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Guangzhou Baiyun Airport.

When the two wheels were lowered and the plane landed on the runway, it was already evening in Guangzhou. The sun was about to set and hung between the sky and the earth. The color of soft-boiled egg yolk barely maintained the afterglow. All in the shadows.

Airports and stations are always the busiest places, with the grunting of luggage wheels, the sound of flight announcements, the sound of passengers talking, and the sound of hurried footsteps. Several kinds of sounds blend together, as if they are performing a musical.

After Wang Hongli turned on the phone, the phone beeped one beep after another. After a dozen or so beeps, it finally stopped.

When he got the luggage on the conveyor belt, Wang Hongli turned on the screen. It was almost eight o'clock. He saw that there were three or four missed calls and more than a dozen unread WeChat messages. He put the phone close to his ear and listened to the voices from his mother Wang Yi one by one.

"It's busy this morning, but it's not very busy this afternoon."

"I can go back early today."

"I'll cook in the evening, what do you want to eat, I'll bring the food home."

"Why is there no one at home?"

"Are you out?"

"When are you coming back?"

"Did you go out with your classmates?"

"Are you eating out or coming back? The food is ready."

"How can I turn off your phone?"

"Are you watching a movie?"

"What about people?!"

"It's almost 7 o'clock! Will you come back for dinner?!"

"Why is your phone still off?"

"I can't get through the phone, and I don't reply to WeChat, what are you doing?!"

The next few voices were probably sent after the call failed. They were sonorous, powerful and extremely loud, as if a series of firecrackers had been set off in an airport sound effects musical.

The tinnitus caused by the landing of the plane hadn't subsided, and Wang Yi cracked again like a firecracker, which made Wang Hongli's head twitch and hurt.

"I went to Guangzhou."

After Wang Hongli finished sending the voice, he exited the chat interface with his mother.There are no unread messages in WeChat. I glanced at the person under his mother’s profile picture, clicked on it, and the message record was still stagnant more than 3 hours ago. Wang Hongli himself sent it——“I’ll go to Guangzhou to find you” .

At four or five o'clock, the sun is not so strong, and the range hoods and stoves of each house start to work. The sound of cooking with spatulas and the smell of soup are all rushing out of the door, spreading in the air, and spreading to other people's homes.He has been looking at the volunteer guide for an afternoon, and there are several suitable schools and majors listed on the paper at hand. The kettle in the kitchen starts to hum, he closes his dry eyes, puts down the pen, and there is no sign pen Put on the cap of the pen, and roll from the coffee table to the carpet with a grunt.

Wang Hongli ate at McDonald's at the airport while looking for hotels online.

"I've already arrived in Guangzhou."

Still couldn't help but send that person a WeChat message. Wang Hongli wasn't sure if Tao Huan had seen the news, and he wasn't sure if Tao Huan would take care of him. After all, he hadn't seen him for two years. Although he sometimes chatted with him, it was basically Wang Hongli. There are too many messages, maybe Tao Xuan finds himself annoying.Wang Hongli took a sip of Coke, secretly buried himself, and ran all the way to Guangzhou just to ask for a volunteer.I asked Tao Xuan on WeChat, but Tao Xuan didn't reply.

Why can't I hold back once when I can't help but send him a message?They haven't returned any news to you until now, and they are still eagerly looking forward to it. Wang Hongli feels as if he is entertaining himself.

It was already 08:30 after eating McDonald's, even if he didn't expect any response from the WeChat messages he sent, he still dawdled in McDonald's for half an hour, not knowing what he was expecting, what was he expecting?I came to Guangzhou with a bang, and I didn't know what the shift was. I thought it was a bloody drama, and I could see the person I wanted to see just by looking up at the airport?As soon as you get out of the airport, you just meet someone you want to meet?The airport is so big, there are several exits.

When he was standing on the crowded subway, Wang Hongli was still in the process of self-examination. Forget it, or he should come to Guangzhou for a visit, he thought.

Tao lingered down noodles for dinner, and the black and white Bian Mu sauntered around his legs, paws on his sweatpants, his tongue sticking out, looking so hungry.After washing all the pots, Tao Xuan took out the dog leash and bent over, Bian Mu ran over and squatted down, stretching out his paws for Tao Xuan to put on.

The sun has almost set, and people in the community are walking in twos and threes. The old man and the old woman move a small bamboo stool under the tree to cool off, and the children are chasing each other with smiles.

Bianmu ran very happily today, I don't know if it was because it rained in Guangzhou a few days ago and he didn't run happily.Tao Xuan untied the dog leash and let it play by itself, sat on the stone bench and took out his mobile phone.There are unread WeChat messages under several app advertisements.

The street lights in the neighborhood were turned on, and the light shone on Tao Xuan's expressionless face.

"Border, go home."

Bian Mu, who was having fun in the distance, stopped the car and turned back, heading towards Tao Yao.

"Why did you go to Guangzhou without saying a word? Didn't you tell me a few days ago?"

"Where are you in Guangzhou now?"

"Did you go by yourself? Or did you go with your classmates?"

"How many days?"

"Have you booked your place to live?"

WeChat started beeping again.Wang Hongli picked his ear with the other hand.

"Oh, Mom, I just want to go to Guangzhou to have fun."

"Alone, I'll send you a message before I come back. I'm looking for a place to live..." A phone call came in before I finished speaking.

