Around three or four in the afternoon, when business was the most deserted, Tan Yuan poked the needle in her hand, sleepy, and tilted her head to look at the half-painted lady's picture, she couldn't help sighing, Huahua's craftsmanship is really appreciated by the ancestors To eat, she has been exposed to embroidery since she was a child, but the things she embroidered are not comparable to her in terms of needlework and aura.

Putting down the needle, she got up and stretched, ready to pour two cups of tea. Turning around and seeing two elderly ladies walking into the store, she hurriedly stepped forward and greeted, "Welcome."

"You are the Flower Studio that has been on TV, right?" The old lady who spoke was full of energy, "Excuse me, can I set a long-lived red belt with you?"

"Longevity 100-year-old red belt?" Tan Yuan secretly wondered, they only made fashion belts that women liked in their store. What did the customer mean by "longevity 100-year-old red belt"?

"Feel sorry……"

"Okay." Hua Jin got up from the embroidery frame, rubbed her sour eyes, and walked up to the two old people, "What do you want, is that the kind of belt for the year of life?"

"Yes, that's the one." The old lady nodded, "Next year is my father's natal year. When I was watching TV recently, I found that he secretly played the program in reverse several times, and your store happened to be in the program. I think After thinking about it, your store has nothing to do with our family. He must have wanted something from your family after looking at it for so long. Girl, let me tell you, the belt must be made of bright red cloth, and no other colors can be requested. "

When he was a child in the countryside, Hua Jin heard a legend that when the old man was born in the year of life, he was given a red belt in order to tie his life expectancy and pray for a long life without disease or disaster. She remembered clearly that an old man in the village was very proud and very happy when he received the gold belt from his son. He stood beside the washing pond and boasted loudly all afternoon, arousing the envy of many fellow villagers.

At that time, she squatted beside her grandmother and told her seriously that she would study hard, and after she was admitted to university, she would buy her the most beautiful red belt. At that time, my grandmother was very happy and praised her as a good child, and she would definitely be admitted to a good university.

"Girl, I look familiar to you?" The old lady was very happy to find that someone could understand her meaning, but the more she looked at Hua Jin, the more she felt that she had seen her somewhere.

Her companion gave her a shot: "The little girl has been interviewed by reporters, of course she looks familiar."

"Is that so?" The old lady frowned, feeling that something was wrong, but she couldn't tell what was wrong.

"Aunt, you and I did meet a few months ago." Hua Jin didn't expect that he only took the order from the old man in the morning, and the aunt came in the afternoon. In front of the old lady, she told the story of how the uncle and aunt took her to a taxi by the artificial lake a few months ago.

"It turned out to be true." The old lady showed a look of joy on her face, "How have you been recently?"

"Very good, thank you for your concern." Hua Jin helped the two old people to sit down on the sofa. She didn't tell the aunt that the uncle secretly ordered a pair of embroidered shoes for her. Confirm with the embroidery drawing.

The old lady was very satisfied with the final plan, she sighed: "If I could be 20 or 30 years younger, I would make one for him myself, but unfortunately time is not forgiving, not only is my hands weak, but my eyes are not good either."

Hua Jin smiled and coaxed a few nice words, which made the old lady smile happily: "I came out this time, tricked him to travel with friends, and came here secretly. You young people don't often say, what should life be... a sense of ritual. Yes, just this word, we old people, can we prepare a surprise or something."

"Since I was young, I had a stronger character. His tolerance has made me my whole life. I bought a red belt and went back to make him happy. I tell you, man, no matter how old you are, sometimes you are just like a child. You need to coax and tease." The old lady smiled, "If men and women are together, if they want to live a happy and sweet life, no matter how hard or tiring life is, there should still be a sense of ritual, when it's time to talk sweetly, That can't be less."

"You." The companion laughed and said to Hua Jin, "Little girl, write down her husband's experience. She has been with her wife for fifty years, and she has made the one at home obedient. , She said that going east will never go west, and she is a lot older, and she often shows us her affection."

Hua Jin saw a sweet smile on the old lady's face. She nodded and pretended to be serious: "I remember."

"Don't teach the child nonsense." The old lady patted the back of Hua Jin's hand, and the smile on her face was very kind. "My child, this store is very good. If there is a chance in the future, the aunt will take care of your business. Don't..." There are also her friends and another clerk in the room. The old lady can't say too much, but she just patted her back a few more times, "Be good, the road ahead is very long, and the road will bloom and colorful. Don't miss it."

"Thank you, I wrote it down." Looking at the gentle face of the old lady, Hua Jin thought of her grandmother. At that time, my grandmother was already very ill. She was lying on the wooden bed that would creak when she turned over. She held her hand tightly and said, "Jinwazi, you must study hard, and if you read more, you will be successful. There's nothing to let go, just worry about you..."

She remembered that she promised her grandmother that she would study hard, go to university, and take her to the city to enjoy herself.

But not long after, my grandmother died of illness. As a granddaughter, she could only kneel at the back of the filial piety and worthy grandsons with a filial pie on her head. She was not even qualified to give her a photo and scatter the soil, and her name was not on the tombstone.

