That night, I listened to a song I liked over and over again, and then fell asleep in a natural state, until the next day I was awakened by the sound of birdsong.

I sat on the bed with my coat on, looking at the two sparrows chirping on the windowsill, the sun fell on the flower pot at the best angle, the plants in the pot were sprouting and blooming, I stared at it for a while, and then opened the skylight above my head with a bamboo pole, and the air full of spring smell immediately flowed into the house with the wind, which made me sober up a little.

Warm spring came again in the cycle of the four seasons, and then this morning was packed into the most beautiful gift for me and given to thousands of citizens in this city.

At half past nine, I had an extra 130,000 yuan in my account, which was the money that Ji Xiaowei paid for the coffee shop equipment and tables and chairs, I went to the bank to withdraw cash, and then called those members one by one, and finally paid off all the arrears when it was almost noon.

This also means that my coffee career is over, and there is no place called "Mood Coffee Shop" in Nanjing.

At noon, I cooked rice, stewed a tofu, covered the tofu in my rice bowl, and then came to the mood coffee shop with my rice bowl, I wanted to say goodbye to it in this way, although I knew that it didn't have a real soul, but I still wanted to do something. I hope to recall it years from now, and I remember this noon, when I sat in front of it and ate a bowl of tofu rice bowl.

The sunlight was a little harsh, so I put down my chopsticks and bowl, leaned against the wooden door and lit a cigarette, then closed my eyes and smoked......

I had no desires, my heart was like water, at least for this moment, and in my mind there was a picture of me standing by an abandoned city, shotgun in hand, smoking a low-quality cigarette, from early morning till dusk.

……

There was a sound of powerful footsteps coming from far and near, and even if I didn't open my eyes, I knew it was Jin Qiu, because there was a sound in her steps that only I could hear.

She came to me, I snuffed out the cigarette in my hand, and then looked at her, and she looked at the greasy rice bowl next to me, and she asked me, "Have you eaten lunch?" ”

"Make your own tofu rice bowl."

"Why did you get it here?"

"It's comfortable to sit here and eat."

Jin Qiu looked at the wooden door with the seal behind me, and I said to her again, "You came just in time, I have a little thing I want to ask you for help with." ”

"Huh?"

"Do you know anyone from the fire department? I didn't open the coffee shop, and the equipment and tables and chairs inside were sold to friends, so I had to apply for it and remove the seal. ”

"I can do this, I'll make a phone call and explain the situation." Jin Qiu said and took out her mobile phone from her bag, and then dialed it out, and after saying something similar to inviting you to dinner, she hung up the phone, and then said to me, "The seal can be removed." ”

……

When I opened the seal, my fingers trembled a little, but I hadn't entered the coffee shop for a few days, but some of the cabinets inside seemed to be old, so I just stood next to the bar and watched, and I couldn't make up my mind to let Ji Xiaowei come over and drag away the tables, chairs and equipment, I wanted to take a few more looks.

Jin Qiu has been standing beside me, I didn't smoke, she lit a lady's cigarette and smoked, she didn't have any facial expressions, the life and death of this coffee shop had nothing to do with her, of course she could ignore it like this.

Time passed like this, and I finally forcibly restrained the reluctance in my heart, and then called Ji Xiaowei and told him that he could come and tow these equipment and tables and chairs.

In the coffee shop, near the window, Jin Qiu and I sat facing each other, and she said to me, "Come to my house for dinner tonight." I can see that you're not in the mood to cook something delicious for yourself. If you want to eat, call my mom and tell her to buy it in the afternoon. ”

"Don't sympathize with me when I'm at my worst."

"If you think it's sympathy, then I'm speechless!"

I turned my head and inhaled twice through my nose, but I didn't speak.

Jin Qiu looked at me speechlessly, and said after a while: "Jiang Qiao, I know that this coffee shop has a lot of weight in your heart, but don't hate so many people because of this." In the past feudal society, even if it was the nine clans, there was still a time when there was extrajudicial mercy! ”

"Don't compare me to the emperor, I'm one, a little person, I don't dare to hate being so brutal!"

