days of waiting

"You broke up with 'Ruanda'?"

Li Chen asked Cheng Youwei who was sitting in front of the bar with an angry face.

"One month!" Cheng Youwei took the coffee cup handed over by Li Chen, and said displeasedly, "This is a record, this time it's only one month."

"Hey, Youwei, it's not right to compare things like this!" Han Zhaojie thoughtfully pushed his plate in front of Cheng Youwei's eyes, along with a few biscuits on it, "However, this time This is already pretty good, I didn’t expect the shortest period…”

"Come on, let's stop talking about this topic, okay? It's really exaggerated..." Having said that, she continued to add an annotation indignantly, "Obviously everything is right, how could it be like this?"

"You are not suitable." Han Zhaojie said seriously.

Cheng Youwei jumped up excitedly, and Li Chen almost reflexively pushed her back to her seat, "Don't tell me if it's suitable or not! Damn, she also broke up with me with these words!"

"'Luanda' speaks so sharply!" Han Zhaojie said, crossing his legs and preparing to enter the discussion, "You Wei, I don't think anyone can blame this, it's just the fit of personality with personality."

Li Chen nodded quietly, while helping to install the filter cloth on the filter element of the wind pot.

"What?"

"That's it..." Han Zhaojie patiently explained, "In the current situation, although "Luanda" is a gentle and pleasant woman, you are destined to be at odds and will not be together..."

"...But even if you are very compatible with your personal character today, then no matter how dead she is, she may not be able to escape being your true destiny." Li Chen added indifferently.

Cheng Youwei raised his head and gave Li Chen a white look, grabbed Han Zhaojie's plate and swept the whole plate of biscuits into his mouth to show his resentment.

"Just talk about me, what about you?" Cheng Youwei cursed vaguely. When he picked up the coffee cup, he suddenly found that there was only one-third of the liquid in it, and it was Italian concentrated liquid. The dark black looked a little scary.

Forgetting to pour milk foam into a hot latte is a mistake no idiot would make.It's too weird to happen to Li Chen who is cautious and step-by-step.

"Li Chen?"

Han Zhaojie lowered his eyes anxiously to see Li Chen's expression clearly, but the latter kept his head down and spoke calmly.

As soon as Li Chen noticed Han Zhaojie's movements, he quickly turned around and pretended to be busy looking for the lighter, but he still couldn't avoid the eyes of the two of them.

"Damn it! Fuck it!" Cheng Youwei yelled, stepping on the bar counter and nimbly leaping into the work area.

Li Chen has always known that Cheng Youwei can't comfort others, when the other party is nervously grasping his arm and shaking it vigorously, at the same time, he also feels the helplessness of his friend who is eager to do something but is at a loss.

It's fine if they don't want to find out, but they have to be seen.If the whisper is not heard, it is like the passing wind, which will dissipate immediately; the resentful thoughts should not be tapped, and one day they will pass away with the bleak steps, and she can always pretend to be normal...

She was always able to wait for the sadness to pass in the calm waves, but for some reason, under the two caring eyes, she could no longer maintain the usual innocence, tears kept rushing out of her eyes, and even big drops fell on Cheng Youwei. on the arm.

"Damn! Don't cry!" Cheng Youwei's tone was more anxious than scolding, and he really couldn't find words to comfort people, and the only words that came out were those few swear words.

"Li Chen, what's the matter? Don't cry, okay?" Han Zhaojie tried to stretch his arms, and wiped away the tears on Li Chen's cheeks with a tissue.

Li Chen shook his head.

It's just that she just thought about the matter of "suitability".

Whether it's "Tanzania", "Rwanda"... or "Colombia", "Nicaragua", Cheng Youwei is a person who doesn't like black coffee. No matter how charming the flavor is, it is still unacceptable to her in the end. OK.

What Cheng Youwei needs is that the astringent taste is diluted without a trace, and the depth of bitterness is not so difficult to understand-a girl like a latte, doesn't she know it?

Li Chen quickly thought of himself again, and realized that he was not that miserable. Even if she could taste every cup of coffee, she just wanted that cup...

It's just out of reach.

"I...I think I'm going to get over it."

