In the sauna, I wrapped my bath towel and endured the high temperature. I sat with Daddy Ban. When I lowered my head, sweat dripped down my nose. This was not a pleasure for me, but Daddy Ban liked it very much. He closed his eyes and enjoyed the high temperature here.

I waited patiently. After a while, Dad Ban finally spoke to me, "Your mother and I are very happy that you can choose to live in Xuzhou this time, but I am also worried that Xiaomi can't adapt to life here."

"Dad Ban, you probably don't know yet. In fact, this time I went back to Xuzhou, it was Mi Cai. You also know that she has always been a more rational person. Since she chose to live with me in Xuzhou, she must have made enough psychological preparations, so you don't have to worry about this at all."

"There will be a sense of difference."

I did not immediately respond to this sentence from Ban Dad. In my mind, I subconsciously recalled Mi Cai's past and present. Maybe she felt a sense of loss, but it should be overcome, and I could only hope that she could overcome it. Now I really don't have the conditions to realize her previous life and prepare luxury goods that can highlight women's value.

In my subconscious, she doesn't seem to need those female luxury goods that have no practical meaning. She is the kind of woman who can wear street stall goods to a high-end look. This is not an exaggeration. Her beauty does not only come from her appearance, but also her inner temperament and strength.

I finally said to my father: "The sense of gap is only temporary... She came to Xuzhou with ideas. When her life is fulfilled, she will not think too much about her life in Suzhou."

"What about you? Are you back with your thoughts?"

"I... was about to tell you about this... This time I went back to Xuzhou, I planned to open a cafe and operate it for the time being, to ensure my life."

Daddy Ban took off the towel covering his face and looked at me with a frown...

I didn't expect that this would be the reaction of my father. I asked in confusion: "Don't you support me in opening a cafe?"

"Zhaoyang, you should find a job well, or you should do your career just like before, and your choice is to lose your ambitions. Do you know it yourself?"

I was very surprised: "I am losing my ambition?"

Ban Dad's expression became more and more serious: "Xuzhou is not a small city. If you want to do a career here, you don't have any chance... It's hard for me to agree with opening a coffee shop. You should also consider it yourself. You should not always be addicted to your own cognition, talk about hobbies, styles, and reject the things you should do."

"Dad, I don't understand what you said... I open a coffee shop, which is well run and can earn hundreds of thousands a year. There is no problem in ensuring life. Why is this related to the loss of ambitions?...I also need capital and effort to open a coffee shop!"

"Zhaoyang, your life does not depend entirely on yourself. You must build enough confidence... I will say something to you, you must keep it in your heart. Only by getting it first can you keep it!... Think about it carefully, what you should get and what you should keep it."

"Is life really that complicated?...Dad Ban, please look at Xiao Yun and Wang Zheng, the couple are very simple and ordinary, but I think their life is very good... And you didn't teach me like this before? I really don't understand what you said to me today!"

Ban Dad seemed to have become a designer. He tirelessly took the premise of designing my life and said: "I said this to you, not to deny the young couple Wang Zheng and Xiao Yun. Their family environment and growth experience are ordinary in themselves. Their current life corresponds to this ordinary and ordinary, so this is correct... Let's take a look at Xiaomi? Ask yourself carefully, have you really established a corresponding confidence in living with her?..."

"This..." I felt a little depressed.

Ban Dad said earnestly: "I hope there must be one between you and Xiaomi who is sober... Xiaomi has encountered such a big change, and it is hard to say she is rational at this time, so I ask you to stay awake and figure out how to grasp the balance between the two people, otherwise you will still follow the old path."

I was even more depressed because I felt that it was difficult for me to be talented to do what my father said, but it seemed to make sense! Because he didn't like to express himself very much, he had expressed too much to me in this short period of time. His over-rationality is often based on his correct judgment on the development of things... For example, he has been a deputy section chief in a state-owned enterprise for more than 10 years, which is a visionary and correct judgment. He has no worries about food and clothing throughout his life and never has to remind him to live in a nervous manner. I have really experienced it myself. When his superiors came to my house to drink, they envy him for his calm and open life after drinking.

Seeing that I had a serious expression but no statement, he said again: "I also want to talk about you, Zhaoyang, since you were a child, you have been an overly emotional and rebellious child. After starting high school, you have tattoos, smoked, and ran into the bar with your guitar. Your mother and I see these things. It’s not that you don’t want to control you, but that’s your nature..."

