Rust II

Lin An didn't know how long he had been sleeping, the high pressure and the mountain of uneasiness and anxiety in the past few days, in this short-term fainting that was different from ordinary sleep, he finally got a short-term release and relief.

So when he saw the familiar figure deeply engraved in his heart from his blurred vision, he just instinctively called out the two words that were buried deepest in his heart.

"Brother Xu."

Dreams are dreams after all.

After a few seconds, when he completely recovered his consciousness, and saw clearly the tall and straight figure who was looking back at him silently, Lin An knew that reality had come.

Xu Xin's expression was cold, and the gaze he cast over was no longer as gentle as before. When he saw him wake up, he was only silent for a while, and then asked in a calm voice, "Are you awake?"

The tone was also unprecedentedly cold since the two reunited.

Lin An stared in the direction of the door motionlessly, for a long time, a pale smile suddenly appeared on his face.

Xu Xin was suffocated by that expression, and after a while, he suppressed the turmoil in his heart again, turned his gaze back and said in a hoarse voice: "...Since you are awake, take a good rest." After a pause, "I still have something to do, I'm leaving."

After finishing speaking, he wanted to turn around and leave again, but his posture seemed a little hasty for a while.

"Brother Xu."

However, in the next second, the other party called him in a low voice from behind.

Xu Xin stopped and didn't look back.

"...I didn't choose wrongly." After a while, a soft voice drifted into my ears.

Xu Xin was startled, his eyes moved slightly with his back to the man's face.

Lin quietly stared ahead, and after a while, his lips moved, and he repeated what he said just now stubbornly: "Brother Xu, this time... I didn't choose wrong again."

Xu Xin stood still on the spot, still silent. After a long time, he slowly turned around, met the man's still hopeful eyes, and asked, "...What exactly do you want to say?"

Lin An just stared at him intently.

For a moment, the heaviness in the air seemed to be a little thicker than before.

Xu Xin stared at the opposite side for a while, and the mood that had just calmed down seemed to start to stir again, so he quickly turned his eyes away and cast his eyes on the wall by the bed cabinet.

After an unknown amount of time, Fang took a deep breath, regained his composure and opened his mouth.

What he said was an ambiguous and mocking sentence: "...Mr. Lin, I didn't expect that after so many years, your ability to pretend is still so good."

Lin An was obviously taken aback.

After Xu Xin said this sentence, he seemed to have found some support and support from it. After a short pause, even the previous indifference began to become aggressive.

He stared at the shadow cast by the calendar card on the desk, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly smiled, and asked again: "...how did you get the injury on your hand?"

Lin An didn't say a word when he heard the words, but his gaze that was looking straight ahead dimmed a little for a moment, and the next moment, it seemed that his left hand, which was used to grab the edge of the bed for strength, also trembled slightly, and shrank back unconsciously.

He lowered his eyes and didn't answer.

Xu Xin waited, seeing that he refused to answer, his eyes fixed on the white wall in front of the cabinet wavered slightly, and then smiled again.

After a while, he lowered his eyes slightly, and continued to maintain the coldness and asked softly, "Why didn't you tell me something happened at school?"

Lin An still didn't answer.

Xu Xin paused for a moment. In silence, he raised his eyes and moved his eyes from the outline of the bed cabinet, and finally retracted his frozen eyes in the direction connecting with the head of the bed.

He saw that the other party was obviously beginning to evade, and asked again: "Even if the phone call fails, why didn't you mention anything in the text message? Even Chen Jianliang knows..." After a long while, Fang Ruoyou Pointingly continued: "Even Chen Jianliang knew to come to me, why didn't you tell me?"

"Don't dare to say it, or don't want to say it?"

A series of questions were asked by the other party in a slightly indifferent voice. Lin An seemed to have noticed and sensed something from this different calmness and the sudden change in the other party's attitude, and his five fingers clasped tightly on the edge of the bed began to slightly trembling.

But still no answer.

A deeper and heavier silence spread between the two.

Lin An lay motionless in the same place, but his right hand, which had just lost its numbness, seemed to be more weak and numb than before, hanging by his side and unable to move.And the urgency to see the other party at the beginning of waking up was also replaced by a more sober consciousness. After a while, under the cold gaze of the other party, the whole army was wiped out.

A few hours ago, Ma Yifu's heckles and laughter in the beef soup shop, and all the speculations about the other party that had been lingering in his heart for several days, all suddenly appeared at this moment more clearly than ever before. mind.

