After cleaning the house, I called Xiao Ai, and she told me that I was rehearsing for the orchestra and orchestra, and that it might not end until nine o'clock.

I looked at the time, it was only half past six, and even the sky was not completely dark, so I thought about preparing some unused quilts and blankets for Xiao Ai, but I gave up after thinking about it, because the aesthetics of women and men are always different, and the style I like, she doesn't necessarily like to use it on her bed.

On the way to the supermarket to buy ingredients, Lao Jin called me, and my heart suddenly tightened, not to answer, not to answer, because at this moment Lao Jin probably already knew that I had taken 150,000 yuan from Jin Qiu in private, but he always advocated that I go to Jin Qiu's company to help, instead of opening the piano store that was not very reliable in his eyes.

After a moment of hesitation, I still connected Lao Jin's phone, and then asked calmly, "Uncle Jin, is there something wrong with you calling me?" ”

"Come to my house right away."

The strictness in Lao Jin's tone made me even more stunned, so I replied with little confidence: "I don't want to...... Go, get busy! ”

"Then I'll go to your side."

"What's the matter, I have to meet and talk."

Lao Jin hung up the phone, this abnormal behavior made my heart suddenly "chuckle" again, because I did something unfortunate about myself, I took Jin Qiu's money behind Lao Jin's back and was very unambitious, especially a month ago, and Jin Qiu acted in a couple in front of him, this should be a bastard thing that he can't forgive.

I suddenly didn't dare to go home, I had to find Jin Qiu to carry this matter with me, because everything was the result of our discussion, if I was just carrying the black pot alone, it would be too wrong!

I hurriedly dialed Jin Qiu's phone, and after dialing, it rang about a dozen times before she answered, and she asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Where are you, the sky is falling!"

Jin Qiu seemed to have expected it, and she asked, "My dad is looking for you?" ”

"Isn't that it, did you tell your dad everything?"

"Well, I was also forced by him to have no choice, so I said everything."

My brain was sweating a little, I couldn't understand what kind of stinky temper Lao Jin was, so I grabbed the life-saving straw and said to Jin Qiu: "Then you hurry up to my house, after all, those things are negotiated by the two of us, you let me carry the black pot alone, this is not appropriate!" ”

I didn't want to, but Jin Qiu replied in a hurry: "It's not that I want you to carry the black pot alone, but I'm already at the airport at this time, and I'm about to board the plane, and there is a project approval document in Sanya that requires me to go to the scene to sign." ”

"Jin Qiu, you touch your conscience and say, did you deliberately hide, don't you go early or late, but choose tonight?"

"Huh...... Jiangqiao, can you imagine? In two hours, I'll be in Sanya. After reading the weather forecast, the weather tomorrow is good, suitable for diving, and the thought of being able to get in touch with nature makes me have nothing to worry about! ”

"You're the one who wanted to let me carry the black pot alone."

"Don't say what I'm so despicable, because you're not noble, we have a conflict, it could have been solved internally, if you have to let my dad come in and intervene, then the 150,000 you were given was the result of my compromise, but you have to pay at least something, right? …… Goodluck! ”

After Jin Qiu finished speaking, she hung up the phone, and when I called again, her phone was already turned off, and I was so angry that I almost smashed the phone! I'm down in the hole she dug me......

Remembering that Lao Jin was on the way here, my heart was tense again, and I was still a little afraid of Lao Jin, especially when I was in a loss.

……

This matter will have to be faced sooner or later anyway, and I don't want to do unnecessary disputes, so I simply drank some beer, hoping to play a role in strengthening people's courage with a little wine.

As soon as I finished drinking a bottle of beer, Lao Jin's sonorous footsteps came from the alley, and soon he stood in front of me and said to me: "You kid is not small, you and Jin Qiu have teamed up to do so many bastard things, who is the mastermind?" ”

I hurriedly denied: "It must be Jinqiu, I am at the level of a high school student who has not graduated, and those bad ideas must be from graduate school to people to come up with them." ”

"You don't talk nonsense with me......"

