At ten o'clock at night, after taking a shower and preparing to go to bed early, my father's phone call suddenly came in.
When I saw the caller ID, my heart skipped a beat and I became nervous subconsciously.
Some people say that when people reach middle age, they are most afraid of phone calls from family members late at night. Generally, phone calls in the middle of the night are bad things. I used to mute my phone before going to bed, but now I don’t dare to mute my phone at all.
I took a deep breath and answered the phone.
"Hello……"
The father's hoarse voice came out, "Hey, Yu Bin, come back quickly."
My heart was beating wildly and I hurriedly asked, "What happened?"
He hesitated on the phone, "Come back first! You'll know when you get back."
"ok, I get it."
Suppressing the turbulent emotions in my heart, I knocked on Mei Xueyan's door that night.
The door opened, revealing a small face as big as a palm, with a pair of dark deer eyes under the willow eyebrows filled with astonishment.
"Why do you look so ugly? What happened?"
"I just received a call from my dad, asking me to go back quickly. I...I have to take a few days off first."
From the moment I received the call, my mind went blank and I stuttered when I spoke.
"Okay, you go home to deal with things first, and then come back to work after you're done. How do you get there? High-speed rail?"
I shook my head, "I'm leaving now, driving Feifei's car. It's still 200 kilometers away from my home and we'll be there in a few hours."
Mei Xueyan looked stern and said with some worry: "Can you drive in your current state? If not, I will drive you."
I felt warm in my heart, but rejected her kindness, "It's okay, it's only 200 kilometers, I'll drive slowly. You still have so much work to do when you get back."
Seeing that I was very determined, she stopped insisting and told me to pay attention to safety on the road and report that I was safe when I arrived.
Before setting off, I sent Lin Feifei a WeChat message. After all, it was her car, so I didn’t ask for her permission, which was a bit unjustifiable.
Lin Feifei responded to the message. She just asked me to drive slowly and didn't say anything else.
I stepped on the accelerator, and the car was like a wild horse that had escaped the reins, speeding along the highway. Outside the car window, the scenery on both sides of the road drifted past my eyes like the wind. Large trucks drove one after another on the highway late at night. During the winter and summer vacations, I followed my second uncle and ran past large trucks for a while. Only those who have driven there can understand the pain involved. For big truck drivers, spinning is a common occurrence.
Life is not easy, so we always rush forward without hesitation, race against time, and dare not slack off.
The Tesla ran out of battery halfway through, so I was forced to stop at the service area to recharge, smoke a cigarette, and relax my tense nerves.
It was already past eleven o'clock at night. I squatted on the curb and looked up at the dark and deep night sky, which made me feel a sense of fear.
Floating alone outside in the middle of the night undoubtedly aggravated the loneliness in my heart.
I was a little miserable, and when I was depressed, Lin Feifei's voice call came in.
I was shocked. It was so late and she wasn't asleep yet!
"Hey, Yu Bin, are you home?"
I feel warm in my heart. It feels so good to be alone and have someone who cares about me.
"No! I'm in the service area, charging the car! It's so late, why aren't you sleeping yet?"
"Young people, how can you go to bed so early? I just finished playing a game with Tang Qin and the others, and they asked why you were not here. Only then did I remember to ask if you were home."
I smiled hoarsely and said, "Have you ever heard of a saying? A donkey eats a millstone."
Lin Feifei was stunned, "What do you mean?"
"Tough talk!"
"Hey! I care about you with good intentions, but you still hurt me! I'm dead!"
As soon as she said she wanted to hang up, I subconsciously stopped her and said, "Don't hang up!"
A charming voice came from the phone, "Are you scared now? How long until you get home?"
I opened the map on my phone and looked at it, "There are still eighty kilometers left to get off the highway. After getting off the highway, we have to drive more than ten kilometers. We will arrive before 3 o'clock in the morning."
"It's too late. How about you rest in the service area tonight?"
I was so anxious that I couldn't think of a rest, not to mention that the hotels in the service area were extremely expensive. I was not willing to spend hundreds of dollars to stay in such a small and shabby hotel.
"No, it's not the first time I've run an all-night train. You don't need to be too nervous about me!"
Lin Feifei said, "Who cares about you? You think too much."
Although she didn't admit it, I felt happy in my heart.
I saw that the car was about to be fully charged, so I reluctantly hung up the phone.
Before hanging up the phone, Lin Feifei still stubbornly asked me to come home and tell her that she was safe.
I smiled, "Then you put my WeChat in do not disturb mode, I will send you a message when I arrive, you can see it when you wake up."
"No, just tell me that you're safe when you arrive."
Seeing her persistence, I agreed.
I hung up the phone reluctantly, rubbed my face, bought a few cans of Red Bull at the 24-hour convenience store, and then drove off.
Perhaps because of Lin Feifei's phone call just now, I slowed down the car along the way and kept running within the safe speed limit.
After more than two hours of running around, I finally arrived home.
I calmed down, took out the key and opened the door.
"Dad! Mom!"
As soon as I entered the courtyard, I started shouting.
After a while, my dad walked out of the house wearing some clothes and slippers.
While he was beating Haqie, he scolded me: "What are you arguing about in the middle of the night? Why did you come back in the middle of the night?"
My mother came out soon after, "Yu Bin is back. Have you eaten? Mom will make you something to eat?"
I shook my head and looked at my dad suspiciously, "Didn't you call me back? What happened? Did your physical examination report come out?"
My dad looked a little weird and said hesitantly: "It's so late. If you have anything to do, let's talk about it tomorrow!"
"What can't you say now?"
My dad said in a somewhat impatient tone, "It's too late. Let's talk tomorrow. Don't worry blindly. Your mother and I are fine. If I had known you were coming back in the middle of the night, I would have called you during the day."
My mother also scolded him, "I told you to talk about it during the day. You must be so angry."
Hearing what they said, I felt a little relieved. I had been running on the highway for several hours in the middle of the night, and the thread in my heart was always tight. Looking at their mysterious looks, I probably couldn't ask anything, so I might as well just ask Let’s talk about it during the day!
I was so tired that I went straight to my room, threw myself on the bed, and stared at the ceiling in a daze. I suddenly remembered that I had not informed Lin Feifei that she was safe, so I sent her a message to reassure her.
Me: "I'm here, you can put your heart in your pelvis."
After sending it, I was about to put down my phone and go to sleep, but I didn’t expect Lin Feifei to reply instantly.
"Who's worried about you? I'm worried about my car."
Looking at the message on the screen, I couldn't help laughing and replied quickly.
"A good girl, but she likes to talk sarcastically. Go to bed early! Staying up late can cause bags under the eyes."
"Tch, what do you know? My name is Wocan. I am not as poor as you. Good night."
After saying good night to each other, I fell into a deep sleep. The fatigue from running a long distance tortured me to the point of exhaustion. I woke up once in the morning, but I was groggy, so I just went back to sleep.
Unfortunately, not long after I lay down, my dad suddenly rushed in and pulled me out of bed, "Stop sleeping. What time is it? Come out with me."
