love of life

Jiang Yu only tried to persuade her a little, and Lin Zexi agreed.In the next few days, he went back to Acheng and returned the house on Changgang Road, packed it back, and moved upstairs to the restaurant.The second floor of the restaurant is a warehouse, where some oil, rice and ingredients are piled up.The third floor is a two-bedroom apartment, where Jiang Yu lives.Jiang Yu originally planned to vacate the room next to him for him to live in, but he refused.He cleared a corner of the warehouse on the second floor, moved in, and settled down like this.

He learned from other people that Jiang Yu's hometown is Shanghai, and he has been studying and working in Shanghai. Five years ago, he suddenly left Shanghai and came to this small city alone. He bought this store, and it has been open for five years.Every year he goes back to Shanghai for about a week, and it is the same this year.Two months after Lin Zexi came, he went to Shanghai as usual, but this time it was delayed for almost a month.During the time he left, the store was handed over to Lin Zexi, and the young man in the store seemed to regard him as the second boss.

One day more than a month later, Lin Zexi packed up the shop and closed the door, and was sitting at the cash register to settle accounts when Jiang Yu walked in through the back door.

"Boss, you are finally back. Why did you take so long?" He stopped what he was doing and stood up to help him with his luggage.Jiang Yu threw the only travel bag in his hand on the table and sat down on the stool, looking a little tired.

Lin Zexi asked, "Have you eaten yet? Let me cook two dishes for you."

"Don't bother, just cook a bowl of noodles." As soon as Jiang Yu sat down, the phone rang.He said something hastily, and turned to answer the phone by the back door.

He turned on the fire to cook noodles for him, but Jiang Yu's expression just now made him a little concerned.Not just tiredness, but also other worries.The noodles have been cooked, but Jiang Yu hasn't returned yet.He looked at the noodles in the pot and kept stirring them, for fear of burning the pot.After more than ten minutes, Jiang Yu finally came back from the phone call.

"If you don't come back, the noodles will be mushy. Can I fry another egg for you?"

"No need, just eat whatever you want." He picked up the bowl, mixed it casually, and then started to eat.Lin Zexi sat down opposite him and looked at him.

"Go to rest when you're done with your work. I've worked hard on you this month." Jiang Yu said.

"Do you have anything to do later? I'll pay you this month's bill."

Jiang Yu looked up at him for a while and said, "Look at how haggard I am now, let me have a good rest tonight."

"Oh, that's fine." After he said that, Lin Zexi realized that his complexion was very bad, and he was even more haggard from a close look, with obvious dark circles and bags under his eyes.

Jiang Yu finished the noodles in two bites, seeing that he was still sitting motionless. "Aren't you going to rest?"

"Boss, go and rest first. I'll rest after washing the dishes." Lin Zexi picked up the bowl on the table and walked towards the sink.

Looking at his busy back, Jiang Yu couldn't help becoming irritable.Lin Zexi likes the life here very much, and she does her best for this shop. She can cook and do chores, and has a good attitude.Since he came, his workload has been reduced a lot, and his boring life has become more interesting. "Hey, do you really like life here?" Jiang Yu asked suddenly.

Lin Zexi turned to look at him, a little puzzled by his sudden question. "Well, I like it very much, what's the matter?"

"Here or Shanghai, where do you prefer to stay?"

"Shanghai? I haven't stayed in Shanghai, so I don't know what it's like there. But I think maybe this is more suitable for me. Small places have more human touch, while big cities are cold."

"Then do you want to stay here forever?"

"A lifetime?" Lin Zexi frowned. He likes life here now, but isn't a lifetime too long?How to say such a long time ago is clear.After finishing his work, he walked up to Jiang Yu and asked seriously, "Boss, what happened? I asked Dahai and the others. You have never been away for so long. Did things not go well?"

Jiang Yu was silent for a while, with a perplexed expression on his face. "Actually, something happened to my family. I might have to get out of here."

"Leave? Go to Shanghai?" His uneasiness really came true.

Jiang Yu nodded. "I've been escaping for five years, and some things can't be avoided anyway. I have to go back."

"Did something happen?"

Jiang Yu sighed and said, "My father passed away not long ago. Five years ago, I had a falling out with him and ran away alone for five years. I thought I could escape forever if I didn't care about it." Halfway through the speech, he stopped listening. , bowed his head and lit a cigarette.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know Uncle he... loved ones have been with us since we were born, giving us the illusion that they will always be there, unconsciously while making our plans Put them in the last place, and wait until you come to your senses..." At this point, Lin Zexi's voice choked up, and tears welled up in his eyes.In the past few years, he finally found a suitable opportunity to completely release his debt to his parents, and it was out of control.

Jiang Yu smoked a cigarette and looked at him quietly, waiting for him to finish crying.As time passed, Jiang Yu smoked four or five cigarettes one after another. Lin Zexi finally calmed down his excitement and said, "Come with me." For the first time in these months, Lin Zexi lit a cigarette and smoked A few mouthfuls slowly said: "I'm sorry, I wanted to comfort you, but I was the first to feel sad. Did you go back to see the old man this time?"

