don't ask about those years

After checking in at the hotel lobby and entering the room, without even hanging up the clothes in the luggage, Lin Fan lay down on the bed directly, looking at the ceiling of the hotel, thinking that when he woke up in the morning, he never expected to come to Dali today.

In just a few hours from the morning to now, I have experienced disputes with Qi Tian, ​​resigned from the company, met with Qi Yaoyang, and then flew here. Any time to react to the plot.

He never thought that there would be such a day when he was so irresponsible to work, resigned without handover, and did not leave a word to the team members. Lin Fan didn't even dare to think about how they would react when they knew he had resigned without warning.I turned my body and mind and thought about it, since I have taken this step, any opinions and abuse from others should be taken into account.

Maybe there were too many things happening in one day, and he fell asleep unconsciously after lying on the bed for a while.

Opening his eyes in the morning, he first spent ten seconds thinking about where he was, and then looked up at the electronic watch beside the bed——06:30, Lin Fan turned his head and decided to sleep for a while, so that he would never have to avoid that person again. I go out half an hour earlier every day, but when will the biological clock be adjusted back?

When I woke up again, it was already past 9 o’clock. After washing up and eating breakfast, I went to the gym and ran for a few kilometers to swim and sweat. I felt that my body and spirit had recovered, and finally I was not so tired. I decided to go out and walk to the ancient city in the afternoon. wander around.

Although it is not the peak season, there are still many people on the streets of the ancient city. Lin Fan walked along the crowd in twos and threes, occasionally passing by small shops selling various souvenirs, and occasionally passing by various coffee shops and bars. After walking for a while, he felt It was a bit boring, so I bought a few books from the bookstore and turned back.I didn't want to bother to check the route, so I reported a two-day tour group in Lijiang at the hotel, and set off the next day.

As a well-known ancient city, Lijiang can attract a large number of tourists at any time of the year. There are many groups in the group, and many people come out to play alone, but there are not many taciturn people like Lin Fan. When the group members When chatting with each other and telling jokes, he just watched and listened and occasionally smiled. If he needed his help to take a group photo or take down the luggage, he was always gentle and polite to help, but most of the time, Lin Fan was just alone. Walk quietly behind the team.

There was a little girl in the group who also came out alone, and she always wanted to add Linfan’s WeChat account, but she was politely turned down two or three times when she came down, saying that she didn’t bring her mobile phone. At first, the little girl thought it was just an excuse and it was a bit embarrassing.It wasn’t until the end of the tour group that he found out that he had never used a mobile phone at all, so he looked at him like looking at an antique and said, “Are there still people who go out without a mobile phone now? I can’t live a day without a mobile phone.”

Lin Fan said with a smile, since he came out, he should be quiet. In fact, it is better not to use a mobile phone.

After leaving Beijing, Lin Fan never turned on his phone, had no phone calls these days, and cut off contact with the previous ones. He no longer had to worry about being called into various meetings for no reason, and he didn’t need to care about the increasingly suspicious eyes of his colleagues around him, and he didn’t need to No longer being disturbed by uninvited guests... Finally, he can enjoy this rare and peaceful life, and he thinks it is very good.

But sometimes I can't help but wonder if the sales node is approaching, can his team members advance step by step according to the plan, and can other team leaders help take the task around... Whenever he thinks of these, Lin Fan still feels a little worried. His departure has caused troubles to others, but after thinking about it, no matter how long-term it is, his departure must be a good thing for the people around him.

When the tour group ended two days later, when he returned to the hotel and saw the mobile phone with a black screen on the sofa, Lin Fan charged the mobile phone before going to the bathroom. Although he called home last weekend, he could not let his father find Don't worry about him.

When I came out after taking a shower and turned on my phone, the message sounded for 3 minutes before it stopped.Sitting on the sofa, Lin Fan swiped his fingers for the missed call reminder, and saw more than a dozen calls from Xue Jing, dozens of calls from Fang Dongping, and countless numbers starting with the first four digits and unknown numbers on the company landline. .

Turning to the end, when he saw only one missed call from Qi Tian at the bottom, he frowned slightly, and a moment later, Qi Yaoyang's words flashed in his mind, "I will arrange for him and He Xinyi to get married as soon as possible".

After staring at the missed call for a few seconds, Lin Fan stroked his dripping hair with his hand, then exited the notification box, lit a cigarette and started checking WeChat.

The top one is Fang Dongping's dialog box, the content from top to bottom is:

-busy?

- work?

-Sorry, I was too impulsive yesterday.

- Is it convenient to call now?

- the phone is turned off?

- aren't you at home?

- can you call me back when you see it

- Lin Fan, where are you?

