I sat down in the opposite seat across from Jinqiu, took a bottle of beer from her, and looked at her face, which looked a little blurry in the various lights. After a moment, he said to her, "Remember you wouldn't have come to this kind of place before. ”

She looked at the wine in her glass and lost her mind, as if she didn't want to talk to me.

I picked up the beer bottle and took another sip, not too embarrassed by her non-answer, but I felt that she looked very bad, and she had lost her previous sharpness and aura that could handle everything.

At this time, she said to me: "When people are free, they always have to find something to do, and I think the bar is a good place." Here, I don't have to think about who I am or what I should achieve, just look at the group of people in front of me crazy. ”

I looked back at the light-drenched dance floor behind me, then smiled and replied, "But in the end, you have to be sober, right?" ”

"I don't know."

Jin Qiu's negative appearance made me feel difficult to communicate with her, maybe what I could do was to accompany her to finish drinking the wine in front of her, and then persuade her to go back to rest earlier.

I don't know how long we stayed in the bar, but Jin Qiu and I finally finished the beer on the table. She beckoned to the waitress again, motioning for another dozen beers.

I hurriedly stopped it and said to the waiter, "I'm sorry, we don't want it, you can go and entertain other guests." ”

Jin Qiu was not reluctant, she looked at the departing waiter, lit a cigarette for herself, and then asked me: "Jiang Qiao, there is a question, I have been wanting to ask you recently, when my grandmother was seriously ill, the piano store closed down, and Xiao Ai left you, how did you survive?" ”

I looked at her and replied, "Who told you I made it through?" ”

"But I heard that during your time in Shanghai, you have been planning to build a hotel, open a music bar, and you have already established an eyebrow, and you are now living like a normal person."

"There's a mistake in your thinking."

"Really?"

I lit a cigarette and replied, "I didn't do this because I had come out of those painful memories." Precisely enjoying the process of starting a business with a few like-minded friends will make me forget these pains, and there is not a causal relationship between them. ”

Jin Qiu thought for a while, then replied with a smile: "Hehe...... It's hard to understand! ”

"Actually, it's not difficult to understand, the reason why you can't figure it out is because you drank too much...... Alright, Jinqiu, it's time for me to send you back. ”

Jin Qiu is not a willful and troublesome woman, even at this time, she is sensible, so she accepted my offer to send her back, and she did not get too nostalgic for the lights of the bar. However, before leaving, she asked me again, "How long are you going to stay in Nanjing this time?" ”

"It shouldn't take more than three days, because there are a lot of things going on in Shanghai."

……

When it was almost 12 o'clock, I sent Jin Qiu back to her residence, to my surprise, Lao Jin and Luo Sumei were there, and this was Jin Qiu's residence alone, and they had been heartbroken for Jin Qiu recently.

I felt a little remorseful in my heart that when my grandmother was seriously ill, they treated us as a family and took care of us with all their hearts. However, Jin Qiu encountered this crisis in the mall, and I cared very little about her.

I handed the dazed Jin Qiu to Luo Sumei's hand, and she helped Jin Qiu into the house. Old Kim and I stood outside the house, looking at me with a complicated gaze......

I asked him in a low voice, "Uncle Jin, how is the wedding company?" ”

Lao Jin replied with a wry smile: "At that time, when the company's business was good, your aunt and I always hoped that Jin Qiu could take a little more time to relax and accompany us...... But now, the company is half-dead, and we are even more sad to see her negative appearance! ”

I was silent for a moment before I said the words that I had been holding in my heart for a long time: "Actually, you should talk to Yang Jin, she hit Jin Qiu very hard in this matter!" ”

I really think so, even if Yang Jin doesn't talk about human feelings, he will leave a way back for Jin Qiu.

Lao Jin lit a cigarette and replied, "I won't go to her, and I won't let Jin Qiu and your aunt go to her...... Because, my old gold is in charge of you, and the picture is your father's kindness back then, not to get any oil and water from her Yang Jin...... Although I don't have much culture, there are some things that I know very well! ”

I looked at Lao Jin with a deep face, and then nodded emphatically, Lao Jin is such a person, and I should think about the relationship between me and him over the years in this incident. At one time, I thought that his feelings for me were not pure, so I always had reservations about him in my heart, and this is why I have been working in the wedding company for six years, why I have always called him Mr. Jin and refused to call him uncle.

At this moment, the old Jin in front of me seemed to be much older, he was really old, with white hair and wrinkles, and he was no longer the fashionable person who liked to wear floral shirts when he was young.

I suddenly had a feeling surging in my heart, and then I hugged him and whispered to him: "Uncle Jin, the days I stay in Nanjing are getting less and less, and the opportunities to come to see you are getting fewer and fewer, but I always remember you and my aunt in my heart...... No matter what happens in the future, as long as I Jiangqiao is in this world for a day, I will not leave you alone...... I say these things, really not to show any gratitude, but to treat you as a family in my heart! ”

Maybe it was because I hugged it too tightly, the cigarettes that Lao Jin held in his hands were squeezed out, and tears were squeezed out, but the true colors of the soldier made him disguise himself as a tough guy in front of me, he hurriedly wiped the old tears in his eyes, and punched me lightly and said: "You eight calves, I have been digging out my heart and lungs for you for so many years, and you have only now said the bullshit that treats us as a family!" ”

I rubbed my aching chest that was pulled out by him, and said with emotion: "I don't think it's too late to say these words when you are old enough to take care of yourself!" ”

Old Kim cried again.

