I stood at the top of the fence, and then made a dashing jump, but I didn't expect the grass to be slippery, and I stumbled forward a few steps in embarrassment before I could stand firmly, but I still said to Xiao Ai, who was close at hand, "From the moment my feet hit the ground, your small courtyard will be violated by me." ”

Xiao Ai glanced at me with disgust and replied, "Almost staggered to the ground, is it also a violation?" ”

I turned around and picked up the convenience bag placed next to the fence, then shook off the muddy water on the umbrella, and then stood in front of Xiao Ai and said: "Actually, the word violation is used very well, because you refuse to meet me, and my coming to you is not based on your willingness, so it is a rash visit to say that it sounds good, and it is a violation for no reason to say that it is unpleasant!" ”

"I really can't see that you, a person who didn't graduate from high school, still speak so logically!"

I smiled, then leaned closer to Xiao Ai and said, "This is not where I am really good, you know? The boss of our wedding company offended me last time, and he broke his leg the next day, and you are the second one! ”

"Why don't you die!?" Xiao Ai said to me resentfully, and then raised one of the crutches in his hand to me.

I took a step back and was standing next to her car, so I remembered about the car again, so I put away my joke and asked her, "Actually, this car is your own, why did you go to such great lengths to say that you borrowed it from a friend?" ”

"I'm afraid that if you feel inferior, I won't be able to penetrate the enemy."

"Am I your enemy?"

"Not friends anyway."

"Yes, none of your friends are played with like this."

My somewhat cathartic words seemed to touch Xiao Ai and made her fall into silence, and she whispered to me for a long time before asking, "Then why are you still coming to me?" ”

"Because I've been through all your pain, I know what kind of mood you're in right now."

……

Entering Xiao Ai's house, I didn't bother to take a few more looks, so I carried the dishes into the kitchen, and then began to be busy for our dinner, and the rain outside the window has not stopped, falling on the eaves, falling in the small bamboo forest behind the kitchen, so that the world at the moment is not quiet, but quiet.

It took me about an hour before I finally brought the prepared meal to the table, and then sat face to face with Xiao Ai, who seemed to have some emotions towards me, so she didn't talk to me much since I entered the room.

Of course, I understand that this kind of non-opening is self-willed, but I am willing to tolerate her, because in my heart, I am not willing to embarrass another poor person as a poor person, especially since she is still a girl who looks stubborn but is very fragile in her heart.

I handed her a plate of sugar-mixed tomatoes and said, "This is a good thing, it invigorates blood and dispels blood stasis, you can eat more." ”

Xiao Ai lowered her head, and didn't know what she was thinking, so she took a piece with chopsticks for a long time, and then put it in her mouth, but she still didn't want to talk to me, probably still conflicting in her heart about whether to accept me calmly as an uninvited guest.

In order to let her let go of this guard, I smiled at her in a friendly way, and then I also picked up my chopsticks and ate this dinner with someone to accompany and hear the sound of falling rain.

After eating, I first cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks in the kitchen and washed them, and then cleaned the house for her, and even washed the dirty clothes she had changed and washed, and when I was done, I finally came to her, handed her the 1500 yuan prepared in advance, and said: "This is the remuneration for your last performance, I guess you don't want to take care of me in the future, I can't keep this money for you anymore, you can take it back." ”

She took the money from me, and I sat down across from her with a chair, and she placed it on the cabinet next to the couch, and took out a new roll of bandages and ointments from the drawer, as if ready to change the dressing.

"I'll change it for you." As I spoke, I took the bandage and ointment from her hand.

She just looked at me and didn't refuse, I carefully put her feet on my legs, and then untied the original bandage for her, only to see that there was really a red and swollen ankle, I wiped off the original ointment for her with alcohol, and asked: "Why are you so careless, after dancing for so many years, you can still twist your feet!" ”

"Then according to your meaning, you don't have to die after living for so many years?"

"You ...... logic!"

"What's wrong with my logic? Anyway, I'm just twisting my feet, I'm just not happy these days, what's wrong? ”

Of course, I could hear that she was still angry with me for rejecting her, and I also knew that in her eyes there was only black and white and there was no intricate relationship of interests, but it was this kind of oversimplification that caused a big problem for me, a person who has formed an inherent value system in society.

After a moment of silence, I finally said to her: "I have always wanted to talk to you calmly about the previous matter, because I hope you can understand my difficulties, I admit that it is the most pleasant to expose Li Zishan's ugly face at the wedding when the guests are gathered, but have you thought about the chain reaction behind?" For example, our company...... I tell you from the bottom of my heart, your father's wedding, related to the jobs of all employees in our company, if done well, can relieve the company's financial pressure in the second half of the year, if we don't do well, we will lose money, because your father's wedding is more special, he is fully handed over to our company to undertake, so we have the obligation to ensure that the wedding is carried out in an orderly manner, otherwise we will be responsible! ”

Xiao Ai looked at me with a hateful smile, but it was not aimed at me, she replied: "Li Zishan knows that I will make trouble, so she signed such an excessive contract with your company, and then passed on the risk to you, and once there is an accident at the wedding scene, she can refuse to pay the final payment, so your company is the most stupid, and will sign this unequal contract with her!" …… You know what a scheming woman she is, right? ”

I sighed, in fact, when I saw the contract signed by Lao Jin and Li Zishan, I was very disgusted with many unequal clauses in it, but the company has reached the point where it is difficult to maintain, otherwise Lao Jin would not have taken the risk of signing such a contract, and this is also in line with the business law that the greater the output, the greater the risk, after all, there will not be a few rich people in Nanjing who can take out 3 million yuan to hold a wedding in a year.