When Lao Jin was extremely angry, he was either full of swearing, or halfway through his words, he ran out of words because of anger, and then his whole mind fell into paralysis. At this time, he is not far from beating people.

Familiar with his characteristics, I hurriedly took a step back......

But he didn't want to, Lao Jin suppressed his anger and asked me: "Jiang Qiao, you sue me, what do you think?" …… Although in this era, the elders should not interfere in the marriage of the juniors, but is our family Jinqiu an ordinary girl? …… What about the life I've arranged for you that makes you unhappy?! …… Ah, tell me about it. ”

I stammered back, "You say it all...... It's arranged...... Since it's arranged, it's definitely not very satisfying...... Feelings, it should actually be a pretty natural state...... Isn't it? ”

"Don't fart with Lao Tzu...... Let you go to the company to help Jin Qiu do things, what do you think about this pimple head, do you have to go with the flow? ”

Looking at Lao Jin's angry appearance, I gradually didn't want to turn such a thing into a burden in my life, so I gritted my teeth and said to him: "Uncle Jin, don't be in a hurry to get angry with me first......

Before I finished my words, Lao Jin finally thought of the words and scolded: "Jiang Qiao, you kid is really poor and hard, do you think that you are not afraid of anything, like a person who came down from a movie, when this is fashionable?" …… I'll throw you the truth, just your virtue, mix in this society, basically don't have any drama for you! ”

Being scolded by Lao Jin like this, my lung disease was about to come up, but for the first time, I found that I couldn't talk back, because no matter how unbearable Lao Jin was, at least he had made a fortune by speculating in stocks, and then opened a wedding company and fed dozens of people, but what about me? …… What do you contribute to yourself and to others?

I lit a cigarette depressedly, and listened to him count it down, and when he couldn't scold anymore, I finally snuffed out the cigarette in my hand and said to him: "You have scolded enough, I will tell you the truth...... I have a girlfriend, and this piano shop is the one I opened with her......"

"What, you have a girlfriend!?"

Seeing Lao Jin's angry and frightened appearance, this time I was not stunned, so I nodded again to confirm.

Lao Jin gasped, pointed at me for a while and asked, "Tell me, which girl is more reliable than our Jinqiu?" ”

I didn't want to say it, so I was silent.

Lao Jin hated to kick me, I subconsciously took a step back, he pointed at me again and said, "Jiang Qiao, listen well, it's not me Lao Jin who bluffs you...... If your mother is in Nanjing, she will agree to marry only one girl, Jin Qiu! ”

I looked at Lao Jin, as if I was suddenly living in Qiao Ye's pain, his marriage is a typical example of his parents' order, but am I comparable to Qiao Ye? I was raised in a free-range format, and the influence of my parents was actually very weak in my value system.

After being silent for a while, I finally said to Lao Jin: "Don't say that my mother has no news, even if she stands in front of me, she can't control me in the matter of marriage, and I can live with whoever I want." ”

This night, Lao Jin was very angry with me, but there was no way to take me, after all, he is not my parents, just my uncle, and he must not be able to treat me like Qiao Ye's parents did to Qiao Ye...... So, a moment after Lao Jin left, I was at peace, I was alone, and if I had to be bound in marriage, wouldn't that be a joke?

But I still don't understand it, Lao Jin Ming knows that it's useless, why did he take my mother Yang Jin out to talk about it. What puzzles me even more is that Jin Qiu is such an excellent woman, and even in some ways, she is much better than either Chen Yi or Xiao Ai, why would Lao Jin match us together?

Perhaps, I, Jiangqiao, am really a man who is suitable for life, so marrying Jin Qiu, a woman who is destined to fight in the shopping mall, and then cooperating with her to do a little thing and take care of the family is the most harmonious living state in Lao Jin's heart.

However, I don't think so, and Jin Qiu doesn't think so, so this qiē only stems from Lao Jin's own thinking that it is too beautiful!

……

Although the process of facing Lao Jin was extremely uncomfortable, there was no deep sense of guilt in my heart. Because, whether it is in front of him or Jin Qiu, I am an out-and-out vulnerable group, so even if I don't do something according to his ideas, it will not affect his life.

