Xiao Ai left the stone chair, she came to Zhao Mu's face, slapped the ring off Zhao Mu's hand, and said in a disgusted tone: "Don't use this way to entangle me anymore, it will only make me more and more disgusted with you...... I've told you more than once that the person I like is not you, and it's your freedom to live what kind of life you like, but please don't fantasize about me too! ”

Zhao Mu looked at the ring box that was thrown to the ground with a pale face. After a long time, his eyes returned to Xiao Ai's body, and he asked in a very low tone: "Then you sue me, which man can fantasize about you into his life." ”

My heart was pounding wildly, and I felt that the moment I least wanted to face was coming.

But Xiao Ai didn't say anything, nor did she look at me, she knew what kind of mood I was in when I faced Zhao Mu.

Yu Xin, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly walked to Zhao Mu's side, she pointed at me and Xiao Ai, and said heartbreakingly: "Zhao Mu, can't you really see it?" Or have you been deliberately pretending to be stupid...... Xiao Ai's favorite person is Jiang Qiao, and she came back from Taipei to be with Jiang Qiao...... I really want to ask you, aren't you tired of pursuing an impossible love? …… Why can't you rationally go to Quanjiang Qiao and Xiao Ai, so that they can be together without burden? ”

Zhao Mu looked at me in despair, he walked in front of me step by step, and asked in a low voice: "Brother Qiao, is what Yu Xin said true?" ”

I can't speak, let alone face Zhao Mu at this moment, we used to be brothers who never gave up on life and death, but at this moment, there is a smell of gunpowder in the air between us.

Xiao Ai walked to my side, then took my hand and said to Zhao Mu: "Yes, what Yu Xin said is not wrong...... The qiē I experienced between me and Jiang Qiao was enough to make me want to be with him...... Love is free, there is no right or wrong, and I will be responsible for my own choices. ”

Zhao Mu swallowed in pain, his lips were trembling, he looked at me over and over again, and finally asked me, "I just want to know, is your feelings for Sister Chen Yi real?" …… In the past, you kept telling me that she was a woman you had loved for more than ten years, can you really forget her in your heart and accept another woman again? ”

The deepest taboo in my soul was taken out like this, and then tortured mercilessly, as if I could hear my own breathing, getting heavier and heavier......

Zhao Mu grabbed my collar and shook me fiercely: "You are talking...... Don't let me think you're hypocritical! ”

When Zhao Mu made a hypocritical evaluation of me, I didn't want to say anything more, because what I was suffering at the moment was the pain of ten thousand arrows piercing my heart...... But am I really doing something wrong?

I didn't even see how Zhao Mu left, and when Yu Xin left, in short, there was only me and Xiao Ai left in the courtyard, and there was a table of food that had not been touched at all.

How did things come to this?

Shouldn't we be sitting together, drinking beer, and talking about life at this moment?

Tonight, who is living up to such a good situation?

I sat back on the stone bench with some weakness, then pulled out a tissue from the table and wiped the sweat off my face, while Xiao Ai stood not far away, as if he had lost all his affection.

……

"Second Yangtze River Bridge...... Two bridges, two bridges, two bridges. ”

Edamame lay outside the door, dragging a very long tail note and shouting to me in the courtyard, I turned my head to look at him, he was frowning at me as usual, holding a model of the tank that Chen Yi gave him in my name on his birthday the other day.

Edamame walked into the yard, he bypassed Xiao Ai's side, and then came to me and asked me, "Second Bridge, why haven't you seen Sister Chen Yi come back these days?" …… She promised me to take me to the movies! ”

I finally took out a cigarette from my pocket and lit it, took several puffs in a row, and then said to Edamame: "Your sister Chen Yi has been busy lately, and I will take you there when she comes back." ”

Edamame climbed on top of me, put his arms around my neck and said, "Futahashi, will you take me to see it?" I want to watch that cartoon because so many of my classmates have seen it. ”

"Wait for your vacation next week......"

At this time, Xiao Ai had already dragged her suitcase out of the house, and she walked out the door by herself. I hurriedly called out to her: "I haven't eaten dinner yet, let's leave after dinner." ”

She didn't look back, just said that she was tired and didn't want to eat, and then left my small courtyard, and the edamame that had been pestering me didn't know what had just happened, and insisted that I take him to the movies now.

……

In the movie theater, Edamame and I sat in the back seat, and I kept holding popcorn and other food for him, but I couldn't share his happiness in the moment. I've been immersed in what just happened. I don't know how to face Zhao Mu or even Xiao Ai in the coming days...... I could feel that when she dragged her suitcase alone, she felt aggrieved in her heart.

"Futatsuhashi, Coke."

I came back to my senses, glanced at Edamame, and then handed him the Coke, and he drank it while laughing out loud because of the plot in the movie, and in his carefree laughter, I felt a little out of the world, I was in an environment where I should laugh, but I couldn't laugh!

Outside the movie theater, the weather was a bit dreary, and it seemed that a thunderstorm was coming in late spring, and I was standing in the crowd waiting for the taxi to come and go, holding the sleeping edamame.

Although there are not a lot of taxis, there are too many people who can't stand waiting for the bus, and I haven't waited for the bus, and Tulip Road is relatively remote, there is no subway passing, and there will be no buses going to that side at this point, so I can only wait so hard......

The sky began to thunder, and Edamame, who had been asleep, also woke up, rubbed his eyes and asked me, "Futahashi, are we home?" ”

"You're stupid, look up and see where you are."

Edamame looked around and complained, "Second Bridge, you're swinging, why are you still here?" ”

"If you have the ability, you can get a taxi and show me."

Edamame smiled, still lying motionless on me, and the rain of Beans also fell like vents at this time, and all the people who were standing on the side of the road waiting retreated to the promenade below the building, trying to avoid the rain that came without warning.

