passenger

On the fifth day after Shi Dongdong's disappearance, Qiao Hao decided to devote all his spare energy to reviewing for the attending physician exam.

It's not that he didn't want to find it, but that he couldn't find it at all.

Countless times to dial that number, countless shutdown prompts.He also called Chen Zhi, who spoke hastily, as if he was more tired than him, but the answer was only: We are also looking.

But in those few days, Corey was busy with work, and the patients rushed to see the doctor and were admitted to the hospital, and even the extra beds in the corridor were full.When Qiao Hao went to work, he just felt overwhelmed and couldn't imagine how much trouble he would bring to his colleagues if he asked for leave.

And these are not the most important, the most important thing is that Shi Dongdong's departure may be to join the people who want to join.

Thinking of this, Qiao Hao would feel frustrated.

Frustrated emotions are like a cold female voice on the phone, "The number you dialed has been turned off", no matter how anxious you are, the voice over there is still the same, saying mockingly: You are nothing, he doesn't need anything Tell you.

Qiao Hao even thought, that person has such a personality, maybe he has already flown to France alone, where he and all his sweet memories are there.And Huo Yan, after knowing Shi Dongdong's illness, might also chase after Shi Dongdong without hesitation, anyway, it's not like he didn't show affection.

They still have endless possibilities.

Qiao Hao was ashamed of his narrowness, and even more frustrated with his wishful thinking.

This complicated mood tormented him for a few nights, and on the fourth day, he even began to wonder if he had never reunited with that junior high school classmate named Shi Dongdong.

The boy on the garden bench was his own imagination from the very beginning, and then those unthinkable lies, deliberate performances, long-cherished worries, and the joy of the moon and the moon...all of it was just a scene of tossing and turning during a night of overtime work. Sticky dream.

So on the fifth day, Qiao Hao returned home and started reading.

The attending physician exam to be taken at the end of May, after meeting Shi Dongdong, he barely reviewed it.

Qiao Hao put in a lot of effort to get himself to open the book, even though there was very little content that could be read, and even though the tickets for the upcoming concert under the glass of the desk were an eyesore, at least he had something else in his mind.

Qiao Min's phone call came in when Qiao Hao had just started to read a book. When the phone rang, Qiao Hao subconsciously glanced at the wall clock on the wall.

In fact, he had only read the book for an hour.

"When are you coming out for dinner?" Qiao Min, a new-age woman, cut to the chase.

"You please?" Qiao Hao recalled the last time Qiao Min left alone with him, so he had to answer jokingly.

A joke is to defuse embarrassment.

Fortunately, the embarrassment between siblings will not last long.

"It's your birthday! May I invite you?" Qiao Min yelled carelessly.

"You asked me out for dinner! May I invite you?" Qiao Hao responded to her, and only after he finished talking did he realize that his birthday seemed to be tomorrow.

After hanging up Qiao Min's phone call, Qiao Hao finally felt like returning to the human world.

They made an appointment to go back to their parents' house for dinner at five o'clock the next day, because Qiao Min got off work at five o'clock and he had a rest that day, and in order to express his apology, Qiao Hao agreed to pick her up at Qiao Min's work unit.

Firstly, she didn't comfort her well after she got divorced, and secondly, he also needs the comfort of his relatives now, even if he doesn't even count as broken love, even if he still can't say anything.

The next day, Qiao Hao read a book until noon, took another afternoon nap, took a shower and shaved, got dressed and went out early.

For the past few days, he has lived a really sloppy life. The legendary spokesperson of respiratory medicine has degenerated so much that it is unbearable to look directly at him.If he went to see his mother like that, his mother would cry on the spot.

Qiao Hao thought that he needed some sunshine to make his moldy body and mood clear.

On this day, the sun was still shining in the afternoon.

Before going out, Qiao Hao also specially took out the two concert tickets from under the glass of the desk, and he decided to give them to Qiao Min. The unhappiness last time was caused by this, and sending them out was considered an apology.

Originally, he shouldn't have bought these two tickets.

The unit Qiao Min works for is a privately-run orchestra. This orchestra is well-known in their city. The content of the performance is the famous local ancient folk music - Nanyin.Qiao Min is the accompanist of the orchestra, and her instrument is the dongxiao.

Qiao Min has ridiculed herself countless times, saying that her errand was a low-level blower in ancient times, but now the city people love to follow the populists, so they have become Yangchun Baixue.

Naturally, Yangchun Baixue's Nan Orchestra couldn't be located in a market place, so the □□ Gate specially built a three-story building for it in a park on the outskirts of the city.The small building is quaint, and there are performances on important days. In addition to training on ordinary days, it also runs ancient music training.

