Feast of Flowers: 20. Village girl

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Fanhua: Where are you? I'll pick you up!

Hua Jin got up and turned off the power switch in the store and locked the door. Seeing that Tan Yuan did not reply to the message, she directly dialed her mobile phone: "Tang Yuan, tell me your address."

"Huahua..." Tan Yuan held the phone and looked at herself in the sink mirror with a haggard expression, her voice choked up, "I'm fine, don't come over."

"It's okay." Hua Jin said directly, "I have been friends with you for several years, but I still don't know what your personality is? Tell me your address and I will come to pick you up right away."

Hearing Hua Jin's fierce tone, Tan Yuan's originally restless heart calmed down. She took out her powder to suppress the tears at the corners of her eyes, and told Hua Jin her address.

"Yuanyuan?" A man's worried voice sounded behind him. Tan Yuan put her phone back into her bag and walked out of the bathroom.

The two sat back on their chairs. Tan Yuan lowered her head and said nothing. She gently stirred the coffee in the cup with a cold expression.

After a long time, her boyfriend sitting opposite her spoke.

"I'm sorry, Yuanyuan." The boyfriend said with a tired look on his face, "I shouldn't have spoken so harshly about our relationship for three or four years. I'm sorry."

Tan Yuan raised his head and glanced at him, then said: "Cao Yi, what makes me sad is not the severity of your words, but the fact that you have negated all my efforts over the years and the efforts of my parents. Do you understand?"

"I didn't mean that." Cao Yi explained, "You clearly know that I am doing it for your own good, so why do you still misinterpret my meaning? The lacquerware you make is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also makes little money. Do you want to live like this for the rest of your life?"

"But do you know that there are fewer and fewer people in China who can make lacquerware now. If others don't make it, and I won't make it, who will know how to make lacquerware in the future?" Tan Yuan squeezed the coffee spoon in his hand, "Cao Also, this is my father’s lifelong craft, and I don’t want to lose it.”

"What about me?" Cao Yi was a little excited, "We will get married in the future and live a good life. Uncle Tan and Aunt Gao are also old. If they have a headache or fever, it will cost a lot of money. I am very I respect your feelings, but feelings cannot be eaten as food. We have to live, we have to treat diseases, and we have to spend money. Even if the craft of making lacquerware is not cut off in the hands of our generation, what about the next generation and the generation after that? Sooner or later One day, it will disappear into the torrent of history."

Tan Yuan smiled bitterly, "If I, as a heir to the lacquerware craftsmanship, are unwilling to continue, I am afraid that others will be even more unwilling to engage in this industry. Cao Yi, do you still remember how we met in the first place? And my parents have pension issues. You don’t have to worry about it, my family is not that poor yet.”

Cao Yi was stunned.

"Back then, after you saw the lacquerware I made at the school's handicraft competition, you said that it was very rare for me to be able to concentrate on studying traditional handicrafts. At that time, you praised me and asked you to pursue my things, but now you Please tell me to let it go." Tan Yuan laughed until her eyes were red and tears were about to fall. She closed her eyes and pushed back the tears, "In the past four years, have you changed, or have I changed?"

"I have changed, but everyone will change. At that time, we were still students who had not been exposed to society, and we did not need to consider money and status..." Cao Yi felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by Tan Yuan, and he turned his head , "You are different from Hua Jin. You have parents, education, and a brighter future. A village girl like her who comes from the countryside has no education and no other way to develop, except to live on the lap of her aunt. , there is no other better way to live. If you stay with her every day, you will not get better and better, you will only make yourself the same as her..."

"Shut up!" Tan Yuan lowered his face, "Cao Yi, Hua Jin is my good friend!"

"It's because you're friends with her that I want to wake you up!" Cao Yi saw his girlfriend falling out with him because of an outsider, and became angry, "You're a famous college student, hanging out with a village girl like her. Together, do you want to lower your level?"

"I think...being with you is what really lowers my level." Tan Yuan looked at Cao Yi blankly, not expecting that he would treat his good friend like this. When Cao Yi got together with his classmates last year, he didn't know what to give them, so she and Huahua rushed to make more than 20 hand-embroidered card sets for him to take. It was his mother's birthday at the beginning of the year. In order to make a good impression on her in front of her future mother-in-law, Hua Jin embroidered a particularly beautiful shawl for her and Cao Yi to take back. When she and Cao Yi were busy, Hua Jin often helped them. Cao Yi said thank you to Hua Hua, but he missed her so much?

"You're right, I really need to be awakened." Tan Yuan smiled bitterly, "Cao Yi, let's... break up."

"Just because I said something about Hua Jin, you want to break up with me?" Cao Yi looked at Tan Yuan in disbelief, "We have been in a relationship for several years, but you broke up with me because of another woman, Tan Yuan , are you crazy?"

"I'm not crazy, I'm just sober." Tan Yuan put down the coffee spoon, her expression gradually became colder, "I'm sorry, I can't give you what you want, you can leave."

