old enemy riding a bamboo horse

In the middle of the night, Lu Henglin suddenly came back to his senses. He couldn't believe what he had just done, but the pain at the corner of his mouth reminded him that everything was true.

He panicked, put on his clothes in a hurry, and ran to the window, only to realize that it was snowing outside at some point, and the snow was so heavy that the whole world was covered with a thick layer of white.

Suddenly panicked in his heart, he remembered that Xiao Qi just put on his clothes casually and left, he didn't know where he went, he didn't look very energetic at that time, what if something happened.

Lu Henglin called him without even thinking about it, only to realize that he didn't even bring his mobile phone with him when he left, only his ringtone kept ringing in the silent room.

He followed the sound and found that there was still a wallet next to the phone, and his heart sank even further.

He calmed down for a while, and immediately called his secretary at the time, asking him to arrange someone to help find someone, and described Xia Chengqi's appearance, and then he drove out immediately to search slowly in the snowy night.

The snow had no intention of stopping, the road was too slippery, he drove very slowly, all the way out of the villa area, and searched along the road full of laurel trees that they had learned to ride together.

But the road was empty and white, and there were no traces of people walking by.

The more Lu Henglin went forward, the more chaotic his happiness became, and the road ahead was getting darker and darker, as if if he didn't find Xia Chengqi this night, then there would be no future between them.

Lu Henglin found it at four o'clock in the morning, and the secretary replied hesitantly that he had no news, and he had been to the police station, but no one had asked for help.

Lu Henglin leaned on the steering wheel extremely tired, closed his dry and sore eyes for a moment, tears filled immediately, as soon as he opened them, they would pour out.

It was himself who finally pushed Xiao Qi away from his side.

On the third day, Xie Qing came to the door suddenly, saying that he would come to pick up Xia Chengqi's luggage.

Angry and hopeless, he yelled at Xie Qing, "Where did you hide him? Do you think you can use him to achieve your purpose?"

Xie Qing seemed to always be so decent and elegant, watching him show a compassionate smile that made people angry, "Is it because I hid him, or does he not want to see you anymore?"

Lu Henglin sneered stubbornly, "Where is he? I want to see him. I don't believe a word you say."

Even though he was already panicked, he still insisted on dying, unwilling to believe that Xiao Qi had really given up on him.

"Tell you where he is? Why, are you regretting that you didn't kill him last time?" Xie Qing lowered his face to him for the first time and said harsh words.

Lu Henglin was stunned, "What...? What do you mean by killing...?"

There was already a vague idea in his heart, but he couldn't believe it, because the answer to this sentence was too cruel for him, how could he suffer such serious harm to Xiao Qi because he loved Xiao Qi so much.

"He hasn't recovered from pneumonia yet, and I don't think you need to disturb his recovery."

Lu Henglin felt as if he had been struck by lightning, and all the blood on his face faded away in an instant.

Xie Qing pursed her lips, and while Lu Henglin was absent-minded, she asked the person behind to fetch the luggage and took it away, but she turned around and took a few steps and couldn't help but come back, looking directly at Lu Henglin and asking with a bit of resentment, " Lu Henglin, when did he bring so much luggage back home?"

Lu Henglin's mind went blank for a moment, as if he had missed a step, his heart tightened suddenly, and there was a buzzing sound in his ears, making his thoughts unable to function normally.

He felt that he couldn't stand up, so he supported the wall next to him, and managed to hold on, but the more and more clear thoughts in his mind made him about to be defeated.

"He dropped everything and came back for you, but it was you who left him with nothing." Xie Qing said the last sentence, turned and left.

Lu Henglin stood there in a daze, unable to say a word for a long time, until there was nothing in front of him, his legs gave way and he knelt on the ground.He recalled little by little what Xie Qing said.

He couldn't believe it, he didn't want to believe it, Xiao Qi actually gave up his studies and came back.

Xie Qing is so angry, does it mean that Xiao Qi really made this choice because of himself?

Lu Henglin sat down slumped, completely overwhelmed by despair, so what did he do?He hurt Xiao Qi so cruelly, forced him regardless of his physical discomfort, treated him roughly, and insulted him with embarrassing words...

He didn't even listen carefully to Xiao Qi's question of why he came back.

He had no idea that Xiaoqi had given up on everything, and let him go out in the snow wearing only a thin overcoat, without his mobile phone and wallet by his side.

He almost killed Xiao Qi.

Lu Henglin covered his face, unable to breathe, flustered but helpless.Once Xiaoqi was able to stay by his side after he turned his back on him, silently thinking about himself, but now he said the breakup first, so it can be seen that he has really been heartbroken.

He really wanted to kneel in front of Xiaoqi and ask for forgiveness, but he was not qualified at all.

