After the Lantern Festival, the atmosphere of the New Year has gradually dissipated, many companies around have started work one after another, and the business of the coffee shop has also picked up, but it is still far from before the store manager did not change jobs last year, and in the past month or so, the coffee shop is operating at a loss, which is the first loss since I took over.

The situation was so bad that I had to do a successful marketing campaign, so I spent the day in the coffee shop thinking about the content of the campaign.

Before I knew it, it was nine o'clock, and I looked up at the coffee shop, and there were no more customers, so I was ready to close the shop and go out for a late-night snack.

On the way, I happened to meet Jin Qiu who was passing by Tulip Road after work, she parked her car on the side of the road, opened the window and asked me, "Jiangqiao, why are you still dangling on the road so late?"

"Have some late-night snacks."

When Jin Qiu heard me say this, he opened the car door and got out of the car, and then said to me, "Let's do it, I've been busy all day, and I haven't bothered to eat dinner yet." ”

"Okay, you mentioned it, you have a treat."

"Stingy"

"Please don't please, give me a word."

Jin Qiu glared and replied: "Jiangqiao, you are really a wonder, in the whole of Nanjing, I'm afraid you are the only one who will calculate to let women treat, I am really ashamed of the male compatriots in Nanjing."

"Can you stop making a fuss about gender, why don't you say that I am robbing the rich and helping the poor"

"Can one meal allow you to rob the rich and help the poor?"

"Well, eat poor you, believe it or not."

Jin Qiu seemed to be very willing to compete with me like this, she took out her wallet and said to me: "There are about more than 3,000 yuan in cash in it, and if you have the ability to eat it for a supper, you will eat all this money." ”

I glanced at Jin Qiu disdainfully: "Cut, are you because I haven't seen the world, a numbered fish head in Tianmu Lake is worth your number, let's go to the Caesar Hotel to eat now"

"Okay, I'll see what magical powers you have, the cash is gone, and I still have it in my card."

"I just like you to look so extravagant"

Along the way, although I swore that I would take Jin Qiu to the Caesar Hotel to spend, but in the end I didn't make this joke with a competitive component, I just took her to a wonton shop on the side of the road that has not closed down, I asked for a bowl of dumplings, she asked for a bowl of small wontons, and it was a supper tonight.

I had a good appetite to eat, but Jin Qiu was concentrating on two things, she was scooping the soup with a spoon while dealing with what might have been a backlog of Wen Jiàn today, and we rarely communicated in between, just like two strangers eating this supper at the same table.

Jin Qiu's mobile phone rang again, she picked it up and looked at it, and then frowned and hung up, but the other party still seemed to refuse to give up, and called persistently.

Jin Qiu's expression was extremely annoying, and she said to me: "Jiang Qiao, today I gave you the opportunity to **, you gave up by yourself, now I am in trouble, can you read the refreshment in front of me and help me solve this trouble?"

"What trouble"

"A man I hate, but I've only cooperated a few times, and I can't get rid of it if I have to pursue me."

I wiped my mouth with a tissue, said I understood, and then took the phone from Jin Qiu's hand, then connected the phone, and said with ease: "Hey, which one"

The other party was obviously stunned for a moment, and replied: "Isn't this Jin Qiu's number, I made the wrong call"

"No, she's taking a shower in the bathroom, what's the matter with her?" I asked, pretending to be pretentious and shouting, "Hurry up and wash, I've been waiting for you for half an hour"

The other party hesitated for a while, and only replied after a while: "It's okay, it's just some cooperation things, and we'll talk about it tomorrow when she goes to work." ”

I threw the phone to Jin Qiu, smiled and said, "It's done, a scum with little combat effectiveness"

Jin Qiu looked at me with a strange look, and she said, "Jiang Qiao, you went a little too far this time, what did you just say to him?"

I didn't pay much attention to it and replied, "Said you were taking a shower." ”

"What about you?"

"I'm waiting for you"

Jin Qiu's tone was unpleasant: "You said we were opening a room"

"Haha, otherwise I'll sue you, you have to take drastic medicine to deal with this kind of person, otherwise he won't retreat in the face of difficulties, besides, he doesn't know me anyway, I can say whatever I like."

"Then have you ever thought that he knows me"

I swallowed the dumplings in my mouth, then looked at Jin Qiu stupidly, and hurriedly raised my hands and said: "I swear, I didn't mean to, I just thought about being able to solve this trouble for you, and I didn't say that we were opening a room, who is evil, who will think so"

"You still call me evil ohgod"

Seeing that Jin Qiu was about to collapse, I finally said with a straight face: "Jin Qiu, I think you should find a boyfriend by yourself, won't it be done once and for all in the future, it's really dangerous to help you with this."

