The town is not big, and it takes only more than ten minutes to walk from the restaurant to the bar.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, there were not many customers in the bar and the resident singer was not there. Soft music was playing in the room. The waiter Acheng was sitting behind the bar, playing with his mobile phone boredly. The lights in the room were dim.
Xihe walked over and knocked on the table: "Is Sister Li here?"
Ah Cheng looked up, her eyes paused on Shen Changan who was following behind her, and smiled: "I'm here, I'm angry with Xiaoyun, what? Are you really going to resign? Be careful that Sister Li will deduct your salary."
He was on duty today, and before coming, Xihe told him about his resignation.
Xihe turned around and said, "Ci, I'll treat you to dinner another day."
Sister Li was a charming, beautiful woman in her thirties with a fiery temper. Xihe had just reached the office door when he heard her shrill voice: "If you want to have a relationship, just have it. Why are you bringing people here to cause trouble? You don't want to do this anymore, right?"
Xiaoyun muttered: "I didn't let him come..."
"You still talk back!"
Even through the door, Xihe could imagine that she must be turning around at this moment, pointing at the little girl with trembling fingers.
Sister Li’s original name... I don’t know. I only know that she came to Lishui alone a few years ago and opened a bar. She has a lively personality and high emotional intelligence. The bar is thriving under her management. She is a single woman.
Sister Li is tough on the outside but soft on the inside. She is very nice to a group of young girls and often encourages them to save more money to buy a house.
"What is love? Money is the most important thing. Without money you are nothing."
He spoke so casually, but he himself was also a person trapped in love.
The original owner later went to Yanjing with Shen Changan, and unexpectedly met Sister Li there. She was following a middle-aged man with an elegant face, dressed in plain clothes, and was far from the image of a charming proprietress.
"Sister Li."
Xihe opened the door and walked in, smiling: "Sister Li, I want to resign."
Inside the room, Miss Xiaoyun, who had been lowering her head to be scolded, immediately looked up and looked at her in surprise. Sister Li also put down her hands, crossed her arms, and looked up and down at Xihe's new outfit, raising an eyebrow: "Are you planning to become a good person?"
Xi He: "...If that's the case, then aren't you a brothel owner who forces women of good character into prostitution?"
Sister Li's eyebrows immediately rose. "What do you mean by brothel owner? I'm fair-skinned and beautiful, and I'm still young."
She hummed twice, and through the gap, she saw Shen Changan outside, and glanced at Xihe: "You can leave if you want, but you only worked for ten days this month and only got 500 wages."
Xihe raised his middle finger: "Swindler."
He turned around and pulled Shen Changan to the front desk to pay the bill and left the bar.
The original owner owed Sister Li a big favor. According to her memory, after the original owner left Shen Changan and returned to Lishui, she was harassed by someone. Sister Li helped her deal with that person, but now the person is living a good life and doesn't need her to get involved.
It was around three o'clock in the afternoon, the breeze was blowing and the sun was scorching.
The two walked on the street for a long time. Shen Changan suggested finding a place to sit down. Xihe said, "Let's go to the library to see if there is any study material I can use."
She was so motivated, Shen Changan naturally had no objections.
There are not many people in the library. Everyone is reading quietly and the air is filled with the smell of books.
Xihe and Shen Changan walked around the store for a while and found that there were too few study materials. Most of them were various classics or novels. In the end, they each chose a book and sat on the steps to read.
Xihe picked up an untranslated version of "Jane Eyre", moved closer to Shen Changan, and winked at him.
Shen Changan looked around awkwardly, lowered his voice and said, “Let’s buy it and go read it outside, okay?”
Xihe nodded immediately, her eyes sparkling.
Shen Changan really wanted to touch her hair, but he suppressed his desire. The two of them bought some books and finally found a coffee shop. On a summer afternoon, he read to Xihe. His voice was very clean and elegant, like the gurgling of running water.
"November, December, and the first half of January passed in a flash. At Gateshead, Christmas and New Year's Day were celebrated with the usual joyous occasions, with the exchanging of gifts, the holding of Christmas dinners and parties, but of course, none of these enjoyments were to be enjoyed by me..."
The sun was shining brightly outside the window. The young man held the book with his slender fingers, looking serious.
Xihe sat opposite the wooden table, initially supporting her chin, then lying on the table, staring at him with eyes wide open, from her long eyebrows to her deep black eyes, to her high nose bridge, thin lips... inch by inch.
Shen Changan's ears turned red little by little, and the red spread to his face.
He put down the book, looked at Xihe, pursed his lips and said nothing.
Xihe tilted her head, a smile on her face: "Well, then? What happened to little Jane Eyre?"
She was not wearing any makeup, her skin was fair, and the expression on her face was the same as before yet subtly different. Her eyes were bright, and when she looked at him, she felt warm, very... gentle.
It gave him the illusion that he was deeply loved by the person in front of him.
Shen Changan didn't know why her attitude towards him was so different from before.
but……
Shen Changan picked up the book and continued reading, his voice becoming gentler: "I looked around, at the monastery-like garden, and then looked up at the building. It was a large building, half of it seemed gray and old, while the other half was very new. The new half was arranged with classrooms and dormitories, and the mullioned windows were brightly lit, quite like a church..."
Xihe's eyelids became heavier and heavier, and he tilted his head and fell asleep leaning against the table.
A smile flashed in Shen Changan's eyes. He put the book down, supported his chin and sat opposite the girl, looking at her without blinking, from her full forehead to her small chin, his heart became softer.
Around four o'clock in the afternoon, Xihe woke up.
She opened her eyes and saw Shen Changan sitting upright opposite her, reading a book seriously.
Xihe raised an eyebrow: "He had been reading a book before?"
"How is that possible? I've been watching you the whole time. I only picked up the book and pretended to be serious when I saw you were about to wake up." Gouzi ruthlessly exposed Shen Changan's fake attitude and was very disgusted with the sweet tricks of these two people.
"Show your affection, and you'll die soon... Ouch! Why are you hitting me?"
Xihe said confidently: "Do I need a reason to beat you?"
Gouzi: “…”
I swear I'll be mean next time! Make her mad!
Shen Changan put down the book and smiled reservedly: "Are you awake? You must be hungry, let's go eat."
Xihe said "hmm".
There were people coming and going in the small town, and there was a lot of food. Shen Changan was holding something, and Xihe's mouth was stuffed full. He would feed him from time to time. Shen Changan had never done this with anyone before, and he felt particularly uncomfortable: "It's okay, you eat, don't worry about me."
Xihe handed over the glutinous rice cake and looked at him.
Shen Changan: … He looked around and quickly took a bite in his mouth.
Then she pretended to be calm, except that the tips of her ears were red and her fair neck was also stained with a thin layer of red. Xihe smiled secretly and continued to move forward.
At night, in front of the door,
The two stood facing each other, looking at each other.
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