Ceaseless

When Nie Jingze woke up, there was no sign of Su Xi on the bed.A bedroom full of creased sheets and a litter of clothes reveals what happened last night.He picked up his coat from the foot of the bed and put it on his body, got up and walked out of the bedroom, still having a lucky look in every corner of the apartment, and finally stopped in front of the shoe rack in the entrance.

After making sure that there were no extra shoes on the shoe rack that did not belong to him, and after the fact that Su Xi had quietly left before he woke up, Nie Jingze's face darkened slightly.Then he recalled the process and pictures of last night, and his face turned pale again.

He returned to the bedroom, took clean clothes and went to the bathroom to take a shower. When he came out, he picked up the mobile phone on the bedside to check the time. It was already past the time to clock in for work.After thinking for a second, he simply called the assistant in the company who was in charge of assisting him.

The other party picked up the phone and asked him when he would come to the company.

Nie Jingze said succinctly: "I won't be here today, call me if you need anything."

He hung up the phone, but still put on the coat he wore when he went out. He didn't stay at home for too long, and soon went out with the car keys.Guessing that Su Xi would probably have to go to work today, Nie Jingze directly skipped the step of calling the other party, went out to a nearby breakfast shop and had a quick bite, then drove to the hot pot restaurant where Su Xi worked.

He originally wanted to go to the store to find information, ask the other party and the manager to ask for half a day off, and then take him out for lunch.However, things backfired.

It was almost noon when the car drove outside the hot pot restaurant, so he parked the car directly outside the shop, got off and walked towards the hot pot restaurant.This time is when there are many customers, and the waiters in the same color and style of work uniforms in the lobby are busy without touching the floor.Even the staff who were supposed to greet guests at the door were transferred to other places.

When Nie Jingze opened the door and entered, no one even noticed him in time.He glanced at the people in work uniforms from a distance, but he didn't see the person whose back looked like Su Xi.

Although he felt a little strange in his heart, Nie Jingze didn't think much about it.He took a step in, and the waiter with an unfamiliar face finally noticed him, and came forward with a smile on his face and asked, "Hello, who are you?"

Nie Jingze said calmly, "I'm looking for Su Xi."

The waiter was taken aback when he heard the words, and after thinking for a while, he said in a slightly puzzled tone, "Su Xi? Speaking of which, I don't seem to have seen him all morning..."

Nie Jingze frowned, "Didn't he come to work?"

"It seems that he didn't come, let me ask for you." After the other party finished speaking, he turned and walked towards the back kitchen.

Nie Jingze stood still, but the gap between his eyebrows was getting deeper and deeper, and a bad premonition came into his heart for no reason.

Two minutes later, the person who spoke to him before finally returned, "Sir, I asked our manager for you. Su Xi didn't come to work, and he resigned this morning."

"Resigned?" Nie Jingze's expression changed suddenly.

The other party was still smiling, "Yes sir, he resigned."

Nie Jingze left the hotpot restaurant with a cold face.

Returning to the car absent-mindedly, he turned on his phone and called the phone number saved two months ago.The cold mechanical female voice on the phone told him that the dialed number had been shut down.The heart in his chest suddenly sank, but Nie Jingze's fingertips still stayed above the screen, subconsciously typing a second time.

What I got was still a reminder that the number owner had shut down.

The hands on the steering wheel gradually tightened, and anger filled his heart.

At this moment, someone knocked on the car window on the side near him.

Nie Jingze paused in his heart, but his face turned away one step ahead of his brain's consciousness, and the eagerness contained in it was self-evident.

What caught my eye was an unfamiliar face in a traffic police uniform.

After a very brief daze, Nie Jingze let out a breath slowly, and lowered the window glass with a worried expression.

The young traffic policeman stood outside the car and reminded him kindly: "Sir, parking is not allowed here, please drive away."

Nie Jingze nodded indifferently.

He drove away from the hot pot restaurant, and then went downstairs to the old house that Su Xi rented without stopping for a moment.When the car stopped in the yard, Nie Jingze suddenly realized that he only knew that Su Xi lived in the building in front of him, but he didn't know which room on which floor Su Xi lived in.

He finally remembered Zhong Qing who lived with Su Xi, and frowned again to look for Zhong Qing's phone number in the phone address book.In the next second, he remembered that he had deleted the number he loved many days ago.

Unprecedented annoyance and upset arose in his heart, he opened the door and got out of the car and strode towards the old people who were sitting under the tree with big signs.When Shen Sheng asked, none of the four or five people present knew Su Xi.

Nie Jingze stood on the spot, couldn't help closing his eyes, and a clear outline immediately appeared in his mind.His chest rose and fell slightly, he opened his eyes, and slowly described Su Xi's height and facial features to the few people in front of him.

One of the old men thought for a moment, and quickly recalled that the person he was looking for in the young man's mouth seemed very similar to the young man he had greeted this morning.

He said in surprise: "I feel very strange when you say his name. As soon as you say what he looks like, I know it in my heart. I also live in this building, sometimes when I go downstairs in the morning Saw him in the stairwell. I only know he lives on the fifth floor, but I don't know which one he lives in."

Nie Jingze said briefly, then turned around and hurried towards the apartment building.

