After I was hesitant to ask Xiao Ai or not, I began to feel less comfortable, and I took my phone from the east side of the coffee shop to the west side, and from the west to the east side, and the phone just rose and fell in my hand with the rhythm of the pace, but I never got the number out.

I walked to the entrance of the alley again, and I remembered that Xiao Ai had a habit of going to the convenience store to buy corn to eat when the night came. I think that if we are lucky, we may meet, and this kind of chance encounter is more comfortable than a deliberate invitation, so I wanted to go and check it out and buy another pack of cigarettes by the way.

Standing in front of the convenience store, I looked left and right for a while, I thought she would be walking along the street lamp in a thick cotton coat, but except for the traffic on the street and the flashing neon lights on the storefront, I didn't see that familiar figure at all.

I was a little frustrated, and finally went into the convenience store with my head down and bought a pack of cigarettes, and instead of leaving, I took one out of the cigarette case and smoked it in the cold wind

Opposite me, the stray cat that made the wall pillar its home was still there, but it was not as hesitant as I seemed, and it kept looking at me calmly and not barking.

I hated that animals were calmer than me, so I went to the convenience store and bought a sausage to lure it, and in an instant it lost its cold temperament, wagged its tail and walked towards me, and I immediately threw the sausage to it, smoking and squatting to talk to it, laughing at its lack of determination.

The cat had already finished eating a sausage, but the person I was waiting for hadn't come, so I turned around and went to the convenience store to buy a sausage and corn, and the sausage was given to the cat I had made a lot of discouragement, while I ate the corn myself. I wanted to find out what was so good about the corn here, and why I had lived here for more than 20 years, but I had never been so obsessed with it as Xiao Ai

I just became a dog meat friend with a stray cat, and unknowingly consumed half an hour, and I really had no reason to stay in front of the convenience store, because the clerk inside kept looking at me with strange eyes, and in her eyes, I kept thinking about a homeless cat.

I finally got up, smiled at the clerk through the window, and left, but I made up my mind to buy another toothpaste later. I remember running out of toothpaste at home.

This night, I went back and forth to the convenience store to buy toothpaste, shampoo, toilet paper, and towels, and every time I would not return empty-handed, but the person who had to wait never came, and I really didn't seem to have anything to buy, so I pestered the clerk and chatted.

The time has come to nine o'clock in the night, I finally believe that Xiao Ai may have left Nanjing at this time, I don't have the ** to continue chatting with the clerk, and finally bought a lighter and prepared to leave.

After I pushed open the door of the convenience store, I still didn't give up and looked in the direction where she would appear, I vaguely saw the red bicycle slowly approaching this side through the night fog, she was not wearing the cotton clothes I imagined, but a pure blue down vest, and a pair of punk-looking Martin boots on her feet, like a rock girl with aura all over her body, I can be sure that if she was riding a motorcycle, it would be more like because she still had a guitar behind her, but no box.

She came up to me, propped herself on the ground with one foot, and fanned herself with her hand, exclaiming, "What a coincidence."

I was blown a little cold by the cold wind, subconsciously tucked my collar, and then fiddled with the lighter in my hand, and replied: "Come and buy a lighter, you are out of fire, come and buy corn to eat"

"No, I'm here for you."

I looked at her with some surprise and asked, "You can find me, just call me, what if you can't meet me here?"

"You're stupid, your coffee shop is in the alley, I can't meet you here, I'll go to the coffee shop, if the coffee shop doesn't have one, I can still go to your house, it's so boring to call"

I was a little stunned, but it took me a while to realize that the person who was deliberately waiting for a chance encounter on this night was me, but not her

I finally asked her, "Are you looking for me?"

Xiao Ai and I looked at each other for a while, then stepped off the bicycle and said to me, "I want to borrow 10,000 yuan from you." I'm going to Japan with Yuan Zhen, and the children of the piano store can't be taught, so I have to refund the tuition fees. ”

I said half-jokingly, half-seriously: "I'm a very poor man to lend you, and I have no money myself, aren't you afraid of owing me a favor?"

"Don't be afraid, some people must owe their affection."

Seeing her unsmiling appearance, I didn't choose to respond in the end, but I had already decided to lend her this money, although after borrowing it, I myself would be beaten back to the pre-liberation period.

Next to the ATM, Xiao Ai stood against the wall, I took the only 10,000 yuan in the card to her in four times, she took it from my hand, and then said to me: "Jiangqiao, you will be a landlord in the future, I am a farmer, and when I go to Japan, you remember to ask me every day if there is any money to pay you back." Do you hear me?"

