In the small park, the plane controlled by the boy was buzzing overhead, and Weng Shuli followed to the sky and walked back quietly.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, Xiang Nuan rushed over immediately. Seeing Xiang Zhangkong leading her mother back, she exhaled a long breath: "Mom, where did you go? It scared me to death."
Weng Shuli didn't answer and walked straight to her room. Xiang Changkong followed behind her and asked her, "Mom, would you like to have lunch first?"
Xiang Nuan said: "Yes, I'll go and warm up the rice again."
She took the food to the kitchen, but Weng Shuli had no intention of eating. Xiang Zhangkong watched her walk back to the room, and lay directly on the bed with his back turned to him.
He called her again: "Mom."
Weng Shuli didn't move, she still turned her back to him.
Xiang Changkong frowned slightly, and inadvertently caught a glimpse of her phone on the bedside table.
As if some kind of bad premonition was about to come true, a thin layer of sweat appeared on his palms inexplicably.
Weng Shuli has not used this mobile phone for a long time. Today, she suddenly turned it out and ran away from the house suddenly. It is definitely not accidental.
He took a step forward, took the phone, tapped it, and turned on the screen.
Weng Shuli's mobile phone was set with a power-on password, and she entered her birthday into the sky, and the screen changed from the lock screen to the webpage that Weng Shuli had just browsed.
To Changkong's heart was stagnant.
She knows it all.
He raised his eyes and glanced at her back, unable to say a word for a long time.
Xiang Nuan reheated the food and came to him: "Brother, you haven't eaten yet? Let's eat together." She said, glanced at Weng Shuli, who was lying down, and said strangely, "Mom, you won't get up. Do you want to eat?"
Weng Shuli didn't move.
Xiang Nuan raised his head to look at Xiang Changkong, and asked him what was wrong with his eyes, but he didn't expect Xiang Changkong to say nothing.
The atmosphere was a little stiff for a while, and finally Xiang Zhangkong's cell phone ringing interrupted the unbearable silence.
It's Xu Lian.
Xiang Zhangkong glanced at Weng Shuli, then went to the balcony deliberately before picking up the phone. As soon as the phone was connected, Xu Lian said, "Xiang Changkong, I went downstairs to your house, where are you? I'll go look for you."
Xiang Changkong glanced downstairs subconsciously, and the goal was the street full of paving outside the community. Xu Lian should have gone to the basketball court in their community.
"To the sky?"
After Xu Lian called him again, he regained his senses and said to her: "My mother has been found and just returned home."
Xu Lian was stunned for a while, then he exhaled and leaned on the back of the driver's seat: "Just find it."
"Are you on the basketball court?"
"Um."
"Then I'll come down to find you."
Xu Lian's eyes moved, and she replied, "Okay."
Xiang Changkong hung up the phone and turned to look at Xiang Nuan: "Mom has found it. I'll go to the police station to close the case first. You should pay attention at home and don't let her run around."
"Okay, don't worry, brother." Xiang Nuan was terrified about this today. As the saying goes, one bite grows and one becomes wiser. Even if Xiang Changkong doesn't tell her, she will keep an eye on her mother.
She looked at Xiang Changkong and walked downstairs after speaking, and stopped him again: "Brother, won't you go before you eat?"
"No, I usually don't eat until one or two o'clock at work, it's fine." He opened the door and walked out.
On the basketball court, Xu Lian's car parked quietly under a tree. Seemingly seeing him too, Xu Lian lowered the car window and beckoned to him.
Xiang Changkong walked to the car, opened the door and sat on it.
Xu Lian was still wearing a seat belt, she turned her head and looked at Xiang Changkong: "Is your mother alright?"
Xiang Changkong was silent for a while, then said, "She knows about my application for graduate school."
Xu Lian was a little surprised. Judging from the few days she spent with Weng Shuli, Weng Shuli neither surfed the Internet nor went out, and no one else came at home except her. She always felt that as long as she didn't tell Changkong, she would not know about it. Yes.
"How did she know?"
Xiang Changkong said: "She turned out her original phone and found the campus website of A University of Technology. There was a report on it, and I was also in the mirror."
Xu Lian frowned: "Why did she suddenly think of going to the website of A University of Technology?"