Qiao Hao has only been here twice. The first time, he accompanied Qiao Min for an interview. At that time, Qiao Min still regarded this place as his inner sanctuary. The second time, he came to meet his future brother-in-law, a Sanxian musician in the orchestra. , Qiao Min regards him as an idol.

It's just that things are unpredictable, and they have divorced for the third time.

Qiao Hao, who went to the appointment early, decided to take a walk around the park first to show off his moldy mood.

Although it is a weekday suburb, there are not many tourists in the park. Many flowers in the garden are in full bloom in spring, and there are wave after wave of family outings.

After Qiao Hao visited the cherry garden, he went to Taoyuan, where all he could see were gorgeous flowers and happy crowds.

He suddenly envied Qiao Min's life. He was able to work in such an environment, singing and dancing every day.Compared with himself, the place where he works is like a vegetable market. Every day, there are crowds arguing about queuing up, family members yelling at medical expenses, and hysterical patients because their pain cannot be relieved...and he, who is busy Even the secret love is just a little doctor who is entangled in his heart and can't even do a little action.

Going a little further, Qiao Hao saw some people gathered by the lake in the distance, looking like crowds, but it was quiet when he approached.

When I got closer, I could vaguely see someone painting in the gaps in the crowd.

Qiao Hao glanced at it inadvertently, but his eyes straightened in the next second.

Pulling away from the crowd, Qiao Hao clearly saw that the person sitting on the stone by the lake drawing a picture had delicate features, a concentrated expression, and his slender fingers were slightly curved, holding a pencil to draw quickly and accurately. On the drawing paper, the facial features of the child opposite Has taken shape.

Qiao Hao moved his gaze to the painter's face again. The face of that person was not as pale as he had imagined. The fine sunlight reflected on the lake surface reflected on that face, making the whole person look clear and clean.

Who else could it be?

Qiao Hao stood blankly among the crowd, silently watching the person in front of him.

The little girl in the painting is very obedient, sitting motionless, her eyes just looking at her mother opposite her.

The mother put her finger near her mouth from time to time, signaling the little girl not to speak or move.

The girl nodded cooperatively, and pursed her small mouth slightly.

None of these details seemed to affect the painter. He lowered his head slightly, only raising his eyes from time to time to look at the girl in front of him, and then quickly lowered them to focus on the lines on the drawing paper.

Soon, he began to draw the girl's hair, bangs, and then the collar and shoulders. When the whole picture was almost completed, he did not forget to put a small black dot next to the bridge of the girl's nose, which was A vivid little mole on the girl's face.

In the end, he left three English letters in the lower right corner of the drawing paper: SDD.

The people around finally stopped being quiet, Qiqi shouted, and Qiao Hao, he let out a long sigh from the bottom of his heart.

"It's destined, Shi Dongdong." He said to himself.

Shi Dongdong took the drawing paper off the drawing board and handed it to the girl's mother.

The mother thanked her again and again, and took out a 50-yuan note from her wallet.

Shi Dongdong took the money, and hurriedly bent down to search in the backpack beside him, apparently wanting to give the other party some change.However, compared with the previous painting, his movement of looking for money seemed cramped and stiff. Obviously, he was not used to this "job".

Finally, he pulled out two ten-dollar bills from the small pocket of his backpack. The bills were crumpled, so he flattened them a little embarrassedly before handing the money out.

It was also at this moment that when Shi Dongdong raised his head and smiled at the girl's mother, he saw Qiao Hao in the crowd who had been watching him from the corner of his eye.

Shi Dongdong was stunned for a moment, but soon a smile appeared on his face.

He smiled frankly at Qiao Hao, then lowered his head again, and clamped a piece of drawing paper on the drawing board again.Because, there was another guest sitting opposite him.This time it was a middle-aged aunt in her fifties. She sat down with a smile under the push of her companion.

Qiao Hao saw that he was smiling so naturally to him, and suddenly felt ashamed for his entanglement in the past few days.

Perhaps, he was just looking for motivation and meaning to live.

But I was annoyed at being neglected needlessly.

Qiao Hao stood among the crowd for an hour or so until Shi Dongdong finished the third painting.

The crowd gradually dispersed, but the new guests had not yet arrived.

"I thought I'd never see you again." Qiao Hao finally had a chance to speak, he walked to Shi Dongdong's side, and sat down on the stone next to him.

Shi Dongdong turned to look at him, pressed the drawing board and said, "Would you like to draw a picture for you?"