Immediately afterwards, an unprecedented strong premonition suddenly struck, enveloping his entire body, one after another, like slippery water plants protruding from the mud, enveloping him from head to toe The ground is tightly bound, and the remaining hope in the bottom of my heart is plundered inch by inch.

But he could only watch helplessly, helpless.

Sure enough, after a long wait, Xu Xin's deep voice sounded again in the almost suffocating silence.

"...Actually, you already guessed it, didn't you." He asked.

The tone was determined and indifferent, which was completely opposite to the previous one.

Lin An's eyes were closed tightly, and his eyelashes trembled suddenly when he heard this question, and then the huge pain in his palm and chest quickly filled his collapsed heart, prompting him to shake his head subconsciously. , still struggling in vain and unwilling to give an answer.

Xu Xin looked at him quietly. In fact, he had already made a conclusion about the result in his heart, but still under the impetus of an inexplicable emotion, he silently looked at the other party's palms clasped to the edge of the bed for a while, and then pulled silently and with no clear meaning. Twitching the corner of his mouth, he asked softly, "When is it?"

After finishing speaking, he seemed to think of something suddenly, and after a short pause, he smiled clearly and asked, "The night of the open day,"

"...Or after meeting Ma Yifu this morning?"

Lin An's bare wrist twitched imperceptibly when he heard the other party say those three words.

Xu Xin felt it, looked at him silently for a while, and continued to ask: "What did he tell you?"

Lin An still shook his head.

Xu Xin looked at him with the same expression on his face: "Tell me, what did he say?"

Lin An gritted his teeth tightly, and tightened his five fingers grasping the bed rail, but still refused to make a sound.

Silence once again became a tool in this silent tug-of-war.

Xu Xin's eyes locked on the thin figure opposite him firmly. After a long time, he suddenly took a step forward very slowly, then bent down extremely gently, and put his hands on the top of the opponent's head.His demeanor was as gentle and intimate as ever, but the words he spoke were like sharp knives one after another, piercing straight into the internal organs of the listener.

"...Did he say that you will come to X to work, all of which are arranged by me?"

Lin An's lips trembled slightly, and the fear in his heart fermented layer by layer. After a while, it all turned into bottomless despair.

But the extremely soft and steady voice of judo in his ears still refused to stop, dragging him to a deeper and colder place step by step.

Xu Xin paused for a while, as if he was thinking about something, and after a few seconds, he continued:

"Does it mean that the house you were looking for in Cui Fang Yuan in July was also rented to you at a reduced price by me?"

"Or, if he is sensitive enough, he may even tell you that the reason why I tried every means to create so many opportunities to meet you by chance, and even develop the 'intimate relationship' with you to the present, is not because I can't forget my love for you when I was in the Third Guolian Factory. Your old love is just to lure you into the bait, so that I can torture and revenge you better in the future."

"...Just like you did to me back then."

"is not it?"

These rhetorical questions, which were similar to statements one after another, finally mercilessly lifted the fig leaf that I had never wanted to touch, and completely exposed the truth to the sun.

"Stop talking..." Lin An finally couldn't take it anymore, a trace of rosiness spread from the corner of his eyes, accompanied by a weak murmur.

Xu Xin's voice stopped as he wished, but the silence seemed to be sharper than the burst of questioning just now, causing the people who waited to be mentally broken and in unbearable pain.

So I don't know how long it has passed. When Xu Xin spoke again, the voice that slowly overflowed from his throat, which had brought him countless warmth and heartbeats countless times in the past, seemed to have become capable. The vortex that instantly engulfed people quickly ran over their ears.

"So Lin An, you said that you made the right choice..." Xu Xin looked straight at him, and after a short pause, he smiled slightly, "Do you think this is meaningful to me now?"

"Or, do you think this is just a test question that I tailor-made for you because I am unwilling, and if you answer it correctly, you can pretend that nothing in the past has happened?"

Lin An has been completely silent, leaving only a faint tear in the corner of his eye, expressing his suppressed heart.

Xu Xin looked at him, and slowly retracted the hand that was stuck on top of the opponent's head.

What was taken back together was the remaining warmth between the words, "You are wrong."

After talking for a while, he slowly straightened up, turned his back and faced the door of the ward again, "Because from the beginning, what I wanted was not your so-called choice."

Lin An lay on the bed without making a sound, a tear finally slipped down the end of his eyes to the pillow cover uncontrollably after the words were heard.

