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Summer is coming to an end and autumn is here.After school started, the coffee bookstore, which had been bustling all summer, finally ushered in the most leisurely scene of the year.

School has just started, and no matter how skinny children are, they also understand the new atmosphere of the new semester. They have to pretend to be students, and they can't come to drink ice water and play games as soon as school is over.At this time, the mid-term exam is still early, and there are very few students who review or copy homework in groups.

The turnover has dropped a lot, but Chi Yu is not in a hurry, instead, he just steals a few days and counts the days. Anyway, there is no autumn in the Southwest, and the weather will be cold soon, and the children will come to drink hot drinks to warm up , then you have to be busy again.

Taking advantage of this free time, Chi Yu wanted to go back to Zhongcheng.

In fact, I had this idea at the beginning of the year, but after repeated hesitation, worries and worries, and the store was very busy, it has been shelved.

If left on hold for too long, the wish is like a spring pressed to the bottom, and once it loses that tight force, it can no longer be controlled.

After dreaming about Xun Musheng that day, he checked the train tickets online, but gave up when it was time to pay.

It would be a bit despicable to go to Xun Musheng now.

He was the one who had to go back then, and he is the one who is going back now. He is selfish and willful. He healed the wound by himself, but he may have indirectly hurt the person who should not be hurt by him.

After closing the notebook, he sighed and went to the balcony to smoke.

The wind in midsummer carries heat, while the wind in the river is much cooler.Wisps of white smoke drifted away with the evening wind and dissipated in invisible places.

The idea of ​​wanting to go back was like a flame on the prairie, blown by the wind, instead of dissipating, it ignited a raging flame, and hit the sky like a terrifying wave.

He finally couldn't sit still.

·

"Brother, are you going on a trip?" The work-study guy in the store wiped his glass, very curious, "Where are you going? When will you be back?"

"Go back to my hometown and have a look." Chi Yu came to the store with her luggage bag, and planned to confess a few words, after all, she was going to travel far away and asked for leave for a week, so she was not at ease no matter how she thought about it.But after walking around the store for a while, I felt that I had nothing to explain, so I smiled politely: "I will trouble you for a few days, I will come back as soon as possible."

The guy said: "Hey, it's so strange! The busiest person in our store is you. We have two days off in a week, and you only have one day off in half a month. Even on that day, you often take a few hours to ask us to make skewers. Don't worry, brother, With us in the store, you can play with peace of mind!"

Chi Yu was a bit embarrassed by the words, he was the boss, the girl who hadn't come to work with his mouth was quick, and he laughed when he couldn't find anything to say, laughed when he was happy, and laughed when he was embarrassed, and the corners of his lips were often pulled upwards, I don't know Everyone thought that he had a successful career and a happy family, and lived a very happy life.

In this small county, no one knows about his past.

This is very good, he often thinks, it is better to give people a false impression of happiness than to turn out those old sufferings and let others taste them.

Before leaving, he went to the bar and personally made a few cups of pig head coffee for the shop assistants to drink. Don't forget to give five cups of coffee to lucky customers every day.

A girl smiled: "Brother, can't we create a new one? Don't draw pig heads, okay? Last time, sister Wang from the snack street opposite came to complain, saying that her precious son finally got a double hundred in the exam, you Reward him with a cup of pig's head."

A little astonishment flashed across his eyes, and he quickly smiled and said, "Well, let's draw a pig's head for the time being. I'll think about how to change it when I come back."

"It's just a workaround?" the girl said.

"Well, the pig's head still needs to be kept."

Everyone in the store laughed.

When he went out with his luggage, he heard the girl whisper, "My brother really likes pig heads..."

He let out a breath and strode towards the passenger terminal.

It's not that I like pig heads, it's the first time I've drawn flowers for that person, it's just a funny pig head.

And now, he was going to see that person.

·

From Huxian County to Zhongcheng, it took two full days to arrive from the minibus to the bus, and then to the high-speed rail.

Chi Yu stood at the familiar exit, watching the endless flow of people, her heartbeat suddenly accelerated.

He panicked.

I have lived here for nearly 10 years, and I am familiar with the smell of buns and fried dough sticks outside the train station in the early morning.His palms were sweating, and he carefully shuttled through the crowd. When he arrived at the bus stop on Zhanqian Road, his long-sleeved T-shirt was already soaked with sweat.

