Rust II

But just as Ding Hua didn't know what kind of mentality he had, he quickly grabbed his mobile phone and went to the serving area outside the box. After answering the call for more than 20 seconds, he sincerely scolded Chen Jialou on the other end of the call. Sound mother.

"I rely on the surname Chen, are you sick?"

Ding Hua stood outside the private room, and when he heard that the other party was just because he was poor and bored, so he called to ask if he had eaten dumplings in Lidong and what kind of stuffing he ate, his whole brain was about to explode.

He suppressed his voice and finished cursing, slowed down, and added angrily: "It's nothing, why did you call me at night, I scared the old man to death, how can Chen Jialou earn two more money to repair the car?" what?"

A somewhat familiar waiter came across and saw him holding his mobile phone with a speechless face, and greeted him from a distance: "Hey, Mr. Ding, you're here again? I haven't seen you for a long time. When he got closer, he asked again: "Which friend did you come with this time?"

Ding Hua smiled, and quickly put his index finger on the peak of his lips, then sneakily turned his head and glanced inside, motioning the other party to keep quiet.

Seeing this, the waiter smiled again, nodded in cooperation, and walked away from him.

Chen Jialou's voice in the receiver was slightly drunk, it seemed that he had just drunk a lot, when he heard the movement from Ding Hua's side, he asked vaguely: "... who is it!"

Ding Hua heard his befuddled voice, who couldn't even speak clearly, and knew that the other party must not be far from being drunk, so he casually said: "Can you care?"

Chen Jialou suddenly laughed lowly, and cursed back after laughing: "Idiot..." After a pause, his voice raised a bit, "Ding Hua, you are a fucking idiot, you know that!"

He murmured and said, "Ten years ago, I was stupid... now, hiccup, even more stupid now... I can take care of other people's affairs, damn... hiccup, why the hell don't I know how to do it?" Care about me? It was agreed at the beginning...it was agreed to be one letter a month, you damn...have persisted for less than a year...hiccup...just, it's gone. Calling, hiccupping, and sending messages are also...I If I don't look for you, you damn... just... never thought of looking for me..."

After finishing speaking, he was silent for a while, and then said infinitely sadly: "I made it... I made my experience... I have nothing to say, nothing to say..."

Ding Hua was immediately amused by anger.

"Hey, you are still in the Chen family building," Ding Hua said, holding the mobile phone and turning around to look at the box, and then replied: "You still have the face to mention this. Who was it with me at the beginning? Se, you said that you are going to get married, so let my surname Ding stop bothering you all day long if you have nothing to do, and affect you to take your family and go to a well-off society to build a well-off society? Who said this? Ah? Chenjialou? Think about it, who said it, the pig said it?"

Ding Hua replied like a cannonball, and scratched his head again when he was done, "Okay, don't be crazy about drinking with me, since you have already called this call, tell me, how is Lin Zi? Okay?"

There was no sound at the other end.

Ding Hua waited, but did not get a response, and "Hello" to the other party a few more times, but after a few seconds, he heard a burst of intermittent snoring.

"Fuck, this grandson." Ding Hua laughed, cursed, and looked at the screen for a while, then hung up the inexplicable phone call with a smile on his face. box.

Under the soft bright light, Xu Xin was still sitting quietly in his seat. Hearing the sound of him entering the door, he raised his eyes and glanced in the direction of the door.

Ding Hua met his gaze, slowed down slightly, then quickened his pace, and walked over with a smile on his face as usual.Unexpectedly, Xu Xin, who had been silent and cold all night, suddenly made a sound after pulling the chair back a little bit to make it easier to sit down.

"Who's calling?"

Ding Hua was taken aback, and after reacting to this rare initiative for a while, he pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled and replied: "...Oh, Xiao Chen."

When it was over, he quickly glanced at the other person's face, and added: "Hey, I'm drunk, and I'm crazy about drinking with me, so it took a while."

Xu Xin didn't speak any more.

