Gao Qu sent Jiayi back to Nanbin, and before leaving, he casually persuaded him: "If you have an injured hand, close the shop and go back, there is no business anyway." ”

Jia Yi heard the mockery in this, she unbuckled her seat belt, and replied in a slightly dissatisfied tone: "I know." Then he slipped out of the car and slammed the door shut.

Gao Qu watched her walk towards the store without looking back, and the figure looked even thinner under the somewhat blurry winter sun in the afternoon, which was distressing.

But he didn't look too much, restarted the car, and drove off the street in less than a minute.

Jia Yi really couldn't do anything in the store, even pouring water and arranging flowers seemed laborious, not to mention the work of wiping cups and washing dishes, when she was hesitating for Gao Qu's words, she accidentally saw the miserable account book at the bar, and the idea of going home was immediately suppressed.

She sat in a chair in the corner, the thin winter sun sifting in, reflecting the gauze wrapped in her left hand, the dim light made the afternoon quiet and long, and for her, who was worried about business, this long and quiet was undoubtedly challenging the enthusiasm she had when she opened the store.

She never believed that she had been so cold in exchange for the status quo.

So she stood up, took the account book from the bar, and then brought a pen and a blank book, she needed to reflect and summarize the plans and ideas for opening the store during this time.

She followed Gao Qu's advice that day, first compared and analyzed the details of each transaction record, and indeed found some problems, but felt that the current problems were not limited to these details, but should be more of a business strategy problem.

After all, she has several years of experience in the company, and in the operation of this small shop, she quickly thought of starting from the macro level, and after hurriedly listing something on the paper, she stood up and paced around the store, inadvertently seeing the photo frame that had fallen on the ground and had not been picked up.

She squatted down and picked it up, noticing that the iron nails scattered on the ground still had some blood stains, which had dried into a rusty part, and her palm suddenly drilled into a pain, and quickly stood up, but instead of resting, she ran into the backyard and got a hammer and a few thumbtacks out.

She nailed it back to the wall, enduring the pain and persistence, and at one point she wondered the meaning of her doing so, maybe for the camellia in the photo, maybe for the two figures blurred into the background in the depths of the photo, maybe ......

It wasn't until Afterglow gave the nail a beautiful silhouette of the photograph that the sense of oldness crept up on those old scenes, and she realized that it was actually to keep the beautiful South Shore that Mark had framed.

This time when she thought of Mark, she didn't deliberately suppress it.

At the beginning of the preparation for the opening of the store, Mark inspired her that to open a store here, the first thing to do is to find a good positioning of the store, which can establish a connection with the place of Nanbin.

That's why he gave her these treasured photos, and it was indeed thanks to Mark's old Nanbin photographic record, so that many customers who came to the store first stopped and were surprised when they saw these photos, then delighted, and finally full of appreciation to consume something in the store to show their support.

But after this period of operation, the main products of the store really did not establish a deeper connection with these photos and the Nanbin mentioned by Mark - the drinks continue to be trendy and sensational, the dried flowers continue to walk in an elegant and low-key style, and the flower room area is always themed with love roses.

She did so much that she finally made those pictures of Mark become decorations in the store, crumbling.

This time, the memory finally revealed its hideous face, and she couldn't hide from the name anymore, and the pain was rolling in her heart.

- Not because of the breakdown of their tacit understanding, not because she could no longer figure out his thoughts, but at this moment, she deeply felt that Mark had really left, he and she were already people in two time zones, and she could no longer go to him and talk to him about opening a store.

There are many ways for a person to leave, space counts as one, time counts as one, but the most real perception is the amazement when you pick up your phone and think of a lot of reasons but still can't dial the number that you have memorized for a long time.

I don't know when, the night began to gradually cover the sky over Nanbin, Jia Yi went to turn on the lights, picked up the mobile phone from the table to check the time, but as soon as he slid the screen, he had already clicked on WeChat unconsciously, and searched for Mark in the dialog box, the last sentence of his message to her was: "Jia Yi, I will fly at six o'clock tomorrow morning, I hope you are all right, cherish!" ”

She hadn't replied to him yet, and she didn't know if there was such an accident between them - on the black box, she saw that the other person was typing ......

Maybe she can reply to him now, and then start a new opportunity to chat by the way, even if it's just a bunch of warm and polite words, she also wants to know if he is doing well, if he misses himself, and can even ask him why she can't be his end......

When Jia Yi was pondering, the phone really vibrate, but the caller ID was Gao Qu.

Jia Yi was a little disturbed, and there was some displeasure in her tone.

"What's wrong?"

"What's wrong? You left the potion and gauze on my car. ”

Jia Yi looked back at the bar, and sure enough, she didn't see the bag she was carrying when she came out of the hospital, she knew that she was wrong, and her voice was weaker.

"Oh, then you can send it to me."

"Liang Jiayi, you can't mean it, right? Deliberately left on my car, and then let me take it to your house, and then you ...... again"

Jia Yi also laughed, but she still couldn't hold back, she interrupted Gao Qu and said with a smile: "That's right! Then I'll just beat you up and give you all the potions and bandages, so that you can pay for the morning's medical bills. ”

He was also amused by her vexatious teasing.

"Where's your home? I'll send it to you! ”

"Why are you sending it to my house, I'm in the store."

"What?! What are you doing in the store when you're injured, it's not you......"

