Chapter 2 Have You Always Been So Kind?
Lin Changan pulled the electric switch of the bar on the first floor, and the entire small bar suddenly lit up with a soft yellow.
He glanced back at Mei Mu'an, who was still wearing a red cheongsam standing outside the door, and felt a little in a trance, as if he had dreamed of a woman wearing a red cheongsam singing in a bar at some point.
"Sea Spirit?"
"Whatever you call it, if you are close to the sea, you will be called Hailing. ”
Lin Changan skipped the name lightly, but Mei Mu'an stood outside the store for a while before entering.
The bar is not large, and the overhead lamp is placed in a decorative bird's nest, and although it is a soft yellow lamp, you can clearly see the blue on the wall, and the transparent window next to the door looks out to the sea.
Mei Mu'an thought that the place where the wine was sold was probably very dark, but she didn't expect that it was both bright and comfortable.
"Since you don't want to say what happened to you, if you want to hide with me for a few days, you can do it. I'm not a person who is afraid of things, if your feet are inconvenient, you should go up and rest, here I can come by myself. ”
Lin Changan turned around to wipe the table with a rag but heard the bell hanging on the door ringing, who would come over at this time.
"Boss Lin!"
Lin Changan frowned when he heard this title, he hated being called like this the most, thinking that the singer in the store was going to talk to him about the salary increase again.
"Huba, what's wrong? Came over so early today?"
"Yo! Boss Lin, I'm here to tell you, I won't be singing with you from today onwards! It's true that I can't feed my stomach, but if you have a busy day in the future, I can still come to help you! That's it!"
Lin Changan looked at Huba, who was carrying an electric guitar diagonally, shook his long hair and was about to turn away, Lin Changan threw the rag in his hand on the table, stepped forward and grabbed Huba's arm.
"No, Boss Lin, what's the matter? Don't you want to get together and disperse?"
"I heard that the girlfriend you made is pregnant? I know your difficulties, my small shop has really not been doing well recently, and I won't stop you if you want to leave! I still have a few hundred yuan here, you take it and buy some nutritional products for your daughter-in-law first! I advise you to drink less alcohol and smoke less! Take it, take it!"
Mei Mu'an looked coldly at Lin Changan who insisted on stuffing the crumpled hundreds of yuan into Huba's hand, and suddenly remembered that after his father died of illness that day, the second uncle swept his seriously ill mother out of the house with himself in order to be greedy for those money.
"You..."
"Look at what!"
Mei Mu'an leaned on the high seat on the side and looked around coldly, after Lin Changan sent Huba away, he saw Mei Mu'an's eyes were full of blood, looking at him but he was pretending to be so fierce.
"That guy is singing from you?"
"Well, the resident singer, a few new bars opened in front of the beach a few days ago, and I heard that there seem to be dancing performances! ”
Lin Changan didn't know why he wanted to tell her this, but she walked to the piano and stretched out her hand to touch it, and then he saw her hand clearly.
She was very fair-skinned, and her fingers reaching the piano were extremely slender, and her bones were distinct, as if she were an artist who specialized in playing the piano. It's just that she can't guess it in her eyes, and when she glances at it casually, she can always see something similar to sadness beyond the coldness.
"Can you play the piano?"
Sure enough, he didn't answer.
Lin Changan turned around and concentrated on wiping the table, Hailing Bar was built by himself with some money he had saved when he graduated, and he didn't have much ambition, but he just wanted to raise himself leisurely by the sea until he was old.
Now I didn't expect the pressure of competition to be so great, but even the singers in the store patted their butts and left.
"Let's jump together!"
The bar not far away began to organize people to dance before it was dark, and Lin Changan looked at the infinitely amplified sunset on the sea, which automatically filtered the rattling electronic music.
"Do you have a microphone?"
"Microphone? Yes! What are you doing outside the store? Do you want to quarrel with people?"
Lin Changan looked at Mei Mu'an, who was wearing a red cheongsam in front of him, and felt a little funny when he said this, even if he went to fight, he couldn't let such a beauty quarrel.
"Move out!"
Mei Mu'an twisted his waist and endured the pain in his ankles and stepped on his high heels loudly, Lin Changan looked at Mei Mu'an who walked out against the light, and his thin body looked heroic in the sun.
"Put the microphone here and bring me a chair. ”
Mei Mu'an also took the violin from the stage at some point, Lin Changan watched her try to tune the strings with some disgust, and moved a chair to put the megaphone closer to the beach.
In the distance, the sound of electronic dance music was loud, and a group of coolly dressed men and women cheered and danced there. Mei Mu'an sat down calmly in a high chair and gracefully placed the violin around his neck.
