The working hours of the piano shop are from 9 o'clock to 8 o'clock in the evening, with one day off a week, Yiyi and Xiaowu take turns to rest on Mondays and Tuesdays, and there are more people on weekends, plus some people will come to take guitar lessons on weekends, and the three people, including Li Huanyu, often can't leave work on time.

Yiyi gets off work before 9 p.m. every Thursday, Friday, and June every week, and she has to go to Max Bar to perform and sing. This job was introduced by a singer who she recorded before leaving, and according to her, the band doesn't play that taste, only Yiyi plays that feeling, so Yiyi will follow this singer's small band to perform in bars. After the singer finishes performing, Yiyi will also sing a few songs, and she can get a salary of 300-500 yuan for each performance, and her income of more than 1,000 yuan a month, together with the salary of the piano store, is less than 10,000 yuan. In this northern city, this amount of money is just enough after excluding the costs of rent, water, electricity, electricity, and transportation.

This income level makes Yiyi a little worried, she doesn't know when her dream will come true, and she doesn't know how long it will take to save enough money, after all, time waits for no one. During this period, the previous producer teacher called and asked Yiyi if she had changed her mind to go to him to do a performance, but Yiyi still refused. She thanked the teacher for understanding her and willing to help her, but she still wanted to live the life she liked as much as possible and let herself live the way she liked, which was very important to Yiyi.

Yiyi once earned more than 1,000 in one night in the bar because a customer called Yiyi down to order a song between Yiyi's singing.

"You have a bit of a unique voice, I want to hear you sing love songs." The other party sat on the booth in front of the small stage and said to Yiyi who was standing beside him.

"And what do you want to hear?" Yiyi asked the man in front of him.

The man turned his head to look at the other friends around him and said, "I want to listen to Karen Mok's "Suddenly." ”

Yiyi was expressionless and said, "Is it okay to change the song?" ”

The man said, "What, you won't?" ”

Yiyi looked at the face of the man in front of her, which was a young, handsome, but somewhat ruffian face, and said, "I don't sing." ”

The man grinned and said, "I know Max's rules, and you know them, you can't refuse." ”

Yiyi bit her lip and said, "This song...... If I can't sing well, the boss will be unhappy. ”

The man let out another breath with his nose, sneered, then took out a small stack of money from his pocket and put it on the table, saying, "I think your boss will be happy, only if I am unhappy, your boss will be unhappy." After speaking, the man stared straight at Yiyi.

Yiyi raised her eyes to look at the man and looked at him for a while, and in these few seconds, the man quietly swallowed his saliva.

There was no way, so he turned around and walked back to the stage.

"This girl is kind of interesting, that look." The man next to him said to the man.

"Get out of here!" Another said, "The first time you saw her?" ”

The man didn't speak, and kept staring at Yiyi as he walked back to the stage.

Unlike other people who need to look at the score when ordering songs, Yiyi just exhaled deeply and played the guitar.

In order to match his voice, the whole song was lowered from the original song, and Yiyi's slow singing voice gave the song a special taste, and many customers in the audience also quieted down and looked at the stage quietly. When Yiyi was singing, he occasionally looked at the man, who was looking at himself intently. In a trance, Yiyi felt that the picture in front of her was a little dazzling, as if she had returned to a long time ago, when a man sat down on the stage, listening to himself singing this song like this, staring at himself like this.

But Yiyi hurriedly adjusted her emotions, not allowing such memories to pop up at such a time, otherwise the wound would crack open again.

"If this heaven and earth,

will eventually disappear,

I don't want to cherish the memories along the way,

Without you. ”

Yiyi still didn't control her emotions, and her heart was like a knife at this sentence, and her voice choked.

When the first tear fell, Yiyi thought to herself, how long has it been since she sang this song? The last time I sang this song, I was in a warm place, with my beloved, soaked in the air of happiness, although the lyrics were sad, but in the eyes of Yiyi at that moment, it was the sweetest expression and longing for love.

Maybe I had too little experience at that time and didn't understand the pain in this song. And at this moment, even with Yiyi's eyes closed, the cruel images described in each of the lyrics clearly hit her, firmly blocking her chest. After many years, Yiyi still couldn't hold on, and the wound still hadn't healed.

Originally, he was not a professional singer, but Yiyi knew how bad he sang later. After the last note fell, Yiyi put down the piano, stood up and put on her coat, and left the bar without saying anything.

The bar owner didn't stop him, and after seeing Yiyi go out, he walked to the man who ordered the song and said, "Pan Shuai, are you bullying my person?" Yiyi, I told you, you did it on purpose, right? ”

Wang Pan lowered his eyes, as if he was still immersed in the picture just now, and after a while, he picked up the money on the table and stuffed it to the boss, smiled and said, "This is for Yiyi." Then he got up and left the bar.

