The red and green lights on the street are flashing non-stop, reflecting the feelings of a city, Xiao Ai and I are standing by the Huancheng River outside Dongguan Street, I smoke, she watches me smoke while turning the keychain with her hand, we are both a little bored, but we are not willing to use dialogue to entertain this boredom, so our relative has become very simple, so that our souls and bodies are in harmony with the city.

Looking at the ancient city wall opposite, Xiao Ai finally asked me: "Jiangqiao, what are you thinking?"

"I was thinking that the way you looked when you played the guitar and strummed the strings at Yuan Zhen's concert that day was too awesome"

"Yes, when I need to rock and roll, I can also be a rock 'n' roll young woman, and then go and mend the rifts that you laymen rub against life."

"Well, I still like the black leather pants you wore that night."

Xiao Ai stared at me with wide eyes and said, "Do you want me to give you that pair of leather pants?"

"I can't stand your leap-thinking anymore"

"Then you just want to ask me where I bought that pair of leather pants, and then go buy one yourself."

"No, I mean, your outfit has a rock feel, you like rock music, it should be influenced by Yuan Zhen."

Xiao Ai suddenly fell silent, she turned her back on her body, and then looked at the flowing river under our feet with some distraction, and said to me for a long time: "Yes, he is the man I admire the most in the field of music." Over the years, I've never accepted an invitation from anyone other than his concert. ”

"You should not appreciate him more than just him."

She asked rhetorically in a nonchalant tone, "So what's there?"

I didn't want to gossip, but since we met, the loneliness she generated in her loneliness has shot me like a bullet in my heart, so just as she cares about my relationship with Chen Yi, I also hope that she can get a love that can at least save her loneliness.

After a period of silence, I replied: "Yesterday Ji Xiaowei chatted with me, and he swore that you would definitely marry Yuan Zhen in your life."

Before I could finish my words, Xiao Ai turned around and looked at me with a very sharp look and asked, "Who gave him the courage to say these words?"

"You have been friends for several years, I don't think it's groundless, is there a past between you and Yuan Zhen that is not easy to talk to others?"

Xiao Ai's expression became a little sluggish, and she said to me after a long silence: "You think too much, there is indeed a past between us, but there is nothing bad to say to people, because we have always been friends, and we have not been lovers for a day." ”

I looked at her and waited for her to continue

Xiao Ai took a deep breath, pinned his messy sideburns behind his ears, and then said to me: "Yuan Zhen and Ji Xiaowei are the last students my mother taught before leaving Nanjing, Yuan Zhen's musical talent and depth of thought are the top among the students my mother has taught, because my mother values him, so we also have a lot of opportunities for contact Later, my mother left Nanjing and returned to Taiwan, my life was completely hopeless, and for a while I even suffered from mild depression, it was Yuan Zhen who took me to various music festivals, By using music to heal my wounds, I got rid of that extremely depressed emotion and gradually lived like a normal person."

After a moment of silence, I asked, "Don't you have a crush on him?"

"Yes, of course there will be, I even fantasized about becoming his girlfriend, but he is a person who is out of touch with mainstream society in pursuit of art, if I become his wife, the ending may be the same as Faye Wong Dou Wei, after all, it will not be long-term, because what I want is a stitch in life, but what he wants is spiritual nakedness. He does give women infinite passion and surging, but he can't give a sense of security, I can't put all my happiness and life on the stage he does best, do you know what I mean?"

"Understood, you mean, he can't do anything but sing"

Xiao Ai glared at me and said, "You can do anything other than being a fool."

I smiled and replied, "Look at how much you subconsciously defend him, I actually want to ask you, if one day he is willing to give up what he is pursuing for you, will you become real partners?"

"He won't."

"So if one day he changes his mind and brings his mind closer to real life, you are still willing to give him a chance"

Xiao Ai didn't speak, there was a depth of thought in her eyes, and I already knew the answer, putting aside the complex thought form, the current Xiao Ai and Yuan Zhen should be just like me and Chen Yi at the beginning, just loving but not knowing.

The sky didn't know when a rain was brewing, so when it fell, we were a little caught off guard, and this rain seemed to appear just to prove that we had been here, because our figures were all carved into the swaying river.

I finally said to her, "It's raining, let's go back"

"Where to go back"

"You haven't booked a hotel yet?"

"You mean the hotel, I thought Nanjing"

"Why did you think of Nanjing?"

"Because I've always thought that the city of Yangzhou doesn't look good when it rains."

