Disgusted

Saori put her hand on the glass window, watching the dusk being suppressed by the night bit by bit, and the last bit of orange faded behind the factory building.It's March and it's still cold.

She withdrew her hand and took the other.The fingertips are as cold as that person's temperature.

For three weeks, there was no news from Aozora.Saori tried to ask private detectives to find out her whereabouts, but the investigation results were unexpectedly thin: there was no specific information about Qingkong either from the neighborhood committee or the subletting of the bookstore; The family moved to Macau, and there are no other relatives here; surprisingly, there are only three Fang Qingkongs who have entered the country in the past two years, two of them are men and the other is a seven-year-old girl, and none of them are from Macao.

It was as if he appeared in this small town out of thin air.Saori turned her head to look at the investigation report on the desk, and remembered the words of the detective who quickly found out her husband's relationship: no Weibo, no update of Moments, and even a mobile phone with a nameless registration number that is rare nowadays—so It is difficult to find the trace, does it also explain something?Saori lowered her head and stroked her eyebrows with her fingertips.It was completely dark at this moment.

There was a temperate knock on the door.Saori sighed and whispered, "Come in."

"Mr. Zhang." Secretary Liao took two steps. "It's my mother's birthday today, I don't have anything to do, I want to go first."

"Yeah." Saori nodded. The secretary said hello to this matter a few days ago. Recently, she has been working overtime day and night, and even the secretary beside her is too busy. "Please say happy birthday to your mother for me. You have worked hard this month, and I will give you a raise next month."

"Okay, then thank you, Mr. Zhang." Secretary Liao rarely showed a smile on his rigid face, and retreated, hesitated and pushed open the half-closed door. "There's news from Zhuhai that Mr. Zhang has been clamoring to see the chairman."

Saori raised her head, a look of astonishment, anger, and even sternness flashed across her face, she calmed down after a while, and said in a flat tone, "I see, don't let him see anyone until the treatment is completed."

"Yes." Secretary Liao took a meaningful look at the hardworking and self-restraining young proprietor, and closed the door.

Listening to the sound of the secretary's high-heeled shoes hitting the marble slowly going away, Saori felt the tightness in her shoulders relax little by little.Secretary Liao is indeed very capable, but she is always appointed by Abba.It was probably because of his brother's incident that stimulated him a lot. Although the company is now in her hands, the accounts and important decisions cannot escape Dad's eyes.Including her brother's whereabouts and demands, she knew that Secretary Liao would not hide it from her father.

Ironically, the little man who was a debt collector gave me the whereabouts of my brother, and said in a cheerful tone of buying one and getting one free: he should be in a small black gambling house in the Linjiang area of ​​Zhuhai.Almost on the same day, the people sent over found my brother and reported that he was penniless, so he leaned on the edge of the gambling table to earn some small rewards for the staff. In and out, and finally lost again.He said that he hadn’t showered for several days when he was found, his eyes were big and bright, he ate three lunch boxes in less than 10 minutes and vomited them all up again, and it took four people to take him to the gambling rehabilitation center when he was so thin Only then did the hand suppress it.

Saori couldn't connect the person described in the report with the brother in her impression. The silent, outstanding brother who protected her in every way was stolen somewhere unknowingly and replaced by a wretched, rickety shameless soul.

Now this soul dares to clamor to see parents, wife and children?After he consciously brought so much pain on his family?

Saori shook her head, for a moment, she would rather her brother just disappear into the vast crowd, with the last trace of pride in going there resolutely.

Or, should she make up her mind to give up?As the man said, cut off the cancer and carrion, and wait for the opportunity to make a comeback.That way at least success or failure is your own, and you don't need to be restrained by others.Saori put her hands on the glass again, and the lights in the factory not far away were lit up one by one, like a huge silent ship floating on the ocean shrouded in night.His own face reflected in the glass: black-rimmed glasses, coiled hair, gray suit.Suddenly I felt tired...I missed that person unparalleledly. Her thin body and slightly curly hair were left on my body at last, soothing the touch on my back.Missing was tied up like silk, making it difficult for her to breathe.

