Leaving the wedding scene, I went back to the company and the finance department to make a settlement, and sent some precious photos collected in this wedding to the data center, at almost three o'clock, I was so tired that I was about to collapse and finally went to Luo Sumei to ask for a little vacation, I plan to go back to make up for a little sleep before dusk, and after this wedding, I will start to plan the wedding that can change the fate of our company with a large order of 3 million. I heard that the couple who went to Europe for a holiday will return to Nanjing next week, and I am about to have a preliminary communication with them about the planning of the wedding.

Back in the small courtyard where he lived, it was still as quiet as usual, and Zhao Mu should have gone to his high school classmates to catch up.

I lay groggy in bed, and with almost no conscious struggle, I fell asleep, and was not awakened by the cold until the evening when the temperature began to drop sharply, but then I could not sleep anyway, and I felt some uncontrollable loneliness from the dimness of the approaching evening.

I was half-lying on the bed, looking out the window at the flowers and plants that swayed in the evening breeze, knowing that it would not be long before they would wither in the cold wind of late autumn, and by that time I would be tormented by the cliché of loneliness......

After a while, I finally got out of bed, and then went out into the yard to bring the pot of tulips under the eaves, and for more than a year I have given it much more care than any other flower, and I hope that in March and April of the following year, it will bloom even more brilliantly than this year.

After setting up the pot of tulips, I watered the other flowers and plants, and then sat bored on the stone bench and watched the sunset disappear from my sight.

In fact, this alley is not perfect, because it is covered by the increasing number of high-rise buildings behind it, and the sunshine time here is getting shorter and shorter, such as this early autumn evening, but just after 5 o'clock, the sunset can no longer be seen, and when you walk out of the alley, you will find that the sunset is still hanging behind those buildings.

In silence, I received a call from Zhao Mu, and he said to me excitedly: "Brother Qiao, I'm at Sister Chen Yi's house at this time, she cooks herself today, do you want to come over for dinner?" ”

I was thrilled for a while, because it was too rare for Chen Yi to be able to cook by himself, but ......

Zhao Mu lowered his voice again and said to me: "Qiu Zi'an is not here, just me and Sister Chen Yi are at home...... Brother Qiao, you may not know it, Sister Chen Yi's new home is really a bit exaggerated, no wonder she wants to take a few pots of flowers from you to the new house, there is really a lack of decorations here! ”

I had an indescribable feeling in my heart, Zhao Mu, a smart man, still saw through my concerns, I didn't hide my love for Chen Yi in front of him, but he may have understood the dilemma in my heart, so he didn't debunk it, and he didn't interfere too much with the unclear relationship between me and Chen Yi.

Zhao Mu said again: "Brother Qiao, hurry up and come over to help Sister Chen Yi...... By the way, if you bring a few pots of flowers by the way, it will be regarded as a gift to Sister Chen Yi for housewarming. ”

Chen Yi didn't invite me personally, so I felt a little awkward to go so rashly, so I replied: "I don't know her specific address yet, and besides, let her come and get it herself next time, I don't have a car, it's not very convenient......"

"Flowers are a small thing, anything goes, I'll send you the address by text message, you hurry up and take a taxi."

Zhao Mu hung up the phone after saying this, and twenty seconds later I received a text message from him, and I finally knew the address of Chen Yixin's home, which was indeed a relatively high-end community.

……

I changed out of my shorts and short sleeves and wore a suit that was much more formal, this action surprised me, and after a little thought, I understood: I have subconsciously regarded myself as Chen Yi's guest, whether I want to face it or not, there is already a crack between us that is difficult to repair!

After locking the door, I began to walk out of the alley, and Xiao Ai, the girl, seemed to inadvertently break into my sight, and I saw her from a distance carrying a small black backpack, chewing some gummies in her mouth, and as she walked, she was very bored to touch the wall with her very historical texture.

After walking for a while, we met in the middle of the alley, she looked at me, and then asked with a satisfied smile, "Jiang Qiao, are you dressing so formally to compensate me for an interesting afternoon?" ”

It occurred to me that she had asked me when she left the client's wedding scene, and before I could respond to her, she hurried back to school. Then I forgot about it in my afternoon sleep.

I was in a dilemma, and suddenly I felt that I was not a thing, and when I needed her help, I even dreamed about her, and when I didn't need her help, I forgot in a blink of an eye that she asked me to compensate her for an interesting afternoon.

Driven by this guilt, I finally said to her, "Well, sort of...... You see I'm dressed so formally, why don't I invite you to Western food? ”

Xiao Ai glanced at me and asked, "Do you think eating Western food is a very interesting thing?" ”

I was a little embarrassed by her question, and replied: "It's interesting, let's hold a knife in one hand and a fork in the other, and if we get bored halfway, we can also improvise a martial arts competition, haha......"

"It's not funny at all, you're so insincere!"

I said with a bitter face, "But I really don't know what makes it interesting!" …… You say that men and women play together, isn't it nothing more than eating and watching movies? Could it be that there are other fancy dates that I haven't seen before? ”

Xiao Ai stared at me for a long time, as if he didn't have any good proposals at all, and finally replied: "Forget it, I don't embarrass you, after all, I really can't see a little bit of entertainment spirit in you." ”

"If you want to work 365 days a year like me, you will also have the same virtue as me."

