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Chapter 129 Search

The day after getting the address from Deng Jianghua, Jiang Yu bought a train ticket to the south.

It was the time to return home during the Spring Festival travel, and the train tickets to Guangdong were easy to buy, and there were few people on the train, and most of them were alone.On this day when everyone went home for reunion, these people who went south alone, like Jiang Yu, had stories written on their silent and tired faces.

It has been a year and a half, and he is eager to see Qi Nuliang, but the journey stretched by the train has gradually calmed down his frantic longing.

He thought of Deng Jianghua's words not letting him go to Qi Nuliang.

If Qi Nuliang still didn't want to see him, what would he do after being found, would he run away again?

Even if they don't run away anymore, how should they get along with each other?

After more than ten hours of driving, Jiang Yu failed to come up with an answer.At this moment, the most important thought in his mind was to take a look at Qi Nuliang.Even if you don't appear in front of him, just sneak a glance at him from a distance.

But his wish never came true.

The first time I went to the wrong place, I wandered around in an area with the same pronunciation and different characters for several days, but I couldn’t find the village in the city that Deng Jianghua mentioned.When I finally found the right place and looked for it again, the landlord over there said that he was going to renovate the house and asked all the tenants to move out.

Jiang Yu stood in the middle of dense self-built houses, annoyed and frustrated, even God was stopping him.

Seeing that it was time for the school to start, he had no choice but to stop searching for a while and turn around and head north.

There was no long vacation in the first half of the year, and there were more courses and social practice in the second semester of the sophomore year. In addition to part-time jobs, he had no time at all.Until the summer vacation, when a classmate found a small project and wanted to do it with him, Jiang Yu resolutely went straight to Guangdong.

He promised Deng Jianghua repeatedly that he would not suddenly appear in front of Qi Nuliang, let alone reveal that he leaked the secret, and Deng Jianghua gave him Qi Nuliang's new address.

It's still the village in the city, but in a more remote location.It is a five-story self-built small building with more than a dozen small rooms on the first floor. Qi Nuliang lives in the room at the end of the corridor on the first floor.

He is away most of the time.When no one was around, Jiang Yu looked in through the gap in the curtains.

The room is only about ten square meters. On the left side of the door is a simple stove, a range hood and an induction cooker, which constitute everything in this kitchen.There is a closed glass door on the right side of the door, which should be the bathroom.

Further inside, there is a wooden bed and a bedside table. Clothes are hung on the bed rails, and several large cardboard boxes are piled up at the foot of the bed.

These simple things constitute the minimum needs of a person's life, so that a [-]-square-meter hut still looks empty.

He came too late, Qi Nuliang had already left the car.

Jiang Yu found a hidden place across the road, stared in the direction of the door of the self-built building, waited from morning to afternoon, and then from afternoon to night.Seeing that it was almost twelve o'clock, he wondered if Qi Nuliang had gone somewhere that day and was not planning to come back.I yawned several times and planned to come back the next morning.

Just as he got up and walked out of this alley, a man sitting at a roadside stall eating noodles suddenly bumped into his sight.Jiang Yu retreated subconsciously to the corner, then slowly poked his head out, staring at the person he was thinking about day and night.

Qi Nuliang didn't look up the whole time, he ate a bowl of noodles wholeheartedly, and drove away in a taxi.

Jiang Yu came out from the corner where he was hiding, emotionally swaying, wishing he could follow the car and run to the hut that Qi Nuliang was renting in one breath, hugged him, and told himself how much he missed him.

But he just walked slowly to the opposite stall and asked the boss for a bowl of the same noodles.

After eating the noodles, he went back to the building he built himself.Qi Nuliang's taxi was parked in that small courtyard, and the window of his room was lit with Huang Shangshang's lights.

The warmth and light attracted Jiang Yu, and he walked towards the light like a moth to a flame.The curtains had been drawn, and through the curtains, he stood by the side of the window, watching the figures inside go back and forth.

At this moment, a Cantonese man, wearing flip flops, saw him downstairs and asked him what he was doing in a bad tone.

Jiang Yu had an idea, and quickly said, "Is there any room available? I want to rent a room."

The man looked at him suspiciously, and waved his hands irritably: "No, no, hurry up, if you don't leave, I'll call the police."

Jiang Yu had no choice but to leave.

After a few days, he found out when Qi Nuliang left early and returned late at night and the route he had to pass. In order not to arouse the landlord's suspicion, he no longer went downstairs, but went there when he had breakfast and supper. Squatting across the booth.

Just like in Hongcheng, Qi Nuliang always eats two fried dough sticks and a bowl of soy milk in the morning, and noodles and rice rolls for supper.

Jiang Yu also found a job at a nearby tutoring center.Every morning after Qi Nuliang leaves, go to the breakfast shop where he eats and eat the same breakfast as him before starting work.Every night after he comes home, he eats the same snack as him and then goes back to the rented house to sleep.

Repeat the same life as him, just like the days when they were still together.

It's not that he never thought of appearing in front of the other party, but Jiang Yu didn't dare to do so before ensuring that Qi Nuliang would not escape again.

