The phone was called out, and Jian Wei answered it after a while. Her tone was filled with fatigue after a busy day: "Is there anything wrong with calling me?"

"I just want to talk to you about financing. You are really okay. When I rejected your investment, you complained to Uncle Yang..."

Jian Wei interrupted me: "Nonsense, I don't complain to Uncle Yang, can I still complain to you, a careless person? ...You tell me, what kind of abacus are you calling me now?"

"That... Uncle Yang hopes you can invest in this project."

"You just say it! Don't always bring out other people to talk about it!"

Feeling Jian Wei’s resentment, I finally said: “Actually…I also hope you can invest in this project now.”

"Why didn't you want it before?"

After a moment of silence, I replied, "Don't ask the bottom line. I feel quite embarrassed about this matter!"

"I know very well that little bit of you. Forget it... I won't make things difficult for you, but I'm quite happy that you can take the initiative to mention investment with me. Remember: We are doing business, and we are always mixed with too many personal feelings, and don't you know that in the business world, there are many ex-husbands and ex-wifeses who have divorced and maintained business dealings? How big a career you want to do, how big ambition is, know?"

"Mr. Jian, you really understand. I will tell you to understand the teacher in the future!"

"You should be less stinky and less teasing me! Work with me, everything is based on the matter-of-fact. Don't be tedious all day!"

"Teacher Dong, what you taught is! I have been working hard all my life!"

"It's great to know your mistakes and correct them... By the way, where are you now?"

"Xuzhou, I don't plan to go back in the past few days. I want to find a suitable commercial property here and complete the first location of the literary and artistic road in northern Jiangsu."

After a little silence, Jian Wei said to me: "Then I will go to Xuzhou to find you tomorrow. I want to understand your judgment on the location of the store and then talk about investment!"

.........

After the call with Jian Wei, I sat in the teahouse until dusk. During this long period of time, I never stopped thinking about those career and emotional things over and over again. I stopped thinking about them until the street lights were on. But looking at the crowd and vehicles coming and going on the street, I fell into loneliness again. At this time, I really hope that a woman I loved deeply was by my side. We can talk about life, career, or joke with each other, which is also a kind of fulfillment away from loneliness. However, now I no longer have the conditions to enjoy these things, so I comfort myself again. This so-called loneliness is just the sequelae of lovemaking. One day I will get rid of this damn everything with a chic attitude and find the joy of living in life again.

When I got home, my mother and the others had already finished the game. They talked about their achievements in the game today. When they saw me coming back, they asked with a stern face: "Zhaoyang, where have you been there in the afternoon?"

"I walked around the street."

My mother's tone was still unhappy: "You have finally returned to Xuzhou once, and I don't know how to invite Xiao Yun to dinner."

I looked at Li Xiaoyun and finally asked, "Do you have time later? Let's have a meal together."

Li Xiaoyun smiled and replied, "There is definitely time, but if you want to treat me to dinner as a task assigned to you by your aunt, I really can't accompany you!"

My mother stared at me with sharp eyes, and I finally replied with some eyes: "No, no, it's just a long time ago, have a meal and chat together!"

My mother finally gave me a look of praise, and then said to Li Xiaoyun: "Xiaoyun, let's go to dinner with Zhaoyang, and then enlighten me, my son who doesn't understand life."

......

Li Xiaoyun and I walked out of the community. We swayed on a small path full of sycamore trees. When we were about to reach the end, I finally asked Li Xiaoyun: "How are you doing recently?"

"It's great. It has both the fulfillment brought by work and the leisure brought by mahjong..."

"It's so miserable. Another good girl was poisoned by mahjong!"

Li Xiaoyun just smiled, so we fell into silence again, and the road had already reached its end. There was an intersection with traffic lights ahead. We stopped tacitly, looked forward, and wanted to choose a relatively quiet road to continue walking.

I said, "Let's go north. If I remember correctly, there is a restaurant over there, and the large plate of chickens in it are very authentic."

"Okay, I want to eat big plate chicken, too."

"Will you have some more beer?"

"Why make this night so satisfying?"

I smiled and asked, "Does it mean satisfaction just beer and big plate chicken?"

"Yes, I'm content with this kind of satisfaction. If I had the chance to watch the previous movie after a meal, I would be even more satisfied!"

I nodded, then protected Li Xiaoyun's shoulder with my hands, avoided the cars coming and going, and walked across the street. I accidentally saw our backs under the street lights. There was no difference, because they were all so ordinary.

In the small restaurant, I poured a glass of beer for Li Xiaoyun and myself. After they touched a glass, they drank it all. When they put down the cup in their hands, Li Xiaoyun said to me straightforwardly: "Zhaoyang, Auntie wants to put us together now. Do you think it's possible?"

I looked at her and didn't know how to answer...

Li Xiaoyun shook her head and said, "I don't think it's possible. Auntie loves you so much. Everything is considered in a favorable position, so she doesn't understand how dangerous you are to a woman now! ... You have not recovered from the love with Mi Cai. Being with you will only make me live in the shadow of another woman again. This is too unfair!"

"So you're having dinner with me tonight, just to say that?"

"Yes, I can't tell my aunt some things. I hope you can express them on your behalf...I already have a partner I'm dating!"

Only then did I realize that no one would always stand there and wait, and finally forced a smile and said, "I understand... I will find an opportunity to explain this matter to my mother!"

Li Xiaoyun nodded and smiled: "I used to think you were the last man in my life and loved you wholeheartedly, but as time went by, I gradually realized that we are not people in the same world at all. What I pursue is just an ordinary and simplicity, and you always challenge the limits in love. I, an ordinary woman, really can't catch up with you."

Li Xiaoyun said as she took out some scattered coins from her handbag and handed them to me, saying, "I once took 1,000 yuan from you. This is the remaining money, and it's time to give it to you!"

When I took the coins from Li Xiaoyun, I felt a little painful in my heart. Only then did I realize how thoughtful Li Xiaoyun used this money to change my decadence!
Chapter completed!