Growth pain

Lu Shining was invited to drink by his colleagues after get off work. Four or five people were sitting in a row talking and laughing. The female colleague next to him suddenly touched his elbow, "If you have something urgent, you can go first."

Lu Shining shook his head, "It's nothing."

The female colleague looked at him incredulously, "Then why are you always looking at your phone?"

After Lu Shining replied the last message, he put the phone back in his pocket, "My friend is coming here tomorrow, I'll confirm the time so I can pick him up."

His words were overheard by the sharp-eared guy on the other side, and he joked, "Is your friend a man or a woman?"

Lu Shining said, "It's a girl."

"Hey, gossip or not?" Someone smoothed things over, "I'm going out today to drink, so don't mess with those who have and don't, drink and drink."

After coming out of the small stall, the night was already very dense, and the two men in front were already drunk, their hands were clasped shoulder to shoulder, and they sang folk songs with their voices open.

The two female colleagues who were traveling with her didn't seem to notice, and the more lively one suddenly asked Lu Shining who was walking aside: "Are you really going to pick up someone tomorrow?"

The girl who was sitting next to Lu Shining just now tugged at her sleeve.

"Ah."

"girlfriend?"

Lu Shining shook his head.

She elongated her voice, "Oh—friends of the opposite sex."

After a while she said again: "Aren't you single now, don't you think about finding a partner?"

The girl next to her poked her harder.

Lu Shining smiled, his eyes were bent down, there was a bright light in his pupils, and he looked very sincere: "We just broke up not long ago, so it's not that urgent."

The person who asked the question was stunned.

"You...have a partner, why haven't I heard you say it before?"

"We separated before coming to the company."

"It's been a month."

Lu Shining paused in his forward steps, and realized later: "It's been a month."

The wound on his hand has healed, and new flesh grows from the incision, leaving a shallow white scar.

That day, he shared the conversation with Yuan Sen, and he moved out of Yuan Sen's residence early the next morning, and the two of them never contacted again.

During this period when Lu Shining went back to his hometown, Yang Qiongfang obviously knew about the absurdity of the blind date. Seeing Lu Shining, she sighed a few times and told him, "Please ask Yuan Sen for me. If he doesn't come back to see me, don't you remember? My mother!"

When Lu Shining came out of the house in the evening, he happened to see Yang Qiongfang standing and talking with a man with a slightly bent back. He thought this was her "good friend", so he took his steps lightly and tried to pass the two of them quietly, but in the end the two Everyone is scared.

Lu Shining could only say embarrassingly: "Aunt Fang, Aunt Fang, it's me."

A few days ago, Mother Lu even called and told him, "Your Aunt Fang is moving out."

Lu Shining asked, "Where do you move to?"

"Doesn't she have a suite elsewhere? It's just a bit out of the way. I've seen the man in her place too. He's an honest person, and he seems to be living a down-to-earth life..."

Lu's mother was still analyzing later, but Lu Shining couldn't remember what he was talking about.

All I know is that with Yang Qiongfang's move, there is really no need for him and Yuan Sen to meet each other. Don't worry about the embarrassment of meeting each other during the holidays. There will probably be no intersection in their lives after that.

Zhang Lei blamed himself for this for a long time, thinking that he shouldn't have said those things to Yuan Sen.

Lu Shining comforted him: "What you said is irrelevant."

Zhang Lei: "...Why don't you feel happy?"

Lu Shining said: "I really didn't talk to him about those things, it's my fault."

Looking at this relationship after separation, Lu Shining found that he had many problems, and his inability to express himself frankly was the most fatal point.

In the final analysis, two people shouldn't try it, the result of forcibly piecing together will be fragmented.

By the way, Zhang Lei gets along very well with his girlfriend who came on a blind date.Lu Shining had seen a girl before, she was petite with long hair, she looked very quiet, but when she saw him, her eyes lit up, and she said, "Maybe I would like to ask, maybe you have seen "The President and His Male Secretary"?"

Lu Shining took a quick step back and shook his head firmly: "No."

But he probably knew what was going on with the girl.

Standing together, Zhang Lei and her have a harmonious height, harmonious appearance, and a matching personality. No wonder they can walk together so quickly.

In this way, Lu Shining found that the people around him were all in pairs, and he was the only one.

