It was already 11 o'clock at night when I got home. I thought Daddy Ban and Mom had already rested, but I didn't expect both to sit in the living room and watch TV.

I brought it to the door, took the slippers from the shoe rack and prepared to change it. My mother turned the sound of the TV and asked me, "Zhaoyang, will you have supper with that girl tonight?"

"Well, take her to the pot of food." After saying that, she was afraid that they would continue to ask questions and added, and said, "She will go back to Suzhou tomorrow."

My mother nodded and stopped asking questions and focused on the ongoing TV series.

Before I could breathe a sigh of relief, Ban Dad suddenly asked, "Did she come and ask you to return to work in Suzhou?"

"Is this meaning?" I gave Ban Dad an ambiguous answer.

"How did you lose your job in Suzhou? Why did she say that your job loss has something to do with her?"

"Dad Ban, I don't plan to go back to Suzhou to work anymore. It doesn't make much sense for you to ask again, right?"

Daddy said with a stern face: "You can stay in Xuzhou, just go find your job yourself, don't expect me to arrange it for you."

I said helplessly: "Have you been looking for it myself recently? Don't worry, you don't have to work."

Dad Ban ignored me and focused on the TV series that was being broadcast on TV.

...

When I returned to my room, I leaned on the bed and lit a cigarette. I couldn't help but start thinking about the work problems that I had to solve recently. If I could, I still hope to work in the department store, but the entire Xuzhou department store could count them with my fingers, and the staff demand was not strong. It was estimated that finding a job was not difficult. If it really didn't work, I could only lower the requirements for some low-paying planning jobs.

In the depression of not seeing the future, I remembered Mi Cai again. It is indeed a good choice to go back to Suzhou with her for the time being, but that city really made me very tired and had almost no sense of expectation. I don’t want to go back and walk the road I have walked again.

Sometimes people are like this. Before I decide to leave Suzhou, I still have unwillingness and attachment. When I really turn my leave into facts, those unwillingness and longing gradually fade, and this is also the most fundamental reason why I refuse to return to Suzhou.

The next day, as agreed with Mi Cai, I rushed to the hotel where she was staying before 7 o'clock, and the two said goodbye in the morning sunshine.

I handed a box in my hand to Mi Cai and said, "This is our specialty of Xuzhou. Children candy. You can chew and play with it when you are bored at night and will not eat fat."

Mi Cai took the box from me and looked at it, then smiled and said, "Thank you."

"Driving slower on the road, if you are sleepy, go to the service station to sleep for a while." I felt a little worried that Mi Cai drove alone for a long distance and reminded me.

"I know."

"that……"

Mi Cai looked at me and waited for me to continue talking.

"That, come to our Xuzhou to have fun when you have time."

Mi Cai showed a hint of disappointment on her face, but she smiled and nodded, then said to me: "Yes, if you have the chance, I hope I can come to you to eat the pot."

"Well, then say goodbye, take care of yourself."

"Take care of yourself!"

After Mi Cai said that, he walked towards his car, and I finally remembered what I was going to say, and shouted to her back: "Mi Cai, be careful that your uncle Mi Zhongde, he won't stop so easily."

Mi Cai stopped in place, but did not turn around, nodded, and stopped, and started the car and drove out of the hotel parking lot.

Watching the car gradually moving away with the flow of traffic, I felt an inexplicable loss in my heart. I didn't want to think too deeply about this loss. I sighed and opened the car door, got in, and then drove the car in the exact opposite direction from Micai.

...

All day long, I applied for several more companies, as I had been satisfied and dissatisfied. As for the final application results, I still need to wait for notification.

It was already evening, and I found the phone number of my first blind date partner in my life, Li Xiaoyun, and then dialed it out.

The phone was answered a moment later, and I said to Li Xiaoyun straight to the point: "Are you free tonight? I want to invite you to dinner seriously and pay you back the money I borrowed last time."

"I'll get off work later, where will I eat?" Li Xiaoyun said without refusing.

"You can decide the place, it depends on what you like to eat."

Li Xiaoyun thought for a while and said, "Go to eat Japanese cuisine. Recently, a new Japanese cuisine restaurant has been opened on the Fashion Avenue. I heard it is good."

"Okay, I'll pick you up if you work in an advertising company."

"No need, today I drove myself and we can just go to the restaurant to meet."

“Ok.”

...

I first came to the newly opened restaurant on Fashion Avenue. After booking a seat, I waited for Li Xiaoyun outside the restaurant. About a quarter of an hour later, a red Focus hatchback stopped in front of me. Then Li Xiaoyun walked out of the car, waved to me, and asked, "Have you been waiting for a long time?"

"It's only a short while, the location has been set. Let's go in."

Li Xiaoyun nodded and followed me into the restaurant.

In the small private room of double, Li Xiaoyun and I sat opposite each other, and the things we ordered were served for a while. In fact, I can’t say that I like to eat food, but Li Xiaoyun has such a request, so I still have to maintain a manly demeanor and be content with her.

We were having a chat while eating, and Li Xiaoyun suddenly asked me, "Zhaoyang, do you know that when we were having dinner in the coffee shop that day, my mother and your mother were sitting behind us?"

"I know, otherwise I wouldn't have returned the money to you so soon. My mother scolded me very much, but she still gave me pocket money with a loving son." I smiled.

Li Xiaoyun smiled and said, "Do you know how my mother evaluates you?"

"It's definitely not a positive review."

Li Xiaoyun laughed "haha" and said, "My mother said she had a good understanding. The first time she saw someone asks the girl to borrow money when she was on a blind date."

I sighed and said, "Oh! Your mother denied me like this. It seems that our marriage cannot be accomplished, but you can't blame your mother for this, I am not in the process of reconciliation."

"Don't be so pessimistic..."

I asked with a smile, "You mean we still have a chance?"

"Uh...that's not what I meant either."

"Then you don't need to comfort me anymore. Let's keep a happy mood today and eat this dinner."

Li Xiaoyun nodded and said, "Then I won't talk about this anymore. By the way, have you been looking for a job recently?"

"Yes, I've been bothered by this for more than a week."

Li Xiaoyun asked a little surprisedly: "I heard that you graduated from Suzhou University, it's a pretty good school. Moreover, your father works as a section chief in a state-owned enterprise, and your education is also good. It's not difficult to arrange a job for you in their unit, right?"

"Don't mention this, he brought me back!" I said a little depressedly.

Li Xiaoyun smiled and did not focus on this, and asked again: "You used to do planning work, right?"

"What, are you planning to introduce me to the job?"

Li Xiaoyun nodded and said, "It can be said that our advertising company planning department is recruiting commercial planning recently. With your experience in planning in large department stores, the planning work of advertising companies should be able to handle it, right?"

"There is no big problem. The nature of the work between the two is similar and you will be able to get started soon." I said confidently.

"That's it, you'll send me a resume and I'll hand it over to the planning director of our planning department tomorrow. If he thinks there is no problem, he will make an appointment for an interview." Li Xiaoyun said.

"Okay, I'll bother you."

"What are you doing so politely? Our two families are very familiar with Aunt Zhang (the aunt who introduced me to Li Xiaoyun and I to date) so I just want to do a favor with my friend. By the way, I have a good relationship with Director Zhou of our company's planning department, so there should be no big problems with my work." Li Xiaoyun said with a smile.

"Then I won't say thank you to you. I'll treat you to dinner after I finish the work."

"Actually, I hope you will treat me to a meal after you make achievements at work. The meal might taste more delicious at that time."

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