The sky is getting dark, and the number of pedestrians on the road has become sparse. Many shops have closed their thick roller blinds very early, and the usually busy streets show a rare tranquility.
A glass door of a coffee shop opened. I stepped on the snow and hung a festive red lantern on the door: "It's so cold!" Winter in the north is particularly cold, especially during the Chinese New Year.
I turned back to the deserted hall, took out a white envelope from my pocket, and handed it to a handsome young man at the bar. This man was my good friend Xia Chong.
Xia Chong took the envelope, stuffed it directly into his pocket, then punched me hard in the chest and said with a smile: "Ren Xiaoyao, your dream has finally come true."
Yes! I nodded. My parents are archaeological experts. I have rarely seen them since I was sensible. They often go abroad for archaeology, and the time for family reunion is very limited. During those years without my family, I was very lonely.
.From that time on, I secretly made up my mind to become an archaeologist and my family would always be together.
"Yeah! My parents are going back to China tomorrow." It's been half a year since I graduated, and they just came back from their planned foreign country. When they come back, I have to complain to them. I used my speaking skills to tie a beautiful box with a bow.
"This box is a high-end Rolex ladies watch, given as a gift? Could it be..." Xia Chong winked, and I punched him on the shoulder angrily: "Who else could it be besides Chen Yan? Last time
I saw her standing in the window looking fascinated, so I bought her one. "Chen Yan is my girlfriend and the campus beauty of the university. Many people pursued her, but in the end she chose me. I feel very lucky.
"With the little money you earn, you actually bought her such expensive things. If I were a woman, I would definitely ask you to be my boyfriend."
Shu: "You're going to die!" While we were laughing and scolding, my cell phone rang.
"I love you to my core..."
My girlfriend set a cell phone ringtone for me. Every time I heard it, I felt embarrassed. After all, I am the kind of person who is not good at expressing love in a positive way. I smiled awkwardly at Xia Chong and opened my phone.
Chen Yan's sweet voice came from the cover: "Have a wonderful New Year, my dear, I miss you."
"I miss you too." I looked around and said in a low voice, looking around for no one.
Xia Chong couldn't stand our disgusting behavior and understood my temper. He was very sensible and stepped aside to sort out his account books.
"That matter, have our parents agreed to the invitation letter to go abroad?" Chen Yan wanted to go abroad, and she mentioned this to me several times.
As soon as Chen Yan decided something, she kept coquettishly talking to me and kept asking me to compromise. I said, "I can't contact them these days, but they will be back today, no problem."
Chen Yan happily said: "It doesn't matter what time it is, I just don't want to be separated from you." She was rarely reasonable today. It seemed that her attitude towards me had changed a lot. I raised my voice and said, "Me too."
At this time, a piece of paper flew down at my feet. Xia Chong quickly walked over and pulled the piece of paper back with a swish. His movement was very fast, and I still vaguely saw the word 'for sale': "Dear
Yes, I still have something to do, I’ll call you when I’m done.”
"Yes, please do your business." Chen Yan is very sensible. There are few beautiful girls who are as considerate as her. How lucky you are to have such a woman by your side.
Hehe! Xia Chong smiled weirdly on the side, holding a pen and gesturing on the paper: "I am usually such a low-key person, but I act in a high-profile way, and yet I got the school belle. It's incredible."
I folded the cover of my phone and pressed the hand holding his pen: "Don't talk about anything else. Do you really want to sell this cafe?"
Xia Chong nodded, gently pushed my arm away, and signed his name on the paper without hesitation: "You are gone, what's the point of leaving the cafe alone? This place seems to be crowded with people.
I made a lot of money, and most of it was given to the relevant departments. The actual money in my hands was less than five figures. After working for a long time, I still looked at other people's faces and worked for them. I might as well sell it to make up the balance of the mortgage.
." Xia Chong likes freedom by nature and hates restraint. This is the same as me, so we became close buddies.
Two years ago, Xia Chong won a lottery worth 2 million. We were still in college at that time, and he was going to invest the money. When I thought that most of the college courses were self-study, I volunteered to help. Xia Chong is a generous person.
, I have a lot of friends, and I am good at making coffee and making cakes, so I have a lot of customers who come to support me every day.
In addition, we are both very handsome, and more than 80% of the regular customers who come to our place are women, who often give us tips. Despite this, our operating profit can only barely cover our daily expenses. Every time Xia Chong looks at the account book,
The fire was so big that it finally broke out.
It's okay to close it down, but I feel sorry for our old customers who take care of us. I won't advise him: "Now that you have made up your mind, I will support you. What are you going to do in the future?"
Xia Chong took out a large box from under the bar. The center of the box was marked with the word IEC. IEC is the abbreviation of International United Electronics Corporation. Recently, a cross-generational online game "Fantasy World" was released, and the TV commercials were very hyped.
, a gaming helmet sells for up to 30,000rmb.
Xia Chong patted the box with his left hand, and his whole body suddenly became relaxed, as if some burden had been lifted: "We will become professional players from now on. At least there is no million-dollar tax in the game. No matter how much he earns, no one
My neck is stuck, and I feel so comfortable."
I said: "When I go abroad, I will also buy a helmet and play with you."
"That's a deal!"
My phone rang again, I opened it and saw an unfamiliar number on the caller screen.
"Excuse me," the middle-aged man said in a low and deep accent, with a hint of reluctance. Maybe it was my misunderstanding: "Are you a relative of Ren Shiyi?"
"I am his son."
"That's good. Your parents disappeared during archeology and are now missing. Our country's search and rescue has been fruitless for a week. It is confirmed that the two of them are dead. Please forgive me."
