Before hanging up the phone, Xiao Yao asked Shen Jie again for the contact information of the little fat man's cousin "Ning Ning".

"I'll text you later." Shen Jie agreed vaguely.

hung up the phone with Shen Jie, Xiao Yao called Yu Luying again and invited the other party to continue walking by the lake.

"It's too cold outside," Yu Luying said, "I don't want to go out again today." ”

"Then let's find a place to sit together." Xiao Yao said.

"Farewell," Yu Luying said, "There is a group activity in our girls' dormitory in the evening, and I want to play with them." ”

Then, she added, "Be gregarious." ”

Xiao Yao had no choice but to hang up the phone and go to make himself "gregarious".

He accompanied the boys in the dormitory to play landlord poker all night, and listened to them talk about "one-two-three-four, two-two-three-four, change the position, and do it again".

Shen Jie said that she had sent her cousin's contact information, but there was no news as usual.

The next day, the fourth day of military training, was another uneventful day.

During the day, Xiao Yao continued his boring training while thinking about Shen Jie's telling their future father-in-law their secret.

Is it really that simple?

So easy to pass?

Can Shen Hongsheng really believe this?

If it's that simple, isn't it time to tell him right in the first place......?

Have you been cocooning yourself?

After a day's training, Yu Luying once again shirked the two-person date in the evening, and didn't even find a decent excuse.

What made Xiao Yao feel was not displeasure, but uneasiness.

Such an abnormal attitude, combined with the background of the sudden disappearance of symbiosis, it is difficult not to make Xiao Yao feel anxious and troubled.

Even if you try to mentally suggest to yourself that you "take it easy", even if you don't admit it to yourself, it's useless.

Once he faced his true heart, Xiao Yao had to admit that he actually really cared.

There's no way to control that.

There's no way around it.

Fortunately, Shen Jie accompanied him to burn the phone porridge, which distracted him.

The "deprived love" that had been anxious before seemed to be cured, and Xiao Yao secretly sighed that only distance is the best medicine for love.

Of course, Yu Luying's "little abnormal" state is a topic that cannot be discussed with Shen Jie, so she can only hold it by herself.

The next day, December 4, which was the fifth day of military training, and on the last day, Yu Luying's cold attitude eased.

Then it was Shen Jie's turn to disappear.

Regarding the situation of this day, it can be briefly described as follows: In the morning, Shen Jie also sent a message to Xiao Yao saying that it seemed that she was going to Navarre to pick up clothes and try on clothes tomorrow, and confirmed the specific and detailed itinerary with Xiao Yao.

Xiao Yao got up late, hurriedly dressed and put on pants, and then replied, "I'll tell you later." ”

When he used the break time between military training and parade training to send a message back to Shen Jie, he didn't get a response at that time.

Naturally, Xiao Yao didn't care.

But when it was time for the lunch break, and after the end of the training results display competition in the afternoon, Xiao Yao still did not receive any reply, which made him not feel strange.

Even if he doesn't lose his sense of security so easily, it's impossible not to think about the reasons behind it.

On the bus back to the city, Xiao Yao called Shen Jie.

"Toot-toot-toot-toot-toot-"

After a long waiting tone, there was a dead silence on the other end of the earpiece.

"Hello?" Xiao Yao said.

"Hello, your call is currently unanswered, please call again later. Sorry，the……”

Xiao Yao pressed it off and continued to fight.

"Toot-toot-toot-" This time it was only half the time, and the last beep was only half the way.

"Hello?" Xiao Yao's tone was a little uncertain and a little anxious.

"Hello, please don't hang up, the phone you are calling is on a call-"

？？？

When I called for the third time, I directly "beeped" half a sound, and then "Hello, please don't hang up, the phone you dialed is on the phone".

A row of fine beads of sweat oozed from Xiao Yao's forehead.

In the end, something happened.

The teenager struggled to calm himself down.

The noise around him moved away from him for a moment, and then returned to his face the next.

"I originally thought that our class would be at the bottom this time, but I didn't expect their class to be even worse." A loud male voice said.

"Hey, whatever," said another boy with a distinctly different voice, "Anyway, this damn school army is finally over." ”

Xiao Yao turned his head and looked around, Yu Luying was sitting in the pile of girls a little far away from him, talking and laughing with other female classmates.

I don't know what they were talking about, but I saw Yu Luying covering her small mouth with her right hand, laughing and trembling, leaning forward and back, just hate to put the back of the seat down.

What is there in the past that I don't have in the present?

