The man who has always followed Jin Hua regards the lively and shrewd Jin Hua as the leader, and even the man who has been on the same road through thick and thin as his brother. Needless to say, the relationship between Tang Jianyu and Jin Hua is better than that of his own brothers. Whether it is out of a consistently good impression of Tang Jianyu himself, or a yearning for his brother's closest relationship circle, or a flattery to the boss, the man can't stand by and watch Tang Jianyu. "Hey, my wife and children are all in my hometown, and I will be a bare-bones commander when I go back, it's rare that Brother Tang is interested, so I'll sit with you for a while!" The store manager saw Tang Jianyu's strange appearance and decided to stay and take care of it.

Obviously, Tang Jianyu wants to be alone at the moment. After a few words of pushing, Tang Jianyu was defeated in front of the store manager who was well versed in communication, waved his hand and said weakly: "It's okay, if you are here, you are not afraid that you will not be able to drink good wine." When the man heard this, he smiled and replied: "That's right." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and swept through the storefront, "Here, my brother Jin is not familiar with me yet!" Even the cleaning aunt was found by me. Tang Jianyu showed his first smile in the past few days and nodded, "Yes, Jin Hua really can't do without you." ”

"Yes, you are all wise people who grasp the direction, and we will do the trivial things. Like opening a new store, where to open it, and with whom...... I don't have any idea of anything like that. The man said sincerely, Tang Jianyu felt comfortable listening to it, and said: "Also, do what you are good at." It should be said that you are indispensable and a great partner. "Haha!" The man touched his head, raised his eyebrows and said, "I, I hope to follow Brother Jin until retirement!" ”

When it was almost three o'clock, the people in the bar began to disperse gradually, the store manager had long been paying attention to the window seat that Tang Jianyu had been accustomed to, and the four young people finally got up and left, he quickly called someone to clean it up and transferred it with Tang Jianyu. "Oops!" In order to adjust the atmosphere, the store manager made an exaggerated voice when he sat down, and said, "It's still comfortable to sit here, right?" Tang Jianyu nodded with a smile, and the man pointed to the bar and nodded on the table, "Next time, don't drink alone, if you want to drink, call me!" ”

"Huh." Tang Jianyu laughed out loud at the simple infection of the rough man. Since then, the two have been talking with each other, although there is no common topic due to the barrier of the industry, but fortunately, both of them are relatively frank, neither defensive nor spy, so the conversation is smooth. No matter how bad it is, there is Jin Hua's intersection, and he really doesn't know what to say, so he pulls out his trivial matters to save the scene.

"The last time I saw you was at Brother Jin's daughter's birthday party, you are the child's godfather!" The store manager said, "I saw that he was so happy that day, he greeted you with all the means in society, and he didn't persuade you to drink a drop of wine, so angry that he blew his eyes and glared, and a group of us laughed badly!" Tang Jianyu knew that he cared about the reason for his drinking, so he only pursed his lips and smiled: "Actually, I can't stand it, fortunately, I can't drive drunk." Seeing that Tang Jianyu didn't answer, the store manager had to turn the conversation, rubbed his thighs and sighed: "The relationship between the two of you is really good!" ”

"To be honest, I really envy you, your family is a high-level intellectual, and you are all real social elites, which is different from us who came out of the mix since childhood!" These words are true, and they are also hidden in the bottom of the man's heart, Tang Jianyu shook his head, "It's all the same, it's just that you go to the east and I go to the west, there is no difference between high and low." He tilted his head to look at the man, "I'm not just a teacher!" When the man heard that he couldn't agree, he was so excited that he wanted to get up and refute, but Tang Jianyu stretched out his hand to stop him.

"There is no shame in teaching Mr. Teach." Tang Jianyu smiled, "You probably know, Jin Hua and I were colleagues in a very remote village primary school!" The store manager was familiar with this past, touched his head and said: "Yes, yes, the first time I saw you, Brother Jin introduced me like this, I really believed it at that time, and I regarded a scientist as a private school, haha!" Tang Jianyu also laughed, took a sip of soda, and the burning heat that had just been accumulated in his chest seemed to begin to recede.

"Hey, I remember!" The store manager patted the door of his brain, "There is a girl ......" and kept saying "I remembered" but he couldn't remember it, and the door of his brain was "popped". "It's you and my Brother Jin when they were students in the village elementary school, I've been here a few times, what's it called, hey......" The man scratched his ears and cheeks when he thought about it, and raised his eyes to look at Tang Jianyu, but for some reason his expression was more tangled than his own.

