The lights are on.

Outside the small restaurant, it began to rain again.

Ah Hong put down the dishes and chopsticks, and looked at the passers-by in the rain and fog outside.

Dazhi and I didn't dare to disturb her, there were no other customers in the small shop, and for a while, the house was quiet.

The boss came out of the back room and cleaned up the dishes for the other tables.

Hong seemed to come back to her senses.

She turned her head and smiled at us.

"Alas, this rainy day is sometimes quite annoying."

"You two have a good day today, I ordered all the signature dishes of the shop." , she quipped, while twisting her face to the small shopkeeper who had just come out.

"I haven't brought guests here yet, have I, boss?"

"Yes, yes, Ah Hong is a frequent visitor here, she likes to eat my dishes in my shop, she prefers the story I used to tell her about the old county, you don't know, in the past, this county was a famous high school, and those who went to school here will be admitted to college nine times out of ten, and the story of the college entrance examination in the county is called wonderful!" The boss smiled at us, and at the same time, sighed, I don't know whether to sigh at the excitement of the college entrance examination story, or to sigh at the glorious years when the shop and himself disappeared together with the county.

"The county has moved now, my story is coming to an end, I am also old, every year is not as good as a year, and it is estimated that there will be fewer and fewer people in the small shop in the future." With that, she shook her head.

"Times have changed, and it's getting harder and harder to do business!"

......

The meal was very simple, but the organization of the meal so far has been quite smooth.

"Sister, check out." , Dazhi picked up his bag and walked to the bar at the end of the hut.

The boss stood there and waved at him.

"It's the first time Ah Hong has brought a guest, and there is no one in the shop today, so I'm not busy, so I'm invited to the shop."

"You just have to come here more often in the future."

After she finished speaking, she smiled at us, and smiled very sincerely.

The boss insisted on refusing to accept the money, and Ah Hong didn't say anything, Dazhi stood there, a little embarrassed.

"Thank you, eldest sister, for inviting us to dinner." I stood up, walked over and pulled Dazhi, and winked at him.

It seems that this meal was designed by Ah Hong, and what we do is to add to the snake, so it's better to leave early.

"Well, thank you very much." , Dazhi was still a little unwilling, he looked back at Ah Hong, who was sitting there motionless, and was also a little embarrassed.

I originally wanted to curry favor with the leader, but the list was waived, which was an unexpected extra episode.

He bent down and bowed to his boss.

Walk back to your seat with me.

"Shall we go?" Hong stood up.

The boss of the Okiriya beckoned.

"Boss, thank you for your hospitality, in a few days, I will come to the store to find your old man to listen to the story!"

The boss owed a debt and smiled at her.

It seems that the two not only share the story together, but also have a rare tacit understanding like confidants.

Outside the shop, the rain began to fall more and more urgently.

Not long after the car started and left, Ah Hong turned her head unexpectedly and smiled at me.

"Big country manager, I'm making trouble for you by eating so late today."

"It's okay, it's okay, it's not troublesome, it's not troublesome." , I didn't understand the meaning she wanted to express for a while, and muttered vaguely, and at the same time lowered my head, not daring to look at her eyes.

"Boss Dazhi, stop at my office in front of me for a while, I need to go up there to pack up a little things, can you bother to wait a minute, let Comrade Daguo go upstairs and do me a favor?"

Hong's words made me a little nervous.

I feel like a chick caught by an eagle, completely deprived of the right to control my own destiny.

This kind of awkward encounter, I have always tried to avoid being alone with Ah Hong.

And, in my personal opinion, there really is no need to get closer to each other.

After all, Ah Hong's identity is different, and she is in a besieged city.

In view of this, after eating, I actually wanted to hurry away, but I didn't expect such an unexpected episode.

I quickly poked the seat of Daishi in front of me in the back.

Motioned for him to help me get out.

Unexpectedly, it was still half a beat slower.

Instead of ignoring my prompt, he readily agreed.

"Okay, Director, it's okay, it's okay for us to be in a big country, just listen to your arrangement, as long as we can do it, the director just orders."

He immediately replied.

I didn't notice the anomaly of Ah Hong's extra request.

