After finishing the call with Chen Yi, I looked at the time, it was only half past nine in the evening, which was obviously early for me, who was used to going to bed late, so I took out the experience of making pastries I learned today and reviewed, I set myself a short-term goal, not to become a successful coffee shop owner, at least to become a qualified pastry chef, I want to learn this craft that can be used as another means of making a living.

After about an hour of watching, I finally left the bed, took a cigarette to the balcony outside the room, and then looked at the rain-soaked Yangzhou City from the closest distance, and gradually became infected by her beauty, and finally understood why Ji Xiaowei gave up studying music for many years and returned to Yangzhou to take over the "1999" coffee shop. At this moment, I absolutely believe that Ji Xiaowei is the most relaxed and comfortable life among all the people I know.

He has a car and a house in Yangzhou, and the coffee shop is also very mature, so he basically doesn't have to spend his own energy to take care of it, but he can earn enough money to ensure his life, so Ji Xiaowei has enough time to travel around. Tired of playing, life back in Yangzhou is still very easy, every day is to wander around Yangzhou City, and then change all kinds of girlfriends, love as their own career all year round, life is not stressed

Of course, I don't agree with his behavior of liking to change girlfriends, but this indecent style also indirectly shows that his life is easy. Let's ask, even if he is a gold collar in the workplace, he is not short of money, but does he have extra time to spend on experiencing different kinds of love with all kinds of women?

Obviously not, so sometimes the right choice can be more important than years of painstaking effort.

I stopped thinking about it, because the form of life is too complicated, and the pursuit between people is even different. If one day I can live a life like Ji Xiaowei, it is enough for me to guard Chen Yi, and I will use the rest of my energy to chase the footsteps of my soul, and figure out why I came to this world and what I am living for.

The rain became less with the passage of time, the air was full of the smell of moisture, and the mobile phone that had been holding it in my hand finally rang, it was Chen Yi who sent me WeChat, and she told me that she had almost memorized the host script at the wedding.

I knew that this was extremely draining of my brain, so I couldn't bear to pester her to talk more, so I told her to rest early, and I was ready to bury all the fatigue accumulated during the day in the depths of the night, and I should rest

I snuffed out the half-smoked cigarette in my hand, and when I turned to leave, I found Xiao Ai's familiar figure on the balcony next door, it turned out that she lived next door to me, she should have found me the moment she came out, but she didn't take the initiative to talk to me, and this abnormal performance can only show that her mood is very low now.

I smiled and said to her, "Are you hungry, the pastries made by your senior brother are still in my room, if you are hungry, I will give them to you." ”

She ignored me, but turned her body away, and I could only see her back.

I was a little helpless, and after staring at her back for a while, I finally turned around and went back to the room, thinking about her again. Because I know that as the marriage date of Mr. Xiao and Li Zishan is approaching, the unwillingness and grievances in her heart will become more and more obvious, and even as an outsider, I can imagine how happy her family life would be if there was no woman Li Zishan, and how could she not be resentful as a party

I opened the curtains and leaned over to look at where she had just been, only to find that she was already squatting on the ground, arms around her legs, as if crying in pain, no wonder she was in a hurry to turn her back to me, she didn't want to show her vulnerability in front of me, she just wanted to throw the pain that she couldn't get rid of in her heart into this rainy night that could wash everything

I knew that she might want to be quiet, but I couldn't bear it, and finally emotion prevailed over reason, and I pushed the door open again and walked out, standing by the guardrail nearest to her, and said, "Do you want me to come and talk to you for a while, I think you may need enlightenment." ”

She remained silent, forcibly holding herself back from choking

"If you don't speak, then I'll skip it."

She finally looked up at me, wiped the tears from her face and said to me: "Do you want to die, don't look at how far the two guardrails are, if you want to enlighten me, where can't you, you have to make yourself like a stinky rascal"

"Hehe, too, it's the dead of night, and it seems quite uncivilized for me to turn over"

Xiao Ai had tears in her eyes, but she had an angry and funny expression on her face, and only said to me after a while: "I'm hungry, let's go eat." ”

The night was dark, even in the bustling city, there were not many pedestrians on the road, Xiao Ai and I held an umbrella and looked at both sides of the street, but there were too few restaurants still open at this time, and she didn't want to go to a place like McDonald's to eat, so after a while, we almost walked the whole street, and then stood at the intersection confused

In the uncomfortable wind and rain, I finally said to her: "Let's stop wandering around outside, let's go back and eat the fruit honey cake that your senior brother made for you." ”

"I just saw a convenience store on the side of the road, let's go buy instant noodles and eat them."

I looked at her: "Are you scared to go back to the hotel?"

She nodded: "I'm more afraid of being alone outside." ”

I smiled: "I see that you were not very bold when you climbed the wall of our courtyard before, why did you become cowardly when you came to Yangzhou?"

"Not adapted."

Her always deviant answers made me a little speechless, and then looked at her with tears and laughter, but she said to me with a straight face: "I am always so unscrupulous in front of you, because I know that you are not a bad person, can you not look at me with such an expression?"

I was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly replied: "Okay, okay, I don't look at you"

Xiao Ai took another look at me, then left the umbrella and walked back to the convenience store we had just passed, and I hurried to catch up with her again, and then used the umbrella to shield her from the rain that was still falling. What she needs most on such a cold and rainy night may not be my comfort, but it must be this umbrella that can block the cold rain for her. Imagine: I was originally depressed to the extreme, and then I fell ill because of the rain, and then when I think back to today's days in Yangzhou, I can't feel like I'm going to hell

In the convenience store, Xiao Ai and I were like two homeless people, I bought a towel for her to wipe off her wet hair, and then asked the kind clerk for some boiling water, soaked a bowl of noodles for Xiao Ai and myself, and then the two of them sat on the chairs outside the convenience store and ate.

