Late ripening

Lu Qian straightened his back all of a sudden, his palms were sweating, "Speak slowly, what's wrong with him?"

Mrs. Yu didn't know where she was flustered outside, "He didn't come back last weekend. I thought I would pass by the school to see him after shopping today, but no one answered my phone calls. I went to his dormitory just now, and there was no one in the room. The boy next door said he saw him dragging the box out the day before yesterday..."

"Go back to the villa first to see if he has gone back. I'll go home right away. Don't worry. The driver is with you, right? Call me again when there is no one at home." He tried his best to calm himself and Mrs. Lu, But he didn't even pull out the car key, just opened the car door and ran home.

The room was still dark, and there was no sign of anyone coming.He stood on the porch, still remembering the scene when he pressed the elevator hard just now in his mind - what would he do if Jing Yan really came back.

However, reality erased the picture in his mind and replaced it with a blank.Lu Qian suddenly felt out of breath. He didn't know where Jing Yan could go, let alone what Jing Yan might do.

Mrs. Yu should still be on her way back, but he couldn't wait.He closed the door and sat back in the car again, he had to see Jing Yan there safely to be at ease.

On the way, Sister-in-law Yu called, "Jing Yan isn't here..." There was a tear in her voice, and Lu Qian's temples throbbed with the tone of her words. He stopped in the emergency lane and pinched himself to calm down. , "Give me the address of his dormitory. I have Yao Yihang's number. Stop by the school and ask. You give the driver the phone number."

He asked the driver to wait downstairs at his house and notify him whenever he sees Jing Yan.Mrs. Yu sent the location of the dormitory to her mobile phone, and he turned around and drove towards the school.Lu Qian kept calling Yao Yihang along the way, but at the beginning it rang twice and was hung up. He didn't think that the other party didn't want to answer, he just knew how to call back mechanically.

Until Yao Yihang finally couldn't take it anymore, he picked it up and said "Hello".

"Yao Yihang, I'm Lu Qian. Do you know where Jing Yan has gone?" The other party didn't speak, and was silent for a long time. Lu Qian just drove the car into the school and saw the sign to drive to the dormitory area.

He asked twice again, thinking that the other party didn't know, and was about to hang up the phone and go directly to the Academic Affairs Office.Yao Yihang said, "You wait for me at Ximen's. He's fine, I'll talk to you when I meet."

Lu Qian drove the car to the place he said, and waited for him after smoking two cigarettes. He felt that he hadn't smoked so fast for a long time.Yao Yihang opened the car door and sat up, while Lu Qian waited for him, smelling of cigarettes, without opening the window.

"Where did he go?" Lu Qian didn't have the heart to exchange pleasantries, and asked straight to the point.Yao Yihang fiddled with his schoolbag, and replied stiffly, "Why are you looking for him, I don't think it has anything to do with you where he goes."

Lu Qian didn't get angry when he was choked, he knew that his friends in Jing Yan probably wouldn't get any good looks from him.But he doesn't care about what he said at the moment, the most important thing is to know where Jing Yan is. "Even if I separate from him, I'm still his little uncle and I have to take care of him. The aunt at home didn't find him, and I heard that he left with a suitcase. No matter how much I want to go out to play, I can't just say nothing..."

"What do you mean wanting to go out to play?!" Yao Yihang threw his schoolbag to his feet angrily, "How can he be in the mood to go out to play? He is trying to avoid you and go to Beijing as an exchange student!"

Lu Qian stopped talking, he knew that Jing Yan couldn't possibly want to go on a trip, and finally forced the words out, he wanted to smoke again.

Yao Yihang felt deeply that he couldn't be excited at all. When sending Jing Yan to the airport, he told him not to tell others.He said that he would tell his family when he was settled in the dormitory over there, but he still couldn't hold back and told the person who shouldn't know.

He scratched his head distractedly, and couldn't care that the person in front of him was still his elder, so he started to speak with a little threat. "Anyway, it's none of your business where he goes. He'll probably call home tomorrow or the day after he's settled down. Don't bother him anymore, I..." Yao Yihang changed his manner as he spoke. Weakly, "You hurt him so much, I don't think you have the right to show up again."

After speaking, he slammed the door and got out of the car. Lu Qian sat in the car and watched him run into the school.The cigarette case was already empty, he was thinking about what Yao Yihang said just now.

