After Xiao Ai entered the coffee shop, he sat down opposite me, looked at the few remaining pastries and asked me, "Chen Yi, why didn't you stay with you?" ”

"She's back in Nanjing." After a slight pause, I also asked her, "What about Yuan Zhen?" ”

"He's also back to Nanjing."

After a moment of silence, I finally asked her what I was most worried about: "You won't go back to Nanjing in the next two days, will you?" ”

Xiao Ai asked with a very unhappy expression: "In your eyes, have I never been a person who believes in my word?" ”

"I've never felt like you're a man of your word, just too emotional, so you change your decisions on the spur of the moment."

Xiao Ai looked at me, but did not respond to me, and then lay on his side on the sofa chair, as if thinking about something, and I went to the kitchen to try to make another kind of pastry, and the time quietly came late at night.

I left the coffee shop with the finished pastries and returned to my hotel at half past ten. I was so tired that I didn't bother to call Chen Yi, so I went to the bathroom to take a hot shower first, and then lay on the bed in my pajamas.

I picked up my phone, and then sent a message to Chen Yi, she quickly replied, like me, she had just finished preparing for bed, I sent another voice message, asking: "After officiating at the wedding of Mr. Xiao and Li Zishan, you should have a short vacation, right?" ”

"Well, there's a five-day holiday, let's travel to Sanya together."

Although Chen Yi and I have known each other for more than 20 years, we have never traveled together, so that my heart was moved by what she said, and after thinking for a long time, I finally replied with great helplessness: "Forget it, I am about to be eliminated by this society into a marginal person, if I don't work hard at this time, I still want to have fun, God will definitely find a way to move my bread." ”

"It's only five days."

"Five hours is a luxury for me! …… You let Qin Miao accompany you, I have to change my mood coffee as soon as I return to Nanjing this time. I have too many ideas right now, but I don't have much time left. ”

Chen Yi didn't reply to my message for a long time, I lit a cigarette a little depressed, and then fell into waiting, I don't know if Chen Yi was angry, or fell asleep in a daze?

About a quarter of an hour later, I didn't wait for Chen Yi's reply, but there was a guitar sound on the balcony of the next room, and then I heard Xiao Ai sing in a slightly sad tone: "Half-drunk and half-awake day after day, no wind and no rain year after year, the flower branch also beckons a glass of wine, I wish you a good wife and son-in-law......"

Listening, I sat up from the bed, and then leaned on the glass door to look out onto the balcony over there, only to see Xiao Ai wearing a gray pajamas, his hair was still a little wet, and he was holding a rare blue-purple guitar in his hand.

After singing a song, I finally asked her, "What song did you just sing, it's very good!" ”

"Sex Empty Mountain."

"The name of the mountain?"

"Well, Xingkong Mountain is located in Xingshutan Village, Beinan Weiquan Township, Licheng County, Changzhi City."

"Oh, then what you just sang is a ballad, was this song written by Yuan Zhen?"

"No, he doesn't write this type of song, this song is only suitable for women to sing when they are moaning without illness, nothing special!"

I reviewed the lyrics, maybe because I was shallow in my knowledge, and I didn't find that there was a very clear logic in the whole song, it was more like a patchwork to create a profound artistic conception, so I nodded and replied: "It's a little disease-free moaning, but the tune is not bad, is the tune really composed by Yuan Zhen?" ”

"Are you annoyed, why do you keep talking about Yuan Zhen!"

I pushed open the glass door and walked to the balcony, smiled and said to her, "Can't you make a joke?" …… I think you're bored right now. ”

Xiao Ai looked at me incredulously and replied, "Because I'm bored, you make fun of me, are you sick?" ”

"Do you have any medicine?"

"If you're sick, I'll have medicine."

"If you have medicine, I'll be sick!" I blurted out her words, and it wasn't until I noticed that she was looking at me with a patient-like expression that I suddenly realized that I had scolded myself, I sighed, and then shut up in good humor.

Xiao Ai stared at me for a while, then put the guitar into the box and said to me: "Yuan is really much better than you, his fans are all over the country, you will only stink poor." ”

"I have a better temper than him."

"Are you good-tempered? Some time ago, was it a ghost who was arrested and fined at the police station for fighting? ”

The taste of being debunked in front of me was uncomfortable, and I looked away from Xiao Ai's body a little embarrassed, but farther away, except for the neon that was about to go out, was the boundless night, so it was more comfortable to look at Xiao Ai, even though her hair was not dry yet, although she kept looking at me with an expression that I couldn't fathom.

I finally said to her, "I'm fighting for my friend!" ”

"Yuan Zhen fought for me to stick a knife in my ribs, is there any difference?"

