african diary

The last time I met Ted was like a passing encounter, and there was no news of Ted for a while.

This month, Xiao Hang is going back to Nairobi to deal with the import of pyrethrum. He plans to transfer the Kenyan pyrethrum business to a company that specializes in pyrethrum after this year.Like him, he doesn’t make much money just by importing raw materials. Professional companies have bases upstream and downstream can process them into pesticides, which is the long-term solution.

Moreover, he didn't want to go back to the place that broke his heart.Going back in the first year after breaking up with Ted, looking at the white chrysanthemums all over the ground, he felt that his heart and liver and five internal organs were about to be broken, so he burst into tears in the field.

In fact, that's fine too, that is, he can vent his emotions so presumptuously abroad, but in China, he can only be that ostrich shrunk in its shell.

In the past three years, his mother would urge him to find a girlfriend from time to time, but he always used the excuse of busy work as an excuse to shirk.

In the past year, his mother has not mentioned the matter of finding a girlfriend for him. She just went home occasionally and looked at his unshaven appearance and complicated eyes, which made him feel very uncomfortable.

Maybe... the way he dealt with it back then was too extreme, hurting Ted and himself, and not necessarily following his mother's heart.However, if he can't do it against his will to be with a girl in order to make his mother feel at ease, it will completely harm her for the rest of her life.

International flights are still excruciatingly long.Compared with the extreme sadness when he returned to Kenya in the first year, he was much calmer when he returned in the second year, but this year was a little different because——he saw Ted again, and his heart that had been dead for several years seemed to be coming back again. It started beating.

The pyrethrums in the suburbs of Nairobi are still in full bloom. Thinking of the first year when he and Ted came to see the chrysanthemums together, Xiao Hang felt a little nervous in his heart, but he stopped crying. Then once is enough.

After leaving the chrysanthemum field, Xiao Hang took a taxi, instead of going back to the hotel, he went to Daniel's clinic.

When he returned to Kenya two years ago, he didn't go to Daniel's place. He didn't know how to face Daniel. After all, Daniel was Ted's best friend.

But, in fact, Daniel is different. His gentle personality like water makes him always relaxed in front of him. Moreover, even when he left the key with Daniel, he didn't ask himself why, maybe He knows about the two of them, and what others say is useless.

However, in any case, even if he and Ted have become strangers, Daniel will always be his friend.

I thought that Daniel and I should be strangers after seeing each other for three years, but it seemed like we separated yesterday, and there was no time gap between the two of them.It's just—Daniel's clinic is closed, and everything has been moved.

"Are you moving house?"

"Well, I'm going back to France."

Daniel did not mention Ted, which is really the best consideration for Xiao Hang.

"How did you think of going back?" He thought that Daniel was going to dedicate his life to the medical cause in Africa.

"Staying here is not a common thing. Didn't you go back to China?" Sighing, Daniel continued, "I was staying here, just wondering if I would be able to wait... But, forget it, three The year should give up."

Xiao Hang knew what Daniel meant, and he had been waiting for a miracle about Raymond. In fact, no one knew whether he was really dead, or maybe he took that opportunity to hide from Daniel.

Xiao Hang didn't express his thoughts, how could such a smart person as Daniel not think of it.

"Send me a contact information when you arrive in France. This is my contact information in China. If you have a chance to come to China to play." Xiao Hang left the contact information for Daniel. In fact, he should have done this a long time ago. It's like this, Daniel is still a friend. If Daniel has already left when he comes back this time, he should regret it for the rest of his life.

"Okay."

Xiao Hang was silent for a while, then said: "The key to Ted's house..."

"Oh, speaking of this thing," Daniel turned around and took out a key from the drawer and handed it to Xiao Hang, "You asked me to keep it, I'm leaving this time, take it back, what do you want to do with it It's your business."

Silently looking at the key in his hand, Xiao Hang couldn't say "Please help me return it to Ted".

After having a meal with Daniel, Xiao Hang rejected Daniel's proposal to send him back to the hotel, and just walked aimlessly on the street alone.Daniel's clinic is very close to Ted's house, and he walked to the door of Ted's villa before he knew it.

Put the key in the palm of your hand and throw it up and down ten times, do you want to go in and have a look?Had Ted changed the locks already?

Since Daniel is leaving, why don't you put the key in Ted's house and return it to him?Thinking of this, Xiao Hang put the key into the keyhole.

With a click, the door opened, and Ted didn't change the lock?

Before his brain could react, his feet had already walked into Ted's house by himself.The furnishings in the house have not changed from three years ago, and it is so clean and tidy that it does not look like no one lives there.

I don't know if Ted has come back in the past few years?Or lent it to someone else?If there were other people in the house, would they report themselves as a burglar to the police?

Xiao Hang laughed at himself, he really thought too much.

From the living room to the dining table, from the study to the bedroom, I touched all the familiar objects along the way. This is the home I have lived in for more than a year, and it even feels more homely than the current domestic house.Because a place where one person lives can only be called a residence, but a place where two people live is a home, isn't it?

No strange person appeared as he had imagined, so he was in a daze while thinking about it, and he didn't know what time it was.

It's not that I didn't think that if I didn't give up so easily back then, or if Ted could have discovered his ideas earlier, the ending of the two people would be different, but these assumptions are like a maze with no exit, and they keep going around You can't reach the exit even if you go around. The more you think about it, the more confused you will be. There will never be regret medicine in this world.

Xiao Hang fell on the big bed exhaustedly, took out his mobile phone and opened the photo that he hadn't dared to look at for a long time. Against the background of swaying chrysanthemums, Ted's smile was so dazzling, and his eyes were full of happiness .

Burying his face deeply in the quilt was the smell of Ted, or maybe it was just his own imagination, Xiao Hang's body couldn't help trembling, and the low sobbing sound could not be heard clearly under the quilt.

That night, Xiao Hang may have slept for an hour or two, but what's the matter? There will be a lot of time on the plane tomorrow, so it's better to sleep for peace of mind than to be dazed and cranky.