Thousand Willows

Early the next morning, Liu Minhui got up and went out, heading straight to the Tongxinyuan dating agency.It turned out that the door was closed tightly, and a piece of A4 printing paper was pasted on the door, which said "Go home during the Chinese New Year, and the door will open on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year".However, Liu Minhui felt relieved. He was uneasy along the way and didn't know how to face that person, let alone how to talk about it. Now that the other party is closed and not here, he let himself find a reasonable excuse not to Facing this embarrassing meeting directly is like facing something that has to be done but is not very willing to do it. When you bite the bullet, you find that because of the other party's reasons, you don't need to do it. At least for the time being, you can avoid it.

This is how Liu Minhui felt. He was worried that if the father and son really knew each other, what would happen if his mother refused the door? Now this worry is gone, because the other party is also on vacation, so he didn't open the door.only……

Liu Minhui was overwhelmed by the momentary excitement and was completely immersed in his own world, but after a while, he came back to his senses, and the sounds around him were heard again.But he always felt that there was something wrong. When he came yesterday, the boss clearly said that the business was very good during the Chinese New Year holidays. Why would he be willing to let go of the business today and just close the shop?He frowned, and his mother who came home very late last night suddenly flashed in his mind. Her eyes were swollen and she looked as if she had cried. Although she still avoided communicating with herself, she seemed very weak. Could it be...he thought of him With my mother's resolute character, I think it is very possible that she has been here.Does she really have to drive people away?He suddenly fell into another kind of inexplicable sadness. Yesterday, he was impulsive and had a showdown with his mother without considering it at all. As a result, he couldn't see anyone he wanted to see now.

Next door to this Tongxinyuan dating agency is a small restaurant, which has just opened at this time. It looks like a husband and wife restaurant. The owner has just returned from shopping on an electric bike, and the lady owner is cleaning. It is early, and they don’t do early business. There is a bun shop next door to them, and there is an endless stream of people buying buns.

"Boss, are you open now?" Liu Minhui walked over and asked.

The proprietress took a look at him, and at first she just raised her eyelids, but when she saw that this tall, mature, and attractive male guest originally planned to send him away, she couldn't say anything, so she paused for a while Only then said: "You can wait a little while, we just opened the door."

"No problem, I'm not in a hurry." Liu Minhui said, pulled up a chair and sat down, looked at the menu posted on the wall and ordered a few random dishes—but he still deliberately ordered a few cooked dishes. Dishes take a little longer.

"There are so many, how many people do you want to come?" Seeing that he ordered so many dishes by himself, the proprietress thought he had invited other people to come.

"Only me."

"You can order less for one person, you can't finish eating so much." The proprietress kindly reminded.

"It's okay, I can't finish eating and pack." Liu Minhui looked completely indifferent.

The proprietress took a look at him, stopped talking, and went to the back kitchen to pick up the menu with her husband. After a while, she heard the sound of the whistling flames and the sound of the range hood.

The proprietress took some vegetables and sat in the front to pick them. By the way, she turned on the TV hanging high, found a channel that broadcast idol dramas, and chose vegetables while watching.

"Madam Boss, your location is very good. It's close to the office building over there and the park here. The business must be good, right?" Liu Minhui started talking deliberately.

The proprietress heard him talking, and continued with a smile: "We have been doing business here for many years. At first, we thought about opening a small shop because we were laid off. At that time, the office building over there hadn't been built yet. The park is still very desolate. It is because of the rapid development in these years that our business has picked up." While speaking, he was full of hope and love for life, "Oh, by the way, let me pour you a glass of water Look, I'm just in a hurry to pick vegetables, and I forgot about that." After speaking, he got up and poured Liu Minhui a glass of boiling water.

Liu Minhui thanked repeatedly, and then began to change the topic to the Tongxinyuan matchmaking agency next door. "I see that most of them are restaurants and snack bars. Why is there a dating agency next door to you?"

Hearing Liu Minhui's question, the proprietress didn't answer, but an ambiguous smile appeared on her face.

