Whispering Bonds of Memories Chapter 2

The phone in his pocket vibrated twice, the fifth time in three minutes, and Kaden Jiang opened his eyes.

The car had been driving for almost three hours, and the sky outside the car window was still very gloomy. The girl sitting next to him was still sleeping, her forehead resting firmly on his shoulder, and her right shoulder was already numb.

He shrugged a little irritably, and the girl just tilted her head. He pushed the girl's head away with his fingers, but within a few seconds, her head was put back on his shoulder.

This action had been repeated many times, and he felt that the girl was not asleep, but that the effect was that she was in a coma.

irritable.

He didn't know how long it would take to get to the station. He didn't check the ticket when he got it. He only knew that he was going to a small town that he had never heard of before this trip.

Life is very strange.

When the phone vibrated for the sixth time, Kaden Jiang sighed and took out the phone.

-what happened?

-How come you never mentioned leaving before?

-Why did you leave suddenly?

-Why didn't you tell me?

how how how why why why blablablabla...

The message was from Elsie Yu, who was probably taking extra classes and couldn't make a call. At first glance, it was full of question marks.

When he was about to put his phone back in his pocket, the seventh message was sent.

-If you dont reply, well break up!

Finally it was no longer a question mark. He breathed a sigh of relief, turned off the phone and put it back in his pocket.

Breaking up didn't mean anything to him. The love he had for two months on the high school campus was nothing more than talking more than other classmates, having someone bring you breakfast, having a dedicated cheerleading team for playing games... He didn't even have time. Developed to the point where I can do something.

Looking at the ever-changing scenery outside the car window that seemed to always be the same, Kaden Jiangs destination was finally announced on the radio. The girl next to him moved her head, and she seemed to be waking up. He quickly took out a red marker from his schoolbag, took off the cap of the pen and turned it around in his hand.

The girl woke up and raised her face. There was a big mark on her forehead, as if she had practiced magical skills.

After meeting his eyes, the girl wiped the corner of her mouth, took out her mobile phone, lowered her head and pressed it while saying, "Sorry."

Didn't you hear any apology? Kaden Jiang smiled meaningfully at her, and the girl was stunned, her eyes falling on the marker spinning in his hand.

Kaden Jiang put the pen cap on the pen and made a clicking sound.

Two seconds later, she suddenly covered her face, stood up and rushed to the bathroom.

Kaden Jiang also stood up and looked out the car window. It had been gloomy all the way until here, and it was finally snowing. He took his suitcase off the luggage rack, put on his coat, walked to the car door, took out his cell phone and turned it on.

The phone was very quiet, and Elsie Yu's messages did not ring again, nor were they missed.

It feels like this is the most comfortable time she has had since getting along with Elsie Yu these days, which is not easy.

But no one except Elsie Yu has contacted him.

For example, he thought someone would come to pick him up at the station.

Following the crowd out of the station, Kaden Jiang zipped up his down jacket and looked at the city that looked gray in the cold winter.

The chaos and dilapidation around the train station was his first impression of the city.

No, this is the second impression. The first impression is the confusion in his mind when his mother said, "Go back, that is your real home."

He dragged the box to the southernmost part of the station square, where there were few people. There was a small street next to it, lined with various small hotels that made you feel like you couldn't get out after entering, and small restaurants that made you feel poisoned after eating.

He sat on the suitcase, took out his cell phone and looked at it again. Still no one contacted him.

He had a phone number and an address, but he just didn't want to move, talk or move. He took out a cigarette from his pocket and held it in his mouth. He was filled with deep, incomprehensible and confused thoughts about why he would suddenly be here. , desperate, angry.

Staring at the ice on the ground angrily, he reached for the lighter from his pocket, huddled up against the cold wind and lit the cigarette. Looking at the smoke that dispersed in front of his eyes, he sighed.

If the head teacher saw this, I dont know what he would say.

But it's okay, he is already here. It's a long way away. Let alone the head teacher, even the people who have lived in the same house with him for more than ten years may never see each other again.

In this small, run-down school in a run-down city, it's unlikely that anyone would be watching to see if he smokes.

After only half-smoking the cigarette, Kaden Jiang felt a little too cold to bear it. He stood up and planned to take a taxi and find a place to eat first. As soon as he took a step while dragging the suitcase, he felt something hit his ankle. The force was still there. It was not small, and it hurt him for a while.