The sound of Xu Xin's footsteps sounded from the side, and in just a few seconds, it gradually changed from clear to vague, and finally stopped at the door a few steps away.

"Mr. Lin," a low voice came to Lin An's ears a few seconds later, "... heal your wounds and leave City C."

The door then closed behind him.

At the other end of the corridor, Ding Hua was turning out of the elevator room with a packed food box, heading towards the direction of the VIP area.

He was holding a full packing bag in one hand, and holding up the phone in the other, and quickly explained something to the phone, "Well, well, okay, you put the list on my office desk first, and I'll come back when I'm done working here." The company will approve it for you." While raising his head again, he happened to bump into Xu Xin who was walking towards him, so he hurriedly said a few words to the other end of the phone, hung up the call, and walked towards the opposite side at a faster speed.

"Hey brother, why did you come out?" Ding Hua looked at the direction of the ward behind him as he spoke, and asked concerned: "Xiao Lin woke up?"

Xu Xin's face was ashen, he changed from his calm and indifferent attitude when he was in the ward, and when he saw Ding Hua standing in front of him, he just gave him a hesitant look, and after saying "um", he was about to bypass him and continue on. walk forward.

Ding Hua was taken aback by his cold aura that lingered around him, and after a moment of stupefaction, he remembered to take two steps back, then raised the bag in his hand to block the opponent, and asked suspiciously: "Boss, what's wrong with you?"

After finishing, he glanced at the stack of food boxes in his hand, "Are you going out? You don't want to eat with us? Well, I've ordered for three people."

Xu Xin was blocked, so he had to stand there for a while, then he was silent for a while, and replied coldly: "I have something to do, I have to go first."

"... Oh." Ding Hua responded, looked around furtively, and asked him in a low voice: "What's the matter? Cough, what, is it related to the Ma family?"

Xu Xin stared at the tile floor under his feet, but did not answer.

Ding Hua waited for a while, Xu also noticed something, looked at the other party for a while, took the initiative to take a step aside, and said softly: "...All right, then you go first, I'll go and see Xiao Lin, what's the matter Let me know."

Xu Xin responded, remained silent for a while, and walked past the opponent.

But after two steps, he stopped suddenly, turned his head and stared silently at Ding Hua, who was still standing there and staring at his back.

A few seconds later, he lowered his gaze and said, "After you go back... let someone look at his injuries."

"Huh?" Ding Hua looked puzzled, "Injury? What injury?" Then he turned his head and looked at the VIP where Lin An was, and asked, "The injury on the hand? Hey, didn't Gang Hou say that he had already dealt with it?" Ok?"

Xu Xin's eyes moved slightly, and flashed in his mind that just now, the man tightly clasped the edge of the bed to the gauze-wrapped right hand. After a long silence, he didn't answer. He just looked away silently, turned around and continued walking towards the elevator.

The second monk Ding Huazhang couldn't figure it out. He stood at the same spot and looked at the other's fading figure for a long while, then he picked up his bag and returned to the ward.

The sky outside the outpatient building seemed to change its tone in an instant.

When Xu Xin drove the car out of the underground garage, the dazzling sun that was originally hanging in the sky was covered by layers of clouds, and occasionally a glimmer of light shone through, illuminating the car seat alternately between light and dark.

An hour later, the car stopped outside the gate of Zhuyuan.

The security guards on duty looked up at the monitoring screen on the opposite wall several times, and they could see the black Audi, which often came in and out of the community, parked motionless not far from the landing pole. Fortunately, there were not many residents in this community, so there was nothing else Cars come in, otherwise [-]% will be blocked.

After raising his head for the fourth time, the guard finally couldn't bear it any longer. After hesitating, he walked out of the sentry box, walked around to the front door of the black car, knocked, and called softly, "Boss Ding? Boss Ding?"

Then he bent down slightly, "Why is your car parked here? Is there something wrong? If not, can I trouble you..."

Who would have thought that the window would be lowered slowly before the words fell, and another face would appear from it.

The guard suddenly got stuck, and after staring at the face of the person in the car for a moment, he smiled embarrassingly and said, "Oh, why is it you, Mr. Xu? Thought it was your friend."

Unexpectedly, Xu Xin acted as if he hadn't heard it. After putting down the window, he sat quietly in the driver's seat without saying a word.

After more than ten seconds, another car came over. Impatient with waiting for a long time, he leaned out and yelled in front. Fang Rumeng restarted the car and slid down the landing bar.