Ding Hua sat down on the chair, inexplicably at a loss for words for a while - with the lessons learned from the previous few times, he also didn't say much about the rest.After a while, I looked at the almost eaten food and wine on the table, and asked nonchalantly: "Hey brother, I think this is almost eaten, do you still want to eat it? Let them add two more dishes?"

Xu Xin stared at the cup in his hand, was silent for a while, then shook his head, "...No need."

Ding Hua glanced left and right again, and asked tentatively, "Well, then shall we... withdraw?"

This time Xu Xin didn't hesitate too much, and after a short pause, he stood up in response.

Then the two signed the form at the cash register, and two minutes later, they walked downstairs together.

When he arrived at the gate, Xu Xin looked at the open-air parking lot full of various vehicles for a while, and then whispered to Ding Hua who was about to call for someone to pick him up because he was too drunk to drive: "I'll see you off." go back."

Ding Hua heard the message immediately, and looked at him in disbelief, "Huh?" Then he leaned out his neck slightly, looked in the direction of both sides of the road, turned his head again, and asked in bewilderment Said: "No, brother, we are going in two directions, or completely opposite. And crossed two districts?" After speaking, he quickly shook his head, "Forget it, I'll call Xiao Qi to pick it up, Boss, you go first."

Xu Xin only looked at him for a while, then pressed the car key, and after a "beep" sound not far away, he walked straight in front of him, and dropped two words at the same time.

"boarding."

Ding Hua was confused, staring at the back of the other party for a moment, then deleted the text message in his hand, and followed Xu Xin into the car with a question mark on his face.

what is this?

Along the way, Ding Hua secretly looked at Xu Xin, who was focused on the side, and thought in a puzzled way: Why did he become so enthusiastic all of a sudden?Could it be that I felt that my younger brother and I were too neglected a while ago, and now that I have finished my work, my conscience has discovered it, so I want to make up for it?

Ding Hua was thinking nonchalantly, and occasionally went up to say a word or two, but was dismissed by the other party with a minimalist response.

So Ding Hua felt that he was being self-indulgent again.

But it is not a bad thing for someone to be a free driver voluntarily.

Thinking of this, he wisely stopped making noise, lowered his head and looked at the lights in the car, and played a small game on his mobile phone by himself.

For a while, there was only a slight sound of the engine in the quiet compartment, and the slight bumping of the body when it encountered an irregularity.

Xu Xin's driving style is the same as his own, cold and stable, plus he just had enough food and drink, and the small games are not interesting, Ding Hua, who was bored, gradually became sleepy, and after a while, he tilted his head , Arrived on the window and fell asleep.

It wasn't until more than half an hour later that he woke up slowly in the silence and the cool wind suddenly blowing on his face.

"...Are you here?" In an extremely quiet time, Ding Hua propped up his half-spread body on the car seat, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and looked out the window at the familiar scenery illuminated by street lamps and car lights.

Xu Xin didn't answer, just silently watching the night from the open car window.

Ding Hua unfastened his seat belt, wiped his face again, and after regaining consciousness for a while, he was about to reach out to pull the doorknob beside him, while still speaking inarticulately to Xu Xin: "Then I'll get off first." Lah, bro, be careful on your way back later...it's already quite late."

Then he pulled the door, but didn't pull it.

Ding Hua was surprised, thinking that he was sleepy and forgot to use his hands, so he pulled again with a mutter.

Still couldn't open the door.

Now he was completely awake, and after trying again, he let go, turned his head to look at Xu Xin who was in the driver's seat in doubt, and asked, "Boss, did you forget to unlock the car door?"

But he saw that the other party was still staring out of the window silently, his side face illuminated by the blurred light, like a film frozen by a shutter.

After a long while, his eyes flickered slightly, and he opened his mouth in a low voice.

What he asked was a vague, murmured sentence: "...how is he...how is he now?"

Ding Hua was taken aback.

This question came too suddenly, coupled with Xu Xin's unusually sluggish voice for some reason, people couldn't help but have the illusion that everything was just an illusion.

