My expression began to become unnatural. Mi Cai, who was sitting opposite, noticed something was wrong with me, looked at me and looked back, so he met Jian Wei's gaze.

Mi Cai's temperament was a little cold. Jian Wei was born proud. After meeting her so much, the two of them didn't say hello to each other. Instead, they waved to Chen to me and said, "Zhaoyang, take your girlfriend to dinner!"

"Well, you guys are here to play a table together." Although I was reluctant to meet in my heart, I still invited me politely. This kind of politeness made me feel awkward, but I had to do it.

Jian Wei held Xiang Chen's arm and shook her head and said, "Don't fight anymore, let's sit there to avoid being squeezed."

Xiang Chen obeyed the order, smiled at me and took Jian Wei to the table on the other side, looking at their backs, I believe that after this unexpected encounter, Jian Wei and Xiang Chen should definitely believe that Mi Cai and I are boyfriend and girlfriend, because today Mi Cai and I were dating alone and enjoying dinner that belonged only to the two of us.

...

This should be the first time Jian Wei came to "in the sky" for dinner in a few days after returning to China. When she suddenly saw Jian Wei, she was very surprised. She also gave Jian Wei and Xiang Chen a beer and coke, but she did not mention the past, because at this moment, Jian Wei and I already had new loves in her eyes. Speaking of the past is too ignorant and too destructive to the atmosphere.

During the meal, Xiang Chen and I chatted a few more times between several tables. I asked Xiang Chen why he and Jian Wei were still in Suzhou. Xiang Chen said that Suzhou is the place where we go to college, but we rarely come in these years. We took advantage of the time between him and Jian Wei and played here for a few more days, but in a few days Jian Wei would go with him to Nanjing.

Xiang Chen's answer stimulated my fragile nerves. Of course, I knew that Jian Wei went to Nanjing to meet Xiang Chen's family. Maybe it won't take long before I will really receive their wedding invitation and then tear me apart again.

...

During the meal, I kept restless, but never looked at Jian Wei and didn't drink much. I warned myself over and over again: Our past has long been diluted by the flow of time. No matter how much reluctance or more self-torture, it will not change anything.

I know very well: since Jian Wei put on the crystal diamond necklace that Xiang Chen gave her, I have lived in an independent world, building the solidest wall, sealing myself up, not looking, not thinking, not pain...

I don’t know when, Xiang Chen and Jian Wei had finished dinner before us, and just said hello and left first. I kept watching them walk into the small alley, but I could no longer see the scenery at the corner where I could buy roasted sweet potatoes on winter nights.

This night is a little cold.

Mi Cai waved her hand in front of me, awakening me from my loss. Only then did I realize that this was a dinner that originally belonged to me and Mi Cai. I smiled apologetically and raised my glass to Mi Cai, drank the remaining beer in the glass in one sip, but I was still very awake.

The dinner continued. It was not that Micai and I ate slowly, but that Jian Wei and Xiang Chen left in a hurry. I asked for another beer. I didn’t want to get myself drunk, and I couldn’t get drunk with such beer. I just wanted to use the cold liquid to sober up.

Half an hour later, Micai and I finished the dinner, said hello to CC and left with Micai.

"Zhaoyang, you haven't paid the bill yet?" Mi Cai said and grabbed me.

"What order should I buy when I'm so familiar with friends?" I continued to move forward, but I just joked with Mi Cai. In fact, we were mostly silent during the whole meal and didn't communicate much. I teased her when I was about to leave, and at least it didn't look so heavy.

Mi Cai added another point of strength to hold me back, calming her face all night, full of anger: "You are just unvirtuous! You are like you, how can you run your friend's restaurant?"

"You're drunk too much! It's so strange. Can Coke get people drunk?" I looked at Mi Cai with a smile and said. Her excited look was completely different from usual.

Mi Cai realized that she had lost her composure and stopped entangling with me. She took out her wallet and walked towards the bar. At this moment, I understood more about how much Mi Cai hated my bad character, and even hated me so much that she ignored her demeanor and dragged me in public.

I quickly followed, grabbed Mi Cai, and said to her, "I promised that I would treat you, how could I ask you to pay!"

"I don't want to be with a scum like you, don't talk to me."

"Haha, I'm kidding with you, the place to pay for the bill is not in the bar, it's in that corner." I turned Mi Cai's body and let her see the box in the corner.

