upstairs downstairs

Chapter 37

"Doctor Su, the director asked you to go to his office."

A nurse knocked on the door with a medical record board and leaned out halfway. The young doctor in a white coat turned his head and smiled.

"I see, thanks."

The nurse leaned out, but blushed quietly.

There are rumors in various departments that a returnee doctor has come to the hospital. Although there have been many newcomers in the hospital in recent years, and studying abroad is nothing new, people like Su Qianmo are still rare.

Those who are more educated than Su Qianmo are not as young as him, and those who are younger than him do not have his god-given appearance. The injustice of the Creator is vividly displayed in him.

There are too many people, and the wider the spread, the lower the credibility of the news, and it is inevitable that it will be suspected of exaggeration.Young nurses would always use various excuses to come to Su Qianmo's department, just thinking that they might catch a glimpse of the new doctor.

Su Qianmo knocked on the door, and opened the door to go in after hearing the response from inside.

The department director looked at the young man standing in front of him through his glasses.During Su Qianmo's five years abroad, he exuded a well-cultivated temperament from the inside out.

Su Qianmo knew that he was inexperienced. Although he would not say something against his will, he was extremely humble. The director let him go with a satisfied face.

Two months later, everyone was familiar with him, but fewer and fewer people were interested in Su Qianmo.

To use a sentence among the nurses, Su Qianmo's face is gentle, but his heart is cold.When he was at work, he was serious and responsible for the patients to the point of doing everything by himself, but after get off work, he had no interest in matters unrelated to work, and he never participated in the party in the department.

As time goes by, everyone only thinks that he has a weird personality and is classified as difficult to get along with.

When Su Qianmo returned to the rented house, he casually threw his coat on the bed. The cup of instant noodle leftover from yesterday was still on the coffee table, with a thick layer of oil on the side.

He planned to sleep on the bed and get something to eat when he woke up, but the phone rang before he could fall asleep.

Five years of living alone has made his habits worse and worse. As long as there are instant noodles at home, he will never go out to eat. Cooking such a high-tech job is not considered at all.

Su Qianmo stretched out his arm and moved his body before taking the mobile phone from the bedside table.

"Hey?"

"Why is your voice so lazy? Are you going to sleep again?" Gu Xiao's fussy voice came from the phone, and Su Qianmo couldn't help but take the phone a little farther away.

"Is there something wrong?" Su Qianmo was tired. In the two months since he joined the job, adapting to the environment and preparing some materials made him want to go crazy.

"You finally returned to the embrace of the motherland from Great Britain, and you want to cleanse you up."

Su Qianmo frowned: "Tell the truth."

"My son is full moon, so hurry up and pay the money."

Unable to bear a low laugh, Su Qianmo cheered up: "When?"

"This weekend, I called Qin Hao, and my brother. I haven't seen them for so many years. I guess you miss them a lot." Gu Xiao lowered her voice, she rarely let go of her temper, and said softly.

"You guessed it wrong, I really didn't think about it." Su Qianmo turned over and lay flat on the bed, with a trace of confusion in his eyes.

"Okay, then we think you can do it." Gu Xiao said with a smile, "It's decided, come, tomorrow night, I will cook myself."

Su Qianmo hung up the phone with a vague smile, always feeling that this kind of natural, like a person's life is getting farther and farther away from him.He is like a silkworm spinning silk, wrapping himself tightly in a cocoon until he finally dies.

Yang Liping came over in the evening, and when she saw the mess on Su Qianmo's desk, she frowned fiercely. She found a plastic bag and put the garbage on the desk into it.

Su Qianmo heard the movement, quickly jumped up from the bed, and rushed out of the room with his messy hair.

"Mom, don't do it, let me do it myself."

Su Qianmo took the things into his hand, picked up the rag and started to clean up.

"have you eaten?"

Yang Liping turned to go to the kitchen, Su Qianmo was afraid that Yang Liping would faint when she saw the dishes and chopsticks that she had piled in the sink for several days, so she hurriedly stopped her.