Sending off the old lady and her friends, Hua Jin felt a little depressed. Tan Yuan approached her worriedly, "Huahua, what's the matter with you?"

"I miss my grandmother." Hua Jin tried to squeeze out a smile, but failed, "Before she left, she asked me to study hard and get into a good university, but I let her down."

"That's not your fault." Tan Yuan reached out and hugged Huajin, "You have worked hard to be your best. A few years ago, you stayed up all night studying by yourself and went to university while embroidering. I saw it all."

"It's different." Hua Jin shook her head. Since her third year of high school, her family died unexpectedly. After she moved to her uncle's house, her fate changed.

On the day of the college entrance examination, the uncle's family locked her in the house. No matter how much she begged or cried, they would not let her out. Even if she said that she was admitted to college without spending a cent on them, they would not agree.

The uncle said, "What's the use of girls reading so many books?"

The aunt said, "In case your grades in the college entrance examination are too good, if it is rumored that we don't want you to go to university, wouldn't it mean that the whole village will stab our family's spine?"

In order for them not to be poked in the spine, in order for her not to study and get married, her future is dispensable in their eyes.

Every time she thinks of the day she was locked in the house, she felt like a struggling monster with monstrous hatred. And the kind people she met along the way were the cages that locked her hatred back, letting her grasp the tail of fate little by little, struggling and unwilling to live.

"Come on, have a sweet ice cream." Tan Yuan took out an ice cream from the refrigerator, "Summer is hot, blowing the air conditioner, blowing ice cream, happy like a fairy."

The cold and sweet ice cream melted in the mouth, and Hua Jin was stabbed by the coldness and stuck out her tongue: "It's so cold."

"It's better to be cold." Tan Yuan saw Hua Jin's mood returning to normal, "Today's two orders, are you going to keep it yourself, or do it with the newly hired colleague."

"I'll make these two myself today." Thinking of this interesting couple, Hua Jin smiled, "I had a relationship with them once."

"Okay." Tan Yuan has no opinion, "but you have to pay attention to rest. Recently, my mother sometimes takes you to visit colleagues, and you have to communicate with Mark's side. It is not easy in the store. Now there is one more daily routine. , I'm worried your body won't be able to take it."

"What daily routine?" Hua Jin was stunned. Are there other jobs in the store that need to be done every day?

"Have a relationship with Mr. Pei." Tan Yuan blinked, "Such a good-looking man, are you willing to let him stay alone in the empty room every day?"

Huajin "..."

"Honey, I think you're getting more and more serious now."

"There's no way." Tan Yuan sighed, "I'm with you every day, those who are close to the ink are dark."

In the eyes of the staff of the charity organization, Pei Yan is a generous, but very idle philanthropist. He donates a lot of money and charity packages to their organizations every year, but unlike other people, he doesn't care about donating.

This behavior has been going on for six or seven years, and they are almost used to it. Everyone accompany him to watch the perfect use process, thinking that he would refuse their invitation to eat as usual. When leaving in the car, the Mr. Pei suddenly asked a strange question.

"Are there any charitable projects here to support traditional art and culture?"

"Traditional art and culture support?" The person in charge was taken aback for a moment, and then explained, "There are such projects, but they are not special long-term support. In the area of ​​intangible cultural heritage, the country and the government invest a lot every year, but the effect is not small. It’s not good, the old craftsmen are getting older and younger, young people are not interested in these, and if they want to develop in the long term, they need the efforts of the whole society, and our institution can’t do this.”

"I understand." Pei Yan nodded, closed the data chart of the use of donations, and thanked the person in charge, "Thank you."

"You're welcome, we should thank you for those out-of-school children in the mountains." The person in charge said this sincerely. Over the years, Mr. Pei's contribution to charity has been a huge expense.

Pei Yan is noncommittal, these are just a small thing for him, he just wants to do what he wants to do.

Leaving the door of the charity organization, Pei Yan asked his assistant, "If I plan to set up a project to support traditional arts, how long will it take to prepare for the early stage?"

Assistant: "If the funds are sufficient, about three months to half a year, the preparatory work can be done."

Their bosses are so different when they fall in love. Other rich people give away diamonds and sports cars, crazy for her, crazy for her, and banging against the wall for her. His boss is different, chatting with his girlfriend on WeChat, blushing and panicking from time to time, and even willing to fall in love with the entire traditional art industry for her. This kind of love is great, noble and admirable.

"Mr. Pei, do you need to discuss this matter with your partner?" You're going to spend money on such a big thing, why should you tell your girlfriend to please her?

"Why do you want to discuss with her?" Pei Yan looked at him puzzled. "I set up this project because I saw the difficulty of traditional art. What does it have to do with her?"

The assistant smiled: "I understand."

The boss can catch the girl he likes, thanks to his good-looking face.

No matter what the assistant thought, Pei Yan turned on his phone, found Hua Jin's latest circle of friends, read it several times, and opened Yang Shao's WeChat chat box.

Pei: Have you seen the new circle of friends that Hua Jin posted today? What do you think he means?

