evening tide

Chao Xin lost contact.

This loss of contact was aimed at some colleagues. She asked the program team for leave, saying that she might be absent from the next one or two episodes of recording, and contacted the program team with another boss, Ji Mingcheng, to take over the flight temporarily. tutor.

He sent another wechat message to Xiang Wan, saying that there was something urgent at the moment, and there was no way to pick her up for the time being, and asked her to wait for him to come back.

There was no news after that, because she has no projects underway at present, but there were two crews that needed to make up recordings and couldn't contact her.

Feng Guo was called, but Feng Guo couldn't be reached.

After passing the news several times, when she returned to Xiang Wan, she felt a little serious.

Because Chao Xin sent her a message every night for the first two days, when the recording of the show was approaching, she didn't reply to Xiang Wan's "good night" until the next morning.

After coming out of the closed recording base, Xiang Wan called Chao Xin, but she didn't answer.

Xiang Ban stood at the door of the recording studio, feeling very upset.

After making three phone calls, she finally couldn't help but ask Su Chang: "Do you know where Teacher Chao has gone?"

This question is a bit sad, and I can understand it more from Su Chang's stunned reaction.Xiang Wan knew Chao Xin's whereabouts the best. When he asked Su Chang, it seemed that he was somewhat ill and rushed to the doctor.

But Xiang Wan didn't have a better way, she always felt that Su Chang had a lot of connections, so maybe she could get news?

Su Chang picked her up in the car and drove home. While driving, he used a bluetooth headset to call the director and planner who had worked with Chao Xin, and asked Xiang Wan to ask, but she didn't say much.

After searching around, but found nothing, Xiang Wan took out his phone and clicked on the WeChat page, but there was still no reply.

"She usually doesn't have many friends, and that's all I can find." Su Chang parked the car and led Xiang Wan up the elevator.

Xiang Wan suddenly realized that the relationship between her and Chao Xin was both strong and weak. When Chao Xin said he loved her, she would have the illusion that there were only the two of them in the world. Three or four phone calls.

She began to miss Li Chaolai. They don't travel very far, so their whereabouts are fixed, usually fixed in a certain courtyard, the swan geese pass letters very slowly, and the journey of carriages and horses is also very slow, but they will know that that person is always there In one courtyard, it has been like this for years and months, even until death.

Su Chang briefly explained the situation to Yu Zhou, and Yu Zhou made some dumplings for the two of them, and then said that he would accompany Xiang Wan to Mr. Chao's house for a while.

Xiang Wan didn't eat much and kept looking at his phone, so Su Chang didn't delay any longer, handed the tissue to Xiang Wan, and said to Zhou, "Let's go."

Several people changed their clothes and went out. It took about forty minutes to arrive at Henghu International.

The smell in the hallway has not changed, but Chao Xin's house is empty.

At this point, it was time for Paipi to leave school, but when Xiang Ban opened the door, the light was very dark, the window of the living room was open, and there were traces of the heavy rain that came in two days ago on the ground.

It was inconvenient for Yu Zhou and Su Chang to go in, they just watched Xiang Wan come back after searching around, and shook his head.

Yu Zhou asked Su Chang in a low voice, "Do you want to call the police?"

I was a little flustered, mainly because the room was very big, and it looked gloomy when the lights were off.

Su Chang thought for a while, after all, they are still recording the show, so he said: "Wait a little longer, if you don't get in touch later, then consider asking the police for help."

In fact, the news that Chao Xin was still returning to Xiang Wan in the early hours of yesterday morning, it can be considered that she has not been out of touch for a long time, but judging from the few contacts she had with Chao Xin and Xiang Wan's anxiety, Chao Xin's behavior is a bit abnormal, maybe because of the matter.

It was tiring to stand at the door all the time, so Xiang Wan asked them to come in and sit on the sofa to discuss.

While turning on the lights, he sent a WeChat message to Chao Xin: "I'm at your house, and I brought Su Chang and Yu Zhou along."

no reply.

