This sentence made Gui Xiao startled.
He leaned against the car door, with snow on his shoulders, facing her face to face, looking at her without any emotion in his eyes, but his attitude became lower and lower: "Do me a favor."
It's like a different person, forgetting how hard she threw her words in the small restaurant ten minutes ago, and even apologizing was hard.
"Gui Xiao," Xiao Cai also returned to his soul, and went to help Lu Yanchen to speak, "Just help me, this note is on my account."
More than ten years have passed, and I can't live longer and go back, and I still feel angry with him like in the past.
Besides... I'm not a boyfriend or girlfriend, so it's okay to apologize.
"I'll go back to Beijing the day after tomorrow," she clenched the steering wheel and slowed down, "this matter is not as simple as you think, so we need to discuss it in detail. Bring your child to Beijing as soon as possible, and don't delay his class while the winter vacation is over. ."
Talk to a few friends first and see if you can make less.
If he doesn't... pad him up first.
"Let's talk now." He was not polite.
She was stunned: "Now?"
Qin Mingyu came with him early, and took the opportunity to talk: "Yes, right now. You see you have helped so much, it should be me, the father, who came to thank you. Let's come in and have a drink at the bar, the road team won't touch you tonight. Wine, he will send you back!"
After going back and forth, Gui Xiao was persuaded to go back by everyone.
It was still the small table, Qin Mingyu rolled up the curtains hanging on the floor, knotted them, and tucked them into the gap between the heating pipe and the wall, making it tidy. Lu Yanchen changed his attitude and dragged the chair for Gui Xiao himself.
He talked about the ins and outs in a few words. Because Qin Mingyu is still too early to be discharged from the army, Qin Xiaonan is borrowing from Erenhot again, and he is unsupervised, which is very pitiful, so he wants to take the child back to Beijing to study for a few years.
"I helped Xiao Cai once last year," that's why Xiao Cai immediately said that she had a way, "you and her situation are different. There is no proof of the guardian's household registration transfer, nor the guardian's transfer of work, or even, You're not a guardian either. Give me some time, and you need to find him a home address first."
"That means, do you want to buy a house first?"
How easy is it to buy a house in Beijing
Gui Xiao was surprised: "Buying a house? Haven't you moved your account back? I can help you rent a house."
He glanced at Gui Xiao: "I'll solve it."
Solve it yourself? He hasn't gone back for eleven years, and I'm afraid it will take a lot of time to solve his own problems.
But these seem to have nothing to do with her, at least Lu Yanchen's attitude is very obvious.
"Okay," Gui Xiao skipped the question, "I will handle the formalities in Beijing. After the certificate is issued, the file can be transferred directly. There needs to be someone here to handle the follow-up procedures."
"This father is here, I will greet the principal in advance, and let someone take him there." Qin Mingyu took the initiative to invite Ying.
The talk was almost over, the only thing that could not be decided was the time to take Qin Xiaonan to Beijing. Gui Xiao's opinion is that the Chinese New Year is almost here, so he must bring it over before the year so that he can meet the principal. Procedures to be done after the New Year.
But Lu Yanchen still has important matters to deal with here, Qin Mingyu hasn't retired from the army, and he can't just walk around like this.
"Let me think about it," Lu Yanchen said, "I'll tell you in two days."
Going back to the hotel, Gui Xiao didn't realize it yet, leaning on the head of the bed in a trance.
The time we first got together was unfortunate. She was facing the high school entrance examination, and he was preparing for the college entrance examination. Not long after, she went to study at a key high school in the district, while Lu Yanchen went to a university in another province.
The two became a long-distance relationship from the very beginning, and they could only rely on phone calls when they couldn't see each other. She sometimes felt really aggrieved. I finally made it to the winter vacation and made countless excuses to return to the town where I was studying in junior high school. She had just arrived in the courtyard that night, and she didn't tell him in advance that she wanted to surprise him. In the evening, she went to the auto repair shop to find him. When she got there, she asked the guard to call him out.
After a while, he saw a tall and thin shadow. He came out with a silver wrench, hunting in the cold wind, but wearing a shirt.
She ran over: "frozen to death."
He looked at her face that was flushed with heat from the hard ride: "Come in when it's cold."
She was embarrassed: "I said you were going to freeze to death for wearing so little."
When you follow him in, everyone will smile and ask: Little girlfriend? He defaults.
She also muttered beautifully: "I will marry a local boss in the future..."
In those days, apart from going back to my aunt's house to sleep at night, during the day, I would spend the day in the cold room of his garage, or squat beside the hoisted car, watch him lay down and fix the car, and hand him tools. Often his hands and arms are full of black oil, and when he gets out from under the car, he is still shirtless...
Fortunately, there is a Peugeot face, no matter how tossed it is still pleasing to the eye.
She is optimistic, thinking that there will be winter and summer vacations every year, isn't it just three years of high school? Just wait until she goes to college.
But not long after the winter vacation, Lu Yanchen joined the army.
Since then, even making a phone call is like a holiday. Even if she encounters a sad thing, he doesn't even have time to listen to her cry. If she complains too much, he will become impatient. It's the age of teenagers who don't care about it. Who will lose his temper? Originally, there were few opportunities to talk on the phone, and it was rare to talk and quarrel. Thinking about it, it was really not a good thing.
…
In the middle of the night, Gui Xiao always heard the wind and couldn't tell whether it was a dream or outside the window.
