Reboot 2003

Chapter 24 Chapter 024: Consolation

In the face of other people's suffering, a few words of comfort are obviously useless, even if it is added with perfunctory deception, it will only appear hypocritical and ridiculous.

It's just that it's useless to expose this kind of lie. Xu Lingfei, who is only eight years old, can understand the cruelty and powerlessness of reality, so she has been obediently cooperating with all this. Since the starting point of these comforts is kindness, then just accept this kindness.

However, the reality always needs to be faced by herself-what should she do?

She didn't fully understand what was going on around her, and could only watch the people close to her leave one by one. Although those kind eyes were warm, they seemed too dazzling, as if there was a greater misfortune waiting for her ahead, just waiting for him to step into the void and fall into a deeper darkness.

But even so, what could she do?

It seems that I can only escape from the familiar school in anger and escape to this pitiful park bench.

After waiting for the person who comforted her to arrive, while pushing him away, she humbly wiped her tears, begging for more perfunctory and deception...

She also just wanted a little more comfort. Although it was useless, there was no other way.

Chen Qin sighed slightly, and could only say to her: "I don't know what will happen to your mother, but your father will definitely come back. This sentence is absolutely true, and I have never lied to you."

Xu Lingling said aggrievedly: "I heard it clearly, they all said that Dad went to seek revenge from Mom..."

However, Chen Qin told her seriously: "It's not so bloody, your father went to make money for you, and only after making money can he buy you a big house in the future, and he can buy you a new dress during the holidays."

Of course Xu Lingling didn't believe it, she cried and said, "You're a liar, Chen Qin is a big liar, you are a liar!"

"it is true!"

Chen Qin returned to her and grabbed her shoulder again, "Your father will really come back. If you don't believe what I said, then ask him now, and he will definitely answer in the same way."

Xu Lingling shook her head quickly: "I won't fight!"

As he said that, he pushed Chen Qin away again, and then, as if angry, he hugged the schoolbag Chen Qin brought back into his arms.

However, this action fell into Chen Qin's eyes, and he became more and more aware of it - it really was just a change of mobile phone number...

So Chen Qin said to her: "Then I'll call for you, and you give me his new mobile phone number."

Xu Lingling still shook her head: "I don't."

Chen Qin said: "I won't say anything strange, and I won't let him know that we called him. He should have arrived in Pengcheng by now. Don't you want to know if he has arrived?"

Xu Lingling seemed to be shaken, and Chen Qin grabbed her shoulder for the third time: "We are childhood sweethearts, I won't lie to you, we have already run away from school, and now Teacher Meng and Grandma Xu are waiting for us to go back, of course you don't have to worry about it now, since you are worried about your father, then I will call him and try, then all problems will be solved."

"I didn't say..."

"Call me!"

Chen Qin asked her involuntarily, Xu Lingling was stunned by him for a moment, took out a pen from her schoolbag, wrote a series of numbers in the palm of her hand, and looked at Chen Qin halfway through writing, Chen Qin urged her: "Hurry up, I won't tell your father."

Before leaving, Xu Lingling's father did leave a phone number for her daughter, and warned her not to tell others... Xu Lingling actually hesitated, but she couldn't resist Chen Qin's urging—maybe she did find the wrong person. Chen Qin only wanted the phone number.

With a bang, Chen Qin took out a coin and threw it in, and then dialed the number in Xu Lingling's hand.

Before the call was made, Chen Qin looked back at Xu Lingling's pitiful look, and told her: "If you don't want to be known, don't talk later, just listen..."

Halfway through the conversation, the phone was connected, and Xu Tao's voice came from the opposite side: "Hello?"

Chen Qin pressed the speakerphone and said loudly: "Hello! Xu Tao?"

In order to do business, Chen Qin recently practiced his false voice. In short, he should not be recognized as a child through the phone line. Of course, Lao Xu couldn't recognize him.

Xu Lingling covered her mouth in surprise, and the old Xu on the other side of the phone knew nothing about it: "I'm Xu Tao, who are you?"

Chen Qin also shouted at the top of his voice, "I'm from a headhunting company! Are you here to work in Pengcheng?"

Xu Tao was very vigilant: "How do you know?"

"We have cooperation with the railway station, are you here to work?"

Old Xu admitted: "Yes, what are you doing? Are you introducing work?"

Chen Qin shouted: "Yes, it's a job introduction! What do you know?"

