Loneliness

Chapter 3

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Originally thought that Chen Donglan would take the initiative to contact, Yuan Yuan has been paying attention to the movement of the mobile phone.

He received a lot of phone calls and text messages, and even received a harassing call by mistake, but Chen Donglan did not contact him.

When he got off work, he thought that Chen Donglan was probably at home and wanted to meet and talk with him.

Until he saw the lights go out in the house.

There was no trace of another person's life in the house. Chen Donglan himself is a person with very few personal belongings, and never puts them in disorder. I usually buy books the most, and then I started to buy pots and kitchen utensils with various functions after I started cooking every day. The size is not big, it is used by one or two people.

These are now taken away.

But it's useless here, Yuan Yuan doesn't cook by himself, even if he really wants to cook, he can only cook the noodles, and it's hard to eat.

He smiled and went back to his room to work.

Two days later, Chen Donglan sent a text message: "I have settled in my new home. I have been very busy recently, and I will visit when I have time."

Chen Donglan is a bit eccentric. He has a computer and a smartphone, but most of the time he doesn't use their most important function.

He never plays with his mobile phone or computer at home. He either reads or sits on the sofa watching TV. Even if there are advertisements, he will read them seriously. And it's fixed in that position. The sofa in the rented house is a few years old, and the place where he has been sitting even has a dent that won't spring back.

He doesn't have WeChat, and he hasn't bought anything with his phone. His smartphone model is up to date, but he's never used it for calling or texting.

The only exception is that he joined the school debate team, and he talked a lot in it during college.

After receiving the text message, Yuan Yuan called him back.

"Hello?" Chen Donglan was very quiet.

"Where did you move to? I'm going to see you after get off work today."

After a loud noise, Chen Donglan hurriedly said, "No, no, everything is fine here."

"Why was it so noisy just now?"

"...I didn't hold the phone steady." Chen Donglan's voice was soft.

Yuan Yuan didn't know he was smiling, and his tone pretended to be stern: "Why not, can't I go see you?"

"No... No," Chen Donglan explained, "I've been busy with work recently, so I haven't sorted everything out. The house is too messy. I'm really embarrassed to invite you here."

The text message just now said it was settled.

Yuan Yuan didn't pick this thorn, and continued: "Then I'm here to help you clean up."

"..." Chen Donglan was helpless.

"Well, I'll tidy up the house as soon as possible, and then let you know. Can you come back then?" Chen Donglan said in a tone of "let's discuss it well".

"Okay, that's it." Just as someone from the company came to him, he hung up the phone.

Chen Donglan is also a person who does what he says and does it quickly, but within two days he sent a text message to inform Yuan Yuan that the house had been cleaned up.

But unfortunately, the law firm was entangled in a big case. Every day, several people stayed in the law firm to work overnight. Yuan Yuan was not spared, so he could only push Chen Donglan away.

Probably a lot of things in the world are like this, waiting for a rare opportunity, once missed, it will be put on hold forever.

After that, Yuan Yuan did not contact Chen Donglan for more than a month. During this period, he was busy with work and the decoration of the new house, and he didn't even think about Chen Donglan.

If it wasn't for the next thing, they would probably just become strangers.

The person who started the incident was a senior student from the school's debate team. She was outgoing and enthusiastic. When she was at school, every junior in the team received her care. After graduating, she went abroad to work, and she was still married and had children there. It was rare to come back this year, so she wanted to ask who the team members were staying in T City, so that we could get together.

Yu Lin was the first to respond, volunteering to be the organizer of the domestic side, and also strongly requested to go to the airport to pick up the senior and her daughter. After learning that the other party's white husband would also accompany him, he stopped abruptly.

Eating and drinking are too simple, so Yu Lin plans for everyone to travel by car. There is a forest park near the city of T, which is a famous scenic spot. It takes about three hours to drive there. It is just enough to let the senior students studying abroad see the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.

"...Also let that foreigner see our country." Yu Lin said angrily.

When he was in college, he had a longing and admiration for this senior. Although it was very light, it was still very uncomfortable in retrospect.

"Her husband came here for work and won't come with us." Although the senior sister gave Yu Lin the task of organizing the event, she turned around and chatted with Yuan Yuan privately and asked him to help him a little more.

"How many are there now?"

Yu Lin recalled: "Six, including Senior Sister and her daughter, just two cars."

Yuan Yuan asked subconsciously, "Have you invited Chen Donglan?"

After asking, he was stunned. How could he ask so naturally, he had obviously not been in contact for a long time, and he even forgot about this person.

Yu Lin was dumbfounded: "No."

"Then please."

Yu Lin was in trouble: "This... Chen Donglan, he, he doesn't seem to be able to come to parties very well..."

