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The documentary automatically played to the end, and the room fell silent again.

Tao Liyang recovered from the sudden silence, and there was only one thought in his mind.He wanted to see Xu Yunqing, right now.

His throat was a little dry, he took a sip of water, and went to get the mobile phone on the table.Before he could touch it, the screen lit up, and the ringtone seemed particularly abrupt, and he subconsciously slid down to connect to Jian, it was Shen Xi.

"Is Yun Qing with you?" Shen Xi asked directly.

Tao Liyang was taken aback: "What?"

"No?"

"No... what happened to him?"

Shen Xi paused: "I can't get in touch with others."

"What do you mean you can't get in touch?" Tao Liyang froze, his voice raised unconsciously.

"What do you mean by asking me? I still want to ask you? Literally, it means that the phone can't be reached, and no one can be found." Shen Xi's tone was exhausted. She was talking with the brand side about the next cooperation during the day, and spent a day , finally finished the chat, but this happened again, "I adjusted the hotel surveillance, and he left before dawn, without bringing anything... But why did he leave your room in the middle of the night? What’s the matter with you asking me this morning if he was taking Valium? You still told me it’s okay, now that everyone’s gone, it’s okay? What happened last night?”

Tao Liyang's mind was blank, and he tried to stay calm, grabbing the sharp corner of the table and sinking into the flesh of his palm, using the pain to force himself to calm down: "I'll talk about this later, it's important to find Yunqing first. Where are you now? I'll come over .”

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, and Tao Liyang couldn't help but urge him.

"Then let's go to Kangxing Hospital first." Shen Xi finally said, "I just found out that Yunqing's car was parked there, and I just arrived at the ferry, so I went there immediately."

Tao Liyang grabbed the key and drove at the highest speed all the way to the hospital.Just after passing through the tunnel, Shen Xi called again.

"You don't need to go to the hospital anymore, Yun Qing was photographed and trending."

Tao Liyang frowned, stopped the car on the side of the road, and opened Weibo, Xu Yunqing's name was indeed listed on the trending search.

Click in and there is a video, all shot at the airport of a city in the south.Xu Yunqing hurriedly walked out of the airport. The video was very short, less than 1 minute, and Xu Yunqing also wore a hat and a mask.But Tao Liyang didn't know if it was his own illusion, he felt that Xu Yunqing in the video looked bad.

"I've already contacted the person who posted the video. It's Yunqing's old fan for many years. She said she saw it at the airport and thought it looked a bit like it, but she wasn't sure. After all, according to the public itinerary, Yunqing is now It should be at the anniversary celebration. The video was taken an hour ago. She was afraid that it was Yun Qing and would cause trouble for him. She didn’t dare to post it until he was far away. The main reason is to confirm whether it is true or not. "

Shen Xi sighed irritably, "Why isn't this, this is Yun Qing. What is he doing here so well? I haven't heard of this place..."

"It's his hometown." Tao Liyang subconsciously said.

Shen Xi was stunned: "Isn't he from N City?"

"No." Tao Liyang couldn't figure out why Xu Yunqing would go back suddenly, "I don't know much, so you don't need to ask. Are you going to the airport now...then book a ticket for me, and I will go there with you .”

After a short hesitation, Shen Xi agreed, and soon passed the flight information to him. The nearest flight is three hours later.

It is only half an hour's drive from here to the airport, and there is still time.Tao Liyang's heart was on fire, but there was no other way.Tried to broadcast Xu Yunqing's call again, but the phone was turned off from no answer.

Tao Liyang couldn't help frowning.I can't get in touch, how can I find someone when I get there, what is Xu Yunqing doing here?Is it because of their argument last night? ...

He was restless and anxious. He swiped his phone several times, but he didn't see any other information.Seeing that the road ahead was about to change, he suddenly remembered that Xu Yunqing's mother was still in Kangxing Hospital.Xu Yunqing's car is still parked there, so he must have been there today.Could it be that he went to see his mother and something happened, so he went back to his hometown?