Later, it was probably discovered that he hadn't turned on the phone, so he stopped sending it.

It can be seen that Fang Dongping has been very anxious to contact him, staring at the phone and hesitating whether to reply a message, Fang Dongping's call came in.

After watching for a few seconds, Lin Fan still pressed the answer button: "Hello, Brother Dong."

"Lin Fan!" Fang Dongping's voice was very excited, "You finally turned on the phone, what's going on these days?"

"It's nothing, Brother Dong, just go on a trip for a few days."

"Why do you turn off your travel phone? Have you lost your phone?"

"..." Not wanting to lie to Fang Dongping, Lin Fan could only say: "No, no..."

After a moment of silence, Fang Dongping asked in a deep voice, "Where are you?"

After taking a puff of the cigarette and blowing it out again, Lin Fan didn't answer, he was afraid that Fang Dongping would look for him again like he did in Shanghai.

"Lin Fan, where are you?" Fang Dongping asked again, his voice lower than before.

Lin Fan leaned forward and stubbed out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, then said, "Brother Dong, it's really nothing..."

"Lin Fan! If you still treat me as a friend and call me Brother Dong, tell me where you are now!" Fang Dongping finally growled.

This is the second time Fang Dongping has spoken like this, and he can hear that he is really worried about him, thinking that this person has always helped him and always lends a helping hand at the first time, Lin Fan still said those two words: "Dali. "

……

The next morning, Fang Dongping appeared at the door of Lin Fan's room. When he looked at Lin Fan who was wearing sportswear and calling him Brother Dong with a smile, Fang Dongping could only restrain his urge to hug him and walked into the room as calmly as possible. .It's only been a few days, why do I feel like I miss this person so much?

After Lin Fan led Fang Dongping to sit on the sofa, he walked towards the bar and asked, "The plane isn't late, is it? I'm tired after four hours."

Fang Dongping's gaze followed Lin Fan's figure involuntarily, and then he said, "I'm not tired, it's okay."

After boiling water in the pot, Lin Fan leaned against the bar and waited. When he saw Fang Dongping's huge suitcase, he couldn't help but lowered his head and smiled and said, "Why did you bring such a big suitcase here? Are you planning to stay here?" for how long."

"I just don't know how long you're going to stay here, so I brought some more here." Fang Dongping looked at Lin Fan and said, maybe the feeling of missing and anxious for so many days finally found an outlet at the moment when he saw this person, and what he said in his heart Slipped out like this.

Lin Fan's smile froze on his face, and he paused for a while, then slowly turned around, stared at the sizzling kettle, and continued to stand with his back facing Fang Dongping.

It wasn't until the tea was brewed that he walked up to Fang Dongping with two teacups and said, "It's cold here, drink some hot tea first."

"What's going on?" Fang Dongping took the teacup, eager to ask the question that he had been wanting to ask these days.

"It's okay, it's just that I haven't rested for a long time, and I took advantage of my resignation to travel for a few days."

"You resigned?"

"Well, resign."

After a pause for a few seconds, Fang Dongping asked, "Is it related to what happened that day?"

I thought Fang Dongping would ask him why he resigned, but he didn't expect to ask him so directly and thoroughly.Lin Fan took a sip from his teacup and said, "No, I've been thinking about it recently. It just so happened that Manager Liu also resigned. I think it's almost time for me to come out after so many years in Yi Yun."

Fang Dongping stared at Lin Fan for a while, didn't ask any more questions, just turned his head to one side, nodded and said clearly, that's it.

"Where do you live, Brother Dong?" Lin Fan asked instead.

"I just checked in downstairs, and I haven't gone to the room yet." Fang Dongping looked at Lin Fan, but he was actually saying in his heart that he just couldn't wait to see you.

"Then you go to rest first, and then I'll take you out for dinner. I've gotten to know the neighborhood in the past two days." Lin Fan said with a smile.

"Okay, then I'll call your room later."

Pulling the luggage and exiting the door of the room, Fang Dongping turned his head to look at Lin Fan for a while, then said with a reassuring smile, "See you later."

……

In the first two days of Fang Dongping's arrival, he and Lin Fan strolled around Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake. The two chatted while looking at the scenery. Fang Dongping could always choose topics according to Lin Fan's preferences. Sometimes they discussed history or current events, and sometimes they commented on a certain football game. , Sometimes we talk about movies.

Taking a cruise on the Erhai Lake that day, the two chatted about a sci-fi film this year that received mixed reviews but sold out at the box office.

Fang Dongping found out that Lin Fan liked watching movies very much. Whether it was a relatively unpopular literary film or a well-produced Hollywood blockbuster, he could tell a little bit, so Fang Dongping asked with a smile: "Is the movie theater the only weekend other than the gym?"