Yiyi returned home, and her chest was still blocked.

"No, you can't think of him, you can't think of his name!" Yiyi gritted her teeth and tried to suppress her emotions. Yiyi didn't fall asleep that night, and she didn't even dare to close her eyes, for fear that she would dream about something if she fell asleep. The next morning, I got up and took a hot shower, and when I put on makeup, I used concealer to cover my dark circles.

When I arrived at the piano shop the next day, Yiyi was in a very low mood, and Xiao Wu asked what was wrong when he saw it.

Yiyi omitted her memories and told Xiao Wu about what happened last night.

"You're being bullied!" Xiao Wu said angrily, "Why did that person do this? Did he do anything else to you? ”

Yiyi shook her head and only told Xiao Wu that although she was quite unhappy, she would be fine when she got home and went straight to sleep.

"I don't think you're tired and haven't slept well." Xiao Wu looked at Yiyi distressedly and said: "Yiyi, I think it's not safe for you to sing in a bar as a girl, but you always don't let me go to see you, I can accompany you and protect you, but you don't even tell me the name of the bar." ”

Xiao Wu's tone was reproachful, and Yiyi said, "I don't want other people in the bar to misunderstand, besides, it's not appropriate to have someone by your side all the time." ”

Xiao Wu said: "I don't embarrass you, but if anything happens, remember to inform me, and I will definitely go over immediately." ”

Yiyi nodded and thanked Xiao Wu.

In the evening, Yiyi went to Max after work as usual, and as soon as she entered the door, the boss came over and asked Yiyi how she was doing, and Yiyi said it was okay.

"Yesterday, that person's name is Wang Panshuai, he is a shareholder of many bars here, he has been in the night club for many years, he may be a little young and frivolous, I also told him after you left, he didn't mean it, don't care. There are all kinds of guests in the night club, and he is still more scene-watching. Don't be afraid when you encounter this kind of person in the future, you just ignore it, if he has any unreasonable requirements, you tell me, and I will help you solve it. The boss and Yiyi sat in the corner of the bar talking about yesterday.

Yiyi said: "Brother Gang, thank you, I won't cause trouble to the bar, thank you for accepting someone like me." ”

The boss said: "No thanks, I don't think it's anything, you are very brave, and you work hard, it is difficult to live as you are, I can understand, and I support you."

"You and Qianqian are both very good people, and it's my luck to meet you." Yiyi said.

"She likes the album you made for Qianqian, otherwise she wouldn't have introduced you." The boss said: "She told me about you at the beginning, I was also very curious, I didn't expect to see you in person, I was really surprised, so beautiful." ”

Speaking of this, both the boss and Yiyi laughed.

The boss continued: "My sister knows a lot of people, Wang Panshuai was the first person she brought to our bar to play, you may not have paid attention to him, he has been here several times, he has known you for a long time, but I didn't expect to talk to you for the first time yesterday to make such a fuss." Oh yes, this ......" said, the boss took out the money from his pocket: "You take this, this is the money for the guests to order songs, according to the rules, you can only take it, yesterday Wang Panshuai personally gave me this money, tell me, this is for you." ”

Yiyi glanced at it, didn't say anything, took the money and put it in her bag.

Sure enough, at night, Yiyi saw Wang Panshuai in the booth below, and there were two or three friends drinking together. But today he looks very honest, Yiyi just listened quietly below when he sang, and didn't do anything, Yiyi tried not to look over there, as if that corner didn't exist.

You miss you all of a sudden, and I sing my Mayday.

During the break, Yiyi put on his coat and came out of the side door of the bar and stood in the alley outside to smoke.

From a distance, Yiyi saw Wang Panshuai walking in from the alley next to him, this corner is so remote, except for the people who take out the garbage, almost no one drills here, obviously coming for himself. Yiyi subconsciously took out her mobile phone, threw away the cigarette in her hand and wanted to turn around and go back to the bar.

"Wait a minute!" Wang Panshuai walked in front of Yiyi in a few steps and said, "Borrow a fire, beauty." ”

Yiyi said, "I didn't bring it out. ”

Wang Panshuai tilted his head, sighed, then took out a lighter from his pocket and said, "I brought it, I forgot it." ”

Yiyi looked at him, disgusted, and asked, "Are you here to find me?" What do you want? ”

Wang Panshuai spat out a puff of cigarette and said, "Don't worry about what I won't do to you, but I know you, your name is Yiyi, and I know your affairs." ”

Yiyi chuckled in her heart and asked, "So what?" ”

Wang Panshuai said: "Don't worry, I just want to say, at first I thought it was quite fresh, and then I came many times, and I have been observing you, I think you are ......" Wang Panshuai paused, put his face close to Yiyi, looked up and down, and said: "It's very good-looking, I like it." ”

Yiyi felt disgusted: "I'm sorry I don't like you." Yiyi lowered her head and turned her head and entered the bar.

