Chapter 1249: Companionship

Wang Yan opened a bottle of beer and handed it to Mi Lai.

"We aren't you. No matter how many comforting words we say, they won't heal your wounds; actually, it's useless. This kind of thing still depends on time. After stretching time out, you can face past feelings yourself, analyze the reasons yourself, and finally let go. Even if you can't let go, you can at least accept it calmly."

Mi Lai curled her lips: "You'd be better off not saying anything; I thought you'd have some high opinion."

"Do you know what the best way to forget a romance is?"

"Cliché," Yang Xiaoyun said. "Isn't it just starting the next romance? Brother Yan, you aren't trying to say you want Mi Lai to make do with you, are you?"

"That's what you said, I didn't say it. But I really don't mind eating soft rice; struggling is too tiring."

Wang Yan laughed, and not waiting for Mi Lai to curse, he became serious again. "I can see that you really like Lu Tao, treat him well, spend money on him, and listen to him; you were wholeheartedly devoted to him. No matter how much I say, you have to be able to listen."

"You say you were so good to Lu Tao, and now you're dying to live, you must be thinking of him. If we really criticize Lu Tao here, and you turn around and eagerly throw yourself at him again, then the three of us would be too awkward."

"I'm miserable, but I'm not that cheap," Mi Lai hummed.

Yang Xiaoyun said: "Right, this kind of thing only has zero and countless times. Even if you get back together, there's no guarantee Lu Tao won't be flirting with others again."

"That's not necessarily true." Wang Yan took a sip of wine and said, "In the way you and Lu Tao got along, you were the one who paid. Do you know what sunk cost means? You're pretty much in that situation. It's because you were too good to Lu Tao and paid too much that you're so miserable. The truer the love, the deeper the wound."

"Look at Lu Tao. If he had any conscience, at most he'd feel a bit guilty and owe you. But other thoughts, absolutely none. Even his guilt and debt to you only occupy a tiny part. More of it is that he thinks he's found true love, found his destiny."

Mi Lai glared with eyes that turned red again, and said unpleasantly: "I understand now, you're just saying I'm cheap in a roundabout way."

Wang Yan smiled and shrugged.

"You're still laughing?"

"You're stressed, your heart is not smooth, and everything you think about is not smooth."

Wang Yan took the cigarette Huazi handed him and said, "I'm analyzing the reasons for you, didn't you understand? You were the main paying party, so Lu Tao is the opposite of you. You were too eager to throw yourself at him, and he got used to it, so he didn't take you seriously. In his heart, you have always been insignificant."

"So he could kick you away without any concern and be with someone he'd only known for a few days. If he had struggled in his heart for a few more days, he wouldn't have been so fast."

"You said you met the night you fought and drank, the next day you went to see a performance together, and ate together at night. That night, Lu Tao called Xia Lin from the twenty phone numbers. According to the current situation, Xia Lin should have been with Lu Tao that night, maybe not overnight. But in the next two days, you said Lu Tao had no time, so I guess those two days they were together."

"So, comprehensively, it only took them four days to confirm it. And it wasn't a one-night stand in the ordinary sense, but true feelings, at least they both thought it was true feelings."

"Pretty much, I feel it was those two days too."

As she spoke, Mi Lai downed half a bottle of beer again, looking at Wang Yan. "What do you want to say?"

"Oh, I understand it all," Yang Xiaoyun took over. "Brother Yan just wants to say that Lu Tao didn't take you seriously, so you should broaden your heart."

"But I took him seriously," Mi Lai cried again.

"Alright, not much to say, drink." Wang Yan picked up his wine glass and tapped the table, and the four of them drank together.

Wang Yan wasn't not comforting Mi Lai, just as he said, it's useless for others to speak. Unless brainwashing. But this little thing isn't worth his energy.

Mainly, it's about companionship...

So Mi Lai drank by herself, while Wang Yan, Huazi, and Yang Xiaoyun chatted on the side. Of course, they couldn't let Mi Lai feel ignored, and Wang Yan would pass words over from time to time.

And in fact, the three were chatting about Mi Lai, talking about the past. It mainly unfolded from the perspective of Yang Xiaoyun, her middle school classmate, supplemented by Huazi, who was a semi-familiar character. Because of Lu Tao, Huazi had also been in contact with Mi Lai quite a bit.

