The next morning, I got up early, and after going to the hotel restaurant for breakfast, Qiao Ye hadn't gotten up yet. I didn't want to waste time in Shanghai, which didn't matter to me, so when I got back to my room, I found Qiao Ye's X6 car keys and drove back to Nanjing before him.

At about ten o'clock, I found a service station to use the bathroom, during which I received a call from Qiao Ye, he told me that he had also gotten on the highway and asked me to drive slower, and after meeting me, the two of them raced on the road for a while to quench his hunger and thirst when he just got the car.

He's a psychopath! So of course I didn't wait for him.

When I was about to enter Nanjing, I saw an extremely eye-catching 918 approaching me in the rearview mirror from a distance. My speed was always at 120 yards, but when Qiao Ye's 918 passed by me, I only felt like I was riding a bicycle, and his car was full of mechanical feeling. I seemed to see a string of speeding tickets hanging on the back of his car, and then Qin Miao's annoyed expression when he handled these tickets for him.

Qiao Ye arrived at Tulip Road before me, and when I arrived, he had already parked his car on the side of the road, and then asked for a bowl of green vegetables and shredded pork noodles at the "Wutong Restaurant" and ate it with his head down.

I walked up to him, threw the car keys to him, and then asked the proprietress for a bowl of noodle soup and ate it face to face.

I asked him, "How many cars do you have, including the 918 you just bought?" ”

"7 or 8? I can't remember exactly......" Qiao Ye replied as he ate. After a pause, he said to me as if he remembered something: "By the way, Jiangqiao, do you remember Ren Ping, the squad leader in our junior high school?" ”

"I remember that his dad was a waste collector, and I used to go to her house to buy second-hand things...... Why did you talk about her all of a sudden? ”

Qiao Ye put down the chopsticks in his hand, and said to me with a rare expression: "The matter is her father, a few days ago he was hit by a black car on the way home from collecting scrap, and the driver escaped, and their family's savings were spent in the hospital in the past few days." Ren Ping found me yesterday and borrowed money from me, if I don't know about this matter, forget it, I will definitely have to help if I know...... But now I really don't have much money in my hands, you can help me listen to this X6, and it will be sold at a similar price. ”

I raised my head and looked at Qiao Ye, and suddenly felt that I had been with him for more than ten years, and I didn't necessarily know him well.

At this time, a bus stopped at the bus stop opposite, and then Xiao Ai was seen walking out of the bus with a backpack on her back, and it seemed that she had not been in Yangzhou for long.

Xiao Ai stopped next to the Porsche 918 and looked at it for a few moments, and then asked Qiao Ye: "Handsome guy, is this your new car?" ”

"Does it match my temperament?"

Xiao Ai replied with a smile: "This car interprets your nouveau riche face very well, I'm afraid you are the only one in the whole Nanjing, right?" ”

"The word nouveau riche is well used!"

"Well, you can afford it...... It's just that today's hairstyle doesn't make it distinctive, and it doesn't match the arrogance of your car! ”

Xiao Ai and Qiao Ye just praised each other without a word, under the sun at noon, the two of them were at ease like immortals, but I had a little bit on my mind, I don't know if the approval of the piano store will be solved as expected, all my hopes now are based on trust in Chen Yi.

……

Qiao Ye finished lunch, left the X6 and went back. He said that he wanted to remodify the 918, and I guess his recent energy has been focused on this, and his complex personality is not persuaded by others, but to my surprise, he and Xiao Ai are speculative like old friends for many years, no matter how Xiao Ai squeezes him, he is not angry.

Xiao Ai and I walked and chatted, and I asked her, "Why did you come back from Yangzhou so quickly?" ”

"It's just to catch up with Brother Xiao Wei, and it's not a tour, I want to have a car, and I'll be back last night."

I smiled and asked, "Among the people we know, Ji Xiaowei lives the most freely...... By the way, has he changed girlfriends again recently? ”

"Changed, yesterday I brought a female host of their local TV station, who looks pretty good, but I don't know if he wants to marry someone else."

While talking, Xiao Ai and I walked to the English training institution called "Red Spirit", where several law enforcement vehicles that seemed to be joint law enforcement vehicles of the Education Bureau and the Industrial and Commercial Bureau were parked outside, and some parents were standing outside with their children.

This scene reminded me of the day when my coffee shop was investigated by the fire department, and my mood was like falling into a hellish oil pot and frying, but at this moment I am just a bystander.

Xiao Ai, who didn't know anything beside me, asked me, "Why are people from the Education Bureau and the Industry and Commerce Bureau here?" Is there an accident with this training institution? ”

I tried to pick up a cigarette from my pocket and light it, but I found that I didn't have a cigarette with me, so I hesitated for a moment before saying, "Maybe it's illegal business." ”

Xiao Ai replied with emotion: "Now the relevant departments are really not ordinary strict in this regard, so it is correct for us to handle all the documents that should be handled." ”

I looked at Xiao Ai and said "um" for a while.

The joint law enforcement team was very efficient, and in the moment that Xiao Ai and I were standing, they had already put a seal on the training institution, and suddenly the parents who were waiting for the results outside exploded.

