The summer sun scorched the red city walls, the black roads, the tireless sound of cicadas, and the black cats curled up in the shadows under the national acacia trees, squinting and not wanting to move.

Fan Yimin walked out of the headquarters building of "Xi Yu", walked quickly to a coffee shop called "Time Corridor" not far away, pushed the door in, and the induction doorbell issued a mechanical "welcome" call, the store has a low-key face, the area is not large, less than 20 square meters, and there is only an open bar counter and a dozen or so bar stools inside.

Fan Yimin glanced up at Eric, the owner and barista standing next to the bronze metal coffee machine, and said, "Eric, the old rules ......"

"Okay!" the blonde Eric spat out an authentic Beijing accent, and then began to get busy, at four o'clock in the afternoon, the store was empty, Fan Yimin was bored to watch the handsome Eric grind the roasted blue-green cooked beans into powder, and the small coffee shop was suddenly filled with the charming aroma of lemon citrus.

Eric is very skillful in washing and placing the coffee pot and filter cup, taking a hand-poured pot with a thin spout, filling it with water to eighty, and heating it over an open flame. While brewing coffee, I chatted with my sister, who came to her shop on time every afternoon.

Eric said with a smile: "Sister Fan, it is estimated that you will have to buy afternoon tea in another place next month." ”

Fan Yimin was a little surprised and said, "What's the matter, business is not good, don't want to do it?"

Eric shook his head and said, "No, business is actually pretty good, but I have to go back to the UK, and my dad is not in good health....."

Fan Yimin said "oh" and said: "That's time to go back, we have a saying in Huaxia: Parents are here, don't travel far, you must have a way to travel, filial piety is the first!"

Eric smiled and said, "I know what Confucius said in the Analects of Liren.....

Fan Yimin said with some surprise: "Yo! I didn't expect you to know all the Analects!"

"I'm a graduate of Peking University..... said Eric took out a fan-shaped filter paper from the coffee holder on the right side, attached it to the filter cup, poured in the freshly ground coffee powder, and poured water from the pot, "Puff puff", the coffee powder swelled rapidly in the hot water, and after a while, a cup of fresh and transparent black coffee was packed into a white paper cup, covered and put aside.

Fan Yimin asked with great interest: "You brew coffee so well, you actually graduated from Peking University, what major did you study?"

"I'm studying international relations! As for making coffee, it's just a hobby!" Eric returned without looking up, and then he started making avocado and prawn salad, in addition to coffee, single-item, fancy, pour-over, ice drops, as well as a limited number of fruit salads and sandwiches of various flavors, all made by the owner and clerk Eric alone.

Fan Yimin asked with some surprise: "International relations is such a lofty profession! Why did you come here to open a coffee shop?"

Eric took out the avocado from the glass cabinet with plastic gloves and began to slice it neatly, and when he heard Fan Yimin's question, he paused slightly and said, "Actually, I'm also curious, why your boss can drink black coffee for more than two years without changing the taste..... This may be understandable, I don't know if this is a compliment or an insult to my cooking skills after eating avocado shrimp salad and tuna sandwich for two years and never changing the menu...... To be honest, I'm very curious about your boss, and if he's a woman, I'd even wonder if she's interested in me....."

Fan Yimin smiled and shook his head: "Then you really think too much! My boss is a weirdo!"

Eric glanced at Fan Yimin, who was flat, and said, "Weirdo? This reminds me that when I attended a 'festival based on language', I entered an anthropology tent, and the middle-aged uncles and aunts in it were wearing white masks with serious expressions....."

Fan Yimin said: "A festival based on language?

Eric shrugged his shoulders and said, "A gathering of philosophers and literati!, one of the stranger races in the world....."

Fan Yimin smiled: "No, no, my boss is not this kind of weird..... She's like a precise timepiece..... Can you imagine a person who never looks at a watch, but knows exactly what time it is, right down to the minute, and her life is more like a timepiece..... The reason why I don't say about clocks is because she is not measuring time, but she is counting time, a destroyer of a natural state...."

