The noonday sun made the world a little hot, and Qiao Ye and I each drank another bottle of beer, and the light passed through the empty bottle and fell on Qiao Ye's arm. He looked a little melancholy, presumably still worried about the child's affairs......

After he was silent for a while, I tentatively asked him, "What do you think about the child now?" ”

"It's all about dragging...... Anyway, I won't go abroad, I don't want to do such a dirty deal, and I don't want to be sorry for Qin Miao, she didn't do anything wrong, but she became the biggest victim! ”

I nodded, and there was another struggle in my heart, but in the end, I swallowed back the words that came to my mouth, because I couldn't forget the infinite hope for the child in my belly in the back of Su Han's back when I left, so how could I bear to let the people of the Qiao family take the child from her hands?

Counting the time, the child has already been born.

In my silence, Qiao Ye received a phone call. It seems to be his assistant who told him to go back to the group for an emergency meeting. After he hung up the phone, he didn't have time to eat a few bites, and left in a hurry.

Before driving, he told me to call him when I returned to Shanghai, and he went with me to see my grandmother.

I've been watching him leave, he has really changed, and now he is very mellow by the years, so he will be helpless, will struggle, and will keep the bottom line of being a man......

And what about my river bridge? Do you want to sink like this, is it that you can't live a beautiful life in the future if you can't see Xiao Ai?

I can't give an answer, but I know I should try to get out!

……

After eating lunch alone, I called Chen Yi and prepared to give her the money I borrowed from Qiao Ye, and then ask her to compensate the landlord of the piano store as a guarantor. However, she was attending an event in Zhengzhou and would not be able to return to Nanjing until late in the evening, so our meeting was postponed until the evening.

Back in the old house, I sprinkled some water into the yard, cleaned up the accumulated dust, and found other repair tools to repair the two broken doors. At this moment, although I can't mend my life, I at least have the ability to restore this small courtyard to its former state. I want to follow Xiao Ai's example at dusk, sit on the clean courtyard wall, drink some beer, and watch the sunset dye the city golden......

In the evening, I really sat on the courtyard wall, wanting to experience the silence of the old alley for the last time, holding a beer in one hand and the blue guitar that Xiao Ai once gave me in the other. As I watched the setting sunset, my heart gradually calmed down, and I could hear the shouting outside the alley, and the aroma of fried chicken wafting in the wind.

I took a sip of my beer and hugged the guitar tighter.

"Second Bridge, don't you want to live, sitting on such a high courtyard wall!"

I looked down and saw that it was the "little slippery" edamame standing at my feet. At this time, he was holding a box in his hand, which was full of his toys.

I asked him, "Where are you going?" ”

"We're moving...... My dad said that from now on we will live in the building, which will be closer to the heavenly gods! ……”

"Huh."

"Futahashi, what are you laughing at?"

"Believe it or not, there are only gods and no gods in this world."

"Believe, believe, you sit so high and hold a guitar, you look like a magic stick...... Second Bridge, you said that if you fall off the courtyard wall and fall to your death, will we still meet in the future? ”

"Then we have to wait until you die......" After thinking about it, I smiled again: "We can't see each other when you die, because we don't go to the same place!" ”

Edamame looked at me incomprehensibly, but I was amused by my own behavior, I was talking nonsense to a child.

A moment later, Maodou's father, Mao Zhi, also came to my door with a kettle and other daily necessities, and it seemed that he had moved it many times, and this was the last time.

He stopped in the corner, first concerned about his grandmother's current physical condition, and then said to me: "You may not know that next week our old alley will start to be demolished in batches, and the first to demolish it is those of us who have signed the contract...... You should also hurry up and get ready to find a house to live outside. ”

Even in the face of the fact that the old house was going to be demolished eventually, my mood didn't fluctuate too much, but I turned around and looked into the yard a few more times, and then nodded at Edamame's father. At this time, Edamame also waved at me, ready to leave with Maoji.

Recall: I have a teenage age gap with Edamame, but we've been messing around in this old alley for so long. Now, he wants to say goodbye to this old alley before me, and my mood finally fluctuates a little.

Because, maybe I'll be the next one to leave here!

……

Before the evening came, I went back to the small courtyard and began to pack up the things I wanted to take with me, I had limited time to return to Nanjing, so I had to use these two short days to move to the house, as for where to move, I didn't have any plans yet.

I packed up the boxes and clothes left by Xiao Ai again, and the longing made me irrational, so I just sat on the bed with her clothes in my arms...... At this time, a cool evening breeze was blowing outside the window, and the leaves were rustling, just like my loneliness.

