After negotiating with Jin Qiu for the opening advertisement of the movie theater, I ran in the direction of the convenience store, and Xiao Ai had already bought the daily necessities she wanted, and then bought a popsicle, sat on the bench and waited for me while eating, and her good attitude was like a cool wind in summer, blowing the sweetness in my heart and bringing a burst of comfort.

Taking advantage of the coolness of the night, Xiao Ai and I did not take a taxi, but walked on the road, walked through the tulip road, and wandered on the flower avenue.

When I was about to reach the end of the road, Xiao Ai asked me very casually, "What did Jin Qiu talk to you about just now?" ”

"She represented a five-minute pre-roll ad at Times Cinema and then gave me two of those minutes."

"Free?"

I looked at her and smiled, and replied: "Of course not, this is a very scarce advertising resource, and when it is folded, the agency fee for one minute and two years is 120,000." ”

"She gave you two minutes, isn't that 240,000, you're almost poor, you don't have enough clothes and food, where did you get so much money?"

"I owe it first, and then I will pay her back when I have money, anyway, if I want to sell it, it's a matter of minutes, and many advertising companies want it!"

Xiao Ai stopped, stared at me for a long time, and asked, "Why do I think you picked up a big bargain for nothing?" ”

I replied honestly, "That's obviously a big bargain...... If I can do a good job in these two minutes, the return of 500,000 yuan in two years should still be there...... You want to! With Jin Qiu's shrewd vision, the advertising channel she chose can be poor, and her three minutes are reserved for her own company, so I am even more sure that this is a strong advertising resource, because she can't pit her own ...... Hehe, if you want to earn 500,000, you can follow behind those who can earn 5 million, you can't go wrong! ”

I chattered a lot on the basis of looking forward to the future. But he didn't want to, Xiao Ai replied nonchalantly: "It's really boring, are you poor and afraid?" ”

I caught up with her and asked, "Why is it boring...... Nowadays, society is very particular about social circles, obviously Jin Qiu is a member of my social circle, there are things that can make money to share with me, this is called business contacts, which is a normal communication activity. ”

Xiao Ai asked very competently: "Since it is a business dealing, what can you give Jin Qiu?" …… It can't just come and go, unless Jin Qiu is a fool, or she has plans for other things...... Because I don't think she's stupid at all, there is no shrewd woman in Nanjing. ”

"You just bought a popsicle at a convenience store, it's vinegar, right?"

"Who is going to eat your vinegar ......"

Xiao Ai didn't stop when he said, but walked faster, I had to accelerate, caught up with her again, and said to her very seriously: "This is really an opportunity...... What I'm most worried about now is that the construction of our piano store teacher team can't keep up, Yu Xin said to help find another teacher, and I haven't replied yet, so you also keep this matter in mind, help find 3 more training teachers, preferably full-time! ”

……

By the time we walked all the way to the nursing home, it was already half past eight in the evening, and the other elderly people were either chatting or watching TV, while my grandmother was still doing manual work, which made me feel very uncomfortable!

I have always hoped that in this nursing home far from technological civilization, grandma can enjoy a quiet life, but she is still trapped in a heavy life, working in the most primitive way of consuming the body, so I am not willing to give up hope in life, even if it is a gift from others almost for nothing, but this does not mean that I have given up the bottom line, such as the 2-minute opening ad given by Jin Qiu this time, I will do my best to play its maximum effect, and then pay back the money.

Seeing Xiao Ai coming, grandma put down the work in her hand, held her hand intimately, and didn't wait for her to speak, just looked up and down for a while, saying that Xiao Ai had lost a lot of weight, and blamed me for not fulfilling my responsibility to take care.

Of course, I know that grandma said this to pave the way for the idea of hoping that we would get married, but this is indeed a little anxious, I think she should talk to Xiao Ai about the trivialities in life first, anyway, Xiao Ai will become a basket of words that she has nothing to say every time she is with her, and she will never be nagged.

Xiao Ai was most worried about the rice cooker she brought back from Japan, and after she gave it to her grandmother, she began to teach her how to use it, and I looked at the two of them a little nervously, because I was not sure when my grandmother would talk to her about the thing that made me feel very unsure.

Sure enough, after settling the matter of the rice cooker, grandma tentatively asked Xiao Ai: "Girl, you are 24 years old this year, do you have a favorite object?" ”

I thought Xiao Ai would be shy, and I didn't want her to glance at me, but I asked my grandmother rhetorically, "Grandma, are you talking about Jiangqiao?" …… It must be Jiang Qiao, because there is no one else except him who will stick to me all day long. ”

Grandma was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously glanced at me with Xiao Ai, thinking that there was a play, and then followed Xiao Ai's words and asked, "What do you think of our Jiangqiao, girl?" ”

"He?" Xiao Ai said, and then turned to me and asked, "Jiang Qiao, how do you feel about it?" It's a rare opportunity for you to make a self-evaluation, and I allow you to brag in front of your grandma! ”

Xiao Ai's seemingly casual words have already sent some signals to me that she doesn't want to get involved in too many emotional things at this stage. It's not just her idea, it's my attitude. Because after experiencing the development of the piano store and Yuan Zhen's return to China, we are all a little tired, and it is definitely not enough for us to think about such a big thing as marriage in our current state, and we still need a little time to recover, although I already like her very much in my heart, and I also imagine a lot of pictures if we get married.

After a moment of silence, I finally said to my grandmother, "Grandma, for all these years, I have always known what you wish for the most. I also want to change my personal state, but I used to be a wedding planner, and I have seen all kinds of relationships, so I know what kind of relationship state and life state can maintain a long-term marriage, so what you want to wait a little longer, at least I have this consciousness now, and I am trying my best to ......"

