The Road Home

Chapter 3: Snow night at the border (3)

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Howling all over the place.

This was her biggest impression before the police car came.

Later, the police officers in charge of cleaning up the scene were very serious, but they couldn't help laughing when they saw it again: "Meet again, I'll be on duty tonight, and I've met the road team twice."

Lu Yanchen shrugged his shoulders, feeling helpless, "I've been discharged from the army, I'm too busy."

Everyone laughed, and Lisuo took them away.

Then they went back to the routine and made a second… Transcript.

When they stole Xiao Cai's car earlier, the gang didn't know that the car was worth one million yuan, so they threw it on the grass and left. At dinner, I took the photo of the car and showed it to the person who sold the stolen goods. Everyone thought they had made a fortune, so they went back to see that the car was taken away, and reported the case.

After tossing for a long time, the mirror flower water moon.

The gang of gangsters were full of anger, and they were looking for a place to eat to drink a meal to extinguish the fire, but they accidentally bumped into this car... A group of hooligans couldn't help but want to scare the owner of the car and let the car go away by the way.

But this time, they didn't expect that the person who followed the car owner was not an extraordinary person. It was the newly discharged counter-terrorism squadron leader and one of his most capable officers.

I didn't get any benefit, but instead, it was served in a pot, and it was delivered to the door by myself.

"Sunit just wanted to arrest them, yes, it saves us the trouble," the police escorted them out of the gate and patted Xiao Cai's shoulder, "Your car really deserves a pennant, ha, help us Provincial police force, save resources for the country."

After all this tossing, it was almost midnight.

Lu Yanchen asked Qin Mingyu to drive the three men in Xiao Cai's car, and he drove Xiao Cai and Gui Xiao to take them back to the hotel. The snowy road was slippery, and even though it was late at night, Lu Yanchen didn't drive fast.

The warm air of the air conditioner was blowing out, and after Gui Xiao realized that he had taken the initiative to close the window this time. The snowy night in the deep winter touched her memories of the summer days when she was young. At that time, she liked to sit in his car the most. Under the scorching sun of more than 30 degrees, he consumed his gasoline, the door was closed, and the air conditioner was turned on.

Lu Yanchen took out a cigarette case from his trousers pocket, took a bite of a cigarette, and then touched the storage box under the center console, swiping his fingers to find something. Gui Xiao probed to pick up the lighter and handed it over.

This find-and-delivery cooperation is all too familiar.

Lu Yanchen bit the cigarette but didn't pick it up. After a few seconds, he took the cigarette from his teeth and threw it into the storage box.

When they got there, Qin Xiaonan was already sleeping soundly on the back seat. Xiao Cai put his hands together to Lu Yanchen, and said in an air voice, "Team Lu, thank you so much, we will meet again another day." After Xiao Cai finished speaking, he got out of the car first.

Gui Xiao, who was sitting in the passenger seat, unfastened his seat belt and glanced at Lu Yanchen.

Lu Yanchen raised his middle finger on the steering wheel slightly, meaning: No thanks, she can go.

The ups and downs of the night made everyone feel a little out of strength.

Fortunately, the day is over.

Back in the hotel room, Gui Xiao took a hot shower. When he came out, Xiao Cai was on the phone with her husband, vividly describing this legendary day. Xiao Cai is a big-hearted girl from the Northeast, and she is not afraid after the incident. She even laughed and praised how many men "Gui Xiao's friend" is: "Husband, you don't know, you look like a young boy, but he is just like that. With a sense of righteousness, sure enough, this man must have been a soldier. Even if he has been in the army for two years, he has been reborn."

Over there, the northeastern man is protesting that his wife praises other men.

Xiao Cai and her husband exchanged a few words sweetly, broke the line, and came up mysteriously: "Gui Xiao, have you been with the road team? To be honest? The two of you are sitting side by side in the car, I feel like The atmosphere is so wrong."

"No," Gui Xiao wiped his long hair, "it's an alumnus, I'm not familiar with it... It's embarrassing to have nothing to say."

Xiao Cai still felt that something was wrong.