Seeing this, Liu Minhui continued, "Could it be that there are too many unmarried men and women in your community, so matchmaking is a good business here?"

"That shop..." The proprietress pursed her lips and smiled, with a trace of casual disdain flashing across the corners of her mouth and eyes, "Their business is doing well, and I'm afraid they earn as much as we work hard on cooking."

Liu Minhui deliberately said: "Oh, from this point of view, the marriage and love market here is huge."

"Do you also run a dating agency?" the proprietress asked.

Liu Minhui smiled and said: "That's not true. I just happened to see a dating agency here. It's not the Chinese New Year, and I want to find someone to go home to do business with... My family is pressing hard."

"A boss like you still can't find a partner?" The lady boss sneered, "I'm afraid there are many little girls chasing after you, so you don't think so."

Liu Minhui also laughed, and said, "I don't want to find someone close to me." He wanted to prevaricate.

But the proprietress was not so easy to fool, she said: "You look like a big boss at first glance, why come to such a small dating agency to find a partner." After speaking, she laughed again.

"Haha." Liu Minhui also laughed dryly a few times, annoyed that his lie could not even fool a middle-aged woman in a small restaurant.

But the proprietress looked at Liu Minhui again, her tone became a little strange, and she said: "But I heard that there are no ordinary people who come to this store to find a partner, and no one from our neighborhood comes here. People would rather go to the blind date corner in Chengxi Park to find a partner for their children than go to their store."

Upon hearing this, Liu Minhui quickly pretended to be puzzled and asked, "Why?"

The proprietress glanced at the back kitchen, and said in a low voice, "I heard that they don't match up ordinary men and women. Those who go to their place are all perverts. The men who go there are not looking for girlfriends, but boyfriends." There was a strange expression on his face, a little curious and a little contemptuous.

"Is there such a thing?" Liu Minhui knew in his heart that these older ordinary people often treat the same-sex relationship like this. Because they don't understand, they find it difficult to accept. This is also a normal thing. He has long been used to it. I don't care too much.

"En." The proprietress just nodded lightly, but looked at Liu Minhui with a probing look, as if she was also probing, wondering whether the young man really didn't know or pretended not to know.But the man in front of him really didn't seem to know, and his expression was full of disgust and curiosity just like other people who knew about this kind of thing.Seeing this, the proprietress immediately opened up the chatterbox and said: "But the people next door don't often deal with us. Their bosses are two men who live together every day on the second floor. I guess the two of them are also that or something. Let’s…” He laughed again, as if it was a very embarrassing thing to say the word homosexual.

Liu Minhui deliberately said: "Then you can bear it?"

The proprietress sighed and said, "I can't help it, the boss next door bought that shop."

Liu Minhui continued to inquire: "The location here is so good, the price of this shop is not affordable by ordinary people, right?"

"Hey, isn't the house price raised these years? When they bought it 20 years ago, it wasn't so expensive at that time. The landlord who sold the house to them probably regretted it."

"How long have they been doing this?"

"That's not true. At first they didn't set up a dating agency, but just opened a grocery store. It turned out that at that time, unlike now, there were supermarkets everywhere. At that time, the business was OK. Later, it developed here, and the business It's getting worse and worse, and their store can't keep up with the times, and they only switched to a dating agency a few years ago."

"Then you didn't know they were..."

"That's right, we were all stupid before. How could we know so many twists and turns? We thought they were two brothers who came out to make money. As a result, after so many years, the two have been living together, and neither of them has Marriage, slowly we will figure it out."

"I didn't expect that... Hey, I see they are closed today, can they still go back to their hometown for the New Year?"

"This is really strange. For so many years, this is the first time I have seen them close during the Chinese New Year. In the past few years, they have been open every Chinese New Year. We all closed and went home for the New Year. They are still working. I don’t know how to return this year. It's strange that the door closed without saying a word..."

