The light of the moon changed its angle and scattered through the skylight on the oval flower pot on the table, and then formed a small handful of beautiful scenery in my gaze, I stared at it for a long time before I remembered that I was still chatting with Xiao Ai on WeChat, and now the person who did not reply was me.

Maybe it was because I didn't reply for a long time, Xiao Ai sent me another message: "What are you busy with, are you still chatting with others?"

I filmed the picture of the moonlight falling on the flower pot with my mobile phone lens, and then sent it to Xiao Ai: "Just staring at this pot of flowers in a daze, in fact, I didn't do anything, what are you doing?"

Xiao Ai also sent me a photo of her wearing gym clothes, posing as a one-line horse in front of the floor-to-ceiling mirror, and then sent me another message: "I'm practicing, I'm afraid that in a few years, I won't be able to put my legs on your shoulders and deter you." ”

I smiled, it turned out that she was still thinking about the fact that I had gone to Nanyi to find her, she put her leg on my shoulder, and then forced me to write a guarantee, but I now recalled it and felt very distant, as if we were a pair of old friends who had experienced a lot.

Not to be outdone, I also took out the boxing gloves from the cabinet, posed for the blow, and used the time-lapse to take a very fierce picture of myself, and then sent it to her, I tried to discourage her from intimidating me. Actually, I've always had the idea that good men don't fight with women, otherwise I can carry her on my body and make her unable to move.

This night, we fell into a boring comparison, she actually found a Japanese katana, and then took a picture and sent it to me, I think she was suspected of intimidation, but I have no more powerful weapon to suppress her, and in the end I can only bow down.

After a moment of smugness, she said she was going to sleep, and we said goodnight, and the comic exchange ended, and my world finally changed from heavy to light. I was also tired, I didn't take off my sweater, I just pulled the quilt and fell asleep, and the boxing sleeve that I had just used to show off my might was next to my pillow, and I slept to death.

The next day, the weather was fine, and I sat in the small courtyard for breakfast, and the air smelled like earth and grass. This winter only had a few snowfalls at the beginning, and the smell of spring was already in place at the end of winter, so the temperature was close to 10 degrees Celsius this morning and as high as 15 degrees Celsius at noon.

After breakfast, I called the barista introduced by Ji Xiaowei, but no matter how I promised, the other party asked me to pay him a total of 160,000 yuan in basic salary for two years, but this request was really beyond my ability, and I had no way to come up with this amount of money.

In desperation, I finally remembered a classmate, his father is the president of our Agricultural Bank branch, I hope he can help me with this and help me borrow 200,000 yuan, and the remaining 40,000 yuan will be used as the next stage of liquidity for the coffee shop.

However, my classmates were embarrassed to tell me that it is very difficult to take out unsecured personal loans now, so I should think of other ways. I can also understand this, after all, we haven't been in touch for a long time, and our relationship has long been rusty, and I Jiangqiao has really not mixed well over the years, and it is human nature that friends are unwilling to take risks to help.

All morning, I just sat in the coffee shop and was worried, I hope I can contact Su Han at this time, "Mood Coffee Shop" is her hard work, if she knows that the coffee shop is in trouble, she will definitely not stand idly by, and she also has this ability, but unfortunately I can't contact her, she and Qiao Ye just disappeared from everyone's sight.

I don't know what Qiao Ye thinks, and if I know that Qin Miao is already pregnant with his child. Actually, I really sympathize with Qin Miao, and I also want to express my apologies to her, because I did have negligence, but she didn't give me this opportunity, she subjectively thought that the reunion of Su Han and Qiao Ye was caused by my Jiang Qiao fanning the flames behind my back.

I lay on my back on the couch and wiped my hands across my face, feeling a pang of loneliness in my heart

In the afternoon, the store manager had already sorted out all her things in the store, she came to me and said to me apologetically: "Boss, I have to go there tomorrow to report, so I have to go, thank you for your care and understanding for so long." ”

I forced a smile and said, "Your ability is very good, I hope that there will be more achievements in the chain coffee shop, I really can't provide you with a better stage here, so you don't have to be too apologetic." ”

The store manager nodded, and asked me with no peace of mind: "Boss, have you found a replacement for me here?"

"We are in contact, and it should be negotiated soon, don't worry."

The manager still looked at me apologetically, she didn't leave, and I asked her again, "Is there anything else?"

The store manager looked back at the two clerks behind him, and they also came to me and said to me in a squeaky voice: "Boss, we have been with the store manager for almost two years, and we don't want to stay here anymore when she leaves, we want to work in a new coffee shop with the store manager." ”

I felt an indescribable depression in my heart, this situation was unexpected but reasonable, just like I couldn't stop the store manager from going to a higher place, I couldn't stop them from pursuing a better working environment, but the coffee shop was paralyzed, and I didn't know how to save it

I looked at them for a long time, and finally waved my hand weakly, and said, "Let's go with your store manager, the store will receive this month's salary in a week." ”

"Boss, I'm sorry."

"It's okay, let's go, let's go now."