So overall, the atmosphere was quite good. Even while chatting, Mi Lai laughed and joined in.

Just as the four were laughing and having a heated discussion, Yang Xiaoyun's phone rang.

She glanced at the caller ID, then hung up directly, annoyed. Less than a minute later, a second call came through.

"So annoying." Yang Xiaoyun hung up the phone again.

"What's wrong?" Wang Yan asked thoughtfully.

Yang Xiaoyun looked at Wang Yan gloomily: "Xiang Nan, he keeps calling me, I don't know what he wants, it's so annoying. You say, for the sake of everyone's face, I'm embarrassed to block him, but he's endless."

Mi Lai said: "Why don't you call him over? He has a better relationship with Lu Tao than Huazi does with Lu Tao. Let him come and criticize Lu Tao."

"You don't think it's a big enough scene, do you?" Yang Xiaoyun glared at Mi Lai. "Are you energetic again?"

Mi Lai had a smile on her face: "Distracting myself."

Yang Xiaoyun turned her head helplessly, looking at Huazi: "You're brothers with Xiang Nan, is he always like this?"

Huazi looked at Wang Yan, pondered for a moment, and said: "He has always believed that one should bravely pursue love..."

"Pah, is this pursuing? This is harassment!"

"You say you like Brother Yan and are with Brother Yan, wouldn't that make him lose hope?" Mi Lai launched an assist.

Wang Yan laughed: "I have no opinion at all."

"I won't make it cheap for you."

"I know you're saying one thing while meaning another." Watching Yang Xiaoyun's feigned annoyed look, Wang Yan smiled and raised his glass, "If you're really uncomfortable, just turn off your phone. Huazi, later on, you pass this message to Xiang Nan: we're all friends, let's not make things unpleasant."

Seeing Huazi respond, Yang Xiaoyun asked: "What if it still doesn't work?"

"Then that's Xiang Nan being unreasonable, don't hesitate to block him." Wang Yan greeted. "Come, come, drink, drink, we've been interrupted, let's continue chatting."

So the four of them laughed and talked happily again.

Wang Yan still exerted his advantages, and there was no cold spot from beginning to end. At first, they chatted about Mi Lai, and when they chatted enough, Mi Lai was also paralyzed and cursed Lu Tao bitterly. Afterwards, Yang Xiaoyun asked questions, and Wang Yan shared some interesting things from his previous travels, sharing the customs and feelings of other places.

Thus, they ate and drank from noon until the night when the neon lights were full, and it was finally declared over.

Wang Yan supported the dead-drunk, unconscious Mi Lai and asked: "How should she be arranged?"

Although Yang Xiaoyun didn't drink too much, she was also high, with a drunken flush on her face, and her eyes were quite blurred.

She giggled and said: "Why don't you take her to your house?"

"That's not impossible."

Yang Xiaoyun curled her lips: "I knew you weren't a good person, what kind of beautiful things are you thinking about? Send her to my house, I can still take care of her a bit, her parents also know me."

Wang Yan nodded: "Huazi, are you okay yourself?"

"It's okay, it's okay, I didn't drink much, I'm energetic."

"Okay, then take a taxi back, don't drive, it's not safe, it's not worth it to be caught."

While speaking, Wang Yan hailed a taxi, then put Mi Lai into the back row, helped the confused Yang Xiaoyun in, closed the door, ran to the passenger seat himself, waved at Huazi, and the driver skillfully shifted gears and started, merging into the traffic and disappearing...

Watching the taxi go far away, Huazi lit a Zhongnanhai cigarette, his long hair blown by the evening wind, and he leaned against the utility pole, exhaling smoke while looking up.

Clearing his mind, he took out his phone and made a call. After a simple communication, he also hailed a taxi and left.

"Over here."

At a roadside barbecue stall, Xiang Nan raised his hand to greet. Seeing Huazi coming over, he skillfully opened a bottle of beer and put it on the table.

"Such a heavy smell of alcohol? Did you come over after drinking?" Xiang Nan waved his hand to fan in front of his nose.

Huazi sat on the small stool and said: "Something big happened!"

"What big thing?"

"Lu Tao and Mi Lai..." Huazi clapped his hands, making a gesture of breaking up. "Blew it!"

"Ah?"