Grandma first looked at Xiao Ai, and then said to me: "You go out for a walk by yourself, I will chat with the girl for a while, I haven't seen each other for so long, it's weird." ”

Seeing that Xiao Ai also had the heart to be alone with my grandmother for a while, I left the room, and when I faced the wide sky at night alone, I realized that the moonlight was so good, and I had a lot of troubles...... Especially at this stage, it is really difficult to say the word happiness, but often hovering on the edge of despair, but unable to express sadness lightly.

This night, after all, I don't know what my grandmother and Xiao Ai talked about, but on the way back, Xiao Ai's mood changed significantly, she even asked me what kind of woman she is, and I couldn't answer for a while, although we have been together for almost a year, but I still don't think I know her well...... It's like today's Golden Autumn asked me to act as an agent for the theater's opening commercial, I thought she would be happy, but in fact she was a little unhappy.

She didn't seem to like me accepting help from Jin Qiu or Chen Yi, but for Qiao Ye's help, she didn't care about it. But I'm basically a man with nothing, and I can't break through this society alone, so my success requires not only my own unremitting efforts, but also the help of friends. And around me, there are only a handful of people who have the ability to help, so if you think about it carefully, it is reasonable to be helped by Jin Qiu, after all, as she said, our two families are world friends, if she didn't help me after achieving such great success, then who else is willing to help me?

……

The next morning, after I delivered my breakfast to Xiao Ai's place, I went to Jin Qiu's company, and after she had a morning meeting, the two of us drove to Times Studios together.

Jin Qiu's work efficiency was very high, it took less than five minutes to sign a two-year, 600,000 yuan agency contract with the other party, and immediately paid the full amount in the form of a check, and then signed a third-party contract with me.

After leaving the office building, I still didn't put the contract in my bag, I stood in the glare of the sun, and read the contract again, which meant that I had the right to play the advertisement at the beginning of the movie, but Jin Qiu regarded it as a trivial matter, and after asking me to take a taxi back, I drove away alone.

Ten minutes later, I took out my mobile phone from my pocket, I have been in Lao Jin Company for 6 years, and I also have some network resources, these connections will not help me much, but it is still okay to talk about cooperation.

After a morning of negotiations, I sold the advertising agency authority I got from Jin Qiu to the other party for 300,000 yuan, which not only made me 60,000 yuan, but also lost 30 seconds of advertising time.

I did this with careful consideration, because my main focus was on the music store, and I didn't have much time to go out and talk about the advertising business, so it was the best choice to transfer part of it to the advertising agency, and the remaining 30 seconds of advertising was enough for me to carry out operations related to the music store.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, there was an extra 300,000 yuan company transfer in my bank card, and I did not rush to return 240,000 yuan of it to Jin Qiu, but first withdrew 60,000 yuan in cash, and then put it in a bag and went to the piano store. At the beginning, when the "Mood Coffee Shop" closed, it was Xiao Ai who borrowed a sum of money from her classmates, and after I accidentally made a small fortune, it was time to pay it back.

……

Coming to the piano shop, Xiao Ai is teaching a child one-on-one, and Xiaofang is sitting next to them and listening, I know that after teaching these children who have paid tuition, she has to teach Xiaofang extra, plus there are things on the side of the performing arts group, she is also very hard, but she has never complained, but like me, she really treats the piano shop as a career, isn't this a contract that may be more reliable than the love relationship between men and women?

I stood patiently by the window, waited for her to finish a lesson, and then went to the convenience store to buy her a box of ice cream and handed her the 60,000 yuan in her hand.

She first took the heavy Wen Jiàn folder and asked me, "What is it?" ”

"If you make a little money, you can take it and return it to your classmates."

Xiao Ai opened the seal, looked at it, and asked me even more suspiciously: "Is the money so easy to make now?" ”

I pretended to be relaxed and replied: "I sold the advertisements given by Jin Qiu, a total of 300,000 yuan, and I also left 30 seconds of advertising time in my hands, so I made a small profit." ”

Xiao Ai looked at me with an incredible look on her face, and she sighed: "I sold 300,000 yuan as soon as I changed hands, and I still had a 30-second duration, I never thought you were so business-minded!" ”

"This is the income after the integration of resources, if I didn't know the bosses of those advertising companies before, this matter would not have been so smooth, but Jin Qiu is still more kind, she didn't kill me like I slaughtered the advertising company, she transferred those two minutes to me according to the original price."

Xiao Ai said to me very insistently: "I still think you can't owe this favor...... By the way, I have a classmate who will get married next month, his family background is very good, I asked, there will be a wedding budget of about 1 million, originally he was going to do it for a wedding company in Shanghai, I asked him to find Jinqiu...... I said, if you go over there and mention that you are a friend of Jiangqiao, there will be a discount. ”

I couldn't understand Xiao Ai at first, but I soon understood what she was doing, she had a very unique pride and included me in the range of her pride. In fact, she already thinks of me as her boyfriend in her heart, and I'm the same, but the way we get together is a little platonic.

Or, what we pursue is not simply spiritual communication, we just hope that through the current efforts, the future road will be easier, and at that time, we will fall in love again, maybe we will enjoy more than now.

But tonight, having made a small amount of money, I just want to take her to a good luxury.

When this idea was just conceived, Xiao Ai received a call from Yuan Zhen, who had already arrived in Nanjing, and he was accompanied by He Gaoming, as well as the musician named Robben, who would start the first performance rehearsal this evening, and hoped to invite me to have a meal after the rehearsal to thank me for my help this time.

This time, I didn't shirk, and this is the first time since I met Yuan Zhen that I have had the opportunity to drink and eat with him at the same table, of course I hope that this is an ordinary gathering between friends, and there will be no more extraneous branches