He looked at the store manager in a daze, making the store manager more serious, squeezing his eyes and thinking desperately, "Oh, I asked, why can't I scream on the side of my mouth......" Tang Jianyu had a strange premonition, and couldn't help but clench the slender glass, and spit out a syllable in his mouth, "Yes......" "Ah, yes!" The man struck the loudest palm on his forehead, and the index finger of his right hand kept swinging, shouting: "Shi Jiaojiao! That's what it's called! ”

It had been filling his brain before, and the groggy mess was swept away, Tang Jianyu's ears moved, his throat suddenly became dry, and he nodded unnaturally. The careless man didn't notice, completely immersed in the excitement of finding a new topic, and said happily: "I have seen this one of you two students, and I am really impressed!" Tang Jianyu's obvious change in expression made the store manager sure that he had found the right topic, and he put his hand away and said seriously: "It's not because she's beautiful, it's mainly because this girl is unexpected!" ”

"How so?" Tang Jianyu asked lightly, "Listen to me." The store manager cleared his throat, "I've seen her twice in total, and I still remember her." Tang Jianyu looked at the other party intently and nodded, the man moved the cup in front of him to the side, leaned forward to the other side, and seriously recounted the two encounters with Shi Jiaojiao many years ago: one was the midsummer when Shi Jiaojiao graduated from high school, and at Xia Lei's birthday party, she fought against the "Second Ancestor" alone; Another time was in the late spring of the year when Tang Jianyu finished studying abroad, when the store was renovated for the third time, she suddenly appeared.

"Oh, you didn't see it, the little face is no longer bloody, and we have to find the boss when we catch our part-time students at that time!" It may be that Shi Jiaojiao's appearance was too poignant at that time, but now that I think about it, it is as vivid as in front of me. "It sounds like I'm here to ask someone." The store manager recalled, glanced at Tang Jianyu and said: "I think she was delirious at the time, so she pulled me and asked without a head, but fortunately, Brother Jin also came to the store later and took her to the office to calm her down." ”

Tang Jianyu unconsciously straightened his body, and asked with a solemn expression: "Then do you know what she came to do that day?" The man Nunu shook his head and said, "She is here to find Brother Jin, and we don't want to ask too much about that look." I remember casually replying to her at the time, the boss went to eat white wine...... Obediently, the little girl can't even stand on her feet when she hears it! Later, when I saw Brother Jin, I was like crazy, and kept asking if he had been buried! I guess it's someone you all know is gone......"

Tang Jianyu bit his lip unconsciously, and searched for the event that coincided with this incident with all his might, thinking about it and not getting the point, "The people they know together, probably except for me and Shao Wenyu, have not heard the news of anyone's death, what can make her react so violently......" "It happened a few years ago, so I remembered to say this casually." The store manager saw that Tang Jianyu, who had finally relaxed, had a tense expression, but he regretted mentioning it a little.

The man scratched his head, "I, I remembered, she saw Jin Hua and asked rhetorically, 'Aren't you his good friend?' I guess it has something to do with this good friend. Tang Jianyu's two eyebrows were almost twisted together, "Good friend? "Isn't that just me? Tang Jianyu couldn't think of anything, he couldn't help but knock on his temples, and the store manager was even more flustered, and stretched out his hand and said, "Alas, what's so difficult about this, ask Brother Jin another day, if it's a big event, it's impossible for him to forget." ”

Tang Jianyu raised a hand, his eyes kept rolling, not so much talking to a man as talking to himself, "I remember, it was that time!" Had a phone call...... I was ...... in the South at the time," he said as he stood up, picked up the navy blue coat that the store manager had put on the edge of the sofa, walked down the steps and turned back, pressed the store manager on one shoulder and said, "Thank you for delaying you so much!" Let's go back and rest, and we will definitely eat together another day. ”

After speaking, he walked out decisively, with a tall posture, impatient and steady steps, as if he had not touched a drop of wine. The inch-headed man turned his head to see Tang Jianyu leave, turned his head and thought about it, and smirked inexplicably, "Scholars are just strange." He got up and went to the bar to talk to the bartender, and then left the bar.

You can't go wrong! At that time, he had just returned to China, and while sending his cousin, who had graduated from Germany, back to the south, he attended an academic report with the teacher of University B, which was also his first official appearance in the domestic mathematics community. At that time, he was at the end of a speech, Jin Hua unexpectedly made two phone calls, hung up at first, and followed him the second time just in time for the intermission.

At first, no one spoke, only the faint nasal sound of breathing, and when he anxiously asked twice, there was actually a young woman opposite, "wow" cried out, and scolded "bastard" heartbreakingly, he remembered every detail at that time, because the voice was very similar to Shi Jiaojiao. The phone was quickly hung up, and Tang Jianyu immediately called back, and Jin Hua explained that it was a drunk lovelorn guest. He was skeptical until he got in touch with Shi Jiaojiao the next day.

"That's two people teaming up to lie to me." Tang Jianyu walked quickly through the dark aisle, found the car and drove to the main road in the city. He held the steering wheel with one hand and pressed the other under his nose, and his mind didn't stop for a moment: she was out of control because someone had died, and this person was still related to me, and for some reason she couldn't contact me directly......

Outside the windshield is the silent city of the early morning, and thick black clouds hang in the sky, like a mysterious curtain before dawn appears. Tang Jianyu silently drove in the direction farther and farther away from home, he wanted to find Jin Hua as soon as dawn broke.