Eric couldn't imagine Fan Yimin's description, and said, "Your description is too profound, but I guess it must be the very stereotypical meaning of his life, right? Punctual like a clock, for example, asking you to buy afternoon tea!"

Fan Yimin said: "Actually, it's not afternoon tea, this is her dinner..... My boss arrives at the office at 8:30 every morning, rain or shine, with a glass of chocolate milk, chicken breast, vegetables and rice at noon..... Afternoon and evening is you.... She has been eating since I started working as her secretary, and she will leave the company at half past ten in the evening.... Normally, she doesn't go out much in the office during the day! I can't see any mood changes on her face, it's as stable as the surface of a diamond.....

Eric put the cut avocado, cherry tomatoes, kale, and bell peppers into the plastic box, his face showed some exaggerated surprise, obviously he felt that this was not very strange, far less mysterious than Fan Yimin's description, but he still cooperated: "What a weird person, I really don't enjoy life at all! This reminds me of our British butler, with a very clean beard, white gloves, a serious tuxedo, a white shirt and a black bow tie that is meticulously tied every day... Do you know why we are the only English butlers who are famous, because it is impossible for the rest of the continent to be butlers, they belong to the kind of race that cannot control the emotions that happen to be unique to us in the UK....."

Fan Yimin smiled, not explaining that her boss was a young, pretty, girl like a light in the dark, but just watched Eric put the avocado prawn salad and tuna sandwich into a clear plastic lunch box, then put it in a plastic bag and handed it to her.

Fan Yimin took the plastic bag, stood up from the barstool, and asked before turning to leave, "Are you going to close the door at the end of the month?"

Eric nodded, then pointed in the direction of the "Xiyu" headquarters building and said, "Well, I'll go back in September..... I'm going to go back to the Hagami concert! I've been doing business with his company for so long, so I have to give back a little bit!"

Fan Yimin smiled and said, "I'm also from Xiyu!"

Eric said as he cleaned the coffee pot, "Guessed, so I didn't ask!"

Before walking out of the café, Fan Yimin asked again, "By the way, you haven't said why you want to open a coffee shop here?"

Eric looked at the glare of sunlight outside the window and said, "I passed by here for more than two years, and I saw a girl with burning silver hair, driving a mini past me..... I was shocked, but the car disappeared so quickly that I stayed there for too long, so I had to open a coffee shop here to see if I could meet her..... Obviously, the capital is so big that I haven't been able to see that girl once..... It's a shame that I can't wait any longer!"

Fan Yimin knew who Eric was talking about when she heard the silver-white hair and mini, but she didn't feel shocked, for a girl like Su Yuxi, love at first sight is not worth making a fuss, when he Eric didn't see Su Yuxi's appearance too clearly, he came here to open a coffee shop, it was still a little touching, so she hesitated and asked, "What time does your store open?"

Eric wondered why Fan Yimin suddenly asked this, but he still replied disapprovingly: "From half past nine in the morning to half past nine in the evening, it is open 12 hours a day..."

Fan Yimin sighed inwardly: "Could it be that this is the legendary fate?" She didn't plan to tell Eric that the coffee and food he made every day were the person he was looking for, she knew that this was the most perfect ending for Eric, not to mention that with her understanding of Su Yuxi, if she did more, she might be fired, she didn't want to lose such a lucrative job for an impossible story.

So Fan Yimin held the plastic bag in one hand and the doorknob in the other and said, "That.... Goodbye Eric!"

Eric stood inside the bar and turned to look at her, waving "Goodbye!"

Fan Yimin pushed open the door, the mechanical "thank you for coming" sound out, the weather outside is sultry, the capital in summer is like a huge steamer, although the sun at four o'clock is a little westerly, but the spicy is still the same, Fan Yimin left this coffee house with a very stylish decoration, and walked quickly to the "Xiyu" headquarters building.

After swiping the card in, he came directly to the 11th floor, Su Yuxi's office was in an almost closed corner, and he had to swipe the card once to enter here, and ordinary people couldn't get in at all, and even except for the high-level, no one knew that there was such a place in the headquarters of "Xiyu".

