The reality is always cruel, and when we graduated from college, I mustered up the courage to propose to her, and her family engaged her to a political job behind her back. ”
Speaking of this, he paused and continued: "I was unwilling, I wanted to elope with her, but I never thought that my parents stopped me, so that I didn't show up at the airport at the appointed time, and we lost contact since then, and then I went to Shanghai, but I didn't expect that not long after I arrived in Shanghai, I met you singing under the flyover." ”
He extinguished the cigarette and said, "If it weren't for you, I probably wouldn't have met Mei Mei, and I wouldn't have gone to England, and the reason why I didn't dare to see Mei Mei when I came back was because I met Gu Xi, the woman I wanted to take her to elope." ”
"So in the past few years in the UK, have you and Gu Xi revived?"
"No, she's married, but she's helped me in my career over the years."
Wen Yang said, looking out the car window, and I didn't bother him anymore, just quietly looking at the backward street scene.
Half an hour later, the taxi stopped near the entrance to the airport, and I said goodbye to Wen Yang and walked towards the boarding gate with my suitcase.
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When the plane landed at the airport, it was already past three o'clock in the morning, and a cold wind blew when I walked out of the airport, which made me shiver all over.
Luckily, I saw the weather when I set off and brought a jacket, otherwise I would have caught a cold.
I looked around for a taxi that would take me out of the airport, but to my disappointment, there wasn't a single taxi outside the airport.
"Uncle, do you have a power bank, can you borrow it from me, my phone is out of battery."
Just when I was worrying about how to leave the airport, a very energetic voice came from my ears, I turned my head to look, she had short hair and fair skin, if you compare her with An Ranye, the gap is not big, but she gives people the feeling that she is very lively.
"Yes, but am I old?" I looked at the girl in front of me and asked with some displeasure, it's okay to borrow something, but I definitely have to refute it when I say I'm old.
"No, no, no."
The girl hurriedly waved her hand and said, "Very young, not old at all." ”
I smiled, didn't say anything more, handed her the power bank from the crossbody bag, she took the power bank and said thank you to me, and charged her phone.
She may have seen that I was a little bored, so she took the initiative to ask, "Uncle, are you here to travel to Dali?"
I shook my head and said, "No, I'm here to work and live, what about you?" ”
"I also came to work and live, but my family didn't agree, so I ran out secretly." She said it with ease, as if it didn't matter, but I still caught her resistance to her family in her words.
"Uncle, meeting is fate, add a WeChat to facilitate future contact."
"Yes."
"My name is Shen Ai, my friends call me Amy, uncle, what's your name?"
"Fang Le."
After we added WeChat to each other, we chatted for a while until her friend came to pick her up, and then we said goodbye.
When the car disappeared from view, I remembered that the power bank was still there for her, although it was not a valuable thing, but when I thought that it was given to me by Ye Ke, I would inevitably feel a little reluctant in my heart.
I waited at the intersection for a while, and finally got a taxi, told the driver the address of the inn I was staying in, and then leaned back in my seat and squinted for a while.
The breeze blew and made me feel a lot more sober, I looked at the regressive Erhai Lake, and Ye Ke's appearance suddenly flashed in my mind, I don't know how she is doing now, if she didn't leave at the beginning, I think we would have been married.