About 20 minutes later, several cars came into view, and after the car stopped at the entrance of the alley, the group divided into two lines and walked towards the coffee shop, without any communication during the whole process, which made the atmosphere somewhat dull.

Yang Xuejun gave Nian Ge a comforting smile and said, "Don't worry, I've arranged everything." ”

Soon, everyone came to the door of the coffee shop, and the fallen leaves on the landscape tree in front of the door, as if they were also going to match the coffee shop, actually fell a few yellow fallen leaves after a gust of wind.

One of the quality inspectors put on a hard hat, just about to enter and stopped, looked at the completely new red lacquer door and said to everyone: "I remember that located in Nanluoguxiang, Beijing, there is an inn and café, the old-fashioned Beijing alley building, blue bricks and black tiles, the first floor is a café, from the back of the bar upstairs is the inn, I have been to several times, the room is really not much, most of the time is full." What is impressive is to sit in the café and drink afternoon tea, when the sun shines through the glass window on the tabletop, it is warm and quiet, suitable for reading. And the coffee shop in front of me, the temperament is even different, no matter what else, this façade design alone is the most worthy place to meet in the entire ancient city of Xi'an. ”

I was somewhat surprised to give such a high-level evaluation before entering the door, and I don't know if this was also arranged by Yang Xuejun. Everyone echoed for a while, and then took out the folders and busied themselves, starting to test the quality inspection items one by one.

Just watching, a red Porsche 911 stopped domineeringly in front of the store, a foot wearing Chanel stiletto heels stretched out, and then, Jiang Laiyue, who was accustomed to wearing black professional clothes, stepped out of the car.

I subconsciously looked at her, she stroked her short hair, looked at the two quality inspectors at the door of the store who were chatting happily, and her face immediately became unpredictable.

When everyone looked at her, her expression suddenly became extremely calm, she looked at me with a gentle and somewhat chilled smile, closed the car door heavily, and walked in without saying hello, while Nian Ge looked at her back a little bewildered, until Li Shi took her hand and came back to her senses.

I didn't know what it meant behind her smile, so I followed in, after Jiang Laiyue walked into the coffee shop, several quality inspectors in the room seemed to be very familiar with her, and after a lively handshake, she turned her head to look at me and Li Shi, but the emotions contained in this gaze could not let me interpret them one by one.

Jiang Laiyue and I looked at each other, gave her a look, and asked her to follow me outside to say a few words.

She looked at me without buying it, walked to the bar, picked up a magazine about coffee, looked around and found a sunny corner, sat in the sun and quietly flipped through it.

Nian Ge and I gestured to each other, handed over the coffee that Yang Xuejun had ground before, and then sat down opposite her.

Jiang Laiyue was still calmly looking at the magazine, she didn't have too many emotions, and said indifferently: "Go away!" ”

"You know why I'm here."

Jiang Laiyue looked at me out of the corner of her eye, but she didn't pay attention to it, as if she was restraining her mood, she took a sip of coffee on the table, and threw it aside with disgust, she leaned back on the sofa and said, "Are you afraid that I will break the acceptance results of the quality inspection later?" ”

"Yes!" I answered truthfully.

"Get out!"

Me: "......"

"If you don't get out of the way, I'll let you out sideways."

Jiang Laiyue's sharp tone made me a little stunned, and replied after a while: "Can you not always be so violent, either beating or scolding." ”

She didn't seem to have much patience to talk to me about this, and after the silence, she said even more impatiently: "In your heart, do you really think that I am so unbearable, and I deliberately came here to harm your business?" The coffee shop is here, I just passed by and had a cup of coffee, are you satisfied with this answer? ”

I made an OK gesture and didn't question the veracity of her words, but I was silenced by her usual assertiveness.

After I got up, Nian Ge hurriedly ran over, and while removing the coffee, she signaled that Jiang Laiyue's store had not officially opened, and if necessary, she could immediately go and make her a new one.

But Jiang Laiyue was a little indifferent, she shook her head and signaled that there was no need, saying that she would sit down for a while and leave, as if all her enthusiasm had been consumed in my unfriendly question.

After Nian Ge retreated, she turned her gaze to the window, and the sparse flowers outside the window had withered away, and there was no scenery to speak of, and she seemed to be the loneliest person in the coffee shop for the other groups of three or five existences.

After only a few minutes, she looked up at her watch, got up and stared at me, and then, with a sarcastic smile, pushed the door open, and I followed, and before I could get closer, she started the car, and then pulled a stream of air around me, completely out of sight.

I felt a little unspeakable loss, and when I turned around, Li Shi was still standing in the same place, her hair fluttering from the fan, but she seemed a little cold on this sunny morning.

I walked towards her with heavy steps, not thinking that she would mind what had just happened, and smiled at her, before saying, "Finally a problem solved." ”

"Yu Hang, do you really think she's a nuisance?"

