After sending off Lao Jin's family, I returned to the old house in Ersi Lane with Yang Qu and Yang Jin, the house was not big, only two rooms and a living room, so Yang Jin and Yang Qu lived in one room, and I slept in the other room.

But it doesn't feel crowded, because the best thing about this house is that it has a larger compound than the house itself. So, on the first day I moved in, I thought that I would build a very small wooden house in the courtyard to entertain friends who came to Nanjing, and we could drink, play music, and talk about life in the courtyard......

Don't doubt it, I already have a lot of friends now, they all met in the "dream tree", and they also have wonderful lives, but I don't have time to intersperse their stories in my own world.

I always hope that time can go faster, and every day is the best time to live a year, so that it will bring me a lot of results, and these results are what I dreamed of, they will allow me to see many people and things clearly, and some people who have left will be reunited with me after a long absence.

So with such a mentality, this year seems to pass very quickly, and it is already the second day of the Lunar New Year in a blink of an eye.

After Yang Jin spent the New Year with me as a mother, she left Nanjing with Yang Qu in the morning. After all, their home is in Shenzhen, and there are many relatives and friends waiting for them to get together during the festival, and they can accompany me to spend the New Year, I am very satisfied......

Moreover, on the evening of the thirtieth day, I received Yang Jin's New Year's red envelope, which was not much, the same as what my grandmother gave before, it was 1,000 yuan. But its symbolism is greater than anything else.

On this day, when it was almost dusk, I warmed up the leftover dishes of the New Year, then took a bottle of white wine and sat in the courtyard to drink it.

Drinking alone is undoubtedly lonely, but at the moment I need this loneliness, because the girl who grew up with me will be married tomorrow!

I heard from others that the wedding will be very luxurious, and there are media friends in Chen Yi's circle and friends in the business world who come to attend. The wedding will have an unprecedented 126 tables of guests, which is rare in my six years of weddinging.

When the news continued to reach my ears through other people's mouths, I had to believe that all the things she told me about marriage that past winter were not dreams, and that this day was coming in the blessings of many people!

I can't tell you how I'm feeling! Of course, I blessed her because we made our respective choices with respect for each other. But the gloom in my heart is also true, just like when we were in middle school, the grove next to us, as long as the wind blows, even if it is just walking by it, our hearts will be desolate. Unless, the two of us walk together and talk and laugh, we don't feel warm. Especially in autumn, the feeling of gloom is even stronger.

Yes, I have exhausted my best expression skills to express Chen Yi's psychological state before getting married.

I suddenly didn't want to go to her wedding, either to avoid it, or to embarrass everyone. I think if I go, it will ruin the atmosphere of the wedding.

Before I knew it, I had already drunk a third of the wine in the bottle, and the sky was getting darker, and there was an intermittent sound of firecrackers outside Lane 24, reminding me that this year was not over yet, and most people were still enjoying family reunions, and then visiting relatives and friends, only I was a special case.

Unless, I'm married now, I'll be so lonely during the Chinese New Year.

……

When the night was about to come, Qiao Ye came to my residence, and then said that he wanted to have a few drinks with me, he thought that I was a quiet place, and he had long been tired of the endless entertainment outside.

After Qiao Ye sat down, he picked up the wine bottle and looked at it, he sighed with emotion: "One person drank half a bottle of stuffy wine, it's awesome enough!" ”

"There's nothing to do, just drink too much and get a good night's sleep."

Qiao Ye looked at me meaningfully and smiled, and replied, "I think you have something on your mind, and it's not a small matter...... If I'm not mistaken, it must have something to do with Chen Yi's marriage tomorrow, right? ”

I didn't have a hard mouth, and after another glass of wine, I made myself look calm and said, "Sort of...... After all, I had fantasized about her as a marriage object in my heart for more than ten years...... Now, she is really getting married, and she will have a little indescribable feeling in her heart...... However, I wish her a lot of blessings and hope that she can be a happy woman after marriage. ”

Qiao Ye looked at me and asked after a while, "Finished?" ”

"That's it."