I couldn't find a reason to get out.

Dazhi should have completely misunderstood my prompt!

"Thank you then."

Ah Hong's tone was calm and she stopped talking, her face was very calm, she stared intently out of the car window, and stopped talking.

I sat in the back, my mind racing and wondering what I was going to face in a moment.

"What will she talk to about when she comes to me alone?"

"After so many years, is she still like me, and it is difficult to let go of the bits and pieces of Huang Lou's study and life?"

"How much does she know about me and Ding Ling?"

......

The car quickly drove downstairs to the EPA.

I couldn't find any excuse to get out, so I had to follow Ah Hong upstairs obediently like a lamb to the slaughter.

The building was quiet, and there seemed to be no one in the huge building, and it felt empty, just like my heart, and my thoughts wandered and there was nothing to fall into.

My head was a little dizzy, and although I didn't drink a drop of wine at dinner, I always felt light and drunk.

A Hong Tingting walked briskly in front of me.

He never said a word.

She was supposed to be just as nervous as I was, and I stood beside me and watched her hand open the office door, shaking all the time.

The door opened, and I followed her in.

Ah Hong didn't turn on the light, and took the door with her backhand.

In the darkness, she threw herself into my arms.

I felt her hug tightly.

Her hot lips kissed me on the cheek.

Her mature body was hot and clung to my chest.

A faint smell of perfume stimulated the hormones in my body, and my brain went blank.

"After parting, memories meet. A few soul dreams with you. ”

All the distances caused by ten years of parting were smeared clean at the moment of embrace.

I understand at the moment that Ah Hong's feelings for me are as good as ever.

The indifference I showed in front of Dazhi just now was just a performance.

A grown woman's passion is enough to ignite all the passions that lie within all men.

For a moment, I was a little dizzy, and countless ripples rippled in my heart.

However, my sanity prevailed in the end.

Even though Ah Hong still loves me, after all, she is no longer a little girl in the Yellow Mansion period, I still don't know anything about her current situation, how can I easily trivialize her feelings?

Besides, my feelings for her and the feedback she expected from me were two completely different outcomes!

I love her, but this kind of love is fundamentally different from the love of men and women, this kind of love is true and pure, and there is no room for a trace of defilement.

I stiffly spread my arms and pushed her away.

"Ah Hong, don't, don't do this."

In the dark, although I couldn't see each other's expressions clearly, I still felt her disappointment.

Breaking away from my embrace, she turned on the light and silently walked to her seat.

I sat across from her and looked at her sad face, with faint tears on it.

"How are you doing all these years?" I asked softly, feeling sorry.

"Not good." She regained her composure, buried her head in her hands, and her voice was a little choked.

"What about you? You're supposed to be doing well, right? You've been to college, you've been to a big city, and now you're the boss! She looked up at me, her eyes flickering, and she asked hatefully.

"Oh, I, I'm just blind." , I did not have a good time, her question, reminded me of Ding Ling, remembered Ding Ling's ruthless harm to me, and after the separation, I swore to force myself to get ahead, all the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, just in the deserted mountains, no one was lying in the iron room of the container, and survived the purgatory-like midsummer.

How many people understand that they are trapped by love, their lives are embarrassed, and they are once desperate?

Now, in the face of Ah Hong, who met again after ten years, and her affection as always, for a while, I couldn't help but feel excited, looking at her tearful familiar face, I almost didn't shed tears.

"In this world, there is still such an excellent woman who likes herself, but it's a pity, what a regret this is!"

There was silence for a long time.

"You're married, he'..... Is he okay with you? I asked a stupid question.

She didn't answer me, just nodded with a gloomy expression.

"I don't love him at all."

Her tears flowed again.

"I love you, I can't forget you!"

She stared at my face, reverted to the indifference she had seen at first sight, and seemed to want to eat me in one bite.

"I hate you!"

"Aren't you leaving, aren't you going to college, going to Beijing, and doing your big thing? Why did you want to come back? Still coming to see me? ”

Her tone was poignant, as if she were reprimanding an ignorant child.

"Ah Hong, how can she understand my distress when I come back?"