After a while, the room was pushed open, and I saw Chen Yi's somewhat blurry figure, and she said to me, "Jiang Qiao, what are you doing, why don't you turn on the lights?" ”

I hurriedly stuffed Xiao Ai's clothes into the box, and almost at the same time, Chen Yi also turned on the light in the room, I looked at her, but she looked at the box on the ground, and after recognizing Xiao Ai's clothes, she turned her eyes away and looked at me.

I replied, "I want to sit alone for a while." ”

"With so much going on, how can it be quiet? …… I'll go out for a walk with you. ”

"I'll sit a little longer, and this place will be demolished next week, don't you know?"

Chen Yi looked around, and then replied with a sigh: "How can I not know, it's just that like you, I don't want to admit this fact." I always thought that this was a city, impregnable, but it fell into the general trend of urbanization. But then again, what is there in this world that can't be changed? The people around me have come and gone...... It seems that no matter how reluctant you are, you have become accustomed to these divisions and combinations! ”

I smiled with emotion, and then replied, "Actually, we're all quite pessimistic. ”

"It's not that we're pessimistic, it's that something that shouldn't happen happened to us unexpectedly."

……

Walking on Tulip Road with Chen Yi, I came to the opposite side of the textile factory soon after, I subconsciously stopped, but I didn't plan to go over to see it again, all the memories of the textile factory, I just want to stay in the evening with Xiao Ai.

At this time, I saw a back figure under the dim street lamp, she was wearing a white shirt, her hair was neatly coiled, and she was wearing a very thin silver necklace around her neck, her temperament was graceful and elegant, I couldn't help but look at it a few more times, it seemed that there was something inexplicable about her body that attracted me and made me feel familiar.

I turned my head to look at Chen Yi beside me again, but she didn't pay too much attention to that back, but asked me, "What are you looking at?" ”

"Do you see that back on the other side?"

"What?"

I pointed it out to her again, and she followed the direction I was pointing, and then asked me, "Is there anything wrong with that back?" ”

As soon as I was about to answer, a black Mercedes stopped beside her, and a middle-aged man who looked like a driver got out of the car. The moment she opened the car door for her, she turned around. I could only vaguely see her face, a woman who looked like she had just turned 40, and she got into the car with a steady step. When the car carried her away, all that remained of her standing was the dim glow of the streetlights......

At this time, Chen Yi's face suddenly showed a look of surprise, and he said to me after a while: "That ...... just now The woman...... Her temperament is so special, I seem to have seen it somewhere, but it feels like a long time ago. ”

I didn't speak, still thinking about what the woman had been like when she had just left. Chen Yi finally said to me suddenly: "Jiang Qiao, doesn't that woman look like Aunt Yang just now...... However, it doesn't seem to be like it, I remember her always wearing a textile factory overalls! ”

I shook my head and replied, "No, my mom isn't like that......"

Chen Yi nodded in response, and then said: "Maybe it's just my illusion for a moment, Auntie, she has been gone for almost 20 years, and I can't remember her appearance very well." ”

"I don't remember exactly."

As I spoke, I took another step, and then walked towards the end of the tulip road without any emotion.

……

Before I knew it, Chen Yi and I had walked to a shantytown where many migrant workers lived, and I noticed that high-rise buildings were being built on this road again.

Looking at the workers who had just gotten off the construction site, shirtless, wearing only underwear and pouring running water on their bodies, I couldn't see through this unbalanced world even more. They are the builders of the city, they have built countless houses, but they live in shantytowns with little space every day, and then they are busy with everything they have to pay for their lives.

I haven't always understood what kind of behavior is it that we have such and such requirements for life every day compared to this group of people?

While thinking, the phone rang in my pocket very suddenly, I calmly took it out, but after a glance, it was not calm, this call was from Ade.

I hurriedly answered, and I knew that he probably brought me news of Xiao Ai, because it had only been a day since I asked him to find Xiao Ai, and if I hadn't inquired, he wouldn't have called me in such a short time.

"Ah Qiao roared, you come to Taipei...... No, no, no, it's to Hsinchu County, I once had a resident over there, I showed him a photo of Ruyi, he said he had seen Ruyi, and Ruyi now lives next door to his house...... He said Ruyi had a wedding with a man in the countryside yesterday...... Ruyi is married, do you believe it or not? …… Oh my God, I can't believe it, you're coming! Let's see if we can recover ......."