When he heard the lawyer read out Xiaoqi's decision on the equity transfer, Lu Henglin knew that he had lost against Xie Qing this time. He not only lost face and rights by going his own way, but most importantly, he lost the person he loved the most.

Xiao Qi didn't even show up at this time, and stood beside Xie Qing without looking back. She probably won't forgive herself at all, and doesn't want to see herself anymore.

After that, Xingyuan was in turmoil for a while, but he was very depressed and couldn't get up to anything. Xie Qing took this opportunity to propose that she be in charge of the overseas project department. Although it was all under his jurisdiction in name, but Don't interfere too much, don't question any of her decisions.

He was in a depressed mood at that time, even though Jiang Yuan urged him not to agree, he did not accept it.At that time, Jiang Yuan was not his friend. At that time, he lost Xiao Qi, the whole world was dark, and he even had very few words.

That was his second bad decision.

He didn't expect Xiao Qi to follow Xie Qing as soon as the overseas project department was established. Since then, he has been traveling in various countries and never came back.

Xiao Qi walked so resolutely, as if she wanted to leave him thousands of miles away, and never wanted to have anything to do with him again. .

Later, he got used to the pain, and accepted the fact that he would not be forgiven. After being numb, he began to regain his strength and solved the ulterior motive of Tan Bin.

Then because he was unwilling to fight with Xie Qing in secret, he knew in his heart that losing Xiao Qi was his fault, but it was too difficult to bear this pain, he had to turn to resent others, otherwise every day would be suffering.

When he heard for the first time that the overseas project department encountered a tornado during the inspection and escaped without any danger, he suddenly calmed down in the cold pain in the back of his heart.

The more he pushes Xie Qing like this and compresses her development space, it won't make Xie Qing lose much, but it will only make Xiaoqi work harder. For the future of the overseas project department, he can only go to more desolate countries to expand his business , to encounter more hardships and dangers.

He was so distressed that he really reached a certain level of silent reconciliation with Xie Qing from then on, and even began to shift resources to the overseas project department without a trace, hoping that this would make Xiaoqi less hard, even if it was just a little bit. It is good.

Sometimes he still resents Xie Qing, why even though he backed down, she still let Xiaoqi go to those remote and desolate countries, day after day, year after year, living a wandering life, in the midst of hardships and things that may happen at any time Tossing and turning in danger.

In more than four years, more than 600 days and nights, he has never had a good time.

He sank into the pain of losing his loved one, cared about him, felt sorry for him, regretted what he had done wrong, but dared not ask for forgiveness.

One day, by chance, he heard the news that Aunt Sun was ill. Although Lu Henglin was very busy, he still specially arranged time to visit her.

Aunt Sun was already very old, and her body was getting sicker and sicker as her body deteriorated. She had no energy lying on the hospital bed, but when she saw him coming, she still held his hand with a smile.

"Time flies so fast, Heng Lin has grown up so much."

Lu Henglin felt sad, he didn't have any close people in this world, and when he met his old friend, Aunt Sun, all the past suddenly rushed to his face, and he inevitably thought of Xia Chengqi.

"Aunt Sun, rest easy and recuperate, and tell me anytime you need it."

Aunt Sun held his hand and looked at him kindly, "Where's Xiao Qi? I haven't seen him for a long time."

Lu Henglin's gaze dimmed for a moment, and he lowered his eyes and smiled bitterly, "Xiao Qi...is too busy abroad, I will bring him to see you when I have a chance."

"Okay, you guys grew up together, now that your father is gone, you two have to take good care of each other, Xiao Qi is also a hard-working child, you are an older brother, love him so much, take care of him, don't always take care of him I’ve been sent abroad, so I’ll go home more often.”

"Okay." Lu Henglin smiled hard to hide his choking.

Aunt Sun lived in a double ward, and the TV sounded low. The girl in the next bed saw that it was time, so she jumped out of bed to change the channel. It happened to be a singing variety show.

Lu Henglin and Aunt Sun sat silently for a while, then looked up at the TV, and it happened that Zhang Xinzhe was singing on the program, and the melodious sound of the violin was very familiar.

He froze for a moment, the past flooded into his heart, bitter and painful.

"Whenever I hear melancholy music

wounds that evoke memories

whenever i see the white moonlight

remember your face

I know I shouldn't think about it

Thinking of bewilderment

who makes me sad

who makes me worry

It is you

I know the things that shouldn't be said

make you angry

Want to know the years of floating time

do you miss home too

......"

Lu Henglin's eyes gradually became foggy, bitterness emerged from the corner of his mouth bit by bit, and the pain in his heart was instantly clear.

