Maybe it was because he slept long enough and didn't dream, when he woke up near noon the next day, Shen Yiyou's mood was not as bad as before falling asleep.
On the second day in Country S, Shen Yiyou and his friends tried two delicious restaurants together, went shopping, and wandered aimlessly, the day before his birthday passed.
After dinner, they went to a famous nightclub, everyone was in high spirits, only Shen Yiyou was so exhausted that he didn't want to take a sip of wine.
When it was nearly twelve o'clock, Shen Yiyou couldn't sit still, so he went back to the hotel alone early.
He got out of the taxi and walked through the revolving door. It was a long way from the hotel lobby to the room. He walked slowly alone, passed the softly lit corridor, walked into the elevator, pressed the room floor, and watched the numbers keep going up and down. jump up.
This year's birthday is without Li Shu, and there is no cake and blessings, but he doesn't feel anything either.
It was past twelve o'clock when we arrived in the room, Shen Yiyou put the phone on the bedside table, the phone vibrated suddenly, and the screen turned on, the caller's name was Li Shu.
Shen Yiyou was startled, stared at the screen, picked up the phone, looked at it for a long time, when he wanted to pick it up, the other party seemed to hang up automatically because of too long a wait.
Before Shen Yiyou started thinking about whether to call back, Li Shu called again.
Shen Yiyou hesitated to answer, put the phone to his ear, and didn't speak.
"Shen Yiyou." Li Shu called him by name, using his usual tone and volume.
The time of separation was not long, but Shen Yiyou felt that he hadn't been in touch with Li Shu for a long time. It has been so long that when talking on the phone with Li Shu, I feel strange and uneasy.
He thought that Li Shu might not be kind enough to send him birthday wishes, but he didn't know the reason for Li Shu's call, so he asked politely, "What's the matter."
Li Shu did not wish Shen Yiyou a happy birthday, he said, "I found what you dropped last time at my home in San Francisco."
Shen Yiyou was stunned for a moment, and Li Shu reminded again: "The little red cloth bag is a talisman."
"..." Shen Yiyou knew what Li Shu was talking about, "That's called purse."
"Thank you anyway." Shen Yiyou added.
The purse with red embroidered thread was hand-sewn by his grandmother when Shen Yiyou went to England to study high school, and it contained the gold-plated Avalokitesvara amulet from Mount Putuo. A few weeks after school started, my grandmother passed away in a car accident. And after that, there was no one left in the world who really cared about Shen Yiyou.
Whenever Shen Yiyou travels far away, he is used to taking it with him. In the first half of last year, he went to look for Li Shu. He was still there when he left, but he couldn't find him when he came back. At that time, Shen Yiyou searched for Li Shu by remote control for a long time, but he couldn't find him.
I don't know why, but it appeared after breaking up.
Li Shu said politely, "You're welcome," and said, "Since I found it, I should return it to you."
"Thank you," Shen Yiyou grabbed the phone, sat down beside the bed, looked down at the tip of his shoe, and asked Li Shu, "How can I get it from you?"
Li Shu was silent, and said, "I'll ask the driver to bring it to you, or put it in the locker, is that okay?"
"Let him release it now if possible." Li Shu said again.
Shen Yiyou was stunned for a moment, then slowly shook his head, realizing that Li Shu couldn't see, he said, "No, I'm not at home."
Li Shu paused, and immediately asked Shen Yiyou, "Where are you?"
"You can also ask him to pick you up."
Shen Yiyou said no need again, and told Li Shu, "I'm outside with my friends."
"Shen Yiyou," Li Shu's voice was a little low, but he was not angry. Li Shu had never been angry with Shen Yiyou before. He said to Shen Yiyou, "It's twelve o'clock, don't you go home?"
Shen Yiyou felt that Li Shu seemed to want to educate him, but he held back at the last moment. It was rare that Shen Yiyou was not upset. He just thought the whole conversation was too long.
"I'll let the driver pick you up." Li Shu said impatiently.
"No need," Shen Yiyou refused, "I'm traveling with my friends."
