Tang Miao hasn't returned for some time.
As the largest bar in Huaicheng, at this time, dinner has just passed and it is the time to go out for a drink and chat. On the way back, there are many guests gathered at the booths and the bar.
Even if there is no band on the platter, there will be performances every day on the way back. The performances are either some bands or some singers. The lights in the bar are dim and the atmosphere is strong. It is the best place to drink and chat.
When Qian Cheng and Tang Miao came here, they found someone they knew on the way home to book a booth in advance. Regular customers like him have fixed waiters to serve them. The booth was not far from the stage. When the two of them went there, a resident singer in the bar was singing love songs in a low voice.
The woman's voice is deep and magnetic, and the jazz music is full of stories, giving the entire bar a bizarre color.
When Qian Cheng suggested drinking on the way home, he took the initiative to tell Tang Miao that he didn't have to drink. After arriving at the bar, Qian Cheng didn't order any drinks for Tang Miao, but asked the waiter to serve them directly.
Soon, the drinks came, Tang Miao took the drink cup and clinked glasses with Qian Cheng. Then, the two sat in their respective seats, drinking, listening to songs, and chatting about other things.
The topics they talked about in the bar were similar to those they had talked about in the barbecue restaurant before. They were all about trivial things about life, study, or work in the past, present, and future.
There is actually no nutritional value in chatting about such topics. However, it will invisibly deepen your understanding of each other, and after understanding each other, it will also deepen the relationship between the two people.
Tang Miao was not opposed to being friends with Qian Cheng, so when the two of them chatted, she did not deliberately avoid some of the questions Qian Cheng asked. At the same time, after Qian Cheng asked her a question, she would give him feedback on the question, or ask him something in return.
As a result, the atmosphere between the two of them was not awkward, but rather relaxed.
When he came to the bar, Qian Cheng said that he was addicted to alcohol. After arriving at the bar, he was really not polite. He ordered a few glasses of wine and finished them while chatting with Tang Miao. And he seemed to have a good alcohol tolerance. After a few glasses of wine, his expression was clear.
After Qian Cheng finished the glass of wine in his hand, he ordered two more. Tang Miao watched the waiter bring the wine over. Qian Cheng took the glass and took a sip. After drinking it, his eyebrows jumped up, obviously he thought it was good.
"Do you like to drink?" Tang Miao asked, looking at his appearance.
"Yeah." After Tang Miao finished asking, Qian Cheng looked up at her, confirmed her question, and nodded.
"This is a new product. I haven't had it before. I tried it today and it's really good." Qian Cheng commented and said, "You can come and try it when you have a chance."
After Qian Cheng said this, Tang Miao smiled.
Speaking of drinking, Qian Cheng looked at the drink in front of Tang Miao and said, "Last time we drank together, I felt that you could hold your liquor quite well. Did you practice that?"
The last time they played games together, Tang Miao drank seven or eight glasses of fruit wine. The fruit wine had a strong aftereffect, but when they left, Tang Miao didn't seem to be drunk at all, which showed that she could drink a lot.
After Qian Cheng asked this, Tang Miao looked at him and shook his head.
"It's natural."
After Tang Miao finished speaking, she and Qian Cheng smiled and said, "My dad has a good alcohol tolerance, so since I started drinking, I rarely get drunk unless I deliberately want to get drunk."
It is true that the ability to drink can be trained, but it is still largely innate.
After Tang Miao finished speaking, Qian Cheng smiled and said, "Then when you go home, will you drink with your dad?"
For example, people of the previous generation, if they can drink a lot, will like to have a drink with meals when they get older. Qian Cheng's father started doing business when he was young, and he went to bars all day long, and he hated alcohol. Now that he doesn't care about business matters and has free time at home, he will drink a little when he eats.
It’s fine if he drinks alone, but sometimes he would even drag Qian Cheng along to drink.
Generally, children can drink a lot, so after returning home, their parents will ask their children to drink a little and chat with them at the same time.
The question Qian Cheng asked was just a simple greeting. For example, when the relationship between the two of you seems good or bad, you bring up a topic, she answers, and then she brings up a related topic, and he answers. This is how the two of you chat.
But Qian Cheng didn't expect that he would end up talking about a landmine just by saying this. After he asked, Tang Miao said something to him.
"He's dead."
After Tang Miao finished speaking, Qian Cheng looked up at her.
Tang Miao did not look heavy when answering this question, but Qian Cheng did not react for a while after hearing Tang Miao's words. He was stunned for a moment, and then quickly said something.
"Feel sorry."
After all, this is a question about parents. Although the death of Tang Miao's father has nothing to do with him, Qian Cheng still feels embarrassed for bringing up the other party's sad story in this situation.
"It's okay." Seeing Qian Cheng's apologetic look, Tang Miao smiled. She said to Qian Cheng, "It happened a long time ago. I can hardly remember it."
