After Lai Yang quickly walked out of the community, he immediately dissolved the dinner arrangements in the theater group.
Li Dian immediately replied with a few question mark faces and said: Are you arguing again
After silencing his cell phone, Lai Yang walked aimlessly along the street. The ice and snow under his feet solidified into ice chips, which felt like they were being crushed and shattered when he stepped on them.
When the anger died out from within, it was replaced by a dull throbbing pain.
The cold air also rushed up Lai Yang's body along the soles of his feet, making his eyes a little moist. He unconsciously wrapped his coat tightly and left dejectedly.
…
After returning home, I thought Yuan Sheng would come to me chattering, but tonight Lai Yang felt deeply lonely.
No one knocked on my door, and no one sent me a message.
While lying in bed, Lai Yang looked at Tian Jing's WeChat for a long time, but after a night, she didn't send any message.
The next day, the sky began to clear up, but the cold became even more oppressive. Fog condensed at the corners of the windows, blurring the view outside and chilling Lai Yang's heart.
He couldn't help but begin to re-examine his relationship with Tian Jing.
Yes, in her eyes, I approached her with a purpose from the very beginning, so she never really trusted me.
Today is the 25th. Lai Yang smiled bitterly, took out his mobile phone and booked a high-speed rail ticket back to Xi'an.
After getting up and packing, Lai Yang went to the gate of the community to buy fried dough sticks and soy milk, and knocked on Yuan Shengda's door.
She seemed to have woken up early. After opening the door, she still had light makeup on her face. Her proud figure looked even more attractive against the nightgown.
Lai Yang took a look unconsciously and felt that the pajamas were a little small.
This reminded him of the embarrassing scene when he was washing his underwear that night.
"Hey, Lai Duidui has a change of heart again today?" Yuan Sheng said with a laugh.
Lai Yang walked into the room carrying his things, sat down on the sofa, and looked up at Yuan Shengda's two white and slender legs.
"Aren't you having your period? Can't you wear a pair of pants under this nightgown?"
"I have a stomachache when I have my period, not cold legs! Besides, I'm wearing a heat pad and it's almost burning me to death."
As Yuan Shengda spoke, he sat down on the sofa, crossed his smooth legs, and reached out to open the lunch box on the coffee table.
"Did you quarrel with Jingjing again last night?"
"We didn't have a fight, we just broke up." Lai Yang picked up the fried dough stick and stuffed it into his mouth.
Yuan Shengda's beautiful eyes suddenly opened like bells, and her pretty face was incredulous: "Broken up? Why
You slept with her? "
Lai Yang almost choked to death after hearing these words. Yuan Shengda hurriedly stepped on his snow-white legs to get him a glass of water.
After Lai Yang finished drinking, he slapped the money in his pocket on the coffee table and told him everything that happened last night in one breath. Then he found that Yuan Shengda was curling his eyes and trying to hold back his laughter.
"Is it so funny?"
"Pfft~ Hahaha, I'm dying of laughter. I can even be a thief for you." She covered her stomach and laughed so hard that her body shook. The two soft lumps on her chest bounced up and down.
Lai Yang was in no mood to pay attention to her. He asked her to repay the loan as soon as possible. After dinner, he would take the high-speed train back.
Yuan Shengda knew that it was Tian Jing who was with him originally, but after hearing this, she held her cheek with her hand and looked at Lai Yang for a while, then said with her pink lips slightly opened.
"How about I go back with you?"
"Don't go back. What will happen to the theater if we both leave? I'll go back and take care of the house matter and then come back."
After Lai Yang finished speaking, a hint of sadness flashed across Yuan Shengda's eyes, and then she leaned back on the sofa, saying leisurely, "What about the theater? Didn't you break up with Tian Jing? Then the theater will be closed by the end of this month, right?"
The Laiyang fried dough sticks almost fell from my hands.
"Okay, okay, I just said it casually. Then you can go back first. Remember to visit my mother. She keeps talking about you."
Yuan Sheng raised her big mouth into an intriguing smile. Lai Yang squinted at her, always feeling that something was strange.
…
When getting on the high-speed train, Lai Yang, out of "politeness", sent a message to Tian Jing saying that he was returning to Xi'an.
It only took one second to send the message, but I waited all the way for a reply, and there was still no response from the other party. Lai Yang was so angry that he wanted to delete her directly.
It was already dark when we returned to Xi'an. Lai Yang hadn't figured out how to tell his parents about the house, so he simply stayed in a hotel for one night.
The weather in Xi'an is much colder than in Shanghai. The northwest wind was howling outside the window all night. When I left the hotel the next day, the cold current made Lai Yang's teeth chatter.
After making an appointment with Gu Qian to meet at the gate of the Housing Management Office, Lai Yang sat in a taxi, passed the Bell and Drum Tower, and stared at the mottled ancient city wall in a daze.
This city is his hometown. Every inch of land is filled with memories of the past, but these memories seem to be frozen by a layer of frost over the passage of time, creating a sense of distance.
Instead, it was those people far away in Shanghai, that small theater, and that Yunbin Building that made Lai Yang feel real.
…
When they arrived at the door of the Housing Management Office, Gu Qian had not come yet. While waiting, Li Dian
When the phone call came, he saw that Lai Yang was in a bad mood last night, so he didn't ask any further questions. He came over now to find out what happened.
Lai Yang was very angry and poured out all his grievances to Li Dian.
But after he finished speaking, Li Dian fell silent. Lai Yang's nose tip was almost frozen red in the wind, and hot air kept coming out of his mouth.
"Talk? Are you the type that people say on the Internet, who after listening to other people's tragic past, leaves with satisfaction?"
"Don't be impatient, let me sort it out." Li Dian said thoughtfully.
Lai Yang clamped the phone between his neck, rubbed his hands together, lit a cigarette and started smoking.
This time when he came back he was indeed wearing cold clothes. The weather in Xi'an is really terrible. The cold wind is like a slap in the ears, making people's faces hurt.
When half of the cigarette was burned out, Li Dian finally spoke: "I remembered a detail. You said that after you entered the door, you saw her holding the crystal ball you gave her?"
"Fuck, big brother... I'm drinking northwest wind, waiting for you for a long time, and you're talking to me for nothing?"
"No, Laiyang, imagine in your mind, when Ms. Tian opens the door and finds everything in the house upside down, what will she do first?"
"I'm stunned."
"Uh... the first thing I would do is to check if the most valuable thing is there. That's how people are, right?"
As soon as Li Dian said this, Lai Yang's stomping feet suddenly stopped. He held the phone in his hand, and the scene of Tian Jing running into the bedroom in panic and breathing a sigh of relief after seeing the crystal ball emerged in his mind.
"I think she must have valued the crystal ball very much. When she found it was still there, she immediately held it tightly in her hand. Although this is a small detail, it also reflects her importance from the side."
"Oh... So, so what?" Lai Yang took a deep puff of cigarette.
"So I think you still have a place in President Tian's heart. When you left, she didn't give you the crystal ball, which means she doesn't believe you're a thief. But after something like this happened, plus that little turtle's nonsense, it's normal for her to want to be alone, right?"
After that, Li Dian added: "It's because you were too impatient and you cared too much about your image in front of her that you ended up like this."
The wind blew the cigarette ash onto Lai Yang's fingertips, burning his fingers and making them tremble slightly. Li Dian continued speaking.
"Besides, when you left, the door lock of her house was still broken. In the middle of the night, wouldn't the little turtle have an opportunity to take advantage of it?"
"Boss Tian's foot is also injured. If we drive to Xi'an, will Little Turtle be the driver again?"
"How could you let a turtle trick you?"