"Thank you." Shu Ning glanced up at the person who came and was surprised, "It's you!" ”

"Yes, it's me." The person who came was the owner of the bar, Zhang Mingkai.

When Shu Ning first came to the bar to apply for a job, he was the one who received her, and then she didn't come back to work and didn't say anything to him in person, she was a little reluctant in her heart, and she came a few times after but never met him.

Zhang Mingkai sat down next to Shuning and asked, "Don't you mind, right?" ”

Shuning shrugged indifferently, "Feel free." "This is his bar, of course she can't chase people, and besides, she really wants someone to talk to her now, a stranger.

She picked up the wine and took a sip before putting it down again, a puzzled expression on her face.

Zhang Mingkai watched the change in the expression on her face, and couldn't help but chuckle: "What, is there a difference in drinking?" ”

Shu Ning replied truthfully: "The smell of wine is less, or rather, this is simply a glass of juice." ”

"It's amazing, you know it as soon as you enter it."

Shu Ning looked at Zhang Mingkai with an expression of intellectual retardation, not to mention that the taste is very different, even the appearance and color have changed, can she not see it?

Zhang Mingkai touched his nose and said with a smile: "Girl, what kind of wine to drink, this is my newly brewed fruit wine, which is suitable for a child like you." ”

Shu Ning is twenty years old this year, but he is indeed a child in the eyes of twenty-eight-year-old Zhang Mingkai.

She looked up at the man in front of her carefully, he was very mature, very tasteful, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, his complexion was a good-looking wheat color, and he was tall, and he looked like a person who had been exercising for a long time.

"You're running a bar, and you don't sell alcohol and you sell juice, isn't that funny?"

"Is it good?" Zhang Mingkai did not answer the rhetorical question.

Shu Ning picked up the wine glass and looked at it carefully, put it down with disgust, and came to a conclusion, "The taste is average, and the appearance is a little better." ”

And what she needed now was a glass of wine, a drink that would make her forget who she was for a moment.

"Can you get something I ordered before?"

Zhang Mingkai snapped his fingers, the waiter brought the wine, he took it and put it in Shu Ning's hand, and said firmly: "You have troubles!" Or that you're unhappy, you've been unhappy. ”

The reason why he was so sure was because Shu Ning had been here the first few times he had come to the bar, and he had seen her, but he had been silently watching her every time.

He found that every time the girl came in, she frowned slightly, had a cold face, only ordered a glass and sat by the window, and she would not pay attention to someone to talk, and she would leave after drinking, no more than half an hour before and after.

Come in with a cold face and go out with a cold face.

Drinking alcohol didn't seem to be of much use to her.

Shuning took a sip of wine, and suddenly had the idea of talking, so he said directly: "My brother, confess to me." Her expression was very light, as if she was saying something that had nothing to do with her, but the sadness in her eyes could not be hidden.

Zhang Mingkai looked at the look on her face, with an inexplicable familiar sense of sadness, and couldn't help asking, "Is it my own brother?" ”

"No, it's someone who has always been a younger brother." Shu Ning changed his posture, supported his chin with his hand, and looked down at the glass of fruit wine on the table that had not been removed, the color was bright and the layers were clear.

"Can you tell me what kind of person your brother is?"

Shuning said: "He is a good-looking headstrong child. Just like this glass of fruit wine in front of her, beautiful and dreamy, it can easily seduce people.

Zhang Mingkai asked again: "And then?" What happened between you? ”

Hearing this, Shu Ning tilted his head sideways to look at his eyes, his eyes were deep, and there was brilliance surging in them, they were a pair of eyes that could be trusted, just like the first time they met, Shu Ning could see the sincerity in his eyes.

Eventually, she nodded, and as if determined, she said, "I'll tell you a story." ”

Zhang Mingkai was delighted, an unknown joy, it seemed that it was a very gratifying thing to hear this girl's story.

He laughs and says, "I like to hear stories the most." "Especially the kind of stories told by people who seem to have a story.

Then he himself ordered a glass of wine, took a sip, and looked at Shuning with interest, waiting for her next words.

He would never have imagined that he would exist in Shuning's story, and the storyteller never knew about him, or even ignored him, but he himself never came out of that story.

"The story took place five years ago, it was a remote mountain village, and that was, my hometown......"

It was the winter of five years ago, and there was a lot of snow that year, and many cities in the south were hit by snowstorms.

In that remote mountain village, there is a family surnamed Ji, and there is only one family surnamed Ji in the whole village.

There was no mistress in the house, only a man and his daughter.

It was Ji Shuning and her father Ji Lin.

Ji Linben is not from that small mountain village, it's just that he and Shuning's mother Wang Jinwen met while working outside, and he fell in love with Wang Jinwen and "married" him thousands of miles away.

