I'm a world apart from you

Chapter 56 I'm still with you in the time you don't know (2)
With Yang Qiao's help, Wen Ge successfully got a job as a cashier in a convenience store, right in front of the school, with full lunch and dinner, except for the long working hours, anywhere is good.At this time, she just got off work.

Didn't hear the voice on the other end, Wen Ge looked at the phone screen to make sure she was still on the call, and called out again in doubt: "Uncle?" Not long after she finished speaking, she muttered to herself again: " Could it be the wrong number?"

"No." Wen Shaoyuan leaned back on his seat slowly, coughed a few times, and asked, "Where are you now?"

"At school." Wen Ge replied without thinking, "Just after class, I'm waiting for my classmates. Uncle, it's still daytime when you're there, didn't you just have dinner?"

Wen Shaoyuan's voice became hoarse, and he couldn't feel anything other than distressed hearing her voice.

He slowly clenched his fingers on his lap, lowered his eyes, and listened to her whining about how difficult the professor was and how difficult the homework was...

His eyes were sore, he couldn't help closing them, and interrupted her: "Yesterday, did you cry?"

"Ah?" Wen Ge suddenly got stuck, she stood in front of the convenience store, looked at the dark night on the street, and smirked twice, "No, it snowed last night. I want to ask you... is it okay?"

At the end, her voice became hoarse and said weakly, "But the phone is out of battery."

"En." He responded, suddenly not knowing what to say to her.

The deep-seated miss, the uneasiness when she came, and the unspeakable distress and worry were all shattered when she heard her pretending to be relaxed at this moment.

After being relatively silent for a while, he lowered his voice and said softly: "I thought you were wronged, and I was not at ease. I wanted to go and have a look. Will you come back for the New Year?"

His soft "I thought you were wronged, so I'm not at ease" made her eyes wet instantly.Wen Ge covered her lips and took a deep breath. The cold night air made her nasal cavity ache, and she just smiled in a disguised way: "I won't go back, the round-trip air ticket is too expensive, I want to save money for Mom, Go back after graduation."

Wen Shaoyuan frowned, pressed his slender fingers heavily between his brows, and asked in a low voice, "Don't you need me to go over?"

Wen Ge was already on his way back to the rental house—when he was looking for Yang Qiao's help, he not only introduced jobs, but also returned the damp, cold and poor rental house by the way, and found a one near the school. .

While speaking, Wen Shaoyuan had already arrived at the gate of her school.

The driver made a gesture to go to the bathroom, and seeing that he understood, he opened the door and got out of the car.

Wen Ge sniffed, and said in a muffled voice, "No, I'm doing pretty well."

Afraid that he would say something that would break his newly hardened heart, Wen Ge casually found an excuse and hung up the phone.

At the deserted crossroads, she stood there for a long time in a daze, and when she was about to leave, Yang Qiao suddenly caught up with her. Seeing her red nose from the cold, she frowned and said in a bad tone, "Didn't you say that?" Shall I pick you up from get off work? Why did you leave first?"

Wen Ge was stunned for a moment, then shook the mobile phone in his hand: "I'm sorry, I answered a call and unconsciously walked over by myself."

She obviously had an expression of wanting to cry, but she forced a smile on her face, not to mention how awkward it was.

Yang Qiao looked at her, raised her hand and pinched the tip of her nose lightly, before she could react, leaned over and hugged her: "You have made yourself too hard."

The hand she was about to push away on Yang Qiao's waist froze, and she patted him on the back with a smile.

Even though she was wearing gloves, her fingers were still a little stiff from the cold: "I came here to heal my wounds. If I don't work hard, I won't remember how painful I was."

"Healing?" Yang Qiao raised her voice in surprise, let go of her, and looked her up and down carefully.

Wen Ge waved his hands, looked at his incomprehensible expression, laughed again, stuffed the phone into his pocket, put his hands in it, and walked forward first: "You don't need to pick me up from now on, the girl who works with me Shared rent with me, we will be together in the future."

