Chapter 26 Fanwai Sanyuansan

For two years, Lu Licheng had no news of Su Man. China is too big. If a person wants to disappear, it is like a drop of water melting into the sea without leaving any trace. He has lost contact with Song Yi, and only occasionally hears from overseas colleagues which client he has taken over. But Xu Lianshuang still had contact with him. Every time she wrote to him, he would reply immediately, hoping to get some news from Su Man during the exchange of pleasantries. Xu Lianshuang's replies came from all over the world, and the people in the photos kept changing, but one thing was always the same:

Su Man is living very peacefully now, she is coming out of the grief of losing her parents, when she is strong enough, she will return to Beijing, because there is her and her parents' home, but right now, I think she is not ready yet it is good.So sorry, I can't give you her contact information. Even if Xu Lianshuang couldn't give him what he wanted, he still kept in touch with her intermittently, just to give himself a feeling that there was still a relationship between Su Man and him. Two years ago, he added a house to his property in Beijing. Two years later, it is still a vacant house, waiting for the return of the owner, lonely and hopeless.

He would come here when he was drunk or tired, sitting on the empty floor, smoking a cigarette in front of the ink landscape on the wall, or standing by the window, listening to the song "Wild Wind" on his mobile phone. "...Although the past is dusty, the old fireworks are like the neon lights of the night... Wait for a turn of your mind, wait for a surge of emotion... If you don't want to fluctuate, but fate is difficult to understand, if you don't want to be afraid of it... It's useless, if the tide of love is surging, who can calmly let go of the trace of love..."

Many times, he regretted his unspoken love, why didn't he tell her?Tell her that's all it is!But at least he has no regrets. He suddenly began to understand her relentless pursuit of Song Yi. Because he missed a chance, he cherished the second chance given by God even more.If let him find her, he will never think about it again, he will tell her, try his best to win her, so that she can't go so carefree, and let her know that there is someone waiting for her. Because people were in Paris for the Spring Festival this year and couldn't go home, so when I was free in autumn, I decided to go home to see my mother.

It's the busy season of farming, and brothers and sisters-in-law are very busy. Taozi goes to Xi'an to discuss business, Miaomiao is already in elementary school, and Jingjing is preparing for the junior high school entrance examination.So, when he got home, his mother was at home. After he took a shower, he sat under the cucumber stand in the yard, talked with his mother, and read a book. In the evening, when Jingjing and Miao Miao came back from school, Miao Miao saw him and ran over immediately: "Uncle, Uncle!" He held Miao Miao in circles, Jingjing already had the reserve of a young girl, stood aside, and called politely: "Uncle."

The sister-in-law came back from the field, took out the watermelon that had been iced in the stream, and cut it for the three of them. While eating the watermelon, he asked Jingjing about her studies. Hearing that Jingjing had excellent grades in all subjects, he was very happy for his elder brother and sister-in-law. The sister-in-law smiled while choosing dishes: "She represented the school in the English competition and won the first prize. No kid in those cities can compare to her." Jingjing said modestly: "It's all the teachers who teach well." Lu Licheng said in surprise: "There is such a good English teacher in the village? I originally wanted to discuss with my elder brother when I came back this time. Jingjing will go to the city to study after entering junior high school. I am afraid that she will not be able to keep up with English. Should I come to the city?" I hired a tutor at that time, I didn’t expect the education in rural areas to improve so fast.”

Miao Miao wanted to speak a few times, but her sister stared at her secretly, daring not to say anything. Lu Licheng subdued a bunch of human spirits, let alone two children?He didn't pay attention on the surface, as if he was chatting with his sister-in-law, but in fact, he could see the abnormal reactions of the two children.He suddenly realized something, and asked his sister-in-law: "Has there been any foreign teachers in the elementary school here in the past two years?" The sister-in-law shook her head: "I don't know, Jingjing is very obedient. Your brother and I never have to worry about her studies. We have been busy for the past two years, so we haven't paid attention to school matters."

Lu Licheng had no choice but to negotiate directly with Miao Miao: "Which teacher in the school do you like the most?" Miao Miao stared at Jingjing, not daring to speak. After thinking for a while, she whispered, "Chinese teacher." "What's the name of the Chinese teacher? Children are not allowed to tell lies." Miao Miao looked at Jingjing, blushing: "I checked with the teacher and promised the teacher not to tell. My sister didn't allow me to tell. My sister said that if I tell others, Teacher Su will leave." Jingjing glared at him: "Idiot! You already said it!"

Lu Licheng immediately stood up and asked his sister-in-law, "Where is the elementary school?" The sister-in-law said: "It seems to be similar to the place where you went to school when you were a child. It was demolished and rebuilt..." Before she finished speaking, Lu Licheng had already run out of the yard. Running wildly all the way, crossing rivers, jumping over hurdles, jumping and running from the fields, he was as happy as a child. In his life, he never felt that he was so close to happiness. Lu Licheng ran to the school gate in one breath, bent over, and panted violently. Several teachers saw that he did not look like a local, so they all stared at him.

