This year's Spring Festival is very early, in late January.

Jiang Limei's arm was inconvenient, and Wu Yusi was a little lazy, so she simply gave all employees a holiday, from after New Year's Day to the end of the Spring Festival holiday, there was no need to go to work offline, and online office was fine.

Most of the employees are in other places, and they can buy tickets to go home for the New Year before the Spring Festival rush, and everyone is very happy.

Jiang Limei is also in a good mood, she will take advantage of the Spring Festival holiday every year to travel long distances, the year before last was Hokkaido, last year was Barcelona, and this year she temporarily decided to go to Hong Kong. I checked the strategy and air tickets in advance, and set off on the 29th of the lunar month.

Wu Yusi is a native of Lingshi, usually lives with her parents, in her words, if she doesn't marry when she is at the age when she should marry, she will always be disliked in front of her parents. So during the Spring Festival this year, she said that she would go out on a trip with Jiang Limei, wherever she went, as long as she could escape the nagging of relatives at home.

Jiang Limei was used to going far away, so she traveled lightly, only carrying a small silver suitcase at her feet. Wu Yusi had a 26-inch huge suitcase in one hand, biting the ID card with his mouth, and pulling Jiang Limei to check in, there were many people at the airport, and the Xing Dailu hanging on the suitcase was squeezed out several times, Jiang Limei was annoyed after picking it up twice, and shouted at Wu Yusi:

"Are you moving???"

"Be considerate and considerate, my two boxes are actually empty, just to go to Hong Kong to buy more things and come back, my mother made a list for me and bought it for me."

Jiang Limei wanted to curse, but she still helped Wu Yusi carry a suitcase and a backpack.

When I was queuing for security, I came to WeChat, I didn't have my hand to look at it, I waited for the plane, and when I was waiting for takeoff, my phone rang again, this time it was a phone.

Jiang Limei took it casually, and only fed it there, and the rest was the sound of the whirring wind.

"Doctor Ren?"

What are the big things that need to be called these days?

Jiang Limei is the kind of person who hates answering the phone very much, modern people are mobile phones 24 hours a day, even if the sky falls, you can see it immediately when you send a WeChat, why do you have to call?

The main thing is that the ringtone of the mobile phone is the same as the alarm clock, which is annoying.

"Doctor Ren, there's a lot of noise over there." Jiang Limei didn't realize that she frowned, and her tone was a little coquettish and resentful.

Wu Yusi looked at her with a gossip on her face, and her mouth gestured: That doctor?

Jiang Limei pretended not to see it and twisted her head out the window.

After a few seconds, the wind and noise on the phone finally stopped, and she heard Ren Yu talking, as unhurried as ever:

"Jiang Limei, where are you?"

When he said her name, he pronounced the words slowly and seriously, and Jiang Limei could always remember his face, thin-rimmed glasses, and white coat by sound.

"I'm on the plane, I'm about to take off, is there anything wrong with Dr. Ren?"

Ren Yu was silent for a moment: "WeChat...... I didn't understand the WeChat you gave me back. ”

"Huh?"

Jiang Limei didn't understand, but she was startled when she clicked on WeChat, when she just helped Wu Yusi check in her luggage, the mobile phone was put into her coat pocket with the screen on, and she touched it by mistake, and sent Ren Yu a bunch of messy emojis, as well as a string of punctuation marks that she didn't know.

Flipping up further, it was a message that Ren Yu sent to her half an hour ago, asking her if she would return to Ancheng for the New Year.

Jiang Limei first said sorry, and then answered the question:

"I went out on a trip with my friends...... I haven't been back to Anseong for many years. ”

Anseong has no relatives anymore, and it is no longer a place that needs to be "returned".

She guessed that Ren Yu understood, because he automatically ignored the second half of the sentence and asked her lightly:

"Where to travel?"

"Hong Kong." The cabin began to play the avoidance video, Jiang Limei changed her hand and held her mobile phone: "Today is the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, if Dr. Ren wants to go back to Ancheng, haven't you left yet?" ”

The high-speed rail in Ancheng was only opened a few years ago, and there is only one trip to and from Lingshi every day, and it is extremely difficult to grab a Spring Festival ticket.