He frowned and turned around, seeing a skateboard behind him.

Then before he could raise his head to see where the skateboard came from, a person fell to his feet.

"How do you..." He reflexively stretched out his hand to help, but stopped halfway.

The messy hair is hanging down, cut in lengths and shorts like a dog gnawing, and the clothes on his body are quite dirty... A beggar? tramp? Porcelain? Thief?

When the person raised his head, he saw clearly that this was a little girl who looked to be in the fifth or sixth grade of elementary school. Although her face was covered with mud, she could see that her skin was quite white and her eyes were big.

But before he could move his hand to help her again, the little girl was dragged away by four or five little girls who followed closely. Someone kicked her on the back from behind. The kick made her stagger and almost fall down again.

Kaden Jiang immediately understood what was going on, hesitated for a moment, turned around, dragged his suitcase and continued walking forward.

A burst of laughter from behind made him stop again.

He was not willing to meddle in other people's business when he was in a bad mood. It happened that he was in a very special and very bad mood right now, but the dark and clean eyes of the big-eyed girl just now made him turn his head.

"Hey!" he shouted.

Several little girls stopped, and one of them raised his head and squinted his eyes: "What are you doing!"

Kaden Jiang slowly walked over, dragging the box, and stared at the little girl who was still holding the big-eyed clothes. After staring for two seconds, the little girl let go.

He pulled his big eyes to his side and looked at the little girls: "It's okay, let's go."

"Who are you!" The leader was a little timid, but still shouted with dissatisfaction.

"I'm the big brother with a knife," Kaden Jiang looked at her, "I can give you a haircut similar to hers in thirty seconds."

"I'll ask my brother to come over and deal with you soon!" The person who took the lead was obviously not a habitual offender. He shrank a little when he heard this, but he was still unconvinced.

"Then tell him to hurry up," Kaden Jiang dragged the box with one hand and held Big Eyes with the other, "I'm scared to death, I will run very fast."

The little girls walked away, but Big Eyes broke away from his hand.

"Are you okay?" Kaden Jiang asked.

Big eyes shook his head, walked back two steps to the skateboard, stepped on it, and looked at him.

"Yours?" Kaden Jiang asked again.

Big Eyes nodded, and with a gentle tap of his feet, he slid in front of him on his skateboard, then stopped steadily, still looking at him.

"Then...go home." Kaden Jiang also nodded, took out his cell phone and walked around to call a car.

After walking for a while, he heard a sound behind him. He turned around and found Big Eyes still slowly following him on a skateboard.

"What?" Kaden Jiang looked at her.

Big eyes don't speak.

"Afraid they will come back?" Kaden Jiang asked again helplessly.

Big Eyes shook his head.

"No, are you mute?" Kaden Jiang began to feel a little irritated.

Big eyes continued to shake his head.

"Let me tell you, I," Kaden Jiang pointed to himself, "are in a very bad mood right now, very irritable, you know I won't be merciless when I beat the little girl."

The big eyes didn't move.

Kaden Jiang stared at her for a while, seeing that she had no intention of speaking, so he suppressed his anger and dragged the box forward again.

The signal was not very good at the moment, and the taxi-hailing interface could not be opened. He sat down on the stone pier next to the bus stop and lit a cigarette.

Big Eyes was still riding a skateboard, standing next to him.

"Do you have anything else to do?" Kaden Jiang asked impatiently, a little regretful that he had meddleed in other people's business and caused himself some inexplicable trouble.

The big eyes still didn't speak, and he just pedaled the skateboard lightly, slid under the bus stop sign next to him, and looked up at the bus stop sign for a long time.

When she returned to Kaden Jiang on her skateboard, Kaden Jiang guessed the reason from her confused expression and sighed: "Are you lost? Can't you go back?"

Big eyes nodded.

"Is he a local?" Kaden Jiang asked.

nod.

"Call your family to pick you up." Kaden Jiang handed her his cell phone.

She took the phone, hesitated for a moment, lowered her head and pressed it a few times, and then handed the phone back.

"What do you mean?" Kaden Jiang looked at the cell phone number that had been entered but not dialed, "Can I call it for you?"

nod.

"Fcuk," Kaden Jiang frowned and pressed the dial. Listening to the dial tone on the receiver, he asked again, "Whose number is this in your home?"

Before Big Eyes could answer, someone over there answered the phone.

Of course, she probably wouldn't answer, so Kaden Jiang said "hello" to the phone.

