My 26-year-old Female Tenant

During the meal, Le Yao's mood was not stable all the time. I knew she must be anxious before getting my affirmative answer. After all, she is just a woman, and she is different from Jian Wei and Mi Cai. She is a woman who is very dependent on others. She looks carefree, but in fact she is the most insecure.

  The dinner was finally finished in the silence of the two of them, and I helped Le Yao book a room in a hotel near the train station.

  Before leaving, Le Yao grabbed my arm and asked, "Zhaoyang, when will you give me an answer?"

   "Soon." I replied succinctly, I must make a choice on this matter as soon as possible, because Le Yao can't afford to wait.

   Le Yao let go of my arm, nodded and said, "Then I'll wait for you to make a decision in Xuzhou."

   "Well...you have a good rest, call me if you have something to do, I'll go first." After speaking, I left the hotel with Le Yao's expectant eyes.

  …

I was sitting on a street bench under the light and shadow of the city with a beer in my hand, watching the cars passing by in a daze. How to explain to Li Xiaoyun? Or is an explanation helpful?

If I don't go to Suzhou, it means that I will watch Le Yao fall into the abyss helplessly. I can't do it, because I think of her humiliation of being slapped by other actresses for my job opportunities. My heart twitched intermittently, and this kind of twitch made me extremely painful. Only by agreeing to Le Yao's request can I get rid of this pain.

  In the tearing of choices, I felt helpless and bewildered...but the phone ringing accompanied by a gust of cold wind rang, which woke me up from my bewilderment.

  I struggled to take out my phone from my pocket, looked at the number, it was Li Xiaoyun calling, and then I remembered that I had promised her to have dinner with her, and it was already half past nine.

  I connected the phone with mixed emotions, but I waited silently for Li Xiaoyun on the other end to speak first.

   "Zhaoyang, have you picked up your friend yet?"

  I apologized and said: "Well, I just had a meal with her..."

  Li Xiaoyun replied in a low tone: "That's what it should be."

"Did you eat?"

   "...Not yet, I've been waiting for you." Li Xiaoyun was silent for a while before saying.

   "Then I'll go find you now, and I'll accompany you to eat."

"Um."

   "Don't you like to eat western food, I invite you to Fez to eat grilled steak."

  Li Xiaoyun finally smiled and said: "You have already eaten, so you don't need to spend so much money, just eat whatever you want." After thinking for a while, he said: "Let's go eat rice noodles. I haven't eaten rice noodles for a long time."

"Okay..." I responded, but the word rice noodles brought my emotions into the picture of eating rice noodles with Mi Cai in Suzhou, but after a flash, I felt a very subtle feeling in my heart. This kind of feeling reminds me of cc, Robben, Fangyuan, Yan Yan, Mi Cai, and the restaurant in the "empty city". These people or things are all related to Suzhou, but they represent a kind of beauty that makes me nostalgic. The beauty made me suddenly miss my life in Suzhou.

  Obviously I hate everything in Suzhou, why do I feel nostalgic at this moment, and why did my mentality change like this? I do not understand! And people often don't really know themselves well.

  …

  Twenty minutes later, Li Xiaoyun and I met at a rice noodle shop. Li Xiaoyun ordered a bowl of rice noodles, and I sat across from her to eat with her.

  Li Xiaoyun didn't eat fast, she looked at me who had been silent and asked, "What is your friend looking for you for?"

  I didn't know how to answer for a moment, and after a long time I said, "I have something to ask for help."

  Li Xiaoyun smiled and said, "It shouldn't be a small matter, right?"

"How did you know?"

   "It's not a big deal, why did I rush to Xuzhou to find you... But this is a private matter between you and your friend, I won't ask."

I looked at Li Xiaoyun, and I felt a sore feeling in my heart. In fact, she is really a very decent and nice woman. I have a good impression of her, so it is difficult for me to choose to leave Xuzhou, and we already have a marriage contract. In the body, if we really quit our jobs and choose to return to Suzhou, it will undoubtedly be fatal to our relationship.

  I nodded and fell into silence again, but the tearing feeling in my heart became more intense.

  Finally, when Li Xiaoyun was about to finish eating, I took a deep breath and said to Li Xiaoyun solemnly: "Xiaoyun, I want to discuss something with you..."

  Li Xiaoyun looked at me suspiciously, and said for a while, "Say it."

   "... My friend's music bar has a problem. I may go to Suzhou to help for a while." After a long silence, I said.

   Li Xiaoyun frowned almost subconsciously and asked: "You go to Suzhou, what about your work?"

   After another death-like silence, I whispered: "I can only quit this job, I know it's abrupt..."

I was interrupted angrily by Li Xiaoyun before I finished speaking: "You know that you shouldn't make such a decision abruptly... Don't you know how many all-nighters you have endured and how much effort you have put in to gain a firm foothold in Orson Ads? ?"

   "I have no choice, I hope you support my decision, okay?"

  Li Xiaoyun smiled angrily, and asked: "Then what about our relationship? How long will you stay in Suzhou?"

   "I don't know how long I will stay, if you want, you can wait for me to come back..."

   "When you come back, look for a job again, and then let me cooperate with you to re-cultivate the relationship? ... Sorry, I can't do it."

"Xiao Yun, don't be so extreme, okay? My friend's bar has invested more than one million yuan and borrowed a large amount of usury, and the bar has also experienced a lot of problems. You let me watch her die. help?"

  Li Xiaoyun nodded heavily, and said: "Zhaoyang, what I admire most is your frankness, can you answer a few questions for me frankly?"

   "Yes." I replied almost without hesitation.

   "Is that friend of yours a man or a woman?"

  Li Xiaoyun's first question caught me off guard, and it took me a while to reply in a low voice, "She's a woman."

  After I finished speaking, Li Xiaoyun's expression suddenly became ugly, and he asked me after a long time: "What is your relationship with her?"

"friend."

   "Friend? Is a simple friend worth giving up your great job prospects? Even our relationship?"

  I was upset, but I still gritted my teeth and said, "I have to do this favor...because I owe her this."

"Okay, if you insist on this, I will not force you, and I will not force you to come, but I still hope you go back and ask your parents to see if they agree with you to do this." Li Xiaoyun picked it up and put it aside handbag and left with resentment.

  The opposite side of me was suddenly empty, looking at the bowl of rice noodles that Li Xiaoyun hadn’t finished eating, I once again felt in pain that my life was being ruthlessly torn apart by fate...