Chapter 36 Hanhan: "I'm here." The other party is typing. ...
In the evening, they shouted to play billiards.
Qin Yi originally refused, not in the mood, but Shen Ze asked him if he had recently quarreled with the Singaporean princess, and she was trying to blame him by not replying to his messages.
He just wanted to go to Singapore for a trip and learn from the little princess.
"Why don't you ask me?" he asked Chen Ze. Compared with Yu Han, the only difference between him and Chen Ze was that his nationality had not changed.
Chen Ze: "By the way, we have to go to Bangkok. Didn't she go to a concert before? I went to a concert with someone, but you don't know anything when I ask you."
“…”
Qin Yi felt that time was passing too slowly as he sat in the room and made calls over and over again. It was so slow that he wanted to fly directly to Singapore tomorrow...
So he went out.
There are more people in the billiard halls on summer nights.
Shen Ze and his family are always on the second floor.
Qin Yi paused on the first floor and looked towards the innermost private room.
The girl at the front desk initially thought there was a customer and looked up, then smiled. "Why are you standing here?" She pointed toward the stairs. "Han Zhou and the others are upstairs."
Qin Yi nodded and turned to go upstairs.
The second floor was filled with smoke and there were even more people. The crisp sounds of balls colliding broke the tranquility of the autumn night. Qin Yi couldn't help but think of the last time the little princess came and showed off her skills.
They were at the table at the back.
Shen Ze bent down while smoking a cigarette and aimed at the black ball. He shot it down with great momentum and the white ball went into the pocket.
“Hahahahahahahaha.”
Everyone laughed.
Shen Ze leaned his hand holding the cigarette on the table, with an incredible look on his face: "No..."
"What took you so long to come over from your house, Qin Yi?" Lu Yuxing asked him as he sat on the sofa, "We're almost done with our game."
Qin Yi said nothing, slumped back in his chair and closed his eyes to rest.
"Are you so sleepy so early in the morning? You didn't bring your cigarette?" Han Zhou threw the cigarette he had just picked up at him, and resigned himself to going downstairs to get him the cigarette he had put there.
After a while, the young man was no longer resting his eyes, but he was crushing the cigarette bit by bit in his hand.
They stopped playing ball and just watched in silence.
"Didn't you really have a fight with the little princess?" Chen Ze leaned back against the table and faced him, "Why? Did you break up?"
Qin Yi said in a low voice: "No."
"Then why didn't she reply to my message? You looked so horrible, I thought she was going to kill her entire family."
Qin Yi remained silent, just threw the cigarette into the ashtray and took a deep breath.
Shen Ze touched his knee with his golf club, "Speak up, brother. How about I help you plead for mercy, and I'll send a few more words."
Han Zhou immediately turned around and begged him, "Go and plead for the little princess. This guy doesn't even play billiards anymore. He doesn't need to go to school or take the college entrance exam. He's looking so sad on such a good day and he doesn't even smoke."
Shen Ze frowned: “He just said no, I can’t use the wrong force.”
Several people went to see the person again.
"Come on, brother, is this a relationship thing?" Tang Fei said, "If not, come and play basketball."
Qin Yi didn't want to talk at all, but it was painful not to say anything: "I don't know why, I can't contact my Hanhan. It seems like she was in an accident, but there's no way to verify it."
Shen Ze frowned: “What, there was an accident.”
Han Zhou was surprised: "Is this true?"
"How do you know there was an accident if you can't verify it? And the person has lost contact, that's not very..." Tang Fei was kicked by Chen Ze halfway through his words and shut up.
Lu Yuxing said, "Are you unaware of the fact that you've offended someone? She deliberately didn't contact you."
Han Zhou: "That's right."
Qin Yi shook his head: "No, we were still chatting during the day, we didn't quarrel, we were talking peacefully."
Han Zhou raised his eyebrows: "Then suddenly I couldn't get in touch with you."
"Um."
"How long? A day?"
"Three days."
“Three days???”
"I'll go."
Several people looked at each other in shock, and then frowned, frowned madly.
They also realized the seriousness of the matter.
Shen Ze scratched his hair: "It's so tricky, but she didn't reply to my message. I sent it last night. We don't know her friends in Singapore, do you know them?"
Qin Yi actually tried to contact her Singaporean classmate Chen Cheng, who she was very close to, but the other party had a private account and could not be contacted at all.
He waved his hand and sighed, "Forget it, go have fun. I won't fight."
They had no choice but to fight on their own.
