Fanhua: Where are you? I’m here to pick you up!

Hua Jin got up and turned off the power in the store and locked the door. Seeing that Tan Yuan did not reply to the message, she called her cell phone directly: "Tang Yuan, tell me the address."

"Huahua..." Tan Yuan held the phone and looked at his haggard self in the mirror on the sink. His voice was a little choked up. "I'm fine. Don't come over."

"It's nothing." Hua Jin said directly, "I've been friends with you for several years, don't I know what your personality is like? Tell me your address, and I'll come pick you up right away."

Hearing Hua Jin's fierce tone, Tan Yuan's originally uneasy heart settled down. She took out a powder puff to hold back the tears at the corners of her eyes and told Hua Jin the address.

"Yuanyuan?" A man's worried voice sounded behind her. Tan Yuan put her phone back into her bag and walked out of the bathroom.

The two sat back in their chairs. Tan Yuan lowered her head and said nothing. She gently stirred the coffee in the cup with a cold expression.

After a long time, her boyfriend, who was sitting opposite her, spoke.

"I'm sorry, Yuanyuan." The boyfriend looked tired. "We've been together for three or four years. I shouldn't have said such harsh words just now. I'm sorry."

Tan Yuan looked up at him and turned away: "Cao Yi, what hurts me is not how heavy your words are, but that you have negated all my efforts over the years, as well as the efforts of my parents. Do you understand?"

"That's not what I meant." Cao Yi explained, "You clearly know that I am doing this for your own good, so why do you want to misinterpret my meaning? The lacquerware you make is not only time-consuming and laborious, but you also don't make much money. Do you want to live like this for the rest of your life?"

"But do you know that there are fewer and fewer people in China who can make lacquerware? If others don't make it, and I don't make it either, who will be able to make lacquerware in the future?" Tan Yuan clenched the coffee spoon in his hand, "Cao Yi, this is my father's lifelong craft, I don't want to throw it away."

"What about me?" Cao Yi was a little excited. "We will get married and live our lives in the future. Uncle Tan and Aunt Gao are getting old, and if they have a headache or fever, it will cost a lot of money. I respect your feelings, but feelings can't be eaten. We need to survive, we need to treat illnesses, and we need money. Even if the craft of making lacquerware is not cut off in our generation, what about the next generation and the next generation? Sooner or later, it will disappear in the torrent of history."

Tan Yuan smiled bitterly, "If I, as the heir of lacquerware craftsmanship, am not willing to continue, I'm afraid others will be even less willing to work in this industry. Cao Yi, do you remember how we first met? And you don't have to worry about my parents' retirement. My family is not that poor."

Cao Yi was stunned.

"When you saw the lacquerware I made at the school's handicraft competition, you said that I was able to concentrate on studying traditional handicrafts, which was very rare. At that time, I asked you to praise me and pursue my things, but now you advise me to give up." Tan Yuan smiled so hard that her eyes turned red, and tears were about to fall. She closed her eyes and forced back the tears, "In these four years, have you changed, or have I changed?"

"I have changed, but everyone changes. At that time, we were still students who had not yet come into contact with society, and we didn't have to consider money and status..." Cao Yi felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by Tan Yuan. He turned his head and said, "You are different from Hua Jin. You have parents and education, and you will have a brighter future. A country girl like her who came from the countryside has no education and no other ways to develop. Apart from living by relying on Aunt Gao, there is no better way to live. If you stay with her every day, you will not get better, you will only become like her..."

"Shut up!" Tan Yuan frowned, "Cao Yi, Hua Jin is my good friend!"

"It's because you're friends with her that I want to wake you up!" Cao Yi was also angry when he saw his girlfriend quarreling with him because of an outsider. "You are a college student from a prestigious university, but you are hanging out with a country girl like her. Are you trying to lower your level?"

"I feel... being with you is what really lowers my level." Tan Yuan stared at Cao Yi in a daze. She didn't expect that he would look at his good friend like this. Last year, when Cao Yi had a reunion with his classmates, he didn't know what to give his classmates, so she and Huahua hurriedly made more than 20 hand-embroidered card holders for him to take over. At the beginning of the year, his mother's birthday was coming, and in order to make her have a good impression in front of her future mother-in-law, Huajin embroidered a particularly beautiful shawl for her and Cao Yi to take back. Usually when she and Cao Yi were busy, Huajin would often help them. Cao Yi said thank you to Huahua, but he thought about her like this in his heart?

"You're right, I really need to be enlightened." Tan Yuan smiled bitterly, "Cao Yi, let's... break up."

"Just because I said something about Hua Jin, you're going to break up with me?" Cao Yi looked at Tan Yuan in disbelief. "We've been together for several years, but you broke up with me because of another woman. Tan Yuan, are you crazy?"

"I'm not crazy, I'm just sober." Tan Yuan put down the coffee spoon, his expression gradually turned cold, "I'm sorry, I can't give you what you want, please go."

Cao Yi was so angry at Tan Yuan's words that he laughed. He pushed his coffee cup forward, making a clicking sound, which attracted the attention of several people at the neighboring table: "Tan Yuan, you are so cruel. I love you so much after several years of relationship, but you just let it go. Where is your heart?"