Regarding the topic of her father's death, Tang Miao did not look like someone whose parents had just passed away and had not yet gotten over the grief. Qian Cheng did not know how long Tang Miao's father had been dead, and she could hardly remember. But after all, he was the closest relative in the world, so Qian Cheng still wanted to dispel some of the emotions brought about by this topic.
"Then your mother..."
"He died too."
"..."
Qian Cheng shut his mouth.
The originally relaxed atmosphere in the booth seemed to be plunged into a stagnant fog with Qian Cheng's topic. Qian Cheng originally wanted to comfort Tang Miao through another relative, but he didn't expect that he stepped on another landmine. After Tang Miao said that her mother had also passed away, Qian Cheng's eyes had changed from apologetic to helpless and panic.
"I didn't mean to bring this up." After being at a loss and panic, Qian Cheng looked at Tang Miao and explained.
As he explained this, Tang Miao looked at him and said with a smile, "I know."
After she said this, Qian Cheng looked at her with a somewhat helpless and apologetic look in his eyes, and even with a little compassion that he didn't want to show deliberately.
Seeing Qian Cheng like this, Tang Miao said, "These are nothing, because they all happened a long time ago. In fact, my mother died earlier than my father. I was very young at that time, and I don’t remember the things about their deaths very clearly."
After Tang Miao finished speaking, Qian Cheng looked at her with his eyes slightly tightened and pursed his lips.
The death of parents is a heavy blow to children, especially when parents die one after another. Tang Miao did show a very indifferent attitude towards this matter, and even said that she did not remember the death of her parents very clearly. It can be seen that her parents did die a long time ago, and they may have died when she was very young.
"Are you sick?" Qian Cheng asked.
After Tang Miao expressed that he didn't mind this topic, Qian Cheng continued with this question.
If Tang Miao's parents died when she was very young, then her parents should not have been very old at that time, so it could only be due to illness, or...
"Accident." Tang Miao looked at Qian Cheng and answered the question briefly.
Tang Miao may not really care about the topic of her parents' death, so when Qian Cheng felt sorry, she even comforted him. But Tang Miao didn't want to say too much about how her parents died. She simply answered the reason for her parents' death, and her concise attitude also let Qian Cheng know that she didn't want to continue this topic.
Qian Cheng didn't ask what the accident was.
The topic shifted from Tang Miao's parents to Tang Miao himself. Qian Cheng looked at Tang Miao and asked.
"Where did you live afterwards?"
If Tang Miao's parents died when she was very young, she would not be able to take care of herself and would definitely have another guardian or be sent to an orphanage.
But generally speaking, if a child's parents die, there will be other relatives to help take care of the child.
Sure enough, after Qian Cheng asked this, Tang Miao said, "At a relative's house."
"Always?" Qian Cheng asked.
"Not really." Tang Miao said, "When I was 16, I dropped out of school and went to work in South City because I had no money to continue my studies. I stayed in South City for ten years, and I have never been back until now."
The two of them exchanged questions briefly as if they were greeting each other, and when Tang Miao said this, Qian Cheng looked up at her.
Qian Cheng and Tang Miao's relationship was not particularly close. But from the time he met Tang Miao and their interactions, Qian Cheng did not think that Tang Miao was a person who would not repay a favor.
Her relatives adopted her after her parents died, and they raised her until she was sixteen. According to Tang Miao's personality, since her parents died, she would naturally treat the relatives who raised her as her own family.
But the current situation is that after she dropped out of school and left her relatives' home at the age of sixteen, she never went back.
This represents a problem.
That is, her life at her relatives' home was not satisfactory, even very embarrassing, which made her not want to go back or recall those memories.
Now think about it, Tang Miao dropped out of middle school. She was a person who had never played the piano before, passed the piano exam in one year, won the piano award, and became a piano teacher.
Her character, talent and hard work are unquestionable.
With a character like Tang Miao, it is impossible for her to be a bad student.
In other words, she dropped out of school not because she was not good at studying, but most likely because her relatives did not want her to go to school anymore. The reason why she was allowed to graduate from junior high school was that it was free to go to junior high school due to the nine-year compulsory education. However, if she went to high school or university, she would have to pay to go.
But for the relatives, Tang Miao was not worth their efforts, so they let Tang Miao drop out of school and go to the city to work. Or, after knowing that she could not continue to study, Tang Miao could no longer tolerate what her relatives did to her, so she left her relatives' home and went out to work.
Qian Cheng sat in the booth, looking at Tang Miao who was sitting opposite him. This woman, both inside and outside, revealed a calm and indifferent temperament. She was the most ordinary woman, she just sat in the bar, looking out, she was no different from the women in the whole bar, the whole street, and the whole city.
