Chapter 14: Drifting Snow
Girls are always more mature than boys, or mature earlier, and in the summer of fifteen, we were not separated, nor were we said goodbye, but we just broke off contact, and I know why, because I made a stupid decision that made it difficult for me to speak and was extremely selfish in dealing with things, naΓ―ve, selfish, evasive, and unresponsible, and I never heard from her again. It would have been even more disappointing for her to know that I was still choosing to avoid the problems and the responsibilities I should have shouldered. In the same year, at the same time, my father also left the complete home that I had envied her for various reasons, but my father's departure left behind a high level of debt, and his life changed dramatically, and gossip followed. In order to prove some unwarranted labels, and to let her see the growth I thought I had, I started to do a lot of things that could prove myself as much as possible, such as becoming the president of the literary club in high school. This is another thing that brought me a shadow, for various reasons, I was mildly depressed and received psychological counseling for half a year. Half a year has passed, and the affairs of the literary club have been put on hold, and I have not returned to school.
For a while, I would go to an ancient temple called "Shiyang Hotel" in the county seat every fifth and fifteenth day of the lunar calendar to offer incense, which used to be the most frequented place for her and me, and it was only opened on the fifth and fifteenth days of the lunar calendar. When we were young, we could only pray to God when we were powerless, even though I was an atheist, perhaps just for comfort. I don't know if she knows, or if I remember, but I never met her again.
This is also one of the three things I regret the most, I have done a lot of wrong things, I have made a lot of stupid and stubborn choices with youth as capital, like a cigarette in my hand, I never remember how many I smoked, nor how long I smoked a cigarette, I never regret anything wrong I did, because I know that regret is not much meaning, but she is like the one that burned my hand, the scab, the cigarette butt is extinguished, the pain is unforgettable.
I swallowed my saliva and squeezed a sentence out of my mouth for a long time: "Long time no see." I was a little flustered and became confused, and she sat down and looked at me with a smile: "I heard them say you're back." I nodded absentmindedly, "Hmm." She added, "I heard them say that you opened a bar, why did I come here to become a teahouse." I took a sip of my cold tea: "Well, the bar is next door, and my friend and I made both shops." She looked up and looked around, "Well, it's not bad, why don't you invite me over for a drink?" I raised my head a little and was a little overwhelmed: "Ahh She said a little playfully: "Who said it, grow taller, okay." I nodded.
Having been chatting with Drifting Snow, and ignoring that Rollo next door had stopped singing, the landlord walked over from the bar: "There are a lot of guests, you should go." I looked at him and nodded, and the landlord also noticed the drifting snow sitting across from me, and looked at me again: "Are you convenient?" I got up and said to him, "What's inconvenient." After speaking, he turned to Piaoxue: "Let's go, didn't you say that I would invite you to a drink." She stood up and took her bag: "Well, let's go." β
Rollo, dressed in Christmas dress, was sitting on the side of the stage resting, and was looking up to drink water, when she saw me and Piaoxue coming from the teahouse, she hurriedly got up and walked up to the three of us, and grabbed my arm with an innocent face: "Who is this sister?" I inhaled nervously, "Well, let me introduce you, this is the resident singer of our bar, Rollo." This one is a friend of mine when I was a kid, Piaoxue. The landlord coughed: "Ahem, cough, my throat is uncomfortable, I'll go to Lin to ask for honey, you can talk." I swallowed my saliva again: "That, Luo Luo, it's time for you to rest, there are quite a lot of guests, Piaoxue, you find a place to sit first, I'll go see what to do." With that, I quickly hid at the bar.
The landlord and Lin saw me enter the bar and hurried over, and the landlord pointed to the second daughter who was still at the door and didn't know what to talk about: "What's the situation, you don't want to have a peaceful Christmas Eve." I shook my head and sighed: "Alas, don't mention it, Piaoxue was a friend of mine when I was a child, we haven't been in touch for a long time, and I don't know why she came today." Lin then asked me, "What about you over there?" I smacked him: "What's the matter, what's wrong with Rollo." The landlord sighed: "Don't pretend, anyone with a discerning eye can see how Luo Luo treats you, you were originally like leaving people, and now there is another childhood sweetheart." I also punched the landlord: "What words do you use here, what if you leave, what childhood sweethearts, me and her are both innocent, okay?" Lin looked at me teasingly: "If you say you are innocent, you are innocent, we believe it, you have to see whether they believe it or not." I looked outside the door, swallowed, and shook my head: "Get busy first, get busy first, which of you go and call Rollo back, it's time for her to sing." β
At 23:30 on December 24, 2018, there were still many customers in the bar, but it was not so busy, and Rolls-Roy had already left work, but she didn't leave, she was sitting at the table where we usually sit, and opposite her was the snow. They had been staring at each other for a long time, occasionally talking, but no one was around them, no one heard what they said. Tonight's landlord and Lin are also extraordinarily honest, and they look a little away from me, I look at these two "good brothers" who have no righteousness, and I can't wait to slap each of them.