Mi Cai looked at me with some confusion. She kept her back facing the box while eating and didn't understand the situation.

I smiled and explained, "Didn't you see that there are no prices on the menu we ordered? Eating here depends entirely on your own consciousness. Just put the money into that box when you leave."

"Can you just cast as much as you want?" Mi Cai looked at me in surprise and asked.

"Yes, there will be no one here to supervise you."

"But this..."

I grabbed Mi Cai to the corner where the box was placed and pulled out 300 yuan from my wallet and put it in the box. Then I said to Mi Cai: "People who come here to consume have a pure empty city in their hearts. No one will use secular materials to desecrate this empty city, so this store has been operating for many years and is not losing money... If there is still a clean place in this world, it must be here!"

...

On the way back, Micai drove through this real city with a lightweight Alto, but she seemed to be interested in the "Empty City Music Theme Restaurant" and asked me again: "Zhaoyang, does all the people who come to consume in that restaurant for so many years have abide by this rule?"

"Of course not. When this restaurant first opened, there were many people who came to eat and escape from the order."

Mi Cai was not surprised by my answer, because the most in this world is some villains who like to get cheap and get something for nothing. She asked again: "Then why did everyone abide by this rule now?"

I recalled and replied: "I gave up this ideal business method because it was too unrealistic, but CC insisted on doing this, and in the end it was too late to make ends meet and it was difficult to continue to operate. Finally one day, a closure announcement was posted on the restaurant's bulletin board."

"Then what?"

"On the last night before the closure of business, there were still many people who brought their families to have dinner that was not expensive. We were so sad. This ideal business method finally revealed only the ugliness of human nature."

Mi Cai nodded thoughtfully.

I opened the car window and lit a cigarette and continued, "We were really disappointed after the business ended that night. A few friends closed the door and drank a lot of wine, because after this night, there would be no empty restaurant in the city!"

He spitted out the cigarette, smiled and said, "Maybe there is really a saying that there is a desperate situation. When I opened the box to settle the operating income on the day, I found that there was a total of 100,000 yuan in cash... We were surprised, but no one knew which customer put it in."

"So this restaurant continues to operate because of this 100,000 yuan?"

I nodded and said, "Well, the motivation to continue to operate is, to be precise, a spiritual motivation. For the unknown customer, we could not close the empty city. Later, we replaced the box with transparent ones. We could see clearly how much money each person paid for after dinner. Those villains who only threw in a few coins, and I and a few friends blocked them in the alley and beat them up... Over time, those who like to get cheaper won't come and never knew about this. If she knew that she would not agree to what we did... changed the transparent box with opaque ones again, but she would basically not lose money. Of course, it is not ruled out that there are still people who take advantage of the situation!"

After listening to my narrative, Mi Cai, who had always been indifferent, actually shared the same hatred for the enemy: "If you fight well, those who are not moral should be beaten... But if you abuse lynching like this, won't those who are beaten call the police?"

"Of course we will call the police, but one of the guys who beat us with him was working as a police officer in this area, so we turned a blind eye. Besides, we don't extort money and have a sense of how to do it. We focus on warnings. As long as those scumbags don't come, the restaurant can maintain normal operations."

Mi Cai looked at me and suddenly laughed...

I looked at her in surprise, not understanding why.

"I feel funny when I hear you call someone else a scum..." Mi Cai explained with a smile.

"…Whoever stipulates that scumbags can't be called scumbags?"

"I didn't say you're a scumbag this time."

"That's what you mean. You think I'm stupid, can't you hear it?"

Mi Cai laughed "haha". It was the first time she saw her laughing so openly in so many days. At this moment, she was more and more beautiful and charming. So Little Alto shuttled through the light and shadow of the city more briskly, with less realistic weight and more beautiful laughter.

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This is a big chapter of 3,000 words, so let’s update two times today. It will explode tomorrow. Let’s set up again. This time, the mobile phone station and the computer station will be carried out at the same time.

The mobile phone station recommendation tickets are over 140 plus updates (this is not high for the mobile phone station friends, although it has improved)

The computer station has more than 8,000 flowers to add one chapter (this number is also relatively reasonable, neither high nor low)

Chapter 3 will be guaranteed tomorrow, and both sides will be completed, that is, Chapter 5 will be completed. The friends from the computer station and mobile station will see you. The new book list is currently ranked fifth, and it will not rise or fall. I hope to enter the top three tomorrow and complete the task quickly.
Chapter completed!