In the afternoon, I slept like this, and then I started cooking my evening meal in the kitchen. This is the first time I have cooked for Yang Jin in the real sense, but I feel a little handy, even in a hurry, and I can't control the "big scene" of cooking seven or eight dishes for this meal.

At five o'clock, I finished all the dishes, and then sat downstairs at the door of a store selling tea and waited for Yang Jin and Yang Qu to arrive. When I was bored, I lit a cigarette, and although I had nothing to do, I didn't feel that the time was so hard at all, I only saw the footsteps of the people on the street as if the movie was fast forwarding, the faster cars became a dotted line, and even the sunset in the sky quickly changed shapes. In the blink of an eye, it was dark. When the street lights on the road are lit up together, there are more passers-by on the street who are coming home from work.

Come to think of it, this is the most ordinary life, they don't have excessively high material pursuits, and their busy work from 9 to 5 is a blessing. Looking at them, a long-standing doubt surged in my heart: People like Yang Jin are in a huge chain of interests, do they occasionally yearn for this kind of life of small wealth and peace? After all, money doesn't mean much to them anymore, and what drives them to make more money?

When I became more and more confused, I realized that I was so lacking in communication with Yang Jin, so we couldn't find a balance in values, so she didn't understand what kind of life I wanted to pursue.

In a trance, Edamame appeared in my sight as if floating, he lay on my lap, and said to me in a shy, "Second bridge, what are you doing?" ”

"Wait for my mom." I rarely spoke to him without joking.

He made a not-so-kind joke with me, and he replied, "But I heard my parents say that you never call her mother in front of your mother, why don't you call her when you're with her?" ”

I was asked by him like this, and it took me a while to reply: "Edamame, you call it nosy, you know?" …… You're about to grow up, and there are some truths that you must understand, such as questions that others don't want to answer, so don't ask. ”

Edamame seemed to have fun, and he laughed and said, "I'm nosy, you eat fart...... Ha ha! ”

I was silent amid his debauched laughter, and he didn't linger long with me, when he saw a beautiful classmate and saddled up behind someone's ass. Looking at his ass and his appearance, I seem to have seen through his life, he is nothing more than a womanizer, and he is not ashamed!

It's almost seven o'clock, Yang Jin and Yang Qu haven't arrived yet, I can't help but be a little worried, so I called Yang Qu, she complained impatiently on the phone, saying that she knew that she should take the high-speed rail, they have been blocked on the highway for almost two hours, until just got off the toll station, but in Nanjing City, it has to be blocked for a while.

In the interval, I called Xiao Ai again, but unfortunately she didn't answer, and she didn't immediately reply to my text message to explain the situation. I don't know what she's up to, but judging by the situation, she shouldn't be back for dinner tonight. It's okay if I don't come back, there are some things I still hope to have some independent space and talk to Yang Jin privately.

……

At half past seven, I finally saw a black Maybach driving from the "Tulip Hotel" to this side, and it was Yang Jin and Yang Qu who arrived.

I then took them to the top floor of the "Flower God International", and Yang Jin, who was accustomed to seeing thousands of scenery, just looked around, but Yang Qu said several "wows" in a row as if he had discovered a new world. She can only wow, because she has been playing hard since she was a child, and she has never worked poetry and songs.

When she had seen enough, I said to her, "You sit down for a while, and I'll go to the kitchen and heat up the dishes." ”

Yang Qu looked at the clothes that Xiao Ai and I were hanging together, and asked, "Brother, where is my sister-in-law?" ”

I was stunned for a moment, and Yang Jin also looked at her at the same time, and the atmosphere instantly became subtle. Yang Qu's way to solve the problem was to escape, she hurriedly said to me and Yang Jin: "I'll go to the convenience store downstairs to buy something to drink, you guys are busy, you can be busy." ”

……

Yang Qu didn't know why she went, and when I heated a few dishes, she didn't come back. Yang Jin and I sat at the long table in the small courtyard and waited for her. Actually, I bought alcohol and drinks.

I poured Yang Jin a glass of beer, but she shook her head and signaled not to drink it, and then asked me to pour her a glass of boiled water, and put it in my hand and waited for it to cool naturally.