"I..." Old Xu was still very vigilant, "How much is the job introduction?"

"You don't have to give us money, it's the recruiters who give us money! What do you know first?"

Old Xu said: "I used to learn English in the normal school, and I worked in sales and other things."

"How long have you been working?"

"English is learned at school." Old Xu felt a little embarrassed, "I worked in sales for six years, and... printing for three years, all at Longshan Printing Factory."

"Which Longshan?"

"From Gan Province, I'm from Gan Province."

"Can you use a computer?"

"Yes, a little bit."

"Okay, then let me ask you, the phone is turned on 24 hours a day!"

……

Without waiting for Lao Xu to reply, Chen Qin hung up the phone in a hurry, and looked back to see Xu Lingling looking at him in horror: "Chen Qin, you are lying to my father..."

Chen Qin asked: "You heard it now, your father went to Pengcheng to find a job to make money, he will definitely come back."

Xu Lingling lowered her head: "But they all said that Dad is out for revenge, that he would do irrational things..."

She paused after speaking halfway, as if she had finally thought of something important, Chen Qin pressed her shoulder again, and asked her seriously: "Think carefully, who is he going to take revenge on?"

Xu Lingling replied: "It's my mother and that... bad guy."

Chen Qin asked her: "It's not your mother, it's the person who took your mother away, do you understand?"

Xu Lingling nodded, and Chen Qin said again:

"But we had hidden the address that day."

Xu Lingling lowered her head: "Then can Dad still find Mom?"

Chen Qin replied: "I can't find it temporarily, but this is the best result now."

He also said: "He must know this himself, so this time he went to Pengcheng, he couldn't be looking for that bad guy. He doesn't know where the bad guy is."

Xu Lingling was stunned, and Chen Qin continued to say to her: "Since he didn't go to find the bad guy, then he should just go to work to make money. Others don't believe this, but we both know that he doesn't have the address of that person in his hand. We hid the information with our own hands that day, don't you remember?"

"But……"

"So you understand now," Chen Qin concluded, "I said before that your father was going to give you money to buy a big villa and a small skirt, so you should believe me now!"

There were still tears on Xu Lingling's face, but the development of the matter seemed to be different from what she had imagined. Chen Qin didn't seem to be very good at comforting people. Compared with the white lies that hid those horrible true wishes behind him, he made a simple and rude phone call, but he simply pierced that terrible shadow.

Thinking of this, Xu Lingling inexplicably wanted to cry again, even more than before. Tears poured out of her eyes uncontrollably. She wanted to hug Chen Qin, but Chen Qin pressed her shoulder hard and said to her in a low voice: "Your father is a man. He went to Pengcheng for you and your mother, and also for himself."

"He will definitely come back to see you. Now we have to stay at home and take good care of Grandma Xu until your father comes back. Do you understand?"

The sunset glow reflected the dilapidated telephone booth, and in the middle of the narrow alleyway, Xu Lingling nodded vigorously while wiping her eyes with her hands.She has actually heard the same comfort a lot. This time she seemed to finally see a corner of the future clearly, and finally mustered up the courage to say to the boy in front of her, "Thank you, woo woo woo..."

"So don't cry, be obedient, what should your father do if he knows you are crying? I'm afraid he will come back on the spot!"

"Then why is he coming back..." Of course, this was a wayward remark, Xu Lingling wiped her face vigorously while talking, she finally started to remember, she ran too hastily today, she didn't know how to explain to Teacher Xiaomeng when she went back...

"Okay, just stop crying!" Chen Qin said to her, "Since you have calmed down, let's do one last thing now."

Xu Lingling looked at him blankly: "What..."

"You're crying like this now, and your grandma has to worry about it when you go back." Chen Qin pulled her away from the advertising hall, "It just so happened that your father went to Pengcheng, and now he's unfamiliar with the place. There's one thing we can just help him with."

Xu Lingling remembered what Chen Qin taught her before, and suddenly understood: "I know, I can make another thousand paper cranes, and make a lot of thousand paper cranes for Dad..."

"Where are you going?" Chen Qin patted her little head, "Thousand paper cranes can't be eaten. If your father doesn't have a job, I'm afraid you won't even be able to buy paper from thousand paper cranes. What will you do then?"

Xu Lingling was at a loss: "Then what should I do?"

"It's not easy." Chen Qin said, "There is no job, so let's find one for your dad!"

(End of this chapter)