"Surprised? I'm surprised too. Do you know what's even more surprising?"

"What?"

"Lu Tao cheated! He and that woman, oh, called Xia Lin, he and Xia Lin have only known each other for half a month at most."

Not waiting for Xiang Nan to ask in detail, Huazi said everything he knew. "This morning Mi Lai and Yang Xiaoyun went to our shop, and before noon they started drinking. They only broke up half an hour ago. They cursed Lu Tao for half a day. I was counting, they cursed Lu Tao until he was reincarnated eight times."

"No, you guys drank with Yang Xiaoyun?"

"Is this the point?"

"How is it not? Buddy is launching a fierce attack on her."

Huazi looked at him pitifully, then drank and ate skewers by himself.

Xiang Nan didn't understand: "No, why are you looking at me like that? You should speak."

"Actually, when you called Yang Xiaoyun today, we were drinking together. She didn't take a liking to you at all. If it weren't for the sake of everyone being friends, she would have blocked you."

Huazi shook his head. "I said, is there anyone like you? Pestering?"

"Good women fear wolves pestering, what do you know? It's not like she hasn't blocked me yet, there's still a chance." Xiang Nan was not discouraged at all.

"Just stop it, didn't you see it, or are you playing dumb? Yang Xiaoyun has taken a liking to Brother Yan, don't you know that?"

"I admit Brother Yan is awesome, but opportunities are fought for."

Huazi looked disgusted: "Yang Xiaoyun asked me to pass a word to you, if you harass her again, she will block you."

"Is it really that absolute?"

"What do you think? Oh, when you called, she was very impatient, so don't be self-indulgent. While you haven't invested feelings yet, stop losses in time, don't wait until you're dying to live, and buddy has to accompany you to drink to death, it's not worth it."

Xiang Nan had nothing to say, his mood dropped, and he let out a depressed breath, downing beer.

"Hey, there's another sad person in the Four Nine City~" Huazi shook his head with a smile.

"Wrong." Xiang Nan put the beer bottle heavily on the small table. "Then what is Brother Yan's attitude?"

"Don't know, he didn't say."

"You're the closest to him, what do you feel?"

"Big brother, does this still need feeling? Change to you, would you refuse? That Yang Xiaoyun doesn't look bad."

"Then it's over, it sounds like he's just playing around. I'm serious!"

Huazi waved his hand: "Don't talk nonsense, I can't figure out Brother Yan's thoughts either. You just think, you say when you were in school, those who didn't love to study and hung out all day didn't lack girls to like them. Brother Yan is much more awesome than them, he is a legendary figure in the Four Nine City, he has contacted more people, can he lack girls? Even now, it seems like he's down and out, he waves his hand, and girls will definitely stick to him. But he's just alone, and I don't know what he's thinking."

"I asked him before, he said those girls are too young, he feels it's boring. Mature ones are so much older than him, it's not suitable. Awkward. But true or false, I don't know what he's really thinking."

"Hey, do you think it's possible he likes men? Is it possible... he took a liking to you?"

"Get out, get out, get out, don't force me to do it, damn."

"It's not like you think, otherwise why would he be so good to you? Giving you shares, and letting you drive cars at will."

"It's not as dirty as you think." Huazi glanced at him. "Pighead and I also calculated, maybe he just wants to have a living, and it just happened to be that day, so Pighead said to do used cars, and put up money, so he didn't refuse."

"Asked him before, he just said it's fate, he really doesn't care about those. Anyway, we don't have the guts to cheat him, don't dare to do bad things to him, so he can do whatever he wants. Change to you having his ability, do you care who you partner with to do business?"

"Then it's really over." Xiang Nan lowered his head again.

"Don't think about it, you have no play."

After being silent for a long time, Xiang Nan took a sip of wine and let out a breath.

"Alright, I'll be sad by myself later, lick my wounds, and commemorate my beautiful love that died before it started. Let's talk about Lu Tao, tell me more."

"It's all told, what else is there to tell?"

"My head is full of Yang Xiaoyun, I forgot what I just said, tell me again. Or... shall we call Lu Tao over?"

"Forget it, he must be enjoying love with Xia Lin, let's not destroy their happiness."

"Also..."