After returning to the villa and entering the house, Aunt Yuan, who was tidying up in the kitchen, heard the movement at the gate and came out. Seeing Xu Xin who had disappeared for almost two weeks, she asked in surprise and joy: "Hey sir, are you back?" gone?"

As he spoke, he looked at the wall clock in the living room, and then asked with concern: "Have you eaten yet? Can I make you something? It just so happened that I bought half a goose at the vegetable market this morning, and I'm stewing it with it."

Xu Xin just sat down on the sofa, closed his eyes and supported his head, looking extremely tired, after a while, he replied in a low voice: "...No need."

Seeing him standing on the sofa, Aunt Yuan calmed down a little from her excitement, and gradually noticed the dullness on the other person, so she hurried forward and wiped the coffee table in front of the sofa with a freshly washed rag. After sorting it out, he changed the topic and asked:

"Then... do you want to eat at home tonight? What do you want to eat? I'll make it for you then."

When it was over, he seemed to think of something, and while putting away the messy books that Xu Yuan spread out last night, he sighed softly, and said a little worriedly: "Oh, speaking of this, you are not at home recently, I guess I don't really know, Yuanyuan, I don't know what's going on for a while, she always has no appetite, her face droops every day when she comes home, and she can't eat a few mouthfuls of food, just yesterday, I specially made sauced duck for her, It’s usually cute to eat, but I only took a look at it last night.”

After hearing this, Xu Xin moved his eyes under his closed eyelids, opened them a few seconds later, frowned and asked, "...what's wrong with her?"

Since he left City C last week, he has been entangled in a series of accidents. Even now, there are still a lot of things waiting for him to take care of the aftermath. Therefore, Xu Yuan's side is inevitably negligent.

Aunt Yuan shook her head: "I don't know either, alas, she won't tell me when I ask her." After she finished speaking, she put away the cloth again, the worry on her face became a little more serious, "Hey, I suddenly remembered, so I just went to the last one. On Tuesday, as soon as she came back from school, she locked herself in the room on the second floor, telling her that she would not come out to eat, so I thought about going upstairs to have a look, who knew that I heard her crying inside the door, and then I called her, but there was no sound again, and I don’t know if I heard it wrong.”

Xu Xin frowned even deeper.

"Sir, when you come back this time, you have to find a time to have a good talk with her. It's not Aunt Yuan, I'm alarmist. Children of this age should be locked up. I used to have a child in my hometown, and it was also a few years ago. When I was in high school, I was under a lot of pressure, and I didn’t provide timely psychological counseling. After a long time, I held back for a long time, and then I got a little bit of stimulation, so I did something stupid! His parents still meet each other. People just wipe their tears."

Xu Xin didn't say a word, and it took a long time to close his eyes again, and replied in a low voice: "Okay. I see."

Aunt Yuan quickly tidied up the rest of the living room as well. Seeing that the other party was really tired, she stopped talking. A few minutes later, she went back to the kitchen silently.

The living room fell silent again.

Xu Xin sits alone in the middle of the living room, opposite is a floor-to-ceiling wall mirror that Xu Yuan asked for when he was a child, and two summer scenes are painted and engraved on it. Under the light, they bloom in the pool. The edges of the lotus flowers reflected a faint metallic luster.

Xu Xin's eyes wandered aimlessly on the mirror, and finally involuntarily settled on a lotus leaf in the corner where the neck was bent to drink water.

After a long time, he suddenly looked back, got up and went upstairs.

The moment the study door was closed behind him, his stagnant and chaotic mood finally sank gradually in this absolutely closed and private space.

Xu Xin stood at the door for a while, and walked slowly to the leather chair behind the desk, but when he was about to sit down, he suddenly remembered something, turned slightly sideways, and cast his eyes on the bookshelf a few steps away—— Among the books in professional fields such as business journals and medical equipment, two collections of essays by Zhu Ziqing were stuffed at the end of the list of books out of place.

Xu Xin stared at that place quietly for a while, then suddenly stretched out his hand, and took the two collections of anthology, which were so old that even the covers were crumbling, off the shelf.Two seconds later, he took out one of the yellowed and wrinkled red leather cigarette cases that was almost invisible, held it in his hand for a moment with a blank expression on his face, turned around and locked it in together. in the drawer under the glass of the cabinet.

After doing all this, his tired body finally sank into the opened chair.

