The Pentium Era - South to North

Zhang Chen stood behind the crowd picking up the plane. He didn't want to squeeze in and let Xiao Zhao see that he seemed to be in a hurry. But when the airport loudspeaker announced that the Chongqing plane had arrived, ten minutes later, a large number of people came out of the exit. At that moment, Zhang Chen couldn't help but stood up on tiptoes and searched eagerly among the crowd.

Zhang Chen didn't see Xiao Zhao until the last person left. He asked the airport staff guarding the exit if all the guests from Chongqing had left.

The staff stepped back a few steps, looked inside, and then walked back to Zhang Chen and told Zhang Chen that they must have gone out and all the luggage was gone.

At that moment, Zhang Chen felt extremely frustrated. He thought, did Xiao Ning get the date wrong, or would Xiao Zhao take the ten o'clock flight from Chengdu?

Zhang Chen felt empty and dying in his heart. Zhang Chen became alert. He felt that he felt like he was dating Jin Lili a long time ago and Jin Lili didn't show up. Could it be that, damn, you can't even sleep with you? You haven't slept yet, but you've fallen in love with her?

Zhang Chen shook his head. He thought it was impossible. If I fell in love with her, there would be too many opportunities to hold her in my arms, but I wouldn't have any.

But if not, why did you come to pick her up? Just as friends? What kind of friends are you? Even if they are friends, why are you sad if she doesn't arrive?

Zhang Chen thought this way, and the more he thought about it, the worse his mood became. He remembered that in the days before the Spring Festival, Liu Ligan was waiting here for Tan Shuzhen every day. Was it the same?

Did he see a plane coming from Guangzhou every time? (At that time, there were no direct flights from Hangzhou to Haicheng. It took a day by long-distance bus from Yongcheng to Shanghai. If Tan Shuzhen came, the only possibility was to go from Yongcheng to Hangzhou. When you arrive in Hangzhou, and then transfer from Hangzhou to Guangzhou), you will squeeze in, stand in the first row, and stand on tiptoe to look into the crowd?

"Looking forward to it," Zhang Chen thought of this word. Although he didn't squeeze into the crowd like Liu Ligan, he was outside, so wasn't he also looking forward to it? Isn’t the mood still the same?

What if what I was waiting for at this moment was Jin Lili? Alas, Jin Lili didn’t need to wait by herself. They had their own car and parked it at the airport. After getting off the car, they went to the parking lot. Even if they said they were coming to pick her up, Jin Lili would say: “Get lost, don’t be hypocritical! "

Although Zhang Chen knew both Mr. Xia and Lao Bao, Zhang Chen had a vague feeling that Jin Lili didn't want to see Zhang Chen when he was with people from the company.

Zhang Chen sighed.

Someone pulled his clothes. From such a distance, Zhang Chen seemed to be able to feel those soft hands and the cool fragrance. Zhang Chen turned around, and sure enough, it was Xiao Zhao standing behind him, with a smile on his face. Smiling, her eyes were a little red. Before Zhang Chen could react, his hands had already grabbed her in his arms.

Then reason told him that he couldn't do this, and he quickly let go of Xiao Zhao, but Xiao Zhao was already crying. She turned around in a hurry and wiped her tears with her hands.

Turning around again, their eyes met, Zhang Chen chuckled: "When did you come out, why didn't I see you?"

Xiao Zhao said with a smile: "I arrived a long time ago, around eight o'clock. I didn't buy a ticket from Chongqing. I came from Chengdu. Just now, I fell asleep sitting there."

"Then why didn't you go back?"

"Xiao Ning made a mistake. She thought I would come from Chongqing. I got off the plane and called her. She said you would pick me up at 9:30, so I was waiting here."

"I didn't even tell Xiao Ning that I would come to pick you up, and I just received a message from her."

Xiao Zhao smiled and said, "Xiao Ning said you would definitely come."

Zhang Chen blushed, Xiao Zhao looked at him, pursed his lips and smiled, Zhang Chen quickly said, let's go.

Zhang Chen tied Xiao Zhao's luggage to the back of the motorcycle, leaving a little space for Xiao Zhao. Xiao Zhao squeezed in between Zhang Chen and the luggage, her body pressed against Zhang Chen, and the luggage behind her pressed against her back. Although it was no longer necessary, she still hugged Zhang Chen's waist and pressed her face tightly against his back.

When they arrived at the hotel, it was already past ten o'clock. The hotel lights were still on and there were many cars at the door.

Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao carried their luggage and walked up from the house. When they arrived at the door, Xiao Zhao was about to knock on the door. Zhang Chen held her hand. He didn't dare to see the door open. He didn't know what was inside. What kind of scene, who would he see.