A male teacher smiled and asked, "Are you here to see Teacher Su?" Panting for breath, he asked joyfully, "Where is she?" A female teacher pointed to a mountain not far away: "She went to the mountain with her friends." He said "thank you" happily, and immediately ran up the mountain. As soon as he approached the trail, he heard crisp laughter floating in the valley.There are no people in the empty mountain, but people's voices can be heard.Her laughter is near, can she be far away?He stopped and waited with a smile on his face. There are many mountains and mountains in the distance, and the sunset is dense.In the slanting setting sun, the mountain mist gradually rises, and the tired birds returning to their nests return together, and black shadows fly across the sky, like a natural ink landscape, which is too beautiful to behold.

As soon as he thought of "the mountain air is beautiful at sunset, the birds return to each other" when he heard a man's voice laughing and said: "The scenery here is really good. '." He was like a person who suddenly stepped on the ground, fell down at a loss, with a smile on his face, but his heart was already cracked. Su Man smiled: "Well! When you get back to school later, if you look in this direction, you will understand what is meant by 'picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and seeing Nanshan leisurely'." Su Man and Song Yi held hands and passed by him. He was standing by the side of the ginkgo tree, his body seemed to have been turned into wood. A golden ginkgo leaf fell, she reached out to catch it, raised the leaf in the shape of a fan, and looked sideways at the people around her: "Does it look good?" Her face was facing him, as long as you pay attention, you can actually find that it was not intentional. He was hidden, but she only had another person in her eyes. They gradually went away, and he looked ahead, all the beauty and splendor in front of him faded away, and the scenery gradually became barren. The woods behind him rustled, Xu Lianshuang stepped on the fallen leaves and walked to him.She put her hands in her trouser pockets and looked at him silently, with shock and pity in her eyes, as well as some other emotions. She kicked the fallen leaves on the ground and asked in a low voice, "What are you going to do?" He looked normal, frowned and said: "Miss Xu, can you speak clearly?" Xu Lianshuang was stunned for a moment, and said, "I ask how you plan to entertain us?" Lu Licheng walked down the mountain, and said lightly: "Miss Xu is here, of course she will be received as a state guest." Xu Lianshuang caught up with him and went down the mountain side by side with him. Xu Lianshuang was worried, and said with a smile: "Song Yi came here specially to find Su Man. The two of them have let go of their knots. It is estimated that the wedding is not far away. Hurry up and think of gifts! Don't blame me for not being friends enough. inform you." Lu Licheng looked at her sideways, the sharpness in his eyes made Xu Lianshuang unable to smile anymore.But he smiled lightly: "I have a normal relationship with both of them, as long as the gift is expensive enough, you don't need to think too much about it, but you should think about it." Xu Lianshuang hurriedly said: "I will think about it carefully." In front of the elementary school at the foot of the mountain, the four met, and the old friends reunited, laughing and laughing endlessly. Lu Licheng took the initiative to ask them about their wedding date. Song Yi stared at Lu Licheng and said with a smile, "The sooner the better, lest there will be long nights and dreams, and troubles will arise!" Lu Licheng smiled and said, "Congratulations, both of you!" Su Man's face was flushed, her face was bent over Malatang's shoulder, but her feet were secretly stepping on Song Yi. Seeing Lu Licheng's smile, Xu Lianshuang was completely relieved. At night, Lu Licheng stood under the cucumber stand and called Helen: "I want to trouble your sister with one more thing." Helen smiled: "You have helped them so much, my sister and brother-in-law wish you could trouble them every day." "Do you remember the house she helped me buy more than two years ago?" "Remember!" Helen thought to herself, not only did she remember, she also knew who the original owner of that house was. "I want to ask her to contact the original agent, find out the contact information of the person who fought with me for the house back then, sell the house to her, and add 200,000 to the price I bought, oh, and 30,000 for the agent plus." Helen gasped, because someone robbed her back then, and both parties refused to let go, the price had already been driven up to a high level, Lu Licheng finally got the house by secretly giving the agent a bribe of 30,000 yuan in order to get it.Now that Beijing's housing market is in a downturn, and many areas are falling, he actually wants to add another 230,000? "It's so expensive, I'm afraid it's hard to sell." "Just ask your sister to find someone, and that person will definitely buy it." Helen stopped talking: "Okay, I will ask my sister to find someone tomorrow." Sure enough, as Lu Licheng expected, he found the buyer through an intermediary, and the buyer was immediately interested in the house when he heard that it was the house. Although Lu Licheng's asking price was crazy, the buyer was even crazier.Not only that, when the house was sold, the other party also specifically asked the intermediary to tell the house owner, thank him.The intermediary was dumbfounded, it was the first time he had seen such a crazy and bizarre transaction. "Thank you" was passed from the agency to Helen's sister, Helen's sister passed it to Helen, and finally Helen told Lu Licheng. Lu Licheng was smoking a cigarette and didn't speak, his expression was unclear in the smoke. Behind him, under the big glass window, the lights are brilliant, and it is a world of mortals ten feet