However, who doesn't have a past, Gui Xiao is understandable if he doesn't want to say it.

Because of the "gift of finding a car" and a "gift of saving life", Xiao Cai bought a lot of precious gifts in the next few days, and wanted to send them to Lu Yanchen.

Text messages came and went, and Xiao Cai complained occasionally. In the end, when Gui Xiao heard the movements of Xiao Cai's mobile phone, she was more sensitive than her own mobile phone calls... She felt that her heart would not be able to take it any longer, so she simply went around with three other men who came with her. In fact, this place is not big, but it is quite special. There are many shops in Chinese and Mongolian.

Mongolians can be seen everywhere, and the folk customs are simple.

Gui Xiao also went to a China-Mongolia-Russia Commodity Fair, but couldn't understand what the Mongolians said.

However, when I bought some things, they said they could drive them to the hotel. The owner's car was very similar to Lu Yanchen's car. They were all Russian-made cars that Gui Xiao didn't know. The delivery man said casually: "Russian cars can withstand the winter climate and can carry things."

Gui Xiao nodded, finally forgetting him temporarily.

remembered again.

When she is free at night, she will also sit by the window in the hotel room and watch the night view of Erlianhot.

On the surface, that relationship had hurt him more deeply. Maybe only the two parties involved, she and Lu Yanchen, knew that it was a lose-lose separation.

She had always wanted to see him again, making no secret of it.

But Lu Yanchen's attitude is also very obvious, it is best not to get involved in the future.

It was like this until two days before leaving Inner Mongolia.

Xiao Cai suddenly became happy with the phone: "I thought he gave me a fake number, but I haven't heard back. It's really not easy to be a soldier. The message I sent three days ago was only returned today."

Gui Xiao didn't understand who she was talking about.

Xiao Cai hurriedly explained that it was Qin Mingyu's cell phone number that he asked for during dinner that day.

Unexpectedly, it has been three days since I sent a message, and I only responded today.

"Quick, quick, they are good brothers eating farewell dinner today. A bunch of veterans are in the urban area of Erlianhot."

Gui Xiao's scalp was numb: "They eat inside, what are we going to do?"

"You think I'm so ignorant. It was the road team who asked you to go by name. I want to see you. This is to repay the kindness of the road team. I must complete the task," Xiao Cai said. Good bunch of expensive stuff, "Drop by, gift."

Does he want to go by himself

Gui Xiao didn't quite believe it. That night, his attitude was very obvious.

She hesitated and refused, and let Xiao Cai go by herself. Xiao Cai was very depressed and wanted to persuade him again, when the call came. After Xiao Cai picked it up and fed, she immediately put the phone on Gui Xiao's face.

"Aunt Gui Xiao, my dad and Uncle Lu have been drinking too much. Come on, everyone is gone, I can't get them out by myself."

Gui Xiao was silent.

After all, even if he was discharged from the army, he was also a squadron commander, so many of his comrades would never really leave him there.

Gui Xiao directly exposed: "When Auntie was your age, she no longer made up such lies."

Qin Xiaonan sighed: "Aunt Gui Xiao, are you Uncle Lu's first love?"

Gui Xiao…

Qin Xiaonan's voice was aggrieved: "Uncle Lu drank too much, so pitiful."

Gui Xiao couldn't imagine such a scene.

Qin Xiaonan muttered, "my eyes are red, I'm talking to my dad about your past."

Gui Xiao's attitude softened a lot, and instructed: "You... watch them, it's so late, I won't go there."

Just as she finished speaking, there was his voice next to the phone, which was not very clear, and called out "Gui Xiao" vaguely.

Those two words tugged at her heart.

All the way down.

Gui Xiao shoved the phone into Xiao Cai's hand: "You ask him for an address."

Xiao Cai was surprised when Gui Xiao took the down jacket on. That little boy was really a jerk, how did he successfully persuade him? However, Xiao Cai was very happy. He thought that he might be able to set up a red line for Gui Xiao and his savior. Without much nonsense, he carried a few bags of things, asked for the address, and immediately took Gui Xiao out.

A small restaurant was reserved by Qin Mingyu, and it was specially arranged.