If he hadn't been blinded by anger and sadness, and said such cruel words to Xiao Qi, they would never go back to the beginning, and Xiao Qi would not have gone overseas and traveled back and forth in different countries.

Once he promised Xiaoqi to give him a home, but he himself destroyed everything.

These years, Xiao Qi has been wandering alone in a foreign country, has he ever thought about his family or himself?

Saying goodbye to Aunt Sun, Lu Henglin walked in the night with a surge of emotion, he wanted to muster up the courage to say sorry to Xiao Qi like never before.

He wanted to tell him that it was fine if he didn't forgive himself, and it didn't matter if he didn't want to see himself, could he stop working so hard, come back, at least come back and have a look, at least stop and rest for a while.

Xiao Qi is the only person he cares about in this world, can you stop leaving his life and give him a chance to make up for the mistakes he made?

Lu Henglin took out his mobile phone with trembling fingertips, and pressed Xia Chengqi's phone number carefully.The contact information of the senior management of the overseas project department must be disclosed to the headquarters. He remembered this number a long time ago, but he never had the courage to call it.

The wind blowing against his face in the spring night was still chilly, his heartbeat was so violent that it was about to break through his skin, he kept thinking about what to say first, how to apologize to Xiaoqi sincerely, but there was only a cold sentence on the other end.

"Sorry, the user you dialed is temporarily unavailable."

The turbulent tide in his chest froze into ice in an instant. He stood in the night wind for a long time, and fate gave him an answer again. It seemed that they really had no chance.

When Lu Henglin woke up the next day, his assistant called him to report an urgent matter.

All the major entertainment newspapers reported that he and Mu's daughter attended the banquet together as headlines. Mu Yawen did not respond to the reporters' questions, but acquiesced to the romance rumors.

Lu Henglin has always kept himself clean, but with his net worth, talking to anyone too much may cause scandals.

One day when attending a banquet, he, who never brought a female companion, met Mu's daughter in front of the door, responded to the other party's greetings out of politeness, and walked into the banquet hall together, which caused this misunderstanding.

He directly responded and asked his assistant to arrange for the news to be taken down and clarify for him by the way.

After two days, the scandal not only did not disappear, but also became more and more serious. Even the attitude of the president of the Mu family was ambiguous. Lu Henglin questioned Yan Siqi angrily, but he got a response that the move to withdraw the news was blocked by the people of the Mu family.

The president of the Mu family asked him to meet at this time.

After thinking about it, Lu Henglin agreed, but ordered Yan Siqi to prepare for a public clarification press conference as usual.

"Mr. Mu, what do you mean by that?" Lu Henglin saw that Mu Zhenghai remained calm, and did not show his annoyance.

Mu Zhenghai smiled calmly, "I only have one daughter, Yawen, so naturally I can't let her be treated as a joke. I'm really ashamed to invite Mr. Lu here this time. My daughter fell in love with you at first sight. I can only think of a way for her."

"Thanks to Ms. Mu's wrong love, I'm sorry, I can only disappoint you." Lu Henglin didn't intend to waste time, and went straight to the point.

Mu Zhenghai raised his eyebrows, "Is my daughter not good enough?"

Lu Henglin knew that Mu Zhenghai was not easy to fool, so he simply confessed, "I don't like women, Mr. Mu forgive me."

Mu Zhenghai's expression was a bit subtle, he was silent for a moment, and then continued, "Then, when Mr. Lu says he refuses to Yawen, please try to be as calm as possible with your words, and don't make her too sad. As for your orientation, you don't have to let her I know, I don't force it."

"I will."

"There's also the matter of news, please don't do it so badly, Mr. Lu, it's been a few days since everyone spread it, it won't do you any harm, why bother to clarify and slap a girl in the face?"

"That's what I—"

Mu Zhenghai raised his hand to stop him, "Listen to me. I'm sorry for adding to the flames. In order to exchange with Mr. Lu, I can give you an inside information. You promise me not to clarify publicly, how about it?"

Lu Henglin thought to himself.

"The news is about country H. I heard that your group's overseas project department is stationed there to discuss infrastructure projects. My news is not just casual news."

"Okay, I promise you." Lu Henglin's first thought was that Xia Chengqi was there, and he agreed without hesitation.

Mu Zhenghai smiled slightly, "Boss Lu is really decisive. You won't be disappointed by my news. The Mu family has developed in country H for many years. I have close contacts with politicians. Recently, the rebel army in country H has been unable to suppress it. I'm afraid the high-level If the weather is going to change, you should evacuate people as soon as possible."

After hearing these words, Lu Henglin felt that his heart was sinking into the endless darkness. The unanswered phone call was like a vague omen, telling him that something that frightened him was happening somewhere he didn't know.