migratory birds do not return

Hou Xiao explained to Ruan Tang the reason why he went to eat with him another day. The latter had three big characters written all over his face. Hou Xiao didn't bother to analyze the pros and cons with a sleepy guy, so he put on his coat and went out. up.

He originally wanted to say hello to Du Baigong, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was unnecessary, so he just sent a regular text message to Hou Yu, and then went to the cafe alone.

Compared with the few faces he had seen before, Yang Wenwen was no longer the same. The whole person seemed to be propped up by bones, and the large coat on his body was very empty, and he was so thin that it made people jump .The face is an inverted triangle, with high cheekbones, a pair of dark eyes sunken, like a hollow, and the hair is very thin, as if a few wigs were pasted on it before going out.

Hou Xiao couldn't believe that a single person could become like this in just a few months, and the steps he stepped out were much heavier.

He walked up to Yang Wenwen and sat down. The latter put down the newspaper in his hand and slowly folded it into a small cube and put it aside. He first introduced himself to Hou Xiao again, and waited for Hou Xiao to nod his head. He reached out and took out a document from an old leather bag beside him, and pushed it over carefully.

Hou Xiao stretched out his hand to hold the document, but suddenly lost the courage to open it.He thought that maybe there was something in it that the family kept silent, maybe there was nothing, it might be true, or it might be false.After weighing it again and again, he still slowly pulled out a stack of papers inside.

There were not many papers, and each sheet was densely printed with words, which made Hou Xiao dizzy, but he could understand it clearly.His parents died in a series of car accidents. The cause was a conflict between the two companies. They moved their hands at a T-junction that was extremely accident-prone, and many innocent people were implicated as a result.

It's funny to say that there are so many cars, including the people from those two companies, that only the taxi his parents were in was smashed into pieces, and he almost couldn't get out of it.

"This matter has always been a sensitive topic. The family members of the victims were secretly appeased. The matter was neither published in the newspapers nor spread on the Internet, and it did not cause any ripples. Although your family did not accept this way of handling, but at the time You are too young, and they want to take better care of you, so they need compensation from the other party, so they have no choice but to give up the prosecution." Yang Wenwen rubbed his palms and smiled bitterly, "I only found out later, At that time, I was found to be sick and had been treated in the hospital. And your parents have something temporarily stored with me, which is their birthday present they plan to give you. Because of work arrangements, they have to go on business trips every Christmas. It will be entrusted to me."

"I don't know where you moved, and I didn't go to look for it because of the pain. I didn't find your house until this year when I knew I couldn't last long. I wanted to give you these documents and this thing." Yang Wenwen wrapped it from the side again. A sealed gift bag was taken out of an extremely exquisite box and passed over, "It may be a little old, but I think you should receive it."

Hou Xiao held down his trembling hand and took the gift bag.He took a few deep breaths, and said several times of thank you, the ending trembled and split, and in the end he almost collapsed, he could only bury his head on the table, and kept pinching the back of his hand to force himself to calm down.I don't know how long it took before he raised his head in a daze, looking at the empty space in front of him, feeling pain in his heart.

Yang Wenwen had already settled the bill before leaving. Hou Xiao stood at the gate of the school with the free dessert from the cafe, and suddenly felt a sense of guilt rising from the bottom of his heart. Hou Yu's, even Du Baigong's.He felt that he was simply a very bad person.

Hou Xiao asked the guard for a plastic bag, packed everything together except for the dessert, and ran straight to the dormitory without even looking at what was in the gift bag.

Ruan Tang just woke up and was studying the dark circles under his eyes in the mirror when he saw Hou Xiao come in and say hello.Hou Xiao ignored him, directly tied the plastic bag and put it on the bed, and found the luggage that my aunt had just sent from under the bed.

He left the necessary things, took out all the things that could be left behind, stuffed the bag in, took out his mountaineering bag to fill it up, put the bag on his shoulders, and put the suitcase upright , turned around and was about to leave the dormitory.

"Hou Xiao! Wait a minute!" Ruan Tang rushed out of the bathroom, grabbed his arm, with a disbelieving expression on his face, "Why are you clearing things up? Don't you suddenly want to drop out of school at this time?"

"Yes." Hou Xiao turned his head to look at Ruan Tang, "I want to take a year off from school, this year you can live in the dormitory alone, if you are bored, you can bring anyone to play, as long as you don't touch my things."

"What are you crazy about?" Ruan Tang's eyes widened, "You dropped out of school just after entering school, why can't you think about it, Hou Xiao? Wouldn't it be mad to death to let my aunt know?"

"So I'm not going to tell them, I just told my sister." Hou Xiao pulled out his suitcase from Ruan Tang's hands, "Don't complain either."

Hou Xiao ran to a hotel outside the school with his suitcase, borrowed a printer from there, and typed out all the things he needed, and then went to the nearby check-in station to drop off the suitcase and hiking bag.Holding the form to fill in the address, Hou Xiao scribbled down the address without much thought, turned around and rushed back to school with the document bag.