I subconsciously replied: "I don't like to rush to ask for money, you can pay it back when it's convenient for you." ”

Xiao Ai looked at me intently, as if he had something to say, but in the end he just raised the money in his hand, and then walked out of the small room where he had withdrawn the money before me.

I caught up with her and crossed the street with her. She didn't gossip anymore, she was already sitting on her bicycle, and pulled the zipper of her down vest up, looking like she was about to leave, and I suddenly understood the meaning of what she had just asked me to ask her for money every day, and she hoped that we would not be separated because of the distance, which is what she said before.

I hurriedly grabbed her, and she looked back at me and asked, "What are you doing?"

"I'll keep you and me in mind about borrowing money."

"I'll just keep it in mind." Xiao Ai said and took the guitar he was carrying off his shoulder, then handed it to me and said, "This guitar is a 20-year-old gift from my mother, and it is also my favorite gift, and now I give it to you."

I was a little stunned because the gift was too expensive

I was just about to speak, but Xiao Ai suddenly pointed at me and said: "Shut up, don't say that you can't play Also, the guitar doesn't have a piano case, your hands are so skillful, just help it make one yourself, don't let it fall dust outside, it's just like people, the piano case is the home where it can rest." ”

I looked at her stern and serious look, but I felt that something was melting in my heart. After a long time, I finally said to her, "I can make a case, but it is definitely not exquisite, and it is not worthy of such a good guitar." ”

"Can the case you make keep away the dust?"

"Yes."

"Can it protect against rain?"

"Yes."

"Then what else do you need, my guitar is not to be sold, let alone ornamental, I can make a case to protect it"

"Okay."

Xiao Ai glanced at me, and then, as usual, without saying a word, rode her bicycle on the road where she had come

I held the guitar she had left behind, a little lost in the rhythmic sound of the chain, but she gradually disappeared from my sight with the traffic. I realized that this time she was really gone, but I forgot to look at her hard, which seemed to be a bluff at noon.

I carried the guitar on my back and went to the convenience store to buy a bag of instant noodles, and today I ate too much miscellaneous things, and dinner has not been solved yet.

When I handed the money to the cashier, I suddenly asked her on a whim, "The girl who was with me just now, does she like to run to your store if she has nothing to do?"

The clerk shook his head and replied: "She just comes to buy corn to eat every day, unlike you who can run back and forth a dozen times, can't you buy it all at once, just watch you open and close the door, I'm dizzy."

I replied a little embarrassed: "I'm just a little energetic, but that's the advantage of young people, right?"

The clerk saved me some face, and she didn't run on my very unusual behavior today, and I said to her: "In the future, she will not come to buy corn again, but no matter how late it is, you can keep one for me, because I don't plan to leave Nanjing." ”

When I returned to my residence, I put the guitar that Xiao Ai had left me in the closet, and then lit a cigarette as usual and lay on the bed and smoked it, but I didn't want to think too much about it, because since I bought a car, paid the salary of the departing store manager in advance, and lent money to Xiao Ai today, I have become a veritable poor bastard again. It's really a thing that turns people negative by thinking about it over and over again, so I kept focusing on the cigarettes I was smoking, and told myself that my life was actually pretty good now, at least I smoked cigarettes, had a house to live in, and I got a guitar that I couldn't play at all

After a moment of distraction, my phone vibrated slightly, I snuffed out the cigarette in my hand, and then picked it up from the bedside table, and it turned out to be the WeChat message sent to me by the person with the username Butterfly Shape.

He said: "Jiang Qiao, it turns out that Chen Yi still cares about the things Qiu Zi'an does, so she temporarily decided to join a reality show that needs to be filmed abroad." I think her and Qiu Zi'an's marriage should be put on hold indefinitely, hehe, but why do you need me to sue Chen Yi for this matter, not you, whether you don't know her, or you don't have confidence in yourself, or, you just think you love her, but in fact you haven't loved her, then she's really pitiful."

I was a little dizzy by these sudden questions, and then there was a pang of colic in my heart, how could my love for Chen Yi be hypocritical, but I didn't know her well enough, but it was a fact, because I never thought that she would give up the wedding and participate in such a survival reality show that requires great courage.

Before that, I thought that even if I told her this, it would not affect her wedding with Qiu Zi'an, because Qiu Zi'an could give her so much that I might never be able to give