The rain was falling "dripping", and Edamame was sleepy again, and said in my ear like a dream: "Second bridge, you are so good to me...... When you're old, I'll take you to the movies and buy you something delicious! ”

My heart, which had been dull, suddenly moved slightly, if I Jiangqiao also got married early enough, then I would now have a child who can at least speak.

I tucked my clothes for Edamame, smiled and said, "Don't call me Erqiao in the future, I'll thank God, you should keep the movie with your daughter-in-law in the future." ”

Edamame's thinking was so active that he changed his words and said to me, "Second Bridge, you're so old...... Why don't you marry Sister Chen Yi? If you have a child, you will be my little sister in the future, my parents say that I am very good, and I will definitely be able to protect my little sister in the future. ”

"You're not honest, you're dishonest! Please don't hit my daughter with your thoughts. ”

Although I joked with Edamame like this, I still inevitably remembered Chen Yi, a woman, because two people had already mentioned her in just one night.

If life is calm and there are no accidents, Chen Yi and I are really married, what is the situation now?

I have thought about this scene more than once in the past ten years, but there has never been a very unified answer, and now that I have suddenly walked into another woman named Xiao Ai in my life, it is even more impossible to have an answer.

I know that on the road of life, I have just taken a step, and there will be a lot of things to happen in the future, what I want to do is to sort out my mood and do what I think is right.

Although until now, I have never imagined that Xiao Ai will become my wife one day, but the feeling of wanting her to be with me is real, which has not changed because Zhao Mu likes Xiao Ai's position, after all, love is not a transaction, let alone an object, it is the most non-transferable thing in the world.

……

After waiting for about another twenty minutes, Edamame's mom drove us to the cinema and took us back to Tulip Road, telling me sorry for causing me trouble.

Actually, I owe more credit to Edamame this night, if he hadn't gone to the movies with me, I might still have indulged in some love and couldn't help myself, and now, I'm sleepy, I just want to get a good night's sleep.

The rain outside the car window was a little heavy, and I vaguely saw a familiar figure at the door of the convenience store, with a white suitcase next to her, not Xiao Ai and anyone else.

I hurriedly asked Edamame's mother to stop the car, and then ran to the door of the convenience store in the face of the falling rain, because the rain was too heavy, but my hair was already wet all the way, and the rain kept flowing down my neck to my chest, making me feel cold.

This sudden heavy rain washed away the noise of the city, and the whole world seemed to be divided by rain, under the eaves is a small world, outside the eaves is the big world, the big world is tragic, and the small world is lonely.

The light of the street lamp shook a little through the rain under the eaves, and I asked Xiao Ai, "Why are you sitting here?" ”

"There's nowhere to go."

I looked at her, obviously drenched in the rain too, and the hair on her sideburns stuck to the side of her face, a little wolf.

I asked her again, "Haven't you always lived with Yu Xin?" ”

"Halfway through, I remembered that I didn't have the face to ......"

I was stunned for a moment before I understood, Zhao Mu and I are brothers who grew up together, she and Yu Xin are not sisters who have been together since college, Yu Xin likes Zhao Mu is well known, and now Zhao Mu forcibly courted her, and she and Yu Xin can't be so calm!

I didn't know what to say for a moment, so I just looked at her.

"Jiangqiao, do you want to ask me, why don't you stay in a hotel?"

"yes, why don't you stay in a hotel?"

As soon as my words fell, Xiao Ai stretched out her slender hand to me and said, "Give me money, I don't have money, you got me back from Taipei, and you will be responsible for my food, clothing, and daily life." ”

I was stunned for a moment, then took my wallet out of my pocket and asked her, "How much?" ”

"How many do you have?"

I didn't hesitate, so I said to her truthfully: "I still have 1,000 yuan and 63 yuan in change, and I still have 150,000 yuan at home for the decoration of the piano store...... And then there is no other extra money. ”

Xiao Ai took the purse from my hand, then took out all the change from it, she turned around and went into the convenience store to buy two umbrellas, handed one of them to my hand and said, "I'll take the small money, and you keep the big money...... I'm leaving, let's find a place to stay first, and you can go back and go to bed early. ”

After Xiao Ai said this, he opened the umbrella in his hand, and then walked on the wet road towards Tulip Road, I also held up the umbrella and walked to the mouth of the alley, but stopped to look at her back.

At this moment, although we are both holding umbrellas, there is not much sense of isolation, and as long as she is willing to come to me, then my heart will not always hang.

Finally, a taxi broke through the shackles of the rainy night and stopped beside Xiao Ai, she dropped her umbrella and did not look back at me, and the taxi drove her to the traffic light intersection in the distance the next moment.

I exhaled heavily, then nodded. I think I understood Xiao Ai's thoughts about coming back to me on this rainy night, and she hoped that I could have a sense of mission for her and for that piano shop.

She has always been confident, but when facing the brotherly relationship between me and Zhao Mu, she is not so confident......

……

When I got back to my lodgings, I dropped my umbrella and didn't open the door immediately, just standing under the eaves, breathing in the humid air that was a bit damp because of the rain.

Before he finished his cigarette, the sound of high heels came from the familiar corner. Then, I had a white umbrella in my sight, and I didn't have to look at her face clearly, because the walking posture had already told me that she was Chen Yi.

She finally came back, and I was standing outside the yard, as if it were fate, for I didn't think she would knock on the door if I were in the house at the moment.

Gradually, we were facing each other in the rain!

The sound of rain came freely from all corners irregularly, but our feelings were suppressed...... And the woman I am facing at this moment, just today, a few people have already mentioned it in my ears, and she seems to be living in my fate.

……

Those who say how Jiangqiao is, how awesome are you at dealing with people? Let's learn from it.