Wang Panshuai shouted behind him: "Think about it? ”

Yiyi ignored him and returned to the stage to continue the performance.

Wang Panshuai also returned to the bar from the front door, sat in his seat and said a few words to the people around him, and then continued to drink and chat as if nothing had happened.

At 11:50, the live ended, and at 12 o'clock, the bar was about to start rocking slowly, Yiyi got off the stage to pack up his guitar, put on his clothes and greeted everyone and walked out.

As soon as he went out, Yiyi found that he was being followed, and Wang Panshuai followed behind him with three other men.

Yiyi took out her mobile phone, didn't think about it, called Xiao Wu, told him the general situation tonight and his location, and asked Xiao Wu to pick him up and go home.

She doesn't call the owner because she doesn't want to cause trouble for the bar.

When they walked out of the alley, Wang Panshuai and the four of them chased after them.

"Yiyi!" Wang Panshuai shouted loudly.

Yiyi ignored it, and continued to walk forward, but was stopped by several people.

One of the men said, "What about being so rude? Won't you say yes when you call you? ”

Yiyi said, "I don't know you. After saying that, I wanted to leave, but I was stopped again.

"How can you say you don't know me? It's so sad! Wang Panshuai stood in front of Yiyi and said with a hippie smile: "It's midnight, are you hungry?" How boring is it to go home like this when you dress so beautifully? Shall we go for a late-night snack together? ”

Yiyi said: "I'm not hungry, I'm not going, I'm going home." ”

Wang Panshuai said: "Go home? Oh, then I'll go home with you, right? ”

"Wang Panshuai, don't make trouble!" Yiyi waited angrily for Wang Panshuai's face.

"Oops, I'm angry!" Several other men began to heck: "It's nice to be angry!" I said Pan Shuai, I think I like her too, what should I do? ”

Wang Panshuai pushed the man who spoke: "Get out of the way for me, see Yiyi in the future, you all have to call sister-in-law, do you know?" ”

Yiyi was very angry in her heart, obviously wanting to make a big fuss and vent her anger, but found that she couldn't even shout out loud, and even the strength in her body became weak, and she couldn't resist at all in the face of three young men. Is this the reaction to taking the medicine for two years? Yiyi's tears flowed out of her breath, and she calmed down as much as she could, saying, "If you don't leave, I'll call the police." ”

"What? The police don't let you ask friends for supper? Wang Panshuai said: "We know each other, we are friends." ”

A few people just joked like this, and the stalemate lasted for a few minutes.

"Yiyi!" Xiao Wu's voice came from a distance, and Yiyi looked up sharply and looked in the direction of the sound.

Wang Panshuai saw Yiyi's tearful face at this time, and his heart was shocked.

Xiao Wu saw that Yiyi was surrounded by three men, and suddenly felt bad, so he hurriedly rushed forward, pushed away a few people, pulled Yiyi to hide behind him, looked at the others and said, "What do you want to do?" ”

A man said, "Who are you?" ”

Xiao Wu turned his head to look at Yiyi, and when Yiyi's eyes were still looking at him with tears, Xiao Wu felt that his heart was about to break.

"I'm her boyfriend!" Xiao Wu turned his head to look at a few people and said.

"Don't talk nonsense, boy!" Wang Panshuai took a step forward with a fierce face: "Boyfriend? How could she have a boyfriend? ”

Xiao Wu also stepped forward without showing weakness: "Why can't you have it?" Why? Want to fight? After saying that, he stretched out his hand to Wang Panshuai.

Yiyi hurriedly grabbed Xiao Wu's arm with both hands behind her back and said, "Don't, Xiao Wu, let's go home." ”

Xiao Wu stared at the few people in front of him, pointed at them a few times, and swept his gaze over everyone's face: "You guys stay away from Yiyi." After speaking, Xiao Wu took Yiyi's hand, turned around and left.

Yiyi only felt that Xiao Wu's warm hand made her very relieved, and she unconsciously took Xiao Wu's arm in her arms, and at this moment Yiyi needed to get closer to the sense of security coming from her fingertips, so that this sense of security was a little more solid.

Wang Panshuai and a few people stood in place, watching them walk away.

One man said, "That's it...... Let them go? ”

Wang Panshuai said: "It's almost the New Year, don't look for trouble." ”

Another man said, "Hasn't she always been single?" Is she so popular? And a boyfriend? ”

From Wang Panshuai's face, it was obvious that he had suppressed his anger for a long time. After a long while, Wang Panshuai said, "Damn! If you don't breathe this out, how will I spend this year? Wang Panshuai stared fiercely at the direction in which Xiao Wu and Yiyi left.