To his surprise, all these unpopular schools with wonderful principals turned out to be very efficient, and the procedures were completed in a short time.He sat on a chair at the bus stop and booked a train ticket with his mobile phone. Seeing that the train hadn't arrived yet, he idly flipped through his mobile phone and saw the old photo.

After hesitating for a while, he long-pressed this photo to back up a copy in the cloud storage, and then cleared all the original photos. After that, he didn't dare to look at the empty photo album anymore, so he put the phone on silent and put it in his pocket. He raised his palms and breathed in lightly.

The scene of interlocking fingers with Du Baigong yesterday is still vivid in my memory, but today he wants to go away like Du Baigong a year ago, which is really funny.Hou Xiao couldn't help laughing at himself in his heart, and at the same time gave up the idea of ​​telling Du Baigong.Anyway, Ruan Tang won't be able to hide it for long, and it won't take long for everyone around him to know.

Perhaps by then he would have arrived in Satohara.When I was young, I only remember that when my father handed the camera to me, he mentioned this place with pride, saying that his biggest regret was that he didn’t have time to take this “winter bird” there again, and take a picture of it in winter. photo.

In the past, Hou Xiao only listened to stories, never took it to heart, and didn't think about it. Until today, he learned the truth of the incident and what the other family members sacrificed for him all the year round. When making a decision a few months ago, did you think about how the family felt, and when the taxi was knocked over, would my father think of this "winter bird"?

Du Baigong got up early, and before Lin Yuanliu got up for a run, he took a taxi to Du Chengli's place.Du Chengli is a researcher, and spends his days in the laboratory day and night. When Du Baigong opened the door and entered, he was still lying on the sofa and sleeping.Du Baigong looked around, picked up a pillow, and threw it directly on his brother's face.

"Who... Baigong?" Du Chengli looked as if he was about to get angry when he got up, seeing that it was Du Baigong who forced himself to stop. "How did you come?"

Du Baigong sat on the chair, took out a pen and turned it around: "I agreed to the thing you told me before."

"It's a limited edition product, don't turn it around casually...Agreed?" Du Chengli stood up and straightened his clothes, "Didn't you want to before, and thought it was a waste of time and effort."

"Is it okay if you want it now?" Du Baigong put down this pen and pulled out another one, "Give me an estimate, basically how long will it take?"

"Six months is definitely required, it depends on your performance." Du Chengli rummaged through the drawer, found a stack of materials and handed them over, "Look at this, do you want to leave in this period of time or wait for me to convince Dad go again?"

"No, I won't go until you convince him." Du Baigong casually flipped through two pages, and quickly pushed them aside, "By the way, I want to tell you something."

"I will help you with the school procedures."

"I have a favorite person."

"...What?" Du Chengli was so frightened by Du Baigong's words that he dropped the coat on his arm to the floor. He walked around the person, still in disbelief, "Who?"

"You may have met, met at the harbor."

"I met the leader of your school, not your classmate... Wait." Du Chengli didn't know where he was thinking, and put on a desperate expression, "You don't know it, do you?"

"Why do you have such a big scale? Can you restrain yourself?" Du Baigong didn't expect his brother's brain power to be so strong, and the corners of his mouth twitched, "Anyway, I came out to you in the third year of junior high school, and I feel that you have nothing to accept. gone."

"That's what I said, but if you really can't walk back, Dad will be in a bit of trouble." Du Chengli sat down face to face with him, "I don't care, I don't care about what you eat or drink, and I can't care about your heart. Who is floating there, but you should be very clear about Dad, he hopes that you will go smoothly and safely on the right path in your life, this path is "wrong" for him, and he will not agree with it."

"Let's talk about it, don't worry about it now, I'll watch it when I come back from my health care."

"How can you call this kind of thing health preservation?"

"Isn't it?"

"Du Baigong!"

"Brother, I suddenly feel that the best way is for you to quickly find someone to marry...don't hit me!"

Du Baigong escaped from Du Chengli's office all the way, holding on to the railing of the stairs and laughing straight up. It took a long time before he stopped. He took out his mobile phone and wanted to ask Hou Xiao when he was free, so he took him for a stroll Go shopping and be honest about your decision.

Worried that Hou Xiao was still resting, he only sent a text message at first, walked around a tree downstairs more than a dozen times and did not receive a reply, so he called.

It's a pity that no one answered.

At this point, it is normal not to receive calls.Du Baigong comforted himself and walked towards the subway station. Just as he swiped his card to enter the station, his phone rang.He quickly took it out to look, and was a little disappointed when he unlocked it and found it was just a new email. When he clicked it in, he froze in place.

Hou Xiao sent him an attachment, all of which were photos of the night market, each with the date of shooting and the specific location in the night market, and a line of words at the end: some, some not yet selected.

Du Baigong quickly exited the interface to call Hou Xiao, and this time it turned into a shutdown.