At dusk, it suddenly started raining and the wind became cool.
The cool breeze came in from the open window of the office. Lu Beicen couldn't help but shiver. He looked up from his pile of contemporaries and realized that it was already dark.
Standing up, Lu Beicen closed the window, looked at the time, and found that he had already left work for more than an hour. He rubbed his sore neck. After listening to the same period about the real estate dispute today, his ideas for manuscript creation were also straightened out.
, I still feel a sense of accomplishment, but I still feel like I haven’t done anything.
Lu Beicen picked up her phone and saw several unread messages, including Lin Fei's, and two missed calls. Then she remembered that her colleagues were sleeping in the office at noon, and she also had to concentrate on listening to the same period, so she turned her hand
Turn off the sound.
Lu Beicen first read Lin Fei's text message, which was about the interview time scheduled for the next day. She immediately called back, but no one answered for a long time, so she had to reply a message to express receipt, and then asked Lin Fei to
If you see a text message, no matter what time it is, remember to reply.
First, I called Zhu Wenya to make an appointment. Then I saw the phone numbers of Jiang Zhongze and A Hao. I called A Hao back, but it was Jiang Zhongze who answered the phone: "Where are you? Why don't you answer the phone?"
Lu Beicen was stunned. How could she hear a trace of nervousness in Jiang Zhongze's voice?
"I'm working overtime in the office and my phone has just gone silent. What's wrong?"
Jiang Zhongze seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and put the phone into speakerphone mode. Ah Hao shouted over there: "Sister, why is your phone always on mute? QQ is not online either, which scared us all to death."
Lu Beicen was a little confused: "I just went to work. Besides, when we are interviewing or in the recording room, the sound is often muted. Don't be so nervous, right?"
"You didn't answer my call. When I got home, I ran into Brother Chen. He said that you seemed to be in some trouble recently. Why didn't you tell us? It made me break out in a cold sweat. You were waiting for us in the office. We
I'll be at your unit soon."
Lu Beicen secretly scolded Chen Ke for being such a gossip, but he said on the phone: "You guys should turn around and go back. I can just drive home myself, otherwise I will have trouble going to work tomorrow."
"If there's any trouble, I'll see you off at work tomorrow. I'll wait in the office and hang up." As soon as Jiang Zhongze finished speaking, the phone hung up.
Lu Beicen listened to the "beep beep beep" sound inside. Although he felt a little annoyed, he also felt a little warm. He couldn't help but worry about Lin Fei even more.
After thinking about it, Lu Beicen still called Xue Feng. When the call was connected, he heard the cry of a child over there. Xue Feng gently coaxed the child to stop crying and said to the phone:
"What's wrong Xiaolu, what's the matter?"
"I'm sorry, Teacher Xue, I didn't know you were a baby daddy. I just wanted to ask you if you know where Sister Lin lives. She didn't answer my call. I want to go to her house to see what's going on.
"
Xue Feng coaxed the child over the phone and said, "How about you go play with grandma? Dad will let you ride a big horse later."
Lu Beicen heard an old man's voice on the other side of the phone, and then the child's cry became farther and farther away. Xue Feng seemed to be relieved: "I only know that I seem to live not far from Taili. Where exactly do I live?"
I don’t know, something happened in their news department before, so no one usually asks where they live.”
Lu Beicen thought of the editor-in-chief of the news department who had done an undercover investigation and had an incident. He guessed that Xue Feng should be talking about him. He couldn't help but licked his lips: "Then you can't even ask?"
"It's not easy to ask. Besides, I'm a little sensitive at this time, so it's even harder for me to ask. What do you think? How about I call one of their editors to ask about the situation. Don't be too sensitive.
Maybe someone just muted their cell phone and forgot to turn it on, doesn’t it happen to us all the time?” Xue Feng consoled her.
Lu Beicen thought that he was like this today. He disliked Chen Ke for being troublesome, and A Hao and Jiang Zhongze for being sensitive. But now, wasn't his worry that came out of nowhere also spreading?
"Well, no matter what, please call me back. I don't know why, but there is something wrong with my intuition. Thank you, Teacher Xue."
"It's rare for you to have such a heart. It's okay. Don't worry too much. I'll call now."
After hanging up the phone, Lu Beicen suddenly felt hot all over again. He reached out to open the window and wanted to take a breath. In the dim street light, he could only see the angular leaves of the French plane tree outside the window, which had been separated from the support of the tree in the wind and rain.
Swirling and floating towards the ground...
