In the silent place

Chapter 21

Under the night, the airport waiting hall was still brightly lit. Bai Yutang stood in front of the glass window looking at the airport runway outside, and touched the mobile phone in his coat pocket.

"Young Master Bai, Young Master Bai?"

Hearing the cry, Bai Yutang turned his head to look at Jiang Dong. "Um?"

"I'm going to the bathroom, I'll be right back." Jiang Dong patted the luggage leaning on the chair, stood up and ran to the bathroom.

Bai Yutang went to the seat and sat down, took out his mobile phone and thought for a while, then dialed Zhan Zhao's number.The bell kept ringing, but no one answered.After hanging up the phone, Bai Yutang exhaled, raised his hand to look at his watch, it was 42:[-].Maybe I didn’t hear the bell while watching TV in the living room, or I went to take a shower?Just guessing wildly, Jiang Dong came back and handed him a bottle of mineral water.

"Thank you." Bai Yutang took it over, unscrewed the lid and took two sips.Looking at the phone in his hand, he pressed the callback button without giving up. The ring rang for a long time, but no one answered.After hanging up the phone, he looked at the screen of the phone with some frustration, and put it back in his pocket.

Seeing him frowning and looking irritable, Jiang Dong couldn't help but ask, "Who did you call?"

"Zhan Zhao. No one answered twice, and I don't know why I bought a mobile phone." Bai Yutang said angrily.

"My uncle is back, he's probably busy chatting with his dad."

When Bai Yutang heard this, he immediately sat up straight, turned his head and asked, "His father is back? When did it happen? What did you do?"

Scratching his head, Jiang Dong cursed himself loudly, while playing with the cap of the mineral water bottle in his hand, he faltered and said: "I just came back at noon today, I don't know exactly why I came back."

"Didn't you ask when you got home?"

"Then how can I have the time to ask?" Jiang Dong replied prevaricately. "After I packed my bags, I came straight to the airport." He couldn't understand why he always acted as a punching bag when the two talked about each other.Rolling his eyes, he said impatiently: "Just go back and ask my cousin if it's okay."

Bai Yutang, who wanted to continue asking questions, was speechless by Jiang Dong. He took out a cigarette and wanted to light it. He had just taken out the lighter, but when he looked up and saw the no-smoking sign, he had to suppress the dark fire in his heart and put the cigarette back into the cigarette case.When he was anxious and upset, his cell phone rang suddenly.He hurriedly took it out, and when he saw the little black cat wagging its tail leisurely on the screen, a smile appeared on his face.After pressing the answer button, he couldn't wait to call out: "Cat."

"Well, it's me." Zhan Zhao leaned sideways on the head of the bed, the half-lying and half-reclining posture made him feel a little strenuous.Simply turned over and sat up. "Sorry, I didn't hear the call just now." He said with a helpless smile.In fact, it wasn't that he didn't hear it, but the phone didn't ring at all.After a simple wash at night, he was rushed to bed by his father. He lay on the bed with his eyes open, looking at the ceiling, and the past flooded into his brain like a flood. For a while, it was his mother teasing him with marshmallows, and for a while, it was his father His desolate face, and for a while, he lay on the muddy mountain ground and was frozen stiff during the police academy training.Also, he and Bai Yutang worked in the warehouse of the supermarket together. In the scorching summer, the two of them were barebacked, wearing boxer shorts and spraying each other with rubber hoses to catch water.Everything is so clear, as if reappearing yesterday.His thoughts kept jumping until his mind gradually became dizzy.With his eyes closed, he thought about it for a while, and decided to send a text message to Bai Yutang.He reached out and fumbled to turn on the desk lamp, and took a look at the phone, only to find that there were two notifications of missed calls on the screen. Then he remembered that it was his father who had turned the phone to silent before leaving the house.

"Mao'er, you've been back for a while, and you haven't been to the place where I live. I'll be back the day after tomorrow. Are you interested in visiting?"

"A rat hole of my own design?"

When Bai Yutang heard this, he laughed.Unexpectedly, Zhan Zhao still remembered this. "No, I haven't found a suitable hole yet. When I find it later, I will plan." He has always had a dream, which is to find a place he likes, build a house, and design it himself from the inside to the outside. Home and his beloved live happily ever after.Teenager's dreams are always somewhat unrealistic, Bai Yutang curled his lips thinking of self-deprecating. "The apartment I'm renting now is not bad."

