White Swan

Chapter 53

Shi Xubai never replied to Qiao Fei's message.

When Qiao Fei sent him to the airport three days ago, they agreed to send each other WeChat every day.

Qiao Fei attaches great importance to this agreement, and whenever she has free time these two days, she chats with Shi Xubai, asking how he is doing and whether his uncle is still angry with him.

Shi Xubai didn't say anything, but tried to avoid heavy topics, talk about light things, and then tell Qiao Fei about his uncle.

He would tell Qiao Fei about the cat he raised in the United States—a very obedient puppet, who would cling to him every day when he slept. He would also tell Qiao Fei about the delicious and interesting things around his house, and what was shown abroad. Good movies.

On Qiao Fei's WeChat page, Shi Xubai sent him "good night" at around [-] o'clock last night, and Qiao Fei replied "You go to bed early too", he forgot the time difference with the United States, Shi Xubai sent him She took a picture of the midday sun outside the window, and Qiao Fei felt silly.

Now he sits alone on the living room floor of the villa, bewildered.

Qiao Fei told Shi Xubai last night before letting him board the plane, and Shi Xubai also agreed, but there is no news until now.

He sent another message to Shi Xubai, asking him if the plane landed.Qiao Fei doesn't want to worry too much, but he always has a bad premonition in his heart, he is afraid that something will happen to Shi Xubai.

Qiao Fei moved from the floor to the sofa, biting her nails in a daze.

By the way, before Shi Xubai left, he had asked for leave with the head of the dance troupe, Zhao. He might know if there was any news about Shi Xubai.

Qiao Fei didn't want to stay in the villa alone, so she decisively took her coat and went out.

He was a little impulsive when he ran to the theater, and only when he knocked on the door of Head Zhao's office did he realize that he didn't know how to ask or what to say.

He knocked on the door twice, but didn't hear an answer, and finally couldn't hold back and pushed the door open and went in.

Head Zhao was talking on the phone, Qiao Fei was stunned for a moment, and stood aside awkwardly, rubbing his fingertips lightly, wondering if he should go out and wait outside.

Fortunately, head Zhao finished his speech quickly, put down his phone, and looked at him in surprise, "Qiao Fei? There is no performance today."

"I know, I just want to ask..." He didn't know how to explain, and hesitated for a long time, "Shi... Did Director Shi say when he will come back?"

"Shi Dao?" Head Zhao didn't turn his head, "This...isn't something you should be concerned about?"

He thought for a while and thought that Qiao Fei was worried about the performance, so he comforted him and said, "Ms. Han has been assisting in the choreography of the dance drama and is familiar with all the dances. Don't worry, the performance can continue even if the director asks for leave. If you have any questions, just go to Teacher Han."

"That's not what I meant..." Qiao Fei realized that she didn't know how to explain it after she said it. He was just a young actor in the dance troupe, and it was his turn to take care of other things.

But he really wanted to know if Shi Xubai had contacted Head Zhao, or if he asked for leave later.

He was a little anxious and had no other choice, so he asked bravely, "Did Shi Xubai contact you today? He said he would be back today, but...he didn't...his flight should have arrived."

As soon as this sentence was uttered, Qiao Fei watched Captain Zhao frown suspiciously, and his face changed a little.

Qiao Fei felt a little guilty, and couldn't wait for Commander Zhao's answer, and couldn't stay in the office any longer, so she turned around and said goodbye: "Sorry to bother you."

But he was called before he reached the door.

"Qiao Fei." Director Zhao sighed, "You have been dancing in the dance troupe for two years, so I will tell you straight, I advise you to do your job well, don't think too much about it. For those who didn’t, the time director came to arrange this dance drama, and then left.”

"I know..." Before Qiao Fei finished speaking, he was interrupted by Head Zhao.

He went on to say: "Hey, Qiao Fei, you can dance in the dance company because of our boss He. I don't ask too much about the things between you, but he is willing to give you this opportunity. You should cherish it and don't do it." I'm sorry for him.

"Do you know how hesitant I was when he recommended you two years ago? He said a lot of good things about you..."

Qiao Fei didn't listen to what Captain Zhao said later.He didn't even know how he got out of the office. He just felt a mess in his head, and he couldn't think of anything else. He kept thinking about the phrase "do your part" that the team leader said.

The relationship between him and Shi Xubai was shady at first, Qiao Fei regretted coming to head Zhao, he shouldn't have had any hope in the first place.

He seemed to have told others the warmest secret buried in his heart, and instead of being comforted, he was reminded that he did not deserve to have this secret at all.

Sunlight entangled by vines will eventually be dragged into the water and drowned.

Qiao Fei felt her nose sore when she thought about it, and she didn't even realize that she was crying.

There was a layer of mist in his eyes, he didn't see someone at the top of the stairs clearly, and bumped into them directly, the person was defenseless, and was knocked back a step.

"Doctor Ji..." Qiao Fei blinked vigorously before recognizing who it was. He quickly wiped his eyes with his sleeve and said hello.

"Qiao..." There were too many dancers in the dance troupe, Ji An thought for a long time before he remembered Qiao Fei's name, "Qiao Fei?"

He looked at Qiao Fei's red and swollen eyes, and was at a loss for a while.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Ji An had never seen this kind of posture before, and his occupation was a dance troupe medical doctor. When he saw someone crying, he thought it was some kind of injury.

Qiao Fei said nothing.Ji An scratched his head: "I may not be able to cure you if you are crying like this, or...send you to the hospital?"

Qiao Fei didn't know how to explain to Dr. Ji, and he didn't want to explain, so he pushed him away and ran down the stairs regardless of politeness.