As if realizing something, she looked past Yang Qiao and looked straight at a private car parked in the night, feeling that someone was watching her.She stared intently for a while, only to see a fat man coming around from the rear of the car with a cigarette in his mouth, opened the door and got in.

The driver closed the car door, looked back at Wen Shaoyuan with a cigarette in his mouth, and asked with his eyes - do you want to leave?

Wen Shaoyuan withdrew his gaze from the window, and his voice was so soft that the wind could disperse it in the air: "Go back to the airport."

Wen Ge hadn't returned to China for several years, Xu Liqing was worried, and went to Minnesota with her husband to visit her during her annual leave. As soon as she got off the plane, she was frightened by the sub-zero low temperature and shrank her head back, waiting to see Wen Ge who hurried to pick her up At that time, Xu Liqing couldn't hold back, and her eyes were red.

On the other hand, Wen Ge was caught off guard, hugging Xu Liqing and coaxing him gently, while looking at Uncle Zhang suspiciously, asking with his eyes—what's the situation?
In the past three and a half years, Wen Ge can already see the imprint of growth, the brows are calm and indifferent that he didn't have before going abroad, his eyes are still clear, and his smile is warm, making Xu Liqing feel distressed when he looks at it: " Why can't you bear to come back and see me?"

Only then did Wen Ge understand, helped her sit down on the chair, took out a tissue and wiped her face, and then replied: "Aren't I afraid that once I go back, I will be reluctant to come back because of your kindness? "As she spoke, she unscrewed the cap of the thermos bottle she carried with her: "It's cold here in winter, so drink some water to warm up your body first."

Xu Liqing had just taken a sip of water, and before she had time to say hello, she saw Wen Ge waving towards the gate of the airport, and a tall man ran over and stopped in front of them with a smile.

Xu Liqing and her husband looked at each other. Before they could ask any questions, they heard Wen Ge introduce: "This is my friend Yang Qiao. I met him at the airport. He is also an alumnus. It is inconvenient to take a taxi at this late hour, so please ask him to give me a ride." Cheng. Shall we go back first?"

Over the past three years, Wen Ge has made many friends on and off, but in the end the one with the strongest relationship is Yang Qiao.

Yang Qiao and Xu Liqing greeted each other and sent the three of them back before leaving.Before leaving, I did not forget to refresh my sense of existence, saying that I can be a tour guide or an errand runner, so that Xu Liqing and his wife can find him directly if they need it.

When Xu Liqing heard that Wen Ge introduced them as friends, she didn't think too much about the relationship between the two of them. She knew how much Wen Ge was attached to Wen Shaoyuan, so she didn't ask.

Wen Ge asked them about the situation on the road, and when he heard Uncle Zhang say that Xu Liqing almost missed his connecting flight, he couldn't help laughing, and then he was warmly moved.

Xu Liqing ate the pasta cooked by Wen Ge to fill her stomach, and only then did she have the heart to visit her small house.When I contacted by phone or email before, although I knew that she would go to rent a house outside the school and do odd jobs as soon as the holidays came, but what I saw with my own eyes at this time was a different feeling.

"You've been living here?"

Wen Ge paused to clean up the dishes, thought for a while, and told the truth: "No, the house I live in is smaller, and my parents can't squeeze with me when they come over, so I changed it to a bigger one."

Xu Liqing knew that Wen Ge didn't use the money she gave her for living expenses after going abroad, except that she paid for the tuition fees for the two semesters before the start of school, and the money put into the card has never been touched. It is conceivable that she lived alone How hard it has been out there.

Xu Liqing lived here for more than ten days, because the store in N city was short of staff during the Chinese New Year, the two of them didn't stay longer.

Wen Ge went to see off the plane, and Xu Liqing asked her when she was about to board the plane, "Graduation in half a year, what are your plans?"

Wen Ge was taken aback by the question before answering: "I'll go back and develop."

Seeing her expression, Xu Liqing knew that she still missed City A, smiled, and patted the back of her hand: "I didn't support you before, I hope you can stand in my position and forgive me. You haven't come back for a few years, I was always worried that you would blame me for not standing by your side, and I wanted to see you, but I was afraid that you would resist, so I finally feel relieved now."