Xu Xin leaned on his forehead and closed his eyes lightly. In the extreme silence, all the big and small things that happened in the past few days passed quickly in his brain that had resumed functioning, and the things related to the Ma family that were quickly summed up in his mind The network of interests has also temporarily relieved the various emotions that were deeply trapped by that person and were difficult to extricate themselves from.

On the table is still a piece of information about a chemical plant that was developed in the new district of City C that I just received when I left last weekend.

Xu Xin opened the folder, and slowly flipped through the pages from the beginning.

If I did not guess wrong, what Xu Guang mentioned in the message two hours ago about the dinner related to the Ma family tonight should be the land that has been abandoned for almost four years after the chemical plant closed down. issues of redevelopment and access rights.

It has not been a day or two since Ma Hui wanted to make use of Xu's family's long-term accumulated connections in medicine. He has even expressed it to Xu Boda several times since he was still in Guolian No. 92 Factory in [-]. Nai He's willingness in this regard, without exception, always stumbles against his cautious father, and all of them return in vain.

Xu Guang, who had managed to climb higher and higher in recent years, seemed to be showing signs of loosening, and he might look back at them, so he acted a little anxious, which is not difficult to understand.

What's more, what they ran into was a veteran like Xu Guang who played hard to get.

Thinking of playing hard to get, Xu Xin stared at the information with a slight movement of his eyes, and his thoughts inevitably turned to the pale face in the hospital not long ago.

He rubbed his brows irritably, and closed his eyes again, trying to get rid of that thin figure from his mind, but just as soon as he calmed down, the phone in his jacket vibrated uncontrollably up.

He reached out his hand and took out the phone from his pocket, only to see the word Ding Hua jumping continuously on the lit screen.

Xu Xin couldn't help frowning slightly, hesitated for a few seconds, and pressed the answer button.

"Hello? Boss!" Unexpectedly, as soon as he put the receiver to his ear, Ding Hua's anxious voice came over.

"Xiao Lin didn't know what was going on, but suddenly disappeared!"

The other party seemed to be standing on the side of the road. As soon as he finished speaking, there were intermittent voices of people and cars.

Xu Xin's hand holding the phone tightened, and his heart beat a little faster unconsciously, but just as the question came to his lips, it barely stopped.

"Hello? Hello? Boss, are you listening?" Ding Hua finished his sentence without beginning or end, but he couldn't help becoming more anxious when he didn't get a response from the other party.

"...Mmm." After a long while, a low response was heard.

After a pause, he asked in a deep voice, "What's going on?"

Ding Hua was in a hurry, but he didn't notice Xu Xin's abnormally cold tone. When he heard the reply, he immediately went on to say: "I just don't know! I asked the information desk on the VIP floor, and said I didn't see it. Checking the registration records has no results. Call his mobile phone and turn it off. Hey, you said it was really weird, if he wants to leave, he has to say hello to me, right? "

As he spoke, his voice became quieter, and most of the noise around him also receded, apparently he had avoided a relatively quiet place.

Sure enough, in the next second, he whispered to the side: "Master, please go to Bo'ai Road."

At the same time, the car door was slammed shut.

After Ding Hua finished his explanation, he turned back and continued: "I'll go to Cuifangyuan to have a look." After explaining, he turned back, "Well, it was fine when I had lunch at noon, although I don't know the wound on my hand. What happened, it was cracked again when I went back, and I asked someone to deal with it before eating. Then after eating, he said he was tired and wanted to sleep, can I agree, I can’t drag him to get sick Why don't you just talk nonsense with me. Then as soon as he fell asleep, I had nothing to do, so I took the opportunity to go to the company and signed the expense slip that Zou Ping left on my desk. The others disappeared, and it took more than an hour."

Ding Hua finished talking like a cannonball, but there was no sound on the other end of the phone.

As soon as he picked his forehead, he automatically imagined his brother's anxious face but he couldn't speak, so he couldn't help but followed up with comfort: "Hey, but don't worry too much, boss, I will talk to you first." Just say it. Linzi is such a big man, so nothing will happen for a while, maybe there is something to go back to school or go home, I will go to Cuifangyuan first to see."

Xu Xin didn't say a word until several seconds later, before he responded in a low voice again.

The call was hung up, and the quiet study room was restored. After Xu Xin sat motionless on his seat and lost his mind, he lowered his head and looked at his left hand resting on the table—the folder had been inadvertently closed.

