In the evening, Sheng Yao went out to find Tong Bin to have a drink.

Bai Xiao stood on the balcony as always, watching Sheng Yao leave.

Sheng Yao could feel the sight that fell on his back as last time. He looked back and found nothing like last time.

When we arrived at the place, Tong Bin had already ordered a few plates of skewers, opened beer and waited for it.

"Here!" Sheng Yao, who rushed into the door, waved.

It is not the peak business period now, and several tables are empty in the store. Tong Bin chose a good seat under the air conditioner, and it is facing the door, which is cool and breathable.

"Long time no see." Tong Bin touched his head silly and poured wine for Sheng Yao.

"Well. How are you doing recently? Still on a blind date?" Sheng Yao asked with a smile.

Tong Bin blushed, "Not recently. I went to Kong Yajie's wedding a few days ago. They are now on their honeymoon and have sent photos to a few of our old friends. By the way, they have even picked gifts." He said, taking out his cell phone and showing Sheng Yao the chat records in the group.

Kong Yajie chose a remote island country as her honeymoon location. The scenery was pleasant, and she had a seafood meal every time. She also had the opportunity to taste local specialty foods. She also bought a lot of handmade jewelry that were also local specialty.

The photos are shared during chats, so they are all photos of the scenes without filters and do not care about the scenes, but they look very real and interesting.

Sheng Yao raised his eyebrows and noticed Tong Bin's name and tone. He returned the phone to Tong Bin and asked again: "Where is the blind date you mentioned before?"

Tong Bin's face turned red again, but he quickly calmed down and replied, "I just chatted and had dinner together a few times. She went on a business trip yesterday and would not be back next month."

"Oh—" Sheng Yao provoked his voice, "How many times have you eaten?"

Tong Bin sighed, "I ate two more times later, and the rest disappeared." He took a sip of wine blankly, "I feel that we were quite in harmony, but it seems that there is nothing. I feel... I am almost the same as Kong Yajie at that time. Do you think I have something wrong with me?"

Sheng Yao ate two skewers of mutton slowly, "What do you think?"

"I don't know... how did you and your wife know each other?" Tong Bin stared at the wedding ring on Sheng Yao's hand for a while, changed the subject and asked in an eager attitude.

"I met in college." Sheng Yao also looked at his wedding ring and replied, "My shoelaces are loose. She reminded me and I asked her name." As he said that, he couldn't help but smile.

Tong Bin looked at Sheng Yao, "You are so baby-faced, you can meet a girl like this when you were in college. I don't have the ability to do this."

Sheng Yao laughed, "We two fell in love at first sight, and later found out that we were in love and it was going well." He paused when he said this. He could not have mentioned Tong Bin the car accident that separated them from life and death. He touched the brand new ring on his hand.

Tong Bin said distressedly: "I don't think I fell in love with her at first sight, and I have to talk to each other... It's good to have a meal and chat now. There's no in-depth exchange."

"The same is true for the last two meals?"

"It's almost the same. She watched a movie with her friend. Her friend put her pigeons and left after watching the movie. They bought a pair of dinners and couldn't give up. It just so happened that I was the only one who had time..." Tong Bin confessed the truth, "The second time she felt that she suddenly pulled me to the vacancy. She felt a little embarrassed, so she made an appointment with me again. Can't this be considered a date, right?"

"But it's not a bad thing, right?" Sheng Yao said.

"Well... I just don't know how she gets along with her friends. I used to do topics, eat, and watch movies with Kong Yajie's dormitory... Kong Yajie treats me almost the same as her two roommates. Oh, the topics that boys and girls talk about are different. Hey, when it comes to talking about some topics behind them, they won't be embarrassed to say in front of me." Tong Bin suddenly reflected on his previous life, "I seem to be regarded as a male best friend."

Sheng Yao was amused, "What about your blind date partner?"

"I just had a few meals..." Tong Bin hesitated, "Maybe she gets along like this with friends she is not familiar with... Will your wife be with, uh, just assumptions, will she get along with male friends like this?"

"The two of her best friends are women." Sheng Yao said.

