I looked at Mi Cai, trying to calm all kinds of feelings in my heart, waiting for her to give me an answer, she took the cup of "West of the Old City" and took a sip again, then nodded to me, and said, "I have an agreement with him to marry"

"Now this agreement can't be counted, you are still my Zhaoyang woman, don't even think about it!"

She followed the example I had just done, stirred the coffee, and drank the remaining half of the coffee in one gulp, as if to prove the husband and wife between us with her actions, and finally asked me again: "What about you, who are you with these days?" ”

"I lived alone, but I wanted to go on a blind date, but I didn't get along."

"Why a blind date?"

"Because love is too selfish, I don't want to see you get married before me."

"You've always been like this, so that time at Yan Yan and Fang Yuan's wedding, you sued Jian Wei that I was your girlfriend!"

"Yes, Xiang Chen courted Janeway after you left that day, she agreed, and you really became my girlfriend, sometimes being selfish is not necessarily a bad thing."

"Then have you ever thought that it was because you said that I was your girlfriend out of nothing that Jian Wei agreed to Xiang Chen's courtship?"

I looked at her for a while before asking, "Is there any basis for what you say?" ”

"No, I just think it's a coincidence."

"So it must be just a coincidence, what I care about is that now and in the future, I will definitely give you happiness, swear to this coffee shop west of the old city!"

"You don't need to swear to me, it's my lack of determination that hurts you all along, and it's me who should make you happier."

Love is the most incomprehensible thing in the world, and Mi Cai's simple sentence made me forget the unhappiness that I had before, and began to imagine the future under the flickering light of the kerosene lamp, and I no longer felt that there was anything else that could separate us.

After a short silence, the boss brought us two more glasses of boiled water and said, "This coffee is too strong, drink some water, and sleep better at night." ”

I said "thank you" and asked him, "Boss, how long has your coffee shop been open, I haven't heard of it before." ”

"It's been almost four years, and business has been bad, and not many people know about it."

I hesitated for a moment, but asked, "I would venture to ask, is this what you do for a living?" ”

The boss nodded, I looked at him again, the denim jacket has been washed white, the T-shirt inside is also very loose, I want to live a very poor life, I want to meet in this rainy night in such a form, I want to help him, but I don't know if he is against such a commercial operation, and I really feel a kind of desolation in his eyes to see through the world, such a person is numb to money, he may only pursue this way of life, so I can't ask, I'm afraid that I will defile his current way of life!

But I didn't want Mi Cai to ask, "Your coffee shop is almost out of business, right?" ”

The boss looked at Mi Cai for a long time before saying, "Hmm." ”

Mi Cai said, "Can you tell us about you and this coffee shop?" My boyfriend and I both feel like you must be a man with a story! ”

I nodded, and then looked at him expectantly, I wanted to know the story of "West of the Old City", and I think this kind of coffee shop is the most suitable type on the road of literature and art, but unfortunately it is not mine, but it does not affect my love for this coffee shop at all.

The boss hadn't opened his mouth yet, but his eyes were already moist, and it seemed that the thought of "west of the old city" had already stimulated his tear ducts.

He took a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it, then extinguished the kerosene lamp at the bar, and sat down across from me and Mi Cai, so that the small coffee shop was filled with the smell of the kerosene lamp when it went out and the smell of smoke, but fortunately, the wind outside the window was very strong, and the smell was quickly blown away.

The boss took a deep breath of cigarette, spit out heavily, and said: "I am an aspiring painter, 5 years ago I came to the city of Suzhou, met a Changsha girl who was a shopping guide in the shopping mall, we fell in love after getting along for a while, this is the place where we once lived, I don't have any financial resources, so she has always been supporting my painting dream, she worked hard to make money, and helped me contact the art dealer, but there is no art dealer who is willing to take the risk to ask for my paintings, Because I was so obscure, she had to work harder to make money, but the money she earned from her part-time job was meager after all, but the dream of painting was so heavy, so she took out all her savings over the years, and then opened this most humble coffee shop, where I could paint and earn some money to subsidize our lives, but business never got better, because I could only make coffee, and we couldn't sell some other things in the store, and the customers who came gradually became reluctant to come."

He stopped, took another puff of cigarette, and the tears that had been rolling in his eyes fell, and he choked up and said: "Many evenings, we sat under the eaves of this coffee shop, looking at the old town not far to the west, and she said: If I can buy an old house there, it will be satisfied, at least it is our home, but I can't do anything but paint, so she can only work harder, it is really too difficult to survive in this city!" Every night, she will carry the wholesale flowers to the door of the cinema to sell to those couples who watch the movie One day, it rained like today, she walked back with the flowers that were not sold, I asked her to take the bus, but she was reluctant to spend those few dollars, I was really not at ease, so I rode a bicycle to pick her up, she was at a junction in the old city, the blood flowing from her body mixed with petals spread all over the ground, she was no longer breathing! The driver who caused the accident escaped, and her soul was buried in that old city so lonely, there is no such good her in this world, it was my downfall and downfall that indirectly killed her! ”

His love was out of control, tears were dripping down from between his fingers pressing his eyes, and at this moment I saw a real heartbreak! His soul may have already gone with the girl in Changsha, it turns out that there is such a sad story behind this coffee shop "west of the old city", he is right, there is no such good her in this world

My cigarette was already wet with rain, so I took one out of his cigarette case and lit it, and I couldn't help but cry, and Mi Cai had already hidden her face and wept, no one wanted to hear such a story, because the contents were so painful.

I wiped the wetness from the corners of my eyes with my fingers and asked him, "Which mall did your girlfriend work at the time, was it Zhuomei or Polaroid?" ”

He took out another cigarette and lit it, and replied after a long time: "It's a shopping guide at a counter in Zhuomei." ”