My 26-year-old Female Tenant

  I drove the car very fast all the way, speculating in my heart the purpose of Le Yao's coming to Xuzhou, and it is not difficult to hear from her tone that she is in a bad mood.

  About a quarter of an hour later, I arrived at the train station, and immediately called Le Yao. She told me that she didn't go to eat, and was in front of the square of the train station.

I parked the car on the side of the road and walked towards the square in front of the train station. Among the crowded crowd, I finally found Le Yao standing in the cold wind. Although the light at night was not good enough, I could still see clearly Her solemn expression.

  I walked towards Le Yao, and she also found me in the gaze, and walked towards my face.

  I didn't want to make the atmosphere too dignified after the meeting, so I asked with a smile, "Master Le, why didn't you find a place to eat first?"

   Le Yao forced a smile obviously, and said: "Wait for you to invite me."

  My mood is heavy because of her forced smile, and I want to know more urgently what happened to her, and I need to rush to Xuzhou to seek help from me.

  …

  Le Yao and I found a relatively quiet restaurant near the train station. We ordered something. While waiting for the meal, I asked Le Yao, "Tell me, what exactly do you need my help for?"

   Le Yao looked at me with a complicated expression, and said after a long silence: "Zhaoyang, I opened a music bar in Suzhou."

  I replied in surprise: "You open a music bar! Didn't I tell you not to open it!"

Le Yao's tone was low, and she said helplessly, "I'm in the entertainment industry. It would be best if I could be famous, but what if I can't? How do you think about my life? I don't have any job skills, what else can I do without investment , how should I support myself?"

I was silent, feeling in my heart how insecure this world is. Most people are struggling and working hard to find the conditions for their own survival. After a long time, I asked Le Yao: "Why don't you invest in a music bar?" Robben and CC should both know about this matter, right?"

"Um."

   "Then why have I never heard them mention it to me?"

   "You didn't agree with me opening the bar last time, so I didn't ask them to tell you."

  At this time, it is hard for me to blame Le Yao for not listening to my dissuasion, and I understand why she came to me. I calmed down and asked, "How much did you invest in this music bar?"

  Le Yao's expression became even more gloomy, and after a long silence, he whispered to me: "More than one million."

   I thought I had heard it wrong, so I asked again: "How much?"

   "Nearly one and a half million."

"Damn... are you crazy? One and a half million! Bars, you can just invest a few hundred thousand for fun. Aren't you playing with fire when you invest so much money?" I almost yelled at Le Yao .

  Le Yao bowed her head in silence...

  I lit a cigarette, knowing that it would be useless to blame her at this time, took a deep puff of the cigarette, and asked Le Yao in a light tone: "Tell me, where did you get so much money to invest?"

   "The remuneration for the first film was 500,000, and then..." Le Yao paused for a long time and mustered up the courage to say to me: "Then I borrowed 1 million usury from a friend."

  I fell into silence and became more aware of the seriousness of the situation. I didn't expect Le Yao to dare to touch usury. Her investment is too blind.

  I took another puff of the cigarette and said, "Tell me, how is the business of the bar?"

   "I can't make ends meet...the business situation is terrible." Le Yao answered me with a choked voice.

  I fell into silence again, because the funds of more than one million yuan are completely beyond the scope of my ability to solve.

   "Zhaoyang, what should I do now? You have to help me..." Le Yao looked at me helplessly.

  I was depressed and uncomfortable, and smoked half a cigarette in one gulp, but still kept calm and said: "The most urgent thing is to pay off the usury loan first, the interest is too scary, the operation of the bar will be discussed later."

   Le Yao nodded and said, "I will find a way to repay the loan shark."

   "How do you pay it back? Where did you get the money?"

  After my questioning, Le Yao looked helpless and bewildered, and said after a while as if making up his mind: "It's a big deal..."

   "What are you doing?" My tone was full of anger.

  Le Yao murmured back: "There is a rich businessman..."

  I immediately interrupted, saying: "Le Yao, I forbid you to do this, you must give me a dignified life, do you hear me?"

   "But what else can I do?"

   "I'll work with you to figure out a solution, but you have to get rid of that idea." I said very firmly to Le Yao.

  Le Yao raised her head, looked at me with tears in her eyes, and said to me after a long time: "I'm sorry, Zhaoyang, I caused you trouble again."

  I was depressed, but I still comforted me: "Don't say that, your motivation for investing in bars is not wrong, it is also forced by life."

With my understanding, Le Yao's tears flowed down like a dike, she sobbed and said to me: "Zhaoyang, the usury matter... I will definitely find a way to solve it myself, I will come to Xuzhou to find... you, I just hope you can help me run the bar well...I know you are very smart...you will definitely find a way to help the bar tide over the difficulties...you must promise me, okay?..."

Le Yao's tears made me feel like a knife, but at this moment, I have no way to promise her. If I go back to Suzhou to help her run the bar, it means that I have to give up my hard-won job in Xuzhou, and even... even And Li Xiaoyun's relationship.

  After a very long silence, I whispered to Le Yao: "Sorry, I already have a new life in Xuzhou, and Suzhou... I really can't go back!"

My answer made Le Yao's face full of heart-piercing pain: "Zhaoyang...I beg you, please don't refuse?...I don't know who else can I rely on except you? I'm so lonely , So helpless...I'm about to collapse!"

My heart was throbbing, as if I was once again in the choice that made me feel unbearable. I know that a woman like Le Yao seems to have many friends, but very few of them can really help her in adversity. Even those who are able to help her are coveting her body and beauty...Unless she puts down the dignity of a woman, she is really helpless and lonely.

  Among the suffocating struggles, I finally said to Le Yao: "Let me think, think about it!"

  Le Yao's expression became a little more relaxed, and she nodded with tears in her eyes. At this time, the food she ordered was brought up by the waiter.

  I unpacked the chopsticks, handed them to Le Yao, and handed her a small bowl of white fungus and lotus seed soup, and said with a comforting smile, "Let's have some hot soup first."

Le Yao nodded docilely, took the small bowl from my hand, but I didn't have any appetite to eat, so I took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and lit it again, my heart was full of pain of choice, if I really I want to give up my job here and go back to Suzhou with Le Yao, how should I face Li Xiaoyun?

  In the smog, I seem to see the distorted life again...