"It's really no different, they're all bloody men!"

Xiao Ai glanced at me with disdain and was about to go back to his room, but the moment he opened the glass door, he turned to me and asked, "Jiang Qiao, do you have faith?" ”

I don't know why she suddenly talked to me about the word "faith", I looked at her with a blank look, I never felt that I had any faith, and it took a long time to reply: "Do you have to have faith to be a man?" ”

"Faith is the brightest light in life, so we must not lose faith. You can think about what sustains you to keep alive when you feel like you are about to live in this world, and that is your faith. ”

"Then I have faith."

"What is your faith?"

This time, without thinking much about it, I blurted out, "It's the abandoned textile mill on Tulip Road." ”

"Why?"

"Because since it was abandoned, no one but me would go in and look at it when they passed by it, so its existence was like a secret that would not be discovered...... Also, there are people I want to wait for! ”

"Has no one ever been in again? …… But I've been there so many times, am I already a part of your faith? ”

I was a little speechless, and it took me a long time to reply, "You got in." ”

Xiao Ai replied without emotion: "Oh, it seems that I didn't enter at the right time, but after seeing the desolation inside, I still like the scrapped truck." I don't know if it will be able to leave the textile factory and go outside in his lifetime. ”

I stared at Xiao Ai, not quite understanding what she was trying to say. She's like that, sometimes she speaks so simply that she can't get back to her senses, but sometimes she can get you into a dead end of thought. Come to think of it, this is the result of her and Yuan Zhen's long-term relationship, because after listening to Yuan Zhen's music works, you will understand that he also expresses it like this, sometimes simple, sometimes so deep that only he is entertaining himself in the whole world.

I looked at her for a while, and finally said, "That truck is almost like scrap metal, so don't dream about it...... By the way, what is your faith? ”

"Music."

I nodded and agreed, "Music is a good thing, it can heal a lot of emotions!" ”

"Hehe, yes...... My faith is not as advanced as yours, because there are many people in this world who believe in music, but you are the only one who believes in the textile factory......"

"I'm sorry if my talent surprises you!"

"Stinky and shameless!"

I laughed "haha", and it wasn't until Xiao Ai didn't want to see me get carried away and entered his room that I put away my not very comfortable smile, leaned against the balcony railing and lit a cigarette, and then remembered the word faith again.

I suddenly felt that my expression might be wrong, why did I believe in that textile factory instead of Chen Yi? I remember that when I was lonely and was about to collapse, it was those pictures that I used to be with Chen Yi that saved me in the form of memories.

If faith is the driving force to live, then Chen Yi is obviously more appropriate. At least I've been dreaming lately, hoping to get rid of the troubles in my life as soon as possible, and then enter the palace of marriage with her, which has become the most important thing in my life, dominating my ** and the ideals that exist in **.

Extinguish the cigarette in your hand and return to your room. The first thing I did was to pick up my phone to see if Chen Yi had replied to my message, she replied about ten minutes ago, she was not angry because I refused the offer to travel to Sanya, and said that she would not go either, she would use the vacation of these days to accompany me to renovate the "mood coffee shop".

My heart is full of emotion, what more can I ask for to have such a girlfriend in my life? So I wanted to fight even more because I really wanted to give everything I could give her.

……

The next day, I went to Ji Xiaowei's "1999" coffee shop to learn how to make pastries for a day, Xiao Ai was also very trustworthy and did not leave Yangzhou, she accompanied by Ji Xiaowei to visit several scenic spots in Yangzhou.

Before the night came, I received another call from Jin Qiu. Tomorrow is the wedding of Mr. Xiao and Li Zishan, she is still most concerned about Xiao Ai's whereabouts, I told her that Xiao Ai is still in Yangzhou and has no plans to return to Nanjing, she is a little more relieved, and said that after the wedding of Mr. Xiao, she will definitely invite me to a meal to show her gratitude.

Back at the hotel, I went to the front desk of the hotel to ask Xiao Ai if he had checked out. The reply was that Xiao Ai booked a room here for 5 days. In other words, there are still 3 days before it is time for her to check out, and my heart is settled, maybe she just wants to stay quietly in Yangzhou and then survive the few days that make her feel miserable.

The next moment, I sent her a WeChat message, asking her to have breakfast together tomorrow morning, and if she wanted, we could go back to Nanjing together tomorrow afternoon.

This message didn't get a reply from Xiao Ai for a long time, and I had some unsteady-minded feelings in my heart, so I hurriedly dialed a phone call, but what I got was a voice prompt that the phone had been turned off, and my nerves began to tense up habitually, and then a thought flashed: She shouldn't have a shot with me, right?