Cloudside Café

Chapter 20: Twenty cups of coffee

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Perhaps it was because she had something in her mind, Jiang Ying woke up at 5:00 the next morning. Seeing that Yun Xian was still sleeping beside her, she turned off the alarm clock on her mobile phone and gently got out of bed to wash.

There was already movement in the living room, Jiang Ying went out and saw Xia Zhi busy in the kitchen.

"Aunt."

Seeing her, Xia Zhi smiled: "Wake up so early? Let's have breakfast first."

Jiang Ying nodded. There was white porridge and side dishes on the table. I don't know when Xia Zhi got up to prepare it.

The bird on the tree outside chirped twice, then flapped its wings and flew away.

Jiang Ying took half a bowl of white porridge and sipped it, feeling very comfortable in her stomach.

When the clock in the dining room reached 5:40, Yun Qian came out of the room and rubbed his eyes lazily.

He walked to the dining table and handed Xia Zhi the test paper in his hand: "When you're done, take a look."

Xia Zhi didn't answer, so she scooped up a bowl of porridge for Yun Xi: "Look at your own paper, the two classes you missed yesterday didn't talk about any important things, you should know them all, take a look at the exercises, you don't understand yourself. Go to the office and ask the teacher."

Yun Yan rubbed his eyes again, with a ghostly expression. In the past, every homework and examination paper Xia Zhi had to pass through.

Seeing this, Jiang Ying handed the porridge to Yunxi: "Quickly put away the paper and eat breakfast."

Only then did Yun Yan come back to his senses: "Oh."

Xia Zhi raised her head and glanced at the clock: "Yun Xian still doesn't get up?"

Jiang Ying quickly explained: "He slept late last night, it's okay, let him sleep a little longer."

Xia Zhi sighed and shook her head: "Xiao Jiang, don't be so nice to him. He looks handsome, but he has a lot of problems. You will suffer when you are married, so don't be accustomed to him."

Jiang Ying choked on a mouthful of porridge in his throat.

Yun Yan interrupted his mother: "Did you say that about your son?"

Xia Zhi straightened her waist: "I only want to talk about my own son."

"Brother finally found a girlfriend, don't scare them away."

"If you want to scare away, you should scare away first, bad brother who plays truant."

On the way to the airport, Jiang Ying remembered the lively table early in the morning, and said to Yun Xian, "Auntie seems to be a little different today."

"What's the difference?"

Jiang Ying bulged her cheeks and thought for a while: "It seems that you have become cute?"

After the last spring rain, the weather was getting sultry, the sun was dazzling outside, the sky was cloudless, and the vines in the yard were bearing fruit.

In the summer, there is a new clerk in Yunbian Cafe - Yun Qian, who was arrested as a wage earner just after the college entrance examination.

On the weekend at the end of June, Jiang Ying was on a business trip in Shanghai. During the two-day comic exhibition, "Small World" got a booth for a themed restaurant.

Jiang Ying hung up his work card and secretly avoided fishing.

The customers who enter the store are all young girls, wearing beautiful dresses and delicate makeup.

Jiang Ying looked at the group of little girls, and He Yunxian sighed, "It's good to be young, long live youth."

Yun Xian smiled softly on the other end of the phone: "Why are you still hurting the Spring and Autumn at Comic-Con?"

Jiang Ying asked him, "Is the store busy?"

"It's alright, Xiaoxi is very quick to do things, but my boss is quite leisurely. How about you, aren't you busy? You still have time to call me."

"I'm not busy, there is a handsome waiter outside, what else do you need me to do." Speaking of this, Jiang ushered in interest, "I tell you, the coser we are looking for this time is absolutely amazing, and he looks super handsome. Oh, you should know Cosplay, right? It's role-playing."

Yun Xian was silent for two seconds: "Really?"

"Really, I'll show you the photo."

Hanging up the phone, Jiang Ying sent Yun Xian the photos taken secretly on her phone.

The handsome guy from cos Jianying has exquisite facial features, wearing a shirt and trousers, wearing gold glasses, and the breath of a gentle scum is ready to come out.

When Jiang Ying took the candid photo, he was standing at the front desk taking orders for two customers.

After half a minute, a message popped up on the phone.

[See the mountain: imitations.]

Jiang Ying burst out laughing.

[Sunset Orange: I don’t think this one is inferior to the genuine one.]

Then Yun Xian didn't reply, just as something happened to Jiang Ying, she put away her phone and got up to work.

Jiang Ying never expected that the next day she received a call from Yun Xian, who said that he was now at the entrance of the exhibition hall.

"Do you have a ticket? How did you get in?"

Yun Xian didn't answer, only asked: "Which direction are you in, I'll find you."

Jiang Ying reported the place and saw Yun Xian approaching from a distance within a few minutes.

