My 26-year-old Female Tenant

   At 7 o’clock in the evening, I followed the flow of people, stepped on the light and shadow, and walked on the noisy and crowded street. I wanted to light a cigarette, but I gave up. I just bought two skewers to relieve my addiction.

   After eating two meat skewers and buying a few small mochi balls, I just walked around and ate, and then I forgot the things that bothered me, and indulged in the relaxed world I deliberately created.

  But when I was about to reach the coffee shop I had agreed with Li Xiaoyun, the relaxed world shattered in an instant, and I was pulled back to this boring real world.

  Throwing the convenience bag containing the food in my hand into the trash can, I took a deep breath before walking to the coffee shop, imagining Li Xiaoyun's current appearance all the way, subconsciously I think she will change.

   It was still the same corner as before. Li Xiaoyun was wearing a red coat while drinking coffee and reading magazines, looking more stable than before.

  I came to her, she looked up at me, then smiled and said: "Come on!"

   "Well, I came all the way, I'm late for 5 minutes, sorry!"

   "It's okay, sit down."

  I nodded and sat down opposite Li Xiaoyun. In order to hide the embarrassment of having nothing to talk about, I picked up a magazine and read it after I ordered something.

  So Li Xiaoyun and I really didn't say a word in 5 minutes, which made it even more obvious that our meeting at this moment was just for coping.

  Finally, Li Xiaoyun closed the magazine and asked me: "Zhaoyang, don't we have something to talk about, we are not strangers!"

  I also closed the magazine, smiled and said, "Let's talk... how are you doing recently?"

  Li Xiaoyun shook his head.

   "Why, have you encountered difficulties in life?"

   "I shook my head not because I was doing well or not, but because I think you have changed. I don't seem to be able to see the kind of carefree and free and easy when we first met."

   "Really? Then tell me what I look like now?"

   "The whole person is in a trance, and there is a little cowardice in helplessness... Am I right?"

  I subconsciously looked at the glass window, and saw myself reflected on it, but there was only a vague outline, whether it was in a trance or timid, I couldn't tell at all.

  Li Xiaoyun reached out and wiped away some water vapor on the glass window, and my image suddenly became clear.

   "Zhaoyang, it's time for you to shave your beard! Your hair needs to be taken care of too."

  I touched my chin, my hand felt uncomfortable from the beard, and I touched my hair, it felt a little greasy, and there was a faint smell of tobacco on my body, I couldn't help admiring myself, I dared to come out to date a girl with such a depressed appearance.

I smiled apologetically at Li Xiaoyun again. In fact, a man who is sloppy when dating a woman is disrespectful to women. I never thought about gaining favor in front of her.

  Li Xiaoyun suddenly got up and said to me: "Let's go."

I looked at Li Xiaoyun puzzled, and instantly understood that our date is over here, and my slumped appearance must not arouse Li Xiaoyun's interest in chatting, after all, this is just a date to deal with family members, why make it so messy something to do.

I went to the cashier to buy the bill, and then went downstairs with Li Xiaoyun. When I was about to say goodbye to her, she had already walked towards the parking lot. I smiled helplessly and sighed in my heart: "Zhaoyang, Zhaoyang, what are you doing now What kind of bird does it look like, it makes the women flock to avoid it!"

I lit a cigarette, turned around and walked to the other side of the street, but was blocked by Li Xiaoyun's car, Li Xiaoyun pressed the car window and said to me: "Zhaoyang, put out the cigarette quickly, and take you to the hairdresser's shop to clean up." ,tidy!"

   "Huh?" I didn't realize it for a while, and looked at Li Xiaoyun in a daze.

   "Hurry up and get in the car, men must be energetic, especially those who celebrate the Chinese New Year, let alone look lifeless."

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Li Xiaoyun drove me to a hair salon in a shopping mall, and immediately showed my VIP card. Then, under the guidance of the waiter, I went to wash my hair first, and then began the long process of haircut and shaving. During this process, Li Xiaoyun kept going Sitting by my side with me, we also started chatting.

  This time I took the initiative to say to Li Xiaoyun: "Xiaoyun, you haven't told me how the time has passed!"

  Li Xiaoyun smiled and replied: "I still go to work and go home as before, and live a regular life every day, but more than two months are enough for people to understand many things."

  Of course I knew that the two months Li Xiaoyun mentioned was the two months after we broke up. After a period of uncomfortable silence, I asked: "What do you want to understand?"

   "There is no need to tell you this, let's talk about your life during this time, how is your friend's bar now?"

   "It's not bad, it's almost on the right track."

   "Since your job is not bad, then your current decadence must be related to your relationship?"

Li Xiaoyun is really doing customer relationship management work, and her thoughts are extremely delicate. She has indeed seen through me at this moment, but I am not suitable for talking about emotional matters with her, so she smiled and remained silent, and she didn't ask any more questions, yes I said "go to the mall to buy some things" and left for a while.

With the efforts of the hair stylist, I finally changed my face after a while, at least I didn’t look so decadent. At almost the same time, Li Xiaoyun returned to the hairdresser after shopping. She looked at me and expressed her satisfaction to the hair stylist. grateful.

  After leaving the hair salon, we stood side by side outside the shopping mall. There was a big gap between our bodies, but our reflections on the window were so intimate.

  Li Xiaoyun took out a box of perfume from her handbag and handed it to me, saying, "For you, this men's perfume is pretty good. It smells very light, but it's enough to cover the smell of tobacco on your body."

   "Xiaoyun, I'm really embarrassed and embarrassed that you gave me something!"

  Li Xiaoyun said seriously: "You don't have to be embarrassed. This box of perfume plus the cost at the hairdresser just now totaled 562 yuan. I took 1,000 yuan from you last time, so these are spent on your own money."

  After being reminded by Li Xiaoyun, I just remembered that she did take 1,000 yuan from me when we broke up, but I never knew her motive for taking the money.

Li Xiaoyun put the perfume back into the handbag again, then stuffed the handbag into my hand, and said to me with a smile: "Zhaoyang, cheer up, think about the high-spirited self when I was working in Xuzhou. Your leader is still feeling sorry for your departure! ...Life will definitely experience troughs, so troughs are not terrible, what is terrible is that you do not have the ability to get out of the troughs, so I hope you can always maintain confidence and be a capable and charming man!"

  The long-lost touch seemed to melt my heart. I stared at Li Xiaoyun for a long time before I said, "Thank you, Xiaoyun. I am very glad that I have the opportunity to accept your transformation tonight. I will remember this night."

   "You don't need to thank me. In fact, you also made me understand some things. This is also a kind of help to me. My current behavior is just reciprocating!"

  I was a little puzzled, wondering what I had made Li Xiaoyun understand, but I had already asked her just now, but she was unwilling to tell me.

  Li Xiaoyun said to me again: "There is still 438 yuan here, which can cure your decadence next time. Of course, I hope that this money will not be used."

   "I hope so."

  Li Xiaoyun smiled, then raised her hand to look at her watch and said, "It's getting late, I should go back and rest."

   "Well, be careful on the road."

Li Xiaoyun nodded, waved at me again, and then walked towards the underground parking lot of the shopping mall. Looking at her leaving back, I felt inexplicable in my heart, and felt that I was ashamed of her kindness to me. An engagement ring was pawned.

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