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The second night Xu Ran stayed at Xiao Huan's house, Xiao Huan didn't come home and called him.

"I'm going on a business trip."

"Well, good." Xu Ran didn't know what to say.

"Going abroad." Xiao Huan said again.

Only then did Xu Ran ask him, "Will it take a long time?"

"Well, maybe half a month." Xiao Huan was already at the airport, and there was an airport announcement on the phone.

Xu Ran stopped talking.

"Eat well and go to work well." Xiao Huan said.

"En." Xu Ran responded in a low voice.

When Xiao Huan was about to hang up the phone, Xu Ran called out: "Xiao Huan—" He thought he would ask "Do you like me" again, but in the end he just called his name without further words.

Xiao Huan suddenly felt bored with work.

"Hang up." Finally he hung up the phone first.

Xu Ran was sitting on the sofa with his mobile phone in his arms, looking at the big and empty room, the hole in his heart was getting bigger and bigger.

After Xu Ran went to work, Tian Yuan hesitated to talk to him.He didn't know what Xiao Huan had said to them, so he had to pretend to turn a blind eye.Xiao Yimo taught him how to make coffee with a siphon pot, demonstrated it twice, but he still couldn't remember the procedure.Xiao Yimo comforted him: "Don't worry, take your time!"

He asked Xiao Yimo: "Do you all think I'm stupid?"

Xiao Yimo was silent for a while, and decided to answer him honestly: "It's a bit slow to learn things, but everyone has their own good and bad things. Fortunately, you are willing to learn and practice more!"

When he said that, Xu Ran had no burden, and he had a stupid way to practice over and over again when he was not busy.

He learned how to make coffee with a siphon pot faster than learning how to make coffee with a machine. It took only three days to make coffee that the guests said was passing.

Xiao Huan also left for three days, without calling or sending WeChat messages.

Both Tian Yuan and Xiao Yimo noticed that he was always looking at his mobile phone, which he never did before.

Tian Yuan wanted to comfort him, but was afraid that he would be embarrassed.After all, neither of them has publicly disclosed their relationship.Xiao Huan didn't deliberately hide it, but Xu Ran covered it up and avoided it.

On the first rest day after Xiao Huan left, Xu Ran didn't dare to stay at home, so he ran to climb Zijin Mountain alone, entered the Sun Yat-Sen Mausoleum, and sat on the bandstand watching pigeons all day.When going down the mountain, I didn't catch the last bus, so I walked down the mountain abruptly.It was past eight o'clock in the evening when I got home, and there were two missed calls in the mobile phone I forgot to take out. They came from the countryside and called at noon.There are unread messages from Xiao Yimo on WeChat:

"If you have nothing to do tonight, come over for dinner!"

"See the message and reply."

Nothing else.

Xu Ran replied to Xiao Yimo: "I'm asleep, I've already eaten."

Looking at the reply at the other end, Tianyuan always felt that something was wrong.

"are you sick?"

"No, really not, I slept too late last night!" Xu Ran sent to explain.

"That's good!" Tian Yuan felt relieved.He sent Xiao Huan a WeChat message: "When are you coming back?"

Xiao Huan replied the next day: "Soon."

Tian Yuan told him: "Xu Ran doesn't seem to be well."

Xiao Huan replied with a "hmm", bald, Tian Yuan was so angry that he almost ran to Xu Ran and said, "You must not fall in love with Xiao Huan, he is a heartless thing!"

Tian Yuan angrily complained to Xiao Yimo all morning, while Xu Ran served an elderly guest all morning.

The customer came at eleven o'clock, and when he came in, he asked if he couldn't drink coffee and if he had anything else.Xu Ran recommended him health-preserving scented tea and the homemade mung bean cake in the store. While drinking tea, the old man grabbed Xu Ran to chat with him from time to time.Ask him how old he is, how are his parents, and whether he has someone to talk to... Anyway, I asked all the questions that should be asked, and Xu Ran saw that he was an old man, so he answered them all.