Tears suddenly fell from Xiao Ai's face, and she cried and said to me, "Jiang Qiao, do you know? When my mother left Nanjing, she said to me: she didn't want me to enter the entertainment industry in my life, to be a star who pleases the public, she wanted me to be an artist with my own character...... Why would she ask me that? Because she was so disappointed in the people in that circle, she hated Li Zishan even more who used to be in the entertainment industry, so she was afraid that the atmosphere in that circle would turn me into a person like Li Zishan...... However, I know that she is unwilling, unwilling to let her family be broken up like this, but she can't change anything! …… She left very painfully, and my pain over the years was given by Li Zishan. You tell me, what kind of tolerance do I have to be to watch her dance next to my dad? ”

I finally know why Xiao Ai is so reluctant to join the entertainment industry, and I can understand her resentment and pain at this moment, but I have no position to comfort her, because about her father's wedding, we have always been on opposite sides, and I have a position that cannot be changed!

She stubbornly wiped away her tears, and then stared at me for a long time......

I was a little confused in her eyes, and then I didn't think about anything, just changed her blood and pain poultice, and then wrapped a new bandage.

At this time, she finally said to me again: "I know that I am willful in this matter, and I should not be angry with you, but there is no one around me who can listen to me and say these words in my heart, so many times I am in a bad mood, and I really hate to live like this......"

My mood suddenly became low, so I took a cigarette from the cigarette case and lit it, and when the familiar smell of tobacco began to diffuse between us, I finally settled down and said to her, "I don't mind your willfulness, as long as you feel happy, I can do many things with you, but this is not the only one...... I hope you'll listen to my advice and stop dwelling on it, because there's nothing to be gained but to make you unhappy. You think you can breathe a sigh of relief for yourself and your mother, but in fact it is not, if you want to do this, it will only hurt us innocent people, and Li Zishan will still marry your father, because she has already given birth to a four-year-old son for your father. ”

Xiao Ai was silent, and this silence just proved that she understood these truths, but it was difficult to do, I didn't bother her with words anymore, just waited patiently......

She finally avoided the topic that would not be fruitful between us for a while, and she said to me, "I've been bored at home for days, and I want to go out for a walk." ”

"Do you have wheelchairs?"

"There are only two crutches."

"I can't go, it's raining a lot outside."

"You carry me, I'll help you with the umbrella."

……

In the quiet community, under the dim light, I walked on the slippery road with Xiao Ai on my back, but the umbrella above my head gave us an indescribable sense of security, and in my memory, I have never carried a woman like this, not even Chen Yi.

I was a little tired, so I put her down, and wiped the water off the bench with a tissue, and we sat side by side, but not so close, two fingers apart, and an umbrella would cover us from the rain.

"Jiang Qiao, do you think this rainy night is more romantic than your daylight city?"

"Daylight Allure is used to fool your father...... Actually, I like rainy nights, because the two of us walking in it is like going on an adventure! ”

Xiao Ai turned his head to look at me, and said for a long time: "It's a pity that I'm not Chen Yi, nor is I your girlfriend, otherwise you would have said such a meaty thing about kissing my face instead of rainwater!" ”

I smiled and replied, "yes, maybe you'll be more sensy than I am, saying that my smile will blush your face or something!" ”

Xiao Ai responded with a smile that didn't quite match her age, then leaned her body on my shoulder and said, "Your umbrella is too small, get closer to the two of us so that we won't get caught in the rain!" ”

"Damn, I happen to be a little cold too, get closer and get warmer."

Xiao Ai finally let go of herself, she hugged my waist, and then leaned all her body into my arms, she was sobbing quietly......

I knew that in this vulnerable time, what she needed was a shoulder, not how small the umbrella really was, nor how cold I was.

I thought: I don't need any moving poems between me and this girl, and we don't need a world where we can love each other, as long as this rainy night, she takes some support from me, and I take some warmth from her, because we are all like outcasts in this world, we live empty, but this night is real enough, real enough that she cries in my arms, like a wounded wild cat......

……

I was going to leave after all, but when I was leaving, she insisted that I drive her car, because it was not easy to get a taxi.

Just as I was driving the car out of her neighborhood, I received a call from Russell Mei, who asked me to pick up Jin Qiu from the airport in Shanghai tomorrow morning.

Jin Qiu is back, the Jin Qiu I have been looking forward to is finally back, I want to hand over my future in the workplace to her, and I hope she can take Lao Jin's company to a new level