Shen Ze didn't have a good feel tonight, probably because there was a cold person sitting over there, and he was also affected. The main reason was that he knew the little princess of Singapore and they were very familiar with each other. When he heard about this, he couldn't help but worry whether something really happened to her.
Who would lose contact for several days?
Just when I was struggling to hit the ball, a girl came in from outside and slowly stopped beside the table.
Their classmate, Cheng Yushan, works as the receptionist here every time she has a holiday.
The black eight we played tonight was very simple, but Shen Ze missed the shot.
Cheng Yushan stood by the table with her arms folded, and seeing this, she said, “Chen Ze, this is your skill.”
"Don't stand there if you have nothing to do. I don't like to fight in front of girls." Shen Ze said.
"Tsk, you blame me for not being as skilled as others." She teased.
Shen Ze had no way of really chasing them away, since the billiard hall was run by her relative.
He made room for Han Zhou, and the girl's gaze happened to follow the direction of his standing position and fell on the young man who was resting with his eyes closed on the sofa behind him. It was very obvious.
"What's wrong today? You don't want to fight?" she asked Qin Yi.
Qin Yi didn't know she was talking to him and didn't respond.
Chen Ze bit on an unlit cigarette and snorted at her slowly: "You just came to watch Qin Yi's fight. Tonight is a waste. He just came here to use the air conditioning. You can leave now."
The boys sitting on the sofa started to joke around.
Cheng Yushan was a little shy and said to him angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about? I came up here to look for something and saw you and said hello. You don't know how to appreciate kindness."
Shen Ze scored a goal and then broke the deadlock.
As soon as he was interrupted, he started to bother the people next to him: "Why are you standing here inhaling secondhand smoke? Get down quickly, Miss."
"I didn't stop you from smoking. I inhaled too much secondhand smoke in the pool hall. I have a bad life."
"Puff..." Shen Ze laughed angrily and waved his hand, "Okay, then I'll light a cigarette. Don't say I'm immoral."
Cheng Yushan didn't care and just didn't leave. She stood there lazily with her arms folded.
Shen Ze talked about cigarettes but actually he really didn't like playing in front of girls. It was like having a head teacher standing there watching you do your homework.
When it was his turn to rest, he leaned against the table with his back and hit Qin Yi's leg with the cue.
The boy opened his eyes.
Their eyes met, and Chen Ze glanced at the girl behind him, hinting at him.
Qin Yi received it, slowly stood up and went downstairs.
Cheng Yushan slowly turned around, looking tired of watching, and followed him downstairs.
Lu Yuxing said lazily: "I knew she wouldn't leave unless Qin Yi left."
Han Zhou was shaking his lighter, as if it was broken, his face full of distress and confusion: "No, Qin Yi is in such a good mood today, what good can she do?"
"Can she please him when he's in a good mood?" Lu Yuxing didn't understand. "He has a family. When the little princess is not in the country, he doesn't allow anyone of the opposite sex to be around him."
Several people laughed.
Tang Fei said, "I think she's just a thief who doesn't know how to read people's expressions. Qin Yi sat there for a long time, sleeping, not playing ball, not talking. It was obvious that something was wrong, but she still dared to approach him. I didn't even dare to talk to him."
A few people laughed and then continued fighting.
Compared to the lady from the billiard hall, Lu Yuxing cares more about the one far away in Singapore.
While beating him, he said, "What if the Singaporean princess really breaks up with Qin Yi? Forget about him playing basketball in this life."
Han Zhou: "That's right, love is really melancholy. When they were in a good mood, he was very easy to talk to and would come out as soon as he was called."
Shen Ze sighed, knocked off the ash, and bent down to set up the pole: "I guess the probability of an accident is still higher. Yu Han doesn't seem like the kind of person who would casually play the game of losing contact."
She would also care about Qin Yi's friends because of him. He once posted a message saying that he was hit by an electric bike in the city and did not check the almanac before going out.
Her home in China seemed to be in that area, so she kindly told him about the routes that were easier to walk during peak hours and the clinics nearby. Two days later, she asked him if he was feeling better.
It's just a minor injury, but the little princess is a very nice person.
"They've been together for so many years, can they just disappear like that?" Shen Ze shook his head, thinking it was impossible. "If she wants to break up, she must do it in a decent way."
"But your speculation is scary. She won't be, um, in any danger of life." Han Zhou said weakly. He also remembered that the little princess was caught by the head teacher and he was trying to save them even though he was not in danger.
It was from that time that he started to talk about her in front of Qin Yi all the time, and teasing the two of them became a common occurrence in their dormitory and a major entertainment program.