Tao Liyang didn't know that Xu Yunqing was in Kangxing Hospital because of insomnia.This reason seems reasonable at first glance, he thought about it and asked Shen Xi: "Have you contacted Yun Qing's mother?"

"No." Shen Xi was busy arranging popular searches, "I haven't had time yet, I don't have her contact information."

Tao Liyang glanced at his watch: "You do your work first, I'll go to the hospital to ask about it first. See you at the airport later."

Even though he knew that Lu Yin was in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, due to various reasons, Tao Liyang came here for the first time.When the juniors come to visit the sick elders, the etiquette should be thoughtful.But under such circumstances, Tao Liyang really didn't have time to prepare anything in such a hurry.

Before he arrived at the hospital, he had already contacted his familiar friends and found out about Lu Yin's ward.Tao Liyang remembered that the last time he saw Lu Yin was when he was in college, and it has been almost ten years now.The Lu Yin in his memory was a gentle person who cared a lot about Xu Yunqing, but it was probably because of the single-parent family. Sometimes this kind of caring was too much, and it seemed a bit like a desire for control...

While thinking, Tao Liyang walked quickly to the front of the ward, raised his hand and knocked on the door.

A middle-aged woman in her fifties came to answer the door: "Who are you?"

Tao Liyang estimated that she should be a nurse, "My surname is Tao, is Aunt Lu in this ward?"

"Yes." The woman nodded, and let him in, "Sister Lu, a Mr. Tao is here to see you."

Lu Yin seems to have aged a lot in the past ten years, but Tao Liyang didn't have the heart to pay too much attention to these things, and he just said straight to the point: "Hello, Auntie, I'm Tao Liyang, a friend of Yunqing, you've seen me before. I don't care to bother you, I I just want to ask, Yun Qing, today..."

He was anxious and didn't notice Lu Yin's expression. He had already recognized Tao Liyang when he stepped into the ward.

"What are you doing here? Get lost!" Before Tao Liyang finished speaking, Lu Yin interrupted him viciously with eyes wide open.

Tao Liyang froze on the spot: "Auntie?"

Lu Yin's heart fluctuated a few times, and she was leaning on the head of the bed, so she simply got out of the bed and rushed over to push him: "Get out! If you intercede on Xu Ning's behalf, you don't need to waste this effort. I will never agree with you guys !"

She was so excited that her shriveled arms couldn't stop shaking. The nurse yelled and hurried over to support her, staring at Tao Liyang: "What is this for?"

Tao Liyang was stunned for a moment, but Lu Yin continued to say: "I was not polite when you came to my house before, why did you have to kidnap and lead him astray? I am like this, and my son is like this? What did I do? Can't I escape?"

The scene in front of him was beyond Tao Liyang's expectation, he opened his mouth in vain: "Auntie, it's not... Yun Qing..."

Lu Yin was so excited that her eyes were red, and she didn't listen to what he said: "I feel disgusted when I see people like you. I finally got married, and left again because of a man! After so many years, why can't you guys be clean?  … …Didn’t he say he was going to die before me? Then go to die, you all go! I want you to come to me and show off your power!”

Lu Yin must have misunderstood something, Tao Liyang thought.Each word seemed to circle around his eyes, Tao Liyang couldn't figure out what it meant, but when he saw Lu Yin's angry expression, for a moment, he felt that he understood everything.

The sound was too loud in the ward, which attracted doctors and nurses.In a hurry but logically, Tao Liyang was invited out of the ward.There were too many messages, one after another hit him on the head, he was a little dazed, but at the moment when the door of the ward was about to close, he still remembered his original purpose of coming here, reached out his hand to stop the nurse, his throat tightened: "Has Yunqing been here today?"

The nurse looked at him strangely for half a second, and finally shook his head: "No."

Tao Liyang has no reason to stay here anymore, in fact, it will be too late if he doesn't go to the airport.Tens of millions of doubts are not as important as quickly finding Xu Yunqing.He asked his friend to keep an eye on Lu Yin's situation for him, and hurried to the airport.

Shen Xi has arrived, accompanied by Xu Yunqing's assistant.She was talking on the phone, it should be Tang Ran.Seeing Tao Liyang coming over, he raised his hand.

