Late ripening

"Okay, I see. Did you put all the coats in for him?" Lu Qian sat in the airport waiting room with a half-drunk coffee in his hand and made a phone call.Most of the colleagues who came together returned home a few days in advance, and only he stayed until the last moment to finish the work before leaving.

He sat alone at the airport and called Mrs. Yu.Jing Yan flew to Beijing with his friends to participate in school activities in the morning. He could have called him before departure, but he just sat on a chair and looked at his watch until the pointer of Beijing time jumped to 09: 30 to turn on the phone.

On the other side, he said something, Lu Qian lowered his voice, "It's the company's business, and I can't make it ahead of time..." Before he could finish speaking, Mrs. Yu hung up the phone.He closed the phone and opened it again after a while.

There are no more "superfluous" messages, Jing Yan sends him good morning and good night every day like clocking in regularly, and rarely talks about himself.The most recent one was "Take off" which was sent not long ago. Lu Qian really wanted to talk to him in person, remind him to remember to wear good clothes, eat more vegetables, and pay attention to safety just like he sent himself away.But he didn't do anything in the end, he locked the screen and pressed it again, staring at the conversation boxes over and over again.

On New Year's Eve, the headquarters specially arranged a day off for them. He didn't go anywhere and stayed in the hotel all day.Colleagues invited him out for dinner, but he also declined on the grounds that he was not feeling well.

This is not the first Spring Festival he has spent alone in a foreign country, and he will not be affected by loneliness or homesickness for a long time.He sat by the window and couldn't read a book, wondering if the villain at home was curled up on the sofa with his legs in his arms watching TV alone, put the book down and lay back on the bed, and wondered if Jing Yan was holding his mobile phone by the bedside wait for him.

It was as if there was a thread running through the sea and the land, sewing his and Jing Yan's thoughts together.When the other party is in pain, he is also in pain. When the other party is thinking about him, he is also thinking about him.He could perceive every bit of Tian Jingyan's thoughts these days, the more he understood the other party, the more tangible the pain became.

To Lu Qian, those things were like a knot between them. If the thread couldn't be untied, Lu Qian forcibly tore it apart, tearing the two of them apart.He walked forward with the bleeding half, but the strings became tighter and tighter on the other side, forcing Jing Yan to keep chasing him forward in ways beyond his ability to bear.

The boarding announcement sounded in the lobby, and Lu Qian clicked on the voice in the WeChat favorites.I forgot how long ago Jing Yan sent it to him when he was on a business trip, "Have a safe trip, go home early."

It was already noon the next day when the plane landed, and there was no direct flight to S City, so Lu Qian arrived at the nearby G City.Not long after he got his luggage, Fang Fei called him. "Come out? I'll wait for you at the exit."

After walking a few steps, I saw Fang Fei standing impatiently at the railing. "Why are you here?" "Come to pick you up." Fang Fei didn't even think about taking his box, and turned around and led him to the parking lot. "What do you need from me? Did you ask the secretary for the itinerary?"

The person leading the way who was striding in front stopped and kicked Lu Qian's box. "Can you stop asking questions like this that make me want to get angry? Can I come to pick you up on purpose? Jing Yan sent me a text message and asked me to come. Otherwise, whoever picks you up, go home by yourself Bar."

The two stood in the middle of the pick-up hall, Lu Qian quickly recovered, "Let's go."

Driving from City G to City S is only an independent pass away, and he and Fang Fei often took this road when they were in college.There were all-too-familiar scenes on both sides of the car, "Has this convention center been renovated?" Fang Fei asked while waiting for the red light, pointing to the side.

Lu Qian looked there, "It seems to be." "Do you remember that one day Mr. Lin brought us here to listen to a lecture on legal history, and none of us liked to listen to the old man who was the lecturer, so we slipped out to the bar in the building next door to drink?" gone."

"Remember, even the teacher himself couldn't listen anymore, so he came out to drink with us." Lu Qian smiled. It was a very interesting memory of college, and it was almost the only relaxed conversation they had during this period of time.

But both of them immediately thought of something at the same time, and the atmosphere became dull and stiff again.Fang Fei drove with one hand on the steering wheel with a grim expression, while Lu Qian turned to one side and looked out the window.

When they got downstairs, Fang Fei parked the car and followed him upstairs.Sister-in-law Yu was given a few days off by Lu Qian, and there was no popularity at all in the family.When he opened the door, Lu Qian even felt a little gray.

He left his luggage in the living room and turned to the kitchen to make coffee. "Is that house finished?" Fang Fei leaned on the door frame of the study and asked him, "It's almost finished. It will take a few days to taste it after the decoration." While talking, he accidentally poured two spoonfuls of coffee powder .

The coffee machine made a slight sound in the kitchen, Lu Qian turned his back to him, and put his hands on the cooking table. "Actually, why do you still go to such trouble? Tell him directly. I think you two are suffering now." Fang Fei took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket. Even if those things happened, he couldn't hate him too much. own friends.

As soon as he met him just now, he could see that Lu Qian was haggard. His work intensity was higher than before, but he obviously didn't have a good rest.Fang Feiting couldn't understand the state of the two of them. Apart from other factors, wouldn't it mean that a couple of lovers were about to break up?No matter how immature Jing Yan is, he is almost 20, so why bother to put on a play for him.

