His Canary - Chapter 25
The winter vacation is very short, but this winter vacation is Dong Ci’s most dreamlike life.
Years later, Ci Ma ’s restaurant reopened. Because of the unique decoration style and numerous catering categories, the daily customers are endless.
Recently, there are a lot of young girls in the store. Dong Ci wanders between the tables with the plate, and can always hear the girl’s shy laugh.
“He looks really good, and he smiles so softly, at first glance is a very gentle little brother.”
“Yes, yeah, and he seems to come to this store every day, even sitting in the same position. You said he knew the owner of this store?”
Dong Ci took a drink and put it at the tables of several girls. When he wanted to leave, he was caught by one of the girls. “Sister, do you know the brother sitting by the window?”
Dong Cixun looked at her and saw that Jing Rong was sitting by the window with his chin lazily looking at the computer in front of him. It seemed to feel Dong Ci’s sight. He raised his eyes slightly and smiled at Dong Ci’s lips. The black eyes seemed to be caught in the starlight, black and bright.
“Wow–” Dong Ci heard the pumping sounds of the girls around her, and when she lowered her head, they saw their eyes staring at themselves, and Dong Ci was numb behind her, and she smiled a little stiffly. “He, he is my … friend.”
“Does that sister know that he has a girlfriend? Sister, I think he smiles so softly, and are other people super soft.”
soft?
Dong Ci really heard the word “soft” used in Jing Rong for the first time.
She frowned and thought for a moment, not knowing how to answer the group of young girls who were budding in spring. “I don’t know what you mean by soft, but in my understanding, he is–no one is soft.”
As a good kid who doesn’t worry about studying online, Dong Ci knows what the meaning of ‘soft’ in the mouth of these little girls is.
“Although he looks good, he has some nerve problems, so I think you can just look at him from a distance, don’t need to be close to him.”
Dong Ci said these words very sincerely. As a person who knows the temperament of Jingrong, she said that she was thinking about these girls. Seeing them one by one with wide eyes and looking at her with an incredible expression, Dong Ci smiled stiffly and quickly found a reason to leave.
Since the opening of Ci Ma, Jing Rong will come here with his computer almost every day. He didn’t know what to do on the computer. He often sat for half a day and never took the initiative to talk to Dong Ci. The meals were all made for Dong Ci to help him.
That day he said that he could be gentle to her, and it seemed that he really became a lot softer. Sometimes when there are few people, Dong Ci will take out the study materials and take a look. Jing Rong will gather around her, and point out some important points to her from time to time.
“This is for you.”
Jingrong did not bring a computer when he came today, nor did he enter the store. He called Dong Ci to the intersection on the street, put a pair of furry earmuffs on her head, and reached out to touch her head.
“Why give me this?”
Dong Ci took off the earmuffs, reached out and touched the silky hair on top, and saw a label on the underside of the ball with his eyes sharply embroidered with the letters J: R.
“I made this for you.” Jing Rong put her earmuffs back on her. He stared at her, his eyes soft and quiet. “Warm?”
“Warm.” Dong Ci answered honestly.
The hairball feels good, and it is very comfortable to cover Dong Ci’s ears. Large hairballs are attached to the sides of the ears, and even the cheeks are much warmer.
“It’s just warm, Xiaoci is so delicate, I don’t have to take care of myself.”
Dong Ci looked at him with his confused eyes wide open, and asked subconsciously. “Where are you going?”
“Go abroad, Xiaoci must remember to miss me.” Jing Rong thin lips slightly raised, love miserable her this misty look, did not want to nibble directly on her lips.
The car stopped a short distance away, and it seemed that he was going to the airport immediately after seeing her. Dong Ci stared staringly at Jing Rong’s back, and just wanted to go back, but Jing Rong suddenly turned around at this time.
‘Click——’
Before Dong Ci responded, Jing Rong took her and took a photo with her mobile phone.
The picture freezes, and the beautiful face on the screen favors the dazed girl with a spoiled young boy. The cheeks of the two are very close, and they look very intimate.
“Leave a commemoration.” Jing Rong looked straight at Dong Ci, but put the phone screen close to the thin lips and gently kissed, as if at this time it was like kissing her real person.
