mr frank is faithful to love

(FR. Hilde Frank)

All afternoon, Xiao Ke was cleaning out the file cabinets. He moved several cardboard boxes from the warehouse, put all the files that were not in use for the time being, and vacated the two middle rows of the cabinets.

The paper that has not been turned over for a long time exudes a faint musty smell. I turned off the computer on time and got off work, and said to Xiao Ke: "You go home on time, and continue to tidy up tomorrow."

"Okay, I've already called the store, now you can drive directly to pick up the food."

"Okay, thank you."

"It's nothing." After so long, Xiao Ke also knew Nozawa. He looked at me, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Yota...is he in good health?"

"It's much better," I replied, "I can be discharged from the hospital in two days. Stomach problems are mostly occupational diseases. We should all pay attention to balanced nutrition and eat on time."

Xiao Ke hesitated to speak, I didn't know what he was going to say, and I didn't know what he was thinking. Later, I went to the lounge to get my coat and bag. It was raining heavily outside, and I almost passed the elevator when I got out. Run all the way to pick up the car.

Nozawa has been in the hospital for several days, and I still go to work as usual, and I will visit him after get off work and find a nurse for him, so I don’t have to worry about daily life.

The rain hadn't stopped, and the freshly cooked soup was still hot. When I walked into the hospital lobby with my bag, Ms. Zuo Zhiying and a few people came towards me. She didn't see me, but I saw her first.

I stopped and greeted Ms. Zuo.

She clicked her chin in response, glanced at me from head to toe, then, with a smile, picked up the hair that was scattered around her ear, and said, "Long time no see, are you here to visit me too?"

"Correct."

"Me too. A friend is having an operation, so I'll come over to have a look." Ms. Zuo turned her head and signaled the others to leave with her eyes. She took two steps closer to me and asked, "How is it?"

It wasn't cold, I left my coat in the car, and I was wearing a wrinkled shirt and carrying a restaurant bag, which was kind of weird.

I said, "Same as before."

"How could it be the same as before... I heard that you - of course, that has nothing to do with me, maybe another day, take him out and let's have a meal together."

Ms. Zuo was as friendly and warm as ever, but under this circumstance, I was uneasy because of her invitation, and I said, "How did you know?"

"I heard, of course it wasn't Boyao who told me. In short, I just heard that although you are no longer my family, we are still friends," Ms. Zuo smiled gracefully. She looked at me and said, "I kept saying I would call you, but I pushed it off until now because I was too busy. How about it? Let's make an appointment."

I nodded with difficulty, looked at Ms. Zuo, and then had to fall into deep thought, feeling a little depressed, and I said, "Nozawa...he is in the hospital."

"I knew I wasn't here to see friends," Ms. Zuo breathed out, and still smiled, she said, "It's definitely not so meticulous to see friends. I knew it was soup when I saw you carrying the bag from this store. Very nice."

"Sorry, let's make an appointment later, I ask you."

"I'm embarrassing you, right? I'm just like this. You should know that I don't mean anything. I just want to sit down and talk about the current situation. It's very straightforward."

"I know."

"How is it? What is the disease? Is it serious?"

I immediately shook my head and replied: "It's much better, stomach cramps, not serious."

Ms. Zuo nodded and said sincerely, "That's good."

The rain still didn't stop, I stood where I said goodbye to Ms. Zuo, watching her back as she went away.The phone rang suddenly, it was Nozawa calling, he said: "You don't need to come here today, it's raining, go home and rest."

I said, "I'm already downstairs in the hospital."

"Then... well, I'm just worried that you're working too hard."

"It's okay, I'm already downstairs, I'll come up right away, hang up first."

I was still thinking about the conversation I had with Ms. Zuo a few minutes ago, so I couldn't continue talking. I was calm on the surface, but actually I was a little emotionally broken.

What is it that makes you sad?Maybe because Ms. Zuo calmly invited me and Nozawa, maybe because Ms. Zuo smiled and said that although I am no longer her family.

After Nozawa was discharged from the hospital, I told him about the dinner with Ms. Zuo.

The rain stopped, and the weather was several degrees hotter. Nozawa was standing on the carpet in the living room in his pajamas. He walked over, sat down on the sofa, and asked, "Why did you invite me to dinner?"

"Because Ms. Zuo and I are friends."

Looking at Nozawa, I found that he was sullen, looking at me thoughtfully and even scrutinizing me. After ten seconds of silence, he put down the cup in his hand and said, "It's not that I think too much, but it's true. It's weird, I don't want to go."

"It's nothing, you've been to her ball, you know what kind of person she is?"

"It's really different." Nozawa took a deep breath and said, "I'm not embarrassing you, but she is... anyway, it's too strange for me to go."

After chatting for a long time, but got no results, Nozawa took a big gulp of water from the cup, and I sat by the side watching TV in a daze.

"By the way, there is something," I said suddenly, "last time at Ms. Zuo's dance party, I got a card for the western restaurant. There was only one card in the audience, but it seemed to be lost. I can't remember where I put it. pity."

"Ah..." Nozawa's expression looked a hundred times more regretful than mine. He tried his best to calm down the shock and said, "It's a pity, I really wanted it that day, but I didn't get it."

"It's a pity, I remember it's a lifetime free card." I turned off the TV and chatted absently.

Indeed, Ka is looking for, but what should be on his mind now is how to make an appointment with Ms. Zuo.

Unexpectedly, it was the next morning, half an hour after work, Xiao Ke suddenly came over with a courier file bag and said, "Frank, I found this when I was tidying up the cabinet. Your January courier may be When the documents were assembled, they were caught in the middle, and they were not dismantled.”

"What is it? Can't remember."

Xiao Ke handed me the bag and said, "I don't know what it was from Mr. Tu, but it says a magazine."

I didn't think much about it at all, opened the courier, and pulled out a brochure of Tu Dong's company. There was a card in the booklet, which was the card of the western restaurant that I was still talking about yesterday.

"Oh..." I looked at Xiao Ke and said, "Is it such a coincidence? I was still looking for it yesterday, did it come from Mr. Tu?"

"Yes, it has his name and phone number on it."

I put the card back into the brochure, intending to stuff it back into the courier bag for the time being, and I said, "What the hell was I thinking? of."

"That's right, it's Dong Tu. I was too busy so I remembered wrongly." Xiao Ke answered casually.

"There was a lot going on during that time—"

At this point, my hand holding the book suddenly stopped, I raised my head to look at Xiao Ke, Xiao Ke said: "Then I will do other things first."

"Wait... wait a minute."

I can't say anything else for the time being, I have to use all my brain for thinking. I don't know if my sudden guess is correct, but what is certain is that this guess is really terrible.