After a longing hug of comfort, I let go of Xiao Ai. At this time, I must put away the painful feelings before her, and I should not burst out the negative energy that has been hidden in my heart for a long time to show her. I finally smiled and asked her, "Do you think I'm a sunny man?"

"No, you have a lot of unspeakable bitterness in your heart"

"You don't know me Actually, I am a very sunny man, my yard is planted with a lot of flowers and plants, there are sunflowers painted by me on the wall, I also like to think of life in advance, no, I have prepared the bacon and sausages and firecrackers for the New Year If you stay in Nanjing this year, let's have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together, I will make it for you to eat, dumplings are essential"

Xiao Ai looked at me, she finally smiled, but did not clearly envision what I described what Chinese New Year's Eve would look like, she just tucked the quilt tighter, and then held the guitar and looked at the white wall distractedly

I moved a chair and sat down beside her, and we sat all night without talking, and I finally fell asleep on the edge of the bed in the early morning.

I had a dream that Xiao Ai let go of a qiē in Nanjing and followed her mother to live in Taiwan, where there was a small town of Lukang and a Mazu temple with all kinds of seascapes and seafood, and she finally married a young music professor and gave birth to two children, a boy and a girl, and we said goodbye, and we never saw each other again in this life

The sun shone through the window on my face, and I woke up in a daze, and she had left my room, covered with a quilt that she had covered before, and our body temperatures subtly blended on the quilt

This morning, instead of going to the coffee shop, I bought couplet lace and some cleaning tools at the market outside the alleyway, and I cleaned up at home all morning, and this was also my most idle New Year in recent years, I used to work in Lao Jin's wedding company, and I was almost busy until Chinese New Year's Eve.

At noon, I put the raw rice into the rice cooker to cook, and then lit a cigarette and sat quietly on the steps at the entrance of the small courtyard, of course, Xiao Ai was the most in my heart, but I didn't want to disturb her at this time, because I knew that at this moment she had already met her mother who had been absent for a long time, and I was not suitable for an outsider to be with them.

When the rice was about halfway through cooking, Jin Qiu came from around the corner with a black leather bag. Her pace is still so confident and powerful, and recently she is also proud enough, not only by the unofficial media as "the most beautiful boss lady in Nanjing", but also won the official title of "outstanding young entrepreneur". I can foresee that with these halos, it will be easier for her to do whatever she wants next year, because there is no shortage of people who are willing to invest in her.

Jin Qiu didn't explain what she meant, she sat down next to me, and then took a cigarette from the cigarette case in my hand and lit it for herself

I finally asked her, "There are a lot of people who got married a few years ago, why do you have time to come to me?"

"I'm so busy that I want to come to you for a while."

I subconsciously looked around, compared to the noisy and fast-paced city, this is really a quiet place, even if it is the time to get off work at the moment, there are occasional neighbors walking by, so sometimes lighting a cigarette and sitting at the door of the small courtyard for a while will really make you calm down and forget some worries.

I nodded, and Jin Qiu and I each smoked a cigarette, looking for their own tranquility

When I was about to finish a cigarette, Jin Qiu finally asked me, "How are you going to spend the Chinese New Year this year?"

I took a puff of cigarette and absentmindedly replied, "That's it, how else can I live?"

Jin Qiu looked at me and smiled helplessly: "I really envy you for living so numbly, alas, this year is my first year after returning to China, but I have to be busy until Chinese New Year's Eve, very tired"

"The wedding industry is like this, there is no way."

Jin Qiu pursed his lips, then took out an invitation card from his bag and said to me: "There is a drinking party tonight, and the people gathered are all more famous entrepreneurs in Nanjing, you can also go and meet the world" After a pause, Jin Qiu said again: "Be my wine partner." ”

I flipped through the gilded post and looked at it, then smiled self-deprecatingly and replied, "Aren't you afraid that I will embarrass you, and you don't even have a decent set of clothes"

"I don't believe you don't have decent clothes, Chen Yi has bought you a lot in the past few years."

I remembered that Chen Yi did buy me clothes, but they were not as extravagant as Jin Qiu thought, because I had always lived a simple life, but Xiao Ai had bought me a few sets of valuable clothes in the shopping mall of Confucius Temple. At that time, she hadn't fallen out with Mr. Xiao and spent a lot of money, while I had just left Lao Jin's company and had a bad life, but in just a few months, everything has changed, and now Xiao Ai is even more lost than me

"Jiangqiao, do you want to give me a word."

"Go."

