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Whether anyone fell asleep that night, no one knows.Getting up early the next day, Fu Jia got dressed, folded the quilt and flattened the sheets, and then took a deep breath and walked out of the bedroom.

"Welcome to watch today's whole point news. Recently, the national consumer market as a whole has been running smoothly, and the supply and demand in many places have been more than 5% for the first time in half a year..."

The TV is playing in the living room, and the warm sunlight shines in from the window.Xu Shuyuan was not there, and there was a note on the coffee table, which was pressed with a cigarette case and a lighter——

"There's porridge in the microwave."

At that moment, Fu Jia was in a trance for a moment. In a trance, Xu Shuyuan was still treating him well, but the strong feelings had been suppressed to the deepest part of his heart, and he would never see the light of day again.

After finishing the porridge, he washed the dishes, turned off the TV, and sat on the sofa.Rationally, he told himself that he should go, and if he didn't go, he would not want to go even more, but emotionally, he hoped to meet Xu Shuyuan when he came back.

After waiting for nearly an hour, there was still no movement.Before leaving, Fu Jia stood in the entrance and looked back. This place belongs to Xu Shuyuan, clean and simple, just like him.

A group of uncles and aunts downstairs came back from their morning exercises with swords in their hands. Fu Jia brushed past them, feeling like returning to real life, but the dream remained on it.

No more contact throughout the weekend.

The mother was discharged from the hospital smoothly, and the big stone in Fu Jia's heart finally fell to the ground.When I went home on Sunday afternoon, Sister Wang sighed as soon as she saw him: "You're so skinny, no, I have to make up for you today."

He smiled: "It's not that exaggerated."

"Where is it?" Turning around and seeing Fu's mother coming down the stairs, Sister Wang said, "We Jiajia really suffered a great crime outside, this little face is slumped, don't be sick!"

These words hit Fu Mu's weakness.Recently, she was so worried that she couldn't sleep, thinking about how to make her son happy all day long.

"Try this, your Aunt Wang's new bean paste cake." She kept asking Fu Jia to eat, but Fu Jia didn't have an appetite: "I won't eat, Mom, I'll have dinner tonight."

"Dinner is dinner and snacks are snacks. What does it matter if you eat one or two yuan?"

Fu Jia couldn't laugh or cry: "But I only have one stomach."

"I'm the only son of yours. If you ruin your health, Mom will ask someone to justify it. If it doesn't work, move back quickly. Your dad doesn't care. He won't dare to mess with you if I forgive you. .”

"I'll move back when you stop forcing me to find a partner."

Fu's mother was puzzled: "It was for you to let you start a family. Could it be that we are still wrong? Life is so long, you live alone, and your family is happy, why don't you choose an easy one? point of the road."

"That's the ease you understand. For me, ease is living the life I want to live."

"The life you want to live is with that Xu?"

Fu Jia was silent.

Seeing his recalcitrant appearance, Fu Mu sighed: "Forget it, I don't care about you."

In fact, parents are doing it for their own good, of course he knows.But he was tired of hearing these words, tired of the life trajectory set by his parents.

When I went to the company on Monday, the department was as deserted as ever.

The midsummer sun was shining on the work station, and soon Fu Jia was so hot that he was sweating, so he could only go to the bathroom and soak his face in cold water.Two colleagues inside were washing their hands and saw him come in to say hello.He asked casually, "Why didn't you come to the scene today?"

"The manager is temporarily on leave."

One or two months before the exam, inter-department manpower secondment is common, but Fu Jia didn't think much about it.Back at the work station, the front, back, left and right were all empty, and Pei Xiaoou didn't come. He couldn't find a friend for lunch, so he had to go downstairs alone.

There are many people in the restaurant.Wang Songjian was already there with the other two members of the Six Departments, and when he saw Fu Jia, he asked him to share a table together.It was inconvenient for him to refuse, so he went to sit down.

"Let's see what to order."

"I can decide for you."

The three of them were polite and chatted over the menu.Fu Jia asked as naturally as possible: "Why didn't you see Manager Xu?"

"He, he asked for leave."

Another leave?

Fu Jia had some doubts in his heart, but it was inappropriate to ask further, so he could only suppress it for the time being.

During the banquet, there were three or six people chatting all over the world, and one of them suddenly said: "By the way, why is there no news about the mysterious suitor of Shuyuan recently?"

"I probably gave up. Who can stand Shuyuan's poker face?" Wang Songjian took a bite of the food and teased leisurely, "Nowadays, warm men like us are still popular."

Fu Jia couldn't help laughing on the opposite side, but in return he squinted: "What are you laughing at, what you said is right."

"Well, yes." He just nodded with a smile.

Another said convincingly: "If I were the original book, I would never accept other people's kindness at all, so as not to be misunderstood."

"That's right. The book was not done kindly, and if he didn't want to accept it, it would be over if he didn't eat it. It's good for him. He was given to eat every day. If I didn't stop him that time, he would even eat the rotten one! Hell!" It's outrageous..."

After Fu Jia listened, she stayed there quietly.

It turned out that Xu Shuyuan ate all those meals and cherished them all.Then why didn't he say it?

"Manager Xu, he..."