Thump thump
Dong Ci felt the sudden quickening of his heartbeat and secretly reminded himself:
Can’t be fooled by him. No matter how gentle he becomes at this time, there are still half a year. Half a year later, they will go their own way!
“…”
The restaurant that Momma opened became more and more popular, and she was already too busy by herself. So she asked Xiao Wang, who had been helping her manage the restaurant, to discuss, and she was going to ask for some helpers.
The poor mother didn’t want it, so she hired several chefs and waiters at a high price, and planned a series of new dishes with Xiao Wang.
Perhaps it was too eye-catching. Mom did n’t know whether she was jealous of her peers or offended somebody. Someone was making trouble in her restaurant, saying that all the materials she used for cooking were the most inferior, and she was easily sick and diarrhea.
After a few more days, someone said that she had eaten hair and insects from the dishes of her house, and the meat in the meat dishes ordered was all stinky.
This street is so long, and some people deliberately preached that the restaurant opened by Ci Ma fell sharply. At this time, the owners of the tea shop and bakery opposite also came to the door.
“Are you saying that it’s not good to make your home-cooked food with peace of mind? You have to sell cakes and milk tea. You have covered all the business. Would you let us drink cool breeze?”
“Yeah, I heard the boss of another store say that you are still bragging that the pastries you make are better than those sold by my house. It ’s not that I said you, you ’re a widow. business?”
Knowing that Shi Ze was going to start school soon, so the mom had specifically asked Dong Ci to call Shi Ze to come to her shop for a meal. Who knows when Shi Ze and Dong Ci entered the door, they saw several people making trouble in the shop. Those people were tall and talented men, bullying no one to help the mother, and smashing several pictures in the shop. table.
Dong Ci panicly tried to run over to be blocked, but was stopped by Shi Ze.
“Let me deal.”
Shi Ze pushed Dong Ci away and walked into the crowd, guarding Ci Ma behind him, and negotiated with them without hesitation. “What do you want?”
“We are all businessmen and not bandits, what can we ask for? Just don’t get used to this lady robbing people everywhere, and she is selling milk tea and pastries in the restaurant, we didn’t say anything, she still said we sold it everywhere. How expensive and unpleasant things are, who can bear it? ”
“I didn’t say it!” Ci Ma did open a restaurant and sold drinks and cakes. These were one of the shops she planned with Ci Da.
She has never spoken badly about other stores, and she has never used cheap ingredients to cook. Ci Ma has been quietly opening her own shop, and she does not feel that she has done anything wrong.
If it is true that it is wrong, it is probably that she is not smooth enough, and innocently offend the surrounding shops.
“We want her not to sell milk tea and pastries in the future, but also have to pay for the loss of reputation in our shop. Because she spreads bad information everywhere, we will not be so bad this month!”
“That is, you have to lose our money!”
“It’s all you who made us open a shop and can’t afford the rent!”
These people have been jealous of this shop for a long time, and I heard that she is a widow. She has no other relatives besides a girl, so she wants to join her to tease her.
They were deliberately arrogant, and they were so bold because no one helped her. The abacus of these people clanged, even if they really could not get rid of the money, but they rushed at them, and all the passers-by on the outside also saw it. After cooking, chats were casually spread, and it only took a few days for her to shop. The reputation is almost stinky.
Ci Ma looked at the ugly faces of these men in the shop, and then looked at the passers-by who were pointing outside. A huge void of ignorance came violently, and Ci Ma was almost unable to support this feeling.
“mom–”
The mother outside the crowd heard Dong Ci’s worried cry, and her trembling fingertips finally calmed down a lot, trying to give her a soothing smile.
Yes, she still has hope. For Xiaoci, she can’t fall down!
I originally wanted to have a good meal with Shize, but in the end the shop was ruined. Several people had been cleaning up the mess, and no one wanted to eat anymore.
Being maliciously slandered and framed, and the surrounding partners bullied and swindled money to smash the store, these days Dong Ci only felt that he would have suffered all his life.
This store is all the hard work of Ci Ma. It is not only the support of Ci Ma and her, but also the memories of the two of them.