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After sending the drunk colleague into a taxi, only Lu Shining and two girls were left on the side of the street.

Lu Shining said, "I'll take you back first."

The one who just got in the car and asked the question couldn't hold back: "You just don't want to fall in love now?"

Lu Shining looked behind through the rearview mirror, nodded his head and gave a "hmm".

"Then you lost a hundred million."

The girl next to her motioned her not to speak.

"Well, it's okay." Lu Shining half-jokingly half-seriously said, "There must be someone else who can get this [-] million."

The girls in the backseat of the car visibly relaxed, and no one spoke after that.

After the two girls got out of the car, they waved to thank him, and Lu Shining kept smiling and said goodbye to them.

When he returned to the apartment he rented, he was exhausted from the whole day, and Lu Shining sat on the head of the bed and let out a sigh of relief.

Tomorrow is a holiday, and he has to go to the airport to pick up Shao Qing and Xu Jia.

The two girls said in WeChat that they were going to meet Shao Qing's parents, which shocked Lu Shining a lot, and started asking if it was true at the dinner table just now.

The opposite party laughed and laughed for a long time before returning: [Ann, you are going to my house as a friend, otherwise I don’t worry about her staying in a hotel alone]

After lying on the bed for a while, Lu Shining struggled to get up to take a shower, dried his hair and quickly fell asleep.

The next day it wasn't the alarm that woke him up, but an unknown call.

Lu Shining pressed his breath to get up and connected the phone. Although he was depressed, he still spoke politely as usual, "Hello, hello."

The person on the other side was obviously stunned, "Ah that...brother, brother, it's me, Yin Hao."

Lu Shining took the phone away and looked at the string of unfamiliar numbers, and said pitifully, "Did you delete me?"

Lu Shining replied subconsciously: "It's not me, it's..."

He stopped talking halfway.

The other end already knew what was going on, and laughed dryly, "I'm sorry, it's me again, look at this weekend, brother, brother, do you have time? Me and..."

Lu Shining interrupted: "No."

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a few seconds, and then someone changed: "Hi, I'm Pei Twenty."

Lu Shining was a little surprised, and couldn't help saying politely: "Hello."

Yin Hao frowned outside the phone, why should he treat them differently.

Pei Twenty glanced at him and ignored him, and continued to talk on the phone: "That's right, the two of us do have something to talk to you about. I wonder if you are free today. Can we make an appointment to meet?"

Lu Shining said, "Sorry, I'm not free today."

Yin Hao is happy, it turns out they are treated the same.

Pei Twenty glanced at him lightly, and he shrank his neck and pretended to be dead again.

"Okay, I see, so when are you free? We can make an appointment to meet another day."

Lu Shining pursed his lower lip, "What's the matter, can't we just talk about it on the phone?"

"It's related to Yuan Sen." Pei Twenty said.

Lu Shining lowered his eyes, "Then you should know that we have separated."

Pei Twenty was very calm, "Yes, but he has not been in a good state recently. He hasn't come to the company for a week, and no one answered his phone calls. We also went to his house to look for him, but no one was there. We are a little worried. ..."

Lu Shining opened his mouth, "Can no one contact him?"

"Yes."

"Need me to call him?"

"You know that a phone call can't solve any problems. There are some things that we need to meet and talk about." Pei Yan continued to speak unhurriedly, "If you have something to do now, we can meet later. It's not in a hurry, after all, Yuan Sen It's also unlikely that an adult would die on the street."

Outside the phone, Yin Hao gave Pei Nian a thumbs up.

Lu Shining: "..."

Lu Shining: "Okay, let me think about it, and I will contact you later."

"Ok."

After Pei Nian finished speaking, he hung up the phone neatly, and then Yin Hao said: "Why are you exaggerating, Brother Yuan has only been out of contact for two days."

"Isn't two days enough? Is it true to wait a week for his body to be collected?"

After Pei Nian finished speaking, he turned his head and saw Yin Hao's knees were slightly bent. He took a step back silently, "What are you doing?"

"Wait a while when Lu Shining comes and I can apologize to him. Do you think it's better for me to just kneel down or say a few words before kneeling down?"

Pei Twenty said, "I advise you not to do both."

Yin Hao was even more worried.

The author has something to say: It won’t be very abusive, I’m not very good at writing about abuse, but I just want to clarify some things