Therefore, Ding Hua, who was still on the car lock, reacted for a long time before turning around suspiciously and asking: "...Ah? What and who? Boss, did you just... speak?"

Xu Xin didn't say anything more.

Ding Hua looked puzzled, and stared at the silent silhouette of the other party for a long time by the light in the car, and then suddenly had a flash of inspiration, vaguely guessing who the "he" in the other party's mouth referred to, but he was not sure, So after hesitating for a while, he asked tentatively, "Hey, are you... talking about Xiao Lin?"

Xu Xin still did not answer.

But there is no denying it either.

Seeing this, Ding Hua scratched his head, a little surprised in his heart, but then quickly calmed down, and after taking a sneaky look at the other party, he replied carefully with his tone and wording: "...he is fine."

Xu Xin's eyes moved, and after a while, his eyes turned from the window back to the steering wheel inside the car.

The carriage fell into a brief silence again.

Ding Hua scratched his head again, for some reason, after saying these three words, he felt inexplicably restless.

He waited and saw that Xu Xin didn't seem to show resistance or disgust to the other party's news as before, so he hesitated for a while, and then continued: "Hey, I heard from Chen Jialou before... Now I have adapted quite well there. However, because the school conditions are relatively poor, the burden on the shoulders of each of the supporting teachers is relatively heavy. Like him, he only led four or five classes by himself, from elementary school to junior high school , Almost all of them have a share, sometimes when he is busy, he can teach seamlessly from morning to night, plus he is very friendly and patient with everyone, and the students all like him."

Ding Hua added a little polish to the situation reported to him by Chen Jialou in the past few months, said it briefly, and then seemed to think of something, he suddenly laughed, and continued: "Last time, Xiao Chen learned from his mother. I took two boxes of eggs, thinking I couldn't finish them, so I sent some to him, but when I got to school, I waited in his dilapidated office all morning and didn't see anyone. Later, I couldn't wait. I just went to their class to see it, and guess what? Before I got to the teaching building, I ran into him blowing his whistle in the open space below, and he was giving a physical education class to his junior high school students in a serious manner. .”

Ding Hua was born with a big heart, and after speaking a few paragraphs, he left all the embarrassment and uneasiness before him behind. .

He turned his head with a smile, as if he had heard something shocking, and asked happily: "Hey brother, can you imagine that Lin Zi is actually giving PE lessons to people?! Just his thin arms and legs, plus his thin skin Tender meat, looks more elegant and fair than some girls, and I was worried that he would be blown away if the wind was stronger, and he could still give him physical education classes?" As he spoke, he talked about what Chen Jialou told him at the beginning. The swearing was also brought out: "Fuck, never."

Xu Xin fixed his eyes on the slightly sunken car logo in the center of the steering wheel, and did not speak for a long time.

Ding Hua laughed twice, and suddenly realized the silence, his expression froze immediately, and after glancing at Xu Xin who was silent beside him, he cleared his throat and put away the smile embarrassingly.

As a result, the carriage, which finally had a lively atmosphere, once again fell into a cold silence for no reason.

I don't know how long it has passed, but when Ding Hua, no matter how nervous he is, began to feel the feeling of being on pins and needles, there was a soft "click" sound in the car—the door was unlocked.

There seemed to be a deep breathing sound coming from the side, and after a while, Xu Xin's voice came in a low voice: "It's getting late, go back to sleep early."

"...Hey, good."

Ding Hua seemed to be pardoned, he said something simple with a smile, and told a few words such as driving carefully at night, and then he got out of the car and left.

Xu Xin watched the other party's figure quickly disappear in the front hall of the apartment building, sat alone for a while in the quiet carriage, turned his eyes away, turned around and drove to the gate of the community [-] meters away behind him.

The car was driving smoothly on the way back to the bamboo garden in the east of the city.

The wind along the road crawls through the window cracks that have not been closed tightly, carrying the unique coldness of early winter.

Looking at the straight road ahead, Xu Xin saw that the two rows of greenery illuminated by lights were like two ribbons straightened by the wind in the dark night, running side by side, until the end of the night.