Liu Minhui was about to ask more questions, but the owner of the back kitchen shouted the lady's name and urged her to choose dishes.So Liu Minhui stopped there and didn't ask any more questions. He also had his own general opinion on this matter in his heart.

"Boss, pack it for me, I'll take it home and eat it."

Liu Minhui took the packed dishes and thought about his thoughts while walking, but when he came back to his senses, he found that he had already walked downstairs to Zhao Lei's company.

He waited in Zhao Lei's office for a while before Zhao Lei came over after the meeting.

"Mr. Zhao, I'm here to deliver food to you."

"What kind of takeaway are you delivering this early in the morning, breakfast or lunch?" Zhao Lei mocked.

Liu Minhui smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, it's for you anyway, don't waste it."

Zhao Lei sighed, and took out the big bag of dishes. When he came back, his hands were empty.

"You wouldn't throw it away, would you? It's shameful to waste food." Liu Minhui raised his eyebrows.

Zhao Lei was very speechless, and said: "Give it to the employees, let them store it in the refrigerator. Our air conditioner is not low temperature, and it will break if left for a long time. Do you have anything to help? Hurry up Come on, we will have a holiday tomorrow, and we have a lot of things to deal with today."

"It's nothing..." Liu Minhui pondered whether to ask Zhao Lei for help. Although he confessed his sexual orientation and partner to Zhao Lei, the matter about his father was his family's private matter after all, and he knew it very well. His mother's attitude about it.No matter who he asks for help in looking for his father, it may cause the matter to be leaked. Even if Zhao Lei is asked for help, he will ask other people to investigate, which is no different from looking for someone to investigate by himself.That being the case, there is no need to owe this favor.Although the two are more or less related, they are both businessmen after all, and the favor they owe is more difficult to repay than the money they owe.I owed a favor yesterday, and I don't know how to pay it back in the future.

"Let's talk about something, you are not the kind of person who will specially deliver food to me." Zhao Lei could see that Liu Minhui had something on his mind.

"I really came here to deliver you a takeaway. Now that the takeaway has arrived, my goal has been achieved, so let's go!" But Liu Minhui stood up and said, "By the way, Mr. Zhao, I wish you an early year! "

After Liu Minhui left, Ah Hei came to Zhao Lei's office to report on his work, but found that Zhao Lei looked strange, so he asked, "What happened?"

"It's nothing, I just feel a little sad all of a sudden." Zhao Lei smiled wryly.

Ah Hei was puzzled, looked at Zhao Lei and asked, "Sad? Why are you sad? Our financial situation this year is quite good." He suddenly stopped talking, as if thinking of something, and said, "It's still for your friend heal?"

"I'm more open to her affairs now, and I only look at how fate arranges. What I'm sad about today is another matter." Zhao Lei looked downstairs through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the office, and could only see small pedestrians hurrying towards her. go.

"Is there anything else to be sad about..." Ah Hei muttered.

"I don't know why, it seems that the bigger the business, the more defensive people around me are, and the number of people who can tell the truth is less and less. Sometimes, I think it may be my reason. I now I am more defensive than before. I dare not say more, and neither do others. Therefore, there are fewer and fewer people who can speak, so I feel a little sad."

Ah Hei said, "You were fine during the meeting just now, why did you feel so emotional when you met Mr. Liu?"

"Because he wanted to talk to me just now, but in the end he left without saying anything. At first, I thought he trusted me very much, and he would tell me everything he dared to say to others, but now it seems that, He still thinks I'm not reliable enough." Zhao Lei said with a sigh.

But Ah Hei laughed and said, "Mr. Zhao, you are thinking too much. If you say that he told you what he dared not tell others, it means that he really trusts you. Today you think he It's normal to have reservations, everyone has something they don't want to tell anyone except themselves."

Zhao Lei turned his head to look at Ah Hei, but the other party's eyes were full of cunning, and he asked, "You have it too?"

"Mr. Zhao, don't you have one?" Ah Hei laughed, with a pair of fox eyes upturned, shining with an uncertain light.

"That's right." Zhao Lei also laughed.