Shi Ting greeted her warmly, introduced everyone to Miss Su, the owner of the café next door, and then handed her meat skewers and beer to invite her to join.

Miss Su is very beautiful, about thirty years old, she looks intellectual and capable, and she should be better at playing with petty bourgeoisie, which is the biggest selling point of the coffee industry on Gulangyu Island. I always feel that although some industries are not so face-oriented, they still need a certain temperament to be successful.

Miss Su ate a bunch very elegantly, praised our craftsmanship, and then asked strategically what to do with the equipment, it seems that she knows that Shi Ting is handling the sale of this villa. She said that there are too many cafes on the island now, and everyone is working hard to diversify, from the original coffee and pastry to the current simple food must-have, the trend of restaurant is obvious, maybe she should learn from the former owner here, she said: "As long as you control the number of furnaces at the same time, it will not mess up the environment, and it can also create an atmosphere." ”

Shi Ting was very bold and directly agreed to send these equipment, he said that there are two sets in the warehouse, and there are still some anthracite charcoal, and if you want to increase the project, you can use these to test the water transition. Miss Su was very happy and warmly invited us to sit in the store and come back to pick up these utensils when we needed them.

Miss Su left, and after a while she asked the clerk to bring some fruits and drinks, as well as a few vouchers, saying that if we went to eat and she was not there, she would use these vouchers to settle the bill.

Shi Ting said: "Look at this well-behaved, it will really come to trouble." ”

Ding Yao said: "People don't owe you favors, this woman is very shrewd, what she wants is the old stove, what she wants is the feeling of a mature business, otherwise these fruits and vouchers are completely enough to buy three new ones." ”

It was almost nine o'clock when it was over, Shi Ting and I put away the stove, and Jiang He and Ding Yao cleaned up. Shi Ting said to me: "I think about it, and the more feasible plan is to dig a pit in our own yard and go down to the well at about the same depth." ”

I couldn't help frowning and looking at him: "You said it lightly, a pit of more than ten meters is a four-story building, this is a tourist attraction, how do you explain it to the management committee?" Do you think everybody is stupid? When the time comes, it will alarm the police to come to investigate. I feel like your game is getting more and more overplayed. ”

Shi Ting said: "I have a good relationship with that Miss Su for this, I find a reason to renovate the turf and drainage ditch or something, cover the yard, and then say that there is a problem with the sewage system and dig a deep pit, which can be properly reported to the management committee." ”

I still can't agree: "If you are engaged in construction yourself, you should know that unless you dig such a deep pit very large, the façade needs to be reinforced, and the horizontal hole needs to be supported. ”

Shi Ting said: "I have also considered these, and I really need to take some risks, otherwise what should I do?" ”

I put my hand on his shoulder: "What you need to do is to tell yourself that all this is your fantasy, I think your life is too dull and boring, you need to stimulate yourself, so you have a delusional fantasy of such a treasure hunting drama." ”

After cleaning up, Jiang He and I went out for a walk, and we walked slowly along the narrow streets under the dim 19th-century European-style street lamps. At this time, the crowd of tourists has receded, and most of the people staying on the island are couples, so from time to time you will meet men and women with comfortable and happy faces. I said to Jiang He, "This small island is strong enough to withstand so many couples." Jiang He didn't seem to understand, and nodded very seriously.

The road on Gulangyu Island is basically built on a winding mountain, connected like a spider web, we turned a few corners to a road on the villa hill, and the left side can see the roof of the villa under the mountain pass, and on the right side is the white church of black and black and a cemetery of white flowers. Because of the change of plan, the previous path was gone, and a row of tall palm trees was planted between the two, and a lot of triangular plums were planted in between, so the two were barely separated, and I can hardly see the church cemetery from the rear window on the third floor today.

When their grandfather built the house, there was no church, and they didn't expect that a church would be built behind the house and then become their own family and a cemetery for decades, and they didn't expect that the house would be lost inexplicably for more than 20 years after the change of regime and then lost and regained. Now all kinds of problems seem to be solved, but they are going to be sold again, the world is really impermanent, and the back and forth is to play tricks on people and toss people.

It took me about an hour to turn around, and when I was about to return to the gate, Jiang He asked me: "Today I noticed that you and Shi Ting are muttering very sneaky, your friend is too active, and you should be honest when you go out." ”

Although I don't think there is anything to keep secret about Shi Ting's daydream, but after all, it is about others, and if the matter is really related to the safety of property, it is really not good for me to spread it without Shi Ting's permission, so I prevaricated in a sloppy way.