Following behind his father, Yang Shao, who was so dizzy, finally sat down to rest and saw the news of Pei Yan. He curiously opened the circle of friends and saw that the whole person collapsed.

What's the meaning? !

What else could this mean, this is the meaning of forcing him to show affection!

Why didn't he know that Brother Pei was so boring before, he could do such childish things?

He gritted his teeth and clicked on the chat box, and replied to Pei Yan with a crackle.

Dongdong: I think the embroiderer seems very happy. He probably likes the roses you gave, and by the way, I secretly showed off that she found a good boyfriend.

Yang Shao slumped on the desk weakly, was shoved a mouthful of dog food, and even laughed and said that the life of dog food is really delicious, which is even more bitter than Huanglian.

Don't men who are not handsome enough have human rights?

Seeing Yang Shao's reply, Pei Yan ticked the corner of his mouth, and he knew that the woman was very satisfied with him. Saying that it is troublesome to send so many flowers, must like it very much in heart.

"Xiao Guo, the flowers to be delivered tomorrow will still be ordered at the shop today."

Assistant: "Okay, Mr. Pei."

When the boss asked him to order flowers last night, he didn't say that he would also send them tomorrow.

After Hua Jin and Tan Yuan finished eating ice cream, they started embroidery work again. But today may be the day when the old people meet again. Not long after Hua Jin picked up the needle, another person who knew her came.

When he stepped into this store again, Zhou Dong had been mentally preparing for a long time. When he saw the flower brocade beside the embroidery frame, he bowed his head and embroidered quietly, and he regretted it.

Maybe he shouldn't be here and break her peace. Why she disappeared, why she didn't take the college entrance examination, and why she never contacted any classmates in the class was not so important anymore.

He stopped and turned to go out.

"Zhou Dong?"

Zhou Dong was stunned, he turned around and looked at Hua Jin. Hua Jin's eyes were very calm, as if these years had passed so peacefully, and he was just an occasional passer-by in her life.

The moment Hua Jin called out his name, he didn't know what mood he was in. He seemed a little excited and a little relieved. The knot that had been lingering in his heart for many years seemed to be untied at once.

"I..." Zhou Dong stood at the door at a loss, "I'm sorry."

Putting down the needle, Hua Jin stood up and said to Tan Yuan, "Tang Yuan, I'll go out for a while."

"Okay, okay." Tan Yuan nodded and said, "I'm watching the store, don't worry."

Hua Jin pulled up her bag, walked up to Zhou Dong and said, "Please come with me."

Zhou Dong followed Hua Jin dumbly and came to a nearby casual drink bar to sit down. Hua Jin handed the drink list to Zhou Dong: "I'm sorry about the previous few times."

"It's okay, it's okay." Zhou Dong waved his hands again and again and said with a smile, "You're doing well now, but it's actually pretty good." There were too many rumors about her at that time, but every rumor was so bad, he was very fortunate , Hua Jin is luckier than the rumored one.

In the face of the little girl who once had a crush on Zhou Dong, Zhou Dong was a little restrained, and when Huajin High School, he didn't have much friendship with Zhou Dong, so the two sat together, separated by seven or eight years. Where to start.

After ordering a good drink, Hua Jin said, "How are the classmates all these years?"

Zhou Dong nodded and shook his head: "Some are good, some are not going well." He did not ask Hua Jin why he pretended not to know him before, but casually mentioned the current situation of some classmates.

Some of these names were blurred in Hua Jin's memory, but she didn't interrupt Zhou Dong until her phone rang.

"You missed me so soon?" Hua Jin smiled, and her whole person became alive.

Zhou Dong looked at her like this and lowered his head.

"Who misses you? I'm worried that you won't eat well at night and starve my girlfriend." Pei Yan coughed dryly, "So I decided to take you to dinner later."

"Okay." Hua Jin chuckled softly, "Then come and pick me up later."

"I'm not in the store now." Hua Jin reported the address of this casual bar to Pei Yan, "You come here to pick me up, I'm chatting with an old classmate."

"Old classmate?" Pei Yan frowned slightly. Hua Jin told him that she had never been to college and didn't want to mention the past. Now she suddenly told him that she was drinking with an old classmate. Accident?

"Don't move around there, I'll come right over and call me if you have anything." Pei Yan covered the phone port with her hand, "Drive faster."

"Okay, Mr. Pei." The driver saw that Pei Yan's face was a little wrong, and immediately increased the speed.

Hua Jin looked at her phone in confusion, why did Pei Yan's tone sound like she was kidnapped? After hanging up the phone, Hua Jin smiled apologetically at Zhou Dong: "I'm sorry."

"It's okay." Zhou Dong took a sip of tea, "The phone is..."

"He's my boyfriend." Hua Jin smiled so much that her brows and eyes curled up.

Looking at Hua Jin's bright smile, Zhou Dong remembered the thin little girl with a ponytail back then, with watery eyes that made him panic.

"Very good, very good." He lowered his head and took another sip of tea, which was unbearably bitter.

"Well, I think he's very good too." Hua Jin tilted her head and looked out the window with a smile on her brows.