Chapter 18 It's too late to start, it's over
If you are there... there... in short, Xiaobei, no matter how you make a decision in the end, I am the one who is wrong in this matter.
Han Shu returned to his residence and walked to the guard downstairs to see Zhu Xiaobei chatting with the guard with a badminton racket on his back. He remembered the week he had agreed with Xiaobei for a while. He looked at the time in annoyance. Fortunately, there were still three minutes left before the agreed time. Zhu Xiaobei came early, but he suddenly felt a little embarrassed when he carried the new curtains he had just purchased.
Zhu Xiaobei talked with the doorman who was over 50 years old and was only aroused by others. After being reminded by others, she noticed Han Shu who passed by. She hooked the racket and jumped to Han Shu in two steps. She picked up his wrist and looked at the time, and smiled and said, "Damn, are the elites pinching time so accurately?"
They agreed to go play ball together, and the venue had been booked in advance. Han Shu is an energetic and moving person. If he has not stretched his muscles for a while, he will feel bored. This time, he saw Zhu Xiaobei's sports equipment and felt a little tired. But he didn't want to sweep Zhu Xiaobei's excitement. After all, there was a word first, so he said, "Give me another five minutes, I'll go up and change my clothes. You go up and sit for a while, or continue chatting, I'll be fine for a few minutes."
Zhu Xiaobei followed him without comment. Seeing that there was no one around, he joked: "Look at your eyebrows and your head have a knot, but you haven't seen each other for a week. Could it be that you have been promoted from dad to grandfather again, right?"
Han Shu smirked exaggeratedly: "It's funny."
"To be honest, I'm used to seeing your arrogant look, I'm not used to this expression."
Han Shu rubbed her face with both hands, made a face-changing expression, and faced her with a standard six-tie smile: "Are you always satisfied with this?"
After he said that, he continued to walk through the green belt and headed towards the elevator, and Zhu Xiaobei followed: "This is almost the same. By the way, Han Shu..."
When he said this, somehow, Han Shu, who was moving forward, suddenly stopped as if he remembered something. Zhu Xiaobei, who could not stop, almost ran into him with his chest against his back.
"I have something to tell you."
"Xiaobei, I have something I want to tell you."
The two of them blurted out almost the same sentence at the same time, and were both stunned for a moment after saying it.
"You talk first." Han Shu stopped his urgent desire to have a good talk with Zhu Xiaobei and followed the principle of women's priority.
Zhu Xiaobei supported her waist and burst into laughter: "We have a tacit understanding at this time. I really want me to say it first? OK." She pretended to be very serious and straightened her waist, "That Han Shu, I may leave City G in two days, and some things need to be handled by going back to Xinjiang."
Even at this time, Han Shu's professional sensitivity still made him notice the unique words in Zhu Xiaobei's discourse. Regarding Xinjiang, she used "return" instead of "go", as if there was her hometown, but she was obviously a native girl from Shenyang, and Xinjiang was just a place where she studied for a short time.
Han Shu chose not to point out this point, and shrugged: "When should I set out? Is there something important?"
"A little private matter is also important to me."
"That's okay. Do I need me to book a plane ticket for you? When will I take you to the airport?"
"What are you going to send? I don't lack arms or legs. Who won't go to the airport?" Zhu Xiaobei said carelessly.
"How many days will I go, why don't I pick you up when I come back?"
"No, I'm not sure when I'll be back. The school has taken a long vacation."
"Oh." Han Shu paused for a moment, and was indeed a little confused, "Is something wrong? Can I help?"
"Probably not possible." Zhu Xiaobei said with a smile, and she scratched her head, "Han Shu, we have known each other for a long time, right?"
"Um."
"You guy, although you are poor, and you are more beautiful, you are still quite cute."
"Please don't praise me, I feel uncomfortable."
"Don't interrupt, I just praised you for being a passerby. I want to say... You have tried it too. There are some places and some people, although they are meaningless, but there is just an indescribable... How to say it, magic?"
Han Shu glanced at Zhu Xiaobei and didn't say anything. Zhu Xiaobei felt that he was dizzy when he said what he said, but for no reason, she felt that Han Shu should understand.
Indeed, Han Shu could hear something vaguely from Zhu Xiaobei's words. He stood quietly in place without saying a word. The words he originally planned to say seemed to have lost all necessity.
"It's your turn, Han Shu." Zhu Xiaobei learned that he had a "swallowing ears" gesture. After waiting for a while, he did not hear Han Shu speak.
"I'm mute? I thought you were going to tell me about your new curtains."
Zhu Xiaobei is generous but not rude, and Han Shu knows it. He picked up the things in his hand and took a look. Perhaps only the person involved thinks it is hidden.
He simply asked directly: "Xiaobei, how did you meet her...?" He decided that if Zhu Xiaobei asked who "she" was, he would just skip this topic as if he had said nothing.