This was the first time Xu Liqing mentioned this matter in more than ten days.

Wen Ge was surprised for a moment, and then he couldn't laugh or cry: "Nothing. Back then, I was ignorant and thought that what I did was right, which made many people embarrassed. Now that I am older, looking back at the time, no one is surprised Yes, I am too paranoid."

What happened back then was a fleeting moment for her. She only remembered that she was covered in bruises and pain. Now that she thought about it carefully, although she didn't regret it, if she had the chance to do it again, she would definitely not do it again.

After a few years, she lived alone and learned a lot.

A lot of things are not achieved if you go forward desperately and bravely. At the wrong time, even the right thing is wrong, and the wrong thing is always wrong.

"What about him?"

Wen Ge's thoughts were interrupted, and he paused before softly saying: "It's over."

A person's loneliness, a person's exile.

He used to shy away from this feeling, so when she is strong and fearless, he is no longer the only choice.

Do you still love?
Love.

To her, Wen Shaoyuan is the whole world. In this life, she will never fall in love with anyone other than him.

Only when a person walks into your heart, you realize that that place is so small that only he can occupy it.Close the door and lock it, he can't get out, and no one else can come in.

And he has become what you can't give up, melted into a shackle, firmly imprisoned, and became an inescapable fetter.

An Ran said that she was paranoid. She used to scoff at this definition, but it was only in the past few years that she realized that she was indeed like this.

However, she has chosen to bury this feeling deeply in her heart.

His previous choices and the few contacts he had made in the past few years have become hidden thorns in her heart that cannot be removed.

half year later.

Wen Ge stood at the boarding gate with her suitcase in her hand. When she checked in and boarded the plane, she turned around and took a look. She was still the same as when she first arrived four years ago, and hadn't changed much.

To this day, she still clearly remembers the night when she came to Minneapolis alone and slept at the airport because the plane was late and no one could be contacted.

At that time, she was all hopeless, seeing the whole world as gloomy, lost, and negative, but now she is standing here, carefully taking everything in front of her into her heart, and finally she can tell herself——Wen Ge, it's ok.

Yang Qiao didn't see her following after walking a few steps, turned around and glanced at her, and called her loudly, "Wen Ge, let's go."

Only then did Wen Ge come to his senses, and pushed his suitcase to follow.

This place, in her life, might never come again.

After more than ten hours of flying, the plane landed at the airport in City A.

It was Xu Liqing who came to pick up Wen Ge—knowing that Wen Ge was coming back today, she rushed back a few days early to clean up the apartment.

Seeing Yang Qiao next to Wen Ge, because she mentioned it in advance, Xu Liqing was not surprised at the moment, smiled, and asked him to have a meal together.

Yang Qiao scratched her head embarrassingly, and explained: "Grandma asked my cousin to pick me up, thank you auntie."

Yang Qiao's grandmother is in City A.

He came back this time because he wanted to start his own business. He wanted to investigate the market, meet a blind date, and solve major life issues.

He lived abroad with his parents since he was a child, and he would go back to city A to accompany his grandmother every holiday.I heard that his grandmother started urging him to find a girlfriend to settle down a few years ago, but since he was still in school, it didn't matter.After finally waiting for him to work for a year and mature in all aspects, he urged him to return to China and asked him to find a girl in China to marry.

Yang Qiao's grandmother was afraid that Yang Qiao would follow his father's lead in marrying a foreign girl, and then she would not be able to understand what they said.

In fact, Yang Qiao had put his mind on Wen Ge before, but before confessing, Wen Ge happened to get drunk once, and uttered the truth after drinking.

So, over the past few years, it has become a pure friendship.

Wen Ge didn't rest at home for a long time. After returning to China and changing the phone card, he didn't rush to notify anyone. He and Xu Liqing went for a leisurely tour around the surrounding area for a while, and didn't come back until the newspaper where she submitted her resume was notified for an interview. .

