between friendship and love

Time passed slowly and hurriedly.The company has increased its indicators this year because of its impressive performance last year.Yang Lin has been on frequent business trips since he went to work. After a busy period, when he was free, it was already July.

July and August are the off-season for most industries, and their company is no exception. There is no overtime plan, and there is no need to go on business trips. Going to work is also extremely idle, drinking tea and chatting almost every day before leaving get off work.

He looked at the familiar number in the address book, and realized that although he had promised to contact Qi Tian frequently, in fact he hadn't contacted Qi Tian since that day.

He remembered that he occasionally received a smiling expression from Qi Tian on the Internet, but he was busy and confused at that time, so he didn't respond.At this moment, when I was free, the mixed emotions emerged from the bottom of my heart.

Never let it go.

After parting for a long time, he began to think again, maybe Xiaotian agreed to go because he couldn't accept Aunt Wu's invitation, and he didn't seem to like it at all, the woman didn't even say a few words to him, It seems that there is no contact information.

I excused him bit by bit from the bottom of my heart, and gradually felt that I still had hope.

Almost like being sick.

He smiled bitterly, walked out of the office, walked to the smoking area, lit a cigarette, stared at the string of numbers on the phone screen, thought for a while, and dialed.

When the phone was placed next to his ear, his heart trembled slightly.He breathed out the smoke, still thinking about how to speak, the mechanical voice of "the number you dialed is an empty number" surprised him so much that he couldn't hold the smoke with his fingertips, and it fell to the ground.

The fantasy was severely shattered by reality, he wanted to laugh for a moment, but bitterness appeared on his face.

When did he even cancel his number?And still don't tell him?Are you avoiding?Or did you finally have another friend and you could dump him?

His mind was filled with all kinds of thoughts and hypotheses, each of which made him despair.

When I got back to the office, I still couldn't help but open □□, find the separate column, and click on it.Qi Tian □□ has a black profile picture and is not online.

Qi Tian has never had any friends. Yang Lin has seen his friends on the Internet. Except for himself, there are only the editors of the website that writes novels and the manufacturers who buy goods from bookstores.Clicking on the dialog box, Qitian's last message was sent a month and a half ago, with an ordinary smiling expression.

Although his □□ level is very high, but there is nothing in the information column. □□The signature has not been changed since the random "Hello everyone" was filled in when I first applied.

Yang Lin closed his eyes, suddenly feeling sad.He is very good at making friends, so naturally he can't understand the kind of people who don't even dare to speak to others.Qi Tian often played with them when he was a child—of course, mainly with him, and then he seldom communicated with others.

Thinking about it, it's a miracle that his bookstore has survived until now.Although there are also reasons why the primary school is not far away.

He also asked him why he didn't dare to talk to people, but he just shook his head, instinctively wanting to step back.So in the first few years, Yang Lin tried to introduce friends to him, but then he let it go, especially after he understood his own intentions, he suddenly had a thought that it would be good for him to be alone.

Unconsciously, he looked at the three words "Hello everyone", took out his mobile phone, and dialed his home number.

The phone was picked up quickly, and my mother's voice came over.Yang Lin walked out of the office, smiled and exchanged a few words with his mother, and then endured and endured, and finally asked: "Xiaotian... how are you? I can't call him."

"Ah? No way? I thought you knew about it." Mom's voice was a little surprised, "I wanted to tell you when it first happened, but you always hung up before talking, I thought Xiaotian will tell you himself."

Yang Lin was taken aback, "What happened?"

"His father came back, and he owed a lot of money from gambling outside. The creditors came to him. Xiaotian sold the bookstore and the house, and he almost paid off the debt. Why do you think there is such a man? He was irresponsible, Xiaotian rented a house nearby, we all went to persuade his father to live a good life, but in the end he still didn’t listen, he went out to play cards and drink every day.”

The fingers holding the phone couldn't help but force hard, Yang Lin couldn't believe what he heard.

"His father got drunk last month and got sick. He went to the hospital to check that he had advanced liver cancer. The treatment didn't work. He passed away four days ago..." There was no sadness in her mother's tone, only aggrieved, "Xiaotian doesn't know what he owed in his previous life. How much is he? As soon as he came back, Xiaotian’s house and shop were gone. It is estimated that the savings were almost spent during the medical treatment. He retired the house yesterday. I saw that he packed his things and said that he would go out to work. I just wanted to ask And you……"

Every word my mother said was like a thorn, piercing into his flesh and blood.He remembered talking on the phone with his family in the past few months, and every time he felt that his mother would mention Xiaotian, he hurriedly excused himself from being busy, unwilling to listen at all, and dared not face it.

It turned out that when he didn't know, Xiaotian suffered such a big change again.

Without him by his side, Xiaotian didn't know how sad he would be.

Yang Lin closed his eyes, "Mom, do you know his current number?"

"Ah? Didn't he contact you? His previous mobile phone was dropped, so he changed the number, and he came here and copied it for me. Wait for me to look for it..."

Yang Lin felt a little resentful towards herself.

Xiaotian has always had such a character, he thought he was still angry, so he didn't dare to call him at all, right?After changing the number, I thought he would find him, so I wrote the number to my mother.

Then every time he posted an emoji on xx, he must have mustered up a lot of courage before he clicked send.Yang Lin could almost imagine his nervous and expectant appearance in front of the computer, he must be looking pitifully and anxiously for him to respond.

And he didn't reply a word.

Yang Lin hit his head hard, damn it.