The next day, Pang Qian and Xie Yi set out early in the morning. In order to save time, Xie Yi directly took a taxi to Z City, not even discussing the price. Pang Qian completely dispelled the idea of ​​AA in the cost. The rich young man’s consumption philosophy was that she could not keep up with it. At this time, don’t be pretentious.

"I'm going to treat me to dinner when I go back. I heard that the dishes in your cafeteria are delicious." Xie Yi said.

Pang Qian smiled foolishly: "It must be."

"I'll ask me to play basketball," Xie Yi smiled, "You don't know. I played in front of those Americans, and they actually asked me if I was an Olympic champion."

Pang Qian: “…”

After driving for more than two hours, the car arrived in Z City. Xie Yi and Pang Qian successfully found the address of Gu Mingxi's grandmother's house. When walking on the stairs, Pang Qian was extremely excited. She had imagined countless times that she would come here and knock on the door to find Gu Mingxi.

But the result was disappointing. The one who opened the door was an old lady in her sixties holding a child and told Pang Qian that this was the house she bought at the beginning of the year and that the original owner had moved away long ago.

Pang Qian asked: "Do you know where they moved?"

The old lady shook her head: "How could I know? I also bought the house with an agent. Oh, by the way." She went back to the house and took out a stack of letters, "It was all sent to a young man named Gu. If you find the original owner, please transfer it for me. Please change the address and don't send the letter again."

Pang Qian took the letters and looked at Xie Yi. Xie Yi made a quick decision: "Go to University B."

Pang Qian really admired Xie Yi. When he arrived at B University, he didn't look for the teacher and directly found the boys' dormitory for sophomore in the computer major. Pang Qian was waiting downstairs, and Xie Yi ran upstairs to inquire. Half an hour later, he came downstairs and told Pang Qian a bolt from the blue. Gu Mingxi had already completed the school leave when he finished his freshman year.

Pang Qian was stunned, her eyes suddenly turned red. Xie Yi said, "Crab, don't worry. I'll ask the phone number of the counselor from their class. Let's ask for a second. Let's just take a break from school and don't get out of contact."

The counselor’s surname is Zhang, a young and enthusiastic male teacher. After receiving Xie Yi’s call, he rushed over from the dormitory immediately. Seeing Pang Qian and Xie Yi, he asked about their relationship with Gu Mingxi in a few words. Teacher Zhang said: “I have been looking for Gu Mingxi. The mobile phone number he filled in when he entered school has been cancelled. His mother’s phone has been turned off. I sent a notification to the address he left, but there was never a reply.”

Xie Yi asked: "Teacher Zhang, you think of another way. We are really worried about Gu Mingxi when we come so far."

Teacher Zhang scratched his hair and suddenly said, "When Gu Mingxi was studying at University B, he rented a house outside the school. I have been there a few times. After he left school, I asked about it. The house has never been refunded. Their rent was paid until the end of the lunar calendar year, but in the past few months, he and his mother have never lived there."

Xie Yi and Pang Qian immediately felt hope again, and Xie Yi said, "Teacher Zhang, can you please take us to see?"

Teacher Zhang took them to the farm settlement next to B University and found the rental house rented by Gu Mingxi and Li Han. The door was locked. Teacher Zhang went to find the landlord. The old man understood the intention of the three of them and finally agreed to use the spare key to open the door of the rental house.

As soon as the door opened, Pang Qian and Xie Yi were stunned. The furniture of such a simple house was so old that they could not see the color. Everything was covered with a layer of gray. They walked in and looked around and their mood became heavier and heavier.

When Xie Yi saw the spider web in the corner of the house, he couldn't help but say, "Aren't Gu Mingxi's family in good condition? What the hell is he doing? How could he live in such a haunted place?"

Pang Qian walked into the only room and saw that special desk.

Gu Mingxi did not have a custom desk, so he bought a children's desk. The height of the desk could be adjusted. He lowered the table legs to the lowest, which were two or thirty centimeters shorter than the normal table.

Pang Qian reached out and brushed her finger marks on the gray table. Her Gu Mingxi used to sit here, with her feet on the table, and her toes skillfully do homework, read books, send text messages, and use a computer... But now, where has he gone?

There were still some clothes and daily necessities left in the room, but not much was left. Pang Qian found a piece of paper and wrote a note to Gu Mingxi, telling him that she had been here and hoped that he could contact her when he saw the note.

