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The countdown on the sign ended, the red light turned into a green light, and the traffic ahead had begun to move slowly.

Xue Yiyang moved a step slower before following up, "...you have just been discharged from the hospital, so you should go back and have a good rest."

"I've slept enough in the hospital." Jiang Ge adjusted the position of the seat belt.

At this time, Xue Yiyang realized belatedly that Jiang Ge probably didn't want to go back, "Then let's go have dinner first, what do you want to eat?"

"It's up to you to decide." Jiang Ge replied looking out the car window.

At the beginning of the Chinese lanterns, the sky has already begun to darken, leaving only a line of white on the distant edge.

The shadow of Xue Yiyang was reflected on the car window, and he was driving intently.

He is indeed very different from before, Jiang Ge thought.

After all, four or five years have passed.

But it seems to be no different from before, the outline of the side face is still so clear.The soft yellow light from the roof of the carriage cast a perfect shadow between his jaw and the side of his neck.

Jiang Ge's fingers fell on the car window, and he couldn't help but want to draw something, but just felt the cold touch of the glass, and he retracted his hand.

Xue Yiyang parked the car in the public parking lot, and led Jiang Ge to a side alley familiarly. Jiang Ge asked, "What are you going to eat?"

"You'll know when it arrives."

They quickly came to a shop with simple decoration. Jiang Ge didn't even recognize what was written in the big characters on the signboard, but he saw the feng shui wheel at the door and knew that this place should not be too cheap.

The little waitress greeted Xue Yiyang with a smile, "I haven't seen Teacher Xue for a long time."

"I've been busy recently." Xue Yiyang replied.

The little girl glanced at Jiang Ge who was following Xue Yiyang again, it was an unfamiliar face, "Teacher Xue is still sitting in the same place today?"

"No," Xue Yiyang hesitated, "arrange a private room for us."

The little girl led them to an elegant small private room, served tea and left, and closed the door intimately.

Jiang Ge was a little strange, "Don't you want to order food?"

"Well, the dishes here are different every day, so you can eat whatever you want."

Jiang Ge let out an "oh", watched Xue Yiyang wipe his hands carefully with a hot towel, and finally wiped the tabletop, subconsciously felt that he was a little perfunctory, and grabbed the towel thrown aside Wipe your hands.

"Since when did you become obsessed with cleanliness?" Jiang Ge asked.

Xue Yiyang didn't seem to realize that he would ask this question. He stopped wiping the table and put the towel aside, "It's just these two years."

Xue Yiyang didn't want to talk about his own affairs, and said: "I thought about what you said yesterday. If you must continue to be a reporter, I can recommend you to an official newspaper office. Unannounced interviews are too dangerous. Now, what will you do if you encounter such a thing again?"

Jiang Ge glanced at him, "No, I didn't tell you that because I wanted you to help me."

Xue Yiyang was by the side when the police came to the hospital to take notes. Later, Jiang Ge had no choice but to tell the reason why he was involved with that group of people, and also told Xue Yiyang that he had actually been doing unannounced visits for the past few years.

At this time, there was a knock on the door of the box, and the waitress girls lined up to put down the tableware and dishes, and then lined up to go out, interrupting what Jiang Ge wanted to say.

Xue Yiyang reached out to bring him a bowl of soup, and said, "This eggplant stew is delicious, you should try it first."

Jiang Ge was indeed hungry. He picked up the bowl and tasted the chopsticks first. It was really smooth, tender and fragrant, with endless aftertaste. "This is probably... the best eggplant stew I have ever eaten in my life."

Xue Yiyang smiled and put the soup by his hand.

When Jiang Ge couldn't eat any more, he put down the bowl before he had time to talk.

He looked at the amount displayed when Xue Yiyang signed the bill, and thought to himself that a meal is so expensive...it's really a life of little bourgeoisism.

After Xue Yiyang finished signing, the little girl who came in to deliver the bill did not leave. She quickly took out a piece of paper from her pocket and handed it to him, stuttering when she spoke, "Hello, Mr. Xue, I am you. fans, can you sign me?"

Xue Yiyang recognized that it was the bookmark of his new book collector's edition, so he signed it cooperatively and said, "Thank you for your support."

"No, no thanks!"

The little girl quickly finished speaking and went out, and Jiang Ge could still hear her excitedly saying to her friend outside the door, "I came here to work for this day".

"You now," the private room became quiet again, and the jasmine tea served after the meal was placed on the table, exuding a faint fragrance, "it seems that you are more popular than before."

Xue Yiyang looked at him.

When Jiang Ge spoke, his eyes moved down, deliberately avoiding his gaze.

Jiang Ge's hair is very short, it seems to have grown a little these days, and it was even shorter when I saw him at the Yuesheng Hotel that day, it was almost straight.His skin was also a little darker, which seems to be reasonable when it comes to the life of unannounced visits he mentioned.