She didn't know at the time that the price of saving the situation would be a divorce.

Thinking of this, I couldn't bear it anymore, turned around and put the unfinished documents together with the investigation report into the briefcase, took the car keys and walked straight to the parking lot.

Wednesday, after seven o'clock.Saori started the car while thinking in her mind.The car turned on the headlights and opened the gate, heading for the small town.

After the evening self-study, Zhang Tianyu saw the Mazda across the road as soon as he left the school gate.The woman leaned against the car door, her hands folded in the pockets of her windbreaker.There happened to be a lamp, and the dim yellow light shrouded her body. From a distance, it looked like a painting by Raphael. It was peaceful and beautiful, and it was placed there quietly, making people unable to take their eyes off it.

Xiaoyu hesitated for a moment, then said goodbye to her classmates and walked towards the woman.

"Are you waiting for me? Saori-san."

"Get in the car, okay? Let's go have a drink." Saori opened the car door for her.

Such a gentle tone, but a tough posture.Just like when we first met.Xiaoyu narrowed her eyes and smiled sweetly, took off her schoolbag and got into the car.

The car slid quietly in the night, and the two people in the car did not talk along the way.Xiao Yu occasionally turned her head to see Saori driving. It was the first time she saw her wearing glasses and her long hair coiled up. It was also the first time she saw her driving—holding the steering wheel with both hands relaxed, shifting gears skillfully from time to time, when encountering red lights It also stopped very smoothly, and one could feel the good cooperation between the person and the car, and the fingers were also very beautiful——Xiaoyu turned her face away, feeling something similar to enlightenment slowly rising in her heart.

Sha Zhi took her to the shopping center in the new area, sat down in a random cafe, ordered a cup of hot water and a small piece of cheesecake for herself, and Xiao Yu ordered a large cappuccino.

"Stewardess Qing's shop hasn't opened for a long time." Xiaoyu took a sip of coffee, the milk froth left a beard-like layer on her upper lip.

You are paying attention.Saori looked up at her, and then returned to the cake.I went through all kinds of questions in my mind, and finally asked a seemingly unrelated one: "I heard from Qing Kong that your mother left a trust fund for you?"

"Yeah." Xiao Yu smiled again, a small dimple appeared on her right cheek. "Stewardess Qing told you. At that time, she only said to think about it."

Saori frowned tightly like enduring a toothache, and fell into an unpleasant silence.After a while, he said quietly: "Qing Kong is gone."

"I don't see...?"

"Missing, disappearing, missing, in short, she disappeared suddenly, and never returned to her residence, leaving only a note, asking me to wait patiently." Saori paused when she said this. "The night before she disappeared, she told me that you went to the bookstore to look for her."

Xiaoyu tilted her head, as if she couldn't understand the context of it all at once. "I thought that the shop of the blue stewardess has been closed all the time because she went to help my sister."

"How do you know that the bookstore is closed all the time?" Unless you keep an eye on it in the morning, afternoon and evening, how can you be sure that it is closed instead of shortened business hours?

"Because of the tin can!" Xiaoyu explained. "Stewardess Qing never smokes in the store. There is a small tin can next to the store door. She throws the cigarette butts there every time she finishes smoking, and only cleans it when it is full. I have visited it several times. The tin can It was always half full, neither increased nor emptied, so it can be seen that the green stewardess never came back."

Saori froze for a moment, she didn't expect Qingkong to have this habit.After a while, a little bit of sourness appeared in my heart, and I actually knew my beloved more for others than myself.

"So, even you don't know the whereabouts of the stewardess Qing." Xiaoyu lowered her head and stirred the coffee in the cup in distress.After a few moments of stirring, a sentence suddenly popped up: "Tell me, will the flight attendant Qing go back to Xinjiang?"

Back to Xinjiang?Saori took a light breath, how much did she not know?She raised her glass and took a sip of water to suppress the surprise in her heart. "At this time, what is she going back to Xinjiang for?"

"Let's find a helper. After all, the ancestral home is over there."

