silent garden

Fei Tianlan felt in a daze that he had been split in two.

Half angry and aggrieved, with a question hanging in his throat: Why don't you believe me?You actually play me?

The other half blamed themselves and felt distressed, all the nerves in the body seemed to be closely attached to Xia Qi's mood, sad and melancholy, thinking: broken trust and expectations, will not give easily again.Playing around, let alone his turn to question.

He was face to face with Xia Qi, but he felt a sense of fear that he couldn't catch him.

There was nothing he could do, he couldn't utter a word.She had no choice but to stand up and walk over, leaning over and hugging Xia Qi.Hold the person in your arms as much as possible with both arms.It seems that this can completely protect him, so that he will no longer be hurt.Whoever hurts this person again, he wants to go all out.including myself.

It doesn't matter if you don't believe it.He thought, he just allowed himself to be by his side.My heart will always be hot.

In the next few days, Fei Tianlan spent a lot of time in the industrial park, and only went to the high-tech zone for necessary meetings.They meet every day, eat and chat.Then Fei Tianlan left Xia Qi's bachelor apartment before nine o'clock.

In a blink of an eye, Fei Tianlan had been away for half a month on this long trip, and the Sanjiang headquarters called several times to urge the boss to go back.

"I may not be able to come back so early these days." Before leaving that day, Fei Tianlan reported to Xia Qi.

The latter nodded lightly as always, and replied: "Okay."

Fei Tianlan opened his mouth, there was something else he wanted to say, but he stopped again.He pondered some plans, but he didn't want to talk about it when things didn't work out.So reluctantly went downstairs.

For the next three consecutive days, he stayed in the high-tech zone.Two days ago, I was in a hurry, and I was able to return before nine o'clock, and I met for a short time.On the third night, it was after ten o'clock.He drove the rented scooter to Xia Qi's building downstairs, and saw that there was only one window in that house, which was brightly lit.

This neighborhood is very quiet at night, making it easy for people to fall into a state of relaxation and cranky thoughts.Without knowing it, he stared at the window and smoked half a cigarette, and finally decided to make a phone call.Just as I opened the address book, a call came in first.

It was Zhou Huaiqiong.

He picked it up and walked to the shade of the tree by the side of the path: "Did you see my email?"

"I see." Zhou Huaiqiong didn't sound very easy-going, and asked suspiciously, "Your email means that you want to establish a branch of Luoqiong Energy in N City within this year?"

Luoqiong Energy is the company that Fei Tianlan used to discuss cooperation with Mr. Xiang this time, and it is also the result of the joint cooperation between him and Zhou Huaiqiong in the past two years.

With the financial resources and roots of Fei and Zhou, Luoqiong's development in Pinggang grew rapidly.This cooperation with the Xiang family in N city is a big step forward.The latter is a well-known large enterprise in the industry and has several mining qualifications.

Fei Tianlan replied: "Yes."

"No, the time is not yet ripe." Zhou Huaiqiong vetoed it. "We have just established cooperation with Xiang's. Now that we are an independent company, they will be regarded as a threat. If Luoqiong is a small company, it's fine, but behind it is your Sanjiang and my Chengyang, and behind me there is Ping Hong Kong Nuclear Power, in the eyes of any partner, they are worried that they will be eaten, and we can only let a small team go there."

How can a small team let the chairman of Sanjiang sit in charge.

Fei Tianlan calmly stated his opinion: "Sooner or later, the branch office will drop one here. You know this, and Mr. Xiang also knows it. Rather than everyone being wary of each other in the cooperation, it is better to be open and honest. In my opinion Having been in contact with Mr. Xiang for so long, opening his heart can gain him a greater degree of trust."

Zhou Huaiqiong was silent after hearing this.

Although Fei Tianlan's thoughts were a little too hasty, things were indeed as he said.It is inevitable to have a fixed work point in N city.

After a long silence like this, Fei Tianlan tentatively proposed: "We are in N City, Xiang's precautions are second, and the most lacking is the team. If... I can get Zhou Huailuo back to participate..."

"Impossible!" Zhou Huaiqiong interrupted him abruptly.

After the interruption, there was no more text.

Fei Tianlan listened to the movement over there, paused for a while, and continued: "You have been tracking his online records for the past two years, didn't you see it too, he never gave up his major. So you believe me , for him, letting go of his profession is much more difficult than letting go of a relationship."