Yiyi and Xiao Wu walked out more than a hundred steps holding hands, Yiyi wanted to look back, Xiao Wu said, "Don't look back, keep walking." ”

When he turned the corner, Yiyi laughed out loud and said, "Thank you, Xiao Wu, you are so brave, I am really afraid that you will fight." ”

Xiao Wu said: "Just those few people, I'm not afraid of fighting, as soon as the fight starts, the police will come and arrest them all." ”

Yiyi asked: "Are you really not afraid?" ”

Xiao Wu said: "Don't be afraid, do you think I look like I'm afraid?" ”

"But......" Yiyi grabbed Xiao Wu's hand and said, "But your hands have been sweating." ”

Xiao Wu realized that he was still holding Yiyi's hand tightly, hurriedly let go, and said in a little panic: "This sweat is not because of fear. Xiao Wu rubbed his hand on his clothes as he spoke, and then his face was full of embarrassment.

Yiyi suddenly laughed: "What's the reason for that?" Yiyi suddenly felt that Xiao Wu was too cute.

"Because...... Hot. Xiao Wu said.

"It's February, my feet are frozen, are you hot?" Yiyi laughed, decided not to tease the boy, looked into Xiao Wu's eyes seriously, and said, "Thank you very much." ”

Xiao Wu's wandering eyes and Yiyi's gaze met inadvertently, and they were suddenly locked on, and they couldn't move away from each other.

At this moment, Xiao Wu felt that time had slowed down, and all the sounds he heard in his ears had become smaller, just like the scene in the movie, as if he had a third perspective, like an audience, standing in the distance and watching himself and Yiyi face to face on the street corner of this person.

Xiao Wu knew that he had actually fallen in love with Yiyi.

Actually, you've been in love with Yiyi for a long time, right? From the first time I met her, when we worked together, when we ate together; Every time I peeked at her, every time I messaged and chatted with her, every time I secretly smiled stupidly at the photo of the two people on my phone. At that moment, it was clear that I loved her.

Therefore, when I saw Yiyi walking in with a depressed mood, I would panic, I would be angry when I knew what happened to Yiyi, I would be worried after Yiyi left, I would panic after receiving a call, and when I held Yiyi's hand, I would be so brave.

Yiyi, you know what?

But Xiao Wu still didn't ask, he was immersed in Yiyi's gaze, as if he was deeply and gently embraced by this gaze, and thousands of emotions were surging at this time, so that he didn't know which of them should be picked up at this moment, which was unprecedented panic.

Xiao Wu pretended to be calm, suppressed the huge urge to hug Yiyi into his arms, calmed himself down for a few seconds, and said, "You're welcome, you're fine." At the bar, if you go again, will there be a problem? ”

Yiyi said: "It's okay, I've already told the store manager that I won't come for the Spring Festival, and I'll ask him for leave next week, if there's anything, I'll talk about it after the year." ”

"Well, that's good. I'll send you home. ”

"Okay."

On Monday, Xiao Wu was alone in the store, and he suddenly felt that the day was so slow and boring. In the afternoon, Xiao Wu couldn't help but pick up his mobile phone and sent a message to Yiyi:

"What are you doing?"

"I'm shopping."

"With friends?" After thinking about it for a while, Xiao Wu deleted these words and resent them.

"Oh, then you stay safe."

"What's wrong, what's the matter?"

Xiao Wu stood up with his phone in his arms and looked around. What's the matter?

"I want to clean it, I can't find the dustpan, do you know where to put it?"

"You lazy pig :) never clean, how do you know where to put it? Hung behind the door of the repair room. ”

Xiao Wu held the phone and smiled. Indeed, before Yiyilai, the hygiene of the store was often cleaned only once every two or three days, and since Yiyi came, they had to clean it every day, mopping the floor and wiping the table, and wiping every piano and every speaker.

In fact, it's not that Xiao Wu has become diligent, but that Yiyi takes the initiative to clean every day, and he just wants to do something with Yiyi.

"You better don't clean it, I cleaned it carefully before I left last night, let's get it when I come back, there must not be many people today."

Xiao Wu took a breath and typed an "um".

"What are you doing?" = "I miss you. ”

On Tuesday, Xiao Wu rested, and it was Yiyi's turn to guard the store alone, and there was still no one. Yiyi looked down at the ground, it was clean, but it didn't look like it was cleaned yesterday.

Yiyi received a message on her mobile phone, opened it and saw that it was sent by Xiao Wu.

"You're at work, aren't you?"