She got up from the bed in a daze, and touched the glass window. It was really a storm. The street lights were all turned off, and only the treetops outside the window were swaying. After watching this for a while, I couldn't fall asleep.
Gui Xiao touched the switch all the way, kept pressing it, and the light stretched from the bedroom to the bathroom. In the end, the whole person was tired and lay beside the sink, turned on the faucet, there was no hot water, it was cold.
She watched the water rushing for a long time, thinking about the thing he asked her to do, and it was too short to count.
Thinking it was still wrong, he dialed his cell phone.
The moment the phone was connected, the wolf howling in the background seemed to drag her back to the space where she was sitting face to face with him a few hours ago. The dark pupils were dipped in ice water.
Waiting for the sound to disappear and connecting... But she seemed to be blocked, and she didn't know how to start.
There was a long blank, and neither of them spoke.
In the end, he was the first to say, "You haven't slept yet?"
"Well," she rubbed her eyes, "please pack Qin Xiaonan, I'll take him back first. I'll give him a replacement ticket for the flight at 4:20 in the afternoon the day after tomorrow, you must remember to send him at 3:00. Come here, don't miss the plane—"
"Gui Xiao."
"Um?"
Only the sound of running water remained.
She remembered calling him when she was young. Holding the receiver, she could easily hear each other's breathing being amplified. When the mobile phone developed more and more mature, there was no such rustling breath.
"In the middle of the night," Lu Yanchen guessed, biting his cigarette again, his words were not clear, "Aren't you afraid of catching a cold when you take a shower?"
"I didn't take a bath." Gui Xiao was confused and turned on the faucet.
He was clearly wearing pajamas with a thin layer of cloth, and the neckline, even the back waist and instep were cold. But she was reluctant to get back into the quilt in the room, for fear that if she moved half a step, the phone would be disconnected due to poor signal.
Another long silence.
"Hang up." Lu Yanchen confessed and hung up.
Across more than half of Erlianhot, it is still that small restaurant.
He opened the back door, pulled out a chair, and threw it into the corner, sitting in the wind.
When recruiting people into the squadron in the past, he often put his legs crossed on the edge of the table, going through the mountains of personal resumes, and he was most interested in everyone's weaknesses. No one is invincible, including him.
Sitting astride the chair, with his back against the corner between the wall and the glass door, he was silent, smoking one cigarette after another.
At five o'clock, the wind and snow became more intense, and everyone inside stopped, or three or two continued to chat with little energy, or fell asleep on his stomach, and he was still leaning in the distance, in the strong wind. Try to spit out a faint little smoke ring.
Hearing the footsteps, he glanced: "Pack up for your son. The day after tomorrow, Gui Xiao will take him to Beijing first. She is afraid that it will be too late for us to send the child there."
This is really "helping people to the end".
"Really?! Your first love, Team Lu, is so interesting!" Qin Mingyu sat down on the steps, next to Lu Yanchen's feet, "I asked for you, Gui Xiao is not married, and seeing her help so much will definitely pay off. It's interesting to you, let's take it."
The wind hurts my eyes, and it's probably smoky all night.
He laughed at himself: "I'm not a teenage boy. What do you get? Take off a military uniform, have no money, no house, no car, and have not even had many friends after leaving Beijing for more than ten years. Do you still bring people into the fire pit?"
Lu Yanchen narrowed his eyes, thinking how long it would take to wake up which ones inside and send them away, while thinking of that day.
She was wearing a pure white shirt without any pattern, dark red shorts, and off-white canvas shoes. She had a pointed face, and her temples were wet with sweat. When she walked in, all the boys in the room looked over. It reminded him of fishing with bare feet by the river when he was a child, the kind of small translucent shells rarely found in the scorching sun stream, clean and beautiful, washed by the water and spotless...
Especially when she saw herself, her teeth lightly bit the edge of her lower lip, and the corners of her mouth rose. What a nice view.
Two days later, Xiao Cai and the rest went to Ulaanbaatar.
Gui Xiao took a taxi to the airport alone and waited for them at the check-in place. At exactly three o'clock, Lu Yanchen appeared with a black travel bag. He was originally surly and arrogant, and he had an advantage in height. After eleven years in the army, he was even more tall and straight. Just a few steps would be like an ordinary passerby. Tossed out a lot. It's hard not to notice.
Lu Yanchen stood still, put down his travel bag, and dragged Qin Xiaonan behind him: "Passport."
Qin Xiaonan immediately understood the spirit and gave both hands to Gui Xiao.
Gui Xiao opened it to check, and found that Qin Xiaonan was only seven years old, and she was really a precocious child.
This was the first time she took a child on a plane. For fear of losing someone, she grabbed the child's hand first. Qin Xiaonan twitched and kept glancing at Lu Yanchen. Lu Yanchen didn't bother to pay attention to his "shy" emotions, and waited for Gui Xiao to finish the registration and sent them to the security check: "I'm celebrating the new year. Back to Beijing."
Gui Xiao nodded.
Later, the two didn't talk much, and after the security check, she quietly looked around by sorting out her computer bag.
Lu Yanchen still put his hands in the pockets of his trousers, and stood beside the security checkpoint. Countless people walked in, but he was the only one who didn't move. She suddenly had a bad guess, afraid that he would stay in Erenhot forever as he said when we first met...
Fortunately, the child who took the initiative to hold her hand used her body temperature to remind her that there was still a big living person.
He will definitely come back.