He walked slowly on this wide and desolate avenue in a gloomy manner. He had seldom relaxed his emotions in the past year, and finally got a brief emptiness in the early winter wind.

However, after a while, something else came in during this rare slack, disturbing the original calm state of mind again.

What Ding Hua said tonight rang in his ears again.

To Xiang Xiang, he is simple, simple and unscrupulous. This point has never changed whether he was a young and vigorous teenager or now a young man who has achieved a little success in his career.Even if he has been with him for so many years in this indistinguishable field of interests, what time has bestowed on him seems to be only a little more sophisticated and tactful than when he was young, rather than the foul and deep darkness and scheming.

So even when mentioning the rumors of the Ma family that was destroyed overnight, apart from the uncontrollable joy in his heart, what the other party showed was more of a mentality of watching a show and having fun.In his eyes, the foul-smelling Ma family is arrogant and arrogant, and God deserves such a reward, so even if the Xu family is really inseparable from its downfall, even if they did something secretly or made something wrong He wouldn't think there was anything wrong with the dirty tricks on the table.

But Ding Hua, who is simple-minded, doesn't know that although the Ma family is a cancer, the Xu family standing on the opposite side of him is not so innocent-the chemical factory land before the accident was secretly ordered by Xu Guangming. , was approved to build a factory, although the Xu family never came forward, but why the various materials were still able to pass the audit due to many loopholes, there is no need to say more about the reasons.This is like a time bomb that has been carefully designed. As long as the time is right and the enemy is mercenary enough, it will be automatically detonated at a certain node.

And the people, things, and things that will be injured after the explosion are not unpredictable.

Everything is just as Ding Hua said in the post that appeared and was quickly deleted. This seemingly righteous and awe-inspiring slashing and washing is just that one party is looking for a good knife that can be quickly and ruthlessly wiped out for itself. The other party also happened to have a vengeance to avenge, and the two sides hit it off by coincidence, so naturally there was this lively but costly scene.

As for the ordinary people who were affected when the knife fell, they could only admit that they were unlucky in the end, and attribute all the blame to the losers.

For example, Wu and his wife who raised money and tried every means to treat their son;

For example, a large number of employees in Zhonghuizhong suffered for no reason;

Even more like earlier...

A figure suddenly flashed through his mind.

Xu Xin stepped on the brakes and stopped the car at an intersection with a red light on.Looking around, I found that the car had been driven onto Huaide Road, which was only tens of meters away from X, at some point.

A few minutes later, for unknown reasons, it slowly drove into the adjacent Boai Road, and a few seconds later, it stopped silently outside the gate of Cuifangyuan.

Under the familiar night, there is the same familiar street scene, even the doorman among the guards, who likes to watch TV and take a nap while on duty, has not changed much.

After a year, Xu Xinjing sat in the car, watching silently what was going on in this small world in the middle of the night, and after a while, her clear eyes became a little dazed.

The uncle at the sentry box was awakened by the sudden sound of locking the car, which was especially loud in the dead of night.

He rubbed his sleepy eyes, looked at the strange-looking man in a black shirt passing in front of him, opened the window and asked vaguely: "Hey, where are you from? Why doesn't it seem like I've seen it before..."

Xu Xin paused and stood there for a while, then Fang slightly turned his face and announced the house number in a low voice: "18C, 201."

"Oh..." The uncle replied, his brain was still a bit dull and he couldn't turn the corner for a moment. When he realized that it seemed to be a house that had been vacant for a long time, Xu Xin's figure had completely disappeared in the dark and dense trees in front of him. in the shadows.

Ten minutes later, the voice-activated lights in Building 10 came on with the sound of gentle footsteps.

In the extreme silence, the crisp sound of a bunch of keys colliding resounded in the corridor shrouded in light, and then with a slight creak, a security door was opened.

The pungent smell emanating from being closed for a long time because no one came there for a long time immediately occupied the air around the body, rushed towards the face along the open door, and involuntarily penetrated into every pore of the person standing quietly in front of the door.