At the end of the vacation, Jiang Yu returned to Beijing to continue his studies.

The winter vacation came again, this year he did not return to Hongcheng, but went straight to Guangdong.Fortunately, Qi Nuliang still lived there and did not move.

Just when Jiang Yu thought he could still use this method to comfort himself, he found that Qi Nuliang's stagnant life had changed.

When he leaves the car in the morning, he will pick up a little boy two lanes away and send the boy to a nearby elementary school.

After work at night, I no longer went to the noodle restaurant I often go to in summer for supper, but turned to a nearby porridge shop.What they eat is not porridge, but home-cooked meals, and they don't give money.Often after eating, I would sit for a while and smoke a cigarette before going back to the rental house.

During the day, Jiang Yu went to the porridge shop to eat porridge for a week, and finally found out that the owner of the porridge shop was a divorced woman with a child, and it was her son that Qi Nuliang picked up every morning.

The kid was in the shop on the weekend, and he opened his mouth and asked his mother, "When will Uncle Qi come to play?"

This made Jiang Yu heartbroken.When he endured the pain of separation, watched Qi Nuliang cautiously in the dark, and was extremely entangled in how to meet him, the other party had already left him, met new people in a new place and started a new life.

It was him who was so stupid.Qi Nuliang's sending money to him was just an unfulfilled responsibility for raising him, but he gave it more meaning to it, self-righteously thinking that no matter what kind of relationship he had, at least the other party still had him in his heart.

No, his relatives, his lover, his home are all gone, Qi Nuliang has completely abandoned him, and will eventually start a family with a woman, just like he wanted to marry Rong Bamei back then.

It's not that he didn't think about snatching Qi Nuliang over again, but he still didn't do that in the end.

Qi Nuliang is a straight man, he will never have any extra affection for him in this life, even if he tries his best to keep him by his side, it will only make him feel uncomfortable.

Different from the recklessness and selfishness of the past, Jiang Yu has also done a lot of self-reflection during the years of separation, and through these reflections, he has gradually been able to understand the other party.

He didn't do anything in the end, but it was really unbearable, and he returned to Beijing before the holiday was over.

After chewing repeatedly in pain that Qi Nuliang would start a new life, Jiang Yu still couldn't do it and just cut off contact with him completely.He wrote a letter to Qi Nuliang, apologizing for his impulsiveness back then, expressing regret, and in a fit of anger, he fabricated a girlfriend for himself.Showing that he is now living the life Qi Nuliang expected him to live, trying to make the other party forgive himself.

He sent the letter to Deng Jianghua and asked Deng Jianghua to bring it to Qi Nuliang.

Deng Jianghua was very dissatisfied with this.

"How can I bring it to him for you? If I bring it to him for you, doesn't he know that we have a connection?"

"Just tell the truth, you met him when you went to visit my mother's grave this year. I guess you know his whereabouts."

On the phone, Deng Jianghua was puzzled: "Will he believe that?"

"meeting."

A few days later, Deng Jianghua called back saying that he had brought the letter to Qi Nuliang.

"Did my brother say something? Are you unhappy?"

"I can't tell whether Gao is happy, so I asked me how you are. I said how do I know how you are, and let him read the letter. It must have been written in your letter."

"I've written it, I'm fine." Jiang Yu hesitated for a while, but couldn't help asking, "Has my brother started dating recently?"

Deng Jianghua was taken aback on the phone: "No, who did you hear from?"

"Even you don't know, didn't he tell you?"

Deng Jianghua pondered for a while: "You don't mean Miss Tang from the porridge shop, do you?"

"So there is indeed such a thing, but we are not together yet?" When Jiang Yu asked these words, it was like tearing a sore.I knew it would be painful and bloody to tear it apart, but I just couldn't help it.

Speaking of this, Deng Jianghua was very distressed.

"I really don't understand your brother. You have seen the proprietress too. Although she is not young, she still has a charm. She has a car and a house, and the conditions are very good. Besides, the porridge shop, how can I spend a year?" Can earn hundreds of thousands.

"She saw that your brother was working hard driving a taxi every day, so she suggested that he go to the store to help and drive a car for him. The main job was to buy ingredients, and he would pay [-] yuan a month.

"Your brother is also very interested in the salary, so he came to ask me what it means. I said what else could it mean. The proprietress has taken a fancy to him and wants him to be the owner of the shop.

"In the end, guess what happened to him? He refused, and even the child excused that he was not free, so he didn't help people pick up and drop off.

"What do you mean by your brother? He likes to live alone in a rented house in a village in the city? He is determined to be a bachelor for the rest of his life? And he and you, what's the matter? You are both old and young, why do you look like a middle school student? Playing against each other like playing friends, I really don't understand..."

Jiang Yu didn't listen to Deng Jianghua's series of complaints.

Qi Nuliang didn't find a partner, let alone get married, he was overjoyed.

But then he became sad again, so he shouldn't have sent that letter.But it has been sent, and Qi Nuliang may have read it now, what kind of reaction will Qi Nuliang have to his remarks?