Let go of the past

Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

In the rest area outside the psychiatric consultation room of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Ji Bing sat on the sofa with one hand propped up, his eyes fell on a certain point in the air, seemingly empty, and his mobile phone was held by him on the other side. Playing with one hand, as if waiting for something, but also aimlessly.

After maintaining this posture for about ten minutes, he put away his gaze and looked back at the phone. The screen was lightly turned on, and the message browsing interface appeared directly on it. The message Li Ziqing sent a few days ago lay alone on the dialog box. In it, there are only three simple words: Are you here?

There was a crisp sound of high-heeled shoes hitting the marble floor from far to near, Ji Bing turned his head to look over, Xie Jiaqi came from the corridor, looked at him with concern and worry that could not be concealed, Ji Bing got up from the sofa, put the phone in the entrance bag, casually said: "Let's go."

Xie Jiaqi stood in front of him with hesitant eyes, and finally said: "...don't try again?"

"It's the same result back and forth, no need."

"However," Xie Jiaqi still wanted to insist, "Dr. David will be back from vacation next week. He has his own research on IRAS disease. We can look at him again."

"Forget it." Ji Bing turned to look at her, smiled, and said in a soft voice: "It's just a memory, if you can't remember it, don't forget it." He reached out and nodded his head, and said in a relaxed tone: "Maybe I also feel that there is no need to retrieve that memory."

The two walked out of the outpatient building together, walked around the lawn to the parking lot to pick up the car, Xie Jiaqi followed Ji Bing all the way with her head down, walking, suddenly there was a figure in front of her, Xie Jiaqi was stunned for a moment, then stopped and looked up at Ji Bing .

"Jiaqi." Ji Bing narrowed his eyes to the row of vehicles not far away, the noon sun poured down mercilessly, shattered on the roof of the car and shot a dazzling light, hurting people's eyes, and then Hearing Ji Bing's calm voice ask: "At that time, how much did I like Li Ziqing?"

At lunch time, the colleague opposite me sat on a chair and stretched, then patted the partition glass. Li Ziqing looked up at her suspiciously. She was about to open her mouth to ask if she wanted to order takeaway together, but suddenly she was taken aback , The next second he said in astonishment and worry: "My God, Ziqing, you have become so thin recently, you look like you are seriously ill."

Li Ziqing smiled: "...you are exaggerating."

"It's not an exaggeration at all," the girl said earnestly, "I really suggest you take ten days and a half months off to take good care of your body."

When Lei Wei behind him heard this, he quickly turned his chair around, leaned over to Li Ziqing's side to observe his expression, touched his chin and frowned, and said, "Indeed, but boss, if you are on vacation, you must first Help me fix that system."

"Are you skinny?" The girl said angrily, "Ziqing is so busy, why don't you come by yourself?"

Lei Wei said disapprovingly: "But the system is made by the boss alone, and I didn't participate in the early stage. If we want to do it now, don't we have to go through the background code completely."

"Then let's go through it all." Before the girl could speak, Li Ziqing suddenly said: "The changes in requirements and daily maintenance of this system are all your business, why don't you take this opportunity to get familiar with it thoroughly, so as not to It's time to be in a hurry."

Lei Wei looked at Li Ziqing in disbelief, and thought for a moment that he was hallucinating. The little sister of my colleague was overjoyed, and said to him with a smile: "Did you hear that, the leader ordered you to do something, why don't you go quickly."

Lei Wei let out a long sigh, turned around and sat back on his seat with his head downcast, muttering: "I shouldn't have answered..."

"Want to order takeaway?" The little girl took out her phone and asked Li Ziqing while clicking on the takeaway app.

"No." Li Ziqing shook his head, "I have something to go out at noon."

Li Ziqing took the elevator down to the company garage, opened WeChat and saw the location of the restaurant sent by Bai Lisheng, he was stunned for a moment, paused and typed to reply: Is this place too high-end?

The other party seemed to be standing next to the phone, and replied after a few seconds: The broker helped to order it. If you don't like it, you can change it.

A manager reminded Li Ziqing, and he quickly changed his words: No, let's go to this one.

Xiaobai: Waiting for you (smile.jpg)

One sentence waits for you to stare at Li Ziqing again, even that smiling face has an unspeakable strange aura. After struggling for a moment, Li Ziqing convinces himself that Xiaobai has been very puzzling since he was in school. Through it, probably now that I am an idol star, this mysterious feeling is magnified again.