I was serving a drink to a customer, and when I was back at the bar, I passed by them, and Rollo grabbed me and sat me down next to her, and when I sat down, she took my hand: "Honey, come with me for Christmas tonight." I pushed her hand away in a panic: "That, Lin and the landlord are very busy, I'll go and see it first." Drifting Snow didn't react, still smiling at me.
I was about to get up, Piaoxue also got up, she smiled at Luo Luo and said: "Don't worry, little sister, I won't rob your dear, I just haven't seen you for a long time, today I went back to Guilin and passed by here, just to come and see, I should go home too." After she finished speaking, she gave me a business card and said to me, "Keep in touch." β
Looking at the back of her leaving, it was still a little bleak in the past, and it is still now. She once said that she was an outcast, but no matter what time I looked at her back, a little down, but she still held her head high, she said: "The whole world can do without me, but I can't do without myself." β
At 3 a.m. on December 25, 2018, when the last table of guests left, Rollo came to me aggrievedly: "I'm sorry, I did too much today. I was wiping the glass, I was stunned, and then smiled again: "It's okay." She added, "I won't next time, and I don't know what's going on today." The landlord and Lin saw Rollo walk into the bar, and he had already walked away, and I looked at it and no one seemed to be able to help me, so I sighed: "She's just a friend of mine, we haven't seen each other for a long, long time, and I have a lot of questions for her." Luo Luo said happily: "It's okay, you don't have to explain it to me, I understand." I was stunned, and I didn't know why I had to explain it to her, but the words came out before I could think of them.
She walked in and wiped her glass with me, and all of a sudden, she turned to me and said, "It's Christmas." I nodded, "yes." She added, "Christmas should be with the people you love." I nodded again, "Yes." Her expression became serious: "I like you." I smiled, "I like you too, and since you came to the bar, you see that our business has improved." She asked in surprise, "Really, do you like me too?" I said, "Really, you see, the landlord and Lin like you too, you are our pistachio." She stomped her foot angrily: "I'm not talking about this liking." I was silent, I had never coped with such an occasion and did not know how to answer her.
Seeing that I was indifferent, she ran to the second floor in a rage, I didn't dare to look at her, but Yu Guang couldn't help but look in the direction she ran, and her action of wiping her tears at the corner of the stairs was also seen by Lin and the landlord. I sighed, and neither of us tried to comfort her, except for the sobs coming from the second floor.
Miss Q on Christmas Eve brought a group of friends to the bar, and the landlord pulled me and Piaoxue from the teahouse because of her arrival.
Miss Q brought all the friends this time were girls, about the same age as her, and the girls behaved as active at the table as they were. Among the girls was a boy wearing glasses, Svenwen, and the boy sat next to Miss Q, not playing with his mobile phone, not drinking, and holding a glass of water that seemed a little out of place. The first thing I did when I arrived at the bar was to serve them drinks, and it was again in the landlord's broken thoughts that I said yes.
"QQ, here we go again. I walked up to her with two dozen beers, and she quickly took out an empty glass, poured a full glass and handed it to me: "Come on, let's have a drink together." I put down my beer and took my glass. She put her hand on my shoulder and said to the girls, "Come on, come on, this is the owner of this bar, this bar is my base camp, you will come to play more in the future." A girl handed me a wine glass: "Boss Li is very handsome, I will give me a discount in the future." I touched her glass with my glass: "Definitely." After speaking, he raised the cup into the air: "Come on, come on, everyone, let's have a drink together, I hope you have a good time here tonight, Happy Christmas Eve!" After drinking together, I pointed to the boy and asked Miss Q: "Who is this, why don't you have a drink together." After listening to QQ, he hooked his hand to his shoulder: "Come on, let me introduce to you, this is my boyfriend, who is in college over there, my junior brother." When the girls heard this, they started to heckle again, and one of them said, "This college student won't have a drink with us." The girls coaxed: "Drink a cup, drink a cup, drink a ......" QQ took out an empty wine glass and poured a glass of wine: "Okay, okay, just a cup, he has to go to class tomorrow." After saying that, he put the wine glass in front of the boy, who looked at her with some embarrassment and helped his glasses. Miss Q whispered to him, "It's okay, just have a drink, don't spoil everyone's fun." The boy stood up with his glass in his hand, and drank the wine from the glass in one gulp. After drinking, the boy's face was a little uncomfortable, he coughed twice, smiled flatteringly and sat down.