It was getting later and later for Hong Jiaodong to go home.Since Tuesday, he hasn't been home before midnight.

On Tuesday, Lin Yuanxun deliberately set the alarm clock to seven o'clock in the morning. Unexpectedly, when she woke up, Hong Jiaodong had already left the apartment.After experiencing the situation of not being able to see anyone all day on Tuesday, she prepared the ingredients for the next day’s breakfast in advance at night, and got up at [-] o’clock on Wednesday morning, barely catching up with the cooking before Hong Jiaodong went out. Good breakfast for him.

Lin Yuanxun began to think about why she had already started living together with her boyfriend, but why her boyfriend had become an electronic pet in her mobile phone—she would only receive messages from him these two days when she had something to ask.

Thursday happened to be the interview day for one of the companies that Hayashi Yuanxun submitted his resume.She brought the cello to the university, and rushed to the interview site just after class in the afternoon with the cello on her back.

The interview place is located in a business district, surrounded by ordinary office buildings.Lin Yuanxun found the place with the piano on his back, and knocked on the translucent glass door of the interview place.After several seconds, the door was pulled open.A man with a tired expression and dark circles around his eyes poked his head out of the door.

After his eyes fell on Lin Yuanxun's face, his eyes lit up, and he opened the door to let her in.

"Miss Lin Yuan, right?" The man led Lin Yuanxun into the small stage in the bar about [-] centimeters higher than the floor, quickly sat down in front of the stage, and picked up a piece of paper from the table.

"My name is Yusuke Nakajima." He introduced himself, "I am the owner of the bar, and I am also in charge of this recruitment. If there is no accident, Ms. Hayashibara will know the result after the interview."

Kaoru Hayashibara looked around and looked back at Yusuke Nakajima.

"You didn't say it was a bar in the job advertisement." She said softly, not angry or puzzled, just stating the fact.

Yusuke Nakajima pretended not to hear her, but continued to look at the resume in his hand.

There is a white folding chair in the center of the terrace.Lin Yuanxun still walked over and sat down, carefully leaning the piano case against the chair.At first, Nakajima asked a few common questions, and after Hayashihara Kaoru answered them one by one, the other party suddenly threw out a strange question.

"What hours does Ms. Hayashibara usually work?" Nakajima said, adding, "I know that the working hours indicated on the job advertisement are from 5 pm to 9 pm, but in fact...sometimes Will require you to work until the wee hours."

Lin Yuanxun was stunned and lowered his eyes.

"I can only accept work until nine o'clock at night," she replied.

Nakajima rested his chin with one hand, and played with the pen in his other hand.

"This kind of working hours restriction is very unfavorable for you to apply for our job." He explained, "We are in the business of a bar, and the most crowded time is around midnight."

Lin Yuanxun did not answer immediately.She was silent for a while, grabbing the cello case leaning against the edge of the chair.

"Perhaps you will change your mind after listening to my performance." Kaoru Hayashibara pinched the strap of the piano case tightly with her light white fingers, raised her head and said to Nakajima.

The middle-aged man with a sharp face had a dark complexion, he pushed his eyes on the bridge of his nose, and a pair of slender eyes looked Kaoru Lin Yuan up and down for a while.

"Nine o'clock is fine." He suddenly changed his words, "But if Ms. Lin Yuan wants to get this job, but also wants to get off work earlier than other employees and leave at nine o'clock..."

Nakajima stood up, raised a palm at Hayashi Yuan Kaoru in the air, signaled her to wait in place, and then went straight into the end of the corridor.After a while, he came out of the corridor again, still holding a skirt in his hand.

"Would you accept playing in this dress?" he asked, spreading it out.

Kaoru Hayashihara looked coldly at the skirt in Nakajima's hand - the skirt was a suspender skirt, the fabric was shining with cheap saturated fluorescent colors, and the shoulder straps were so thin that they could be broken with a slight pull.But the worst thing is not the shoulder straps, but the large opening at the chest of the skirt and the almost completely bare back design.

"What do you mean?" She asked without honorifics, standing up from the folding chair.

Seeing that Kaoru Hayashihara understood what he meant, Nakajima no longer concealed it, but laughed openly.

"What we're doing here is a bar. Do you understand a bar? It's not a gathering place for high art." He threw the revealing skirt aside, "I originally wanted to hire a DJ, but I really can't find someone who plays guitar Or a saxophone band and you're on the cello—honestly, I wouldn't have contacted you for an interview if I hadn't seen your pretty picture on your resume."

"No one here cares about your cello level or your first or second place in international music competitions. If you want to make money, you have to put down your figure." Nakajima leaned against the small table in front of the stage, sneering, "Maybe you are in those music competitions. You are a genius in front of my family, but to me, you, who can't attract customers with your face for a long time and don't want to wear this kind of clothes, are just a burden that can't make money for me. Why do you think I pay such a high salary? "

Lin Yuanxun did not speak.The salary offered by Yusuke Nakajima with a zero after it was not enough for her to play a song in the past.

He raised his eyebrows and pushed open the door of the bar: "You have not been admitted, you can leave now."

Hayashi Yuan Kaoru resisted the urge to smash the piano case on Nakajima's face, picked up the cello, which had no chance of leaving the case, turned around and left the bar.

The business district is bustling, even in the daytime there are many pedestrians.Hayashi Yuanxun walked out of the bar, crossed the street and stood in front of the fountain pool, and turned his head to look in the direction of the bar entrance.

Nakajima was still standing in the shadow inside the door, staring at her with a pair of slender eyes.

