I drove the car back to Tulip Road, but Xiao Ai and I didn't get out of the car, I was a little silent, she didn't speak, she kept fiddling with her mobile phone, and the other mobile phone I gave her in Lijiang was in her pants pocket, and the bridge-shaped pendant we flickered from Uncle Lijiang was very eye-catching hanging outside the pocket.

Xiao Ai finally put his mobile phone on the center console of the car, and then asked me: "Jiang Qiao, have you really not paid attention to Chen Yi recently?"

I nodded a little tiredly, but I didn't want to say anything, because I had blocked Chen Yi's circle of friends, and even the Weibo software dedicated to Chen Yi was uninstalled by me, I thought that I would not hear about Chen Yi again, but she is different from others, I will still passively accept her news, unless she is no longer a public figure.

I put down the chair, then lay down with my arms on my back, I looked up at the starry sky and the fireworks in the distance through the skylight, and after a long time said to Xiao Ai, who had nothing to do beside me, "Sing me a song to suit the situation"

"Am I your jukebox?"

"Now you sing a song for me, and I am willing to go to the soup for you in the future."

Xiao Ai looked at me and asked, "I don't quite understand what you mean." ”

"What I mean is that in the future, if I have a bite to eat in this world, I won't let you go hungry."

Xiao Ai looked at me with a complicated gaze, and did not speak for a long time, and her mobile phone rang in this silence, she took it out of her pocket, and then looked at the caller number.

She didn't shy away from me when she answered the call, and told me that it was her dad who called her. She didn't speak well to Mr. Xiao, and asked directly, "Why are you calling me?"

Because the car was extremely quiet, I could vaguely hear Mr. Xiao's answer, and he replied: "Tomorrow is New Year's Day, you remember to go home for dinner at noon." ”

After a period of silence, Xiao Ai replied in a very sarcastic tone: "Are you joking with me, that's your home, not my home, my home has long been broken up by you, as long as it's something with Li Zishan, a woman in the future, please don't call me." ”

Mr. Xiao sighed: "Xiao Ai's father is very tired, I just want to see you, don't be angry with my father, okay?"

Xiao Ai was unmoved, and his tone was still so intense: "If you want to see me, why do you have to go to Li Zishan if you can't see me anywhere, thinking of this woman, I am disgusted"

"Xiao Ai, you listen to Dad, Dad is old, many things are getting more and more powerless, some things are wrong, you can't turn back, and you can't get back Your aunt After all, she also gave birth to a son for Dad, Dad's biggest wish now is that you can forgive Dad's mistakes, and the family can live together like a normal family."

"Dad, listen, even if I have a desire for family, it's not on your and Li Zishan's side. If I had a choice, I would rather go to Taiwan to live with my mother I am a little tired today, I don't want to tell you anymore, you pay attention to your body. ”

After Xiao Ai said this, she didn't give Mr. Xiao a chance to speak, she hung up the phone very resolutely, and then fell into a silence that was obviously sad.

She originally had the happiest family in the world, but as Mr. Xiao said, if she did something wrong, she could never go back. Xiao Ai's mother has a new family in Taiwan, and even if the sky can fall apart, Xiao Ai's biological parents will no longer have the possibility of coming together.

I was lost because of Xiao Ai's loss, I opened the windows on both sides of the car, then lit a cigarette, and said to Xiao Ai when I was about to finish smoking: "I heard Zhao Mu say a few days ago that the current situation of Jinding Real Estate is very bad, the risk of breaking the capital chain, and the bank basically refused to give the group another loan in the second half of this year, so your dad is under great pressure now, and has been supported by network funds, do you know what does it mean to network funds, if there is no new profit project, this kind of network funds will be consumed soon"

Xiao Ai replied disappreciatively: "You don't have to worry about him, a few years ago, he bought so much land from the government, he really can't hold on and there is land to sell, it's just a little less money in the future, it depends on how he chooses, Jinding Real Estate will not be so easy to fall." ”

"You're thinking too optimistically"

Xiao Aiqing interrupted me excitedly: "Jiang Qiao, if you have to say these things to me, then I'll leave immediately, I didn't go to Yangzhou tonight, not to hear you say this"

I waved my hand, signaling that I wouldn't say any more, Xiao Ai calmed down, but she didn't continue to sit in the car, she got out of the car, put her hands in her clothes pockets, and looked at the distance where fireworks were still flashing a little blankly

After a while, I finally got out of the car and said to her, "The convenience store is still open over there, so I'll treat you to corn." ”

"I'd like to eat something else."

I nodded, feeling hungry myself. Until now, we haven't had dinner, and there is only more than 1 hour left before the end of the year, and we just paid too much attention to spiritual catharsis, but neglected to replenish some energy to **.