What Yu Lin said was a fact. Chen Donglan is too introverted, so it's fine if he doesn't play along during the party. He doesn't even say a word, sitting there like a background board. The school debate team often met, but in the end, Chen Donglan was almost never invited.

"These are two different things." Yuan Yuan frowned irritably.

"Then go and invite him," Yu Lin pretended to be tough, "Anyway, you lived with him for so long."

"It's two different things." Yuan Yuan pointed his finger at Yu Lin with a serious expression, "Would you please."

Yu Lin lowered his head and said obediently, "I'll ask... Can I still ask... "

In the end, a total of seven people went to the self-driving tour.

The time is set on Friday. Everyone will set off after get off work. It is not too late to arrive at the destination. After a night’s rest, you can get up early in the morning to climb the mountain.

I also stayed on Saturday, then came back at noon on Sunday, and we could have dinner together in the city in the evening.

Yu Lin strongly demanded to take Senior Sister and her daughter, so she took a half-day leave to buy a gift for the little girl who had just turned four years old. Yuan Yuan got off work a little later, originally made an appointment to pick up two other classmates at 5 o'clock, and finally pick up Chen Donglan, and asked him to wait at home first, but when he got off work, he checked the text messages and found one unread: "I If you live too far, I don't bother you to go far, I will come to your company ahead of time."

Yuan Yuan immediately dialed the inside line and asked the front desk: "Is any of my friends coming to see me?"

The girl at the front desk was at a loss: "No..."

Yuan Yuan hurriedly packed his things, and as soon as he got out of the office building, he saw Chen Donglan carrying a one-shoulder travel bag in the square in front of the building, standing dumbfounded on the edge of the flower bed.

He kept staring in the direction of the gate, so he saw Yuan Yuan at a glance.

Yuan Yuan walked over a few steps: "You won't come in and wait for me?"

Tell the front desk that he is his friend, so he can rest in the reception room and have a cup of hot tea, as for standing outside blowing the cold wind

"I just came, it's almost five o'clock anyway, so it's better not to disturb." After not seeing him for dozens of days, Chen Donglan's hair is shorter than before. I don't know if it's because of this. few.

Yuan Yuan directly grabbed the travel bag in his hand, and found that it was not heavy. His face was a little better, but his tone was still not very good: "Anyway, you are the most polite."

Only then did he realize that after so long, he, a big man in his twenties, was still angry last time.

The two walked to the parking lot, and Chen Donglan took his bag back.

Yuan Yuan didn't fight him any more, he just raised the temperature of the air conditioner in the car a few degrees.

The other two classmates, one male and one female, surnamed Ouyang and Zhou, lived very close to each other.

As soon as he got in the car, Ouyang patted Yuan Yuan's shoulder: "Boss Yuan, how long have we not seen each other?"

Ouyang once participated in a nationwide debate with Yuan Yuan, and he has a deep relationship with him. Yuan Yuan was also very happy. The two chatted in full swing, completely excluding Chen Donglan from the co-pilot.

Fortunately, this situation didn't last long. When he received Xiao Zhou, Xiao Zhou was very interested in Chen Donglan who appeared here: "I didn't expect you to come, my God, it's too unexpected."

Feeling Ouyang's strange eyes, Xiao Zhou said with a smile, "When I first joined the school team, I played with Chen Donglan for a long time."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Yuan Yuan: "At that time, Boss Yuan came to guide us every day, and it was also because Chen Donglan was his old classmate, and I followed suit."

Chen Donglan smiled for the first time: "At that time, I was always holding everyone back..."

Xiao Zhouzhi waved his hand: "No, no, in fact, we all admire you. Although you don't like to talk, your logic is very clear. The position of playing the fourth debate is particularly good. Every time we hit the head, we will be pulled back."

Everyone is a debate enthusiast, and Ouyang is also very interested when it comes to this topic: "I seem to have a bit of an impression when I say this. At that time, it was said that there was a person in the team who was weird. The atmosphere on the field suddenly changed, it should be you, right?"

Xiao Zhou laughed: "It's him, he gets scolded every time he finishes the game."

Yuan Yuan also remembered what happened at that time. The only reason why Chen Donglan was so ill-spoken and still entered the school team was because of his strict logic. The worst thing is that Chen Donglan has a big problem in distinguishing the wind. He is light and gentle, as if he is coaxing a child to sleep. Debate is a game of persuading third parties. Even if you say the right thing, you can't impress the judges and the audience without the slightest tone of voice.

He often scolds Chen Donglan for this. After a game, Chen Donglan will be scolded by the judges, scolded by his teammates, scolded by the captain, and finally scolded by him.

He was clearly driving, but he was still distracted to look at Chen Donglan, and found that there was a faint smile in his eyes, and a rare emotion was revealed.

Rare, so happy.