After walking a little further, Zhao Mu and I came to the new area opened by "Jinding Real Estate", which is also the site of the old alley, but we didn't go in, just stood at the door and watched......

A gust of wind blew, blowing some old smell, and I subconsciously remembered what the old alley looked like, it was like an old friend of mine, but I lost it forever.

After a while, Zhao Mu opened his mouth and said to me: "Brother Qiao, do you remember that I also have an old house here?" ”

"Of course I remember, you sold it for my coffee shop."

Zhao Mu nodded and replied: "I only sold that old house for 30,000 yuan in total, and I myself am in real estate, so of course I can see the prospects here." According to the compensation standard formulated by Jinding Real Estate, after my old house is demolished, I can at least get two large sets, and with the current market, how can I sell it for 50,000 yuan...... However, the brothers did not help the poor, so I still chose to take action at that time......"

"Do you regret it?"

Zhao Mu looked at me, then shook his head, and he said again: "I don't regret it, if I can choose again, I will still do it, because in my heart, you are the same as Zhao Chu." ”

I fell into silence, if I and Zhao Mu also had a favor because of the birth, then I did owe him a big favor, although I didn't ask for the money because of Xiao Ai's help at the time, but he did lose two suites because of this.

After a while, I finally said to him, "As a brother, there is no afterlife in this life, and I will always keep your feelings in my heart." ”

"Brother Qiao, I want to make a deal with you."

Zhao Mu's sudden request made me extremely uncomfortable, I looked at him, and suddenly felt a sadness in my heart, and we even needed to make a deal between us.

"What do you want to trade?"

He said to me very resolutely: "Give Xiao Ai to me." ”

My blood surged for a while, and it took me a while to reply, "Why? ”

"I can help her get back the Jinding real estate she wants most, and even if you lose her, there will be a suitable choice, everyone knows that Sister Chen Yi is still waiting for you. Do you dare, she has no place in your heart at all? But I can only love Xiao Ai in my life, except for her, no one can enter the depths of my heart...... Can you understand the feeling, it's really painful! ”

I can't describe how I feel at this moment, I feel trapped in the swamp of humanity, I can't breathe. Is this still the same brother who grew up with me through the trials and tribulations of life?

Seeing that I didn't speak, Zhao Mu said again: "Jiang Qiao, can you really bear to look at Sister Chen Yi like this now?" …… I'm sure that as long as you go to her, she will go with you at all costs......"

"You fart, these are not the reasons why you asked me to give up Xiao Ai...... You should understand why people are called people, and you should understand the bonds between people. ”

"Really? If you really see yourself as a human being, you won't punish Sister Chen Yi for the wrong thing she did for the rest of your life, she is about to be ruined by you...... Not only did you ruin her, but you ruined me, and you were the one who was the least human. ”

I can't find an outlet in Zhao Mu's logic, because I have an unshirkable responsibility for the birth of these things. I tried to calm myself down, and after a long time, I said to him: "I don't think I gave birth to tonight's incident, you go back and rest, and then think about it, maybe we can still be brothers in this life...... In addition, I have to remind you that while you question me, don't forget the woman behind you, you and I ruined Chen Yi, and Yu Xin was ruined by you...... Therefore, love can choose 10,000 times when you meet the right person; When you meet the wrong person, it will hurt you once! ”

Zhao Mu raised his head and looked at me and smiled, then replied, "Okay, I will remember all your words...... I hope Xiao Ai thinks like you, I have evidence of Li Zishan's crime in my hands, as long as I am willing, Li Zishan will fall from the big ship of Jinding Real Estate tomorrow, but don't worry, I will not use this as a quid pro quo with Xiao Ai. I just want to tell her, what you Jiangqiao can't do for her, I Zhao Mu can ...... I'm the man who is willing to give everything for her, and all you can do to her is hurt...... In the two years she has been abroad, all the pain is due to you, I don't believe it, she doesn't hate you at all in her heart. ”

"Do you have to do this?"

"Without her, everything I have now will be meaningless, so I have to do it, you have made me have no way out, and if I continue to deceive myself like this, I will go crazy on the day you really get married."

I sat weakly on the bench at the entrance of the district, and after Zhao Mu glanced at me, he turned around and walked towards the parking lot where he parked his car.

This scene, I seem to have seen it in a dream, but my mood at the moment is more complicated than in a dream, and I don't know how to deal with it in order to make Zhao Mu wake up. The only thing I know for sure is that I will not give up Xiao Ai, even if I sink in human nature, I will not give up.

……

The night is getting darker, and after sitting for a long time, I suddenly want to meet Xiao Ai, I won't tell her about Zhao Mu looking for me, I just want to see her.

I drove to the cancer hospital and parked at the main entrance. I knew that the distance between me and her at the moment was just a courtyard wall and an elevator, but I lost the motivation to find her in an instant. Because I know that these are my problems, she has done well enough, I shouldn't let her see myself in an extremely bad state at the moment, but who should I pay back the burden on my body?

Give back to fate?

This is the most bullshitty idea, because fate is never responsible for anyone's fate.

With this in mind, I didn't choose to go up there to see Xiao Ai, and after smoking a cigarette, I drove towards Tulip Road.

……

This night when I slept alone, I had a dream. In my dream, I dreamed that Xiao Ai was standing beside Zhao Mu in a wedding dress, no matter how I shouted, she just couldn't hear my voice at all, and in the crowd, the only one who could communicate with me was Chen Yi. Like Xiao Ai, she was also wearing a white wedding dress, and then desperately pulled me and ran out of the crowd......

Running, running, we became the way it was, and the old alley still existed, we stopped at the mouth of the alley, the bright sun shone directly on us, there was no tulip hotel opposite us, only tulips in full bloom.

Chen Yi said to me: "Jiang Qiao, if you want to marry me, does it count?" ”

"When?"

"Just yesterday, did you forget? We've played family together, and you're going to marry me back to your old yard, and you're going to plant flowers and grass with me, and I'll give you a bunch of children...... You can't talk and don't count. ”

In an instant, my memories of adulthood began to be lost, and I even returned to my consciousness as a child, and I took Chen Yi to the sea of flowers, and in the distance there was a rare figure of Xiao Ai running......

I was suddenly awakened, but what awaited me was a rainy morning, and there was no bright sunshine that I had seen in my dreams.

……

After getting up, I washed my face and cooked step by step, then drove to the hospital and brought breakfast, but by the time I arrived, Xiao Ai had already gone to Jinding Real Estate. Yes, there is an important meeting to be held at half past eight in the morning.

I thought in my heart that since it was an important meeting, she would definitely meet with Zhao Mu, who was the senior of the group, and I wasn't sure what would happen between them this morning.

After having breakfast with Yang Jin in the hospital, I also went to the "Tulip Hotel". Today, as the legal person of the hotel, I also have an important meeting to attend. I don't know if it's a coincidence or an arrangement of fate, Chen Yi, who hasn't hosted the event for a long time, made an exception to host a wedding in the hotel.

After inquiring, I learned that today was the director's son holding a wedding in the hotel, and I was relieved to think about it, I knew that Chen Yi was preparing to return to work at the TV station, otherwise no one would be able to invite her now. Therefore, this is not a coincidence, let alone the arrangement of fate, it is just the inevitable result after the choice.