The next day, Zhang Yixi and Angel set off from Shanghai, taking Osaka, Japan as the first stop on their global tour, and at the same time, they took with me my expectations, and I hope that one day in the future they will bring me a reply from Mi Cai.

After having a light breakfast at the bun shop downstairs as usual, I went to the company, and I gathered the members of the game development department for a long networking meeting, at this time, our game development progress was in the middle and late stages, and it would not be long before the first closed beta test could be conducted.

At the meeting, we discussed some of the operation methods in the game, I told them about my feelings after trying "Dragon Tour World", hoping that they can be more humane in the research and development of game operations, in my philosophy, game quality is the basis of all competitive means and marketing strategies, if a game can not surpass the opponent in quality, why snatch customer resources from the opponent?

At noon, when I was eating a working meal in the company, I received a notice from the company's operation department that the "Mochou Coffee Shop" in Nanjing had completed all the renovation work, which was 2 days earlier than planned, and they hoped that I could go to the audit this afternoon, and if there was no problem here, the coffee shop would be open for trial operation from the day after tomorrow.

I am full of expectations for "Mochou Coffee Shop", when even if I moved the work at hand to tomorrow, and notified the assistant to book me a train ticket to Nanjing in the afternoon, I really don't want to let go of any opportunity to walk on Mochou Road, even if it has come from the original spring to the current summer, I still clearly remember every picture and detail of our separation on Mochou Road that day!

After lunch, I didn't even reserve some time for myself to rest, so I asked my assistant to drive me to the train station, and a moment later I got on the high-speed train from Suzhou to Nanjing

At two o'clock in the afternoon, I arrived in Nanjing, as soon as I got off the train, I rushed to Mochou Road, at this time Mochou Road has undergone some changes, I see the most is the extra freezers and the parasols on both sides of the road, and those school-going students stay by these freezers, with their pocket money in exchange for those who make them feel very happy popsicles and cold drinks, and then chatter and discuss whose taste is better, but even so, the road has become much more deserted because of the hot weather, only the group of children with popsicles in their hands remained, still running and frolicking fearlessly in the heat

After walking 200 meters to the west of the starting point of Mochou Road, I saw the "Mochou Coffee Shop" with a brand new store sign, I stood outside the door and looked, this is indeed the feeling I wanted, I especially like the glass window that was made into a rainbow shape, as well as a variety of flowers and plants irregularly placed outside the glass window I seem to see the future one day, Mi Cai will stand in front of this rainbow glass window, like in Xuzhou, facing the afterglow of the sunset, looking at the coffee shop I am busy for work, but she is as idle as ever!

Yes, in my consciousness, I never wanted her to become the president of a company that takes on many people's livelihoods, my favorite is the little woman who is so idle that she puts all her energy on me and my family, but the reality is always contrary to expectations, she may not be as leisurely in this life as when she was in Xuzhou!

I pushed open the colorful painted door and entered this coffee shop that I designed with my own hands, I stood in front of the bar and looked around, the display style inside was full of randomness, all the tables and chairs were irregularly arranged, and even the drinking utensils were not uniform, I wanted this style, and then nodded with satisfaction, and then found a place near the window to sit down according to my preference, and asked the barista for a cup of iced tea.

While waiting, the store manager came to me and asked me uncertainly, "Are you Mr. Zhao?" ”

I nodded and smiled, and then motioned for her to sit down and chat, she seemed to have a lot to say to me, and before I could help her order a drink, she said: "Mr. Zhao, I am hired by the company to be the manager with a high salary, and I am also the person who is directly responsible for the company on behalf of this coffee shop, with all due respect, it is very difficult for this coffee shop to achieve profitability, in response to this, I have also communicated with Minister Shen of the company's market development department, and our views are the same, because this coffee shop really has too many limitations, but Minister Shen said that you don't think so." , so I'm curious, what can Mr. Zhao do to make this Mochou coffee shop profitable? ”

"In fact, you and Minister Shen have made the mistake of inertial thinking, and you have also underestimated the influence of the project of the road of literature and art, so what you see now is only a partial defect of this coffee shop, but you ignore the overall environment Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu Province, and it is a top developed second-tier city, with a huge tourism market and developed transportation, and Jiangsu is the birthplace of our literary and artistic road, and our supporters are the most dense here. So we can completely ignore the market environment of this street and keep this coffee shop open just by the tourists who come to visit us! ”

The store manager looked at me with some incredulity, and I was not annoyed by her doubts, after all, on the road of literature and art, Mochou Coffee Shop is the second coffee shop after the west of the old city to completely ignore the surrounding market environment and save zài, but the west of the old city has been operating at a loss, so this makes them fall into such inertial thinking, but based on the latest statistics obtained from the data center, I judge that this Mochou coffee shop will be different from the west of the old city of Suzhou in terms of profitability.

I took out my phone from my pocket, took a few photos of Mochou Coffee Shop, and posted them on my Weibo, saying: I will hold a small performance of pure guitar performance here tonight.