away, thousands of miles of prosperity, but he is like living alone in a heavenly palace, with a cold body and shabby shoulders. This is probably the height of the cold!She watched him step by step from an ordinary employee to today's head of the company, watched him have fewer and fewer friends, watched him become more and more lonely and inconsistent. Helen sighed and exited his office with his head down. In the early hours of the morning, Helen sorted out the letters she received during the day, and when she saw Su Man's wedding post, she froze in shock.It took a while to take a closer look. The moment the word "Song Yi" came into view, she understood who said "thank you" came from.These two masters fought invisibly, and they only suffered from the busyness of their group.Song Yi refused to say thank you in person, obviously intending to pretend to be completely confused and let the woman in his arms be happy without any worries. Helen turned on the computer, went to a forum she frequented, and began to sort out a post she had posted in the past, in which she anonymously recorded a story of a secret love. Helen recorded that in order to forget that woman, he specially sent her abroad. However, the freshman who deliberately tried was unsuccessful. Instead, he was in a dilemma. He didn't know how to reject the other woman. Fortunately, the other woman spoke first. Hearing that she didn't come to work, he temporarily interrupted the meeting in order to see her, but in fact he was just downstairs at her house, sitting in the car, watching another person take her to the hospital. He half-intentionally and half-followingly asked her to go home with him, she agreed, but he got nervous and called me late at night, asking me what to pay attention to when traveling with a woman. In order to get close to her, he naively created opportunities for himself. He called me early in the morning on weekends and begged me to help him buy a first-aid kit, and secretly put it in his house, just to have some alone time. This post records his two years of searching and waiting. Because she was really moved by his persistence, she began to record, hoping that everyone would join her in praying for him that he could find the person he loves as soon as possible. The originally deserted and unpopular forum, because her posts are lively, countless people care about and bless her posts, and she hopes with everyone that this secret love will have a happy ending, and she even believes that there are so many blessings from so many people. Coupled with his unscrupulous ways of doing things, he will definitely be able to obtain happiness, but there will always be a gap between reality and ideals. She taps on the keyboard. I think this post has come to an end.Because the ending was not what I wanted, I didn't want to write any more, but everyone has been with me in this post for more than a year, so I think I have an obligation to tell you the ending.He received the wedding post from that woman today, but unfortunately, the groom is not him. I have texted the moderator and this long post will be deleted.My friends would be very annoyed that I write these things secretly, I believe you can understand.Each of us has more or less emotional secrets that we don't want to be known, some beautiful, some ugly.Some secrets may eventually be exposed, but some secrets will be taken into the grave by themselves. Although after my deliberate processing, no one knows who I am, let alone who he is, but I still want to delete the post, respect his wishes, and make this relationship a secret buried forever by time. Helen closed the computer, picked up the photos sent with the wedding invitation, stared at Su Man and Song Yi cuddling up and smiled.What a lucky woman, she didn't know that she missed someone who loved her so much; what an unfortunate woman, she would never know that there was someone who loved her so much in this world. Helen picked up the phone and dialed in: "Elliott, I just saw Su Man's wedding post, would you like to attend? Do you want me to prepare a gift?" There was silence on the phone, people who didn't know would think that he couldn't remember who Su Man was. Helen has no doubts that when someone mentions Su Man in front of him in the future, he will definitely play the role of a nobleman who forgets things. He said sorry: "The name sounds familiar, but I can't remember where I heard it." A voice finally came from the phone, interrupting Helen's wild thoughts: "You can seal a suitable gift money, just don't be rude, I don't have time to attend the wedding banquet." "OK." "When you finish what you are doing, go back first, don't wait for me." "OK." Helen put down the phone, took another look at the photo, threw the photo into the trash can, picked up the laptop and left. At two o'clock in the morning, Lu Licheng finished the conference call with the directors in New York. With a thin coat on his left arm, a briefcase in his right hand, and a half-untied tie, he walked out of the office with a tired face.Already walked past Helen's desk, suddenly turned back, looking for something on her desk, turned over all the documents, was impatient, suddenly, saw the photos and invitations in the trash can, he picked them up, stared at the photos The smiling face in the middle, the fingertips couldn't help touching her face lightly, there was a bitter taste in her mouth, but there was a smile on the corner of her mouth. The relationship between her and him is so ordinary that there is not even a photo of her. In the future, it is estimated that there will be very few opportunities to meet him. He tore off half of Song Yi, leaving only her half, with the back facing out, and put it in the middle of the wallet. Thinking of flying to London tomorrow afternoon, he hadn't packed his luggage yet, so he hurried out of the office, and as he turned off the power switch at the door with a "snap", his figure disappeared.