At 9:20 p.m., Xiao Ai came to the small courtyard where I lived, and we had a simple supper, and then chatted about the piano shop very seriously. We agreed that during the renovation period, we should start to do the publicity thing. The target, of course, is the neighborhood elementary and middle schools.

We are just starting out, and we can only develop new students. At this stage, it is not practical to compete with an established music store or even a training institution to grab a source of students, but developing a new source is really a hard job, and I must be mentally prepared enough.

The advantage is that Xiao Ai and Yu Xin both graduated from the Academy of Arts, and they have a lot of friends in the music department, and once our students reach a saturated state, we can easily find teachers other than them, and this is one of the few advantages of our piano behavior, it depends on whether I have enough ability to introduce more students.

Of course, I also want to prove to Lao Jin that I don't have to be anyone's vassal, and I can do my own business. Although Lao Jin has no bad intentions, some words that come out of his mouth really hurt his self-esteem.

After the meal, I lit a cigarette, I sat alone in the small courtyard, I thought of Zhao Chu again, remembered those years when we suffered together, not for myself, for the dream we once had to fight!

……

After washing the dishes for eating, I took the quilt and blanket and sent Xiao Ai to the house I had rented for her in the evening. Towards the end of the night, the Tulip Road is quiet and deep, and our shadows are long under the street lamps......

I followed Xiao Ai's footsteps and asked her, "You really don't have to go to the supermarket to buy you a new quilt?" Don't you women all like pink? ”

"I like pink, so you buy a pink quilt, so why don't you paint the earth pink too?"

"Uh...... That's a public resource! ”

Xiao Ai turned around and smiled at me, and said, "Actually, if it can be painted pink, it would be quite romantic...... Oh? ”

I responded with a smile to her, a woman's mind is sometimes so dreamy!

After a pause, I said to her again, "By the way, today I told someone that I have a girlfriend." ”

"With whom?"

"My Uncle Kim...... It's Jinqiu's father. ”

Xiao Ai deliberately asked, "Then who is your girlfriend?" ”

I smiled and continued to follow her as I walked towards the neighborhood about 500 meters away from my apartment......

……

The house rented for Xiao Ai is on the 26th floor, and you can see the panoramic view of the entire tulip road from the window. The layout of the house is very simple, the decoration is only medium decoration, the only style is a hanging chair placed on the balcony, of course I feel a little wronged Xiao Ai in my heart, but at this stage, I can only provide her with such accommodation conditions.

Xiao Ai sat down on the sling chair, and I stood across from her, she looked around and said to me: "I have been renting a house since I arrived in Taipei, and this feeling of wandering was quite good at first, but after a long time, I have a sense of loneliness without a fixed place...... If only I had a house of my own! ”

"What kind of room do you want?"

Xiao Ai almost didn't think much about it and replied: "On this tulip road, it's nice to have a one-bedroom apartment, I think this can be realized as a short-term dream of my own." ”

"Housing prices here are not expensive compared to the city...... Probably, you can buy a set of one bedroom, one living room and one bathroom for a dozen or so bags in the past. As I said this, my eyes were watching Xiao Ai's reaction at the same time, in fact, until now, I was still worried that she would not be able to adapt to the current life.

Xiao Ai grabbed his fingers, calculated and said, "That should be about 300,000, right?" ”

I nodded.

Xiao Ai sighed, put his hands on his lap, and then looked at the world outside the window.

I pulled her up from the sling chair, then looked side by side at the thousands of lights outside the window and said, "Let's work hard to do a good piano shop, and by this time next year, maybe we can buy a house in the most prosperous part of Tulip Road." ”

"Change maybe to a definite, okay?"

"Okay!"

Xiao Ai looked at me and gave me two thumbs up, and I smiled when I saw her look a little happy......

Although I don't know if it's a bit presumptuous or arrogant to set our dreams like this, it is something we all want to do at this stage, so I have a heavier expectation of this piano store because it carries our most simple dreams.

I hope that one day, Tulip Road will be like a memory that flows into her blood after years of accumulation, so that she will never forget it. Because here's her house, her convenience store, her piano store, and me......