I was still in a trance just now, and it was only after a while that I asked her, "Why do you ask that?" ”

"A woman's intuition, a very accurate sixth sense, this is the first time I have a terrible sense of crisis, if you can't control yourself, she will have a huge hidden danger between us."

"I just went out, and I was actually going to say a ......"

"No need to explain, we haven't reached the point where we need to explain, the quality inspection here is almost over, don't talk about other things yet!"

I answered, and Li Shi was already walking towards the counter with her head down.

This is the first time I have seen the worried Li Shi, maybe her worries are not groundless, Lao Gou's matter has made her pay more attention to her family and emotions, this matter, maybe I handled it too hastily.

……

Seeing that the quality inspection was about to end, Nian Ge quickly took the freshly ground coffee to brew, and after everyone sat down for a while, he sent the coffee over, put it down in front of us in turn, and said to everyone with an expectant face: "This is the specialty coffee of the small shop, please taste it." ”

Li Shi didn't add sugar and milk, she took a sip first, I thought she would be frowning bitterly, but she was very indifferent, after taking a sip, she nodded and said to us: "The coffee is very bitter, but it tastes very good." ”

A pot-bellied leader picked up his mobile phone and took pictures of the cups and pans in the store, the old yellowed magazines, books and old movie posters on the wall, all of which have been cherished for many years.

He sighed: "It's our negligence, we should have come over to review it a long time ago, there is no noise in your shop, and there are no showmanships in those pretentious coffee shops, next time I will definitely bring my wife to come and sit." ”

After bowing repeatedly to express her gratitude, she told everyone about the rules of the "Yijian" coffee shop that chose to pay for others or leave a letter, then took the envelope and pen from the counter, and walked to the newly renovated small stage and picked up the guitar on her own.

She was ingenious and chose a song of Faye Wong's "Yang Bao", the attraction of rhythm, the interpretation of the voice, and the simple lyrics, I was surprised one after another in a few lyrics. "Brilliant only in the sun, beautiful in passion", "No matter how much I want to be a sun, but just another sunflower." These sentences are simple, but they are full of emotion.

There is no doubt about the singing skills of the song, and the voice is becoming more and more restrained year by year, less vitality but more calm and stable. Unintentionally a trace of glissando, can still make people recall the sound of the prime, people seem to throw up, a cold, and illusion feathers, fluttering down, falling into the world, I listen carefully and feel that after she came back this time, the voice seems to be dull, no longer so scratchy, but not ethereal, even if it is low-altitude flight, there is a sense of being above the world.

It turns out that sunflowers will become the sun one day after watching the sun for a long time.

After singing a song, Yang Xuejun, who was circling in the commercial field, said in a timely manner: "I know that there are many friends in the officialdom here, and I bother you to publicize it on your behalf. Tucked away at the junction of the old city and the skyscrapers, the café is isolated by greenery and unsignposted on the side of the road unless you know it, or you really don't know it. The shop is not big, there are not so many ornate decorations, and there is not too much design, from the decoration design to the furniture, it is very simple, so simple that it feels like your own home. We serve a different variety of sweets every day, there is no fixed menu, it is completely decided according to the mood and the ingredients of the day, and this slow email is also a feature, so you can check it out. ”

Everyone echoed for a while, drinking coffee and writing letters, but they enjoyed the process. I was finally relieved that the coffee shop could continue to operate from now on.

……

At noon, Yang Xuejun took the unanimous quality inspection team to the hotel for dinner, while Li Shi and I stayed to discuss the previous activity plan and Nian Ge.

The plan of this event is in the form of letter invitation, and the souvenirs are hand-painted, and the reopening of the coffee shop is an opportunity to issue a set of hand-drawn collector's edition commemorative cards of Li Shi, the content of the cards includes: a sketch of a song playing the guitar, a sketch of the scenery of the coffee shop, and some representative objects in the store.

In the afternoon, Li Shi told me that she was a little tired and wanted to go back to the hostel to rest first.

I reminded her to rest well, and when she was done shopping for vegetables and cooking, she nodded very meekly, and then got in the car and left, while I continued to stand under the eaves and lit a cigarette for myself, and suddenly there was an indescribable taste in my heart.

……

In the evening, after finishing the work at hand, I went to the nearby supermarket to buy ingredients and returned to the hostel, and as soon as I got home, I stewed the pork ribs, fried the hairtail, mixed a few refreshing cold dishes, and told my cousin to prepare the dishes and chopsticks, and I went to Li Shi's room and told her to get up and eat.

What made me wonder was that after knocking on the door for a long time, there was no response in the house for a long time, I tried to lie on the window and call a few words, but there was still no response in the house, and I immediately had a bad premonition in my heart, and hurriedly ran to the safe at the counter, found the key to her door, and was stunned after opening the door.