"Who?" There was a male voice over there.

"Passerby," Kaden Jiang didn't know what to say, "I have a little girl here..."

"No." said the other side.

Before Kaden Jiang could recover, the call was hung up.

"Who is this person?" Kaden Jiang blew out the smoke and pointed at his big eyes, "If you don't say anything, get out. I don't have the patience anymore."

Big Eyes squatted down next to his legs, picked up a stone, wrote the word "Brother" crookedly on the ground, and then looked up at him.

"Okay, I understand." Kaden Jiang felt that this little girl might really be mute.

He dialed the number again. This time the ringing time was very short, and the caller picked up: "Who is it?"

Kaden Jiang looked at his big eyes and said, "Your sister is here with me..."

"Tear up the ticket." The other person replied, and then hung up the phone again.

"Holy Sh!t!" Kaden Jiang had the urge to smash his phone and pointed at his big eyes, "Your name!"

With big eyes, he lowered his head and wrote his name on a stone.

Isla Gu.

Kaden Jiang didn't call again, he just sent a text message with a photo of his eyes wide open.

-Isla Gu, mute, skateboarding.

The call came over 30 seconds later.

Kaden Jiang answered the phone: "It's too late, the vote has already been canceled."

"Sorry," the other person said, "Can you tell me where it is? I'll go over and see if I can still put it together."

"...The East Railway Station is a particularly shabby one," Kaden Jiang frowned, "She's lost. Come here quickly, I have something else to do."

"Thank you, thank you very much," the other person replied, "I'll be there soon. If you have something urgent, you can leave first. Just ask her to wait for me there."

Kaden Jiang picked up the half-smoked cigarette he had just thrown on the ground and flicked it into the trash can next to him, then lit another cigarette.

He originally wanted to just call a car and leave, but he felt that no one cared whether he was coming or going, present or absent, and he seemed to have nothing to worry about.

Isla Gu stood up after sitting on the skateboard for a while, sliding back and forth on the sidewalk on the skateboard.

Kaden Jiang was a little surprised after looking at it for a few times. He originally thought that the little girl was just playing around, but he didn't expect that he could go up and down slopes, accelerate, stop, and make U-turns with ease.

It's just the hair that has been cut into pieces, and the dirty face and clothes that make people look funny.

After playing for more than ten minutes, Isla Gu skated to his side and stopped. Her toes flicked on the skateboard. After catching the board with her hands, she raised her hand and pointed behind Kaden Jiang.

"Very handsome." Kaden Jiang gave her a thumbs up and then turned around and saw a black motorcycle parked behind him.

The people in the car were wearing helmets and couldn't see their faces clearly, but their legs in gray slim-fitting pants and short boots standing on the edge of the sidewalk were eye-catching.

Long and straight.

"Your brother?" Kaden Jiang asked Isla Gu.

Isla Gu nodded.

"What happened to your head?" The person in the car took off his helmet and got out of the car, walked over and stared at Isla Gu's hair, "And your face and clothes... did you fall into the pit?"

Isla Gu shook her head.

"You must have been bullied by your classmates," Kaden Jiang said.

"Thank you," the man then turned his gaze to Kaden Jiang's face and stretched out his hand, "My name is Jasper Gu, and I am her brother."

Kaden Jiang stood up and shook his hand: "You're welcome."

Jasper Gu looks about the same age as him, but his eyes don't look like Isla Gu's brother. They are not as big as Isla Gu's eyes... and his skin is quite fair.

Kaden Jiang's current mood was like a pot of rotten tomatoes, but Jasper Gu's hairstyle was as eye-catching as his legs, so he still took a look at the cracks of the rotten tomatoes.

He has a very short short hair, and when he turns his face, he can see the staff pattern on the green skin shaved close to the scalp on both sides. On one side is a bass clef, and on the other side is a rest. Kaden Jiang did not see clearly how many dots there were.

"Did you just get off the car?" Jasper Gu glanced at his suitcase.

"Yeah." Kaden Jiang picked up his phone and continued to think about opening the taxi app to call a taxi.

"Where are you going? I'll take you there?" Jasper Gu said.

"No." Kaden Jiang glanced at his car. No matter how big a motorcycle it was, it was still a motorcycle.

"She doesn't take up any space." Jasper Gu added.

"No, thank you." Kaden Jiang said.