The boys looked at each other for a while, and decided not to ask someone out to play billiards in the short term.
"Wait until she replies to you, replies to you on Instagram, and makes sure that she is still alive, then call Qin Yi." Lu Yuxing said.
…
When Qin Yi was passing by the front desk on the first floor, he heard someone calling him from behind.
He glanced behind him but did not stop.
Seeing this, Cheng Yushan couldn't help but quicken her pace and catch up with him until she reached the door.
"Qin Yi...why didn't you bring your girlfriend here today?"
The billiard hall is not on the main road, there is a Starbucks on the side of the road.
Behind Starbucks is an alley, and the second one is a billiard hall.
There are several ginkgo trees planted in the old alley.
Qin Yi stood at the door, squinting his eyes as he watched the wind rustle the ginkgo tree in front of him. He said nothing, but just thought of the time he came here, when it was snowing heavily and the ginkgo trees were bare.
Seeing that he didn't say a word and was about to leave again, Cheng Yushan hurriedly said, "Can you go to school tomorrow? I have something to talk to you about."
Qin Yi stopped in his tracks.
Seeing this, the girl standing on the steps at the entrance of the billiard hall immediately walked down to his side and said, "Okay? In the garden behind the auditorium after school."
Qin Yi tilted his head, and his gaze, which seemed both cold and hot, fell on the girl's inquiring face.
Although the billiard hall was located in an alley, the entrance was brightly lit because it was open for business. The incandescent light shone into the boy's dark peach-shaped eyes, but it was like the light on the surface of ice, without any warmth.
"What's up?"
Having never seen such a cold look in his eyes, Cheng Yushan said in a better tone, "You can go tomorrow. I have to look after the store now and can't come out for too long."
"Then you stayed upstairs for half a day and didn't see it go bankrupt."
“…”
Cheng Yushan complained, "Can you please not be so cold? If it wasn't me, you wouldn't know who had the letter."
"I don't owe you any favors about this, so don't bring it up."
"you……"
Her tone was a little bad: "You were not like this when you asked me for a love letter, Qin Yi, are you a person who would destroy bridges after crossing the river like you?"
"You traded the conditions with me back then, and you also said you had something to tell me. If I don't listen, you won't tell me where the letter is."
“…”
The girl was choked by him for a long time, and finally pouted and said, "Which female classmate wrote that letter to you? Could it be the one you brought to play billiards before?"
"This is my privacy, you don't need to know."
"Oh, private information?" She turned her head away, sneering. "It's been public knowledge for hundreds of years. It's the beginning of our first year of high school. We're about to start our third year. For two whole years, everyone in the library has read your girlfriend's sensational writing."
"Didn't you send it?"
"..." The girl turned around immediately and angrily denied, "I just asked my friend to take a photo of the letter and post it on the forum to see who it was from. Who knows what she opened and posted? Don't blame me."
"You didn't know it was mine? Didn't you know I posted something to look for it? Do you need to post it again?"
She denied it a little uncomfortably, "Who can be sure? Maybe it's not the same one. Besides, the forum is anonymous. I didn't know you were the poster. If everyone hadn't named you later, I wouldn't be sure."
Besides, you haven't admitted to anyone that the letter is yours yet, so how could I possibly just take the letter and send you a WeChat message to ask you about it?"
"Okay." Qin Yi nodded and left.
"Hey!" Cheng Yushan looked at his back and became angry.
…
During the holidays, there are few people on the road behind the school at night. Autumn leaves fall from the sky with a bleak sound, occasionally hitting the ground and making a little breaking sound.
As Qin Yi walked, he took out his cell phone, opened the photo album, and clicked on the letter from two years ago.
I don’t know why the envelope is so wrinkled, as if it has been tossed around many times.
Fortunately, the handwriting is still clear and not blurred or incomplete.
I'm so sorry...
What caught my eye was an impatient apology of guilt, without even any preamble, no Zhan Xinjia, no beautiful beginning like when she had posted the missing person notice online before.
There were four pages of paper, and there was not a single mention of his name. There were only scenes of tacit understanding between them and the conversations they had had. Otherwise, he would have been finished when school started.
At that time, they just made an appointment to study together. Maybe they had some feelings for each other in their hearts, but it was completely different from now, so she didn't write anything ambiguous.
She didn't know that the letter would fall into the hands of others and be made public, which would be dangerous. If she had known, she would not have written it.
There is no name in the whole text, but every word seems to be calling his name, and then softly interspersed with the three words "I'm sorry".