Aunt Yuan's voice rang outside the door at this moment, "Sir, the gatekeeper of the community just called home suddenly. He said that a man came from the gate of Zhuyuan, and he seemed to be looking for you."

Xu Xin's heart skipped a beat, and after sitting quietly for a while, he got up and opened the door.

Aunt Yuan was standing at the door, seeing him suddenly appearing on his gloomy face, she couldn't help but move a little to the side.

"...What's your name, did you ask?"

Xu Xin stared blankly at the carpet in the corridor and asked.

Aunt Yuan nodded, "I asked, but the other party didn't say anything, just reported our address and house number, and asked if you live here. The guard didn't tell him because there was no report record about him. I stopped making a sound, and stood alone at the green belt opposite, and have been standing for almost half an hour now."

Xu Xin fell silent again, and after a long time, he said "hmm".Soon, he asked again: "...do you know what it looks like?"

Aunt Yuan looked at his expression, and replied in a low voice: "I don't know, but they said he looks very thin. Oh, there are gauzes on his hands, which seem to be injured."

Xu Xin's breathing was stagnant, and after a long while, he nodded.

But after nodding, he didn't say anything more, just turned around in silence, and closed the door again.

Seeing the other party's behavior, Aunt Yuan understood in her heart, went downstairs to the landline, and returned the guard to the door for him.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Before I knew it, another hour passed, and the pointer on the mahogany clock gradually approached five o'clock.

During this period, Ding Hua called again, saying that he couldn't find anyone in Cuifangyuan, and he contacted Chen Jianliang later, but the other party hesitated and couldn't give an accurate answer, and Ding Hua couldn't find anyone after searching for a long time. I was also a little anxious, and kept yelling that I would go back to the hospital to find a way to check the video and see where the other party went.

It wasn't until Xu Xin told others in a hoarse voice that he was here in Zhuyuan that he breathed a sigh of relief, and then complained that he didn't say it earlier, which made him run around the city like a headless chicken.

Xu Xin didn't refute, and listened very quietly the whole time, until the end of the call, he raised his hand and pressed down on the temple that was tingling, and it was getting more and more painful.

He rejected Ding Hua's proposal to come to the bamboo garden to pick him up, and just sat silently in the study, as if waiting for something.

Nearly 40 minutes later, there was a faint commotion downstairs, and 5 minutes later, Aunt Yuan came upstairs again, knocked on his door, and couldn't help laughing happily: "Mr. I'm sitting with you in the living room downstairs, can you go down and meet me?"

Xu Xin put down the things in his hand, pinched the bridge of his nose again, got up and went downstairs.

Xu Guang was sitting on the sofa, and the driver Lao Zhang who brought him stood beside him. They held a cup of hot tea from Aunt Yuan in each hand, and they were chatting in a low voice in a harmonious atmosphere.Seeing him coming down, they all stopped and cast their gazes over.

When Xu Guang saw his younger brother who had just parted from him from City B, he smiled and asked with concern: "Why is your face so bad? Why, you came back early in the morning and haven't had a good rest yet?"

Xu Xin glanced at Lao Zhang on one side, nodded and said hello, and sat down on the opposite side. The depression in his expression had disappeared a lot. He took another cup of tea from the low table, took a sip, and pretended to be relaxed. "It's okay." Putting the tea back, he lazily leaned back on the sofa and asked, "Didn't you say seven o'clock in the evening? Why is it here now?"

Xu Guang looked at him calmly, and put the glass back on the table, "Lao Ma said that Ma Yifu had an accident when he was socializing outside today, and someone smashed the wine bottle and gave him a concussion."

As he said that, he glanced at Xu Xin, who was on the opposite side with a normal expression, "So I changed the flight and came here an hour earlier. Later, let's go to Ma Hui's residence and see him together."

Xu Xin's half-down eyes moved, "Oh", and after a pause, he asked lightly, "Is it serious?"

Xu Guang looked at him with a half-smile, but didn't answer directly: "I don't know." After a short pause, he continued: "Whether it's serious or not... we won't know until we meet for a while."

The three of them then sat for a meeting in the villa. Xu Guang was used to superficiality, even with Aunt Yuan who had little contact with him, he was able to chat for a long time with a warm attitude, with the attitude of a gentle and kind old man.

Xu Xin, on the other hand, sat silently from the beginning to the end. Except for a few conversations with Xu Guang at the beginning, the rest of the time was like a cold and lifeless decoration, half leaning on the back of the sofa, with his eyes closed. A bored sleepy look.

