"Luo Xiyun!"

He ran and shouted.

The vegetable garden that was arranged like a flower garden was completely ruined, with flower pots rolling everywhere and the whole road was a mess.

He rushed to the house where Luo Xiyun lived, opened the door roughly, and rushed in, "Luo Xiyun, Luo Xiyun..."

He looked everywhere but there was no one there. The door of the room was locked and no one answered after he shouted for a long time.

"If he hasn't come back by now, he must be stuck on the road."

It was almost three o'clock in the afternoon, which meant she had been trapped for four or five hours.

He came back with a glimmer of hope, wanting to see if she had returned home safely, but things turned out to be the worst. He felt heavy-hearted, slammed the door hard, turned around and ran out again.

He got back into the car, turned it around, stepped on the accelerator, and drove out.

"Luo Xiyun, please don't get into any accidents." He didn't want to spend the remaining two months alone.

"Every time she comes back, she takes this road." Chen Xu drove into a road, honking the horn.

It was still three o'clock in the afternoon, but in such weather, with a typhoon and heavy rain, the visibility was not good. Even with the high beam on, I could only see two or three meters ahead.

He just hoped to attract Luo Xiyun's attention by sounding the horn.

He didn't know where she was going on her bike or which route she was taking, so he could only take every fork in the road.

As time passed, the typhoon showed no signs of weakening.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and Chen Xu's anxiety was accumulating, with all kinds of thoughts flashing through his mind.

"Did she miss a road? She happened to be stuck on that road."

"Did she have an accident so she didn't hear the horn?"

"Did she hear the horn, but had no way of responding?"

…………

Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a little light reflected on the rearview mirror. Although it was only a flash, he could see clearly that it was not lightning.

Involuntarily, he slammed the brakes, turned the steering wheel, crashed into a car parked on the side of the road, and turned the car around forcibly.

Not long after the car drove away, he saw the light again. This time he saw clearly that it should be the light behind the mobile phone.

“Found it!”

He relaxed completely and drove the car closer. When the headlights shone over, he finally saw Luo Xiyun's current appearance.

She stood on the side of the road, soaked all over, but didn't care. She held on to the street lamp with one hand and waved her cell phone with the backlight on in the other.

"It looks like she's suffered a lot."

Chen Xu thought to himself and stopped the car in front of her. At this time, she seemed to be unable to hold on any longer. She was blown unsteadily by the strong wind and fell to the ground. She could only hold the street lamp with both hands, looking extremely embarrassed.

Looking at her miserable appearance, he found it a little funny, but he also felt that it was not good to gloat over her misfortune. He controlled his expression, opened the door and got out of the car, braving the wind and rain, and helped her to the passenger seat with difficulty.

The back seat was full of stuff and there was no room for people to sit.

After Chen Xu got in the car, he found a clean towel and handed it over, then started the car and went home.

…………

Along the way, Luo Xiyun was silently wiping the water stains on her body with a towel, without saying a word. She didn't speak, and Chen Xu didn't say anything either. There was an awkward silence in the car.

To him, Luo Xiyun was both strange and familiar.

The last time the two sat together like this was three months ago, when they were assigning tasks together. Since then, the two have never spoken to each other again. It seems that they have a tacit understanding and will stagger their time to go out to avoid running into each other.

When they meet occasionally, they just ignore each other and pretend the other doesn't exist.

Because of this, he was very unfamiliar with her.

However, he also knew her very well. He knew what kind of food she liked to eat, what style of clothes she liked, what she would do on each day of the week, and he even knew when her period came.

The two of them lived next door to each other, and many places were shared. They didn't need to pay special attention, and many things would come to their mind naturally, such as which meat in the freezer was consumed the fastest, which vegetables in front of the door were picked the most, and which clothes were hung outside every day.

When Chen Xu drove the car back to the garage, it was completely dark. He looked at his cell phone and it was already seven o'clock in the evening.

He turned off the car and was about to open the door to get out when he heard Luo Xiyun's first words since getting in the car, "I sprained my ankle."

"ah?"

He was stunned for a moment before he reacted and turned his head to look at her. With the help of the car light, he found that there were scratches on her arms and knees, and as for her feet, he couldn't see them because of the angle and light.

It looked like she had fallen off her bike.

He thought about it. This place was still more than 20 meters away from the front door of the house. It would be a bit difficult to support her to walk such a distance in a level 10 typhoon.

He simply restarted the car and drove into the original vegetable garden. The flower pots that were originally used to grow vegetables were blown everywhere by the wind, and the wheels would occasionally press on them and shake. Fortunately, the chassis of this SUV was high enough and would not be stuck by the flower pots.

He slowly drove the car to her door, then got out of the car, helped her down, opened the door and walked into the coffee shop where she lived.

After entering the room, he pressed the light switch, and there was a "click" sound, but the light did not come on.

"The lamp is broken?"

He turned the light on and off several times, but it still didn't come on. He had no choice but to take out his cell phone from his pocket, turn on the flashlight, and help her walk to the door.

Luo Xiyun took out the key from the top of a hanging noodle next to him and opened the door.

After Chen Xu helped her in, he thought he should leave, and then he heard the sound of a switch turning on, but the light inside was not on.

He immediately realized something was wrong. Was there a power outage?

This is really a double whammy.

The electricity supply at home depends on a diesel generator. If this machine breaks down, it will be troublesome.

Hope it's just a power outage.

He thought to himself.

At this time, he heard Luo Xiyun say something, but the voice was too soft and he couldn't hear it clearly, so he asked, "What did you say?"

In the darkness, he felt her breathing become heavier, and after a while, her faint voice sounded again.

This time, he heard clearly what she said, "I want to go to the bathroom."

This was the second sentence she said after they met.

Chen Xu could tell that she must be feeling very embarrassed when she said this.

(End of this chapter)