I was not affected by the arrival of Xiao Ai and Zhao Mu, and was still waiting for Qiao Ye to tell me the name of the woman, but he suddenly dropped the ** that spoke, and lit a cigarette.

Xiao Ai looked at him very unhappily and said, "Hey, this handsome guy with a good hairstyle, can you extinguish the cigarette in your hand?" ”

Qiao Ye glanced at Xiao Ai and asked, "Are you talking to me?" ”

"Who else but you has hair like a shell on his head? Hairspray is not less, right? ”

Qiao Ye was in a bad mood, stared at Xiao Ai speechlessly for a while, then silently snuffed out the cigarette in the ashtray, and the next moment he picked up his purse and said to me: "Jiangqiao, I'll go back first, and I'll talk to you about my affairs another day." ”

I persuaded again: "Qiao Ye, you have survived for two years, let's think about the divorce again, maybe it will be another village!" ”

"If I don't divorce this marriage, I will have to go to hell in the next second, don't persuade me, life is tested by practice, not a dream." Qiao Ye said as he opened the door of the coffee shop, lit a cigarette for himself the moment he walked out of the door, glanced back at Xiao Ai, and then straightened his hair, it seems that what can still make him feel a little good at this moment is this carefully groomed hairstyle.

After Qiao Ye left, Xiao Ai asked me with disgust, "Is he your friend?" ”

"Well, old friends for many years."

"Is he going to divorce his wife?"

"yes, it's only been two years since we got married!"

Xiao Ai's tone became even more disgusted: "Then he's really a scumbag!" ”

I tried to explain for Qiao Ye, after all, he was also a victim of an arranged marriage, but I was also very disgusted with the divorce in my heart, so I didn't say anything in the end, just changed the topic and asked Xiao Ai: "Are you here to find me?" ”

Xiao Ai took out two tickets from his bag as if he was looking back, handed them to me and Zhao Mu respectively, and said: "I have a performance in the Culture and Art Center tomorrow night, this is the ticket, you two remember to go and see it." ”

Zhao Mu took it from Xiao Ai's hand first, looked at the ticket and sighed: "It's the second row of Area A, and the location is very good!" ”

Xiao Ai handed the ticket to me again, and said, "The ticket is very nervous, this is what I finally got to get with the performance unit, you are not allowed not to go, do you hear?" ”

I finally took the ticket from Xiao Ai's hand, looked at the performance time, it was half past seven in the evening, and it did not conflict with my work, so I nodded and agreed: "No problem, I will go with Zhao Mu tomorrow." ”

Xiao Ai nodded, and then also reached out to the waiter to ask for a drink, she still has a common language with Zhao Mu, who is about the same age, the two have been chatting about some topics that I am not very interested in, and I don't understand well, and after a while, I leaned on the sofa and took a nap because of tiredness.

When I woke up, Xiao Ai had already left the coffee shop, and Zhao Mu was holding a financial magazine and looking at it, I patted my somewhat groggy head and asked him, "That girl is gone?" ”

"She said she was going to a rehearsal, and she had been gone for a while."

I subconsciously looked out of the glass window before I answered, and after that, my attention was on the alley outside the window that had fallen into the night, and Zhao Mu also raised his hand to look at my watch and said to me: "Brother Qiao, I'm going to attend a class reunion later, so I won't have dinner with you." ”

"Well, go ahead."

……

Zhao Mu then left, and the coffee shop became even more deserted, it seems that the surrounding white-collar workers are busy working overtime for the upcoming October 1st, I also ended up clean, and then asked for a few bottles of beer to drink, as for dinner, I still plan to go to the food stall outside the alley to solve it later, after all, the consumption of this coffee shop is still a bit high, and eating some pastries is already a consumption of dozens of yuan, and about this problem of excessive consumption, I have suggested to the proprietress Yu Ya more than once, I hope she can make a membership system or something, so as to facilitate us long-term customers, but she is willing to give me a free order rather than do what membership system to reduce the style of the coffee shop, for this, I can't really ask people to be free of charge, so usually when I come here, I just order the cheapest beer to drink, as for the food never ordered.

When I was alone, I didn't let myself be idle, and I kept using my phone to watch the most representative wedding planning cases in the country recently, and time passed without noticing, until the door of the coffee shop was opened again......

I looked at Yu Ya who was standing by the bar in the dust, she used to come to Nanjing only once every few months, but this time it was only a little more than a week, so I asked her with such doubts: "Why are you back again?" It's almost October 1st, so it should be the busiest time for your bars in Lijiang, right? ”

Yu Ya smiled and replied to me: "Didn't I go to Beijing last time to attend a business meeting held by Ctrip.com, I happened to meet an innkeeper who was more interested in the market in Nanjing, and we chatted more speculatively, and I also know more about Nanjing, so I brought him over to familiarize myself with the market." ”

"I see."