I always felt that she had something to say, but I didn't know what she was trying to say, and this unexpected rain was getting heavier and heavier, and I was afraid that she would catch a cold in the rain, so I hurriedly took off my jacket and jacket, and then draped it on her head to block some of the cold rain for her, and then dragged her through the busy street to the hotel where I was staying.

Just when we were about to enter the hall, Ji Xiaowei held an umbrella and carried a thermos box and walked over from the other side, he sped up his pace after seeing Xiao Ai, and soon stood in front of us, and then said to Xiao Ai with a doting smile: "I know you are coming, I made your favorite fruit cake, you take it and taste it." ”

Xiao Ai replied in a low mood: "I have no appetite." ”

Ji Xiaowei looked at me, then at Xiao Ai, and asked with concern, "Why does it look so bad?"

"No, I'm just a little tired, I'll book a room to rest first, and I'll go to the coffee shop tomorrow to find you." Xiao Ai said and turned around and walked towards the hotel's service desk.

Ji Xiaowei looked at me a little confused, then handed me the insulated box with pastries and said, "You can take it as a supper." He paused and asked, "My junior sister is a little abnormal today, what's wrong with her?"

I thought for a moment and replied, "Maybe it's because I just talked to her about Yuan Zhen." ”

Ji Xiaowei sighed and replied: "No wonder Yuan Zhen has really made her very tired in recent years, the two have always been close to each other, sometimes I feel anxious for them, but their personalities are too strong, but behind each other's efforts, we who are friends can see that you know that Yuan Zhen does a New Year's Eve concert every year, and he loses money every year, not that he is not popular, but the venue fee, plus the cost of the band's daily rehearsals, the expenses are really large, and Yuan Zhen has always been the identity of a ** musician, So it's all your own money that you lose. If Xiao Ai hadn't helped him share this part of the loss over the years, it would have been really difficult for him to assert his personality, and he would not have been sought after by fans because of this personality."

I nodded, but didn't say much, because it wasn't appropriate to talk about it.

Ji Xiaowei sighed again: "If a woman is not really in love, how can she pay so much for a man?"

I nodded again, and then I thought of everything Chen Yi has paid for me over the years, and this kind of dedication is silent, just like the last time I went to the police station because of a fight with Qiao Ye, she compensated me 30,000 yuan, but she didn't say anything afterwards, if it wasn't because they really loved, what supported them to do this silently

After finishing the conversation with Ji Xiaowei, I took the pastries he left back to the hotel room, washed up briefly and lay on the bed, and then sent Xiao Ai a WeChat message: "Ji Xiaowei left the pastries with me, if you are hungry later, come to me to get them, I am in room 306." ”

Xiao Ai didn't reply, and I also thought of Chen Yi in the silence of one person. At this time, it has been 3 hours since our last contact, and I don't know what her family has talked about with her in this long or short time, and what kind of mood she is in now

I'm really afraid that her family will put too much pressure on her, and she is not a woman who is good at resisting, so she can only hold back a lot of grievances in her heart and bear them silently, and finally have nowhere to vent, she can only turn into crying in the dead of night.

Thinking about the situation she might be facing at this time, I finally couldn't hold it back, and then I called her

This time, she didn't panic me, and after waiting for a while, she answered my call, her tone didn't fluctuate much, but she said to me in a very soft voice: "Jiangqiao, my parents haven't slept yet, we'll talk later." ”

"What's wrong?"

After Chen Yi was silent for a while, he replied: "They know that we are together, and now they are in a bad mood." ”

Although I was mentally prepared, I still couldn't help but feel nervous in my heart, I knew that when Qiu Zi'an deliberately went to the airport to pick them up, everything could not be hidden, I finally asked Chen Yi: "What is their attitude now?"

Chen Yi's voice became softer: "Let you go back to Nanjing and then have dinner at our house, they want to talk to you." ”

"I knew they weren't really inviting me to dinner, but I still planned to eat more, otherwise I wouldn't be able to bear them to talk to me."

Chen Yi smiled: "I'm relieved that you can still joke with me, I really can't talk to you more, I have to memorize the script of the officiating script at Mr. Xiao's wedding tonight." Just now, Jin Qiu also called me and asked me to try to make zero mistakes in this link, she attaches great importance to this wedding, and I must also pay attention to it."

I felt a kind of nervousness before the wedding was about to take place in Chen Yi's words, but fortunately, Xiao Ai was in Yangzhou at the moment, and the risk of the wedding became controllable. And as me, I also very much hope that this is a successful wedding, but how it will end will be two days later