Bai Xiao has no male best friend, only male classmates who are unfamiliar and male colleagues who are unfamiliar. This is probably because Bai Xiao and Yu Yu and Huihui have known each other since childhood and have been good friends for life. Their relationship is too close, so it is difficult for them to make other close friends.

"How did they get along?" Tong Bin asked curiously.

"They will get rid of me and go to chase stars. They will also talk about other classmates, colleagues, and their boyfriends in private." Sheng Yao thought for a while.

Bai Xiao was the first to get married among the three women, but when it comes to falling in love, she was not the first one.

Before entering college, Huihui broke up with her senior boyfriend, quarreled, cried, and showed her love... All kinds of things have been done, such as the youngest sister of the three women, Bai Xiao and Yuyu took good care of her. Sheng Yao's initial impression of Huihui was that she was willful and naive. When Huihui and her senior boyfriend broke up and reunited, he was also inevitably involved as Bai Xiao's boyfriend. Sheng Yao naturally had no good impression of Huihui. After Huihui got married, she became a little different, and Bai Xiao had passed away. Sheng Yao sometimes thought that Huihui did not become steady after marriage, but she cried until she almost fainted at Bai Xiao's funeral, and she grew up overnight and changed her appearance. Not mentioning those bad things about love, Huihui was sincere in dealing with Bai Xiao.

At the funeral, Huihui swung her fist and yelled at him, yelling why he didn't protect her... Lu Xiao hugged Huihui, who was crazy, dragged her, comforted her, and took care of her like Bai Xiao when she was still there. But the three sisters with good relationships will never be missing one person since then.

As for being depressed, she looks like a tomboy. Bai Xiao said that she had a father who was a boxing coach and a mother who was a Chinese teacher. When she was a student, she was a little awkward in practicing sports and reading books. Her grades were average on both sides, and her personality was quite outstanding. Sheng Yao never expected that she would get married on blind dates and get into such a state of trouble with her ex-husband quietly.

On the funeral day, he was not Dulu, but Huihui, which was a little beyond Sheng Yao's expectations.

But then again, Sheng Yao and them were in a relationship that was turning around. He even forgot the full names of the two. It was the first time that they met, Bai Xiao formally introduced the names of the two to Sheng Yao. Later, the three of them were "depressed" and "Hui Hui" and "single" to each other. After Bai Xiao passed away, Sheng Yao kept in touch with them, and they continued to be the name inherited from Bai Xiao.

The things he knew about them were either the fragmentary information Bai Xiao told him before, or the words they talked to Bai Xiao, visited Bai Xiao’s parents over the years, participated in birthdays, weddings and other activities for each other and their children, and the few words they chatted about when they attended Bai Xiao’s parents’ funeral.

Such a relationship must have nothing to do with "understanding". Their unexpected performance in Sheng Yao's eyes may be something she could have guessed long ago.

Tong Bin looked at Sheng Yao who was trapped in memories and urged: "Is it just a girl's boudoir conversation? What about online posts? Or is it like other things? Your wife is different from when she gets along with her besties?"

Sheng Yao raised his eyes and looked at Tong Bin who was a little anxious, avoided answering, and only joked: "Why are you anxious?"

Tong Bin was silent.

"If you care about others, take the initiative. Don't think about how she thinks of you. I think your blind date is the kind of person who is straightforward, you have to be straightforward." Sheng Yao said.

"But she said she didn't want to fall in love, she just wanted to do a career." Tong Bin was frustrated, "Blind date means dealing with family members."

"I always thought so when I didn't meet that person." Sheng Yao replied.

"Is that true? You got married very early, right? You didn't think about focusing on your studies and not dating, right?" Tong Bin asked suspiciously.

"Well, but I have friends who are determined to do a career, but they end up falling out." Sheng Yao said.

What he was talking about was not Jiang Yifan.

Compared to Tong Bin, Sheng Yao has more friends.

Tong Bin could only ask Sheng Yao for complaining, and Sheng Yao went out with a phone call and could make an appointment with someone who could drink...

