Chapter 43: Not as strong as you imagined
The airport is full of people. There are flights taking off at any time, flying south and north, the blue sky is cut by these itineraries little by little, and in the airport hall, people are always broken and cut by the idea of reunion.
Pushing aside the crowds that sometimes gathered and sometimes scattered, she finally found a familiar figure at the entrance, a man in a trench coat, who was carrying his luggage onto the conveyor belt.
She rushed over, grabbed the sleeve of her beige trench coat, and shouted, "Mark, you're leaving?" β
Mark nodded, still smiling, as if the next departure was a reunion rather than a parting.
Jia Yi just clung tightly, letting the crowd push, rub or bump directly past her, she just clung tightly, the sound of the radio crushed the air above her, she felt that it became difficult to breathe, but she still tried her best to say word by word: "But, I want to be with you!" β
Mark shook his head, still smiling, and said, "I'm leaving, Miss Liang!" β
He pointed his finger at the horn above her head, and the black box had dense holes, each of which resembled a small mouth with black lip gloss, and countless words came out of those vicious mouths: "...... from N City to Barcelona"
Jia Yi still grabbed Mark, and compared to the horn, she only had one mouth, so she could only hold on to him tightly and shout, "Mark, did you like me?" You gave the white rose, right? β
Mark was still smiling, holding her shoulder with one hand, the corners of his mouth slightly opened, and with this smile about to flow out a lot of words, Jia Yi saw that his answer was about to be said with a smile, and suddenly he was terrified, more terrified than hearing the words from the horn.
"No, I don't want to listen!" She shouted and broke away from Mark, but the hand that tried to cover her ears was used to bury her face, and by the time she realized this, her palms were already full of tears, and they were hot and hot.
She looked up in a panic and found that Mark was already at the security check, standing at the entrance of the security checkpoint, his arms slightly outstretched, smiling at her, as if giving her a reunion embrace.
She ran towards him in delight, but Mark turned around and walked away.
And at this moment, Jia Yi broke into the security gate, and the alarms around her were repeated, like ten thousand drums beating, like ten thousand horses galloping, like ten thousand arrows firing at once, all the harsh and sharp swelling towards her, the intruder, mercilessly......
Jia Yi opened her eyes in horror, her palms and forehead were covered with cold sweat, and after she calmed down for a while, she began to fumble with her phone in the dark night, looking at the timeβfour o'clock in the morning.
It was still dark all around, and the darkness took the nightmare again without incident, and melted it into the darkness, and with Mark all around, Carib could no longer sleep, and the man was going to leave the city for another country in two hours, and they had no other reason to see each other - at least she could not find another reason.
He's awake now, maybe he's already at the airport.
She got up and stood up, fumbling with her phone, and then the faint screen light split a narrow path from the dark night, and at the end of the road was a wall embedded with a switch, she finally turned on the light, and then went to the kitchen, poured a glass of water to drink, and seemed to lose a lot of water after a dream.
After waking up, she never slept again, she forced herself to eat, do sports, watch the news, but the time was still early, and finally until dawn (the winter day comes late), she directly packed up and wanted to take care of the store in advance, before leaving, she still knocked on Xiaoya's door with a try attitude, and still no one responded.
But her face was even more ugly than yesterday.
Fortunately, there was also Yuanyuan to help, because there was no business in the morning, it was nothing more than sorting out yesterday's bills and cleaning up the store, the two of them divided their labor, and Jia Yi didn't say a few words in the morning.
Yuanyuan also found that Jia Yi's face was ugly, but she was still not used to two people in the same space and not saying anything.
Today she cleared her throat as usual, looked at Jia Yi who was looking down at the bill, and said, "This little girl hasn't been here for so many days, could it be that the sparrow has become a phoenix?" β
"I don't know." Jia Yi replied coldly.
"I think you just hired me?"
The corners of Jia Yi's mouth moved with a smile, and said, "I don't have the money to hire you." β
"Alas, Liang Jiayi, you are too much, when I am free labor!" It was a joke to liven up the atmosphere, but the result was not as Yuanyuan thought, or even worse-
Jia Yi slowly raised her head, staring at her tightly, as if she was going to swallow her alive, and said lightly for a long time: "So...... You don't have to do it. β
Yuanyuan was naturally surprised and at a loss, but she still tried to give Jia Yi a smile, and hurriedly said, "No...... No, I'm kidding. β
Jia Yi didn't appreciate it at all, she lowered her head again, scratched something on the paper with a pen, and said coldly: "I'm too much, it's me who is not good, don't help me anymore." β
Yuanyuan looked at Jiayi's appearance, and couldn't help but get angry in her heart, since Jiayi came back, the friendship of the three people has been shaky, all relying on her Chen Yuan to maneuver in the middle, Jiayi didn't have the slightest intention to cherish, opened the store, and the old friends pushed it away one by one, first Qiao Le, and now it's finally his turn.