"Well, I see. Although it was very hasty, I finally reconciled. In order to make him feel at ease, I promise to take over the responsibility that should belong to me."

"That's pretty good, at least it cleared up a knot in my heart." Lin Zexi comforted with a smile, but there was an indelible sadness in his eyes.

"What about you? Tell me your story."

"my story?"

"Well, I know you carry a lot of things on your body, and it will be a lot easier to say it."

He was silent. Over the years, no one had asked him such a question, and no one cared what happened to him.Full of grievances and pain buried in his heart, once made him breathless, but now someone is willing to listen, but he doesn't know where to start.

"If you don't want to say it, you don't have to force it. I want to say, are you willing to listen?" Jiang Yu gently pestered the cigarette butt in his hand a few times in the ashtray, put the ashtray aside, and put his feet on the edge of the table , leaning against the back of the chair with his arms crossed and the back of his head held.

Lin Zexi nodded, and he spoke eloquently.

His family is from Shanghai, his father is a well-known entrepreneur, he is the only son in the family, and he was destined to shoulder the burden of the family business since he was a child.He likes to cook, but his family stopped him when he wanted to learn how to cook, saying that it was an unpopular profession.The family arranged for him to study business management. After graduation, he was arranged to work in the family's business as an intern, and he was arranged to go on a blind date with a woman of the right family.But he has known since high school that he likes men and doesn't like women. During college, he secretly made a boyfriend, and was forcibly broken up after being discovered by his family.He also had to marry a woman.This marriage of interests was originally in name only, and the two parties played independently under the title of husband and wife and had nothing to do with each other.But women are born emotional animals, and they fell in love with an ordinary little policeman, and they wanted to divorce him.This just fulfilled his wish, and he wanted to get away with it, but the adults of the two families were unwilling, so the woman exposed his sexuality in public in a hurry, and blamed him for the failure of the marriage.In order to protect the face of the family, his father asked him to deny his sexual orientation in public, and the emotions he had suppressed for more than ten years finally broke out. He had a big fight with the family, and after the divorce, he hid here alone.He has 20% of the company's shares under his name, and he has to attend the annual shareholders' meeting.In the past two years, he heard that his father was not in good health, but he didn't take it seriously.Returning to Shanghai on time this year, the moment he saw his father appearing in a wheelchair at the shareholder meeting, he really realized that his father was dying.Unexpectedly, after several days of meetings, he fell ill completely, and passed away within a week.He felt deeply guilty about Ren Xin for the past five years, and promised his father to come back and take over the family business before the hospital bed.In the end, his father said: After I leave, you can live as you want in the future, but the livelihood of thousands of people in the company will be entrusted to you.The following funeral, inheritance delivery, company succession, all kinds of aftermaths followed one after another.The company has piled up business for more than a month and no one has dealt with it. He insisted on taking a week off to come back here to deal with the store.

"Zexi, are you willing to help me?" Jiang Yu looked into his eyes and asked very sincerely.

"Help you? Are you looking after the store?" Lin Zexi thought for a while, and really didn't know how he could help.

"Follow me to Shanghai. I haven't lived there for five years. My family is indifferent, and my friends are estranged. My hometown is like a foreign land to me."

"Didn't I tell you? I haven't even graduated from college, so I really don't know how I can help you."

"It's not important, just tell me if you want to." Jiang Yu didn't give him a chance to make excuses, and asked directly.

It was as if something was stuck in his throat, and he couldn't speak for a long time.He was grateful to him in his heart, very grateful.Maybe it's been so long that no one has been so kind to him, making him feel like he owes him.And he just asked for help, nothing else.After accepting the help of others, how can you refuse to help others?He couldn't do it, but he really liked the simple life here and didn't want to get involved in disputes anymore.

"Forget it, you go to rest. I can't be too selfish. This store is just a gift from me. Please keep it open. I will leave tomorrow and the day after tomorrow." Jiang Yu sighed softly In one breath, he seemed to say these words easily, but his expression was not at all relieved.

Jiang Yu's appearance made him feel guilty. He didn't know how to comfort him, so he just called out: "Boss."

Jiang Yu looked at him and smiled: "You will be the boss from now on. Go and rest."

His heart was in a mess, and he went upstairs with an empty head.After tossing and turning without sleep all night, he thought a lot.Originally, the purpose of the trip was just to sort out my mood, but I didn't expect to move to another city.Has he sorted out his mood?He didn't know, he just simply liked this simple life.He couldn't go to Shanghai with him, he didn't want to get involved in another vortex.He felt a little sorry for Jiang Yu, who had been taking care of him and helping him start a new life during this time.After all he's been through, what he wants most is freedom and self-reliance.The self-righteousness in the past finally pushed myself to a desperate situation, living like an ant, not being needed by others.Once upon a time, he also wanted to become a useful person, someone who was trustworthy, and someone who could help others.If he went to Shanghai with Jiang Yu, he would definitely become someone else's appendage again. He told himself firmly, absolutely not, he had to control his life by himself.