silent garden

"...Sir, where are you going?" The taxi driver who picked you up at the airport asked for the second time, looking at the passenger who had been in a daze since he answered the phone with displeasure.

"Oh." Fei Tianlan came back to his senses, with an expression on his face as if he had just woken up from a dream, hesitated for a moment, and announced the name of the industrial zone where Beiliang was located.The driver said it was very far and expensive.He turned a deaf ear to it, and only tentatively asked Xia Qi on the other side of the phone, "I... can I go to your place?"

After a while, with a relaxed and satisfied smile on his face, he replied to the driver: "It's okay, you can go, you can pay as much as you want."

The driver pressed the meter button, and the car drove out of the airport.

Fei Tianlan looked out the window with restrained excitement in his eyes.Looking at the scenery outside, the eyes can't hold those scenery.My heart was pounding, all I could think about was the short phone call just now.

He never thought that he would receive a call from Xia Qi as soon as he got off the plane.The accident interrupted all his plans and imaginations.

It has been almost three months since Xia Weijun went back from his wedding.He made many preparations for coming to N City to look for Xia Qi again and staying here for a long time.Finally, I came here through the cooperation project with the head office.

All along the way, he was looking for an opportunity to go to the door of Xia Weijun's house, when would it be convenient to go to the door, and what kind of attitude should he take to face Xia Qi...

Before I could think of anything, my phone rang.

Before everything was ready, he came in front of Xia Qi.

At the visitor registration office at Beiliang Gate, he reported his name and said, "I'm here to find someone named Xia Qi... Sorry, I don't know his position here."

"Fei Tianlan." A familiar voice sounded.He turned his head and saw Xia Qi in a lab coat walking towards him.

The young man was in a hurry, his eyes met with him, and he smiled faintly.His eyes were calm.Walked up to him, said softly "You're here", then poked his head into the registration window.

"It's my friend, please register as an ordinary visitor." After a while, he took out a visitor's badge and handed it to Fei Tianlan.

The latter took over.His eyes were fixed on him, his lips were pursed, and he hesitated to speak.After wearing it, he patted his own brand and smiled.The suitcase beside him made him look like a primary school student preparing to go on an outing.

Xia Qi couldn't help being uncomfortable, and didn't want to show it, so he pursed his lips and tilted his head, "Let's go, I'll take you shopping. Do you want to store your suitcase? The security room can keep it for you."

"No need." Fei Tianlan shook his head.

Beiliang Branch is a small-scale factory in this industrial park. Production, research and development, and management occupy two buildings in the park.In fact, there is nothing to visit.

Xia Qi took Fei Tianlan to his office, but now Fei Tianlan took the initiative to "deposit" the suitcase.After hearing his request, Xia Qi raised her eyes to look at him without saying anything.

"Did I delay you from going to work?" Fei Tianlan stood by the door and pointed to the production area opposite.It was working hours in the afternoon, and there were people coming and going, and it looked very busy.

Xia Qi originally wanted to say that there would be no delay, but the words stopped when he reached the point of his mouth.

When he called Fei Tianlan, he never thought that someone was at the airport, let alone prepared to meet and be alone.He is still a little dazed now, looking at Fei Tianlan in front of him, he feels unreal in his heart.

Fei Tianlan thought that his pause was a sign of embarrassment, and immediately took the initiative to find an arrangement for himself: "Go and do your work, I will go out and walk casually by myself. I... wait for you to get off work."

Xia Qi's eyes flickered, and he nodded: "Okay."

He bent over and opened the bottom drawer of the desk, and took out a key. "This is for you, you can come back here and wait for me after you finish shopping."

The office is double-locked with fingerprints and keys, and you can choose one of the two to open.Fei Tianlan took the key, the corners of his mouth raised high as if he had gotten some treasure.

Xia Qi went to the R&D building.When I came back a few hours later, I found that my office seemed to be occupied by Fei Tianlan.

The man was working left and right with two computers on.Hearing the sound of the door being pushed, he immediately frowned and raised his head, casting a look of work.Severe focus, like frost on a blade.Seeing that it was Xia Qi, he relaxed his brows and let out a warm smile, signaling "wait a moment".

Then he bowed his head and said to one of the computers: "You guys continue to discuss, and give me the result later. I will download first."

Then I turned off the two computers, quickly packed my things and stuffed them into the suitcase.Xia Qi was also taking off his white coat.The eyes of the two collided, as if they had something to say.After such a collision, both of them were subtly silent.

After a while, Xia Qi looked away, "Where do you live?"

Fei Tianlan: "..."

Seeing his speechless look, Xia Qi seemed to realize something: "Downtown?"

Fei Tianlan nodded.

"Then I'll send you..."

"No need." Fei Tianlan put the suitcase in front of him, "I saw that there is a hotel outside your industrial park, I'll just go and open a room."

Xia Qi's eyes were full of meaning.

"Are you hungry? Let's go have dinner. What's delicious here?" Fei Tianlan avoided the look and walked out with the suitcase.

oh.Xia Qi followed behind, looking at his back lightly.There was a distance of more than one meter and less than two meters between them.

