My years as a menswear boss

Jiqiu avoided the crowd all the way, walking back, suddenly a soft hand grasped her wrist, and she looked over there, "Aurora?"

"Alone?" Aurora avoided the crowd nimbly and came to Jiqiu.

"As you can see, yes." Jiqiu replied.

Aurora looked at the ugly mask in front of her, and she smiled happily, "Today is the last day of the carnival, let me spend it with you."

Jiqiu is always more patient with girls, she nodded, "Okay."

"No wonder it's busier than the previous two days, so it's the last day." She looked around the crowded crowd and said to herself.

There were thunderous shouts from the people on the street, whether they were in the carriage or at the window, they all cheered at the same time.

Aurora heard the young man's indistinct murmur, and she leaned into Jiqiu's ear curiously, "What were you talking about just now?"

Jiqiu turned her head and saw those caramel-colored eyes. She couldn't help but smiled, raised her mask, and said in Aurora's ear, "I was just saying, I am very happy to spend the last day of the carnival with you !"

"Simon, you liar, you definitely didn't say that!" Aurora blushed, not knowing whether it was from embarrassment or anger.

"When I said this, I meant it." Jiqiu said loudly, avoiding Aurora's fist, and she ran forward.

Aurora also immediately chased after them until both of them were exhausted, bending over a pillar and gasping for breath.

"What are they selling?" Jiqiu straightened his waist, pointing curiously at a group of vendors in clown costumes, yelling among the crowd with their goods.

"This is the person who sells the 'Longevity Candle', the last show of the carnival, and it will appear after the horse racing show every time." Aurora took a breath and explained, "The person who owns the 'Longevity Candle' needs to do two things, To protect your own candle from being extinguished, you must also extinguish other people's candles. And the person who does not extinguish the candle from the beginning to the end will be blessed, and will be happy and worry-free in this life."

Jiqiu watched many people holding various candles and took out matches to light them. Sparks ignited in the crowd, and there were more and more. She became interested, "Let's join them too."

Aurora looked at the hand in front of her, slender and fair, she shook it, and followed Jiqiu to a peddler selling 'longevity candles'.

"Come on, choose one you like." Jiqiu pulled Aurora over so that she could see all the candle styles.

Aurora quickly chose a slender candle with simple carvings on it. She lit the candle in her hand, and the people around her walked up to a gust of wind, and the faint candlelight began to swing and was almost extinguished.

Jiqiu chose a wick candle, the small one was just enough for her to hold in the palm of her hand, from a distance, it was like a flame appeared out of thin air in her hand.

"Let's find a safe place to hide and go out after the end!" Aurora said happily, and she came out of the crowd bit by bit holding a candle.

"I listen to you." Jiqiu said in a warm voice.

Aurora's ears started to feel hot. Before she was happy, a group of seven or eight-year-old boys came running and jumping in pirate costumes. One of them ran up to Aurora and blew out her 'Longevity Candle'.

"Oh, you bad boy!" Aurora yelled, and all she got was a grimace with her tongue sticking out as she glared at the smirking little boy.

Jiqiu saw Aurora's dejected face, and before she could comfort her, she was pulling her forward vigorously and came to a small alley where there were no people.

"No one will come here." Aurora looked left and right, and there were lively crowds on both sides, and they were the only two people in this alley that could only accommodate two people.

"It's already extinguished anyway, so it doesn't matter if you light it again to confuse those people." She lit her own carved candle.

Jiqiu took off her cloak and spread it on the floor, she sat down first, patted the seat beside her, "Take a break."

Aurora sat down next to Jiqiu, looked up at the starry night sky, "Where are you from?"

"Monte Cristo Island." Jiqiu replied truthfully, "It's in the Tyrrhenian Sea between Italy and Corsica, France. You can come to my house to play."

"Is that your fief?" Aurora said in surprise.

"No, it belongs to my father, he is the earl." Jiqiu shook his head, took off the mask and put it in his hand, "I'm just a poor little painter."

"Painter?" Aurora curled her hair with her fingers, and she looked into the carefree eyes of the young man, "My father is also a painter, he only has one old sponsor, and our family relies on his paintings for a living. "

"This may be the last time I come to the carnival."

"Why?" Jiqiu asked curiously.

"Because the sponsor's vision is becoming more and more critical, he hopes that my father can paint the style of a well-known painter in the market." Aurora shrugged and said helplessly, "I didn't want to have a carnival, but my father insisted Give me a wonderful coming-of-age ceremony, and he sent me to Rome from Paris to Rome."

