Amorous Short Stories

Tao Yisu went to the bar at night, and unexpectedly found that there were more people in the bar, and most of them were not skirmishers, gangsters, or mercenaries.Tao Yisu was a little surprised, he was sitting at the bar, the groom and Kang Ruyi were busy, the groom quickly came to pour him a glass of juice, patted him on the shoulder and said he would come back later.Tao Yisu looked around, and there was a bit of excitement here, like a normal bar with a good business.

He stood up, led the dog and sat down at the place closest to the wall at the bar, vacating the seat for business.

Tao Yisu was sitting and drinking his juice, while the ladybug was lying on the ground playing with a ball.A man came over, holding a wine bottle in one hand, his footsteps were a little wobbly, and when he saw a ladybug, he bent down to tease him.Tao Yisu saw it but didn't say anything.The man just waved his hand in front of the ladybug's eyes, but without attracting the ladybug's attention, he began to call "hey, hey", and then kicked the ladybug's paw.As soon as the ladybug was touched, it drew back its paws, looked down at its own paws, and whined.Tao Yisu called the man: "Hey," the man stopped and looked up at him. "Get up." The man and Tao Yisu looked at each other for a few seconds, lost their aura, turned and left.

Tao Yisu squatted down and taught the ladybug: "Although you can't bark, you are no worse than other dogs. You can also scare them with a more aggressive expression. Can you show your teeth? That's it..." Tao Yisu barked at the ladybug. tooth.The groom came over strangely and looked at them: "What are you doing?"

Tao Yisu sighed and sat back: "Growing pains."

Poker came over soon after receiving the news from Tao Yisu: "Have you seen him?"

"Yeah." Tao Yisu talked about his new business with Tide. "I'll take you to meet him tomorrow, and we'll split half of my share." Poker nodded, and Tao Yisu continued, "After I leave, you have to be very careful with Tide, I don't know what he's planning, but he Must be thinking of something."

Poker thought for a while: "Business here has always been slow, so there's nothing to worry about. But Tide's relationship with the flower seller is pretty bad. What's more... Tide was just like us at the time. Some/net worth invested in it, but strangely, although he didn't make much profit, he changed his car and opened a new restaurant...”

Tao Yisu nodded: "I went today."

"It's weird..."

"Poker, we only do this, we don't touch other things, but you still have to be careful, you can't spend two days with him. If things get out of control, like he gets involved in some fights, or something more complicated, make sure you and I can smoke come out."

Poker nods.

The groom finally had time to sit down and chat for a while. He poured himself a glass of wine and let out a long breath. Kang Ruyi was cleaning up the lobby, and Poker stood up to help.

The groom smiled: "Look, hiring one is like hiring two."

Tao Yisu also looked over, Kang Ru came over, looked up, then lowered his head, and wiped a small piece of the table surface for a long time, so the distance between the two did not change.The groom clicked his tongue, smiled and shook his head: "You said they are both cleaning the table on the east side, who will clean the table on the west side for me..."

Tao Yisu turned to look at the groom: "So busy now? Are all the mercenaries here?"

The groom became excited: "I'm going to praise Kang Ruyi. She is quite good at it. You can see the sign at the door and the billboard at the alley. They are all her ideas. What's the point of 'a special wine every day'? Didn’t notice that the wine list has been updated too, feel it, it feels much better... The mercenaries usually come over at [-]/[-] o’clock in the evening, and the guests who come after that. There were still some conflicts, isn’t poker here? In the second round, the people who brought you to the boxing ring... Anyway, the mercenaries usually come early now and go back later, and those who don't go back don't cause much trouble. Generally speaking, it's not bad." The groom pushed back Tao Yisu's arm, " It made you a lot of money."

"That's great," Tao Yisu sipped his juice, "give me some money, I just want to buy a pack of cigarettes."

"You don't have any money, just forget about it." The groom smiled and hit him, "Oh, by the way, did I tell you about the band?"

"Really found it?"

"Yes, what time is it?"

"Nine thirty-two."

"That's coming soon."

Tao Yisu sat where he was, and the groom, Poker, and Kang Ruyi came over to chat when they were not busy. When he was busy, Tao Yisu drank water leisurely, looked at his phone and chatted with Ding Qing.

There are a total of five members in the band, and the race is quite rich. The lead singer is an Asian with long hair, and the groom said he is of mixed race, Japanese mixed with Irish.As soon as they came up, there was a burst of cheers. Several people waved their hands and said hello, then asked the groom to adjust the lights and started playing.Tao Yisu has heard this song before, in a DireStraits [-] recollection album he bought, "What It Is".Tao Yisu knew, because Yan Meng liked them quite a lot before.

