Chapter 5: Jiajia is about to leave

  With an uninhibited mood, I came to Bàng Bàng's bar and after taking a look around, I found that Bàng Bàng has made significant progress. The dancers he invited are really daring to expose themselves, it's like they're playing with the law.

  Old location, old rules. Sit down and finish a bottle of wine first to show your sincerity, even if you just got out of the hospital, you can't break this rule.

  After sitting down, they found that the table specially customized for the three brothers was a bit cramped. At first, adding one Jiajia was barely possible, but now with the addition of Bàngbàng's girlfriend Wang Jingyi and Lèzi's girlfriend Jin Yang, there wasn't enough space to even swing their arms and have a hearty drink.

  "Great, your current situation with this bar is like dancing on the edge of a cliff."

  He took a deep breath and then spread his hands and said:

  "There's no way, without any special means, how can I make money. However, this is only temporary, after I earn some money, I'll think of other ways."

  Yang Mu glanced at Le Zi, who seemed to be avoiding him. In fact, Yang Mu also just took a glance, after all, the bar was within Le Zi's jurisdiction. Le Zi's evasive gaze left Yang Mu very perplexed.

  "Alright, stop trying to change the subject everywhere, today's main topic is your problem of valuing lust over friendship."

  Wang Jingyi saw Yang Mu sit down and was restless, so she shifted everyone's attention to Yang Mu, now Yang Mu became the target of public criticism.

  "Hey, there's another beautiful woman I don't know, can someone introduce us?"

  Yangmu seemed to have grasped another lifeline, but in fact, he also knew that the woman was Jin Yang, whom Lezi had mentioned.

  Le Zi stood up as if waking from a dream and introduced Yang Mu and Jin Yang to each other. Seeing Le Zi's distracted expression, Yang Mu felt even more uneasy in his heart.

  "Oh my, mom, Lezi, you must have accumulated good fortune for several lifetimes to find such a great girl! At first, I thought it was Bangbang who invited some celebrity to liven up the scene, but it turns out she's actually with you, young man."

  Yang Mu was alone there, admiring Jin Yang's appearance and praising him nonstop, saying that even if Le Zi had played to the end, it would have been worth it.

  "That's enough, Yang Mu. Why didn't you wait for us to pick you up today?"

  Yang Mu was stunned, then looked at Bang Bang and Le Zi, both of whom innocently shook their heads. Suddenly Yang Mu understood everything - it must have been the two of them who failed to take care of Jia Jia, and in the end even followed Jia Jia to the hospital pretending to pick themselves up.

  "Hehe, I'm just afraid of troubling you guys, right? Awesome."

  Yang Mu heard the question and nodded hastily, but Jia Jia completely ignored him and said angrily:

  "What's gotten into you? Since we've known each other, have you ever brought us less trouble? Why are you afraid of troubling us today?"

  Yang was left speechless by this question. He thought he could just gloss over the matter, but Jiajia took it seriously.

  Ever since having these good friends and brothers by his side, Yang Mu acknowledges that he has indeed brought them a lot of trouble. When he's feeling down, Le Zi is the one who accompanies him for drinks; when he's bored, Bang Bang is the one who plays games with him; and when he's heartbroken, Jia Jia is the one who stays by his side.

  All of this made Yang Mu unable to respond to Jiajia's words, he was indeed selfish, Jiajia had stayed up all night for him but didn't get to see the moment he left the hospital, just like a mother who couldn't see her son get married and have children.

  The atmosphere suddenly became tense, and Lezi and Bangbang kept giving Yangmu eye signals, hoping he would apologize to Jiajia.

  Although Yang Mu knew that his selfishness had hurt Jiajia, in order to be able to treat her as one of the brothers like Lezi and others, he still decided not to apologize.

  Women are made of water, and Jiajia is no exception. She wiped away her tears and left the bar, pointing at Yang Mu with a "hateful iron that couldn't be forged" gesture before hurrying to catch up.

  What was supposed to be a joyful gathering ended in an unpleasant dispersal, and it wasn't until I was smoking with Hezi in the evening breeze that I found out Jiajia had been planning to tell everyone that she would be leaving the city to fulfill her long-held dreams.

  Yang Mu listened and only took a deep drag on his cigarette, exhaling slowly after a long time. The news of Jia Jia's impending departure felt like a heavy stone weighing on his heart - what was wrong with him? Shouldn't he be happy for her?

