Luting Canteen

"Go back? Go back to where—"

Song Song was a little astonished, and subconsciously opened his mouth to ask a question. Before he finished speaking, he saw Yang Shubai and Tang Mengye Qi looking over, so he stopped what he said.

"Yan Ting, go ahead and talk."

Yang Shubai patted Yan Ting's shoulder lightly, but he shook his head:

"Brother Shubo, I want to take a look around first."

"Boss, boss, then you have to put on your shoes too, just wait for me to get them!"

Rushing into the yard in a hurry, Ye Qi felt blocked for a while, but he didn't dare to say anything, he just wanted to quickly take Yan Ting's shoes and clothes to him.

"Yan Ting, you, are you sure Li Hui is going back?"

Tang Meng thought about it and asked again.

"All his things are at home, and so is his cell phone,"

Song Song really wanted to ask if the little guy would go to the vegetable market to buy you breakfast by himself, but under the current atmosphere, he really couldn't express this kind of assumption.

"Boss, shoes!"

After taking the sneakers handed over by Ye Qi, Yan Ting said "I'll go and have a look first" and ran over to the vegetable market first.

"Shu Bai, you stay to watch the house, in case Xiao Luobo comes back, please call us, Ye Qi Tang Meng, we will go and have a look separately!"

It was the first time for Song Song to see Yan Ting trying to restrain his expression. He didn't want to think too much, so he could only do what he could do now.

The streets are no different than usual.Those who go to work, those who go to school, those who line up at the breakfast stall, those who get up early and take a walk to buy vegetables.Everyone just glanced at the few people who hurried past, and then returned to their current trajectory.

Ye Qi and Tang Meng went to the place where they took Li Hui to eat fish soup paste powder, and the small street park on the street behind the bookstore—Li Hui was very interested when he saw those fitness equipment, but because there were better The old man and the parents who took their children for a walk were over there, and he was too embarrassed to go there, so Ye Qi said that he got up earlier that day and brought Yan Ting over to exercise.

"Uncle Tang,"

Unable to bear or stop, Ye Qi called Tang Meng who was walking in front of him.There was a small car passing in the alley, Tang Meng stood aside and pulled Ye Qi over.

"If Xiao Lihui really goes back..."

— We can't get it back at all.

This fact sinks in the bottom of everyone's heart.Everyone dare not think about it now, because they are afraid of putting this fact in front of their eyes.

"Uncle Tang, brother, what should he do?"

Tang Meng looked at the bewildered Ye Qi, and lightly patted him on the shoulder:

"Let's go, there are still a few places we haven't been to."

Posting a "Closed Business" sign on the gate of the courtyard, Yang Shubai looked at his phone from time to time.Song Song and Ye Qi Tang Meng finally came back, shook their heads at him, and they sat down at the wooden table and waited for Yan Ting.

"How did Li Hui get here, do you know?"

Yang Shubai distributed the iced tea to everyone, Ye Qi shook his hand and tied up his hair.

"Yan Ting is not too sure, he met Li Hui in the backyard."

"By the way, has anyone asked Azalea?"

Ye Qi's eyes lit up, Tang Meng looked at him, and said softly:

"Little Flag—"

"Originally, just in case, what if..."

The voice became smaller and smaller, and Ye Qi also knew that his hypothesis was unlikely to be true. Song Song sighed, and seeing Yang Shubai winking at him, he still put the cup in front of Ye Qi.

"Let's wait for Yan Ting to come back first."

As soon as Tang Meng finished speaking, everyone saw Yan Ting push open the courtyard door.Usually, he always looks like he can handle everything with ease, but now he slows down his pace, his shoulders are drooping, and there is no expression on his face.

"Old, boss,"

Ye Qi called out timidly, Yan Ting heard it, raised his hand slightly and walked over, took the tea handed by Yang Shubai, and drank it in big gulps.

"Yan Ting, can you tell me what's going on?"

When Yan Ting sat down and his breath became a little calmer, Yang Shubai asked.Everyone else looked over nervously.Thinking of the morning, Yan Ting smiled, put his hands on the table, and stroked his hair behind his head. Tang Meng saw the faint blue veins and redness on his forehead, and knew that he was enduring it, so he shook his head slightly to everyone. The few people stopped asking questions and waited silently for him to speak.

"Li Hui used to send him a bunch of flowers every time because he left a meal for him."

Yan Ting's posture did not change, he looked at the ground and slowly opened his mouth.

Yan Ting thought those flowers and plants were fun, so he kept them hanging upside down on the wall of the kitchen near the bedroom as decoration.Ye Qi and the others have seen each other before. Song Song heard this, wiped his chin with his hand, and glanced at Tang Meng who was sitting beside Yan Ting. Tang Meng obviously didn't know what to say, but just listened quietly.

"When I woke up in the morning, I thought about telling him that when the vanilla grows up, Li Hui will be tied up like before, and I will put it at Luting, where I can make tea or cook."

As if thinking of that scene, the corners of Yan Ting's mouth slightly curved, and then paused for a while before speaking again:

"In the end, I didn't see anyone else, nowhere. Clothes, mobile phones, everything is there, even slippers."

It's just that people are gone.

At that time Yan Ting understood immediately, but he didn't read the answer in his heart.Because, maybe maybe not?

But I even went to the place where he picked flowers, but there was no Li Hui anywhere.

While looking for it, he thought that it would be nice if he was a naughty and willful child. In that case, maybe it was just because he played crazy yesterday and wanted to play today, so he played hide-and-seek with him early in the morning, causing everyone to look for him, and so on. I found him, cursed a few words, and made a false alarm.

"..."

