Tulip Road has never felt so cosy as this moment, with guitars wafting melodiously with the evening breeze towards the sunset, and across from us is the delicate cake shop. At this time, the people who were passing by here to go to the gym also stopped, and they all set their eyes on Xiao Ai, who was perhaps more moving than the song.

It turns out that Tulip Road can also become so quiet and literary because of a person and a cake shop. At this moment, even just a low-slung grocery store becomes cute.

After the performance of a song, Xiao Ai put up the guitar, and the onlookers applauded her, and she did not forget to promote our piano shop, pointing to the room behind her that was being renovated, and told them that our piano shop was about to open, hoping that they could send their children here to study.

The crowd gradually dispersed, and the street lights were all lit up at this moment, but Tulip Road did not quiet down because of this, because there were various stalls in the distance, and I don't know if it was the aroma that attracted the residents here, or whether the more and more residents had changed with the times, providing enough business opportunities for the vendors.

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Xiao Ai and I walked in the direction of the convenience store, and I said to her, "The Education Bureau has informed me that I can go and get my business qualification certificate tomorrow, and we have finally done it." ”

Xiao Ai glanced at me with relief, and then said: "I have to admit that in this society, there are still connections that are better to do, if it weren't for Qin Miao, this matter might not be able to be done by the two of us alone!" ”

I nodded, but I didn't want to talk too much with Xiao Ai on this topic, because the truth of the matter can be labeled as shame on me, but what else can I do?

I only know that Xiao Ai and I have paid too much for this matter, and it must not be miscarried in my hands so lightly, and I have always thought that Xiao Ai and I have the ability to do a good job in this piano shop, which can be fought for as my lifelong career.

When I was about to arrive at the convenience store, Xiao Ai stopped, she handed me the guitar she was carrying, and then took out her mobile phone from her pocket and said to me: "My mother used to have a lot of students, and now she is already a music teacher in some primary and secondary schools, I will call everyone who can be contacted to see if they can introduce us to a little bit of student ......" Speaking of this, she smiled, and then said: "I didn't get the certificate before, I really have a lot of worries, and now I have no worries, and I should use my network resources...... By the time it opens, it will be able to recruit 20 students. ”

I also stopped, looked at her suddenly, and replied: "Yes, why didn't I think that your mother is a teacher in the Nanyi Yin Teaching Department, she has been teaching for so many years, and she can be regarded as a peach and plum all over the world, if these resources can be used, it is still very beneficial to the development of the piano store!" ”

"You didn't think about it because you didn't think I would consciously integrate these resources...... However, don't be too optimistic about this, our piano shop is on Tulip Road. Nanjing is so big, even with the recommendation of teachers, how many students are willing to come to us to study? ”

I smiled and replied, "So it depends on our teaching level, if the teaching level is higher than the industry standard, it is still worth the students' retribution." ”

"You're disgusting, to put it mildly, you took all the pressure on me."

I laughed and replied, "Haha...... Why don't you think I'm blindly worshiping you, just like the kind of relationship between brain-dead fans and celebrities! ”

Xiao Ai glanced at me, not planning to pay attention to me anymore, she looked at the address book in her phone, as if she was about to call those brothers and sisters who could still be contacted, and at this time, a GL8 business car stopped beside us. The next moment, Gao Suo, the artist director of Yi'an Media, who hadn't been seen for a long time, walked out of the car.

He came to us and said to Xiao Ai with emotion: "It's so difficult to meet you once!" ”

Xiao Ai's attitude was still very cold: "How many times do you need me to talk to you?" I have no interest in the entertainment industry, and even less interest in your company, please stop harassing me! ”

"I don't want to harass you either, but my professionalism forces me to not give up a good seedling so easily, the current entertainment industry is really lacking in high-quality idols like you!! I sincerely hope you can understand my feelings. ”

"Quality idols? …… How do I think it's your company's money-making opportunity? And my character will not cooperate with you to do some hype and packaging without a lower limit, because I think that is discrediting art! ”

Gao Suo hurriedly replied: "I think you have misunderstood me, and I am just talking to you on my own behalf now." I have already had a very complete artist plan based on your personal characteristics, and I will follow your personality and let you develop freely...... In fact, it is precisely because too many people want to be popular that the entire entertainment industry is full of impetuousness and copper smell, which also makes too many people lose themselves and lose their character...... It's really rare for a girl like you to be seen, the public needs your attitude, and I even think you can change the pattern of the entertainment industry...... Just like Faye Wong, you both have a very maverick temperament, and you are really talented, not comparable to those wild people...... As long as you agree to join the entertainment industry, even if I personally pay for you to go abroad for further study, I am willing! ”

Xiao Ai finally looked at Gao Suo with her eyes, but after a long time, she still shook her head and replied: "For me, music can be a means of making a living, but it is definitely not a tool for grandstanding and selling myself. ”

Gao Suo's face was full of regret, and he said: "Your mentality is not right......"