A thunderbolt struck me on a sunny day, shaking my head so much that I felt as if I had fallen from heaven into hell. My body was shaky, but Xia Chong held me up.
I was very angry: "You kept it from me for a week before notifying me? And it's still on New Year's Eve."
"Ahem!" The middle-aged man said: "We don't want to inform you at this time, but your house was allocated by our work unit and we want to take it back. Today is the last day of the house period."
"I understand." Killing a donkey is a Chinese characteristic. It makes no sense. I closed the cover of my phone, and Xia Chong asked anxiously: "What are you hiding? I'm confused."
I repeated the conversation, and he was shocked on the spot after hearing it: "Brother, your parents are just missing. They are not confirmed dead yet. We still have hope."
"Yeah!" I felt a little better, it was just missing.
"I love you to the core..." The phone rang. I had no intention of falling in love at this moment. My thumb was on the cancel button, but I couldn't press it. I was afraid of making Chen Yan worried, so I suppressed my grief.
, clicked the call shuttlecock.
"Dear, what do our parents like? I can't go empty-handed when meeting my elders. I can't appear rude." Chen Yan asked about this again. It seemed that she was particularly concerned about going abroad.
When I talked about my parents, the pain I had just suppressed surged up again. My throat was choked and I couldn't help but shed tears: "Chen Yan, listen to me... something happened to my parents and they are missing."
"Ding——!" There was a long tone. Just as I explained what happened, the phone suddenly dropped. I called several times, but all received messages that no one answered the phone.
I kept calling, and kept calling, until the seventh time, the call got through: "Ren Xiaoyao, you are a good person, but I want to think about the matter between us."
"Haha!" I smiled bitterly, recalling all the things in our lives: "Do you remember what you said to me when you first met me? You shed tears and said that there was a kind of fire in your heart when you saw me. This was fate.
Destined fate."
"..." After a long while, Chen Yan said: "You believe that kind of nonsense, there is no destiny in this world. If you weren't good-looking and your family background was reasonable, I would have had a lot of face when I took action against you.
I won't choose you."
"Are you lying?" I yelled unwillingly. My love for her is unreserved, and she can't do this to me.
"Yes, I was lying. I was also thinking about my future. Am I wrong?" Chen Yan said this very easily, without any sense of guilt. Instead, she asked me: "You can't make me happy. I
What else do you want me to do? I won’t stupidly endure hardships with you and end up with a yellow-faced woman. I will take advantage of my youth to find a man who is more handsome and capable than you."
"You really...don't even bother to pretend." I was suddenly speechless.
"Fuck! I don't want to waste any time on you, and I don't want to have anything to do with you. Please don't look for me in the future, and don't disturb my life. If one day we meet, we'd better be the same person.
Stranger, don't beg for love in front of me, I have no love for you at all."
"Chen Yan, remember what you said, I will return it to you intact." I hung up the phone, my whole body shaking with anger.
"Brother, what's going on? You look so bad!" Xia Chong grabbed my shoulders with both hands and shook me hard. I could see that Xia Chong was very worried about me.
My hands kept shaking, and I couldn't even control myself. The disappearance of my parents was God's will, and I could still accept it. Chen Yan's betrayal was completely man-made, and it made me more heartbroken than before. I thrust the phone into his hand
Li: "I'm going to the bathroom."
I turned on the faucet and splashed cold water on my face. I thought this would make me feel better. I calmed down a bit, exhaled heavily, and leaned my back against the cold tiles.
I can't fall down like this. I want to live well and wait for my parents to return. I firmly believe that they are still alive.
I tried my best to keep a calm mind and pushed open the bathroom door. I saw Xia Chong holding my phone tightly in his big hand, with two cracks in the casing. I was shocked: "Although it's a knockoff, it doesn't need to be like this."
Xia Chong turned his head and looked at me, his eyes blazing: "I called Chen Yan just now. I already knew about it, but I didn't expect she was that kind of woman. How considerate are you of her, even the salary card?"
Leave it to her, and she will abandon you so easily, just when you need her most."
I got angry when I mentioned her, and I almost got excited again: "At least, I recognize her true colors." Chen Yan spent money very extravagantly, and even asked for my salary card, but I have always been living the same life.
Although I don't care much about the simple life, Xia Chong has always been worried about this matter.
"Xiaoyao, today is New Year's Eve, where are you going to celebrate the New Year?"
"I don't have any relatives, so I planned to go home and order some dumplings to eat, but I don't even have a home, but there will always be a place."
Xia Chong took out his wallet, grabbed all the bills, and stuffed them into my hands. I felt his hands shaking, and he was actually angrier than me: "Xiaoyao, now find some women to relax and forget everything."
, leave all the rest to me, I don’t believe God can still push people to the road of death.”
"Thanks!" In the end, the only person who could help me was this brother. When I was leaving the house, I took out the Rolex box, put a handful of it on my hands and threw it into the trash can.
The crackling firecrackers sounded, as if to wake up the dull life, announcing that today is New Year's Eve. The colored lights of the houses on both sides of the street lit up at the same time, and the red light reflected my lonely figure.
Walking aimlessly on the long street.
Suddenly, I felt a pain in my thigh. I was so dizzy that I didn't look at the road. I only knew that I seemed to have been hit by something. I fell away and landed on my back. Fortunately, there was snow on the road left by the sanitation workers' laziness, otherwise I would have fallen.
A concussion is not possible.
Then I felt a white shadow in front of me, and I instinctively opened my arms to hug me. A soft object suddenly pressed on my body. The object was still twisting in my arms. It should be a big living person, with a strong breath.
A faint fragrance wafted, as if she was still a girl.