Ren Yu was on duty in the hospital during the Spring Festival last year, and this year he rarely had a holiday, so he drove back, eight hours at high speed, and wanted to ask Jiang Limei if she wanted to stop by the way.

Jiang Limei understood and smiled: "Thank you, Doctor Ren, for thinking about me." ”

"Nothing, you travel...... Stay safe. ”

"Okay." Jiang Limei took out her small blanket from her bag, covered it on her lap, and leaned back lazily: "Then I'll turn off the phone first, I want to make up for sleep on the road." ”

"Okay."

After a pause for a few seconds, Jiang Limei thought that Ren Yu had hung up, and looked at the screen, the call was still going on.

"Doctor Ren?"

After a while, Ren Yu spoke, and said lightly: "Jiang Limei, happy Spring Festival." ”

Jiang Limei felt that the frequency of being called her full name was a bit high recently, and Ren Yu's voice was clear and good, as if she was focusing on figuring out and sketching carefully, and she gradually got used to him calling her name.

There are comings and goings, Jiang Limei lowered her head and smiled: "Ren Yu, happy Spring Festival." ”

She wanted to wish him Wishing you prosperity, but because of his career, she changed it to: "Good health, all the best." ”

She heard Ren Yu's low laugh:

"So are you."

Huang Youhui came out to smoke and saw Ren Yu at the corner of the side door of the hotel. As soon as he hung up the phone, he didn't rush back, but looked at the traffic on the road in a daze, more than ten degrees below zero, and the exhaled breath rose into a white mist.

They are the same class, taking advantage of the Chinese New Year not to work overtime, they asked a few other alumni to come out for dinner, and Ren Yu ran out after half of the meal, and he didn't return for a long time.

Huang Youhui felt that his senior brother had been a little wrong recently, as if he was preoccupied. I couldn't see it when I was working, but I was bumped into by him several times during the break, and I didn't know what to think about.

He stepped on the cigarette butt and quietly stepped forward, wanting to scare Ren Yu behind his back, but Ren Yu smelled the smoke and turned around:

"When will you quit?"

Huang Youhui put down his hand and pouted: "Quit smoking slowly, my wife nagged me, and you nagged too?" ”

Huang Youhui and his wife are high school classmates, and they are also each other's first love, and they received a marriage certificate after graduating from undergraduate, becoming a heroic early marriage, with a stable and happy relationship.

Ren Yu helped his glasses, and it was rare to chat with Huang Youhui about some seemingly unnutritious topics:

"Isn't it easy to get married from first love?"

This topic opened too abruptly, Huang Youhui couldn't catch it a little, and stumbled to answer:

"Divide the people, me and my wife...... It's okay, it's going well, but there aren't many campus couples in the same class in high school or college who end up getting married. When you are young, you are not sensible, and it is difficult to stick to a relationship. ”

Ren Yu's expression was as usual, but his hand holding the phone tightened. Two big men stand side by side on the side of the road, admiring the traffic of passers-by.

“...... It's hard to forget your first love. ”

Huang Youhui finally noticed the bug, and the senior brother who has always had little roots began to talk about emotional topics? He looked at Ren Yu with inquiring eyes:

"Something is wrong with you."

As for where this problem started, he seems to have a little impression. It's the beautiful woman with a broken elbow, Ren Yu can obviously take a break, but she prefers to operate in person, and the number of times she runs to the ward in those days is surprisingly much.

Combined with today's chat, Huang Youhui feels that he can peel off the cocoon.

"Senior brother, the beautiful woman who had surgery last month won't be your first love, right?"

Ren Yu retracted his gaze and looked at him quietly.

"Right! I knew it! Have you talked about it? Broke up? Did you meet in the hospital this time? Right! ”

Ren Yu frowned unconsciously, his gaze through the lenses was obviously aggressive, Huang Youhui was taken aback, he had never seen such a Ren Yu:

"Damn, why are you staring at me? What am I saying wrong? ”

Everywhere is wrong.

Ren Yu exhaled, and his shoulders collapsed almost invisibly.

"Let's go, I'm back."

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This is Jiang Limei's third visit to Hong Kong.

The last time I came was in the summer, for a business trip.

Counting further, the first time I came to Hong Kong was the summer vacation of Xiaoshengchu, and Cao Qiong brought her here.