"It's time to eat, I'm an adult, don't be too busy, sit there and rest for a while, I'll pour you some water."

Su Qianmo packed the sofa out of a place to sit alone, searched for a water bottle for a long time, and finally found it among the piles of clothes piled up at the end of the sofa.

At this moment, Yang Liping's face was as green as a newly ripened walnut.

Su Qianmo closed his eyes as if giving up, waiting for the scolding to come as expected.

"Look at what you look like, how old you are, and the house is in such a mess, I really don't understand how you live abroad." Yang Liping sorted the dirty clothes into categories, and what should be sent to the store for dry cleaning , What is water-washed, and hand-washed...

"You are still not happy to let you go home to live, and you will not go to meet me when I introduce you to a girl." Yang Liping became more and more angry, and almost tore the tie in her hand into two pieces, "Tell me, what do you want to do? "

"Mom, I just went to work, and I have no money. How can anyone take a fancy to me?"

"Isn't that why I asked you to meet up? If someone likes you, why are you so stupid?" Yang Liping patted Su Qianmo angrily, "It's time for a woman to take care of you , after all, it can’t be as shameful as it is now.”

Su Qianmo listened dumbly, and didn't dare to refute anymore. He always felt that one head became two big. Fortunately, he didn't live at home. If he was really at home, he wouldn't be talking about it to death.

Seeing that Su Qianmo didn't respond, Yang Liping knew that he hadn't listened at all, and she probably would have to say something to prevaricate her later.

"I've already promised him for you. I'll meet someone tomorrow night, and I'll ask your dad to take you there."

Su Qianmo's eyes suddenly widened, he turned around and looked at Yang Liping, a little incredulous: "You already agreed?"

"Wait until when are you waiting, dress neatly tomorrow night." Yang Liping opened Su Qianmo's closet and picked out tomorrow's clothes.

Su Qianmo sighed helplessly: "Okay, I get it, you told me the time and place, I can go by myself, there is no need to supervise me."

"I sent you the phone number, you can contact the girl yourself." Yang Liping took out her phone, and she glanced at Su Qianmo with satisfaction, as if her goal for today had been achieved.

Yang Liping was going to stuff the clothes into the washing machine for washing, but when she was taking out her pockets, Su Qianmo's wallet fell out of her coat pocket and spread out on the ground.

Yang Liping was stunned for a moment, then looked up at Su Qianmo who was tidying up the kitchen, and quickly picked up the wallet.

The wallet is very new, with an old photo inside, which seems to have been cut carefully so that it can fit in the wallet.There are two people in the photo, they still look like teenagers, and their appearance is not as sharp and angular. Behind them is a tall and sacred church, and above their heads is the blue sky.

The corners of the photo have been worn away, as if they have been rubbed by fingers many times.

Looking at the two people in the photo, Yang Liping forgot to take back her wallet.Su Qianmo wiped his hands and went back to the living room. When he saw what Yang Liping was holding, his face suddenly changed.

The hand seemed to be too heavy to lift up, the heart beat faster and faster, and a layer of sweat broke out on the back in an instant.

Yang Liping's hand holding the wallet began to tremble, she raised her head, her eyes were sunken, her expression seemed a little unbelievable and a little hesitant.

"Are you..."

Su Qianmo subconsciously wanted to cover his ears, he didn't want to hear everything about him, if he couldn't hear, at least he could pretend.

"Have you forgotten him yet?"

Su Qianmo felt that he was an exceptional failure. During the five years of his life, he had been deceiving himself almost all the time.Su Qianmo thought that he was an extremely indifferent person, even the people around him thought so, but he never thought that a relationship could torture him for so long.

When the two were not together, Su Qianmo would think about what would happen if the two were together and then separated.

The most terrifying outcome he could come up with was nothing more than meeting strangers.

But when this thing really happened, he found that he didn't even dare to look at his face anymore.

