Chapter 22: Wu Yu 04 (1)
——Wu Yu——
I knew she would come to find me.
After getting back, I slept for a short while before waking up at around noon. Then I had a bowl of rice noodles at a restaurant beside the repair shop while frequently looking out the restaurant to check.
She hasn’t come.
I worked in the shop for the whole afternoon. Even when the orange hue of the setting sun enveloped the open space in front of the shop, she still did not appear. Perplexed, I thought to myself, I didn’t know she’d be such a level-headed person. Or, is she bogged down by something?
Around nine in the evening, when I was done with work and everyone else had left, I noticed an orange-red car coming toward the shop along the road while I pulled down the roll-up gate.
The driver’s skill was not good, evident from how slow they took the turn. Seeing that it was her, I left the roll-up gate open with a gap for her before going into the shack behind the shop.
The shack was around ten square meters in size. My boss allowed me to stay in it with the condition that I looked after the shop. A yellow light bulb illuminated the place from above while a pile of my books filled the table at the side. I found two clean stools, placed them beside the bed, and sat down to watch the pot of noodles that was cooking on the stove.
Someone knocked twice on the roll-up gate before I heard her voice, “Is Wu Yu here?”