ended the call with Qiao Ye, and it was already destined to be a sleepless night. Even though I deliberately drank a cup of soothing tea, the moment I lay in bed, I still felt the bitterness of my choice. It's a pity that I'm just a person oppressed by life, all I can chase is the shadow behind me, but I can't control the sinister future.

I turned over with a cigarette, only to feel that I was suffocated from internal injuries again, I don't know how to talk to Xiao Ai about Fengzi's marriage, this sounds very hooligan, after all, except for that drunkenness, we haven't even kissed, not to mention the mental barrier......

Maybe it's because it's late at night when I'm lying in bed, I seem to be just struggling with two reincarnations, and there is a light coming from the window, I picked up my phone and looked at it, it was already half past four in the morning. It's summer, there are far more days than nights, and if it's a sunny day, the sun will come in through the window at half past five.

Squinted and lay down for a while, I still didn't sleep, so I got up and took a cold shower, then put on my slippers, and prepared to go to the morning market to buy some ingredients, I wanted to make a breakfast for myself and Xiao Ai.

Out of the alley, the street lights have not been extinguished, and the streets are deserted only by the sanitation workers, so that I am not confident to believe that the vegetable market has opened. In fact, I have never been to the wet market so early in more than 20 years.

After walking a little further, I saw a figure running towards me around the roadside barrier, and because of the light, it was not until she was about to approach me that I realized that it was Xiao Ai.

At this time, she was wearing a white tracksuit, and although the cool breeze in the morning was blowing, there was still a lot of sweat on her face. She was going for a morning jog, and I was going grocery shopping, and although the motives were different, we met by such a coincidence.

She trotted a few steps in place, adjusted her breath, and then asked me, "Why is it so early?" ”

"Look at your sweaty face, I feel like you're ahead of me!"

Xiao Ai took out a wet towel from her pocket, wiped the sweat off her face, and then sat on the bench on the side of the road, she didn't look emotional, and a calm wind blew, making her look very well integrated with the world.

I also sat down on the bench, a little wooden looking at the wonton shop that had not yet opened, but what I remembered was the idea Qiao Ye gave me last night, but how should I talk to Xiao Aiti?

I wanted to buy a box of condoms to hint at her, but even if it was so subtle, I felt very obscene and contrived...... Because it doesn't conform to my creed of being a decent person.

"Say, why do you get up so early?"

I looked at Xiao Ai, who was talking to me suddenly, and only replied after a while: "This night, I didn't sleep at all." ”

"Poor!" Xiao Ai sighed.

"And what about you, why did you get up earlier than me?"

"I didn't sleep much, I had a nightmare, and I woke up."

"Then you are more pitiful than me!"

With all that said, we looked at each other with tacit eyes, but we didn't want to talk about the topic that upset us......

After sitting for a while, Xiao Ai finally said to me: "Jiang Qiao, do you believe the saying that the house leak coincides with the overnight rain?" ”

"Believe, good words in this world are generally not very effective, and bad words are accurate...... Say anything, I'm mentally prepared! ”

I said this, but my heart was depressed to death, I was afraid that she would say that the result of her thinking all night was that she decided to study at Berklee College of Music. So looking at her expression, she became nervous, and her eyes didn't blink, I am such a person who will be betrayed by words and deeds.

"Last night, Yu Xin and I were on the phone, and she received an invitation from a satellite TV station to participate in a music talent show. She said that this was her best chance to enter the entertainment industry, and she didn't want to give up...... Therefore, she has to put down the work of the piano store for the time being...... If I can get good results, I don't think it's a temporary release, it's forever! ”

I nodded subconsciously, relieved in my heart, because what Xiao Ai said was not her own decision. But in an instant, that oppressive feeling came again, because Yu Xin is really an indispensable teacher in the piano shop, she can not only teach violin, but even when Xiao Ai is not there, she can also take the piano subject...... But for a girl who has a plan for her life, the job of the piano store is just a ticket after all, so she will definitely go. It's just that it's a bit of a bad time for me to go.