"No, 30 yuan is too expensive, I'd rather look in the mirror by myself." Qiao Hao said hurriedly, tossing his hair pretending to be chic.He didn't want Shi Dongdong to work too hard, this man had already painted several pictures in a row, in the hour he saw it alone.

"Vulgar." Shi Dongdong glanced at him, but began to draw a landscape on the drawing paper, it was a half-painted lake scene, the trees by the lake, and only some branches were drawn.

Qiao Hao didn't argue with him, he simply stretched his legs and put his hands on his sides.There was a breeze blowing over the lake, and with the fragrance of the trees and soil on the shore, Qiao Hao felt that there was never a moment when his heart was more at ease than now.

Shi Dongdong didn't talk to him, just concentrate on painting.

He didn't talk to Shi Dongdong either, those words about why he left and when he would go back seemed superfluous at the moment.

In the hospital, Shi Dongdong has never looked so healthy and happy as he is now.

If physical treatment is necessary, shouldn't the current state be the prerequisite for that?

After an unknown amount of time, Shi Dongdong finally threw the drawing board aside.He stood up and stretched himself facing the lake.

Qiao Hao picked up the drawing board on the ground, and saw that the painting on it was exactly the scene in front of him. By the lake, a boy was sitting and drawing, and beside the boy, lay a boy with his legs up.

"Hey, your drawing is wrong. I am obviously sitting, not lying down." Qiao Hao said seriously.

"The one I drew is obviously a little boy." Shi Dongdong glanced at the people on the ground.

"What you drew is obviously the composition I created for you." Qiao Hao did not show weakness.He looked carefully at the painting in his hand again. Although he didn't understand art, he could still feel a kind of tranquility in the whole painting. Even the ripples on the lake surface were soft and dense, like the breeze blowing on his face before. It also blows into the painting.

"Seriously, give me this painting." Qiao Hao couldn't help but said.

"Don't you think my paintings are expensive?" Shi Dongdong finally sat down, took his own painting from Qiao Hao's hand and looked at it carefully, "This painting of mine is so outstanding, it can't be sold for only 30 yuan like those just now. "

Hearing what Shi Dongdong said, Qiao Hao was thinking about how to answer the conversation, when suddenly he thought of the concert tickets in his pocket.

So, he took them out solemnly, and handed one to Shi Dongdong.

"Is this enough for this?"

Shi Dongdong opened his eyes wide, took the ticket and said in disbelief, "This?"

Seeing his reaction, Qiao Hao secretly cheered for himself.

Sure enough, he liked Faye Wong.

"How did you buy it?" Shi Dongdong was a little excited, "It was sold out when I knew it."

On the contrary, Qiao Hao became a little nervous and almost blurted out, "I bought it because of you."

But in the end he didn't say that. In desperation, he could only make up an excuse, "I bought it a long time ago, and I wanted to ask someone else out, but then...it ended before it even started."

After finishing speaking, Qiao Hao was so annoyed that he wanted to bite his tongue.

"Is that why you came to the park to relax today?"

"Yeah, I didn't expect to meet you again." Qiao Hao answered immediately. In fact, it was indeed a coincidence.

Shi Dongdong nodded knowingly, "This is completely enough to buy my painting, not only enough to buy this one, but also a proposition painting in the future."

"I feel like I got a great deal." Qiao Hao smiled. In fact, apart from saying sorry to Qiao Min, he was really happy.

"So, are you sure that girl really won't go?" Shi Dongdong raised the ticket in his hand and asked Qiao Hao.

Qiao Hao could only smile helplessly, "I really won't go... You should just relax with me, anyway, the city where the concert will be held is not far from here."

"Let's relax with you..." Shi Dongdong repeated thoughtfully, after a moment of silence, he finally pushed the ticket in his hand to his chest, "Okay, then I'm not welcome."

Qiao Hao breathed a sigh of relief, watching Shi Dongdong put the ticket into the innermost pocket of his backpack, and then saw him raise his head and said to himself, "I'm treating you to dinner today."

The phone rang at the right time, and before Qiao Hao could answer Shi Dongdong, he saw Qiao Min's name flashing on the phone.

It turned out that it was already past five o'clock.

Qiao Hao gritted his teeth and pressed the reject button on the phone screen.

"What's wrong?" Shi Dongdong asked.

"It's nothing, the unknown number is probably an advertisement." Qiao Hao thought that he might be punished.

Shi Dongdong didn't pursue it, and started to pack up his painting tools, which were actually just a drawing board and a few pencils.

Qiao Hao finally had the opportunity to turn his back and sent a short message on his mobile phone, "The hospital is urgent, sister, I'm sorry."