I don't know how long I sat there, but I finally posted a notice outside the door of the coffee shop that it was temporarily closed, then closed the door and closed all the curtains. I sat alone in the coffee shop that used to be bustling, and on the opposite wall there was a poster of the last successful marriage proposal for a client, but now it was just me and the cigarette burning at my fingertips.

The room grew darker and darker, and my world fell into an inextricable melancholy as the light disappeared, and my future was like a small boat with a fishing fire extinguished, drifting on the river without direction.

My phone hadn't been ringing for half a day, I seemed to have deviated from the real world, and I gradually had a feeling of drowning, but there was no life-saving straw that I could grasp.

I don't know how long it took, the window of the coffee shop was finally knocked on by someone outside, I looked in a daze, it was Zhao Mu knocking on the window, he had moved to the apartment assigned to him by the company the day before, I don't know what he came back for now.

I opened the door of the coffee shop, the two of us sat on the sofa facing each other, I finally didn't want to smoke, poured a glass of boiled water for him and myself, and then looked at the old street lamp outside the window with some scarelessness.

"Brother Qiao, I just saw a notice outside, why is the coffee shop temporarily closed?"

I replied weakly: "The store manager and clerk have changed jobs, and I haven't found a suitable one yet, so I'll close down first." ”

"I can't rest, the Chinese New Year is an important node, and my peers are doing various activities to ensure the performance at the end of the year. If the business closes, it will not be able to keep up with the footsteps of others, and the coffee shop can easily be replaced by competitors, so customer maintenance is very important."

"I understand what you're saying, but there's really nothing I can do now."

Zhao Mu was silent for a while and then asked me, "Brother Qiao, you asked Sun Gang for a loan today, just for the coffee shop?"

I looked at him suspiciously, wondering how he knew the news.

At this time, Zhao Mu took out a bank card from his bag and said to me: "Sun Gang called me, he said that he didn't help you with the loan, you seem to be very unhappy, so he asked me to persuade you, and then take him to apologize to you, everyone has been old friends for so many years, he doesn't want to be unhappy because of this matter." ”

"He thinks too much, I'm not upset, I can understand him about this."

Zhao Mu nodded, then put the bank card in his hand in front of me and said, "Brother Qiao, there is 100,000 yuan in this card, you can use it first." ”

"Where did you get this money?"

Zhao Mu smiled and said: "There was a person who had been in contact with me before, wanting to buy my family's old house, but I didn't sell it if I wanted to keep a thought, today after listening to Sun Gang talk about your difficulties, I found that person, and signed a transfer contract with him in the afternoon, he advanced a part of me first, and when all the money behind is in place, I will give you another 100,000." ”

"How much did you sell the house?"

"320,000."

I was anxious for a while, and said to Zhao Mu: "Why are you selling it so cheaply, if there is a possibility of demolition here in the future, he can't buy it for 1 million."

Zhao Mu smiled and replied: "Who is sure about the demolition of this thing, you are so difficult now, I must help you find a way to find this money." Moreover, I also see that people should look forward, if your parents and brother know your difficulties, they will also support my decision, because without you, there would be no me today, so sell the old house and sell it, just take it as a new beginning"

"You are confused, things are far from being as bad as you think, there is really no way, I can still sell the car, how can you sell the house"

Zhao Mu looked at me, and after a long time, he replied in a low voice: "Brother Qiao, we are brothers in this world, if I see you in trouble but I don't help, I can't pass my own level You provided me with college to cultivate today's me, then I will definitely be your most solid backing, so these are what I must do."

I was moved by an indescribable feeling in my heart, but I still feel that the house was sold too much loss, today's Tulip Road is very different from the Tulip Road a few years ago, I estimate that the person who bought Zhao Mu's house is the picture that there will be a possibility of demolition here, so I said to Zhao Mu: "The house is really sold at a loss, take advantage of the fact that there is no transfer, pay some liquidated damages to get the house back, I will figure out how to do this money myself"

Zhao Mu shook his head, and he replied with a painful expression: "Are we suffering less losses in this world, there are really a lot of losses, I have long regarded these losses as the motivation for my own struggle, one day I will get back the one I lost Brother Qiao, I should start a new life, this tulip road should also disappear from my life, I don't want to live in those painful memories of the past."

Speaking of this, Zhao Mu finally smiled, he patted me on the shoulder, and said: "I have to work overtime tonight, I will go back to the company first, and I must tell me if there are any difficulties in the future, I don't want to be so divided between our brothers."

I followed Zhao Mu to the outside of the coffee shop, and there was an inexplicable feeling in my heart, I was moved by what Zhao Mu did for me today, but I was also sad for his change. This tulip road has been with us for many years, how can it be that just by selling the house, it will disappear from our lives

Or, it's just that I think so, and Zhao Mu can really forget about the one thing here, because his future must not be here

Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and I want to take a day off. Recently, it's basically a 4000-word chapter, which is equal to the previous two chapters, so there's no less change. In addition, there will be a big turning point in the future, so it also takes time to think about it, and then deal with it and finally wish everyone more and more handsome and beautiful in the new year