After Ye Fei returned to Beijing, he began to prepare visas and air tickets for the winter vacation, and watched the rise and fall of flight prices on various websites every day. Before I waited for confirmation, I received an unexpected call. Ruoyu comes to Beijing on a business trip and has half a day's free time to invite her to dinner.
The two met at a Southeast Asian restaurant and ordered papaya salad, seafood green curry, chicken satay, and a banana chocolate smoothie. For Ye Fei, this is one of the few friends in China who have interacted with her life on the island. Although they are not familiar, they seem to be closer to Chen Jiajun to talk about the life on the island together.
Ruoyu looked very excited, recalling the various experiences on the island, and said with a smile: "At that time, I felt really bad. I spent the tuition in vain but couldn't get the certificate. I nearly drowned when I practiced swimming. But I watched later. What an extraordinary experience, there are stories to tell when I come back."
Ye Fei also likes a girl with such an open-minded attitude: "What about now, are you afraid of water?"
"Afraid of water?" Ruoyu laughed happily, "Then where do I have the face to see you, a lifesaver! I have learned to swim!"
"Really? Congratulations." Ye Fei was really happy for her.
"It's not just two flops." Ruoyu clenched his fists, raised his arms, and assumed a seemingly powerful posture, "I can swim a thousand meters in a row, forty minutes!"
"That's really great!" Ye Fei toasted, "worthy of celebration!"
"Later you learned to dive?" Ruoyu asked.
"Oh, no... a lot of things have happened, I didn't have time." Looking back on the summer experiences, Ye Fei inevitably felt emotional. When I first met Ruoyu, the island in my heart was still a joyous and lively place. Who could have expected the surging winds afterwards. And how lucky she is to be with people who know and love each other.
"Why not, let's be together?" Ruoyu said excitedly, "I still want to learn diving in winter, let's go together. If I practice swimming, I will definitely not hinder you anymore."
Ye Fei hesitated: "I haven't decided yet. Where are you going?"
"It's still Southeast Asia. I didn't think about which island to go to, but I plan to change the place."
Ye Fei asked: "Huh? Didn't Lan Yang say that if you go back to take classes within one year, you don't have to pay tuition again?"
"Who would dare to go to his house? It's unreliable." Ruoyu patted his chest, "The house where you work looks pretty formal, but they don't have a Chinese coach... Oh, the boss speaks Chinese, but he is so fierce. "
Ye Fei smiled, remembering Chen Jiajun's cold face at the time: "It's a bit."
"I read other people's guides, there are too many interesting places, and I feel I can't go." Ruoyu is happy when he thinks of it, "It's so good to be together, to share the cost of the room, and to have a few more delicious dishes. of."
Ye Fei was embarrassed and couldn't refuse directly, and asked: "When are you going to go?"
"Before and after the Spring Festival, only this time is off."
Ye Fei heaved a sigh of relief: "I have a long winter vacation, so I have to go home for the New Year. Even if I go out for a trip, it will be after the Spring Festival." Ruoyu sighed: "It's great to study, there are winter and summer vacations. Why didn't I go to play around at the time? What?"
Ye Fei combined with his own experience in the Qiandian, and told Ruoyu some things to pay attention to. Ruoyu repeatedly expressed regret and said that she must make a suitable time with her next time and travel together. Ye Fei felt guilty and felt sorry for Ruoyu's eagerness and sincerity, and also felt sorry for Chen Jiajun. Why didn't she boldly tell Ruoyu that her boyfriend was on the island, and that she was the brutal boss in her eyes? Asking herself, she felt that there was still some restlessness in her heart. She had no doubt about Chen Jiajun's intentions, but there seemed to be many variables in the prospects of the two people. Before it really stabilized, she was not in a hurry to announce the news to the people around her.
Perhaps it is because this sweet feeling seems too abrupt in the background of complex changes. She must carefully collect all her joys and not easily reveal them to others. Ye Fei reminded himself in his heart, remember, show affection, die fast, at present it is the most important thing to fight steadily.