I argued, "But is sentimental a bad thing? ...I smoked, had tattoos, ran to the bar, but in order not to let you down, I also got into a good university!"

"This is the contradiction in you, and it is also a place that makes it difficult for us to control... Sensibility is indeed not a bad thing, but rational people often have the ability to change the development of things, while emotional people can only change themselves according to the development of things. There is a big difference between the two... You have not seen through this difference yet!"

I suddenly thought of Fang Yuan because of what Ban Dad said. He was the representative of reason, so he planned and controlled Zhuomei and got everything he wanted. What about me? He gained and lost all the time, and then changed himself so much that he felt strange to himself!

I seem to be scattered, and there has never been a central idea to support my life... This is different from Fangyuan, but why does Micai say that there is something similar to Fangyuan in my bones?...I was in a mess at this moment, and I don’t know how to judge myself, and I don’t know how to absorb the advice from my father to me.

This night, Daddy Ban didn't put too much pressure on me, but I knew this wouldn't be the end he warned me, and I really needed some space to digest what he said to me today.

......

When I returned to my residence, Mi Cai and I were the only room that had been cleaned up by my mother. She was doing skin care before bed in front of the dressing table, and I sat cross-legged on the bed meditating. I had a premonition that life in returning to Xuzhou would not be as simple as we imagined, and everything that happened in Suzhou was not the end...

After Mi Cai sorted out the nursing supplies, she asked me with relief: "Zhaoyang, do you have any detailed plans for opening a coffee shop?"

I have to open a coffee shop, so I didn’t plan to tell her that my father didn’t agree with. I replied: “There is no detailed plan, but Luku has successfully operated so many coffee shops. These successful experiences give me confidence to build a successful coffee shop in Xuzhou without the help of the platform.”

Mi Cai nodded trustfully...

I asked her again, "What did you talk to my mom tonight?"

"Uh... I didn't talk much. When she talked about the things on the card table, I couldn't understand them... However, she said that she would take me to get to know the city of Xuzhou this morning and then buy some vegetables."

I smiled and said, "I think you can learn the skills of playing mahjong based on your IQ level. It would be too slight to win some living expenses at the poker table in the future!"

"Zhaoyang, are you kidding me?"

"It's a joke, but it's a little gambling to enjoy it. Learning to play mahjong well will be good to spend time in the future."

"I think, let's talk about opening a coffee shop... You should have roughly thought about how much money you are going to invest, the scale and direction of your business, the location of the store, the choice of target consumer groups, and the control of costs, right?"

I immediately threw a more difficult problem to Mi Cai: "Do you think it is to establish an investment budget based on the location of the store, or to establish a store's location based on the investment budget?"

"I think it depends on how much money you have as the cost of investment, which is the premise of everything."

"Yes, how much money do I have to take out for investment?" I said, jumped out of the bed, moved a chair and sat down next to Mi Cai.

Mi Cai took out his wallet from his handbag very seriously, then took out the bank card inside, and calculated a clear account for me. As a result, we could only take out the investment for only 500,000 yuan, and I estimated that the investment would reach at least 500,000 yuan, so that I could realize my business idea. So the gap of 450,000 yuan became the sorrow of both of us, and we had no intention of sleeping. The two of us held our cheeks and stared at each other for a long time!! We once said that we must not bother us to solve the problem of investing in a coffee shop.

Mi Cai finally made up her mind and said to me, "Zhaoyang, why don't you use the money my aunt gave me to invest first..."

"This is absolutely not possible. First of all, my investment budget is at least 500,000 yuan. In addition, I think you want to find an opportunity to return this money to them... Otherwise, I will sell my house in Xuzhou first, or mortgage it to make a loan... But I have to tell you about it with my father and mother."

Mi Cai immediately wondered: "In the eyes of the older generation, the house is the foundation of life. Can they agree?"

I felt a little sad. Although my mother did not express her opinion, her father had already made it clear that she would not support me in opening a coffee shop. I think: I still need to calm down and understand what he said to me today so as to find an answer that can match my future life and Micai.

In this way, life back to Xuzhou is not as simple and easy as I imagined... and this has just begun.
Chapter completed!