At half past seven in the evening, the doorbell was finally ringed, and I wore slippers and ran to open the door, and the person standing outside the door was Zhang Rixuan, who had made an appointment to come to dinner.

Zhang Rixuan was holding a huge convenience bag in her hand, I took it from her hand and looked at it, there were some vegetables in it, there was also meat, as well as a bottle of red wine and a bottle of juice.

Zhang Rixuan said to me: "The red wine is for you, and I will drink the juice." ”

"What's wrong with me to drink some red wine, I'm afraid that if we drink too much, am I plotting against you?"

"I didn't say that, I wasn't in the habit of drinking. ”

I laughed and complained, "You're really boring, I just want to take advantage of you in words, why don't you cooperate at all?"

"Why should I cooperate with your lewdness. ”

"The word "obscene" is used so well, and sometimes I really don't think I'm very noble. ”

Zhang Rixuan looked at me speechlessly, obviously not knowing how to answer my words.

I closed the door and said to Zhang Rixuan: "You sit down for a while, I'll cook, and you can sit back and enjoy his achievements later." ”

Zhang Rixuan shook his head and said to me, "I can do what I can for you." ”

"It's not a husband and wife lung film, why do you want to help me as much as you can!" I said, carrying the bag and walking towards the kitchen.

Zhang Rixuan looked at me wordlessly again.

……

I opened the bow left and right in the kitchen, an average of 10 minutes for a dish, about 50 minutes to make all the stir-fry, and at the same time the bone broth in the pot was also cooked at the same time, the time was perfect.

Zhang Rixuan, who had been idle at this time, finally came in handy, she came to the kitchen and brought the prepared meal to the table as best she could.

I turned on all the lights in the house, so the small living room for dinner was bright, I took off my apron and sat opposite Zhang Rixuan, I drank red wine, she drank juice, but it was not a candlelight dinner.

I said to Zhang Rixuan, who was eager to try, "Shall we touch a glass first, or will you try my craft first?"

"I'll try your craft first. Zhang Rixuan said and put a piece of sweet and sour fish into his mouth, tasted it and nodded and praised: "Yes, your craftsmanship is not bad." ”

"Yes, I said that the tiger father has no dog son. I said with a slight smugness.

"It's hard to imagine that you can cook, and you can do it well, when did you learn this?" Zhang Rixuan looked at me curiously after asking.

I replied while eating: "Our father said that I had a wild temperament and a bad temper, so when I was very young, he forced me to learn to cook, saying that I could cultivate my self and cultivate my temperament, and I would be able to please my daughter-in-law in the future!"

Zhang Rixuan ignored my words and asked me, "Your father?"

"Yes, I call me Daddy, haven't you heard me call me that before?"

"I didn't pay much attention, why did you call him Daddy?"

I patiently explained, "Because he is old-fashioned, not only do I call him Ban Dad, but their colleagues call him Ban Ke, but he always thought that I called him Dad...... Haha......!"

Zhang Rixuan was also amused by me, and said for a while: "You are really bad, even your own father will not let go!" After speaking, her expression suddenly dimmed, and I suddenly realized that she remembered her father Mi Zhongxin, who died in a car accident, and finally understood why she was full of kindness to her father.

I raised my glass and said to Zhang Rixuan: "Let's stop talking patronizingly, let's touch a cup to celebrate that we have the opportunity to turn hostility into friendship." ”

Zhang Rixuan nodded, picked up his juice and gently touched a glass with me, then took a sip and smiled at me again, getting rid of the gloom and depression just now.

……

Dinner went on, and I had already drunk two glasses of red wine, while Zhang Rixuan only drank a small half glass of juice.

I looked at Zhang Rixuan with a complicated expression for a long time, and finally put down the wine glass in my hand and said to her, "I'm going back to my hometown tomorrow." ”

"What's the matter, are you going on vacation?" asked Zhang Rixuan unconcernedly.

"No, it's to go back to my hometown to live, and I have quit my job here. ”

Zhang Rixuan looked at me, put down the chopsticks in his hand, and asked with some surprise: "Resigned! Is something happening at home?"

No wonder Zhang Rixuan was surprised, because she accompanied me to rent the bachelor apartment I live in a few days ago, but she didn't know that I was struggling at that time, although I was struggling, but I didn't have the idea of leaving, but finally chose to tell her about Mi Zhongde's power plot in an anonymous letter, and my fate of leaving the city was irreversible.

I smiled and said to Zhang Rixuan: "You know, I don't have a serious job, and I'm not young anymore, so I really don't have much time to continue struggling in this rootless city, so ....... It is also a good choice to go back to your hometown to live a stable life, and people, especially adults, must learn to make the most correct judgments about their environment. ”

Zhang Rixuan nodded in agreement with my words, but he didn't say much, we are not people of the same world, destined to live a life that does not understand each other and cannot penetrate each other.

I raised my glass to Zhang Rixuan again, Zhang Rixuan raised the wine glass and signaled to me, I nodded and drank half a glass of red wine in one gulp, and an emotion that could not be expressed in words diffused in my body with the wine.

……

The dinner ended with Zhang Rixuan and I in a few words, and when Zhang Rixuan was about to leave, I took out all the cash I had, some of which was my salary, and some of it was the money I got after subleasing this single apartment, a total of 10,318 yuan, and after paying back Zhang Rixuan's 10,016 yuan, I still had 302 yuan left, and this 302 yuan was the last thing I got after struggling in this city for more than two years.

I put the money on the table, counted out 10,016 yuan from a pile of scattered coins very seriously, handed it to Zhang Rixuan, and said, "Hey, pay back your money." ”

Zhang Rixuan looked at me, and then I took the stack of money from my hand, ranging from 100 to a piece, but unexpectedly I took out 16 yuan from it and handed it to me and said, "I like whole numbers." ”

I looked at Zhang Rixuan in surprise, and didn't reach out to take it, but she had already put the scattered 16 yuan on the table, and then put another stack of money into her handbag.

"It's getting late, I have to go back. Zhang Rixuan said to me.

"Oh, good...... Stay safe on the road. ”

Zhang Rixuan nodded and turned to leave, I suddenly realized that after this night, we may no longer have the opportunity to meet, although I have been friends with this woman who is going to leave for nearly two months, but in the end, with my departure, those ephemeral pasts will be turned into dust, and then slowly erased by the passing time.

Zhang Rixuan ...... "I called out her name.

"What?" she turned around, her long hair hanging down her shoulders making her look so untouched.

I was silent for a long time, and then asked in a low voice, "Are we friends?"

Zhang Rixuan thought for a moment, nodded and said to me, "Count." ”

"Hmm. I nodded heavily.

Zhang Rixuan smiled at me, then turned around and walked towards the elevator entrance not far away, and the elevator closed after a short while, thus isolating us from the two worlds again