After a very long period of silence, I finally said to Xiao Ai: "Yu Xin came to the piano shop to help, originally out of friendship between us, even if the piano shop faces great difficulties, it can't delay her future." ”

"That's what I thought too."

I couldn't sleep all night, and I couldn't help but have a little headache when I heard such news, but I still forced myself to think about how to deal with this wave of crises.

I told myself: there is no entrepreneurial process in this world can be smooth sailing, different crises can happen anytime and anywhere, I should have the consciousness of an entrepreneur, the strain of managers, and continue to do the piano business...... The piano store must also be done, because compared to Xiao Ai's more than one million expenses for studying abroad, the 2 million yuan obtained by the piano store's loan cannot be squandered casually.

Xiao Ai leaned closer to me again, then grabbed my arm and said, "Jiang Qiao, if I leave in a month, what will you do in the piano shop?" “

I thought for a while and replied: "In view of the strict loss of teaching staff, I can only use an extreme method to come to your Nanyi's music education department for a job fair...... In the construction of the teaching team, I am not afraid of spending money. “

Xiao Ai looked at me worriedly, she let go of my arm, and then said, "You can't do this at all!" …… Let me tell you this, in the Department of Music Education, those who are talented and have solid professional knowledge will generally go to some better schools to be teachers; Some of them with good appearance conditions may go to the entertainment industry...... Just like Yu Xin, you have also seen that the performing arts group is also a state-owned unit, but now that there is a chance, you still have to go to the entertainment industry to develop; The remaining small part will either be eliminated or reduced to temporary teachers in various piano shops with average teaching quality, but they obviously do not meet the standards you require of teachers...... Otherwise, our piano store would not have offered such a high salary, and there are only 4 teachers including me and Yu Xin, and they are all acquaintances...... The biggest problem is that the teacher in the training institution is not a stable job. Most of Chinese's job-hunting psychology is still eager for stability, even if you want to take risks, it is also a place like the entertainment industry where you can get rich overnight and make money every day...... ""You are creating a terrifying atmosphere...... Students in the Department of Music Education, if they don't want to be teachers in the piano store, why do they choose the major of music education? “

Xiao Ai looked at me a little unhappily and replied: "You didn't listen to me well at all, I told you, and the people who finally chose to work in the piano store are the kind of people who are not professional and solid, they are eliminated, do you understand?" …… Of course, you can choose them, but can the piano store continue to operate with high quality of teaching as the core of its business? …… Moreover, once they have been teaching in the piano industry for a long time and have mastered some of the students, it is very likely that they will set up their own doors, after all, the cost of opening a small training class or something is very low...... Have you considered all of this? ”

"You're still creating an atmosphere of terror!"

Xiao Ai was a little angry: she replied impatiently: "I don't want to talk to you...... Open a piano shop and you're a layman! ”

After Xiao Ai finished speaking, she really fell into silence, and I can't remember that I came out so early to buy ingredients to cook, so I sat next to her, until a sprinkler truck drove past us, and I subconsciously protected her, who was also a little distracted......

And the next moment, the first bus passing by Tulip Road also stopped on the opposite side, indicating that a busy day was about to begin, which made me restless, and I remembered the idea Qiao Ye gave me on the phone last night.

I clenched my fists, let go, clenched again, and finally said to Xiao Ai, "Can I ask you a question?" "It's better to be a matter of tone."

I felt inexplicably weak, but I still gritted my teeth and asked, "When was the last time you came to my aunt?" “

Xiao Ai's eyes suddenly changed when he looked at me: he immediately asked rhetorically, "This is the question you are attooming?" “

I hurriedly defended: "I ...... I'm ...... that."

Xiao Ai looked at me with more aggressive eyes, I was so embarrassed that I couldn't follow the bus that had just started to the intersection at the end of the tulip, what the hell was wrong with me? Why don't you ask after you have done the foreshadowing?

The rising sense of embarrassment made me start to say incoherently: "I...... You, if you come...... I will remind you not to get cold water, not to take a sitz bath, not to eat spicy things...... Also, don't stay up late...... By the way, I'll help you cook something to replenish your qi and blood. ”

After saying this, I used all the acting skills I have accumulated over the years to try to make myself look stable, but my heart is even more empty, who would believe that I suddenly asked this early in the morning, just to remind ...... Besides, Xiao Ai has lived so long, doesn't she even understand these common senses?