Hearing this, you will understand, but everyone is still unwilling to say that conclusion.Yan Ting took a breath, then raised his head, looked at them and said:

"Li Hui, go back to Pei Dynasty."

"Ye Qi, what day is it?"

Jie Zhou stood at the door of Yan Ting's bedroom.They couldn't make up their minds about whether to tell Jie Zhou, but when Ye Qi finally dialed the phone, they found out that Jie Zhou also knew about Li Hui.

"...day four."

"Have you eaten?"

"Eat, as usual. The canteen opened the next day. Brother Song has been helping. The boss asked him to go back, but he didn't go. He said that Lan Ze only sells wine recently, so it's fine if Brother Shubo is here. The boss said Then he has to start resting, saying that he hasn’t had a good rest all these years anyway.”

This place of not wanting to bother people really hasn't changed at all.

Kazuo smiled helplessly.

"And then? He just lay there?"

"Neither,"

Ye Qi looked at the door and said:

"Boss, he came back with a lot of books and read them one by one. Uncle Tang and we have been reading them too, trying to find out if there is any way..."

Fearing that Jie Zhou would think this was unrealistic, Ye Qi lowered his voice, unexpectedly he asked with a serious face:

"Any clues?"

Ye Qi was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head.

"Okay, this way, you guys go to rest first, I will sleep with him at night, and by the way, ask to see if there is anything he didn't notice at the time."

"it is good."

"Ye Qi,"

Calling Ye Qi who was about to turn around, Jie Zhou raised his hand and pinched his face:

"Go to bed early."

Seeing Tang Meng's complexion just now was also very bad, Jie Zhou stared at Ye Qi's dark circles, waiting for his answer.

"Yeah. Brother Kuazhou, then I'm leaving."

Ye Qi managed to squeeze out a smile, and Jie Zhou also smiled:

"Go."

Standing at the door for a while, Kua Zhou knocked on the door and entered the bedroom.

The room didn't turn on the light, after getting used to it for a while, Jie Zhou put down his bag and saw Yan Ting sitting beside the bed.The balcony door was open, and he just stared at it motionless.

After a while, Yan Ting finally said:

"coming?"

His voice is a little hoarse, and it seems that he hasn't spoken much this day.Kua Zhou sat down beside him:

"coming."

"..."

Shaking his lips, Yan Ting wanted to say something, but closed his mouth again.

"Yan Ting, when did you sleep last?"

"......have no idea."

"I'm sleepy, you can sleep with me for a while."

Seeing that Yan Ting was silent, Jie Zhou took off his shoes and socks, pulled the man who seemed to have lost his soul, and forced him to lie on the bed.Yan Ting did not resist, Jie Zhou sighed in his heart, and simply hugged him into his arms:

"Yan Ting, have you cried yet?"

"......without,"

Thinking of Yan Ting's appearance when Ye Qi's father passed away, Jie Zhou hesitated for a moment before speaking:

"Yan Ting, Li Hui has gone back."

"......I know."

"It was so sudden that you didn't even have time to say goodbye."

"..."

"It would be nice if I could see him again."

"...Kasa boat,"

Ignoring Yan Ting, Jie Zhou pressed his head against his chest again, and continued talking.

"I'm always worried, but thinking that I have a registered permanent residence and an ID card, once I come here, I won't leave, so I feel more at ease."

"As a result," Jie Zhou gritted his teeth, "Maybe, we really won't see each other again, in this life."

"Why didn't I find out, when he disappeared, if I knew, I would catch that little guy even if I died, and it would be nice to go with him no matter where—"

"...Kazuna, stop talking,"

Hearing the nasal voice, Akuta Zhou was a little relieved.

"Alright, Yan Ting, I'm already asleep."

The two of them didn't talk anymore, after a while, Kua Zhou felt his chest became hot, so he raised his hand and gently ran along the back of the sobbing man who was trying to suppress his voice.

When the business was reopened in April, the regular customers found that the boss's favorite employee was gone. Tang Meng told them that his cousin had gone back, and everyone regretted not being able to eat Li Hui's dishes.

Lu Ting was still the same as usual, without Li Hui, there were indeed fewer customers, and Lu Dongzhao just came to have dinner from time to time——Although Yan Ting's craftsmanship was not as good as Li Hui's, it was still delicious.It's just that recently, I don't know what happened to these two people, but they are not together.Lu Dongzhao guessed the story, and wanted to gossip about Ye Qi and the others, but when he saw Ye Qi's eyes about to kill someone, he shut up.

So at the end of July, Yan Ting's life slowly returned to the past—hey cat, closed at night, drinking, smoking a cigarette, reading a book and sleeping.

It's just that he always leaves a bowl of rice on the steps in the backyard. Of course, he knows that if the little guy comes back, he will knock on the door first, but every time he sees the rice being eaten, or even the bowl is gone, he will feel a little bit in his heart. Be happy for a while, and then go back to the yard as if nothing happened.

Jie Zhou asked him if anything happened the night Li Hui disappeared. All he could remember, apart from the sweet time with Li Hui, was the gift he received from Li Hui—the little guy said it was his most precious something.

After Ye Qi and Song Song found out, they kept apologizing as if they were about to cry, saying that if Li Hui had to go back because of this, they would be fine no matter what, as long as he could relieve his anger.

He hugged the two big men with a smile, saying that it was not their fault, that what was going to happen, would always happen.As a result, the eyes of the two big men turned red.Later Tang Meng told him that Ye Qi cried like a child for a long time that night.

Seeing that the dark circles under the eyes of several friends became heavier because of him during that time, Yan Ting felt that he could no longer be depressed, at least not in front of them.

So after that, he put the pendant that Li Hui gave him with a chain, and never took it off after wearing it around his neck, as if the temperature of the little guy was always on his chest and never left.