Jia Yi didn't listen to what he said, and replied directly: "Okay, I'm fine, you hurry up and send it to me after work, hang up!" ”

She did hang up the phone happily, while Gao Qu on the other end obviously had something to say, but he had no choice but to put down the phone, look at the bag containing the medicine in the car, and frowned, he picked up the phone again and called the assistant.

"Xiao Wang, send the information directly to my mailbox tonight, I won't go back to the company, you can get off work early, well, that's it!"

He hung up the phone, started the car and headed towards the shop.

Jia Yi didn't dislike Gao Qu or anything, but the phone call just now gave her an illusion, although this illusion originated from language and acted on hearing, but for some reason it produced a feeling that made her feel anxious to distance like touch.

Intimacy, yes, is the feeling of intimacy.

Although she was sensitive, it was the first time she had such a confused feeling for Gao Qu, and she was not surprised by his sudden arrival at all, and she did not even have any scruples about making fun of any of his words, but just now, when he said an ordinary sentence seriously to herself, there was a huge wave in her heart.

Just as she was pondering, a shadow suddenly appeared in the doorway.

Five or six men, a strong cologne, three people in front of him-

A young boy on the left, wearing a denim jacket, dyed brown hair, picked a lock of purple gray in the middle, tattoos on his hands, metal chains, a pair of studded boots under his feet, full of style, his eyes were gloomy, but when he looked at Jia Yi, he still showed a fierce spirit;

The one on the right, who was taller and had a thicker face, had not dyed his hair, but his long hair was tied up in a braid a few centimeters long, and this young face actually had a beard, and he first opened his mouth to ask Jia Yi: "Are you the owner of this shop?" ”

Jia Yi didn't have time to see how many people there were, and she kept holding her mobile phone in her hand, but when she was asked, she nodded vigilantly.

The man standing in the middle of the front entered the store first, and the people next to him also followed, and Jia Yi counted six people, all of whom were not very old, and looked like a social gangster.

The boy on the left immediately moved a chair for the man who was walking in front of him to sit down.

This man had a shaved head, wore a loose black coat, and had a bracelet made of Buddhist beads around his hand, but looking at his appearance, he was not much older than Jia Yi, he didn't speak, only looked up at her the moment he sat down.

This posture made it obvious that the visitor was not good, and she was injured, and she tried to move her steps, trying to get closer to the door of the store, and her eyes glanced out nervously.

The man with the pigtails immediately saw her thoughts and shouted, "Hey! ”

The fierce god is evil, so not rude!

Jia Yi naturally knew that it was calling her, she nodded slightly, and asked tentatively, "I wonder if you have something to do......

"You know Zhou Yanan, right?"

Jia Yi took a cool breath, trying to let people see that she was thinking, and she was indeed thinking, my mother, who is Zhou Yanan?

"Zhou Yanan? Week...... Nope......"

One of the men immediately knocked on the table and shouted, "It's not interesting to lie to people, hurry up and tell us where is she?" ”

Jia Yi bit her left lip, panicking, but she couldn't retrieve the name in her mind.

The man with the pigtails spoke again: "You'd better hand her over quickly, we won't embarrass you." ”

So what he meant was that if she insisted that she didn't know, she would be embarrassed?

Thinking of this, Jia Yi immediately swallowed her saliva, although she thought that she had been out for many years, but she was always a well-behaved person, this was the first time she had seen this meeting, and even she had only seen this group of people dressed up in movies.

- Slowly, it's not the first time I've seen it, and I've seen Xiaoya's outfit before being a little similar to this group of people.

By the way, isn't Xiaoya just called a sub-man?

"Are you talking about Zhou Yanan a little girl?"

"That's right! Where is she? It was the boy who spoke.

Jia Yi knew that this group of people were coming for Xiaoya, and she was a little relieved, she straightened up and said to the man in the middle, "I don't know where she is, I'm looking for her too." ”

The bald man didn't look at her, one hand was already flipping through the menu on the table.

"You don't know? I just said I didn't know, and now I say I don't know? The man with the braids questioned.

After Jia Yi figured out their goal, he also felt a little more confident in his heart, and said in a firm tone: "I don't know! ”

"You don't know? I heard that you live with her, and she also helped you open a store together, and you said you didn't know? ”

Jia Yi felt that she couldn't believe what this group of people said, but she didn't want them to stay in the store for too long, so she stepped forward and said, "Yes, I said I don't know." I didn't hear her name just now, but now I tell you sincerely, I don't know where Xiaoya has gone during this time, she hasn't contacted me, she hasn't contacted the landlord, and I want to find her too, if you just come to ask me about her, I'll ......"

The bald man lifted the menu on the table and looked at it, then waved it directly in front of Jia Yi and threw it to the ground, and Jia Yi didn't dare to squeak for a while.

Just listen to him say, "Don't be boring, we just need people." ”

He does have a powerful aura that allows the people around him to move chairs for him, and can be the only one to sit down.

Jia Yi still stubbornly said: "I said I don't know, I don't know, what else do you want?" ”

She started picking up her phone and was about to unlock it.

The bald man saw it and said with a smile: "You'd better call the girl surnamed Zhou now, if it's any other call, I advise you not to call." ”

This sentence really worked for her at this time, her hand trembled, and the 110 she had just pressed still couldn't be dialed out......