Chen Mingsheng went out very quickly. He returned home and only packed two pieces of clothes. He took out the black travel bag and found in it the ticket stubs of the scenic spots that he hadn't finished packing in the last trip.
Chen Mingsheng sat on the bed, took out the ticket stub and looked at it for a while, then folded it and put it back in the travel bag.
If it was before, maybe he would just throw it away, but now it's different. Many seemingly unimportant things had a deeper meaning in Chen Mingsheng's heart.
At half past five, Chen Mingsheng's cell phone rang again, and Chen Mingsheng answered the call. It was Wen Lei.
"arrive?"
"Yeah." Wen Lei said, "Brother Sheng, I'm downstairs at your house."
"good."
Chen Mingsheng picked up his bag, propped up his crutches and walked to the door. He finally turned off the main switch in the house, then glanced at the small room, and gently closed the door.
Wen Lei's car was parked at the entrance of the corridor. Chen Mingsheng opened the front door and threw his bag behind.
Wen Lei quickly started the car, and while driving out of the courtyard, he said, "Old Xu is already at the airport."
Chen Mingsheng lit a cigarette and said, "Is he getting on the plane?"
"Come on." Wen Lei said, "He has prepared things for you. This plane stops, and he will get off the plane in Chongqing. Brother Sheng, you will arrive in Kunming at about 11:30 in the evening."
"Um."
Now it's just in time for the evening rush hour, and the main road is full of traffic. Chen Mingsheng showed Wen Lei the way and asked him to drive across.
"Brother Sheng, it hasn't been long since you came here, and the streets are already so familiar."
Chen Mingsheng said: "I drive a taxi, but I don't know how to attract people."
"Hey." Wen Lei smiled, and glanced at Chen Mingsheng from the corner of his eye. Chen Mingsheng opened the window, put one arm on the car window, and looked out the window.
Wen Lei said: "Brother Sheng, you and..."
Chen Mingsheng: "Following what?"
Wen Lei hesitated for a moment, and said, "Have you said hello to sister-in-law?"-
Chen Mingsheng was silent for a while, Wen Lei thought he asked something he shouldn't ask, so he interrupted quickly and said, "Oh, by the way, have you eaten yet, old Xu said—"
"Greetings." Chen Mingsheng said calmly, looking at the passing street outside the window.
Wen Lei held the steering wheel and said, "You...you told her everything?"
Chen Mingsheng said: "I only said that I would leave, and she guessed everything else."
"The sister-in-law, did she say anything?"
Chen Mingsheng looked outside quietly, shook his head after a while, and said, "I didn't say anything."
"I didn't say anything..." Wen Lei pursed his lips, turned his head to look at Chen Mingsheng, and said, "Brother Sheng, nothing you said is good news."
Chen Mingsheng looked at him in the blink of an eye, and Wen Lei said again: "Really, if you lose your temper, you can speak harshly. If you don't say anything, it proves that there is still something going on."
Chen Mingsheng smiled, looked at Wen Lei, and said, "You know again?"
Wen Lei said: "Don't think I've never been in a relationship, but I've watched a lot of TV dramas. That's how it is. By the way, you went out with your sister-in-law. Did you make any progress?"
Chen Mingsheng said, "Why do I feel that you care more about this than I do?"
Wen Lei poked his neck and said, "I haven't dated someone before, so I'm learning and learning."
Chen Mingsheng raised his hand and pressed on Wen Lei's head. Wen Lei let out an oops and said, "Don't ask, don't ask, can't I not ask?"
Going out of the city, the speed of the car becomes significantly faster after getting on the expressway. Wen Lei drove for forty minutes and arrived at the airport.
"Brother Sheng, I'll take you directly to the second floor. If you go in from the second floor, I won't stop the car." Wen Lei said.
"Yes." Chen Mingsheng said, "When are you going back?"
Wen Lei said, "I bought the train ticket the day after tomorrow."
Send Chen Mingsheng to the terminal, and Wen Lei drives away. Chen Mingsheng entered the airport with a bag and a cane. He took out his mobile phone and called Lao Xu.
"Hi, I'm at the airport, where are you?"
Old Xu said on the phone: "I'm also at the airport, I'm in zone F, and I'm queuing up to change my boarding pass."
"good."
Chen Mingsheng got off the elevator and walked towards area F, where he saw Lao Xu from a long distance away. He walked over with his cane, and Lao Xu was in the middle of the team.
Old Xu also saw him, and stretched out his hand to greet him, "Come on, I'll pack it for you, just wait by the side."
Old Xu didn't have any luggage, just a satchel. He didn't seem to have a shower during the day, and he was sloppy, carrying a dark brown bag, looking like a migrant worker who went to the city.
Chen Mingsheng snorted, took Lao Xu's satchel, and stood aside to wait.