Lin Fan shook his head and smiled and said no, they are basically offline and watching at home.

"why?"

"Don't you feel a little silly going to the cinema alone?"

Lin Fan said this as a joke. The two of them were standing by the side of the boat. He was leaning on the railing to look at the scenery above the Erhai Lake. In the past two days, someone might have been chatting away and distracted him from certain things. Looking at the junction of the sea of ​​clouds, I seem to have forgotten the original reason for coming to Dali, just like traveling with friends, my heart is at peace.

Fang Dongping stared at Lin Fan's slightly smiling side face for a while, sighed with some distress, then put a hand on Lin Fan's shoulder and said, "Next time I will go with you."

His body stiffened instinctively, but this time it was not as unacceptable as when others helped him over, so Lin Fan just let Fang Dongping stand beside the boat for a while.

After dinner and a drink at the bar in the evening, the two of them walked towards the hotel slowly. Lin Fan couldn't help but ask, "Is it okay to come out of the company like this?"

Fang Dongping said frankly, "What can I do? It just so happens that I haven't been on vacation for a long time and come out to relax."

Ever since he knew that Qi Tian was tripping Fang Dongping's company, Lin Fan had been worried all the time, but he hadn't figured out how to speak up. Hearing what Fang Dongping said now, he felt a lot more at ease.

Then Fang Dongping asked again: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?"

"I don't have any ideas, I've been shopping around for the past few days."

"Did you go to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain when you went to Lijiang?"

"No, I didn't go because the trip was too short."

"Don't want to see?"

"Forget it, it's too far away, but the scenery is almost the same." Lin Fan said with a smile.

Fang Dongping didn't say anything else, just as the two of them also walked to the hotel, and after saying goodnight to each other, they went back to their rooms.

……

Fang Dongping called Lin Fan's room before seven o'clock in the morning on the third day, telling him to come down after breakfast, and said to wait for him at the hotel entrance.Fang Dongping didn't explain anything, Lin Fan could only hastily packed up and went to the hotel entrance to look around, and then he saw a black SUV stopped in front of him.

It wasn't until Fang Dongping put down the car window and let him get in the car with a smile, that Lin Fan stopped his dazed state, opened the car door and sat in, then turned his head and asked, "Where are you going?"

"Jade Dragon Snow Mountain." Fang Dongping said with a smile.

Lin Fan nodded, thinking that he was too talkative yesterday.

After a while, he asked again: "Where did you get the car?" It was already very late when I returned to the hotel yesterday, and Fang Dongping probably had no chance of renting this kind of car early in the morning.

Seeing it was impossible to hide it, Fang Dongping could only say: "I borrowed it from a friend."

"Do you have friends here? Isn't it your first time here?" A few days ago, he was afraid that he would be bored walking around, so he specifically asked him if he had been here before. Fang Dongping said no at the time, and just borrowed your light to go out for a stroll.

Fang Dongping turned his head to look at Lin Fan and said with a smile, "It's indeed the first time with you."

After hearing this, Lin Fan slowly turned around. He couldn't learn how to adapt to Fang Dongping's more and more clear-cut words these days, so he could only keep silent.

Seeing Lin Fan's bewildered expression, Fang Dongping smiled and said nothing, but he liked Lin Fan's simplicity from the bottom of his heart, then turned around and said, "It takes two or three hours to drive there, get up early in the morning, and sleep if you're tired." In a while, I'll call you soon."

Although it was impolite for others to drive and sleep by themselves, being alone with Fang Dongping in a confined space did make him somewhat uncomfortable, so after turning his face out of the window, Lin Fan planned to really take a rest.

Sitting in a Land Rover of the same model as Qi Tian, ​​looking at the scenery speeding backwards outside the window, Lin Fan couldn't help thinking of a bunch of things and problems waiting to be solved in Beijing, although he had tried his best not to go there these days. I want to, but many things can't be straightened out automatically by putting them there.

Qi Yaoyang has already found him, but this time not only let him leave Qi Tian, ​​but also let him leave Beijing and leave this country.Lin Fan knew clearly that with Qi Yaoyang's skills, he would never give up easily if he failed to achieve his goal.

What about Qi Tian?I haven't received any calls from him in the past few days. Except for the business trip to Shanghai after he returned to China, this is the longest time the two have not had any contact or meeting.Based on the decisive quarrel between the two before coming here, with Qi Tian's character, he would not let go of a phone call. Could it be that he is really arranging a wedding with He Xinyi as Qi Yaoyang said?