Hu County is in the mountains, and the heat has receded, but Zhongcheng is still looking like summer, with the first sun hanging in the east, it looks like a sunny day.

He got on a bus bound for the city center, where there was an express hotel that he had booked before leaving.

The hotel is very close to Xun Musheng's company. It is in the same business district. If you are lucky, you may be able to have a panoramic view of the building by opening the curtains.

But he was unlucky. He took the room card and found out that the window of the room faced another direction.

He wanted to change another room, but the girl at the front desk said enthusiastically: "Sir, your current room has a wide view, and you can see our City Eye Ferris Wheel. When the Ferris Wheel is lit at night, the view is beautiful! Other directions are average." It’s all office buildings, and it’s dark at night, so it’s worthless!”

He was never good at haggling, but the other party took it as a kind gesture, so he stood at the front desk for a while and had to go back to his room.

The Ferris wheel outside the window did not exist two years ago.

He was really tired, and fell asleep after taking a bath. When he woke up from hunger in the afternoon, when he drew the curtains, his eyes were hurt by the bright sunlight.

The purpose of coming to Zhongcheng was to see Xun Musheng, but when he arrived, he suddenly built a line of defense in his heart.

In the final analysis, he was the one who ran away first, and he was at fault for both emotion and reason.

The sun shone on him, making his eyelids hot.He rubbed his eyes gently, bringing out some physiological tears.

Running back at this time is lamentable and ridiculous.

Did Xun Musheng wait for him to say something else? Even if he really did wait for him, he still couldn't hold his head up.

He sat on the edge of the bed in a daze, forgetting about his hunger, and when he recovered, the sky had already turned blue.

Night is coming.

·

The neighborhood is a bustling area with restaurants everywhere. Chi Yu was not ready to meet Xun Musheng yet, worried about meeting him by chance, so he turned into a small alley, changed to the bus and subway, and arrived at Yuhong Road.

In the entire Zhongcheng, Yuhong Road is undoubtedly the place he is most familiar with.

Before getting out of the car, he put a peaked cap on his head and a pair of sunglasses, feeling a little nervous.

Fortunately, I didn't meet my past colleagues until I walked into a crock soup Jianghu restaurant.

When the dishes came out, it was completely dark. He hurriedly filled his stomach and was thinking about where to go next when he heard a burst of shouting.

"Grapefruit! Homegrown grapefruit! Not sweet, no money!"

The person carrying the shoulder pole looked familiar, but after a closer look, it turned out to be an old man who started selling grapefruits on Yuhong Road a few years ago.

He recalled a little, and remembered that the grapefruit smelled very fragrant, very refreshing, but the taste was really unflattering, not sweet, just sour and numb.

Passing by the old man's pole and basket, he glanced sideways, and he didn't fall for the previous "no sweet, no money" trick.

Xun Musheng likes to drink nectar grapefruit tea, he doesn't have that hobby, and sometimes he thinks it's a little funny when he thinks about it.

Xun Musheng is the first man who loves grapefruit so much.

Thinking of Xun Musheng, my heart couldn't help but tighten slightly.

He got on the bus again and walked aimlessly through the city.The time in a small county is stagnant, and it will not change for decades, but the big city is changing with each passing day.

The same is true for people in small counties and big cities.

Two years was enough for him to let go of the past in Hu County, and enough for Xun Musheng to let him go in Zhongcheng.

Before returning to the hotel, he went to Shengxi Square for a walk, and then went to Yuanfei Community to take a look.

Fashion is becoming the fastest. The clothes and styles that Ke Jin and KIME gave him two years ago are all out of date now. The street photographers in the atrium are all beautiful, and they are wearing the most fashionable new styles of the season. .

Thinking of Ke Jin and KIME, I still feel sorry.I don't know if they are doing well, if KIME has shown their love, and if Ke Jin is still in Japan.

In any case, he hopes that these two will be well and get their own happiness.

There is no change in the Yuanfei community, the house where they lived in before probably has a new tenant.

He still remembered that he was in a hurry to leave that night. He wanted to throw away the food in the kitchen and refrigerator, but Li Xiao kept urging him.In the end, he couldn't throw away the green vegetables and dried tofu he just bought.