……

Leaving Jinqiu's residence, I walked alone on the street where there were almost no pedestrians, although I didn't know where to go, although I was lonely, but I didn't feel so much unhappiness in my heart. Because, when I opened my heart to face Lao Jin, I felt that I had relatives. Whether the world makes you feel dim or colorful depends entirely on your state of mind.

I think that the way I look at the moment is what my grandmother wants to see the most, although I did not follow her last wish to be a husband and wife with Jin Qiu, but I am not alone in this world. There are many cherished people in my life, and although they are sometimes cold, they also give me a lot of enthusiasm to live. So, now I prefer to see the brightest side of human nature.

……

The next morning, I woke up early, washed up briefly, left the small hotel on Tulip Road, went to a nearby print shop, reprinted a cooperation plan with a media company, and called Chen Yi.

We met about two hours later, again on Tulip Road.

While waiting, I went to the small one-bedroom apartment I had rented for Xiao Ai. At the time, I had paid a quarter's rent, and now that the rent was due, I was going to sort out the contents and then return the keys to the landlord and get back the 1,000 yuan deposit.

The reason why I have dragged on until now is not for anything else, but to leave a little thought in my heart that she has not gone far.

In the house, I stood next to Xiao Ai's bed, and there were many photos of her at the head of the bed, I stared at it for a long time, and I still remembered those past pictures, but my heart was not as painful as before, because many things between me and her happened between laughter and scolding, and I gradually didn't expect anything else to happen between us, so there was no pain in my heart that I couldn't get, I would only feel warm, and I felt that there was such a woman in my life, which was a very happy thing.

I removed the guitar she had given me from my back and whispered, "I still don't know where you are now, but I still think of you every morning and evening...... I really miss you, so even if I'm busy, I'll find time to learn guitar from a friend...... Now, I can play some simple songs on the guitar, and I'll play them for you......"

I sat down in my chair, but my eyes were suddenly fixed on the table, for it was so clean, so clean that I couldn't believe it was a house that no one had lived in for nearly two months.

I immediately got up from my chair and tried to remember the last time I left the room, the layout of which it had been, but nothing seemed to have been touched. Look at the flowers on the windowsill, they have all withered because they have not been watered for too long.

I was inexplicably disappointed, because I knew that I might have the illusion that the place was clean or that the landlord had come back and had nothing to do with Xiao Ai.

She's only been away for a few months, and it's still unknown whether her eyes can be healed, so how could she come back to such a place?

After the loss, I looked up and smiled again, because such an illusion also made me feel that everything at this moment is so beautiful, because I can fantasize, I can look forward to it, and I can remember it......

It took me an hour to sort out all the things that Xiao Ai had left behind, and then I called a courier to send them all to the apartment where I lived in Shanghai. I don't know if I'll ever see Xiao Ai in my lifetime, but if I do, I should give it back to her.

Before leaving this room, I don't know why I thought of Xiao Ai's father and Xiao Mingquan again...... Then I wanted to go to the prison to see him before leaving.

I had no obligation or duty to see him, let alone a reason to see him, but I was honest in my heart, and it made me even more determined......

Perhaps, in my heart, I have always regarded myself as Xiao Ai's good friend, and now that she is gone, I am the only one who can go to see Xiao Mingquan instead of her.

……

Towards noon, I met with Chen Yi again on Tulip Road, and I handed her the reprinted cooperation plan, and then explained some details of the cooperation that were not explicitly expressed in the plan.

This time, Chen Yi finally gave me a relatively clear answer, she said that she would take time to go to our bar within a week to research, and if it was indeed as I said, there were many talented musicians in the bar circle, she would immediately start the cooperation plan with us.

Working with a media company is an important part of my plan, and now I am relatively confident, and of course I am full of gratitude to Chen Yi. So, I said to her: "I may have to go back to Shanghai tomorrow night, and I didn't have Ansheng who could eat yesterday's meal, so I want to ask you to have a meal tonight to express my gratitude, do you have time?" ”

Chen Yi said no problem. But when we were about to separate, she received a phone call, and then said to me apologetically: "I'm sorry Jiangqiao, Wang Ze called me just now, saying that there was a more important drinking party tonight, and he asked me to accompany him to participate...... So I can't go to your appointment tonight. ”

I took out a cigarette and lit it, then smiled and replied, "Although it feels a little pity, but his affairs are more important, so let's make an appointment next time." ”

"Well, look at the time."

After Chen Yi said this, he got into his car, but there was a little bit of bad feeling in my heart. Because I don't know when it started to ask her for a meal, it has become a very difficult thing to achieve.

But if you think about it carefully, isn't the relationship between people like this, she has to have her own life after all, and now is just the beginning.

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