"yes, I'm in the store."

"Then you remember to clean up."

"You really didn't clean yesterday, did you? You're so lazy :)"

"Isn't this leaving you with something to do, I'm afraid you'll be idle and lonely."

"What is the reason for this? Lazy pig! I'll clean before I get off work. ”

"Okay, remember to clean up!"

"Got it!"

Yiyi put down the phone, looked at it for a while, and there was really no one, so she picked up the guitar next to her and sat down.

Very, very subconsciously, a D major dissociating chord was played.

Yiyi was suddenly startled in her heart, and before she finished playing a section, her hands froze.

Why, why this song?

Yiyi slowly put down the piano and sat in the chair in a daze.

Almost an hour before leaving work, Yiyi began to wipe each piano. After sweeping the floor, she went to the door of the repair room to get a dustpan.

On the dustpan hung a bag with a small card with four handwritten words on it:

"Happy Birthday"

Yiyi felt like someone had hit the back of her head, and there was a "buzz".

When I picked up the bag, I saw that it contained a scarf, a pair of gloves, and two pairs of wool socks, all of which were branded.

Yiyi couldn't help but laugh and picked up her phone.

"What are you doing?"

"Just finished eating, lazy at home."

"What a lazy pig, I know it's lazy :)"

"I'm in my own house, I'm lazy, I'm lazy, you hit me X)"

"Thank you for the gift."

"Got it? I'm afraid you'll be lazy, so I won't be able to collect it. Your birthday happens to be the first day of the Lunar New Year this year, so I may not be able to help you get over, so I can only wish you a happy birthday in advance! ”

"Thank you, I love it."

Yiyi thought about it for a while, and immediately added another one:

"But how can a boy give a girl socks?"

"You said your feet were frozen, and those socks were very thick. How don't you like it? ”

"It's ugly."

"Oh, then I don't know what kind of look you like, buy the one you like next time."

"Very sweet and touching."

"Very impressed." = "I like it. ”

Before going out the next morning, Yiyi stood in front of the mirror, looking at herself in the mirror, hat, scarf, cotton clothes, winter skirts, leggings, wool socks, boots, and looked very warm.

Put on your gloves, grab the handbag you prepared the day before yesterday, and go out the door.

Xiao Wu stared at Yiyi for a long time after seeing Yiyi enter the door, and smiled stupidly.

Yiyi walked past Xiao Wu, squinted at him, and asked, "Am I ugly?" ”

Xiao Wu smiled and said, "It's beautiful, very cute." ”

Yiyi stuffed the handbag to Xiao Wu and said, I bought it when I was shopping the day before yesterday and gave it to you.

Xiao Wu looked surprised, hurriedly lowered his head and opened the bag, and took it out, it was a thick sweatshirt with a gun flower logo on it.

"Wow, co-op!" Xiao Wu called out in surprise.

"I saw this by the way when I went shopping, and I thought it suited you very well, so I bought it, thank you for helping me that day." Yiyi said as she changed her clothes.

"This ...... Expensive, right? Xiao Wu looked at Yiyi and said.

"It's not expensive." Yiyi said, "Shouldn't you say thank you?" ”

"Thank you...... Thank! Xiao Wu said word by word.

Yiyi smiled and said, "Let's work, Brother Yu said that he will send a lot of goods in the past two days, and by the way, I will tell you good news, we have a holiday during the Spring Festival!" ”

Xiao Wu was still holding his clothes and stood in place in a daze.

"You were told to work, didn't you hear?" Yiyi shouted Xiao Wu.

"Oh, work!" Xiao Wu hurriedly folded his clothes and put them back in the bag, and then carefully placed them with his backpack: "I'm going to pack all the packages today!" ”

Yiyi looked at Xiao Wu, who was beaten like chicken blood, and said with a smile: "Today's Xiao Wu is very motivated, and he is not lazy at all." ”

In the blink of an eye, it was the twenty-ninth day of the Lunar New Year, and the piano store was open on the last day.

Many people come to see the piano and want to buy their favorite treasures during the Spring Festival.

In the interval, Xiaowu asked Yiyi how to spend the Spring Festival, and Yiyi said that she would go home tomorrow and come back when it was open on the fifth day of the new year.

In fact, Yiyi didn't go home for the New Year, she was just afraid of the holidays, afraid that others would know that she was actually lonely. A piano store actually had a holiday during the Spring Festival, which Yiyi didn't expect, the previous music company, the more holidays the busier, and the singers were rushing to release songs to grab the traffic and performance opportunities during the holiday.

Xiao Wu said: "Okay, then wait for you to come back, and I'll make up for your birthday." ”

Yiyi looked at Xiao Wu and smiled: "Okay." ”

When I returned to my residence in the evening, Yiyi sent a message to my mother:

"Are you preparing well for the Chinese New Year at home?"