The simple instant noodles made her eat with appetite, so that she didn't talk to me all the time, and when she was about to finish eating, she finally said to me: "Jiang Qiao, if you accompany me like this, if you let Chen Yi know, will she be jealous?"

"I guess so, after all, she loves me so much."

"Hehe, then why are you still with me?"

"If you are open-minded, you should accompany your sister, and we really don't have the conditions to make the relationship too complicated."

Xiao Ai asked in an indifferent tone: "Why don't we have the conditions to make the relationship too complicated?"

I replied honestly, "Although you don't live a serious life, you are indeed the best girl I have ever dealt with." I don't know if you take this kind of excellence too seriously, but there are really too few talented and beautiful girls like you, and I'm just a very ordinary man, although I shout to be the strongest man on the earth, but my lifelong ambition is just to plant flowers and grass in that palm-sized courtyard."

"Hehe, isn't Chen Yi excellent?"

"Chen Yi and I are childhood sweethearts, we ignore the external conditions, at least there is no pressure to get along, if she makes me unhappy, I really lose my temper at her"

Xiao Ai ate instant noodles again, and then asked very casually, "Isn't it okay with me?"

"Okay, didn't you force me to write a guarantee later?"

"Poof" Xiao Ai spit out all the soup in his mouth, and then coughed, "Jiang Qiao, if you don't damage me, will I die, cough cough cough cough"

I hurriedly patted her on the back, smoothed her breath, and then said: "See, if people are too good at it, there will be a harvest, and it will be retributed at this time, I told you a long time ago, that guarantee has no reason at all except that it shows that you will do it."

"Jiang Qiao, you bastard is angry with me" Xiao Ai said and splashed the instant noodles in his hand at me, I was athletic, I dodged with a dodge, and I didn't even get any soup.

originally thought that Xiao Ai was going to take revenge even harder, but for the first time, she looked at me with a smile that made me feel helpless

I know that after such a fuss, her mood is much better, and this is the value of the existence of friends, not necessarily need to use love to please each other, sometimes gags are also a kind of care

After eating instant noodles, Xiao Ai and I walked on the way to Dongguan Street, we chatted again, and I asked her, "Is your bad mood related to your father's imminent marriage?"

"Yes, as long as I think of him standing with Li Zishan in a wedding dress, my heart feels like it has been cut by a thousand knives. Do you know that when my mom got married to him, he was in the entrepreneurial period and didn't have anything, so he didn't even give my mom a decent wedding."

I was silent for a long time before I replied, "But at that time, he should have given your mother the truest love."

"What if you give it, didn't he give up this marriage in the end, he didn't see my mother's dedication to this family over the years, his heart was really ruthless"

On this topic, in the few exchanges she had with Xiao Ai, she was full of protection for her mother, but I didn't know what kind of mother-daughter relationship she had with her mother, so I asked with doubts: "Do you love your mother very much?"

Xiao Ai didn't answer immediately, she stepped up the steps to the river before me, and it wasn't until we stood together at the guardrail by the river that she replied to me in a tone full of loss: "My mother has spent her best years dedicating herself to this family. Especially for me, she poured all her heart and soul into it, she taught me all kinds of talents, let me be a humble and polite good girl" Speaking of this, Xiao Ai's voice was choked, and she calmed down for a long time before she said to me: "Jiang Qiao, I wasn't what I am now, I was really well-behaved at that time, but after my mother left, I didn't know what way to relieve the pain in my heart, so it became like this, and now no one tells me how to be a good man."

I feel sad because I have endured the pain of being abandoned by my mother, if not longer, so I understand her feelings

Xiao Ai took her phone out of her handbag and showed me the photo she used as a screensaver

Because of this, I saw Xiao Ai's mother for the first time, she was really a woman who seemed to be very patient and knowledgeable. In the photo, she is teaching the young Xiao Ai to practice the piano, and Xiao Ai, who was wearing a princess dress at that time, at least looked really well-behaved.

I sighed softly in my heart, I deeply felt Xiao Ai's feelings for her mother at this moment, otherwise how could I use such an old photo as a screensaver for my mobile phone

The rain was still dripping, and I could not hear anything around me except the regular sound of the rain, and it was as if there were only the two of us left in the whole world, and the lights flickering by the river around the city.

"Jiang Qiao, can you understand my feelings, I used to be my mother's all, she loved me even more than her own life, but now she has returned to Taiwan and doesn't want me, I really feel very lost, as if I was abandoned by the whole world, I am an orphan"

After saying this, she was already crying uncontrollably, and my heart felt suffocated in her crying, and we were in the same sad mood in the rain at this moment

Finally, without any distractions, I took her into my arms and whispered in her ear, "If you are an orphan, then what am I?"

"You are more pitiful and painful than me, so I always unconsciously want to get close to you, accompany you, and want to get a little bit of mutual comfort from you, Jiang Qiao, you bastard, why do you have the same fate as me, why do you appear in my sight, and why are you so good to me" Her voice became softer and softer, so light that I could barely hear it in the rain: "Why are you so good to me, so good that when you are really with Chen Yi, you will feel lost and sad in your heart"

I looked at her with some smugness

She was still muttering to herself: "Is this the feeling of liking someone, it must not be, it must not be, what I hate the most in my life is a junior like Li Zishan, I will never die as a junior who intervenes in other people's feelings"

This is a 4000-word chapter, and sometimes if it is written smoothly, I don't want to cut it into two chapters to update