After being dazed for a while, Jiang Zhongze called and said that he had arrived. Lu Beicen went downstairs and got into the car. He saw Chen Ke sitting in the passenger seat with his neck curled up, as if he was ready to be scolded. Lu Beicen was about to speak.
Then I received a call from Xue Feng.
"Xiaolu, it's okay. I called and asked. The editor-in-chief of Qu from the news department said that Lin Fei took leave in the afternoon and said that she didn't sleep well the night before and went back to catch up on her sleep. By the way, he said that she didn't sleep well and kept sleeping.
I have the habit of taking sleeping pills, so I may have fallen asleep after taking them." Xue Feng explained the situation he asked about in detail, and Lu Beicen's nervous mood gradually relaxed.
After hanging up the phone and raising his head, Lu Beicen realized that Ah Hao was not driving. The three people in the car were all looking at him. He could only cover up and patted the back of the driver's seat: "Ah Hao is driving, I'm hungry."
"You haven't eaten either, right? I'll give you something to eat tonight..."
"We have all heard what is going on, so you should stop hiding it." Jiang Zhongze's slightly deep voice directly interrupted Lu Beicen's thoughts.
"I didn't. I'm fine. Nothing happened. Don't listen to what Chen Ke is making a fuss about."
Chen Ke pointed to his nose, glared and said, "I'm making a fuss, but I heard that that person came to the stage and was arrested and sent to the prison."
"Sister, are you trying to make me anxious? Do you want to tell me or not? If you don't tell me, I will call my mother." Now Ahao became anxious.
"You are already an adult. If you still have something to do, go to your parents..."
Ah Hao didn't bother to talk nonsense to Lu Beicen, so he took out his mobile phone and prepared to dial the number. Seeing this, Lu Beicen quickly said: "I didn't intend to hide it, but you guys act like it's a big deal, but actually it is.
That Yu Lan's father came to Taili to cause trouble."
Although A Hao and Jiang Zhongze have never met Yu Lan, they are not unfamiliar with the name. However, Chen Ke is a little confused: "You mean the relatives of the parties you interviewed came to make trouble? Aren't you a legal program? You got on it so quickly
Mediation?”
Before Lu Beicen could answer, Jiang Zhongze got to the point: "Why did he come to make trouble? You helped his daughter raise money for medical treatment. Is it because Yu Lan's condition has changed?"
Chen Ke only knew that someone came to Taili to make trouble, and it was quite big, involving Lu Beicen. However, Jiang Zhongze and A Hao didn't know the details of the matter. Lu Beicen sighed and said a few words.
Things have been said once.
"Damn, is this a human being? Isn't this just a white-eyed wolf who repays kindness with revenge!" After hearing the cause and effect, Chen Ke slapped the car and started to curse.
"I'm fine. I'm mainly worried about Sister Lin, and I saw that she looked particularly bad this morning. I don't know why, but I always have a bad intuition. I didn't answer the call or text message just now, so I just
I asked other colleagues about it and wanted to visit her home, but..."
Lu Beicen almost said what happened to a colleague before, but suddenly realized something was wrong, and quickly turned around and said: "The leader of their department said she took leave and went home to rest. She may have taken sleeping pills, but taking sleeping pills will make you unable to hear the phone calls.
Really? I fought for a long time."
Jiang Zhongze saw Lu Beicen looking at him with a trace of panic in his expression, so he comforted him: "It's possible. Besides, the phone may be muted. Don't scare yourself."
Lu Beicen was silent for a moment. Although he still felt bad, there was no other way at hand. He could only say to Ah Hao: "Let's drive. I'm really hungry. I'm really fine. Don't mention this in front of your parents." , In fact, it is safer for me to drive to and from get off work by myself. That person will definitely not be able to enter the gate now. I drive in and out of the gate. If he can’t see me, nothing will happen. If you send me off, when I go to work in the morning, social vehicles cannot Drive in."
Chen Ke nodded and said: "That's true. The security in Taiwan has been very tight recently. Why don't you give me the key and I'll drive your car over. We'll go to and from get off work together tomorrow. I just came back from a business trip, so I should
How many days can I rest?"
Lu Beicen and Chen Ke were not polite, so they handed over the car keys directly and drove to the parking lot. Seeing Chen Ke get out of the car, Jiang Zhongze suddenly asked: "What is the purpose of that person coming to make trouble?
"
"I didn't see it, I just heard that he wanted money."
"If he is asking for money, there shouldn't be any aggression, but you certainly can't give him money. Such people are generally paranoid personalities with flawed personalities. If they don't achieve their goals, you don't know what they will do or do.
You have to be careful." Jiang Zhongze analyzed.
"Sister, is your job still so dangerous?" Ah Hao suddenly asked.