After arriving at the place, Li Ziqing drove the car into the parking space and was looking for a place to park when he saw a doorman in uniform approaching, knocked on the car window and said to him: "Mr. Li? Don't mind?" If so, let me park the car for you."

Li Ziqing got out of the car as he said, and the doorman held the car door with one hand and bowed, "Mr. Li, go in first, Mr. Bai is already waiting for you."

Li Ziqing tugged on his tie unnaturally, his tone and atmosphere made him a little out of breath for some reason, but he had come all the time, and there was absolutely no possibility of turning around and leaving, so he could only walk towards the gilded door. Glass doors.

Sure enough, there were people there to welcome him inside, leading him all the way up to the second floor. There was only a table behind the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, and the sunlight shone in, creating a soft light. Looking outside, he turned his face when he heard the sound, looked at Li Ziqing and said calmly: "Here we come."

Li Ziqing took a seat opposite him, and Bai Lisheng had already handed over the menu, Li Ziqing waved his hand, it was his first time in this restaurant, so it would be more appropriate to leave the ordering to Bai Lisheng who seemed to be familiar with it.

"Come on." Li Ziqing said with a smile, "I'll do whatever I want."

Bai Lisheng didn't insist either, but when he took back the menu, he said: "I still hate hearing people say it's casual."

Li Ziqing was familiar with his character, so he didn't feel angry. After he communicated with the waiter in pure S city dialect, he made a few strokes on the menu, and then sent the waiter away. When he looked up, he saw Li Ziqing Qingzheng looked at himself with a dazed expression, his eyes were dull and lifeless, as if someone had snatched away all three souls and seven souls from the sky in an instant.

"The owner of this restaurant is a native of City S. If you order in dialect, he will make it more delicate and tasty for you." Bai Lisheng explained to him, and then added: "Is my dialect considered authentic? "

Li Ziqing forced a smile, looked down at the tea in front of him, and said, "It's pretty good."

Bai Lisheng stared fixedly at his appearance, and suddenly asked, "Did you take me for Ji Bing just now?"

Li Ziqing reflexively wanted to deny it, so he heard Bai Lisheng continue: "He has been away for so many days, has he called you?"

Maryland, USA, at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, Ji Bing opened the door of the hotel room, standing outside the door was a neatly dressed Xie Jiaqi, looking at him who had stayed in the room for more than two hours without even taking off his coat, smiled. Said: "I know you can't sleep, the bar in this hotel is open 24 hours, the days are short and the nights are long, why don't you go for a drink?"

Ji Bing sat in front of the bar and asked the waiter for a glass of whiskey on ice. In the background sound of the bar, a female singer was humming a familiar English song with her ethereal and affectionate voice.

"Do you want cigarettes?" Xie Jiaqi pulled out a pack of ladies' cigarettes, and shook it in front of Ji Bing in a teasing manner. Ji Bing waved his hand, and she lost interest. She put away the pack of cigarettes and stared at the blue-eyed drinker behind the bar. The teacher looked at his buttocks for a while, then turned his head and asked Ji Bing, "Are you going to meet my parents in New York tomorrow?"

"To be honest, I don't really want to go." Ji Bing took a sip of wine, shook the cup in his hand and said, "I've seen the case of your parents. It's basically the same as throwing money into it. It's better to have this money." Go back to China and buy a few houses in S City, and earn more than this in a year or two."

Xie Jiaqi seemed to have expected it a long time ago, and her expression was not too surprised. She shrugged and said, "OK, as long as you can convince them, I don't want to watch the old man live in his later years, but go to jail because of debts."

"The market is changing rapidly, and they are thinking too simply."

Xie Jiaqi smiled self-deprecatingly, "It's not just the market that changes rapidly," she said, "My parents still can't figure out why a good son-in-law suddenly became a gay man who likes men."

Instead of being angry, Ji Bing smiled, and said slowly: "The misunderstanding is always created by you alone. In this matter, I am sorry that I cannot express my apology to them."

"Ji Bing," Xie Jiaqi's voice suddenly raised a bit, her face was condensed, she looked at him fixedly and asked, "Have you ever liked me?"

Ji Bing chuckled, and answered her almost without hesitation: "No."

Xie Jiaqi took a deep breath, almost unable to hold the glass. Even though she has been deeply aware of it for so many years, being slapped on the face by the person concerned in such a decisive way still gave her a sense of suffocation at a loss.

She slowed down for a while, a cool smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, she turned her head to look at Ji Bing seriously, changed her questioning method, and then asked him: "What about Li Ziqing? Do you still like him now?"