After changing the boarding pass, Lao Xu walked up to Chen Mingsheng. He was a bit presbyopic, squinting to read the information on the boarding pass, and then handed Chen Mingsheng a card.
Chen Mingsheng held that lightweight ID card in his hand, and looked at the photo on it. He looked like he was in his twenties, his hair was much longer than now, and his body was a little immature. Next to the photo, the name of the citizen—Jiang Ming was written.
"What are you looking at?" Old Xu finally distinguished the registration information. He turned his head and said to Chen Mingsheng, "There is nothing to see."
"Yes." Chen Mingsheng unhurriedly flipped the ID card twice between his fingers, then bent slightly, flicked the ID card twice, and whispered in front of Lao Xu: "Have you ever seen such a handsome man?" the police?"
Old Xu: "I have seen such a shameless policeman."
After passing the security check, Chen Mingsheng and Lao Xu walked to the boarding gate.
Old Xu said as he walked, "Where were you when I called you?"
Chen Mingsheng said, "What are you doing?"
Old Xu said, "Did you run to find a girlfriend?"
Chen Mingsheng didn't speak.
Old Xu said, "That's why you young people are too immature." He turned into a small supermarket and took a bottle of mineral water, while Chen Mingsheng waited.
Old Xu came out after paying the bill, and came to the boarding gate with Chen Mingsheng. There were still many seats vacant, so they picked a side seat and sat down.
"But it's understandable." Old Xu unscrewed the mineral water in his hand, and said, "I was like this when I was young, and my mind was full of objects."
Chen Mingsheng laughed, "Who is like you."
Old Xu took a sip of water and said, "I'll let you go back and adjust your state, forget about the back of your head."
Chen Mingsheng leaned on the back of the chair, folded his hands on his chest, and said nonchalantly, "Is there anything you can adjust."
Old Xu: "Can you concentrate more?"
Chen Mingsheng said, "I'm concentrated."
Old Xu's dim eyes stared at Chen Mingsheng, and Chen Mingsheng looked back at him.
Old Xu looked at it for a while, then suddenly said, "What's the name of the supermarket where I bought water just now?"
Chen Mingsheng: "Peace camp."
Old Xu: "A few people are standing at the cash register."
Chen Mingsheng: "Two."
Old Xu: "What color hat did the person who gave me the check wear?"
Chen Mingsheng sneered and said, "I'm not wearing a hat."
"Cut." Old Xu Bai glanced at him, sat back and said with emotion: "It's good to be young."
Chen Mingsheng ignored him and took out his phone to look.
Old Xu squinted, "What are you looking at?"
Chen Mingsheng: "Nothing."
Old Xu came over, Chen Mingsheng put away his phone, frowned and said, "I haven't seen each other for more than half a year, why are you so idle now?"
Old Xu's eyes widened in an instant, "I'm free? I haven't slept for two days and two nights. For whom? Chen Mingsheng, do you still have a conscience? I'm working hard for you and you don't even show me your mobile phone?"
"Okay, okay, look, I'll show you." Chen Mingsheng didn't want to mess with him, so he handed him the phone.
The screen of the mobile phone was an ordinary screen saver, and Lao Xu held the mobile phone in his hand and fiddled with it.
"Hey, now that mobile phones are getting more and more advanced, I can't even keep up with the trend."
Chen Mingsheng smiled and said, "I can't keep up either. This phone is old-fashioned, and I don't know how to use the new one."
Old Xu looked up at him and said, "You are still young, you are not like me, you still have to try new things."
Chen Mingsheng hummed lazily, but did not speak.
Lao Xu tapped his fingers back and forth on the phone, and in the end he didn't know what he was flipping through, and his expression suddenly became very playful.
Chen Mingsheng narrowed his eyes, "What are you looking at?"
Old Xu curled his lips, glanced at him, and said, "Okay, you boy."
Chen Mingsheng leaned over and saw a photo on the screen of the phone. He blushed rarely, and snatched the phone back.
Old Xu smiled, "Girlfriend, she's pretty."
Chen Mingsheng looked at the picture. If Old Xu hadn't found it, he would have almost forgotten it. On the last day in Mount Wutai, Chen Mingsheng slept with Yang Zhao in his arms. He woke up once in the early morning and never fell asleep again.
He looked at the dark forest outside the window, and remembered the photo Yang Zhao had taken, and he suddenly wanted to take another look.
Yang Zhao's and Chen Mingsheng's mobile phones were placed next to the bed when they slept at night. Chen Mingsheng reached for them and found the photos in Yang Zhao's photo album. He sent the photo to his cell phone.
Seeing this photo again at this time, Chen Mingsheng felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.
Old Xu said: "I heard from Xiaolei that your girlfriend's family is quite rich."