"Okay, then I'll pick you up in the evening." After Jin Qiu finished speaking, she extinguished the cigarette butt in her hand, and didn't wait for me to leave her for lunch, so she answered the phone and hurriedly walked out of the alley.

In the afternoon, I sat alone in the coffee shop thinking about my plans for next year, and I estimated that I would have to spend a long time in this coffee shop, because after this heavy blow, I could not stabilize for a while.

I finally had a sense of crisis, because I was a year older, but I hadn't done anything serious, and my classmates and friends of the same age had already started a family.

Towards the end of the evening, Xiao Ai's classmate Yu Xin came to my coffee shop, she brought some things that Xiao Ai had left in the dormitory, she said, they were going to move out soon, and some daily necessities were not safe to leave in the dormitory. She specially instructed that there was also a watch in the box that Xiao Ai didn't wear much, worth more than 30,000 yuan, so I wouldn't lose it.

I took a general look at the contents of the box, and there were indeed a lot of valuable ones, so I asked her incomprehensibly, "Why don't you return it to Xiao Ai yourself?"

Yu Xin replied a little helplessly: "Her mobile phone hasn't been turned on today, it's not wrong to send you here, hehe, she can not look for us classmates, and she won't not look for you, we have heard about Mr. Xiao's affairs, please help us convey: I hope she is strong." ”

"Well, I'll be you, there will be no classes in the second half of the semester, have you found a job?"

"Well, I have been admitted to Nanjing Performing Arts Group, and I will be a professional singer and actor in the future, and I will wait for the opportunity slowly, anyway, I am still young"

"That's not bad, it's a decent job."

Yu Xin smiled self-deprecatingly, and then replied: "Our talent is too far behind Xiao Ai, as long as she is willing, there will be an entertainment company to sign her immediately, and she is one of the few students in our Nanyi who has had the opportunity to make a big difference in the entertainment industry in recent years, and all teachers and classmates think so."

I don't really understand the yearning and thirst of these art students for the entertainment industry, so I just nodded in agreement and didn't say much.

Yu Xin said to me again: "Brother Jiangqiao, this time there is such a big change in Xiao Ai's family, will she change her original idea and enter the entertainment industry, and someone from the media company found me yesterday to inquire about her news?"

I shook my head and replied, "From what I know about her, she's not a woman who would compromise with life. After this incident, she will have her own choice, but she must not enter the entertainment industry. ”

Yu Xin nodded, agreed with my statement, and after a moment of silence, she said to me again: "By the way, Brother Jiangqiao, can you give me Zhao Mu's contact information, I want to invite him to dinner"

"Don't you have his contact information?"

"I have his phone number in Beijing before, and his phone in Beijing seems to be no longer used recently."

I told her the number that Zhao Mu changed in Nanjing, and then smiled and asked, "Why did you remember to invite him to dinner?"

"Some time ago, I had a relative who wanted to buy a house in Nanjing, and he asked his classmates for help and gave us a discount of nearly two points, so it was natural to invite him and his classmates to have a meal."

I made a clear expression and invited Yu Xin for a cup of coffee, and she didn't stay long, leaving the coffee shop before the night came.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, I closed the door of the coffee shop in advance, and prepared to go to the high-end business reception to be held at the Metropark Hotel with Jin Qiu.

Jin Qiu and I didn't go too early, so the parking lot that had been planned for this reception was already full of all kinds of luxury cars, which were full of luxury cars under the spotlights. I can't help but think of Mr. Xiao who is facing prison, he was once a representative figure in Nanjing's business circles, and who will think of him at the cocktail party that is about to start at this moment, and think of his life of coexistence of glory and mistakes

Suddenly I didn't want to look at the car window anymore, I was a little confused about life, I didn't know what kind of life is happy and meaningful.

Jin Qiu finally found his parking space, and I inadvertently found that it was Qin Miao's Porsche parked opposite, but I was not surprised, Qiao Ye had been with Su Han for a long time, and such a drinking party could only be attended by Qin Miao instead of him.

I looked at Jin Qiu beside me again, thinking that she was not really lacking a drinking partner, but hoped that I could take this opportunity to settle my old suspicions with Qin Miao, who had always considered Qin Miao an indispensable friend in my life.

I couldn't cry or laugh, I didn't know whether to thank her or complain about her, but I knew that after facing Qin Miao later, I would definitely be embarrassed, and I could only pray that time would fade away some of her hatred for me

Before getting out of the car, I took out my mobile phone and sent a message to Xiao Ai, who had not been in contact today, with no special purpose, just to tell her that I had come to the drinking party, and I was afraid that she would go to my place to find me, but I was not there