Wandering

Chapter 236 Looking for him thousands of times, in a dimly lit place
As soon as the others left, Chen Yan's tears flowed down her cheeks. The first thing she asked was: "I don't know your name yet, what's your name?"

"My name is Shi Ye, the stone of the stone, the wild of the wilderness. ... You sit still, I will go to the kitchen to get a basin of clean water, treat your feet, and rinse your shoes."

Chen Yan was very obedient and sat there without moving.I am very familiar with the back kitchen of the small restaurant. Don’t forget that I have worked in Ziying’s noodle restaurant for a long time.He fetched a basin of water to wipe her feet clean, and rinsed off the pair of plastic sandals.The burn still needs to be dealt with, and I was about to buy some scald medicine for her when I came back.At this time, the old man appeared at the door of the restaurant, raised his hand and threw something at me, saying: "Boss, go on!"

I reached out to catch it, and it turned out to be a tube of Jingwanhong ointment for autocratic burns.Seeing that the old man has already left, he just went to the pharmacy on the street to buy scald medicine.While applying medicine to Chen Yan, I said: "Does it hurt? I see your tears are spinning all the time, just bear with it and it will be fine. The injury is not serious, and you will be fine after applying the medicine. By the way, you haven't Tell me how your father is doing?"

"My father, he passed away." Chen Yan finally said out with sobs.

My hands trembled, and I hurriedly comforted him: "I'm so sorry, I made you sad when we met. Could it be that the operation didn't work?"

Chen Yan: "The operation was done, but the illness is not cured..."

It is only now that I have time to listen to her in detail about her experience in the past year.A year ago, the night I left Xi'an, I gave her 2 yuan and told her not to open for a period of time.She didn't know where I came from, but she believed that I was a good person. She listened to my advice and didn't open for business for two weeks. She took her father to see a doctor.

At noon three days later, the street was suddenly blocked. It is said that several fugitives with robbers fled nearby and were surrounded by the police.The public security personnel evacuated the crowd and took action against the stronghold that was picked up.Gunshots were heard, but the operation ended that night.Half a month later, Chen Yan returned to her snack bar and found two bullet holes on the locked door, and only then did she know what I said was true.

It is hard to say whether her father's operation was successful or not, and the doctor's medical skills did not save the dying life. Her father passed away half a year later.Chen Yan was alone, neither wanting to go back to the village of Mizhi, where he had no immediate family members, nor staying in that "dangerous" and sad place in Xi'an.Fortunately, she has learned some crafts in the past few years and continues to sell snacks for a living.

She is also considered a smart person, knowing that running a not-so-authentic Xi'an-style snack bar in Xi'an cannot do a good business, so she chose to operate it in other places.She came to Feishui, where the Xi'an-style snacks she sells are still authentic.The address of the store was chosen very coincidentally, just near the University of Science and Technology.This is what she has experienced in the past year.

When she is alone and lonely, she often thinks of a person who is a mysterious passer-by in her life, and of course this person is me.I saw me by accident today, and I was so surprised and happy that I didn't even realize I burned my feet.Later, when I treated her for burns, she was in a trance like a dream.

The news of her father's death made me very sad, and I was also sad for her, and I have been comforting her.At the same time, I was also thinking about another problem: Money can cure diseases, but it cannot really buy back a life.Some people think that it is unbelievable for practitioners to ignore many desires in the world to seek longevity. In fact, they do not know that life itself is the greatest desire of human beings, the ultimate pursuit that can never be shaken off.Why is there a alchemy for cultivating immortals in the world?The answer does not have to be found.

I was chatting with her when someone came in and asked for noodles.Chen Yan hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, classmate, we are closed today." After persuading the guests to leave, he put on his sandals and was about to close the door.I hurriedly pressed her shoulders to keep her still, closed the door for her, and persuaded: "It's good to have a rest. If you burn your feet, don't do business. I'm so sorry, I made you slap me when I showed up like this." flipped."