She spoke to me first: "On the way from Shanghai, I still had a little luck, thinking that you had figured it out. It seems that you will continue to follow this path you have chosen no matter what! ”

I looked up at her, she didn't look very good, and I didn't know if it was because she was too busy with work, or if she was angry with me. I felt a little uncomfortable in my heart, so I replied in a lighter tone: "This is a matter that has no right or wrong, only depends on the position. So, I really hope to have a peaceful conversation with you...... After all, I am already a man who is almost thirty years old, and I have my own independent ideas about many things, and I also have my own positions that cannot be changed. In the past two years, I have done what I should have done and what I shouldn't have done, just to wait for you and everyone else to see today. I really don't want to taste that feeling of loss again...... Moreover, I am more concerned about my spiritual needs than material things, so I hope you can stand on the spiritual level and try to understand me. Perhaps, this way, the mother-child relationship will not become the most failed relationship in our lives. ”

Yang Jin was not as strong as before, but she didn't really understand me because of this sentence, she changed the topic and asked me after a short silence: "You specially asked me from Shanghai to Nanjing today, is there anything else besides saying this?" ”

"Hmm."

I answered, then looked at the two empty glass rooms, and said to her, "I rented this place from a friend at a high price, and there are two other empty rooms besides me and Xiao Ai. I want to do a little bit of customer drainage from the Tulip Hotel when the tourist season arrives, which is a starry sky room with a city view, so it is certain to rent a good price, and the configuration of the room is no worse than that of a five-star hotel, so it will not affect the brand image of the Tulip Hotel, and I think it can be launched as a special room of the hotel. ”

In my opinion, this is just a trivial favor, but I don't want Yang Jin shook his head and replied: "Although the configuration and overall environment of this room are not bad, even better than the average five-star hotel, but the property management level of this Huashen International is far from up to standard, especially the elevator, which is pasted with small advertisements, and the elevator is the first door for customers to understand you, first of all, there is no way to give customers a good check-in experience at this point." ”

Maybe I ignored it because I liked this hanging garden so much, but I didn't want to give up, and then I thought about the solution to the problem in my brain.

At the same time, I also thought of a way out, if it really doesn't work, I will go through the formal channels to make a hotel in the sky, and then cooperate with some tourism platforms. These two glass houses can be said to be scarce houses for the whole city, as long as they have a little popularity and a good reputation for moving in, they will definitely be in demand. However, there are certain disadvantages, that is, I can't control the source of customers, and when I want to be quiet, customers place orders online, and I still have to take them.

At this time, Yang Jin said to me again: "Jiang Qiao, do you know why I am so optimistic about this girl Jin Qiu? …… Although your mind is flexible, you lack the thinking of doing a big business, and the idea you and I just put forward is the best proof of this. But in this regard, Jin Qiu can make up for your shortcomings very well...... In the end, my family business is definitely going to be given to you, and I hope that you can have someone by your side who can reassure me...... You also have to understand the concerns in my heart, if you and Jin Qiu are not married, I must not let her get involved too much, after all, she was still an outsider before you got married. ”

The topic was pulled back to the original starting point. I was very unhappy, but I was still patient and asked, "Do you really think that my current lifestyle is rubbish?" Or do you think that people must reach your level in order to live in vain? …… If you really think so, then I can only disappoint you, my vision and life experience doomed me to not become that kind of person. ”

"That's why I let you be with Jin Qiu and maintain this family business, which is my life's work."

I replied even more excitedly: "It's not wrong for you to cherish your hard work, but is it wrong for me to like a life of small wealth and peace?" …… I'm telling you, the happiest time of my life must have been here, not the luxurious office you gave me......"

Yang Jin fell into silence again, and this silence was longer than expected. I know that it was my words that gave her a strong psychological impact that caused her to do this.

Finally, she got up and left her chair, then stood in the place where the wooden and iron guardrails intersected, and leaned down to look at the city below her, which had been completely shrouded in night......

I don't know what mood she's in right now, but just looking at her back, I have a feeling of wandering. Perhaps, this is the most realistic portrayal of her life over the years...... But at this time, I can't empathize with her.

After a long time, she turned around, and then said to me meaningfully: "Jiang Qiao, if it were only you, I might slowly accept your life philosophy." But there is a Yang Qu behind you, and she is your own sister...... If one day, I'm gone, do you want to live the life she will go through? …… There are a lot of things that you don't get involved in, you don't understand...... Your grandfather is over 80 years old, and his health is getting worse day by day. When he was there, he could still hold everything down, but he was leaving, and the home over there was a plate of loose sand, and there were not many people who could rely on it...... As for Yang Qu's adoptive father......"

Speaking of this, Yang Jin seemed to have aged a lot in an instant, she shook her head, her eyes were full of falling and sadness, and after a long time, she said: "The marriage relationship between me and him is a deformed one, and it is even more unreliable...... So Jiang Qiao, I never want to embarrass you when I am alive, but if I die, I hope you can make me blind and make me feel at ease...... I'm really tired of living in this life, and you and Yang Qu are the only motivation for me to live! …… And the only person Yang Qu can count on in this world is you. ”