Although he hates himself for being owed money, these two days Lin Fan still can't help but go online to pay attention to some news similar to the marriage of the Qi family and the He family. The result is like a fight, and there are no follow-up reports. Lin Fan doesn't know what is in his mind now. Fill in more, on the one hand, he told himself that Qi Tian should follow Qi Yaoyang's arrangement to get on the right track of life step by step, but on the other hand, he couldn't accept that Qi Tian asked him to start over while arranging the marriage.

It doesn't matter if his own affairs are in a mess, will the people around him be implicated again because of him?Manager Liu is already an obvious example, what about the others?Will Fang Dongping's company be fine?Can the jobs of his several children be kept?

He only hoped that the last words he said to Qi Tian that day would be effective, so that Qi Tian would let other people go because of past feelings.The last thing he wants to see is to put the people around him in danger because of his own reasons and still not know it.

Seeing Lin Fan's slightly frowning expression even though he was looking out the window, Fang Dongping asked, "What are you thinking, I haven't seen you frowning for several days."

Lin Fan came back to his senses, and could only interrupt and jokingly say: "It's nothing, I just thought it would be good to be a boss, and you don't need to take annual leave for travel."

"What plans do you have after resigning?" Fang Dongping thought that Lin Fan was worried about his future work, but in fact he had already made plans for him, as long as Lin Fan was willing.

"I didn't think about it. If I can leave my job smoothly, I will find another job."

"Isn't it resignation?" Fang Dongping was a little surprised.

"...Well, yes, I signed a special contract with Yi Yun at the time, and the company will only officially resign after accepting it."

Although what Lin Fan said was cryptic, Fang Dongping also guessed that it must be related to Qi Tian, ​​so he immediately said without hesitation: "Send me the contract later, I know many lawyers who specialize in corporate labor contract lawsuits, and I will ask them to help you." have a look."

After all, a lot of people helped and Lin Fan hoped that he could leave Yi Yun as soon as possible. In any case, he had to take this step first before he could make plans for other things, so he hurriedly thanked Fang Dongping, "Okay, thank you Brother Dong."

"You never have to say thank you to me." Fang Dongping looked at him seriously and said.

……

At the foot of the snow mountain that day, seeing Fang Dongping take out a whole set of equipment from the trunk one by one, Lin Fan asked, how did you prepare these things when you went back so late yesterday.

Fang Dongping explained with a smile: "My friend took it. He is a hospitable family who have been visiting for many years. After calling to say hello last night, he helped prepare it when he went to pick up the car this morning."

Looking at the outfits, from down jackets to oxygen cylinders to goggles, even sun protection equipment and altitude sickness medicine, Lin Fan knew that if Fang Dongping hadn't explained it on purpose, no one, no matter how hospitable they were, would be able to prepare so well.

After the two put on their equipment, they took the cableway to the top of the mountain according to the route suggested by Fang Dongping. Although they had told him some ways to overcome altitude sickness before going up, the air was thin at the top of the mountain, and Lin Fan still felt a little short of breath.

After Fang Dongping found out, he quickly asked him to sit down and rest, gave him some oxygen and let him drink some water, and didn't feel at ease to take him on until he saw Lin Fan's face recovered.

Along the way, Dongping paid close attention to Lin Fan's state, carrying all the equipment on his back, and Fang Dongping dodged Lin Fan several times when he tried to grab him.

"Although you are younger than me, your physical strength may not be as good as mine. Besides, it is easy to get used to places like plateaus for the first time. If you don't want us to drive for three hours, just go straight down. You take care of yourself. It's fine." Fang Dongping said to Lin Fan with a smile.

But no matter how good the physical strength is, people will still have some difficulty and breathlessness when they go to the plateau. Seeing Fang Dongping walking in front with a huge backpack, trying to control his breathing rhythm, he has to look back from time to time. Not keeping up, Lin Fan seemed to loosen something in his heart at that moment. After a moment of stunned, he quickly shook his head as if he was about to throw something out, and then he took two quick steps and followed again.

Although his home in the north can see white snow every year, when he came to the top of the mountain, Lin Fan was still shocked when he saw layers of snow peaks towering into the clouds surrounded by thick fog.

At this moment, he suddenly felt that everyone in this world was as insignificant as a drop in the ocean, and that personal troubles were more like dust, and it was nothing if they would eventually disappear.On such an open and vast mountaintop, for the first time these days, Lin Fan felt his heart open up.

Fang Dongping looked at Lin Fan's shocked expression and upturned mouth corners from the side, and felt at ease. This time, the snow mountain finally paid off, and finally let Lin Fan relax, and let him see Lin Fan's sincerity in the past few days. Fang Dongping silently stood beside him and looked at him, laughing along with him.

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