The sun was shining brightly in the morning. Gu Chen opened the window at home and felt the fresh air.
In the past few years, the air quality in Jiangnan City has gradually improved, backward industries have continued to move out, and what has been introduced are high-tech artificial intelligence industries.
Coupled with the vigorous planning of the Municipal Garden Bureau, Jiangnan City has been awarded the title of "National Forest City" several times in a row.
Blue sky, white clouds, green water, and green mountains are what a city should look like.
"Gu Chen, your mother and I will go to the supplier. You can cook for yourself today."
Outside the living room, Comrade Gu Baichuan was packing his briefcase and preparing to go on a long trip with Ms. Xiao Xiaofang.
"I know." Gu Chen drank a glass of water and heard the door slam shut.
The two of them always left in such a hurry, and Gu Chen had long been used to it, and since there were clerks watching over him in the supermarket at home, he felt much more relaxed.
Looking at the numbers on the desk calendar, Gu Chen picked up a pen and crossed out today's day.
"I have been working for three months, time flies so fast!"
Thinking back to his youth when he first joined the police force, Gu Chen now has the calmness of an old comrade.
In addition, he was very successful in Criminal Investigation Team 3, so some old comrades would take the initiative to say hello when they saw him.
Just when I was thinking about how to spend my two-day vacation, the phone at home suddenly rang.
"Hello? Who is this?"
"Is this Mr. Gu Chen? I'm a courier."
"Express delivery? I don't think I bought anything, right?" Gu Chen felt a little confused.
Thinking about my last online purchase, I bought myself a set of fitness equipment a month ago.
"You made a mistake." Gu Chen replied directly.
"Mr. Gu, you can't be wrong. Gu Chen's name is written on the express delivery note, and the house number is also correct."
Listening to the courier boy's tone on the phone, Gu Chen suddenly felt that he was outside the door at this moment.
"Could someone be sending me something?" Gu Chen frowned and couldn't help but wonder, "Who could it be?"
Opening the door, a courier guy wearing a helmet stuffed a small carton directly into himself: "Mr. Gu, your express delivery is all delivered by me. I won't make any mistakes."
"Who is the sender?" Gu Chen asked.
"Isn't it on the express delivery list?" The delivery boy looked very busy: "Okay, I have to go to the next unit to deliver the express delivery, so I have to leave first."
"Okay, thank you." Gu Chen said hello, closed the door, and then sat on the sofa to check the incoming carton.
"The sender is also in Jiangnan City?" Gu Chen's eyes suddenly lit up and he felt a little interesting.
The other party did not leave a name, but a sending unit.
"Jiangnan Lushui Qingshan Pollution-free Agriculture Co., Ltd.?" Gu Chen couldn't help but read: "Isn't this a supplier selling vegetables? But our non-staple food supermarket doesn't sell vegetables either? Shouldn't it be inside?
Could it be a cabbage?"
Gu Chen felt more and more interesting...
Because he had stayed in the Criminal Investigation Team 3 of Furong Police Station for a long time, Gu Chen was extremely curious about unknown and new things.
Gu Chen immediately took out the scissors and gently cut open the tape on the outside of the small carton. Then he opened it and found that there was a plastic capsule the size of a red wine bottle inside.
"Time capsule?"
When he looked at the big characters on the plastic capsule, Gu Chen seemed to understand everything.
This is a commemorative method discussed by the classmates in the senior year of high school.
Back then, everyone took off their school badges and stored them in the home of a retired teacher at the school.
Four years later, the first classmate who remembered the agreement would go to the retired teacher's home to retrieve the school badge and send it to everyone in the form of a time capsule.
The delivery address is the home address that everyone left behind. Students who receive the "time capsule" must come to the appointment according to the agreed time, no matter how busy they are.
This is also a manifestation of the spirit of contract.
Gu Chen didn't think much and opened the time capsule directly. Inside was a letter and a school sign of "Jiangnan No. 1 Middle School".
The school badge belongs to you, but the letter is written by the classmate who sent it.
To us in the future:
When you receive this letter, have you already graduated from college? To be honest, when I wrote this letter, I was not sure whether you would receive it. After all, this is a letter from four years ago.
After three years of high school, in a blink of an eye, I vaguely remember those days when I first entered school as if it was yesterday.
…
Gu Chen was fascinated by what he read, but until the end, he didn't find the signature left by the letter writer.
However, this mysterious letter writer left the time and place of the party.
The time is 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, and the location happens to be "Jiangnan Green Waters and Green Mountains Pollution-Free Agriculture Co., Ltd.", and those attending the party are required to dress up.
"So mysterious?" Gu Chen put away the envelope and carefully recalled the appearance of those young boys and girls back then.
Four years have seemed to have become a bit blurry.
Looking at the school badge in his hand, Gu Chen hurried to the closet and found a few decent formal suits.
The next day, eight o'clock in the morning.
After breakfast, Gu Chen was wearing a brand new dress, holding the car keys at home, and was ready to go to the appointment.
"Son, could it be someone's prank?" Gu's mother asked, still a little worried.
"Mom, I'm a police officer." Gu Chen felt it was necessary to repeat his identity to his mother.
"That's right." Ms. Xiao Xiaofang nodded and said, "My son is a policeman, and he plays pranks with the police. Isn't this because he has enough food to support himself?"
"Okay, you don't have to worry, this should be my high school classmate."
Gu Chen was still very sure. After all, apart from the old classmates in the class, there was probably no one else who knew this secret.
"Be careful on the road and remember to fill up your tank first."
"Know."
"Also, if a beautiful female classmate wants to come to our house to play, don't refuse her."
"Know."
“Do you have enough money to spend?”
"Mom, I have a salary."
"Oh, okay, come back soon."
Gu Chen drove away after being nagged by Xiao's mother.
After a forty-minute journey, Gu Chen arrived at Jiulong Lake Scenic Area according to the car navigation system.
I vaguely remember that this is a newly developed tourist resort in Jiangnan City, surrounded by many large farms, including a winery built with a European castle, located in the center of this farm area.
Plants that grow pollution-free vegetables, various fruits, various flower bases, and wedding photography shooting scenes are all concentrated in this area.
Gu Chen was quite familiar with this area. He had participated in a rainbow run in Jiangnan City and the end point was in this area.
So coming here this time can be regarded as a revisit to an old place.
When you reach the fork in the road, there is an eye-catching inflatable arch spanning both sides of the road. The text on it is very simple: "Welcome students who have received time capsules to come to the appointment."
"He is indeed an old classmate, but why is he so mysterious?" Gu Chen was curious and looking forward to it.
I wonder if the old classmates I haven’t seen in four years are doing well now?