"When I went to university and went to Beijing, how many hardships did I suffer and how much did I suffer?"

I bowed my head in the midst of her condemnation.

"I'm sorry, I really didn't know that Dazhi was dating you today."

"I didn't mean to see you."

......

My voice was getting lower and lower.

I felt sad for a while.

I really can't face Hong's emotions, and cowardly avoidance has always been my best choice.

However, by accident, God made us meet again so awkwardly.

Facing Ah Hong, in the face of her desperate expression, I thought of Ding Ling again, I was thinking, if I hadn't chased Ding Ling like a moth to a fire and didn't bother her, maybe I wouldn't have suffered the humiliation that no man in the southwest town could not let go.

"Ah Hong, really, our meeting today was an accident!"

I'm a little bit out of my mouth, bent on getting out of here as soon as possible, leaving this annoying emotional right and wrong.

"Great power, you know what? You are a man without a conscience. My words seemed to stir up an invisible anger in her heart.

I looked at her, speechless for a moment.

I don't know what else I can say.

"Have you ever loved me?" She stood up and wiped her eyes with her hand.

"I love you and I've always been grateful." , my tone is very sincere, and what I say is also from the heart.

"I don't want your gratitude! I just want you to love me. She looked excited and roared under her breath.

She seems to have lost her mind, completely returned to the unforgettable years of the Yellow Mansion, and became a girl who did not know anything about the world.

"Ah Hong, listen to me, I have always treated you as a family member, I love you as a relative." At this point, I tried to make our feelings clearer.

"No, you don't have that right! You are not my relatives at all! She shook her head desperately, tears completely consuming her makeup, and her face was distorted intimidatingly.

"I've lost everything for you!"

I was shocked by her words.

I couldn't understand the meaning of her words.

"What did I pay to prove that I wasn't worse than you, you know?"

"You know how humble I have lived to get your love?"

"You are now saying lightly, you are my relative, you don't love me at all, you have no right, you don't have this right!"

I gradually calmed down in her crying.

Indeed, I made a fatal mistake, that is, I shouldn't have chosen to avoid it from the beginning, just like the relationship between me and Ding Ling, in fact, we are both losers in the handling of emotions.

Ten years later, how can there be a perfect solution?

I looked at her as she was almost in a frenzy, and I was a little at a loss.

"Great country, you listen well."

Ah Hong stared into my eyes and said word by word.

"Remember, I'm not catching up with you now, I'm negotiating with you!"

"I'm looking for you, you've been torturing me for so many years, and I'm going to have a break with you today."

I expected this, from the car just now, she asked me to go upstairs, I knew that today's things must not be so simple.

"I love you and I hope you love me like a man!"

I shook my head, I will not agree to this request until I die, this is a moral bottom line issue.

She seemed a little desperate when she saw my resolute refusal.

"You love me, I will give up everything for you!"

I didn't speak, still shaking my head, I knew what she wanted to do.

"I give up my public office and my family for you."

She looked at me with teary eyes and seemed to be pleading again.

"Ah Hong, you are sensible, it is really impossible between us."

My eyes are also a little moist, there is a woman in this world who loves me so unforgettable! But what a beautiful mistake this love is. I love her too, but I can't ruin her.

She shuddered as she reconfirmed my refusal.

"I will use all the resources in my county to leave you with nothing!"

"I'm going to show you what it's like to have nothing!"

She completely lost her mind and yelled.

In the quiet office building, her mournful shouts echoed.

I stood up and looked at her, hoping that she would calm down.

"Ah Hong, calm down, let's find a chance to have a good chat again, okay?"

"Get out!"

She pointed to the door and yelled at me viciously.

", I don't want to see you right now."

I know that the best option right now is to leave.

I silently walked out of her office.

Behind her came her uncontrollable howls.

It was pouring rain outside, and lightning and thunder were roaring.

Dazhi was waiting for me downstairs, I got into the car and looked up at Ah Hong's office upstairs, and the only window with light reflected a graceful figure.

I felt the hateful gaze of my master.

In the blink of an eye, the lights went out.

The entire office building fell silent.