"Well, I see." She hung up the phone and said to Tao Liyang, "The people who have already contacted the branch went to the nearest one, but they haven't found Yunqing yet. What is this called? They didn't tell me anything, and the phone calls Can't get through, can he just run around..."

As she said that, her cell phone rang again, and it was always the partner who called to ask about the situation. Shen Xi handled it skillfully, saying that there was nothing wrong.After the call ended, he asked Tao Liyang: "Have you been to the hospital? How was it?"

"Yun Qing didn't go." Tao Liyang shook his head in silence for a moment, knowing that Shen Xi was bound to ask about last night's affairs, so he shortened the explanation.He wasn't sure whether Xu Yunqing was willing to let Shen Xi know about their relationship, so he spoke very briefly, hiding many details.

Shen Xi still wanted to ask more questions, and the announcement from the airport to check the ticket was announced. Tao Liyang rubbed his eyebrows: "When you find Yun Qing, everything depends on what he said... Shen Xi, I understand that you are anxious to get angry, but I... I don't know it myself What did you say?"

It was almost midnight when we left the airport.After Xu Yunqing was photographed at the airport, he was never seen again.Two colleagues from the branch office came to the airport to pick them up.

"We have inquired around, but we haven't found Teacher Xu yet. We have already contacted acquaintances in the traffic control department. If we can't find anyone, we can go to work tomorrow to adjust the surveillance in the city. Sister Shen, don't worry too much." One of the visitors was familiar with Shen Xi, "Maybe Teacher Xu just wanted to relax, are we too nervous, maybe it was just a false alarm."

Shen Xi grudgingly hummed. It has been less than a day since Xu Yunqing couldn't be contacted. From outsiders' perspective, it may seem like a big fuss.But Xu Yunqing has never been a person who is self-willed and willful. Since she became Xu Yunqing's manager, this is the first time she has encountered such a situation.In addition, Xu Yunqing's recent mental state is really not very good...

"Let's look for it first, it's not good if things get serious."

Xu Yunqing is a public figure, and he is very popular. If he makes any noise at random, he is afraid that the media will spread it indiscriminately.Really nothing has become something.

She took the congee and ate two casually: "The key now is, where can Yun Qing go... Li Yang, is this really his hometown?"

Tao Liyang turned his head and saw his own face in the rearview mirror, his brows were tightly frowned: "It should be, but I only know this... Wait, I'll make a call."

Xu Yunqing would not come here out of nowhere, he would always be there with a purpose.They don't understand, Lu Yin should be able to cite a few places.It's just that she reacted so strongly in the afternoon... Tao Liyang thought for a while, and asked his friends in the hospital to contact the nurse who met in Lu Yin's ward in the afternoon.

After waiting for half an hour, he received a call back. It was the woman he met in the afternoon, with a wary voice: "Hey, Mr. Tao, are you looking for me?"

Tao Liyang didn't hold much hope at first, but just tried his best.Unexpectedly, the other party was silent for a while after hearing what he said, and said: "I heard from Sister Lu that their family used to live in a family courtyard in the city..."

They rushed over overnight, and it took a lot of effort to figure out which buildings and households it was.There was no answer when I knocked on the door, and when I pried the door in, it was covered with dust, and it could be seen that no one had lived in it for a long time.Xu Yunqing is not here either.

After searching around for a long time, the other places that the nurse thought of were also empty.During the search, a white belly appeared on the horizon, and the night passed.

"Can you think of other places?" Tao Liyang asked, and found that his voice was hoarse.

"I don't know anymore." The nurse said, "Mr. Tao, I also explained the situation to Sister Lu, but she refused to tell me and scolded me. It has nothing to do with her that Yun Qing died..."

Tao Liyang sighed, the relationship between the mother and son was not harmonious, and he went there rashly yesterday, it was expected that Lu Yin would not cooperate.For a moment he almost resented his recklessness.

Shen Xi was already preparing to adjust the surveillance in the urban area. Tao Liyang was about to hang up the phone and get in the car when he suddenly remembered what Lu Yin scolded.

