Looking forward to returning home

After two months in London, this is the first time that An Lin rejected Gu Yanxiao's video call request, and the reason...is not like a reason at all.

She asked An Linfang if it was inconvenient, but that was at most a colloquial way of asking, and it was the same concept as the phrase 'Have you eaten' when we usually meet.

Gu Yanxiao had already planned to dial the video call, but when she saw An Lin send these two sentences, she moved her finger away from the phone screen.

Inconvenient now?

Gu Yanxiao stared at this sentence, thinking about its meaning.

【Are you busy? ] After thinking for a while, she still sent such a sentence.

An Lin replied quickly: 【No, I'm tired. I just went to bed and turned off the light. The room is dark, and you can't see anything clearly even if you call. 】

What he said was reasonable and there were no loopholes, but Gu Yanxiao still felt that something was wrong.

Gu Yanxiao: [Voice is also fine. 】

An Lin: [Well, okay, I'll call you later. 】

An Lin patted her face, intending to wake herself up, and then went to the house to check whether the doors and windows were locked. After finishing all these things, she went back to the bedroom and climbed onto the bed silently.

Make a voice call to Gu Yanxiao, and after connecting, Gu Yanxiao's slightly cold voice came out of the microphone: "Why is it so long?"

An Lin responded, "I went to the bathroom."

After saying this, both of them suddenly became silent.

An Lin was afraid that if she said too much, she would reveal her secrets, but Gu Yanxiao didn't know the reason, she was the one who offered to make a call, but now she didn't speak.

As long as An Lin has time, she will naturally not miss the opportunity to meet Gu Yanxiao, even though it is through the screen of the mobile phone, it is much better than not seeing her.Today's refusal is nothing more than a last resort.

But it's always good to be able to hear the voice, so she nodded and agreed after deliberating for a while.

Time passed by, and An Lin couldn't bear the atmosphere, so he took the initiative to speak: "You just said you were going to Wucheng?"

"Yeah." After listening to An Lin's words, Gu Yanxiao, who had no topic for a while, seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, and quickly responded, "Uncle Qian will pick me up to the airport later."

Wucheng.

An Lin thought for a while, and asked, "Who are you looking for? Type map?"

Gu Yanxiao was surprised: "How do you know?"

An Lin pursed her lips, leaned back, and said in an extremely flat tone: "I've heard of it before."

"Really?" Gu Yanxiao didn't doubt it. After all, Xingtu has indeed developed very well in Wucheng, and An Lin often follows her, so it's not uncommon to know.

"En." Gu Yanxiao didn't doubt it, and even followed An Lin's wishes.

"Professor Smith asked you to come back so early today, do you have to work overtime tomorrow?"

"No, rest tomorrow and go to the laboratory the day after tomorrow."

Gu Yanxiao: "It's rare to have a vacation, don't be too tired, go to bed a little later, but remember to eat breakfast."

"I know." An Lin replied in a low voice, "When are you going out?"

Gu Yanxiao raised his eyes and looked at the clock: "It's not so fast yet, we agreed to leave at seven o'clock."

An Lin: "Sister Mu Shu going with you?"

Gu Yanxiao: "Yes."

An Lin tilted her head back and leaned against the bed: "Be careful."

"Ah."

As she spoke, she felt that An Lin's voice seemed tired and weak, thinking that she was really tired, and just wanted to say, "Stop talking today, you should rest early", but before she could speak, she Hearing heavy coughing from An Lin's end, one after another.

There were a few weak ones at first, and An Lin had already raised his hand to cover the cough when he coughed, but the coughing could not stop, and it became more and more intense one after another.

An Lin reacted quickly, and immediately moved the phone away from her mouth, then quickly used the other hand holding the phone to press the mute button on the screen, so that her voice could not reach Gu Yanxiao. .

Don't know

Asked if his movements were oppressing his throat, and he didn't stop under her control at all, coughing suddenly, even tears came out.

He tried his best to control his deep breathing, and finally stopped slowly.

She panted slightly, breathing heavily, and Gu Yanxiao's voice kept calling her on the other side of the microphone.

"An'an?"

"Are you okay?"

"Why are you coughing so badly?"

"An'an, can you hear me?"

Gu Yanxiao's voice became a little anxious.

In fact, she only heard a weak cough in the first half and a slightly heavier voice in the back. Before she had time to ask, the voice became smaller, and then it stopped abruptly, and there was no movement.

At first, she thought it was a bad signal or the network was interrupted, but seeing the beating timer on the screen and the full WI-FI signal display, she immediately overturned this idea.

But after shouting several times in a row, there was no response from An Lin. Gu Yanxiao, who was originally standing in the living room, unconsciously paced in small steps, holding the phone with a helpless expression on his face.

"I'm here." Hearing her voice like this, An Lin responded immediately after being able to speak.

"Is it better? Are you still coughing?" Gu Yanxiao asked with concern, her tone full of worry.

