alternate performance

The light slipped across the wrapping paper of the cigarette box. Obviously the hands of the two did not touch each other, but Xu Chenhe withdrew his hand as if he had been strangled by an electric current: "What ring?"

Gu Congran picked up all the cigarette boxes, knowing that Xu Chenhe was clear, otherwise how could the ring be moved from the second hidden compartment to the fourth one.He didn't say anything, just said: "It's okay, I made a slip of the tongue."

Gu Congran stopped asking tactfully, put Xu Chenhe's arm on his palm to help him up, and then consciously put a distance of half a meter away from him: "Let's just leave it alone, don't you?" ?”

Without Gu Congran standing in front of him to block the sun, Xu Chenhe squinted his eyes to avoid the fierce light: "The dessert service is suspended, and other leisure services are taken care of by shop assistants."

"Then when will I leave?" Afraid that Xu Chenhe might misunderstand that he was going to follow, Gu Congran explained, "I just want to see you off, and I have to go back to Chengcheng City next Tuesday at the latest, so I won't pester you anymore."

Hearing that the other party was finally willing to let go, Xu Chenhe was not as relaxed as he imagined.After two full months, the patience that Gu Congran spent on him was worth it.

"Next Tuesday, you can drop me off." Xu Chenhe waved his hand, "Okay, don't talk, you go up."

He left first, but he couldn't find a bicycle in the surrounding area. In such a hot weather, he gave up the idea of ​​cycling back, and directly hired a taxi to report the address on Shirao Street.After the car drove for a certain distance, Xu Chenhe couldn't help but look back. Gu Congran was still standing there, but he couldn't see his face clearly. I don't know if there was any reluctance on his face.

I lived in Jinjin City for most of the summer, but I didn't have a lot of luggage with me. Gu Congran checked out of the room that day and took his suitcases for a walk in the city for an afternoon, deliberately avoiding Shirao Street and "Dive Tour" "The road in that area.

On the appointed day, Gu Congran drove the car downstairs to the public rental building. Considering that it would be troublesome for Xu Chenhe to carry his luggage down from the eighth floor, and weighing between being conflicted and the other party's hard work, Gu Congran chose the former.Two hours before the flight he booked, Gu Congran slammed the car door and ran upstairs. He pressed the handrail of the stairs on the eighth floor and wiped the sweat from his chin with his arm. He calmed down and went to the door of 803 to knock Knocked: "Xu Chenhe, it's me."

No one in the room responded, Gu Congran raised his hand to look at his watch, Xu Chenhe always got up early, it didn't make sense that he was still sleeping after eight o'clock.Not getting up is one thing, but what Gu Congran was worried about was that the accident happened again, so he slammed on the door harder: "Xu Chenhe!"

This time the panic came more fiercely than any other time. Gu Congran called "Dive Tour", and Mianmian who answered the phone's gentle inquiry changed back to his usual indifference after hearing his name in the newspaper: "Oh sorry sir, our boss is not in the shop."

"Didn't he leave today?" Gu Congran said while rushing downstairs, "What time did he leave?"

"Did you remember the time wrong or didn't communicate clearly with our boss?" Mianmian laughed loudly, "He left yesterday, you just came to ask today, isn't it too late?"

Gu Congran stopped abruptly in the middle of the stairs, inertia led his body to lean forward, he grabbed the handrail in time, but did not hold the phone tightly.The phone fell somersaulting, and when it was picked up, several cracks with winding branches had already formed on the diagonal corner of the screen.

These cracks are like gullies between him and Xu Chenhe. At first, they may be just invisible to the naked eye, but after years and months, he didn't know how to find a way to repair them until the gully separated them further and further.

This trip back to Cheng'an City, Gu Congran didn't ask anyone to pick him up. He first went home and put down his luggage and took a bath. He wanted to catch up on sleep but didn't feel sleepy. He simply drove back to the company to inspect the work of various departments.

He went up layer by layer, and reached the 28th floor. When Tezhu saw him, he stood up in shock: "Mr. Gu, are you back? Mr. Xu, he—"

"Don't ask." Gu Congran made a stop gesture.

Working online is not as efficient as sitting in an office. Gu Congran buried himself in his work, and when someone knocked on the door and came in, he didn't look up.

The sky was getting dark, and Zhu Huiting woke up after taking a nap on the sofa. Seeing that his friend was still busy, he couldn't hold back his voice: "This Mr. Gu, how long have we not seen you, do you remember?"

Gu Congran took off his glasses, removed some documents that blocked his sight: "When did you come in?"

"Not long after, I fell asleep for an hour or so." Zhu Huiting rubbed his arms that were numb from the pillow, "You came back alone?"

The subtext was very clear, and Gu Congran didn't play around with him: "It seems to push people further away."

"That's either something wrong with your way, or Xu Chenhe really let you go." Zhu Huiting looked at his friend with pity, "You said you..."

Gu Congran was more willing to admit the first half of the sentence. He closed the document and opened another without saying a word.Zhu Huiting strode over and slapped his palm on the document to cover all the words, pointing to the sky outside the floor-to-ceiling window: "Brother, you don't think I came to your office just to take a nap, can you have a meal together?" ?”

Gu Congran sighed, put the cap on the pen and put it on the folder: "Let's go."

