Chapter 21

◎Running◎

"WY" is back, will "WY" come to find her? Did "WY" come back for her? Will she be soft-hearted? She broke up with Zhu He, will she choose "WY"?

Wen Xu's mind popped up one uncertain question after another, and then he gave affirmative answers one by one. His heart was beating up and down, he was almost sure that no matter who came, Du Ningyang would give him the smallest choice.

Anyone who came could easily defeat him. They had no old friendship before, lacked a good emotional foundation, not to mention a stable superstructure.

After getting off the bus, Wen Xu almost ran towards Huisheng like flying.

When running, you won't have random thoughts. When

running, all the disturbing thoughts will retreat backwards.

All the uncertain answers will fall to the ground the moment they see her-

just like his heart fell to the ground when he stood at the door of Huisheng at this moment.

It has been two weeks now. They are almost used to this kind of life. When they come back, there are people waiting for them. There are several lights on. When customers come in, there will be pleasant conversations. When there are no customers, she will play pop songs on the speakers or put her legs on the table to watch TV series.

He and Du Ningyang eat together. The food is very simple. Most of the time, they eat beef noodles. When they want to eat vegetables, they will choose spicy hot pot. Occasionally, Xu Zhaolin and Zhu Yao come, and Xiao Taoer also comes. She confessed to him that it is Zhu Yao's child, and she has no child herself.

They also kissed, nestled in the sofa on the second floor, nose rubbing nose, heartbeat racing.

The quiet moonlight sprinkled through the branches and gently wrapped them. She liked to play a song over and over again, and the lyrics made him feel the same.

- In the tender days, loving you is effortless.

It's great.

But everything changed on the first day Wei Ye came back. It was not yet closing time, but the glass door was ajar, the lights dimmed, and the room was cold and dim. Wen Xu stepped forward and saw a piece of paper stuck in the crack of the door, with the following words in a flamboyant handwriting:

[I went out for something urgent, will be back later. Du. ]

The restart button that had just been tattooed not long ago may not have recovered yet, or maybe her hands were unfamiliar, or maybe it was because she didn't feel sorry for him or pity him, so it started to ache. Are people's nerves connected? It hurts to be pulled.

Wen Xu walked to the tea cabinet, squatted down, opened the cabinet door, took out a pack of Du Ningyang's cigarettes, went out to buy a lighter, stood on the side of the road, and smoked one after another. At first, he would choke, but soon he could smoke freely.

Hate Zhuhe, hate Wei Ye. Hate Du Ningyang the most. When she comes back, he must have a big fight with her. The longer she is late, the longer he will kiss her.

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Du Ningyang knew that Wei Ye was back, of course he learned it from Xu Zhaolin.

But unlike what Wen Xu imagined, Wei Ye's return did not touch her at all. Wei Ye would certainly not abandon his career for a long time because of the girl he fell in love with at second sight N years ago.

Wei Ye was not Xu Zhaolin, so of course he could not do such a thing. He and Du Ningyang and Zhu Yao only met during the summer vacation of the same year, and they never saw this person again, but this did not affect their scolding and cursing him for the next ten years.

Because Xu Zhaolin really liked Wei Ye too much.

They thought he should die in the northwest, so that he would not come back to harm Xu Zhaolin and seduce his soul.

But the sky did not follow the wishes of a 28-year-old woman. The second Xu Zhaolin saw Wei Ye on the bus, she decided to find him, so she got off the bus at the next stop and ran all the way back to Teacher Lu's studio, sweating hot in the cold season of late spring.

Just then, Wei Ye's SUV drove across the road, leaving a string of unpleasant exhaust gas.

Well, he drove away, so cool and carefree, which messed up their plans for the night. They were urgently summoned to Xu Zhaolin's house for a long and boring emotional meeting that was like Wang Po's foot binding.

"I only have one idea," Du Ningyang took a bite of instant noodles viciously, "find someone to kill Wei Ye, and the matter will be over."

Xu Zhaolin sat at the other end of the coffee table and kicked Du Ningyang, "Can you correct your attitude? I'm really annoyed now. I mean, should I chase him?"

"No, how many girlfriends has he had? Is there anyone in the world who is straighter than him, unless..."

"Unless what?"

"Unless you change your sex and make yourself a devilish figure and internet celebrity face, otherwise, based on your super failed experience in the past ten years, this is a doomed and boring ending. Give up, you are not destined to be with him in this life."

Zhu Yao's words were poisonous, and they were still as poisonous as ever even after becoming a mother.

Xu Zhaolin walked to the wine cabinet, opened a bottle of expensive foreign wine, poured half a glass into the glass, and raised his head as if he had made a great determination, and drank the wine in one gulp.

"Hey, why are you drinking so hard-?"

"We won't care if you vomit!"

He squinted his eyes hard, frowned, staggered back to the coffee table, sat on the ground, and began to recall that summer.

"When you went to Xi Village to sketch during the summer vacation of the first year of high school, I didn't have appendicitis. I went to Lanzhou to find him."

Looking at the increasingly puzzled expressions of Zhu Yao and Du Ningyang, Xu Zhaolin revealed the secret hidden in his heart: "I can distinguish a person's eyes, even if it is because of being moved. If he doesn't have any feelings for me, I won't have such a deep obsession with him. I'm not a fool, right?"

