The new year has arrived, I finally started the car and left the crowded drum tower, I don't know where my next stop is, I just want to use up the gas in the car before I go back, which I have been thinking about since the moment I drove the car out.

Listening to the FM radio in the car, I don't feel lonely at all, because I love the voice of the female DJ and the songs she carefully selects for the listeners.

Half an hour passed in a blink of an eye, and the car went down again.

When passing by the Yangtze River Bridge, my mobile phone rang, I have been wearing Bluetooth headphones, so I did not look at the call number to connect the call, to my surprise, the call was from Jin Qiu, and at this moment it was already half past 12 in the morning.

She said to me, "Happy New Year, Jiangqiao"

"Happy New Year."

She didn't seem to have anything too important to tell me, and asked casually, "How did you spend New Year's Eve?"

"I drove around, and I was about to get a tank of gas down."

Jin Qiu seemed a little speechless about my behavior, and only replied after a while: "Either you're too bored, or you have a girl with you." ”

"I'm just so bored."

I don't know if this answer is a lie, but Xiao Ai did not accompany me until 12 o'clock on the occasion of the New Year, and I was bored for a long time.

I asked Jin Qiu again, "What about you, how did you spend tonight?"

"A few of my classmates when I was studying abroad happened to come to Nanjing for a tour, I had a meal with them, walked around, and just came back."

"Oh, was that fun?"

"Of course I'm happy, when we are abroad, we have a very good relationship, and we have the opportunity to get together after we return to China, which is very rare." Jin Qiu paused as he spoke, and then said: "By the way, I called you to tell you, tomorrow is New Year's Day, I will go to the nursing home with you to pick up grandma, let's go to my house for a meal together."

I interrupted her and asked, "Is this what you mean, or is that what your parents mean?"

"It's what our family means, tomorrow I'll accompany my mother to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, and then go to you, you also get up early, do you hear?"

"Okay, I'll be in touch by phone then."

"Well, it's not early, then I'll rest first, and you can go back early to rest."

I answered Jin Qiu, and then each said "good night" and hung up the phone, and a trace of warmth swelled up in my heart, Lao Jin's house is indeed like a harbor where you can take a temporary rest. Over the years, whenever there is a big festival, I will take my grandmother to their house for the festival.

The oil in the car gradually bottomed out, and I finally returned to Tulip Road. I parked the car in the open space at the mouth of the alley, but the moment I was about to get out of the car, I suddenly remembered Xiao Ai, I don't know if she came back, whether I need to pick her up.

After hesitating for a while, I finally took out my phone and found Xiao Ai's number, and then dialed it out, but to my surprise, she hung up after only two tones.

I called again, this time it hung up faster, I put my phone on the center console of the car in a bit of frustration, and then lit a cigarette, I guessed that she might be having a good time, and then gave up the idea of calling her again. I plan to wait until I'm done with this cigarette and go back to sleep.

At this moment, the car window was suddenly knocked, and I subconsciously turned my head to look, Xiao Ai was standing outside the car looking at me with a smiling face, and she also wore a shiny headdress on her head, which was a little cute.

I opened the car door and got out of the car, she seemed to have drunk a little alcohol, her face was a little flushed, but she was very conscious, she said to me, "When you just called me, I happened to be walking to the convenience store, so I didn't answer your call." ”

I looked at her and nodded.

"What are you calling me so late?"

I looked at her for a long time and then asked, "I remember you lived in Ludong." Why are you still walking to the convenience store at this late hour, don't tell me, you want to eat corn. ”

"Could it be that I am looking for you," Xiao Ai said, took out a corn cob from his purse, shook it in front of me, and said, "Yes, I just took a detour to buy corn." I think it's something I have to do every day, but luckily it's a 24-hour convenience store, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to buy it."

I looked at Xiao Ai with envy, because she had such a good excuse to buy corn, then she would be invincible in front of me at the moment, and I had to answer why she called her so late.

I didn't have such an invincible reason to buy corn after thinking about it, so I replied honestly: "It's just a little worried that you actually have nothing to worry about, after all, you and Yuan Zhenji Xiaowei are together, they are both tall and big, who would dare to plot against you?"