And what invaded along with it, and those who were left in the flying fine dust, had clear or vague memories about a certain person.

Xu Xin didn't know how long he stood at the door like this, maybe only a dozen seconds, but suddenly he had the illusion of a long time.

It wasn't until the sensor light behind him suddenly dimmed again that the wandering mind gradually came together.

He raised his leg and stepped into the threshold, raised his hand and pressed the light switch at the entrance.

The moment the light came on, all the slightly hazy outlines hidden in the darkness became clear and clear.

Xu Xin was startled, stood in the entrance for a while, and walked slowly to the inside.

The furnishings in the house are almost the same as in the impression. The cabinets, sofas, coffee tables, and various utensils in the kitchen are all placed in their original positions very neatly.

Everything is in order, as if no one has ever left.

Except for the rust-colored water from the water pipes, the dusty window sills, and the subtle clues in the empty wardrobe and beds, silently pouring out the fact that someone has long since left.

Xu Xin walked slowly aimlessly in this less than [-]-square-meter apartment, looked at it, and finally came to the balcony connected to the master bedroom.In the silence, he reached out and pushed open the glass door in front of him.

The chilly wind instantly blows away the pungent dust that filled the surroundings.Outside the semi-enclosed guardrail, there are only dots of starlight reflecting the sporadic lights of the residents upstairs that have not yet slept, and they all fall into the slightly frozen line of sight.

"He has a good life, but he is busy every day, so busy that he doesn't touch the ground. From elementary school to junior high school, there is nothing he doesn't teach in addition to language, morality, intelligence, physical education, and art."

Xu Xin faced the house directly in front of him expressionlessly, and Ding Hua's laughter in the car an hour ago suddenly rang in his ears again.

"...In addition, he is a good guy, he is polite to everyone, has a strong affinity, and never refuses anyone who comes. Students like to surround him."

Xu Xin looked at the long-lost but unfamiliar scenery half hidden behind the mottled tree shadow not far away without moving. Suddenly, Ding Hua's tone in his mind changed without warning, becoming worried and helpless.

"...Brother, Xiao Chen said... When he first arrived there, he was seriously unaccustomed to the environment, and he tried to force himself to go to class and refused to rest. Coupled with food poisoning, he really lost weight in the past two months."

After saying that, he tentatively cautiously: "Hey, tell me...you said, why don't I go to Gannan to have a look?... so you can rest easy."

In the end, it was a sentence full of doubts but did not dare to express:

"To be honest, boss... what do you think about Xiao Lin...?"

A gust of wind hit, Xu Xin came back to his senses suddenly, raised his hand to wipe his face, and after a while, he straightened up from the door frame behind him, and habitually took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and after another 10 minutes, several windows that were lit on the upper floor opposite went dark one after another.

Xu Xin looked down, the cigarette in his hand was about to burn out.

He stared silently at the cigarette butt left between his fingers for a while, and for some reason, the indescribable emotions that flickered in the bottom of his heart suddenly surged up in his heart uncontrollably along with the fading fire.

He closed his eyelids slightly, and after a long time, he raised his eyes again, flicked the cigarette butt into the wastebasket in the corner of the balcony, turned around and prepared to leave.

However, as soon as he turned his eyes away, a round object that was placed on the window sill, glowing with luster under the moonlight, broke into sight without warning.

Xu Xin frowned slightly, hesitated for a moment, took two steps forward, and took in his hand the object that looked unusually abrupt in this environment that had been cleaned up so thoroughly that there was not even a trace of extraneous traces. Under the light, what lay in the palm was an ashtray with elegant and unique appearance and exquisite workmanship.

His eyes froze for a moment, and after a few seconds, his slightly stagnant eyes moved suddenly, as if he was inspired by something, and slowly slid along the porcelain white edge into the bottom of the porcelain jar covered with a layer of fine dust.

In the watery moonlight, a "Xu" character crookedly engraved by unknown tool was quietly lying on the lotus leaves scattered like ink in the bottom of the vat.