I don't know how I got to school and then to my home - Xiao Yao wanted to put down his luggage and rushed to the western suburbs garden, but he didn't want his daughter Shen Tianyun to sit on his bed and wait for him.

"Nan," Xiao Yao beat his spirits and stepped forward to hug Tianyun with a smile, but the latter seemed to subconsciously turn his body away and dodge.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Yao said as he hugged again, this time Shen Tianyun did not flash.

"My mom is here." Shen Tianyun hugged his chest in Xiao Yao's arms.

"Which mom are you?" Xiao Yao was stunned.

Yu Luying walked lightly to the sofa in the corner of Xiao Yao's room, took off her coat and hung it up, put her schoolbag on the sofa, sat down and crossed her legs.

"Little Mom," Shen Tianyun said, "I came with Grandpa." ”

"Which grandpa?" Xiao Yao was stunned, as if his brain was temporarily down, and he couldn't react.

While talking, Xiao Yao's grandmother Miao Jinfang pushed the door and came in, and said in dialect: "Shen Jie and her father just came here in the second half of the day. ”

Xiao Yao reacted at this time, Shen Jie didn't reply to his news in the afternoon, did he bring Shen Hongsheng back to recognize his relatives?

He was a little excited, pestering Shen Tianyun and his grandmother to ask about the details of this historic meeting, but both of them said that Shen Hongsheng didn't say anything substantial, just a little greeting, and left without even eating.

"Grandpa is so young," Shen Tianyun said, a little excited and longing with memories: "He also cut my toenails, Xiao Yao, look!" ”

As she spoke, the girl stretched out her bare feet without socks from her slippers and showed them to Xiao Yao.

"Why do you cut your toenails...... Xiao Yao said, "It's weird." ”

"That's not normal," Shen Tianyun said: "When I was a child, my grandfather often helped me cut my toenails, and when we talked about this, my grandfather patted his thigh and said, Okay, grandpa will help you cut it again!" ……”

"Warm." Xiao Yao commented casually, thinking that this Shen Hongsheng is really a relative of the next generation.

"Warm." Yu Luying said.

That night, after Miao Jinfang, Yu Luying, and Shen Tianyun all returned to the room, Xiao Yao tried to contact Shen Jie again, but still failed.

He couldn't figure out what was going on, and sat on the couch for most of the night, glancing at it from time to time until he fell asleep in a daze.

"Dream" is a positive word in many people's dictionaries, but in Xiao Yao's opinion, if it can be like in the game, the screen will go black and light up overnight, which is a great thing.

This night, he repeatedly dreamed that Shen Jie appeared, repeatedly dreamed that the phone at home was ringing, and repeatedly grabbed the mobile phone in his dream, and saw Shen Jie's short message or QQ message.

Whenever he saw Shen Jie's news, he vaguely felt that he was just dreaming, so he wanted to open his eyes and take his mobile phone to see it in reality, but his soul couldn't break free from the confinement of dreams.

Tormented by such anxiety, Xiao Yao was woken up by a call from Navarre's wedding dress the next morning (December 5).

"Your wife...... Did you just say missing? The female voice on the other end of the phone was surprised: "Rescheduling again?" But you've rescheduled more than once, and according to our contract, it's ......"

Xiao Yao listened dizzily to the staff of Navarre's wedding dress talking about "breach of contract", "bear the consequences", "scheduling" and the like, and finally heard the three words "have to add money" before Tu Poor Dagger saw it, he apologized perfunctorily, dealt with the other party a few words, and almost lost his temper.

After putting down the phone, he immediately checked the inbox and call records of the phone, and sure enough, Shen Jie was still like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no news.

By this time, it was already dawn, and the evidence was that the birds could no longer be heard outside the window. I was half-lying on a narrow and hard sofa, with a quilt draped over my body, and I don't know which intimate woman did it.

After Xiao Yao washed up briefly, he changed his clothes and went out, took a taxi to the Western Suburbs Garden, and stood at the gate of the community for an afternoon.

Rao was covered with a quilt for him, but Xiao Yao was still a little cold, dizzy, as heavy as a stone.

I don't know if it's an illusion, the western suburbs garden seems to have strengthened its vigilance, and the density of security guards has increased by three to five percent compared to the last time I carried out the infiltration mission with Liang Yanan.

The temperature was very low on this day, and it began to rain freezing, but fortunately, Xiao Yao bought a transparent plastic umbrella for ten yuan, hid under the umbrella and shivered, stomped his feet, listened to the sound of the freezing rain hitting the umbrella surface, and thought wildly.