Zhu Xiaobei looked at her head. Han Shu thought she was confused about this stupid question, but it turned out that she was recalling it.
"I thought you would ask me this question earlier. The man in the south was so happy. Did you ask me and Xie Juinian? I met Juinian on the train last year. She went from City G to Lanzhou. At that time, I was going to transfer from Lanzhou Station to Urumqi. It took 36 hours, almost two days and two nights. She sat opposite me. It was hard to know her. It was even more coincidental that I was behind. That time, I returned to Xinjiang and had not yet been hot. After completing the procedures, I had to rush back happily. Unexpectedly, I met her again while waiting for the train at Lanzhou Station. She and my ticket were not the same carriage, but I changed seats with someone else and sat face to face with her. Don't say that, she is interesting."
"Lanzhou?" Han Shu struggled to think about his poor memory of Xie Juinian. None of them was related to this location. According to what he learned from the file, neither Juinian's parents were from northerners. He didn't know why she, a girl, had to travel thousands of miles to the north of the Seychelles.
Zhu Xiaobei seemed to guess that he had this doubt and said, "I'm going to travel. Why can't I travel alone? You have a common idea... Don't think that you are just like spring here, and the northwest desert is bare. In fact, there are many places worth going there."
Since she said this, Han Shu didn't want to hide it anymore and asked: "Have she talked to you on the train?"
"Actually, what you want to ask is whether she has asked you, right?" Zhu Xiaobei said without turning around at all, which made Han Shu feel a little embarrassed, although that was indeed his original intention.
Han Shu realized that they were standing next to a garbage can in the green belt, a place that was very unsightly. This sudden conversation was originally abrupt. He and Zhu Xiaobei were a pair of legitimate lovers, but when they talked about each other's privacy, they were like watching the fire from the other side. Thinking about this feeling a little deeper, they were all very strange. In the past, they didn't seem to feel it, was it the same carelessness, or did everyone deliberately ignore it? Maybe Zhu Xiaobei saw something in the first time in the fabric store, and some things were so obvious, but she didn't ask. Similarly, Han Shu didn't ask why Zhu Xiaobei, as his girlfriend, rushed to Xinjiang for a few words, without even a single return date?
Zhu Xiaobei glanced at the things Han Shu was holding: "The new curtains look really good. The one I like the most in the store is a customer like you. Han Shu, if you want to know something, why don't you ask her by yourself? I swear if I knew that my relationship with her would be so bloody, I would gossip more thoroughly."
Han Shu tried to explore the meaning of Zhu Xiaobei's dialect, but her eyes were full of openness: "Han Shu, do you think Fei Ming is your child? I have played two games with this girl. I played well at such a young age. I can't beat her in a few years."
It turned out that she knew Xie Feiming. Han Shu shook her head: "I don't know, maybe not... But I suddenly felt that it was not a problem for the child. I went to find Xie Juinian today, yes, I admit that I felt guilty. In one sentence, she said she forgives me and everything was written off. But, it shouldn't be like this, Xiaobei, I didn't expect that I just started preparing, so she pressed the stop button." He then laughed self-mockery, "I don't know how to stop. Not long ago, I lie in front of the child's teacher. They all thought I was really the child's father."
"I said you usually look quite normal, why are you so ardent at critical moments... Okay, I understand. Do you think, or me?" Zhu Xiaobei patted Han Shu's shoulder with her habitual attitude of being with each other.
"Say? What do you say?"
"Don't pretend to be stupid to me, you don't look like a nonsense person."
Han Shu pondered for a moment, grabbed Zhu Xiaobei's hand that was staying on his shoulder and said, "It's better to wait until you come back from there. If you are there... there... in short, Xiaobei, no matter how you decide in the end, I am the one who is wrong in this matter."
Zhu Xiaobei disagreed: "Whoever is right or wrong, I will inevitably beat me up. In her opinion, dumping a man is shameful, and being dumped by a man is even more shameful... You should go up and change my clothes, and promise to play with me for three hours. While you are in a bad state, my aunt will not believe that she will not win you!"
The game between Zhu Xiaobei and Han Shu was actually only played for forty minutes. During this period, Han Shu's phone rang several times and was left in his backpack, but no one heard it. It was not until the halftime break that he replied, and then walked towards Zhu Xiaobei, with an indescribable look on his face.
"What... what happened? Your great-grandson was born?"
Han Shu shook his head and wiped the sweat from his face with a towel: "It's called from the yard, business."
“Isn’t today a weekend?”
"I just received a notice from the case of the Construction Bureau I was in charge... When the person involved was using the toilet, he pried open the bathroom's transom window, jumped down from the sixth floor, and died on the spot. Just half an hour ago."
"No way? It's the one you said was about to close the case?" Zhu Xiaobei was also shocked. Although she had a strange life to the corrupt section chief, a life was gone, which was still a daze.
Chapter completed!