The area of this exclusive area of Su Yuxi is very large, with a living room, a gym and a shower, and the decoration is mainly gray and white, except for some green plants, it looks very cold, and it doesn't look like a female boss's office at all.

Fan Yimin stood at the door of Su Yuxi's office and knocked on the door, Su Yuxi didn't press the door button, she couldn't get in.

Waiting for the sound of "drip", Fan Yimin carried black coffee, sandwiches and avocado and green shrimp salad into the air-conditioned office, her beautiful boss who didn't look like a mortal was looking at the computer intently, and said indifferently without looking at her: "It's hard!"

Fan Yimin smiled and said, "This is what I should do....." Then she subconsciously said: "Then it's nothing, I'll go out first, Miss Su!" After speaking, she realized that it seemed that every day, the dialogue between the two people was exactly the same.

Su Yuxi nodded and did not speak.

When Fan Yimin walked out of the office, he couldn't help but ask, "Miss Su, there is something I want to tell you?"

Surrounded by three computer screens, Su Yuxi moved his gaze to Fan Yimin's body, and his eyes were like a javelin projected into Fan Yimin's pupils, and he said softly: "Say it!"

She regretted talking a little at this time, but she couldn't stop talking at this time, so she smiled reluctantly and said cautiously: "It's this shop that buys coffee every day, the owner is going back to the UK next month, don't do it, you have to change the store....."

Su Yuxi took his gaze back, lowered his head and continued to look at the computer screen and said, "Then go to the coffee shop next to the Zhongguancun Telephone Bureau...."

Fan Yimin said: "Okay, Miss Su, do you need to change the menu? I see that you have eaten these things for more than two years!"

Su Yuxi said lightly: "No, the menu I set is based on science, chicken breast and rice are easy to digest by the human body, and can provide rich protein, but also help muscle repair, especially after experiencing high-intensity exercise, protein supplementation is also very important." Salad can provide me with sufficient vitamins and antioxidants, the work during the day is harder, the metabolism will be faster, so I need additional diet to fuel the body, the amino acids in chocolate milk can improve immunity, black coffee contains a lot of magnesium, potassium, sodium, vitamin B1 and other important nutrients necessary for the human body, which is of great help to the intake of nutrients.... So I don't need to change menus....."

Fan Yimin didn't expect Su Yuxi to answer in such detail, and after a long pause, he reacted, and said a little nervously: "Okay, I understand, Miss Su, then I won't bother you!"

Su Yuxi said "um", and continued to look at the picture on the computer screen, these agents from Neon were trying to infiltrate Cheng Xiaoyu's side, among them was a woman named Asuka Junsa who had entered the 'Shanghe' company and became a staff member of the 'Shanghe' International Department, and the agent codenamed "Crow" entered the Xichu Huaxia Company under the pseudonym Suzuki Hao.

These neon people don't dare to blatantly assassinate her brother, they not only want to kill with a single blow but also want to be quiet, which is their biggest weakness.

Su Yuxi is laying a trap so that this group of people can be caught in one go, although it can't be done once and for all, but at least it is a deterrent to the rats hiding in the shadows.

On August 29th, there is still more than a week before the Beijing Bird's Nest concert of the "Idol Project"....

.......

In fact, this concert should not be called an "idol project" concert, after the "Huaxia Record Industry Association" and "Huaxia Performance Industry Association" announced the super cast of the 10th anniversary concert of Huaxia Music, the media and the public were keenly aware that something was wrong.

Because this concert is not to mention the concert planned by the idol on the same day, the choice of venues is also quite intriguing, one is held in a new landmark - the Bird's Nest, and a symbol of old glory - Gongti..... A situation of Mars colliding with the Earth has been brewed!

These days, ticketing websites and major music software are all promoting the 10th anniversary concert of Chinese music, and advertisements are flying all over the sky, but Cheng Xiaoyu's "The World Meets Again" has no movement.