At 7:30 in the evening, the doorbell was finally ringing. I was wearing slippers and ran to open the door "dial". The one standing outside the door was indeed Micai, who had made an appointment to come for dinner.

Mi Cai was carrying a huge convenience bag in her hand. I took it from her and looked at it. There were some vegetables, meat, a bottle of red wine and a bottle of juice.

Mi Cai said to me: "The red wine is for you, I'll drink the juice."

"What's wrong with drinking some red wine with me? I'm afraid we'll drink too much. Are I ill-treated against you?"

"I didn't say that, I just don't have the habit of drinking."

I smiled and complained, "You are so boring. I just want to get some advantage in your words. Why don't you cooperate at all?"

"Why should I cooperate with your obscene?"

"The word "dirty" is well used, and sometimes I really feel that I'm not very noble."

Mi Cai looked at me silently, obviously not knowing how to answer my words.

I closed the door and said to Mi Cai, "You sit for a while first, I'll go cook, you can sit for a while later and enjoy the achievements."

Mi Cai shook her head and said to me, "I can do something for you in my ability."

"It's not about making couple lung tablets, why do you have to help me in the best of your ability?" I said, carrying the bag and walking into the kitchen.

Mi Cai looked at me speechlessly again.

...

I started to shoot left and right in the kitchen, and I took an average of ten minutes to one dish, and I prepared all the stir-fry in about fifty minutes. At the same time, the bone soup stewed in the pot over low heat was also prepared at the same time, and the time was perfect.

At this time, Mi Cai, who had been idle, finally came in handy. She came to the kitchen and brought the prepared food to the table in her best ability.

I turned on all the lights in the house, and the small living room where I was eating was shining. I untied my apron and sat opposite Mi Cai. I drank red wine and she drank juice, but it was not a candlelight dinner.

I said to Mi Cai who was eager to try it out: "Would we have a cup first, or should you try my skills first?"

"I'll try your skills first." Mi Cai said, picking up a piece of sweet and sour fish and putting it into her mouth. After savoring, he nodded and praised: "No, your skills are not bad."

"Yes, I said that the father of tiger has no dog and son." I said with a slight smugness.

"It's hard to imagine that you can cook, and you're doing well. When did you learn this?" Mi Cai looked at me curiously after asking.

I answered while eating, "Our father said that I am wild and have a bad temper, so when I was very young, I forced me to learn cooking, saying that I can cultivate myself and be happy with my wife in the future!"

Mi Cai ignored my implication and asked me: "Your father?"

"Yes, I call me daddy, have you never heard me call that before?"

"I didn't pay much attention, why did you call him Daddy?"

I explained patiently, saying, "Because he is a scheming person, not only do I call him Banda, but their colleagues call him Banda, but he always thought I called him my father...haha..."

Mi Cai was also amused by me and said for a while: "You are so bad that you won't even let your dad go!" After saying that, his expression suddenly became sad. I suddenly realized that she was thinking of her father Mi Zhongxin, who passed away in a car accident, and finally understood why she was kind to her father.

I raised my cup and said to Mi Cai, "Let's stop talking, just touch a cup to celebrate our chance to turn war into jade."

Mi Cai nodded and picked up her juice and gently touched me a glass, then sipped it, smiled at me again, got rid of the gloomy and depression just now.

...

The dinner continued, and I had already drunk two glasses of red wine, while Micai had just drunk half a cup of juice.

I looked at Mi Cai with a complicated expression for a long time, and finally put down the wine glass in my hand and said to her: "I will go back to my hometown tomorrow."

"What's wrong? Are you going to take a vacation?" Mi Cai asked without much care.

"No, I'm going back to my hometown to live, I've quit my job."

Mi Cai looked at me, put down the chopsticks in her hand, and asked in surprise: "I resigned! Is it something happened at home?"

No wonder Mi Cai was surprised, because she rented the single apartment I am now living with me a few days ago, but she didn't know that I was struggling at that time. Although I was struggling, I had not yet had the idea of ​​leaving. But when I finally chose to tell her Mi Zhongde's conspiracy of rights in anonymous letter, my fate of leaving the city was unchanged.

I smiled and said to Mi Cai, "You know, I'm not a serious job, and I'm not young anymore, so I don't have much time to continue struggling in this unfounded city, so... it's also a good choice to go back to my hometown to live a stable life. People, especially adults, must learn to make the most correct judgment of the environment they are in."

Mi Cai nodded and agreed with me, but didn't say much. We are not people in the same world and are destined to live a life that does not understand each other and cannot penetrate each other.

I raised my glass to Micai again, and Micai picked up the wine glass to signal to me. I nodded and drank half a glass of red wine in one sip. An emotion that could not be expressed in words spread out in my body together with the wine.

...

The dinner ended in a few words between Micai and I. When Micai was about to leave, I took out all the cash I had on myself. Some of the cash was my salary, and some of the money I got after subleting this single apartment. A total of 10,318 yuan, and Micai's 10,016 yuan was lost. I still had 302 yuan left. This 302 yuan was the last thing I got after struggling in this city for more than two years.

I put the money on the table, counted 10,016 yuan from a pile of scattered coins and handed it to Mi Cai, and said, "Hey, I'll give you back the money."

Mi Cai looked at me and then I took the stack of money from one hundred to one piece of denomination from me, but unexpectedly pulled 16 yuan from it and handed it to me and said, "I like integers."

I looked at Mi Cai in surprise and did not reach out to pick it up. But she had already put the scattered 16 yuan on the table and then put another stack of money into her handbag.

"It's getting late, I have to go back." Mi Cai said to me.

"Oh, okay... Be careful on the road."

Mi Cai nodded and turned around and left. I suddenly realized that after this night, we might no longer have the chance to meet. Although I had been enemies with this woman who was leaving for nearly two months, in the end, as I left, those short-lived pasts turned into dust and were slowly erased by the passing time.

"Mi Cai..." I called her name.

"What?" She turned around, her long hair drooped her shoulders made her look so dusty.

I remained silent for a long time and asked in a low voice: "Are we friends?"

Mi Cai thought for a moment, nodded and said to me, "Forget it."

"Yes." I nodded heavily.

Mi Cai smiled at me, then turned around and walked towards the elevator entrance not far away. After a while, the elevator closed the door, so we were isolated from two worlds again.
Chapter completed!