After Lu Yunzheng finished washing the dishes, he found that Xu Wantang was not at home.
The door to Xu Wantang's bedroom was still open. He glanced subconsciously, but there was no one inside.
The house was not big, and almost all the rooms could be seen at a glance. Xu Wantang was nowhere to be seen.
Only then did Lu Yunzheng realize that Xu Wantang's slippers were placed at the door, and the pair of shoes she wore this afternoon were missing.
Lu Yunzheng had no intention of looking for her at first. He thought that Xu Wantang might have gone to chat with some military wife's house and would come back soon.
But for some reason, he couldn't sit still at home.
I was holding the book I usually loved to read in my hand, but after reading it for a long time I realized that I had turned the book upside down and not a single word entered my mind.
He simply put down the book irritably, stood up, and planned to go out for a "walk."
He first "walked" to Qian Baoguo. Qian Baoguo was listening to the radio, Qian Baoguo's wife Luo Xiaojuan was washing dishes in the kitchen, and Huzi was scratching his head and writing homework.
Seeing Lu Yunzheng coming, the family of three were surprised. Qian Baoguo and Luo Xiaojuan kept asking him to come in and sit down.
Luo Xiaojuan kept looking behind him, with expectation in her eyes, "Isn't Sister Xiaotang here?"
Hearing this, Huzi also put down his pen, stretched his neck, widened his eyes, and was as excited as a monkey who saw a banana, "Sister Tang is here? Where is she? Sister Tang!"
Huzi's excitement was extinguished by Qian Baoguo's big-necked move. Qian Baoguo said with a straight face, "Little bastard, is that what you call Sister Tang? No matter how big or small, I call you aunt!"
The corners of Huzi's mouth drooped to show his dissatisfaction, but he was not angry at all. Huzi glanced in the direction of Lu Yunzheng, but did not see his sister Tang, so he sat back in the chair obediently and continued to do arithmetic with his fingers. question.
Seeing this, Lu Yunzheng knew that Xu Wantang had never been here, so he didn't stay any longer, said hello and left.
Later, he "walked" to Yang Zhiqiang's house. Yang Zhiqiang and Yang Zhiqiang's wife Chen Yue were playing with their daughter Guoguo. The laughter and laughter of the family of three could be heard in the house, which made Lu Yunzheng feel inexplicably lonely.
He and Xu Wantang usually had little communication. Xu Wantang went to his room to stay after dinner. Basically there was no movement, almost as if he was alone in the room.
But now that that person is not at home, it feels like something is missing.
He put out the cigarette in his hand and cursed himself secretly.
Isn't it because Xu Wantang is not at home? Why is this big man so pretentious here?
Lu Yunzheng turned around and left. It seemed that Xu Wantang was not at Yang Zhiqiang's house either, so where could he go?
Lu Yunzheng paused, and the cases he had heard about before, such as "women being bullied by gangsters late at night" and "girls running away from home and being trafficked," kept flooding his mind.
He raised his eyebrows and ran quickly to the door of the family courtyard.
He planned to ask the soldiers standing guard at the door to see if Xu Wantang had left the family home, so as to narrow the scope of looking for Xu Wantang.
According to the soldier standing guard, Xu Wantang had indeed gone out and pointed him in the direction Xu Wantang left.
Lu Yunzheng ran all the way in the direction pointed, and soon saw Xu Wantang surrounded by a group of uncles and aunties.
The summer heat seemed to penetrate his body all-pervasively. He had just run here, and the air he exhaled and inhaled was hot. At this moment, he was like a big furnace, and the heat kept rising.
The people surrounded under the tree seemed to be the only coolness in the world.
Her satin-like long hair hung down on her shoulders. She was holding a newspaper in her hand and was talking to her uncle with her head tilted.
From Lu Yunzheng's perspective, he could see her fair and gentle profile, as well as the small dimples that would sink in from time to time as the corners of her mouth opened and closed.
Lu Yunzheng could tell that she was taking the trouble to convert the contents of the newspaper into an appropriate metaphor, and gave several examples from life before the other party suddenly understood, and seemed to finally understand the contents of the newspaper.
Xu Wantang saw that he understood, so she asked everyone to wait for a moment. She picked up the pen and wrote down something in the notebook. After a while, she raised her head again and told the villagers about the next section of the newspaper.
Lu Yunzheng stood not far away and listened quietly. Xu Wantang's voice was very nice. He had always known it. He also knew that Xu Wantang worked at a radio station in City B before.
It's just that this is the first time I heard Xu Wantang's serious broadcasting tone, and it was also the first time I saw Xu Wantang working seriously.
The words were spoken clearly and the voice was pleasant, as if every word was being sent into his mind one by one.
She is well-mannered and speaks calmly, as if nothing can trouble her.
Gradually, Lu Yunzheng also listened. Later, he simply sat at the edge of the crowd and listened quietly.
What Lu Yunzheng didn't know was that during this period, there was a slight smile on the corner of his mouth. It wasn't until Xu Wantang ended this "exchange" and an aunt asked Xu Wantang if he was married to someone that his smile completely disappeared.
The next second, he stood up and told Xu Wantang to go home.
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Xu Wantang held a newspaper, notebook and pen in his hands, and was still thinking about how to revise the manuscript for tomorrow's recruitment examination.
Her mind is now full of inspiration, and she just needs to take the final step of sorting it out!
Thinking of this, Xu Wantang couldn't help but completely ignore the man next to him. His mind was spinning rapidly. At the same time, the pace under his feet also involuntarily accelerated. He wished he could grow wings right now, fly home, and immediately sit down at the table to think and think. Record.
"You said it very well. There shouldn't be any problems in tomorrow's recruitment exam." Lu Yunzheng walked in step with Xu Wantang's pace and said as he walked.
Lu Yunzheng was pounding in his heart. If he praised Xu Wantang like this, Xu Wantang wouldn't think too much about it, right?
But the next second, Lu Yunzheng's face was slapped.
"Huh?" Xu Wantang glanced at Lu Yunzheng in confusion, "Did you speak just now?"
Xu Wantang was deep in thought just now, and vaguely seemed to hear Lu Yunzheng speaking, but Xu Wantang could not hear a word of what he specifically said.
Lu Yunzheng looked at Xu Wantang's innocent face and her eyes with thick eyelashes and full of doubts, and felt inexplicably unhappy.
His voice just now was definitely not quiet, and the distance between him and Xu Wantang was not too far, so he could definitely be heard clearly.
Even if we are getting divorced, we can't ignore him like this, right?
Lu Yunzheng pursed his lips, turned his head to the side, and said indifferently, "It's nothing. I'll say hello next time I go out, otherwise I have to go out to find you."