He thought about it: "Where is Yunqing's father's graveyard, have you heard of it?"

"I've never heard of it... Hey, wait a minute." The other end thought for a while, "Sister Lu seems to have mentioned that it's on the back hill of their hometown in the countryside."

The sky was gloomy, like it was going to rain.

Xu Yunqing hugged his knees and sat curled up in front of the tomb, leaning on the cold stone tablet. Because of his height, this posture seemed a bit wronged.

Wronged?

He hasn't felt like this in a long time.Children can often feel wronged, and there will always be someone to comfort them.But his childhood ended too early, when he saw Xu Qiming's corpse with his own eyes, it ended completely.

For many, many years, he deliberately avoided everything in the past, even though it reappeared in his sleep from time to time.Xu Yunqing forgot how he left the hospital.For a while he felt that Xu Qiming's blood was everywhere on the ground, leaving marks with every step he took.

In a daze, like a walking dead.He seemed to be recognized by someone on the road, and he could still sign with a mechanical smile, telling him not to reveal his whereabouts... When he really came back to his senses, he had already arrived at the tomb.

The village in front has long been deserted.This is considered an ancestral home, and it has been moved into the city since Grandpa Xu Yunqing's generation.When Xu Yunqing was a child, he only came here every year to visit the tomb on Qingming Festival.Now there is no one around, the entire back mountain, except for the occasional frightened bird, he is the only living thing.Is it alive?Xu Yunqing was not sure.

The wind blew past his face in gusts, he felt cold, and his headache didn't stop since seeing Su Liang yesterday, and it got worse and worse.Xu Yunqing felt very uncomfortable. He touched the An Ning inside his jacket, but he couldn't think of anything, but he didn't open it in the end.

He rested his forehead on the tombstone, looked down at the ring on his heart, said a thousand words, but had nothing to say, just whispered: "I'm a little tired..."

To be on the safe side, Shen Xi still went to the traffic bureau to adjust the surveillance, while Tao Liyang and his assistant drove to the cemetery.

The address is very remote, and it was already afternoon when we arrived.Layers of dark clouds piled up in the sky. He didn't sleep all night, but because of his anxiety, he didn't feel tired.After parking the car, he walked non-stop along the mountain road to the cemetery.

Xu Yunqing felt that he had a very long dream, the first half was good, Xu Qiming was still alive, and Lu Yin was also a qualified mother.He is still in elementary school, and his parents will pick him up after school.Lu Yin took his schoolbag, and Xu Qiming picked him up.

"Dad." He put his arms around his father's neck. "My parents at the same table are divorced. He has been crying today. It's so pitiful. You don't allow it."

Xu Qiming just laughed and patted his head: "No, Mom and Dad love you."

Looking back now it's really ridiculous, how can a marriage be maintained by love for children.But he didn't know it then and thought it was good.

But everything changed soon, Xu Yunqing also knew what would happen in his dream, he desperately wanted to wake up, but was suppressed by the past again.

"Yunqing. Yunqing..." In a daze, he heard Tao Liyang's voice, and Xu Yunqing opened his eyes.Seeing Tao Liyang's face.

Is this also a dream?Xu Yunqing thought, then this is a sweet dream.

He saw that Tao Liyang was only wearing a shirt, and gently raised his hand to touch Tao Liyang's cheek: "It's so windy here, why are you wearing so little, is it cold?"

Tao Liyang hugged him up from the ground, but he didn't hear him clearly.I thought Xu Yunqing was talking about the cold, but he was too anxious to go out yesterday, and he even forgot to put on his coat.There was no clothes to put on him for a while.I had to whisper: "It's okay, just go to the car."

Xu Yunqing was in a daze, still unable to distinguish between dreams and reality, and could not quite understand his words, only Tao Liyang frowned tightly.So he reached out to touch his forehead.

"Tao Liyang." He whispered his name.

Tao Liyang hugged him tighter: "What?"

"Don't be angry with me." Xu Yunqing took out An Ding from his coat and wanted to hand it to him, smiled weakly, "You are not happy that I took the medicine, I didn't take it...so don't be angry, okay? good……"