"How do you know Qing Kong's ancestral home?" Saori turned her gaze to Xiao Yu's face, and saw that she stiffened obviously. "She never mentioned that."

"That... I saw it secretly." Xiaoyu shrugged. "One time she went to the door to smoke, and the wallet was on the table. It's a good opportunity. Before I asked her such and such questions, she refused to answer them properly. I heard that a person's personal belongings can reflect her basic hobbies and personality. Oh... Anyway, I looked through it, and the money was neatly arranged according to the denomination. There were a few receipts, and a photo of a lady in the photo column. It seemed that it belonged to the mother of the stewardess Qing. □□.” Xiaoyu narrowed her eyes as if searching one by one in her mind. "Then there is the ID card. The ancestral address on it is a township in Altay, Xinjiang."

Xinjiang Altay?Could this be the source of the foreign scenery on Qingkong's face?Saori shook her head, unwilling to believe it.Aozora talked about various details of Macau, her conversation, eating habits, and the Christian girls' school she had attended for many years. It was difficult for Saori to believe that all these were fabricated.What's more, if she is not a native of Macau, how can she get the gambling debt collection organization to make concessions?But what about that ID card?

Saori lowered her eyebrows.At least one more direction.Before seeing Xiao Yu, she was actually just thinking about it by chance, after all, she was the one who had a long talk before disappearing and made that kind of request.I didn't expect to get some clues.

"Thank you." Saori said lightly, pushed away the cake that had only moved a bite or two, and raised her hand to pay the bill.

"It didn't help at all." Xiaoyu shook her head, "I went to see the stewardess Qing the other day, and I knew that little money might not be of much help."

Saori stared at Xiaoyu coldly, as if watching a glacier disintegrate and fall into the deep sea with a loud noise.The waiter came over at this time, and Saori gestured for the checkout before turning her head to look at the girl in front of her.

"How come?" she said. "300 million in cash in the early stage, followed by a loan of 700 to [-] million in funds. It is quite generous to exchange for just one night."

Xiao Yu blinked, then blinked again, meeting Saori's gaze for no reason.

Saori seemed to gradually understand something, but fell into a deeper fog.She heard Xiao Yu's voice, as if it came through a layer of film, so it was a little distorted.

"I did ask for help, but the trust fund left by my mother is less than 80. Even if I sell the real estate, it is estimated to be less than 300 million. One night..." Xiaoyu tilted her head, "What do you mean?"

Saori's body shook, the water glass on the table was knocked over, and the boiling water spilled all over the table and fell on the wooden floor, tick-tock.

Three days later on the weekend, Saori received a letter from Macau.

The letter was packed in a thick kraft paper box and sent directly to Qingkong's residence by international courier.Opening the carton, Saori first pressed the thick envelope to her chest for a while, breathing only so gently.Or maybe the answer is all here, she thought about it, and suddenly became a little scared.After a while, I walked around the room with the silent letter in my hand, but couldn't find the letter opener, so I went to the kitchen to get a fruit knife, opened it carefully, and pulled out a stack of letter paper.

"Yarong:

After thinking about it in every possible way, I don't know where to start. After thinking about it, it's better to start from the beginning. "

That's the beginning of the letter.Saori's eyes paused when she first saw that line of handwriting, and then quickly moved her eyes down again.There are more than a dozen sheets of paper, and after reading it, it seems that a long time has passed by.

Saori raised her head, and looked around the shabby apartment living room in a daze.The man left in a hurry and left most of his things behind.Her books, her plastic boxes.And just like in the past, Saori would go back to this apartment no matter how busy or late she was on weekends. She always felt that as soon as the door was opened, she might be sitting on the sofa, smoking a cigarette, and smiling at herself in the mist.

The handwriting is hers, it is as tall and thin as a human, with fangs and claws.Saori's eyes paused for a long time on the last signature - three unfamiliar words: Liu Su'en.

The author has something to say: A friend came from afar and went out for a few days for a small tour, so he was delayed here.I came back yesterday and will slowly resume updating.