After Zhao Mu stopped the car, Xiao Ai opened the back door of the car and walked out of it, Zhao Mu also got out of the car at the same time, Xiao Ai seemed to say "thank you" to him, and then walked to my side.

I also walked towards her, and we stopped together more than ten meters away from Zhao Mu, and the atmosphere was a little awkward for a while. I hate to hold Zhao Mu in my heart, and then talk to him about all my thoughts, but I can't say it when it comes to my mouth.

In fact, if the three of us met at another time and in a different way, we might not have the process we have now.

Zhao Mu looked at me who was standing with Xiao Ai, and finally chose to be silent, and he sat back in his car. When the car turned around and the lights pierced the darkness of the night, I felt a little lonely.

Zhao Mu and I are like two abandoned birds in a bird's nest, in the cold winter, we huddled together to keep warm, sharing the joy brought by a bug, but now he flew away first.

Perhaps, we are destined to be lonely from the moment we are born, and I should accept it rationally, rather than subjectively magnifying this feeling. It's not good for me at all, because there will always be a part of my life that is so wet and desolate that you have to walk on your own, and no one else wants to walk with you.

I turned to look at Xiao Ai, and finally handed her the soothing porridge in my hand, and said, "I just bought it on the road, eating it will help you sleep, you can eat it while it's hot." ”

Xiao Ai took it from my hand and didn't speak.

I stood silent for a while, and then said to her, "After eating and resting early, I'll go back first." ”

"Don't rush to leave just yet."

I stopped and looked back at her, "Is there anything else?" ”

She looked at the soothing porridge in her hand and said to me, "Let's eat together." ”

……

There is a bench in the open space in front of the hotel, and next to the bench is an old-fashioned street lamp, which spreads on the ground like running water. I don't know if it's part of the street or the hotel, but it's a bit of a style in the moment.

A porridge corresponds to a spoon, Xiao Ai ate half of it first, and then gave me the remaining half, she said to me: "If you don't dislike me for eating the rest, you can eat it." ”

"I don't dislike it."

"Then you can eat." Xiao Ai said as he wiped the spoon he had eaten with a paper towel and handed it to my hand.

As I ate, I asked her, "What do you say about your dad?" ”

"The last trial will not be held in public the day after tomorrow, and the verdict will come out on that day...... Zhao Mu took me to meet the lawyer who defended my father today. ”

I was a little puzzled: "How does he know so much insider?" ”

"A lot of his current work is directly connected with Li Zishan, and it is normal to know some insiders who don't know...... The lawyer who defended my dad was known to no one except a few of the top of the group. ”

I nodded, I could already see some clues about Li Zishan's weight on Zhao Mu before, I paused for a moment, and then asked her, "What did the lawyer say?" ”

"My dad has subjectively pleaded guilty, and if the defense is good, it may be a few years less, but it will not be less than six years, because the minimum sentencing standard for this type of case is six years."

I nodded and comforted softly, "If you are busy during this time, I will take care of the piano shop." ”

"Things have developed to this point, in fact, I can't do anything for him, all the busyness, worry and anxiety, just because I am his daughter."

I looked at Xiao Ai, and my heart was touched by her words, I don't know, she saw the root of those troubles in the mortal world too thoroughly at a young age, is it gain or loss? ……

After a slight pause, she turned her head to look at the hotel behind her and said to me: "You can help me find a house tomorrow, it's a waste of money to stay in a hotel like this." ”

I nodded, and then said to her, "Why don't you move to me, there's a spare room anyway." ”

Xiao Ai looked at me, and I thought she would agree, because in my eyes she was not a very conformist woman, not to mention that we only lived under the same roof, but we did not share the same room.

But she shook her head and said to me, "I don't want to? ”

"Why?"

"The whole alley is full of your neighbors...... If I moved in, everyone would think you had a woman to live with...... I'm nothing, but if one day, we can't be together. You are left alone here, living in the eyes of the neighbors who think you once had a girlfriend, and then thinking about the bits and pieces of living together, you must be very painful! ”

I don't know why she suddenly told me this, but my mood was so low that I said to her after a while, "Why are you talking to me about this, and why do you think we can't be together?" ”

Xiao Ai looked at me, and then said to me with a relieved smile: "I just said what if...... Besides, in the world of feelings, there is always a union and a part, and you don't really believe in what lasts forever in your heart, right? …… Because our parents are the best example of this! ”

I crossed the fingers of my hands together, then lowered my head, smiled self-deprecatingly, and said, "Yes...... I have a few catties and taels in Jiangqiao, and I know very well myself...... If one day you feel that I am boring as a person and you want to leave, I will wish you happiness. ”

Xiao Ai didn't say anything until I looked up at her, and then she looked at the word "dream" hanging on the second floor of the hotel, bent into inferior neon signs, and said to me: "Why do you think that the person who wants to let go is me, not yourself?" …… I'm actually a very transparent woman, and you have too many secrets. ”

"What secrets can I have!"