The wine glass that Sheng Yao held was stopped at his lips and smiled bitterly.

He is alone now and can't make an appointment.

He took a big sip of wine.

"How did he get it?" Tong Bin humbly asked for advice.

"When I was working, I met the docking staff of the other company. When the project was completed, I suddenly fell into a celebration meeting." Sheng Yao introduced, remembering the marriage invitation letter I had received before. "I also received a wedding invitation from a friend some time ago. After he changed jobs, he met a colleague from a new company and was about to get married soon."

This is about Liu Yu. Sheng Yao calculated the last time he met Liu Yu. Liu Yu went from changing jobs to getting married, but it was fast enough that it was said to be a flash marriage.

Tong Bin felt bitter, "She and I are not in the same place. She often travels on business trips and meets many people at work..."

"So I advise you to take the initiative."

"How to take the initiative?"

"Be straightforward, ask her to have a meal and watch a movie."

"Is this OK? Will she refuse?" Tong Bin stumbled.

"If you refuse, give up."

“Hey hey hey hey!”

"Speaking of this, do you already have that deep affection for her?" Sheng Yao asked back.

Tong Bin stopped talking.

There were more guests in the barbecue restaurant, and the seats around the two were all seated, but it was not until the peak hours, and the open-air seats at the door were still empty.

"She is the most suitable person I have met on a blind date." Tong Bin said.

"You have only had a blind date twice?" Sheng Yao was surprised.

"You said it simply..." Tong Bin was dejected.

Sheng Yao was silent for a while.

His social circle was not a girl who was not of the same age as Tong Bin in his previous social circle. He also had some old friends and old colleagues who had single girls at home. But he was not easy to contact others now.

"You are not bad at your conditions. Don't give up on yourself just because of Kong Yajie's affairs. Besides, you are so hot, confused and wishful thinking about Kong Yajie's affairs. Don't you attend Kong Yajie's wedding, seeing her happy honeymoon, you are anxious to fall in love and get married, right?" Sheng Yao educated in an elder's tone, "Now, no matter whether you fall in love or not, think about it clearly."

Sheng Yao is already sixty years old and has lived for so many years than Tong Bin. Among the people he knows, not only are there single girls at home, but also single, divorced, and messy families... countless. A few months ago, he was an old widower himself, taking care of four elderly people alone, and then arranged their funerals one after another. He was the most unfortunate person in the eyes of others, but he had been like thirty-five years...

Sheng Yao slowly started drinking again.

Tong Bin was not angry at Sheng Yao's tone or words. He listened carefully, and he was a little self-reflective. He nodded and savored the skewers silently.

A hand slapped Sheng Yao on the shoulder, interrupting the silence of their table.

Sheng Yao was not scared, and turned his head the moment the hand touched his shoulder.

He saw Boss Le’s smiling face without surprise.

"Hey! I just passed by here, and I looked at this back like you! I was playing skewers with my friends!" Boss Le greeted happily.

Sheng Yao smiled absent-mindedly, his eyes turned and fell behind Boss Le.

A supermarket opened opposite the barbecue restaurant. Like other shops on this bustling street, the store has headlights on and the store signs are bright enough to illuminate the entire street.

In this strong light, Sheng Yao saw a shadow like a shadow.

It was a young man, his bangs covered his eyes, and he could only see the lower half of his face and the cigarette in his mouth.

On this street where the smell of smoke, alcohol, and various foods were mixed, the wisp of smoke was not noticeable. Even before that, Sheng Yao did not notice a trace of smoke in the air.

But after glimpsing the red light of the cigarette butt, Sheng Yao's five senses were completely attracted by the man.

He felt a warning in his heart, and he felt an inexplicable sense of crisis, and he became alert to the man.

Boss Le had already introduced each other to Tong Bin in this short period of time, and he sat down with a familiar chair. He also greeted Sheng Yao in reverse, "What else do you want to eat? Open the bar."

Sheng Yao was pulled by Boss Le, and he could only withdraw his gaze, but his body was still tense and his attention was all behind him.
To be continued...