Zhou Huaiqiong sighed in a low voice: "Then he won't come back...he will be sad when he comes back."

"What if? You haven't asked him to go home, how do you know he doesn't want to go home?" Fei Tianlan asked immediately.

Zhou Huaiqiong was really shaken by Zhou Huailuo's topic, and didn't speak for a long time.Fei Tianlan stopped chasing him now, and completely waited for him to make his own decision.

After a long time, Zhou Huaiqiong let go of his mouth slightly: "Let's talk about it after you come back and we will have a meeting to hear everyone's opinions. As for Zhou Huailuo, please don't bother me."

"Okay, leave it to you to bother." Fei Tianlan smiled maliciously.

Zhou Huaiqiong: "..."

It was Fei Tianlan's decision to settle a company in N City as soon as possible after that day after careful consideration.Regarding Zhou Huaiqiong's concerns, he has already tested the partner Mr. Xiang.He has been with Mr. Xiang in the high-tech zone for the past three days, just for this matter.

Before sending an email to Zhou Huaiqiong, he had already made six or seven points of Mr. Xiang's psychology.On this basis, he will send an email to Zhou Huaiqiong.Now that Zhou Huaiqiong has let go, he has more confidence.

But after hanging up the phone here, he looked up at Xia Qi's window again, and the light had gone out.He sighed, and his heart sank.I had no choice but to open WeChat and send a "good night" sullenly.

After sending the message, I returned to the car and was about to start the car when the window lit up again.Xia Qi's face appeared behind the window, and Fei Tianlan's phone rang at the same time.

Xia Qi asked, "Where is it?"

"Downstairs." Fei Tianlan opened the door and got out of the car, waved at Xia Qi, and explained, "I'm out of time for a social meeting today."

"Come up." Xia Qi said.

Fei Tianlan was overjoyed when he heard the words, his heart thumped, and he pretended: "It's so late..."

"Forget it if you don't come." Xia Qi gestured to close the window.

"Come, come!" Fei Tianlan dropped the cigarette, stomped it out, and immediately strode towards the stairs.

He didn't hang up the phone all the time, and after a while, the voice on the phone overlapped with the voice outside the door.Xia Qi came over and opened the door.He stepped into the door, immediately put the mobile phone on the shoe cabinet in the entrance, and picked Xia Qi up with his hands separately, and walked around in a circle.

"Why are you so happy? Have you done big business in the past three days?" After turning around, Xia Qi pushed him away, looking over from the corner of his eyes.

He didn't want to let him go, so he grabbed him back and hugged him: "I wasn't so happy at first, but you said let me come up, and I was very happy."

Xia Qi: "...I have no other meaning." He turned his head away from Fei Tianlan's direct gaze, "Have you had dinner yet?"

Fei Tianlan said, "Not yet."

Xia Qi frowned, and stared over, "Why didn't you eat? Did you have dinner to entertain?"

Fei Tianlan met his gaze, just smirked and didn't speak.The arm around his shoulders pulled her hard, and then rested her chin on his shoulders.After hugging quietly like this for a while, Xia Qi's body relaxed.The two leaned close together.

After an unknown amount of time, Fei Tianlan said "Thank you" softly.

"Thank you?" Xia Qi suddenly became interested.

"Thank you for letting me in."

"Oh."

"Thank you for letting me stay by your side."

"Ah."

"..."

"there is none left?"

"Have."

"Ok?"

"Thank you for giving me the chance to chase you."

Xia Qi suddenly smiled softly, with a nice voice.

From the first time he heard Xia Qi's voice on the plane, Fei Tianlan often picked up from his voice the feeling of playing in the back mountain stream in his childhood.The stream is clear and cold. Although he is playing alone, his heart is always stable.

At that time, the world was only a square inch, and everything was certain and practical.

"Xia Qi." He cupped the face of the person in his arms, looked into his eyes, and said excitedly, "When can you take a vacation, I'll take you somewhere."

Xia Qi looked at him blankly: "Where are you going?"

"My home!" he explained. "The home I grew up in. Not the one you used to live in."

Xia Qi was startled, then raised the corners of her lips and said, "You want me to know you?"

"You already know me very well. My best, my worst, my most downcast, my most proud..." At this point, Fei Tianlan suddenly paused, his eyes were embarrassed, "Except for the most proud, you I've seen them all. But it doesn't matter, I think I must have a more proud time, such as bringing you home..."