At that time, Cao Qionggang and Sheng Lin received the certificate, a divorced woman with children, and she could find an entrepreneur and a big boss like Sheng Lin in her second marriage, which became an interesting topic in the mouths of relatives and friends.

Everyone said that Cao Qiong was capable and blessed in person, but behind her back they said that she was not serious, did not abide by women's morals, and didn't know what kind of coquettishness she made, maybe the divorce was because she was out of the wall.

Cao Qiong could bear it, but she was still unhappy in her heart, so she simply avoided people's words and took Jiang Limei out on a trip.

Anyway, Sheng Lin has money and is not afraid of squandering. The couple went to many countries, one of which was Hong Kong.

Jiang Limei was soaking in the bathtub at this time.

The bathtub in this room is near the window, and the one-way glass can clearly see the neon and traffic on the street, and she huddles her shoulders, wandering in the cherry-scented aromatherapy, in a daze, and there is no sense of desolation at all.

In fact, she can't remember what she ate and played when she came to Hong Kong when she was a child, she was too young at that time to have no feeling for the fun of Hong Kong's drunken and gold games, only that the weather was uncomfortable, hot and damp, like a sauna.

Wu Yusi bought a pair of handwritten Spring Festival couplets in Wenwu Temple in the afternoon, but she had no place to post them in the hotel room, so she could only make a video call to show her family, and by the way, she showed the dim sum souvenirs she bought.

The laughter of the family is exceptionally clear.

Jiang Limei looked at the time, it was almost time, picked up the bath towel to wipe her hands, and called Sheng Lin.

She has Sheng Lin's mobile phone number, the note is Uncle Sheng, but she has not added WeChat, for so many years, only every year on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, will she call her stepfather, and pray for a year according to the number of rites.

The phone was quickly picked up, Jiang Limei's ears were sharp, and she heard the background sound of the Spring Festival Gala and the noise of children.

"Light rain?"

Jiang Limei's hand shook, and her nose was sore.

After Cao Qiong left, except for Sheng Lin, no one knew her nickname Xiaoyu anymore.

Another year.

Sheng Lin is also getting older, his voice is getting deeper and deeper, and he asks again: "Xiaoyu, where are you for the Chinese New Year this year?" ”

Jiang Limei pinched her nose and restrained her tone: "Uncle Sheng, have a good New Year." ”

"Eh, Happy New Year."

"Uncle Sheng, I'm in Hong Kong, with friends...... Traveling, traveling by the way. ”

Sheng Lin laughed twice: "It's a business trip for the New Year, you pay attention to your body, and you should also pay attention to safety when you are out alone." ”

Every year is the same advice, pay attention to your body, pay attention to safety, guard against arrogance and rashness, and start a family early.

When the words fell, Jiang Limei nodded silently, according to the usual practice, if she didn't respond, the call should be over, she heard the voice of the child in the microphone, shouting Dad, I want to eat grapes.

"Uncle Sheng, you are busy, just to give you a New Year's greeting."

"Okay, I'm in touch when I'm available."

The phone hangs up.

Jiang Limei threw her phone aside, and submerged her whole body into the hot water again, the hot water wrapped her skin, and she felt an inexplicable sense of security, and she poked her head out when she was out of breath, lying on the edge of the bathtub, and looked down with her arms on her pillow.

This is Central, Hong Kong, with the ultimate in luxury and romance. Twenty-nine floors are tall enough for anyone or vehicle to become tiny, and then converge into a stream of light, slowly flowing towards an unknown destination.

Jiang Limei calculated in her heart, this is the eighth year that Cao Qiong has gone.

After Cao Qiong left, she never returned to Ancheng.

She lived in a large villa for a few years, which was her stepfather's home, not hers.

She has no home.

Wu Yusi called her in the room: "Jiang Limei! You can watch the Spring Festival Gala here! You don't see it! ”

She answered, and the TV had already sounded, as if it was a lively sketch, a funny dialect baggage, and the audience applauded.

She picked up a towel and wiped her body, her fingers running over the outside of her elbow, and suddenly remembered the scar from the surgery there. A slender and long strip, obvious.

But fortunately, new pink meat has been born.