Chapter 39: Flashing Lights in the Night
Time quickly advanced forward for a week, during this week, Chen Qingyi and I were safe, she still worked at the TV station, and my parents also came to Nantong to take care of Pippi, and our life temporarily entered a stable period.
Now our life pattern is like this: Pippi is picked up by my parents after school, and then Chen Qingyi and I go to their place for dinner after work, and then pick Pippi home.
It was another evening, and after attending a regular meeting at the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, I went back to my office to deal with the backlog of work at hand.
Two hours passed, and there was nothing to accompany me except the sound of rain outside the window.
After a brief tidying up of my desk, I left the office and I drove through the city in the rain again.
The rain brought back my memories of the old bridge, as if I hadn't been there for a long time, and I was a little surprised, why I ignored the existence of the old bridge during this time, and instantly understood that it was only because I knew Mo Han's movements at this time, so I didn't have to put my emotions on the old bridge.
I parked the car by the river, got out of the car and looked habitually, there were still girls walking by with floral umbrellas on the old bridge, I took a deep breath, took out a wad of change from my wallet and walked towards the old bridge.
I continued to put change in the beggar's bowl from south to north, and near the end of the day, a beggar exclaimed to me, "You haven't been here for a long time.......
I was stunned, reacted, and asked, "You mean that girl?" ”
The beggar nodded: "It's been almost a month!" ”
I smiled, and then walked to the last beggar, and after scattering all the change, I stood by the guardrail, looking at the neon lake, and I suddenly understood: maybe Mo Han just regarded the ancient bridge as a sustenance for me, otherwise why didn't she come to the ancient bridge again a month after we could contact each other, but did she really love me? ....... Even now, I've never been sure.
The mobile phone rang, picked it up and looked at it, it was Wang Jing calling, and I answered the phone in confusion.
"The first phase of the renovation of the coffee shop has been completed, you can see the results."
"Now?"
"Come here if you're not busy, we haven't been together for a long time."
I hesitated, but said, "Okay, I'll go over now." ”
.......
When I came to the coffee shop that Tian Tian bought, the store sign had been changed to "First Encounter", looking into the store through the glass window, the waiter had also changed into new work clothes, and indeed as Wang Jing said, the first step of the store on the redesign of VI has been completed.
In a position by the window, Wang Jing, Tian Tian, and Mo Han were sitting and chatting, Mo Han, who had always been as cold as frost, actually listened to what Wang Jing said with a smile, and she looked in a good mood.
I walked towards them and sat down beside Mo Han, and Tian Tian asked me, "What to drink?" ”
"Whatever."
Tian Tian shouted to the waiter: "Have a cup casually." ”
I looked at Tian Tian in surprise, Tian Tian said proudly: "We really have a casual coffee here, this idea is what I thought, the purpose is to satisfy casual customers like you, how about it, humane enough, right?" ”
"Pretty good!" I looked at Tian Tian, who was quite complacent, and sighed.
After a while, the coffee was brought to me, and it was very funny: the milk foam on the coffee was made with two random words, and this Tian Tian was still very humorous, at least I was watching it.
I looked at Mo Han's cup, which was also made of milk foam with the word casual, and asked, "You also drink casually?" ”
Mo Han nodded, and Tian Tian sighed: "Today, just the two of you are casual, it seems that there are not as many casual people in this world as imagined!" ”
Mo Han and I glanced at each other, and were a little embarrassed by Tian Tian's teasing.
I changed the subject and said to Wang Jing, "Your theme coffee shop has been showing a lot of momentum recently! ”
Wang Jing smiled and said: "The data I just got shows that the recent turnover of your Seaview Coffee has dropped by 20 percentage points compared with the same period!" ”
I made a helpless expression, and then took a sip of "casual", and sure enough, I drank the illusory feeling before the frivolous and bubble bursting, which is indeed an alternative casual, but I think that it takes a heart to drink this feeling, and most people, probably the same as I did at the beginning, just drink this cup casually with the mentality of entertainment.
Wang Jing continued to say to me: "But Zhang Yixi, I'm quite puzzled, seeing that the turnover is declining, can you just sit still and have no countermeasures?" This is not your usual style! ”
Naturally, I couldn't tell Wang Jing about the "private drink" project he was doing, and said, "We are short of funds now, and your strong appearance has weakened our brand value, and now it is much more difficult to raise funds than before...... No way, our winter season is coming! ”
Wang Jing shrugged his shoulders and expressed regret, but did not say anything more.
After chatting for a while, I looked at the time and was about to leave first, Wang Jing, Tian Tian and Mo Han also said to go together, and the four of us walked downstairs to the coffee shop one after another.
Mo Han and Tian Tian walked in front, Wang Jing and I lagged behind, I was silent for a while and asked Wang Jing and said, "Have you seen Anqi recently?" ”
"Last week, a shareholders' meeting was held, she participated, she hasn't seen it in the last week, and now her main energy is still on the Tianyang Group, I heard: their old man is ready to abdicate and hand over the power of Tianyang to her."
I nodded, although I really wanted to find out more about Anqi with Wang Jing, but I didn't say anything after all.
Wang Jing sighed and said, "Alas! With a golden key in his mouth, he also has the pain of being born with a golden key, such a huge industry, so many relationships to maintain, I feel a headache when a man thinks about it, not to mention that she is a woman...... Sometimes, I quite understand her hot temper, under such pressure, there are always some emotions to vent in this extreme way! ...... Isn't it, Zhang Yixi? ”
"Maybe." I answered, and said no more.
Mo Han walked to the side of the street, as if he was about to fight, Tian Tian pushed me and said, "Send her, it's only a matter of twenty minutes back and forth, you won't be troublesome, right?" ”
I shouted to Mo Han: "Don't take a taxi, I'll send you." ”
"It's easy to take a taxi."
"I'm also very convenient, it's not in the way!" I said.
.......
At my insistence, Mo Han finally agreed, and I drove to her residence, and on the way we were silent with each other, and we tacitly entered a state where the past was nothing to do and the relationship was okay, and we could not talk much as friends.
Ten minutes later, I took Mo Han to her house, I stopped the car, and Mo Han said to me, "Thank you for sending me back." ”
"It's a gesture."
Mo Han lowered his head and unfastened his seat belt, and I leaned over to help her open the car door, and the bodies of the two were staggered for a moment, and at this time, a flash light suddenly turned on, and then the two people ran out from behind a tree on the lawn, got into a black Jetta car, and before I could react, it had completely disappeared from my sight!