"It's your mentality that's wrong."

Gao Suo smiled helplessly, and he turned to me and said, "Brother Jiangqiao, see when you are free, give me a chance to invite you to drink." ”

Before I could answer, Xiao Ai looked at me and said, "Don't drink with him...... This man is terrible! ”

Xiao Ai dragged me in the other direction as he spoke, and I shrugged helplessly at Gao Suo, who was even more embarrassed, but still made a gesture to me to reconnect. I therefore feel that he is ready for a long war in this matter.

Gao Su had been left behind by the two of us. I smiled and said to Xiao Ai very emotionally: "I feel like I'm about to be brainwashed by Gao Suo...... I always feel that there is a super diva standing next to me who can change the pattern of the music scene in the future, and this super diva has also washed and cooked for me, I really think that being the emperor is nothing more than that! ”

"Stinky beauty, who did the laundry and cooking for you!"

"Cooking is really there...... Alright, don't say anything, sign me quickly. "I'm not kidding as I go to the convenience store to buy paper and pens as I say that, because my heart is really moving.

Xiao Ai stretched out his hand and grabbed me, and said with a straight face: "Don't make trouble...... I'll never be in that circle in my life, and I don't need you to dream so far for me. ”

"Things change so fast, nothing is absolute. From the perspective of commemorative value, I have to get the first autograph in your life. ”

Xiao Ai couldn't stop me, I really went to the convenience store to buy paper and pen, and then stood in front of her excitedly and handed her the paper and pen in my hand......

Xiao Ai glanced at me, and finally met my request, but she did not sign it on the paper, but on my white coat, I immediately took off the coat, and then folded it and put it in Xiao Ai's handbag, which was another object that Xiao Ai gave special meaning and deserved to treasure.

Xiao Ai gave me back the pen, she stood under the dim street lamp, her hands in the pockets of her coat, and then looked at me and smiled......

I saw the depth of this night in her smile. If I think of myself as her boyfriend, I certainly don't want her to enter the mixed entertainment industry. But if it's her fans, I really hope that her talent can be accepted by more and more people, because it's really not a bad thing, and the entertainment industry and art can coexist, because there are also a group of well-known artists in the entertainment industry, but they still maintain their own artistic quality.

On this night, Xiao Ai and I visited several brothers and sisters who were working in music education at the school. Out of affection, everyone basically expressed their willingness to advertise for the piano store, and one or two of them were more sincere, reminding us that before the opening of the piano store, it is best to make a set of preferential programs and teaching plans that can make students' parents happy, so that they should cooperate with this plan when publicizing.

It was already half past ten in the middle of the night, and when Xiao Ai and I returned to Tulip Road after being tired, we remembered that we hadn't eaten yet, and the restaurants had already closed, and only the convenience store was still open.

Xiao Ai and I bought a bowl of instant noodles and ate it on the bench under the street lamp, and the world was so quiet that we could hear the whimper of a bug. The wind blows gently, and the smell of instant noodles seems to add some condiments to the air, making everything in front of you seem less rigid.

I peeled off the eggshell of the tea egg and put it into Xiao Ai's instant noodle box, Xiao Ai peeled one at the same time and put it into my instant noodle box, and then we looked at each other and smiled.

Let her live such a life with her, of course, I felt guilty in my heart, and I couldn't help but feel it, and asked her, "You shouldn't have eaten instant noodles like this when you are so old...... I feel wronged by you! ”

Xiao Ai didn't look at me, she ate and asked back, "Are you sure you're not squeezing me?" ”

"Certainly not a run."

"Then I'll sue you, I don't feel wronged at all...... Because we can still afford to eat tea eggs! Xiao Ai said as she picked up the half-eaten tea eggs with her chopsticks, and then dangled them in front of me.

I suddenly remembered the stalk of tea eggs, and I couldn't help laughing, because a certain program in Taiwan said in a serious way that mainland people can't afford to eat tea eggs.

Xiao Ai is a natural joker, and in a moment she told me several jokes related to tea eggs, the most exciting is the story of the tea egg battle and cake cutting, even after she finished telling herself, she also leaned back and smiled, and I laughed behind her not perfunctory at all.