"Paris, are you French?" Jiqiu put his head on his bent knees and asked her with his head tilted.

"I'm half French, and my mother is Roman. My father met my mother when he was sketching in Rome, and fell in love with her at first sight. They fell in love, and even broke up with the family to marry my mother." Aurora learned Like Jiqiu, resting her head on her knees.

"Why is the love between two people opposed by the family?"

"Because my mother is the daughter of a washerman, and my father was born in a wealthy businessman's family, my grandfather thought it would be a disgrace for him to marry my mother." Aurora sighed, looking a little melancholy.

"It is said that when I was born, my family had to rely on other people's help for bread. My father's painting skills were belittled to nothing in the Paris School of Painting, and the poverty of life made him very desperate. Fortunately, I met the kind sponsor later. Shang, let our family have some improvement."

"Does he regret it?" Jiqiu felt that she had to choose between love and bread, and she would definitely choose bread. Even if she had no shortage of bread, she would not choose love.

"He said he never regretted it."

Jiqiu can't understand the unswerving romantic psychology of this era. She thinks that she will pursue the so-called romance and sentiment only after she has enough confidence.

"The carnival is coming to an end." Jiqiu said softly as she heard the voices outside gradually getting quieter.

The two quietly waited for the carnival to end.

Aurora looked at the burning candle in Jiqiu's hand, and said with a smile, "Your 'Longevity Candle' is still burning."

Jiqiu lowered her head when she heard the words, her hand was already covered with candle tears, she used her free hand to pick out the candle, and handed it to Aurora, "For you."

Aurora hesitated for a moment, and reached out to take the ever-extinguished 'Longevity Candle', "Give it to me?"

"Well. If this blessing can only be given to one person, then I decide to give it to you. I hope your life will be carefree in the future." Jiqiu bent down to pick up the cloak on the ground, shaking the dust on it.

Aurora froze for a moment, she felt her heart beating fast at this moment, and her voice was a little choked, "Thank you, Simon."

"Your friend seems to be calling you." Jiqiu turned to look at the entrance of the alley, where someone called Aurora's name.

"Yes." Aurora felt reluctance in her heart, and there was a trace of hope in her eyes, "Can we meet again?"

"I don't know." Jiqiu smiled and performed a gentleman's etiquette, "We will part ways tonight. If we get Amishtia's mercy, then we will meet again."

Aurora watched the figure of the young man disappear into the other end of the alley like a gust of wind. If the 'Longevity Candle' in her hand was not still burning, then she might think that tonight was just a dream of hers.

"Hey! Aurora, why are you here?" A friend's voice came from the alley.

Aurora responded quickly, and the friends who rushed over saw the 'Longevity Candle' in her hand that had not been extinguished, and couldn't help but marvel, "Is your 'Longevity Candle' burning all the time?!"

"Yeah." Aurora nodded slightly, showing a gentle smile.

Jiqiu returned to the carriage, squinted against the window for a while, and was woken up. She put her head out of the window and found that it was Albert and Franz.

The two were chatting loudly about what happened tonight.

"It seems that you had a good night." Now the street was dark, and Jiqiu held an oil lamp from the window to illuminate them.

Franz couldn't help sighing in his heart that Mr. Rossi is really a very considerate person.

Jiqiu observed Albert's expression immediately by the light of the oil lamp, and she murmured in her heart, "It seems that the progress is going well. '

"We talked about interesting things all night, and we talked about almost everything, except that she didn't want to reveal my identity, but I became more and more fascinated by her."

Albert suppressed the joy on his face, his heart has been taken away by that unknown girl.

"Is it her?" Ji Qiuming asked knowingly, pretending to be very interested.

"Yes, that's the girl I'm looking for." Albert nodded vigorously.

Jiqiu looked at Albert who was about to fall, and his brain flashed a bit of sympathy, and more of it was anticipation of what would happen next.

'As expected of a romantic Frenchman. Jiqiu took off the flat wine bottle at his waist, took a sip, and then waved in front of the two boys, "Do you want to drink?"

Franz and Albert nodded hastily as their throats felt parched after a night of wandering.

Franz was the first to take Jiqiu's wine bottle, and took a sip in his mouth. He was stunned for a moment, but quickly handed the bottle to Albert without changing his expression.

Unprepared, Albert poured the wine from the bottle in one gulp, and soon he wrinkled his face and covered his mouth, "This is too sweet!"

Jiqiu took it with an innocent face, "I think it's okay."

Franz was amused by Albert's expression, and the whole carriage was filled with his laughter.