Xiao Ai looked at me, the light of the street lamp reflected on her fair face more gently, I was a little frightened, but the corners of her mouth raised, and then she took off the hairpin on her head that would flash and said to me: "Is it good-looking, it was given to me by Brother Xiao Wei." ”

"Beautiful."

"If it looks good, I'll give it to you." Xiao Ai put the hairpin on my head as she spoke, and she smiled as she wore it, as if she was doing something that would make her happy all night.

Of course I didn't want to wear such a thing, so I took the hairpin off again, but I didn't give it back to her, just held it in my own hand, and she didn't pay much attention to my rejection, and sat down on the flower pond next to the car, eating the still steaming corn, and she seemed in a good mood.

"Jiang Qiao, do you remember what you said to me not long ago?"

I looked at her puzzled, because I had said so much to her on the last night of last year, and I didn't know which one she was asking.

Seeing that I didn't speak, Xiao Ai said again: "You said, I am willing to sing a song for you that suits the occasion, and you are willing to go to the soup for me, this sentence doesn't count."

"Count, everything I say to you counts."

"Okay, then I'll sing you a song that suits the occasion"

I finally had the confidence to interrupt her and asked, "Actually, you didn't go to the convenience store to buy corn at all, you wanted to talk to me about this, right?"

Xiao Ai looked at me and replied after a long time: "Yes, a song in exchange for a person's fire, why don't I want this cheap?"

"Come on, then, I'll listen."

Xiao Ai still looked at me, and I didn't know if I was brewing a love affair, or if I was surprised by my good words. At this time, I hurriedly said to her, who seemed to be about to speak, "Wait, I'll light a cigarette first." ”

I put the cigarette in my mouth and lit it, I wanted to listen to the songs she sang for me at the beginning of the new year in the best possible state, although we have known each other for almost half a year, she is a woman who sings as a career, but she has really sung not many songs for me.

Sometimes, I wish I could go to KTV and listen to her sing once, but unfortunately I never had the opportunity to do so, and she seems to be very reluctant to sing in places like KTV and bars.

"The viaduct has passed, there are many intersections, this journey is not tortuous, it will be there in a blink of an eye, take the car you drive, listen to the songs you listen to, we are so happy, the first street light is on, what are you thinking, the song is so happy"

In the quiet of the night, she sang to me in a soft voice this song that I had heard countless times, although there was no accompaniment, but it was more like singing about our mood, because the things mentioned in the song, we all did on the last night before the New Year, then there was no song more appropriate than this one

I took a special look, the original version of this song has a total of 4 minutes and 40 seconds, when Xiao Ai left the accompaniment, it only took 2 minutes to finish singing, my mood was sung by her ups and downs, but she looked at me calmly.

This completely different reaction just proves that she understands the mood of the song better than I do. At this moment, I admired her, but my eyes were unwilling to convey the message of worship to her, I squinted my eyes and took two puffs of cigarette, and then cast my eyes on the viaduct in the distance, where there was no more traffic, so that every street lamp was so clearly visible, and the light they emitted had replaced the lights of the cars as the only shining light of the night

"Jiangqiao, I'm leaving."

"Hmm."

Xiao Ai nodded, then turned and walked in the direction where she lived, and then I looked at her back, and then at the shining hairpin she gave me. I found that every time we met, it seemed like we were trying hard, but saying goodbye was so easy.

I snuffed out the cigarette in my hand and finally smiled, hoping that we would all forget the joy or unhappiness brought by the world, and have a dreamless sleep tonight.

In the morning, I woke up to the sound of firecrackers, and Zhao Mu, who got up before me, cooked porridge, bought some steamed buns and fried dough sticks from the food stall at the entrance of the alley, and we sat at the stone table under the eaves to eat.

When I was about to finish eating, I took the car keys out of my pocket, put them in front of him and said, "I don't need the car for a while, you can use it first." ”

Zhao Mu replied with some surprise: "Brother Qiao, you don't want anything good to use for me first, I will be even more unhappy if you do this." ”

"Don't say that. Although we are not related by blood, our relationship is no worse than that of other people's brothers. Zhao Chu is gone, I am your eldest brother, I believe that if Zhao Chu gives you this car now, you will definitely not refuse"

Zhao Mu still refused to take the car key, I handed it to him again, and said with a smile: "We really don't want to see each other too much, I hope that the car is bought back, and you can take the initiative to drive it with me, so that you can be like brothers to get cheap to each other in small things, and help each other in big things, right?"