Sui Anran received a call from Wen Ge, saying that she was in the lobby of Shengyuan Hotel, she thought she was joking, but when she really came downstairs in a hurry, she saw that she was lazily flipping through a magazine sitting on the sofa, her brows and eyes were cold When listening to the song, many people covered their mouths and lost their minds for a long time.

Wen Ge raised his head inadvertently, and saw Sui Anran who was standing not far away and was looking at him with tears streaming down his face, his nose was sore, he stood up, and opened his arms to her: "Come here, give me a hug first. "

Sui Anran was angry, wiped her face, turned and left.

Wen Ge was dumbfounded, and after a few steps, he caught up with her, saw the smudged eyeliner under her eyes, grabbed her by the cuff, and called her name in a soft voice: "An Ran."

That familiar voice finally came back to her after four years.

In the evening, going to the old man's place for dinner, Wen Jingfan came to pick An Ran up from get off work. Seeing that her eyes were red and she looked like she had been crying, she frowned, pinched her chin and looked carefully, and then asked, "Why are you crying?" gone?"

Sui Anran sat up straight, pinched the rearview mirror to look at her eyes, and muttered, "I've had a cold compress this afternoon, how can you still see it?"

Wen Jingfan didn't answer, he didn't even start the car, he put one hand on the steering wheel and watched her quietly.

Sui Anran couldn't help laughing after being watched by him, her eyes slightly curved: "Wen Ge is back."

Wen Jingfan raised his eyebrows, not too surprised: "I already knew."

Now it was Sui Anran's turn to question him: "Why didn't you tell me if you knew?"

The person being questioned curled his lips into a smile, and didn't rush to answer. He first grabbed her hand and held it in his hand, then started the car and replied, "Brother told me."

In the past few years, seeing Wen Ge living a hard life abroad alone, Sui Anran's attitude towards Wen Shaoyuan is also very complicated, from complaining at the beginning to changing a little bit later, although she knows that Wen Shaoyuan's life is not easy, but her position Always stick to Wen Ge, and still don't wait to see him.

Wen Shaoyuan has been abroad in the past few years, and he knows where he has gone without guessing, so it is not surprising to know when Wen Ge will return to China.

The two of them were talking softly, and the car moved slowly along the traffic jam after get off work, and gradually moved away.

On Wen Ge's first day as a trainee reporter, the senior reporter who took her as an intern asked her, "Why do you want to be a reporter?"

The interviewer asked her this question during the interview, and her answer was "I want to speak with a voice".

Her eccentric, even somewhat eccentric teacher looked at her a few more times, smiled inexplicably, and shook his head: "It's not true."

Wen Ge also smiled and didn't make any excuses, but that was indeed her original intention for choosing the Department of Journalism.

I don't know if it's because of her answering this sentence, but the teacher who took her as an intern was extremely strict with her, and his attitude was strict, not to mention, and his expression was stern most of the time, which always made Wen Ge feel that he must owe him a lot of money.

After the hardest running-in period of the first month, Wen Ge finally got better.

At this time, it was autumn in City A, and the weather was getting colder. The leaves on the roadside had turned yellow and were crumbling.

Wen Ge followed Teacher Xiang out of the factory after the interview, and threw the recording to Teacher Xiang, asking her to take it back and write an article. After becoming addicted to cigarettes, she hooked up the video camera brother to go to the car to smoke, and asked her to get in the car and wait.

After she opened the door and sat on it, she was nauseated by the cramped air inside the car. She lowered the window and looked at the slightly dark sky at this moment, feeling a little dazed.

It's been more than a month since she came back. In such a big city, she ran everywhere, but she still didn't meet him.

The autumn in City A this year is very long, and the temperature change is not obvious, which is different from previous years.

Wen Ge received her salary today. Although she knew that the salary of a trainee reporter was pitifully meager, as her first official job, she was still looking forward to it.

Before she got off work, she was planning to ask An Ran to go out for a big meal, but before this idea came to fruition, she was dragged to the dinner party by her colleagues.

(End of this chapter)