She trotted all the way and asked out of breath, "Why are you here?"

Yun Xian put one hand in his pocket, looked into the store, and said lightly, "Crack down on fakes."

Jiang Ying nodded helplessly, this man was really naive when he was jealous.

"Then how did you get in?"

Yun Xian brought the work card in his hand to Jiang Ying's eyes: "Li Zhicheng gave it to me."

Jiang Ying looked at him suspiciously: "When did you have such a good relationship with my boss?"

Yun Xian pushed down his glasses, cleared his throat and said, "Actually, I told you before that it was because of a friend who came to Xicheng, Li Zhicheng."

Before Jiang Ying could digest this sentence, Yun Xian added, "He is my college classmate and my current roommate."

Jiang Ying: …

"Then why did you tell me that you didn't know him well before?"

Yun Xian poked her forehead: "If I told you that I was your boss's friend, would you still be comfortable getting along?"

Jiang Ying nodded and suddenly jumped up: "Then you didn't tell him the words I scolded him behind my back?"

Yunxian laughed: "Am I like that kind of person?"

Jiang Ying breathed a sigh of relief.

Yun Xian set his eyes on the young man not far away: "But if you use others to provoke me again, I'm not sure if you will make a snitch."

Jiang Ying crossed her arms to protect her chest and took a deep breath, why did she suddenly have the handle in Yun Xian's hands.

She wrinkled her face and sniffed, looking extremely aggrieved: "You lied to me first, and now you are threatening me. I know that I paid by mistake after all."

Yun Xian didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so she could only squeeze her cheek: "You even played it for me, didn't you?"

Jiang Ying took advantage of the situation to wrap her arms around Yun Xian's neck and hang it on him: "Then you are not allowed to make small reports. Li Zhicheng's anger looks scary."

Yun Xian hugged Jiang Ying steadily, and was defeated by her coquettish offensive: "I really can't do anything about you."

After work in the evening, Yun Xian and Jiang Ying plan to revisit the old place.

Boarding the sightseeing bus, the same route, the same seat, the song is still playing in the headphones.

Jiang Ying remembered something and asked Yun Xian, "Why did you kiss me at that time?"

Yunxian's gaze fell on Jiang Ying from the bustling street, and it took a long while before he spoke—

"Cherry, orange, strawberry, rose, or tobacco or wine, I want to know what you taste like."

The summer sun is nostalgic in the world, and the sky and the earth are still bright in the evening.

Jiang Ying leaned over and kissed Yun Xian with a smile.

"I have more than one taste."

Yunxian recently fell in love with bartending. Jiang Ying came to Yunbian after get off work this day. He was busy in the back kitchen by himself, and there were all kinds of glasses in front of him.

Jiang Ying jumped, sat on the table, and asked Yunxian, "Aren't you tired of the cafe and want to change to a bar?"

Yun Xian didn't answer, he took a mint leaf and put it away carefully.

He pushed the wine in front of Jiang Ying: "Tast it."

Jiang Ying raised the glass carefully, the gradient layered effect, orange mixed with pink, ice cubes floated, and the fruity aroma of orange mixed with whisky.

Jiang Ying took a sip from the straw and commented: "It's delicious, but it would be better if the wine tastes stronger."

Yunxian leaned his arm against the table and said, "This glass of wine is called Sunset Orange."

Hearing this, Jiang Ying raised her head, stirred the liquid in the cup, and said half-jokingly and half-seriously, "Then I will charge royalties."

Yun Xian smiled and cleaned up the cups on the table: "I plan to make some alcoholic beverages recently. This is one of them."

"The business of Yunbian seems to be good recently. Every time I come, it is full of guests."

Jiang Ying jumped off the table and helped Yun Xian to clean up together: "Boss Yun, why don't you consider letting me invest in a stock, I'll invest for you, let's make money together."

Yun Xian glanced at her while wiping the cup, and said in a flat tone, "Forget it."

Unexpectedly being rejected, Jiang Ying felt injustice for herself: "No, I'll try the new products for you, I'll paint the paintings on the wall for you, and I'll try to coax the boss if he can't sleep. Now I can't even buy shares. Too bad!"

"It's a bit of a loss." Yun Xian said in a tone of voice, "That can only make you come back as the boss's wife for nothing."

After a pause, he added, "This just happens to save even the copyright fee."

After a long while, Jiang Yinghou reacted: "Did you propose to me just now?"

Yun Xian took the glass of wine, and he took a little thought to adjust the color.

The bright orange hides a pale pink, quiet like a sunset, and full of warmth.

Just like Jiang Ying.

"Do you like Yunbian?"

"Like it."

"Will I give you a dowry then?"

—The End—

The author has something to say: It's over, I hope to send this story to all those who suffer from insomnia. See you next time, thank you for liking.

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