Zhao Mu still didn't take the key from me, he also smiled and said: "Brother Qiao, I really don't need it, the company has now planned to allocate a car to me, and there will be a two-bedroom apartment, and I will be ready to move in the day after tomorrow." ”

I felt a little embarrassed as my hand holding the car keys hung in the air. Only then did I realize the gap between myself and Zhao Mu, he joined the new development project of Jinding Real Estate as one of the cores, so how could the treatment be bad

Although his current work experience is limited, after all, he is a graduate student of Tsinghua University, enjoying the top educational resources in the country, and he has been invited to join by scientific research units long before he joins the work, but he himself chose to give up because he doesn't like that way of working, so he is already a leader among people, and the difference is just an opportunity.

I put the car keys back, and after a few words of encouragement, the two of us ended the breakfast. Zhao Mu went to the company as usual, while I went to the coffee shop, and then I was troubled by the crisis that the store manager was about to change jobs.

My biggest fear is not that the store pù lacks a qualified manager, but that the customer will not be used to the new barista's coffee. I know that at least one-third of the customers who come here are for the store manager, so it is not an exaggeration to say that this store manager is the lifeblood of the coffee shop, otherwise why would such a big brand coffee spend so much money to poach her in this small coffee shop

She not only has the potential to be a manager, but also has irreplaceable business value.

When it was almost noon, I left the coffee shop and stood at the mouth of the alley waiting for Jin Qiu, we made an appointment to pick up my grandmother and go to her house for dinner today. Maybe because of the traffic jam, Jin Qiu didn't come at the appointed time, so I planned to drive to pick up my grandmother here first, and then meet Jin Qiu.

When I was about to leave, I noticed Xiao Ai riding a bicycle from the direction where she was driving, and she quickly came to me, propped herself on the ground with one foot, and asked me, "What are you going to do?"

"It's not New Year's Day today, Jin Qiu asked me to take my grandmother to their house for a meal."

Xiao Ai looked thoughtful, and suddenly said: "Oh, I remember, Jin Qiu is the superwoman who won the lawsuit with Li Zishan."

I nodded, and then asked her, "Did you come to look for me on purpose, or did you pass by?"

"I came to look for you on purpose, I called you ten minutes ago, but you didn't answer."

I took out my phone and looked at it, there was really Xiao Ai's missed call, but because I muted it in the coffee shop, I missed it, and I asked her, "Do you have something to do with me?"

Xiao Ai's face immediately became serious, and after a deep groan, she finally said to me: "Last night, there was something I hadn't decided yet, so I didn't tell you. ”

"What's the matter?"

"I decided to go to Japan with Yuan Zhen for a while, and he took over the entire music production of a film, which was won for him by a Japanese colleague who admired his musical talent very much. There is a female character in the movie, who needs to be proficient in various musical instruments, and at the same time, this role needs to have an excellent tacit understanding with the music producer to achieve the best performance effect, so there is no one more suitable for this role than me, I want to seize this opportunity for Yuan Zhen, hoping that he can use this movie to turn over in the music industry. ”

I didn't say anything for a while, and after standing a little dumbfounded for a while, I asked, "Did Yuan Zhen invite you?"

Xiao Ai shook his head: "He didn't, it was Brother Xiao Wei who sued me in private, I don't want to owe Yuan Zhen, I have to repay his kindness to me, otherwise I will not be able to face him calmly in my life." ”

I nodded, maybe I could understand her feelings, but after a moment of silence I asked her, "How long will it be?"

"At least for more than a month, anyway, I can't spend the Lunar New Year in China."

"What about your piano shop?"

"I can only turn it off first"

"Are you in the entertainment industry?"

"It's different, it's worth sacrificing for Yuan Zhen"

I wanted to stop talking, but in the end I chose to remain silent, because I said that I could understand her feelings and choices. Although we are not of the same class, she is similar to me in many ways, she is not a woman who likes to take, she will be very clear in her heart to give and reciprocate, although on the surface she loves to play and make trouble