Xiao Ai sat down beside me again, she leaned on my shoulder, closed her eyes and whispered: "Jiang Qiao, the future time is so long, it will definitely not be smooth sailing, so no matter what happens in the future, let's be a person who is not light and sad, okay?" ”

"From the day I started living on my own, I was immune to all poisons!"

Xiao Ai smiled slightly, and I put my arm around her shoulder, so she got closer to me, and my lips seemed to touch the skin on her face, and it didn't seem to ......

……

The next morning, I woke up feeling a little groggy. Because the quality of sleep last night was so poor, I kept thinking about Xiao Ai's conversation with myself before I fell asleep; After falling asleep, I started dreaming again, and I can't remember the bits and pieces of dreams, but they consumed too much of my energy.

With a heavy yawn, I sat up from my bed and went about my day.

In the afternoon, I made an appointment with Yu Xin to a very business café on Tulip Road, and we drank coffee. After chatting a few words, I cut to the chase and handed her the class schedule that Xiao Ai had made, and asked her to see if there was anything that needed to be adjusted.

Yu Xin made a slight adjustment according to her habitual schedule, and then gave me a copy of her own personal information, and in the future, she and Xiao Ai will become the only two teachers in the piano shop.

After chatting about things at work, we started chatting again, and she asked me, "Brother Jiangqiao, how are you and Zhao Mu?" ”

I sighed, "What can I do for a while?" …… It's not like I was a kid and I was fighting! ”

Yu Xin self-examined: "Blame me that day, if I hadn't called Zhao Mu for mentioning yì, maybe this embarrassing thing wouldn't have happened...... Hopefully it didn't cause too much trouble between you and Xiao Ai! ”

I shook my head to show that Xiao Ai and I were not affected by this incident, and then I asked her, "What about you?" What do you think now? ”

"Me? …… I'll just leave it at that...... Actually, before this, I really didn't know that he was so affectionate to Xiao Ai, Brother Jiangqiao, can you tell me what kind of person Zhao Mu is he? ”

I thought about it for a moment and replied, "Maybe it has something to do with the environment in which he grew up, and it is completely impossible for him to give up what he has decided...... I remember when he was in high school, the school stipulated that as long as he could get the first place in the monthly examination twice in a row, he would have a scholarship of 3,000 yuan. It happened that the day before the exam, he had a high fever, vomiting and diarrhea, and the whole person was in a state of collapse, but he still gritted his teeth and insisted on completing all the subjects, and he also got the first place, and the teachers and students of the whole school felt incredible...... Later, he had the nickname of Zhao Gang......"

Yu Xin fell into silence, and said for a long time: "But what Xiao Ai believes in will not change, otherwise Senior Brother Yuan Zhen has been a brother and sister friendship with her for so many years, and she has never been Yuan Zhen's girlfriend for even a day...... Brother Jiangqiao, say a word, don't be angry. In the eyes of outsiders, is Xiao Ai the most compatible with Senior Brother Yuan Zhen? …… If she is willing, she and Senior Brother Yuan Zhen will go to Japan, where the two of them will play music together, and they will not be materially worry-free, not the life of a fairy couple, but what she finally decided is you...... So the matter of feelings is the most unreasonable to talk about...... Who loves whom, who doesn't, everyone put their minds at ease, and one day time will give us the answer. ”

I nodded and replied, "Yes, your attitude is worth learning from. ”

……

In the evening, I found a one-bedroom, one-living room and one-bathroom house on Tulip Road through the Guò Tongcheng website, and finally rented it for 800 yuan a month.

When I asked Xiao Ai, she said she could move here tonight, and she asked me to send her the address, and then we met at the door of the community.

I feel a little steady, Xiao Ai and I are about to work hard for the piano shop, how could she leave lightly?

I should be nicer to her, better than before! If in the eyes of others, she and Yuan Zhen are like fairy couples together, then with me they are the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother, anyway, they are more advanced!

After renting the house, I immediately went to the supermarket to buy daily hygiene products such as mops and dustpans for her, and then cleaned the house inside and out.

I think it's going to be a good night out, because Xiao Ai is going to be living on Tulip Road again, with our favorite convenience stores and abandoned textile mills, and sweet corn on the cob!