Dong Ciqiang didn’t dare to cry with tears in her eyes. She wanted to comfort her mother, but she found her eyes empty and dull, and her indifferent face seemed to see through this world, as if she would leave Dong Ci and leave at any time.
A huge unease swept through Dong Ci’s body, and she looked at such a kind mother who could not speak. I don’t know when to start, she always feels that Mommy is a little strange.
When Shi Ze left, it was already dark.
Shi Ze walked in the front, Dong Ci followed behind, she insisted on the sadness in her heart, but she walked slower and slower, finally crouched on the ground weakly, tears dropped.
“Xiaoci.”
When Shi Ze heard a whimper from behind, he stiffened and squatted in front of Dong Ci, so he could only stroke her hair and calmed down. “do not Cry.”
Dong Ci didn’t want to cry, but she couldn’t help it.
Sadness, helplessness, anger, unwillingness, and various complex emotions pulling her heart, she really didn’t understand why she and the mother were so difficult to take every step. Especially when she heard those people scolding her mom just now, Dong Ci couldn’t breathe in pain.
God knows how much she wants to suffer for Mommy!
“I don’t understand what my mother and I did wrong, why do we always deprive us of hope again and again …”
This was the first time Shi Ze saw her with such a fragile look. Under the moonlight, her tear-stained eyes were like a broken starry sky. Shi Ze felt a pain in her heart and directly embraced her into her arms.
“Xiaoci, don’t be afraid, give me a few more years, I will definitely protect you.”
Feeling the trembling of the girl in her arms, Shi Ze held her tighter. His ears were red, and he gently kissed the tears on Dong Ci’s face, grasping her with more and more power, as if enduring something.
Dong Ci was shocked by Shi Ze’s actions, tears filled his eyes but never dared to fall, but stared at him in disbelief.
“Xiao Ci, believe me, I will definitely protect you and Aunt Song in the future.”
“do not Cry.”
This is not a confession, nor an oath to hold her accountable. The air on Shi Ze was clear and clean, just like his people, indifferent like water.
He looks very simple, but Dong Ci always cannot guess him. She could see the pity in Shi Ze’s eyes when she kissed her tears, and the deepness that passed by, but when he said he wanted to protect her and her mother, it was more like a public commitment.
…
Shi Ze had already gone away. Dong Ci squatted on the ground and took a few deep breaths. She had to return to normal before returning to the store, and she could not let her see the traces of her crying.
When she stood up, her eyes were dark with low blood sugar. Fortunately, she supported the lamppost beside her before she fell down. She closed her eyes for a while, and when she opened her eyes and looked up forward, her eyes flickered.
Jing Rong was standing not far from her sight, a black suit blending in the moonlight and night. He didn’t know how long he stood there, covered in the frost of the night, and his beautiful face was cold and cold.
“Does Xiaoci see me unhappy?”
When Dong Ci saw him, Jing Rong’s thin lips pulled out a cold arc, and he waved at her and called. “Come here and let me hug.”
Seeing Dong Ci not only came but subconsciously stepped back, a glimmer of light flashed in Jing Rong’s eyes.
He lowered his arms and stared at her faintly. The dark eyes infested by the night could not see the anger. He turned his head slightly, looking into the unknown darkness, and the corner of his mouth seemed to be stained with frost.
He didn’t speak, but Dong Ci felt inexplicably scared. She bit her lips and walked towards him a little bit, her fingers clenched in her sleeves digging into her palms, as if to offset some of the panic in her heart.
As soon as she approached, Jing Rong grabbed her arm and held her firmly in her arms. His arms are around her waist, and he has a lot of strength, as if to crush her in his arms.
“do you miss me?”
Jing Rong leaned over and kissed her hair, but stopped when her lips were close to her cheeks. There was a bit of sarcasm in his eyes, and when Dong Ci was silent, he pinched her chin to make her stare at herself. “Xiaoci, I will ask you something and answer me.”
“Think.” Dong Ci was afraid of such an indescribable scenery, and when he spoke the word, there was a tremor in his voice.
“Oh?”
Jing Rong rubbed the corners of her lips with her abdomen, her eyes deep and cold. He smiled, holding Dong Ci’s chin a little harder, and asked lightly. “My little kindness is thinking of me, do you think of other men as me?”