Xiang Changkong shook his head: "Maybe I guessed it from my performance. Living under the same roof, it's impossible to have no clues."
Xu Lian agrees with this. Weng Shuli looked closed, but she was actually clear: "Then she suddenly disappeared today because of this incident?"
"It should be. After she got home, she refused to eat."
Xu Lian looked at him and tapped his fingers on the seat unconsciously: "Then what are you going to do?"
After the hustle and bustle of noon, the surroundings were extraordinarily quiet. The windows in the car were open and the wind was blowing in. It was obviously winter when the temperature dropped sharply, but Xu Lian felt a sweltering summer heat.
Disturbing.
"Let's have a good talk with my mother first." He lowered his eyes slightly, staring at a certain point not far away, "Don't come here recently."
Xu Lian looked at him, her eyes moved twice, and she replied, "Okay."
"Then I'll go first, and I have to go to the police station to close the case." After he finished speaking, he opened the car door and walked out. Xu Lian watched him slowly walk away through the rearview mirror, stuck her head out of the car window, and stopped him, "Xiang Zhangkong."
Xiang Zhangkong paused in his footsteps and turned to look at her.
"Are you still going to take the exam?"
Xiang Zhangkong's eyes deepened little by little, returning to the melancholy and profound look when they first met: "Let's discuss it with my mother first."
After Xiang Zhangkong walked out of the far door, Xu Lian was still sitting in the car alone.
She doesn't have the habit of smoking, and it can even be said that she is disgusted. She hates the smell of smoke around her. But at this moment, she especially wanted to give herself a cigarette.
She remembered that when Wei Yichen was in high school, Wei Yichen tasted something new and smoked it secretly. He even wanted to take her to smoke it as a gift, and she was beaten by her. After that time, Wei Yichen never smoked again... Maybe he did, in short, he didn't dare to smoke in front of her.
You can't smoke, it's good to drink alcohol, she will still drink alcohol.
When it comes to drinking in City A, it must be Qingnan Lane, and there is nothing more suitable than that. Xu Lian's brain became hot, and she drove the car to Qingnan Lane. Looking at the closed bars all over the street, she finally realized a painful fact - the bars only open at night.
It's two o'clock in the afternoon. At this point, the only bar that will serve her is Wei Yichen's bar.
She had been there when Wei Yichen's bar opened, and she could still find the location. She drove the car over, parked outside the bar, picked up her bag and got out of the car.
The bar door was closed, but not locked, she pushed open the door and walked in directly.
The bar during rest is completely different from when it is open. There are no crowds singing and dancing, no dazzling lights, and no staggering.
A dozing person saw someone coming in and immediately woke up: "I'm sorry, miss, we haven't started business yet."
Xu Lian turned around and glanced at him.
The neatly trimmed little flat head often follows the little gangsters beside Wei Yichen.
He even said something like "I'm sorry, miss, we haven't started business yet".
"Sister Xu Lian?" Ah Mao also recognized Xu Lian, and his voice rose two degrees in surprise, "You, why are you here? Are you here to look for Brother Chen?"
Rare! Brother Chen has been chasing her for so many years, has she finally discovered Brother Chen's charm!
Xu Lian said: "Of course you come to the bar to drink. Is there any alcohol?"
A Mao swallowed his saliva and said, "You, if you want wine, there must be. Just wait a moment."
After he finished speaking, he spread his legs and ran into the lounge, shaking Wei Yichen, who was sleeping on the sofa, awake: "Brother Chen, Brother Chen! Wake up! Xu Lian is here!"
Wei Yichen, who was woken up halfway through his dream, was very irritable, but the name in Ah Mao's mouth made him suppress this irritability: "Who did you say is here?"
"Xu Lian!"
Wei Yichen suddenly turned over from the sofa and walked out. A Mao hurriedly followed behind him and whispered in his ear: "Brother Chen, you just woke up, do you want to wash your face first, it will be bad if you have eye wax!"
"… "
"By the way, take a piece of chewing gum to refresh your breath!"
"..." Wei Yichen's steps paused, and his sharp eyes swept over A Mao. The hairs on Ah Mao's body stood up, and he wanted to withdraw his hand nervously, but as soon as he moved, the chewing gum in his hand was taken away by Wei Yichen.
He unwrapped the wrapper, tossed the chewing gum into his mouth, and kept walking.