When leaving the rental house, Pang Qian looked back at the house and asked Xie Yi: "Do you think he can see my notes?"

Xie Yi nodded: "Yes."

"Will he call me?"

Xie Yi thought about it and shook his head: "I don't know."

He is a man, and a man knows a man, and he can't bear to tell Pang Qian that from this room you can know that Gu Mingxi is having a bad life, so Xie Yi feels that Gu Mingxi may disappear more thoroughly. He can only comfort Pang Qian: "He is taking a leave of school, but he just takes a leave of school. Next September, maybe he will go back to school to attend classes. We have Teacher Zhang's phone number, and I will also ask Gu Mingxi's classmates how many numbers they have asked. Then, we will call to ask."

After that, he had no choice but to open his arms and hug Pang Qian in his arms, saying, "Crab, don't cry, he deliberately avoids you, and we have no choice. Gu Mingxi must have encountered something, otherwise he would definitely not be willing to leave you."

Pang Qian couldn't speak at all. She admitted that she was useless. When she encountered such a thing, she could only cry. Over the past few months, she had no idea how many tears she had shed. She hated her! But she was so worried in her heart. She just wanted to find her Gu Mingxi, the boy who grew up with her. She didn't care what difficulties he encountered! He didn't even have hands. Isn't this difficult enough? She doesn't even care about this, can she care about other things?

It turned out that when a person decided to disappear from another person's world, it was so easy. Pang Qian cried in Xie Yi's arms and shouted over and over again: "Didn't you say it's easy to find someone? Why do you keep your word every time? Last time you said you had time to catch up with him! In the end, you didn't catch up with him! This time it was like this! I never trust you again! You give Gu Mingxi back to me! Xie Yi, you give Gu Mingxi back to me!"

Xie Yi was really more unfair than Dou E. Looking at Teacher Zhang and the old man's shocked expression, he could only comfort Pang Qian softly: "Okay, okay, don't cry anymore, it's okay for me to be bad, Oh, I promise you that I will help you find Gu Mingxi next time."

"There is another next time!" Pang Qian cried in the flying snow all over the sky. Large pieces of snowflakes fell on her and Xie Yi's hair and clothes. She looked around blankly, saying nonstop, "Gu Mingxi is gone, wuwuwu...my Gu Mingxi... wuwuwuwuwu... Gu Mingxi..."

On the plane back to Shanghai, Xie Yi told Pang Qian jokes and magic tricks for her, and she could never smile. Finally, Xie Yi said: "Little crab, you are not the only one who broke up. I have been heartbroken for several years, and I have never been as dying as you."

"Who is going to die!" Pang Qian stared at her swollen peach eyes, "You are heartbroken? When did you lose love? Zheng Qiaoqiao also said that you are looking for a girlfriend in the United States!"

Xie Yi widened his eyes: "Don't talk nonsense! When did I find a girlfriend!"

"I also saw you and the girl taking a close photo."

"I just took a photo and don't spread rumors." Xie Yi curled his lips, "I'm very dedicated."

Pang Qian looked at him for a while and asked, "Do you still have any contact with Xiao Yujing?"

His originally flamboyant expression dimmed and he whispered: "I rarely contact you. I just scrambled to the army of text messages during the holidays and sent her a message saying Happy New Year, Merry Christmas, Happy Lantern Festival, Happy Dragon Boat Festival, Happy National Day..."

Pang Qian was speechless. Xie Yi suddenly turned to look at her and said, "Little crab, why not let's get together. You and I will share the same illness. My brother and sister have been in trouble for more than ten years. We may not be able to get along with each other, and sparks will come."

It was just such a nonsensical word that made Pang Qian, who had no smile on for most of the day, laughed loudly. Her eyes were red. The passengers next to her looked at her like crazy.

Xie Yi said inexplicably, "What are you laughing at? Is it funny to be with me?"

Pang Qian shook her head hard, but said nothing. She wouldn't tell Xie Yi that for some years, he existed in her diary, a prince, a star, and an idol. She looked at him from afar, shy and pious, and never thought that one day they would sit side by side like this, joking unscrupulously.