If this freezing rain had been a day or two earlier, maybe the damn "student army" would have ended earlier, right? Xiao Yao thought.

Seeing that he couldn't wait for people to come out and couldn't get into the community, Xiao Yao found a clothing store again, and entered the inner world through the mirror of the fitting room, but was surprised to find that the skyscraper had disappeared out of thin air.

He entered the "shadow side" of the garden community in the western suburbs, came out through the mirror of Shen Jie's bedroom, and arrived at Shen Jie's bedroom in reality.

At this time, it was already half dark, and compared with the brilliant lights of the surrounding villas, Shen Jie's home was hardly lit.

Xiao Yao cautiously explored upstairs and downstairs, not to mention that the Shen family's father and daughter and Luo Yunxuan didn't even meet the next person.

That is until he bumps into Lisa in the kitchen.

"Who?? How did you get in? Lisa was startled, let out a low scream, picked up a kitchen knife, and only after seeing Xiao Yao's face clearly did she put down her trembling right hand holding the knife.

"What's going on now?" Xiao Yao looked at the luxurious kitchen and asked Lisa.

From Lisa, Xiao Yao learned that the Shen family had indeed moved out of the property temporarily.

It seems that the move was quite thorough, leaving only three or two handyman servants to take care of the house, including Lisa.

"I really don't know where the young lady moved to," Lisa told Xiao Yao in Chinese, which seemed stiff, "You go quickly, if other people see you, it will be troublesome to call the police." ”

When Xiao Yao dragged his tired body back to his grandmother's house, he saw Yu Luying, the much empty room and Yu Luying's packed luggage.

"I ...... I have to go home to live," Yu Luying bit her lower lip and told Xiao Yao: "Now that the symbiosis is gone, I have no reason to keep bothering grandma." ”

Xiao Yao thought that Yu Luying was going to make trouble at this time, almost another backstab, and lost his temper with her.

"Did you come to live with us because of symbiosis?" Xiao Yao tried his best to lower his throat: "Isn't it because of your so-called father?" ”

"I know...... But ......" Yu Luying's voice was filled with tears.

Xiao Yao sighed, stepped forward to hug the girl, and reached out to wipe the hair on the top of her head.

In order to take care of Xiao Yao's feelings, Yu Luying stayed for another two or three days, and then went back to her own home.

Xiao Yao sent her downstairs to Yu Lihua's house.

"What are you doing?" Yu Luying turned around with a light smile, revealing the pear vortex on both sides: "It's not that I can't see it." ”

Xiao Yao let out a grunt from his throat.

"Okay." He said.

Time flies, and the time soon came to Christmas Eve in 2004.

In the past twenty days, Xiao Yao didn't know how many times he waited at the door of the city's Seven Girls Middle School, but he didn't wait for Shen Jie once.

He wondered if he was blind, or if Shen Jie had already transferred to another school.

After all, in order to prevent himself from seeing his daughter, Shen Hongsheng didn't even want to live in the old nest, so it was not a big deal to change schools.

As for why the old father-in-law made a repeated turn in his attitude like a psychopath, it is still a mystery.

Xiao Yao contacted the future Shen Jie and asked her to help "remember" where she went, but found nothing.

He went to the "Three Caves of the Cunning Rabbit" that Yan Xiao helped find out before, as well as the addresses of all the properties that Shen Hongsheng owned in the magic capital this year provided by Shen Jie in the future, but they were all the same as the Western Suburbs Garden - either the empty house was locked, or only two helpers looked at the house.

Xiao Yao remembered that he was looking for Shen Jie like this last time - he felt a little tired of his "searching" on the road like this.

What's more, last time I was accompanied by Yu Luying, but this time I was the only one who fought alone.

Moreover, this year's winter is really cold.

The relationship between Xiao Yao and Yu Luying was also visibly cold, he didn't know what the problem was, he only knew that he didn't have the extra heart to care about her anymore.

On Thursday, December 23, Yu Luying asked Xiao Yao at school if she wanted to go to church together tomorrow night.

Xiao Yao was a little surprised, after all, he didn't have the heart to go to any more churches in December, so he didn't go once, and Yu Luying never asked him.

Considering that this was Yu Luying's active invitation - and being idle alone is idle anyway, nothing more than being at home, Xiao Yao agreed.

On the night of Christmas Eve, the temperature was ridiculously low, but like every winter in the magic capital in previous years, there was no romantic snow. (End of chapter)

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