"You forced me to make this analogy, because you don't think about many things from a different perspective, such as when I ask you to come to my house for dinner, you only think that others are sympathetic to you, but you don't think it's a kind of concern...... I really don't believe it, you don't know what my parents have been treating you with all these years. ”

I looked at Jin Qiu and felt that the word shrewd was written on her face, so I replied: "Your parents treat me sincerely, I have no reason to doubt this." But you, I don't dare to say it. Sometimes I feel that you are very good to me, and you have taken our relationship for so many years to heart; But sometimes, I really feel that you will not hesitate to stand behind me and give me a knife when you need it. Because fame and fortune in the mall make people like you too cruel! ”

Jin Qiu's face became ugly, and she asked, "Are you persecuted paranoia?" ”

"Haven't I been persecuted in the matter of the coffee shop? …… You feel your conscience and say, if it wasn't for someone stabbing a knife, would I Jiangqiao be able to make some achievements in the coffee industry? ”

Jin Qiu became impatient: "Then you go to the people who persecuted you, and don't complain to me." ”

"Cut! …… I went to your company to complain to you, but you didn't find it yourself...... But one yard to one yard, you helped me solve the seal matter, I still have to thank you...... So I'll give you a face to eat at your house in the evening, let your mother cook more delicious food, and your father, don't save that bottle of Moutai and take it out to entertain me. ”

"Jiang Qiao, can you have a face?"

"No, who made you just say that I am the emperor, and it is your honor for me to go to your house for dinner."

"Up and down for five thousand years, I really haven't seen such a shameless emperor like you!"

……

An hour after Jin Qiu left, Ji Xiaowei came to my shop with someone from the moving company, and then moved all the equipment and tables and chairs I bought later to the truck outside the alley, and I watched as the "Mood Coffee Shop" became more and more empty, and finally there was only a bar counter and a few old cabinets.

Outside the coffee shop, Ji Xiaowei and I stood side by side, and I asked him, "Did you send Xiao Ai to the airport today?" ”

"Well, I'll come straight to you when I get back from the airport."

I subconsciously looked at the sky, I knew that Xiao Ai was already in a place far away from me at this time, but I would not forget my agreement to go to Taipei to find her after I was busy with the coffee shop. And I hope that this day will come sooner, because the thought of meeting her in a completely unfamiliar place makes me feel like a warm current welling up in my body.

I said to Ji Xiaowei with gratitude: "Thanks to your help this time, otherwise the coffee shop would have ended up in this situation!" ”

Ji Xiaowei patted me on the shoulder, smiled and replied, "No need to say thank you." Yuan Zhen's matter, I have always wanted to find an opportunity to repay your favor, and now that it has finally been paid off, we will not owe each other in the future. ”

I looked at Ji Xiaowei, although he smiled, but these words were not from the position of a friend at all, and he did not regard me as a friend. I think it's because Xiao Ai is too good to me, but he only thinks that Xiao Ai should be with Yuan Zhen, so his attitude towards me has gradually changed.

I don't dislike him, because for Yuan Zhen, he is a good brother with affection and sexuality, and he is also very honest, at least some things will be said on the surface, and he will not be caught off guard by the conspiracy brewing behind his back. Come to think of it, this is also related to his experience of playing rock music, and people like them are arrogant.

I nodded, then handed Ji Xiaowei a cigarette, without saying anything, Ji Xiaowei took my cigarette and left the alley with the last batch of workers who were moving the goods.

As soon as I was so calm, even the wind seemed to blow past me in a quiet manner.

After standing for a long time, I finally took a photo of the exterior of the shop while the sign of "Mood Coffee Shop" was still there, which was considered a souvenir. If you have the opportunity to meet Su Han again in the future, it will be regarded as a souvenir for her.

I feel a little sorry for her, but I really tried my best about the "Mood Coffee Shop", but I couldn't keep it, and I hope Su Han won't feel that he is not a person because of this.

At three or four o'clock in the sun, I came to the glass window, took a photo, and then wiped off the words that Xiao Ai had written with eyeliner to me.

I thought so, rather than being wiped off by others one day, it was better to come by myself, but I still couldn't help but feel a little sad and lost in my heart.

Looking through the glass window, I can see the pictures of me drinking beer and her drinking coffee with Chen Yi, but what can I do? Everything in this world has an end, and instead of suffering because of loss, it is better to put it in your heart and cherish it.

Maybe in the next life, another corner of the world, another "mood coffee shop" in another alley, will still stage a picture where every action is the same as the previous life, and the protagonist is still us.