After Yu Ya chatted with the waiter at the bar, she came to me with a cup of coffee she had personally mixed and said, "Old rule, I'll give you a cup of mood coffee, how are you feeling lately?" ”

I took the coffee from Yu Ya's hand, took a sip first, and when I tasted the mood of this time, the coffee added something similar to mint, so it tasted very refreshing, and people couldn't help but want to take another sip to taste this faint taste, I put down the cup and smiled, and replied: "I won't talk about my mood first, but I know that you must be in a good mood recently, because it has been reflected in this cup of coffee." ”

Yu Ya responded to me with a smile, and then sat down across from me, we finally had a rare opportunity to chat, and I really like to talk with her, because in Lijiang, she will always bring me some inspiration for wedding planning because of her knowledge, and her mouth seems to have a never-ending love story, or moving, romantic or poignant......

She asked me as before, "Have you made any new progress with Chen Yi recently?" ”

I was willing to tell Yu Ya, a woman who does not live in Nanjing, all the secrets hidden in my heart, so I told her about the affectionate hug I had with Chen Yi by the Yangtze River a few days ago.

Yu Ya gave me a thumbs up and praised: "I finally took the first step bravely, not bad......"

I shook my head and replied: "This is definitely not the first step, I just couldn't help it at that time, in fact, it has nothing to do with love, it should be more like family affection, I think we grew up together and experienced many things together, so there is nothing more grounded than holding her, and this is how I felt in my heart at that time." ”

Yu Ya smiled: "The biggest problem between you and Chen Yi is that they are too familiar with each other, so there are so many worries that make you daunted, if it is a woman who fell in love at first sight, you must not be like this, right?" ”

Yu Ya's words entered my heart, I nodded again and again, and this is also an important reason why I like to chat with her, because she can always say the helplessness and pain in my heart with a pinpoint, and then open a window for me, so many times I hope that she is a friend who can live in Nanjing permanently, because every time she leaves, I will have a sense of loss that no one can talk to, which often lasts until the next time she returns to Nanjing......

After taking a few sips of the "mood coffee" that Yu Ya made for me, I also asked her, "Can you talk about your past?" I've always felt that you are a very experienced woman. ”

Yu Ya looked out of the glass window a little distractedly, and then lit a cigarette for herself, she didn't look at me, and said in a very light tone: "Since it's all in the past, what else is there to say?" ”

"The past is also an inseparable part of life, if you say that you never thought about the past again, then I don't ask, if you still recall occasionally, I think it is a very good way to release it and share it with a friend who is willing to keep a secret for you, because I also told you a lot of things that I never wanted to share with others, but every time I tell you, it will be very easy, you can really give it a try."

Yu Ya flicked the cigarette ash, smiled lonely, and said to me for a long time: "Actually, my past is not so complicated, I just fell in love with a man who is too far away from my own material, and I know that it is impossible for us to be together...... And then I did something that I don't know whether to define by shame or bravery. ”

"What's the matter?"

Yu Ya took another deep puff of cigarette and replied: "When we loved each other so much that we couldn't do without each other, his mother found me and offered to give me a breakup fee of 2 million yuan, asking me to leave him. ”

I looked at Yu Ya and felt a lot of emotion in my heart, this is indeed the plot of a TV series, but China is so big and has such a large population, there will always be such a small probability that something will happen to some people.

"Jiang Qiao, do you think it's shameful for me to accept these 2 million, or is it a kind of courage?"

I comforted: "I don't think it's shameful, your choice is just the embodiment of your true temperament in the real world, they forced you to give up this relationship, your spirit was hurt, since you were hurt, why can't you accept mental compensation; Also, you and that man have the right to love each other, but they don't have the right to stop it, because human nature is free, and now they are savagely depriving you of your rights, just paying the price of 2 million, I think it's too cheap for them...... A few stinky money is great! At least 20 million should be compensated, who made their son love so willful! ”

Yu Ya smiled, but tears flowed from her laughter......

I waited quietly, although I hadn't experienced anything like it, but I could feel that Yu Ya was badly hurt in that relationship.

After a long time, she finally wiped away her tears with the tissue I handed her, perhaps smiled from the bottom of her heart, and said: "Jiang Qiao, you are a very special person, I think we can become very real friends, but it's a pity that I have too little time to stay in Nanjing!" ”

"It is precisely because you spend so little time in Nanjing that every exchange we have is so precious."

"Well, it's still the same sentence, if you have time to come to Lijiang for a walk, I'm willing to accompany you to make a pot of tea and sit under the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain to chat."

"There will come a time."

……

The next day, I consciously accelerated my work, because I promised Xiao Ai that I would go to the Culture and Art Center to watch her performance before half past seven, and I did finish all the work at hand before 6 o'clock in the afternoon, and when I was about to leave the company, I was called into the office by Luo Sumei, and she asked me to go with her to meet the big customer who spent 3 million yuan to hold a wedding, and the other party only had time to communicate with us about the wedding at night.

Although I was very helpless, I still had to focus on work, and immediately sent a message to Zhao Mu, asking him to convey the situation to Xiao Ai, and then followed Luo Sumei to meet the big customer who had made me curious for a long time, and this time I finally had the opportunity to meet his true face of Lushan