In the blink of an eye, the coffee shop has been closed for three days, although Zhao Mu gave me 100,000 yuan and then sent 100,000 yuan two days later, but the barista I contacted before changed his mind. He said that because I didn't give him an affirmative answer, he signed a three-year contract with another coffee shop in Nanjing, which means that I can't hire him even if I have the money.

The world is changing rapidly, and I am still stuck in the dilemma of losing employees. On the fourth day, I finally opened the door of the coffee shop and went to work as a barista and waitress myself, just to provide a place to relax for the unfussy customers, because some customers don't really want to drink coffee, they just like the quietness of the place, and the few simple coffees I can make can satisfy their needs.

This is how people are forced to come out, I recruit baristas through various channels, while frantically learning the art of blending coffee, and the manager who left before will also take an hour or two out of the store every night to teach me how to make coffee, and I can make a few fancy coffees in a few days.

It's another evening, which is supposed to be the peak of consumption in the coffee shop, but because of the departure of the store manager and a few days of closure, the business of the coffee shop is not as good as before. At the moment, there are only a few customers in the expanded coffee shop, and I am constantly trying to make the store's signature "mood coffee" at the bar, but I have never been able to make the taste that the store manager can make, let alone reach the level of Su Han.

I was a little discouraged, so I lit a cigarette and stood alone in front of the coffee shop and smoked

A moment later, the second son of the landlord, Aunt Wu, came from the corner of the alley pushing his bicycle. I looked at him and subconsciously remembered Chen Yi who was already abroad, because the second son was able to enter the TV station to work was run by Chen Yi, and the coffee shop had to occupy the small courtyard of Aunt Wu's house to expand its business area, so in order to sell Aunt Wu a favor and let the coffee shop expand smoothly, Chen Yi did this thing that was very difficult for her.

The second son stopped in front of me, he took off his gloves, handed me a cigarette, and asked, "Jiangqiao, how is the recent business in the store?"

"It's okay."

The second son looked at the empty coffee shop and said, "You kid just likes to have a hard mouth, my mother is the landlord of your store, she doesn't know what's going on."

"Do you have the energy to ask so knowingly," I said dissatisfied, flicking the ashes of my cigarette, and then squinting at the setting sun, the night that I haven't liked too much lately is coming, because longing is always flooding at this time.

The second son smiled, but he was not a smoker, so he put the pack of Chinese cigarettes used to entertain people back in his pocket, looked at me who was smoking, and said, "Actually, I just helped Chen Yi inquire." ”

I looked at him a little stunned, he took the cigarette out of my mouth again, and said in a very concerned tone: "Let's put out the cigarette, it's better for your body."

I looked at him speechlessly and replied, "You care so much about my body, don't give me a cigarette just now." ”

The second son has a good temper and is very good at getting things done, although my tone is not very good, he still said with a smile: "I smoked the cigarette for you, and it was Chen Yi who told you to smoke less." As he spoke, he took out a bottle with capsules from his briefcase and handed it to me, saying, "Well, you can take the original German herbal lung clearing capsule." ”

"Where did you get this thing?"

The second son stuffed the bottle into my hand and replied, "Chen Yi didn't let me say that she asked a friend to bring it back from Germany." ”

My hand seems to have a trace of warmth invisibly, I haven't paid attention to Chen Yi for a long time, and she is still silently worried about me, but the second son has the heart to let me know this, so I said everything.

I looked down at the bottle in my hand and was speechless

"By the way, Jiangqiao, my mother said, if the coffee shop is in difficulty, next year's rent can be paid slowly, there is no hurry."

I finally looked up at him and asked, "This is also because your mother accepted Chen Yi's favor and gave me this favor."

The second son didn't answer directly, his hand was on my shoulder, and he said with emotion: "Jiang Qiao, you said that the children who grew up together in our alley are not one or two, why is Chen Yi the closest to you?"

I didn't speak, but all I thought of in my mind were all the things that had happened between me and Chen Yi over the years, and I fell into an indescribable sadness, why she was my girl next door, but she couldn't be as ordinary as most girls next door

The second son said again: "What a good woman Chen Yi is, she has been beautiful since she was a child, and she has grown up more beautiful, and the people who pursue her are enough to form a strong connection from junior high school to high school, but she really hasn't had any scandals with anyone, hehe, in our era, if you don't fall in love, if you don't do abortion, it's not called youth, a girl like her is really rare, look at her in the years she has been on our TV station, other famous hosts are busy messing around looking for thighs, but she is still well-behaved, In the past few years, I have never seen her associate with a rich son and a successful person, and this persistence is not something that anyone can do, especially in her position."

