At half past seven in the evening, the doorbell was finally ringed, and I wore slippers and ran to open the door.

Mi Cai was carrying a huge convenience bag in her hand, I took it from her hand and looked at it, there were some vegetables in it, there was also meat, and there was a bottle of red wine and a bottle of juice.

Mi Cai said to me, "The red wine is for you, and I will drink the juice." ”

"What's wrong with me to drink some red wine, I'm afraid that if we drink too much, am I plotting against you?"

"I didn't say that, I just don't have a habit of drinking."

I laughed and complained: "You're really boring, I just want to take advantage of you in words, why don't you cooperate at all?" ”

"Why should I cooperate with your lewdness."

"The word obscene is used so well, and sometimes I really don't think I'm very noble."

Mi Cai looked at me wordlessly, obviously not knowing how to answer my words.

I closed the door and said to Mi Cai, "You sit for a while, I'll cook, and you can sit back and enjoy it later." ”

Mi Cai shook her head and said to me, "I can do what I can for you." ”

"It's not a husband and wife lung film, why do you want to help me as much as you can!" I said as I carried my bag and walked into the kitchen.

Mi Cai looked at me wordlessly again.

……

I opened the bow left and right in the kitchen, an average of 10 minutes for a dish, about 50 minutes to make all the stir-fry, and at the same time the bone broth in the pot was also cooked at the same time, the time was perfect.

Mi Cai, who had been idle at this time, finally came in handy, she came to the kitchen and brought the prepared meal to the table as best she could.

I turned on all the lights in the house, and the little living room for dinner was bright, I took off my apron and sat opposite Mi Cai, I drank red wine, she drank juice, but it was not a candlelight dinner.

I said to Mi Cai, who was eager to try, "Shall we touch glasses first, or will you try my craft first?" ”

"I'll try your craft first." Mi Cai said and put a piece of sweet and sour fish into his mouth, tasted it and nodded and praised: "Yes, your craftsmanship is not bad." ”

"Yes, I said that the tiger father has no dog." I said with a slight smugness.

"It's hard to imagine you can cook, and do it well, when did you learn this?" Mi Cai looked at me curiously after asking.

I replied while eating: "Our father said that I had a wild temperament and a bad temper, so when I was very young, he forced me to learn to cook, saying that I could cultivate my self-cultivation and please my daughter-in-law in the future!" ”

Mi Cai ignored my words and asked me, "Your father?" ”

"Yes, I call me Daddy, haven't you heard me call me that before?"

"I didn't pay much attention, why did you call him Daddy?"

I patiently explained, "Because he is old-fashioned, not only do I call him Ban Dad, but their colleagues call him Ban Ke, but he always thought that I called him Dad...... Ha ha......! ”

Mi Cai was also amused by me, and said for a while: "You are really bad, you don't even let go of your own father!" After saying that, her expression suddenly darkened, and I suddenly realized that she was thinking of her father Mi Zhongxin, who died in a car accident, and finally understood why she was full of kindness to her father.

I raised my glass and said to Mi Cai, "Let's stop talking patronize, let's clink a glass and celebrate our opportunity to turn hostility into friendship." ”

Mi Cai nodded, picked up her juice and gently touched a glass with me, then took a sip and smiled at me again, getting rid of the gloom and depression just now.

……

Dinner went on, and I had already drunk two glasses of red wine, while Mi Cai had only drunk a small half glass of juice.

I looked at Mi Cai with a complicated expression for a long time, and finally put down the wine glass in my hand and said to her, "I'm going back to my hometown tomorrow." ”

"What's the matter, are you going on vacation?" Mi Cai asked unconcernedly.

"No, it's to go back to my hometown to live, and I have quit my job."

Mi Cai looked at me, put down the chopsticks in his hand, and asked with some surprise, "Resigned!" Is there something going on at home? ”

No wonder Mi Cai was surprised, because she accompanied me to rent the bachelor apartment I live in a few days ago, but she didn't know that I was struggling at that time, although I was struggling, I didn't have the idea of leaving, but when I finally chose to sue her in an anonymous letter about Mi Zhongde's power conspiracy, my fate of leaving the city was irreversible.

I smiled and said to Mi Cai: "You know, I'm not a serious job, and I'm not too young, so I really don't have much time to continue struggling in this rootless city, so it's also a good choice to go back to my hometown to live a stable life, people, especially adults, must learn to make the most correct judgment about the environment they are in." ”

Mi Cai nodded in agreement with my words, but didn't say much, we are not people of the same world, destined to live a life that does not understand each other and cannot penetrate each other.

I raised my glass to Mi Cai again, Mi Cai raised the wine glass and gestured to me, I nodded and drank half a glass of red wine in one gulp, and a feeling that could not be expressed in words permeated my body along with the wine.

……

The dinner ended with a few words between me and Mi Cai, and when Mi Cai was leaving, I took out all the cash I had, some of which was my salary, and some of it was the money I got after subletting this bachelor apartment, a total of 10,318 yuan, and after paying back Mi Cai's 10,016 yuan, I still had 302 yuan left, and this 302 yuan was the last thing I got after struggling in this city for more than two years.

I put the money on the table, counted out 10,016 yuan from a pile of scattered coins very seriously, handed it to Mi Cai, and said, "Ah, pay back your money." ”

Mi Cai looked at me, and then I took the stack of money from my hand, ranging from 100 to a piece, but unexpectedly pulled out 16 yuan from it, handed it to me and said, "I like whole numbers." ”

I looked at Mi Cai in surprise, and didn't reach out to pick it up, but she had already put the scattered 16 yuan on the table, and then put another stack of money into her handbag.

"It's not early, I have to go back." Mi Cai said to me.

"Oh, good...... Stay safe on the road. ”

Mi Cai nodded and turned to leave, I suddenly realized that after this night, we may not have the opportunity to see each other again, although I have been friends with this woman who is going to leave for nearly two months, but in the end, with my departure, those brief pasts will be turned into dust, and then slowly erased by the passing time.

"Mi Cai......" I called out her name.

"How?" She turned her head, her long hair hanging down her shoulders and making her look so unstained.

I was silent for a long time, and asked in a low voice, "Are we friends?" ”

Mi Cai thought for a moment, nodded and said to me, "Count." ”

"Hmm." I nodded heavily.

Mi Cai smiled at me, then turned and walked towards the elevator entrance not far away, and the elevator closed in a short time, separating us from the two worlds again.