There were three households on each floor of the building. Nie Jingze went up to the fifth floor and knocked on the door of the first household without the slightest hesitation.When the first two families opened the door, they were all unfamiliar faces.

No one came out to answer the door of the third house from beginning to end.

Nie Jingze's eyes were fixed on the old iron gate covered with advertisements, his complexion was extremely ugly.

It wasn't until the afternoon that Su Xi realized that his text message had failed to be sent.

He and Zhong Qing were sitting at home watching TV, neither of them had breakfast.When it was close to noon, Su Xi got up to open the refrigerator at home, but only found some leftovers.

Zhong Qing was very hungry but had no appetite, and instead remembered the supper that he couldn't eat because of a little episode that night.He simply proposed to go out to eat, "There is a new self-service barbecue restaurant on the street opposite the vegetable market, and the price is relatively cheap. Last night, I didn't succeed in eating supper. I invite you to eat barbecue."

Without rejecting the other party's proposal, Su Xi changed into thick clothes for going out, took the mobile phone from the sofa and put it in his pocket, and went out with Zhong Qing one after the other.

After eating a self-service barbecue for two full hours, both of them were a little full.With the most satisfied expression on Zhong Qing's face, he collapsed on the chair and rubbed his stomach slowly.Su Xi, however, was somewhat absent-minded, always involuntarily thinking about whether Nie Jingze had woken up at this time, and whether he had seen the text message he sent.

However, the mobile phone in the pocket is always silent.

Apart from doubts, he was still a little disappointed.He couldn't help but think of the words that Zhong Qing had said to him at home in the morning.

When the two got up to check out and left, Zhong Qing searched all his pockets up and down, only to realize that he had left his mobile phone at home and hadn't brought it out, let alone brought extra cash.Standing in front of the cashier, he turned his head and asked Su Xi for help with a mournful face.

Su Xi felt it was funny, and reached out to take out his mobile phone to pay for him, but after opening the QR code scanning box of WeChat, he couldn't scan the payment code posted in front of the counter for a long time.He felt strange, pulled down the notification bar on the phone to take a look, and finally found that there was no data traffic.

Su Xi was surprised for a second, and then belatedly remembered that he seemed to have received a reminder from China Mobile that he had not paid his phone bill a day ago.It's just that he wasn't thinking about these trivial matters at the time, and after he crossed out the text message, he forgot about it.

After connecting to the wireless network in the store to pay and pay, he re-entered the text message interface, and as expected, he saw that the text message in the morning had not been sent.Su Xi's footsteps paused slightly, and after a brief hesitation, he stopped Zhong Qing who was walking in front and said: "You go back first, I have something to do, I want to go out for a while."

Zhong Qing nodded, did not ask any further questions, and left alone.

After separating from him, Su Xi decided to go to Nie Jingze's house to look for him.

He followed the memory of the previous night to find the building where the other party lived, followed the owner into the lobby inside the door, and took the elevator directly to the 25th floor.However, he rang the doorbell outside the door for a long time, but no one came to answer the door.

Nie Jingze didn't seem to be at home.

Su Xi stood against the wall outside the door for a while, then took out his mobile phone to call Nie Jingze.The other party's mobile phone was turned off coldly.He glanced at the time on his phone, it was already after four o'clock in the afternoon.He didn't know where the other party had gone, and he couldn't contact him.

The surroundings were so quiet that one could hear the clear heartbeat in the chest, and Su Xi stood alone in the empty corridor outside the door, feeling empty in his heart.When he came back to his senses, he had already returned to the elevator door.

The elevator still stopped at the floor he came out of. He pressed the elevator door, but a little hesitation appeared under his feet.

After leaving the place where Su Xi lived, Nie Jingze drove a few friends out to the same private bar that Su Xi visited during the day two months ago.He casually opened two bottles of champagne in front of the bar, and Qin Li still couldn't put it down, holding his expensive guitar and sitting on the side table fiddling with it.

The noise disturbed him more and more bored, he just felt a ball of anger that could not go up and down in his heart, even the wine in his mouth felt like the taste of the tip of Ling Chi's tongue.He suppressed his anger and put down the wine glass in his hand, turned around and left without saying hello.

After coming out of the bar, Nie Jingze drove home directly.The car changed back to the off-road vehicle that he used to drive before, and he parked the car in the parking space in the underground garage, but did not get out of the car.Instead, he locked himself in the car with the doors and windows closed, sat in the driver's seat and smoked for a long time.

After a long time, when he got out of the car with the empty cigarette case in his hands, it was already dark.

Nie Jingze took the elevator upstairs from the basement floor, and when he got out of the elevator and turned into the corridor, he caught a glimpse of someone sitting by his door with bowed head and knees out of the corner of his eye.

He raised his eyes with a cold face, and when his eyes settled on the man, his steps suddenly froze.

The boredom and indifference in the pupils suddenly melted away, replaced by a gradually deepening shock and disbelief.

Even at that moment, it seemed that even the sound of breathing had softened.

The emotions that had been suppressed in his heart for a long time burst out, flooding towards him overwhelmingly.

Nie Jingze stepped up his steps, hurriedly walked up to the opponent, bent down and stretched out his hands, pulled him up from the ground and hugged him tightly.

Su Xi opened his eyes to look at him in a little confusion, but there was still a lot of sleepiness on his face.