At six o'clock, Xu Guang finally got up and had the intention to set off.

Xu Xin stood up, and the group changed their shoes and put on their coats at the entrance. Aunt Yuan was worried that the temperature would drop sharply in the early winter night, so she prepared a scarf for each of the brothers, put it in a bag and took it to the car for Lao Zhang.

Two minutes later, the three of them came to the gate of the bamboo garden again.

The landing bar was raised far away, Xu Xin sat on the back seat without saying a word, his gaze fell through the car window on the already lit street outside, as if he was wandering and searching aimlessly.

Tens of seconds later, I was finally able to catch a slender figure standing in the cold wind without warning and unexpectedly under a certain green magnolia tree outside the gate of the bamboo garden.

Xu Guang had been secretly paying attention to Xu Xin who was sitting next to him since he got in the car. Seeing that he was staring at a certain direction, he followed the other person's line of sight.

The speed of the car near the residential area is always much slower than usual. Xu Guang glanced at it, retracted his gaze and slightly hooked the corner of his mouth, and asked, "Do you need to stop?"

Xu Xin's right hand, which was resting on the armrest inside the door, clenched slightly into a fist, lowered his eyelids and said nothing.

After a long while, he replied in a deep voice, "No need."

In less than ten seconds, the car drove away from Zhulin Road, and the speed immediately increased.

In the halo of various colors flying past, Xu Guang looked at the other party quietly for a while, and suddenly couldn't help laughing, "He did a good job in stimulating Ma Yifu."

Xu Newsyan rolled his eyes.Still silent.

Xu Guang paused, and said again: "But I really didn't expect... You will arrange this move on him." He smiled again, "Very good, it's beyond my expectation."

Xu Xin still closed his eyes and did not say a word.

Xu Guang looked at him for a while, and continued: "But then again, even waste products can be recycled and reprocessed, not to mention such a good piece of material, are you going to just let it go?"

Xu Newsyan slowly opened his eyes, looked to the side, and finally said, "What do you mean?"

Xu Guang smiled, turned his head and sat quietly for a while, his tone was gentle: "It's just a stumbling block that hasn't posed a real threat, and it can provoke Ma Yifu to go to war so violently, if..." Xu Guang said, clasping his hands The former flicked the back of his hand, "After formally interacting with Ma Jiaqi, let him find out that you still linger on this stone, and even have the possibility of retreating because of it at any time. What do you think he will do?"

Xu Xin looked at him suddenly from indifferent to sharp.

"...No need." A few seconds later, that sharpness was silently put away again.Only Xu Xin refused lightly.

Xu Guang looked at him, and after a while, the smile in his eyes was even bigger than before, "Hehe, can't you bear it?"

Xu Xin didn't answer.

Xu Guang didn't force it either, he smiled and looked away, pondered for a moment and then said: "It's not impossible to stop here, but Xu Xin, you have to remember, since you have decided to turn the page, you have to deal with it neatly." Clean, otherwise it will not be a good thing for you or him."

After a pause, he continued to add meaningfully: "Procrastinating is a taboo forever."

Xu Xin's eyes dropped again, and he didn't respond to the dim yellow circle of light shining on the window edge.

The destination appears quickly.

When Xu Guang took Xu Xin into the gate of Ma Hui's house, his whole state had seamlessly switched to the mode of acquaintance with old friends. The conversation was warm and intimate, and the gossip was full of familiar daily routines. The other party's cunning and cunning are calculated in the car.

Ma Yifu was lying on the bed in his bedroom, with a piece of gauze on his forehead. The moment his father opened the door, his eyes passed three or four people without hesitation, and fell on Xu Xin precisely.

He pretended to be holding Zeng Guofan in his hands, and wore glasses on the bridge of his nose. His face was a little pale, but his spirit looked pretty good, especially his eyes.

Among the crowd, Ma Yifu's mother, Zhu Mei, opened the mouth first. She took a plate of cut fruits that she brought over by the way, and walked in first. head.

"Oh, why are you still reading? You didn't listen to the doctor during the day. You should rest more and rest more, and use your brain less! You will feel dizzy from reading." The tone of the voice is soft with the uniqueness of the south.

Ma Hui smiled at the side, and waited for his wife to finish talking before leading Xu Guang and Xu Xin to Ma Yifu's bed.

The three of them didn't tell each other how familiar they were, but the superficial affection