rush to score

The time they agreed on was three o'clock in the afternoon.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Liang Xi started tidying up the room.The size of the apartment is not too big, and the cleaning is fairly quick. Liang Xi usually has no habit of throwing things away. After an hour, the room was tidied up and ready to open the door to welcome guests.

Liang Xi sat on the bed and swiped his phone, unable to look into it. He stared at the clock on the wall, watching it go to 02:30.

Unable to hold back, he typed a line: Let me know when you are about to arrive.

There was no response to the message. Liang Xi guessed that maybe he was driving and didn't have time to read it.

At three o'clock, he sent another message: Is it almost there?

At a quarter past three, there was another one: Is there a traffic jam?

The three messages in a row all fell to nothing, and Liang Xi's mood also sank -- did Lu Mingchuan change his mind temporarily, did he break the appointment?

The winter night came very early, the sky was getting dark, and there was no movement on the phone.

Liang Xi lay on his back on the bed, recalling the birthdays he had when he was a child.

At that time, he hadn't had any trouble with his family, and he had a very close relationship with the Lu family. Liang Xi's birthday party was always held together by the two families.Every year when Lu Mingchuan attends his birthday party, he will present a chocolate birthday cake, pure white, with two white swans on it, one tall and one short, and it is the same kind every year.

According to him, Liang Xi will always remember the same cake every year. If these two swans are missing on one day's birthday, Liang Xi will think of forgetting to invite him to attend.

That person was always like this, intentionally or unintentionally leaving traces in Liang Xi's life in an almost domineering way, and later his words really came true - Liang Xi spent several birthdays abroad, without exception. Lu Mingchuan, and the taste of that expensive swan cake.

However, thinking back on it now, Liang Xi felt extremely wronged. This person obviously said that he was afraid that he would not be invited, but in the end he was the one who didn't show up.

It was almost seven o'clock in the evening, and the more Liang Xi thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong - Lu Mingchuan had never been in such a situation, even if he wanted to change his mind, he would at least give him a message telling him not to wait any longer, and this kind of sudden disappearance It's unreasonable in any way.

So he got up from the bed, called Luo Mao, and asked if there was any temporary arrangement in the team.

"What arrangement? I haven't heard of it." Luo Mao's voice was noisy, there were children shouting, and the sound of firecrackers, obviously not in the training ground.

Liang Xi asked him again if he saw Lu Mingchuan.

The person on the opposite side was even more puzzled: "It's a holiday, everyone has gone home for the Spring Festival, by the way, why don't you come to training recently?"

"I have something to do at home recently." Liang Xi said a few perfunctory words before hanging up the phone.

He frowned, and his heart beat faster and faster.

Liang Xi carefully recalled what Lu Mingchuan had said to him before: "According to the etiquette, I have to go back to celebrate the New Year. After I have a meal and stay there for the night, I will come to your house to accompany you tomorrow."

The old house of the Lu family is not where his parents live now, but Lu Mingchuan's grandfather's house, which is in a certain government compound. Liang Xi hasn't been there a few times, so he doesn't have much impression of it.

He only remembered that most of the elders of the Lu family seemed serious, and the decoration style of the whole house was very deserted, not a place that children would like.What's more, the compound was guarded by soldiers all the year round, loaded with live ammunition, Liang Xi felt scared after going there once, and Lu Mingchuan didn't take him there again afterwards.

After several phone calls in succession, even Lu Mingchuan's good brother was searched by Liang Xi.Only Wei Chengyi knew a little about Lu Mingchuan's movements, but that was limited to knowing that he did return to the old house yesterday, and he didn't know where he went afterwards.

"Why, can't you get in touch with him?" Wei Chengyi found a quiet place to talk to Liang Xi, "Hey, I heard that his breakup with Jiang Xiajiao seemed to make his family unhappy, could it be to take advantage of the Chinese New Year? Make trouble with him?"

"How old is he!" Liang Xi subconsciously retorted.

Wei Chengyi sneered: "Didn't the older generation talk about it when they were in their teens or 20s? Besides, their Lu family really has a family business to inherit, even if they can't get married right away, get to know each other better." Isn’t it good to have a few people, what if it’s just one pair?”

Liang Xi's train of thought almost followed him astray, but he quickly came to his senses: "Even if it's a blind date, it's not like you don't even look at your phone, right?"

Wei Chengyi was silent for a while, and realized that something was wrong: "Otherwise, I'm going to look for him in the old house now? Well, my house also has a lot of things during the Chinese New Year, I have to find a way to escape..."

"No need, I'll go find him." Liang Xi hung up the phone, without thinking, grabbed his coat and rushed out of the house.

On winter nights, the wind blows like a knife, and there are very few cars on the road during the Chinese New Year.

Liang Xi managed to call a car, gave the place name based on his impression, and sat in the car with his brows frowned in a daze.

There were a lot of thoughts in his head, firstly he was afraid that something might happen to Lu Mingchuan, and secondly, he was thinking, if he just didn't want to see him, wouldn't it be superfluous to go to find him this way, and it would be useless to make people hate him.

However, he let go of the things he had clearly agreed upon, so he should be the one to reason anyway, right?

It was as if there were several gossiping villains in his mind, arguing and nagging non-stop, Liang Xi was so annoyed that his heart was pounding along with it.

Maybe it was because his expression was too solemn, the taxi driver shut his mouth after a few words, stepped on the accelerator all the way, and almost flew directly to the destination.

Liang Xi rushed all the way to the gate of the compound, until he was stopped by the guarded gate, and then he realized that something was wrong - he didn't have a pass, so he couldn't enter the gate at all.

He was typing on the screen with his mobile phone.

【Where are you? 】

【I'm at the gate of your courtyard now, come out to pick me up. 】

【Lu Mingchuan, it doesn't matter what it is, you should talk back anyway. 】

"Is someone coming to pick you up?" Mengang straightened his body, with a sullen face, "If you haven't made contact, you should go back first."

"I..." In Liang Xi's nearly 20 years of life, there was rarely such a moment when he was at a loss. He opened a pair of black and white eyes, looked at the gate, and squeezed the phone in his hand tightly.

I didn't reply to the message all afternoon, and now it's impossible to expect him to reply.

Liang Xi still stubbornly stood where he was: "He may come back soon."

Mengang stared at his face for a long time, and finally asked, "Are you an adult?"

"Of course." Liang Xi nodded.

The gatekeeper nodded quickly, then saluted him, and said unceremoniously: "If you want to wait, please go to a place other than the zebra crossing. Sorry, this is the rule." He straightened the gun in his hand.

On the street at night, it seemed that he and Mengang stood facing each other. Mengang looked at him for a while, and then stood still, as if Liang Xi didn't exist.

Liang Xi didn't know what he was thinking, so he really obeyed and stepped back, standing in the cold wind for a long, long time, until his legs were numb and his toes ached from the cold.

Liang Xi was very cold, but he didn't want to move his nest at all, and he didn't know who he was competing with when he stood there.

At 10:30 in the evening, a figure sprang out from the courtyard.