Li Chen said in a thick and dull voice.

"Because of her?" Han Zhaojie asked with a worried tone.

"Achen! What did she do to you?" Cheng Youwei asked excitedly, as if seeking revenge.

Li Chen shook his head again.

"She didn't do anything."

It's just that Mi Yining would smile at Li Chen and talk about his thoughts with Li Chen at first, but he didn't expect that the feeling of heartache became more and more clear as the distance drew closer.

The closer you are, the more profound your desire is. When the desire is not available, the sudden sense of loss, which is as heavy as a falling stone, completely paralyzes her.Li Chen thought that last night, she was not as worried as usual that the lightly roasted beans would affect her sleep, and she didn’t even care how thick and thick the boiled liquid would be with the grinding degree of the moka pot... When she no longer looks forward to the dawn, no matter how long the night is It doesn't matter anymore.

Unexpectedly, the day when I really became Xiaomi's friend, I was so desperately afraid.

Li Chen stopped crying by himself, took the tissue from Han Zhaojie's hand, and wiped away his tears quietly.

"I haven't seen her cry before." Although Cheng Youwei tried to communicate with Han Zhaojie quietly with the shape of his mouth, Li Chen still understood the whole sentence completely.

Indeed, she is out of order.

Thinking that she might scare her old friend who has been with him for many years, I feel sorry. After all, Cheng Youwei has spent countless words and tongues to convince her and Mi Yining that there will be no results.

Li Chen is not stupid, she can see clearly.

It's just that when Xiaomi is willing to smile one more time for what she said, and nod because of her suggestions, she can't blindly believe that the wait is worth it.

There is a kind of love that just looks at the happiness of your lover and you will feel the joy overflowing in your heart. Even if you reach out and touch nothing, you still feel that it is more than enough.

"Brother, if this goes on like this, she will kill you!" Cheng Youwei shook his shoulder vigorously, staring at Li Chen's corpse-like expression as he gave up resistance, as if he was proving what she just said.

"Li Chen, it's true, you're too haggard..." Han Zhaojie shook his head, resting his hand on his chin, thinking.

In the past few days, somehow getting close to Xiaomi made Li Chen feel that his mind has become very narrow, and just staring is no longer enough.

Whether he drinks coffee or not, Li Chen just can't sleep at night - there is a new, more entangled and tormenting caffeine called Mi Yining.

"I know she is not the one who can completely disappear in your thoughts by saying 'let go'..." Han Zhaojie held Li Chen's hand tightly, with an understanding tone.

"...But Ah Chen, it's not okay to go on like this." Cheng Youwei went on with a rare seriousness.

Li Chen knew that he had a face that couldn't see emotion no matter what, but he didn't know why at this moment, the two people in front of him knew her sadness with insight.

"You need to forget, you need to forget her..."

Cheng Youwei's stubborn conclusion.

"...whether you want it or not, you must."

Writer's words:

Although Li Chen exploded

But I want to discuss the matter of Cheng Youwei

Just follow my boring setting of coffee in "Days of Waiting" (sigh)

All in all, Cheng Youwei is destined to be with Latte (the same girl)

In the short story "Criminal Life",

There is a short section about Lao He: "A Chen said you are Ou Lei."

Aulait means milk in French

Latte means milk in Italian

A friend said that if you say "I want a glass of latte" when ordering food in Italy, you will get a glass of milk

The correct way to say it is "I want a glass of lattemacchiato"

(I actually think that the tour guide's speech is sometimes alarmist, sometimes)

But not everyone will definitely go to Italy, or must go to Italy to drink latte

In fact, I feel that this can only be used in Starbucks to pretend that I am quite powerful.

(If you have one, go to the city cafe to bake it.

I guess,

Au Lai in the narrow sense on the market is coffee milk, coffee plus milk plus ice cubes

A latte is an Italian concentrate poured into frothed milk

All in all, so much nonsense,

I just want to say that these two are essentially the same thing

But I think no one would really care about such bad details, alas, just look at it (huh)

But once upon a time, I naively thought that there was coffee in the matcha latte

Also, I thought chocolate au lait was such a fashionable drink, but it’s actually pretty childish in nature.