While checking the ticket, finding a job is naturally the number one priority. She also sent a resume to Chen Jiajun, and said solemnly on the phone: "You have a wide network, please recommend it to me. It's not about selling personal affection. I really think that my overall quality is pretty good."
"Well, there are many companies with Chinese friends, and they have been hiring Chinese employees in the past two years."
"Yes, yes, China and ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations, including ten countries including Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand) also want to set up free trade zones. Regional economic integration and vigorous economic and trade development in the future must require me to have a pioneering spirit. Practical and capable, fluent bilingual communication in both Chinese and English, deep understanding of the society, economy, and culture of both sides, and a comprehensive talent that can root in Southeast Asia. Therefore, whoever recommends me to him is the one who made the money." Ye Fei was right, and again He smiled, "I think I can figure it out, and I won't let your face be dull, right?"
"It's quite the same thing." Chen Jiajun also smiled, "It shows that my vision is not too bad."
"Have you doubted this?"
"What about doubt? Can I return it?"
Ye Fei threatened him: "You have the courage, you try it? You know, someone asked me to go to other islands in winter, but I haven't booked a ticket yet, so I just leave, not necessarily where to go."
Chen Jiajun replied to her in the original words: "If you have the courage, you can try it."
Hanging up the phone, Chen Jiajun still smiled, walked to the bar and put the phone aside.
Zheng Yunchang looked at him: "It's Ah Fei."
He pursed his mouth and nodded.
"Look at your expression, you know." Zheng Yunchang laughed and couldn't help coughing twice.
There were no other guests in the bar, a "closed shop" sign was hung on the door, and a few account books were spread in front of the two of them.
"Really planning to end Monkey Bar and Joy's?" Chen Jiajun flipped through the account books, frowning.
Zheng Yunchang rubbed his chest and shook his head slightly: "I'm afraid I can't keep my eyes on it. I'm not sure whether I can come out this time in hospital."
"I'll be discouraged before I get into the battle, how can this be done? Rest assured, I will take care of Monkey Bar and Joy's for a while."
"I know my own body." Zheng Yunchang smiled indifferently, "I have been around the door before, and I have been cheated in the past few years. I am already very content. The Monkey Bar is mine in name and the initial start-up capital. , There are a lot of yours. After some time, the store will sell out, and then calculate the profit of these years and see how to divide it."
"I'll just get back the principal." Chen Jiajun closed the account book, "I didn't do much management, and I haven't been drinking less in the store over the years, and I have the right to pay interest."
Zheng Yunchang understood his temperament, smiled, did not insist, simply changed the subject, and asked: "What did Ah Fei just say? She will come back during winter vacation?"
Chen Jiajun nodded: "The ticket hasn't been booked yet, it's coming February next year. I may visit her at the end of the year."
"Go to visit her parents?"
"Let's take a moment. She probably didn't think about how to tell her family." He picked up the beer in front of him and took a sip. "She said, wait until the work is clear."
Zheng Yunchang asked: "My daughter suddenly wants to leave her hometown and come here to work, can family members agree to it?"
"I'm thinking about it too." Chen Jiajun was silent for a moment and said slowly, "Not long ago, in Singapore, we met Jocelyn."
"Oh? With Ah Fei?"
Chen Jiajun nodded: "Everything else is fine, and Ye Fei understands it very well. It's just a little emotional... Sometimes, losing one kind of life may not be an opportunity to start another life. So I was thinking, maybe I don't need to care too much. If the temporary gains and losses, the potential shop can continue to open, just let the flow go.
"Are you willing to end Scuba Libre? How many years of your hard work?" Zheng Yunchang was surprised, "Moreover, what are you going to do next? Accompanying Ah Fei to work in a big city, are you used to that kind of life?"
"Yes, nor is it." Chen Jiajun smiled slightly, "If you really settle down, you probably still have to consider the stability of your life. Even if you don't need to think about it in the past two years, it will always be on the agenda in the future, so that her family can rest assured ."
