In the next second, He Zhixu handed the cup into the air, "Taste the caramel macchiato I blended?" ”

My heart moved, did you tune it for me? Everyone in the shop knows that I have a preference for caramel macchiato, while He often drinks the bitter black coffee. I once asked him privately why he liked to drink such bitter coffee.

He said: Coffee is like life, it always starts with bitterness, and as for whether it can be sweet, you have to create it yourself.

At that time, I thought that he must have suffered when he was young, so he would have this realization. Then he asked me why I had so many kinds of coffee, and I only preferred caramel macchiato. For example, most women will prefer cappuccino, or milky mocha.

My answer is the opposite: if there will be so much suffering in life, why not be a little sweeter?

Before today, he announced to his colleagues that I had left my job and was now making me a caramel macchiato in my cup, did that mean he knew I was coming today and was waiting for me? Suddenly, the questions that came to the mouth felt unnecessary, and some things were self-explanatory, so why bother to get to the bottom of it?

I smiled at him, took the cup and took a sip to my lips, waiting for the warmth to slide down my throat before whispering, "The sweetness could be a little thicker, you know I like sweetness." ”

He Zhixu smiled: "Alice, how much bitterness have you ever suffered so much that you have a soft spot for sweetness?" If you really like sweetness so much, next time I'll buy toffee directly for you to eat. ”

I deliberately shook my head: "NoNo, toffee is so sweet that it makes people forget the bitterness." The caramel macchiato is just right, bitter with astringency, sweet hidden in astringency, and the five flavors in the world have the most basic two flavors. ”

"From now on, as long as you come, I will make you a caramel macchiato with my own hands, with a sweetness of ten degrees."

I frowned, "Octave will be fine." ”

He Zhixu chuckled lightly and nodded again and again, "Well, it's an octave." ”

Then neither of them sat down, and each found a place to stand there very casually, and I sipped my coffee while listening to him tell about what had happened in the store in the past few days, and I couldn't help but laugh when I heard the interesting part. It feels like when I used to come to work in the store, and there was no disobedience.

Finally, a cup of coffee bottoms out and the atmosphere is just right.

As soon as I moved towards the pool, He Zhixu said, "Put the cup there, Lisa will come to wash it later, and next time you come to soak it for you." So I went with the flow, put the cup on the cabinet at hand, and straightened up to meet the gentle gaze, "That...... I'm leaving. ”

"Okay."

Turning around and taking two steps, he only heard a low voice behind him: "Chang Yuan." ”

Turning my head, this was the first time I had heard him call me by my real name since I joined the company, but he didn't speak, just looked at me quietly. For a moment, I understood his thoughts, smiled, and simply took the lead and asked, "Still friends?" He said, "Of course." ”

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After listening to my story, Zhu Ke's mouth opened wide in surprise: "Oh my God, I wish you had been missing for so long because you were taken care of by a local tyrant." "I hit her on the top of the head with a chestnut," what nonsense? ”

"What nonsense do I have? If you think about it, it's the owner of that mansion, and you said that there's an ancient castle behind that big mansion, and you've always lived in it. Oh, when you think about it, you feel like that Guxite is a domineering president. ”

I see that this little girl looks like a nymphomaniac and is hopeless, I know all day long that I watch those bloody thunder dramas, Gu Xi is still a domineering president? Unable to complain. Finally, after seeing that I ignored her, she returned to normal, touched me with her elbow and asked, "Then what are you going to do now?" ”

I don't understand, "What are you going to do?" ”

"Is it really that you don't associate with him like that?"

A black line appeared on his forehead, and he couldn't help but raise his voice: "When did I have a relationship with him?" Zhu Xiaoke, are you listening to me carefully, I have a master-employment relationship with him, he hired me to help him paint a picture, and now that the task is completed, the natural master-employment relationship has ended. ”

Zhu Ke hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, when I say wrong." Are you looking for a new apartment, or are you going back to your old apartment? ”

One sentence to the point. To be honest, I was hesitant to say that I hadn't been back to the apartment since it was destroyed, but because the police symbolically caught a few hooligans, the case was gone, and now I just need to sort it out. But the house was bought by Gu Xi before, should I avoid suspicion? Even if he may be busy, he has forgotten what he has done.

However, I had one more thing to do first, and after a moment of silence, I replied, "I'll be away for a few days." ”

Zhu Ke asked: "Where to go?" ”

Changcheng.