People gradually dispersed, those with families went home, those without families wandered elsewhere, the bar gradually became deserted, and the band sang a quieter song.

Tao Yisu and the others sat at the bar, chatting casually.For some reason, the topic suddenly turned to the fire that Kang Ruyi set on fire back then.Both Tao Yisu and Po Ke felt that no one could die at that level, and Kang Ruyi became nervous when he heard it.To be honest, she never got better, and sometimes she would feel that her life was retribution from previous accounts, such as her grandmother who died of illness in a foreign country, such as her dead child.From the bottom of her heart, Kang Ruyi felt that she might not get a better life.Now they suddenly said that she might never have killed an enemy.Kang Ruyi is very contradictory. On the one hand, she hopes that if she succeeds, she can wash away her humiliation. On the other hand, she doesn't want her to be successful, with blood on her hands and debts on her body.

Only the groom noticed Kang Ruyi's state and wanted them to shut up.But the conversation between Tao Yisu and poker has gone in a completely different direction.

"Speaking of it, it's really not that easy to die." Tao Yisu suddenly remembered, "I've seen a person before, who committed suicide. He was good at shooting his head with a gun, and shot his temple. His hand shook, and he missed it. He was found and sent to the hospital. In the end, he lost one eye and ruined half his face, but he survived." Tao Yisu spread his hands, "I really don't know which is worse."

"I also know one. It turned out that when we were in the camp, a brother committed suicide with a hunting gun. He bit his mouth with two barrels, and a wall of blood exploded behind him. He was hit in the brain, but he didn't die. There is a heartbeat, but I won't wake up, so what..."

"Vegetable?" The groom offered words to the bottomless poker.

"Ah yes." Poker nodded, and turned his face to enlighten Kang Ruyi, "So it's not that easy to die, you said you used wine, it's even more impossible, it won't burn so fast, and people will definitely run away. "

The doorbell rang, and Kang Ruyi's face suddenly became stiffer as she looked over.Looking at the rest of the people together, he was an ordinary man, wearing a woolen hat, his legs and feet were somewhat inflexible, more than 1.7 meters tall, he was dressed in gray, but he looked very white.When he came in, he turned his eyes around and fixed on Kang Ruyi's face, as if he had finally found his purpose and came across the hall.

The three people at the bar all turned to look at Kang Ruyi again, but Kang Ruyi still had a gloomy face, disbelief and resentment. They couldn't judge the situation for the time being, and the scene remained quiet.

The man came over and said something they didn't understand, and Kang Ruyi replied something they didn't understand, Poker got anxious, stood up and spoke to the man in English: "Speak something we can understand."

The man glanced at him, ignored him, and continued to talk to Kang Ruyi.Kang Ruyi's tone became strong, and the man roared and patted the table.

At this moment, the other three stood up, looked at the man, shouted to stop, Poker stretched out his hand and pushed him, the man looked at them, said something, turned and left.

"Who is it?" Poker glanced at the man's back in displeasure.

"...my ex-husband..." Kang Ruyi smiled wryly, "legally speaking, I haven't divorced him yet..."

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Tao Yisu was still spending time at the bar the next night when he heard from the groom that Kang Ruyi and Poker had quarreled.Seriously, it can't be called a quarrel, it's just that Poker got angry with Kang Ruyi and asked Kang Ruyi to make a statement, but Kang Ruyi said it had nothing to do with him, so Poker rushed out angrily and didn't see anyone for a day.Kang Ruyi's ex-husband came back and said that he had solved the debt problem and wanted her to return to him.

After Tao Yisu listened, he looked at Kang Ruyi, who was working so hard tonight, and drank his lemonade without saying anything.

"Is the lemonade here recommended?" A man sat down next to Tao Yisu. He looked about forty years old, Caucasian, and he was tall even when sitting, with a straight body. He leaned casually against the bar without arching Shoulder bag.The hair is neatly combed, and the eyes are blue-green.A playboy smile, like an advanced version of Fang Musi, less frivolous and more sophisticated.Clean sideburns, neatly trimmed eyebrows, and an Oxford accent.The man rests his thumbs on his chin, revealing his expensive watch, a ring of dark brown beads, and manicured nails.The white shirt was undone with two buttons, and the sleeves were rolled up. She smelled of alcohol and leather perfume. Ding Qing said that this fragrance must be artificial.