The two were speechless for a while. Suddenly, Xiang Nan frowned, twisted into an eight character. "No, I don't understand, Mi Lai broke up with Lu Tao, why did she take Yang Xiaoyun to find Brother Yan to drink? We should be closer, right?"

"Brother Yan can talk. You didn't see, when they first went, Mi Lai was crying like anything, but in less than half an hour, she was chatting happily with us. Of course, cursing Lu Tao wasn't delayed, but that was half an hour ago, later she almost didn't mention Lu Tao, it was only when Mi Lai was drunk that she cursed endlessly."

Huazi shook his head. "Just this ability, can you do it, or can I? Alright, just give up. I'm telling you, you've been in contact with Brother Yan for too short a time, if it's a long time, you'd be willing to give your life."

"Are you willing?"

"I'm willing." Seeing Xiang Nan's disapproval, Huazi said, "Hey, don't believe it. I'm telling you, you, except for being stingy, your personality is quite like mine, otherwise we wouldn't be able to play together. If you have a conscience, you know how to repay kindness, you'll definitely be like me. Alright, I say you don't believe it, when you really get to that time you'll know. Is your Golf driving okay?"

"Okay, but I'm still hesitating..."

"Hello, Auntie, I'm Xiaoyun's friend."

The door opened. Looking at the middle-aged woman at the door, Wang Yan, who was supporting Mi Lai and Yang Xiaoyun, took the initiative to greet her.

This was Yang Xiaoyun's own mother, He Cuifeng.

She looked around without a trace, stayed on Wang Yan's flower arm for a while, then greeted enthusiastically: "Oh, it's hard for you, sending these two drunks back from so far away, come in, come in."

Wang Yan smiled, then supported the two into the room, and under He Cuifeng's guidance, put the two girls into the bedroom.

Yang Xiaoyun also drank a lot, and when she came out, the wind blew and it went to her head, and she vomited on the car with Mi Lai. Wang Yan paid 200 yuan...

Helping He Cuifeng take care of the two girls, Wang Yan proposed to leave.

"Hey, it's not easy to come here once, I see you also drank a lot, slow down, slow down, I'll get you a cup of honey water. Otherwise, if you leave like this, and Xiaoyun wakes up tomorrow, she'll say I didn't take care of her friend."

Wang Yan nodded with a smile, didn't refuse, sat on the sofa and said: "Uncle is not at home?"

"Working the night shift."

"It's not easy either."

"That's what I'm saying, you say we ordinary people, it's hard to make money."

Just like that, Wang Yan started chatting with He Cuifeng here.

He Cuifeng was checking the household registration, Wang Yan naturally told the truth, and then extended the chat based on some of He Cuifeng's feelings, which was quite pleasant.

After about half an hour, Wang Yan finally said goodbye and left...

He Cuifeng watched Wang Yan go downstairs and disappear, closed the door, and when she turned her head, she saw Yang Xiaoyun standing there silently.

"Oh, are you a ghost? Do you want to scare me to death?" He Cuifeng was startled and said unpleasantly.

"It's you who only cared about looking at others and didn't hear my movement." Yang Xiaoyun swayed to get water. "Mom, what do you think of him?"

He Cuifeng shook her head and sighed: "A pitiful child, it hasn't been easy for so many years. It's even more rare that he hasn't gone astray. How is it, have you taken a liking to him?"

"Really interesting, you've interrogated him for half a day, and asked about three generations of ancestors."

"Look at you, child, I'm doing this for your own good. Look at his tattoo, can I not ask? What if you're stupid enough to find a second-rate person? Wouldn't I be pissed to death?"

He Cuifeng asked, "Are you two doing well?"

"Don't know."

While speaking, Yang Xiaoyun vomited, she hurriedly waved her hand and ran to the bathroom...

"You say, you can't drink, why drink so much?" He Cuifeng patted her own daughter's back.

"Mi Lai is heartbroken, I have to accompany her."

"Oh, you say this Lu Tao, why doesn't he do good things? Mi Lai is so good to him, and has so much money."

"You only recognize money."

"Hey, you can't say that about your mother. Without money, how did you grow up? Relying on the little money your father earns, our whole family would have to drink the northwest wind..." ===== CHAPTER 1250 =====

"Hey, you can't talk about your mom like that. How did you grow up without money? If you relied on that pittance your dad earns, our whole family would be left out in the cold..."