At four o'clock in the evening, the plane arrived over Changcheng. Pulling open the baffle of the window and looking down, seeing the rows of Jiangnan-style houses, I suddenly felt a sense of familiarity, and drove away the last trace of haze in my heart. I haven't been back for two years, I don't want my mother to be busy, and I didn't call her before leaving.

But when the plane landed and walked out of the airport, my mother's mobile phone couldn't get through. It didn't matter, anyway, it was half an hour away, and I got on the bus and sat at the window. Looking at the familiar streets, unfamiliar shops and some towering buildings, it will be a little touching in the end.

Next to her sat an aunt, talking to a boy in a local dialect. The boy was about six or seven years old, and he wasn't very steady on the bus. I glanced at my aunt, and just as she looked back at me, I smiled at the moment of the eye meeting, and got up and gave up my seat to the boy.

In the afterglow, the aunt smiled contentedly.

It's just a thoughtful episode in the city, it can happen in any corner of the city, and you can feel at peace with a little less care. What's more, the age of the aunt should not be much older than the mother.

I took it until the final terminal, and found that the aunt was holding the boy before getting off the bus, and it turned out to be from the same town. When I got out of the station, I passed them and walked in the direction of the village, thinking that my mother must have been silly when she saw me enter the door a few minutes later.

But when I walked into the village, I was stupid.

There were broken bricks and rubble, all the houses had been torn down, and only the shovel trucks and some shipping trucks were cleaning up the rubbish.

stared at it for a while before I reacted, no wonder I couldn't get through to my mother's phone after I settled in Changcheng, it turned out that what she said on the phone before was not a "stalk", and the old house was really demolished. But the problem is that my mother's elderly mobile phone is bound to the home number, and now I don't even have a home, and the natural phone line is broken, where can I contact her?

It's really ...... Plans didn't keep up, and it didn't help to stay where I was, so I ended up walking into town and finding a hotel to stay in. I really wanted to cry without tears, and when I came back, I wanted to surprise my mother, but I didn't even know where she was.

If he hadn't used my mobile phone to tell my mother that I was going out to sketch for two months and couldn't receive any communication, how could my mother not tell me such an important thing.

It was getting dark soon, and it wasn't the same thing for me to just stay in the hotel, but to go out and look for something to eat and see if I would meet acquaintances who could inquire about it. To my surprise, I met the aunt who was riding the bus in the evening in front of a bakery, and she still took the boy with her, and did not line up, but walked directly to the boss and shouted for two loaves of bread.

When she came out to see me after buying bread, she was also stunned, obviously not so forgetful that she would forget me after such a while. She looked me up and down and pulled the boy to leave, but she stepped out of the door and retracted, and asked hesitantly, "Are you a girl from the old Chang family?" ”

It was really a dramatic scene, where would I have thought that this aunt was from the same village, and I studied outside all the year round, even if I went home, it would be a few days after the New Year, so I couldn't recognize the aunt of the village.

I was very glad to give up my seat to my aunt's grandson on the bus, so when I was sure that I was a girl from the Chang family, my aunt told me very enthusiastically that our village had been demolished, and those who had children living in the city had moved out, and those who did not have lived in the resettlement house in the town temporarily. My mom falls into the latter category.

When my aunt led me to find it, I found that although it was a resettlement house, the environment was not bad, with a unified five-story small high-rise building and no elevator. The aunt said that my mother lived on the third floor, and after knocking on the door, she waited, and the iron door opened from the inside, and my eyes stopped on the honest face inside the door for a few seconds, and smiled slightly: "Hello uncle, is my mother here?" ”

The man immediately responded: "Yes." Instead, he shouted inward with a happy face: "Huifen, let's see who is back." ”

I only heard the sound of tapping and tapping footsteps getting closer and closer, and I finally saw the figure I had missed for a long time appear in my sight.

The old mother looked shocked and disbelieving: "Wish, why did you come back?" I winked at her and deliberately complained: "After an afternoon on the plane, I rushed to our village and pounced, and I haven't even eaten dinner yet." ”

Mom didn't say anything, and the man standing next to her greeted warmly first: "I wish to come in first, Ah Ling hurry up and heat up the food again, and I'll go out and buy two more cooked dishes and come back." ”

As soon as he welcomed me in, he hurried out the door.