"I don't know." Tao Yisu shook his head, and wanted to turn back to look at Kang Ruyi, but the man stretched out his hand to him: "We met before, I'm Roy Shackford."

Tao Yisu looked at him calmly, conveying "Should I know you" with his eyes.

"You saved my life." The man laughed.

Tao Yisu looked at the man's face carefully, and remembered that hostage who loves cleanliness. "Oh..." Then she shook hands with him in a daze.

"Or you can call me by my Chinese name." The man suddenly became gentle and gentle. When he spoke Chinese, his slutty image disappeared, his eyebrows and eyes became more friendly, and he became less aggressive.If Tao Yisu hadn't watched this change helplessly, he would have thought the man had changed his face.

Tao Yisu was not a sociable person who saw who played what cards, so he easily put down his guard: "You can speak Chinese."

"Yes." The man smiled. "My grandfather worked in the Chinese embassy for a while. I followed him when I was a child. Later, when I went back, I was also taught by a teacher."

Tao Yisu nodded: "Oh. Then what's your Chinese name?"

"Master Qin."

"Ah?" Tao Yisu laughed, thinking he had heard wrong.

The man smiled and nodded: "Okay, okay, I know." He raised his hand, half helpless and half funny, "It's not a nice name, maybe it's a bit strange...but my grandpa likes this kind of dialectical metaphysics very much. , that’s what you guys said… um… Tai Chi.”

Tao Yisu was surprised: "Then your name should be Qin Yinyang."

Mr. Qin grasped the stalk accurately, shook his head and laughed.

"Are you on a business trip?" Tao Yisu took over the duties and handed the drink list to Mr. Qin.

Mr. Qin thanked him and nodded: "I heard from Mr. Nian that you often come here when you have no business. I happened to come to Chiang Mai from New York, so I came to have a look. I didn't expect to meet you. Since there is such a fate, How about giving me the honor to treat you to a meal? Just to repay your kindness."

Tao Yisu waved his hand: "Don't worry, it's just work."

Mr. Qin lowered his eyes and did not insist: "That's right, it's more convenient to buy wine." He asked Tao Yisu to order wine.

Tao Yisu felt that Mr. Qin was a nice person, and if he refused again, he was afraid of losing face, so he smiled and said nothing.

"How long has Mr. Yan lived here?"

"On and off...for ten years."

"Then Mr. Yan must be very familiar with the market next door?" Mr. Qin guessed, after all, the market is very close to the bar.

Tao Yisu nodded: "Well, I usually take that road when I come here."

"That's great," Mr. Qin leaned closer, "I've always wanted to go there, but I don't think it's easy to go. Could it be convenient for Mr. Yan to show me around?"

"Uh..." It's not a matter of Fang's inconvenience, Tao Yisu is too lazy to engage in such social activities, and he doesn't like to make friends.But now he has no mission to rest in Chiang Mai, and he knows the way very well, and even laughed at people's names... "When will it be? I may be leaving soon."

"A new mission?" Mr. Qin changed the subject.

"No..." Tao Yisu thought for a while and changed his words, "Yes." Then he explained the slip of the tongue, "I shouldn't talk about this."

"Ah." Mr. Qin nodded understandingly, looking at Tao Yisu, his "ah" seemed to have an overtone.Tao Yisu looked away as if nothing had happened in his eyes.

Mr. Qin finished his drink: "Then, there will be a fate later. Mr. Yan."

Tao Yisu said goodbye to him.Sitting and drinking, he looked at Kang Ruyi, and Kang Ruyi looked at the door.

Poker and a few people from the boxing ring came in, saw Kang Ruyi, but pretended not to see him.They greeted Tao Yisu, sat in the booth at the back, and beckoned Tao Yisu to go, Tao Yisu shook his head, motioning himself to wait a while before going there.

Tao Yisu sat quietly drinking, and Kang Ruyi came to him after hesitating for a long time.She sat on the stool inside the bar counter, without saying a word, in a daze, Tao Yisu looked at her.A woman came over and handed Kang Ruyi a note. Kang Ruyi glanced at it, got up and approached the band, and handed it to them.The band began to sing a song called "Theecstacyoncetold", the voice of the bass boy singing the female part was quite feminine.

When Kang Ruyi came back, she refilled Tao Yisu's glass, took out another wine glass, poured herself wine, and drank it with her head raised.

Tao Yisu looked at her and said nothing.

After Kang Ruyi finished drinking, her face flushed, she turned her head and listened to the band's song for a while, then suddenly turned to Tao Yisu, looking at him with bright eyes: "Can't we be together?"

