Run in the opposite direction

Sleeping, I have been busy all day without touching my feet. I should be very sleepy at the moment, but the strange thing is that although I am tired, I don't feel sleepy at all.

Having lived to this age, he is naturally very clear about what his body needs at this moment. He leaned on the car seat, closed his eyes and let the anger in his body run wild. This unresolved desire made him irritated and tired from the bottom of his heart.

After a rain, the weather turned cold. Qiao Qianyan got up at four o'clock in the morning to pack his things. He was going back to Ancheng today to hear the results of his cousin's trial. Once the results came out, he needed to see his father.

Opening the closet, I saw Xing Chen's coat brought back from Luojiang Station a few days ago.He thought for a while and put his coat into his bag.

Before leaving, Qiao Qianyan told grandma many times that he was going out to do some errands, so she wouldn't worry, and at the same time told Wen Na: "You must take care of grandma, I will be home at seven or eight in the afternoon at the latest."

Wen Na promised: "Don't worry, grandma said in the afternoon that she would teach me to knit sweaters. It will be very fast when I get busy."

Qiao Qianyan shook the phone: "Call me immediately if you need anything."

The last time Qiao Qianyan returned to Ancheng was the anniversary of his mother's death last year. He came back to visit the grave. He also went to the prison that day, but his father still didn't see him.But today is different, my cousin and his father have always been prosperous together, and now that my cousin has also collapsed, my father must want to know the situation.

Qiao Qianyan was sitting in the last corner of the courtroom. He clearly saw the relatives in the front row crying. After hearing the result, he got up and left.Since he was a child, he didn't like people in his family who came to give gifts every day to ask for work. His father also protected him very much. Knowing that he had no intentions, he didn't take him into the officialdom, and let him do what he liked.Therefore, the relatives in the family who have been tied together in public and private for a generation, actually don't have much affection for him.

Qiao Qianyan waited for 10 minutes, and the prison guard told him that Qiao resolutely wanted to see him.

Qiao Qianyan looked like his mother, and when he was four or five years old, Qiao Yiran still pampered him like a daughter.Qiao Qianyan just learned how to ride a bicycle at the age of five and a half, and he and the neighbor's nine-year-old boy bragged to each other. The older boy pointed to the outer wall of the community and said that I could go around here twenty times. I was convinced that I could do [-] laps, but neither of them convinced the other, so they made an appointment for a competition, and the parents of both sides were the referees.The two of them rode round and round along the outer wall of the community. After ten laps, both of them were too tired to pedal. The big boy, because of his self-esteem, continued to ride six laps, and finally he couldn't get up on the ground.

Qiao Qianyan held back his strength and rode to twenty laps in one breath.Father Qiao was afraid that he would be exhausted, so he hurried over and said it was all right, he had already won.However, Qiao Qianyan pursed her lips and said, "I said thirty laps, that's thirty laps. Anyone who can't ride is a puppy." Then he started to ride again.By the 25th lap, my legs were really weak, and I fell to the ground with the car, and my knees were bleeding immediately.Although Qiao's father looked distressed at the time, he still held Qiao's mother who was about to step forward to stop him, and stood aside to watch Qiao Qianyan get up from the ground, push the cart for a few steps and then ride on it.

From that day on, Qiao Yiran really realized that although Qiao Qianyan was handsome, he had a ruthlessness that many men didn't have.

After graduating from university, Qiao Yiran entered a national unit, and later became the director of the Education Bureau. Outsiders said that he had a smooth journey, but only he knew that if he wanted to get something, he had to give up something. For example, when he entered the unit, he stood in front of the party flag under the oath.There is no arrow to turn back when you open the bow. If he takes the first step, he will never turn back.So he isolated his only son to be a perfect father and official in front of Qiao Qianyan. In his son's life, he knew that even though Qiao Qianyan's world had suffered an earth-shaking blow, he would still treat him as his father and would come to visit him.So Qiao resolutely chose to refuse directly, so that his son would no longer value him and start life again.

It has been two years since the father and son last met.

Qiao resolutely looked at his son opposite. Qiao Qianyan had lost a lot of weight, and he was not as radiant as before. His whole body was enveloped in a feeling of depression.He was very sad in his heart, but he didn't want to reveal his emotions. He listened to his son telling him about his cousin's verdict, and after a long silence, he said, "The French Open is back, and I can't blame others."

Qiao Qianyan: "Are... are you in good health?"

Qiao Yiran: "I'm fine, you don't have to worry about it. You spend more time with grandma, and when you talk about your wife, bring it to me."

Qiao Qianyan smiled a little: "Okay."

The two met for only 10 minutes, and Qiao resolutely wanted to go back. Qiao Qianyan watched him go in and left.

After leaving the prison, it was just noon, Qiao Qianyan found a small shop on the side of the road to have lunch, and sent Xing Chen a WeChat message: Are you at work?

Xing Chen called quickly: "Qianyan, have you returned to Ancheng?"

Qiao Qianyan: "Yes, I have something to do when I come back. I'm going to go back to Luojiang now. I brought you your clothes. I'm near the municipal party committee now. Do you want to send them to you?"