The two of them stood in the darkness. Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao said, I have to leave. A few friends are waiting for me to eat hot pot.

"Where was it last time?" Xiao Zhao asked.

Zhang Chen said "hmm".

Xiao Zhao almost blurted out that I want to go too, but he held back the words and cursed in his heart, who are you? How could you let your friends see that he is with you?

In the darkness, Xiao Zhao's face turned gray, and she nodded: "Okay."

There was an obvious hint of disappointment in his voice.

Zhang Chen heard this disappointment, and he said cruelly, "Then I'm leaving."

He turned around and hurried downstairs.

In the darkness, tears flowed down Xiao Zhao's cheeks. She heard Zhang Chen's footsteps reaching the bottom of the building. She thought he would come back. She waited in the darkness, and then heard the sound of a motorcycle starting. , the motorcycle paused for a moment when it came down from the sidewalk to the road, and then suddenly drove away. Xiao Zhao knew that Zhang Chen would not come back.

Xiao Zhao suddenly felt weak all over. She sat down on the stairs and cried.

She really regretted it. When Zhang Chen hugged her suddenly at the airport, she was stunned. Before she could react, Zhang Chen let go of her before she could hug Zhang Chen too.

If I had hugged him back then and not let go, would Zhang Chen still leave now? Xiao Zhao cried and thought.

Zhang Chen was speeding along the provincial capital road. He felt that the soft hands on his waist were still there, and there was someone pressing against his back. Zhang Chen increased the accelerator. He wanted to hear the scream and gurgling behind him. laughter.

But there was nothing behind him, only the wind hugging him, making him gradually wake up.

He parked the car in the Wanghailou parking lot, got out of the car, turned on the BB player, and saw a message from Liu Ligan: "We are at Shancheng Hotpot."

They blocked the road from Wanghai Tower to Daying Road. To get there, you have to walk a section of Haixiu Road, then turn to Airport Road, and then go around to Daying Road, which is about the same distance as returning to Wenming East Road.

Zhang Chen thought for a while and went out through the back door of the mall. When he arrived at his construction site, he looked at his office door and walked towards the middle of the two work sheds. From a distance, he could hear a group of people in the work sheds. There was the sound of people playing cards. Someone saw Zhang Chen on the road and shouted, Mr. Zhang, who are you looking for?

Zhang Chen said I am not looking for anyone.

The man looked at Zhang Chen's back and muttered in his heart, why are you here if you're not looking for someone?

Zhang Chen passed the door of the work shed, hesitated for a moment, and then walked in. Inside the work shed, there was a passage in the middle, with moso bamboo and bamboo rafts tied into two large pavilions on both sides, with straw mats lined up on them.

Zhang Chen saw a dozen people crowded on the bunk on the right, playing cards under a dim light. Some were sitting and some were standing. The heads of the standing people were almost reaching the ceiling, blocking the already dim light. Darker.

When someone standing saw Zhang Chen come in, he pushed his knee against the person sitting in front of him playing cards, and shouted: "Mr. Zhang."

Everyone turned around and saw Zhang Chen. Those sitting there panicked and reached out to grab the money in front of them.

Zhang Chen smiled: "It's okay, you guys have fun. When I was in the troupe, we would sleep in a bunkhouse like this when we went out to perform, and we would also play cards and gamble at night. Remember, we still slept on the floor."

"Mr. Zhang, were you in a theater troupe before?" someone asked.

"Yes." Zhang Chen said.

"Those actresses sleep on the floor like you?" someone asked.

"Of course I sleep on the floor, with a man on one side and a woman on the other, with a piece of cloth in the middle." Zhang Chen said with a smile.

"Is there anyone who crawled over there in the middle of the night?" someone asked, and others burst into laughter.

"have."

Zhang Chen answered honestly that Liu Ligan often did this kind of thing. When everyone else was asleep, he would sneak into Tan Shuzhen's bed, especially in winter. He said that Tan Shuzhen was afraid of the cold, so he went to cover her with the bed sheet. , one time, blindly, he got into the wrong bed and got into Xu Jianmei's bed next to him. Xu Jianmei screamed and woke up the whole group.

"That's much better than us. We can't even smell the fishy smell here." Someone shouted, and everyone laughed again.

Zhang Chen looked to the side and asked, "Is there anyone else?"

"They went to watch the sex video." someone answered.

Zhang Chen said okay, then you can continue playing, I will leave first, and those people said goodbye to Mr. Zhang.

Zhang Chen walked out of the work shed and saw pieces of moso bamboo more than one meter high piled under the wall that blocked Daying Road. Zhang Chen climbed up and stood up. On the other side of the wall, there was a whole street of dazzling lights. and the loud voice pounced upon him, nearly knocking him down.