"Oh, that's the case. Think about medical care and education in the future. Big cities are safer."
Chen Jiajun nodded: "Recently I also contacted some friends. Even if I don’t open a shop, I can still continue to work in the diving industry. I also have a lot of time to come to the beach every year. As for what I do, let’s see how Ye Fei’s job search is. Let's discuss it then."
"What about Scuba Libre, what are you going to do?"
"I'm still thinking about it." Chen Jiajun curled up his fingers and tapped the table subconsciously. "There are a few shops on the island that want to be bigger and transfer them to them. Staff."
"The loudest call is Mooney. I heard that he went to find you several times." Zheng Yunchang sighed, "If you end the dive shop, he will have to think that he has finally gained the upper hand. I don't know how proud he is."
Chen Jiajun smiled faintly: "If I had been a few years earlier, I would definitely not be able to bear this tone. I would have to compete with him. But now, what does he think, and what impact will it have on me?"
"Where is it a few years earlier, that is, a few months." Zheng Yunchang laughed at him, "Since you met Ah Fei, you have not been so arrogant, and you know that you have to take your heart and live your little life in peace. "
Chen Jiajun smiled and said nothing.
Zheng Yunchang concluded: "This is good. It's also time to become a family and think about the future."
It was Langley's birthday two or three weeks later. Chen Jiajun received the invitation of the couple to go to the gallery to have dinner with friends. In front of the gallery, there are lush flowers and trees, under two lush trees, a small square table is placed on each side of the stone table, and there is a circle of different styles of chairs next to it, all borrowed from nearby shops . Friends brought small gifts, sat huddled together, talking and laughing. Chen Jiajun ordered a birthday cake from the town. When he arrived, everyone was already seated. There was a seat at the end of the square table. He walked over and sat down. He looked up and saw Mooney across from Langley. His chin was slightly raised and the corners of his mouth cocked. , Showing a triumphant smile. Chen Jiajun didn't care about it, and greeted the friends he met one by one.
There are several small brick-red clay pots on the table, a red charcoal fire is burning in the small stove, an egg is placed in the pot, crabs are placed in the pot, and plates of shrimp, chicken, squid, and all kinds of dishes are on the table. The tender vegetables, dipped in the hot and sweet sauce and peanut butter in the boiling water in the pot, made people sweat profusely. Another sip of beer, it's cool and refreshing.
Everyone ate happily, joking with each other, and their voices became louder. Chen Jiajun and Mooney were separated by a few people, and the other's eyes sometimes glanced over, with ridicule and inquiries. Chen Jiajun smiled and raised his glass to him.
After drinking for three rounds, Mooney asked with a bit of drunkenness, "I heard, KC, you are contacting various dive shops recently to sell boats and equipment. It seems that you really can't do it anymore, right?" Others Their voices were low, and some had just heard the news and looked at Chen Jiajun in surprise. Su Lin hurriedly came to the rounds, adding soup to the pottery pot, and beckoning everyone to continue eating.
"I have been on the island for ten years." Chen Jiajun replied calmly, "Perhaps, it's also time to make a change."
"Ha, I didn't admit it before that." Mooney snorted coldly. "If I accept my suggestion, Blue Oxygen will come forward and rent the land to work together; or, if the whole store is transferred to me, the price will be better. I am. He won't take this opportunity to deliberately lower the price." As he said, he smiled triumphantly.
Langley couldn't see it, and coughed twice.
"The store is still there, but in another form, it may not be the way of cooperation you envisioned."
"I heard that you want to support Wanpeng and let him be a small shop." Mooney curled his lips in disdain. "What experience does he have? Not even a coach."
"Everyone has grown up little by little." Chen Jiajun responded, "I won't worry too much about things in the store in the future."
Before leaving, Langley came to deliver him. He walked to the car and couldn't help asking: "Are you really leaving? Where are you going?"
"It's not finalized yet." He smiled, "I am not alone in the matter."