It turned out that it had reached the point where he had to go to another city in order to avoid himself. Lu Qian thought that after being cowardly and retreating, he would leave him a large new world.

But the damage he caused is still there, like a mountain full of steel blades, Jing Yan has nowhere to go, so he can only carefully avoid it and find another way.It's ridiculous to say it, Lu Qian knows that he is already a 20-year-old boy, but he still thinks, how can he get there with so much luggage alone?

He didn't raise a person who was as hard and indifferent as himself at all, instead he kept letting Jing Yan cling to the thorns on his body with the softest side.How can such a person survive alone in a city full of strangers?

The car behind remembered the sound of urging, but he came back to his senses but didn't know which direction to drive.

When he stopped, he found that he still went to the small villa.Yao Yihang said that Jing Yan would make a call when he settled down, and he entered the house anxiously, why hasn't he contacted his family yet, isn't it almost two days since he arrived in Beijing, did something happen?

Sao Yu sat on the sofa with red eyes, he told her about the situation and asked her to call Jing Yan again.

However, this time it simply turned off the phone, Lu Qian was about to lose patience but he had no choice but to call Yao Yihang again but no one answered.He edited a text message and sent it, and then checked it on the school's official website on his mobile phone.

I found his name in the list of exchange students and went to Beijing Institute of Technology, along with three other people whose names I didn't recognize.After tossing and tossing all night, I finally saw some real news about him, but he couldn't let go of the hanging heart.

He asked Mrs. Yu to make a call after a while, and walked to Jing Yan's room on the second floor by himself.

No one came back to live in it for almost a month, and Mrs. Yu still came up to clean it every day.The quilt was neatly folded, and the bed sheet was still covered over there.

Lu Qian sat down on the chair, feeling uncomfortable all over.He didn't know what he was going to do when he came up, but he needed a little bit of Jing Yan to fill his heart, and the feeling of being in the air made him uncomfortable.He got up from the chair and sat down on the bed again.

Resting his head on his hands, he felt overly flustered and powerless.It's one thing not to be able to reach him, but quite another to really feel that something is draining from you.He felt that he was about to lose sight of him. Although he let go of his hand, he wanted to watch him live a good and happy life.

He was paralyzed on the bed, and the last breath of Jing Yan could still be felt on the pillow.So light, so light that it is about to evaporate and disappear into the air in May.Lu Qian touched the bed under him, imagining how Jing Yan would lie here, curled up on the side as before, or fell asleep flat.

This breath enveloped Lu Qian, making him almost fall asleep.In the next second, he was awakened by the feeling of emptiness. The loss made him sink continuously, and he woke up with sweat on his face.Something flickered over the bed.

It was the key on the bedside table. Lu Qian sat up and opened the drawer. The things inside made him feel as if he had fallen from a high altitude to the concrete floor, and his whole body began to ache.

A box of colored pencils and a watch.They were two things that Lu Qian gave him.The box of pencils has been kept for so many years without opening, and it is still intact.

Lu Qian picked up the watch to look at it, the hands were still beating a little bit, the lettering of the trademark on the back was almost invisible due to long-term wearing, and there were traces of bumps and wear everywhere.

Jing Yan took it off and put it here without taking the key away, telling himself simply and frankly that he no longer needs these things.They may have given him a little comfort when he was most helpless, comforting the pain that he brought to Jing Yan.

You are more decisive and stronger than me, Lu Qian smiled wryly in front of the table.He took off his watch, tremblingly put on Jing Yan's.The cold metal pressed against him, and the past time seemed to be transmitted from the dial all the way into his heart.

The phone rang, and Yao Yihang replied to his text message, "Jing Yan's phone is probably out of battery, and he will call Mrs. Yu during the day tomorrow. I didn't tell him what you know, so you don't need to look for him."

Lu Qian left the bed, and the last trace of Jingyan around him also disappeared.It's like everyone was keeping themselves away from him at first, and now everyone is telling him to stop bothering him now that he has let go.

Which way is right, no one knows, and time will not know, and nothing will give him an answer.Lu Qian used to need others to tell him options and judgments, but those are not important now, life is not an exam, and no examiner can judge him.

He couldn't wait for tomorrow, or even the next moment, Lu Qian turned on his phone to check something, and walked out of the room.