Apparently I'm lying...... Yes, I'm just lying, what I care about is not when she is in her menstrual period, but I want to deduce the date when she can get pregnant, and then boldly implement the idea Qiao Ye gave me......

I think I'm crazy because I'm not sure if I want to do it, but I've already told Xiao Ai about it...... I want to be saved, right now!

Perhaps, my mind was received by God. At this time, Xiao Ai's mobile phone in the armband suddenly rang, and after she glanced at me, she finally diverted her attention, and then took out the phone from the armband.

It seemed that the call was made by Ruan Su, and she hesitated for a while before answering, and then took the initiative to ask, "Mom, are you going to see Dad today?" “

I couldn't hear what Ruan Su on the other end of the phone was saying, and after a while, I heard Xiao Ai say, "Of course I'm willing to accompany you to see your father...... However, if you want me to go back to Taipei with you in the afternoon, how is this possible? …… It's not that you don't know that I still have many students in the piano shop, and there is a contract between me and them, and I can't lose the spirit of this contract, and you didn't educate me like that. “

Xiao Ai said as he walked farther away from me, so that I couldn't even hear what she was saying.

It was a good ten minutes before she returned to me, said a few hurried words, and then left...... She said that she would go back to take a shower, and then accompany Ruan Su to the prison to see Mr. Xiao......

……

After she left, the whole tulip road seemed to be suddenly busy, with vendors setting up breakfast stalls, and elementary school students wearing red scarves not discussing the knowledge in textbooks, but only chatting about the strange world of anime. The wind struggled to blow all the flowers and trees in sight...... It's just that in the blink of an eye, a qiē has become the past, but the bench I am sitting on has my body temperature, and the world is sometimes real and sometimes illusory......

It wasn't until Edamame came running from a distance and jumped on top of me that I was convinced that this morning had nothing to do with dreams, that it was real. "Futatsuhashi, give you milk ......"

I took it from his hand, but I didn't want to drink the bottle of milk he had drunk at all, I held it in my hand for a while, and then asked him very nervously, "Edamame, why are you in this world?" “

"It's a phone bill!"

I was stunned, and then asked him again: "China Mobile Unicom or China Telecom?" "China can't move the ......" "Edamame, I want to have a son too...... Take me to charge your phone bill. “

Edamame laughed: "Haha...... Erqiao, you are really a two-hundred-five, if you want a child, you will have it if you sleep with Teacher Xiao...... Charging the phone bill will send a big-headed ghost, and sending you two bottles of salad oil is about the same! “

The sun was getting stronger, the wind was still blowing, and I was suddenly disappointed in the world, because even the child Edamame was fucking impure, and even he knew that men and women had to sleep to have children...... However, just such a male and female love, what happens all the time, falls on me, but it is so difficult to implement.

I'm kind of sulking at myself......

So, I finally took out my phone from my pocket and sent Xiao Ai a message that was about the length of the letter: "Dear Xiao Ai, not long after you left, I met the child Maodou. He asked me to drink his milk, but I didn't drink it because I hated it...... But if it was you, I wouldn't have refused, for reasons you know...... Edamame, this kid, since he learned piano after you, seems to have become less serious. I said, and you may not believe it, but he knows that men and women have to sleep together if they want to have children...... What a mouth-wrenching thought, and I'm ashamed of him, I hope you didn't teach him! …… Well, I'll admit that my brain is a bit of a mess...... However, I really want you to give me a baby, not for the love of men and women...... I just don't want you to leave Nanjing...... At this moment, I am really anxious, and some of my thoughts may not be expressed perfectly...... I hope you can forgive me! ”

My fingers trembled several times, and I finally sent this boldest message in my life to Xiao Ai...... Then, looking at the edamame lying on the chair and playing with his fingers, my heart was a little more settled, because this impure child helped me carry the black pot.

I thought about it, if Xiao Ai asks me to be held accountable, I will say that it was all taught to me by Edamame