"What are you kidding before the age of 30, I will never think about love and marriage, if such a precious time in life is wasted on this, it is a crime"

I stared at Jin Qiu for a long time

Jin Qiu asked a little uncomfortably, "What are you doing looking at me with such eyes?"

"I remember, when you went to college, you didn't let me pretend to be your boyfriend."

Jin Qiu didn't deny it, she nodded.

"That's what I persuaded you at the time, you said that you didn't think about falling in love before the age of 25, why did you postpone it for 5 years now, did you get any stimuli abroad?"

There was a trace of pain on Jin Qiu's face, and she returned to normal in an instant, and she replied impatiently: "You don't care so much, just be my male girlfriend, you can eat and drink spicy food."

"Don't be funny, your tone, no matter how I listen to it, it seems like you're encouraging me to go along with you, but it's still good to have a female buddy like you, I just like to eat and drink spicy haha"

"Yes, I already knew your character when I was in college."

I shrugged my shoulders, and then ate the dumplings in the bowl with a lot of taste, and it was also the most relaxing night I had since Xiao Ai left, because Jin Qiu had something to say to me, although it didn't matter, it was much better than being alone. Lately, my greatest fear is the time spent alone in bed, because I have too many desires in my heart and I can't do anything, and then these longings turn into the pain and endless loneliness that torments me.

It seems that I still have to take the initiative to reach out to more people

After eating supper, Jin Qiu also took out a ticket from his bag and said to me: "Tomorrow is the award ceremony of the most beautiful proprietress in Nanjing, you go and see it, there is no harm in seeing more of the world." ”

In my memory, this is the second time that Jin Qiu has taken the initiative to ask me to broaden my network, but yesterday Yu Xin had already given me two tickets as a cast member, so I replied: "A friend has already given me two tickets yesterday." ”

Jin Qiu was a little surprised, but still put the ticket in front of me, and said: "This one and my one are seated together, use my one to give the award, let's go to the movie, okay, my male girlfriend"

"Go, you buy a movie ticket, I'll treat you to popcorn, my female buddy."

After saying goodbye to Jin Qiu, I walked to the residence alone, and on the way I remembered that Jin Qiu felt a little funny about me as a male girlfriend, but this also means that the relationship between us has completely returned to the state before she did not study abroad, although there was no male girlfriend at that time, but I did do the thing of male girlfriends, we chatted and went shopping, eating and watching movies together, but it did not involve love.

Of course there will be no love between us, if there is, it would have been there a long time ago, why wait until now, and I am not a dish of Jinqiu, I know that she likes a man who can conquer her in her career, but I am just an ordinary man with a small life pattern, at least for now

After washing, I lay on the bed as usual, holding a cigarette in my left hand and putting my right hand behind my head, thinking about the woman named Xiao Ai, I don't know if she has come out of the shadow of Mr. Xiao's investigation at this moment, and whether she is happy with her mother's new family

Time passed like this, and suddenly, the mobile phone vibrated on the bedside cabinet, I picked it up and looked at it, it was a WeChat message sent by Yu Xin, not to remind me to take Zhao Mu to the award ceremony tomorrow, but to ask me for a photo taken in the past two days very inexplicably.

I was puzzled and asked, "Why do you want my photo, am I your male god?"

"Haha, Brother Jiangqiao, don't joke with me, don't I see that you are single, if you want to help you find a girl in our performing arts group, you can thank me, we are all first-class beauties here"

"What kind of routine are you, who sues you and I want to find a girlfriend?"

"Men, you generally can't stand loneliness, especially Xiao Ai is no longer by your side."

"Don't talk nonsense about the little girl's family, I seem to have a paragraph with Xiao Ai"

"It's too unfair to let you make fun of me, and not to make fun of you."

I didn't know how to reply, so I simply turned my attention back to the cigarette I was smoking, and Yu Xin sent me another voice message, she asked very solemnly: "Brother Jiangqiao, don't you really need me to introduce you to a girlfriend?"

"No, I still prefer to be your male god quietly and send you a selfie later, you take it and enjoy it slowly"

This is a complete joke, but I didn't expect Yu Xin to play it really, she didn't pester me to take a selfie and send it to her, I couldn't help being pestered by her, so I had to take a photo of myself very perfunctorily, and then sent it to her, and I unexpectedly found that the blue guitar that Xiao Ai gave me that stood next to the bed also entered the camera.

I finally realized that Yu Xin's recent behavior was a little strange, she seemed to be a little overzealous, and even remembered to introduce me to a girlfriend, is it that I, Jiangqiao, am a man who needs a girlfriend very much

I've been alone for 26 years