  Jia Jia has always dreamed of becoming a supermodel, and everyone also firmly believes that with her devil-like figure and angelic face, she has the potential, it's just that there hasn't been an opportunity yet.

  Yang Mu squeezed out a happy smile and casually shook his head at Le Zi, then cast his gaze towards the distant dim lights, afraid that Le Zi would see through his hypocrisy.

  "Can you really bear her leaving?"

  "What is there for me to be reluctant about? None of you will grasp and refuse to let go if any of you leave me."

  "You know what I mean."

  Yang Mu stopped in his tracks and looked at Lezi before speaking his mind with a serious tone:

  "She has her dreams, and I've always been afraid that I'll influence her and make her regret it later, so from any angle, I'm happy for her. As for not letting go, I think there's some of that."

  "If Jiajia appeared in your life before Dan Ya, would you choose her?"

  "Life is no ifs."

  It's been a long time since Yangmu thought about this issue. Suddenly, Lezi asked him out of the blue and he really didn't know how to answer, so he could only play it cool with realism.

  After living in the old house for a few days, Yang Mu felt like he was going to become ancient himself. With nothing to do all day, even his meals were prepared by someone else. And this beautiful female leader really meant what she said and did what she promised.

  Yangmu, who has been living a life of only spending and not earning, feels a bit guilty. He has already started thinking about whether he should go back to work on the construction site. If he can't come up with the money when the beautiful leader remembers that she lent him money, it would be too embarrassing.

  The next day, Yang Mu came to the construction site early and greeted Dong Shu, saying that he could come to work. Dong Shu looked at Yang Mu's energetic expression and agreed with satisfaction.

  It wasn't until he was sweating profusely that Yang Mu realized how glorious he had become. First, his fellow workers gave him countless cigarettes, saying that his heroic actions had brought glory to their faces. Later, the project manager even personally came to the construction site to give Yang Mu gifts and consolation money.

  As for the comfort goods and comfort money, Yang Mu naturally welcomes them, anyway, these people's money is not used in vain. When night falls, a person is alone in the room, time returns to that lonely period, perhaps now it's even more miserable, now even Jiajia, who can talk, is no longer there.

  Tomorrow Jiajia is leaving, I learned it from Bangbang. I don't know why in just a few short days, things have come to this point between me and Jiajia, where we even need to learn each other's news through a third person. It really makes one feel that being friends with someone like this is quite exhausting.

  Picked up the phone and put it down again, picked it up and put it down repeatedly, but never made up my mind to say goodbye to Jiajia.

  At this moment, Jiajia's name suddenly appeared on the phone screen, and she quickly connected the call. Even Yangmu himself felt that he was a bit too excited.

  There was no sound on the phone, and Yang Mu didn't know what to say either. Friends shouldn't be like this, they should have a lot to talk about before parting ways, Yang Mu kept reminding himself in his heart, but he couldn't bring himself to speak up.

  "Tomorrow I will be leaving, let's have dinner together tonight."

  In the end it was Jiajia who spoke up first, and Yangmu didn't know what kind of mood she was in when she replied, but anyway she agreed without hesitation.

  As she was getting ready to go out after taking a bath, the door suddenly opened and her beautiful female leader appeared at the door with big bags and small bags. Yang Mu looked at this scene in disbelief, it was her first time coming here.

  "Welcome to inspect."

  "Look at what? I'm here to cook for you, my assistant has something on tonight and can't make it."

  Yangmu took a closer look at what was in her hand and found that they were all ingredients, but still had some doubts about her ability, so she asked skeptically:

  "You cook?"

  Looking at Yang Mu's suspicious expression, Dong Yun felt unhappy and came to cook for him after a day of work. He still looked like this, and he was also good at cooking.

  "Right, I am."

  "Alright, okay, okay, okay..."

  Yang Mu nodded in disbelief, looking at her youth and being the company's leader, her family must be wealthy and not ordinary, and when it comes to cooking, she is absolutely clueless.

  "Whatever, boss, you go first, I'll step out for a bit, and when I come back, I'll give your cooking a try."

  Yang Mu said to her who was packing things, then quickly put on his shoes and walked out. According to Jiajia's personality, she must have left after finishing the call or sat there before making the call. He couldn't let her leave with another heartache.