Sensing Li Shu's silence at the other end, Shen Yiyou proposed a compromise plan: "Could it be like this, first let the driver keep it for me for a few days, and then ask him to get it when I return to S City? -Give me the driver's number Bar."
Li Shu was quiet for a while, before he agreed, he said he would send the driver's phone number to Shen Yiyou, and then said goodbye.
After hanging up the phone, Shen Yiyou breathed a sigh of relief.
He looked at the piece of glass between the bathroom and the bed, and remained expressionless for a long time before slowly letting the moisture in his eyes and the sourness in his nose dissipate.
Shen Yiyou was a little happy when he received Li Shu's call, but he hoped that he could forget about this kind of happiness quickly, and it was better not to feel anything at all.
When he was about to take a shower, his phone screen lit up again. Li Shu sent him a text message with the eleven-digit number and the driver's surname. Shen Yiyou clicked on the number and wanted to save it as a new number, so Li Shu sent a new message.
"have fun".
It was past midnight, and Erin Felton was still sitting in the passenger seat of the car.
The car was parked outside the neighborhood where her boss's boyfriend lived. The boss wanted to change to an assistant in City S, so she could only take over temporarily and continue the interview.
Li Shu made a temporary decision to come to City S last night. He didn't say a reason, only that he had to come. After getting off the plane in the evening, Li Shu asked her to take a rest at the hotel, and took the driver out by himself, but half an hour later, Li Shu called her out again.
When she arrived at the address Li Shu had given, she found it was a flower shop. Li Shu stood in front of a pile of different kinds of roses, watching them without moving.
Irene walked over and helped the staff for a long time. In the end, Li Shu chose one by himself, asked the clerk to wrap it, and put it in a box.
Li Shu's white roses look like hybrids, with pale yellow stamens, slightly thick, long and narrow petals, not many petals, and each petal is twisted and twisted, but it's so weird that it's not ugly.
Li Shu calmly and naturally took the flower box and walked in front. Erin followed him into the car, watched him place the box on the other seat in the back, and asked herself, "Where can I buy a finished cake?"
Irene Felton is a versatile secretary. In the unfamiliar city of S, she also found a nearby cake shop with a good reputation and sold finished products for her boss. They rushed over, and there happened to be the last six inches of berry flavor left.
Li Shu was very satisfied, he said, "Shen Yiyou likes the berry flavor", and after a while he said, "Six inches is just right for two people".
After coming out of the cake shop, it was a little late, Li Shu didn't go to find someone directly, he took the cake back to the apartment, put the cake in the refrigerator, and dealt with some business, until half past eleven, he called Irene, They went downstairs with the cake and got into the car.
Outside the community, Irene heard that Li Shu had called her boyfriend. She guessed that Li Shu and Shen Yiyou had quarreled, but she didn't know the exact extent of the quarrel.
Li Shu didn't come to City S this month, maybe it was related to the quarrel. Listening to him talking on the phone with his boyfriend, the tone seems to be very peaceful, but the content is inexplicably heavy.
After hanging up the phone, Li Shu quietly typed on the phone for a while, then put the phone down.
Eileen Felton didn't look back. She heard the ribbon being untied, heard the sound of the carton being opened, and smelled the rich aroma of berry cake.
This is a very full-bodied smell, with the tartness of immature red raspberries and the mild sweetness of mixed animal cream.
The bag containing the knife and fork was also torn open by Li Shu. In the dead silence of the carriage, no sound could be misheard.
After two minutes, Irene finally couldn't help turning her face to the side and looked back.
Li Shu lowered his head, and slowly ate the birthday cake he planned to give to Shen Yiyou. The rose box on the left was very long and was precariously on the seat. Li Shu ate for a while, called Irene by name, and said, "Do you know why Shen Yiyou broke up with me?"
It was very late at night, the car was parked under a tree, no pedestrians or other cars passed by.
The narrow and stretching asphalt driveway, and the dense camphor trees on both sides of the road that are almost squeezed together, covering the night sky, are like a huge, irregular cage.
Erin honestly said she didn't know.
This time, Li Shu was not dissatisfied because she couldn't answer his question, he said, "I don't know either."