In order to escape, he went to a far away country, intending to never come back, but he couldn't help but took that photo with him.

What a lie.

His mouth was full of hatred, wishing to cut his flesh and drink his blood... The raging anger almost burned his heart to death.

But in the end... In the end, all the hatred and anger turned into deep memories after insomnia every night.

Su Qianmo once thought, if he let go of his dignity, or even begged... would he not leave?

Su Qianmo was a little thankful that Yang Liping stopped asking when she saw that she didn't answer, and left after packing up her things.

The next day, Su Qianmo went to the appointment as scheduled.

The girl's name is Cheng Jun, and she is an advertising designer.

It could be seen that the girl had a crush on him.Su Qianmo put on a casual suit that Gu Xiao bought for him, and he was very polite throughout the whole process, quite like a dog.

In the end, Su Qianmo sent her to the gate of her community, and received a message from the girl as soon as she got home.

Yang Liping also came to ask about their blind date, Su Qianmo just talked to reassure her.

He has no intention of falling in love, and he is even less willing to harm anyone.

When Yu Yanfeng left him, his love died, and he would never fall in love with anyone again in this life, let alone get married.

On Saturday afternoon, Su Qianmo drove to a shopping mall first, picked up a gold lock in a gold store, and then drove to Gu Xiao's house.

Gu Xiao married three years ago. He was working on his master's thesis at that time, so he couldn't come back.

I heard from Qin Hao that Gu Xiao married her boyfriend from the university. Originally, Gu's parents did not agree, but it is rare that Gu Shiheng sided with Gu Xiao.

Su Qianmo was a little unfamiliar with this city where he had lived for 20 years. He drove the navigation, but still made two mistakes, and finally arrived at Gu Xiao's home.

It was already six o'clock, Gu Xiao called to remind him, Su Qianmo glanced at the missed call, he didn't know the exact address of Gu Xiao's home, so he called to ask.

The phone rang five or six times but no one answered, Su Qianmo hung up, and was about to get out of the car, only to see a black off-road vehicle parked next to his car, and a person got off after five seconds.

The man was wearing a gray shirt, an ordinary sweater over it, jeans and short boots underneath.His sunglasses blocked half of his face, and he held a packing bag in his hand.

The man didn't stop much, and walked towards a nearby residential building while talking on the phone.

Su Qianmo looked at his back, holding the steering wheel with both hands, the veins on the back of his hands were bulging, and he was already shaking.

Never expecting to see him in this situation, Su Qianmo fumbled in his pocket, took out a cigarette, and lit it.

He opened the window, the choking smell of smoke in the car dissipated, and the phone rang, it was Gu Xiao.

Su Qianmo put out the cigarette and connected the phone.

"Where are you now?"

"I can't go anymore, a patient in the hospital has something wrong, I'm going to see it." Su Qianmo tried his best not to tremble.

"Hey, why is this?" Gu Xiao said in a rather disappointed tone, "Then come back after you're done."

"I don't know when it will be over, don't wait for me." Su Qianmo heard the sound of the door opening slightly on the phone, he held the phone tightly and said suddenly, "That's it, I'll hang up first, I'll hang up when I'm free." Go alone."

Su Qianmo threw the phone aside, sat there for a while, and then drove away.

Yu Yanfeng entered the door, handed the gift to Gu Xiao, looked around the living room, he couldn't tell whether he was disappointed or relieved, that person was not there.

Gu Xiao cooked a tableful of meals, she walked out of the house and winked at Qin Hao.

The host has already come out of the house, his name is Yang Jin, and Yu Yanfeng hasn't had much contact with him, except for the time when they went hiking together a few years ago, and we will meet again later at Gu Xiao's wedding.

Yang Jin has a peaceful personality, which is exactly the opposite of Gu Xiao's, and their married life has hardly any disturbances.The Gu family has a very high status in this city, while Yang Jin is just a child of an ordinary family. It was for this reason that the Gu family's parents didn't like them at first.