A Mao: "… "
So... Really don't wash your face? What if there is eye feces...
Wei Yichen came out and saw Xu Lianzheng sitting alone in front of the bar, holding his face with one hand, as if he was in a trance.
He walked over, pulled out the chair beside her, and sat down beside her: "It's rare that you came to me on your own initiative."
Xu Lian seemed to have only noticed him at this moment, turned her head to look at him, and smiled: "You think too much, I'm here to drink, but everyone else's house is closed except yours."
Wei Yichen also laughed: "Actually, my house is also closed..." Seeing Xu Lian's face changing, he quickly said the second half of the sentence: "But the door of my house is always open to you."
"Okay, don't talk so much, is there any wine?"
Wei Yichen glanced at Ah Mao, who was following him, and said to him, "Bring her a glass of orange juice."
"..." Xu Lian became unhappy, "Where can't you drink orange juice? Do you think I came to Qingnan Lane specially to drink orange juice?"
Wei Yichen said: "Drinking hurts your health. It's better for girls to drink less. Besides, you are driving. You can't drive after drinking. I will call the police and tell you that you are drunk and driving."
Wei Yichen was stunned for a moment after saying this, what's so special, who did he learn from.
Xu Lian said: "I can find a chauffeur."
Wei Yichen ignored her and glared at A Mao: "Why are you still standing there? Let you pour a glass of orange juice."
"...Oh, good!" Amao poured a glass of orange juice and put it on the bar for Xu Lian.
Xu Lian stared at the glass of orange juice and didn't move for a while, A Mao felt a lot of pressure, the heart that wanted to watch the fun died immediately, and quickly withdrew to the lounge. Wei Yichen looked at Xu Lian, smiled and asked her, "Have you quarreled with Xiang Changkong?"
In his heart, he actually thought it was impossible. Although he didn't have much contact with Xiang Changkong, he never lost his temper with him when he provoked him like that before, let alone facing Xu Lian.
Xu Lian finally picked up the orange juice and took a sip: "Wei Yichen, are you angry when Uncle Wei broke your guitar before?"
He must be angry, otherwise he wouldn't have done this to his father on purpose.
Wei Yichen didn't speak, and Xu Lian continued to ask, "How do you feel when your dream is crushed?"
She had never experienced such a thing. Because of her personality, she felt that she was not suitable for working in the company. At school, she could ignore her classmates and not attend class reunions, but when she entered the company, she could not ignore her colleagues and not participate in company activities.
So from the beginning, she planned to open a small shop by herself after graduation to make a living. This isn't a dream, right? It's just to make a living. Although her father said that she could keep raising her, she didn't have the face to keep him raised. As for what store she wants to open, she hasn't decided yet. Until the year she graduated, her father's colleague brought her a souvenir from abroad—scented candles.
She thinks this is good, it looks good and smells good, and it pleases her. So MONSTER just opened up.
She was the first person to do this in China. At that time, she couldn't even find a teacher who knew scented candles in China, so she made a special trip to study abroad. The teacher is a Korean who can speak English no better than her, so the two of them used this poor English to finish the course.
Both breathed a sigh of relief.
His father found the best store for her. In Xingguang Park, the rent here is not inferior to that of Xingguang Department Store. The flow of people is there, and people who come to travel also like to buy some souvenirs to go back, but her business is not good, and she can't even earn a month's rent. Later, the sweethearted boss suddenly found her and posted her work on Weibo. Overnight, MONSTER became an online celebrity shop.
But Xu Lian felt that this couldn't be attributed to her luck entirely. If it wasn't for the things she made were really good-looking, they wouldn't have cooperated with her, and they wouldn't have helped her upload on Weibo. So she is still very grateful to herself.
Since then, the business has been getting better and better, and the orders have become more and more, so it is not a problem to support myself at all. Although she has been isolated since she was a child and said she doesn't fit in with the group, she believes that her life has been going smoothly so far.
So what does it feel like to be crushed by someone? hate it? Desperate
In the past few years, what kind of mood did Xiang Changkong come with
For some reason, Wei Yichen suddenly wanted to drink.
He got up and walked into the bar by himself, poured himself a bottle of wine, and took a sip: "I don't feel much, because I can't feel anything."