I still didn't speak, but I agreed with what the second son said, Chen Yi, who went to work in society, encountered many more temptations than ordinary women because of the nature of her work, but her feelings have been very blank over the years, and Qiu Zi'an is just her college boyfriend.

After thinking about it for a long time, I clenched the lung-clearing capsule in my hand and finally asked the second son, "Is she okay lately?"

"Life is better than death, the broken show she participated in is simply playing with people, you will know it when it is broadcast in the future, right, she and Qiu Zi'an are still very unhappy in order to participate in this show, because she signed a variety show with Yi'an Media before, but she gave up halfway in order to participate in this survival show, if Qiu Zi'an's Yi'an Media wants to sue her, she will have to compensate for huge liquidated damages"

After I was silent for a long time, I replied, "Qiu Zi'an wouldn't do that. ”

The second son smiled and didn't say anything, and then took the initiative to end the small talk with me, he said that Aunt Wu, who was making pancakes outside the alley, was very busy, and he had to hurry over to help, and after he left, I stood alone outside the coffee shop for a long time, and I was thinking about whether to say thank you to Chen Yi.

Night just came, I closed the door of the coffee shop at 10 o'clock, and then went to the apartment of Jinding Real Estate for Zhao Mupei, it happened that Zhao Mu had just gotten off work, and as he said before, the group did give him a car, although it was very ordinary but enough for transportation.

Zhao Mu, who got out of the car, walked towards me, he seemed to be in a good mood, and called me "Brother Qiao" from afar.

I put my arm around his shoulder and said, "Come and see you." ”

"Then go up and sit down."

I shook my head and replied, "It's late, you rest early, I'll leave when I'm done." ”

Zhao Mu looked at me a little puzzled and asked, "What's the matter?"

I took out the bank card he gave me from my pocket, handed it to him and said, "You can take this money back, the coffee shop won't need it for the time being." ”

Zhao Mu refused to take it back: "You can take it, you may be able to use it in the future, I don't have a place to use the money for the time being." ”

"If you don't need it, save it first, and only when you have a little money on you can you live a solid life." I thought about it and said, "You sell the old house on Tulip Road now, or you can buy a house in the city, and it won't be too stressful for you to repay the loan." ”

"The house allocated by the group is very good, and I really don't need it for the time being."

"Then it should be an investment, and it will be used one day." As I spoke, I forcibly stuffed the bank card back into Zhao Mu's hand, and then changed the topic and asked, "By the way, has the financial pressure of Jinding Real Estate been relieved?"

Zhao Mu nodded, and replied in a very good mood: "Well, Mr. Xiao's influence in this city is still very large, and the new project we are preparing recently has been recognized by the bank, and there will soon be a huge commercial loan, which is said to relieve the group's financial pressure for the whole year next year."

I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, of course, this is for Xiao Ai, as long as Mr. Xiao and Jinding Real Estate are not mired in the quagmire of business crisis, Xiao Ai is still the daughter who has no worries about materially.

I think, maybe I was too worried before, Jinding Real Estate has been standing in this city for many years, how could it fall lightly in the cold winter of the real estate industry, you know, Mr. Xiao was called the richest man after a folk dinner for a while, and his influence is not something that we civilians can see clearly between opening and closing our eyes.

I complimented and asked, "You are involved in the development of the new project that gives the bank confidence, no wonder the group values you so much?"

Zhao Mu replied: "Brother Qiao, you overestimate me, I am doing some technical things in this project, and the high-level people that the group really values live in luxury houses and drive luxury cars."

"At your age, it is already very awesome to be able to participate in the development of the core project of Jinding Real Estate."

Zhao Mu smiled, then fell into silence, and only asked me after a while: "Brother Qiao, is there any news from Xiao Ai recently?"

"I haven't been in touch with her much, she must have been quite busy lately."

I'm telling the truth, I really haven't been in touch with Xiao Ai these days, we're all busy with our own things, sometimes I try to make coffee in the coffee shop, and after 12 o'clock, I don't want to bother her anymore. Presumably she is the same, looking at her circle of friends, it seems that she has filmed several night scenes recently.

However, this kind of busyness has given me a good idea, although the employee crisis of the coffee shop has not been lifted, but I myself am constantly improving because of the day and night study, if I really learn the craft of making coffee, there will be a similar resignation crisis in the future, and Xiao Ai is not bad, she said, when Yuan Zhenqing is returned, she will be relaxed, and now she is approaching the ease she wants step by step.

Zhao Mu is better, as long as Jinding Real Estate stands, his future will be limitless.

In so much good, I suddenly remembered Chen Yi again, but unfortunately she is not very good, because I can imagine what kind of hardship she is suffering in the so-called perverted survival show at the moment, but she is a woman who loves clean and has not experienced ups and downs