"It's none of your business."

Yiyi put down her phone and looked out the window expressionlessly. In the cold winter of this northern city, there is very little snow, and there is even a sun. You can't see the cold, but it's invading your flesh all the time.

In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Yiyi was woken up by the sound of artillery outside, and when she looked at her watch, it was already eleven o'clock at noon. After getting up, Yiyi went to eat lunch alone, went to the supermarket in the afternoon to buy a lot of food and drinks, and walked to the door of the house with two large plastic bags It was already six o'clock in the afternoon.

Yiyi's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner this year is a person cooking hot pot, and she is also comfortable.

When I got home and took out the keys, I was suddenly stunned.

What about mobile phones?

Yiyi panicked, she hurriedly put down everything and carefully rummaged through every pocket.

No, I lost my phone.

Yiyi opened the door, threw things in, closed the door with her backhand and ran out, returning the same way to see if it had fallen to the ground.

It was already completely dark outside, and there were more and more people on the road. Yiyi became more and more panicked, and the more she walked, the more panicked she became, until she reached the intersection in front of the supermarket, and she cried.

When she came out of the supermarket, she took out her phone here to check the time.

At this moment, Yiyi felt that she was alone, she couldn't contact anyone, and she couldn't even pay with her mobile phone, but fortunately she bought a bunch of food, otherwise she would have to beg for food on the street.

It was eight o'clock in the evening and almost all the shops were closed.

Yiyi returned home, but did not lose her mind, she turned on the computer to surf the Internet, reported the loss of the mobile phone card from the online business hall, and then went to the official website of the mobile phone to lock the mobile phone account, erase all data, so that even if the thief gets the mobile phone, even if he has the ability to crack the boot password, the data will not be lost.

After confirming the security of the mobile phone account, Yiyi logged in to Weibo and QQ, and sent private messages to several friends in his life, asking them to help him send a circle of friends to inform him of the loss of his mobile phone as much as possible.

After doing these things, Yiyi lay on the bed and smiled bitterly in his heart, what is the use of doing this? No one will think of themselves, and no one will look for them.

When hunger hit, Yiyi got up, washed and chopped vegetables, opened a bottle of beer, and boiled a hot pot.

The Spring Festival Gala was broadcasting on the computer, but Yiyi was not interested at all.

At half past eleven o'clock in the evening, Yiyi turned off all the lights, folded her hands on her knees, sat on the ground next to the bed, looked out the window, and quietly waited for the arrival of twelve o'clock.

I don't know how long it took, but suddenly fireworks went off outside the window, lighting up the night sky outside.

Yiyi watched quietly and wept quietly. At this moment, Yiyi understood what it meant to be completely alone.

Loneliness is when all good things have nothing to do with you.

Yiyi said to herself: "Happy birthday, Yiyi, you have to be strong, Yiyi, I hope next year, life will be better for you." Then Yiyi blew out the candle on a small piece of cake on the floor, and the whole room suddenly became colorful and brilliant with the fireworks outside, and suddenly it was dark and lonely.

The next morning, Yiyi went to the mobile phone store to buy a mobile phone, and went to the business hall to replace the card.

When the phone was turned on, it was quiet, there was not even a text message of greeting, and it seemed that nothing had happened. If Yiyi had an accident yesterday, I am afraid that no one in this world would know about it, let alone care about it.

Yiyi called her grandmother to greet the New Year, and on the other end of the phone, the elderly grandmother seemed to be a little unconscious, and it was a little difficult to talk. At this time, my mother's voice came:

"You don't call back, I don't want to hear you, and you don't have to say anything."

"But Mom, you never answer my phone, and if I don't call my grandmother, you won't talk to me."

"I don't want to talk to you now, I don't have to call anymore, let's die outside!"

Yiyi heard such words, but there was no wave in her heart, such cold words as a knife, I don't know how many times I had heard them before.

"Mom......"

"Look at your voice now, I don't even recognize you!" Mom was visibly crying, her voice already shaking.

"Happy New Year......" "Toot-"

Before Yiyi finished saying Happy New Year, her mother hung up the phone angrily.

Yiyi stood on the street, staring blankly at the people coming and going, each of them seemed to be having a story, what contact was happening with others, and their families were either happy or quarreling during the New Year, they should all be together, right?

Who can give me the courage to keep going?

Who can give me the meaning to continue to live?

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Yiyi went back to work at the piano shop, but he didn't see Xiao Wu.

Brother Yu said, "You still don't know? I thought Xiao Wu would tell you that he was hit by a car on the day of his Chinese New Year's Eve, broke one leg and injured one hand, and was hospitalized. ”

Yiyi's face was panicked.

