It was no longer possible to buy tickets for the plane to Tongcheng that night, but Jing Li followed Huo Qiran to Tongcheng.
Her hands were very cold. It was extremely hot in the midsummer, and even though Huo Qiran had covered them all the way, they couldn't warm them up.
When the car drove to the construction site with the blue door, she opened the door and got out of the car almost immediately. But just as she ran to the door, her steps suddenly stopped again.
She stood at the gate, looking at everything empty inside the door, and didn't know whether to move forward.
Huo Qiran turned off the engine and got out of the car. When he came forward, a man came out of the guard room to look at them and asked, "What are you doing? It's so late at night..."
"We are looking for someone." Huo Qiran held Jing Li's hand again and replied, "We are looking for Jing Yanting. Do you know him?"
"Jing Yanting?" The gatekeeper shook his head, "I don't know you. Everyone in this dark place is asleep. Where can you find someone for you?"
"Please help me." Huo Qiran stepped forward and put two bills into his hands, "We have something urgent."
The gatekeeper looked them over again and then said: "There are so many people in the work shed, I can't guarantee that I can find them. They are not easy to mess with when they get angry in the middle of the night. In a word, if you can find them, look for them. If you can't find them, you can't find them."
do not blame me."
After saying that, the gatekeeper turned around and walked inside.
Jing Li still stood frozen on the spot, Huo Qiran gently squeezed her arm and said, "It might be inconvenient for you to go to the work shed, why don't you go to the car and wait for me?"
Jing Li nodded slowly, then turned around and walked back to the car.
Huo Qiran looked at her slightly stiff movements, paused, then turned around and followed the janitor towards the direction of the work shed.
Jing Li sat in the car and watched Huo Qiran's figure gradually disappear from sight. Suddenly, she felt that she was looking around in confusion, and even the man with his crazy beating heart fell silent a little bit.
Time passes very slowly, very slowly...
She watched every minute of the beat on the car's central control screen, and finally saw Huo Qiran returning when the words on it exceeded 10 minutes.
Alone, he hurried back to the car, opened the door, and looked at Jing Li in the car.
"He left." He gasped slightly, "I didn't even pay my wages, so I packed my things and left."
Unexpectedly, there was no reaction on Jing Li's face. After a while, she finally made a sound and said, "Oh."
She had already guessed it.
He had already called her, and he could tell her that he was his father and that he was not dead, but he hung up the phone without saying a word.
So, after Huo Qiran found him, how could he still stay here safely, waiting for her to come to her door?
He doesn't want to be her father again, and he doesn't want her to be his daughter again.
This fact is already a given.
…
At three o'clock in the morning, Huo Qiran brought Jing Li back to the Huo family mansion.
She originally thought of staying in a hotel by herself, but Huo Qiran didn't agree.
He didn't let her stay in the guest room, but took her directly back to his room, prepared towels and pajamas for her, adjusted the water temperature, and asked her to take a shower again.
After Jing Li entered the bathroom, he was busy running up and down to prepare supper and milk for her.
This movement didn't even alarm Auntie, let alone Huo Jinxi and Mu Qian.
But when he went upstairs with the milk, Mu Qian stood at the door of their room and looked at him.
"Mom, did we disturb you?" Huo Qiran asked.
Mu Qian shrugged, "Did you bring Jingli back?"
"Yeah." Huo Qiran responded and said, "She will sleep in my room tonight."
Mu Qian nodded, obviously not caring about this, and just said: "Has the person been found?"
Huo Qiran slowly shook his head, "If we find the person, maybe we won't come back tonight... It's because I didn't handle it well enough. I didn't expect that he would just pack up and run away..."
After hearing this, Mu Qian just chuckled and said, "I can't blame you. You haven't dealt with this kind of thing before, so you have no experience."
Huo Qiran heard her tone and looked at her suddenly, "Mom?"
"Your father and I have been through too many things, so I'm used to having to be prepared for everything," Mu Qian said.
Huo Qiran immediately walked forward quickly, "You mean-"
"I'm asking someone to follow me," Mu Qian said, "but this person is Jing Li's father. What I do is a bit of a villain. But for some situations, it's best if they don't happen. If they happen, we should be prepared.
. He wants to hide, so Jing Li should be very sad. Wait until she has a good sleep, and then tell her after she has had enough rest to see what she thinks."
Huo Qiran nodded, "Thank you, mom."
When he returned to the room, Jing Li had already come out of the bathroom and was sitting at the end of the bed in a daze.
"Have you finished taking a bath?" Huo Qiran put the milk on the bedside, walked up to her, and touched her slightly damp hair, "Are you tired? It's too late, let's go to bed first."
But after Jing Li was quiet for a moment, she slowly raised her eyes to look at him, "Is Auntie asleep?"
Huo Qiran paused slightly, "Did you hear that?"
Jing Li nodded.
"Then...what do you think?"
Jing Li sniffed slightly and said with red eyes: "I only know that if he really didn't want to have anything to do with me, he wouldn't have made those two phone calls to me. Since he called me, no matter what
No matter what, I have to ask clearly."
…
The two of them got the address from Mu Qian, which was a shabby small hotel.
Before dawn, Huo Qiran accompanied Jing Li out again and came to the downstairs of the small hotel.
The old neighborhood became lively early in the morning. The small breakfast shops on the street were already steaming up before dawn. As soon as it got light, there was already an endless stream of diners.
The two people waited in the car for nearly two hours.
When it was close to eight o'clock, the familiar figure of Huo Qiran finally appeared downstairs in the small hotel.
But Jing Li was still stunned, as if she didn't recognize that figure as her closest relative.
Until Huo Qiran pointed it out to her.
In an instant, tears burst out of Jing Li's eyes.
"Tell me, is it possible that I once passed him on the street and didn't recognize him?"
she asked.
"It's impossible." Huo Qiran gently stroked the tears from her face and said in a low voice, "You will definitely recognize him."
…
Jing Yanting walked into the shabby and narrow store without raising his eyes, and sat down in a corner. Breakfast was served quickly, and he just ate in silence with his head lowered, as if he was always immersed in his own world.
among.
Until a slightly trembling voice suddenly came from in front of me——