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After the evening and before the night comes, it is the busiest time for this tulip road, so there are vendors not far from me and Xiao Ai who have set up stalls one after another, the old people hold children's hands, stop here to buy tofu brains and buy bun fritters, and couples also hold hands and stand next to the stalls selling drinks, waiting for heated milk tea or soda with ice, and I see the embarrassment of this season in this extreme, and I also see the moon hanging in the sky with a hint of melancholy that the end of autumn is coming.

Xiao Ai was still a girl who went her own way, she crawled through the courtyard gate in full view of everyone, and turned into the textile factory, and I followed her in a moment later, and followed her footsteps to the scrapped old liberation truck, and the world suddenly fell silent again, as if this most desolate place was our most secret garden.

Xiao Ai sat down against the truck, and I lit a cigarette and sat down next to her, and I knew she would talk to me later, because I could feel a subtle change in her mood.

"Jiang Qiao, do you want to hear about my life over the years?"

"Of course I want to hear it."

Xiao Ai hugged his legs very insecurely, and muttered for a long time before saying to me: "My mother used to be a vocal professor in Nanyi, my father is a well-known entrepreneur in Nanjing, I am their only daughter, can you imagine how happy my life is?"

"Well, you're so lucky to be in such a family"

Xiao Ai looked at the abandoned factories opposite, there was a trace of indescribable resentment in her eyes, and she finally said to me again: "But such a family has ceased to exist with the appearance of a woman, and what is even more ironic is that this woman used to be my mother's student, and my mother poured a lot of effort into her and trained her to get a master's degree, but she took revenge and broke up our family." ”

"That woman is Li Zishan, Mr. Xiao's fiancée, right?"

"Yes, she is the most shameless woman in the world, and the most shameless and scheming woman, if she hadn't gone to great lengths to conceive my father's child, and then used it to stimulate my mother, they wouldn't have made up their minds to divorce"

I sighed, but I couldn't do anything about the rights and wrongs in this world, so I didn't know how to comfort her, but I just asked her, "Is your mother okay now?"

Xiao Ai had tears in her eyes, but she stubbornly refused to let her fall, just bit her lip, and waited for her emotions to calm down before saying to me: "My mother is Taiwanese, and she stayed in Nanjing for my father, so after the divorce, she quit her job in Nanyi and returned to Taiwan, and now she has her own family, she doesn't want me anymore."

For some reason, my heart was deeply pierced by the phrase "she doesn't want me anymore", how similar our fates are

Xiao Ai looked up at me and said to me with a painful smile: "Jiang Qiao, you teach me to smoke." ”

I shook my head: "Don't smoke, it's not good to smoke"

"But I'm sad in my heart"

"You're sad, at least I, an audience, would like to hear you, but I've never had such a person around me, so I'll smoke, treat cigarettes as my best companions, and let them leave this world with my pain."

"You think I've been lucky, don't you?"

"At least I'm luckier than you, because your father is still in Nanjing, and he's still responsible for your life."

"But I hate him, I hate him for being obsessed with Li Zishan, the vixen, and what's even more hateful is that they are going to get married"

Xiao Ai's emotions became more and more excited, and I didn't comfort her anymore, because what she needed at the moment was not comfort, but a kind of unhindered release.

Time passed by us little by little with the night, and finally even the tulip road outside the factory was quiet, and she said to me again: "Jiangqiao, I am really unwilling that my father will marry Li Zishan, a cheap woman, like this." Do you know, even though my mother has left Nanjing, she still slandered my mother in front of and behind others, saying that my father divorced her because he couldn't stand my mother's affair outside. I have to get justice for my mother, that's why I found you, and although I can't stop anything, I still want to reveal her ugly face to the public at their wedding that you are the planner of this wedding, and as long as you are willing to help me, you will definitely be able to ruin her reputation, because I have evidence that she is a junior."

"Is that what you found me for?"

"Yes, since I knew that your company was hosting their wedding, I consciously wanted to get close to you, and then I found acquaintances around you and learned from them about your experience, and when I learned that our fates were so similar, I felt even more that it was predestined, because you would understand my pain better than anyone else, and you would help me Do you know that my mother is a very decent and traditional good woman, and I will not allow that mean woman to ruin her reputation"

I had a burst of extremely complicated emotions in my heart, but my mind was very firm, and I said to her: "You are wrong, I can't help you in this matter, I have my own professional ethics, this wedding is more about the future life and death of our company, as the planner of the wedding, I have the responsibility to ensure that the wedding can be held smoothly."

"Do you only have interests in your eyes, and there is no right or wrong?"

"Of course there is right and wrong, for me, it is right to do a good wedding, and it is wrong to make a big problem, I hope you don't be willful, this is really not a thing that can be willful."

"What if I asked you for help as a friend?"

"No," I shook my head firmly.

My mind was ready for her to mess with me, but this time I was wrong, she didn't say anything, just stood up from me, and then turned and walked towards the gate of the textile factory.

I saw a deep disappointment in her back, and a very uncomfortable feeling filled my heart, I quickly caught up with her, and then grabbed her arm and said: "Don't be so willful, okay, after all, your mother has now returned to Taiwan and has a new family, what's the point of you doing this now?

Xiao Ai turned to look at me, she sneered: "We shouldn't live in other people's opinions, hehe, then why don't you dare to be with Chen Yi, isn't it because you're afraid of what others think of you Jiang Qiao, I really think you're not only cowardly but also hypocritical now"

I was stunned, and I replied for a long time: "I'm not afraid of other people's gossip, I just don't want Chen Yi to bear this." ”

"I'm not afraid of other people's gossip, but I don't want my mother to suffer such slander for no reason, this is the same reason as you, may I ask where I am willful"

I was speechless, she took my hand and took her, and the atmosphere instantly became a little cold.

"Jiang Qiao, I came to you, good to you, all for this purpose, maybe this is a game, maybe it doesn't count, but when you reject me, this game is over, we will separate from here, I Xiao Ai will not come to you again in this life."

"Why do you bother, I feel really sad when you say that, I feel that I only have the value of being used by you."

"Then you think so."

I felt a little clogging in my chest, but I couldn't say anything, just watched her climb over the courtyard gate in front of me, and then walked across the street, but I didn't regret that I rejected her, but I regretted that why should a poor person embarrass another poor person?

I can't be sure of anything, but I feel that I can't see through the world more and more, and I can't see through the artificially created right and wrong, but I am really tormented by these rights and wrongs

I looked back at the abandoned textile factory behind me, and then fixed my eyes on the No. 2 workshop that had given me many memories, I was a little tired and tired, and I suddenly felt that I really couldn't handle this life full of uncertainties, and I couldn't keep those people I wanted to cherish.

Then let him go, anyway, all the heart-rending pain will not last a lifetime, and a lifetime will not be long