It's a pity that not long after they gave birth to their daughter, Wang Jinwen died of poor health.

This foreign man did not leave, because he loved his wife deeply, he took his daughter to continue to live in this small mountain village, poor but happy.

The villagers in the small mountain village are very simple, and no one said that they would be excluded from their family, but Shuning's mother's family has a granary handed down, which is often borrowed by the neighbors to put grain.

The season is honest and never refuses.

Later, the granary gradually became communal.

One day, two young masters came to this small mountain village on vacation and lived in the village chief's grandfather's house.

On the way home from school, Shu Ning heard that it was very strange, and when he got home, he asked his father: "Why do they come to us for a vacation without a holiday now?" and what is there to do in our mountain village? Didn't you tell me that it's fun in the city? ”

Ji Lin took out the fried vegetables from the pot and put them on the table, wiped his hands and said: "The children in the city have never seen the mountains or the countryside, so they naturally think that we are interesting here. ”

"Wow, it's a holiday so early? I also want to go to school in the city. At that time, Shuning was just envious of the early holidays of the children in the city, who thought that the child was willful, and he had to go to the countryside to play if he didn't go to school well.

"Alright, let's eat! Do your homework after eating. Ji Lin touched her child's head, and she should go to school in the city in the second half of next year, and she will go to high school.

The father and daughter only have one dish for dinner, which is fried shredded pork with green peppers, half of which is a large green pepper, and Shuning eats at school at noon.

Every time Shuning picks up vegetables, he sandwiches green peppers, and Ji Lin finally can't stand it, so he directly separates all the meat in the dishes and puts them all in the Shuning bowl.

"Dad, I'll just eat green peppers, and they also taste meaty." Shuning wanted to put the meat in his own bowl into his father's bowl.

But was stopped by his father, "Eat well." ”

"Daddy......"

Shu Ning was about to say something but was interrupted by her father, "It's our Ning Ning's birthday soon, what birthday gift does Ning Ning want?" ”

"Birthday present!" Shu Ning was immediately distracted, and asked uneasily and happily, "Can I ask for it?" ”

"Of course, Dad will definitely give you a birthday present this year."

"Really? I love any gift Daddy gave me. Shuning was very happy, but he didn't dare to open his mouth to ask for any gifts.

For a family like theirs, gifts are extravagant.

She thought that as long as her father was ready, she would be happy with whatever it was.

In the following days, Shuning had been looking forward to the time passing quickly, and it would be his birthday as soon as possible.

Just three days before her birthday, Shuning heard that the children from the city had returned.

It was snowing all those days, and she thought it would be wise for them to go back at this time, after all, the snow had covered the mountain village, so what was the fun?

The day before Shu Ning's birthday happened to be a Saturday, and Ji Lin took her to the city in a neighbor's truck to buy a new outfit.

Shuning was very happy, she thought that this was the best birthday gift she had ever received, but she was told by her father that it would be tomorrow's birthday, and there would be a real birthday gift.

Shu Ning was very happy, happily forgetting a lot of things, forgetting to think about how her father suddenly had money to celebrate her birthday.

After returning home, the living Shuning at home rushed to do it, including going to the granary to dig potatoes, and without saying a word to his father, Shuning stepped on the newly bought snow boots and walked happily towards the granary with an umbrella.

It was the last place she wanted to go, it was dark and cold, and it was a bit far away, and it would take a long walk from home.

But today, she would love to go.

The snow was falling, and after a while, the entire umbrella was covered with snow, and Shuning shook the umbrella and took out the key to the granary from his pocket.

In fact, the lock of the granary has long been useless, and the surrounding neighbors are equipped with keys, and in winter, they directly put their own grain and vegetables into storage.

"Squeak", Shuning pushed open the door of the granary, there was a slight dust rushing to her face, she reached out and fanned it, turned on the flashlight and walked straight to the innermost part of the granary.

Although the neighbors "occupied" their granary, they still didn't dare to occupy the innermost small pavilion, and it has always been used by the Shuning family themselves.

There was also a small door, and as soon as Shu Ning reached for the door to open with the key, the door was pushed open.

Shu Ning was stunned for a moment, thinking that her father must have come to pick up something before and forgot to close it, and she would definitely remember to close it when she dug up the potatoes.

The inside of the granary was cold and dry, there was no light, and the light of the flashlight was a little dim, and Shu Ning couldn't help but be a little scared, so she turned the flashlight to the maximum light.

Then he took out the small shovel he brought to dig potatoes and walked in step by step, Shu Ning didn't expect that she would see a person lying on the ground when she walked in.

"Ah......" she cried out in fright, and threw down her little shovel and ran out of the granary without looking back, until she was far away, and she was still terrified when she stood under the heavy snow.

It was a child, a man bound all over, and he had just stared at her with his bright dark eyes.