Zhu Huiting had to go back to the office to get some things, and asked Gu Congran to wait outside the company first.There were still a lot of people in the branch office during the meal time. As soon as Gu Congran came out of the lobby, he was bumped into by a reckless person who broke in, and the pile of forms and notepads that he was holding in his hand fell to the ground.

He squatted down to help pick it up, the man said "I'll come, I'll come" repeatedly, when he looked up, the other person was stunned: "Mr. Gu?"

Fang Rui hadn't seen the boss for a long time, she glanced at Gu Congran's arm while tidying up: "Boss Gu, what's wrong with your hand?"

He avoided talking about it, picked up the scattered papers and folded them into a pile, and saw that some of them were information sheets of a new group: "Are you talking about a new artist?"

"That's right," Fang Rui patted the ashes on the notepad, "Being a life assistant, ah, the newcomers are so naughty."

Not intending to have a long talk with Fang Rui, Gu Congran returned the stack of papers to her, and tapped the topmost thing with his index finger: "What is this?"

Fang Rui said "ah", and looked at Gu Congran inquiringly: "This is the Yemai bookmark. Brother Shen He gave it to me when I was on the set of "Outside the Window"."

Gu Congran, who didn't take it seriously at first, eagerly grabbed the thing back in his hand after hearing Xu Chenhe's name, and gently stroked the plastic-wrapped veins with his fingertips: "Is this a sycamore leaf?"

"Yes, there were sycamore trees outside the studio at that time. Brother Shen He made a lot of pictures. Here..." Fang Rui tapped the distal phalanx of his right index finger, "The steps to remove the mesophyll are quite cumbersome. Cocooned."

These are things that Gu Congran doesn't know.

Whenever he thinks that he has made a further step in the process of fully understanding Xu Chenhe, there will always be a new blind spot in front of him, pushing him farther than before.

"Who else did he give it to?" Gu Congran asked.

Fang Rui waved his hand: "He gave it to me. He said the rest will be left to the students in Rongjing Town." After speaking, he stared at the Yemai bookmark that Gu Congran was holding in his hand and refused to take his eyes off, for fear that the other party would use his power for personal gain to take over the bookmark. for oneself.

Fortunately, Gu Congran had a conscience and returned the bookmark to her: "Keep it well, don't lose it."

Perhaps only he himself knows that this sentence has a deep meaning to him.

Zhu Hui's car was already waiting outside. Gu Congran was happy to have a free driver, so he opened the passenger door and got in: "The new car is pretty good."

"The car I just picked up in the morning, I picked you up before I even picked up the fish, of course it's good." Zhu Huiting started the engine, "Did you take the stairs down from the 28th floor, why is it slower than me?"

"I met Fang Rui and chatted for a while." Gu Congran leaned on the car window, "'It rains in the third watch on the phoenix leaves, and the sound of the leaves is parting', have you heard this phrase?"

Zhu returned to the court without answering and asked instead: "When did you become a literate person?"

"You don't care about me." It was the evening rush hour, and it was estimated that he would not be able to reach the hotel for [-]:[-], Gu Congran leaned on the seat with his eyes closed, "I'll take a nap for a while, and call me when I arrive."

Dozing off is actually not the case. When Gu Congran closed his eyes, he couldn't help but associate the leaf vein bookmark made by Xu Chenhe himself with the sentence left in the study before leaving. If Xu Chenhe had the intention of leaving at that time , All his subsequent actions were to fan the flames for Xu Chenhe's departure.

If he had understood what Xu Chenhe was thinking at the beginning, would he be able to reverse the ending?

During the meal, Gu Congran was always out of his mind. Zhu Huiting threw ginkgo fruit that he didn't like into his bowl, and Gu Congran still ate it. After swallowing it, he slowly grabbed the cup and drank a few mouthfuls of tea: " Zhu Huiting, believe it or not, I will order you a plate of fried silkworm chrysalis right now?"

Zhu Huiting immediately lost his appetite, put down his chopsticks and began to reason: "Take a mirror and look at your state just now, is it okay? If you can't get back, keep chasing. Do you think Xu Chenhe is so easy to be chased? You like him You should be more considerate of him, and you will know how hard he is."

The two hadn't seen each other for a long time, and they started chatting again, so they stopped serving the food and asked the waiter to bring the wine. They didn't seem to change their faces when they paid the bill, but they fell on their seats as soon as they got into the car.The car I just picked up, Zhu Huiting was reluctant to let the driver handle it. This place is close to home, so he simply sent a letter to Su Yuyou to ask him to come out to be the driver.

Moved to the back seat, Zhu Huiting leaned against the window with his head propped up, and bumped his knee against Gu Congran's leg: "What are you thinking?"

"I plan to go to Rongjing Town in a few days." Gu Congran leaned against the neck pillow behind him, his head was dizzy, "I didn't think about dealing with people Xu Chenhe had contacted since he was a child. While Xu Chenhe has a quiet space, he first understands his life."

"Great, have you always been ignorant?" Zhu Huiting smiled, "You know, I'm used to preparing for the worst in everything. I asked Xu Chenhe about this topic before. Guess how he answered?"

Gu Congran looked over.

Zhu Huiting repeated Xu Chenhe's answer to Gu Congran verbatim, and patted the outside of the other's thigh with the back of his hand: "You should be glad that you didn't collapse because of the relationship between Xu Chenhe and Jiang Hua, otherwise you would think about it." Who would be the one to blame the most?"