It was as if I was suddenly caught by a branch that appeared out of nowhere while falling. I pressed the answer button and opened my mouth for the first second, but I couldn't make any sound.
"Li Xuan? Hello... Can you hear me? What's wrong? Why aren't you talking?" Sheng Min was as gentle as ever. "It was so noisy just now that I didn't even notice the ringing."
That's right. How could Sheng Min deliberately not answer his call? Li Xuan took a deep breath and thought to himself. Sheng Min didn't know that he had looked for Yang Xu. In the past few days, she had been calmly coaxing him every day.
"Where are you?" Still anxious, Li Xuan simply broke the window paper, "Yang Xu told me everything."
Suddenly, there was no sound on the other end of the phone. After half a minute, Sheng Min spoke again. Perhaps it was an illusion, and it was hard to tell what had changed in his tone. It was a bit like a shrunken fruit that had been peeled off its smooth skin after being separated from the branch, revealing its rotten inside: "Tell you what? He doesn't know anything at all."
Something must have happened, Li Xuan's Adam's apple moved. In an instant, eight hundred bad thoughts flashed through his mind, but he couldn't figure it out, which was the most worrying.
"If he doesn't know, then I can't know too?" He was getting more anxious, but his tone was forced to be calm. "Sheng Min, what did you say at the airport last time? You said you wouldn't lie to me. Tell me, where is he now?"
"You always lie to me." Sheng Min accused him in a low voice.
"I was wrong." Li Xuan apologized immediately, even though he couldn't remember what Sheng Min was talking about. "I will never lie to you again."
"Lie." Sheng Min laughed softly, a little dryly, and fell silent again.
The frequent silence made Li Xuan feel powerless: "At least tell me what happened and where you are."
The red light ahead turned green at this time, and a horn rang behind him, urging him to go straight for 700 meters and then turn left at the next intersection, and he would soon enter Airport South Road.
"Are you going to the airport?" Sheng Min heard it and finally asked, "Are you on a business trip?"
"I'm not on a business trip. I'm going to find you."
Sheng Min seemed to be stunned for a moment, and subconsciously asked: "Where are you going to find me?"
"have no idea."
"How can you find it if you don't know?"
It's a matter of course, so there's no question about it. Li Xuan hummed. Then he suddenly came to his senses and realized that he could actually know it.
It was not difficult for him to locate the person, he could easily find countless ways to do it. However, he was so concerned that he forgot everything. Love was like a kind of chronic poison, which made people stupid without them realizing it, and made them lose control of their reason. They just let their instincts control them and rush to the place closest to their lover. Without considering the pros and cons, they rushed to the airport, flying to him no matter how far away he was.
"Just tell me where you are and I can find you, okay?"
Realizing this, Li Xuan stopped the car on the side of the road while speaking, took the laptop from the passenger seat, connected the mobile phone data and started a location search.
"Are you trying to coax the child? You just said you wouldn't lie to me anymore. Am I so easy to fool?" Sheng Min said softly, with an indescribable trance, "Maybe I am very easy to fool."
His speech today was a bit confusing. At this moment, Li Xuan had no time to think about the meaning of every word he said. He just wanted to coax him to say a few more words and make the call last a little longer: "Didn't you tell me not to make you unable to find it again? Don't make me unable to find it either, okay?"
"I called you." Sheng Min sighed softly, "I'm fine..."
"I can't see you. I have something to do..." Li Xuan tapped the keyboard hard and blurted out. He felt that his tone sounded a bit fierce, so he quickly lowered his voice and said, "Don't make me worry."
"Don't worry, Li Xuan, I just want to sort things out. Let me stay alone for a few more days..."
"No." Li Xuan interrupted him without hesitation, "You are my boyfriend, I am worried about you, so I have to see you now..." He frowned and looked at the code that kept increasing on the computer screen. His tone changed to another low tone, "Unless you don't want me anymore."
Perhaps since they met, Li Xuan has always been aggressive and unyielding. As soon as he showed weakness, even though he knew it was just a delaying tactic, Sheng Min still had no way to deal with it. He said helplessly: "You always control me like this."
"I can also come to you myself, where are you?"
The topic was getting back to the point. His true face was that he was arbitrary and dictatorial, and he would not give up until he achieved his goal. Whether he was hateful or not was entirely up to Sheng Min to judge. He fell silent again, and then he heard a very light beep from Li Xuan's end, like the prompt sound of some software running finished.
"... ... .What are you doing? I seemed to hear your keyboard making noises just now?" Sheng Min responded, "... ..What, did you find out?"
Being exposed, Li Xuan was a little nervous, at least his breathing tightened a little, and then he decisively pressed down the screen: "I can not watch it for now. Wait for my boyfriend to tell me."
"Don't go to the airport." After a long while, Sheng Min sighed and compromised, "I'm in City N."
The address is on the outskirts of the city, and there was no traffic jam today, so they quickly got out of the city. After driving onto the rural road, Li Xuan inexplicably felt that the roadside scenery was somewhat familiar. When he parked the car, he scanned the navigation on the display screen and found that this place was not far from the ancient town they visited on their birthday.
It is an equally remote town, but worse preserved. It is a mix of Ming and Qing style buildings and modern cement craftsmanship. The intricately patterned brackets under the eaves must be at least three hundred years old. The paper used to block the light on the windows is an old calendar printed with the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. A little further away, you can see advertisements for skin care products, but the spokespersons have been changed several times a long time ago, and this poster is really too outdated.
In this place where the old and the new meet, the only people forced to stay are the elderly and children. At least at this moment, apart from him, the sudden intruder, the only young person within sight is Sheng Min.
Without worrying about being recognized, Sheng Min did not wear a hat or mask for any disguise. He wore a light blue cotton shirt and squatted under a tree whose species he could not name. He watched two children, who were about five years old, playing house and cooperatively commented that the "dishes" they made by mixing sand and grass looked delicious.
As if realizing something, Sheng Min turned his head and after looking at each other for a moment, he said goodbye to the two young masters who had warmly entertained him and walked towards Li Xuan.
"So fast? You must have been speeding." He wiped the sweat from Li Xuan's forehead, looked at his watch again, and whispered the first words they said to him when they met.
Then, “What happened to your hand?”
"I broke a cup."
"cup?"
"Yeah, glass," Li Xuan said, leaning over and hugging Sheng Min before he could ask the next question.