The old man also praised him for his good looks.It was the first time for Xu Ran to meet such an elderly and talkative guest, and he found it fresh and cared a little more than other guests.Halfway through eating, the old man said he was hungry and wanted to eat.

After Xu Ran finished recommending all the dishes in the store, the old man said: "I want to be jealous of Chinese cabbage, do you have any?"

Xu Ran foolishly ran to the kitchen master Zhang and asked, "Can I make vinegared Chinese cabbage?"

Master Zhang almost flattened him with the steak frying pan.He ran to apologize to the old man, saying that there was no vinegared Chinese cabbage, only Western food.If you want to eat Chinese food, you can go nearby, there are many good restaurants.

The old man who seems to be in his 70s acted coquettishly: "I just want to eat some fried vegetables here!"

This stumped Xu Ran, he had to seek help from other colleagues who were more experienced than him.Strangely, as soon as other colleagues passed by, the old man readily ordered smoked steak and avocado salad.

Xu Ran looked at the old man smiling kindly at him without thinking, did he think he was stupid and deliberately teased him.

What's even more strange is that for the next three consecutive days, the old man came to the store early in the morning and sat in the afternoon before leaving. Every time, he had to chat with Xu Ran, talking about various things, and often teasing him.Xu Ran asked the old man's family, and the old man said that he was gone, and he was alone.Sounds about the same as him.Xu Ran didn't believe it at first, but then the old man took out his wallet and showed him a photo of his daughter, which was sandwiched in the interlayer. It was taken in college, with big eyes and double eyelids, looking very pure.

"Those who were burned to death were beyond recognition!" said the old man.

Xu Ran thought of his own mother, who was as miserable as the old man's daughter, who died beyond recognition.He started to sympathize with the old man, and treated the old man more attentively.

On the fourth day, the old man did not come.Xu Ran was also slightly lost.Xiao Yimo comforted him: "Opening a coffee shop is the same as opening a bar. You can always meet a lot of customers with stories, coming and going, don't get too involved, you can't help them." Xu Ran also knew it, but he felt that the old man His situation is very similar to his, and even the old man is worse than him. He can't imagine how sad a white-haired person is to a black-haired person.

On the fifth day, the old man came in the afternoon.Xu Ran went up to meet him happily, and the old man asked him seriously: "Are you free now?"

Xu Ran nodded again and again: "Yes, yes!"

The old man pointed to the corner: "Let's talk!"

Xu Ran poured a glass of lemonade for the old man, and sat down.

"Son, I want to ask you to do me a favor!"

"Well, okay, you say." Xu Ran looked at the old man's frowning brows, thinking about what he could do to help.

"My daughter has a child, my niece, who is seven years old this year. She has a congenital liver disease and needs a liver transplant..."

"Then, you need me—" Xu Ran didn't understand what he could help here.

"The liver transplant requires the help of relatives. Her parents are here, and she has a half-brother." The old man stared at Xu Ran.

Xu Ran was still at a loss: "Do you want me to help you find your niece's half-brother?"

The old man looked at him and shook his head, Xu Ran didn't understand what he meant.

"Is your father's name Xu Jianguo?" the old man asked suddenly.

Xu Ran froze for a moment, he hadn't heard this name for a long time.

"He's also my niece's father!"

"You're always joking!" Xu Ran's first reaction was that the other party was teasing him again.

The old man looked at him and smiled wryly.

Xu Ran got up and took two steps, then turned around and took the cup in front of the old man: "I'll change the tea for you!"

Tian Yuan watched Xu Ran, who was chatting with the guests, bowed his head and ran into the bar without saying a word, put tea bags in the teapot, but poured a cup of cold water down, and felt something was wrong, but poured the cold water into the paper trash bucket.

"What's wrong with you, Ran Ran?"