"If you're not happy, you go to rob the marriage, you don't even dare to rob the marriage, what qualifications do you have to say that you have loved her for so many years!"

I looked at Qiao Ye with an indifferent gaze and replied, "Don't joke about this, I can't afford it." ”

Qiao Ye made a gesture that made me angry and chose to shut up. And at this time, I also took out the red envelope that had been prepared from my pocket, and then put it in front of him and said, "You can transfer this money to Chen Yi for me tomorrow...... I'm not going to the wedding. ”

"Why did you play this all of a sudden?! …… Didn't you say yes, send her to marry like her mother's family? ”

"I can't go...... I have to go back to Shanghai tomorrow, the hotel is about to open, and there are a lot of things that need to be prepared in advance......"

Qiao Ye interrupted me and said, "You are running away!" ”

I didn't say anything, but I didn't admit in my heart that it was an escape. Because I have my own ideas, and going to Shanghai is the best choice, after all, there are indeed many things that I need to deal with in time.

I finally said to Qiao Ye: "Don't worry about me and Chen Yi's affairs, at least we can get together and disperse." After a pause, I said to him again: "I'm going to Shanghai tomorrow, and there will be fewer and fewer opportunities to meet in the future, while the two of us can still drink together, you can also tell me how the matter with Su Han is handled." ”

The distressed person suddenly turned into Qiao Ye, and after he raised his head and drank the wine in the cup, he replied with a disappointed face: "Don't mention it, there is a dead knot between me and her ...... that cannot be untied!" ”

"Is she still waiting for your reply? …… It's about you going to live abroad with her. ”

"Hmm...... But I can't drag it out anymore...... Because Qin Miao has already brought the lawsuit to the United States, it is only a matter of one or two days for the two sides to tear their faces, and I have already made a decision, this time I will not abandon Qin Miao no matter what. ”

After saying this, Qiao Ye became even more distressed, and he asked me, "Jiang Qiao, tell me, how to solve this situation now?" ”

"Since you can't win the lawsuit, it's already a doomed thing, why don't you let Su Han and the child have a way out?"

Qiao Ye shook his head helplessly, his negativity also affected my mood to some extent...... This makes me feel that this year doesn't seem to be off to a good start...... Therefore, I am even more looking forward to the "Dream Tree" in the future, its existence has become the last sustenance in the depths of my soul, and it will also drive away those bad moods brought about by bad things for me.

……

The next morning, before the sun rose, I drove alone on the highway to Shanghai. Even Jin Qiu didn't know that I had made the decision to go to Shanghai in advance, and maybe she would call me later and ask me about Chen Yi's wedding. It's true that no one knows how to be a bridesmaid better than me, after all, I've been a wedding planner for six years.

Yes, Jin Qiu is the bridesmaid at Chen Yi's wedding today.

At about 8 o'clock, Jin Qiu really called me, and I drove all the way down, and I was almost to Changzhou. ”

I put on my Bluetooth headset and forced myself to answer the phone in a calm mood. Jin Qiu on the other end of the phone asked me, "Why haven't you come to Chen Yi's house yet?" The convoy is about to arrive! ”

"I'm already on my way to Shanghai, and Dream Tree has something to do at the moment, and I need to rush over to deal with it."

"What is more important than attending Chen Yi's wedding?"

Perhaps, even God thought that I should not go to Chen Yi's wedding, so when I was just driving into the highway, I received a call from the security guard of the "Dream Tree". Yes, the fire law enforcement brigade carried out a surprise inspection during the Spring Festival, and then found some fire hazards in our place, which required me to rush back immediately to rectify them.