The landlord must have had enough to clean up.

The landlord didn't know how long he had been stunned when he encountered a tenant who left without saying goodbye.

·

It was late at night, but the streets and alleys were still very lively.

As soon as Chi Yu returned to the hotel, the girl at the front desk explained to the new arrival with an apologetic face: "I'm sorry, there are really no rooms with a view of the Ferris wheel..."

"I can change it." He walked up, smiled politely, and added: "If the window is facing the opposite commercial center."

A quarter of an hour later, after the room exchange was completed, he opened the floor-to-ceiling windows, stood in the night breeze, and looked at the office building in the dark by the railing.

In fact, he didn't know which floor Xun Musheng's office was on, and he didn't know whether Xun Musheng was still in the office, but he was fascinated by it when he saw it, and suddenly realized that Xun Musheng was watching in the dessert shop upstairs. own mood.

Thinking about it, Xun Musheng did a better job. After all, he could be seen through the one-way glass, but he could only let his sight go up and down, and he couldn't catch a similar figure from his back.

Turn off the lights and go to bed, he secretly made up his mind.

Tomorrow, I will go to Xun Musheng's company and take a look at Xun Musheng from afar.If Xun Musheng had already started a new life, he would return to Hu County and never bother him again; if Xun Musheng was still thinking about him and waiting for him, he would take the initiative—even if he hadn't thought clearly about what to do. .

·

The next day, the sun was still shining and the heat was steaming.

Chi Yu changed into a very inconspicuous shirt and slacks, rushed to Xun Musheng's company early, and sat quietly on the sofa in the corner of the hall.

It was a blind spot, as long as you didn't deliberately go around, you wouldn't see someone sitting on the sofa.

Xun Musheng did not appear in the hall until 10:[-] in the morning.

He thought it might have gone up directly from the garage elevator.

Not knowing Xun Musheng's intentions, he would definitely not dare to show up. First, he was worried about disturbing the other party's life, and second, he was also afraid of doing something out of the ordinary.

So you can't ask, you can only wait.

At noon, a few men in suits and leather shoes came in and went straight to the reception. He subconsciously turned his head and heard a female employee say: "Wait a minute, I will contact Mr. Xun's assistant for you."

He immediately became nervous, his heart was beating like thunder, and his hearing became extremely sensitive.

Not long after, a familiar man rushed over. After thinking for a few seconds, he remembered that his name was Wang Ke, and he was one of Xun Musheng's assistants.

"I'm really sorry." Wang Ke said: "Mr. Li, you came at a bad time. Mr. Xun is on a business trip and is not in the company."

Chi Yu's heart skipped a beat.

"Didn't you agree to talk about cooperation today?" The person called Mr. Li was very dissatisfied.

"I'm sorry, it's urgent, it's really urgent." Wang Ke hurriedly laughed with him, "Well, Mr. Xun may have been on a business trip for a long time, and he probably won't be back within ten days and a half months. He explained before he left that the matter of cooperation Let Vice President Sun handle all the power, do you think we should go up and have a chat?"

Business trip?Chi Yu stared blankly at the ground, ten days and a half?

The thunderous heartbeat suddenly slowed down, as if suddenly being poured with a basin of cold water.

After a long time, a voice from the bottom of my heart said——what a coincidence.

Finally got up the courage to come back, but the person I wanted to see was not there.

Ten days and a half months, he can't wait, no matter how much a week is in the coffee and bookstore, he can't spend ten days and a half months here.

What if Xun Musheng still hasn't come back after ten days and a half months?

He sat for a while longer, and Wang Ke had already taken Mr. Li and others upstairs.

The security guard patrolling the hall probably saw him acting suspiciously, and asked if he needed anything, he quickly stood up and left quickly.

I lived with Xun Musheng for a period of time. Xun Musheng did often go on business trips, but the time was not long. A whole week was considered too much. There was never a time when he went for ten and a half months. Moreover, according to Wang Ke, things seemed to be a little tricky. Ten days Half a month may not come back.

Such an unfortunate thing happened to him.

Standing in the scorching sun at noon, his courage seemed to be evaporated in an instant.

Or go back, he thought.

·

Almost at the same time, in a small remote county town in the southwest, a well-dressed but dusty man pushed open the door of "Xun Mi" coffee bookstore.