Brother Yu looked at Yiyi's worried face and said, "Go ahead, there is me here." ”

Yiyi turned her head and ran out, heading straight for the hospital.

Xiao Wu was lying on the hospital bed alone, his right leg was hanging in a plaster cast, his right arm was wrapped in a bandage, which was placed on his chest, and his head was also bandaged in two places.

Xiao Wu saw Yiyi walk into the ward, was stunned for a moment, and asked, "Why are you here?" Who told you that? Brother Yu? ”

Yiyi nodded, Xiao Wu seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and said: "I'm fine, the fracture on my leg is not serious, the hand is a torn bone, it's okay, there are a few stitches on the head, but the overall packaging is a little exaggerated, but it's not as serious as it seems." ”

Yiyi sat on the edge of the hospital bed, solemnly counting all kinds of things that Xiao Wu shouldn't have, and he shouldn't be so careless during the New Year.

Xiao Wu was half-lying and looked at Yiyi with a smile.

"You laugh? What are you laughing at? Do you still have a smile? Yiyi said angrily,

"I'm sorry, Yiyi." Xiao Wu said: "I said that I would help you make up for your birthday, but this can't be done." ”

Yiyi stood up all of a sudden and pointed at Xiao Wu: "When is this still ......?"

Before she finished speaking, Yiyi couldn't hide her emotions anymore, and tears flowed out. From the moment I entered the door and saw Xiao Wu's appearance, I was forbearing, and I still gave up my efforts at this moment.

Yiyi turned her back on her face, wiped her tears, then turned around, peeled a banana and stuffed it into Xiao Wu's left hand, and said, "You eat a banana and wait for a while." With that, he turned around and went out.

Xiao Wu smiled, eating bananas and turning his face to look out the window, the sun is good today.

Half an hour later, Yiyi walked into the ward, carrying a cake in her hand.

"Come on, make up for your birthday." Yiyi put the cake on the small table in front of Xiao Wu, then plugged in the candle and lit it.

Xiao Wu laughed, then sat up a little straighter and said, "Big brothers and sisters, today is my friend's birthday, because I missed it in the hospital, I made it up for her today, everyone will help me celebrate this birthday together, okay?" ”

Yiyi turned her head to look around, except for Xiao Wu, there was only another child and his family in the ward.

"Where did you come from, big brothers and sisters?" Yiyi stared at Xiao Wu and asked.

"Wow~ Birthday, eat cake!" The child staggered over.

"Come, celebrate your birthday, let's sing a birthday song to this sister together, okay?" Xiao Wu asked the child.

The child said, "Good! ”

"Happy birthday to you,

Happy birthday to you

Happy birthday to you

Happy birthday to you. ”

Yiyi closed her eyes and made a wish, then blew out the candle.

"The first two wishes of the promise should be spoken, and the last one should be kept." Xiao Wu said.

"The first wish is to hope that Xiao Wu will recover soon."

"You only have three wishes, how can you waste one with me? If you don't wish I'd be healed! ”

"Why do you talk so much nonsense!" Yiyi said pretending to be angry.

"Okay, well, I'm definitely going to recover faster and better. The second. ”

"The second wish, I hope that everyone around me is in good health." Yiyi said.

"Well, it's lovely." Xiao Wu nodded: "The last one can't be said, and if you say it, it won't work." But what is it about? ”

"It's about ......," Yiyi said, "my own." ”

"Very good, very good!" Xiao Wu made a gesture of clapping his left hand with his right hand: "I should applaud you, you should think about it for yourself." By the way, what's going on out there these days? I've been lying here all year long, not knowing anything. ”

Yiyi said: "You asked me the right person, something really happened." ”

Then Yiyi told Xiao Wu about losing his mobile phone.

"You were hit by a car, I lost my phone, this Chinese New Year's Eve, we both suffered misfortune at the same time."

"Sympathy."

Then the two looked at each other and laughed.

Because Xiao Wu's family has been taking care of Xiao Wu, Yiyi did not go to see him every day, but used his mobile phone to send him a message, and only went to see him once every few days, but Xiao Wu's recovery was very good, and during the Lantern Festival, Xiao Wu was already able to run around skillfully with crutches, and he could be discharged from the hospital after a few days with a full body examination.

After the New Year, Yiyi returned to the bar to prepare to resume singing.

The boss came over and asked Yiyi, "How is your boyfriend?" ”

Yiyi replied, "That...... Actually, it's not my boyfriend......" Suddenly she felt that something was wrong and asked, "How is he doing?" How do you know? What's going on? ”

The boss said, "How are you recovering, you should be injured a lot after being beaten like that, right?" ”

Yiyi's scalp was numb and asked, "What was beaten?" What the hell is going on? ”

The boss was confused: "What do you mean?" Don't you know? He didn't tell you, did he? ”

"He said that he was hit by a car in his Chinese New Year's Eve."