Xiang Wan lowered his head, and said again: "I'm sitting on the sofa."

Still no reply.

Article [-]: "We didn't change our shoes, I'll mop the floor when you come back."

"Why don't you close the window when you go out?"

"It rained heavily the past two days. If water seeps in, the floor of the bedroom should be damaged."

She didn't know what else to do, only typing and chatting with Chao Xin could make her feel more at ease.

Su Chang was still looking down his address book, while Yu Zhou looked around carefully.

Xiang Wan stood up and walked to the window to blow some air. There was a rumbling sound coming from somewhere outside, intermittently, like some machine was running.

More than an hour later, the phone suddenly vibrated.

Xiang Wanju jumped, thinking so too, quickly picked it up and saw that it was Chao Xin.

She slid the phone to the right in a little panic, picked it up, and swallowed first.

"Teacher Chao." Chao Xin didn't hear her nervousness.

"Wan Wan," Chao Xin said in a tired voice, "What's wrong, you sent me so many messages?"

Very dumb, the kind of dumb just waking up.

"If you don't call me back, I'm going to call the police." Xiang Wan frowned, glanced at Yu Zhou and Su Chang, and nodded in their concerned eyes, indicating that it was Chao Xin.

"Call the police?" Chao Xin staggered a little, then sighed and said, "Don't worry."

"Are you done? When will you be back?" Xiang Wan sat on the sofa and asked her.

There was silence on the other end of the phone, and said, "I don't know."

"I don't know? What do you mean? What did you do?" Xiang Wan felt his ear was hot and itchy, and switched to another ear, fearing that he might miss Chao Xin's voice for a second or two.

"Paipai was picked up by her father, I came to find her." Chao Xin said.

"Papai? His father? Your...brother-in-law?" Xiang Wan thought about the word, and his frown was never smooth.

Su Chang blinked and gestured for her to turn on the speakerphone.

Xiang Wan asked softly: "Can I let Su Chang and Yu Zhou listen to it?"

Chao Xin paused for two seconds and said, "Yes."

Xiang Wan put the phone on the coffee table, pressed the speakerphone, and Chao Xin's voice came from the call interface.

"To put it simply, because I was on the show, I couldn't take good care of Papai's life, so I invited an auntie. She was Chao Wang's former classmate and my fellow villager. She had contact with people in her hometown. Last week she was in Sun Qi saw the video of the circle of friends playing cards to tease dogs in the neighborhood."

"Sun Qi is Paipai's father."

Papai actually has a father. I don't know why, but Xiang Wan never felt that there is a relationship with his father in Papai's life.

"Sun Qi inquired about Papai's school through his aunt, and picked her up when I was recording the show."

Chao Xin's voice was very low, and he tried to speak without any emotion.

It was the day she sent Xiang Wan back. On the way back, she was still thinking about whether to buy two new desks for Xiang Wan and Paipai. Now there are smart ones that can adjust the height. It is said that it will protect the cervical spine more.

When we got home, Sister Wu was watching TV. Seeing that she was back, I went to make her a hot meal.

Chao Xin took a look: "Where are the cards?"

Are you so conscious that you didn't even come out to watch "Poverty Little Sisters".

Sister Wu went to the kitchen: "Her father said to pick her up from school today, take her to dinner, and send her back later."

"Her father?" Chao Xin narrowed his eyes, almost doubting his own ears.

Sister Wu saw that her face was not right, so she stood on the spot and clenched her hands on the apron: "Second Sun, he said he wanted to tell you himself."

Chao Xin didn't speak any more, just stood at the door with his hands on his hips, frowning and calling Pa Pai.

My heart skipped a beat, and sure enough, the phone was turned off.

She licks her lips and hits again.

I know the result clearly, but I always do this when I am nervous. I have to repeat the movements mechanically over and over again, so that my almost out-of-control emotions can quickly calm down.