"Okay, I'll go and see when you come back."

"Cat, do you have anything to tell me?" Bai Yutang asked tentatively.

After a short pause on the phone, Zhan Zhaoqing's cleaner voice came: "My dad is back."

Zhan Zhao only came back for more than a month, and his father came back with him.Bai Yutang always felt uneasy. "Is your dad trying to take you away again?"

"No." On the other end of the phone, Zhan Zhao's voice suddenly became a little low. "He just came back to have a look, maybe he will go back the day after tomorrow."

"...Flight MU9110, boarding is now starting. Customers, please take your belongings and go to Terminal 10 as soon as possible..." The broadcast in the airport recalled, Jiang Dong stood up and mentioned Luggage urged Bai Yutang with his eyes.

'I don't care when your dad goes back, I just care if you want to go back with him. ' Bai Yutang thought angrily, but he could only think about it, so he dared not say it. "Cat, it's done, wait for me to go back."

"Well, I got it. I wish you a smooth journey..." He changed his words in the middle of speaking: "Safe journey, and the recording of the program was successful."

Bai Yutang wanted to poke him on the phone, and was afraid of offending Zhan Zhao, so he felt like a cat's paw in his heart, scratching him itchy and painful. "I'm going to board the plane, see you later." After hanging up the phone, he suddenly remembered a line of lyrics, and hummed along with it, "I love you so hard..." Jiang Dong glanced at him abruptly, Bai Yutang I also felt a chill, and almost died of acid from myself.Shivering, he hurriedly followed Jiang Dong to the boarding gate.

After boarding the plane and putting away the luggage, the moment Bai Yutang sat down, the cell phone in his pocket beeped twice again, it was a text message.I took it out and opened it, and it turned out to be from the cat. 'I forgot to mention just now that the portable is very easy to use.thanks. Bai Yutang turned off the power of the phone, and swipe the screen lightly with his finger, feeling very happy.

The plane taxied along the runway, the speed became faster and faster, and finally took off into the air with a roar.At night, looking down from the plane, you can have a panoramic view of the colorful city of flowers.Bai Yutang looked out the window, rubbing the cell phone in his pocket, feeling nostalgic for this city for the first time.

Two hours later, near midnight, the plane landed smoothly.Walking out of the airport, Bai Yutang looked up at the starry sky, and set foot on this city again after three years of absence.Here are his childhood, his family, and the footprints he and Zhan Zhao left on campus and in the streets and alleys.After a busy day, Bai Yutang and Jiang Dong arrived at the hotel, registered at the front desk, received the room keys, and went back to their rooms to rest.

Early the next morning, when Jiang Dong knocked on the door, Bai Yutang had already finished washing.The two had breakfast in the restaurant of the hotel, and took a taxi to the place designated by the program recording team.They came earlier and waited in the background for a while before the other guests arrived.

"Bai Yutang?"

Bai Yutang, who was chatting with Jiang Dong, turned his head when he heard the sound, and saw a very fashionable young man walking towards him with a smile.After thinking about it for a long time, there is no memory of this person. "Excuse me?"

The man slumped his shoulders exaggeratedly and made a disappointed expression. "My surname is Tong, Tong Yujie."

"Hello." Bai Yutang stretched out his hand and shook him back.Looking at the young man in front of him with curly red hair and wearing low crotch overalls, he really couldn't connect him with the photo he had seen before.

"What a coincidence, I didn't expect to meet you here this time." Tong Yujie said enthusiastically.

Bai Yutang smiled back politely and didn't say much.He has always been too lazy to talk to people who don't know him well, and he is even more tired of flattering them.Sitting in the leather chair, he rested his elbows on the armrests, crossed his legs, and watched coldly the people around him as they shuttled through the crowd.

Tong Yujie was bored, and the smile on his face stiffened a little.Raising his hand and turning the earring clasp on his ear, he waved his hand awkwardly and walked away.

"Is this the Tong Yu Festival recommended by director Jiang last time?" Jiang Dong asked Bai Yutang standing beside him.

"Well, that's him." Bai Yutang replied.

Jiang Dong has also seen the photo of Tong Yujie, and he seems to have watched the TV series made by this kid, but he doesn't have a deep impression on them. "It's too far from the photo, it's two people."

"I didn't recognize it at all. The photos shown to us are probably based on the characteristics of Jian Shu, which is closer to the description in the book."