For the first time, I thought that her character might be more beautiful than her looks, for she had already performed the joy of suffering many times with the body of a young lady when she was with me...... This is something I have never experienced in my relationship with Chen Yi.

Or, all the simplicity and happiness now is because we haven't formally established a relationship, so we are so calm and happy when we don't bear the burden of love.

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Sending Xiao Ai back to her quarters, I lit a cigarette and wandered alone on Tulip Road, and when I was about to reach the mouth of the alley, I accidentally found that Jin Qiu's Jeep Wrangler was parked in the open space with plane trees.

I muttered in my heart, and subconsciously felt that it was definitely not a good thing for her to come to me, because I had quarreled with her several times before this, and I was even more cheeky to owe her 150,000 yuan, and what I was most afraid of was that she would come to me and ask me for this money.

Jin Qiu pushed the car door and walked out of the car, and asked me in a slightly unhappy tone, "Why didn't you answer my phone, did you deliberately avoid me?" ”

"The conscience of heaven and earth, whoever deliberately does not answer your phone will be a grandson." I said and hurriedly took out my phone, which had been turned to silent, and showed it to her.

Jin Qiu didn't look at my phone, but stared at me for a while, and I rolled my eyes at her, because I couldn't stand a woman in professional clothes looking at me in a domineering way.

Of course, she ignored the roll of my eyes and asked me, "How's the piano shop going?" ”

I replied alertly, "That's it, you...... Don't talk to me about paying me back......"

"Can you straighten your tongue and talk to me?"

I was a little embarrassed and replied, "Isn't that weak-hearted!" ”

"What is your weak heart?"

I took a sharp puff of my cigarette and replied, "It's certainly not a good thing that you suddenly came to me, anyway, I really don't have the money to pay you back now." ”

Jin Qiu shook his head and signaled that he was not here to ask me for money, so I raised my head and let out a sigh. I realized that I was really scared, and now the slightest bit of wind and grass would stimulate my sensitive nerves.

Jin Qiu took out a USB flash drive from his pocket and said to me: "There is a very complete customer information here, you need to come up with a wedding draft within three days, if you can help me make it expedited, and the customer agrees, I will give you a planning fee of 3,000 yuan." ”

At this stage, I was really short of money, and the opening of the piano store would have to go through a relatively long renovation period, so I almost didn't hesitate, so I took the USB flash drive from Jin Qiu's hand and said, "I'll try my best." ”

Jin Qiu nodded, and said: "If there is any problem that needs to be communicated, you can directly connect with our company's Xiao Li, and he can help you make an appointment with the customer." ”

I had some doubts in my heart and asked her, "Is it because the company has not enough people recently, so you came to me?" ”

Jin Qiu looked at me, and only shook his head for a while and replied, "No, I just hope that you, as a man, can share more for women...... I heard Qin Miao say, in order to help Xiao Ai ask for the performance fee, you used bricks to shoot the person in charge of the performance party...... Whether you were rational or not, such a thing is not good after all...... I want you to be a little more mature in what you do...... Well, I don't know how to put it......"

I looked at Jin Qiu in amazement......

She has a frighteningly high IQ and can talk to Confucianism, but she actually showed a logical confusion in front of me, so I suspect that she is hiding something from me, and it is very hard to hide it.

I finally asked her, "Are you hiding something from me?" ”

This time, Jin Qiu replied without hesitation: "No, the starting point of what I did was based on how well you can live...... Also, I don't like our marriage being forcibly tied together by our families, we should have our own happiness, you say? ”

I took another puff of cigarette and lowered my head, I didn't want to make any response to Jin Qiu's statement, because she was right, but we were still being forcibly pulled in an unknown direction by some force.

This is my trouble, and it is her trouble!

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In order to be able to get 3,000 yuan on the customer's side of the wedding draft three days later, I stayed up all night to study the customer's needs.

I don't know when I fell asleep, but by the time I woke up, the sun was shining all over the room, and Xiao Ai was sitting at my side, chin propped up and looking at me, with a steaming breakfast on her right hand and the blanket she had covered me.

"Wake up."

"Well, how do you feel like it's morning after shaking for a while!"

Xiao Ai didn't respond to me, but took out a tissue and handed it to me, saying, "Wipe the saliva first, then wash your face and brush your teeth for breakfast." ”

My sleepiness has not completely subsided, but in a daze, looking at her looks feels very real, and the scene when Jin Qiu came to me yesterday is a bit like a dream.

I think I know very well what I want at this stage of my life and what I reject. I believe that Xiao Ai will do better than me at this point, so she will refuse Gao Suo again and again and give up her star career!