Chapter 49 Chapter 3 Lonely Lovebirds (1)

Xiaoye’s tone was very impatient, she said to the phone in Taiwanese: “I’m not free, I really am not free. Ah, please, please don’t be bored, okay? It’s done.——I have a guest looking for me , I'm going to hang up!" Xiaoye really hung up the phone.Marty had just come out from cleaning the toilets. She was standing not far from the bar. The store had just opened and there were no customers. "Your mother again?" Marty asked. "It's annoying, they want me to go back on a blind date again. It seems that they have to sell me out. I'm only twenty-two years old. What's the rush? Please don't mention this, I'm annoyed when I think about it."

Xiaoye was fidgeting, she went to wipe the coffee cups in the feeding rack, caught the little leopard and dusted it off, and now she is teasing the little bird again in front of the cage. On Saturday afternoon, they opened the door early at two o'clock in the afternoon.Marty took the time to clear out the ashtrays on every tabletop.On the cashew-shaped table in front of the bar, the two ashtrays were clean, and Jill Suyuan's rattan hadn't been there for more than two weeks.Hai'an never came back either.Since Fujitiao revealed the news about Haian in Taipei last time, they waited quietly for a few days. Xiaoye finally called Haian. Haian's tone on the phone was very normal, as if she just accidentally forgot the sad coffee shop. .He said that he would return to the coffee shop in two days, and now another half month has passed.

Marty goes to the cage and watches the emerald green lovebird with Leaf.Xiaoye opened the cage door and brushed its cheek feathers with her fingertips. The lovebird squatted very obediently and quietly. The bamboo plate engraved with "Love and Sweetness" under the cage was dusty, and Xiaoye wiped it clean with her hands. "What a good little bird, why doesn't it rush out?" "It has been domesticated, even if it is released, it will not fly away." "Don't you think he's lonely? Shall we get another one for company?" Marty said. "In the beginning there were two." Xiaoye answered irrelevantly, "The bird shop sells lovebirds in pairs."

"Why is there only one left?" "The relationship between the two is not very good, and they will fight for the nest. One day I opened the cage to feed the bird, but one of them—" "Fly?" Marty asked. "Dead. It's all my fault. I peeled the mango picks from the guests and gave them to eat, but one of them choked to death like this." "It's so pitiful, I don't know if the remaining one is a male or a female?" "I don't know. Is it always one of them?" Xiaoye said.Marty found her words poetic. Still no guests came, Xiaoye made two cups of Italian coffee, and sat at the cashew-shaped table with Marty.

"What's the matter, so unhappy?" Marty imitated Xiao Ye and scraped her cheek with his hands. "I think everything has changed. We used to be very lively, but now everyone is busy with their own business and forgets about the sad coffee shop." "Be happy, everyone has a life he pursues, and it will always change. You are also pursuing the life you want, aren't you?" "Don't be funny, I'm not a child, I think I'm the one who has the least achievements." Xiaoye was dejected. "Why do you say that?" "That's right. Teng Tiao became an upstart, Su Yuan went to work and classes, and was very busy, and Brother Ke and Jier, the two of them were studying hard like they were in a thunderbolt competition. I don't know anything. No, nothing."

"You have Sad Cafe. Or tell me what you want to do?" "I'll tell you what I'm going to do." Xiaoye looked up at Marty, "The one thing I want to do most is to set a fire and burn down Sad Coffee." Xiaoye stood up and greeted the guests who entered the door. They were four innocent girls who looked like middle school students. They surrounded Xiaoye like sparrows and walked towards the bar together.Xiaoye put her hand on the slender waist of one of the girls.Xiaoye is taller and more handsome than the girls, and her gestures are boyish. Looking from behind, she really looks like a boy surrounded by girls.They didn't know what they said, they only heard Xiaoye laughing indulgently facing the sky.

On the night when the first cold snap hit after winter, Hai'an came back.Jill, who hadn't heard from her for a long time, also arrived later. Hai'an was dark and thin, wearing a cool leather jacket, as usual, he caught the eyes of all the guests.As usual, Hai An ignored him, he walked to his place, Xiao Ye went up to him, Hai An put his arms around Xiao Ye's shoulders, and the two whispered something. Xiaoye put aside all the guests' calls and made coffee for Hai'an and Jier.Now Marty is the chef who is in charge of frying and cooking dim sum. She is too busy. After exchanging greetings with Hai Anjier, she hurried back to the bar to get busy, but she was very happy in her heart, and her happiness exceeded her own expectations.She put the French fries into the frying pan, tilted the weight in her hand, and the hot oil splashed out and burned Marty's cheek. She let out a soft cry, wiped off the oil stain with the back of her hand, and found her cheek was burning.

Jill didn't bring any work with her that day, and she leaned easily at the desk to read the newspaper.Xiaoye played Hai'an's favorite music, and sure enough, Hai'an danced on the small dance floor. Hai'an's dance set off a climax in the coffee shop.At this moment, Xiaoye squatted down behind the bar and cried. Hai'anwu went behind the bar and sat on the floor in the corner with Xiaoye, and the two of them talked in a low voice.Marty had to step out of the bar to help customers make drinks from the other side of the bar. Jill was still concentrating on reading the newspaper. Now that she had read the Taipei local edition, she couldn't help opening her purse to take out the pad, and began to copy some notes.

Hai'an chatted with Xiaoye for a long time, and Marty heard Xiaoye's voice getting louder, but was suppressed by Hai'an from time to time. In order to get the pomegranate juice for the drink, Marty walked into the bar and heard the conversation between Haian and Xiaoye intermittently: "...I am so contradictory, I am such a person, but you all say I am not. Everyone is so cruel, as if push me to the limit..." Hai'an didn't know what to say, Xiaoye yelled again: "It's just like this, if a person's limit is exceeded, he will die, and nothing will be left."

I saw Hai'an stood up with a look of sullenness on his face.He said: "Talk to me about limits! Go back and read Hegel carefully." Hai'an walked out of the bar.Xiaoye also stood up and said loudly: "I've read it." Hai'an walked out of the coffee shop without looking back. "...I read it twice." Xiaoye said. "Brother," a guest waved to Xiaoye, "I made a mistake, the cup you gave me is iced coffee." "Handcuffs!" Xiaoye retorted loudly, "Don't pretend to be an expert if you haven't drunk vodka, ruffian!"

Jill also looked up to see the change, but Marty quickly smoothed things over. She helped remix a glass of wine, calmed down the guests, and asked Xiaoye to sit with Jill, and she would do the greetings.