Thinking like this, she felt even more angry in her heart, panting again and again, her eyebrows were about to stand up, and she asked, "Liang Jiayi, are you serious?" β
Jia Yi put down the pen in his hand, crossed his hands on his chest, held his head high, and said with a nonchalant expression: "Yes, what?" β
"Okay, then I'll go, sister, I have a lot of things to do, so don't be here!"
Yuanyuan took off the bag from the buckle on the wall, because she was too hard, she took out the hook next to the photo frame when she pulled it, and fell to the ground, and the photo frame fell directly into the dried flowers.
Jia Yi sighed, her hands on her chest also hung down loosely, she slowly walked around the bar, squatted down next to the dried flowers, she picked up the photo frame, the photo was a large camellia, and a man and woman were faintly seen embracing each other in the background.
A few years ago, there was such a fiery thing happening in Nanbin Park, which was related to love, but Mark's lens was consciously blurred, and he gave all his enthusiasm to those flowery but monotonous camellias.
Is this the end he gave himself?
Jia Yi wanted to hang the picture frame back in its place, only to find that the wooden hook had fallen off and could not be found, she was a little annoyed, not because Yuanyuan, but because she didn't know what to do with the painting in her hand.
It must be returned to the wall, it cannot be collected with extra care in any small corner, it is only an ornament, it cannot represent anything else.
But now she couldn't find anything to hang it on, so she searched the toolbox and found some rusty nails at the bottom of the box - they were still recycled on the ground during the renovation, so she thought and nailed the frame back to the wall.
The picture frame is nailed back again, and other than that, I don't think there will be anything else good today.
It is true today that a batch of roses has become stale, the black edges have begun to seep into the hearts of the flowers, the smell of lilies has begun to stench with a disgusting stench, and some of the dried flowers have become soft with moisture.
Although there are not many customers today, many customers complain that she is too slow, the price is too expensive, and the things are not cost-effective......
In fact, these troubles are more or less encountered every day, but only today, Jia Yi feels that the whole person and the whole store are out of control, and she wants to close the store in advance.
Just when she finished sending a few female guests out and was about to clean up the table, Lin Xiao came over, he stood at the door, with his hands in the front pocket of his jeans, and looked at Jia Yi with a smile, as if he was willing to come in after she invited him.
She only glanced at him, then continued to do her own thing, and said lightly: "Something?" β
Lin Xiao didn't think there was anything unusual about this slightly unfriendly tone, he stepped into Jiayi's shop as if he had been invited, and saw that she was still busy.
"Hmm...... Last time...... Last time......"
"What happened last time? Didn't we make it clear? Jiayi's tone was hostile.
"No...... No, to be clear, I just wanted to make sure how you've been doing lately? ...... since opening the store"
Jia Yi couldn't help but interrupt him: "Very good." β
"That'...... You've ...... lately."
Jia Yi put down the work in his hand, stared at him and said, "You know what? If it's eating, then you don't have to, if it's something else, I'm afraid I don't have time for the time being, and ......"
She didn't care that Lin Xiao was in a hurry to explain, but it took a long time to organize the language, and said directly: "Lin Xiao, we are not suitable." Regardless of whether I like someone or not, we are not suitable, you have found such a girlfriend, you have met so many relatives, you should at least know what the woman who suits you is like, since you are a technical man, then you can set the specific parameters and the relevant matching degree step by step, filter according to the conditions, and automatically ignore those that do not meet, don't sue me, you are catching one of the last one, so that there is no difference between you and the scumbag, you know......"
Lin Xiao's mouth closed one by one, and after a few times, he just looked at Jia Yi blankly, her last word "scumbag" smashed on him like a stick, he immediately pulled his hand out of his pocket, looked at her in shock, and asked in disbelief: "What do you mean by this?" How can you do that? β
Jia Yi didn't have the slightest mood to explain.
"That's how I'm good, so don't think about how to take advantage of the neighborhood to soak me all day long, even if you catch it, you'll regret that I'm such a woman!"
Lin Xiao didn't speak, he lowered his head and looked at the ground, suddenly raised his head again, and pushed the glasses that were moving down due to the rapid expansion and contraction of his nostrils.
"Okay, I see, then...... Then I'll go first. His hands shook a few times, and he twisted his head out the door and walked away. The movements are much cleaner than when they came.
Jia Yi watched him leave, but her hands were weak for a while, she had to prop herself on the edge of the kitchen counter, looking at the dishes piled up in the pool, she was not in the mood to wash it at all, she wanted to dig her head into the pile of stains, anyway, she was not more decent than them.
She breathed a sigh of relief, but her legs were inexplicably weak, she squatted down slowly and weakly, leaning against the cupboard, from slowly panting to silent sobbing, and finally the tears began to be unstoppable, and little by little they poured out.
On Mark's first day away, she surrendered and conceded defeat, and she was far from being as strong as she had imagined.