Yu Yanfeng was a little embarrassed, and always felt that they looked at him with some sympathy and sadness.

Yang Jin chatted with them, and the topics among the men were nothing more than the current politics and society. Yu Yanfeng knew that Su Qianmo would not come since he had settled down.

Yu Yanfeng suddenly felt that the current situation couldn't be more interesting, he felt awkward sitting on the sofa.

Since Su Qianmo left, he rarely attended gatherings among friends, and he didn't know what to say.

Several people began to talk about their current jobs. It was rare for Gu Shiheng not to enter the political circle, but to start his own company instead, which made his parents very angry.

After Gu Xiao gave birth to a child, she became a full-time wife, taking care of the child at home, and sometimes Yang Jin's parents would come to help.

Chu Pan went to the living room and clapped his hands, slightly playful: "Gentlemen, let's eat."

Several old men who were smoking got up one after another, and Yang Jin went to get the wine.

Several of them were old friends, and they couldn't stop once they drank. They ate a meal for three hours, and in the end they stopped eating, just drinking.

Yu Yanfeng was already drunk, Qin Hao had gone to the toilet to vomit once, Gu Shiheng had been through the battlefield for a long time, his eyes were out of focus, and Yang Jin had already gone to sleep in the room.

Gu Xiao put the child to sleep, and went to talk with Chu Pan in the back room.

Yu Yanfeng glanced at his watch, and he couldn't tell the time at all. He took out his mobile phone and dialed a number randomly, but he heard an empty number notification.

He listened to the female voice prompt on the phone in a daze, and persistently dialed again.

Dialing this number seems to have become a habit.

Qin Hao could see that Yu Yanfeng was already there, Chu Yue called and said he was going to take Gu Shiheng back, and everyone planned to leave.

Everyone was unable to drive anymore, Qin Hao was still awake after vomiting once, and was responsible for sending Yu Yanfeng home.

It was getting late, and there were two drunks again. The taxi didn't show any intention of stopping when they saw the two, but ran faster instead.

Qin Hao had no choice but to call his incumbent, and found that he happened to be nearby, and came over 10 minutes later.

His boyfriend was surprised when he saw Yu Yanfeng: "Isn't this the star?"

Qin Hao nodded and carried the man up. He was so tired that he didn't even have the energy to speak.

"Let's go, go..." Qin Hao patted Yu Yanfeng on the face, "Which home are you going back to?"

Yu Yanfeng was going to get his cell phone to dial again, Qin Hao snatched his cell phone back, and at a glance, he felt that this number was very familiar. After thinking about it, he realized that this was not the number Su Qianmo used before.

"Forget it, send him back to his father." Qin Hao knew that Yu Yanfeng couldn't think anymore, and there would still be someone to take care of him if he went to Yu's father.

Qin Hao called Yu Yanshuo and asked him to come downstairs to pick Yu Yanfeng upstairs.

Yu Yanfeng stumbled out of the car, his feet were so soft that he almost knelt on the ground.

Yu Yanshuo hurried over and grabbed Yu Yanfeng's arm, Qin Hao was sweating all over, just about to hand him over to Yu Yanshuo to leave, but Yu Yanfeng suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed Qin Hao's sleeve.

"You said...does he really hate me?"

Qin Hao couldn't get his head around after drinking, and it took him a long time to realize what he was talking about.

"Brother, stop talking, go home." Yu Yanshuo couldn't bear it, hugged Yu Yanfeng's shoulders, trying to drag him into the door.

"He must hate me...he doesn't even want to see me."

Yu Yanfeng was already choked with sobs, he let go of his hand, pushed Yu Yanshuo away, turned around slowly by himself, and walked into the unit door.

Yu Yanshuo hurriedly chased him in, and before he even had time to call Qin Hao, the door was already closed.

Looking at the closed door, Qin Hao suddenly felt an indescribable sadness. He sent a number to Yu Yanfeng's cell phone, got in the car and left.