"Almost done." Xia Qi pushed him away.His arm didn't use much strength, and the push was easily pushed away, and the two separated some distance.Xia Qi didn't let him hug him any more, and walked to the kitchen, "I'll give you some hot food first."

He quickly followed: "then when are you free to go home with me?"

"do not know."

"You're sure you'll come home with me?"

"do not know."

"Then can I stay with you tonight?"

"..."

"That's okay?"

Xia Qi remained silent and chose two plates from the refrigerator.A plate of meat, a plate of broccoli, count vegetables.There is also a bowl of leftovers.Judging by the amount, it was left over after Fei Tianlan didn't come back.

He poured the vegetables into the rice and threw it into the microwave.Looking back, Fei Tianlan leaned against the kitchen door and looked at him.

He was there watching him the whole time.

Xia Qi and him were separated by a refrigerator, looked at him for a moment, and suddenly said seriously: "Fei Tianlan, why don't you go with me to see someone first?"

"See who?"

"My dad." He imitated Fei Tianlan's word order just now, "It's not the dad you've seen, it's my own dad."

Xia Qi doesn't like sweeping graves very much.Even if it was the grave-sweeping day required by the traditional custom of Qingming and Chongyang, he still had an attitude of coping.However, Xia Weijun always liked to throw out the phrase "go and see your dad" when he couldn't control him, which made him even more disgusted.

This is the first time that I took the initiative to visit the grave.

Fei Tianlan didn't say anything else, he put off everything, and accompanied Xia Qi to the cemetery in the suburbs of N City this weekend.

"I shouldn't have been born." They walked up the stairs, Xia Qi talked about himself.In Fei Tianlan's memory, this was the first time he took the initiative to talk about himself.

In front of him was a bunch of flowers dropped by an unknown grave-sweeper, Xia Qi squatted down to pick it up and put it on the nearest grave.Then walk into this row, the words on the mouth hardly paused.

If the speech speed is not fast, it means that people can't get in the conversation for no reason.

"Xia Weijun said that my father escaped from home. How old was he at that time, where did he come from, and who else was in the family? He never told anyone. Because of an accident, he served as an informant for Xia Weijun for a while. I was just a product of his carelessness, and he himself has always regretted it. He regretted it until he learned that I was born smoothly, entrusted me and my mother to Xia Weijun hastily, and threw himself into the river the next day. He saved Xia Weijun’s life, so Xia Weijun regards him as a brother and has raised me for so many years. Before my mother married abroad, he also took good care of my mother—didn’t expect that I have a mother, right?”

He said this in one breath, finally stopped, and turned to Fei Tianlan with a smile.The last question was obviously just a casual question, and Fei Tianlan didn't want to answer anything.

Because he immediately introduced his father to Fei Tianlan.

"This is my father, his name is Gu Mingxi." He pointed to the tomb in front of him and said to Fei Tianlan.

Fei Tianlan saw that "Gu Mingxi's Tomb" was simply written on the tombstone, and there was a posthumous portrait on it.The person in the photo is indeed very young, his face is very similar to Xia Qi.But compared to Xia Qi's desolation, this young man is more melancholy.Not like a police informant, but like a young artist.

Fei Tianlan squatted down, put the bouquet he had prepared in front of the tombstone, raised his head and asked Xia Qi, "What should I call him?"

"what ever."

Fei Tianlan raised his eyebrows, then turned his head, and shouted at the tombstone without hindrance: "Dad."

...and was kicked by Xia Qi.

Fei Tianlan smiled happily, and was about to jump up as a protest, when he suddenly saw a familiar person approaching not far away.

The people over there saw them too.Greeted Xia Qi from a distance of several meters: "Xiao Xia!"

Xia Qi nodded, "Is Lu Gong also coming to sweep the grave?"

Lu Zhao said: "Accompany a friend." While speaking, the person had already walked up to them, "Are you here to sweep the grave? Who are you looking for?"

Xia Qi replied: "My father."

Fei Tianlan followed up and said, "It's also my father", and then took Xia Qi's elbow again.Fei Tianlan was really going to protest now, and the two started fighting in a low-key manner, trying their best not to affect the solemn atmosphere of the occasion.

Suddenly, they heard Lu Zhao ask in a strange, indescribably hoarse voice, "Gu Mingxi, are you dead?"

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