"If you can't do it, just run." Mooney also followed, sneered, "Not all stores can do it for more than ten years."
"Yes." Chen Jiajun nodded, "The road ahead is still long, so we must be more careful and not make mistakes in any details. We used to go to sea together, and we often took you to do adventure things, go deep into the shipwreck cabin. Drinking... It was crazy to play back then, but now it's enough."
"Of course I have a sense of measure, and I don't need you to teach." Mooney was indignant. "Not everything is right to be done according to your ideas."
Mooney turned and left, Langley apologized repeatedly for his brother's words and deeds.
"Today you celebrate your birthday, we are all here to celebrate, not to cause trouble. If you apologize again, I will feel sorry for it." Chen Jiajun didn't care, "Moreover, after I made this decision, I knew the people around me. There will be all kinds of discussions, and Mooney just said it directly."
Hearing that Chen Jiajun was about to end the operation of the hidden shop, Mooney was very proud in the first few days, but when he saw Chen Jiajun, he did not see a trace of depression on his face, nor did he struggle or give up. Every word he said was like The fist hit the cotton, not at all cheerful. The more he thought about it, the more uneven he got. Didn't he keep saying, Scuba Libre will go on? Shouldn't you feel ashamed now that you are planning to close the store back and forth
After a few days, Mooney took another chance and took two people to the other side of the island. However, Chen Jiajun is not in the store, Wanpeng and Wenka are checking the equipment. Mooney arrogantly turned around twice, and no one took the initiative to greet him. He was boring for discussion, pointed to the diving boat parked by the trestle bridge, and asked bitterly, "Is that boat sold?"
Wanpeng didn't look at him, and replied from a distance: "It's all the boss who is in contact."
"What about others?"
"I went on a trip."
"Traveling? Now?" Mooney couldn't believe it. "Where did you go?"
"China."
"Go to see his girlfriend?" Mooney sneered. "The shops are no more. Is he crazy?"
Ye Fei sits on the edge of the snow slope, leaning forward and looking at it. With a drop of 100 meters, she has just practiced the technique of pushing slope and falling leaves for a whole morning. I don’t know when she can get to the bottom of the slope. Will she be together? Rolling down like a snowball? She was a little guilty: "Well, can I hold the board and go down on the cable car?"
"No. It's only halfway up the mountain now." Chen Jiajun replied categorically, "Who complained that the brothers and sisters refused to bring themselves to Chongli?"
Ye Fei flattened her mouth. Last week, she heard Bai Xia say that she would go skiing with her friends, and she was excited to keep up. Bai Xia was a little embarrassed, saying that the car was full, and the ski resort they were going to was not suitable for beginners, and no one could look after Ye Fei intently. Bai Xia comforted: "I will take you to the suburban ski field to practice first. The traffic is more convenient and the price is right."
Ye Fei nodded and agreed, still feeling a little disappointed. She hadn't skated through the snow yet and wanted to experience it so that she wouldn't be too embarrassed when she saw Chen Jiajun.
Chen Jiajun looked confident and took Ye Fei straight to the veneer rental area.
"Isn't that kind?" Ye Fei pointed to the double board, which was more in line with the definition of skiing in her mind.
"This is the snowboard I talked about." Chen Jiajun patted the snowboard in his hands. "It's been a long time since I didn't skate, this one should be more adaptable. After all, I still surf occasionally." His boyfriend is really athletic! Ye Fei followed Chen Jiajun and looked at him with admiring eyes.
At the top of the primary road slope, Chen Jiajun helped Ye Fei fasten the retainer, got up to demonstrate how to push the slope with the back blade, and then wanted to turn in front of her, stretch and pull her up. I haven't stepped on a snowboard for too many years, and I lost my balance for a while, just turned around, tripped on the soles of my feet, and knelt straight down.
Ye Fei rarely sees him embarrassed, and smiles forward and backward, patting Chen Jiajun's shoulder: "Hurry up and flatten your body, there will be no New Year's money before the Spring Festival."