"No, it's nothing." Xu Ran came back to his senses and knelt down to dispose of the trash can.But my hands kept shaking, and I couldn't even tie the garbage bag properly.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Uncle Tian." While apologizing, Xu Ran was even more anxious to fix the garbage bag.

Tianyuan pulled him up from the ground, looked him in the eyes and asked, "What's wrong with you? What happened?"

"It's okay, it's okay, Uncle Tian!" Xu Ran tried his best to calm down, but his heart was beating so fast that it was about to explode.

The old man who had been sitting in the corner came over, looked at the pale Xu Ran behind the bar, and said, "I'll come back tomorrow!"

Xu Ran didn't look at him, and didn't reply.

The old man stood there for half a minute longer, seeing that Xu Ran still had no intention of responding, he sighed and turned to leave.

The two who were happily together a day ago suddenly became like this!Tian Yuan didn't know what happened between the two of them, but looking at Xu Ran, who was trembling slightly with his mouth tightly clenched, his hands clenched into fists, his heart ached.

He asked Xu Ran several times "what's the matter with you", but he didn't mean to say anything.Xiao Yimo asked instead, but the result was still the same.

Before it was time to get off work, Xu Ran asked Tian Yuan to ask if he could leave early.

Looking at him in a bad mood, Tian Yuan didn't know what to do, so he agreed to the application.Xu Ran changed his overalls and left in a daze.

Xiao Yimo asked him worriedly: "Is he alright by himself?"

Tian Yuan shook his head, and he sent Xiao Huan a WeChat message: "Xu Ran is very bad!"

Others in the store came over to ask what happened to Xu Ran, feeling greatly stimulated.

Tian Yuan spread his hands, if only he knew.

Xiao Huan went too far this time, and didn't reply until the next day.Tian Yuan was furious, but Xu Ran recovered a little, but still occasionally in a trance, and sent the coffee given to 1 table to 3 tables.Fortunately, they are all regular customers, so they don't care.

In the afternoon, the old man came again and sat in the corner looking at Xu Ran.After he came, Xu Ran became very fond of digging into the kitchen. Master Zhang knew that he had something on his mind, so he simply told him to do some work, such as cutting some onions and peeling an avocado.

Tian Yuan couldn't bear to watch anymore, so he took the initiative to sit opposite the old man, and asked him straightforwardly: "What did you do to our family Ran Ran?"

"Are you the owner of this store?" the old man asked him in turn.

Tian Yuan nodded, thinking that he was not only the owner of this store, but also the father of Xu Ran's partner.

"You are a good boss!"

Looking at the old man's appearance, Tian Yuan looked kindly, not like a bad person.

"What did you say to Ran Ran? His mood fluctuates a lot."

The old man showed a sad expression: "I know, it's hard for the child."

When Xiao Huan arrived in the United States, he found that this sudden business trip was entirely on Li Dongyao's whim, and he was so angry that he almost strangled the instigator.

Li Dongyao saved up a film and television investment project, which he cooperated with a famous foreign film and television company.The project was established suddenly, and he couldn't do it alone, so he had to call Xiao Huan to help him.

Therefore, when Xiao Huan arrived in the United States, he was basically either in a meeting or on his way to a meeting.This is the first time for Li Dongyao to work on a film and television project. He attaches great importance to it. Xiao Huan took it easy when he came, and soon started working as a workaholic.

The first time Tian Yuan sent a WeChat message to tell him that Xu Ran was not well, he was busy negotiating with the Americans all night, and he replied with a "hmm". An impromptu meeting disrupts plans.When he was free, he found that during the daytime, it was midnight on Xu Ran's side.

When Tian Yuan sent a WeChat message for the second time saying that Xu Ran was very bad, he didn't see the WeChat message.By the time I saw it, two days had passed.He didn't care about the meeting now, and went out directly during the meeting. He was about to call Xu Ran when Tian Yuan's phone came in first.

"Huanhuan, come back right away, something happened to Xu Ran!"