The boss looked remorseful: "It seems that I am too talkative...... Or you didn't say anything to me? ”

"No way!" Yiyi asked, "What happened, you tell me everything!" ”

"Well, I don't think I should hide it from you. On the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, I was open here, and I went out and saw Wang Panshuai and your boyfriend fighting in the alley outside, Wang Panshuai brought two other people, three to fight one, with sticks, and when I saw it, your boyfriend had fallen to the ground, with blood on his face. ”

Yiyi was like falling into an ice cave, stunned on the spot.

"I was just about to call the police, the police came, I should have called the police at the beginning, and then your boyfriend let me go to the hospital, and Wang Panshuai and the others were arrested."

"And then?" Yiyi asked.

"There's no then, it's now, and I don't know anything in between."

Yiyi said: "Boss, I am going to ask you for leave again." After saying that, Yiyi ran out of the bar and went straight to the hospital.

Entering the ward, Xiao Wu was sitting on the edge of the bed fiddling with a piece of clothing, and was obviously flustered when he saw Yiyi walking in quietly, and then tucked the clothes under the pillow.

Yiyi could see clearly that it was the sweatshirt that Yiyi gave to Xiao Wu.

Yiyi walked over and pulled out her clothes from under the pillow, which were covered with blood and mud, very dirty, probably because of the rescue, the clothes had also been cut and torn.

"This is the ...... I was wearing on the day of the car accident."

"What are you doing at Max?" Yiyi interrupted Xiao Wu's explanation and stared at Xiao Wu's eyes and asked.

"What?" Xiao Wu looked at Yiyi in shock.

"I ask you, what were you doing with Max that day?" Yiyi was still staring at Xiao Wu's eyes, unlike before, Xiao Wu felt very tough and cold in the face of such a gaze.

"How do you know......" Xiao Wu hesitated for a moment and asked halfway, and suddenly his expression became nervous: "Could it be that Wang Panshuai has already come out?" He's getting you in trouble again? ”

"I went to the bar today, and the boss told me." Yiyi said.

Xiao Wu sighed and said what happened that day.

Because Yiyi had forgotten that his things were in the bar before, the bar owner took this opportunity to know the phone number of the musical instrument store, Wang Panshuai asked for this call, called Brother Yu, and said that Yiyi forgot that the thing was in the bar and asked him to send someone to get it. Brother Yu, the Chinese New Year's Eve, happened to be unable to contact Yiyi, so he could only let Xiaowu go. As soon as Xiao Wu arrived at the bar, he was surrounded by Wang Panshuai and several people.

At that time, Wang Panshuai was holding Xiao Wu's right hand that night, so he had to break Xiao Wu's right hand and right leg. Originally, I didn't want to be really ruthless, Xiao Wu admitted it, Wang Panshuai could get up and down, and this matter was probably over, but Xiao Wu was afraid of soiling the clothes on his body before fighting, so he wanted to take off his clothes first, which was considered to be a provocation, and he drank a lot of wine, so he was heavy.

Afterwards, Wang Panshuai's family came to apologize and compensate, and Wang Panshuai, who was detained, asked someone to talk about the situation, and said that this matter is over, if you really want to dig deeper, then the musical instrument shop, bar, Xiaowu, and Yiyi will not have good fruit to eat in the future.

"Actually, I really didn't have any major injuries, so I should have rested for a while, and he also took the consequences that Wang Panshuai should bear, and there will be evil retribution. It should be a harder year in the detention center, right? Ha ha! After Xiao Wu finished speaking, he stood up firmly with the head of the bed: "Look, I'm fine." ”

Yiyi lowered her head, clutched the dress tightly, and tears welled up: "I'm sorry." ”

Xiao Wu's expression suddenly froze, and he looked down at Yiyi.

"It's all because of my ......" Yiyi choked up and said: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you, Wang Panshuai, my family, it's because of me that everyone has become like this!" ”

Tears ran down Yiyi's cheeks and dripped to the ground.

Xiao Wu raised his left hand, gently leaned Yiyi's head on his chest, and said, "Don't think like that, actually, I ...... It's all because of ...... Love you......" When he said the last two words, Xiao Wu's heartbeat almost stopped.

Yiyi's sobs grew even louder, and after a short silence, Yiyi whispered, "I'm sorry, I'm not worth it!" Then Yiyi turned around and ran out of the ward.

Xiao Wu stood beside the bed, stretched out his left hand and touched the position of his heart, which was wet with Yiyi's tears.