My expression began to become unnatural, and Mi Cai, who was sitting across from me, noticed that something was wrong with me, looked at me and looked back, so he met Janeway's gaze.

Mi Cai's temperament is a little cold, Jian Wei was born proud, so she really took a look, the two of them didn't greet each other, but waved their hand to Chen Chong and said, "Zhaoyang, bring your girlfriend to dinner!" ”

"Well, it's just so time that you're here to share a table together." Even though I didn't want to meet in my heart, I still invited me very politely, which made me feel awkward, but I had to do it.

Jian Wei grabbed Xiang Chen's arm and shook her head and said, "Don't fight, let's sit in the position over there, so we don't have to squeeze." ”

Xiang Chen obeyed, smiled at me, then grabbed Jian Wei and walked to the table on the other side, looking at their backs, I believe that after this unexpected coincidence, Jian Wei and Xiang Chen should absolutely believe that Mi Cai and I are boyfriend and girlfriend, because today Mi Cai and I are dating alone, enjoying dinner that only belongs to the two of us.

……

This should be the first time Jian Wei has come to eat in the "sky" in the days since she returned to China, so CC was very surprised to see Jian Wei's watch xiàn, and also gave Jian Wei and Xiang Chen draft beer and cola, but did not mention the past, because at this moment Jian Wei and I have new loves in her eyes, and it is too uninteresting and too ruinful to talk about the past.

During the meal, Xiang Chen and I chatted a few more tables apart, I asked Xiang Chen, why he and Jian Wei still stay in Suzhou, Xiang Chen said that Suzhou is where we go to college, but we rarely come here these years, so I took advantage of the time he and Jian Wei have to play here for a few more days, but in a few days Jian Wei will go to Nanjing with him.

Xiang Chen's answer stimulated my fragile nerves, of course I knew that Jian Wei had gone to Nanjing to meet Xiang Chen's family, and maybe it wouldn't be long before I would actually receive their wedding invitations, and then tear me apart again.

……

During the meal, I kept fidgeting, but I never looked at Janeway, and I didn't drink much, and I warned myself over and over again: Our past has long been diluted by the flowing water of the years, and no amount of reluctance, no amount of self-torture will change anything.

I know very well: from the moment Janeway put on the crystal diamond necklace that Xiang Chen gave her, I was already living in an independent world, building the most solid wall, sealing myself up, not looking, not thinking, not hurting......

I don't know when, Xiang Chen and Jian Wei had finished dinner before us, just said hello and left first, and I kept watching them walk into that small alley, but I couldn't see the scenery around the corner where I could buy roasted sweet potatoes on winter nights.

It was a bit cold on the night.

Mi Cai's hand waved in front of my eyes, waking me up from my distraction, and I realized that this was a dinner that belonged only to me and Mi Cai, and I smiled apologetically and raised my glass to Mi Cai, and drank the rest of the draft beer in the cup, but still sober.

Dinner still went on, not that Mi Cai and I ate slowly, but that Jian Wei and Xiang Chen left in too haste, and I asked for another glass of draft beer, not to get myself drunk, such a draft beer is not drunk, but to use this cold liquor to sober up.

Half an hour later, Mi Cai and I finished the dinner, said hello to CC, and left with Mi Cai.

"Zhaoyang, you haven't paid yet, have you?" Mi Cai said and grabbed me.

"Are all friends who are so familiar, what kind of order do you buy?" I said and walked on, but I only made a joke with Mi Cai, in fact, we were mostly silent during the whole meal, and we didn't talk much, teasing her when we were about to leave, and at least making the night look less heavy.

Mi Cai added a little more strength to pull me, and his face, which had been calm all night, was full of anger: "You are just not virtuous!" It's all like you, how do you still run your friend's restaurant? ”

"You've drunk too much! It's weird, can Coke get people drunk? I looked at Mi Cai with a smile and said, at this time her excited appearance was like two people as usual.

Mi Cai realized that he was out of shape, no longer entangled with me, took out his wallet and walked to the bar, at this moment I understood more how disgusted Mi Cai was with my bad conduct, and even disgusted to the point of ignoring his own manners, dragging me in public.

I quickly followed, grabbed Mi Cai, and said to her, "I said that I would invite you, how can I ask you to pay!" ”

"I don't want to be in the company of scum like you, don't talk to me."

"Hehe, I'm kidding you, the place to pay is not at the bar, but in that corner." I turned around and showed her the box in the corner.

