The woman brought a pair of uniquely shaped cotton shoes and cotton socks from the attic. I bent over and took off the wet shoes and dried them next to the heating not far away. While putting on the cotton shoes, Micai said to the woman: "Thank you... By the way, I don't know your name yet, can I tell us?"

"Of course it's convenient. My name is Jing Xiaosi... By the way, Aye doesn't have many friends. I wonder which friend you are often mentioned?"

I smiled and replied, "You can guess first."

Jing Xiaosi thought for a while and said, "Robbon is a rock singer. She is usually very punk in clothes, so you must not be Robben, then you are probably Zhaoyang. This temperamental beauty must be your girlfriend Mi Cai... If I guess correctly, I really have to thank you both. Aye can achieve what he has today, and you cannot do without your selfless help!"

I smiled and replied, "Your eyesight is great, you guessed it, but there is no need to say thank you. Aye and us are friends who are close friends. It is our duty to do a little bit of effort for his career. The most important thing is his own efforts. If there is no excellent work, no kind of help will be of no use to him!"

Jing Xiaosi nodded and looked at Xia Fanye again. After a long time, he said: "His talent makes me fascinated. For me, it is my greatest regret in life that I am not able to accompany him in his most difficult days... Unfortunately, we met at his art exhibition! At this time, he was already a well-known painter!"

Mi Cai comforted him: "It's just that fate has come a little late, so you don't have to care too much."

"I just feel sad for his previous girlfriend. She accompanied Aye for the most miserable time. Even because of this miserable, it was indirectly caused an accident. But I enjoyed the fruits and met Aye now..."

I comforted me again: "Xiao Si, this should be Aye's knot, not yours... Maybe even Aye herself doesn't care about these things anymore, so why can't you let it go? ...You must know that everyone has their own cause and effect. Her cause is Aye's fruit, and Aye's fruit is yours. These are all due to fate...!"

"Maybe that's the case... Such a causal relationship will make me love Aye more, making up for the regret that I didn't accompany him during that period!"

I nodded, but reflected on it because I saw a kind of heroic demise in the love between Xia Fanye and Jing Xiaosi. It is true. No matter how vigorous and heartbroken the past was, there would be a day of demise. Standing in the law of continuous development and change of things, forgetting is our destiny, because new people and things continue to take root and grow in our senses, and there are fewer and fewer places in our hearts that can be retained.

After reflecting on this, I looked at Mi Cai next to me again. Her quietness made me unwilling to be the man who felt everything was good but was not short of worries. I shouldn't look back frequently to see those already mottled pasts... These seem to be the gains I have gained in this relocated "west of the old city".

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When a glass of milk was about to finish, Xia Fanye finally took off his headphones. He turned around and suddenly saw us chatting with Jing Xiaosi. His expression was full of surprise. He almost subconsciously asked: "Zhaoyang, Mr. Mi...why are you here?"

I replied: "Come to Suzhou to do something."

Mi Cai replied: "Brother Xia, don't call me Mr. Mi anymore, otherwise I will be in a daze and can't see the past and the present clearly!"

Xia Fanye smiled and said, "Then call you Sister Cai, but why do I think Sister Cai is saying something to Zhaoyang? In my eyes, he has always been a person who doesn't want to make the past and the present too clearly!"

Mi Cai looked at me with an expression of wanting to hear how I deal with it, but I was surprised that Xia Fanye gave me such an evaluation. After a while, he changed the topic and said, "I think it's not appropriate for you to call Mi Cai Sister Cai. You are several years older than her!" Then he said to Mi Cai with a stern face: "How can you just make people call yourself old? Even I feel that I'm several years older!"

Xia Fanye smiled and explained, "I think it's okay to shout like this. When I am in the world, I naturally have to rank seniority based on the status of the world. If Sister Cai hadn't introduced so many art dealers to me and sponsored me to hold art exhibitions, I wouldn't have been the ones I am today!"

"Aye, when you start to care about your status in the world, it proves that you are already on the verge of depravity... Tell me, have you realized that you have forgotten the so-called status in the world and called her brother and sister?"

Xia Fanye just smiled, but Jing Xiaosi recognized that younger brother and sister-in-law was a good name. She grabbed Mi Cai's hand and shouted "Little Brother and Sister-in-law", and then the two women looked at each other and smiled... At this moment, the wind outside the window still blew the raindrops on the glass window, and the "dripping" sounded... While we were chatting, we drank the hot milk tea made by Xia Fanye. Now he has also learned the skills of making milk tea!

Perhaps it was because it was raining, there were no customers in the coffee shop. Jing Xiaosi made a hot pot and left us to have dinner in the coffee shop. Naturally, we didn't postpone it. The four of them were just in the lingering heat, enjoying dinner while chatting, as if there was a world outside the window and another world inside the window...

In the world inside the window, Xia Fanye finally became an open-minded person, chatting and laughing with us, but I always look at the world outside the window, wanting to close part of my emotions in the wind and rain. I really don’t want to touch the past anymore, because my past is the root of Micai’s sadness...

We raised our glasses and drank the beer in one go, so we talked more. Mi Cai warmly invited Xia Fanye and Jing Xiaosi to visit our coffee shop in Xuzhou when they had time. Jing Xiaosi said that she would not dare to come to the guidance, but on the day we got married, she would definitely go to the Xuzhou scene with Xia Fanye to congratulate us. We expressed our gratitude for this and felt even happier. After this pair of good friends broke down one after another, Xia Fanye and Jing Xiaosi finally gave us the motivation to move forward... I believe that one day, the friends around me will be perfect in my story.

So, with Robben, we have the same idea about them. It is best that they can meet at my wedding with Micai and I, and then continue the relationship. In this way, when we come to the "west of the Old Town" party next time, there will be more people who can chat and talk. We will drink, play music here, and talk about paintings... After a few years, maybe we will talk about the trivialities of the family again. Today his child should go to an English cram school, and tomorrow your child needs to learn a dancing skill...

I think if there are routines in the future, it must be set like this... Because sunny days with sunshine account for two-thirds of the year, why do we always have such twists and turns?

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The monthly tickets that meet the regulations have been added today (first update)

In addition, the website has recently started to make my official account and Weibo... This is not a bad thing. On the contrary, the website recognizes me and recognizes this kind of niche article. This recognition is obtained by me and everyone after two years of hard work. So in addition to thanking everyone, I also hope that everyone will follow my Weibo and official account and participate in the activities the website has done for us.

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Chapter completed!