……

At five or six o'clock, just as dusk came, I pushed out the bicycle that I hadn't ridden for a long time from the storage shed, and after pumping up, I rode down the alley to Lao Jin's house.

The light of the setting sun generously sprinkled on the buds of each plane tree, and the warm spring breeze blew in my face, blowing my coffee-colored jacket, and the shadows of the buildings quickly retreated behind me......

I inadvertently felt as if I had gone back to the days when I had just worked in Lao Jin Company more than 6 years ago. At that time, I had long hair, liked to wear a pair of cheap sunglasses given to me by Zhao Chu, and rode my bicycle freely through this tulip road, but I never thought about where my future was!

I saw myself again in the glass window of a shop, and I remembered the black and white I had experienced during this time. And my life has been refreshed in this black and white. I lost a Peugeot 508 and a café, and I owed nearly 100,000 yuan in debt, I seemed to have lost what I could lose at this stage, but I also won a chance to start over, so I didn't get too pessimistic about it, as long as I worked hard enough, I would definitely have another car, and a lovely woman who accompanied me to grow and age like my hometown.

When I came to Lao Jin's house, it was Lao Jin who opened the door for me, and the next moment there was a smell of braised pork ribs wafting in the kitchen, and Luo Sumei was busy standing under the kitchen lamp.

I looked around and asked Lao Jin, "Uncle, hasn't Jin Qiu come back yet?" ”

"I just called and said I was going to work overtime, and we were waiting for her while drinking."

I stared at Kim for a moment, making sure he didn't care about my last escape from his birthday party, and then I grinned at him. The next moment, my eyes swept over the wall with many pictures.

In those dense photos, I found my young and youthful self, it was my first time to perform a wedding, I wore the pair of sunglasses I liked, stood in the summer sun, holding a walkie-talkie nervously controlling every aspect of the wedding.

The wedding was a success, and Kim took me to a big drink that night, and then took me to the barber shop to cut off my long hair, and he told me: In the future, I will be a young man who can take charge of myself, and I must have a mature workplace image.

The corners of my eyes were a little hot, and then I realized that I had put too much effort and youth into the wedding industry, and this industry has also given back countless unforgettable memories for me, and I have become tenacious in this industry and not afraid of wind and rain......

I saw a picture of myself climbing to the top of the stage to hang a lantern, and I was smoking a cigarette and grimacing, with several notes on my crotch that had been pasted after losing a card game, and my much older colleagues leaning back and forth laughing at me.

I couldn't bear to shed tears in these warm memories, just silently lit a cigarette, and shrugged my shoulders with a smile.

I don't know when, Lao Jin put his hand on my shoulder and whispered to me: "Women are afraid of marrying the wrong man and men are afraid of entering the wrong industry, Jiang Qiao, come back to the wedding when you have enough, we all know that you have feelings for this industry, and you can help Jin Qiu well...... The company seems to be developing very well during this time, but there are also many customer feedback that there are problems with the execution of the wedding! What Jin Qiu lacks now is a person who can treat the company as his own career, you will be a good partner in your career, a good husband and wife in life, this is the greatest expectation of our fathers for the two of you! ”

My heart fluttered, and after the biggest setback of my life, I missed the wedding industry even more. But...... I promised to go to Taipei to find Xiao Ai, and I also looked forward to the beautiful picture of us doing a piano shop together.

If I go back to the wedding business, what reason do I have to go to her? Even in Lao Jin's expectations, Jin Qiu and I are going to become husband and wife, with such a name, even if Jin Qiu and I don't have the idea of becoming husband and wife, but others will definitely misunderstand, and isn't this misunderstanding a blasphemy for Xiao Ai?

In my silence, Luo Sumei brought the meals to the table one after another, and Lao Jin did not force me to give him an answer now, he took out his bottle of Moutai that he had treasured for many years from the wine cabinet.

Stimulated by this good wine and home-cooked food, I felt at home again!

Every time I am in this room, I don't feel like a helpless person, here are my "parents", and there is a woman who seems to be with me, but can also accompany me to watch movies and talk about life, they don't dislike me Jiangqiao's poor background, but the only regret is that there is really some lack of love flavor, and I can't accept a man-made love, it's not natural!