"Du-du--" After several long beeps, Chen Yuqiao breathed out depressedly: "No one answered."

He swiped open WeChat and glanced at it, muttering in disbelief: "She actually sent a voice message."

Gan Tian poked his head over curiously: "Your mother? Didn't you say that she never takes the initiative to talk to you?"

Chen Yuqiao bent his legs and handed the phone screen to Gan Tian next to him.

Lin Shuang remembered that he had also retrieved the chat history with Zheng Shuyi for her before. It seemed that he felt that the communication between mother and son did not need to be kept secret from others.

Chen Yuqiao stretched out his long finger, gently clicked on the chat voice, and put his ear to it.

In speaker mode, the old lady’s dialect “greeting” resounded throughout the reading room——

"Chen Yuqiao, you are a bastard and a loser. If you want me to live a few more years, you can die outside and never come back!!!"

Chen Yuqiao's tall and thin figure rushed past Lin Shuang's eyes, his back pressed against the oak-colored bookcase, and he pressed his ears with his palms slightly exaggeratedly.

Perhaps because he didn't understand the dialect well, Gan Tian caught Chen Yuqiao's flying phone and poked it several times on the still-lit screen.

Lin Shuang was forced to listen to the old lady's mouthful of fragrance several times. She and Chen Yuqiao looked at each other wordlessly, and together with him, the high-quality mobile phone surround sound played on their facial nerves wave after wave.

The scene was very embarrassing for a time.

Gan Tian finally figured out the meaning of Zheng Shuyi's voice, handed the phone back to the owner, and asked inexplicably: "Why did your mother suddenly get angry?"

Chen Yuqiao twitched the corner of his mouth and quickly swiped the chat interface: "I don't know where I have provoked her again in the past two days? She also said before that she would be angry when she saw me, but she would not say anything like letting me die outside...

…”

"..." Lin Shuang thought about it. The old lady's point was not to curse her son to die... but to feel that he was so angry that she would lose a few years of her life. This is consistent with the reality of her sudden suicide.

Chen Yuqiao slapped his head: "Is it because I rejected a blind date agency two days ago and now she knows about it?"

"Ah? Your mother wants you to go on a blind date?" Gan Tian's tone was obviously anxious.

"Yes, I have been clearly arranged by her blind date agency since I returned to Luqi...Didn't I tell you?"

"?" Lin Shuang raised his ears and listened attentively to their conversation.

Chen Yuqiao: "Because my job is unstable and I don't have time to fall in love... so I often refuse her arrangements. Then Zheng Shuyi gets angry every time."

Lin Shuang thought, is it reasonable for the old lady to be so angry? Chen Yuqiao is very frank.

Gan Tian breathed a sigh of relief: "Oh..."

The girl encouraged again: "Ah Qiao, don't be discouraged, we will definitely help you build confidence and return to a normal life!"

Lin Shuang: "..."

This statement is too easy for people to misunderstand. Lin Shuang could be forgiven for mistaking him for a community corrections officer.

Chen Yuqiao didn't appear speechless. Instead, he looked at Gan Tian with a smile and said, "Isn't my current life quite normal?"

"Hmm...it seems so."

Lin Shuang's eyes fell on Chen Yuqiao's calm profile, and his heart skipped a beat.

After meeting him, she kept being interrupted by a series of unexpected situations that interrupted her planned work flow——

She wanted to persuade him to go back and visit her mother who had not been in contact with her for a long time and was in a psychological crisis. However, the mother kept receiving her son's caring greetings on WeChat and acted indifferent; she did

Well, the extreme assumption was that Chen Yuqiao was a very bad, troubled young man who would make his mother so angry that he committed suicide. He was even prepared to enlist the help of the community here to persuade him to return home, but Gan Tian said that he was a "very good person".

The "Three Nos" young people she saw with her own eyes didn't seem so scary at all...

An invisible hand stretched out from her mind, pulling her originally smooth thoughts into strange directions.

She calmed down and walked up to him: "Chen Yuqiao, do you have time to go back to visit your mother recently and support our work?"

"She just said something like this, and now I appear in front of her. Am I not confronting her?"

Lin Shuang looked at Gan Tian beside her. In front of other community staff, it was not convenient for her to tell Zheng Shuyi's true situation. She just said firmly and sincerely: "Aunt Zheng's current situation is a bit special. We need your support.

If it is convenient, please come back with me."

Chen Yuqiao lowered his eyes and met Lin Shuang's clear, expectant gaze. His brows twitched slightly, as if he understood something.

Then, he solemnly responded: "Okay."

Lin Shuang felt relieved. Her work could finally move forward.

Gan Tian also asked with concern: "Is there anyone in our community who can help?"

Lin Shuang dragged the small sofa over and motioned for the two of them to sit around. He took out his workbook and pen from his backpack and began the formal interview.

She added Gan Tian's description of Chen Yuqiao to her previous notes, carefully avoiding the line that was scratched out because of anger, and recorded the conflict between Chen Yuqiao and Zheng Shuyi's mother and son as dictated by Chen Yuqiao.

"Do you think Aunt Zheng's relationship has become so tense because you repeatedly refused the blind dates arranged by her?"

"Hmm..." Chen Yuqiao touched his chin and pondered for a moment, "Also, he dislikes me for doing nothing."