Xing Chen said helplessly, "Do you know where I am now?"

Qiao Qianyan: "Where?"

Xing Chen: "Eighteen Mile Township."

Shibali Township is not close to Ancheng, and it takes an hour to drive by high speed.

Qiao Qianyan: "Then I'll put your clothes in the guard room, turn around and you—"

"Qianyan." Xing Chen interrupted him, paused and said, "Can you wait for me for an hour? I'm going back to Ancheng now."

Qiao Qianyan tapped the table with the index finger of the other hand, hesitantly said: "I..."

Xing Chen: "Wait for me." After speaking, he hung up the phone.

Qiao Qianyan also put down his phone, looked at the bag of clothes in his hand and waited for the waiter to serve the dishes.

Although Qiao Qianyan tried his best to slow down, it was only half an hour after he finished his meal. He left the restaurant and walked to the square opposite the Municipal Party Committee.

There was a child learning to skate in the center of the square, and Qiao Qianyan sat on the rest chair and watched the child fall and stand up again and again.After a while, he received a call from Xing Chen.

Xing Chen: "Where are you? I'll go find you."

Qiao Qianyan: "In People's Square, watching children skate."

Xing Chen drove to the opposite People's Square, and soon saw Qiao Qianyan waving at him.Qiao Qianyan watched him walk over, and handed over the cloth bag. Xing Chen stretched out his hand, hooked the corner of his mouth, held Qiao Qianyan's hand along the cloth bag, and led him a few steps to the side of the road to get into the car.

Xing Chen reversed the car and said, "Why didn't you tell me in advance when you came to Ancheng?"

Qiao Qianyan: "It's nothing. Where are you going now?"

Xing Chen: "Go to my house and show you the way. Next time you go back to Ancheng, you don't have to sit in People's Square."

Qiao Qianyan glanced at the time and said, "I have to go back to Luojiang as soon as possible."

Xing Chen glanced at him with smiling eyes: "I know, there will be no delay."

Xing Chen's home is not far from the Municipal Party Committee, just pass two traffic lights.He took Qiao Qianyan upstairs and said to him: "I live alone, my parents are not here."

Qiao Qianyan followed Xing Chen into the room, and at a glance, the living room was very empty.Qiao Qianyan said: "It looks like no one lives in your house."

Xing Chen poured him a glass of water and said with a smile: "It's easy to mess up if there are too many things, and besides, I don't need anything."

Qiao Qianyan rubbed his shoulders and leaned on the sofa and yawned.

Xing Chen asked, "Did you get up early in the morning?"

Qiao Qianyan nodded.

Xing Chen: "Go to my bed and sleep for a while, I will call you later."

Qiao Qianyan waved his hand and said, "No need, I'll sleep in the car later. That's fine, I remember the way, so I should go."

Xing Chen sat beside him with a cup, looked at him and said, "Just leave in such a hurry? I won't eat you again."

Qiao Qianyan raised her right eyebrow slightly: "There is an old lady waiting at home."

Xing Chen put down his water glass, turned his body and looked at him with his head propped up: "I didn't eat lunch to see you, so accompany me to have a meal before leaving. I'm calling the restaurant at the entrance of the community to deliver food."

Qiao Qianyan asked after he finished the call, "Why did you go to Shibali Township?"

Xing Chen: "When I go to the countryside to build medical infrastructure, I have to stay in the countryside three or four days a week."

The takeaway was delivered soon, and Xing Chenti went to the kitchen to pour the food in the lunch box into plates, and put them on the table one by one.Qiao Qianyan leaned against the door: "Is it still so particular about eating takeout?"

Xing Chen: "If you told me in advance that you were going back to Ancheng, I would definitely prepare lunch. Now that's all I can do."

Qiao Qianyan smiled lightly: "I ate it just now."

Xing Chen waved to him: "Come here, the old duck soup here is very good, drink some more."

Qiao Qianyan sat at the table, and Xing Chen served him a bowl of duck soup. He pulled out a chair and sat next to him. He put on disposable gloves and peeled shrimps while saying, "People in Ancheng like to eat seafood. I'm going to Luoyang Jiang Wan, I see that there is basically no seafood in the restaurant, since you are back, eat some more."

Xing Chen put the peeled shrimp on Qiao Qianyan's plate.

Qiao Qianyan smiled and said: "I used to go to college, and every time I came home from vacation, my parents would prepare the food and put it in front of me on the first day like you."

"Although I'm a few years older than you," Xing Chen looked at him with a half-smile, "but you can't treat me as someone from your parents' generation."

Qiao Qianyan also smiled, lowered his head and put a shrimp into his mouth.Looking at Xing Chen's movements, he said, "Don't just peel it off for me, didn't you have lunch?"

"I'm not hungry." Xing Chen was still letting Qiao Qianyan eat vegetables, occasionally putting a shrimp in his mouth.

Qiao Qianyan finished a bowl of soup, ate a lot of dishes, and even finished a plate of shrimp that Xing Chen peeled, touched his stomach and said: "I can't eat any more, I'm so stuffed."

Xing Chen took off his gloves, took the tissue box over, and said, "You only once