The employees of the company have followed my Weibo, so the store manager who is still by my side did not leave the first time to brush up on my updated Weibo, she exclaimed: "Mr. Zhao, you are too partial to Mochou Coffee Shop, you dedicated your first solo public performance to this most ordinary coffee shop, I want to know why you love this coffee shop so much, in fact, you can come here in person today, I am already very surprised!" ”

I lit a cigarette and took a deep breath before replying, "This is not an ordinary coffee shop, my lover and I are separated on this Mochou road, this coffee shop is my longing for her, I have been waiting for the day when I will meet her here!" ”

The store manager glanced at me with some pity, she had heard of the unforgettable love between me and Mi Cai, but she didn't know that we were separated on this Mochou road, and the most painful thing in the world is: I won't forget the day of separation until I die, but I can't wait for the day of reunion until I die, and I'm suffering like this, although it's not completely, but I really don't know when Mi Cai will come back

I snuffed out the cigarette butt in my hand and called my assistant to send the guitar I had in the company office to Nanjing, yes! This is a small personal performance on a whim, not too late or too early, which carries my thoughts and catharsis my loneliness

After my Weibo was sent, some people rushed to Mochou Coffee Shop, waiting for this impromptu solo performance in the evening, during which I have been communicating with everyone and giving away more than 100 cups of free coffee

But the number of these brothers and sisters is so huge, just because of my promotion on Weibo, before evening, the coffee shop is already full of people, and even outside is full of people with parasols, just waiting for the concert that will be held on my whim in the evening.

In the evening, my guitar was finally sent to Nanjing, and I immediately asked my assistant, who had not rested for a moment, to go to the bank to withdraw 20,000 yuan in cash, buy cold drinks and food to distribute to those who had been waiting, and temporarily borrowed the venue with the shop next door Pù to prepare for a small performance later, and the assistant who was very meticulous had already picked up the camera he carried with him and fixed the scenes in front of the coffee shop in the lens, as the material for the promotion of the road of literature and art in the future.

I put my guitar aside, lit a cigarette, and looked at the crowd in front of me, filled with an indescribable bitterness, I remembered the impromptu concert we held in the Zhuomei mall in Suzhou many years ago to promote the "Fifth Season" bar, which was also improvised, but this time there was no CC, no Robben, no Janeway, no Mi Cai, no Fang Yuan, no Yan Yan, and no Xiao Wu and his band

I really can't stand so much nothing, and I can't stand the time that has changed us roughly, but I still have to grit my teeth to face it, I believe that those lovers and friends who have left will definitely meet again one day!

Just as I was about to start the concert, the crowd surged again, and I saw 6 strong men in the shape of bodyguards walking towards the coffee shop across the crowd, and then I saw Le Yao and Cao Jinfei who were protected by them.

I immediately summoned the staff in the coffee shop to maintain order on the scene, and some enthusiastic spectators also spontaneously began to maintain order, and the restlessness caused by Le Yao and Cao Jinfei quickly subsided, but there were still people on tiptoe looking curiously into the coffee shop, this may be the first time they have come into contact with Le Yao and Cao Jinfei so closely.

I stood up to greet them and asked them with surprise, "Why are you here?" ”

Cao Jinfei smiled and said: "I saw this Weibo you posted in the afternoon, so I sued Le Yao, it just so happened that we were not too busy today, and after discussing it, we decided to come to listen to you sing on the spot It is to listen to you sing, but not to cheer, we are all your fans tonight!" ”

"Thanks, thanks!" After I finished speaking, I walked outside the coffee shop with my guitar in my arms at the urging of everyone, and out of order to protect Le Yao and Cao Jinfei, I let them stay in the coffee shop, and then opened all the windows to give them the same auditory effect.

It's been a long time since I've sung in front of so many people, and I'm a little excited and nervous, so I chose a relatively easy song as the opening song, and I plucked the guitar strings and said to the crowd: "The first song I brought to you is the work of a folk singer I like very much, called "Castle in the Sky", I hope you like it!" ”

When the familiar melody sounded, the lyrics sang out of my mouth: "The plane flies through the sky, the city in the sky, we in the dusk under the rain, at this moment I feel you flickering in the night in a foreign land; I want to go back to the past, silent and happy, the city in the sky is crying more and more brighter and brighter you, love is just a fart of life, tormenting me and tormenting you, sister of Hong Kong Island, the Spanish pie you dedicated to me sweetly melts me, the city in the sky is crying; Sister Hong Kong Island, the sweet love we once had tore me madly, the city in the sky is crying, someone passing by there, coming back to tell me that the city in the sky is crying and you can't breathe, at the moment I miss you farther and farther away in the night in Nanjing"

The more I sang, the more I devoted, and I remembered what I had experienced in love over the years, no doubt! Janeway and Mi Cai are both the Hong Kong Island sisters in the lyrics, and I know that this folk singer uses Spanish pie to implicitly express the most important first time that a woman dedicates herself to a man, otherwise he would not deliberately use the word dedication, so they were both women in my sky city.

Yes, but the city in the sky is just a wish that is too beautiful to be true, we are still not pure after all, and there are so many rights and wrongs that have happened inexorably in this vast world, and these are the fulfillment of life, or the cruel deprivation, I have not been able to figure out too clearly that maybe, one day, someone passing by the city in the sky will tell me where the most obvious line between right and wrong is.

After singing this song, I received the most applause ever, I drank some warm water, and sang "Old Times" without stopping, and then sang "Proverbs of Love", I sang all the songs related to Mi Cai, and I wanted to record this solo concert as a video as one of the gifts she gave her when she returned.

During the intermission, I looked back at Le Yao and Cao Jinfei in the coffee shop, the expression on Le Yao's face was very real, but Cao Jinfei was concentrating on playing something with his mobile phone, maybe playing a game.

There has always been a rumor in the circle that there are two young people in the capital, one is keen on Weibo, and the other is keen on playing games.