"Say thank you to brother," Jasper Gu pointed at him and said to Isla Gu, "Sh!t Ball."

Kaden Jiang turned to look at Sh!t Ball, wanting to hear what she had to say, but Isla Gu just held the skateboard and bowed 90 degrees to him.

Jasper Gu stepped into the car and put on his helmet. Isla Gu quickly climbed into the back seat and hugged his waist.

"Thank you." Jasper Gu glanced at him, started the car, turned around and drove away.

Kaden Jiang sat back on the stone pier. The Internet was pretty good at the moment, but no one took the order for a long time, and the taxis passing by couldn't stop waving.

What the hell is this place?

Although he was in a bad mood, he never had time to savor it. He just felt that he had been living in chaos for a while, surrounded by various shocks and confusions. He couldn't even breathe, and he didn't even think about why he was doing this. I agreed to all the arrangements and here we are.

Rebellious?

As my mother said, there is no rebellious person like you in our family, and there are thorns all over the body.

Of course, they were not a family to begin with, not to mention that they had become like enemies in the past few years, making everyone angry who looked at them.

Kaden Jiang frowned, he didn't even have time to think about this.

Until now, at this moment.

In this strange, cold and snowy city, he suddenly came back to his senses.

Despair and pain and resistance to all the unknown made his nose feel sore.

When he lowered his head, tears streaked his face.

When the phone rang, Kaden Jiang was sitting in a KFC somewhere. He glanced at the unfamiliar number and picked up: "Hello?"

"Is it Kaden Jiang?" A middle-aged man's voice sounded over there.

The sound was a bit loud, so Kaden Jiang moved the phone away slightly: "Yes."

"I'm your father." The man said.

"...Oh." Kaden Jiang responded. This conversation actually sounded a bit funny, and he couldn't help but laugh.

The man over there also laughed twice: "My name is Colin Li, as you know."

"Yeah." Kaden Jiang took a sip of Coke.

"Has your bus arrived?" Colin Li asked.

"We're here." Kaden Jiang looked at his watch. It was two hours later.

"Do you have the address? I don't have a car and I can't pick you up. Just take a taxi and I'll wait for you at the intersection." Colin Li said.

"Yes." Kaden Jiang hung up the phone.

This time, I was lucky. I got into a taxi as soon as I got out. The heater was on full blast and it was so hot that I felt like I was going to have a fever.

The driver wanted to chat, but Kaden Jiang kept leaning against the car window and silently looking out. He raised his head several times without success, and finally gave up and turned on the radio.

Kaden Jiang tried hard to see clearly what the city looked like, but it was already very dark, the street lights were not very bright, and there were snowflakes flying all over the sky in the halo, which made people dizzy.

He closed his eyes.

It soon opened again.

I dont know whats wrong, I look like a B!tch, so boring.

The car stopped at a certain place. Kaden Jiang got out of the car with his suitcase and stood at the intersection.

no one.

"Your father" Colin Li, who claimed to be waiting for him at the intersection, was nowhere to be seen.

Kaden Jiang suppressed the irritation in his heart and the pain on his face from being cut by the wind, took out his cell phone and dialed Colin Li's number.

"Hey, this one stinks..." It took a long time for Colin Li to answer the phone, "Hello?"

"I'm at the intersection." When Kaden Jiang heard what he said, he immediately wanted to hang up the phone and go find a hotel.

"Ah? You're here so soon?" Colin Li shouted in surprise, "I'm here, I'm coming out right away."

This horse had been riding for five minutes. Just as Kaden Jiang was dragging his suitcase at the intersection and reaching out to stop the car, a man wearing a Lei Feng hat ran over, pressed his arm, and shouted loudly. He said, "Kaden Jiang, right?"

Kaden Jiang didn't say anything. He saw Colin Li running out of a residential building immediately behind him.

immediately?

When he saw several heads looking over from the second-floor window, he really didn't want to speak anymore.

"I stayed at a friend's house for a while and walked around." Colin Li patted him on the shoulder, "Go home, go home... You look taller than in the photo."

Kaden Jiang looked down at the muddy road and followed him forward.

"Hey," Colin Li patted him on the back twice more, "how many years has it been? It must have been more than ten years, right? Now you have met my son! I have to take a good look."

Colin Li put his head in front of his eyes and stared.

Kaden Jiang pulled up the mask on his chin and put it on.

Suddenly I felt completely empty, even the air was full of confusion.