So, I had the best excuse not to go to the wedding, and I said to Jin Qiu: "About an hour ago, I received a call from the security guard, saying that the dream tree was raided by the fire department, and then found out some places with fire hazards, and I need to go back immediately to rectify them...... You know, my first two entrepreneurial failures were related to firefighting...... I really don't want to repeat that again! ”

Jin Qiu on the other end of the phone was silent for thirty seconds before he said to me, "Okay, since you don't want to come so much, there is no need for me, an outsider, to say anything...... If you have anything else to say to Chen Yi, I can help you convey it. ”

Ten thousand words of blessing came to my mind, but in the end I just whispered, "No ......!" ”

Before Jin Qiu hung up the phone, I seemed to hear Chen Yi talking, but I couldn't hear what she said clearly...... And everything between us for more than 20 years has ended in this state of understatement.

I'm not sad, I'm just a little bit sad about facing the world...... I know that there is one less person in this world who treats me with sincerity. And Chen Yi, who has a family, will gradually look down on everything that once was.

I will also have a new life, which has nothing to do with her at all!

……

A year passed quickly, but the scene was strikingly similar, I still drove the Mercedes-Benz 200 given to me by Zhao Mu, from Nanjing to Shanghai, also on the morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year, also alone. Even the weather was the same, the same rainy days.

In the past year, the "Dream Tree" has undergone a qualitative transformation, because the brand strategy implemented by Jinqiu has been verified by the market and has achieved great success, and the hotel has been operating very smoothly as envisioned. In short, when it comes to bars and dreams, and even the wedding projects created later in the golden autumn, many people will naturally think of the dream tree.

During this period, we successfully held 52 music receptions and 106 couples' weddings; And birthday parties, colleague reunions, and the like are countless.

And I am the biggest beneficiary of the success of the "Dream Tree", and in this year, I paid off the huge amount of 2 million I owed Qiao Ye before. As for the more than 2 million that I owe Yang Jin, it is not a particularly big burden for me.

……

After more than four hours of driving, I finally arrived at the "Dream Tree" near noon, and Jin Qiu would not come until the day after tomorrow because she was attending a classmate's wedding abroad.

Speaking of weddings, I want to talk more about it, because in this year, many friends around me have embarked on the road of starting a family. However, as older young people, Jin Qiu and I still have no intention of getting married.

But the shared hardships of the past year have already allowed us to build a deeper relationship than before...... All that remained was the thin layer of window paper that hadn't been pierced. Even, sometimes Lao Jin and Russell Mei come to Shanghai to see us, and we are no longer taboo to eat, work, and chat in front of them as a couple......

And we didn't discuss any of this beforehand...... Therefore, every time Lao Jin and the others came, we really felt like a family, and Lao Jin never said such cruel words as asking Jin Qiu to leave Shanghai.

Everything seems to be happening as a matter of course...... Even Yang Jin has already mentioned in front of me and Jin Qiu that she wants to give us a four-bedroom house in Shanghai, so that we can live more comfortably.

……

While waiting for the security guard to open the door, I thought about it a lot. When he opened the door, I saw Yao Yao sitting behind the plane tree smoking a cigarette......

I was very surprised that although she was also one of the shareholders of Dream Tree, she rarely came to Dream Tree.

I parked the car in the open space and walked over to her. After meeting each other, I asked her, "How did you come to Dream Tree at this point in time?" ”

She looked up at me, and after a while she whispered back, "I'm waiting for you, I know you'll be here today, and I've seen your Moments in the morning...... You say you're on your way. ”

I was even more surprised and asked, "What are I waiting for?" …… It shouldn't be for the company's business, right? ”

Yao Yu didn't say anything more, she took out a CD from her bag, then handed it to me, and said, "Look at it, maybe you will be happy...... Perhaps, more sadness! ”

I flipped the disc to the front and was instantly stunned, because the person on the cover of the disc was Xiao Ai, who chose to debut in Taiwan, and this was her first solo album...... The producer is Yuan Zhen.

She came back to me for the first time after almost two years of vanishing!

I felt as if I was unconscious, but my heart was beating wildly...... It took me a long time before I realized that my heart had never been "dead".

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