Tao Yisu didn't expect the conversation to be in this direction, he raised his eyebrows in surprise: "What?"

Kang Ruyi lowered her head and moved her throat a few times, then raised her head again, her eyes were full of tears and light: "Let's be together, leave here, go anywhere, let's go together..."

Tao Yisu just looked at her quietly, and Kang Ruyi gradually lowered her head, and sat down on the chair inside the bar, with her head down, holding the wine bottle in one hand and the wine glass in the other.

Tao Yisu licked his lower lip and sighed: "I probably know, I know now..."

Kang Ruyi looked up at him.

Tao Yisu looked at her: "You want to be with me, because I look like a mess, hopeless, and I have let down many people..."

Kang Ruyi blushed even more, she opened her mouth nervously, trying to say something.

Tao Yisu smiled: "It's okay, I don't mind. I was just thinking that you tend to like a broken person to cover up some of your own problems. However, two broken people can't just rely on each other for warmth. You can mend each other, but you can't mend me, and I can't mend you..." Tao Yisu paused, "I'm a very timid and ignorant person who doesn't know how to be good all the time. Because I was a child I was taught to do the right thing. After things became complicated, it was difficult for me to make a decisive choice and accept it calmly afterward.

When I had the chance to leave, I didn't dare to leave.I've been losing in my life, I always need somewhere to win to make myself feel better, so I ran to the battlefield, even though I hated myself for doing those things, it was better than going back to my hometown, feeling sorry for others, knowing that I can't get back to the past My life is still stuck inside, and I see everything is living in the past... In order to escape responsibility, I fled to Yan's family, so that I am a victim, they forced me to make choices, they forced me to lose everything, I don't have to put It's all my own fault..."

Tao Yisu sighed, and looked at his wine: "But this won't work. I still have to experience joy, anger and sorrow by myself, and I can't throw it on anyone... When I was 20 years old, I felt that fighting was the only thing I could do. thing to do, so I went, and now at 30, I realize that's really the only thing I can do.

So is it too late to be 21?have no idea.Is it too late now?have no idea.I still don't know what to do, but I don't care anymore.Too many things are out of my control, and I shouldn't worry about where it will go.

I made a decision, I plan to be with the person I like, I love him very much, I am willing to treat myself well for his sake.But he can't save me, I decide for myself.Maybe I did the right thing this time, maybe I didn't, I don't know, but honestly, regardless of the outcome, I know I won't regret it.So what if you regret it?What is there to be afraid of regretting?

the same as you.You can choose.You don't have to choose me, or worse, the scum, because you underestimate yourself.You like someone and feel afraid.But... you can choose now," Tao Yisu turned his head and glanced at the poker, "and he is still... Someone told me a word before, and it will be more than ten years before I really dare to do it.You are braver than me, you are smarter than me, maybe you can try.

If you can go home one day, don't be afraid. "

Kang Ruyi looked at the man in front of him, feeling emotion from not knowing where he came from, feeling random while avoiding things, he lowered his head in a daze, neither sad nor happy, raised his head and smiled consolingly, only then did Kang Ruyi realize that his hand was a little bit shake.She and Tao Yisu were silent together, chatting about life with no one to show off, and in the end it was either wine or silence.

Kang Ruyi raised her head, looked at the poker, put down her wine glass, stood up, glanced at Tao Yisu, and took a step forward.

Tao Yisu followed her with his eyes.

She walked towards him, said something, turned and walked out the door, he glanced at his friends with a reluctant expression, but chose to follow irresistibly.They stopped outside the door and moved aside to make way for visitors.Tao Yisu also moved his head, just in time to see the two of them in front of the glass window.She spoke, and he also spoke, and the two seemed to be arguing.He turned around to leave, but was pulled by her, she seemed to say something loudly, he hugged her, hugged her in his arms, like a wronged child who finally got the candy, buried his head in her shoulder, and shook his back flick.With a gentle side face, she reached out and patted him gently.

Tao Yisu turned back to drink his own wine, thinking that the moon is not bad tonight, so he should call Ding Qing.He took out his mobile phone, Ding Qing's call came.

"Master Tao, I changed the bed for both of us!" Ding Qing guessed that he had been drinking, and his voice was a bit loud, "Do you want the giraffe or dolphin bed sheets?"

Tao Yisu laughed: "Slow down your voice."

Ding Qing put the microphone close to his mouth, silenced his voice completely, and gasped: "Do you want a giraffe or a dolphin?"

"Giraffe."

"Okay! See you tomorrow!"

"See you tomorrow."