She is the kind of woman who is least noticeable. She seems to be a girl who grew up in a happy family and grew up ordinary. After graduating from college, she found a job that suits her major, and then went on a blind date arranged by her parents. When it comes to choosing a husband, she is more concerned about whether the man is suitable than the obedient girl who follows her parents' arrangements.
If he just looked at Tang Miao like this, Qian Cheng would not associate her with what she was talking about now about her life and growth experience.
So after Tang Miao finished speaking, Qian Cheng didn't say anything for a moment. He just looked at Tang Miao like that, and no one knew what emotion was in his eyes.
Compared to Qian Cheng's expression, Tang Miao was much calmer. She was talking about her own affairs, a bit like telling someone else's story. When she saw Qian Cheng didn't know what to say, she smiled and said.
"Are you a bit ungrateful?" She even made a joke to him.
"No." After she finished speaking, Qian Cheng shook his head to deny it. After answering this question, Qian Cheng also came back to his senses. He looked at Tang Miao, thought for a while, and said sincerely.
“I just feel like this experience doesn’t quite fit you.”
After hearing Qian Cheng's evaluation, Tang Miao smiled.
"Maybe." Tang Miao lowered her head and took the straw to stir the drink in the cup. The smile on her face never disappeared for a moment. After stirring the drink, she looked up and said to Qian Cheng.
“I just think there’s no need to say it.”
There is no need to dwell on your own experiences, and there is no need to compromise your life.
Tang Miao has turned a bad hand into what it is now. She has the ability to do so, and naturally she also has the mentality and psychological quality to do so.
After Tang Miao finished speaking, Qian Cheng looked at her. Just after she finished speaking, Qian Cheng felt an extra layer of admiration for Tang Miao.
He used to admire Tang Miao for being able to teach himself piano and create a better career path for himself.
But now, after listening to Tang Miao's words, she has completely fought for a better path in life for herself.
Not to mention Tang Miao, even people with better experience than her might not be able to achieve this.
This kind of admiration is as clear as the words engraved on the stone tablet. Before, I just looked at it, but now I can touch it and feel the patterns on the stone. This feeling makes it seem much clearer and more intuitive.
Qian Cheng looked at Tang Miao, and there was no telling what emotions were mixed in his eyes. After looking at Tang Miao, all these messy emotions expanded and magnified, and finally overflowed.
But Tang Miao lowered his head to drink his drink and did not notice the emotions overflowing in his eyes.
By the time Tang Miao finished taking a sip of his drink and looked up, Qian Cheng had almost calmed down.
"sharp."
Qian Cheng commented on what Tang Miao said to him. After hearing his comment, Tang Miao's eyes curved and he smiled faintly.
In fact, Tang Miao didn't look like a great beauty. Her facial features were very soft, giving people a feeling of comfort rather than beauty. And every time she smiled, the feeling of comfort she gave people could be magnified to the maximum, and even make people want to keep watching her smile like this.
Qian Cheng stared at her smile intently. After a while, Qian Cheng retracted his gaze, took the wine glass and took a sip, then said to Tang Miao.
"Actually, I have a question I've always wanted to ask you."
Tang Miao: “What?”
"You have been in Nancheng for ten years, why did you suddenly come to Huaicheng?" Qian Cheng asked.
Qian Cheng had never asked Tang Miao this question, and even when Tang Miao came to apply for the job, Qian Cheng did not ask her this question. At that time, Qian Cheng only recruited a piano teacher, and a piano teacher only needed to have strong abilities. As for other personal matters, he did not want to ask too much.
But now, the two have been working together for a while and can be considered half friends, so Qian Cheng asked this question.
In fact, Qian Cheng could roughly guess the answer to this question.
Tang Miao's parents died when she was very young, and her relatives lost contact with her when she was sixteen. In other words, Tang Miao no longer had anything to care about in terms of family affection.
She has been in Nancheng for ten years, which is like her second hometown. She has built her career there, established herself on the ground, and has a bright future.
But ten years later, she gave up her bright future and came to this strange little town.
It was most likely something that happened in Nancheng that forced her to escape, or it was a painful past event that caused her to completely break with Nancheng.
The reason for this painful past is most likely love.
Women tend to be kinder and more emotional when it comes to relationships. They won't be too rational to measure feelings as a material thing, which makes them more likely to get hurt in relationships, and more likely to abandon everything, break up and escape after being hurt.
After Qian Cheng asked this question, Tang Miao looked up at him.
The woman's fingers were holding the glass containing the drink. The iced drink in the glass made the glass stained with a layer of water vapor. Her fingers were warm and soft, causing the water vapor to gather together into a small stream, and finally flowed down along her slender white fingers.
Her fingers were wet by the falling water droplets. Tang Miao looked at Qian Cheng calmly. After looking for a while, she smiled at Qian Cheng and said.
"Because I broke up with my ex-boyfriend."
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