“Hua！”

I ignored her and went out and turned left and went back the way I came.

Alice chased me out of the store and pulled me to the mall's bathroom.

"Did you come all the way to coax me to Hong Kong just so that I could see your noble lady's life?"

I yelled at her, almost pointing at her nose.

"Yes! I just want you to know that I'm better off than you are now! ”

"You're enough." I sneered helplessly.

"Hua, I'm relieved. It's been ten years and I've been wishing I could beat you, and now I've done it. If you want to scold me, you can scold me. ”

She looked like she didn't care.

I brainstormed a bit and I really wanted to scold her, but she was pregnant and I couldn't affect the baby in her belly.

"I'm not going to scold you. Let's go, the mall is too stuffy. ”

"You're not angry?"

"I'm angry, but it's not about your child, he can't be affected by your emotions."

After listening to what I said, Alice looked at me in a daze, and was speechless for a long time.

We walked out of the mall, the driver's car was already parked at the door, and he got out of the car to open the door for us.

Alice instructed him, "Let's take a walk, and we'll call you when the time comes." ”

After Alice finished speaking, the driver drove away.

"Where did he go?" I asked.

"I don't know, maybe it's wandering around the city. Let's go. ”

"Hmm."

After walking for more than ten minutes, I passed by an OMG storefront, and the street came out of the beautiful Victoria Harbour, and there were many tourists standing by the fence.

We have all regained our composure, standing and looking out.

"Have you ever talked about a boyfriend in the past few years?"

"Talked, but broke up." I replied.

"That'...... Do you still have a connection with him? ”

"Who?"

“Jay。”

"It's gone. We were completely done with that year. ”

"You...... Don't you have anything to ask me? It's all me asking you questions. ”

"You...... Do you remember what happened to us at the beginning? I betrayed you and you behind my back, don't you hate me? ”

"Never forget."

"And you're still hating me?"

"Do you still hate me? I was misunderstanding you at first. ”

I had an epiphany, "You know it all. ”

Chen ...... He's a scumbag, I know it all. ”

"Alice."

This was the second time I called her name after being at the airport.

She hugged me, cried carefully, put her ear to me and said, "I'm sorry. ”

"There is no need to apologize, it's all over, and there is no way to make up for this apology."

It's not just friendship, it's something else.

"Are you alone in New York now?"

"I still have friends."

"Oh."

We sat at Starbucks near the Avenue of Stars, with Hong Kong's iconic Victoria Harbour outside, and the red Ferris wheel visible across the river in the distance.

I looked down and took a sip of latte from time to time, remembering that I had forgotten to bring my medicine with me. With my hands propped up on the table in a daze, I wonder if Brooks is going to play the violin again today, and I don't seem to have ever run with him in Central Park in a serious way.

“Hua？”

"What's wrong?"

"Let's talk, or else... The atmosphere is a little weird. She scoffed.

When I heard her say this, I subconsciously said, "The coffee is delicious." ”

"We haven't seen each other in years, don't you have anything to share with me?"

I shook my head, "It's an ordinary life, there's nothing worth saying." ”

"How did you become like this?"

I smiled helplessly and looked up at the scenery outside.

"You booked me a hotel for five nights, and I don't know what to do in the next few days." I tried to communicate with her.

"It's okay, I'm here."

"Thank you."

"Actually, Chen told me that Jay he-"

"Where are we going at night?"

"Dinner with my husband at night, have you forgotten, it's around here."

"Oh."

"Hua, actually—"

"The scenery here is very good, like the Bund in Shanghai, but the Bund is smaller than this." I interrupted her again.

"Yes. I haven't been to Shanghai. ”

I lowered my head and continued to drink half a latte.

Alice stopped talking about him, and I don't know how long it was, but when the next table changed, I said to Alice, "Don't talk about the past, okay?" ”

Alice's face was an expression that I couldn't read, a contradiction between questioning and silence. Maybe she thought I hadn't let go of the past.

At dinner in the evening, the waiter served a bottle of red wine, and I asked, "Aren't you pregnant?" ”

"This is specially prepared for you."

"I ...... Don't drink anymore. ”

"Huh? Forget it, let my husband drink it. ”

"If you can't finish drinking alone, you can retire."

"It's okay, he's a good drinker, and he's the one who's treated."

I knew that I was too mouthful, and I ate steamed Hong Kong-style dim sum in silence.

"Red bean paste is delicious."

"Yes."

I met her husband.

He was dressed very low-key, dressed in black and gray, and he couldn't tell that he was the owner of a small business. However, Alice later told me that they were eighteen years apart.

"Who is Miss Xie?" He speaks Hong Kong-style Mandarin.

"Fujian." I replied.

"Always developing abroad?"

"Husband, Hua is amazing, she was recognized as the first in their Chinese circle when she sang."

"It's not that exaggerated, she's joking." I laughed and answered him in English, including the rest of the conversation, which was also in English.

"Oh, no problem. After Alice gives birth, we will go to the mainland for a month together, and then you can help Alice introduce Fujian, she would like to go to your hometown. ”

I looked at Alice and didn't think she would remember me all these years.

"Okay."

I still don't want to speak Chinese.

Her husband was stunned and looked at Alice with his eyes.

The meal was so embarrassing and embarrassing, their driver sent me back, in fact, it was only a distance from an undersea tunnel, I really wanted to take a walk on the side by myself, but I heard that the taxi fare in Hong Kong is very expensive, in order to save money, I can only take the driver's car back.

The four of them sat in the car, the driver was driving seriously, and Alice and her husband occasionally communicated in English or Cantonese about family matters, such as when to go for a pregnancy check-up and when he was on a recent business trip.

I leaned back in the car tiredly, looking at the beautiful night sky, thinking about my days in prison.

After I went back, I used the Whats App to chat with Mu Mu, and it was morning on her side. She said that her brother had already gone to the market early to buy goods, and that he had just gotten up in the rented house, and when he was done, he went to a nearby restaurant to start business.

"Is business okay?"

"Business is good, I just came to do it for my brother. But the security here is not very good, and there are very few Chinese in Honduras. ”

"If you really don't like it, come back."

"Alas, you always call me back, but where can I go when I come back? People in China see that you have come back from a glittering foreign country, but you still can't afford to buy a house, and they don't know what to say about you behind your back. Even if you go back to China, what can you do, you still open the same store and do the same thing. I prefer it here in comparison. ”

I remember Mu Mu said that they were Cantonese, born in a very poor village in the countryside, and the young people did not go in and out, and they were not good at mixing. Like her, she escaped early and traveled through several countries and cities, and there are very few people who have seen a little bit of the world. She said she was lucky so she would never go back.

After that, we talked a few more words, and after that, she went to work in the store while I washed and went to bed.