Lin Shuang observed his expression carefully. His eyes were broad and direct, falling gently on her face. There was a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, but it didn't seem to be mocking himself. He didn't seem to feel at all (year

It is not shameful to be in your late thirties, and you don’t think you need to feel ashamed as a “vagrant”.

Lin Shuang recalled his calm rhetorical question just now——

"Isn't my current life quite normal?"

He used to be worthy of being the lead singer of the choir. His voice was clear and soft, and the ending tone was slightly falling, with a bit of bewitching flavor.

Lin Shuang was almost convinced by him. She began to feel from the bottom of her heart that Chen Yuqiao, who had no job and no family, was living a pretty good life.

Gan Tian argued eagerly: "Aqiao is not idle. He has a band and works as a volunteer for us. Although he does not have a formal job now, he will always have one in the future!"

She repeated what she had said to Lin Shuang before in front of the principal.

Lin Shuang noticed that the corners of Chen Yuqiao's mouth were curved again. He turned his head and looked at Gan Tian, ​​smiling without saying a word, like... an idol looking at a young fan who has no experience in the world.

The relationship between them might just be Gan Tian's single arrow, otherwise Chen Yuqiao wouldn't talk about the blind date in front of them as if nothing had happened?

Well, is this something you can say to a girl you like? Moreover, he also directly conveyed his mother's dislike of him.

There was a vibration in the bottom of his hand, and Lin Shuang came back to his senses and picked up the phone.

It was still a call from "Love Sharing Together".

Pei En, the project manager, first asked her about the rain here and told her that she could wait until the weather improved before returning to the island. She knew that Lin Shuang's home was in Xiangping District, so she would not have nowhere to stay, so she gave her a few more warnings.

Cut to the chase.

She brought news that caused Lin Shuang a headache: Zheng Shuyi refused social worker intervention and was discharged from the hospital early. Her current whereabouts are unknown.

Lin Shuang avoided Chen Yuqiao and the others, walked quickly to the other end of the reading room, and whispered: "I am now with the case owner's son. He is also willing to provide support. Do I have to tell the whole story about the case owner now?"

"That gangster with a bad reputation?"

"..." The story was too long, so Lin Shuang gave a perfunctory "hmm".

"Don't say anything yet. I don't know how he will react. You have to pay attention to your own safety. People in the community are already contacting the case owner. I will tell you at any time as soon as I have news."

After hanging up the phone, Lin Shuang glanced at the rain outside the window and suddenly became worried: Where will Zheng Shuyi go in such a heavy storm? Will she want to end her life again?

But hearing what she yelled at Chen Yuqiao, it seemed that she simply didn't want to see her son.

Did Zheng Shuyi really have the idea of ​​committing suicide because Chen Yuqiao repeatedly caused trouble for her on personal issues?

"When are we going home?" A question suddenly came to his ears. Lin Shuang turned his face and looked at Chen Yuqiao with wide eyes in shock.

Chen Yuqiao obviously didn't expect her to be startled, "Did I scare you? I'm sorry."

Lin Shuang suppressed his expression and cleared his throat: "Wait... wait until the typhoon passes, and we will go back together."

She put her phone away. The back cover was slippery and greasy, stained with sweat from her palms. She was actually a little panicked by Chen Yuqiao's question.

"Okay." Chen Yuqiao did not doubt that he was there, and took the initiative to exchange WeChat messages with her. Only then did Lin Shuang know that he was using the number in Beijing where he belonged, not the local number registered in Yanshan Community many years ago.

Therefore, the people from the Social and Neighborhood Committee have been unable to contact him.

Later that day, Lin Shuang and Chen Yuqiao, under the leadership of Gan Tian and other community workers, carried out voluntary protection work for Haiyu community to prevent typhoons. After completing the outdoor risk management, they came to the community party and mass service

The center inquires residents about their hardware support needs through WeChat groups and phone calls, and at the same time allocates daily necessities to the elderly who report a lack of supplies and contacts volunteers to deliver them door-to-door.

…

In the evening, the rain subsided, and the dark clouds gradually dispersed, revealing a ray of bright skylight.

After Lin Shuang finished the work at hand, he called his mother Lin Wanyan and told her that he would go home to stay at night.

Her home is in another community across the crossroads from Haiyu Home. She usually works in an organization on the island. In order to facilitate the provision of services, she rents a studio apartment nearby. She will come back when she is not busy on holidays.

Visiting her mother. If Lin Wanyan was free at that time, mother and daughter would meet up to go shopping and watch movies.

Lin Wanyan didn't show any surprise at her sudden "visit", but when she was about to close the line, she casually asked her if it would be okay to put some prawns on the sand tea noodles in the evening.

Lin Shuang smiled. She was indeed her dearest mother, preparing her daughter's favorite reserved items.

After finishing the call with Lin Wanyan, Lin Shuang checked the work WeChat group. There was no progress update in Zheng Shuyi's case group.

In the office of the service station, there were three or two staff members discussing what to have for dinner.

She absentmindedly looked through her work manual, but finally couldn't feel relieved and dialed the number of Xiao Jiang, the social and neighborhood committee member.

She responded to Xiaojiang's reply and stepped outside.
To be continued...