"I can't say that there is any danger. It's hard to meet such people in this era. After all, most people in this world are reasonable, and there are always a few who come to disturb people unreasonably. Besides, I'm not
People in the Information Department generally don't do undercover investigations or investigative reports, so there's basically no danger." Lu Beicen was afraid of what Ah Hao would say in front of his parents, so he explained a little.
What else did Ah Hao want to say? Wen Mengran's call came in. Lu Beicen answered the phone and shouted from the other side: "Are you okay? Fang Nan even called me and said he couldn't find him.
you."
"I'm fine. It's just that the phone is on silent. My brother has already called me. I'll hang up now. I have to call Fang Nan back quickly."
After hanging up the phone and dialing the number again, Lu Beicen felt like he was in a panic, but he had to say that it felt good to know that there were a group of people who cared about him. He was also thinking to himself that maybe Lin Fei also cared about him.
Her family and friends...
Early the next morning, Lu Beicen sent a text message to Lin Fei when he arrived at work, and soon received a reply, saying that he was having a morning meeting in the conference room and nothing happened. Only then did Lu Beicen feel that he might be really too sensitive.
.
But when I saw Lin Fei again in the morning, her face looked even worse.
Because he was waiting for Zhu Wenya and psychology expert Professor Wu Yuan, and still had some time, Lu Beicen asked the question in his heart: "Sister Lin, your face is worse than yesterday, what happened? You didn't answer the phone yesterday.
I didn’t reply to the text message, so I became a little anxious.”
Lin Fei raised a hand and rubbed his face, sighed and said: "Thank you Xiaolu, I don't know if it's an illusion or real. The night before yesterday, I kept feeling like someone was knocking on my door in the middle of the night. It was like that.
They knock on the door every once in a while, and the sound doesn't sound like knocking, but more like scratching at the door. I look out through the peephole and can't see anything. I live alone and don't dare to open the door to look.
, but I was really scared, so I took some sleeping pills, but they seemed to have no effect..."
When Lu Beicen put himself in that situation and thought about it, he couldn't help but feel so scared that the hairs on his hair stood on end.
"What about last night? Did you hear anything last night? Or have you asked the neighbors if they heard any noise? After all, there will still be noise if you knock on the door in the middle of the night." Lu Beicen asked nervously,
She could already feel a little cold sweat breaking out on her palms.
Lin Fei shook his head: "Yesterday I took a double dose of sleeping pills when I got home in the afternoon. My phone was also muted. I slept very deeply. I didn't wake up until dawn this morning. I wondered if the noise was caused by the cat. We
There are a lot of wild cats in the community, and I heard a cat meowing the night before."
Lu Beicen didn't know what to say for a moment. After all, no matter how deep or shallow he was, with his relationship with Lin Fei, he could only express concern. At worst, it seemed like he was deliberately scaring people, but at worst, he was afraid that something would really happen.
After being silent for a long time, Lu Beicen said: "Sister Lin, you have such a bad sleep. I haven't heard you say it before. Taking medicine casually is not the answer. Otherwise, you should go see a doctor."
"It's okay. I've seen a doctor before. Hey, for a while, I couldn't sleep. I saw a doctor..." Lin Fei said vaguely. Lu Beicen also heard the meaning of her words and made some guesses in his mind.
It might be related to her divorce, so it would be even worse to ask more questions.
At this time, Zhu Wenya's call came in. Lu Beicen went to pick him up, and the psychologist also arrived.
After Zhu Wenya heard the introduction, she knew that this chubby, kind-faced aunt was a psychology professor, so she sensitively turned her attention to Lu Beicen. Lu Beicen looked a little uneasy when she saw her, and immediately explained: "
Don't think too much, we invited Professor Wu here today just for a casual chat."
"I know, post-traumatic stress disorder! I actually went to see a doctor. People always grow up through introspection. My life has changed beyond recognition. If I don't even have this awareness of introspection, my mother will be blind.
I want to say thank you for your careful education, Director Lu!"
Lu Beicen and Lin Fei were both stunned by Zhu Wenya's big turn. Only Professor Wu observed Zhu Wenya with a friendly smile, and at the same time noticed Lin Fei's very ugly expression.
As a result, that day, Professor Wu not only chatted with Zhu Wenya alone for a long time, but also specifically chatted with Lin Fei for a while before saying goodbye and leaving.
It's quite early today. I'll continue typing, and try to make it earlier tomorrow. Then I can deposit my manuscripts, and at least I won't have to ask for leave. And if I deposit too many manuscripts, I'll be asked for more votes.