Cao Yi laughed angrily at Tan Yuan's words. Cao Yi pushed the coffee cup forward, making a clicking sound, which attracted the attention of several people at the next table: "Tan Yuan, you are so cruel. After several years of relationship, I am so... I love you, but you just let it go, where is your heart?"

"If you are not ruthless enough, how can you look down on the traditional crafts my parents have been engaged in all their lives in front of me, and how can you mock my friends?" Tan Yuan asked, "Cao Yi, I like you, but I don’t just live for you alone. You want me to give up the things I like, my friends, and everything for you, but I can’t do it.”

"You..."

"Since you love me so much, why can't you understand my profession and respect my friends?" Tan Yuan stood up and prepared to leave regardless of how many people were watching, "Don't hurt me in the name of loving me. , I can't bear this kind of love."

"You can't leave!" Cao Yi grabbed Tan Yuan's wrist, "Tan Yuan, please tell me clearly!"

"What are you doing?" Hua Jin approached the coffee shop and saw Cao Yi holding Tan Yuan's wrist with a livid face. All the other customers in the shop were secretly looking this way, waiting to see the excitement.

She took two steps forward, pulled Cao Yi's hand away, and blocked Tan Yuan behind her: "Cao Yi, if you want to go back and tell me something, are you arguing here to make others laugh?"

"I won't let an outsider like you get involved in Yuanyuan and I's affairs." Cao Yi sneered, "Aunt Gao accepted you as her apprentice, do you really think of yourself as sister Yuanyuan?"

"Yes, I am thick-skinned and like to meddle in other people's business." Hua Jin glanced at Cao Yi a few times to make sure that he did not have a weapon on him and would not suddenly go crazy and hurt others, so he felt relieved and said, "You If you don't accept it, just hold it in. You, a grown man, bully my friend and you still don't let me come to help. Do you really think that there is no one behind my glutinous rice balls?"

Cao Yi blushed. He didn't expect Hua Jin to be so shameless. When he saw that Tan Yuan and Hua Jin's hands were already holding each other, he was anxious and angry, and blurted out even more unpleasant words: "You are a person who can't get married. Is this village girl a psychopath who doesn’t want others to be kind to her, so she came to destroy our relationship?”

"Get out!" Tan Yuan couldn't bear it anymore. He picked up the unfinished coffee on the table and threw it on Cao Yi's face. "Cao Yi, please keep your mouth clean."

After being splashed with coffee on his face, Cao Yi calmed down little by little. He wiped the coffee on his face and said a few good words: "Tan Yuan, are you serious about breaking up with me?"

Tan Yuan didn't speak. She lowered her head and held Hua Jin's hand, and whispered: "Huahua, don't listen to his nonsense. Who said you are a village girl..."

"Of course I won't listen to what he said. In terms of beauty, I am not an ordinary village girl. At least I need a village flower to describe my beauty." Hua Jin didn't know what happened between Tan Yuan and Cao Yi, and Not wanting the two of them to quarrel too much because of themselves, they joked and blurred the matter, "I don't care about this kind of man who doesn't have much aesthetic standards."

"Hua Jin, you don't need to pretend to be generous in front of me. Don't you just want to learn Aunt Gao's acupuncture skills by trying to please Tan Yuan so much?" Cao Yi sneered, "People like you from a small place. , I have seen a lot of them, but few are innocent. Tan Yuan, if you continue to protect her, sooner or later she will sell you for money."

He still remembers that one time when he came to Tan Yuan's shop, Hua Jin acted hypocritically in order to earn dozens of dollars more. He obviously studied such elegant things as embroidery, but did extremely vulgar things.

"I do." Tan Yuan's heart completely cooled down, "Cao Yi, please go, there is nothing left to talk about between us. The problem between you and me has nothing to do with anyone else. In the final analysis, it is Our two concepts are not suitable. Our three views are not in harmony, and even if we force ourselves to go on, we will only torture each other. While you are still young, I will not delay you, and I hope you find a partner who suits your heart."

"If you don't tell me, I will." Cao Yi glared at Hua Jin hatefully, "Hua Jin, half of the trouble that Tan Yuan and I have gotten to this point..."

"Is this a vegetable market or a place to drink coffee?" Just as everyone in the cafe was enjoying watching the excitement, several young men and women walked in.

The leading man was wearing a white shirt, his hair was neatly styled, and his slightly upward peach blossom eyes were a bit arrogant. He walked towards Hua Jin and the other three people with long legs. The diamond collar on his tie swayed slightly, like the stars in the sky twinkling, but his appearance was more beautiful than the diamonds on the collar. Be dazzling.

"Go on." He raised his wrist, adjusted his cuffs, with a mocking tone in his tone, and suddenly kicked Cao Yi in the knee, causing Cao Yi to fall down.

"Who are you calling a village girl, huh?"

Kicking Cao Yi down, he turned to look at Hua Jin with disgust on his face: "You are very talkative in front of me. If you can't beat this kind of trash, why can't you scold me?"