The summer vacation of the first year of high school, Xi Village... the last vivid and happy period of their high school life in their memory, eating, drinking and having fun under the guise of sketching, fishing in the river, barbecue and playing cards, singing in open-air KTV, giving nicknames to everyone who went, climbing on the roof of the village to watch the rumored meteor shower; the annoying

boys occasionally showed their cute side of being able to take care of people, but it still didn't affect their daytime cheapness, throwing pencils and buckets into the pond together during the fight.

In the end, everyone returned to the studio with messy homework, and was so angry that Teacher Lu kept them after class to redraw and make up for it. For the first time, the lights in the studio were on all night, but the laughter inside was endless.

Whenever Zhu Yao, Du Ningyang and Xu Zhaolin, who "deserted at the last minute", talked about the interesting stories of the Xicun photo shoot, he pretended to say, "I really envy you fools."

In fact, he was not envious at all. His heart was filled with secret happiness. In this summer, in the hot weather that made it difficult to even walk, he took the train to Lanzhou alone and went into the flying sand.

"Wei also set off on July 1st. In order to save money, he sat in a hard seat, but he fell ill when he arrived," Xu Zhaolin remembered clearly, "It's incredible, a person who looked very healthy was knocked down all of a sudden. I sent him a message to ask if he had arrived, and he took a photo of the back of his hand with an IV drip."

After sending the message, Xu Zhaolin packed his luggage and left. He had been looking forward to going to Xicun to sketch for a long time. He was fascinated by the foggy Hui-style architecture.

After stuffing all the painting supplies into the luggage bag, he looked at his phone again. Wei Ye sent this photo and replied: [Not acclimatized]

The time for the drip seemed very boring. Seeing that Xu Zhaolin had not recovered for a while, he asked again: [Are you leaving tomorrow? I have been to Xi Village, it is very beautiful, I wish you have fun. ]

Du Ningyang deleted Wei Ye. Xu Zhaolin knew that he wanted him to convey this to Du Ningyang.

Xu Zhaolin called and Wei Ye answered. His voice sounded very weak.

Xu Zhaolin asked: "How are you?"

"It's OK. It's probably because of the unfamiliar climate and the flu. There were too many people on the train." When he was vulnerable, Wei Ye said more than usual. "It's OK. I usually get better in a day."

The inter-provincial phone calls are very expensive. One minute can cost two yuan. The phone bills go away like drugs.

"Are you alone in the hospital?"

"Yeah."

"Is it a good hospital or a bad hospital... I mean, how are the medical conditions?"

"It's OK. This place is definitely not comparable to Huaicheng."

"Is there no one in your photography team to take care of you?"

"The migration time is fixed. They set off in the afternoon. I will catch up with them then."

Xu Zhaolin's mother knocked on the door and shouted at him to eat quickly. In the gap between Xu Zhaolin's response, Wei Ye heard, "You should eat quickly. I'm hanging up the phone."

"Have you eaten...?"

"I'll ask the nurse to buy me a portion later."

Then the two said goodbye.

Xu Zhaolin set off on July 2nd.

"After I hung up the phone, I didn't enjoy my meal, and my mother noticed it. My mother asked me 'who were you talking to on the phone just now', and I said it was a senior who went out of town for internship and got sick, and there was no one to take care of him. My mother said 'how pitiful he is'."

Xu Zhaolin smiled self-deprecatingly, "She spoke out my feelings, and I also felt sorry for him, being alone in such a far place with no one to take care of him. So the next day I lied to both sides, I lied to my mother that I went to Xi Village, and lied to the teaching assistant that he had appendicitis, and then I took a train to Lanzhou and took care of him for five whole days." "

No wonder you asked Du Ningyang and I to treat you to dinner every day after you 'recovered'," the dead memory attacked Zhu Yao, "it turns out it was all Wei's fault!"

Perhaps out of heartache, Du Ningyang's tone softened and asked, "What happened in those five days...?"

"Nothing happened. He had an acute cold and repeated fevers. I bought some green tongue and put it on his head. When it melted, I froze it again. Green tongue is not easy to deform. When the fever subsided, he didn't delay and went to catch up with the group."

He deliberately didn't mention that he had hardly slept for several days and nights. He couldn't bear to rent a bed for him, so he put three hard benches together and lay down to endure it.

He didn't describe the bad weather. The wind and sand in the county alone were very strong. The climate was very dry, dry and hot, as if someone was holding a large hair dryer and blowing the hottest air at people.

He also took advantage of his sleepiness to secretly hold his hand, but was careful not to be greedy and let go after a few seconds.

"When we separated at the bus station, he still said 'thank you'. I doubted that those thanks were worthless. I asked him if he could hug me, just once. I know that my love for you will cause trouble to you, but I promise that I will not like you when I go back."

"I said just a hug, but he bent down and hugged me for a long time. He said he would send me a postcard. In the next ten years, he sent me a postcard every year."

Xu Zhaolin blushed, "Later, as you know, every boyfriend I dated has more or less his shadow. I think I am very brave. Now that I am older, of course I have to be braver and try again. Anyway, he is in Huaicheng, and I don't have to sit in a hard seat for more than ten hours to find him."

"Damn it," Du Ningyang almost shed tears, "I am touched. I express my support."

"Then I will support it reluctantly," Zhu Yao has always been the calmest.

With the newly opened bottle of foreign wine, they talked about many trivial things in the past. Du Ningyang was on her way back to Huisheng, her mind was in a mess, but she kept repeating one sentence.

As you get older, you must become braver. At 28, you must be braver than at 18.

Standing under the street light that was about to go out, she shouted Wen Xu's name towards the window on the second floor.