Chapter 69 Chapter 3 Freedom Like the Wind (1)

Back at Sad Coffee, Marty stands outside in amazement.In just one day, Xiaoye has already decorated the entire facade into a Christmas world.Pine branches sprayed with white paint are thickly inlaid around the outer edge of the window, white snow made of cotton wool is piled up on the lower end of the glass, dozens of hand-painted Christmas cards flutter in the wind everywhere, and hundreds of small twinkling light bulbs are wrapped around the ceiling.The store is full of balloons of various colors, each floating balloon is tied with a shiny ribbon, and the plant pots in the room are also covered with gold and silver cellophane.There are colorful posters posted on the wall, all of which read: Free Beer Tonight!

Crazy heavy rock music interspersed with Christmas songs, and free beer attracted a crowded carnival of guests.Marty lined up the crowd along the road, pushed away the oncoming balloons, and finally found Su Yuan busy with French fries at the bar.Rattan's wife, Xiaomei, was shaking the shaker bottle in a dignified manner, and Jill was taking care of the bandstand with a cigarette in her mouth in a lazy manner. "Hi, Marty." Leaflet emerged from the pile of balloons, holding a plate full of empty beer cans. "Why is it so late?" "Meeting. Oh my god, can someone tell me how the coffee shop became like this?"

"Christmas Eve!" Xiaoye swept the empty can behind the bar, and moved a drunken customer to the corner by the bar, "Why not have a carnival?" Matty quickly took over the beer delivery job, and she delivered a round of beer, which was snatched up by customers before she could reach the middle of the store.The store was too crowded to dance, and the guests could only bob up and down to the lively dance music.Marty squeezed back to the bar and saw a drunken customer walking out of the toilet on a rattan shoulder. "What a big piece of rubbish." Teng Tiao shouted, and he put the drunk man in the corner to be with another drunk customer, "I said Xiao Ye, don't let anyone in, the store is going to explode."

"Oh!" Xiaoye responded behind the bar.The place of the bar was crowded with dancing guests, Xiaoye then briskly climbed out from the bar, this action caused a commotion from some girls among the guests, they tried their best to push the crowd to Xiaoye's side, Marty saw that these girls were not born Faces, they often come to the store to drink coffee and hold small leaves. Xiaoye hugged the girls and went to the back of the store, where she kept some perfectly frozen champagne.As soon as Xiaoye left, Xiaomei, who was helping to mix the drinks, was at a loss. Marty forced himself into the bar and switched jobs with Xiaomei.

Marty mixed the drinks, Su Yuan washed the dishes, Jill played music and french fries, and the rattan couple greeted the guests.This night's sad coffee shop is a game that no one controls. Drunk customers stagger outside the shop to continue dancing. More sober people outside the shop are attracted by this strange carnival and try to squeeze in to find out.Then they all received free beers, all happy, and catalyzed by the powerful dance music, they joined this generous extravaganza together. Marty ate some french fries to satisfy his hunger. She lifted the last case of cold beer from the freezer and found that the cabinet was completely empty. Sitting on top of the stacked screen of hollow bricks, the guests danced wildly at her feet, and the subwoofer was beating loudly not far from her ears.But Xiaoye's eyes looked so peaceful, she stroked the little leopard in her arms, and quietly faced the door.

"Little Yeh! Little Yeh!" Marty yelled, but Little Yeh couldn't hear her. Someone tapped Marty on the shoulder, and she turned to see Jill.With a cigarette in her mouth, Jier smiled crookedly, picked up a spoon and threw it at Xiaoye, and sure enough Xiaoye was looking this way.Marty gestured to tell her that the beer was out, and Xiaoye shrugged and made a gesture of forgetting it.Marty carried the last beer onto the bar, thinking that these drinks should be reserved for her group of friends. She was about to gesture to Xiaoye, but found that Xiaoye and the cat had jumped off the screen and disappeared.

After the free beer was out of stock, the enthusiasm in the store gradually cooled down, and the immobilized crowd slowly dissipated, but there were still almost full customers left.It's Christmas Eve, and people are looking for a romantic place to spend time, whether in the store or out.Marty found Xiaoye at the cashew-shaped table in front of the bar. She hummed and wiped the messy table of cigarettes and alcohol.Not long after, the table belonging to the sad coffee shop owner was restored to its former glory.Jier, Su Yuan and Teng Tiao couple all came to take their seats. Marty made a pot of coffee for everyone.She took out the blue bone china cup on the boarding shelf, filled herself with a cup of boiling black coffee, and carried it to the cashew-shaped table.

"Ah, it's terrible. Xiaoye, let me tell you next time you go crazy like this, don't ask us to accompany you." Jier cried out in agony and shook Xiaoye's shoulder vigorously.Xiaoye smiled innocently. "Let's drink coffee." Xiaoye said.Everyone got coffee. "You, the whole year's surplus has been squandered in one night." Jill continued to complain loudly.Although her tone was stern, there was a smile in her eyes, "Fortunately, there is a golden bull, Hai'an, for you to mess around like this." "Hey, I don't know if Hai'an will come?" Su Yuan asked.

"Who knew?" said Jill, exhaling her cigarette and taking a sip of her coffee. "Wow, what a beautiful cup!" Xiaomei whispered, and everyone looked at Marty's bone china cup. The whole body of this cup is blue, but its color is not completely uniform, but has a multi-layered texture, like the sky with a little cloud floating, it is an indescribable blue.If you put your eyes closer to the cup and look deeply, it will turn into a vast ocean of water in front of your eyes. In the boundless crystal brilliance, there is only a feeling of hue, very blue, very blue, very blue.

"It will come." Xiaoye said, "I have a hunch that brother Ke will come back today." Xiaoye went to the bandstand to change a classic rock record, Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd.It reminds Marty of falling in love with the mesmerizing decadence of the song when she first came to Sad Coffee.Now the music aroused Marty's wonderful interest, and she followed Jill's cigarette, swinging gently to the music. "Yo, this is the first time I've seen Marty dance." Jill smiled encouragingly. "What's this called dancing? Just swinging freely to the music," Marty said.She hummed softly with the lyrics: Hey, teachers, let the children take a breath!Even yourself is just another brick in the wall, squeezed against the wall, unable to move...

"The song of the sad coffee shop." Xiaoye said. "What?" Marty put his hands around his ears amid the blaring music, trying to hear Xiaoye's words clearly. "I said, it's the sad coffee shop song. This one is, and so are many." "What else?" "It's those." Xiaoye said, she jumped off her seat and walked towards the outside of the store. "It's unclear. What is Xiaoye talking about?" Marty asked, "And where is she going?" "Leave her alone." Jill threw the end of her cigarette butt into the ashtray, bowed her head and hummed to herself.Jill's expression, caressed by the circulating stage lights, also looks like a puff of smoke fluttering. The circulating stage lights carried dance music one after another, and several gorgeously dressed fashionable girls danced on the small dance floor, with pretty eyes drawn with thin black eyeliner, and they all glanced at Marty's table from time to time. "Where is that handsome shop owner of yours?" They confided hopeful messages with winking eyes. "How do I know? If you have the ability, dance longer." Jill stared at them one by one with her beautiful slanted eyes. "Oh. It's so annoying, it's so late." The girls put on heavy makeup and bright eyes, and they all turned off their lights and closed their doors as it approached midnight.