prefer silence

Xu Rong never responded to my message, which I only found out after three days.

Grandpa's illness troubled me from time to time, if Song Zhiyuan hadn't reminded me, I would have left the matter of the class reunion a long time ago.

I found Xu Rong's phone number from the address book, and specially called him when it was almost noon.

"Hi, the number you dialed is out of service, Sorry, The number you dialed is out of service..."

Machine hanged?Has Xu Rong changed his number?This is not reasonable, he is a local, and no one has heard that he has left city A.

What's more, with his personality, if he changes his number, he will at least notify everyone.Nothing will happen, will it?

I slipped out of my work station and went to Song Zhiyuan to explain the situation.

Song Zhiyuan should have just returned from smoking in the tea room, with a pungent smell of smoke on his body.

I slapped my nose twice in disgust, "Xu Rong University's number is down, do you know that he has changed his number?"

"He didn't change his number—" Song Zhiyuan took out his phone and flipped through it for a while, and found Xu Rong's number, "It starts with 153, that's right."

"That's the number that's shut down."

"He couldn't be the one who blacklisted you." Song Zhiyuan smiled and glanced at me meaningfully, "Aren't you on good terms with him?"

I grabbed his cell phone and dialed it.I didn't feel relieved until the female voice I had heard a few minutes before came out of the speakers.

Song Zhiyuan's face darkened, "This is a bit difficult."

"Don't you have a counselor's WeChat account? Go to the counselor and ask for the phone number of Xu Rong's home, and ask what's going on." My heart was flustered, and I always had a bad premonition, "I'm afraid that something happened to him Why don't I ask other students in the class group."

When it was time for dinner, the entire office building began to stir.

"Zhiyuan, Yuyuan! Let's go, let's eat!" Xiao Xia stretched her waist and stood up, took off her earphones and greeted us to eat.

"Okay. I'll ask the counselor for it today." Song Zhiyuan whispered back in my ear, and then pulled me to follow Xiao Xia, "Let's go eat first."

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It got dark very early, but at six o'clock in the afternoon, the skyline had been smudged with a large area of ​​hazy red like mist.

There is a long queue of car lights, waiting to go home one by one.

My heart is empty, the latest bad things happen one after another, I'm tired of dealing with it, but I can't let go.On my grandfather's side, although he didn't let us see him, we still insisted on going to the hospital to sit with him for an hour every night.

He ignores people and treats us like air.Simply, he has a nurse to take care of him to eat and drink, and he doesn't need us at all.

We go quietly and return quietly.Chen Zheng would be with me every time, his self-conscious attitude greatly changed my mother's impression of him.

My mother said: "Chen Zheng is not a bad person, you must live a good life. You have been married for several years, and I think he has grown a lot, but you have not. You put away your willfulness and mature, you can't Always let him accommodate you."

I was dumbfounded, is this what my mother can say?It turned out that she had been scolding Chen Zheng for not caring about me.

Mom saw my doubts, narrowed her eyes and smiled, "When I got out of the car, I saw him buttoning your buttons for you. That's what your dad did to me back then."

Speaking of Dad, I wondered: "Is Dad busy recently?" Dad hasn't shown up in this week.

"Yeah, he's busy, he's busy." Mom sighed, "Yuanyuan, you and Chen Zheng are going to have a baby. Your little family will be better if you have a biological child."

"Mom, Chen Zheng and I have discussed it. We plan to ask for it in a few years. Now our work is not easy, and we can't raise children."

Mom's voice suddenly became louder, "I'll help you raise it! Anyway, I'm idle, so I might as well hug my grandson."

I couldn't laugh or cry, "Mom, this child is not a kitten or puppy. How can I say that I want it. Besides, there are criticisms in our family. If the child is not accompanied by his father after birth, I am afraid that it will be bad for the child." .”

"Hey, you're right and you're right. I'm envious. Your Aunt Zu Cong has a granddaughter. I'm two years older than her."

"That's because his family asked for it too early." I gently pushed Mom, "It's so cold outside, Mom, go upstairs quickly, your mouth is purple from the wind."

"Then I'll go in, think about what I said carefully."

Staring at Mom's slightly heavy back, I felt a sore nose.Mom, she is too lonely. Uncle Chen and Aunt Chen next door have not retired. Dad said that he is working on a project for the past six months and stays away all day.She is the only one in the house.

Opening the car door, Chen Zheng touched the back of my hand before I sat down, "So cold?"

I reached into his warm sleeves, "Just cover me."

The car turned around from the lane and drove back. Chen Zheng was steering the steering wheel with one left hand, and I held the other hand.He did such a difficult movement so smoothly, I almost forgot, Aunt Chen told me before that he was left-handed when he was a child, but his parents took it over with great difficulty, and since then he can eat and write with both hands.

"Brother Zheng." I bent down and approached his hand, and kissed him.Chen Zheng's hands are beautiful, the bluish-white flesh wraps the inner joints just right, there is no excess fat, and it doesn't look shriveled.

Our hands were still intertwined on the armrest box, I put my face on it, and shouted again in a subdued tone, "Brother Zheng——"

It's to the extent that I feel contrived when I hear it.

As expected, Chen Zheng's face changed. He deliberately didn't look at me, but the corners of his mouth slightly raised, reminding him: "Driving, be careful that uncle traffic police will arrest you."

"I flirt with my own partner, can the traffic police take care of me?" I didn't think so.

"You hinder the driver from driving safely. If you hinder the driver, you hinder public transportation. You said he can control it?"

I snorted dissatisfied, "Then I have to be teased before I can be labeled, aren't you indifferent?"

"How can you tell that I'm indifferent, I'm itching." Chen Zheng withdrew his right hand, "Okay, Yuan Yuan, I really have to drive hard."

I held my face in shame, he, he actually said that he was itchy, shameless and skinless!

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That trip on the road was actually just a joke. When we really got home, we were in no mood to do anything else.

On this evening, Song Zhiyuan brought me a bad news.

He contacted Xu Rong's father through a counselor, and learned that Xu Rong accidentally fell from a height half a year ago. His life was saved, but he has since become a vegetable who cannot move or speak.

"Are you kidding, Song Zhiyuan?" I anxiously walked up and down the balcony, the cold wind blowing on my face, I couldn't even wake up.

"How could I joke about this kind of thing! It's true! Xu Rong is in Hongshan Hospital now, his father said it himself!"

Hongshan Hospital... Grandpa is also there.

"How could this happen." I knelt down, held my forehead weakly, and murmured, "He is Xu Yun, the pride of our class, the pride of 503. How could such a thing happen to him? .”

In memory, Xu Jun always holds a clear smile, like a magnolia branch with morning dew, stretching its body and blooming on the branch, facing the spring breeze, gentle and moving.Everyone jokingly called him the beauty of our courtyard, he let us make fun of his overly handsome appearance, and never really got angry with us.

"Yeah, why did it happen to Xu Yun..." Song Zhiyuan's voice became lower and lower, "Yu Yuan, let's go see him this weekend."

"Okay." There was heat in my eyes, and I couldn't help crying.

The author says:

Brother Zheng: I really have to drive hard.

Me: Sit down, you can't, Chang Pei doesn't allow it!

[PS: Xu Rong may be the protagonist of the next article, he is a person with a story. 】