Hayashi Yuan Kaoru let out a long breath, took off the piano case on his shoulders, laid it on the ground and opened it, and carefully took out the cello from the case.Facing Nakajima's gaze, she took out her usual spare mask from her pocket, slowly unfolded it and put it on, covering most of her face.

After sitting down on the steps of the fountain pool behind him, Hayashi Yuan Kaoru leaned the cello between his legs, lowered his eyes and rested the bow on the strings.

With a flick of her wrist, the bow quickly slid back and forth across the string.No need to look at the score, "Bach's Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. [-]" poured out from her hands. The proficient bow technique is amazing, and the smooth music is like a rushing spring.

Soon, Hayashihara Kaoru was immersed in the performance, and never cast a glance at Nakajima.When she opened the piano box, some of the pedestrians who came and went stopped to watch curiously, and now there are more people watching, not because of Lin Yuanxun's face, but because of the smooth and surging sound of the piano in her hands .Most people listened in silence, occasionally a few people whispered, and a blond foreign tourist said something in French while raising his mobile phone to start recording a video.

After the song was played, Lin Yuanxun put away his bow and finally recovered from the music.Just as she was about to put the cello into the case, some of the passers-by who were watching started to applaud sparsely.Gradually, the sound of applause and cheers broke out among the onlookers like an infectious disease, and some people even took out money and small gifts and threw them into her cello case.

"Thank you, but I'm not here to perform." Lin Yuanxun smiled wryly, still picked up the banknotes and coins from the piano case one by one, looked for the original owner to return them, then put the piano away, put the piano case on his back and left.And Nakajima, who was standing in the bar, had already turned blue with anger, but he was helpless.

There were a few passers-by who followed her and asked for contact information, but she refused them all.Carrying the cello on his back, Hayashi Yuanxun walked aimlessly along the street, but stopped when he glimpsed a supermarket beside him from the corner of his eye.

"Business supermarket..." She looked up at the name of the supermarket and read it softly. Thinking that the ingredients at home needed to be replenished, she subconsciously walked in.

As soon as she entered the door, Lin Yuanxun noticed the difference between this supermarket and the supermarkets she had been to in the past - before living together with Hong Jiaodong, she went to a high-end supermarket near the community, and most of the products sold in it were specific to Local high-end goods with subdivided production locations, producers’ photos and contact information are all printed on the packaging, or expensive goods shipped directly from abroad by air. They are perfectly presented, well packaged, and the price is several times higher than that of ordinary supermarkets. ; After living together, she went to the supermarket near the apartment, and that supermarket had mostly middle-priced commodities, but the portions were normal.

Nowadays, the products in the business supermarket that Hayashi Yuan Kaoru enters are all in large quantities - a bottle of milk is two liters, a pack of 900 grams of pasta, a box of cream stew combination is one kilogram... But the appearance of these large quantities of goods Qualified, the price is actually cheaper than the normal portion of goods in ordinary supermarkets.

Lin Yuanxun suddenly understood the meaning of "business supermarket".

Subconsciously, she pushed a shopping cart at the door and walked along the shelves.Naturally, vegetables and meat should be supplemented, and she also put a lot of convenient and nutritious food in the shopping cart, such as milk, oatmeal, and pasta.Remembering that the bath salts were about to run out, she found the original brand of Hong Jiao Dong in the supermarket, and stuffed a pack into the car.

When it was time to check out, the shopping cart that Kaoru Hayashi was pushing was already full, enough to feed two people for a week.She watched the cashier scan the codes one by one, finally put everything into a shopping basket, and looked up at her.

"The total is 4923 yen. Would you like to pay by card or cash? How many bags do you need?" asked the cashier.

After hearing the cost clearly, Lin Yuanxun was taken aback for a moment, and then immediately paid for the bill.When she left the supermarket with a cello on her back and several bulging bags in her hands, she still couldn't believe that the things in her hands were so cheap.

The prices are so different from what I bought in the past.

past……

The smile that had been hanging on Lin Yuanxun's face since the checkout gradually fell silent.The arc of her raised lips became shallower and shallower, and finally became a straight line.

The thing in his hand made his fingers hurt, and the tip of his nose suddenly felt a little sore.

Leaving the familiar villa and living in a small apartment with Hong Jiaodong like an ordinary girl is a new experience for Kaoru Hayashihara.Although she was determined when she left, she felt uncomfortable when she suddenly switched to such a world of difference.

Insufficient sleep time, no matter where you go, you have to use public transportation, you have to cook, do your own laundry, and clean up, and you have to count water, electricity, and gas. The most important thing you think about every day is money...Forcing yourself to adapt to this kind of life , almost exhausted her energy and consumed the greatest self-control in her life.

But she has been persisting, and now she has gradually stopped recalling those rich days in the past.She will get used to it slowly because she wants to be with him all the time.

Kaoru Hayashi Yuan lowered his head, blinked, and walked towards the subway station.After walking a few steps, the phone suddenly rang.

She quickly found a corner to put down her things and picked up the phone.

"Xun." As soon as the call was connected, a scorching voice came from the phone, as gentle and pleasant as usual.

Hearing him call out his name, Lin Yuanxun couldn't control his sore eyes, and shed a tear.

"Jiao Dong..." She couldn't restrain herself, and there was a bit of crying in her voice, "I'm a little tired..."

Hong Jiaodong on the phone fell silent for a moment at a loss.

"I'm going home now." He asked, with anxiety in his voice, "Don't cry, I'm here."

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