Lin Changan leaned against the door and looked at Mei Mu'an, who was wearing a red cheongsam and was a little out of place with this small beach, the golden light of the sunset wrapped this thin person in a sprinkled manner, and his back looked very resolute and strong.
"Nightshade, I'll sing for you!"
Lin Changan always felt that the sound of the megaphone he bought was too quiet, but when the people on the beach stopped and approached the store, he realized that it was the problem of the person who was singing.
Mei Mu'an's voice was clear, his eyes were indifferent, and he glanced at the people who were listening to his singing, and after singing for a while, he stopped to play the violin, and his fingers were slender and white, as if he was holding the bow very freely.
"Yo! Boss Lin is terrible, where can you find such a powerful singer?"
The owner of another coffee shop not far away came over to say hello to Lin Changan, but Lin Changan didn't answer but nodded.
"People are good-looking, they can play musical instruments, and they have such a good voice. Boss Lin spent a lot of money, right?"
"I love the night, and I love the nightingale singing. I love the flower-like dream even more, and embrace the nightshade..."
Lin Changan beat along with Mei Mu'an's singing, not noticing what the person next to him said. Mei Mu'an straightened her waist and played the violin very skillfully, and the electronic music in the distance seemed to be filtered out, and only her "Night Fragrance" could be heard.
"What time of day does it open?"
"Huh?"
Mei Mu'an turned around and looked at Lin Chang'an who was leaning against the door, Lin Chang'an didn't react for a while, but Mei Mu'an saw the blue wooden board on the door at a glance.
"Eight o'clock in the evening at the Hailing Bar!"
Mei Mu'an stepped on his high heels and endured the pain and got down from the chair, and there was some familiar and somewhat unfamiliar applause, strange about these people who were not in the same world as themselves.
"What are you waiting to see me do?
Mei Mu'an glanced at Lin Changan with some impatience, and entered the bar again with his violin. Lin Changan glanced down at his watch, it was exactly 6:15 at this time, and seeing that the spectators outside were already taking pictures, Lin Changan felt a little clear in his heart, and sure enough, it was still a beautiful woman with an effect.
"I didn't expect you to do this. ”
"I told you, you won't let you suffer if you take me in!"
Lin Changan was noncommittal, walked to the bar and took out a set of transparent tea sets, took out a bottle of dried jasmine from the cabinet on the side, and the boiling water made the already dry jasmine bloom softly.
"Drink a little! I just bought this jasmine a few days ago, and no one has drunk it yet!"
Mei Mu'an glanced at the petals churning up and down in the transparent tea set, he hadn't drunk flower tea seriously for a long time.
Lin Changan poured the tea before pushing it to Mei Mu'an, the two sat face to face, Lin Changan looked down at the boiling water for a while, and then looked directly at Mei Mu'an.
"I'm not a harsh person, and since you said you were going to help me, I just happened to be short of manpower. But I'll still pay for it, and I'll still let you live in the upstairs room, and I won't force you to keep you if you want to leave when. Do you think that's okay?"
"Have you always been so kind?"
Mei Mu'an laughed and revealed a small pear vortex, Lin Changan looked at her and laughed, this girl is not very old, but she has wrapped herself into a hard person.
"I'm not kind, I don't have a bad conscience when I do what I should do, and I always feel that I have taken advantage of others. ”
Lin Changan stretched out his hand to help Mei Mu'an add a little more tea, and Mei Mu'an stared at the calloused between the thumb and index finger on his hand for a while before holding the teacup.
"You said you used to be a doctor?"
"Well, I studied clinical, but then I didn't make a reason, so I went back here to open this Hailing, and my life was comfortable. ”
Mei Mu'an didn't answer, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, Lin Changan looked at the woman in front of her, and was a little curious, she was not old but she wore heavy makeup, her body was full of skin injuries and her eyes were very sharp, but she seemed to have been rolling in society for a long time.
"What do you look at me for? Think I'm good-looking. ”
The last sentence is not an interrogative sentence but a declarative sentence, but in Lin Changan's opinion, she didn't seem to be happy when she said this, but with a little disappointment.
"You're good-looking, but I look at you because I think you're weird, and everyone is curious, and I'm no exception. ”
Mei Mu'an didn't answer, picked up the jasmine tea and turned the chair to look at the already dark sea, and the soft light on her red cheongsam became more and more amorous.
"No matter how kind you are, you are a man, and you are lustful for a man!"
"yes. ”
Lin Changan's words seemed to sigh somehow, Mei Mu'an leaned against the bar, one hand supported his chin and looked at the beach that had darkened outside, feeling a little funny in his heart.
Sure enough, no matter where you are, you will offend people.