"What about him?"

Looking up at Wang Songjian, Fu Jia didn't know what to say, so he could only change the subject abruptly: "Why did Manager Xu ask for leave?"

"I don't know, it seems that something happened at home."

"Oh." Fu Jia smiled slowly, "I thought he was on vacation for a trip."

"He is the mainstay of our department now, how can he travel casually."

That's it for the topic.

When he returned to the department, he checked on the intranet and found that Xu Shuyuan had taken a whole week off.So long, could it be for surgery?

With this assumption in mind, the phone call came naturally.

"Good afternoon, Director."

Director Qin was busy seeing a doctor, so he combined two sentences into one sentence: "What do you want me to do? You don't need to talk about it by jumping in the queue when you see a doctor."

"Not to see a doctor. I want to ask you about Xu Shuyuan's condition. Is he planning to have an operation?"

"Who?"

"Xu Shuyuan." He repeated word by word, each word rolling over the tip of his tongue and pulling at his heart.

The printer over there was creaking and spitting out paper, Director Qin rattled a lot of words with the patient, and then replied neatly: "His surgery schedule has been canceled long ago."

"cancelled?"

"I called you last month." Director Qin seemed angry and snorted, "This kid is very stubborn, he won't listen to any persuasion, so he's deaf."

Fu Jia didn't come up in one breath and choked there.

After hanging up the phone, he was a little confused, but more worried.After spending the whole week in a trance, Pei Xiaoou asked him to meet at the weekend, and suddenly confessed that she planned to switch to the finance team.

"It's a better springboard over there, and you can learn things faster."

"When will it be over?"

"October."

Xiaoou always knows very well, whether it is about the future or the people around him.In fact, Xu Shuyuan is a bit like her, always has a clear goal and strives for the top.

Thinking of himself who was aimless and drifting with the tide, Fu Jia suddenly felt a little frustrated.Xiaoou asked: "What's the matter, why do you look a little restless. Is it because of your aunt's illness?"

"My mother is doing well recently."

"Is that because of Senior Brother?"

There are only two possibilities.

Fu Jia's mind doesn't belong: "I haven't been able to find him recently, I don't know if he is hiding from me on purpose."

After roughly finishing the cause and effect, Xiaoou also faintly felt something was wrong, "Did you call him?"

"Called, but didn't answer." He smiled bitterly, "Maybe he wants to stay as far away from me as possible now."

"Let me try."

Xiaoou called again, but still no one answered.She said: "If you are really worried, go to his house to see, at worst, you will be invited out by the senior brother, it's nothing."

The wording is very careful, in fact, I want to say "get out".But after much deliberation, Fu Jia accepted this suggestion. Anyway, the relationship is already so stiff, can it get worse.

I took the subway to the door of Xu Shuyuan's house, but no one answered when I knocked and knocked. Finally, an auntie from the opposite door poked her head out: "Who are you looking for?"

"Find someone who lives here, I'm his colleague."

Seeing that he looks quite obedient, the aunt didn't doubt it. Nunuzui said, "I haven't seen him for almost a week. He left last weekend and almost bumped into me downstairs in a hurry."

"Where did he go?"

"Then I don't know."

Back downstairs, the sunset is gradually fading, and the community seems to be very empty.Fu Jia looked up from the bench to the balcony of Shuyuan's house, his neck was sore and he didn't want to leave, as if a piece of meat was missing in his heart.

A yellow-brown kitten wandered out from nowhere, looking at him with its head poking around.He turned his head, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, it jumped onto his lap, lying on his lap and taking a nap obediently.

"Who usually feeds you? Who raises you so well, so cute?"

His voice was very soft, and the kitten also purred softly, with its ears drooping softly.

Sit there until nightfall before leaving.

When I went to the gate of the community and looked back, it seemed that I couldn't find Xu Shuyuan anywhere, but he was everywhere.

Xu Shuyuan's vacation should end on Monday.

After finally staying up until the lunch break, Fu Jia took the elevator to the 15th floor.As soon as the door opened, he bumped into an acquaintance. Wang Songjian looked at him and said bluntly: "You have been coming here a little bit lately."

"I'm here to find Manager Xu, is he back?"

"You and him—" Wang Songjian changed the subject, "are you really an old classmate?"

Because he was not sure of his intentions, Fu Jia was speechless for a while.He went on to say: "I don't mean anything else, I just find it strange that if you are really old classmates, why are you so uninformed. Shuyuan took a long vacation, two weeks, and it's not certain whether he will come back or not."

"Why did he take a long vacation?"

"I don't know."

Maybe it's not unclear, I just don't want to discuss it.

Wang Songjian sighed and left.Fu Jia slightly opened her lips and watched, feeling panicked for no reason.Called Xu Jing, but no one answered at first, and only came back at two or three o'clock in the afternoon.

"Xiaojia." Xu Jing's voice was hoarse.

Fu Jia didn't know how to ask more appropriately, so he froze for a moment.

She said: "You want to ask how Shuyuan is? Don't worry, I'll watch him. I'll persuade him to go back after grandma's funeral. I'm here for everything, so you don't have to worry about anything..."

He was sobbing even before he finished talking.