On the last page, she ended with: [If you are not angry with me, then... please contact me, okay? I will wait for your news. If you are angry, then, forget it, I won't contact you.
I am sorry for you.]
He was afraid that she would want to return to her country later, so he didn't contact her at first, absolutely not at all.
They were out of contact for half a year, and later she didn't know how she found his new account.
That night in Kuala Lumpur, she asked me many times if I was angry with her.
The letter, which had been received more than a month ago, lay in my hands for the first time. It was as light as mist. If I squeezed it too tightly, I was afraid it would break, but if I squeezed it too lightly, I was afraid it would be blown away by the wind.
It was around this time that day, after evening study, when he came to pick up the letter. Moonlight fell on the paper, blurring the words.
Looking back now, it’s hard to tell the time.
After a long time, Qin Yi came back to his senses and remembered that it was already August 3, 2017.
After tonight, it would be the fourth day since Yu Han hadn't replied to his message.
…
Dong Lanyi came back to accompany her grandparents, but later went abroad and couldn't come back for the Chinese New Year.
She had been home for almost ten days, but Qin Yi still hadn't said he was going to Singapore. She knew something was not good, but she didn't want to ask him for fear of making him unhappy.
Anyway, as long as we go back before the 20th, we will still have time.
Two days later, on the 12th, her aunt in Singapore asked her when she would go back and offered to book a ticket for her if she hadn't already.
Dong Lanyi hesitated for a while and went upstairs to knock on Qin Yi's room.
He let him in. The boy was not sleeping, nor in the study, neither playing games nor studying. Instead, he was lying dejectedly on the sofa on the balcony, enjoying the breeze.
Dong Lanyi walked slowly across the huge room and stepped onto the balcony.
The weather is not hot today. It is occasionally cloudy with occasional thin sunshine. August in Lan City has a very obvious seasonal dividing line.
There was an ashtray on the small table on the balcony with several cigarette butts in it, and a cigarette box and a lighter next to it.
Dong Lanyi was stunned for a moment before turning to look at the person who had been silent and seemed to be looking at the scenery.
The boy's angular face was even paler than the sky today, so pale that it seemed as if he couldn't care less and didn't want to care less even if the earth exploded.
I have never seen him like this since I was a child. He seems to have no soul.
Dong Lanyi was worried and distressed, but she seemed to know why, and she was helpless.
"You said you should be taking extra classes recently, but you're not going to school or Singapore..." She squatted down at the balcony door, one hand hugging her knees, the other supporting her chin, and tilted her head to look at the listless boy on the sofa not far away. "You haven't reconciled with your little girl yet?"
Qin Yi was silent for a few seconds before he turned around to meet her gaze: "Are you going back?"
"My aunt asked me. It's not urgent, and it would be fine before the 20th. But then I thought, if you go around the 20th, my uncle and aunt will be curious why you're going so late, because we're all going to America, and you'll be the only one left there..."
She sighed, "It's not good for you to be there alone. You'll be all alone, and you have to rush back before school starts, so you won't be able to stay there for many days."
Qin Yi didn't say anything.
Dong Lanyi suggested: "Why don't we go over there tomorrow? When you get there, ask her out. It's much better to talk in person than on the phone."
"..." It was like a knife stabbing his heart, and Qin Yi really wanted to die.
After a long silence, Qin Yi felt that he couldn't keep wasting time like this. He should take advantage of the opportunity to visit her before school starts. If that doesn't work, he can just go to her house and pretend to be an ordinary classmate, go there to play and see her. It shouldn't be a big deal if he says he can't contact her and just goes to visit her.
Her parents won’t come after her, right?
If I keep wasting time, I won't be able to go when school starts.
It's unlikely that after he goes there, he will meet a nice Yu Han, who is sunny, sweet and lovely, and appears in front of him jumping and skipping, and then says, I just don't want to play with you anymore, so I did it on purpose.
It won't happen...
But if that's the case, it's actually better than if something happens to her.
"I'll tell you later, sis. I'll tell you when I'm sure."
"Okay." Dong Lanyi stood up and massaged her legs, which had gone numb after squatting for five minutes. "Don't be sad. Be cheerful. Things can always be solved. You've been really unhappy lately. Grandma even asked me what's wrong with you."
How could he be so happy? Qin Yi really felt like he was going to be depressed.
It's been twelve days, and he's going crazy.
He wanted to return the letter to her during last Spring Festival, but she refused. He thought, let's wait until they meet and graduate, then he will return the letter to her.