Ji An shouted from behind: "Hey, look at the way."

After leaving the theater, Qiao Fei caught a taxi on the side of the street. After getting in the car, she leaned her head against the window, trying to tear apart the mess with a thread in her mind.

The driver waited for him to tell him where to go, Qiao Fei didn't move for a long time, his mind was not here at all, and he didn't come back to his senses until the driver asked him impatiently.

What was in her mind was the address of He Haoyun's house, but what she said was the address of Shi Xubai's apartment. It was not until the car turned a corner and got on the highway that Qiao Fei found out where the destination was.

He opened his mouth to tell the driver that the address was wrong, but when he opened his mouth, he couldn't say a word.

More than half an hour later, the car stopped at the door of the apartment.

Qiao Fei opened the door with the password Shi Xubai sent him, walked slowly into the room, and closed the door softly.

The inside of the apartment was immaculate, the tables and floors were spotless.The piano cover in the corner was put down and covered with a layer of flannelette.The sunflowers in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows are trimmed shorter, and the leaves are rounded, which looks a little cute.

There is a little light pine and cypress fragrance in the room, which is the same as Shi Xubai's smell, but much weaker.

This was not the first time he came here, but it was the first time he came alone. Qiao Fei didn't dare to touch anything, suddenly felt that he was not worthy, and was afraid of getting things dirty.

It's one thing to be brought back to his home by Shi Xubai, but another thing to come by himself. They both go to the same place, but they have different meanings.

Qiao Fei glanced at the sofa, but didn't sit on it, and curled up on the carpet in the living room, where he and Shi Xubai watched the fireworks that night, he took a pillow on the sofa, buried his face in it, and took a deep breath. in one breath.

It was already seven o'clock in the evening, even if Shi Xubai's flight was delayed, he should have arrived, but there was no news from him.It was already dark outside, and Qiao Fei didn't even bother to get up and turn on the light, and sat in the dark in a daze.

He fantasized that maybe Xu Bai would really come back after a while, so he comforted himself like this, wait a little longer, wait a little longer, maybe it will be there.

Sitting and sitting, Qiao Fei suddenly remembered that she could find flight information online, she quickly turned on her mobile phone, went to the airline website, and scrolled to the bottom.But when he saw the time on it, his heart finally went cold with disappointment.

The website shows that it will arrive at 1:18 pm. It stands to reason that Shi Xubai should have gone home a long time ago, but now there is no news.

Could it be that he missed the flight?Could it be that his uncle won't let him go?Could it be that he has been lying to himself?Will it...

The doorbell rang suddenly, and it sounded loud in the quiet room. Qiao Fei was stunned on the ground for a few seconds, then jumped up and ran towards the door.

When he was running, he accidentally knocked his ankle on the leg of the coffee table, and he almost threw himself on the door regardless of the pain.

He wanted Shi Xubai to come back so desperately that he didn't even think that Shi Xubai knew the password himself. This was also his home, so how could he knock on the door.

"Go back..." Qiao Feila opened the door and said two words, only to realize that the person standing at the door was not the person he imagined at all.

There was a courier at the door, holding a box wrapped in wrapping paper, waiting patiently.

"Excuse me, is this Mr. Qiao?" The courier was stunned for a moment when he saw the dark lights in the room, but immediately returned to his professional smile and handed Qiao Fei a tablet, "This is ordered by Mr. Shi, please sign for it."

Qiao Fei signed, carried the package back to the house, and closed the door.The place where the ankle was knocked was still aching, he limped a few steps, and walked slowly back to the living room.

The delivery was a long box, unsinkable, wrapped in apricot-colored wrapping paper, and tied with a beautiful bow with a golden ribbon.

Qiao Fei put it on the coffee table, knelt down in front of the table, hesitated for a while, and carefully unpacked it.

He didn't have any idea before opening it, and he had no idea what it would be. After opening the box, he found a bunch of sunflowers that bloomed just right, lying inside the dark blue velvet cloth, with a soft white sponge under it.

The tender yellow flowers are set off among the dark green leaves, and there are a few bunches of baby's breath interspersed among the flowers. The color matching is very gentle, and it looks delicate and elegant.

Qiao Fei gently took it out of the box and looked at each flower and petal.

There is no note in the box, maybe the flower itself is what Shi Xubai wants to say to Qiao Fei.

The flower is very beautiful, but looking at it, Qiao Fei is not happy at all.He slowly sat down on the ground, holding the flowers tightly in his arms, staring at the lights of the distant city outside in a daze.

He had a feeling that Shi Xubai would not come back today, not only today, maybe tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, or even the day after tomorrow.

There was still not a single message in the phone, Qiao Fei slowly flipped through the messages he had sent to Shi Xubai one by one, carefully reading every word they said between them.

After an unknown amount of time, Qiao Fei finally found the first few messages that Shi Xubai had sent him.His eye sockets suddenly turned red.

That day he failed the interview because He Haoyun got drunk, Shi Xubai asked him to go to the dance troupe, and they ate ice cream together.The message Shi Xubai sent him was only three words.

【I'm waiting for you. 】

Qiao Fei blinked hard twice to keep the tears from falling.He finally sent a message to Shi Xubai.

[I received your flowers, I like them very much. 】

After thinking about it, I sent another one.

[It's okay, I'll wait for you, as long as I want. 】

After posting, Qiao Fei turned off her mobile phone, climbed onto the sofa and curled up into a ball, hugged the sunflower in her arms, closed her eyes in the darkness of the room, and in her mind was the scene of him and Shi Xubai sitting on the carpet during the New Year. Scenes.

He doesn't want sunflowers, he just wants his white sun.