"If you weren't cruel enough, how could you look down on the traditional crafts my parents have been doing all their lives in front of me, and how could you mock my friends?" Tan Yuan asked back, "Cao Yi, I like you, but I don't live just for you. You want me to give up the things I like, give up my friends, give up everything for you, I can't do it."

"you……"

"Since you love me so much, why can't you understand my profession and respect my friends?" Tan Yuan stood up and prepared to leave without caring how many people were watching. "Don't hurt me under the banner of love. I can't bear such love."

"You can't leave!" Cao Yi grabbed Tan Yuan's wrist, "Tan Yuan, explain yourself to me clearly!"

"What is this doing?" Hua Jin approached the coffee shop and saw Cao Yi pulling Tan Yuan's wrist with a sullen face. All the other customers in the shop were secretly looking over here, waiting to see the fun.

She took two steps forward, pulled Cao Yi's hand away, and stopped Tan Yuan behind her: "Cao Yi, if you have anything to say, go back and talk. Are you going to make fun of yourself by arguing here?"

"You, an outsider, will not interfere in the affairs between me and Yuanyuan." Cao Yi sneered, "Aunt Gao accepted you as her apprentice, so you really think of yourself as Yuanyuan's sister?"

"Yeah, I'm thick-skinned and I like to meddle in other people's business." Hua Jin glanced at Cao Yi for a few times, and made sure that he didn't have any weapons and wouldn't suddenly go crazy and hurt people, so she felt relieved. "If you don't agree, just keep it to yourself. You're a grown man, bullying my friends, and you don't even let me help. Do you really think there's no one behind my Tangyuan?"

Cao Yi's face flushed. He didn't expect Hua Jin to be so shameless. Seeing that Tan Yuan and Hua Jin were already holding hands, he was anxious and angry, blurting out even more unpleasant words: "You are a country girl who can't get married. Are you a psychopath who can't stand seeing others doing well, so you come to destroy our relationship?"

"Get lost!" Tan Yuan couldn't stand it any longer. He picked up the unfinished coffee on the table and splashed it on Cao Yi's face. "Cao Yi, keep your mouth clean."

After being splashed with coffee, Cao Yi calmed down little by little. He wiped the coffee off his face and said a few nice words: "Tan Yuan, are you really going to break up with me?"

Tan Yuan said nothing. She lowered her head, held Hua Jin's hand, and whispered, "Hua Hua, don't listen to his nonsense. Who said you are a country girl..."

"Of course I won't listen to him. In terms of looks, I'm not just an ordinary village girl. At least I have to be described as a village girl." Hua Jin didn't know what happened between Tan Yuan and Cao Yi, and didn't want to make things too awkward between them, so she joked about it and said, "I won't argue with a man who doesn't have much aesthetic taste."

"Hua Jin, you don't have to pretend to be magnanimous in front of me. You are trying to please Tan Yuan so much, isn't it just to learn Aunt Gao's needlework?" Cao Yi sneered, "I have seen many people from small places like you, and few of them are simple. Tan Yuan, if you keep protecting her, sooner or later she will sell you out and still count the money."

He still remembers that once when he came to Tan Yuan's shop, Hua Jin was hypocritical in order to make a few dozen more dollars. She had clearly learned something as elegant as embroidery, but what she did was extremely vulgar.

"I do." Tan Yuan's heart completely turned cold. "Cao Yi, go ahead. There is nothing to talk about between us anymore. The problem between you and me has nothing to do with others. It all comes down to our incompatible concepts. If our three views don't match, even if we try to go on, it will only torture each other. While you are still young, I won't hold you back. I hope you can find a partner that suits your heart."

"If you don't want to tell me, I'll tell you." Cao Yi glared at Hua Jin angrily, "Hua Jin, half of the reason why Tan Yuan and I have been in this situation today is because..."

"Is this a vegetable market or a place to drink coffee?" Just as everyone in the coffee shop was watching the fun with great interest, several young men and women walked in.

The leading man wore a white shirt, his hair was neatly combed, and his slightly upturned peach blossom eyes were a bit arrogant. He walked slowly towards Hua Jin and the other three with long legs. The diamond tie clip on his tie swayed slightly, like the stars in the sky twinkling, but his appearance was more dazzling than the diamond on the tie clip.

"Go on." He raised his wrist and adjusted his cuffs, his tone full of sarcasm, and suddenly kicked Cao Yi on the knee, causing Cao Yi to fall down.

"Who are you calling a country girl, huh?"

After kicking Cao Yi down, he turned to look at Hua Jin with a look of disgust on his face: "You are quite good at talking in front of me, but when you meet this kind of rubbish, can you scold it even if you can't beat it?"

The author has something to say: Pei Yan’s Little Classroom: Good children, don’t learn from me.

Huajin Classroom: Regardless of whether you are a man or a woman, when you encounter a scumbag, if you find that the other person is in a bad mood or even aggressive, you should protect yourself by running away, trying to use nice words to numb and appease the other person, calling the police after escaping, etc. Life safety is the most important thing.