Chen Yan's mood has calmed down a lot, and he said with a slight smile: "Look at what you said, it's like you deliberately came to scald me.... Can you tell me what you do? Why did you come to Feishui? Just happened to walk into my small shop? Those two students from the University of Science and Technology just called you the boss?"

"To tell you the truth, I'm a first-year student at the University of Science and Technology, and those two were my classmates in the same dormitory."

Chen Yan was surprised: "You are a university student? When I was in Xi'an, I thought you..."

"The situation was special at that time. I was doing something for a department, and I happened to meet you. Please, can you not tell me about it? I am just an ordinary student here."

There was doubt in Chen Yan's eyes, but he still nodded in a very sensible way: "I know you are not an ordinary person, so I won't ask if there is any inconvenience. Don't worry, I will never talk nonsense. It's good to see you, you You are actually at the University of Science and Technology, so you must come to my small shop to eat frequently....I can’t pay you back the 2 yuan now, but I will definitely pay it back slowly in the future.”

I smiled: "Have I ever lent you money? Why can't I remember?...The money is actually not mine, and you don't have to pay it back."

Chen Yan was a little anxious: "How can it be!... I have been saving money for the past six months, and I have been thinking that if I meet you one day, I must return the money."

"Okay, okay, I won't embarrass you. Let's save the money for me, okay? I can pay it back whenever I want, anyway, I'm not in a hurry to wait for the money to be used."

When I was talking, I heard a soft "goo", it was from someone's stomach, it seemed that someone was hungry, and of course it wasn't me.Chen Yan said embarrassingly: "I'm too busy talking, haven't you eaten dinner yet? Just wait, I'll make noodles for you."

"You don't need it, you rest here, and I will do it."

Chen Yan looked at me: "You? Will you?"

"I forgot to tell you, I used to work as a waiter in a noodle shop for a long time. Xi'an's trousers are not good at wide noodles, and hand-rolled noodles in the South are still fine."

Time is not long, I brought two steaming bowls of noodles with oil and pepper on them, and brought them to the table for one bowl per person.Chen Yan took the noodles but looked at my bowl, and asked carefully: "That's all, is it enough for you? I remember you can eat a basin!"

Hearing this, I couldn't help smiling, remembering that in Xi'an, I was dressed as a beggar and sitting in front of her snack bar.She even brought me four large bowls of Xaozi noodles, which made me eat the whole thing, and as a result, she left such a mysterious image of a rice bucket in her mind.

That night, I went back to the dormitory just before the lights were turned off. Seeing that I came back, everyone in the dormitory was fried, and they all asked me what was my relationship with the girl who opened the snack bar?The old man and Xiao Liao had already described today's adventure in the dormitory happily. I don't know what they said, but the story was very bizarre and exaggerated.The other boys' eyes widened when they heard this, and their saliva almost flowed down.I don't know if it's because I'm full or because I'm puberty, but when it comes to the topic of women, it's a big gossip.

I can only simply explain that I met her in Xi'an, and finally ran into her in Feishui, so we were a little pleasantly surprised.How can they not believe that things are so simple!According to what the old man and Xiao Geda saw with their own eyes, the girl knocked over the noodles in her hand when she saw me, and didn't even know that her feet were scalded.That look!The tears are rolling straight, it is impossible to say that it is a normal relationship!I can't explain it clearly, and the more I talk, the darker it becomes.

So in the later evening chats in the dormitory, many different versions of the legend appeared, and the most exciting one was compiled by the old man.It was a poignant and touching legendary love story.A heroic young man (Shi Ye) meets a beautiful and kind-hearted woman in trouble (Chen Yan) in the world of mortals. How the young man helps each other out of righteousness, and how he drifts away, how grateful the woman is, and how he misses her every day.One day, they met again in a place thousands of miles away. It was like looking back suddenly, but the person was in a dimly lit place.The old man saw with his own eyes how young master Xia gently stroked the woman's jade feet when he was delivering the scalding medicine...