"Cough." An Lin coughed again suddenly, which startled Gu Yanxiao, but An Lin replied, "It's okay, I just remembered to drink some water, and I got up violently, choking on the saliva. …”

After she finished speaking by herself, she giggled twice, her voice seemed very flat and relaxed.

An Lin knew that it was probably due to a fever that brought on some coughing, and it would probably be more severe tomorrow. She would go to the medicine cabinet to find some cough syrup to drink later, but Gu Yanxiao couldn't let Gu Yanxiao know about these things, so she could only find some at will. A more reliable excuse to fool the past.

Hearing what she said, Gu Yanxiao's face softened a little. Although he was still a little skeptical, he obviously relaxed a lot.

An Lin naturally heard the change in her tone, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

If Gu Yanxiao knew that she had made herself sick because she didn't take good care of herself, she would definitely keep it in mind. If she got distracted later, it would be difficult to deal with the project.

Just a white lie.

An Lin lowered her eyes, comforting herself in her heart.

She also didn't want to lie on the bed in the apartment alone with her sick body, hugging the quilt and thinking about Gu Yanxiao.

If possible, she would like to get into Gu Yanxiao's arms and act like a baby to her, smell the fragrance of her body, touch her warm body and arms, and listen to her gentle but clear voice to coax herself to sleep.

So she keeps forcing herself to be busy, because when she is busy, she can forget a lot of things and have no time to chat with Gu Yanxiao.

would not think about her.

However, now that she is suddenly free, her body is also weak, all kinds of thoughts seem to be mixed into the air, and when she is not aware of it, they penetrate into her body along the pores of her whole body, exuding the yearning for that person .

I don't know how much I want.

"Are you sure there's nothing wrong? Is it because you have a cold? I heard something wrong with your voice." Gu Yanxiao asked after thinking about it, still a little worried.

"It's fine, don't worry about it." An Lin suddenly replied with a heavy tone, looking very impatient.

When the words came out, she was stunned for a moment, let alone Gu Yanxiao.

Because An Lin wanted to end the call quickly, thinking that Gu Yanxiao would believe her previous rhetoric, so that she could perfunctorily go over and hang up the phone.But Gu Yanxiao said more of the latter paragraph, making An Lin think that she hadn't hidden it, and her tone suddenly became tense, cold and heavy.

Gu Yanxiao was stunned, her sexy red lips opened and closed a few times, and she couldn't speak for a while.

An Lin stroked her forehead, regretted her impulsiveness, took a deep breath, and then lowered her voice: "I'm fine, just drink some water, I'm going to rest, you...be careful on the road. Starting today It’s so early, sleep as long as you can on the plane, don’t be too tired.”

"it is good......"

Gu Yanxiao responded subconsciously.

"Well, then I'll hang up the phone, good night." An Lin's tone was not as excited as usual, but low and depressed.

Gu Yanxiao yelled again: "An'an."

An Lin hummed, and stopped her movements: "Is there anything else?"

"That..." Gu Yanxiao finally remembered what he didn't tell An Lin tonight, "The Spring Festival will be in a few months, when do you plan to come back? Tell me in advance, I will Let Xu Xin book a ticket for you."

Gu Yanxiao said this, first of all, it was to reduce the burden of round-trip air tickets for An Lin, after all, all the expenses for going out this time were paid by An Lin herself.Although she knew that An Lin must have spare money on hand, but other than that, only scholarships can be used as a source of income. Usually, food, clothing, housing and transportation are spent, and it is not a bottomless pit. If you only reduce but not increase, there will always be spent. one day.

Secondly, she also wanted to know when An Lin would be able to come back.It was the first time for the little girl to leave her for so long, and she was not used to it.

An Lin rolled her throat, clenched her fingers holding the phone, but said nothing.

Today's Spring Festival came very early, and a few days after New Year's Day was New Year's Eve, she could also guess why Gu Yanxiao asked her this question.

but......

During the silence, the sound of her heavy breathing reached Gu Yanxiao's ears.

"An'an?"

An Lin hummed, indicating that she heard it, and then said: "This year's Spring Festival... I won't go back. The professor said that I will stay in the laboratory until February, and I have no time to go back."

This was Gu Yanxiao's unexpected answer.

She was stunned at first, and then thought that the study system abroad was different from that in China, and because of An Lin's sudden change in tone just now, the atmosphere between the two of them became weird.

"Then forget it, forget it, it's okay, the most important thing is to study." Even though he said so, the disappointment in his tone was still obvious.

An Lin gritted her teeth, raised her hand to wipe her sore eyes, suppressed the astringency in her mouth, and said lightly, "Then I'll die."

With a beep, the phone interface turned into a chat between two people, and the room was so quiet that a needle could be heard.

From the muffled breathing sound at first, then gradually, there were very thin and low choking sounds and whimpers.

The little man threw the phone aside, burrowed into the quilt, and lay on his side, trying not to let his cry escape from his mouth, but the corners of his eyes couldn't help but glistening drops of water slid down his cheeks one by one. , gradually stained the pillow on the side of the cheek...