On the bench in front of the convenience store, Xiao Ai and I sat side by side, I ate fried rice noodles, she ate small wontons, we just used this place as our own place to eat, I felt that although the wind was very cold tonight, it blew very comfortably, and I seemed to have embarked on a new path

"Jiang Qiao, do you eat I don't like to eat."

"Then give me something to eat."

I said and handed the bowl to Xiao Ai, Xiao Ai picked out everything in the bowl, and we continued to eat with our heads down, a qiē was so quiet, and so comfortable, I even forgot the trouble that the coffee shop was encountering a personnel crisis, forgot the expectation of the entrepreneurship competition, and forgot the heart-rending pain of the previous day, I was waiting for the arrival of next year in peace.

Xiao Ai's cell phone rang again, and she handed me the bowl she was eating, and then connected the phone. Because this time it was outdoors, I couldn't hear what the other party on the phone was saying clearly, and I only heard Xiao Ai say "um" twice, and then she hung up the phone.

She looked at me for a long time before she said, "Jiang Qiao, it was Brother Xiao Wei who called me just now, and he said that Yuan Zhen had come back from Japan, and they were driving on the airport expressway, and they would be able to reach Xinjiekou in a while." ”

"Then you go, I'll send you."

"What are you going to do, do you have a place to go?"

I smiled and replied, "You can leave me alone, have fun by yourself and I'll have somewhere to go." ”

Xiao Ai looked at me and stopped, but in the end she didn't say anything, she just nodded, but I knew what she wanted to say, she hoped that I could get together with Yuan Zhen and Ji Xiaowei, but she understood that Yuan Zhen and I were destined not to become friends, so I finally gave up.

I drove the car and sent Xiao Ai all the way to Xinjiekou, about us arrived first, so Xiao Ai didn't rush to get out of the car, she said to me: "Yuan Zhen will stay for three days when he comes back this time, he is to attend the wedding of the bassist of the band." ”

I looked at her and asked with a smile, "Why are you telling me this, you have been in a relationship with your brothers and sisters for so many years, and it is normal to come back and get together." ”

Xiao Ai lowered his head and did not speak.

I asked again, "By the way, is Yuan Zhen's career developing in Japan okay?"

Xiao Ai finally shook his head and replied: "It's not too good, the original market is generally sluggish now, and he is now doing some things behind the scenes, and he is waiting for a good opportunity." I think he will stay in Japan in the future. ”

"He's so talented, I'm sure he's okay, it's just that it takes a little bit of time to be recognized by the market."

"Hmm."

Xiao Ai answered, and she fell silent again, and I could feel that she was haunted by some guilt

If Yuan Zhen wasn't impulsive for her, even if he didn't become popular in China, at least he would be the king of underground rock, but unfortunately now even the underground music market doesn't dare to sign a performance contract with him, and the reason why he goes abroad to develop is also a last resort.

I finally said to Xiao Ai: "In the future, if you have the chance, you can pull him" Speaking of this, I said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "I always feel that you will become a hot pop diva in the future"

Xiao Ai looked at me and replied: "Don't disgust me, okay, I will never do pop music in my life, and the queen is so worthless, can anyone dream of this title"

"After all, you are talented, maybe you will become the next Teresa Teng in the music world hahahaha"

Xiao Ai glanced at me with some disgust and replied, "I really don't know what you're stupid about." ”

While talking, I saw Ji Xiaowei and his party, Ji Xiaowei still can't live without women, he hugged a fashionably dressed, tall woman, this should be his girlfriend in Nanjing, and Yuan Zhen was a little lonely walking beside them, he didn't carry a guitar, and his hair was much longer than the last time I saw him.

He stopped suddenly, then looked at the city lights, Xiao Ai also spotted him, and then picked up his handbag from his seat and prepared to get out of the car.

I said to her, "I'm tired, so I'm not going to say hello to them, you can have some fun." ”

Xiao Ai nodded tacitly, then opened the car door, walked through the crowded streets, and approached Yuan Zhen little by little, and I also turned the car around the next moment, and then drove on the way back. The passenger was playing on a loop in the car.

"I'm the first passenger of this car, I'm not unhappy, the sky is blood red, the stars are gray and silver, what about your lover yesi'goingho; isthurryho； whereyourlifegoeson； soi＇goingho； goinghoalone； andyourlifegoeson”

The sky burst into brilliant fireworks, the New Year's bell rang loudly, and in the giant display screen, Chen Yi and the other five hosts applauded while saying New Year's greetings I parked the car under the bell tower, the sound of the crowd boiling drowned out me, and the music in the car never stopped.

"I'm the first passenger of this car, I'm not unhappy, the sky is blood red, the stars are gray and silver, what about your lover"

I lit a cigarette, closed my eyes and exhaled all the smoke, and my New Year came in song, and I was not unhappy, nor was I very happy