"Probably so. It seems that this kid has been very popular recently and has filmed a lot of dramas."

"Yes. Otherwise, Director Jiang wouldn't be able to recommend him." Bai Yutang said as he turned his head to look at Tong Yujie's back.A popular actor is obviously very critical and very important to a play.At least the ratings would be greatly improved, but even if Tong Yujie deliberately dressed up like Jian Shu, he still couldn't find a trace of Jian Shu's feeling in him.Fresh and elegant, but also upright atmosphere.The figure of Zhan Zhao suddenly flashed in his mind, Bai Yutang smiled faintly, he really agreed from the bottom of his heart to the feeling that Liu Xian once confessed to him that he belonged to him. "Jiang Dong, you should read the book "Worth It", right?"

"Well, turn over."

"Do you think that the character Jian Shu has a little resemblance to Zhan Zhao?"

"Like a fart!" Jiang Dong swears anxiously, then grinned, trying to smooth things over for himself. "What I mean is that Jian Shu is at most a person in a book, but my cousin is a living person, what does he look like?"

Zhan Zhao is unique, no one in the book resembles him at all.Bai Yutang thought about it, stretched out his finger and nodded Jiang Dong, and said with a smile, "I love what you say."

The two were chatting vigorously when the host walked in and informed them to get ready to enter the venue, and the recording of the show would officially start in 5 minutes.Bai Yutang stood up and followed the host into the stage, while Jiang Dong stayed behind and waited for him.There were two intermissions, and after more than three hours, the recording of this variety show was finally completed.Bai Yutang shunned the lunch invitations of several people, and he and Jiang Dong left the scene early.

Sitting in the taxi, Bai Yutang looked at the bustling crowd on the street, and couldn't help but miss the quiet street he used to walk in when he was a child. "Jiang Dong, after dinner, I'm going to visit a few places. You can go back to the hotel to rest if you are tired. Don't worry about me. Depending on the situation at night, I may not go back to live."

"Okay." Jiang Dong replied.

The two found a restaurant to have dinner at random, and after going out, they parted ways.

Bai Yutang first came to City No. [-] Middle School, which was his high school alma mater, and it was also here that he met Zhan Zhao for the first time.At that time, he hadn't thought that he would be so important to him.Taking out his mobile phone, Bai Yutang stood at the door and took a few photos, then walked into the campus through the side door.Seeing his strange face, the old master in the reception room couldn't help shouting: "Young man, who are you looking for?"

"Master, I'm a graduate here, come back and have a look." Bai Yutang replied with a smile.

The old master looked at him dubiously, and the more he looked at him, the more familiar he looked, and suddenly he widened his eyes and said, "Li Jingpo, are you Li Jingpo?"

"You have really good eyes." Li Jingpo is a role played by Bai Yutang, and the response among the people is very good.

"Are you really a graduate of this school?" The master asked excitedly at the small window.

"Yes, I haven't been back for many years. The inside has changed a lot, so I want to go in and have a look."

"Go, let's go." These years, how many graduates will come back to visit their alma mater.This young man is very caring, maybe he will come here to take a scene or something in the future.The teacher watched Bai Yutang briskly walk into the campus, closed the small window and continued to listen to the electronic box.

Walking leisurely in the campus, looking at the new teaching building and playground of his alma mater, Bai Yutang was filled with emotion.There is a group of students on the other side of the football field who are taking physical education class. Looking at their running and jumping figures, they can't help but think of the past.After school, he and Mao'er often come here to play football with the classmates in the class. Especially in summer, a group of boys are waving sweat beads, and the field is violently flying. Dirty as a monkey.At that time, he liked to compete with Zhan Zhao for everything, and he felt uncomfortable all over if there was no winner or loser.Even the water pipes, he has to rush to use them first.At the beginning, Zhan Zhao was still arguing with him, but in the end, neither of them could take advantage of it. Later, Zhan Zhao stopped arguing with him, and he felt bored instead.

After leaving the campus, he went to several places, wandering around all afternoon, and soon it was evening.In just a few years, this city with many memories of him was quietly changing. Looking at the thriving and prosperous scene, he felt a kind of proud joy in his heart, but also a kind of unconcealable melancholy and loss .Shaking his head, Bai Yutang secretly sighed, since when did he feel sad and sad.Taking out the phone, thinking about it, and putting it back in his pocket, Bai Yutang hailed a taxi and marched towards his long-lost home.

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