"You don't want to procrastinate, do you?" Hearing him ask, Lu Qian clenched his fingers tightly, "How can I tell him directly? You don't know him well, and I said it's even more impossible for him to separate from me at this time .He doesn't understand anything, but he is more aggressive than anyone else when he comes up with that stubbornness."

Just like when they were just together, Jing Yanming seemed unable to bear anything, but insisted on taking everything on himself.

But now he looks at Jing Yan pretending not to care about other people's eyes, pretending that nothing happened at school, just to get a little pitiful and worthless warmth from himself when he returns home.Lu Qian asked himself no matter how despicable and shameless he was, he still couldn't remain indifferent to Jing Yan's desperate gamble.

Fang Fei took a puff of cigarette, maybe he was an outsider to their relationship, but from another identity, from the teacher's student, from Jing Yan's uncle, from Lu Qian's friend, he couldn't help but think that he should be Say what you say.

"You have really failed in educating children." He exhaled the gas and said something.Lu Qian let go of his clenched fist, and his shoulders drooped weakly.

It was quite a failure, teaching him to fall in love with the most unbearable and least worthy of giving affection. "So I can only do this, let him hate me in the future, and I admit it."

Not only did Lu Qian want to go in different directions with him, but he also had to let Jing Yan peel off his thread-wrapped heart, and he had to push him out who was almost a shell, forcing him to hate himself and hate himself.There are many kinds of love in life, and Lu Qian feels that what he can give is the most insignificant kind, the kind that is destined not to accompany him to the end.

Fang Fei left without taking a sip of coffee, he drank half of the pot of bitter drink himself.After taking a shower and changing clothes, I drove back to the office.He really didn't want to stay in an empty home alone, let alone let himself stay in a place where Jing Yan was everywhere.

He walked into the building absent-mindedly, passing a group of people head-on.Someone patted him, "Lawyer Lu, we meet again." Guan Ruipeng still greeted him with a smile like the last few times. "Hello." Lu Qian nodded.

Guan Ruipeng turned his head and said a few words to the people around him, and the group left first. "Come to work even during the holidays, Lawyer Lu is so busy." "Come to the company to find some information, and you, come to work overtime too?"

The two stood and chatted for a few words, Guan Ruipeng looked at the time, "I'll treat you to a meal later. It's rare to meet you today, and you didn't seem to see the text message I sent you before. You must have time today, right?"

It's not that he didn't see it, it's just that Lu Qian subconsciously blocked and refused, but he didn't expect that the other party didn't seem to take his casual coping to heart.He had already declined several times, he was embarrassed to find another reason, and thinking that there might be some business contacts in the future, he agreed to the other party's invitation.

Just after 05:30, Guan Ruipeng knocked on the door of his office and showed up on time. "Let's go, I've booked a seat at the Lee Garden next door."

The dishes were served one by one, Lu Qian had no appetite, so he just ate something.He also brought Jing Yan here a few times before, the Cantonese cuisine here is quite good, Jing Yan would pester him to drink the seafood porridge here when his stomach was upset.

Seemingly seeing that he had something on his mind, Guan Ruipeng poured some red wine into his glass. "Is Lawyer Lu's home here? Didn't you go out with your family during the Chinese New Year?" "My family is in S City, so I don't have much time this year because I'm busy." The two chatted about some interesting topics, and Guan Ruipeng had a drink , suddenly said, "Actually, I met you when I was in college."

"Uh...really?" Lu Qian had no impression of his appearance, thinking that he might have seen him in some class.The other party looked at him for a while, then lowered his head and shook his cup, "Well, I saw you once before in the third dormitory building."

Lu Qian thought for a while before he remembered where it was. He rented a house off campus in the latter part of college, and it wasn't there for the year he lived there.The only thing I remember is that my college boyfriend lived there, and I sent him back to the dormitory several times.

He was confused by the purpose of the other party's deliberate disclosure of this matter, but there seemed to be no malice in the words.Lu Qian looked at him, took a sip of wine and admitted, "Oh, maybe he met me." Guan Ruipeng seemed a little happy to hear him say that, "I also met you in civil law class later. I remember it very clearly , Several times the teacher asked you to get up to answer the question, and you even got into an argument with the teacher because of the answer."

Guan Ruipeng is a young man who can't stop talking, and he has a cheerful and youthful look.His words are not annoying, but Lu Qian has other things on his mind, flipping his phone over and over again from time to time.

It was almost seven o'clock when the dinner was over, they all had a drink, and each called a valet driver.Guan Ruipeng stood in front of the car and said goodbye to him, "I'm very happy to invite you to dinner today. Really, it's really nice to be able to talk to people I met in college." He got into the car and lowered the window a little , "We will meet again next time when we have time, goodbye, Lu Qian."

After seeing him off, Lu Qian also boarded the car.The substitute driver parked the car for him in the garden of the community and left. Lu Qian sat in the car and lit a cigarette.He sat on the co-pilot where Jing Yan usually sat, and the position and angle were all set according to Jing Yan's preferences.

Maybe it's because of drinking, the feeling of nicotine in the mouth is not obvious, not enough to numb him.The garden still smelled of fresh rain, and it was cold in the car with the windows open.Lu Qian flipped back and forth on his phone all night, and finally couldn't help playing the string of numbers.

He told himself to only give this one chance to quench his thirst, and he would hang up after three rings.The call was connected, but before Lu Qian could react, he was connected, "Are you home? Is it cold today?"