When the two of us were chatting, Mr. Ah Qiang came over quietly and interjected: "Big brother, I went to the inn yesterday to look for you, and I wanted to ask you if there was anything you didn't understand, but you weren't there." As he spoke, he put his hand on my shoulder for a moment before he moved away.

I didn't explain anything to him at the time, I looked up at him, said thank you, and got up and went back to my seat, and I could already feel a wave of jealousy gushing out of Mr. Cuong's heart. I was thinking about whether I should ease his emotions when he came over again, leaned on the table and asked me, "Big brother, are you free for the evening, let's have some more drinks together." ”

I looked at him and nodded, and casually asked, "Just the two of us?" ”

"Well, just the two of us, I want to talk to you." He turned around and looked at Xiaobao again, then got up and returned to the podium, I raised my left hand to look at the time, it was exactly 8:30, and the sound of chatting in the classroom had stopped.

During the morning recess, Lynn didn't speak to me, just sat in her seat and took notes, as if nothing had anything to do with her. The little chubby girl across the table saw that I was looking at her and responded with a polite smile. I looked at Xiaobao next to me, who was holding a textbook and studying the recipe ratio of bread in a hurry. I poked him and asked, "Teacher Cuong didn't say anything else yesterday?" ”

"It seems that no, but when I finally answered the phone, I said that I would go over immediately, and then left without saying hello to me. I think he looked a little weird last night. ”

At noon, I told Mr. Cuong that I was a little sleepy, and I went back to the inn to rest for a while, and then went back to the inn.

When I was lying on the bed and thinking about whether I should send a message to Lynn, the message on my mobile phone rang, and when I opened it, I saw that I had a heart, Lynn sent a selfie photo of drinking coffee in the small coffee house next door, and attached the sentence "Guess who I am with?" ”。

My instinct told me that she must be with Mr. Cuong. I put down my phone and didn't reply to her, because I knew she didn't want me to give her an answer, she meant to let me guess.

I didn't fall asleep all afternoon, and my mood was the same as the weather outside the window, gloomy and breathless. It's the first time I've encountered this kind of weather since I came here. There was an eerie smell in the gray sky, and the noisy sound of chainsaws on the first floor was rushing over, and the feeling was as suffocating as if the throat was stuffed with cotton.

Life is sometimes like this, one second it is a sunny day, and the next second it may fall into the abyss. I lay in bed and thought about what happened last night, maybe it will be a beautiful and fleeting memory for me in the future. Thinking about Xiaobao's optimistic character that is indisputable with the world, I really hope that he can always maintain the purity of his original intention and not be dyed by the big dye vat of society.

I thought of Lynn and asked me if I really came to learn to make bread because I liked to eat bread, in fact, I didn't know why I came here to learn how to make bread, maybe it was just for me to come here to meet her, and to make an end to the past life in this life. I had in my mind what Mr. Cuong was going to tell me that night, if he could bring happiness to Lynn, I would bless them, but could he really bring her happiness, Lynn could not be hurt in any way now.

"Why do you provoke her when you know she can't be hurt anymore, why do you still touch her fragile and sensitive heart when you know you can't bring her happiness", I couldn't help but muttered to myself.

I don't know when I developed the habit of talking to myself when I'm alone, maybe it was developed after breaking up with her who was already a wife, I recalled the person who once made my heart hurt like a hammer, is she okay now, I haven't forgotten the pear blossom with rain and that decisive look when I left me, maybe I'll never forget it.

I searched everywhere but couldn't find her, she left the city where we lived together, and it is said that after leaving me, she got married very quickly. When I heard the news, she was already a mother of two children, and I was so happy for her, she finally met true happiness.

When I came to the small bar in the evening, Mr. Cuong had not yet arrived, so I looked up at the wall clock in the bar, and it was a little earlier than the time we had made, so I first found a corner and sat down in a corner, and asked for a bottle of Heineken beer, and a plate of pistachios to sit there and drink while waiting for him.

There weren't many people in the bar, and blues-style music wafted through the bar, giving people a feeling of nervousness, crying, and helplessness. The music seems to blend in with the dreary and oppressive weather at this time, suggesting that people must pour out their pain here tonight.

By the time Mr. Cuong arrived, I had already drunk not a drop of beer on the table.

"Drink some more wine, or let's have a bottle of wine and drink some romantic feelings."

"Pull it down, it's strange that today's weather can be romantic, and besides, you're not a little girl's pretty daughter-in-law, what's so romantic, it's better to drink beer in a big gulp." I replied with a joke.

We started out chatting over a glass of wine, and when I asked him how long he had been teaching in Shenzhen, he said it had been almost a year. He asked me if I would go back directly after studying, I said almost, I had lived in Shenzhen before, and almost all the places where I should play have been, and now I just want to have time to climb Wutong Mountain at night to feel the night view in the mountains. He said that it is better to climb during the day, and it is said that there are female ghosts in the mountains at night, which is very scary.

And just like that, I unconsciously drank the beer in the bottle again. He asked the waiter to open two more bottles, and asked for a plate of pistachios and a plate of hawthorn slices.

"Big brother, I saw you last night, in the book bar." He suddenly and abruptly changed the conversation and mentioned the events of last night. I watched as he didn't answer and motioned for him to continue.

"Big brother, I've been sitting in the book bar, don't you see me?" I wasn't surprised when he said this, because last night, Lynn was almost alone in my eyes.

"Oh, why didn't you come over to say hello, I didn't see you."

"Maybe you're too focused, I thought you didn't want to talk to me."

"Teacher Ah Qiang, you really think about it too much, I really haven't seen you, you know I never lie?" I smiled a little ashamedly.

"I sat with Lynn for a while at the coffee house across the classroom at noon today."

"Oh, how's it going, what are you talking about?" I asked tentatively, a little curious.

"She said you two spent a long time alone together last night before returning to the inn." At this point, I think I should make it clear to him about my last night with Lynn, though I don't object to him liking Lynn too.

"Teacher Ah Qiang, although the two of us have not been in contact with each other for a long time, I can feel that you are a righteous person, so I will not beat around the bush with you.

I admit that I lied to you yesterday when I told you that I was going to organize my notes, but that doesn't negate my own honesty, because I know that honesty is the foundation of everyone's life. "Benjamin Franklin" once wrote in his autobiography--- "There are two kinds of cleanliness that people should keep, one is the cleanliness of their own external and the cleanliness of their surroundings, and the other is the cleanliness of their own souls, no matter when, in good times or bad." He set a rule for himself not to lie, no matter what the circumstances, even if it is a white lie---". So I apologize to you for my lies yesterday! ”

I looked at the look on his face and continued, "I can tell that you have a crush on Lynn, and Lynn has said that you probably like her, which means that she doesn't hate you. Now the key is whether you can bring her happiness, whether you can continue to run on to her marathon relationship, I don't know if you are mentally prepared for this. ”

I picked up the glass on the table, drank the rest of the wine in one gulp, and continued, "If you can't, it's better not to touch her heart, she may not be able to afford to be hurt anymore." ”