How did he live these past few years?

How many times has Jiang Ge encountered a dangerous situation like that day?

Xue Yiyang couldn't help reaching out and touching Jiang Ge's face. The other party obviously felt a little strange, but he didn't resist.

"Why didn't you continue to paint?" Xue Yiyang asked.

"At that time in the north, when my father's case was first-instanced..." Jiang Ge revealed everything, "Before I got my recovery, I followed Wang Facai, who is my master, to make an unannounced visit."

After Jiang Ge finished speaking, he wanted to retract his hand on the table, but was grabbed by Xue Yiyang.

He felt that Xue Yiyang's palm was very warm, so warm that it was almost a little hot.

"Why...don't you come back to me?"

He finally asked the question.

Yeah, why?

Jiang Ge is much more stubborn than he is now, and once he has identified one thing, he never wants to look back.Since he left Xue Yiyang's side, there is no reason to go back. From then on, he walked his Yangguan Road, and I crossed my single-plank bridge. There is not only such a man in the world. Jiang Ge must not hang himself on a tree.

But emotional matters can never be explained clearly by reasoning.

In fact, Jiang Ge sometimes enjoys doing unannounced missions, as if he has become another person.Different names have different lives, and you will fall in love with different people in the future.

But when he was in danger, he realized that he subconsciously still thought of that person.

Until he met Xue Yiyang again, he couldn't help himself to use the same clumsy tricks as before, even though he saw that Xue Yiyang was about to become the groom of a strange woman.Xue Yiyang fell asleep beside him, but he couldn't sleep all night.

In the early morning, he was standing by the bed, seeing the twilight outside, he even packed his clothes in a little embarrassment, and left the room as if fleeing.

Because he found that he never seemed to forget this man for a moment, what he wanted was not the frenzy of this night, he wanted to go back to the past, and wanted to be with this man forever.

He didn't want to admit such a weak self, as if he went back to that night a few years ago, he could only stand under the street lamp and watch Xue Yiyang walk away.

The person who gave his sincerity first will be more afraid of losing.

What's even more frightening is that he found that he never got his heart back.

"I don't know." Jiang Ge heard himself say.

Xue Yiyang sent him back downstairs to his residence.An old-fashioned residential building in an urban village, the one that Jiang Ge rented was on the sixth floor at the top.

The voice-activated light at the stairway was broken, so Xue Yiyang kept the lights on.

Jiang Ge went up two steps, turned around and saw Xue Yiyang standing beside the car, as if watching him go up—he only hesitated for a moment.

Jiang Ge ran back quickly, and then threw himself into a hug, the impact made Xue Yiyang take a step back before he stood still.

"What's wrong?" Xue Yiyang hugged him back.

"I'm doing what I wanted to do when I saw you under the bridge that day," Ginger replied.

Xue Yiyang hugged him and didn't speak.

He seemed to be hugging a warm little animal, afraid that he would hurt him if he tried hard.

After Jiang Ge left, he searched in many ways but found no clues. On the trip to the north, he vaguely felt that Jiang Ge should be there, but he didn't want to come out to meet him.

The new book signing tour will continue, and the publicity and print volume of "Listening to the Wind" have not yet been determined. He doesn't have much time to stay, so he has to return to Dingchuan in a hurry.

It happened to be New Year's Day when I got the news that my mother was seriously ill. There was a huge lump on her leg, and the pain was unbearable. It was not until the family sent her to the doctor that she was diagnosed with bone cancer.

Xue Yiyang dropped everything at hand and rushed to his hometown, and then transferred his mother to Dingchuan City Hospital with better medical conditions.

In the midst of his busy schedule, he didn't pay much attention to the missed call from an unknown number in the northern city.

In those two years, he wrote very slowly. While taking care of his mother, he had to pay attention to Jiang Ge's news.

At that time, "Listening to the Wind" was selling well, and Pei Ying's company wanted to launch his new book while the iron was hot, but he couldn't hand in the manuscript for a long time.After several delays, a new popular writer appeared again, and people quickly forgot about him.

After his mother passed away, he set up his own studio, and he was finally able to present his writing to readers in the most complete way. The sales volume became better and better, and the pressure that followed became greater.

One day he suddenly thought that maybe Jiang Ge didn't want to come back to him at all.

This kind of thinking became stronger and stronger after searching for Jiang Ge's clues like looking for a needle in a haystack, but in the end there was no news.Then he finally stopped looking.

"Are you still leaving?"

Jiang Ge heard Xue Yiyang say in his ear.

"Ok?"

Xue Yiyang touched the back of his head and said softly, "When I come to look for you tomorrow morning, will you disappear without a trace again?"

Jiang Ge suddenly felt his nose sore.

"No, I'll be here." He buried his head on Xue Yiyang's chest and said in a muffled voice.