The two big characters "Tao Xuan" appeared on the screen, and the background of the call was secretly set by Wang Hongli. It was a cute and cold puppet cat with arrogant eyes and looked down on everything.

Wang Hongli was startled and connected.

The breathing sound of the person on the other side is obvious even in some noisy subway cars, as if they are walking or running.

"Where are you now?" Shen Shen's voice reached Wang Hongli's ears through the mobile phone, and then passed into his head, as if to soothe the nerves that had been blasted by Wang Yi earlier.

"On the subway, the phone on the subway has radiation, so I hung up first." Wang Hongli hung up hastily after saying this, as if he was not the one who sent the WeChat message to Tao Xuan diligently before, as if to prove something Usually, I don't want to say a word, and use the words that there is radiation on the subway to make a perfunctory statement.

"Which station do you take on the subway? I'll find you."

"Di", in WeChat, Tao Xuan's profile picture finally surpassed Wang Yi's and ranked first.

The next stop was Yantang, and Wang Hongli got off here dragging his suitcase.

"I got off at Yantang Station."

"You just wait for me at Yantang Station, and you have to take the subway later." Tao Ling quickly replied.

"Where do I go by subway? I've already booked a hotel." Actually, no, Wang Hongli murmured silently in his heart. It's okay to get by, but the difficulty is that Wang Hongli has no destination in Guangzhou now, and he doesn't care where to go, but he doesn't know where to go, and he still follows the crowd on the subway in a half-trance.

"I'll tell you later when it's time." Tao Huan sent text at this moment.

Sitting on the chair for passengers to rest in the station, Wang Hongli looked at the mobile phone, but his mind was not on the mobile phone, and he began to self-criticize again.Mom really saw him through, Wang Hongli thought, Wang Yi said that Wang Hongli had nothing special, only one thing, impulsiveness.

Who else would go to another city to ask because they couldn't ask about other people's college volunteers?He is the only idiot who can be so impulsive. Wang Hongli plucked the messy hair on his head a few times and pressed his hair. He seemed to be able to suppress Tao Xuan's thoughts. The subways passed by, and he looked at his watch. It had been 20 minutes, and he couldn't sit still.

Tao Xuan didn't tell him how long it would take him to arrive. Wang Hongli held back his finger that was about to poke on WeChat, stood up and shook, and then sat down and turned on the water glass to drink. His current mood is the same as checking the results of the college entrance examination a few days ago. The nervousness mixed with inexplicable excitement and excitement, I don't know why I am nervous.The phone vibrated, Tao Xuan called.

"I've arrived at Yantang, you join my shared location." Tao Xuan hung up after saying this.

Wang Hongli did not feel uncomfortable when he spoke in a commanding tone. He turned on the location sharing and saw that Tao Xuan was only 100 meters away from him. Speeding up the beating, the momentum is like wanting to jump out of the chest.

He never felt that there was anything special about location sharing before, Wang Hongli thought, but now that he shares location with Tao Xuan, it seems that not only the location is shared, but not only the distance between each other, but also the heart is shortened on the map. It was as if his heart was being pulled towards Tao Yao by an invisible thread. It was so strange. Every time Tao Yao was involved, he felt ambiguous in everything he did. Seeing that their positions were about to overlap, Wang Hongli looked around.

Another subway passed by, and the light of the billboard in the tunnel was covered by the carriage, and then reappeared, flickering on Wang Hongli's face.

He saw the figure blocked by the escalator slowly appearing complete. The man was wearing a T-shirt and sweatpants, walking towards him quickly.

Wang Hongli put his bag on his back, dragged his suitcase casually, and walked quickly towards Tao Huan, as if a fellow villager reunited after a long absence, only missing a tearful hug, he thought.

It's a pity that the fellow villagers saw that the tearful scenes of the fellow villagers hadn't been staged yet. "Click", the suitcase that Wang Hongli was dragging tilted, and a wheel happily jumped out of the card slot. He rolled to the side and lay flat, as if he had had enough. tortured by the master.

……

Wang Hongli squatted down to check, and one of the rear wheels of the suitcase fell off.

The air conditioner in the subway was turned on too high, and the back of Wang Hongli's T-shirt still had wet sweat sticking to his skin, and he had goose bumps when the cold wind blew.

Just now, the two of them struggled enough with the suitcase wheels, and they were sweating from the work, but they still couldn't fight against the rear wheels, which yearned for freedom and did not want to be tortured by friction.

"Well, it's not that I dragged the suitcase hard, it must be because the airport staff broke it loose when unloading the luggage, so I pulled it off." Wang Hongli couldn't help but defend himself.

He looked at Tao Xuan, who was holding the luggage pole of his luggage in his hands, looking at him quietly with his black eyes, without speaking.

"Have you eaten yet?" Seeing that he was silent, Wang Hongli began to change the subject and tried to chat. After he finished speaking, he felt embarrassed. It was almost 10 o'clock. What dinner should he have?

Tao Xuan still stared at Wang Hongli, his eyes were pure and attracted people like black holes.

Wang Hongli was embarrassed by him, so he turned his eyes away. He was slightly shorter than Tao Yao, so he looked away from Tao Xuan's eyes, and looked down at the red rope hanging around his neck. Only a section of the red rope could be seen. , and the rest was hidden in the T-shirt. Wang Hongli knew that a piece of jade was tied under the red string, and the jade pendant was carved with a statue of Guanyin.