Time slipped away from the cracks of her fingers. The night sky outside the cabin porthole was like a big black hole. It sucked away time, space, and their carefree childhood and teenagers. Pang Qian missed Gu Mingxi so much. For the first time in her life, she felt desperate, sad, and deeply fear. She was afraid that she would never find Gu Mingxi again. If she could never see him in this life, what should she do?

There is no other person in this world who can look at her with such a gentle look, be able to unconditionally tolerate all her willfulness and unreasonableness, be able to laugh with her when she is happy, be silently by her side when she is sad, and endure her anger and venting.

There is no other person in this world who will sacrifice his time to help her study, not one day, two days, not one month, two months, or even one year, two years. He has been with her for so many years, and finally sent her to a key university.

This person will accompany her to leave school without hesitation when she wants to skip classes, and will take her with her when she knows that she wants to go to Shanghai. He always leaves the most fun and delicious things for her, buys comics she likes, collects celebrity records she likes, and always says that he doesn't like pork, and puts her braised pork chops and sweet and sour tenderloin that she likes. In fact, Pang Qian knows that he doesn't hate eating pork so much, and he does this just because he is willing.

So, she was willing, so he would be happy. There were not many things that would make Gu Mingxi happy, but Pang Qian knew that he would be happy if she ate his big bar.

Even if she can't eat it, she will try hard to eat it.

Yes, there will be no other person in this world who can make her eat more big steaks and tenderloin so willingly, just because she likes to see a smile appearing in his eyes and hear him say hard: "Pangpang, you really know how to eat."

At that time, she was like him, and she felt like she had eaten honey in her heart.

During the Spring Festival in 2005, when everyone was immersed in the joy of welcoming the New Year, something big and small happened in the Jincai Courtyard.

Although Mr. Zeng, who is almost eighty, has gray hair and lost teeth, his body has been very healthy. Over the past 20 years, the residents in the courtyard have changed one after another, and he has always lived happily in the communication room of the courtyard alone. But just a few days before the Spring Festival of this year, Mr. Zeng fell down.

When the ambulance arrived, he had stopped breathing. Old Man Zeng was a lonely man who had been living in a gold material company all his life. There were not many old employees left in the courtyard. Pang Shuisheng was enthusiastic and became the leader and helped Old Man Zeng hold the funeral.

This funeral diluted the joy of the New Year. When Pang Qian entered and left the courtyard, she always felt sad when she looked at the locked communication room.

Everyone is saying that Old Man Zeng, who has been guarding the Jincai Courtyard for more than 20 years, has gone, which means that the courtyard will be exhausted. Sometimes, things are so mysterious. Just after the Spring Festival, news came that the courtyard was going to be tendered and transferred. Pang Shuisheng told Pang Qian that the developer and the Jincai Company had already agreed that the place where the courtyard was located would be built, and they would soon face demolition.

Pang Shuisheng received a compensation of 550,000 yuan, and gritted his teeth and bought a 109-square-meter house in Shengshi North City, a new property closer to the city center. The total price was 760,000 yuan. He mortgaged 100,000 yuan.

Before the house could be delivered, Pang Shuisheng and his family rented a house first to make a transition. When they moved, Pang Qian packed up her own things. She was born in the courtyard and grew up in the courtyard. The small room was filled with her memories of twenty years.

I didn't know if I didn't clean it up. As soon as I cleaned it up, Pang Qian realized that she had actually received so many gifts from Gu Mingxi. It was expensive, valuable, big or small, and some memories related to him could be found in almost every drawer.

She found a big cardboard box, used the comics that Gu Mingxi gave her to her, and then put the other things in it. She lost a lot of her own things, but every gift Gu Mingxi gave her, even the rough greeting card made by him with scissors in elementary school, was carefully put into the cardboard box.

Pang Qian said to Pang Shuisheng: "Dad, we have moved, don't change the phone number at home, can you? I'm afraid that Gu Mingxi will not be able to find me one day when he comes back."

Pang Shuisheng touched his daughter's head: "I understand, my father will definitely not change his number."

In April 2005, Pang Shuisheng took his wife and daughter to move out of the Jincai Courtyard. Unlike some residents who chose to move back here, Pang Shuisheng's family will never come back.

When he went downstairs, Pang Qian stood at the door of the house and stared at the door of 502. After Li Han and Gu Mingxi left, the house was probably empty because of Gu Guoxiang. Pang Shuisheng had the spare key of 502 in his hand, but Pang Qian had never entered it before.
Chapter completed!