The next day was Sunday, and I wanted to visit Chen Yan again, but I had to deal with another matter early in the morning.The secret communicator that had just been changed in Feishui vibrated again, and seeing the digital code on the LCD screen, it was Director Liang who wanted to see me.Are you going to assign me another task?I have only been in Feishui for more than a month, so I have a task soon?
Until now, I still don't quite know what is the official name of the secret agency I work for?Lily should know, but I never had a chance to ask her.The headquarters of the institution in this province is neither secluded nor mysterious, but a bustling place where people come and go, and it is an open cram school to the outside world.It not only provides tutoring for students who fail the college entrance examination, but also computer training which is very popular in the next few years, and English certification training which is becoming more and more popular.

The building structure of this school is in the shape of an angle. There are two teaching and research rooms with few people at the corner of the first floor, and there is a door in the corridor to separate it from the outside.You can’t see anything unusual here, the two teaching and research rooms are very large, one door opens on the left, the other door opens on the right, and the large one in the middle has no doors or windows.But if you have a way to measure the total length of the two teaching and research rooms, and then measure the sum of the total length of the indoor usable area, you will find that there is an error of two meters.That is to say, the wall between the two teaching and research rooms is two meters thick. Due to the ingenious architectural design, it is difficult to see it from the outside or even from the inside.

I remember the first time I came here to report, the colleagues in charge of supporting me didn’t know whether they wanted to embarrass me or test me. When they came outside the corridor, they said that the entrance of the base was here, but they didn’t tell me where the entrance was and how to get in.I looked at the muscular man, and said calmly: "Do you know my special ability? It is to pass through walls. If you don't open the secret door, I will punch a hole in it myself. Then you come to fix it." The house." The old man turned cold, and reluctantly opened the secret door for me.

I know why that man inexplicably wanted to embarrass me, because last time I completed the task of killing, paying, and recovering the disk, I was rewarded within our system.Seeing that this legendary "stone" is just an ordinary white-faced scholar today, I guess my colleague is a little unconvinced.Director Gu once told me: "In this line of work, it is enough to complete the task covertly. Remember not to have the heart to show off your victory, it will only make your death worse."

The guy who picked me up obviously has good abilities in the organization and thinks highly of himself, but he has a problem with his mentality. Didn't his boss tell him that?My supernatural powers are nothing compared to those of taxis, and without anything else, as long as I hear the echo of footsteps, I know that there is a secret passage in the partition wall between the two rooms.

My new boss, Director Liang, is a man in his fifties. His hair is not white, but he has obviously bald, and a large part of his forehead is bald.His hairstyle is very interesting, Zhou Quan's hair is kept as long as possible, and carefully combed to cover the bald spot, but he doesn't know that it is trying to cover up.He wears a pair of rimless resin glasses, and when he talks to me, he likes to lean his body back on the chair, and he draws the end of each sentence very long, showing his leadership style without a doubt.

Director Liang was speaking to me in a three-point doubt and seven-point education tone: "Your reaction is very fast. When our secret service personnel noticed you, we didn't even have time to take a picture. We just kept looking at you. A blurry figure was found in the surveillance video of Zhun Hotel’s gate... According to the staff’s report, the person who secretly monitored our observation point was a student, and later entered the University of Science and Technology. According to their description and what I have Compare the information to make sure that the person was you at the time... Don't think that you can deceive people with some training. The efficiency of our organization is beyond the understanding of half a layman like you, and your every move is under the control of the government... "

The reason why I came to find me today is very simple, it is because I observed the hidden monitoring point at the entrance of the hotel for a long time yesterday for no reason, but I did not expect that monitoring point was set up by our organization.Director Liang was very puzzled and dissatisfied with my actions. From his tone, he could tell that it was me so quickly, and he was a little smug.In fact, it was too easy for him to find me. My files are in his hands. If the suspect is identified among HKUST students, if he does not suspect me, then there is really a problem with IQ.

Finally Director Liang asked me: "Shitou, can you reasonably explain your actions yesterday?"

I asked rhetorically, "I'm a college student, do I need an explanation for walking around campus?"

(End of this chapter)