Mi Cai looked at me with some confusion, she had been eating with her back to the box and didn't understand the situation.

I smiled and explained, "Don't you see that the menu we ordered is not marked with a price, eat here, it's all up to you, just put the money in that box when you leave." ”

"How much do you want?" Mi Cai looked at me in surprise and asked.

"yes, there's no one to watch over you here."

"But this ......"

I grabbed Mi Cai to the corner where the box was placed, took out 300 yuan from my wallet and put it in the box, and then said to Mi Cai: "People who come here to consume have a pure empty city in their hearts, and no one will use worldly materials to desecrate this empty city, so this store has been in business for many years and does not lose money...... If there's one clean place in the world, it's this place! ”

……

On the way back, Mi Cai drove the light Alto through the real city, but she still seemed to be interested in the "music-themed restaurant in the empty city", and asked me: "Zhaoyang, is it true that all the people who have come to consume in that restaurant have abided by this rule for so many years?" ”

"Of course not, when this restaurant first opened, there were a lot of people who came to eat and skip orders."

Mi Cai was not surprised by my answer, because what is not lacking in the world in this world is some villains who love to get cheap and get something for nothing, and she asked: "Then why did it become like this where everyone abides by this rule?" ”

I reminisced and replied, "At that time, we all persuaded CC to abandon this idealistic way of doing business, because it was too unrealistic, but CC insisted on doing so, and in the end it was difficult to make ends meet, and finally one day we posted a notice on the bulletin board of the restaurant to close down." ”

"And then?"

"On the last night before the closure of business, there were still many people who dragged their families to eat dinner for no money, and our hearts were cold, complaining that CC was too stupid, and this idealized way of doing business was only revealing the ugliness of human nature in the end."

Mi Cai nodded thoughtfully.

I opened the window and lit a cigarette and continued: "After the business closed that night, we were really disappointed, and a few friends closed the door and drank a lot of wine, because after this night, there would be no more empty restaurants in the city!" ”

He spat out the cigarette in his mouth, smiled and said: "Maybe there is really such a thing as a desperate life, when we opened the box with CC to settle the day's operating income, we found that there was a full 100,000 yuan in cash...... We were surprised, but no one knew which customer had put it in. ”

"So this restaurant continues to operate because of the 100,000 yuan?"

I nodded and said, "Well, this 100,000 yuan gave CC the motivation to continue to operate, to be precise, it is a kind of spiritual motivation, for the sake of that unknown customer, we can't close the empty city, and then we replaced the box with transparent, and everyone can see clearly how much money everyone gives after eating, those villains who only threw a few coins in, I and a few friends blocked them in the alley and beat them...... Over time, the people who love to buy money will not come, but CC has never known about this, and if she knew, she wouldn't agree with us doing this...... After a long time, CC replaced the transparent box with an opaque one again, but it basically won't lose money, and of course it is not excluded that there will be fishing in troubled waters! ”

After listening to my narration, Mi Cai, who has always been indifferent, said with the same hatred: "If you fight well, those who lack virtue should be beaten...... But you are so abusive in lynching, won't those who are beaten call the police? ”

"Of course we will call the police, but one of the buddies who beat people with us is a police officer here, so we just turn a blind eye, and we don't extort money, and we are also measured, that is, we mainly warn, as long as those scum don't come, the restaurant can maintain normal operation."

Mi Cai looked at me and suddenly smiled......

I looked at her in amazement, not knowing why.

"Listening to you scold other people's scumbags makes me feel funny...... Mi Cai explained with a smile.

“…… Who stipulates that scum can't scold other people's scum? ”

"I didn't say you were scum this time."

"That's what you mean, you're stupid and can't hear me?"

Mi Cai "haha" laughed, in so many days together, for the first time I saw her smile so openly, at this moment she was cheerful, more and more beautiful and moving, so little Alto shuttled more briskly in the light and shadow of the city, less realistic heaviness, more beautiful laughter -

This is a big chapter of 3000 words, so let's do two more today, and it will break out tomorrow, let's set it up again, this time the mobile phone station and the computer station will be carried out at the same time.

Mobile station recommended votes over 140 plus a chapter (this is not high for the little friends of the mobile station, although it has been improved) The computer station flowers are over 8000 plus a chapter (this number is also more reasonable, not high or low) Tomorrow is guaranteed 3 chapters, both sides are completed, that is, 5 chapters, computer station, mobile phone station friends look at you, the new book list is currently fifth, no rise or fall. Tomorrow I hope to enter the top three and complete the task quickly.