Now he has finished writing, he owed her for more than two years, but now even contacting her is a luxury.
"Stop smoking." Dong Lanyi pointed to the ashtray on the table. "If you're unhappy, go out and play. You can also tell me, like when we were kids, but don't smoke."
She went out and there was a faint sound of the door closing.
Qin Yi picked up the phone on the table and called again subconsciously.
Over and over again, until he was exhausted, he pressed the voice button and said, "I beg you, please reply to me, Hanhan."
Three minutes after the message was sent, Qin Yi touched the cigarette box on the table and found it was empty. He threw it back on the table and stood up to go into the house to get some cigarettes.
With my back to him, my phone vibrated on the table.
It could be a promotional text message, it could be someone else calling him to play ball, or it could be a message from his parents at home.
In short, it could be anyone except her.
Qin Yi stood at the balcony door with his back to the outside. As usual, he had no confidence and did not immediately rush to check excitedly to see if it was the information he wanted.
His confidence was completely worn away by the disappointment and silence of the past twelve days.
Today, he held onto the floor-to-ceiling glass and hesitated for a moment, but ultimately couldn't resist the expectations in his heart. He didn't want to think that if this was really the message he was waiting for, he would waste a few minutes of precious time if he didn't read it now.
So he turned around, facing the setting sun, and looked down at the table.
Twelve days after the unilateral message, a reply came from the other side of the WeChat chat box.
Hanhan: "I'm here."
Qin Yi's eyes flickered, like a violent autumn wind sweeping past, and then like the scorching sun near noon, scorching hot, and he was in a trance as if he was shocked by something.
He didn't move for a long time.
The evening breeze blows on the hot skin all over the body, but it still brings a slight chill.
While Qin Yi was stunned, more news came in.
Hanhan: "I'm sorry."
Qin Yi came back to his senses in an instant and picked up the phone with stiff hands and feet.
He straightened up, holding the phone that felt like it was burning hot, and sent a message.
"Hanhan?"
"Hmm," she replied.
Qin Yi took a deep breath, moved his stiff fingers to type, held his breath and asked her carefully: "What's wrong? Why haven't you heard from me for so long?"
Hanhan: "There was an accident."
Qin Yi's eyes stung and he clenched his fists, but the phone in his palm still shook suddenly and hit the balcony floor tiles.
The screen was facing upwards, still clearly displaying those fiery, heated conversations. Qin Yi half-knelt to pick up his phone while trying to ease the numbness in his heart.
He stood up and sat back down on the sofa, trying his best to calm his erratic heartbeat and type to inquire about the situation: "Have you been in an accident? Hanhan."
Yu Han: "Yes, it rained heavily that day."
Qin Yi felt his heart aching. This probability had almost become the only answer in his mind these days. He didn't believe any other reason for the disconnection except this one. However, he prayed in his heart that it wasn't the case. He would rather she really didn't want to play anymore and deliberately lost contact.
"It's been so long, it's really serious, right?" he typed with difficulty.
Yu Han: "It's okay. I was only in a coma for three days. I just had a fever after waking up."
Qin Yi copied the line of words without blinking, his eyes vague as if the sunlight was shining on his pupils.
Unbelievable.
He wanted to speak, but WeChat showed that the other party was typing.
He waited for a long time.
Finally, a long message came.
Yu Han: "I had a fever for many days and it took me two days to recover, but my hand was broken, so I can't use my phone."
Qin Yi's thoughts came to a complete halt, unable to turn around.
It still showed that the other party was typing, and he waited with extreme patience.
Yu Han: "I knew you would look for me, but my hands were so sore and I was tired that I couldn't use my phone. I'm feeling better today, so I asked my mom to buy me a new phone. That one was broken. I'm sorry."
Qin Yi typed: "My hand is broken. Let's stop talking and playing. You should rest well. Be good. You should rest well."
"It's okay. I'm energetic today. I hit with my left hand, but it's slow."
Qin Yi felt as if his heart was crushed by something and broken into pieces after hearing this sentence.
Yu Han: "Have you been looking for me for more than ten days?"
She then sent a voice message.
Qin Yi was hesitant to click, and waited for a while before touching it.
The girl's voice was as weak as an autumn breeze. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I didn't tell you. You must be very worried. I'm sorry, Qin Yi."
It's not worry, it's pain...extreme pain, because I don't even know if my life is in danger.
But at this moment, the heart had already recovered some blood and showed some signs of recovery.
From now on, as long as she feels better, he will feel better.
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