"It's really amazing, if you can't do anything in the future, you can use work as a shield."

I smiled, and didn't choose to respond for a while, just thinking in my heart about how to tell Zhao Mu that I wouldn't go to Chen Yi's for dinner.

After thinking about it, I finally used my work as a shield, and then sent a text message to Zhao Mu, telling him that I would go to the company to do something later.

Xiao Ai said to me again: "Otherwise, you can take me to a place that you like to go to when you are usually unhappy, this is not difficult, right?" ”

I looked at her a little surprised, and then replied, "I'm not embarrassed, but are you sure you want to go?" ”

"It's not a sea of swords, there's something uncertain."

……

In the northernmost part of Tulip Road, there is a wasteland that exists in my memory for many years, but about 20 years ago, it was the most popular, because the previous life of this wasteland was a large-scale textile factory, carrying the livelihood of the residents within a radius of several kilometers, my mother worked in it for many years, she was the director of the second workshop, but now the textile factory has long since closed, and all the former prosperity has been locked in the empty yard by a rusty iron lock, and then slowly withered with the weeds in the passage of time.

In the evening sunset, Xiao Ai stood beside me, she leaned over the fence and looked into the abandoned factory, I smiled and asked her, "Do you want me to help you climb in?" ”

"No, you don't." As she spoke, she had grasped the iron gate with both hands, and then stepped on the place where she could land, and climbed to the top of the iron gate in a few clicks, then lifted her long legs, and easily flipped to the other side, and easily jumped off the iron gate.

I couldn't help but laugh when I looked at her, but this is exactly what I like most about her, her ability to climb the door and the wall makes her look very ** in front of me, and it also saves me a lot of trouble, so we can do a lot of deviant things together.

I followed in her footsteps, climbed over the iron gate to the abandoned textile factory, and walked side by side around the weeds to the place where there was a factory, and as I approached, I saw the last rays of the sunset fall on the cracked glass, and then refracted at my feet, as if in an instant many memories were unraveled.

I stopped, but Xiao Ai was very interested in the old Jiefang brand truck next to her, which had been scrapped for many years, and she kicked the tires of the car with her foot and sighed: "I didn't expect to see such a car in this era, if it can still be driven, it will definitely be like a tractor...... Toot beet, black smoke! ”

After she finished speaking, she immersed herself in her own world, laughing to herself......

I didn't follow her to the truck, just lit a cigarette and looked at it for a while, and then sat down on the steps at the entrance of the factory, where I could watch the sun set in the farthest distance without being obscured by the building.

Xiao Ai seemed to have found paradise, and she picked up a few more stones from the ground and threw them into the pond, until she had enough fun, and then came to me and sat down. She held her chin, looked at the other factory opposite and asked me, "Jiangqiao, why do you like to come to this place when you are not happy?" ”

I took a deep breath of my cigarette and whispered, "Sitting here and looking down the street, everyone who passes by is thinking about their wives, sons and daughters, and I only remember one word...... Night! ”

"What do you mean? I do not quite understand. ”

I smiled, then closed my eyes and exhaled all the cigarettes in my mouth, suddenly not wanting to say anything more, because not everyone can understand the loneliness of this person.

I extinguished the cigarette in my hand, then got up and walked to the dilapidated No. 2 workshop, Xiao Ai also got up with me, still standing beside me, still looking curious, looking into the workshop.

I finally said to her: "Before I was 8 years old, my parents were not divorced, my mother was the director of the No. 2 workshop, my father was the driver of the textile factory, and the old liberation car you just saw was driven by my father all the time." ”

"Sounds blissful!"

"Yes, but time flies too fast, and after the age of 8, everything suddenly changes...... Do you know? After my mother left, I was always in a trance, always lying on this windowsill and looking into the workshop, I thought she would give me a few cents to buy popsicles; I want her to look at me and smile while working; I want to tell her that the older classmates in my class beat me up again......"

Xiao Ai was silent, but her eyes never took off me, and she still wanted to hear me about the past that had been hidden in her heart and was about to rust.

I finally smiled and said: "And the old liberation car, the most awesome thing is: my dad will drive it to send me to school, put it in comparison now, this car should be no worse than the Mercedes you borrowed, right?" ”

"Well, at least at Bentley's level!"

I nodded, and fell silent again......

After a long time, Xiao Ai gently pulled my arm with his hand and said, "I'll go buy you some beer, I think you need it now." ”

"Aren't you too troublesome? I have to go back and forth to open the courtyard gate twice. ”

Xiao Ai shook his head: "It's not troublesome, every time I hear you talk about unhappy things, I want to be nice to you in my heart......"

I looked at her with no idea what it was like, and she grimaced at me, then turned and ran towards the gate that had stopped in front of us......

As when she came, she climbed up where she could stood, and when she stood at the highest point, she made a face at me, and I was finally amused by her, and then watched the afterglow of the setting sun fall on her, and the wind ruffled the hair of her sideburns, and everything looked faintly beautiful......