After going back, everyone took turns to take a bath, and then blew the wind on the balcony, Shi Ting came over to me and said: "The sleeping bag I specially bought is an envelope-style couple, and there is a chain on the side that can be combined into a double sleeping bag, not to mention that you may not know." I nodded perfunctorily.

After a while he whispered again, "Don't lock the door at night, I'll look for you when they sleep, and then we'll go to visit, and the café will be open until one o'clock in the morning." ”

I glared at the madman in disapproval, but he ignored me.

Before going to bed, I took an opportunity to reiterate again that I should not mess around, but he only replied to me: "Jiang He is very beautiful, you can take it easy." ”

When I returned to the room, Jiang He and I didn't feel sleepy for a while, so we sat cross-legged on the windowsill and looked at the moonlight outside in a daze. I said to Jiang He: "I don't like villas very much, I live in them like an exploiting class, separating myself from the people, and living here for a long time will be very lonely and boring." ”

Jiang He said: "Don't say it so freshly, that's because you are too ordinary, ordinary to the core, and enjoy being an ordinary person." ”

I said, "Don't say it so freshly, just say that I don't want to be motivated, and dog meat can't be eaten." ”

Jiang He looked away from the flowers outside the window and looked at me: "I've been thinking for the past two days that maybe you're right, don't spend time on things that don't have results." ”

"What do you mean?"

"Maybe I shouldn't be obsessed with investigating the so-called truth, I care too much about my personal feelings."

I was silent for a while, and then said to Jiang He: "Your decision is also right, many things you do in life turn out to be meaningless, but the process reflects our attitude towards ourselves." In a few days, we will go to Xinjiang, and the happiest thing is not only to do what we love, but also to support the people we like. ”

Jiang He stretched out his hand to hold my hand, and we looked out the window for a long time without speaking.

Then Jiang He said very suddenly: "I have been to Gulangyu, and I have been to Xiamen twice before, both during the period when I came back from university in Japan to visit relatives. ”

I said, "You're not going to bring a boyfriend, are you?" ”

Jiang He shook my hand away, and then said to himself: "Before I came to Xiamen twice, my father solemnly warned me not to contact you, otherwise it will cause big trouble, and if something goes wrong, he will definitely not treat you, etc., every critical moment he uses this to threaten me, do you think I can have a good relationship with him?" The experiment has affected me more than yours and has been longer than you, and I am always unwilling not to investigate. ”

I said, "Yes, I know about this matter and the treatment has only been more than half a month now, whereas ten years ago you were just treated for more than two months." ”

Jiang He stopped talking, and after a while I asked her: "There is something I have always been puzzled about, I said that I was leaving, and your father let me go without saying a word, and he didn't even explain any precautions, aren't you afraid that I will go to the hospital when I am sick and find out that there is a big problem?" ”

Jiang He snorted and said: "Of course he is not afraid, our indicators are normal in general routine tests, and no hospital needs to do a full genome sequence diagram for routine examinations, and now it costs fifty or sixty thousand yuan to make one, although it is more than a thousand times cheaper, are you willing to do it?" So as long as you don't do a whole genome sequence map, it's fine. Besides, my dad also knew that we would try to avoid getting involved in these things, after all, we wanted to live like normal people. ”

I asked, "What if I take a genetic test for a certain program?" For example, paternity testing or ancestry investigations, after all, these tests cost only a few hundred, and they are relatively common. ”

Jiang He said: "Those are just random checks on individual genetic items, just like looking up a certain entry in a dictionary, they can find everything they want to check and are normal, as long as they don't look through the entire dictionary page by page, they won't find that our dictionary has more entries than others." ”

The two of us were in a state of mind for a while, and I figured that the Sting piling campaign was almost over, so I lay down and prepared to sleep. Jiang He lay beside me and read the e-book for a while, and then fell asleep.

Both of us consciously or unconsciously maintain the old appearance of the relationship, neither of us is willing to break out of the pattern of more than a decade ago, and seems to enjoy it, perhaps cherishing the past too much, but fearing that change will be disappointing.

I was sleeping in a daze and felt that someone was moving my feet, and when I saw that it was Shi Ting, he crawled into most of his body like a dog, saw that I woke up and his eyes lit up, and waved me out.

I got up and took my clothes by the moonlight and followed him out, gently covered the door, and then tiptoed downstairs, only a few steps down when I heard Jiang He behind me ask, "What are you doing here?" Then the lights came on suddenly.