Chen Mingsheng chuckled, "Maybe."
Old Xu thought for a while and said, "Did you tell her what you did?"
Chen Mingsheng said, "I didn't say it clearly."
Old Xu said with a look of resentment, "You have to tell her."
Chen Mingsheng said, "Tell her what to do."
Old Xu said: "Not much else to say, you should at least tell her that you used to be a policeman."
Chen Mingsheng: "What happened to the police?"
"Tsk." Old Xu frowned and said, "You can't let her think that you've always been a taxi driver."
Chen Mingsheng simply didn't know how to feel.
"The police are better than taxi drivers."
Old Xu: "..." He patted his leg and said, "Anyway, he must be strong, at least it will sound nice."
Chen Mingsheng smiled and said nothing.
Old Xu said again: "When you're done with this trip, go back and coax it well. You're just too bored when you usually eat dessert."
Chen Mingsheng gently touched the photo on the screen with his thumb, and after a while, he gave a low hum.
The plane departed on the hour, and Chen Mingsheng and Lao Xu sat next to each other.
Chen Mingsheng said: "This time the treatment is good."
Old Xu squinted at him.
"It used to be a train, but this time I bought a plane ticket."
Old Xu snorted coldly and said, "I'm in a hurry, or the seat will be hard."
Chen Mingsheng laughed, Lao Xu looked at him, Chen Mingsheng met his eyes, and felt a search in his eyes.
"What's wrong?"
Old Xu shook his head and said, "Better than I thought."
"I?"
"Um."
Chen Mingsheng said, "That's good."
"Unable to speak."
Chen Mingsheng shrugged and said nothing.
Old Xu sighed and said, "It's different when you have a woman."
Chen Mingsheng paused, and said in a low voice, "Where are you going?"
Old Xu took a breath and said, "After getting off the plane, you can contact Wu Jianshan."
Chen Mingsheng said, "Okay."
Old Xu said: "There is nothing to explain, you know everything."
Chen Mingsheng said, "I know."
Old Xu said: "It's still the old rules, don't break contact."
Chen Mingsheng said: "Team Yan is gone, whoever takes the position."
Old Xu said, "Liu Liwei."
Chen Mingsheng nodded.
Old Xu turned his head slightly, patted Chen Mingsheng on the chest, and said, "From now on, I will be your boss and your direct contact. If you have any questions or requests, you can ask me."
Chen Mingsheng said, "Can you mention it?"
Old Xu nodded solemnly.
Chen Mingsheng patted his clothes, then turned his head and said, "Then can I take a shower when we meet next time?"
Old Xu slapped his hands and shouted, "Damn it, I haven't seen you have so many things before."
Chen Mingsheng smiled and turned to look out the window.
"This time I will write a report to help you raise your salary." Old Xu said.
Chen Mingsheng said, "Okay."
The sun was setting, and it was dark outside the window, only the lights on the wings could be seen, flashing and flashing.
When passing through Chongqing, Lao Xu got off the plane.
"I'll catch a train later and arrive in Kunming tomorrow."
Chen Mingsheng said, "I'll see you later."
Old Xu shook Chen Mingsheng's shoulder vigorously, "See you later."
At 11:40 pm, the plane landed at Kunming Changshui International Airport.
When Chen Mingsheng got off the plane, he smelled a familiar smell, which was different from the harshness and coldness of the northern cities, and it was a humid and warm smell.
Chen Mingsheng came out of the airport carrying his travel bag. It was already the last few flights. a cigarette.
Halfway through the draw, he took out his mobile phone from his travel bag, turned it on, thought for a while, and finally put it down.
He turned the phone over and removed the SIM card.
The thin card looked very fragile in his hand, as if it could be smashed to pieces with just two fingers. Chen Mingsheng bit his cigarette and looked at the somewhat worn calling card.
After smoking a cigarette, he exhaled the last puff, watched the smoke dissipate in the air, snapped the card in his hand, and threw it into the trash can.
He put another card into the phone and turned it on again.
As soon as he turned it on, the phone vibrated several times. Chen Mingsheng glanced at it, and there were a lot of missed calls and unread text messages.
Chen Mingsheng didn't look at those text messages. He clicked on the communication records, and almost all of them came from the same number. He dialed the top number.
After only two rings, it was connected.
"Hello, who is it?" There was a male voice on the other side of the phone, with some uncertainty in his voice. "is that you?"
Chen Mingsheng took a deep breath and said slowly, "Jianshan, I am Jiang Ming."
I am Jiang Ming.
The river of the Yangtze River, the name of the name.
After speaking, a taxi just stopped at the gate of the airport. Chen Mingsheng greeted him, opened the door and got in.
He closed the door and said, "I'm back, where are you?"