They surrounded a girl who looked like a staff member and asked angrily: "Is your training institution unable to open, and what about the tuition fees we paid earlier?" ”

The girl replied with tears: "Please don't embarrass me, I haven't been paid for months......"

"Are we doing this for you? At that time, we all paid the tuition from you, and you have to admit it. ”

As he spoke, one of the parents, who had a more aggressive personality, had already begun to push the girl.

This scene made me feel extremely guilty, this training institution is indeed problematic, but it also affects some innocent people. So, I couldn't stand any longer, walked a few steps to the crowd, and then stood in front of the girl, and said to a few indignant parents, "Can you calm down?" This girl is a victim just like you, and I think everyone should at least give her a little time to call their boss first. ”

The more sensible people in the crowd also began to persuade the impulsive parents, and the girl finally had the space to take out her mobile phone from her pocket, and then cried and dialed a number.

My brain was a little dizzy in the sun, and I didn't know if this was the result I wanted, let alone if the so-called winning or losing had to be achieved in this way. Or is this the cruel side of life, and every company or individual with the halo of success has had a similar experience?

At this moment, I really want to put on a mask, and I don't want to see some rules too clearly, because I was once a "sunny" young man who was addicted to planting flowers and grasses and couldn't extricate himself.

……

Dusk seemed to come in my trance, I sat on the curb and played with Qiao Ye's X6 car keys, Xiao Ai sat next to me, she wiped her new guitar with a clean rag.

Some catkins were blown by the wind, I was a little allergic, and I sneezed several times in a row, and when Xiao Ai took out a tissue and handed it to me, my mobile phone also rang in my pocket.

I took it out and looked at it, it was Chen Yi's call. I forgot to take the tissue from Xiao Ai's hand, got up and walked to the other side, and then connected Chen Yi's phone.

She said to me: "Jiangqiao, my dad just called me, your piano store has been approved, and tomorrow you can go to the Education Bureau to get the qualification certificate for business." ”

After a moment of silence, I replied, "Thank you." ”

"You don't have to be polite to me...... However, there is one thing you want to pay attention to, your piano shop seems to have been targeted, and my father was originally unwilling to do this matter, but because Qin Miao ran twice in a row, the big leader and my father combined it together, and they reluctantly gave this face. ”

"I know."

"So don't you think it's strange that the incident at the coffee shop last time happened to this one after another?"

After Chen Yi's reminder, I also faintly felt a sense of unsteadiness in my heart, but I was still reluctant to link these two things together.

……

After finishing the call with Chen Yi, I returned to Xiao Ai's side, she was still wiping the guitar, and the twilight had fallen, and the darkness that permeated the area was just like my nervous mood at the moment.

Xiao Ai put the rag beside him, plucked the guitar strings, and said to me with a smile: "I've been learning to arrange music recently, and I'll play a song for you. ”

"Wow, how can this be made up!"

"I can." Xiao Ai said and began to tune the strings. Then I realized that this guitar was a little different from the guitar she gave me, it had 12 strings, compared to 6 strings on a normal guitar.

Xiao Ai's way of tuning the strings is very special, but because I am a layman, I can't see any way, so I asked her, "How can this guitar have 12 strings?" ”

"The advantage of the 12-string is that it can play a wider range than the 6-string, and sometimes two 6-string guitars together may not be able to play a more beautiful melody than it!"

I don't know why, but every time I watch her talk about music-related expertise, I think she's a little cute. To be precise, it's not just cute, but it makes me worship from the bottom of my heart.

Sometimes, I wonder if a woman who is so talented in music has closed all the channels that allow the outside world to know about her, is it a huge waste? She's supposed to be a big hit!

The tuned Xiao Ai began to pluck the strings, and I listened intently, and this prelude performed by her seemed to add a little element of bluegrass music, which made people feel very comfortable, and my suppressed mood melted into her rhythm.

I finally heard some eyebrows, and replied overjoyedly: "This song you adapted is "Nanniwan", right? ”

Xiao Ai nodded, and then sang in a very light key: "The flowers in the flower basket are fragrant, listen to me sing it, sing it." Came to Nanniwan, Nanniwan is a good place, a good place, a good place, a good place, a good place, a good place, a good place, crops everywhere, cattle and sheep everywhere......"

In Xiao Ai's very ethereal voice, I seem to be transported back to the 40s when this song was written.

On a summer dusk, I stood in the golden wheat fields everywhere, not only the scenery was good, but also surrounded by model fighters and model workers, and the texture of that era seemed to be engraved on the distant mountains in the golden sunshine.

However, because Xiao Ai has made a new adaptation of it, and added the use of popular singing, it makes me feel as if I have traveled between the 40s and the new century to take a cross-era journey, and this feeling of being so good that I am about to ascend to heaven is definitely not something that can be described in a few words.

Gradually, I understood that Xiao Ai saw through my mood, so she used such a piece of music to heal me, and her way of being kind to me was always like a spring breeze, which blew quietly when I needed it most......

I finally didn't want to feel a deep sense of guilt anymore and think about how I got the license to run a piano store. At the moment, I just want to enjoy this good music!