The corridor of the office building is very long, and his room is in the deepest part.He looked at the long road ahead of them, and raised his hand involuntarily, making a stroking motion in the void.

He didn't touch Fei Tianlan, but suddenly felt the truth.

There are several hotels outside the park, Fei Tianlan randomly picked the nearest one to check in.After putting down the suitcase, he went to have dinner with Xia Qi, and they also chose a small restaurant by the side of the road.

After dinner, it was still dark.Xia Qi took Fei Tianlan to visit the Beiliang employee community.Just walk along the long runway along the route that Lu Zhao took him for a walk before.

Unexpectedly, they naturally chatted about each other's life after Xia Qi left Pinggang.

Xia Qi told Fei Tianlan that he had published two award-winning papers, and almost went abroad for further study, but in the end he didn't.The reason, he smiled, and put it through with a flat sentence of "the country is also very good".Then there is graduation and work.

In comparison, Fei Tianlan was much more exciting and ups and downs.

Returning to the core of the Sanjiang Group headquarters, gathering power, gaining a firm foothold, cleaning up the clerical people, integrating the business sectors and resources that have almost withered after paying huge fines, developing and maintaining new government relations, exploring new outlets and new fields... Every day Every step of every step is like walking on thin ice. Some people become new best friends, and some completely turn their faces and separate.

For the same amount of time, he actually did so many things.

I don't know why, but after listening to him talking, Xia Qi's mind kept showing the news photos he kept secretly.In the photo, Fei Tianlan, who is mature, stable and energetic, gradually overlaps with the man in front of him who looks a little dusty but full of enthusiasm.

He thought of the half a year he had spent in Pinggang, waiting for Fei Tianlan to come back every night.

At that time, this person was either drunk or tired.

She always stays in his room, holding him in her arms, but her body is still curled up.At that time, he only felt that this person was so clingy, willful and hooligan on the bed, making people helpless but soft-hearted.Thinking about it now, it seemed like a soul had passed through him at that time, clearly touching his fragility and dependence at that time.

"Fei Tianlan." Xia Qi couldn't help calling him and stopped.

They happened to be standing on the bridge where Xia Qi and Lu Zhao were standing last time, and in the distance was the same sunset.

Fei Tianlan turned around and saw that Xia Qi's face was a little ambiguously red by the setting sun, and his eyes were softly illuminated.

"At that time." Xia Qi narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at him, "Do you have a little Oedipus complex for me?"

The topic Fei Tianlan was talking about was a project he was busy with recently, and he talked about "I haven't been home for many days. Fortunately, I don't keep small animals."This has nothing to do with Xia Qi's question.

But he understood Xia Qi's words.

There was a "boom" in my heart, and I didn't know why.

He felt that Xia Qi's statement was really paradoxical, but when the "dong" came down, it happened to be stuck in a certain groove in his heart.That trough hadn't shown any signs of existence before.It wasn't until it was knocked open that it was empty and lonely. I don't know how long it has been there.

Two contradictory feelings of grievance and warmth popped up in Fei Tianlan's heart at the same time, and his nose became sore unexpectedly.

"How should I put it..." He waved his hand, then touched his nose and rubbed his eyes, "I don't know. But, Xia Qi, you were the only one with me at that time. You left I said it all the time, I have you as an illusion. Maybe you are right, you are my illusion for all my needs."

"All." He said emphatically.

Lifting his drooping eyes, he looked at the setting sun in the distance, and murmured to himself: "At that time, I needed my father, my mother, a friend who could be trusted and assured, and someone who loved me and was loved by me wholeheartedly." Someone. But I don't have all of that, I just have you. So, maybe... you're everything."

"You are everything," put it lightly.If it wasn't for the darkness of the night, which made the hearing sensitive, Xia Qi doubted that he would not be able to hear these words.

It suppressed Xia Qi's breathing, and his heart felt extremely uncomfortable due to the lack of air.

People are always trying to define or analyze a relationship, to sort out its ins and outs, to figure out what is involved in it.But emotion is not a chemical experiment, it always presents thousands of unpredictable reactions, and it is never possible to come up with a reaction equation for reproducible induction.

Therefore, what he has repeatedly recalled and sorted out for so long is actually meaningless.

Only the real Fei Tianlan standing in front of him at this moment, and himself who is so concerned about this person, are all the answers.

He suddenly became enlightened, his brows stretched, and he smiled at Fei Tianlan: "So you are looking for me now, are you chasing me back?"

Hearing this, Fei Tianlan's eyes widened, his breath stagnated suddenly, he stared at Xia Qi's eyes, nodded inaudibly, and carefully tested: "...is it okay?"

Xia Qi put his hands on the railing of the bridge, facing him: "But do you know how to fall in love with me?"

Fei Tianlan: "...is this difficult?"

"I don't know." Xia Qi said, "I just think that you are so spoiled about dating and don't understand anything."

Fei Tianlan twitched his lips and wanted to refute, but he felt that it was not the case to refute now.Then shut up and listen to the instruction.

Xia Qi sighed and said, "Since I can't forget you, then I'll teach you to fall in love with me."

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