Outside the door, there were several young men in their twenties who were very drunk, sitting on the steps and crying, and some who didn't cry, wiped their tears and had red eyes. Gui Xiao remembered that she had seen this kind of battle in the compound when she was a child. Although she had never experienced it, she could somewhat understand that "friendship in war" was a very strong feeling.

Pushing open the glass door, it was clearly arranged inside.

The most commendable thing is to find a place where there is such a public KTV. There is a man singing Ren Xianqi's "Brothers" there, which has a unique sense of age.

Gui Xiao was at the dimly lit gate, trying to find him from the lively crowd in the house.

Qin Mingyu emerged from the corner: "Come on."

Qin Mingyu obviously didn't know Gui Xiao's appearance that night, and he couldn't understand the situation of Gui Xiao and Lu Yanchen at all. But now, here and now, the eyes he looked at Gui Xiao were a little subtle: "The road team is inside, keep walking along the right side."

Gui Xiao hesitated, but since he's here, isn't he just to see him

She crossed her heart, walked along the right side, and walked in.

Behind him, Qin Mingyu stopped Xiao Cai, who wanted to follow him to watch the fun.

Xiao Cai realized it later and realized it.

There is a large piece of glass facing the back door, facing the back street, and there are dark red velvet curtains rolled up hastily on the edge of the glass, which are a little dirty.

A dark corner.

Three men were sitting around the small square table, Lu Yanchen's chair was leaning back against the window, in the last hilarity before the separation, smoking a cigarette, the ashtray at hand was full of cigarette butts. Lu Yanchen didn't drink at all. While watching the snowy night outside, he wondered who he would drive to the train station tomorrow after the night was over.

Anyway, it is also a homeless person. It is not bad to send them one by one. After staying at the train station for a few days, they should all be sent away.

In the room full of nostalgic golden melody, there are people who touch the violin and play it.

Gui Xiao approached.

The two men beside Lu Yanchen saw the figure of a woman. They were surprised at first, then they fixed their eyes on Gui Xiao's face, and scrambled to push back the chairs, "Team Lu, let's go get some wine."

Lu Yanchen noticed, turned his head to look back, the light and shadow on his face deepened, and those dark eyes swept her up and down.

Gui Xiao was silent for a while, then whispered to him, "Lu Chen."

No one had called the name for ten years.

When she shouted that night, he thought he was hallucinating.

Lu Yanchen's first action was to touch the cigarette case on the table, but he didn't want to act hastily and knocked over the ashtray. He probably realized that he had lost his temper, and his temper came out: "Why are you looking for me again?"

It was simply a large bucket of ice ballast water, which was poured mercilessly.

Gui Xiao was so choked that he was speechless.

"What on earth are you trying to do?" Lu Yanchen slapped the ash on the back of his hand firmly.

Her chest was tight, and she held back her anger and said, "I won't come if you don't call me."

"I called you?" he joked.

Gui Xiao's eyes were red with anger, and he stared at him desperately, the scene in front of him was gradually blurred by the surging water mist.

Seeing that something was wrong with her, Lu Yanchen frowned for a while, then suddenly shouted, "Gao Hai!"

"arrive!"

There was a young man in his twenties in the southeast corner, running along the open KTV round table. After drinking some wine, he blushed and looked curiously at Gui Xiao, who was standing in front of Lu Yanchen's table with his eyes blocked.

Later, he looked at his master: "What's wrong? Road team?"

"Come on," Lu Yanchen looked at him through the gray light coming in from the window, "Come closer to me."

"Road team." Gao Hai instinctively took half a step back, smiling all over his face.

Seeing him like this, Lu Yanchen knew that he had guessed correctly. He touched the cigarette case and shook it in front of him. There was nothing left and it was empty. It was inevitable that his temper would rise again, and his voice sank: "Apologize."

Gao Hai turned to look at Gui Xiao shyly amid the nostalgic harmonica, and whispered after a long time, "I'm sorry, Miss Gui Xiao, just... it was me, the road team I pretended to be. I have always been good at learning human voices. , joking with you, with you."